Evidently my love for this album faded at some point because I was just underwhelmed this time around.

Evidently, this was removed (for good reason), but I persevered anyway... for over an hour.

Three words will make my blood run cold now: 80s British pop. Getting that out of the way, I don’t really understand why I needed to hear this before I slip the mortal coil. I’m happy for Mr. Gartside’s success in the 80s, but this is just like Wham! without George Michael. It was fine at the time, but feels redundant in this small list of albums to hear before I hear no more.

I liked The Jam (Paul Weller's original band)... I'm not sure about British R&B, personally, but I understand it as a (possibly) important album.

I haven’t heard Sepultura since high school, and I forgot how great they sounded.

I still like Talking Heads and David Byrne. This is their weakest album by far. It’s really hard to fully experience the “punk rebellion” of certain albums when you’re too separated from what they were upending (70s pop, in this case). I realize that our kids won’t really see some of our music as revolutionary for the same reason.

I liked The Jam (Paul Weller's original band)... I'm not sure about British R&B, personally, but I understand it as a (possibly) important album.

I can't believe I hadn't heard this one, but it was obviously good.

I loved this album as a teenager. I still love it.

I was very surprised, but I ended up really loving the indie/country/whatever sound. Also, Apple Music started playing Pavement immediately following this, so that algorithm is pretty dead on.

This is why I didn't like pop.

Despite not knowing the name Serge Gainsbourg, I kind of knew what to expect. This was a perfectly chill way to start the day.

Not my favorite 80s hip-hop (and wouldn't have made my list), but still fun and thoughtful.

Evidently my love for this album faded at some point because I was just underwhelmed this time around.

This is why I like this project. I am sometimes reminded about a great album that I haven’t listened to in years.

It wasn't bad, but it definitely wasn't an album I needed to hear before I die.

Not what I was expecting, but surprisingly good.

Still a classic for a reason.

Good, relaxing album. Every song is about a minute too long, but that’s The Eagle.

It’s okay.

I haven’t heard Sepultura since high school, and I forgot how great they sounded.

I’m not surprised how much I still like this.

Meh.

More punk than I remember, and just good fun.

Always one of my favorite albums, and I was pretty happy to see this on my list this morning.

I still love the Violent Femmes. This was never my favorite album, but it's still fun to listen to.

I remembered liking this more.

Better than I remember, but still not the breed of nihilism that I would listen to on a regular basis.

This projects is making me hate the 70s even more.

This didn't really change my opinion of early 90s alt/college rock. It's not really bad, it's just a time capsule; it may or may not have aged well, depending on your relationship with 90s alt and, basically, the Reality Bites soundtrack.

A welcome respite after weeks of "art rock" and easy listening.

I'm probably rating this higher because I'm so tired of New Wave, 70s, and seemingly random choices on here. Still, it's a great album to play in the background on any lazy weekend.

Parts of this were much better than I remembered, and others were very "Kanye 1.0" (which I found a little grating at the time, and more now).

Much better than I expected.

This was insane, and I loved it.

Not bad, but I agree with whoever said he loses a star for Imagine. Also, YouTube wands this worse, but I can’t fault Khaled for that.

The only album so far where I've intentionally listened to the "extended" version.

Made for a fun, funky time getting ready and cleaning up the house. I forgot how much I missed this kind of funk until I heard it again.

This was one-star for so much, but it redeemed a star over the runtime. Not sure how, but it did.

Reminded me why I love good jazz.

Still love this album after all these years.

I like parts of this album, but too much of it is really hard to listen to (then and now).

This reminded me of everything I hated about 80s pop. I delayed it all day until I was cleaning the house. I put it on all the speakers in the background, and it still managed to ruin housecleaning.

I'll be honest, some amazing production and the Dolby Atmos remastering really elevated this to add a couple stars to an album I didn't think I would enjoy.

It's not just that the music is bad (and it is), and it's not just that he can't rap (but he can't), it's that the lyrics and everything just highlight what a horrible, disgusting persona he built. It's just so awful, and actually pretty disturbing.

Fine. I'm giving this one all the stars just because it was fun, sounded amazing on Atmos, and it's Friday.

I didn’t realize how much I wanted to listen to reggae on my drive until this album started.

Again, I forgot how much I enjoyed Orbital. At over an hour, this album flew by perfectly.

Kind of weird to get this literally 12 hours after Queen Elizabeth died, but I liked this one more than I expected (presumably because Marr wrote most of, if not all, the music).

If it was over 36 minutes, I don’t think I could have made it.

It feels almost like cheating to listen to this again, as I have it basically memorized. Still, I can’t believe this was an hour; it goes by so quickly.

Having been a longtime hip-hop fan, this album is still so confusing to me from moment to moment.

I remembered the hits and Lauryn Hill’s voice, but I forgot how much Pras and Wyclef Jean demolished the mic. And the crate-digging samples and beats? Wow. Obviously, highlighted in Killing Me Softly, the depth and creativity of sampling on the whole album was some of the best of the time. Also, props for throwing out a line about Guantanamo Bay in 1996.

Four stars for That’s Entertainment, but I just can’t do Brit pop.

Despite my sordid past in the scene, I had fears of hearing “ska” again after all these years, but of course this was different. It was more punk than ska, and everything I loved about the scene back then.

This one was tough. I really was not a fan, but it grew on me over the course of the hour.

Evidently, this was removed (for good reason), but I persevered anyway... for over an hour.

I had somehow forgotten that Curtis Mayfield did the soundtrack for Super Fly. The movie was okay, but this soundtrack is way more heartfelt and charged than it deserved.

I avoid prog-rock, in general, and I wasn’t looking forward to anything that gets listed as both “rock” and “new age.” Still, this was interesting, and it gets an extra star just for the dwarves growling vocals at one point.

I love this album from my younger days, but I will admit that listening to it made me follow up with Mutations (which I enjoy more for nostalgia or quality reasons).

I turned this on to try drive my 5yo son out of the room, so I could take a shower in peace. Moments later, he was dancing with his ukulele as a guitar and singing along. I knew I had made a terrible mistake.

Late 60s were an… interesting… time for rock.

I keep trying, but I just don’t get it. It feels like lesser The Roots, and the blend of spirituality and misogyny are too much.

This is the background music of a gallery opening for a friend of a friend. You're attending to support your original friend, but you're desperately hanging out near the open bar and waiting for it to be over. Thankfully, you only have to be there for 45 minutes, and your alarm is set. Also, they have canapés.

This is such classic blues, and the only surprise to realize it came out as late as 1977. This is truly one of the best representations of the blues sound (okay, there are a lot of other great albums I can now think of, but you know what I mean).

It’s fine. It’s fine. It’s not country. There might be one or two standards, but no. I don’t know how the album as a whole could be considered country… I mean, slow guitars do not equal country. Still, it’s fine. I guess that’s my problem: this is a perfectly fine album that many people have heard, and many others haven’t, but how did it end up on this list? It seems like every major publication gave it a solid B (or 4/5 stars), and that’s what it seems like. It’s fine. It’s fine. I’m just confused.

Okay, this isn’t universal, but it’s a classic to me (even if you never heard it, you heard Nirvana and Pearl Jam after Mudhoney’s influence).

I was excited when I saw I had Queen. Then, I realized it was this album. The album of no hits. Better than a bad album, but that’s about it.

Much more of the blues sound (that the Brit bands were allowed to appropriate) and stuff I love from The Who. It was a long album, but I was never bored.

This was my exercise in being open-minded, since I remembered really not liking Hole in in the 90s (too many thoughts tied up with Nirvana and my punk leanings). It was better than I remembered, and I enjoyed listening to the whole album no longer as a teenager.

I'm still not sure I "get" King Crimson, but it went really well with the epic thunderstorms sweeping through the area.

This is the opposite of all my music, but I have to admit that Taylor Swift can write a song.

I didn't expect so much bebop saxophone in a punk album, but I was not disappointed.

Evidently, the stereo version was secondary, and George Martin mixed the whole thing to stereo in under three hours. The albums about 30 minutes, so I'm not sure where he spent the other 2.5 hours after just splitting the vocals and lead instruments and going out for a smoke. The only good mix is for "Money (That's What I Want)," and that was evidently done the next day (after a good break). The mix is so bad, but it's at least a mix of The Beatles, so it's technically still winning.

Okay, this actually had better blues and rock moments than I remember, and is overall much preferable to the Aerosmith I remember from the 80s.

“Take on Me” is five stars.

Okay, this was way more fun than I was expecting.

I love Elliott Smith, but I was kind of dreading this one and had to get it out of the way before it could make me melancholy for the rest of the day. He had a true gift for changing the mood of everything else happening with a few simple lines.

I remember seeing them live with my dad (I didn’t know who they were), and they didn’t disappoint. Even today, I listen to this and remember why there even was a “post-punk” sound, how powerful it could be, and I wish it had been less-defined by not being something else than it’s own honest grit.

Really the best of Iggy, and it happened to be remastered for Atmos.

Three words will make my blood run cold now: 80s British pop. Getting that out of the way, I don’t really understand why I needed to hear this before I slip the mortal coil. I’m happy for Mr. Gartside’s success in the 80s, but this is just like Wham! without George Michael. It was fine at the time, but feels redundant in this small list of albums to hear before I hear no more.

Okay. I’m surprised I haven’t listened to more War on Drugs, and I plan to remedy that.

I just… “kissing your sassafrass”… that’s a real lyric.

Not my favorite Gorillaz album, but still easily five stars.

I'm struggling with this. I don't remember hating Joni Mitchell, but this entire album felt like the soundtrack to the most boring scenes in 70s cinemas (and I love 70s cinema, but I also remember the boring scenes). I'm rarely surprised by this project, but it's normally a delightful surprise with a great funk album I hadn't heard for some reason. This surprised me because I thought it would be good, and it just wasn't.

This was better Joni Mitchell than The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Still not my style, but much better.

Evidently, I just love Jazz because I just let Apple Music keep playing a smart playlist after this, and time disappeared.

I don't know. I really like VU, and I love Lou Reed. I also love the title track. As an album, though? It's a little tougher to swallow. I'm going to give this one star more than it probably deserves because of the things I just said I love.

My only regret was that I didn’t get this album on a Friday.

This is a tough one. I do not like Def Leppard. The best Def Leppard album is still Def Leppard. However, I could see what they were doing, and it was successful. Adding a star for the last few songs. Removing a star because it’s still Def Leppard.

Okay, based on the description as "psychedelic folk" I had very low expectations, but this was a great Friday album. It's actually the exact flavor of "folk" that I can get into; reminds me a little of Sondre Lerche or even Damian Rice. I was pleasantly surprised.

Nothing I would just sit down and listen to regularly, but great to work or concentrate to.

It’s so crunchy and filthy. I feel like a need a shower after this album. It’s perfectly 90s. It’s five stars.

It's live prog, and the encore is "Nut Rocker." That's the totality of what you need to know.

I was worried about another electronic album, but this was surprisingly good. More trip-hop and other influences.

Billie freaking Holliday.

This is tough. I would easily say that Beastie Boys are five stars all around… but… even they would say later that this was probably a three star album among their discography. So, I’ll split the difference this time.

It's just... 2 hours is a bit much.

When I was a teenager and first heard this album all the way through (almost twenty years after it's release), I actually thought it was a "best of" compilation. Every song was perfect. I still love it.

I’m sure I’m being contrarian by giving this 5, but I don’t care.

I’m trying, but I dislike this as much now as I did in the 90s.

The Duke all day, and this was a great recording.

Still better than Fred Durst or Kid Rock.

Damn. I'm pretty sure I still don't really like Cheap Trick (wrong generation), but I have to say that the live version of them is pretty good.

Better than I expected. I still wouldn't listen to this over AC/DC or something, around the same time, but not bad.

This was not what I expected. Some parts were better than expected, and others were actually exactly what I was afraid of.

Not my normal fare, but really enjoyable for what it is.

It's great for what it is, but I still can't handle over an hour of jamming.