Feb 12 2021
Beautiful Freak
Eels
5
Feb 15 2021
Who's Next
The Who
I've never been especially crazy about this album. I love individual tracks on their own, but this has always felt like a Who album that happens to have their best songs rather than the best Who album.
4
Feb 16 2021
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
4
Feb 17 2021
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
I was not put on this earth to "get" Rod Stewart.
2
Feb 18 2021
Tommy
The Who
5
Feb 19 2021
C'est Chic
CHIC
3
Feb 22 2021
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
3
Feb 23 2021
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
4
Feb 24 2021
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
4
Feb 25 2021
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
3
Feb 26 2021
Rising Above Bedlam
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2
Mar 01 2021
Parachutes
Coldplay
3
Mar 02 2021
All Mod Cons
The Jam
5
Mar 03 2021
Scott 4
Scott Walker
5
Mar 04 2021
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3
Mar 05 2021
Da Capo
Love
3
Mar 08 2021
1999
Prince
An all timer when it comes to the album-quality vs album art ratio.
5
Mar 09 2021
The Band
The Band
4
Mar 10 2021
Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
Mar 11 2021
Destroyer
KISS
2
Mar 12 2021
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters
3
Mar 15 2021
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
4
Mar 16 2021
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
3
Mar 17 2021
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
4
Mar 18 2021
No Other
Gene Clark
5
Mar 19 2021
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
4
Mar 22 2021
Different Class
Pulp
5
Mar 23 2021
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
5
Mar 24 2021
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
3
Mar 25 2021
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
3
Mar 26 2021
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
4
Mar 29 2021
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
5
Mar 30 2021
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
5
Mar 31 2021
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
3
Apr 01 2021
Pearl
Janis Joplin
4
Apr 02 2021
Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
3
Apr 05 2021
Done By The Forces Of Nature
Jungle Brothers
4
Apr 06 2021
The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
I avoided this one for ages because Morrissey is a racist wanker. I know itβs good, but Iβm just sick of the guy and for better or worse I hear it in the Smithsβs music.
Well, I saw The Killer a week or so ago and had a hankering. Great album, shitty dude.
5
Apr 07 2021
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
Apr 08 2021
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
4
Apr 09 2021
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
4
Apr 12 2021
Rip It Up
Orange Juice
3
Apr 13 2021
The Yes Album
Yes
5
Apr 14 2021
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Laura Nyro
2
Apr 15 2021
Berlin
Lou Reed
4
Apr 16 2021
Virgin Suicides
Air
5
Apr 19 2021
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
3
Apr 20 2021
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
3
Apr 21 2021
Tidal
Fiona Apple
5
Apr 22 2021
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
2
Apr 23 2021
Elephant
The White Stripes
5
Apr 26 2021
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
3
Apr 27 2021
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
Very good, just not my favorite Sabbath.
3
Apr 28 2021
Face to Face
The Kinks
5
Apr 29 2021
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
5
Apr 30 2021
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
5
May 03 2021
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
May 04 2021
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
4
May 05 2021
Picture Book
Simply Red
3
May 06 2021
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
2
May 07 2021
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
4
May 10 2021
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
5
May 11 2021
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
4
May 12 2021
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
4
May 13 2021
Document
R.E.M.
5
May 14 2021
The La's
The La's
3
May 17 2021
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
4
May 18 2021
Signing Off
UB40
4
May 19 2021
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
3
May 20 2021
The Joshua Tree
U2
U2 sounds like a bank commercial.
3
May 21 2021
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
4
May 24 2021
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
this music reversed my vasectomy
3
May 25 2021
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
2
May 26 2021
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3
May 27 2021
Vauxhall And I
Morrissey
I mean...Speedway good.
3
May 28 2021
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
One of my favorite live records ever. Samβs got the audience in the palm of his hand.
5
May 31 2021
Blue
Joni Mitchell
5
Jun 01 2021
I Should Coco
Supergrass
3
Jun 02 2021
Gold
Ryan Adams
Fuck Ryan Adams.
1
Jun 03 2021
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
3
Jun 04 2021
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
4
Jun 07 2021
The Stooges
The Stooges
4
Jun 08 2021
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
3
Jun 09 2021
A Night At The Opera
Queen
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon into I'm In Love With my Car is the rock n roll one-two punch you never knew you needed.
4
Jun 10 2021
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
4
Jun 11 2021
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
3
Jun 14 2021
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
5
Jun 15 2021
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
3
Jun 16 2021
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
4
Jun 17 2021
Abraxas
Santana
4
Jun 18 2021
Live At Leeds
The Who
4
Jun 21 2021
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
5
Jun 22 2021
Moving Pictures
Rush
I should like this, yet my Zappa-lovin ass will call this "too angular and chaotic."
3
Jun 23 2021
The Lexicon Of Love
ABC
This is a low rating where I want to make my bona fides clear: I like 80s music, and I specifically like new wave and synthpop.
That said:
This annoys the everloving shit outta me; it sounds like Robert Smith fell into The Love Cats and couldn't get out.
1
Jun 24 2021
The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas
3
Jun 25 2021
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
4
Jun 28 2021
Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart
2
Jun 29 2021
O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
4
Jun 30 2021
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
3
Jul 01 2021
S&M
Metallica
Sounds like a bad James Bond soundtrack.
1
Jul 02 2021
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
3
Jul 05 2021
Leftism
Leftfield
After being real cool on much of the electronica served up to me so far, this one actually clicked. Seems like good study/coding music, but according to the reviews I'd be best off tripping face in a London warehouse.
4
Jul 06 2021
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
4
Jul 07 2021
Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
3
Jul 08 2021
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
4
Jul 09 2021
Faust IV
Faust
4
Jul 12 2021
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
5
Jul 13 2021
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
This one sits in an awkward spot between Waits' early beat-crooner phase and his later tinpan-circus-in-a-gutter phase. Small Change or Blue Valentine do this same thing way, way better imo.
3
Jul 14 2021
Connected
Stereo MC's
2
Jul 15 2021
Casanova
The Divine Comedy
This is what you'd get if you asked me to write a Pulp parody album.
2
Jul 16 2021
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
5
Jul 19 2021
Murmur
R.E.M.
4
Jul 20 2021
Zombie
Fela Kuti
5
Aug 24 2021
Rio
Duran Duran
4
Aug 25 2021
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
3
Aug 26 2021
Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Red Snapper
"The Rake" made me angry.
2
Aug 27 2021
Cut
The Slits
5
Aug 30 2021
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
4
Aug 31 2021
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
5
Sep 01 2021
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
4
Sep 02 2021
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys
3
Sep 03 2021
Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
gee wonder why David Lynch hired this guy
3
Sep 06 2021
The Poet
Bobby Womack
4
Sep 07 2021
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
5
Sep 08 2021
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
5
Sep 09 2021
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
Kinda doubt we'd remember this one had Bjork not become Bjork
2
Sep 10 2021
90
808 State
2
Sep 13 2021
Moon Safari
Air
4
Sep 14 2021
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
4
Sep 15 2021
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
4
Sep 16 2021
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
3
Sep 17 2021
Pretenders
Pretenders
3
Sep 20 2021
Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear
5
Sep 21 2021
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
4
Sep 22 2021
Sea Change
Beck
*You're* crying.
5
Sep 23 2021
Orbital 2
Orbital
Time and again this site has served me turn-of-the-90s UK electronica, and it's still yet to make an impression on me. I try to not generalize about music, but I can completely understand why music from this period gets slammed for being so repetitive.
for being so repetitive
for being so repetitive
for being so repetitive
boom-boom-boom-snap
so repetitive
boom-boom-boom-snap
so repetitive
boom-boom-boom-snap
so repetitive
2
Sep 24 2021
Chelsea Girl
Nico
3
Sep 27 2021
Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is just at this intersection between prog (my jam) and easy listening (not my jam) that does not do it for me.
3
Sep 28 2021
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
5
Sep 29 2021
The Stranger
Billy Joel
3
Sep 30 2021
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4
Oct 01 2021
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
4
Oct 04 2021
Doolittle
Pixies
5
Oct 05 2021
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
I know this is very good, and there are some songs I really like. But, as a millennial growing up in the 90s watching truck commercials backed by AC/DC tracks, this music sounds like a midlife crisis.
3
Oct 06 2021
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope
3
Oct 07 2021
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
I need a slowed-down, soul-free version of Little Wing like I need another hole in my head. Diet blues.
1
Oct 08 2021
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
4
Oct 11 2021
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
4
Oct 12 2021
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4
Oct 13 2021
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
5
Oct 14 2021
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
3
Oct 15 2021
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
As a 90s kid growing up with 90s Aerosmith, I didn't take Aerosmith very seriously. In fact, I loathed Aerosmith. They're up there with Billy Joel as artists who I completely understand the success and reach they've had, but I really only appreciate on a cultural level rather than a musical one.
So color me surprised when I put this album on to find some real tightly played hard rock. Maybe a little unsophisticated lyrically, but you can see yourself handing the Zeppelin crown over to them.
And then Big Ten Inch Record played.
No, I was right. These guys are corny. Then comes Sweet Emotion and you see why they got so big.
4
Oct 18 2021
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
4
Oct 19 2021
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
3
Oct 20 2021
evermore
Taylor Swift
Who put this here
2
Oct 21 2021
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
5
Oct 22 2021
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
3
Oct 25 2021
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
4
Oct 26 2021
Low
David Bowie
4
Oct 27 2021
The Bends
Radiohead
It's downright frustrating how this album gets no love in the shadow of Radiohead's later, more experimental work. This is an album which exemplifies guitar-driven brit-rock, full of incendiary licks and inward-looking lyrics. It's almost as though the sheer consistency of this album is held against it compared to the zigs and zags of the following albums, even the zigs and zags within the tracks of those albums.
5
Oct 28 2021
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
4
Oct 29 2021
Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
Seeing this pop up gave me moosebumps.
A little overlong, I tend to skip a couple of the repetitive songs. But a true classic nonetheless.
4
Nov 01 2021
Apocalypse 91β¦ The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy
3
Nov 02 2021
Machine Head
Deep Purple
4
Nov 03 2021
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
5
Nov 04 2021
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
It's not Megadeth's fault I'm more of a Doom / Sludge / Slow Metal guy. But, beyond technical proficiency, I just don't get the appeal of speed metal.
3
Nov 05 2021
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
This album's especially great for giving Nico multiple opportunities to say "clown" (pronounced 'klauhn')
5
Nov 08 2021
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
4
Nov 09 2021
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
3
Nov 10 2021
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
3
Nov 11 2021
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
5
Nov 12 2021
Elastica
Elastica
4
Nov 15 2021
Goo
Sonic Youth
3
Nov 16 2021
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods
3
Nov 17 2021
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
3
Nov 18 2021
More Specials
The Specials
4
Nov 19 2021
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
5
Nov 22 2021
Rubber Soul
Beatles
5
Nov 23 2021
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
3
Nov 24 2021
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
4
Nov 25 2021
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
4
Nov 26 2021
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
A band that dares ask the question: what if Sparks went ska?
3
Dec 01 2021
Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
5
Dec 02 2021
Garbage
Garbage
3
Dec 03 2021
OK Computer
Radiohead
5
Dec 06 2021
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
4
Dec 07 2021
ΓgΓ¦tis Byrjun
Sigur RΓ³s
5
Dec 08 2021
Very
Pet Shop Boys
3
Dec 09 2021
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
Dec 10 2021
There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
4
Dec 13 2021
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
4
Dec 14 2021
Purple Rain
Prince
5
Dec 15 2021
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
3
Dec 16 2021
Never Mind The Bollocks, Hereβs The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
4
Dec 17 2021
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy
Casanova felt like Pulp parody. This feels like Magnetic Fields parody.
2
Dec 20 2021
Under Construction
Missy Elliott
I hadnβt listened to Missy Elliot before this, and thatβs on me.
5
Dec 21 2021
Is This It
The Strokes
5
Dec 22 2021
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
4
Dec 23 2021
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck.
Or the Creedence.
4
Dec 24 2021
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Geez people really turned on this album didnβt they. Music still seems good to me.
Weird that the current top review here knocks the lyrics for βevery other word being fuck this and fuck thatβ when thereβsβ¦ a single f-bomb across the entire album? Lots of projection going on when it comes to the content of the album; youβre telling on yourself, bro.
5
Dec 27 2021
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
5
Dec 28 2021
Harvest
Neil Young
5
Dec 29 2021
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
4
Dec 30 2021
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
4
Dec 31 2021
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
2
Jan 03 2022
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
1
Jan 04 2022
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
This is just the same song ten times and I love it.
4
Jan 05 2022
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
5
Jan 06 2022
Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
4
Jan 07 2022
Happy Sad
Tim Buckley
3
Jan 10 2022
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
Love this album. Was going to give four stars since this is a classic, but on this listen Iβm unfortunately feeling the runtimes of several tracks. Then Thurston Moore sang βthere he goes again, my magic monkey friendβ and the perfect score restored itself.
5
Jan 11 2022
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
The fadeout on He's Misstra Know-It-All is comically long
5
Jan 12 2022
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
5
Jan 13 2022
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
Oasis just not my tempo. I have no nostalgic connection to this album (which seems to fuel a LOT of the praise in these ratings), it all sounds a bit samey, and every song could have a good 60-90 seconds shaved off.
3
Jan 14 2022
Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
2
Jan 17 2022
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
Love the low reviews from people hearing *this* phase of Miles Davis and going βwhoa, mister wacky jazz, youβre going way over my head with this!β
4
Jan 18 2022
Dirt
Alice In Chains
3
Jan 19 2022
Bad Company
Bad Company
All I hear is Tom Scharpling hanging up on boring callers.
4
Jan 20 2022
Being There
Wilco
5
Jan 21 2022
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
Itβs hard to say whether this album simply pales in comparison to the Gorillaz albums to come after it, or if itβs really just too slight and sketchy (I lean towards this; it feels more like Albarn and co. are exploring rather than establishing), but itβs wild that *this* is the Gorillaz album to hear before you die. St. Peter will turn your ass around and send you back if you think youβre just gonna shuffle off without hearing Demon Days or Plastic Beach.
3
Jan 24 2022
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
4
Jan 25 2022
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
4
Jan 26 2022
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
3
Jan 27 2022
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
I should buy a boat.
4
Jan 28 2022
The Grand Tour
George Jones
4
Jan 31 2022
Imagine
John Lennon
When it comes to the Beatles, it's hard to pick my favorite: George is probably my favorite person of the lot and an undersung contributor to every song, Paul has the best pop sensibility and I love his post-Beatles output the best, and Ringo may not have much but at least he's not John.
2
Feb 01 2022
Hard Again
Muddy Waters
5
Feb 02 2022
Roxy Music
Roxy Music
5
Feb 03 2022
Van Halen
Van Halen
Maybe hair metal wasnβt a mistake
4
Feb 04 2022
Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
Is there a 90s uk sophistipop album this list doesnβt have?
2
Feb 07 2022
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
4
Feb 08 2022
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
4
Feb 09 2022
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash
February 2022 - Clicking the spotify link for this album is as amusing as checking the 42nd presidentβs twitter url; itβll never get old. F*** Joe Rogan
4
Feb 10 2022
Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
4
Feb 11 2022
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
4
Feb 14 2022
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
4
Feb 15 2022
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
fuhn fuhn fuhn
4
Feb 16 2022
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
4
Feb 17 2022
Skylarking
XTC
3
Feb 18 2022
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
You don't often get a divorce album that leaves you 100% on the side of the artist's ex. Just picture Sara Dylan playing "Idiot Wind" at the filing.
Every time Bob goes "whoooaaaaaaaaaaa" on "You're a Big Girl Now" I picture him going down a really steep roller coaster. And now you'll hear that every time too.
5
Feb 21 2022
With The Beatles
Beatles
4
Feb 22 2022
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
3
Feb 23 2022
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
4
Feb 24 2022
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
5
Feb 25 2022
Wild Gift
X
5
Feb 28 2022
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
4
Mar 01 2022
Forever Changes
Love
4
Mar 02 2022
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
3
Mar 03 2022
Sex Packets
Digital Underground
3
Mar 04 2022
Fifth Dimension
The Byrds
4
Mar 07 2022
Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
3
Mar 08 2022
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
5
Mar 09 2022
Penance Soiree
The Icarus Line
Thanks I hate it
2
Mar 10 2022
New Wave
The Auteurs
4
Mar 11 2022
Here, My Dear
Marvin Gaye
5
Mar 14 2022
Phrenology
The Roots
3
Mar 15 2022
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3
Mar 16 2022
KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka
I love Michael Kiwanuka, I love this album; recency bias has me asking: is this his most essential release? One of the most essential of 2019?
Between the recent picks (which I donβt know if they come from the author of the book or the architect of this site) and the early-90s britpop, techno jazz, and art pop; the subjectivity of this list can be blistering.
4
Mar 17 2022
Third
Portishead
5
Mar 18 2022
High Violet
The National
4
Mar 21 2022
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
Psst.
Hey you.
Yeah you.
Cβmere.
No, closer.
There we go, just a little closerβ¦
Nope, even closerβ¦
I donβt get what the big deal is with The Rolling Stones beyond their longevity. Theyβre fine.
3
Mar 22 2022
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
This is what every bar band thinks they sound like.
4
Mar 23 2022
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
4
Mar 24 2022
It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
3
Mar 25 2022
Funeral
Arcade Fire
5
Mar 28 2022
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
3
Mar 29 2022
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
Janeβs Addictionβs creative approach seems to be βif somethingβs worth doing, itβs worth overdoing.β Pump the brakes, boys.
2
Mar 30 2022
Roots
Sepultura
4
Mar 31 2022
OK
Talvin Singh
When the yoga teacher puts on cooldown music that isnβt as peaceful as they think.
2
Apr 01 2022
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
5
Apr 04 2022
Thriller
Michael Jackson
4
Apr 05 2022
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
4
Apr 06 2022
Dusty In Memphis
Dusty Springfield
4
Apr 07 2022
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
3
Apr 08 2022
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
Sounds like Philly Boy Roy singing the Toonerville Trolley.
3
Apr 11 2022
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
The Arcade Fire: growing up in the suburbs can be alienating at times.
Aging Gen-Xers as they start to make up the majority of the Grammy voting body: holy shit yes
4
Apr 12 2022
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
3
Apr 13 2022
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
4
Apr 14 2022
Horses
Patti Smith
5
Apr 15 2022
Space Ritual
Hawkwind
3
Apr 18 2022
Stankonia
OutKast
5
Apr 19 2022
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
4
Apr 20 2022
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
4
Apr 21 2022
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
3
Apr 22 2022
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4
Apr 25 2022
Revolver
Beatles
5
Apr 26 2022
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
4
Apr 27 2022
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Byrds
4
Apr 28 2022
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
I used to think our cultural distaste for the hippie movement was an overreaction. Then I listened to this album.
2
Apr 29 2022
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
Everybody who hated this listened before 11pm
5
May 02 2022
Heroes
David Bowie
4
May 03 2022
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
Negative stars for the stage banter.
3
May 04 2022
Another Green World
Brian Eno
5
May 05 2022
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4
May 06 2022
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
3
May 09 2022
The Clash
The Clash
4
May 10 2022
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2
May 11 2022
Nowhere
Ride
2
May 12 2022
Eternally Yours
The Saints
2
May 13 2022
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
2
May 16 2022
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
5
May 17 2022
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
3
May 18 2022
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
4
May 19 2022
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
4
May 20 2022
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
5
May 23 2022
Disraeli Gears
Cream
The British impulse to include a nursery rhyme or drinking song in every guitar-driven album.
3
May 24 2022
The Who Sell Out
The Who
Whatβs for tea daughtah?
5
May 25 2022
Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera
I am once more forced to acknowledge the existence of thrash.
2
May 26 2022
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
3
May 27 2022
New York Dolls
New York Dolls
3
May 30 2022
The Cars
The Cars
5
May 31 2022
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
4
Jun 01 2022
Crazysexycool
TLC
4
Jun 02 2022
Tragic Songs of Life
The Louvin Brothers
2
Jun 03 2022
Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer
3
Jun 06 2022
1984
Van Halen
4
Jun 07 2022
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
4
Jun 08 2022
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
5
Jun 09 2022
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
3
Jun 10 2022
Kenya
Machito
4
Jun 13 2022
Raw Power
The Stooges
4
Jun 14 2022
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
5
Jun 15 2022
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
4
Jun 16 2022
Clube Da Esquina
Milton Nascimento
4
Jun 17 2022
The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
4
Jun 20 2022
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela
4
Jun 21 2022
Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
2
Jun 22 2022
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
4
Jun 23 2022
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
If you were going to put out an album in 1967 you had to have a song about a gnome.
4
Jun 24 2022
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
5
Jun 27 2022
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5
Jun 28 2022
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
4
Jun 29 2022
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
2
Jun 30 2022
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
5
Jul 01 2022
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
5
Jul 04 2022
Eliminator
ZZ Top
3
Jul 05 2022
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
3
Jul 06 2022
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
5
Jul 07 2022
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
HΓΌsker DΓΌ
2
Jul 08 2022
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
4
Jul 11 2022
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
4
Jul 12 2022
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
4
Jul 13 2022
Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
2
Jul 14 2022
Out of Step
Minor Threat
3
Jul 15 2022
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
3
Jul 18 2022
Run-D.M.C.
Run-D.M.C.
4
Jul 19 2022
The Real Thing
Faith No More
2
Jul 20 2022
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
5
Jul 21 2022
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
4
Jul 22 2022
L.A. Woman
The Doors
3
Jul 25 2022
Arrival
ABBA
4
Jul 26 2022
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5
Jul 27 2022
Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
After learning The Divine Comedy produced this, my thought was βof course.β I never heard of The Divine Comedy before this list/site, but theyβre headlining my shitlist.
1
Jul 28 2022
In It For The Money
Supergrass
3
Jul 29 2022
m b v
My Bloody Valentine
4
Aug 01 2022
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
4
Aug 02 2022
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
3
Aug 03 2022
Vespertine
BjΓΆrk
3
Aug 04 2022
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
My favorite band named after an Adam Sandler catchphrase.
3
Aug 05 2022
Throwing Muses
Throwing Muses
4
Aug 08 2022
All Directions
The Temptations
4
Aug 09 2022
Kid A
Radiohead
5
Aug 10 2022
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
3
Aug 11 2022
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
Aug 12 2022
Dry
PJ Harvey
4
Aug 15 2022
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5
Aug 16 2022
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4
Aug 17 2022
Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello
3
Aug 18 2022
(Pronounced 'Leh-'NΓ©rd 'Skin-'NΓ©rd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5
Aug 19 2022
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
5
Aug 22 2022
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
5
Aug 23 2022
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
3
Aug 24 2022
A Northern Soul
The Verve
Some of these album selections really peg the bookβs author as a British fella who came of age in the early 90s.
2
Aug 25 2022
Queen II
Queen
*see the title Ogre Battle.*
βHey! They wrote a song about my divorce!β
3
Aug 26 2022
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3
Aug 29 2022
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
4
Aug 30 2022
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
5
Aug 31 2022
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
4
Sep 01 2022
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
3
Sep 02 2022
Atomizer
Big Black
4
Sep 05 2022
GREY Area
Little Simz
4
Sep 06 2022
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
3
Sep 07 2022
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
5
Sep 08 2022
Country Life
Roxy Music
4
Sep 09 2022
ImmigrΓ©s
Youssou N'Dour
4
Sep 12 2022
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks
5
Sep 13 2022
The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
I've just never been that keen on the Arctic Monkeys or late-00s dance-rock, for that matter.
"Arctic Monkeys but make it baroque" did not win me over.
2
Sep 14 2022
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
3
Sep 15 2022
This Nationβs Saving Grace
The Fall
3
Sep 16 2022
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
5
Sep 19 2022
Soul Mining
The The
3
Sep 20 2022
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5
Sep 21 2022
Nick Of Time
Bonnie Raitt
5
Sep 22 2022
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
4
Sep 23 2022
The Man Who
Travis
What if The Bends had no teeth?
3
Sep 26 2022
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
4
Sep 27 2022
Closer
Joy Division
5
Sep 28 2022
Mask
Bauhaus
3
Sep 29 2022
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
5
Sep 30 2022
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
The album that gave us THE go-to karaoke song for guys who have make their drinking problem their personality.
1
Oct 03 2022
Trio
Dolly Parton
3
Oct 04 2022
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
5
Oct 05 2022
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen
4
Oct 06 2022
MedΓΊlla
BjΓΆrk
4
Oct 07 2022
Suicide
Suicide
Frankie Frankie
5
Oct 10 2022
The Score
Fugees
5
Oct 11 2022
The ArchAndroid
Janelle MonΓ‘e
Always been kinda salty that Janelleβs never really followed up on the promise of this record and has segued into straightforward pop.
5
Oct 12 2022
BEYONCΓ
BeyoncΓ©
4
Oct 13 2022
Repeater
Fugazi
4
Oct 14 2022
The Healer
John Lee Hooker
Oh shit someone let the 80s get a hold of the blues, someone get that out of its mouth before someone gets hurt.
3
Oct 17 2022
Surfer Rosa
Pixies
5
Oct 18 2022
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Good album with a whopping four closing tracks.
3
Oct 19 2022
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
4
Oct 20 2022
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
4
Oct 21 2022
Risque
CHIC
3
Oct 24 2022
Technique
New Order
3
Oct 25 2022
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
3
Oct 26 2022
Rapture
Anita Baker
Incomplete on Spotify but whatβs available bops. Love to recognize the MF DOOM Hoe Cakes sample originated inβ¦(checks notes) Sweet Love. Deborah Vance eat your heart out.
4
Oct 27 2022
Histoire De Melody Nelson
Serge Gainsbourg
3
Oct 28 2022
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
4
Oct 31 2022
Dust
Screaming Trees
Honk shoo mimimimimi
Honk shoo mimimimimi
2
Nov 01 2022
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
5
Nov 02 2022
New Forms
Roni Size
1
Nov 03 2022
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
Absolutely stunned to see people are all bottom-Drake meme with the banana album but somehow top-Drake meme with WL/WH.
5
Nov 04 2022
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
5
Nov 07 2022
Parallel Lines
Blondie
3
Nov 08 2022
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4
Nov 09 2022
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
2
Nov 10 2022
Drunk
Thundercat
Always found this album super sketchy, like you could drop ten tracks and expand five.
3
Nov 11 2022
Hysteria
Def Leppard
3
Nov 14 2022
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5
Nov 15 2022
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
3
Nov 16 2022
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
2
Nov 17 2022
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
3
Nov 18 2022
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
3
Nov 21 2022
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
4
Nov 22 2022
Metallica
Metallica
2
Nov 23 2022
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
I used to be such a sweet sweet thing
βTil they
Got a holda me
4
Nov 24 2022
American Idiot
Green Day
The Dookie/American Idiot dichotomy sums up my issues with aughts-era angst and protest; where the 90s were a relatively peaceful and prosperous time, the youth were angry, didn't know why, and were ready to aim it at everything. With the destabilization of the 00s, the warmongering and conservative-christian values sinking their teeth into a weakened US, musicians descended into a brand of toothless, commercial protest music. There was so much going on at this time, yet the most trenchant observation most of these groups could muster was "the president is pretty dumb, and by proxy so are we Americans."
However, there's a whole generation of people who were in middle or high school when this album came out, and it was their first and most accessible expression of anger and dissent. But to me this sounds like a collection of zippy singalongs, peppering in midsong reminders to go hit up the festival's voter registration tent.
3
Nov 25 2022
Pelican West
Haircut 100
Earth, White Boys, and Fire
4
Nov 28 2022
Cross
Justice
4
Nov 29 2022
...And Justice For All
Metallica
β¦And Metallica for some (just not me)
2
Nov 30 2022
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
4
Dec 01 2022
Woodface
Crowded House
Woodsound
2
Dec 02 2022
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
MotΓΆrhead
2
Dec 05 2022
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
3
Dec 06 2022
Protection
Massive Attack
3
Dec 07 2022
Manassas
Stephen Stills
4
Dec 08 2022
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5
Dec 09 2022
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
5
Dec 12 2022
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
3
Dec 13 2022
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
5
Dec 14 2022
Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
Dec 15 2022
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
4
Dec 16 2022
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney
2
Dec 19 2022
Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
I'm didgin' out, Jerry!
3
Dec 20 2022
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
5
Dec 21 2022
Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4
Dec 22 2022
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
4
Dec 23 2022
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
Is this a fuckin prank
1
Dec 26 2022
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4
Dec 27 2022
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
5
Dec 28 2022
Street Life
The Crusaders
Nice, easy listening. The kind of album you donβt realize has been done for five tracks; hard to say if thatβs due to the albumβs influence or itβs indistinguishability from its contemporaries.
3
Dec 29 2022
16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens
3
Dec 30 2022
Kollaps
EinstΓΌrzende Neubauten
3
Jan 02 2023
The White Album
Beatles
5
Jan 03 2023
Urban Hymns
The Verve
3
Jan 04 2023
Odessa
Bee Gees
2
Jan 05 2023
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5
Jan 06 2023
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
3
Jan 09 2023
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
In these reviews I see a lot of assertions that the music and lyrics have aged poorly; the fact that these complaints echo the same pearl-clutching and overtures towards respectability politics which had talk show pundits demanding these thugs pull their pants up, it underlines timelessness of the project.
4
Jan 10 2023
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
3
Jan 11 2023
In Utero
Nirvana
4
Jan 12 2023
Let It Be
The Replacements
5
Jan 13 2023
British Steel
Judas Priest
3
Jan 16 2023
Either Or
Elliott Smith
4
Jan 17 2023
NEU! 75
Neu!
4
Jan 18 2023
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
Listen, I was once an angry teenager, demanding love/respect from others while simultaneously demanding they shut up (truly the rudest thing a kid can think to say, even when armed with all the swears), rolling all my perceived enemies and aggressors into a vague, convenient-to-critique "YOU." I am very glad I had Hybrid Theory in my Discman to remind me it was normal to be confused, angry, and above all utterly inarticulate about it.
Twenty years of reading, reflection, and cognitive behavioral therapy later, this stuff sounds like "One, Two, Buckle my Shoe."
2
Jan 19 2023
Ramones
Ramones
5
Jan 20 2023
Black Monk Time
The Monks
Higgle-dy - Piggle-dy, mfers
5
Jan 23 2023
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
Jan 24 2023
Liquid Swords
GZA
When cut across the neck, a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say. I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday, to hear that sound. But to have it happen to my own neck is ridiculous.
5
Jan 25 2023
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
"Meet Jon, 38 years old. After being prompted by a coffee-table-book list of supposedly essential music, he's about to listen to an entire Eminem album, no skips. And suddenly his conscience comes into play:"
2
Jan 26 2023
Junkyard
The Birthday Party
3
Jan 27 2023
Ray Of Light
Madonna
4
Jan 30 2023
Siembra
Willie ColΓ³n & RubΓ©n Blades
3
Jan 31 2023
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
5
Feb 01 2023
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
1001 early 90s UK electronic albums to hear before you die.
2
Feb 02 2023
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
An absolute crime that Original Pirate Material isnβt on this list. A Grand Donβt Cone for Free might have an overarching concept, but Iβd argue the songs donβt hold together so well; I like most of them off their own merits, but altogether a full listen can be taxing.
3
Feb 03 2023
Synchronicity
The Police
3
Feb 06 2023
Frank
Amy Winehouse
To my surprise I enjoyed this a lot more than Back to Black (which I quite enjoyed), which has such a strong reputation and I've always assumed is *the* polished work to look towards when it comes to Winehouse's discography.
Rather, the classic jazz influence is more charming with less polish/production, the humor actually caught me off guard (I always found Rehab depressing and over-obvious), and is more emotionally acute if not as raw as BIB.
5
Feb 07 2023
Hunting High And Low
a-ha
3
Feb 08 2023
L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
Symphonic metal was a mistake.
1
Feb 09 2023
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
5
Feb 10 2023
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
What if the theme from Sex and the City sounded like an hour-long panic attack?
On a serious note, there are a lot of great non-us, non-uk (I.e. βworld musicβ) albums on this list, but just as many chintzy, late-career albums which clearly crossed over in the 80s - 90s, when the writer of the og book was coming of age. The instruments sound too crisp and synth-y, and everything is arranged with such a lack of mess. You canβt help but feel like this album was played and/or bought in a Starbucks.
2
Feb 13 2023
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
4
Feb 14 2023
Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk
Elegance and decadence
5
Feb 15 2023
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
4
Feb 16 2023
Pyromania
Def Leppard
Gym metal. Something to make you throw up devil horns on the stairmaster.
3
Feb 17 2023
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bing-a-bong-a-bong-a-bong Burbank
Gigga gigga, gigga gigga-Glendale
3
Feb 20 2023
Back In Black
AC/DC
4
Feb 21 2023
Superunknown
Soundgarden
3
Feb 22 2023
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
4
Feb 23 2023
All Hope Is Gone
Slipknot
GIT OFF MY LAWN
1
Feb 24 2023
Amnesiac
Radiohead
5
Feb 27 2023
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
The synth riff on Walk of Life is the auditory embodiment of forced fun.
3
Feb 28 2023
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
4
Mar 01 2023
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
3
Mar 02 2023
Hms Fable
Shack
wow, look: britpop
2
Mar 03 2023
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor
Hot damn
5
Mar 06 2023
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
5
Mar 07 2023
The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
My first thought was βmillennial Talk Talk.β After several songs, I felt like I was watching a trick commercial.
3
Mar 08 2023
21
Adele
Two bangers followed by an Adele album
3
Mar 09 2023
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
5
Mar 10 2023
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
3
Mar 13 2023
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
5
Mar 14 2023
Close To You
Carpenters
4
Mar 15 2023
2112
Rush
This is NOT Adele's 21 played forwards, then in reverse. It's some other thing.
3
Mar 16 2023
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
4
Mar 17 2023
Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
3
Mar 20 2023
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
5
Mar 21 2023
The Rise & Fall
Madness
3
Mar 22 2023
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
4
Mar 23 2023
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
Jim Morrison: patron saint for deep thinkers whose big ideas start and end at weed legalization.
2
Mar 24 2023
Yeezus
Kanye West
I've been cold turkey on Ye since, oh, 2018 or so; the Hitler apologism and emotional abuse of his ex is pretty unforgivable. But over the last week or two I've been a little hungry for something from Mr. West. This led me to a relisten of Life of Pablo, which I still find incredibly uneven, even if there are high highs (weirdly enough, the conversation on last.fm indicates many people consider Pablo to be his absolute peak. I'm not seeing it).
Anyway, Lou Reed was right about this one.
4
Mar 27 2023
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
4
Mar 28 2023
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
5
Mar 29 2023
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
One of my top "why do they have *this* song on karaoke and why is someone actually singing it?" moments in life has been watching a drunk ex-fratboy serviceably belt "Have a Cigar" in a NoHo bar on a Tuesday night.
5
Mar 30 2023
Illmatic
Nas
5
Mar 31 2023
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
You can tell a 00s hip-hop album by the intro, the lead single reprise, and the 11-minute outro.
3
Apr 03 2023
Hot Fuss
The Killers
3
Apr 04 2023
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
5
Apr 05 2023
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone
5
Apr 06 2023
The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar
4
Apr 07 2023
In Our Heads
Hot Chip
4
Apr 10 2023
The Predator
Ice Cube
4
Apr 11 2023
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
The last LCD album Iβd put on this list is the only LCD album on this list.
There are individual tracks here I love, but the whole thing goes overlong (which is strange to say for an LCD album).
3
Apr 12 2023
Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
3
Apr 13 2023
The Visitors
ABBA
4
Apr 14 2023
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
My days of sitting in a garage pounding shitty beer, ripping bong hits, and asking βwhoa, is this still the same solo?β are behind me. Itβs a me-problem, I know.
2
Apr 17 2023
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
4
Apr 18 2023
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
All rising action; a little overwhelming as a single listen.
4
Apr 19 2023
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
I only know this beforehand because Destroyer cites Blue Nile as a big influence for Ken and afterwards. I hear the influence, and I must thank them.
3
Apr 20 2023
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
4
Apr 21 2023
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
4
Apr 24 2023
xx
The xx
This is 100% based on the music but the xx are one of the top bands that seem like they'd absolutely hate me.
5
Apr 25 2023
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
Like Sam the butcher
Iβm bringin Alice the meat
5
Apr 26 2023
A Seat at the Table
Solange
I always found it odd that people hailed this very good album as a masterpiece then had nothing to say about When I Get Home, an utter masterpiece.
Anyway, this *is* a very good one. Solange deserves more.
4
Apr 27 2023
Bright Flight
Silver Jews
3
Apr 28 2023
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
5
May 01 2023
Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons
Man the 00s really were a time where music was doing too much.
2
May 02 2023
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
If this were the only Rolling Stones album it wouldnβt be on the list.
3
May 03 2023
Django Django
Django Django
4
May 04 2023
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
2
May 05 2023
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
I know this stuffβs controversial cause they talk about the debil but this sounds like phantom of the opera to me
3
May 08 2023
Be
Common
3
May 09 2023
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
4
May 10 2023
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
This list has been great for my music education: I now have several reasons why I hate Eric Clapton on a musical level rather than a personal level. Willie and the Hand Jive? Are you kidding???
1
May 11 2023
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
3
May 12 2023
All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2
Listen, I don't really like U2, but this was the U2 I was introduced to at the cusp of high school in 2000. I kinda like the singles, and I've been waiting to listen to this one until I was in the right mood. It's a sunny workday afternoon and my belly is full of paneer. This was the smooth adult contemporary pill I needed it to be.
3
May 15 2023
Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
Maybe needed headphones for this one.
3
May 16 2023
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
I was twenty-seven and going through a months-long breakup the summer this album came out. Of course Iβm biased.
But hot damn this album is good. Nothing like it before, nothing like it since.
5
May 17 2023
Tago Mago
Can
4
May 18 2023
Tapestry
Carole King
5
May 19 2023
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
Hey guys! Whoa, 80s Brit jingle-jangle, huh? All right.... Welp, see you later!
2
May 22 2023
Nevermind
Nirvana
Listen, I was six when Kurt Cobain died. I didn't listen to mainstream radio until 8th grade. I knew Nirvana were Great and Important, but I simply never connected with them beyond the singles. I've listened to their discography, but never connected.
That changed this week. This shit. This is the shit.
5
May 23 2023
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
4
May 24 2023
Scum
Napalm Death
kinda funny scrolling through the 28-track list and thinking "god, why is *every* album I must listen to before I die a bloated, 90-minute epic?"* So, props on having one of the longest tracklists here yet being one of the few albums below 55 minutes here.
*Seriously, the anglocentric aspect gets enough flak in these reviews, but the constant preference for BIG STATEMENT double albums deserves its share of consternation.
2
May 25 2023
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
5
May 26 2023
The Sensual World
Kate Bush
4
May 29 2023
Copper Blue
Sugar
2
May 30 2023
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
3
May 31 2023
Eagles
Eagles
god bless anyone who got all the way to Earlybird before giving this a 1 and quoting Lebowski.
god help anyone who got all the way to Earlybird and still gave this a 5.
1
Jun 01 2023
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
3
Jun 02 2023
Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
5
Jun 05 2023
Survivor
Destiny's Child
Whatβs the opposite of poptimism? Cause Iβm seeing a lot of it in these reviews. Listen, I was a fifteen year-old boy when this came out: I scoffed at it. But itβd be stupid to deny this after a listen. Itβs just so smooth.
4
Jun 06 2023
Basket of Light
Pentangle
3
Jun 07 2023
Reign In Blood
Slayer
3
Jun 08 2023
The Specials
The Specials
4
Jun 09 2023
Homework
Daft Punk
5
Jun 12 2023
War
U2
4
Jun 13 2023
Blur
Blur
3
Jun 14 2023
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
Damn yβall ainβt afraid of broadcasting the classism youβve tied up with the country genre.
4
Jun 15 2023
Graceland
Paul Simon
5
Jun 16 2023
Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
2
Jun 19 2023
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
4
Jun 20 2023
Savane
Ali Farka TourΓ©
3
Jun 21 2023
Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
5
Jun 22 2023
The Only Ones
The Only Ones
3
Jun 23 2023
Nixon
Lambchop
4
Jun 26 2023
Bad
Michael Jackson
3
Jun 27 2023
Grace
Jeff Buckley
5
Jun 28 2023
Follow The Leader
Korn
1
Jun 29 2023
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
4
Jun 30 2023
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
absolutely brutal way to find out Iβm not a swinginβ lover
3
Jul 03 2023
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
5
Jul 04 2023
The Wall
Pink Floyd
5
Jul 05 2023
School's Out
Alice Cooper
4
Jul 06 2023
Idlewild
Everything But The Girl
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1
Jul 07 2023
Headquarters
The Monkees
4
Jul 10 2023
Fun House
The Stooges
4
Jul 11 2023
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
2
Jul 12 2023
Something Else By The Kinks
The Kinks
4
Jul 13 2023
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
4
Jul 14 2023
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
Ok the average rating on this belies just how specific this album is to a certain generation of American millennials: if you were in college between 2000 and 2008 and chased anything resembling \"indie cred\" then at least one track from this album would be a staple of the mix cds you sent your crushes. Were you twee? Then you know this one.
Now here's the thing: when my older sister came back from college and had this among the cds she'd burnt for me, only disc one made it to my hands. That's the first 23 songs, Absolutely Cuckoo through The Things We Did and Didn't Do. I probably never pursued discs 2 and 3 until after college, and by then I'd lost The Glow and none of the songs hit the same as those first 23. It felt like a joke: Merritt had made one amazing album and then phoned in two more, daring the listener to actually spend time with those other 46 love songs.
So this is my first actual listen to all 69 love songs, and I gotta say disc 2 starts off so rocky I thought I was right. The ship rights itself and a few good songs stand out, but the presence of obnoxious filler gets more and more obvious. By the time you hit "Zebra," the joke isn't funny anymore, and it hasn't looped around to being funny again yet.
3
Jul 17 2023
Maxinquaye
Tricky
3
Jul 18 2023
Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
There's something I can't place about the way they sound like they're simultaneously speeding through their set and packing up their instruments.
3
Jul 19 2023
LP1
FKA twigs
4
Jul 20 2023
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
I've let this one sit in my Unrated backlog for a year-plus now because listening seemed like a fraught situation. On the one hand, you have the ingrained sexism through which so many people - in the world, on this site, and me myself (I was 12: the culture demanded I either objectify or hate her, or both!) - view Britney and this album in particular. People are icky towards pop stars, and have been especially icky towards Britney.
On the other hand, there's the fact that I've just never come around on Britney, even as the drumbeat of time has vindicated her and literally rescued her from the conservatorship which has come to represent the shackling of a complicated person who's been lent zero grace. I've come back around on Madonna, Janet, Mariah, Celine...just not Britney.
So...all that aside? I don't like this! Baby One More Time is weird and gross! Sequencing on this album blows: stacking Crazy right after Baby just makes the two singles feel so interchangeable. Soda Pop is a freefall off a cliff quality and energy-wise.
I was about to complain about the length, as the Spotify version is 16 tracks and an hour long, but wikipedia tells me this is 42 minutes and 11 tracks; that's blissfully brief, considering the number of pop albums on this very list which run a full 70 minutes. You get an extra star for that, Brit.
3
Jul 21 2023
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
4
Jul 24 2023
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
5
Jul 25 2023
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
This is like THE album that Spotify constantly pushes under my nose, but Iβm waiting til 40 to make βDan Stanβ my entire personality, thanks.
3
Jul 26 2023
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
4
Jul 27 2023
B-52's
The B-52's
5
Jul 28 2023
Vulnicura
BjΓΆrk
4
Jul 31 2023
Scott 2
Scott Walker
4
Aug 01 2023
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
3
Aug 02 2023
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Spirit
3
Aug 03 2023
Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
2
Aug 04 2023
MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
5
Aug 07 2023
SΓ£o Paulo Confessions
Suba
somewhere in a midwestern coffee shop the baristas are begging to play their own music and the manager is saying βwhy make me vet your selections when we already have SΓ£o Paulo Confessions on repeat all day?β
2
Aug 08 2023
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
This is a 1 I donβt give lightly. I love Floyd, and the legend of Barrett is fascinating. But even by his own admission, this is not a representative artistic statement from him.
1
Aug 09 2023
Marquee Moon
Television
5
Aug 10 2023
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
4
Aug 11 2023
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
5
Aug 14 2023
Viva Hate
Morrissey
This is certainly the fourth Morrissey solo record I've heard before I die.
3
Aug 15 2023
McCartney
Paul McCartney
I was absolutely going to make a joke about how Macca Two better be on this list if youβre gonna include One and Ram. But Ram isnβt even on this list. Tug of War? Nope!
What is this f-ing list without Ram?
4
Aug 16 2023
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Would you slide your shorts down Mister Lebowski, please?
- No, no man, she hit me right here.
- I understand. Could you slide your shorts down please?
5
Aug 17 2023
Kala
M.I.A.
3
Aug 18 2023
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
Aug 21 2023
Ctrl
SZA
Holy shit the racism in the reviews for this album. Some of you people should think twice about the things you think to say when a black womanβs singing.
5
Aug 22 2023
Timeless
Goldie
Inner city lyyyyyfe
Inner city
Pressure
Pressure
Pressure
Indistinguishable from the parodies which came after.
1
Aug 23 2023
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
4
Aug 24 2023
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Cee Lo Green
Quality truly is subjective huh
2
Aug 25 2023
Ten
Pearl Jam
5
Aug 28 2023
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
2
Aug 29 2023
Iβve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
3
Aug 30 2023
Pieces Of The Sky
Emmylou Harris
4
Aug 31 2023
Blackstar
David Bowie
5
Sep 01 2023
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
3
Sep 04 2023
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
And so I took off on my bicycle,
well, to solve all my problems, to get out drugs,
cause I had enough of that,
I've had the college,
I've had the earing the money,
and the material trip,
I just decided I was going to find a new way of life
3
Sep 05 2023
Chore of Enchantment
Giant Sand
2
Sep 06 2023
Smash
The Offspring
3
Sep 07 2023
Blood And Chocolate
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2
Sep 08 2023
Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
A life-defining moment was going on a high school writer's retreat and one of the seniors I looked up to playing the entire dvd that accompanied this album. It was my intro to SFA and the album which would soundtrack my own final high school years. They were a band my freshman roommate and I bonded over. It's an album I can always come back to and be transported to 2003.
This is all to say, I can't speak objectively about this album. It's fucking perfect.
5
Sep 11 2023
Guero
Beck
This album came out at a time where I was at my snobbiest. I'd turn my nose up at a lot releases from career-mature artists who didn't seem like they were bringing anything new to the table. In many instances, I was robbing myself of enjoyment; this is exemplified in my eventually-reversed low opinion of Interpol's Antics.
With Guero, however, I hit the nail on the head.
3
Sep 12 2023
Achtung Baby
U2
I hate hate hate Mysterious Ways. Boomer dudes will play this song at vow renewals for women who move in decidedly predictable ways.
2
Sep 13 2023
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
A jazz combo falls down the world's longest flight of stairs, then sets up and starts jamming on the mezzanine.
3
Sep 14 2023
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
4
Sep 15 2023
Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne
3
Sep 18 2023
Want One
Rufus Wainwright
3
Sep 19 2023
Porcupine
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
Sep 20 2023
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
4
Sep 21 2023
Ingenue
k.d. lang
listening to every album from 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die has taught me to avoid any album whose only Reception/Legacy fact on wikipedia is its inclusion on 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die
3
Sep 22 2023
Close To The Edge
Yes
4
Sep 25 2023
Konnichiwa
Skepta
2
Sep 26 2023
Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
4
Sep 27 2023
Legalize It
Peter Tosh
4
Sep 28 2023
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
5
Sep 29 2023
Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
hey
you
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down
hey
you
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down
hey
you
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down
hey
you
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down
hey
you
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down
hey
you
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down
etc
1
Oct 02 2023
Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis
4
Oct 03 2023
Among The Living
Anthrax
The painting of Among the Living has been the subject of discussion, because it was long believed to depict the character Rev. Henry Kane, the antagonist from the film Poltergeist II: The Other Side, while others thought it depicted Randall Flagg, the subject of the album's title track and the antagonist from the Stephen King novel The Stand.
Drummer Charlie Benante, who conceived the concept for the cover, explained: "It was just about how much evil there is amongst us. I wanted to show just the same type of person on the cover. The same type of people and then, the one person that was sticking out kind of giving you a wave, like a 'hi!'".
3
Oct 04 2023
The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
4
Oct 05 2023
The Wildest!
Louis Prima
5
Oct 06 2023
Aja
Steely Dan
I know this album best for its reputation as something you spin to test out a new turntable or sound system. Based on that reputation alone, this music was a total surprise.
I liked it, though. Especially when I recognized the De La sample.
4
Oct 09 2023
First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
4
Oct 10 2023
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3
Oct 11 2023
Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine
2
Oct 12 2023
Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds
4
Oct 13 2023
3 + 3
The Isley Brothers
I listened to this yesterday morning, then yesterday afternoon Rudolph Isley died; weird coincidence. Rip to a giant.
5
Oct 16 2023
Vento De Maio
Elis Regina
The music is fine; however, this is a compilation reissue rather than an actual album, so the sequencing BLOWS and the production of each album clashes.
2
Oct 17 2023
Suede
Suede
3
Oct 18 2023
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
4
Oct 19 2023
Pornography
The Cure
5
Oct 20 2023
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
4
Oct 23 2023
Melodrama
Lorde
I tried to get into this one when it came out, to little luck - Iβm just outside the demographic for this. I enjoyed it more this time (Iβve embraced pop a lot more over the last six years), butβ¦still tired of that Antonoff sound. Just so unnecessarily anthemic.
3
Oct 24 2023
Vivid
Living Colour
4
Oct 25 2023
The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
5
Oct 26 2023
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
4
Oct 27 2023
A Wizard, A True Star
Todd Rundgren
5
Oct 30 2023
Opus Dei
Laibach
2
Oct 31 2023
Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
An aggressively fine album.
3
Nov 01 2023
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pavement
5
Nov 02 2023
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
4
Nov 03 2023
Talk Talk Talk
The Psychedelic Furs
3
Nov 06 2023
Butterfly
Mariah Carey
3
Nov 07 2023
Aladdin Sane
David Bowie
oi m8 wuzzat on yer clavicle
4
Nov 08 2023
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
It was the 90s: every rap album needed an embarrassing βskitβ where the artists had loud sex with like four women at once.
5
Nov 09 2023
Fuzzy
Grant Lee Buffalo
Go back to Stars Hollow, nerd
2
Nov 10 2023
Who Killed...... The Zutons?
The Zutons
Ahh the nostalgia I have for this album. Joining the college radio station and getting excited to finally mainline groundbreaking new music. Buying this at a shop during turkey day break after hearing the energetic opening track and the big single. Realizing beyond the energetic opening track and the big single, there isnβt much here. Hearing the phrase βdipsy doodleβ delivered with sincerity. Havana Gang Brawl. Havana Gang Brawl? Ha-van-a Gaaaaaaaang Brawl.
This is the first album (of 650 and counting) Iβve heard before and *donβt* like.
This whole thing sounds so *empty.* This album taught me 60s/70s nostalgia only gets you so far. Put The Coral on this list.
1
Nov 13 2023
Permission to Land
The Darkness
In the 00s we were dredging up the worst impulses of 70s and 80s rock and pretending they were charming if prefaced by a wink to the camera.
There's a reason this is on spotify's "Kegstand" playlist, and based on all the "me and my mates" nostalgia in these reviews, "Kegstand playlist" sums up my feelings about this record.
3
Nov 14 2023
If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
4
Nov 15 2023
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
4
Nov 16 2023
Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
5
Nov 17 2023
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV On The Radio
4
Nov 20 2023
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5
Nov 21 2023
World Clique
Deee-Lite
3
Nov 22 2023
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
3
Nov 23 2023
Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kings of Leon
someday we will have to answer for the garage rock revival
2
Nov 24 2023
Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
4
Nov 27 2023
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
5
Nov 28 2023
One World
John Martyn
3
Nov 29 2023
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
5
Nov 30 2023
Life Thru A Lens
Robbie Williams
Hey i never knew the Oasis brothers did a Smash Mouth album!
βI know a freaky lady named Cocaine Katieβ is apparently my sleeper-assassin activation phrase.
2
Dec 01 2023
Lam Toro
Baaba Maal
4
Dec 04 2023
Quiet Life
Japan
3
Dec 05 2023
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Iron Butterfly
4
Dec 06 2023
Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
3
Dec 07 2023
The Doors
The Doors
ride the snake to the lake π€·
3
Dec 08 2023
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
5
Dec 11 2023
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
So wild when an album comes up, I think βoh I know this stone cold classic,β and then go to the reviews and people are basically braying like frickin donkeys.
5
Dec 12 2023
The Idiot
Iggy Pop
4
Dec 13 2023
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
Growing up I always considered Megadeth to be Metallicaβs dumber younger brother. Which is saying something.
3
Dec 14 2023
Slipknot
Slipknot
1
Dec 15 2023
Dance Mania
Tito Puente
5
Dec 16 2023
Real Life
Magazine
3
Dec 17 2023
Movies
Holger Czukay
Iβm like the last frame of that Vince McMahon meme when theyβre doing Peter Lorre voices on that last track
4
Dec 18 2023
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
3
Dec 19 2023
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
I guess I get two chances (and hopefully just two) to say fuck Ryan Adams
1
Dec 20 2023
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill Callahan
4
Dec 21 2023
Disintegration
The Cure
I found this long and gloomy the first time i bought it but i just keep coming back. A classic.
5
Dec 22 2023
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
5
Dec 23 2023
Truth
Jeff Beck
She said you remind me of Rod Stewart when he was young
Yeah, you've got passion and you think that you're sexy
And all the punks think that you're dumb
2
Dec 24 2023
Third
Soft Machine
4
Dec 25 2023
Make Yourself
Incubus
minus a star for *reads again, wrinkles nose in disgust* Battlestar Scralatchtica.
2
Dec 26 2023
Lost Souls
Doves
4
Dec 27 2023
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
well slap my ass and call me Garfield
3
Dec 28 2023
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
5
Dec 29 2023
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Iβm so sick of reviews on here that go βI hate this music because someone I hate liked it.β Itβs such a charmless way to be.
5
Dec 30 2023
Ace of Spades
MotΓΆrhead
3
Dec 31 2023
1977
Ash
2
Jan 01 2024
John Prine
John Prine
5
Jan 02 2024
Calenture
The Triffids
A lot more enjoyable than the average rating implies, but remarkably inessential nonetheless.
2
Jan 03 2024
Celebrity Skin
Hole
holy moly Hole is easily THE discovery for me off this list. I knew they were good but these are two perfect albums.
5
Jan 04 2024
Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
5
Jan 05 2024
Like A Prayer
Madonna
4
Jan 06 2024
Sister
Sonic Youth
4
Jan 07 2024
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon
3
Jan 08 2024
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
5
Jan 09 2024
Me Against The World
2Pac
5
Jan 10 2024
Gris Gris
Dr. John
4
Jan 11 2024
Hypnotised
The Undertones
3
Jan 12 2024
Live!
Fela Kuti
4
Jan 13 2024
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
5
Jan 14 2024
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
5
Jan 15 2024
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
it's telling that the first top review over one star is someone boosting their admittedly 3-star review to 5 because they assume people could only dislike this music off the artist's politics, and not because it sounds like the smell of burning hair. this premise is especially false, as it elides what a major piece of shit Kid Rock has proven himself to be outside of his political leanings (and how he's a rich boy who grew up on an estate in the north, not the southern trailer trash he purports to be); it also presupposes the music doesn't sound like the smell of burning hair. which it does.
1
Jan 16 2024
Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4
Jan 17 2024
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On Wax
Itβs not the fault of the music that trip hop is the aural landscape of the coffee house, that it lands at the nexus of cool and inoffensive. To me, itβs the sound of putting too much effort into seeming effortless.
3
Jan 18 2024
Mothership Connection
Parliament
5
Jan 19 2024
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4
Jan 20 2024
Lazer Guided Melodies
Spiritualized
3
Jan 21 2024
Stripped
Christina Aguilera
3
Jan 22 2024
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
4
Jan 23 2024
My Generation
The Who
4
Jan 24 2024
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes
2
Jan 25 2024
I Against I
Bad Brains
4
Jan 26 2024
Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
Iβm irrationally resentful of the gulf between the pedigree of praise the Beta Band receives and how bland I find them.
2
Jan 27 2024
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
5
Jan 28 2024
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
4
Jan 29 2024
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
4
Jan 30 2024
London Calling
The Clash
5
Jan 31 2024
Violator
Depeche Mode
4
Feb 01 2024
Transformer
Lou Reed
5
Feb 02 2024
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
3
Feb 03 2024
Live Through This
Hole
5
Feb 04 2024
Remedy
Basement Jaxx
ptsd flashback: my freshman year suitemate has invited me over to listen to his βmash ups.β he worships tiesto. he thinks heβs the next girl talk.
he isnβt.
2
Feb 05 2024
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
4
Feb 06 2024
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
4
Feb 07 2024
En-Tact
The Shamen
700+ albums into this list and now my spotify algorithm thinks iβm into the worst the uk has to offer.
1
Feb 08 2024
Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday
4
Feb 09 2024
Tical
Method Man
4
Feb 10 2024
Electric
The Cult
Asks and answers the question βwhat if rock was boring?β
2
Feb 11 2024
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
3
Feb 12 2024
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
3
Feb 13 2024
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
3
Feb 14 2024
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
2
Feb 15 2024
1989
Taylor Swift
4
Feb 16 2024
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
So *this* is what indoctrinated me to glam
5
Feb 17 2024
The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
Iβve always been opposed to this band off the name alone. Youβreβ¦cowboys who are junkies? Junkies strung out on cowboys? Itβs a name a guy gripped by midlife crisis would come up with.
3
Feb 18 2024
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Thompson
5
Feb 19 2024
She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
5
Feb 20 2024
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
4
Feb 21 2024
Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
4
Feb 22 2024
The College Dropout
Kanye West
Antisemitic, racist, misogynistβ¦beyond these things holding me back from giving any sort of shit about this guyβs music like I used toβ¦does it really belong on the list? This was the commercial breakthrough for an artist who went on to make better, larger statements; I wouldnβt call it essential in its own.
3
Feb 23 2024
Blunderbuss
Jack White
Super inessential; while Lazaretto is a lot more assured and less concerned with the White Stripes legacy, Iβd argue Jack White (love him as i do) hasnβt done anything to land on this list since Consolers of the Lonely (which isnβt on this list).
2
Feb 24 2024
Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
4
Feb 25 2024
Peter Gabriel 3
Peter Gabriel
4
Feb 26 2024
Treasure
Cocteau Twins
5
Feb 27 2024
Shalimar
Rahul Dev Burman
4
Feb 28 2024
Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
4
Feb 29 2024
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
2
Mar 01 2024
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4
Mar 02 2024
Take Me Apart
Kelela
3
Mar 03 2024
The Undertones
The Undertones
4
Mar 04 2024
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
3
Mar 05 2024
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
5
Mar 06 2024
Kenza
Khaled
Ok, here's one where I wish I'd had the book to reference because I'm curious what they had to say about it. I don't know...anything about Rai music, and while the wikipedia entry for Khaled indicates he's one of the most important musicians in the genre, I'm still wanting to contextualize this within the wider Rai genre and the Algerian musical landscape.
Alas, this is another album where the only non-credit/tracklist piece of info is the album's presence on this very list, and while there's room on this list for every Scottish winner of the Mercury Prize, there's only room for one Rai album.
3
Mar 07 2024
On The Beach
Neil Young
5
Mar 08 2024
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
5
Mar 09 2024
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Michael
4
Mar 10 2024
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
gigga-gigga-glendale
3
Mar 11 2024
Brothers
The Black Keys
A rarity: an album with which I'm already familiar yet doubt belongs on the list. I was pretty into this album when it came out, but haven't gone back to it, especially as the Black Keys stretch their one trick across an expanding discography.
Listening ~15 years later, when the Black Keys have more fully embraced their place as generators of televised-sport/video-game-menu/truck-commercial background music, this don't age so good. It feels like every good song has a dark twin on the tracklist, and a pretty bold 8-track lp becomes a sludgy, 15-track death march.
My hypothesis is that whoever put this on the list is simply not immune from the whiteboy urge to adore anything with Danger Mouse on the credits. Nothing wrong with Danger Mouse; but tighten it up, white boys.
2
Mar 12 2024
Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
I feel like such a hater saying this, but I've never found Rufus Wainwright's songwriting to match his voice, quality-wise. The Art Teacher is something of a banger, as is Going to a Town; but overall his songs drone and lull the listener. And I *want* to like him! I mean it! He's folk music royalty, but ultimately he's only as good as the songs he's singing, and these are...songs, for sure.
It feels most likely this album and Want One were placed on this list for being complimentary works; I'd bet if you were a fan in 2004 this diptych appeared to be Wainwright planting a flag and establishing himself as an artist. Neither work stands on its own, nor do they form a cohesive whole.
2
Mar 13 2024
The World is a Ghetto
War
4
Mar 14 2024
Dirty
Sonic Youth
4
Mar 15 2024
Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
4
Mar 16 2024
The Slider
T. Rex
5
Mar 17 2024
Street Signs
Ozomatli
certain albums come up and you think βgreat this is going to wreck my spotify algorithmβ
music for people who have no other term than βworld musicβ for music composed beyond their shores
1
Mar 18 2024
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
in the 90s it was illegal for a hip-hop album to run under sixty minutes
3
Mar 19 2024
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
3
Mar 20 2024
Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
4
Mar 21 2024
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti
there are certain points in your life where your behavior goes to far that you actually see yourself from the outside, as others see you. as a fan of 80s music listening to Scritti Politti, this is one of those moments. is this what it sounds like when i'm getting deep into Prince and Cyndi Lauper?
1
Mar 22 2024
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
4
Mar 23 2024
Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3
Mar 24 2024
Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
5
Mar 25 2024
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
In terms of Neil's expressions of grief, I find On The Beach a lot gloomier, a depression so deep and boggy he's stopped struggling and just sings. Tonight's the Night is a different beast, more funeral party than wake: there's a fresh, gaping hole in our lives and we're going to take the day to drink, eat, and remember the good times before we wake tomorrow and pick back up the messy work of living.
I hope my funeral is how Tonight's the Night sounds.
5
Mar 26 2024
So Much For The City
The Thrills
Grandaddy wants their sound back.
1
Mar 27 2024
I See You
The xx
4
Mar 28 2024
Station To Station
David Bowie
5
Mar 29 2024
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
You know, the Beau Brummels. They were frequent guests on the Colgate Comedy Hour with Roy Donk. They did panels with Paul Julian, the guy who did the voice of the Road Runner. "Beep-beep."
2
Mar 30 2024
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
3
Mar 31 2024
Go Girl Crazy
The Dictators
4
Apr 01 2024
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4
Apr 02 2024
GI
Germs
3
Apr 03 2024
Penthouse And Pavement
Heaven 17
3
Apr 04 2024
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
John Lydon: *listens to Joy Division once*
2
Apr 05 2024
Whatever
Aimee Mann
3
Apr 06 2024
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
5
Apr 07 2024
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5
Apr 08 2024
Dog Man Star
Suede
3
Apr 09 2024
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
3
Apr 10 2024
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
3
Apr 11 2024
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
4
Apr 12 2024
Smile
Brian Wilson
It's very strange to be two decades out from this second attempt at capturing Smile, and especially strange to be a decade out from the (imo) successful reconstruction of the first attempt via The Smile Sessions. I prefer the Sessions sound more than I like BWPS, but I also appreciate the sound of a man, much older and wiser and with his feet more securely under him, trying to recapture the feeling of play and creativity.
Frankly it'd be awesome if Brian came back and did Smile again, one more time for the hellof it. But I'm glad we have this.
4
Apr 13 2024
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
4
Apr 14 2024
Central Reservation
Beth Orton
Truly, aggressively FINE.
3
Apr 15 2024
Mott
Mott The Hoople
4
Apr 16 2024
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
This may be the one review where I fully admit my experience of the music is colored by the baggage I bring to it. But of all the bands out there, the Dandy Warhols is probably the one I find most guilty of carrying cachets which overshadow the music.
It started with DIG! *the* seminal indie-rock documentary of the 00s, a time where the flexibility of shooting digital video tore open the concept of a documentary while also exposing the cracks and shortcomings of unlimited access and endless footage. Even though that film casts the Warhols as the steady-hand career musicians and the Brian Jonestown Massacre as the sloppy also-rans who were too brilliant to hold it together and break through, I walked away liking the Massacre more, both as an entity and in their output.
Initially engaging with their music at that point, in the mid-00s, the throwback sound of the Dandy's wasn't very novel, and in fact had aged into a relic of its own time: energetic space-rock whose verve is deflated by its disaffected lyrics and self-aware posturing; it's squarely a 90s thing. I was doing a lot of library shuffling at the time, so any concept of an entire Dandy Warhols album establishing a vibe was demolished. BRMC did this specific sound better, and the Massacre does the 70s throwback with a lot more attention and affection.
Fast-forward a few years and I've moved to Portland. These guys are local heroes in the sense that you can't escape their name on every other venue marquee and their lead singer helped torpedo water fluoridation in PDX about a decade ago. Courtney's letter about fluoridation is still on the band's website; it's a masterwork of \"I read somewhere\" conspiracy-mongering and a certain strain of the \"you can't tell me how to live my life\" libertarianism which overwhelms Portland's political discourse and hamstrings the leftist haven which outsiders assume it to be.
So, now, the music: it's fine. There's certainly a spacey vibe here, and the texture is more important than any specific riff, rhythm, or lyric. This is the kind of band that sings about heroin being \"so passe\" on a song with a keyboard riff that declares \"I know a guy who knows a guy who lived with a heroin junky.\"
In a previous review (of the Rolling Stones' debut) I asserted an album would not have made the list of not for the achievements of their later albums; their place in 1001 albums was decided by the cachet of their name. The Dandy Warhols have done them one better, entirely building their cachet off reminders of better, more interesting groups by naming themselves after an iconic artist and naming songs things like \"Lou Weed\" or \"Danzig With Myself.\" Strip away the references, and nothing remains.
2
Apr 17 2024
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
5
Apr 18 2024
Back to Basics
Christina Aguilera
βThis is my back to basics album.β
*releases an 80-minute double album with the most excessive mid-00s production possible*
2
Apr 19 2024
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
π
5
Apr 20 2024
Moondance
Van Morrison
3
Apr 21 2024
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
ββ¦heβs white?β
4
Apr 22 2024
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
4
Apr 23 2024
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
4
Apr 24 2024
Paris 1919
John Cale
3
Apr 25 2024
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
5
Apr 26 2024
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
3
Apr 27 2024
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
and strap your hands across my engines
5
Apr 28 2024
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
3
Apr 29 2024
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLaren
the music dances between being energetically fun and straight-up anxiety-attack-inducing; and the World's Famous Supreme Team denotes its place in hip-hop history while the straight-up theft of African music makes one want to scratch it from the annals.
3
Apr 30 2024
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears
4
May 01 2024
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
5
May 02 2024
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
4
May 03 2024
The United States Of America
The United States Of America
3
May 04 2024
Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
5
May 05 2024
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince
5
May 06 2024
Trafalgar
Bee Gees
3
May 07 2024
Teenage Head
Flamin' Groovies
4
May 08 2024
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
1
May 09 2024
The KΓΆln Concert
Keith Jarrett
5
May 10 2024
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
3
May 11 2024
The Libertines
The Libertines
a throwback to a time when being a messy wastoid in tight clothes was proper replacement for a personality.
1
May 12 2024
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
I just listened to my forty-somethingth late-90s british sophistipop album with a breakbeat under klezmer music for this list, so Throbbing Gristle was downright refreshing. This may be pure noise, and I may never put it on for casual listening (or even formal listening), but at least it has a place in music history and formalistically goes somewhere different.
There are many much worse albums on this list with scads of high ratings which boil down to "my mates and I loved to hear this in the pub!" This album gets points for being challenging, different, and not britpop or triphop from the 90s.
3
May 13 2024
Snivilisation
Orbital
2
May 14 2024
Moss Side Story
Barry Adamson
2
May 15 2024
The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
5
May 16 2024
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
4
May 17 2024
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
4
May 18 2024
Clandestino
Manu Chao
βthis music makes me think of being a hungover touristβ thanks for the insight m8.
4
May 19 2024
A Date With The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
4
May 20 2024
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
4
May 21 2024
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4
May 22 2024
Shadowland
k.d. lang
5
May 23 2024
Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
βLogical Progression (also known as LTJ Bukem Presents Logical Progression) is a compilation albumβ
β¦.you mean like a frickin playlist?? You want me to listen to a *playlist* before I go?
...a playlist of Mario Kart Menu Music??
1
May 24 2024
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
5
May 25 2024
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
Since the ratings skew harsh between those who love Tom Waits and those who don't I'd like to posit, as a Tom Waits fan, that this album is pretty good but like five tracks too long. Some of my favorite Waits songs are here (Dirt in the Ground, Goin' out West, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, That Feel), but nobody wants The Ocean Doesn't Want Me.
3
May 26 2024
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
https://youtu.be/DJ5xJH64BR4?feature=shared
4
May 27 2024
Green
R.E.M.
5
May 28 2024
Public Image: First Issue
Public Image Ltd.
1
May 29 2024
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
3
May 30 2024
The Blueprint
JAY Z
yβall manage to find things to say about rap (bad *and* good) which make my eyes bleed
4
May 31 2024
Music From Big Pink
The Band
5
Jun 01 2024
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
3
Jun 02 2024
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac
5
Jun 03 2024
Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby
2
Jun 04 2024
Boston
Boston
sorry, when it comes to rock bands whose logo is a giant multicolored flying saucer my loyalties lie squarely with the Electric Light Orchestra.
3
Jun 05 2024
Guitar Town
Steve Earle
3
Jun 06 2024
25
Adele
You're not allowed, at 25, to talk about how much you miss being young.
2
Jun 07 2024
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
Even the most ostensibly self-reflective song on this album (Stan) manages to be mad homophobic. Swap this out with the Tenacious D album and you'll equally appease cis white millenial boys (such as myself) with a similar strain of sophomoric humor *and* deliver the message that it's good to tell a man you love him.
2
Jun 08 2024
Chris
Christine and the Queens
Like most 2010s/post-publication albums on this list this album feels like a stab in the dark, a wild guess as to what will stand up to the test of time. Don't get me wrong: I liked this album when it came out, and a few songs pop up on my algorithm, but when the same year brought us:
Mitski's Be the Cowboy,
FJM's self-titled divorce masterpiece,
Snail Mail's Lush,
SOPHIE's The Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides,
Parquet Courts' Wide Awake,
Blood Orange's Negro Swan,
Robyn's Honey,
Low's Double Negative,
The Beths' Future Me Hates Me,
Earl Sweatshirt's Some Rap Songs,
etc
etc
etc
....and none of those make the list? You're just throwing darts, my man.
3
Jun 09 2024
Dare!
The Human League
3
Jun 10 2024
Scream, Dracula, Scream
Rocket From The Crypt
Music for skankin' and chooglin'
2
Jun 11 2024
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
5
Jun 12 2024
Dummy
Portishead
5
Jun 13 2024
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
4
Jun 14 2024
Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
5
Jun 15 2024
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
graded on a curve (correctly ignoring the apple jam)
5
Jun 16 2024
Bossanova
Pixies
5
Jun 17 2024
Madman Across The Water
Elton John
5
Jun 18 2024
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
One of the best expressions of grief I've experienced. One of the great artistic statements of the twenty-first century, full stop.
5
Jun 19 2024
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
There's plenty of music worth praising for the production, but there's something about music where the production is the main point of praise π
2
Jun 20 2024
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
4
Jun 21 2024
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
This album is not bad. It's quite good, and has a couple stone-cold classics, though as a millenial of a certain age it's a bit ubiquitous and overexposed; and the Lips' continued milking of it and their back catalog mars my understanding of it as Essential and not simply A Good Thing We Can All Agree is Good. I bought The Soft Bulletin (more deserving of its spot on this list) and Transmissions From the Satellite Heart. I went to War With the Mystics and tried to herald Embryonic as a posible magnum opus (like many magnum opi, it's a good single album bulked out into an interminable double album); I have synced up Zaireeka and listened to the demos on that polka-dot toilet album. The Flaming Lips are a garage act which leveled up with a more refined sound, only to dash themselves upon the rocks of the festival circuit and have remained there, in a hermetically sealed mylar globe walking atop the audience in an all-too-literal metaphor.
I like them!
They're overrated!
3
Jun 22 2024
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
Live, not lively.
2
Jun 23 2024
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Musically, it was surprising to find out Michael Franti was behind The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, as the industrial-ish sound is not what I know him for. Lyrically, it was no surprise at all, as Franti's whole bag is cramming as many political talking points into a song as possible without elaborating or illuminating with a defined point-of-view. I imagine any music videos from this album involved Franti in a lecture hall, tapping a pointer at every proper noun he's written on the board and relentlessly unrolling map after map.
Sorry, I just don't like this guy. I first heard of him at Sasquatch '08, when I was forced to sit through his set while waiting for the Mars Volta. Franti's set brought out all the parents and their kids; toddlers were made to dance and families gleefully engaged in the call-and-response of "Taxi Radio, oh-ay-oh!" The music's politicism was an aesthetic, the genre squarely under the anglo-centric umbrella of "World."
Michael Franti is the kind of guy whose wikipedia entry boasts that he never wears shoes, but also that he carries a pair of thin flip-flops for boarding planes. He's emblematic of a certain aggressive chill which my PDX heart despises: the kind of person who is so focused on positivity they impose their singular perspective on their environment and, in fact, oppress people with an obstinance which makes dissent messy and unwelcome.
Back to the album at hand: who is putting this on for any listening value? You enjoy Public Enemy but find the music too adventurous and the messaging too oblique? You're trying to reach across generations to your kid who likes rap, but you can't help characterizing the popular rappers as "thugs?" You want to evince the appearance of a "book reader," but don't have a book to carry around in public?
1
Jun 24 2024
Young Americans
David Bowie
3
Jun 25 2024
Music
Madonna
One the one hand, this project has given me an excuse to engage with Madonna's career; on the other, I'm now well versed enough in Madonna to rank this album as quite inessential.
2
Jun 26 2024
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
There's a clear backstory to every non-anglo-centric album on this list; the author's decision to include it is invariably due to that artist's association with a white artist (today it's Paul Simon), or some other general acceptance by the anglo mainstream (the shorthand I use and see often here is 'you'd find this in the starbucks checkout').
Everyone has their proclivities, very few of us make the effort to plumb the musical depths of specific cultures/countries/continents, but this book was a collaboration, and the list is ostensibly the result of a group effort to craft a broad, definitive list. So it's kinda nuts that this album is likely the only piece of music from South Africa to break through; that's a .1% slice of the pie.
4
Jun 27 2024
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis
4
Jun 28 2024
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
4
Jun 29 2024
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5
Jun 30 2024
Feast of Wire
Calexico
4
Jul 01 2024
Greetings From L.A.
Tim Buckley
On this one Buckley uses his powers for evil.
2
Jul 02 2024
Sheet Music
10cc
*ctrl-f "Dilla"*
26 results.
Now 27.
3
Jul 03 2024
You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
You can tell just how unpopular America and the Iraq War were in 2004 because even Morrissey was getting praise for landing hits on us.
2
Jul 04 2024
Infected
The The
When it's my time to go, will I have heard "Twilight of a Champion"???
3
Jul 05 2024
Electric Warrior
T. Rex
5
Jul 06 2024
Low-Life
New Order
4
Jul 07 2024
Highly Evolved
The Vines
I always mix up the Vines and the Hives, which does neither group any favors. In the early aughts we were mad thirsty for straight-forward guitar rock and thusly forgave a lot of what tumbled out of garages across the globe. This doesn't strike me as the most authentic of the cohort: this is the Plain White Tees school of every song wanting to be a single, and the one breakout (Get Free) stands out as an aberration, the one idea that inexplicably stuck to the wall.
2
Jul 08 2024
Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Deeply horny lyrics paired with the two least horny sounds: trombones and handclaps.
1
Jul 09 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
if not the best, at least *the* platonic, Radiohead album.
5
Jul 10 2024
Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
2
Jul 11 2024
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
3
Jul 12 2024
Jack Takes the Floor
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4
Jul 13 2024
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
5
Jul 14 2024
Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
4
Jul 15 2024
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
Girls Against Boys
are you mad but donβt know what at? did you quit piano lessons to pick up the guitar, but you also didnβt learn to play that either?
1
Jul 16 2024
Parklife
Blur
i guess you gotta listen to thirty cruddy britpop albums to appreciate the britpop masterpiece huh
4
Jul 17 2024
American Pie
Don McLean
3
Jul 18 2024
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
This was my least favorite Animal Collective album for a real long time (I'd been on board since Sung Tongs and AC's trudge towards the mainstream coincided with my increasing snobbishness), but I think I was being stubborn.
4
Jul 19 2024
Spiderland
Slint
5
Jul 20 2024
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
I think I liked this album a lot more before I discovered David Longstreth is a complete knob.
3
Jul 21 2024
The Last Broadcast
Doves
2
Jul 22 2024
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
3
Jul 23 2024
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Liars
while this isn't the Liars album I'd put on this list, everyone else here would be equally mad at Drumβs Not Dead.
3
Jul 24 2024
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
5
Jul 25 2024
Honky Tonk Heroes
Waylon Jennings
4
Jul 26 2024
Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
2
Jul 27 2024
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
4
Jul 28 2024
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
3
Jul 29 2024
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Hey, I get it: this is a challenging record. I doubt anyone listens to this regularly, "for fun." If I got in a car and the driver put Trout Mask Replica on the stereo I'd open the passenger door and tuck and roll my way to safety/freedom.
But if you're running through this list and barely make it through Frownland, then turn it off and slap one star and some snarky "ew the simpsons guy was wrong!" pap as a review; or even give this a full listen and still think this warrants a flat 1 and a kiss-off...you're not taking this very seriously and should have all your other reviews wiped from the site.
And if you think that's unfair: hey, I don't make the rules. 'Cause if I did, that would be one of them.
5
Jul 30 2024
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
2
Jul 31 2024
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
5
Aug 01 2024
Night Life
Ray Price
Definitely holds the highs and lows of the era: the talking-over-the-lead-single introduction is silly and charming, even if its two minutes feel like seven. The lyrics of Sittin' and Thinkin'? Troubling. Deeply troubling.
3
Aug 02 2024
Moby Grape
Moby Grape
4
Aug 03 2024
All Hail the Queen
Queen Latifah
3
Aug 04 2024
G. Love And Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce
everyone knew a guy in college who βcould freestyleβ and it sounded like this
2
Aug 05 2024
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
I was there for this one in 2012 and it is always a trip to go back to it and try to forget everything that came next. Itβs such a perfect statement on its own, a self-portrait as well as a landscape of the streets which molded the subject. K-Dot leveled up so much after this; for some artists an album like this would be the result of the transformation, but heβs just in the chrysalis here.
Still wanna know about them motherfuckin dominoes
5
Aug 06 2024
Your Arsenal
Morrissey
This is certainly the fourth Morrissey solo record I've heard before I die.
3
Aug 07 2024
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
5
Aug 08 2024
Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
Listening to this while working really rescued this album's rating. Yes, it's very slight. Yes, the rapping is dull, uninspired, and done no favors by the mix. Yes, every song begins with a halting, repetitive sample of a recognizable and better song. But I listened on headphones while working and found it to be utterly fine. Welcome to the Average, mister Ladd.
3
Aug 09 2024
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4
Aug 10 2024
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
I was nervous about revisiting this one as Devendra Banhart and this album especially exemplify the highs and lows of the mid-00s Freak Folk movement, a style which I'd say broke into two halves: the rising electronicization/experimentation of your Animal Collectives, and the falling hey-ho stomp-clap faux-Appalachia of your Edward Sharpes and Fleet Foxeses. Simply uttering the name 'Devendra Banhart' evokes the most citified people you know tagging their Coachella photo dumps on facebook, sun-drenched images of them in big hats and bare feet, somehow backstage. You immediately picture someone weaving bird feathers into their heavily conditioned hair and always holding, despite having to deal directly with a flaky, shady weed connect.
But of course that wasn't me. *Of course.* I was *different,* my connection to this music was genuine. And there's the central paradox of the folk resurgence of the 00s: even if there were many people cosplaying at jugband authenticity and laundering the late-60s flower-child aesthetic for social media clout, that desire came from somewhere genuine: we were still reeling from 9/11 and the Iraq War, the we-won/kids-rule peacefulness of the 90s had been power-washed away and the Establishment/Right wing had ordered us all out of the pool. Some of this took the form of the NY Garage Rock revival, and some of it took the form of deeply earnest, poorly-recorded folk music.
I went to Los Angeles for college in fall '04, and despite not coming from very far, the culture clash was real: I wanted to be an Art Student, find some like minds; what I found was a rich-kids school, a repository for producers' kids to get DJ'ing out of their system before they simply followed in their parents' moneymaking footsteps. Dismayed by the scene, I dove deeper into music, and connecting with low-fi folk music was inevitable, as I was very focused on textures at the time.
Rejoicing in the Hands was my first introduction to Banhart, and I love so many individual tracks here. It was a pleasure to listen to it all in full; whatever feelings I may have about Banhart's pretensions or self-focus on image, there's a lot of joy here. You can feel the room texture here, you feel like you're in The Place as he's playing. And nothing overstays its welcome. I'm back in my dorm room, and in a not totally embarrassing way.
Of course the underground became overexposed and freak-folk was commodified; we're Millenials and thus easily marketed to, despite our avowed savviness. But I think this album still stands up on its own. I may look down my nose at recent attempts to nostalgia-fy the 00s, but this is a good example of something that was pretty good at the time and is still pretty good, actually.
4
Aug 11 2024
Faith
George Michael
4
Aug 12 2024
Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
I really didn't dig the production on this (I was surprised to read the instruments are real and not synthesized), and the significance of the project/songs feels historical rather than entertaining; which is fine, but leaves me wondering whether there's a more historical document of Eisler-Brecht songs? And maybe we could swap out this for the Slapp-Happy album, a more interesting, entertaining use of Krause's voice?
2
Aug 13 2024
Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
This is the most embarrassing album cover on this list.
2
Aug 14 2024
Arise
Sepultura
3
Aug 15 2024
Pink Flag
Wire
5
Aug 16 2024
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
5
Aug 17 2024
Apple Venus Volume 1
XTC
3
Aug 18 2024
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
4
Aug 19 2024
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
2
Aug 20 2024
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
5
Aug 21 2024
Diamond Life
Sade
4
Aug 22 2024
Sound Affects
The Jam
4
Aug 23 2024
Fishscale
Ghostface Killah
4
Aug 24 2024
Ys
Joanna Newsom
"She sounds like Lisa Simpson." I'm playing Milk Eyed Mender for my college roommate. Scratch that: I've hijacked a bedroom at the party to play Joanna Newsom for several nonplussed people circled on the carpet, including my roommate, who has eviscerated her by comparing her voice to Lisa Simpson's.
This will always hang over my relationship with Joanna Newsom's music, and my total lack of surprise at the sub-3 average rating for this album (does anyone else consider 3 the turning point for average ratings here? Anything below feels like an insult, anything above feels like universal acceptance).
I've gotten into it before, but I was heavily alienated by my college experience: mix up some culture clash with self-doubt and mix in the late-teens impatience to Become the adult I'm still working at being twenty years later, and you get one unhappy camper. I dove deep into music; while my socal peers were deep into dance-rock (your Bloc Party's, your The Faints, your Arctic Monkeys), I was falling headfirst into Freak Folk.
Joanna Newsom was the woodsy poet who proudly kept some Yes and Gong records on the shelf. Lyrics were especially important to Young Me, and Joanna had lyrics for days. I carried Ys with me everywhere for the coming year: walking a California-winter college campus, flying back to Arizona for Thanksgiving and Christmas, temping for a loan company in rural Arizona for all of January, then zigzagging over Europe for four months as I studied abroad solely for an excuse to not be in California for that time, all of it culminating in my first long-term relationship with someone whose parents were mysteriously connected enough to obtain two tickets to Joanna's sold-out show at Walt Disney Concert hall in fall '07. This album is inextricable from my experiences.
It's a bit of a shame none of her music is on Spotify; I'm sure more people could benefit from accessing it more easily. It's kept me away, as well; I don't have it on vinyl (I will rectify this soon) so my only copies live on my laptop and ipod. It's probably been a decade since I've listened to Ys. But from "the meadowlark" on, I'm tuned back into a complex yet completely familiar part of myself. The music has so many nooks and crannies, touches and flourishes which I can nestle into like the couch in my childhood home.
I can't speak to this music from an objective place. But I sure hope that if I heard it for the first time today I'd take pause. That I'd come back to the person who used to sit for a moment as the final track ended, and then press play on track one once more.
5
Aug 25 2024
Damaged
Black Flag
4
Aug 26 2024
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
5
Aug 27 2024
Slayed?
Slade
When you get to the Janis Joplin cover everything clicks and you realize what this is a lesser version of.
3
Aug 28 2024
Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
2
Aug 29 2024
California
American Music Club
Sleepy, sometimes in a nice way. Bad Liquor spoils a nice, relaxing time.
3
Aug 30 2024
When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
you limeys really lost all sense of taste the moment they put a sitar over a breakbeat, huh
2
Aug 31 2024
Play
Moby
3
Sep 01 2024
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks
2
Sep 02 2024
Black Metal
Venom
"Lay down your soul to the god's rock 'n' roooooolll!
unghhh....
unghhh...."
*gasps*
"Whooaooaoaauuuuaa BLACK METULLLL"
This actually grew on me as it went on; the unintentional silliness broke into intentional silliness. Is this music I'd play around the house or while driving? Not really. Would I be pretty excited if I walked into a bar and Venom was playing? Hell yeah.
addendum: this music reminded me of a passed-around supercut of *just* stage banter from a metal show; the singer ends every song by roaring "allright!" and talking about how hot it is. I was like "this music sounds like that banter." Well one internet search later it turns out that's Cronos from Venom. Here's a full extra star for that.
4
Sep 03 2024
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
5
Sep 04 2024
Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners
Feels like one which'll grow on me.
3
Sep 05 2024
Sunshine Hit Me
The Bees
Super slight, super inessential, not very cohesive. The fact that the big single is a toothless cover of a Brazilian song is points against the album.
1
Sep 06 2024
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
4
Sep 07 2024
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
"Are ya ready, kids?"
"Aye aye, captain!"
"I can't hear yooooooou!"
"AYE AYE, CAPTAIN!"
"ooooooooooh....who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
2
Sep 08 2024
Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
4
Sep 09 2024
Henry's Dream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4
Sep 10 2024
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
Didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did. Meaning I was ready to reject this like a bad donor organ, prepared to turn it off after song one. It's certainly a vibe, the Van Morrison vibe I can get with. Most everything else about the guy, who he is, a lot of the music he makes, it ain't for me.
3
Sep 11 2024
Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
It's telling that the catchiest song here seems like a cover.
2
Sep 12 2024
Abbey Road
Beatles
...is this my favorite Beatles album? It takes a lot of the digressions found in the more experimental albums and threads them together cleanly and pleasantly. Some of their poppiest songs are here, as well as their weirder little noodly bits.
5
Sep 13 2024
Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
I hate it so very much when I scan the reviews for an album and the majority of positive comments are suffused with nostalgia. And yet here I am, about to do just that.
The only fault I can throw this album's way is that my spotify algorithm LOVES throwing He Would Have Laughed into every mix, but that's not the fault of the music.
5
Sep 14 2024
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
4
Sep 15 2024
Microshift
Hookworms
have I heard of this band?
*googles Hookworms*
oooooh that's how I know about Hookworms (derogatory).
This is a very good example of the middle ground of "separate the art from the artist;" in some cases an artist's actions are so unconscionable there's no quality of work good enough that one could look past them; other times the work is so undeniable one can enjoy it while also holding the artist's ugliness in the other hand; and, in this case, the music is so just-fine that one person can tell me the lead singer abused them and I'm absolutely fine never listening to Microshift again.
1
Sep 16 2024
Born To Be With You
Dion
truly ahead of its time: it sounds like overly earnest cheese from the 80s, but itβs overly earnest cheese from the 70s!
2
Sep 17 2024
Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear
4
Sep 18 2024
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
3
Sep 19 2024
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
This'll be interesting: an "I already know this album!" review. A "my nostalgic affection for this album blinders me from its flaws!" review. Finally, it's my turn. It's my Pogues, my Arctic Monkeys; you had to be there, and I *was!*
All joking a salad, I have a lot of love for this album; it was my first ELO cd, bought at Tower Records in the mid-00s after I saw Mr. Blue Sky in a Volkswagon commercial and the Eternal Sunshine trailer. I thought it was a Beatles song, funny how close to the truth I actually was.
Anyway, this is a four. It's not perfect: it's a bit long and overstuffed, some of the songs really don't work for me. But the highs are so dang high.
So I say this as a huge fan, who just saw them on their final tour a couple weeks ago: New World Record is *the* ELO album; Eldorado is my hot-take pick. Out of the Blue is their basic-b album.
4
Sep 20 2024
D
White Denim
Ever since I saw White Denim live around 2014 I've held the same opinion about them: they're very talented and they're doing some really cool things; there's just a level of polish here that keeps me at arm's length.
3
Sep 21 2024
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
3
Sep 22 2024
Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp
2
Sep 23 2024
Melody A.M.
RΓΆyksopp
3
Sep 24 2024
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
5
Sep 25 2024
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
2
Sep 26 2024
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
4
Sep 27 2024
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
5
Sep 28 2024
White Light
Gene Clark
4
Sep 29 2024
Bummed
Happy Mondays
I don't believe it took that many drugs to do this.
2
Sep 30 2024
Arular
M.I.A.
The production is a bit grating and repetitive, the lyrical content seems way way thin (more mentions of politically-charged topics than actual political perspective being shared here), and M.I.A.'s quest to be the most frustrating person really all get in the way here. I liked Kala a lot when it came out, but it wore thin on me, and I especially went sour on M.I.A. after seeing her cruddy cruddy set at Sasquatch '08.
2
Oct 01 2024
Talking Timbuktu
Ali Farka TourΓ©
4
Oct 02 2024
Traffic
Traffic
"What'll ya have, kid?"
"Gimme....Zappa and the Mothers..."
"Coming right up!"
"Ah...but make it....too sincere."
*bartender drops his glass, the record on the jukebox scratches*
3
Oct 03 2024
You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
4
Oct 04 2024
Iβm a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
4
Oct 05 2024
Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
3
Oct 06 2024
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen
4
Oct 07 2024
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
hey: we don't have to like all the same things. Taste is subjective, some music is just plain challenging.
but this album's low rating is a testament to closed-mindedness, a key indicator that many of the people who engaged with this project expected to be fed their favorite albums with a dollop of esteemed critical approval. And I'm not saying this as a fan. Shleep isn't all that challenging or offputting, yet here you all are, dunking on it as hard as possible. Are you here to explore the breadth of the musical world, or to be cute?
4
Oct 08 2024
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
5
Oct 09 2024
Maverick A Strike
Finley Quaye
Jail. For everyone involved. At least five years in jail for this.
1
Oct 10 2024
Debut
BjΓΆrk
When I was in seventh grade we had to pick a country to spend the entire year studying: each month we would write a report on an aspect of their culture, history, cuisine, etc etc.
I picked Iceland, probably because I liked the flag. I distinctly remember buying Bjork's Debut at Sam Goody, as well as Weird Al's Bad Hair Day, for my own personal research.
A highlight of that grade (a cruddy time as middle school can only be) was our final presentation in the gym, where we each set up booths with all our crafts and research. I forget what food I served, but I remember playing Human Behaviour on a loop and infuriating my neighbor, Ireland.
4
Oct 11 2024
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
3
Oct 12 2024
What's That Noise?
Coldcut
I was feeling good with this generic house music at first but after a certain point I realized it was making me irrationally angry. I think too many samples is not enough samples but this is too ding dang busy!
2
Oct 13 2024
Devotional Songs
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3
Oct 14 2024
A Little Deeper
Ms. Dynamite
"Is it pretty unremarkable despite its Mercury Prize win? Is it overlong? Sign me up!"
- Robert Dimery
2
Oct 15 2024
Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
someone needs to sit Dimery down and explain that a double album isn't inherently essential.
2
Oct 16 2024
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
4
Oct 17 2024
Sincere
Mj Cole
they had a live DJ at the Gap today.
he was shite.
1
Oct 18 2024
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
4
Oct 19 2024
American Gothic
David Ackles
4
Oct 20 2024
#1 Record
Big Star
4
Oct 21 2024
Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
two too many Kings of Leon albums if you ask me.
2
Oct 22 2024
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
4
Oct 23 2024
A Girl Called Dusty
Dusty Springfield
5
Oct 24 2024
So
Peter Gabriel
4
Oct 25 2024
Solid Air
John Martyn
3
Oct 26 2024
The Coral
The Coral
Magic and Medicine was the The Coral album I liked more during college in the mid-00s; their sound aged pretty lousily, as a lot of throwback music can tend to do. So take a wild guess how I feel about my less-favored album by a group I haven't bothered to think about for twenty years.
When I saw the Zutons on here I was like βget The Coral on here;β now Iβm like burn em all
2
Oct 27 2024
La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
3
Oct 28 2024
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
2
Oct 29 2024
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
4
Oct 30 2024
White Ladder
David Gray
3
Oct 31 2024
The Next Day
David Bowie
3
Nov 01 2024
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
5
Nov 02 2024
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
2
Nov 03 2024
We're Only In It For The Money
The Mothers Of Invention
Sorry, I love this.
5
Nov 04 2024
Sail Away
Randy Newman
4
Nov 05 2024
Screamadelica
Primal Scream
this thing is all over the place
3
Nov 06 2024
Haut de gamme / KoweΓ―t, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
What pleasant music; it's always great when this list drifts outside the anglo influence. Now to open up the artist's wikipedia page, but not before I take a big sip of hot coffee....
2
Nov 07 2024
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
2
Nov 08 2024
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
5
Nov 09 2024
Justified
Justin Timberlake
1
Nov 10 2024
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3
Nov 11 2024
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
Sad to say I'm happy this one isn't on the list; the two Stripes albums we've got are great, and this one just didn't age well for me. It's still White Stripes, so we're looking at a bad pizza situation: there's still great flavor here.
But the toy pianos? The marimba? Take Take Take??? Some impulses must be reined in.
3
Nov 12 2024
Tellinβ Stories
The Charlatans
Iβm not surprised thereβs a more talented Oasis out there, however I am surprised that thereβs a more boring one.
1
Nov 13 2024
Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets
3
Nov 14 2024
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
5
Nov 15 2024
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
5
Nov 16 2024
Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
3
Nov 17 2024
Pump
Aerosmith
the cars are fuckin
2
Nov 18 2024
Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
2
Nov 19 2024
Teen Dream
Beach House
5
Nov 20 2024
The White Room
The KLF
3
Nov 21 2024
Stardust
Willie Nelson
5
Nov 22 2024
Sulk
The Associates
"No" sounds like the intro to Tim Curry's rendition of "Everyone Knows It's Halloween" from The Worst Witch:
https://youtu.be/SSZYVFc6BqI?feature=shared&t=52
We'll carve pumpkin fay-ceeeess
2
Nov 23 2024
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
Not my favorite Bruce!
3
Nov 24 2024
Palo Congo
Sabu
3
Nov 25 2024
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
4
Nov 26 2024
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
4
Nov 27 2024
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
4
Nov 28 2024
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons
4
Nov 29 2024
Hotel California
Eagles
A hotel you can't check out of isn't a hotel, dude. That's like some other thing.
3
Nov 30 2024
Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
4
Dec 01 2024
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
5
Dec 02 2024
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
5
Dec 03 2024
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
3
Dec 04 2024
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
3
Dec 05 2024
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
5
Dec 06 2024
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
what did you just call me
2
Dec 07 2024
New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
4
Dec 08 2024
Odelay
Beck
Going down to Houston,
To the house of dance.
Going down to Houston,
To get me some pants.
5
Dec 09 2024
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
5
Dec 10 2024
Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
4
Dec 11 2024
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz
This shit's so dopey.
2
Dec 12 2024
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
5
Dec 13 2024
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
Once again y'all manage to say some of the most heinous, mask-off garbage about rap music. And I don't even like this album much.
3
Dec 14 2024
Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Rap for people who don't usually like rap
Stoner music for people who haven't tried weed yet
2
Dec 15 2024
Dookie
Green Day
4
Dec 16 2024
Before And After Science
Brian Eno
5
Dec 17 2024
Rocks
Aerosmith
2
Dec 18 2024
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Residents
3
Dec 19 2024
Kimono My House
Sparks
5
Dec 20 2024
Fragile
Yes
must be italian
5
Dec 21 2024
The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
Man, we were really into anthemic synthpop in the early 2010s. It feels like the music is constantly reaching for a sense of deep emotion while remaining incredibly cold at the same time.
2
Dec 22 2024
Future Days
Can
5
Dec 23 2024
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
5