You know this is the shit I’m here for

Cool! Then weird.. Then cool! Then scary

Whenever I get asked what is something most people love and you don’t I say Bruce Springsteen. I’m tired of having to say this, please randomly give us something else

Compared to what I thought this was gonna to sound like starting off, this album was actually really badass. Every time I thought they were about to lose me they hit a guitar solo or breakdown that was hitting the spot. Definitely will go back to this when I’m in the mood

Anyone who is friends with Michael Kiwanuka is a friend of mine. This is the rap I’m here for

I am pretty sure I’m pro-Bowie..I am not anti-Bowie or Bowie-neutral. I am however still seeking the album that REALLY gets me into Bowie. I believe I am someone who can and should be really into Bowie. Aladdin Sane is coming across my musical path I think at the right time for me to discover MY Bowie album. Is this it? Time will tell - but I am inspired now to dig back into this catalogue.

I #respect Velvet Underground and Lou Reed’s contribution to music and the influence of so many of the bands I love. I don’t dislike this but it’s not for me. I’ll keep trying. The dish of a cooky deep voice guy is best served by Iggy Pop for this reviewer

Good for Kate Bush

Oh! That song is called Babylon. Someone likes Dylan, got it.

4 out of 20 if ya KNOW WHAT I MEAN

Was going to give you a three but the album just kept going, Slippies must enjoy a long album

Cool! Then weird.. Then cool! Then scary

Jazz

FUN

It’s jazz!

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would

Je ne sais pas

I too have listened to the Beatles

Fuckin love this

Safe 90s rock is better than some, worse than others

I like music I like sitar I like learning

Every year I get older I get more into James Taylor. A quintessential attribute of my suburban white dad final form I have to assume

If you liked this, check out the history of rock in Latin America documentary on Netflix. I’ve got a corresponding playlist on Spotify too. If you didnt like this, also check out that documentary and then maybe you will

Gimme this all day. Added to the Drinking and game playing rotation. Good candidate for vinyl purchase

Making an assessment based on the three songs on Spotify. I think it get it

I mean..it’s Rush..cmon now

I enjoy reading the wiki entries on each of the albums and this one was a good one that reinforced why this album stands out from the rest of the random late 70s to mid 80s British bands that have an entry on this list. tldr; “Richard Hell but good. See Black Flag, Robert Pollard, and Franz Ferdinand”

Holy Eno, Batman. Tommy likey

Don’t know if it’s how little music I listened to this week or if it’s just a bunch of bangers right in a row. Bob rules

Compared to what I thought this was gonna to sound like starting off, this album was actually really badass. Every time I thought they were about to lose me they hit a guitar solo or breakdown that was hitting the spot. Definitely will go back to this when I’m in the mood

I go back and forth between “Paul Simon is so good” and “okay, Paul Simon..I get it”

Music for airports got me through a lot of grad school coding projects and has served me well when I’ve needed to call on it since. Good stuff, aptly named. I Stan Eno

2000s Brit rock got it

Groovy

The Isley Brothers absolutely kick ass always

Beautiful, haunting, above my mental pay grade

If I ever need to pick music at a luxury resort ocean / poolside happy hour I have my album

“Bust a nut inside your eye to show you where I come from” …cmon now

File under : 90s on 9

Pretending I remember a song from this album, fun listen but nothing memorable to this reviewer

Young Neil + Stephen Stills = Less refined CSN&Y magic

Fun 80s Tina Turner ROMP

Randy Newman -thank you for your service. My third and final wish is to set you, and us all free

New space music for coding, blessed

Okeydoke

Always been Beck-neutral. Nothing changing here

Hell yea

File under ‘we get it buddy, you’re from London and like weird late 70s early 80s shit’

Coldplay puts me back in a very specific time

[Michael Bluth looking into bag marked ‘The a-ha album with take on me on it’ “I don’t know what I expected”

This is good and nice and fine but the kind of modern alt radio sound that doesn’t quite get me and that’s okay. I can hear the Bowie in them, that’s cute

Hell yea

Ya know not bad

Nothing but love & respect for Lou Reed & the gang

Yes

I wonder what it’s like to have written the album that inspired 10 Fast & the Furious movies

Spook synth with lots of non-commercial stuff on purpose according to the Wikipedia article. Plus 1 star for naming it music for the masses when the intent was the opposite

Elvis Costello neutral

A pleasant listen of early rock n roll / soul

A delightful Bowie time

Ben Folds does a great cover of Songs of Love so this gets an extra star. Pleasant listen, something different

I’m okay

Classic Clash

Catchy pop hooks in some classicest of rocks. Nothing to complain about but nothing to fawn over

Lots of people get super horny for the Stones. Not this reviewer so much. Good album - calm down

Extremely uncomfortable but also very good. I am torn. Might go back to this. 3 for now

Peace sign emoji

A pleasant 60s folk

Actually kinda liked this one

Weird how I’ve only ever heard Where is my Mind off this album just kidding. Extra points for being only 1/2 an hour long

Absolute fucking classic

I only have one ‘the boss’ and it’s MY WIFE!!! Am I right, fellas?? Never really been a Bruce guy. Sorry

‘Stay with me’ was already a classic in this house, love the cover of ‘Memphis’ and the supporting tracks on this album. Rock on

A fun album from 1966 that sounds like a fun album from 1966

I don’t necessarily love or not love Coldplay but as I’ve reviewed the other album(s) their music takes me back to high school era days very distinctly. Points for that

Talking over hard riffs

Much love to Bob & crew always

Decided I’m a guy who really likes Talking Heads now, saved to my albums

It’s the Rolling Stones

This album is great because it also contains the 1001 greatest guitar riffs you must listen to

Loved it. Saved forever

Not for me

This is what the goths in Letterkenny listen to, but not what I listen to

Absolute classic

Okay!

Yes

I feel good

Overall some of that good catchy pop stuff in here that bothers me less when it isn’t the 1000th time I’ve heard it that week. I still cringe every time she says haters or players or ‘fa sho’

Had it on at work, nothing stood out as good or bad

This was..fine

Fun!

File under 90s rock

File under 60s rock

Gary Numan kicks ass

Very Stephen Stills, pleasant

Absolutely kicks ass

Fine

Ooh la la

Playing in the background

Paul Simon - always good, but calm down

Always here for some Young Neil

Indifference where I feel I should have more feelings

It played in the background of me working, thanks

A delightful rainy morning listen

I am #always #available for some Joni

You already know

🤟

Some really fun stuff in here, only complaint is it felt kind of long but it is a soundtrack so I DUNNO

Like all Rolling Stones albums - A fine Rolling Stones album

I’m not moody enough for this on the regular, but maybe with winter coming up, maybe

This was fine but file under electronic that’s on this list because UK

Some good tunes, minus points for Van Morrison being insane

If this excitement has taught me anything it’s that I guess I like Rod Stewart

Carried largely by the two big hits, the rest is great if I’ll be having a little somethin somethin beforehand

Gotta give it up

Absolute bangers

Some standard Brit pop for me

Giving Oasis the edge here in the Brit pop battle because Rock and Roll Star will always make me think of You All Everybody

This is a classic rock album

Jazzy

Good stuff

Boring

Anyone who is friends with Michael Kiwanuka is a friend of mine. This is the rap I’m here for

All I can think is that these are songs that Ben Folds would do a cover of

I looked up why this is considered an important album, and that’s fine, but that doesn’t mean I have to care

File under St Paddy’s Day

When it’s time to rage there is no more aptly named band or album

I got a little bored SORRY

This is the shit I am here for

Some of the hits, overall kind of weird to listen to in the modern era

I don’t remember any of this

The most redeeming thing about Bruce is how easy he made it for people to do funny impressions of him. While I made it through this one easier than the last, my guy just isn’t anything more than okay to me

Groovy

Absolutely fantastic shit that I ignored for so long just because I hated how beloved it was in middle school or whatever

Good concentration music

A good reminder that Bruno Mars only exists because Marvin Gaye gave him permission

The Wikipedia page references this album being a mix between Off the Wall and Revolver, I hear it. A cooler description than sounds in actuality

I mean, great. Someone had to do it I guess. But of the ding dong beep boops to work or study this isn’t the one I’d choose first

A peaceful drive home

Same feelings as The Marshall Mathers LP but better

A fine collection of Yachty delights

I like the cardis

I’m into this - but I’m also a little high. I’ll try again later to make sure

LA Woman or bust

A delightful folky journey

Pretty chill Brit boy sample hop

Okay?

A funky good time

File under ‘horny albums’

Groovy baby

Soft spot

Birdland is fun still

Here for it

Okeydoke

Identifying Soundgarden - Yep, it’s Soundgarden

See also : the Motown Christmas album

Jazzy blessings that are almost instrumental Chicago tracks at times. Fun!

It’s Alice In Chains!

If you’re getting a little high and shoveling snow - this is for you

Most of this was “ooooooooohkay” but there were some fun riffs and lines (“I wasn’t born with enough middle fingers” hits hard some days). I checked a few times hoping it was the last track though so 2 stars from this local critic

As stated in the title this album has ‘Layla’ and other songs

A selection of Metallica-style songs off the album Metallica by Metallica

File under electronic music to play at Luxury Resort pool area

This one of those albums where they are exactly in between so many genres that I’m not quite sure who it’s for. Not me I don’t think

These guys totally ripped off Greta Van Fleet!!!!!!

Toe tappin electric dancing time

I’m much more attuned to this sort of post punky uh oh the 80s are here style sort of stuff, which makes it easier to know that I just don’t care too much for this one

File under : 89X

If you’re looking for an album by The Cure, this is one

Good garage rock renaissance but not my new favourite band

Although I love me some funky riffs, this was all over the board and far too long

If you’re seeking a live Motörhead album - this is one. Would be three stars but two hours long is too long

You know me

A collection of vibin ditties perfect for setting the tone on a weekend morning

File under 90s on 9. I have an affinity for the middle of the road 90s rock and this one started with a Tie Fighter so extra points

Identifying Cypress Hill : It’s the album Cypress Hill by the band Cypress Hill

Peaceful, charming

Really enjoyed this one. Love some funky bluesy folky soup

It’s Buzzcocks!

There’s something about this that I really like and I can’t figure it out

Gotta give it up

It’s Megadeth!

One of the good ones

An adequate spin through 1996 American Rock

File under the spacey tunes they play at boutique hotel pools. Bumped up during my lunch time walk around the office and it took me away which adds bonus star

You can draw a direct line from this to my sweetheart Detroit 90s-00s rock scene. Hell yea

I guess not for me

Just chillin

It played, I listened, I moved on

This album is a great guitar solo, don’t think I needed to hear it though

Absolutely here for it

MJ, Paul McCartney, Eddie Van Halen, Quincy Jones, Vincent Price, and a couple of the guys from Toto walk into bar. The fuck did we think would happen?

Faul Simon

This would have been a great album in 1965

There She Goes and other songs by the band who did There She Goes

You know when you’re at an art and food festival and you have to walk past the small stage where some band is playing to get to where you really want to be

Like it not ready to love it

Identifying ABBA : it’s ABBA! Couple of hits and a whole Scandinavian easy listening experience

It’s jazz!

Right in my sweet spot, post punky power poppy with catchy choruses not trying to be anything it isn’t. Saved to the ol Spotify albums which is criteria for 5 stars

I’m not quite sure who this is for? Kind of a collection of songs that would play during movie scenes that last a little too long? I didn’t turn it off (which is my criteria for a 1) but I did a lot of checking to see how close to the end I was

File under Jeff Beck

Yeah

Not sure where I land on this one, but tldr; a long album

Extremely badass

Big ups for a 29 minute album

Do you want to listen to Prog Rock today? ———> Yes

This is the album that ended the hippy movement

The fact that you call it that tells me you’re not ready

This cd is stuck in some grandma’s car

I’m not the target market here, decent background play

Always #available for some B&S

You know I’m here for it

You know this is the shit I’m here for

Yeah gotta love it

Identifying Smashing Pumpkins : It’s Smashing Pumpkins

[nodding head] 2002 Missy

24k gold, one of if not the first vinyls I remember purchasing. Bless up

Turns out I love this

Somewhere in the multiverse is a me quietly wiping down a bar off an isolated state road while two people play darts off in the corner and this album plays overhead

I am bored by this

Some good ass soul. Otis is the man

Forgot how fucking good the American albums are

As described in the album title

Yes

Yeah yeah yeah

Bored Teenagers would have been a great song as a bored teenager. Gary Gilmore’s eyes, woof. Safety in Numbers maybe birthed new wave? Fun stuff.

OK

This should have been the 420th album, huge miss random album selecting algorithm

This list could be 1001 Fela Kuti albums and I’d still do it

This guy was pretty good at guitar

Hard rockin

Always salutes the Roots

This is bonkers. Thanks Germany

Like Dear Zachary, Suicide by Suicide is a good piece of media that is difficult to consume more than once

Whenever I get asked what is something most people love and you don’t I say Bruce Springsteen. I’m tired of having to say this, please randomly give us something else

Sunday Monday Happy Days

Hell yea

1001 albums that got us from The Damned to Flock of Seagulls

‘Burning’ sounds like a Bruce Springsteen song but I enjoyed listening to it so three stars

Identifying Prince : Yep, it’s Prince

File under : Albums I’ll keep in my jukebox in the scenario I play in my head sometimes where work goes sideways and I move far up north or down south and open up a bar where someone is always in the corner playing darts

The scene : cleaning my car in my garage, pretending to be in a Fast & the Furious montage

I always forget Primal Scream isn’t actually screaming and get pleasantly surprised

Chill good times

Identifying Elvis - it’s Elvis

Folksy and alright

Country Byrds are country

Identifying Def Leppard : it’s Def Leppard

Funky & smooth & chill

Arcade Fire is FINE

I love me some fuzz but this was largely background noise with some occasional ear pleasing hooks. Bless ‘em

MC5, very important yadda yadda

You know I’m here for the Spanish vibes that are also French sometimes

VIBIN (get it?) to what I assume has been used as the soundtrack to a quirky indie movie at least once

File under : the kind of metal that has aliens and shit on the cover for some reason

This is what you hear in your head when you’re in a coma

This is the stuff right here

It’s well known Paul Simon picks album tracks with Mad Libs - There’s no other way to get a bossa nova song about Frank Lloyd Wright. Anyways, love the hits could take or leave the rest.

This could easily be any synth poppy album of the era

You can really taste the Billy Corgan

If this was just one album split in half, probably a three stars but this is just too much. Some good stuff in here but it’s a lot SORRY

A delightful bluesy treat

When I listen to the rock and roll music on this record I say “classic”

Amazing album as always

That late 80s early 90s sound that sounded so good on a lo-if KMart speaker

This would be lovely to have on vinyl and play while sipping a cocktail by the fire and holding a pipe that makes bubbles etc etc

For those playing along you may notice I loathe a double album, this one didn’t hurt like normal. First half was a little rocky blusier and the second half more mellow all along feeling like a good gothy time

One lunch in early high school Joel Meersman was humming the riff to Seven Nation Army and tapping on the table and I had to know what it was. The rest as they say..is history

Folk off, mate

Gotta give it up for Disco. It gave hip hop tons of great samples and made New York teens so pissed off they had to invent punk. This is a smooth listen but not too much too it

Absolutely love this album. The thought of the MFrs doing this in 1965 brings me so much joy and has so much impact on all the music I love that came after it. 🤘

Identifying Sinatra albums : It’s a Sinatra album !

Funky, chunky, trippy, you already know

Sounds just like an album titled ‘Deep Purple In Rock’ from 1970 should

Added to jazz playlist

Didn’t get it then, don’t get it now

Interesting an album from 2020 made it, this is up and down for me. Overall enjoy me some Fiona

You know I’m here for it

Ya know ya love it

Identifying mellow Sinatra : it’s mellow Sinatra

I find Beck Odelokay

Devo is nuts, love em forever

A beautiful collection of catch Faul McCartney pop tunes. Let me roll it

This was the good hip hop

It’s Iron Maiden, baby

Great album to have on here when you’re trying to play catch-up, other than that some fine hardcore

This is an album that exists

You can taste the decades of Brit pop that ooozed out of this record

53 minutes and 19 seconds of doing that little head bob dance you can do to Pet Shop Boys

At first I was like why is this? but then read the Wikipedia article. Cool concept and therefore +1 star

This is..fine? Weird collection of stuff. One of those albums that reminds me this is some random British guy’s list

Some of the most classic of rock

Okay?

The definition of 3 star rock

Ya have to get excited knowing you have a little BJ coming your way

A lesser Coldplay

You can always tell when an album will be 🔥 just from the cover. Best part of this one is the first playlist recommendation on Spotify is Boogaloo Essentials

When you google this album the first suggested question is “Why is Heroes so good?” which just about sums it up

I also love the dead

Oh look, a late 70s early 80s UK pop rock new wave post punk band I haven’t heard before

Cool as hell

Talking Heads are my fine wine band, they get better to me with my age

Spooky as always

This is an album that happened around me in my lifetime that I largely ignored. It’s pretty good ya dummy

This was fun Bollywood action, let’s watch this movie

Fuck yeah, 500 albums

File under the shit they play at boutique hotel pool areas

Fugazi knew how to kick ass

Some catchy pop hooks and early 90s sounds, but most importantly Jimmy Buffett covered ‘Weather With You’ so plus one star

As intended this easily bleeds into ambient noise in the background as you focus into something else, good work tunes

I agree with the liner notes that say maybe one day Scott Walker would do something good

Chill town

That’s a beautiful Willie

What? Why?

Great album, Mark Knopfler’s the man

Rock the fuck on

I know I’m not a ‘music guy’ and more of a ‘guy who likes music’ because I still listen to Sonic Youth and go “…okay?”

Didn’t know Leonard Cohen like this existed. Pretty cool. This is how you adapt to a new era of sound while still maintaining what makes you great

👏 Every late 70s early 80s post punk album isn’t one we must hear 👏

I’m rappin I’m rappin

Identifying Big Star

You already know

Fittingly seeing Garbage perform with Tears for Fears tomorrow, thanks for the warmup

Not on Spotify but presumed ‘I would be okay with this’

I love This is the Day but the rest is a bit of file under every post punk synth pop album is not one we must listen to

Just a good fuckin album

Catchy choruses and messy guitars. Great then, great now

Salsa now y’all

It’s no self titled Specials but it’s fun

I am and remain LCD Soundsystem neutral

Dooodeeeee dooo dooo dooo

This happened and I listened

Hell yeah

Oh yeah that Moby song

Beautiful, haunting, groovy

I cannot and will not stop until I get enough

The Replacements are fine to me

Love me some Stevie

East Coast Hip hop for a long time

Cool synths that passed the time

Radiohead makes me sleepy

Always enjoyed driving around San Andreas listening to ‘Cult of Personality’. Rest of the album is pretty good too

So kooky!!!

Chill vibes, cool samples

What it sounds like in my brain to hit the snooze button

File under that sort of Need for Speed 90s beats and samples electronicy nonsense

Norah Jones is a peaceful angel

A pleasure

Run-D.M.C. doing Run-D.M.C. stuff

Sonic Youth neutral

It’s fucking Abbey Road

wtf was this

Badass

Not my normal groove but a delightful morning focus time listen

Peaceful 70s folk

Karen Carpenter was the last good Karen

Big hair, big riffs, poppy choruses. According to Wikipedia this album upset Def Leppard purists which brings me joy and one extra star

I just don’t like Metallica enough to listen to 2 hours of more boring versions of their songs. Hit a couple and it was fine. Love this concept (Ben Folds orchestra versions are 5 star) but this one isn’t for me

Great stuff, great voice, chill vibes

It’s Wilco!

Heavy riffs and guitar solos, didn’t / couldn’t pay attention to the lyrics. Went by fast so that’s good?

It’s Iron Maiden!

It’s Nirvana!

It’s Björk!

Classic electronic beeps and boops

This is the style of hip hop I like best, runs a little long though. You know I like em 40-50 minutes

My kind of hip hoppery

Indie vibes

If there is one thing this list has been successful at doing, it is convincing my Spotify algorithm that I am attempting to pick out music for a Fast and the Furious reboot

Some delightful Dolly

Pop Blondie is pop but good and fun and damned if you aren’t singing Heart of Glass for two hours after this

Yeah baby

Cool samples to create cool beats

Great stuff

One of those albums where you go to Wikipedia to see the accolades that landed it on this list, but the only notoriety it has is being on this list

Michael K is the best

The classicest of Eagles rock

You know I love that sweet, sweet sitar. And sitar covers? Go on with ya bad self

Funky

Have you heard of ‘indie’ music ?

Great album, huge part of my personal punk renaissance of 2020-2022

Hm, no thank you

Ya gotta love it

I like the Offspring and you should too

This is the country that I like

Rolling Stone neutral

I too have hear Bob Dylan

I listened to this yesterday and all I remember is that I was largely bored

Largely bored

Identifying Metallica : It’s Metallica

She’s the Queen for a reason

This is indeed Supa Dupa Fly

It’s no Thriller but still some good shit

Ya gotta love it

Rooten and tooten

Deep

Good Bowie. Dark Bowie. Spooky Bowie

Some good stuff but too long! You know the rules. 46 minutes or under

Best part of this album is when I accidentally searched for Pearl Ham

Van Halen rules

Great album - it is known

Identifying Dylan : It’s Dylan

Does he tell the crowd he doesn’t have leukemia in the middle of Somebody Have Mercy? That’s weird

Identifying the Red Hot Chili Peppers : It’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Classic classic Who with inklings of future classic Who

This is fine OH SHIT FREEBIRD

Very clearly a small collection of songs padded by songs written over a weekend as it is that

I too see a Darkness

This is nuts, kinda dig it

Rock and roll

This album was randomly picked the day after Queen Elizabeth II died so I’m not sure if that automatically gives it a 1 or a 5 so it gets a 3 because The Smiths

Post-Brit pop super group movie anthems

Yes

It’s Jazz!

One of my favs

Okay

Best lo-fi album?

The first review on the Wikipedia page mentions that this isn’t their best record. It’s a good listen

Atmospheric etc

Far out man

Extremely funky…

I can’t believe we had to do ANOTHER Kate Bush album it was FINE

You have heard this 90s post grunge before

Delightful early rock and or roll

The cooky spacey sample thing only those Eno & Byrne boys could come up with. Thank you Wikipedia for applying the context ‘a vision of psychedelic Africa’

That sweet sweet 90s POTUSA

Much blues