Shiiiiiiit. If this gonna be that kinda party, I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes.

When I listen to Nick Drake, I can feel my brain expanding. I’d give it seven stars out of five if I could.

Oh my god how do I not know this album??? Fuck YEAH.

Yup. I unapologetically love it. I didn’t realise it was a love letter to the new romantic movement of the 80s. I love it even more.

Amazing. I can hear all of New Wave and Techno in their trailblazing synthesisers.

Wow. I didn’t realise how Rush-like Genesis really was. Very Jethro Tull influenced. I dug it.

Awesome. It does sound like all of 80s smooth jazz ripped this sound off, though.

It’s not my favourite Beatles album, but it’s fine. It prompted me to ask the question, though “Who Recorded it First?” for a few of the tracks.

Excellent. A bit repetitive to some tracks.

Amazing. I can hear all of New Wave and Techno in their trailblazing synthesisers.

How is this album 25yrs old? How is it so good and I’ve only heard 2 songs on it? HOW????

Love love love love.

Eh. Not my cup of hallucinogenic tea, but an interesting listen.

I had never heard of them. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I had to walk through a rain storm while I was listening to this album. The rhythm helped me keep my pace in turbo

Where is 6 stars? Duran Duran took notes from this album.

That was fun. Again? Nah.

So many gems in that album. Loved the re-listen. Definitely from my youth.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Love the re-listen.

Lovely. Love steady rock steady be steady.

I had no clue this album existed. So jangly and grungy. Love Elvis Costello.

I was completely oblivious to this album but damn does that Alison Goldfrapp song some moodymusic.

So good. I’ve never listened to the whole album. And now I have, and feel richer for it.

I prefer London Calling but I can see how this zinged everyone in 1977.

I love Freedom ‘90 but I didn’t enjoy the rest of the album. I thought that it painted an HIV-affected picture, though.

Shiiiiiiit. If this gonna be that kinda party, I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes.

All day Phife and Tip. 5 foot Cypher and the Abstract. Love love love the Young Zulu Nation.

It definitely brought me back to a place and a time in my life but I’m not sure I wanted to be there.

He seemed like a shit person but I really liked the funky-ass album. Don’t emulate your heroes, kids.

What the f——-? Mind blowing guitar solos. Like Roy Rogers on acid. Loads of fun but I don’t think I’ll be listening to it again except as mood music for my apocalyptic western RPG.

That was fun. Love Dusty Springfield.

Own it. Love it. Saw him live perform it. Damn it. On it. Fuck it. Makes it.

Kinda slow. Liked the next Wilco album more.

That was really quite excellent. Americana that I had missed.

It was good but not mind blowing.

Yeah, pretty good. Got a lot of mileage out of grungy guitars for a non-grunge band.

Classic rock is classic for a reason

When I listen to Nick Drake, I can feel my brain expanding. I’d give it seven stars out of five if I could.

Working thru it. Feels like a Metallica based James Bond soundtrack.

Singing along with every word. I had this album from its release day. Fabulous in its entirety.

It’s a testament to how transformative this album was that every time I hear The Doors, I think “1960s”.

I forgot how great this album is.

You gotta be in the right mood, but when you are, it’s magical.

I want the funk.

Eh. Apart from the 1st two songs, I wasn’t blown away.

Fun! Love the Coconut song.

That was fun. Missed Intl Women’s Day by a few but definitely in the spirit.

Meh. Not impressed. Lyrics were still witty af.

Yeah it was good. I was impressed at the straight-up blues.

So much love for this record. Just awesome.

Eh. Cover art to the album was the best part of it.

Eh. I’m bored.

Rhythm is gonna get you.

I was lucky enough to see him live in 2016, only a few weeks before he died. One of the best concerts of my life.

I was very surprised at how much I liked this.

Intriguing and innovative. Occasionally too loud to hear the singer.

Classic rock is classic. My wife would give this 10 stars.

I very much enjoyed it. Didn’t know House of the Rising Sun was a Baez jam.

I don’t care for Crosby, Stills, and Nash. I most definitely don’t care for just one of them.

Love it but I liked OK Computer more.

I am surprised that I didn’t favourite every single track on the album.

Classic rock is classic. This one felt a bit hollow by the end, though I can see the “live” appeal.

Classic rock is classic but DAMN some albums SLAP.

Had never heard of it. Really liked it.

Classic rock is classic. A bit odd.

I like it. Cant lie. I’ll listen to it again.

Didn’t really think I’d like it all that much. I was wrong.

Yes. Please. More. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Wow. And I only knew 10cc for “I’m Not in Love”. That was great!

Janis Joplin screaming out from under the rest of the band was fun, but I don’t think I’ll listen to much here again.

I was waiting the Kate Bush album. This one was not for me.

Yeah. Ok. Yeah.

Much more amazing than I have it credit for.

Liked it a lot, but I rarely feel in the mood for the blues.

I’m going to listen to this one over again.

Enjoying it a lot.

Abso loot LUV.

That was really really good. I’m surprised. I mean, Layla is a banger but there was so much good stuff on this album!

Classic rock is classic

Aw New Wave. You make my heart go Oingo Boingo.

Wow.

Coolness. But a measured taste.

It feels like the building blocks for something, but not super exciting on its own.

YES!!!!

Intriguing. Art rock ain’t my thing, but this guy’s story is amazing.

Impressed. Such excellent live sound. Better than that Frampton album.

I had no expectations. It blew me out of the water. Who are these people?

So iconic that it feels like a cliche.

I knew it was going to be good, and bad on me for not listening to it for this long, but HOT DAMN.

I’m having trouble seeing the gushing love for everything Elvis Costello. Good, yes. Mind blowing? Eh?

Enjoyable, but I don’t rate it as iconic.

Not my cup of tea, but appreciated.

I very much enjoyed the instrumental tracks. Amazing artistry.

Genius. Most of them.

Nope.

Oh my god how do I not know this album??? Fuck YEAH.

OM NOM NOM. More New Wave albums, please. OM NOM NOM.

It was good. I didn’t know The The apart from This is the Day. Fun, but very specific to the mid 80s.

Heartbreaking.

I like the Monkees. Don’t love them.

I was thinking to myself “I’ll bet there won’t be a soundtrack album on this list” but I had forgotten about this album. So bleeding good.

Fuck. No. So continues my hate affair with anything Crosby, Stills, or Nash-ish.

I’ve lived in New Zealand for 8yrs and now listened to one of the best New Zealand albums ever. Not an Aussie album.

Yes! Who? Where?

I always appreciate James Murphy. Maybe this’ll be better on a second listen-thru. I still liked it.

My favourite Beatles album. It doesn’t get much better.

Damn. I forgot how great this album is. The first album I ever purchased, as well.

Loved it. I don’t understand why they weren’t so widely regarded in the US from this album. Excellent.

So cool to hear the prototypes of my beloved grunge and garage rock. Love love alternative 80s.

Papa Was a Rollin Stone is a Magnum Opus. The rest of the album is funky good.

Hmmm. Not really impressed.

This is the kind of gem that I somehow missed along the way.

DAMN. So that’s what rock and roll is all about. Ridiculous in all the good ways.

Alt country like Devo is alt folk. Really good concept album.

Now I know where all the Beastie Boys got all those samples from.

Eh. Good. Fine. Average. Not my generation.

Ick. No.

Classic rock is classic.

Blown away by the album. That John Wayne Gacy song will haunt me.

Don’t know why elevator music from 2001 made this list.

I know exactly where was when I listened to this. Loved it.

Now I know what heroin is like. I didn’t like it.

I’m a bit mixed. I like some Elvis. I love his voice. I didn’t dig this album.

Building blocks I can see period that doesn’t mean I like the album period

Classic rock is classic but shit, yeah.

So odd. I can hear the mental illness. Wrenching and interesting.

Yeah. Ok. I’m surprised at everything Britpop but rare grunge albums.

Disturbing. Catchy! Iconic??

I’m giving it two stars for the ‘Lovefool’ song, but a one-hit wonder doesn’t make an album iconic. Feels like scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Hmm. Not my thang.

Give me melancholy Sinatra over peppy Sinatra 9 times out of 10, please.

Fun! A psychedelic circus.

Yeah, La Grange is FIRE. The rest? Somewhat smouldering….

I went through a Belle and Sebastian stage in med school. I’ll let you know when I finish it.

I always miss my Dad when I hear this album. The transformative power of music.

Meh.

Ehhh. Pass.

Golden oldies. Buddy Holly’s voice!! Wow. Liked it and forgot how much.

Eh. I don’t like psychedelia. I tried.

A living saint and a great album.

I wasn’t expecting that!

There must be some mistake here in including this album. I’d subtract a star if I could knowing that Simon’s next album was Graceland.

Classic rock is classic.

100 stars. As iconic an album as exists.

NSFW awesome

Classic rock is classic. But Eddie is fucking in heaven!

So delicate and ephemeral. It’s magic.

Eh. Drawn out proto-grunge that seemed very dated. Not bad; just not memorable. No clue how this was Pazz and Jop’s #1 album for 1990.

Classic rock is classic, but Free Bird alone is worth 10 stars.

Eh. I know why this is here but I just didn’t find it memorable.

Yeah, I don’t know. Bowie loved it, eh? Yeah, I don’t know.

So good. Owned this. So good so good so good.

Like Nick Drake before him, this was a bard unsung in his time. Truly ephemeral.

I tore thru this. I prefer Man-Machine but this album deserves 5 stars.

The album of my adolescence. 30 stars.

It’s like your misogynistic skeevy uncle in a chat room. Ick.

Very cool stuff. An audiophile’s dream.

Eh. It’s alright. Not enough for me to go out and buy it.

Reminds me of tripping on Good Old London E near the fin de siècle. Good times.

Yeah it’s ok.

That was fantastic and intimate in all the ways that the best jazz joints are.

Fuck. No.

There were bits that I liked. Iconic? No.

3 albums now 50yrs old. Each one mind blowing. An ephemeral talent never seen before or since.

Naw. Seemed disjointed. Give me neo-soul, not psychedelia-soul.

Weird! I liked. I didn’t fall over.

Better than other Dylan - I’m just not a big fan of his.

Classic rock is classic.

How did this beat out OK Computer for album of the year? How is this amazing?

Yass. Not my favourite New Order album but a goodie, to be sure.

Drummer for the Cars; bassist for Talking Heads. That’s a pretty fantastic evolution. How do I not know this band?

I was in the right mood, but I still didn’t like it a lot.

Classic rock is classic. Even this one.

I really liked that. Worth a re listen.

There are albums that suck. This is the polar opposite of that.

It’s good; don’t get me wrong.

Such earwigs. Good earwigs.

This is coming home from college and raiding my sister’s new CDs. Good vibes. Good music, too.

I played this CD until it no longer functioned. Can’t believe I forgot about all the gems on this album. 100 stars.

I’ve got a soft spot for Brazilian music. Doesn’t get much funkier, for sure.

Yeah, it’s peppy.

Classics. Building blocks of rock.

What superlative can I add that hasn’t already been said?

Yeah. That’s an album. Not my thing, but I knew girls in college who were all about it.

Interesting. Funky. Life changing? Nah.

Yeah, hunh? Easy listening is an album I must listen to before I die?

I feel bad for pissing on something from the 80s, but I just don’t get how this is iconic.

God I love Juliana Hatfield.

I was waiting and hoping for my crazy Rocksteady crew. Not disappointed.

Peppy, but not Pixies.

I’m a bigger fan of the Thin White Duke than other Bowies, but Luther Vandross was a backup singer on this album. I mean, damn.

Reminded me of my Indian friends in college.

Eh. Never understood the Dead or the love for them. Not wired to, I guess.

wow.

Aw, yeah? Hunh.

Eh. Buffalo Stance is good, but one song doesn’t make an album.

Pleasant. I don’t think I can say anything else.

That was funkin’ WILD. Gimme more dat Brasil Bop.

Classic rock is classic.

Funky, yes. I liked their 1997 album better.

Cool, Daddy-O.

Damn. Am I a Lana Del Rey fan now?

Classic rock is classic.

Damnit. Is this classic rock?? It’s still a slam-dunk 5 stars but does it have to be that long ago? Damnit.

Cool. Liked it then; like it now. Ground breaking? Nah.

Not my cup of gruel.

There’s the grunge!

This was lovely. I’m looking forward to more by her in this list.

I’ve no clue why it took me that long to listen to that. I really liked the humour in it.

Wow. I can hear most of the sample driven world of pop and hip-hop of the past few decades in this. Some of these tracks sound like they could have been made yesterday.

Very good. I’ve never delved into Leonard Cohen before but I think I’ll rectify that error.

Yasss. I owned and played this tape until it died. Loved it and never understood why they never achieved this high again.

Yeah, s’alright.

Classic rock is classic.

That was so under the radar. I listened to it twice in a row. Gotta be 5 stars

Owned this album when it came out. I remember 2002 as a blur but this was and still is a banger.

Yeah, some of it is not too cringey.

Classic rock is classic. Some of it more classic than others.

Responses to music are so subjective. This reminds me of my father, so it’s an automatic 5 stars.

Hmm. It simmered, but it never seemed to pop for me. I love my 80s so it gets some credit there. Still - it didn’t live up to the hype.

It has to be 5 stars, if it’s not 5 million. Such an album.

Me and Julio drags this one up from the mere average.

Some fun to be had here. I wouldn’t gush over it.

I can see why all the hype. Excellent.

I didn’t really enjoy it.

Classic rock is classic. That Jawbone song is a banger.

Important? Sure. Historical? Yes. Fun to listen to? No.

Never experienced this chapter of Van Morrison. I was impressed. Can’t call it classic rock cuz I’d never heard it.

It’s the Irish Flogging Mollys! Seriously, who woulda thought that McGowan would still be alive in 2021?

Questlove had it right. This thing transcended music. It’s like Brian Wilson had a secret time machine.

I wasn’t expecting that much funk. A bit too many extended guitar jams, but a good listen.

Cool! Kicky and catchy. That is all.

Funky. Tightrope is a good song helped a lot by the Outkast love. A bonus star for the crazy range of music on display.

A good listen full of pathos and swagger. Something felt missing for me.

I owned this album when it came out and felt like a bad ass for being in the know, but the album didn’t get me laid in 1996 so I’ll subtract a star.

Iconic. Nuff said.

Lovely and jangly in all the best ways. And witty! I didn’t realise the lyrics were so cunning.

Ok, I consider myself a bit of a New Wave/Punk aficionado and I knew NOTHING about this group. Never heard of them. BLOWN. AWAY. This is what I love about this list. This. So obsessed.

Classic proto-New Wave rock is classic. This is what I expected to see of Elvis Costello on this list, not the 85 other albums that I’ve seen.

911’s a Joke and Fight the Power are anthemic and I found myself bopping to a lot of this album.

I wasn’t expecting that. I really liked it. Guess I have a thing for Brazilian music.

Fcuk YEAH!!!!

I had no clue that this singer existed. This album made me silly-happy. Guess I found a new thing.

I knew nothing about this album but damn that’s some sense stuff. Very Johnny Cash-esque, and funny to hear that Cash covered some of this album. Worth a listen, but I won’t be re-listening too soon.

Sounds like Oasis on an off-day.

I owned this album. It was an ok album. Life changing? Nah.

Better than other Crazy Horse albums on this list I’ve heard. Still…

A lovely Xmas present.

Owned this album. Loved it. Don’t know why I don’t still have it but it was a totally awesome re-listen for me.

This is AMAZING music with which to get high. Like, better than anything.

Pretty cool stuff. I wish there was a 1/2 star that I could give. 3 doesn’t seem like enough; 4 seems too much. Oh well.

Hummmm. Uh. If “most accessible of their umpteen albums” is the reason to put it on the list, then does it need to be on the list?

Really good songs and some clunkers. Still, a solid album that I would give 4.5 to if it were an option.

Fun and funky. Love me some soul.

Yeah, interesting but I’m more confused by it. What did I just listen to? 2.5 stars but I’ll subtract a 1/2 star for how it left me feeling.

I’ve not taken nearly enough ecstasy to make this album more than just passable.

So grimy and gritty. And sounds so much unlike 1970.

I remember a buddy in high school putting on this album and realising that The Exorcist song actually wound up having a pleasant ending. And then hearing that Hornpipe ditty at the end. What a weird album. I’ll boost it a star for the memories.

Yeah, there’s chill and then there’s Badu chill. I found myself lulled to sleep with this one. Can’t deny the music or the soul.

Classic rock is classic. Mr Blue Sky is such a lovely song.

Yup. I unapologetically love it. I didn’t realise it was a love letter to the new romantic movement of the 80s. I love it even more.

That was entertaining! Not an everyday listen, but totally anachronistic.

Cool. Not as catchy as other Kraftwerk stuff but a bonus star for its innovation at the time.

Classic rock is classic. Also, Hot for Teacher makes me want to run through a goddamned stone wall.

There’s a Kids in the Hall sketch where a deranged record store owner tells Kevin McDonald’s character that he won’t know the Doors until he goes on a three week bender, listening to nothing but Morrison Hotel until he finds himself behind the wheel of a stolen car driving into the middle of the desert. I don’t know the Doors THAT well, but I have enjoyed listening to Morrison Hotel.

I discovered Moonlight in Vermont a month ago and thought it was a recent Willie Nelson song. Here now I find this album and realise what a jackass I am.

Wow. Raw and painful and awful and so important. I didn’t enjoy the first half; I HATED the second half and that’s why it’s so good. I need a warm bath.

I see you, 1001 albums, giving me Ice Cube on the 30th anniversary of his ‘Good Day’. Well played, well played indeed.

My heart has been broken by two girls who loved Paul Westerberg. I cannot argue with what my heart wants.

Listening to Sonic Youth sounds to me like listening to music while mowing a lawn - good music, but surrounded by an incessant droning.

Interesting. I like where it’s going but don’t know if it got where it wants to be.

Don’t do drugs, kids.

I know I’m rating it in a biased fashion, but this album is so damned beautiful, start to finish. It was my lone companion on a nighttime bus ride from Pittsburgh to Detroit circa January 2001.

It’s very obvious to me when I peaked based on the current music I owned at the time.

This was my lawn mowing cassette as a kid earning that neighbourhood coin. When I saw it on the list, I thought ‘Good, but not amazing’. Wasn’t even gonna listen - I know them all by heart - but then I listened to it. 5 stars. Bravo.

Yeah. Hmm. I want to like it. I just find it needlessly nihilistic. Crocodiles is fun. Yeah.

Hipsters of the world, unite!

Classic rock is classic. Bohemian Rhapsody is god-level.

Funky as but a bit too trippy at times.

The hype is real, yo.

This is one of those instances where the sunmative album is greater than any one individual song.

Classic rock is classic.

Knew nothing about him. Now I want know more. What a cool album.

Classic rock is classic. And face-numbing.

I never felt like a tired middle-aged man while listening to an album before. Not a pleasant experience.

I saw Goldie live in 1997. I didn’t realise that this album was so legendary, but I guess someone had to kickstart drum and bass. It’s a good listen, yeah, and so layered, but it does feel well dated.

Urrgh. Yes, Babylon is a good song but the whole album?? How is this Ireland’s best selling album of all time? Is this guy responsible for James Blunt? The horror.

Why?

Heavy on the slide whistle, but definitely the spiritual successor to Pet Sounds. I said it about that album: “Brian Wilson has a time machine.” Enjoyable.

Ahhh. Like a warm bath.

This goddamn album saw me at my smartest. It was all downhill from here.

Yeah, look, Chef, if it takes you 16min to butter your soul, isn’t it cold by that point? This album makes me wonder if all Pentecostal preachers are doing Issac Hayes impersonations in the pulpit. A star for that fun thought.

Funky and so fresh in 1992. Does it hold up? Yeah, somewhat. I’ll give it an extra star for helping to get the Dirty South on the map.

I don’t know why I wasn’t pumped when I saw this album show up. Listening to it and thinking about the BASIC pop rap out at the time makes my head spin. Such a great group.

Right. There are a few duds on this album but god damn if Johnny Marr isn’t one of the best guitarists from the 1980s. Cannot rate it lower.

It’s a gorgeous album with a powerful and eternal message. I’d like to come back to it to see how it hits me a second time.

Those cover songs we’re a bit cringey, but Relax was one of the first songs that I was aware of in the zeitgeist Of the MTV heydays. Love that.

The mythos of this album is something otherworldly; the music is, too, but like much that is alien, it’s at times challenging to fully comprehend.

Classic rock is classic, but glory be some albums are nitro fuel to the global music engine. Case in point.

Naw. Proto heavy metal. I can see why it’s here, but I can’t dig it too much.

I am 1/3 of the way through this list. There has been no Pearl Jam, no Snoop Dogg, no Alice in Chains, no Soundgarden, no Stone Temple Pilots, no Tool and yet I have to stomach third-tier BritPop garbage that sounds like Blur on clonazepam? No, man, no.

I was whining about not enough 90s alterna-rock grunge and this album turns up. 5 stars for perfect timing. Also, for Stop!

Eh. Listened to it. Feel like I completed a task.

I can feel the pathos so deeply here. Funky album, too. I never knew this existed.

Karen O Yeah Yeah Yeah.

Zappa, like his rats, are a dish best served hot.

Enjoyable but I agree that Jello Biafra’s vocal delivery leaves something to be desired. Still, highly amusing.

Classic rock is classic. Cyndi Lauper is one of those treasures that we don’t celebrate nearly as much as we should.

Very chill. Super iconic. Yup, fits the bill.

Wow. I have a new favourite thing. I’d heard of this dude but never listened. Not too late to the party, but late.

Ick. I’d say forgettable but I remembered feeling pleased when the album ended.

Can’t listen to Randy Newman without thinking about Buzz Lightyear, but this album was lovely.

Good god I loved this album. I don’t think the Dap-Kings get enough credit for the pristine sound-gasm. This would be one of my 10 desert island albums.

So inconsistent. I’d compare it to Cerberus, but it’s more like Scrappy-Doo. Subtracting a star for the great expectations that Rumours generated.

I love the dystopian themes of this album, along with the cinematic touches to multiple tracks. Teleported me back to a decade ago for sure.

Not usually my cup of tea but jangly enough to keep me entertained. Had to go and listen to Copperhead Road as well for good measure after realising it wasn’t on this album.

Kinda unmemorable.

Classic rock is classic.

I really liked this album! It’s like Radiohead’s spacier cousin. Wasn’t aware that “Do You Realize?” was a Flaming Lips jam. I enjoyed that epiphany.

Classic rock is classic, but I enjoyed this more as a Simpsons gag than an album.

Seems like it’s desperate for a rap track. Some solid grooves. Still, I’m waiting for more impressive electronic albums.

Do you recall seeing the sun rise for the first time?

Classic rock is *gulp* classic. Damn, I feel some grey hairs coming on.

I remember really enjoying this at the start of high school and wondering what was wrong with me because none of my friends liked it. Turns out, I’m not in Tool.

Quintessential gangsta-stoner rap. Goes down like Mother’s Milk.

The thing I love about most Prince songs is that you get the initial groove and you get lulled into an idea of “oh yeah; I see where this is going” and then BLAM! he drops a keyboard or guitar solo on you and introduces the secondary melody and the next part of the song. And you’d think you would learn after 5-6 songs but no you don’t. It’s MF Prince and he is the (insert superlative here).

Swanky. Worth a listen but not gonna live in my long term memory for long.

I’ll admit; I was going to leave a snarky, one-star review indicating that I didn’t know where my migraine ended and this album began after initial listen, but I read some other reviews and decided to give it a second listen. There are still some tracks that evoke pain, but I’m feeling new things and the second listen-thru. Perhaps a third listen will give me something to chew on. Three stars in optimism for that. Oh, and for Flea.

Classic alternative rock is classic. This was the first alternative album. Much props. Also, how many covers did this album spawn?

The first ever glam rock record definitely deserves a nod of acknowledgment. Strangely enough, I’ve heard so many of these songs already and didn’t know it. Love that.

Pop mastery. I love the production, but I’m not over-awed by the release story of this album, nor am I going to rate the music differently because of it.

I might be feeling a bit Swifty.

Classic rock is classic, but this seemed a bit less evolved than most. Downrating it by one star because the UK version inexplicably left off Paint It Black.

James Murphy is my spirit animal.

Lyrically cannot be beat. Still, I’ve had other Nas songs and lyrics stick with me more. It’s still iconic.

Yeah, props for using Moog stuff innovatively, but I’ve never been into ambient music, much less proto-ambient music.

I’m sure it’s a seminal album to those who grew up idolising Morrissey and hoping for a return of The Smiths sound, but it sounds like whinging to my ears these days. It’s also not at all helped by age.

It’s nice to hear that most of the female and some of the male voices of the New Wave and post-punk movement took their vocal inflections from Patti Smith. Iconic.

Revolutionary sound when it came out. Still refreshingly sweet to this day.

No, thanks. I had a big lunch.

I smell eight track cassettes owned by my Dad.

One of the formative albums of my youth. Forgive me for my biased opinion.

When I first encountered this list, I immediately started guessing what albums would be on it. This was one of my first 10 guesses.

Interesting but didn’t blow my socks off, or even halfway down. I’m not sure if I have some sort of aural disability with PJ Harvey, but I don’t seem to dig her sound.

My first cassette. Who knew I would select such a timeless opus magnum? 1000 stars.

What a fun concept album. Not the biggest fan of the music, but there are some gems here. Nevertheless, this is another example of the sum being greater than the parts.

The pinnacle of stupid fun. I have so much love for this album at multiple stages in my life. I want an “infinity stars” button.

The first two tracks established a lovely, trippy, lounge feel, but the remainder faded into obscurity for me. I’ll give it an upvote of a star as they did ‘Alpha Male’ a few years ago, and that track KICKS.

I noticed that both this album and Licensed to Ill dropped within 6 months of each other. Same label, same producer, both equally classic. And yet, I never heard the tracks on this album on top 40 radio unless they were samples. Institutionalized racism sucks. This album rules.

Doo-Wop is one of the prettiest damned songs of the past 50yrs. TIL that this was Lauryn Hill’s only studio album.

I really liked this and can see why Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Keith Richards did, too.

Such raw storytelling with a funny, nasally voice. It’s like Dylan singing songs written by Bukowski. Fascinating.

It was not the Radiohead album I expected (celebrating its 25th anniversary), but it was appreciated nonetheless.

That’s the Bunnymen that I like!

As a disaffected youth, I got interested in my Irish background and asked for an album of Celtic music for Xmas one year. I got a James Galway album. Now, no disrespect to Mr Galway or the person who gave me that gift, but they can póg mo thóin, especially after I realised that this album could’ve been my Xmas present that year.

I didn’t know this album at all, even though I had heard “Life’s What You Make It” a few times before. It never struck me that it was Talk Talk. This is one of the joys of this list - the lost treasures.

Um, wow. I wasn’t expecting any Slovenian albums on this list so of course it gets a ‘rule of cool’ star for that. Some VERY dark, vodka-infused humour here. I really want to give this 2.5 stars.

And that’s where “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was misappropriated from, sweetheart! Snarkiness aside, I liked most of this and loved some of it.

I prefer the white-hot angry Adele of 21 over the blue regret-filled Adele of 25, but it’s still a nice listen.

It’s like a tamer Tame Impala.

So layered. And much like Prince, once you get used to the melody, they offer you a second melody in the same song.

Created and then broke the model by which all classic rock is measured. An essential album.

Wow. Two separate 5 minute drum solos in one concert. Yup. This album might have inspired a good deal of This is Spinal Tap.

I’d like to thank Gn’R - and this album specifically - for showing pre-adolescent me how to fluently drop F-bombs into your everyday vernacular.

Much like a lot of the mid-80s goth rock NOT made by The Cure, I want to like this more than I do.

This made me laugh out loud and cringe all within 40min. I can’t help but reel at the 1987 cohort albums (Appetite for Destruction, Darklands, Sign O’ the Times) close by this album in my chronological listen-thru. Truly alien.

Essential 90s culture and a seminal BritPop album. Do I think the lyrics make sense? Nah. Are they catchy? Yeah.

Iconic. Can’t hear the title track without singing along, and there are many other singalong tracks on this disc. It staves off the advancement of time well.

Soul heaven! I bopped my head throughout, and I’ve got two of those songs on steady replay.

From Trent Reznor’s Wikipedia page: the artist describes himself nowadays as “a pretty happy person.” You got to stare the Devil in the face to wrest your soul away from Him. This album, to me, is that. Transcendent.

I had never heard of this album. My wife loves this album. I think I must have been under a rock for the early 2000s, music-wise.

I had a crush on Shirley Manson in the 90s, but in hindsight, I think I probably had a raging erection for Butch Vig and his music production. Might still do.

I very much enjoyed some of the instrumental pieces on this album, but Strangelove is an awesome song to soundtrack a purposeful strut. RIP Fletch.

I am now - finally - seeing the Dylan-tinged light. This is an amazing album. I was always impressed with Dylan’s storytelling but I was never into his musicality until now. Interestingly enough, nothing I’ve heard before or after this from Dylan seems to scratch this itch, so perhaps this is the high-water mark. If so, then what a flood.

Yeah, I get it. It’s a socio-political album about a raft of 90s-themed UK and global topics. I just don’t find the music catchy.

I had forgotten how smooth the flow of this album was. New Jersey’s finest hip hop.

There are some albums that transcend even the music recorded on them based on their historic impact. This is one of them. It’s just too bad that there are some awful clunkers in the middle of it.