Of course this belongs on this list, there is no doubt about that. Sinatra was one of the most influential people in musical history after all. That being said, it hasn't aged the best. A full 50-minute album of songs about heartbreak? It starts to get pretty annoying after the third song of him singing about a girl leaving him. My brother in Christ, chill. I'm sure this would sound better at a cocktail party in the 50s. I don't think Frank anticipated people listening to this album through headphones, in front of their computer, working and drinking hot cocoa.

This is fucking horrible - I love it. I'm not sure why I actually like this. The lyrics are stupid, the music is stupid, the name and album art are stupid.. there's even a completely random pirate song for absolutely no reason. The band's not even "Adam & The Ants", there's one guy named "Adam Ant". It makes no sense - that's like The Beatles calling themselves "John & The Lennons". This is what the kids like to call "penis music" and I'm here for it. Yeah I gave this a 4/5 and The White Album a 2/5, what are you going to do about it. I am aware that my brain is completely rotten and that I have tiny goblins building aqueducts in my cerebral cortex.

This album sounds how I imagine a tofu + dragonfruit salad would taste. It's literally nothing. This is a toddler playing with FL Studio presets for an hour. I think listening to white noise is a more thrilling experience than this.

Nice. I listened to this while insanely drunk and it enhanced my experience. I'm still not sober, so I don't even know what I'm writing right now. Man's got a lot of arms. They should call him Slimmy Jimi. I don't remember it that well, but I don't think it's exactly the album's fault.

Oh fuck yeah, now we're talking. Wait no, I swear I'm not being pretentious. This is the lowest rated album on this site because I guess mostly people aren't very fond of German people smashing metal plates together - who would have guessed. But halle-fucking-lujah, this is something this list needs more of. Albums that make you go "well, that was an experience and now I'm a changed man". Nobody is lying on their deathbed wishing they heard more crappy 80s post-punk or late 60s psychedelic rock. THIS is what we all deserve to be listening to as we embrace eternal oblivion. I'm giving this a high rating not only because I genuinely really love it, but also to help Kid Rock move to his rightful place as the actual worst album on this list. Together we can make a difference. Save the turtles.

Just really average. Nothing really stands out, but nothing is bad per se, except for "FX" which is basically a meme track (they said it themselves, apparently).

A lot of noise. I like chaotic and experimental music, but I was starting to get a bit annoyed after the third warbly noisy song in a row. The title track is genuinely amazing, so is the 17-minute long finale "Cop Shoot Cop". Not the biggest fan of the middle, but songs like "I Think I'm In Love" and "Broken Heart" nicely break up the tinnitus.

Really solid psychedelic rock. Not one song I would label as bad. The worst thing I can say about it is that it's a bit "generic music your dad plays" at times.

Side one of this album is amazing, genuinely a 10/10 - exactly my type of music. Side two does get a bit fillery and I'm not a fan of the final track. The entire album would probably be like a 8.5/10 at worst. Really great.

I hate Christmas music so much. No words can describe the hate I have for every single sound associated with Christmas - jingle bells, sleigh bells, glockenspiels, the choirs. I hate it all. Just like Phil Spector hates being a decent human being.

Not a Bowie fan in the slightest, but this slaps, not gonna lie. Better than Ziggy Stardust, the only other full album of his that I've heard. I would imagine that the more experimental instrumental break during tracks 7, 8 and 9 is a bit controversial, but I personally enjoyed it.

Whatever. Too blues-y and monotonous. Never was a huge fan of Morrison's voice. Riders of the Storm is the definitive highlight, that song's great.

It's Ace of Spades, the song everyone knows, but 18 times in a row and lasting an hour. Good thing that Ace of Spades is a good song, otherwise this would have been unbearable. Can't give this anything higher than 3 stars - these songs probably work better in a random heavy metal playlist than an album. I'm sure being at the concert was hype though.

The instrumentals are beautiful. I sort of wish that this album was fully instrumental, and that the lyrics were just some poems to be read at your own pace while listening or something. At the beginning I was like "Ugh, I don't want to listen to this slow boring music for an hour", but it really won me over.

This is the most generic 80s album I've ever heard. It's like they trained an AI to generate the most inoffensive, boring 80s synth music imaginable. It's the perfect 3/5. There is nothing wrong with this album, it's just nothing special.

Never heard of this band before. Really close to being a 5/5, but it does get a bit filler-y near the end. There's a lot of great songs here though, "Four Seasons in One Day" is my personal favorite.

It's a feat to be as consistently obnoxious as this album. Judging people by their music taste is a stupid thing to do, but I genuinely don't understand why this would ever be on a list of "albums you must hear before you die".

Love this album, always have. Not much else to say, I'm sure there's a 4-hour long documentary on Youtube that analyzes every single note of every song on this album.

I love the sound of Japanese people losing their shit over a band I've never heard of. Oh yeah and the music was pretty good too.

Funky and catchy. Absolutely not a genre for me, but this album somehow won me over - so a 4/5 from me is probably a strong 5/5 for somebody who's generally a fan of hip hop. Heart's my favorite track because it sounds like a Phineas and Ferb song.

This album sounds how I imagine a tofu + dragonfruit salad would taste. It's literally nothing. This is a toddler playing with FL Studio presets for an hour. I think listening to white noise is a more thrilling experience than this.

I feel bad giving this such a low score because there is nothing wrong with this, it's just simply not for me. Give this a listen if you like folky and mellow songs, but a 2/5 from me, somebody who finds this kind of music really boring.

More folk. I had basically the same thing yesterday. It all just blends together into a forgettable glob of acoustic guitar. Enjoyed it slightly more than yesterday's Joan Armatrading, but please give me an actual face-melter obliteration hyper mega-satan metal tomorrow. I don't even like metal but please, I need something more exciting.

I don't even hate rap but this just sucks, sorry. Horrible beats - seriously, what's up with the wacky boing instruments in every song? They're a kazoo away from being actual meme music. "Security of the First World" sounds like video game pause music. An hour of my life that I'll never get back.

Really good actually, despite being the 3rd folk rock album I've had in the past 4 days. I liked the weirder and darker-sounding tracks a lot. "On Battleship Hill" and the title track are certified bangers.

Final Fantasy final boss sounding ass. Only some songs work like this (No Leaf Clover, Ecstasy of Gold, Master of Puppets...), other ones sound like Metallica trying to play with a rampant orchestral goblin on the stage floor (Fuel sounds like a terrible Youtube remix). Disc 2 was generally better than disc 1, but at that point I was hoping it would just finally end since this is over 2 hours long.

Forgettable instrumentals, great voice. The first few songs are good but they grow more and more forgettable as they go on. Not something I'd return to, but I didn't hate it so let's just say that this is a really strong 2/5.

This is an actual enigma. It's so bland that I completely forgot every song, every word sung and every note played the second the album ended. I didn't gain or lose anything. Can't decide if this is a 1/5 or a 2/5 - probably like a 1.75, so I'll be generous and round it up.

Pleasantly surprised. Very nice and easy to listen to. Despite being generally chill and relaxing, it doesn't put me to sleep like some other soft pop albums on this list. Not something I expected from the ominous album art. Very strong 3/5.

I really don't like Bowie's voice, but I think his music is starting to grow on me more. There's some good songs here. The worst one for me is definitely the title track - that's a headache and a half. Nothing caught my attention though like "Heroes" did and I imagine this won't be the last Bowie album on here. Man's considered one of rock's greatest after all. Still trying to see why that is though. (Not bad, good even, but not even close to being on the same level as The Beatles or Pink Floyd from what I've heard).

"1001 Albums Generator doesn't give me a Folk Rock album for 3 days" challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) Nothing to be said. It's folk rock. Boring. Next.

Incredible rock opera. I always admire this album for still being extremely good even if you don't pay attention to the plot - the songs are all great when isolated, something I, a Pink Floyd fanboy, can't even say about The Wall (let's be honest, nobody is putting "Bring The Boys Back Home" in their playlists). Punk doesn't get better than this from what I've heard, easy 5/5.

Why is this actually really good? I seriously thought that I would hate this, but I was vibing. It's really fun, even if there's a language barrier. Speaking of languages, it's really impressive - guy sings in over 9 languages according to Wikipedia.

It's alright. His voice is enjoyable and some of the tracks like "Dance Little Sister" and "If All You Get To Heaven" are some undoubtedly funky tunes. Overall not very memorable though, seems like a fairly above-average 80s album, not something you "must hear before dying".

Not for me. The songs are just way too long and repetitive to be enjoyable. Nice that it's on the list though, it's important to have some world music, just not my kind of music.

All over the place. From certified bangers™, to weird 30-second gibberish that can hardly be classified as music. Really not sure about this one - I thought I would enjoy it more than I did.

Thought I would hate this but it won me over. Fun and unique, didn't overstay its welcome. "Cars" is the only thing here that I've heard before. Hell, I didn't even know that Gary Numan was a musician before today. I always associated his name with acting (I am aware of Gary Oldman, not mixing the two up). Also the red prism on the album art looks mad tasty for some reason.

Time for my hottest take yet. I've listened to this entire album like 4 times now and every time it's the same thing: I start really enjoying it but by the time the second disc starts I'm so insanely over it. The best songs (Back in the USSR, Glass Onion, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird) are all around the beginning of the first disc and the rest just feels like bland filler. Come on, I know that nobody reading this has "Cry Baby Cry" in their "Favorites" playlist on Spotify. Revolution 9 is unironically one of my favorite disc 2 songs because at least it makes me feel something (existential dread), but still something. I like the Beatles but I genuinely believe that this is one of their worst records.

I don't own a combine harvester, so this album is not for me. There is no passion or originality here. Proof that being boring is often worse than being straight up bad. I had more fun listening to the Spotify ads in between.

I like QOTSA, but I don't fully get why this album was chosen for this list instead of "Songs for the Deaf". This album is just mostly them trying to find their footing. You can still hear the iconic "QOTSA sound", but it's not as refined as their later works. Still pretty good, but I'd rather be listening to Songs for the Deaf or Era Vulgaris.

What an insanely stupid idea. Is there seriously anyone out there who actively listens to this? I can't imagine willingly devoting an hour of your life listening to a soundtrack to a movie that does not exist. Waste of time, space and energy. The most baffling addition to this list so far. The only good song is "The Man With The Golden Arm" and it's just a bonus cover.

Not a fan of folk, not a fan of country.. there's two tracks here that I kind of enjoyed ("No Other" and "Lady of the North"). Other than that, mostly just boring background music.

Starts out really strong, gets boring and samey in the middle. An hour long, but the songs are all only around 2 minutes, so a lot of them feel like throwaways. Didn't pay attention to the lyrics at all, but I feel like I didn't miss out on anything. That being said, I didn't dislike this, probably like a 6/10 - I enjoyed the grungier songs.

It's good, I think.. not actually sure how much I enjoyed it, I just know I didn't dislike it. There's a lot of diversity here and some catchy tunes. Vocals were pretty meh, not really my taste, but good enough to be bearable. Also that album cover, huh? It sure is an album cover.

Obligatory "Hey, this sounds like Radiohead/Coldplay/Muse". Pretty good. Highlights for me include "N.Y.", "Caught by the River" and the kind of strange King Crimson cover(?) "M62 Song". More chill than I expected from the ominous album cover and title, both of which are awesome by the way. However, my favorite parts were when they slightly dipped their toes into a more grungy sound.

This is music your Nintendo Wii plays while it's loading the Weather Channel.

Wow, this is awesome! I was not expecting that from the cover. There's just so much energy, the screechy guitars, the crazy yelling vocals and lyrics. Favorite tracks are: "Pin", "Date With The Night", "Y Control". Very strong 4/5, maybe even a 5/5.. depends how I'm feeling tomorrow morning.

Really wasn't in the mood for this. Mostly just boring edgelord music that I couldn't connect with. Johnny Cash did "Hurt" better, but I think even Trent Reznor agrees with that. Still can't believe they named the Mario rhino that spits fire after that guy. Seriously, the rhino from Super Mario World that spins on a windmill and spits fire at you is officially called Reznor in the Mario canon. I get naming the turtle with Beethoven hair "Ludwig", but who in the Nintendo localization team looked at a fire rhino and said "This gives me Trent Reznor vibes".

Yeah the Beatles were pretty good, not gonna lie. Eleanor Rigby is probably my favorite song of theirs, but this album also has some other bangers like "Taxman", "Love You To", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and basically every other song (except Yellow Submarine). Gotta love that sitar. I'd be the first one to jump on the "Beatles are overrated" train (or submarine?), but that doesn't mean they weren't amazingly talented musicians. I have to give this a 5/5 or I'm being too strict with these ratings.

Not a fan. Sounds like pub music, but the lead singer was castrated before singing. "Keep It" has to be one of the most annoying songs I've ever heard and the fact that it's 4 minutes long is painful. My favorite track was probably either "Geno" or the instrumental "The Teams that Meet in Caffs", but I still wouldn't call them good, just above-average.

Enjoyed it a lot. Bunch of different sounds that make the songs stand out. There's some grunge, some psychedelic rock, some experimental. My favorite songs were the ones that went like "bwowowow". The instrumental on Dime Western is great. Not for everyone, but it's a yes from me.

What is this Old MacDonald Had a Farm sounding crap and why do I need to hear it before I die? Seems like some random rockabilly album you find for a dollar at a flea market. So insanely boring and average that I don't have anything to say about it. "Teenage Head" was my favorite track.. I think. Hard to choose a favorite shade of gray.

Basically nothing. This genre of music is just white noise to me. "Rainy Day" really sounds like a rainy day somehow, I'll give him that. Sounds like a song I would listen to while I'm having a headache. Nothing else caught my attention.

Absolutely loved it. The first album to melt my emotionless heart and give me goosebumps. I never really looked into R.E.M. despite really liking "Losing my Religion", but now I want to go and listen to their entire discography. Favorite songs: "Drive", "Try Not To Breathe", "Everybody Hurts", "Man on the Moon", "Find the River". I think the worst one would be the instrumental, but I can still appreciate it.

Well that was a religious experience. It's extremely weird, but I think that's part of the charm. I like the strange chanting in "Danse Kalinda Ba Doom" and "Croker Courtbullion". Very pleasantly surprised. The first song was confusing and I wasn't sure where the album was going, but I got it after the second song and thoroughly enjoyed the rest.

Boring beep boop music. I'm never going to think about listening to this album again. I wish the entire album sounded like the first two songs - they generally get more and more boring as time goes on. I don't know if that's just my ears going numb or actually the music's fault but I don't give enough crap to go and listen again to make sure.

I wasn't following the story too much, the only thing I got out of it was that "Girl died in a balloon, guy gets depressed", but I still enjoyed it a lot. It's very obviously inspired by the Beatles, but it's from 1968 so that's basically a given. Don't know if this is Spotify's fault, but some of the songs were a bit wonky quality with some fuzziness in the background. Favorite songs: S.F. Sorrow is Born, Balloon Burning, Baron Saturday, Loneliest Person

Some great songs like "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" and "Firth of Fifth" (god damn, that guitar solo is so good). "The Battle Of Epping Forest" is whatever. I liked the synthesizer sounds but the lyrics are just kind of too wacky for me and it's too long for what it is. Nothing against long songs, Supper's Ready is one of my favorite songs of all time. Speaking of Supper's Ready, it's sad that there's no Foxtrot on this list.

The full album is not on Spotify, but I'm absolutely not a fan of this kind of music and I don't think the 6 missing tracks would have made a difference.

I don't like jazz, sorry bee from Bee Movie.

Man, this album makes me remember that we're all human. This guy is over here singing songs about "shooting a bad bitch down" while all the inmates cheer. He cracks some jokes, laughs, asks for water - Johnny Cash just seems like such a down to earth guy. I don't even like country but the book was right for once.. I think my ghost would have been a bit upset if I died without listening to this. Also, I never knew that this album is from 1968. I always thought it was from the late 50s or so.

Fucking garbage Mongolian throat singing sounding ass yelling broken French while the most repetitive and horrible instrumentals play in the background. Now I feel bad for all the albums that I already rated a 1/5, because this is miles worse than all of them. Probably the worst thing I've ever heard in my entire life, no exaggeration.

Jesus Christ, is this being procedurally generated as I'm listening? It just never ends. Every time I'm like "That was a pretty good song, wonder how much there's left" and I'm not even halfway there. This is just way too long for what it is - a generic hillbilly country album. Nothing wrong with the songs, some are good, some are pretty boring but as an album experience, this is a 2/5. Also what's up with the confederate flags on the cover.

This is one of my all time favorite albums. One of the very few I would consider to be perfect 10/10s. I can't say a single bad word about this. There are no dull moments, no bad songs. It's honestly kind of scary how absolutely amazing this entire album is, and it just gets better the more you read about it. The story behind this is incredible and I can't believe there hasn't been a huge Syd Barrett movie yet. Shine on.

Fairly good. Not something I'll ever revisit, but I thought it was enjoyable enough. Some of the songs are pretty samey, but at least they're not annoying. Wikipedia says this is punk, but I don't hear it (except for the last song) - it's actually pretty poppy. Reminded me of The Who and weirdly enough Weezer on certain occasions. Favorite songs: David Watts, Billy Hunt Pretty strong 3/5.

Crazy in a good way. Some great songs like "Ready or Not", "Fu-Gee-La" and "No Woman, No Cry" which I've heard more times on the radio than I've heard my father's voice. Would be a contender for the best hip hop album of all time, but it's a tad bit too long and dragged down by meaningless skits (what the hell is that Chinese restaurant skit?). Still a big fan, Lauryn Hill is unmatched.

Now this was a great album, wasn't expecting that from whatever the album cover is. I've never heard of Steely Dan, which is kind of strange to me from how big they seem. I think I'm a fan now. Some huge bangers - "Rikki Don't Lose that Number", "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (I love those wah-wahs), "With a Gun", "Charlie Freak". Doesn't overstay its welcome and ends on a good song streak - the last three songs slap back-to-back.

Kind of boring music until he hits you with that harmonica and gives you lifelong tinnitus. Jesus Christ, why is the harmonica so loud? I had to turn my volume down on "Girl From The North Country" when he started doing his best crying baby impression. This is a horror album. You're just trying to chill but there's jumpscares at every corner. You never know when he's going to start blowing into that rusty piece of metal, permanently destroying your hearing. Man I get the lyrics, being scared of WWIII and all, but the only thing scarier than the existential dread of living in the middle of the Cold War is the existential dread that Bob Dylan could start playing the harmonica AT ANY MOMENT. 1/5 - looking forward to the Bob Dylan kazoo album and the Bob Dylan cowbell album.

Background music with nothing special. Why is this list like 50% folk rock and 50% all other genres? Also that mountain looks nothing like an elephant.

Somehow manages to not be very exciting, despite them absolutely obliterating that poor poor guitar and yelling 30 words a second. There's not enough diversity. Most songs are just: SATAN SUMMONS BLOOD, DEATH COMES AND HELL WILL KILL US ALL *10 second guitar solo*. There were some moments when I didn't even catch that one song ended and another had begun. The best song is definitely "Raining Blood". It's so cool when that iconic riff kicks in.

None of the songs other than the famous singles ("White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love") and also "Plastic Fantastic Lover" really stick the landing. Psychedelic rock > folk rock. There's really only like 3 psychedelic rock songs here and the rest is boring farm music.

Ugh, fuck off. I just had "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" three days ago and this is literally the same thing. Boring mumbly folk rock until the harmonica starts and your entire auditory system shuts down, leaving you with lifelong tinnitus. Thanks for the headache. Harmonicas are more annoying than kazoos. Bruce Springsteen at least has a bearable voice when compared to Bob Dylan, but that doesn't make this album anything higher than a 1/5 for me.

It's good, I enjoyed it. I found the first few tracks to be not that great (the first song was my least favorite one - not great for my prejudicial brain) but it generally got better as the album progressed. Great songs like "Hand in my Pocket", "Head Over Feet", "Wake Up" and of course "Ironic".

I didn't hate it, but why is this on the list? It's not even been a year since this album's released. This is just a regular folk album (my 5th folk album in the past 7 days, please stop giving me folk albums) that will inevitably be forgotten by the test of time. Nothing stood out, everything was very average, almost to the point where it seemed like they were trying to be average.

I've never listened to the really early Beatles apart from a few singles, so I was happy to learn that this album was very enjoyable. It's a bit cheesy, some of the lyrics are laughable when compared to their later work, but it's extremely catchy and easy to listen to (a gigantic contributing factor to their success). There's also a lot of covers on this album and they're all very nice. "Roll Over Beethoven" is probably my favorite track on the album despite not being much of a Chuck Berry fan.

Impossible not to imagine a video game loading screen while listening to this. Dude, they should put the "Minecraft: Volume Alpha Soundtrack" in the next edition of this book. Think about it. Video game music is still music and the Minecraft OST is better than like 80% of the music on this list anyways. Did you know that the Minecraft soundtrack takes some inspiration from Jean-Michel Jarre? Me neither, but apparently it does. Listen to the Minecraft soundtrack if you haven't yet, you won't regret it. It's genuinely beautiful. Oh yeah. This album. It's surprisingly really good. Maybe the songs go on for a bit too long. I recognize "Oxygène, Pt. 4" from Limmy's Show.

They really said "Looney Tunes sound effects" during the third song. Brave, I respect that. Okay, this is definitely music to scare the hoes. Play this at a party and they'll take you to a mental institute after two minutes. But this is exactly why I'm here doing this challenge. Never in a million years would I know that this album exists without the existence of this book and this site. I'm glad I listened to this, because this is a damn ritual. That final song takes you to Jupiter. Did I like it? Hard to say. Did I enjoy the experience? Yeah.

Incredibly boring except for like two songs (Allergies and Cars are Cars) which break up the monotonous snoozefest. I was in a complete zero distraction zone while listening to this and I still don't remember a single note from the entire album, except for that cool instrumental section at the end of Allergies. Somewhere between a 1 and a 2. Depends how I'm feeling tomorrow morning.

This was 27 minutes long? Because it felt like an eternity. I don't like this type of music and I don't like Dolly Parton's voice, so definitely not for me.

That was genuinely amazing. It's like Pink Floyd Daft Punk, which sounds like the stupidest thing ever, but actually works really well. I found that the weakest track for me was yet again the first one. Maybe my ears needed some warming up, I don't know. After that it's great song after great song. The biggest highlights for me were "Sexy Boy", "You Make it Easy", "New Star in the Sky". Turns out French electronic elevator music goes HARD. This and Oxygene, which I just had four days ago.

Pretty weird production. Can't really put my finger on it, but it sounds a bit off. Clearly EXTREMELY influenced by David Bowie. The lead singer is basically doing a Bowie impression. This seemed like something I would generally enjoy a lot, but nothing really caught my attention other than "We are the Pigs", "Heroine" and "The 2 Of Us". It wasn't bad though, actually pretty above average, like a 6.5/10.

A weird pick for ABBA. This is one of their less popular ones with none of the big hits. But of course it's still good. My own mother would disown me if I spoke ill of this band. "Head Over Heels" and "One Of Us" are the standout tracks for me. The lyrics are darker than your usual happy poppy ABBA - both of the couples making up the band broke up, they were getting tired of working together and it's the Cold War. It made sense as their swan song. Until 2021. Haven't heard that new album yet. Heard it's nothing special.

Enjoyable. I don't care for Neil Young or this type of music generally, but it was good enough to keep my attention. "Revolution Blues" was good, "On The Beach" was very chill. On the other hand, "For the Turnstiles" was genuinely awful. That's the only bad song though, the rest is just fine. Nothing I would willingly listen to, but I wouldn't turn it off if it started playing on Spotify shuffle. OH WAIT

I literally know nothing about The Stooges so I was expecting unremarkable dad rock. It's more punky and psychedelic. There's that 10 minute long full-on psychedelic track "We Will Fall". I'm a fan of that kind of music, but I felt like like it was missing something. All the other songs were fairly unremarkable and unmemorable. "1969" was my favorite one, I think. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" was pretty unexciting despite apparently being the big famous hit. A 2.5/5 probably. I'll round it up.

I'm pretty sure I heard this in a public sauna once. Actually feels really weird listening to this from the comfort of my home with pants on. I need to be relaxed, dripping with sweat, balls sticking to the wood. I don't know how to rate this. It's an entirely different art form from every other album I've ranked so far. This is not something that's supposed to be listen to. It was specifically designed to be background noise that loops endlessly and can't just be put in the same basket as The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, or even Nickleback and Justin Bieber.

These songs don't need to be 5-6 minutes long. This album doesn't need to be an hour long. An hour of glam rock gets so repetitive that it becomes genuine torture and every flaw becomes more pronounced (The cheesy lyrics, weird song structures, overproduction..) Def Leppard, KISS, AC/DC, Mötley Crue, Bon Jovi... it's all the same, really. This is what people who exclusively listen to pop and hip-hop (nothing wrong with that) think all rock is like, because they heard it in their dad's car once. Glam rock is such an odd genre. Insert arm joke here.

I'm not a fan of acapella. I was really dreading listening to this 40-minute album in a language I don't speak and in a genre I don't care for. That being said, this is probably the best acapella album I've ever heard and I didn't hate it. Very chill, surprisingly doesn't get that repetitive and annoying. Made me feel something that isn't on the general list of emotions. Some bizzaro emotion like dorcelessness.

Guys really named their psychedelic rock band "Primal Scream". That's like naming a death metal band "Lollipop Wizards". Loved the songs that sounded like video game [MISSION LOADING] music (Get Duffy, If They Move Kill 'Em). I appreciate when an album doesn't sound the same all the way through. There's a lot of genres and sounds here - psychedelic rock, electronica, regular pop and something I can only describe as "Thom Yorke Goblin Music".

10/10 and not even the best Led Zeppelin album. How the hell do you even manage to fill an 80 minute album with all killer and no filler? "Kashmir" is a contender for my favorite song of all time, "In My Time of Dying" is not far behind, and I can't pick a single song that I dislike.

Sounds like Depeche Mode but boring. Didn't see anything special in this, just more 80s synth music. I think my ghost would have been pretty apathetic if I never heard this before I died.

Aw bloody crumpets, god save the queen. Some of the lyrics aren't really winners. Too much pervy stalky sex stuff. It was pretty good overall, but this must be the most uncomfortable album to play on your speakers around other people. When "Feeling Called Love" ended, I was like "Well that was pretty uncomfortable. Surely the next song won't be that creepy!" And then I saw the next song was titled "Underwear".

Why is the singer doing a G-Man from Half-Life impression. First half was very chill and inoffensive (almost boring at times). Second half was punk before punk was even a thing. Clearly very influential and ahead of its time. Not something I would willingly listen to though. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy I listened to this, but I think one time's enough.

This review is a Missy Elliott exclusive. I thought this would be a fairly unremarkable hip hop album thrown here just to balance out all the rock and folk, but damn okay. I like this a lot.

Honestly not that good as an album. There's some good songs here, but there's far more filler than big hits. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" is a banger, but then you have songs like "Raped and Freezin'" and "Sick Things" which I instantly forgot once the album ended. Alice Cooper goes for that creepy macabre schtick, so I was expecting this to be a lot heavier than it is. It's pretty mild actually. Almost glam rock, but not quite. I appreciated when they dipped one singular toe into a more proggy sound during "Unfinished Sweet".

Good, but Violator is just this album but better in every single way so I don't really see the need to have this on the list. I still enjoyed it though. "Strangelove" slaps so much god damn, that's a song that gets stuck in your head in the middle of the night while you're trying to fall sleep. I had "Architecture & Morality", a very similar album, just a few days ago. What's up with albums from this era having an album cover of a random .jpeg and some text on a plain background?

I only know like two songs by these guys. You know an album is going to be interesting when Wikipedia doesn't know what genre it is. "Alternative rock / art pop / hip-hop / lo-fi"? What the hell does that even mean? Okay, this is pretty good overall. "Clint Eastwood" is the one song I heard before and I think it's also the best one. There's some pretty unremarkable ones here as well, like "Man Research (Clapper)" and "New Genius (Brother)". Those songs aren't bad, just kind of boring. Pretty sure that's the lo-fi part.

It's okay. Not great or a must listen, but good enough to be enjoyable background music. It's a bit too long though and some songs don't have much substance. "Freedom Train" is lyrically on the same level as "Around the World" by Daft Punk. "I Build This Garden for Us" and "Mr. Cab Driver" were my favorites. I'm pretty sure I've heard the latter one before. Learning about the penis flop incident was also great.

Really really really average 60s rock. I didn't hear anything particularly memorable or genre-defining. The best song is 55 seconds long. Spotify doesn't even have the full album, had to scour Youtube for the rest.

Holy shit. 10/10 I know an album is good when my first impressions of it are "Wait.. this could be the best album I've ever heard in my life"

This whole list made me realize that there's too much folk rock in the world and that it all sounds exactly the same. I'm on album 95. This is my 12th folk rock album.. that's around 13% of everything so far and I literally don't remember any song, any word spoken, any note played from any of the boring "acoustic guitar + guy singing" combos I've had to endure (Except for PJ Harvey - Let England Shake, I quite liked that one). One good song ("The Way Young Lovers Do"). "Madame George" was also pretty enjoyable, but then it just kept going and going for 9 whole minutes. The rest is just more forgettable folk.

Of course this belongs on this list, there is no doubt about that. Sinatra was one of the most influential people in musical history after all. That being said, it hasn't aged the best. A full 50-minute album of songs about heartbreak? It starts to get pretty annoying after the third song of him singing about a girl leaving him. My brother in Christ, chill. I'm sure this would sound better at a cocktail party in the 50s. I don't think Frank anticipated people listening to this album through headphones, in front of their computer, working and drinking hot cocoa.

Is literally every single Bowie album on this list? The writers of this book must be huge fans. Why do I have to listen to THIS album when I should also listen to the vastly superior and vastly more influential Bowie albums like Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory? It's fine. The songs are listenable. Nothing particularly memorable or exciting. The best song was probably "Stay".

Zappa was the absolute man. Unironically one of the most talented musicians ever, but sadly underrated because.. uh.. I guess people don't want to listen to a guy singing about how he can take an hour on the tower of power as long as he gets a little golden shower. Those people are weak. This album is some proggy psychedelic jazz mix. "Peaches En Regalia" is a classic, "Son Of Mr. Green Genes" was probably my favorite of the three long songs on the album and "Little Umbrellas" is also really good. Not the biggest fan of "The Gumbo Variations", which goes completely into jazz hell territory. Overall a very solid album.

This is my second Pulp album in two weeks and what I've gathered is that they're the horniest band on Earth. These guys LOVE singing about sticking their penis into female orifices (too often nonconsensually as well). I'm too asexual for this, sorry. I think I liked this a bit more than Different Class and I gave that a 3/5, so same for this one. Favorite track was probably "Help The Aged". [Insert Bowie comparison here] [Insert "Suede is better" here] [Insert complaint about whispering here]

It's okay, I have a headache so I kind of needed slower and more mellow music today. Not particularly exciting or memorable. She's clearly talented but this kind of music isn't for me. Also this is my 100th rated album, nice.

For all intents and purposes, this entire album is just one 43 minutes long song. It works for some people, just like some people's favorite ice-cream flavor is vanilla. Somebody like me who likes to listen to Radiohead and Pink Floyd is not the target demographic. I like the occasional "Back in Black" or "Thunderstruck" in a rock playlist, but an entire album? Give me a nice scoop of lobster flavored ice cream. That's a real thing by the way.

Sick. I had a really good time with this - there was no song that I didn't enjoy. "In It For The Money", "Richard III", "Sun Hits the Sky" and "You Can See Me" were the best of the best for me. Very pleasantly surprised, it's always the albums with the most garbage covers that I seem to enjoy the most in the end. I mean, the cover's not bad, but it (together with the band name) made me think I was going to be listening to bluegrass. (I only listened to what Spotify considers to be "disc 1", since disc 2 is for the bonus tracks according to Wikipedia)

Sounds like The Doors and I'm not the biggest Doors fan. The first 5 songs are basically just filler. There is nothing memorable about them and they are absolutely eclipsed into the shadow realm by the title track "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".

I liked the first song, but then I remembered that I viciously despise jazz. When they started doing the "doo do-do-do doo", it was all downhill from there. I have to say though, that album art and their logo in general is really cool. "Music of the Mind" was a pretty alright instrumental [PLEASE WAIT.. CONNECTING TO THE SERVER]-type track. Can't believe this is a white British guy. I'm going to throw up.

Elvis just kind of exists in a "of course he's good, but it's not my kind of music" place for me along with people like Frank Sinatra and Buddy Holly. That being said, this was pleasant and enjoyable. There were some weaker songs, but the highs were pretty high.

I wasn't feeling it as much as the first Missy Elliott album I had not too long ago. Just chill background music, lacking the energy and catchiness of "Under Construction".

"Thank you for calling, please wait while we connect your call" [this album starts playing] It's fine, chill, kind of boring at times. I don't have a problem with long songs, but Djed doesn't need to be 21 minutes long when all the cool things happen in the last 8 or so minutes (I really liked that glitchy part). "Dear Grandma and Grandpa" was my favorite song on the album because it reminds me of some ambiance you would hear in an indie horror game - really cool with the weird German(?) voices in the background (obscure reference, but it reminds me of the song "Numbers" from the OMORI soundtrack, which also contains ominous German voices).

One hit wonder. What's next? The Mambo No. 5 album? I like Take on Me, but starting off an album with your best song is usually a pretty bad idea. It goes downhill after that and the rest is unmemorable boring new wave - meaningless mumbly lyrics, repetitive synths and uninteresting melodies. The worst offender is "I Dream Myself Alive" where the singer repeats the title phrase like 50 times. I don't know, I wasn't counting. Or paying attention, really. Maybe I just dreamed that up.

I hate jazz so much.

I still prefer Metallica. Something about Mustaine's vocals just seems a bit off to me, but there is no denying that this is a fun record and that the guitar could disintegrate a young child off the mortal plane. The album art is really funny to me for some reason. Gently stroke the alien tube.

Bangers and the guy is really funny as well. I'm not a big fan of skits in albums, but "First Impression" made me exhale through my nose. Very long. "Body Count" is a straight up rock song, "The Tower" samples the Halloween theme song?! This album just goes everywhere at once.. in a good way. I always thought that ICE-T was garbage, probably because Vanilla Ice soiled every ice-based rapper for me by association. The best rap album I've had so far - 5/5.

This is my second gangsta rap album in a row. Yesterday, I gave ICE-T's "O.G. Original Gangster" a 5/5 and I actually enjoyed this one even more. Stop giving me good rap albums or I'll have to go down a rabbit hole I never envisioned myself peeking my head into. The only thing I didn't like were the cheesy skits. I've also noticed that hip hop albums in general happen to be really long. This one, at around 63 minutes, was one of the shorter ones.

Completely unremarkable. Not bad, but also not particularly good or notable. Just a completely regular album that definitely exists. They play the instruments, they sing some lyrics - that's about it. Good for them. The earlier songs were better than the ones near the end. My favorite song was probably "Beautiful". It's a pretty standard feel-good pop track, but I enjoyed it.

I knew the good songs. "Natural Blues", "Porcelain", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" - all great. Not a fan of the whispering in songs like "The Sky Is Broken" near the end. Speaking of the end, Jesus Christ this album never ends. Moby looks like the villain from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.

Alright. Not as good as Pretzel Logic. None of the songs are bad, but there's not some huge hit that will blow your mind here. It's all quite safe dad rock you hear on the radio. I mean I guess I can't complain, the title only mentioned a countdown. Maybe the ecstasy in question is their next project, which just happens to be Pretzel Logic. I really like Pretzel Logic, have I mentioned that already.

Not as fun or as house as I expected. The first few songs were pretty good rock tracks, but then they let Helen Keller play the saxophone and it was all downhill from there. Definitely influential though and worth listening to, just skip "L.A. Blues" if you don't want the Guantanamo Bay experience in musical form.

Bro who even is this guy. I google his name and the first result is "Finley Quaye found guilty for headbutting terminally ill friend over Game of Thrones" and the image is some black-and-white Gilbert Gottfried lookalike (rest in peace by the way) and Peter Dinklage. Then the literal next result is "Finley Quaye admits criminal damage after he threw metal road sign through glass bus door". The third result is "Finley Quaye threatened to stab cop and 'get a grenade' for bar manager he vowed to shoot". This guy is just smashing everything in his path, pulverizing innocent citizens with his laser beam eyes, and I'm supposed to listen to his album? I listened to his album and it was pretty alright. Not a huge fan of reggae or obliterating people with metal rods, but I enjoyed "Sunday Shining". Hope he doesn't throw a comically large piano down a flight of stairs at me for giving his album a 2/5.

I am a sucker for stupid British songs about goblins, clowns, toy soldiers, gnomes and such (think "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" by Pink Floyd). I had fun with this. "David Watts" was funny, "Waterloo Sunset" made me feel good and "Death of a Clown" is so stupid that I love it. Something about the image of a clown being lowered into a coffin is hilarious to me. Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa. That'll be stuck in my head for the entire week.

Another really old one. Sorry, all the music from this era and genre sounds the same to me. I'll just copy-paste the thing I always write for these: "Clearly influential and talented, but not for me"

About as musically interesting as listening to a bubbling pot.

I forgot I was listening to this while I was listening to this. I had a split second thought like "Damn, kinda quiet here. I should put some music on." and then I remembered this was playing. Not a fan at all. A chore to get through. "Waterfalls" was supposed to be the big hit but I didn't even register when the song started or ended.

Pretty good. I still prefer Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but I can respect this album a lot. I'll have to listen to it again to form a stronger opinion, but a 3/5 for now.

The Eagles are probably the band that most people think of when they hear "dad rock" but man.. I kinda really like this album. I was expecting to loathe this since I don't particularly care for country music but I even enjoyed the song called "Earlybird" which is the most stereotypical farm music I've ever heard in my life. It's corny (like.. actual corn, yeehaw), easy to hate on, and not the most musically impressive thing ever made, but I like it.

Nice. I listened to this while insanely drunk and it enhanced my experience. I'm still not sober, so I don't even know what I'm writing right now. Man's got a lot of arms. They should call him Slimmy Jimi. I don't remember it that well, but I don't think it's exactly the album's fault.

Awesome guitar but the vocals are unbearable. I think this would work better as an instrumental album, but I get that's not what she was going for. This is about her struggles and damn, reading her Wikipedia article for the first time, how is this woman still alive.

A good album, a great album even, but one of the best ever? Ehh... seems like a 4/5 to me. There's the huge hits like "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and the title track, and then there's songs that are just kind of there (not bad, but not quite memorable and overshadowed by the huge hits) like "Human Nature" and "The Lady In My Life". Also isn't Paul McCartney like 30 years older than MJ? Why are they fighting for the same girl? I'm sure nobody has made that observation before.

Dude whatever. This is absolutely not something you need to listen to before you die. This is something you find in your dad's CD rack and even he would be like "I don't remember this one". A 2/5 since I don't actually hate the songs here, they're really simple and kind of boring, but I can still listen to them. I'm mostly just baffled at why this was included.

Mostly just generic rock. I really like Who's Next, but this one didn't quite click with me. The first few songs were completely forgettable. "My Generation" was good, I also enjoyed the instrumental "The Ox". I'm not the biggest fan of Daltrey's vocals. Keith Moon killing it on the drums as usual, but maybe they rely on him a bit too much? I'll give this a 2/5 from an enjoyment factor, but I respect this album a thousand times more than the albums I usually give 2s to.

This is fucking horrible - I love it. I'm not sure why I actually like this. The lyrics are stupid, the music is stupid, the name and album art are stupid.. there's even a completely random pirate song for absolutely no reason. The band's not even "Adam & The Ants", there's one guy named "Adam Ant". It makes no sense - that's like The Beatles calling themselves "John & The Lennons". This is what the kids like to call "penis music" and I'm here for it. Yeah I gave this a 4/5 and The White Album a 2/5, what are you going to do about it. I am aware that my brain is completely rotten and that I have tiny goblins building aqueducts in my cerebral cortex.

Couldn't get into it. Just insanely boring and uninteresting. All the songs sound the same.. guess Oasis isn't for me because I always found Wonderwall to be very boring as well. Blur wins. Actually Suede wins but they were too busy doing crack cocaine during the whole feud. Can't believe these guys used to be labeled as "the next Beatles".

Pretty good. Not groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it as chill morning music. One of those albums where I have nothing to say. It's always the ones where the cover is some guy looking at you. The ones where you think "Okay, i'll listen to this and I'll even probably enjoy it, but this isn't going to be the next Dark Side of the Moon". 3/5

Background music. This kind of album is always hard to review because you're not supposed to be listening to it from the comfort of your home with breakfast in hand. I hated the song with the random moaning woman. What an annoying sample.

I always thought this was an album from the early 70s, not the late 80s.. damn. Kind of a weird combination of synths and African singing. I've had the "Ladysmith Black Mambazo" album on here before and I quite enjoyed that one, but I think the song with them on this album was my least favorite one. Cultural appropriation? I don't know, I haven't read enough about the production of this album to know how he treated them and hell, I'm not the one to decide if this is or isn't cultural appropriation. I'm just happy to be exposed to South African music because I would never seek music like this on my own. Overall nice to hear something different because I've been in an uninteresting meh music limbo the past two weeks. A strong 3/5 I think.

It's exactly what one would expect. Good voice. Also there's a cat on the album cover, just noticed that while writing this sentence.

I don't get it. Seems like generic glam rock. Nothing is bad, nothing really stands out.. I never know how to rate these, because they are immediately removed from my memory within a minute of the album ending. "Metal Guru" was probably my favorite song, "Ballroom of Mars" was oingy-boingy. I don't know what that means either but that's what I wrote down.

Yup. It's definitely reggae.

I love evil music! I want to listen to music that would get me burned at the stake in the 15th century! The spooky Halloween atmosphere is awesome, too bad it's May right now. Full of bangers - the title track is a contender for best metal song of all time. "N.I.B." was sick, so was "The Wizard". I gotta say, thanks for using the harmonica in its intended form - a horror instrument. Take notes, Bob Dylan - I don't want to hear your screeching piece of rusty metal in an otherwise beautiful song. The harmonica is a demonic instrument that summons demons.

I kinda wish more songs on this album sounded like "Frontier Psychiatrist", since that's undoubtedly the best song here. I've been really harsh on these dance albums (and holy shit there's a lot of them on this list), but I really enjoyed this one. It was fun, funky and criminally insane. A bit too long though. None of the songs after "Frontier Psychiatrist" hit particularly hard.

Jesse play "the 2 hour long psychedelic space rock album about accumulators and simultaneous orgasms, featuring Lemmy from Motörhead on bass with the naked woman on the cover" even if we scare the hoes. Yo Mr White that's a great idea. I love that album. My favorite song is "Brainstorm", which goes on for 14 minutes and roughly 12 minutes of that is a guitar solo.

INTRODUCING THE ALL NEW FORD MUSTANG [Camera shows car on a highway with almost no traffic] ZERO PERCENT FINANCING [Camera shows timelapse of the Milky Way galaxy] (A song from this album is playing in the background the entire time) Some songs sounded like Imagine Dragons which instantly activated my fight-or-flight response.

Never heard of him, but seeing a dapper guy eating a banana at a warehouse is always a great first impression. Actually really like this. Enjoyed the vocals, the slight 80s cheesiness was endearing (I love stupid songs. "Jazz Police" was great). My favorite song though was probably "First We Take Manhattan" - sounded like a Bond villain speech and I'm always a sucker for that kind of evil sound.

Not good. Boring and an hour long, the worst combination. False advertising. This is absolutely not a concept album. There's one song about the "lost ship of Veronica" that's supposed to be the main motif, and then it's just random Beatlesesque love songs and the occasional yeehaw farm music for some reason. (And no, "Seven Seas Symphony" doesn't count. You can name that song "Fartdingle" and it loses any semblance of a connection to the concept). Very close to being a 1/5, but there's like two songs here that I genuinely really liked. "Suddenly" and "Seven Seas Symphony". These guys found their place in music later on. I can't take that one 8-minute long epic progressive pop track on this album seriously because I keep hearing the falsetto "STAYIN' ALIVE, STAYIN' ALIVE" in the back of my mind. Sorry, I don't know why I wrote an entire college essay about this one. I should have just said "Meh, not for me" and moved on with my day.

Well.. it sure is disco. Can't deny that. The songs are too long for their own good. It gets really samey near the end.

I've only heard "Cut Your Hair" before and I don't know anything about Pavement. Just some regular 90s alt rock. Nothing particularly memorable and kind of gets annoying near the end. That last song just goes on forever, man. There's something "unfinished" about this album and I can't put my finger on it. Nothing really grabbed me and I blame the lack of polish.

Best country album so far, but still a 3/5 since I'm not a fan of this genre at all. Willie Nelson seems like a great guy though. He's almost 90 and still kicking ass apparently. 5 albums in the last 3 years, damn.

Wow. This sucked. Like genuinely, this is absolutely atrocious and borderline unlistenable. I found nothing redeeming in this and was relieved when it finally ended after 50 minutes. Too long, too repetitive, the music sucks and the vocals are horrible. Good god, the vocals are so bad. How can you make a song like "You Masculine You" and think you've created art. I'm almost 150 albums deep and this is was the hardest thing to finish save for maybe L'Eau Rouge by The Young Gods. Watergate.

Britpop + psychedelia + punk rock? Was this album made specifically for me? Fun and the right amount of stupid. Some songs were a bit forgettable. This band is very much up my alley though, gotta check their other work as well. Shit, they made an entire neo-psychedelic album in Welsh?

Incredibly influential, of course, but kind of suffers from "Seinfeld is unfunny" syndrome. Just seems like average alt rock by today's standards and I found the guy's voice a bit annoying after a while. "Mountain Song" was good, "Jane Says" and "Pigs in Zen" as well. Not a huge fan of "Ted, Just Admit it.." which is 7 minutes long but doesn't do anything special with the time it's given. The album art is absolute nightmare fuel and the boobs don't help.

Nice voice, but no way this is something you need to hear before you die. The NINETEENTH album by her? Was this seriously such a huge step up from the first eighteen? Always eyebrow-raising when you check the Legacy section on Wikipedia and the only sentence is "The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die." Also not a big fan of country or folk.

Very chill, beautiful and an easy listen. I really liked this. Some of the songs here make me feel emotions that don't exist. "Goddess on a Hiway" was amazing, so were all the songs after it, finishing off with "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp". "I Collect Coins" reminds me of something and I can't put my finger on it.. really, there were no bad songs here. I don't have anything to complain about.

The Rolling Stones are one of the biggest bands of all time but I always keep forgetting they exist for some reason. I really only listen to two songs by them ("Gimme Shelter" and "Paint It Black") over and over again. This was my first full Rolling Stones album, and it was pretty damn good. The songs are all solid, with "Sympathy for the Devil" being the standout track. The worst ones are not bad, just kind of forgettable. I don't really remember what "Dear Doctor" or "Prodigal Son" were about.

Very average 70s prog rock with 2 standout tracks ("School" and "Asylum"). The finale of the last track ("Crime of the Century") was also nice. I'm kind of done with prog rock at the moment. Would have loved this two years ago.

Dire Straits is sort of like Queen for me, in that I would much rather just listen to their singles thrown in a random rock playlist than an entire album. "Sultans of Swing", "Money for Nothing", "Romeo and Juliet".. some of my favorite songs of all time. "Setting Me Up", "Wild West End", "Lovely Ride", "Lions"? I listened to this album three hours ago and I have no idea what any of these are. Tell me to name any word sung or any note played and I'd tell you to shoot me in the head, man. You probably didn't even notice that I made the third song up. So basically what I'm saying is that I have crippling ADHD and "Sultans of Swing" is the only memorable song on this album. Cool album cover though.

Probably one of the better choices for a soundtrack addition to the list, but it's no "Minecraft - Volume Alpha" by C418, let's be honest. "Saturday Night Fever"? Never heard of her. This is strictly a "Minecraft - Volume Alpha" household. This album seems like mostly average soul to me, sorry. Not a huge fan of soul, although I did enjoy "Give Me Your Love".

Cool. I used to listen to this band before going to sleep a lot for some reason and I kind of Pavlov dogged myself. I could feel my eyes closing on their own even though it was only 2 PM while I was listening to this. Gothic rock is up my alley, but I prefer Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Nick Cave and the background music for Big Boo's Haunt in Super Mario 64. Still very good though - a 3.5/5

Undoubtedly the greatest country album named "John Prine" released in 1971.

I can't listen to jazz. I don't understand it. It's the musical equivalent of a foreign language to me. I'm sure the saxophonist is spitting straight facts, but it just sounds like random annoying dooting to me.

Kind of dated, kind of dumb, kind of cliché... but also kind of fun. Kept my attention for longer than I thought it would. The title track is a proper banger, so is "Paradise by the Dashboard Light". Not a fan of the last track, which always sucks, because it leaves you with a sour taste even if the rest of the album was great. Has some lows, has some highs, probably wouldn't listen to the entire thing again, a 3/5.

Awesome. A mix of the gothic Joy Division sound and something poppier. I really like Joy Division so I don't know why I never bothered listening to this band before. He's doing the Megamind "No bitches?" angle on the cover by the way.

Spongebob title card music. I like it.

I liked this more than the first Bob Marley album I had (Exodus), but it's still reggae.. and I'm not the biggest fan of reggae. That being said, it was pretty chill background noise and it helped me focus in a particularly stressful situation.

This is undoubtedly one of the best albums of all time. I was going to list my favorite songs, but then I realized I was just typing all the tracks on here in order. Even "Fitter Happier", which is a text to speech program coldly reading words from a list manages to make me emotional. Seriously can't name a single thing I dislike about this album. Not only is this a 5/5, it's also a 10/10. Love these little British music goblins. Looking forward to giving The Bends the same score as well. Maybe Kid A as well.

This is so fucking sick. Makes me want to bench press a blue whale. Heavy, but not in that annoying "SATAN BLOOD DEATH! MY PARENTS ARE GETTING A DIVORCE" kind of way (Looking at you, Slayer). Mixing the screaming and insane guitars with Brazilian tribal music somehow works incredibly well. Favorite track was either "Ratamahatta", "Endangered Species" or "Roots Bloody Roots". Honorable mention goes to the 13-minute bonus track "Canyon Jam". A 2.76 global rating? Made me think I was going to be listening to Poundland Megadeth or something.

I thought I would enjoy this, but the songs are just too long. It's still pretty good, but I don't see myself ever going back to it and listening to the entire album again. "The Humpty Dance" is a classic, no doubt. Most songs are really good even, but for some reason all of them are over 5 minutes long (up to 9 minutes). They lose their steam halfway through - "Doowutchyalike" should have really just ended on that fake fade-out gag. Loved the concept of "sex packets". It's like they made a whole album based on some random Family Guy cutaway joke. Also "MC Blowfish"? How the fuck do you come up with that. How do you drag that concept out of your head. I love it.

Let's talk about that album cover. Actually, let's not. A few good songs, but mostly forgettable. "Novacaine for the Soul", "Susan's House" and "Mental" were my favorites. Not a huge fan of the singer's voice - he sings like he's just going through the motions most of the time.

The first disc was forgettable. Nothing special, just regular psychedelic-ish rock. The only good song on that half was "Lazy Sunday". The second disc absolutely saves the entire album and carries it to a 4/5 for me. I love stupid concepts and a guy riding a giant fly to locate the other half of the moon is something I can get behind. It was strangely nostalgic and reminded me of old fairy tales (something they were probably going for). Best songs: "Lazy Sunday", "Happiness Stan", "Mad John", "HappyDaysToyTown".

Meh. Wasn't feeling it. I couldn't connect with this one as much as the other rap albums I've had so far, so this ended up being mostly just background noise.

Actually pretty lovely background music. Has its charm in a "monkeys with typewriters" kind of way. Most of the time it's regular piano playing, but then he'll randomly use some kind of black magic piano cheat code that makes me feel emotions, and I'll be like "God damn okay. Please continue, Keith Jarrett at the Opera House in Cologne".

Never got the hype around this one to be honest. It's still good, but I'd take Revolver or Sgt Pepper over it any day of the week. My favorite songs on this album are "Come Together", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Here Comes The Sun". I don't care for any of the songs after "Because" - the medley doesn't work for me and never has, don't know why. I really hope I don't come off as a contrarian, because I see that this is one of the highest rated albums on the site. The problem is clearly on my receiving end, I fully get that. Although Rango "Sir Richard Starkley MBE" Starr really carries the Beatles to greatness as always with his beautiful song "Octopus's Garden", which is a metaphor for pubic hair or some shit. Peace and love, peace and love 😎✌️🌟🌟❤️🎶💕☮️

I really like when the generator throws me a curveball of an album like this - something obscure from a genre I barely even know exists. Even if I don't necessarily love it, it's always a treat to explore musical depths. Spotify has the wrong album, but the version on Youtube I listened to was fantastic. The vinyl crackling really added to the mystical atmosphere. Like I just uncovered some lost buried disc in the middle of the Kashmir mountains. Atmospherically a 5/5, current enjoyment-wise a strong 3/5 but I'm definitely listening to some of this again once I'm in the right mood (probably not the full 40 minutes though, not counting bonus tracks).

"Fear Of Music"? Yeah, these guys were deathly afraid of making good music. I don't get this genre at all. They're just talking... with their heads. Almost like they're The Talking Heads™ (Credits roll) There's like 5 Talking Heads albums on this list. Maybe I'll enjoy one of them, since I actually think Psycho Killer's quite a banger.

Some great songs like "Expecting to Fly" and "Broken Arrow", but more filler than killer. The second half is completely forgettable except for the final track.

Really great. Guy with the deep voice (Charli 2na I think?) steals the show, but they're all great and work well together. The last 5 tracks are pretty meh, but other than that it's great beats and great flows all around. Favorite track was "Thin Line".

Listening to Earth, Wind & Fire gives me the same vibes as watching UFO sightings on Youtube.

I rarely pay attention to lyrics in music and that's like 50% of Kendrick's appeal. His fans treat his music like the Pepe Silvia scene from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. This album isn't for me (I'm Slavic. So white that I'm basically translucent), but I have to admit that King Kunta is fucking incredible - probably my favorite hip hop track of all time.

This and Origin of Symmetry are my favorite Muse albums. Too bad they get worse and worse with every album they put out. It's music that was probably made in a lab and if I were to sniff the album I would get glitter in my nose, but it's still really damn good. The best song on the album, also the best song of the entire Muse discography is without a doubt "Knights of Cydonia". Other great songs: "Starlight", "City of Delusion", "Glorious" and "Supermassive Black Hole".

Is this.. country punk? Whatever this abomination is, I don't like it. Every song is the same. They say the N-word more times than the amount of chords they can play.

Pretty sure I've heard this before while looking into African music on Spotify. I also recommend Mdou Moctar to anyone who enjoyed this. Language barrier? I don't care! I just like the way their voices and guitars sound. The singer could be hexing my entire family for all I know. Look at that cover. These guys are better than you and they know it. Four outta five.

I'm too dead inside for this kind of energy. Also the music fucking sucks.

My Spotify friends probably think I'm a serial killer. All of them are out here vibing to their "summer vibes" playlist - Avril Lavigne, Harry Styles, whatever, and I've been on a 30 minute long binge of SUICIDE - SUICIDE. Look man, I understand that music taste is subjective but I seriously can't imagine anyone willingly listening to this in their free time. What enjoyment can you get from a guy mumbling random words from the bottom of a well over the Pac-Man theme song. "Frankie Teardrop" is the worst song I've ever heard in my life. I bet they really felt like they made art with that one. Yeah, let's sing about a guy killing his wife and then make goat sex noises for 3 minutes. It was supposed to be unnerving, but the only emotion I felt was annoyance. I think a Youtube comment I saw put it the best: "It’s like a bad horror movie that has a trash story and only relies on jumpscares lol" Do not check the Wikipedia page for "Johnny (Suicide song)". Currently listening to "10 hours of nails on chalkboard" to cleanse my ears.

This is just straight up good music. Nothing groundbreaking or special, but still good and sometimes that's everything you need. Tickles my brain and makes me feel nice. This man has never played a genie in a Disney movie.

Who's best. The songs here are so iconic that I'm pretty sure you're just born into this world with the knowledge of their existence. "Baba O'Riley", "Behind Blue Eyes", "Won't Get Fooled Again" - some of the biggest songs ever. I'm also a big fan of "Bargain" and "My Wife". One of the most iconic album covers of all time. They really pissed all over that monolith. Good for them.

This was pretty damn good honestly. It goes in every direction at once. Trip-Hop? Tired of that, this is an electronic album now. Actually, this is a Hindi classical album now. Just kidding, back to trip-hop. Actually let's do a lo-fi song. Okay, back to Hindi classical... with a tinge of jazz. The second half drags on a bit, despite still having some great songs. "The Conference" is so silly, I love it. It's like two Animal Crossing characters arguing. Can't choose one favorite track. Either "Broken Skin", "Homelands", "Pilgrim" or "Nostalgia".

Whatever. French rap that's too long and too forgettable. I'm sure he's spitting straight facts though.

Absolutely loved all of it. I've never heard of this band and this album is now one of my favorites. When it ended, I even listened to all the bonus tracks and then wanted to listen to their entire discography back to back... turns out they only made two albums.. and this is their only one on Spotify. That's the first time I've ever done that from what I remember. Whoever's that saxophonist, I hope he's alive and healthy. What a legend.

Music for people who clap when an airplane lands. Too many albums from the Neil Young Extended Universe (CSN, CSNY, Buffalo Springfield, all of the members' solo albums) on this list and they all sound the same.

CTA-102 guest starring the Minions? What the hell was that? I just had a Crosby, Stills & Nash album yesterday. This is exactly the same thing. I guess I should see who the guitarist for The Byrds is. Oh, it's fucking David Crosby again. The most important man in musical history according to this book. Is he the guy who looks like Patrick Bateman cosplaying as Heisenberg on the album cover? There's 5 Byrds albums on this list for some reason. Who the hell are The Byrds? Who the hell is David Crosby? Where is my wife? Oh yeah, the music. It was boring 60s folk rock. Not horrible, but not for me.

Disney movie credits music. But not like Lion King. I'm talking like Wreck it Ralph 7: The Ralphening, which has 23% on Rotten Tomatoes. "A country pop record, Golden Hour also contains elements of disco" Basically the antithesis of my music taste.

Pretty wild, but "The Wildest"? I don't think so, bucko. Good background music, but this genre is nothing more than that for me.

I don't know why, but this kind of music makes me incredibly angry. "Psycho Killer" is the only song saving this from a 1/5 for me. The instrumentation is so incredibly bland. Every song these guys make is the same thing over and over again - what makes this album different from "Fear of Music" other than David Byrne mumbling slightly different nonsense? None of my complaints apply to "Remain in Light". That album is, dare I say it, funky as fuck.

I honestly don't know how they captured the feeling of drinking a cold Fanta while watching the sunset during the first day of summer break in musical form, but they did. I'm a sucker for this kind of "sad nostalgia". Sure worked on me, and I'm not even from the suburbs.

Sounds like my brain is getting completely disintegrated in an atomic blast... in a good way. You know how people say that metal music makes them feel strong, like they could punch an elephant? This makes me feel like I should go to the nearest gym and ask to get punched in the face by the buffest guy there (again, in a good way).

Sadly not even close to Moon Safari.. or anything else by Air for that matter. Definitely an outlier in their discography. An interesting listen, but when I think Air I definitely don't think "psychological drama about child suicide".

Listened to the US version (the one with Paint It Black (the superior version)). A lot of the lyrics seem like they haven't aged the best. Also could have gone without that 11-minute track. Other than that, it's very enjoyable.

36 years later and she still ain't dead. False advertising. One of my favorite albums of all time. Too bad Morrissey is kind of a dickhead, but let's separate the art from the artist. Best track is probably "Bigmouth Strikes Again" although it's so hard to choose when there's also "The Queen Is Dead", "Frankly, Mr. Shankly", "Cemetry Gates", "The Boy With A Thorn In His Side" and "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out". Do you think Lizzy listens to this in her free time cackling as she absorbs the life force of another virgin sacrifice? She'll outlive us all.

Four long songs - the first two are fantastic, the latter two are nothing special. The spoken word segment from "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" was weird and straight-up not enjoyable (musically speaking). Minus 4 stars for being a Scientologist, plus 4 stars for being Chef from South Park.

I was lucky enough to never listen to classic rock radio stations, so literally no song was "overplayed" for me before I really got into music. Not even "Stairway to Heaven" - I overplayed that one for me myself. I discovered these songs like a caveman discovering fire. I wrote that previous paragraph like 5 hours ago and forgot where I was going with it so let me just say that this isn't my favorite Loop Zoop album (IV all the way, then Physical Graffiti and II tied for second place) but it's still incredibly good. These guys just randomly spawned from the mist in 1969 and decided to change musical history forever while dedicating 30 seconds of every song to Robert Plant having an orgasm. With songs like "Good Times Bad Times" and "Dazed and Confused", how can this be anything but a 5/5? That's why I'm giving this a 4/5. For any inquiry please contact me at: sexbreasts.gov Do not click that link if it somehow exists, I don't know where it goes.

There is nothing wrong with this. I'm just a cynical asshole that finds this kind of music incredibly boring. I like that the two Brazilian reps on this list are bossa nova Astrud Gilberto and death metal Sepultura.

Weird, cool, funky, fun. Production is a bit jarring at first (it's the 80s), but quickly grew on me. Standout tracks: "Infected", "Heartland" and "Sweet Bird of Paradise". Obscure post-punk keeps on giving. Probably my favorite genre at the moment. Good good work work The The!

(My 200th album!) It's OK. Nothing special but enjoyable enough. Kind of strikes me as worse Nirvana, which makes sense since this is Courtney Love - the wife of Kurt Cobain. She probably didn't murder him, but I've seen her making crop circles and building pyramids in my backyard so there might be some supernatural properties to her. I'll let the FBI handle that one. Maybe she also got Tupac and Elvis.

Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre was released 2 years earlier and sounds more impressive in my opinion. Däften Pünken over here are very keen on stretching a 2 minute song to 8 minutes for no particular reason. "Neon Lights" is some CIA torture shit. I felt like I'd just ran a marathon after it finally ended. The robot voices are incredibly cheesy as well. Somehow a snoozefest and a headache at the same time. "The Model" saves this from a 1/5 - I don't know why, but I enjoyed that one.

Some good songs, some meh songs. "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" especially was just a massive waste of time. "Looking Down The Barrel Of a Gun" was probably my favorite song, although it was really scary hearing these white boys rhyming with the words "bigger" and "trigger". Second half of that science song had some cool energy as well.

Truly gone fishing. My only other Aerosmith experience was playing that truck sex album and saying "this fucking sucks", so pleasantly surprised with this one. A fun record. Has those two songs everybody's heard before, has a song about the singer's massive schlong and having a metric ton of sex, has a song that makes you go "Wait hold on, who turned on Led Zeppelin?" Am I talking about this album or literally any other rock album from 1975? Who cares. I still enjoyed it.

Not my go-to Kinks album. The few famous songs, "Party Line" and "Sunny Afternoon" are really great (nuclear opinion, but I always thought that the best Kinks songs were better than the best Beatles songs, even if the Beatles had better albums over all). The rest of the album is pretty unremarkable.. a good song here and there, but mostly forgettable generic pop rock.

Boring R&B for people whose only personality trait is saying "I'm not like the other girls" and then failing chemistry class. Did they sample Toad from Mario Kart 64 hitting a banana peel at around 3:50 in the song "Happy Face"?

I've never heard any song from this album, but seeing the words "folk rock" is enough for me to know that I probably won't like it. Yeah, after listening, not a huge fan. There were some good moments - I'm a sucker for the flute so I enjoyed "El Condor Pasa". The "la la la" part of The Boxer also tickled my brain in a fancy way. That's it though. The rest was really generic, uninteresting folk music. I can definitely see this being enjoyable if you like this type of music though.

Disco and R&B are not for me. Probably the best album from those genres so far, but it's just so samey and inoffensive that I can't give it anything higher than a 3/5.

A few songs were missing from Spotify but I definitely got the jist. Completely unfocused and all over the place. Some pretty cool moments, but still a mess overall. Also not a fan of the vocals.

What the hell dude, I just had a Chic album two days ago. No one man should have all that disco. I'm gonna get disco poisoning. It's disco all right. I don't think they intended this to be played while driving a car but it's funky enough to be enjoyable background music. Nothing mind-blowing though.

Depressing, dark, evil, with the obligatory song about animals having sex. Yup, this is classic gothic rock. Honestly, it's kind of incredible how something so off-putting and dark can be made actually listenable and enjoyable. (At least for certain people. I definitely don't blame anyone who dislikes this sort of sound)

Always considered this one to be the weakest of the four self-titled albums. It still has the absolute bangers that are "Immigrant Song", "Tangerine" and "Since I've Been Loving You" and none of the songs are bad, so that really just speaks on how good the other self-titled albums are. These guys are truly legends in the citrus rock genre. Lemons, tangerines.. should have done a song about limes as well to complete the holy trifecta.

Radiohead in 2000: "Ice Age coming, Ice Age coming" The year 2002: A movie titled Ice Age comes out. How did they know? 5/5. The music was good as well.

This has to be the worst album name and artwork combination I've ever seen. I thought I was going to be listening to gospel garbage. It's... kind of whatever honestly. Like most of this 80s synth-heavy stuff, it hasn't aged the best. There's something missing here. The mixing is very weird. I couldn't pay attention to the lyrics at all because the guy's vocals sound like they're coming from the bottom of a well. There's better and more influential synthpop out there. I don't really get this album's inclusion, but meh who cares. It was listenable.

Fluctuates between really good and forgettable. I was only familiar with "The Killing Moon", and that's probably the best track on the album as well. I had a similar album, "Pornography" by the Cure, a few days ago and I definitely enjoyed that one more. Brian Griffin did the photography for this album apparently. Didn't know they were hiring dogs. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.

Thematically and musically reminded me of "The Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance (one of the most baffling exclusions from this list, by the way). You could tell me the singer is Gerard Way's older brother and I would honestly believe you. I really love it. The completely batshit lyrics, the guitars, vocals, drumming.. it all works so well together. "Track-marked amoeba lands craft, cartwheel of scratches, dress the tapeworm as pet, tentacles smirk please" I have absolutely no idea what you're saying my guy, but it sounds cool so I'll let it slide.

Meh. I don't get The Beach Boys. The best part is that kickass album cover and the contrast it creates with the simple "Surf's Up" title, and their previous work. The title track was pretty cool though.

Generic rock? Live album? Goes on for 90 minutes? Oh boy, now we're really cooking with gas. The only people capable of making good live albums are Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. I don't care for this type of rock, and I especially don't care for this type of rock but in worse audio quality, with people yelling in between songs.

I am the biggest jazz hater this side of the galaxy, but even I have to admit that this album has some alright sounds. Two outta five, probably the highest rating I've given to a jazz album so far.

It's honestly pretty good. Doesn't change my opinion about live albums being doodoo feces, but this B.B. King guy can play some nice tunes. The writers just kind of threw random live albums into the book to show that those exist as well - like seriously, Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous? Cheap Trick's "Live at Budokan"? This album is probably one of the few that actually deserve a spot. I'm usually not a fan of blues, so a live blues album getting a 3/5 from me would most likely be a shiny sparkly 5/5 for fans of this kind of music.

Thank you Kanye, very cool! Kanye's best album, it's all downhill from here - musically and mentally! Before the man lost his mind and developed a god complex. Bangers like "Jesus Walks", skits that don't completely ruin the momentum of the entire album, some of the best beats ever.. yeah I think it's pretty good.

I'm usually too dead inside for these funky, fresh albums, but this actually got me grooving. The guitar work is fucking incredible. Like Hendrix or Gilmour levels of incredible. Some songs are kind of repetitive, but "That Lady" and "Summer Breeze" are certified giga-bangers. Shame because I was looking forward to making a 6/10 joke (haha get it? 3+3 is 6. That is literally the funniest thing anybody has ever come up with), but it's more like an 8/10.. so a very strong 4/5 on this scale I guess.

Reminds me of early YouTube tutorials where some kid would write in the Windows XP notepad on how to get infinite gold in Runescape or something, while blasting a song like this in the background. I have to admit that I thought the more popular songs from this album were sort of unbearable. "Drive" especially. What an insanely boring tune - already seemed overplayed and I've never heard it before in my entire life. The more obscure songs with less Spotify streams were my jam though - "When It Comes" and "Battlestar Scralatchtica" especially.

Dude. Weed. Music that makes you forget you're currently listening to music.

Feels a bit like The Kinks if they were a 90s band. I can only enjoy this type of music for like 20 minutes before it turns into background noise. The songs I heard while my attention was max were pretty good - nothing groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it. Strong 3/5, might have to come back to this one once I'm in a mood more adjacent with this album.

The Kinks were on fire in the late 60s, god damn. An album criticizing Britain from the most British band to ever exist? That's my kink. Almost like a really really early "Let England Shake" by PJ Harvey (also really good and also on this list, by the way). Best songs: "Australia", "Shangri-La", "Victoria".

This is a fake album. I refuse to believe this existed yesterday. The project known as "1001 Albums Generator" is a rogue AI that has altered the fabric of existence to add this album into our timeline. There is nobody by the name of "Bonnie Raitt", it's the Berenstoin Bears and Mandela is actually still alive. Two out of five. "Love Letter" was cool.

Could this be classified as.. "Prog-Punk"? That technically makes no sense on paper, but then you listen to songs like "Plan 9 Channel 7" and "Smash It Up" which have a pretty distinct Pink Floyd inspired sound (they also had Nick Mason produce one of their albums). It works well in those two songs, but the rest is just a glob of very weird, yet extremely forgettable punk that doesn't know what it wants to do with itself. Okay so that's my opinion on the album, let's talk about what the hell that guy on the right is wearing.

I almost convinced myself this isn't a 5/5 because it's too long but nah, fuck that. This is 104 minutes of straight up good vibes. That might be an intimidating length, but once you get into the zone, it'll be the shortest 104 minutes of your life. Stevie's the man.

Great music for a montage of me hiding from a team of detectives with a dollar sign-marked burlap sack on my back. I love stupid goblin music and this album doesn't even slightly try to hide that it's stupid goblin music. Very strong 4/5! Please put this back on Spotify so I can add "Rock Lobster" to my shower playlist and feel like the baddest motherfucker around.

I am aware that this is insanely influential and a sacred cow among music nerds, but today it just sounds like somebody messing around with FL Studio presets. Ambient music is really hit or miss for me. I can't tell you with I loved Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygéne" and why this album completely flew over my head. Best part was when he used the goofy ass Looney Tunes "BOING!" sound effect in "Green Calx".

Stevie Nicks is cool as hell, but even the few songs where she sings can't save this album from being a boring slog. It's honestly kind of impressive how many songs on this thing are completely forgettable and uninteresting, and that's a huge issue when it's 20 songs (74 minutes) long. If you told me this was a collection of Fleetwood Mac demos I would believe you because some of the songs here are about as interesting as a house brick.

It's pretty good, but I've always been more of a "Strange Days" kind of guy. I like when they go more psychedelic, like "Waiting For The Sun". The bluesier songs were sort of generic (still enjoyable though).

Wow this is bland. Must have used up all their creativity on the band name.

More white boys rapping about being gangsta or whatever. It's pretty fun, honestly but kind of a strange addition, considering the fact that the Wikipedia article for this is shorter than the article for the Uzbek village of Qirqqiz (population: 1,200). However, I should probably not be one to speak on Wikipedia article lengths, as my article is 0 words long because they keep unfairly deleting it. Apparently being the owner of the biggest PEZ dispenser collection is "not something of encyclopedic value". Fuck you, Jimmy Wales. I award this album a 3/5, one point for each "Breaking Bad extra"-looking guy in the album art.

Background music. Couldn't get into it - probably something to listen to again when I'm in a funkier mood. Also, I hate talking about "production and mixing" because it makes me look like this emoji -> 🤓, but the production on the Spotify version is kind of outdated I think - a remaster would be nice!

So many big hits on one album. "Rolling In The Deep", "Someone Like You", "Set Fire To The Rain", "Rumour Has It", "Turning Tables".. This is popular music that is popular for good reasons. Adele's voice is really one of a kind. Wish she chose a different Cure song to cover though. Can you imagine a random "The Hanging Garden" cover in the middle of this album? Comedy gold.

Before listening: Man could inhale a car with that schnoz. After listening: Man could inhale a car with that schnoz and also this album is pretty good.

'Murican rock. This has some Springsteen vibes and I'm not a Springsteen fan in the slightest. Mostly really uninteresting. There was one part where I thought it kind of sounded like CAN, but I'm pretty sure that was a hallucination. I am the first person in the history of mankind to compare Tom Petty to the German experimental rock band CAN. He kind of looks like my middle school math teacher on the album cover. A female math teacher, I might add.

An absolutely batshit insane experience. Reminded me a bit of "The Pod" by Ween (Turns out this is actually one of Deaner's favorite bands, so that makes sense!). Noise rock has always been a fascinating genre to me, in a "should I seek medical attention for enjoying this?" kind of way. So yeah, pretty good. Strong 3/5.

It was alright. I'm only slightly familiar with Iron Maiden, so I always thought they were a bit heavier. The album cover is hilarious though. It was probably cool in the 80s, but now I look at it and I think that the creature is something that would chase Shaggy and Scooby only to slip on a banana peel and fall into a fridge, comically turning into a big ice cube, just in time for Velma to identify the rambunctious rascal as Jeff Jungly, the lovable goof that the gang met outside the haunted hotel, posing as a donut-loving security guard. Fred takes out a large hair dryer and melts the ice around the evil scoundrel's face, as Jeff Jungly utters his famous line: "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" The episode ends with Scooby's iconic "rehehehe" laugh. So in summary, this album is a 3/5.

Ignoring the huge influence this had on music and culture in general, this is not really that enjoyable today. It's from the 50s so of course it hasn't aged the best. I don't want to give it any pity points for being super old or something - just completely going off my enjoyment, it's a 2/5. Some songs were fine. "Tutti Frutti" was probably my favorite if I had to pick one.

I'm sorry, but nah. This album activates my fight-or-flight response.

Disraeli rocks. Some of the best 60s psychedelic rock I've heard so far and that's a big compliment because Jesus Christ, there's a lot of that on this list. "Sunshine Of Your Love" is an undisputed classic, same with "Strange Brew". The second half is a bit weaker and "Mother's Lament" is completely pointless, but still a very solid record over all. Obligatory "Fuck Eric Clapton" though.

As it turns out, this is great music to listen to while playing Risk of Rain 2. Those French robots sure know how to make some catchy beats! They also sure know how to make the worst song ever created ("Rock'n Roll")! I say that with love, because the three duds on this album (that song, "Teachers" and "Oh Yeah") are so bad that they're funny as fuck, and I enjoy that. "Da Funk" is super funky, "Around The World" is my sleep paralysis demon and "Burnin'" was playing while I won the aforementioned game of Risk of Rain 2, and I couldn't have done it without that. It's a crime that "Discovery" isn't on this list as well, by the way. That album knocks this one out of the park. (Insert a whole paragraph of "Around the World" here)

I had no idea this album was so soft. Almost.. too soft. Meh. Enjoyed "The Slider" more.

This felt like listening to a playlist on shuffle. A nice mix of some of the best and some of the worst songs ever created. Eno's music always gives me vibes like I should be listening to it in one of those sensory deprivation tanks to get the full experience, because I kind of have trouble focusing on the more ambient tracks.

I appreciate the fact that the harmonica isn't on EVERY song, Bob you fucking crusty-lipped dickhead. This is a hard album to rate, because I have to take many factors into consideration, both good and bad. The singing, the lyrics, the rusty ass harmonica, the headache I had once the album ended (something about causation and correlation, no clue) and also Bob's magnificent hair. I usually really don't like folk rock, but songs like "Visions of Johanna", "Stuck Inside Of Mobile" and "Just Like A Woman" tickle me fancy. On the other hand, there's also shit like "Pledging My Time", which is the world's first noise rock song. Imitating the sound of the white bellbird usually does not make for good music, Robert.

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I wish more songs on this album sounded like that final song - something like gothic Talking Heads. The rest of the album is very generic punky new wave. Not bad, but there's so many better albums in that genre.

I keep forgetting Neil Young is a real guy. He's the most forgettable "big artist" I can think of. This music just isn't my cup of tea. A mix of folk, blues and country - three genres I don't particularly care for. The title track was pretty good though. Also notice how he looks like a lion monster on the album cover. Look at the area under his nose and above his mouth. There is no way this guy is human. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

"Ooo wee ooo I look just like Rivers Cuomo. In 2020, a virus known as COVID-19 will cause a global pandemic" - Buddy Holly, 1957 How did he know? Who took a bite out of the second guy's haircut? So many questions! The music is good though. I've been really harsh on these 50s albums - this is probably my favorite one so far. "Oh Boy!" is a classic.

A cool part of hip hop history, but saying that this hasn't aged the best is an understatement. The beats don't really hold up and some of the songs go on for way too long ("Wake Up" is the biggest offender, god damn that one got very annoying very fast). It's still pretty fun though. Just two guys being dudes.

This was extremely cool for about 10 minutes, then it started getting kind of old, then I looked and saw I was still in the middle of the second song with about an hour and 2 minutes left to go. Around the fourth song, everything started turning into a blur of African singing and drumming with nothing that could keep my ADHD-ridden brain focused.. and there were still about 50 minutes of music left. The whole stretch from "Salminam" to "Kettodee" is blank in my brain. It does pick itself back up after that though - "Ko Wone Mayo" was probably my favorite song on the album. I respect the fuck out of this album though, despite everything I said. This deserves to be on a list like this way more than "Robert Dimery threw a dart into a pile of britpop albums he found in a dumpster behind his local music store, so let's add the one it landed on into the book"

The production on this is actual black magic. This sounds like it came out yesterday. At first I thought this was pretty standard and inoffensive music, but after listening to it again.. yeah, it's really good. The vocals, drumming, saxophone and everything work so well together. Also this is easily in the Top 5 best album covers. No question.

"Drive My Car", "Norwegian Wood", "Michelle", "In My Life"? Come on. This is on par with Revolver and Sgt Pepper and I will not be taking questions. Rango "Sir Richard Starkley MBE" Starr yet again proves to be the best and most talented Beatle with some amazing cowbell playing on "In My Life". Peace and love, peace and love. I'm warning you with peace and love! 😎✌️🌟❤️🎶🎶🍒🥦👍🌈☮️

Y'all would give an album of somebody throwing pianos down stairs for an hour a global rating of 3.3 if it was released in the 50s and had some dapper looking gentlemen on the cover. And yet "Germ Free Adolescents" sits at a 2.97 global rating. We truly live in a society. Actually, I like Trout Mask Replica so I can't complain too much. Enjoy whatever. It's a free country. 1/5 from me.

Committing arson would have been a better way to spend my time than making myself listen to this garbage for 2 hours.

It sure is Nirvana. I think Nevermind is more consistent, since there are a few meh tracks on this album (most notably "Tourette's") while the worst Nevermind song is probably still in the Top 30 best grunge songs of all time. Strooong 4/5.

Makes me feel middle-aged, but in a cool way. I think I like this slightly more than Aja, but still prefer Pretzel Logic although I gotta say that "Do It Again" might be the best Steely Dan song I've heard so far. Album cover is a big "graphic design is my passion" moment.

I like the overall vibe of this. It really sounds like orange music. Like music you would listen to while sipping on a Fanta in a pure orange room. It's a bit too long and bloated though. Songs like "Pyramids" are awesome, but there's also a lot of fairly boring, long songs that overstay their welcome.

One of the best vocal performances of all time, just wish there were more big hits like "Four Women" and "Lilac Wine" because the slower songs weren't really my jam. Strong 3/5.

In this album, Morrissey asks the brave question "What if the Smiths were boring?" Nice one Steven, you fucking dickhead. The singles are genuinely good ("Everyday is Like Sunday" and "Suedehead") but this is, without a doubt, not an essential album. Just listen to the Smiths - all four albums are miles better than this. 9 hours later update: The Queen is dead, holy shit. On the day I get a Morrissey album. This is your fault, 1001 Albums Generator.

Oh, I love Cuphead. Good day for a swell battle! Turns out that the only time I can enjoy jazz is if I can imagine a rubber hose animation dancing to it. Wow, okay. I actually really liked this. Made me feel many things: Like I'm in a Tom and Jerry chase sequence, a cooking montage and a video game boss fight at the same time.

Music that could kill a Victorian era child.

What the hell is this, man. Just listen to Nico's "Desertshore" if you want sorta-gothic avantgarde German music. How did the guy making this list even dig something like this up? It kind of has a weird charm I guess. Songs like "The Case Continues" and "Split" were sort of nice, but the longer it went on, the more I was filled with an unbridled rage, and that final 10 minute long track felt like a time warlock's curse. I'm not saying I hated this, I'm just never going to think about this album's existence ever again.

I have officially ran out of things to say about 50s albums and I won't pretend to enjoy this in an attempt to appear more cultured or something. It's just kind of boring, right?

Well that was painful. I thought this was unlistenably dull and boring. For a 28 minute album, it sure felt like being trapped in a time vortex for 60 years. Hopefully there's not too many country albums left on this list. Does anybody outside 'Murica even enjoy this genre?

I didn't hate it and it maybe even kind of won me over by the end, but this is another one of those "random albums to add onto the list because we ran out of ideas". Inoffensive, pretty good even, but not an essential listen. The album cover is really cool though. Made me think this was going to be artsier.

Thank you Tim Buckley. When I think "folk", this is exactly what I think of. Guy's like a little bard with an oversized hat that follows our chivalrous knight into the dragon's den. You can call it kitschy, I call it fuckin' art. "Pleasant Street" blew my socks off. His vocal range is insane and his songs give various buffs to his party members. Screw it, 5/5. Any album that thaws my black emotionless heart deserves such a rating.

I've always thought this album was just kind of good but nothing special, but then I had a big Bowie binge back in May where I listened to most of his discography and I left with a newfound respect for the man that I previously never had. Yeah, it's a classic and I'm a fool for not realizing it sooner! "Five Years", "Moonage Daydream", "Starman", "Ziggy Stardust", "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" - the Bowster was on fire. I apologize for calling him the Bowster, alas my backspace key is broken. I also want to lay down some facts. This is a concept album about a singer who becomes famous and overdoses on his own ego. On the cover, we see Bowie standing under a sign that says "K. West". The first track on this album is called "Five Years". You want to know what happened 5 years, almost to the day, after this album was released? Kanye West was born. I rest my case, your honor.

Who put all this yeehaw into my punk rock. Get that shit out and put more soul into those vocals. I've heard gospel with more edge than this.

I really liked the first half of this album. It's super catchy and funky. Sadly, yet again, this is way too long. I don't know what's with rappers and their need to make albums that are 70+ minutes long. It loses focus near the halfway point and the last few songs are just kind of forgettable. 3/5. Cut out some songs and it's a 5/5.

Makes me feel like that guy with balls in his mouth on the cover. Why are these British gentlemen singing about Virginias, owning slaves, doing the yeehaws and putting lipstick on the pig. I don't know what that last one means, I just searched "stupid American slang".

Slaps, not gonna lie. I really liked all the variety on this, even if some songs (like that first one) fell kind of flat. Thank you, gay Thom Yorke.

Second album from this band. I liked "Infected" way more. It was catchier and less "every 80s trope put together". Still pretty cool, but I don't see myself returning to it in the near future.

Ethereal. Makes me feel like I'm floating on clouds, maaaaaan. "Dear God" is one of the best songs of all time. So good in fact, that it has a two paragraph long "Controversy" section on Wikipedia - that's how you know a song is bangin'.

Basically a collection of B sides, but a collection of B sides from one of the best albums of all time so you can't be too flabbergasted by its inclusion on the list, I guess. Not my favorite Radiohead album, but songs like "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out" are among the band's best. Then you have the song "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" though, which could very well be the worst song ever created in the history of mankind. Four outta five.

People who say that Portuguese sounds Slavic were right. I'm Slavic myself, and this felt like listening to a bizarro version of my language. It was cool at first, but I was so fucking done with it by the fifth song and then it just kept going and going. I assume that understanding the lyrics would make this better, but then again, I barely pay attention to lyrics anyways.

How many live albums are on this list? The songs are good, but what's the point of listening to music in worse audio quality with people yelling in between songs? I was content with the 40 minute version of the album. If that one 240 minute long version was the official one, I think I would have shot myself - no one man should have all that Who.

Too funky. I can't take this much funk at this hour of the lord. Listening to funk while you have a cold is just rubbing it in. Sorry man, I can't funk, I'm dyin' over here. Maybe next time.

Oh wow, world music.. I wonder what country this is from... oh, England. I wonder if the singer has some African roots, maybe Jamaican? Latin American?... oh, no he doesn't. As white as clapping when an airplane lands. Mate was with the Sex Pistols, even. Ever heard of Vantablack? Well this dude, Jah Wobble, appears to be the complete opposite of it. Of course, I am merely joking, jesting, pulling your leg even. The music is good. I like the variety - every song sounded wildly different. There's funkier songs, then there's stuff that sounds like post-punk. Solid strong 3/5.

It's a classic. Great album, one of the very few double albums that manage to be entertaining all the way through. I'm not the biggest fan of the reggae-ska-whatever songs, like "Jimmy Jazz" and "Wrong 'Em Boyo", but then you have songs like "London Calling" and "Train in Vain" which are some of the best and most influential songs in punk history. Essential listen, not exactly a 5/5, but really damn close.

My kind of music! I'm an absolute slut for both shoegaze/dream pop and goth. Love the ethereal vibes, angelic voice and nonsensical lyrics (or is it Scottish?). I have no idea why I never bothered to check out Cocteau Twins before. Incredible. People who don't like this are weak. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Gonna be honest, this album made me feel absolutely nothing. I have no connection to Bruce Springsteen. He's a completely unknown figure in my part of the world and prior to this, the only music of his I've heard was his "Nebraska" album, courtesy of this generator (and I hated that one, by the way. One of my 1/5s).

I heard the word cock in one of the songs and that snapped me awake in the middle of this strange-ass snoozefest that was probably procedurally generated by an AI. So damn weird. It's like seven different albums mashed into eachother.

I like Peter Gabriel. He's such a little musical gremlin making music for small toadstool-dwelling gnomes. I'm basically saying that if Papa Smurf was real, he would listen to Peter Gabriel. Cool mix of pop and prog rock. I'm a fan. Going to blow smoke rings from my comically oversized pipe now.

It's cool but I really didn't need to hear Biggie getting his dick sucked. Fellatio doesn't make for the best musical experience in my honest opinion - it's kind of droopy, drizzly, maybe a tinge yoinky, too sploinky and icky, truly hacky, smacky, very acky, creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky and all together ooky. Oh yeah the music. It's pretty good. Not my favorite rap album or anything, but Biggie is an undeniable legend in the genre. Strong three out of five.

I have mixed thoughts on Björk (Vespertine is great though). This album was kind of all over the place - good songs, forgettable songs, goofy songs.. for something that only lasts 30 minutes, that's pretty impressive.

Struggling to come up with a less essential album than this. Imagine being 95 years old and listening to this on your death bed. I'm pretty sure you would melt like the guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

British They Might Be Giants for people who somehow have even less sex. Yeah, I like it. The ranking still stands: Suede > Blur > Pulp > Oasis

Music from the fucking upside down dimension or something. Tom Waits is a scary individual, wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley. There's a lot of good songs in here - "Clap Hands" is great because it sounds like Breaking Bad music. "Downtown Train" is like Bob Dylan if he was good. Nevertheless, I found myself exhausted by the end. While not a particularly long album, it's 19 songs long (a lot of songs - more than 6 songs, for example) and a big chunk of it didn't stick in my brain at all. I'll probably return to this.. needs about two or three more listens, but a strong 3/5 for now.

I really wasn't expecting to hear funky ska from that album cover. I don't know if this really works as an album, but it's a cool-enough collection of tunes ranging from the aforementioned ska and funk to glam metal and punk. Maybe just focus on one thing though, boys. Take some adderall.

It's ABBA, I don't need to write four paragraphs about ABBA because people are born into this world with the innate knowledge of this band and the lyrics of at least 3 of their songs. Huge hits ("Dancing Queen" and "Money Money Money" of course), the less known songs are good as well, even listened to the two bonus tracks ("Fernando" is another classic, "Happy Hawaii" is fine I guess). Gotta be a 4/5, and not just because my own mother and girl friend would kill me for giving this anything lower, but also because it's really damn good music. Fourth paragraph.

That sure was White Blood Cells by The White Stripes. I'll just stick to "Seven Nation Army", thanks.

Literally 1984. Hair metal is just Gen X's version of nu metal - cool at the time, mostly completely embarrassing today, some people still swear it aged well. Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, KISS.. who the hell cares dude. Eddie was an insanely talented guitarist though, can't deny that. Should have played better songs, sorry.

A true endurance run that has aged like milk. What the hell is "All in the Family"? A contestant for the title of the worst song ever made, I guess. Fred Durst is like King Midas, except instead of turning shit to gold, he turns gold to shit. Not to imply this album would be gold without Durst. Two out of five because there are still some undeniably good songs here - "Freak on a Leash" especially. My favorite part was when they used the goofy-ass Final Fantasy IX Black Mage Village "hoo" MIDI instrument in the song "Children of the Korn".

Great fun. This album sounds exactly like how it felt to be an angsty teenager in the 90s. "Basket Case" and "Welcome to Paradise" are bangers, of course.

For a band that apparently makes indie rock, this feels like the most calculated, by-the-books art rock album you could make. It's like they went on Youtube and watched a 30 minute tutorial on "How to make an art rock album (not clickbait)". It's all very safe and I didn't hear any new, cool ideas that would warrant putting this on the list. I really liked "One Day Like This", even despite them unironically using the phrase "Holy cow" in an otherwise emotional song. Imagine that your lover makes a song about you and includes the lyric "Gadzooks! I am enchanted by your looks!"

Reminds me of Cocteau Twins and I'm a big fan of this genre in general. Dreamy, chill.. a great album to listen to on a cold and rainy Saturday morning. "Happiness" was beautiful. One of the best new songs I've found through this so far (300 albums in, time flies dude!)

'SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY! WOOOO Oh and there's 10 more songs on this album that I have almost no recollection of. "Third Stone From The Sun" had a kick-ass instrumental, I'll give it that. I like Jimi Hendrix when we fully embraces that he's the best guitar player in history and goes full ham (so the entirety of Electric Ladyland). This album mostly seemed kind of empty. Probably just me.

Wait, this is actually really good. I wasn't expecting that because I've listened to about 4 Neil Young-related albums so far and disliked all of them. But nah, this album is a load of fun with some big and catchy hits. A cool surprise.

The musical equivalent of licking doorknobs.

The more I listen to Sonic Youth, the more I don't understand what Sonic Youth is. Are they a band? Is this all just a figment of my imagination? Did the Moon landing happen or was it all just gremlinoid CGI? Some songs on this album sound like Slowdive's Souvlaki, some remind me of crazy-ass post rock like GY!BE or Swans (Sidenote, I'm not a big fan of post-rock, but there's a serious lack of it on this list in general.. like, not even "Soundtracks for the Blind", really?) and then there's some random pop punk songs thrown in for good measure. It's crazy, it's kooky, dare I say it, it even may be a little bit bonkers. Four stars out of five. One star for each gremlin.

This is ADVANCED elevator music. This is elevator music for that elevator that takes you to the elevator dimension, where people speak in riddles and the sky is green and it rains sideways. Just to be clear, those are words of praise.

You can't open an album with your biggest hit straight out the gate because then it's just all downhill from there. And this is one big-ass hill. 76 minutes of the most boring, radio-friendly pop imaginable. Uh.. they're better than Oasis at least. Man's got big boots. Look at those boots.

Funkadelic is Pink Floyd for people who are really tired of the fact that Pink Floyd has only like two songs you can actually dance to. I know it's the most divisive track on the album, but I absolutely love "Wars of Armageddon". It's such an absolute trainwreck of a song, that only a genius could have pulled it off. Singing "Power of the pussy" followed by a solid minute of fart sound effects? Genius. Without a single shred of irony. The title track "Maggot Brain" is crazy as well. That guitar solo could bring a skeleton back to life. That being said, I'm not the biggest fan of songs 2 through 6, they're clearly very well made but just not for me. Lacking in the fart sound effect department.

If someone came to my room while I was listening to this album, I'd just switch to porn because that would be easier to explain. Bad music! The Goblin King awakens from his slumber!

I prefer The Prodigy, but this still bangs though. Some big beats, some chill beats, some nasty evil beats. One beat, two beat, red beat, blue beat. I'm drunk again, dude. I don't know what I'm saying. It's a good album and let's leave it at that.

I like it, but it's nothing groundbreaking or anything. Just some cool glam-ish rock that sort of sounds like Talking Heads but with a slightly less annoying vocalist (sorry David Byrne).

Wow, two albums for the price of one. What a steal. I envy people who can somehow focus on a 2+ hour long album without having it turn into a mush of background noise. André 3000's "The Love Below" was generally more of my cup of tea, but even then.. the final 6 tracks or so were just an endurance test. Remember in school when we would all think "Ah, 30 more minutes of class left.. just gotta get through 10 minutes three times. I can do that" This album is the musical form of that. Speakerboxxx: 2/5 The Love Below: 3/5 Together as a front-to-back album experience, I'll stick with a 2/5.

I'm 311 albums in at this point and this has to be the blandest thing I've ever heard. I have absolutely nothing to say about it. I don't even know if this is a real album or just a figment of my imagination.

Too long, dated lyrics, but still a load of fun. Put me in such a good mood in the morning, honestly. The first few tracks are unmatched with my favorite song being FUCK THA POLICE STRAIGHT FROM THE UNDERGROUND - man these young gentlemen sure have a way with words.

Classic. One of post-punk's greats. Like Wire but catchier and funkier. Also, I've never heard anyone pronounce migraine as "mee-grain". Might have to give this a 1/5 because of that. Smh

This is an album that can put even the most heartless scumbag (me) in a good mood. It's magic. It's what Queen tried so hard to be. Wish it was less bloated though. The first half is much better than the second one (excluding "Mr Blue Sky" of course) with its crazy over-the-top theatrics and mixing of various genres. It truly sounds like something they would play in a space orchestra.

(Happy Halloween) You put da lime in da coconut. Don't care. It's boring and I didn't win the Binding of Isaac run I was doing while this was playing in the background. More like Nilsson Smellshit. Ha. Great album commentary as usual. On a more serious note: I don't know about this one. Nothing caught my attention here except for the "Coconut" song, which is a delightful level of stupid that I'm a sucker for. I don't even get the Beatles comparisons.. just because it's pop from the late 60s - early 70s doesn't immediately make this guy the "American Beatles". Also as a sidenote: I wish I got something spookier for Halloween. Y'know? Give me "Tinderbox" by Siouxsie & The Banshees, any Joy Division album.. Or Crazy Frog's 2009 cult-classic "Everybody Dance Now". Now that's a terrifying one.

Boring, sorry. This genre is the epitome of background music for me. I couldn't focus on it even if you locked me in one of those sensory deprivation tanks.

It insists upon itself.

A Hip Hop album that's under an hour long?! I am immediately erect. Cheesy, but a good kind of cheese. The fun and funky fresh kind. I enjoyed most of the tracks here, especially the title track. I also liked the complete curveball that "Scorpio" was.

This is not just dad rock. This is advanced dad rock. This is father stone. It's not bad or anything, but I can feel my beer belly growing as I slowly morph into a British guy called Barry (age 63) while listening to this. "Layla" and "Bell Bottom Blues" are the clear winners here. A lot of this album is dedicated to Eric Clapton jerking himself off with a guitar, and while that can sound fantastic in short bursts, it kind of gets old after a while. And let's not even mention the backstory of this one. Imagine your best friend makes an hour long album about how much he wants to fuck your wife. Clapton's kind of a dickhead, isn't he?

A completely generic pop album, but with brand recognition. It's good music, but nobody would care about it if it was released by "The Pimples" or something. Do not visit Ringo Starr's Twitter page! The man keeps posting his 80-year old feet!

I agree with the top review. Stevie Wonder's real name truly is Stevland Morris.

Man's got some tunes in him. This is not my kind of genre or anything, but I found it to be pretty chill background music to study to. Nothing to complain about, but nothing to write home about either. The perfect 3/5 in my book.

It's no "Ride The Lightning" or "Master Of Puppets", but it's still in the better half of Metallica albums. Sad that's it only downhill from here. "Enter Sandman", "Sad But True", "The Unforgiven" and "Nothing Else Matters" though? Can't go wrong with that. Big hits. Large hits, even. Overrated yet overhated at the same time. Four outta five.

Elvis? More like Pelvis, because this album is ass. Sorry bozo, don't like the music plus banana sandwiches aren't even that good.

Thought the singer was a Japanese woman, but it's just some guy California! Fooled me, the dude has a very unique voice and he uses it well. I remember liking the first two and last two tracks a lot, but the middle is kind of muddy. I'll probably listen to this again when I'm in the correct mood. Strong 3 out of five.

Here's my extended thoughts on this album. Can't fit them all into text, might crash the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKuhv9OKN4I

Opens with "Gimme Shelter", so immediately we have a case of blowing your load way too soon, as no song could ever hold a candle to that one. Easily the best song on the album and probably the entire Stones discography. The Stones then decide that making weird faux-country bullshit would be more commercially successful in the US, so their manager got Mick Jagger, well known for never stepping foot in a 30 meter radius of a cow, to put on a cowboy hat and pretends he's a yeehaw gunslinger rootin-tootin' American or something. My source for the previous paragraph is that I made everything up. I don't know jack shit about this band. I didn't even know Jagger was the vocalist until today. Thought he played bass. Three out of five.

Love this guy so much. Talented, charismatic, genuine and incredibly funny. I don't like country at all, but I could listen to Johnny Cash singing and asking for water for an entire day without it getting stale. Let the man say "son of a bitch" though! No need for those ear-piercing bleeps. One of the best live albums of all time. Only slightly below "At Folsom Prison" for me. Gotta be a 5/5.

It's like if you put Bob Dylan in a blender. I don't like Bob Dylan, but Dob Bylan right here has some nice production (and no harmonica) at least. First three songs were lovely, then it all got kind of samey and went on for far too long. I also really like the album cover. Gives me Dog Man Star vibes. I wish the music gave me those vibes as well, because you can never go wrong with some Dog Man Star vibes.

Sure, why not. It's pretty fun. I don't have anything to say about this one.

This sounds nothing like Suede or Richey era Manic Street Preachers. The other reviews and Spotify description got me excited for nothing. It's just some completely unremarkable and boring britpop record with the most unenthusiastic singer I've ever heard. Doesn't hold a candle to Brett Anderson's vocals.

These guys have to learn that singing about greedy goblins stealing your gold stash is way more interesting than whining about leaving your girlfriend back in Tennessee or some shit. What I'm trying to say is, that this is boring and goes on for an insanely long time. Almost 80 minutes with next to no diversity. Pain.

Unpopular opinion, but I always thought that Billy Corgan's kind of a horrible lead singer. He's got that "yelling, but also trying to not wake your mom up" voice going on. Also he's an asshole but that's neither here nor there. The big songs like "Cherub Rock" and "Disarm" are great, but there's also a lot of bloat (but I guess that's part of the Pumpkins brand, ain't that right Mellon Collie). I like how shoegazey the production is. Works very well with the fact that Corgan should have his microphone taken away from him.

Queen is the kind of band you put on while eating grilled cheese.

Trash music, trash person. You can't end a song with a fade out harmonica and then immediately open the next song with a fade in harmonica. That's like album sequencing 101, bozo. This is the third faux-Bob Dylan album I've had this week and I don't know how many I have left in me, especially since all of them were at least 50 minutes long. Best song was the argument concerning Morrissey. One outta five = get outta here.

Classic. Very enjoyable, maybe a bit too long. Sorry I am currently running away from a bear and can't elaborate.

That was awesome. It's noisy, sludgy, gloopy and yucky. It's like somebody took a regular grunge band, trapped them in a steel shack in the middle of the desert and recorded them through a Speak&Spell toy. The musical equivalent of CCTV footage.

My cerebral cortex has been properly tickled. A very nice listening experience. Just when I've been getting kind of tired of falling asleep to either "Souvlaki" or "Heaven or Las Vegas" every night! A fine addition to my Sleepyhead playlist.

"Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" is so good that I can almost forgive the other songs for being so forgettable.

Daily Neil Young Fun Fact #837: While the "Neil" part of his name might be true, he's actually quite old (not visible on the cover) Daily Crazy Horse Fun Fact #489: While the "Crazy" part of his name might be true, he's actually a dog (blatantly visible on the cover) Daily Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere #035: Contrary to the title of the album, it was actually recorded "somewhere", as recording an album "nowhere" proved to be too difficult, especially after Neil Young's guitar pick got stolen by the Interdimensional Terror Lord X'nthp'thurgh. Also the music sucks. Put it back on Spotify, Neil. The jig is up. 2/5

The Kinks don't miss.

Now this is a blast from the past. This was one of the first albums I ever listened to and I'm happy to report that it stills rocks. I've heard these songs more times than the amount of oppressed minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Especially the big hits like "Take Me Out", "Jacqueline", "This Fire" and "The Dark of the Matinée". Great album to listen to on a trip to Sarajevo.

This is boring as hell. I get why people like it, but I don't listen to this genre in general because I'm an emotionless bastard. Maybe it'll click one day. 2/5 because I like the cat on the cover.

I've heard this like 3 times now and I just think it's worse Can. The generator is just teasing me. I know Tago Mago is on the list - I haven't given a 5/5 in a long time! Give me Can so I can listen to the superior hour-long album of German people summoning demons and speaking in fart sound effects. Germany's got some of the coolest music ever, man. When you think "American music" you think of your typical yeehaws and Alabamas. When you think "British music" you think of the Beatles. When you think "German music" you think you're going to need an exorcist. My point here is that more American bands should put dead fetuses on their album covers.

I liked when it got spooky. More of a Portishead guy myself, but this was very solid. Is that Nardwuar on the cover?

Musical perfection. I have no funny quip for this one, it's just genuinely one of the best albums of all time.

Pixies don't sound the same once you learn that their lead singer is a fat balding man with the fashion sense of a guy who sells corn on the cob behind your local Tesco. Sorry that was mean. You gotta admit that he's up there with some of the least "lead singery"-looking lead singers of all time though. Kind of all over the place. Pixies' production never really clicked with me. It sounds like these songs were recorded inside a whale's stomach or something. It's pretty jarring. "Where Is My Mind" is a masterpiece though.

The man did it. He finally learned how to properly mix an album so your ears don't immediately explode the very second he starts blowing into a harmonica. I can finally listen to a Bob Dylan album without having to constantly fumble with the volume controls (except for the final song, god damn it Bob). "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Ballad Of A Thin Man"? Bangers. Sorry for doubting you, Robert.

Throbbing Gristle is funny as hell. Oooo look at this ART. Do you see how ARTSY we are? Let's mumble incoherent nonsense over a track of somebody having sex with a tuning fork - truly the MODERN Mona Lisa. Let's dedicate a track to a young kid speaking about god knows what for 4 minutes because that's what BEETHOVEN did. Man, fuck these guys. ... Strong 3/5. Has some cool ideas, I'll definitely return to this one in the future.

I'm not a swingin' lover. I'm an underachieving college student.

This is absolutely an album that exists. They sure played their instruments. There were lyrics as well I think. Can't remember, but I'm sure they were about some deep stuff like how their balls hang or something.

Frankie should rather go to the "Learn When To End An Album Academy", because this shit refuses to wrap up. You could cut out 90% of this album and it would improve as an experience. The first four or so tracks were great, then it kept going and going and I just couldn't make myself care.

Goes incredibly hard. The best 90s punk album - Dookie can eat a dick. Too bad it's the only good Offspring album. I have to give this a 5/5 or else "The Skeleton" shall deem me unworthy of my skin.

A mixed bag. I liked the catchy beats, but I wasn't a fan of the weird wannabe David Byrne vocals. LCD Soundsystem is such a fake band name though. If you fed every single thought of humanity into an AI and asked it to spit out a band name, that's what it would come up with and then enslave you to create weird ass Talking Heads electronic beats to fulfill its sick and twisted robot fantasies. You know how words like "Velcro" and "Band-Aid" are actually copyrighted brand names but nobody even knows the actual generic terms for these objects so we just substitute the brand names? That's what LCD Soundsystem sounds to the concept of music itself. Fake music. Who is the lead singer of LCD Soundsystem? Bet you don't know. I don't know either. Why? Because he never existed. This is all just a figment of your imagination and you, the person currently reading this review for "Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem", has been in a coma for the past 7 years and need to wake up. - "Oh what are you listening to?" - "I AM CATCHING THE SOUNDWAVES OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, FELLOW HUMAN" - "God damn it, Carl" Sorry forgot my meds. I just wrote that previous paragraph in a stream of consciousness. Not even gonna spellcheck. Call me Ulysses or whatever. So in conclusion, this is a weak 3/5.

Nope, still flaccid. Sorry Muddy Waters.

The Cure is so good, man. This album is dark, gloomy, atmospheric, but not as "evil" as Pornography. It's like the musical equivalent of a horror film. "The Forest" might be their best song of all time, or at the very least in the top 3.

What a bunch of nothing. How can you have a 60 minute long album without a single cool or interesting idea? All the songs sound like loading screen music and, most definitely, do not include any primal screams. Seriously, this shit is softer than a baby's kneecaps. I like the album cover though. It's such a silly little guy.

I mean, I don't ~fully~ get the hype, but it's still beautiful and magical. She put her entire Bjöobs, Bjüssy and Bjëart into these songs, so you go girl. Don't listen to the haters - keep singing about tiny mushroom elves lighting campfires inside your vagina or whatever. Best song's either "Hidden Place" or "Pagan Poetry".

I don't know how many random British punk albums from the late 70s - early 80s I have left in me. At least it wasn't a live album and the album cover is pretty cool. These guys made 31 albums and 3 of them are on this list? I respect the grind. I'm sure one of them is good.

Copy-pasting yesterday's review because it's still relevant: I don't know how many random British punk albums from the late 70s - early 80s I have left in me. Nothing grabbed me and I will sleep soundly at night knowing that I can't recall a single song, lyric or word spoken in The Jam's "Sound Affects".

Motörhead can only make one song, but it's a good song so who cares. Look at these guys, dressed as cowboy bikers (or biker cowboys), they are cooler than you and they know it.

This album is very long. The Pope is Catholic. It's good music, but my ADHD brain absolutely refuses to pay attention to a single piece of media (music or otherwise) for 2 hours straight. You could cut this album down so much, because it's so insanely bloated that even The White Album is quaking in its boots. The entire second disc is just the first disc again with different lyrics. Good thing the first disc is so great, otherwise this would have been completely unbearable. Quick! Name any lyric from the song "Stumbleine"! Okay what about "The Two Of Us"? ... Jokes on you, that's a Suede song and not on this album! "Tonight, Tonight", "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", "Jellybelly" and "Zero" are the obvious highlights and they're all in the first 20 minutes. Then Billy Corgan rambles about dropping his sandwich into a sewer drain for an hour or something while doing his iconic "yelling but also trying to not wake up your parents" voice and the next big hit is "1979" and you can officially turn the album off, because no new ideas occur after that point. Has anybody ever said that this album is really long before? I feel like an innovator here, truly full of new ideas and funny quips. My body is ready for "69 Love Songs". Lay it on me.

Psychopath music. Ruined my day.

I still stand by the theory that Yes were just making shit up as they went along and they only made great albums through sheer cosmic luck. Kind of like somehow always picking the right answer on a test you didn't study for. That is the only explanation as to why their output is like a random number generator of quality. They're probably the only band that has an album in their catalog for every possible score from 0/10 to 10/10. This particular album is very green. Not their greenest though. 7/10.

To be honest, I've always cared about Elton John's music about as much as the current economic situation of the Marshall Islands. This is a really good album though, so maybe I should look into the Marshall Islands more. As it turns out, 77% of their exports are passenger and cargo ships. Also this is my 365th album. Thanks for a great year! This site really made each day a bit brighter and I look forward to roughly 2 more years of great (or at least interesting) music! :)

It's no "The Holy Bible", but then again.. nothing is. You can't really follow up the greatest album of all time. It's hard to put into words how much that album and Richey Edwards' story speak to me, so I'm not going to. Maybe once the generator spits out The Holy Bible. God damn it, this is a pretty heavy one. You can tell the studio was haunted by the ghost of Richey Edwards. It's like the music is trying its hardest to be triumphant, but the melancholy and bittersweetness keeps seeping in. And despite that, it's not a challenging listen. You could give this to a random guy on the street and he would be like "Huh this is a pretty good britpop album". I'm gonna give this a 5/5, but if we expanded the scale, then this is like an 8.5/10 and the Holy Bible is a 10/10.

Pretty good, honestly. Chill morning album but not something I would ever listen to in my spare time.

"If you study the picture carefully, Meg and I are elephant ears in a head-on elephant. But it's a side view of an elephant, too, with the tusks leading off either side." - Jack White This guy was smoking some fucking insane kush, because I've been staring at the cover for the past 30 minutes and I don't see anything that even slightly resembles an elephant. I'm not a fan of The White Stripes. Their only good song is "Seven Nation Army" and putting it as the first song of the album only meant that it was downhill all the way.

Merry Christmas! This was a surprisingly really fitting album for this day. It was a very nice, chill experience. Willie Nelson's one of the few country artists that I can listen to. One of the best cover albums of all time - also coincidentally one of the best album covers of all time. Funny how that works out. I'm a master wordsmith.

A clusterfuck of some true bangers and the worst songs you've ever heard in your life. Synchronicity I & II are great fun, probably the best two songs on the album. There's also "Every Breath You Take", which is also fantastic but I can't take it seriously anymore. "Mother" definitely exists. It somehow manages to be the stupidest song on an album with a song dedicated to dinosaurs. "Hey, mighty brontosaurus, don't you have a lesson for us?" is an actual lyric on this album that they wanted you to take seriously. Sounds like some Blue's Clues shit. Sting was 32 years old when he wrote that.

This is honestly up there with "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" for me. I absolutely love the stupid goblin music aesthetic (you know exactly what I'm talking about) and this album gives me so much joy. I like how the songs are blatantly and unashamedly about stupid shit. "Lucifer Sam" is about Syd's cat. People in the 60s thought it was a metaphor for cheating or something, but then Syd literally just said "No, it's about how cool my cat is". "The Gnome" is about a gnome and how cool it is to be a gnome. "Scarecrow" is about a scarecrow and how cool it is to be a scarecrow. "Bike" is about a bike and how cool it is to ride a bike and about a mice named Gerald. Don't look into the lyrics because every "analysis" of this album is wrong. This album is about Syd Barrett writing about things he finds cool. There's no deep message about the plights of humanity and the gnome is not a metaphor for Jesus. Just enjoy the man's lovely voice and the psychedelic effects. Also I can't not mention "Interstellar Overdrive". What a song. Listen to it with headphones - that finale is probably how it would feel to have an eargasm if ears could have orgasms. Roger Waters looks like a horse.

Fun, but didn't really hold my attention. Something to come back to later, probably. 3/5 for now.

Wow this was pretty damn cool. I did not expect the man to throw in a flamenco guitar into a jazz medley, but he pulled it off very well. I still lack any understanding of jazz music - if you utter the word "polyrhythmic" in my house, I am calling the exorcist - but this was one of the few jazz albums where I just sat back and genuinely enjoyed the experience.

Load of nothing. This is like the uncanny valley of music. I still fail to grasp how blowing random notes into a trumpet for 40 minutes is high art. Why yes, I am proud of being ignorant. This is a Charles Mingus household.

If you don't like this album, the crabs will find you. To say "this music goes hard" would be an understatement, because I don't think anything has ever gone or will ever go "harder" than this. This is the hardest shit ever. Nintendo Ninja Turtles hard. Insert dick joke here.

I've heard a grand total of one Madonna album and I gotta say, this was definitely the best one so far. 3/5 - more enjoyable than I thought it would be, but I'm probably never going to listen to this entire album ever again, unless my life would depend on it, at which point I'd say "What a contrived situation I've gotten myself into!".

How much fucking Country is on this list.

I don't know what this genre is - "guy talking about how his wife left him while strumming two chords but occasionally the entire orchestra starts playing behind him" - but I'm so done with it at the moment. After this album ended, I was probably hit by one of those Men In Black memory wipe devices, because I can't recall a single song. I think he sounded kind of like an even more pretentious Michael Gira in one.

Irritating. I can't listen to Devo without getting irrationally angry (this type of music just awakens some primal rage inside of me), so listening to Devo: Deluxe Edition over here is not something I enjoyed very much. I will now proceed to live the rest of my life without ever thinking about this album's existence for even a second.

This was very cool. My favorite part was when the official Spotify lyrics said [Incomprehensible].

Kate Bush does a very good impression of Adam Sandler doing a horrible old person impression. My opinion on this is the same as my opinion on Björk - I get it, I even like it, but one of the best of all time? Ehhh... "Sat In Your Lap" and "Night Of The Swallow" are clearly the best songs here. Not even close.

This is my go-to sleep album along with "Souvlaki" by Slowdive. It makes me feel like I'm levitating. Absolute ethereal perfection. Once the last part of "I Wear Your Ring" hits, I'm instantly teleported into the eighth dimension. Ten out of ten, you already know it.

Love me some French Krautrock. Makes me want to furiously organize Excel spreadsheets. That first song was absolutely fantastic. The album kind of lost steam in the second half, but it's not a big deal - still a great experience. I'll definitely return to this. I've also had "Dots and Loops" by this band on my "Music to check out" list for about a year.

I feel like I'm being blasted with subliminal messages. I really don't know what happened during "Suicide", but it was pretty cool. Certainly better than the band it's named after. I'm out of ideas for funny quips, so I'm just going to steal a joke from somebody in the reviews for Kid A: "This album has more drones than the Obama administration". 3/5, one point for each spaceman.

I think the idea of "Androgynous" is really cool, especially for 1984, so it really sucks that I don't like it from a musical perspective. Actually, most of this album is full of "cool ideas" that just don't work on my ears, so I'll leave it at that - 2/5 not for me. Is this truly post-punk though? Seems like just regular punk to me.

Rod Stewart is the most boring guy ever. If you put any old guy with blonde scraggly hair in front of me and told me it's Rod Stewart, I wouldn't even ask any questions. One of the best-selling artists of all time (250 million records sold!), but ask any person on the street to name a Rod Stewart album at gunpoint and 9 times out of 10 they'd tell you to shoot them in the head. He's the type of guy to talk to his wife about "the weather we're having" while eating dry spaghetti. The man's Wikipedia page is longer than the constitution, but when I googled "Rod Stewart fun facts", the first thing that came up was that "He was car-jacked once". Wow. Incredible. 2/5. Better than that fucking god awful Faces album I had about a month ago.

The album cover is probably the first time I've seen Iggy Pop wearing a shirt. A cool little album from a really interesting period in musical history. I'm a big fan of German music and the influences are very clear here. "China Girl" and "Mass Production" were especially fantastic. I really don't like The Stooges, so I was pleasantly surprised by this. Don't do heroin, kids.

Incredibly generic early 60s cover album. I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

God damn it Miles Davis! Does this place look like a fucking coffee shop? What do you mean "Kind Of Blue"? Is this supposed to be "blue" as in "sad"? Am I supposed to feel any emotion while listening to this? Because the only thing I'm thinking about while listening to this is "That guy sure loves to blow into that saxophone" and also "Where's my damn coffee". I used to think that I hate jazz, but then I got into people like Charles Mingus and Frank Zappa (thanks to this site!), and that's when I realized that jazz is a huge genre full of great music, and that I just hate this specific subgenre of boring elevator music made by a random music generator AI that Miles Davis falls into. Throw in some god damn flamenco guitars like a real man, Miles. You will never convince me that this is one of the greatest artistic statements of the 20th century or whatever. Call me ignorant. More like "Kind of Shit", bozo! This is a Charles Mingus household! Next album!

"Movin' Out" and "Vienna" are huge, but I kind of lost interest half way through. I have nothing else to say about this album, so I'll just casually mention that I've never heard the song "Piano Man" before.

Metallica's second best album after "Ride the Lightning" which is excluded from the list for some reason, even though "S&M" is on here! Fuck you Robert Dimery!! This album is nonstop energy - banger after banger. "Battery" is one of the best opening tracks of all time. "Master of Puppets" is a song that I tried to beat on Expert+ difficulty in Beat Saber once and almost died. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" is my personal favorite on the album. The only "meh" song is probably "Leper Messiah", but it's still three times better than any Metallica song post-Black Album.

Badass. For an album with such a shocking backstory, this was a great amount of fun! This is exactly why "The Great Curve" is the best song on Talking Heads' "Remain in Light". Might have to look into African jazz.

The crown jewel of bloated albums. This could have been a great 30-minute album, but good old George decided that not only was a double album not enough, he was gonna do a TRIPLE album. The instrumental jam session is completely devoid of any cool ideas. It's just a random rockabilly jam session... and it takes up an entire disc. He's still the most talented Beatle.

This album asks the brave question "What if Steely Dan sucked ass?" Hotel California is my sleep paralysis demon.

How much Rod Stewart is on this list, and why is every album with the guy from a different band? It took me a few moments to realize that the vocals are not this titular "Jeff Beck" character (rest in peace by the way) and that I was yet again tricked into listening to Rod Stewart. The world's most generic album. This man was cursed by an evil witch and now he has to say the phrase "rock me baby" every 5 minutes or else he'll turn into a frog. I didn't count how many times the word "baby" is said on this album, but it could probably fill an orphanage. One outta five, baby. Beck's guitar was fine though.

Some generic 80s pop that's aged worse than a fruit fly. I mean... I don't hate it, but you wouldn't catch me listening to any George Michael in my spare time. Especially not the 9 minute long sex theme song.

Cute. Enjoyable. Good even. Surprisingly very varied. There's your classic psychedelic pop of course, but then there are also some almost gothic-sounding tracks which is pretty damn impressive for '68. "Butcher's Tale" is a super eerie song that wouldn't be out of place on a Nico album and it's sandwiched between two happy poppy love songs. I like when albums do that. Certainly better than having to hear one guy strumming three chords on his acoustic guitar and singing about "lovin' in Tennessee, ridin' on a horse with my missus" in the same tone for 50 minutes. Ain't that right Wilco. I might have gotten a bit sidetracked.

This sounds like music you would hear in a crappy 2000s racing game you downloaded from a freeware site. I can almost hear the stock engine sound effects in the background while listening to this. It's not bad, but this is at least 5 parsecs away from being an essential listen. Nobody has ever laid on their death bed with their final words being: "I just wish I got to hear that Mylo album from 2004 titled "Destroy Rock an-(FLAT LINE)

Yet another R&B album that could have been amazing if not for the crazy length. Great voice and lyrics, but.. 80 minutes, man. Everything started blurring together after 30 or so minutes, and that's not even halfway through.

(Album number 400!) Certainly in the better half of things to happen on September 11th 2001. A tad too bloated for a 5/5, though.

I'm not the target audience for this one. I get what it's trying to do, but it's just boring whining to my ears. I'm sorry bootleg Poly Styrene and bootleg Morrissey, may you live a happy life together.

This is like a Dr. Suess book but about sex. "I'd fuck on a boat, I'd fuck with a goat, I'd fuck in the rain, in the dark and on a train" Steven Tyler is a TRUE 'MURICAN FUCK MACHINE just like the trucks on the cover! In conclusion, this album is a bit lacking in the diversity department. Maybe one more song about sex would have fixed that.

"Superfly" is on this list as well - did we really need two progressive soul funk soundtracks released like 6 months apart on this list? This doesn't work as well without the context of the movie as the other soundtracks on this list do (or at least I assume as I haven't seen the movie). Too many songs here are just little background tracks that no sane being would ever listen to in their spare time. Uhh.. something something coffee shop music, something something Scientology is a cult, something something South Park. And again, I have to mention the fact that C418's "Minecraft: Volume Alpha" is not on this list despite being not only the best soundtrack album of all time but also the best ambient album of all time in general! Curse you Robert Dimery, yet again!

This is what dying feels like 👍 They really weren't lying. This is dirty alright. Fucking disgusting even, I love it. I'm not even the biggest noise rock fan, but a nice old assault on the ears once in a while never killed anyone I think. The funny little creature on the album cover is a very jolly fella and I hope he continues causing rambunctious hijinks in the near future.

More generic punk. Just kind of boring. I get it's super influential and my favorite bands probably wouldn't exist without it, but I MAKE THE RULES HERE. Two outta fiiive

This is exactly what I expected. Nothing more, nothing less. Kind of disappointing, honestly.

More radio-friendly version of "Garbage" (the band, not the waste material usually discarded by humans). I thought the beginning was pretty boring, but the final few tracks were really cool. "Northern Star" and "Petals" especially. Courtney Love is such a weird person though. She probably didn't kill Kurt Cobain, but she MIGHT be behind the building of the pyramids and "The Spring-Heeled Jack sightings of '37". The truth is out there, people. Stay vigilant.

Ah yes. Some more late 70s British punk from a band only the writers of this book and like three construction workers from London are really passionate about. Despite having the worst album cover I've ever seen in my entire life it's not that bad. It's completely unremarkable in the grand scheme of things, but then again, so am I. Glad to have some company. Plus I'm a sucker for this kind of music vaguely stuck between real punk and post-punk (RIP Tom Verlaine). Genuinely though - do the writers of this book believe this album is more influential than "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" or "The Black Parade"? Revise your god damn list, Robert Dimery. It's 2023 my guy! The kids want to listen to more albums of German guys smashing metal plates together.

Appeals to the male fantasy of being a 13th century knight and visiting the local pub with your squire after a hard day of hunting the village goblin. Hoity fucking toity, sire.

Another one hit wonder album. The only reason this is on the list is because of the title track. It's a really good song, don't get me wrong, but you have to remember that this same publisher also has a "1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die" book. Why not just include that song there? Rant aside, actual album thoughts: Let's just say that there's a reason why nobody in the world can name TWO Eurythmics songs. It's some of the most boring and by-the-books 80s synthpop I've ever heard. Like they were doing the any% "All 80s Clichés" speedrun category. Songs like "This Is the House" is what plays on loop in Tartarus.

Damn is this better than The Low End Theory or am I losing my mind? Why do I never hear people talking about this album and Low End Theory gets all the glory? Awesome. Insane samples - these guys could turn the MeowMix ad into straight fire. Yet again too bloated for a 5/5 though. What's up with hip hop artists and their inability to release albums shorter than 60 minutes?

Rocks. This is truly just "the rocks" of music. I'm talking like those regular grey rocks you find in your backyard. That's how unique and interesting this album is. If I gotta give Aerosmith one thing though, it's that they've mastered the album length formula. None of their albums overstay their welcome or feel too short. The 30-40 minute range is perfection.

One of the least interesting albums of all time by one of the least interesting bands of all time. Google "10 Hours of Intense Snoring" to get my extended thoughts.

Double album. Oh no. Stephen Stills. Oh no. Country rock. Oh no. Early 70s. Oh no. A fuckular concoction of elements most foul. My man ass did not enjoy this and I will certainly not be "spreading them cheeks".

The album name, cover and everything made me think this was going to be another boring country album, and then that first song hit me with Puzzle Plank Galaxy from hell and I'm like "wait, this might actually be good". And good it was. I had no idea "gay melodramatic alt-country music" was a genre, but turns out I'm a fan. Makes me want to put on black mascara and watch my fuckin' carrots grow, pardner.

Every time I get one of these 50s albums I feel like the biggest, most heartless douchebag for not enjoying any of them at all. All of them feel like listening to one monotonous 40 minute long song and this one is probably the biggest offender so far. I didn't even notice the songs beginning or ending most of the time. It all blended together way too much.

Elevator music for a drug house. Listening to this album on shrooms would probably make me write a new constitution. Big boy Carlos and his guitar are amazing of course, but why does nobody talk about that drummer as well?!

Jesus Christ. This old miserable geezer just refuses to shut up. This is the sixth Neil Young album I've had the displeasure of listening to and, according to Wikipedia, there's still 3 more on the list. Ugh. If I could ask the writer of this book one question, it would be why they chose Neil Young to be the most represented artist. As far as I know, he didn't invent music. Barely anybody knows of his existence outside the US and Canada. Worst of all, all of his albums sound the same. 2/5. Also put your music back on Spotify, Neil. You're ruining my "One Song From Every Album I've Listened To" playlist, Neil.

Wait a second, this is actually pretty good. I thought The Killers were a sort of Imagine Dragons-ish band, but this is just some solid 00s rock. It's nothing mindblowing and "Mr Brightside" is still the best song here, but I still enjoyed this.

This album sounds like the final week of summer break before your first year of college - the time is about 8PM, the sun is setting, you're lying on a hammock in your backyard, thinking about all the fun stuff you did with your friends and how nervous you are about the future. The atmospheric pressure is about 1035.2456 hPa and the ozone level is about 339.19 AQ. You know what I mean. How did they do it? I don't have it in me to rate this anything but a 5/5.

I am too drunk to write a coherent review of this album, so I'll just say that thsi was pretty long and kind of boring by the end, but enjoyable enough.

So apparently this was a concept album, but I was too busy vibing with the music to discern any semblance of a story. I like progressive rock a lot, so I don't have a problem with overblown lyrics, but I was getting pretty tired of everything after the first disc. If they ended the album then and there, this could have been a 5/5, but they just kept going. You could probably get married and have three children during this album's runtime. Basically the same issue that I have with Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Prog rock works best when it's on an album with like five 10-minute songs. You can't do these gigantic lyrics and crazy instrumentation that well when your average song length is 2 minutes. So in summary, my thoughts on this album are that The Wall is easily the worst 70s Pink Floyd album, including Atom Heart Mother.

Whatever. Kind of just background noise. Not the biggest fan of her vocals.

Y'know, looking back at all the 5/5s I've given over this past year and something, there's only a few I would consider downgrading on subsequent relistens. One of them would be Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Fever to Tell", which I gave a 5/5 back in February 2022 (If you're wondering the other two would be Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and Black Sabbath's debut). It's still a really fun album, but not something I would consider an essential listen. I was really hoping this album could fill that spot since it's apparently their best one, but it didn't really do anything for me. The best song, and the only song I've heard beforehand, is "Heads With Roll". The other songs range from completely forgettable to fine dance music you would faintly hear while sitting on the toilet at a party. 3/5. Don't do that egg thing with my balls, that would suck.

This is the sacred cow of hip hop, but I think I need to be American to get the full experience. I get what the guy's saying, but the only thing I know about New York is that they speak with funny accents and there's a billion dead rats everywhere. But despite that, the beats go hard, the rhyming schemes make my amoeba brain hurt and the album length is perfect. 4/5, I'll definitely return to this one, and I'm sure it will grow on me a lot and then I'll regret not giving this a 5.

Wait, this sounds like Alex Tu-oh. It's Alex Turner. I enjoy me a bit of Arctic Monkeys, by that I mean that I listen to the singles from their first two albums and AM sometimes. This sounds nothing like the Arctic Monkeys I know though. It's almost like an orchestrated spy movie soundtrack with some early 60s pop influences. That sounds like an absolute trainwreck, but I'm a sucker for stupid shit so it tickled my fancy. Alex Turner should stop making boring lounge music and do more interesting stuff like this. I went in with no expectations, but I'm a fan.

Boohoo, my name is Eric Clapton and I'm scared of vaccines, waaaah!! Clapton is an old dickhead and his music is boring. 2/5

My biggest takeaway from this is how quickly electronic music advanced from 1994 to 1997, because this sounds at least a decade older than "The Fat of the Land". It's almost primitive in comparison, the songs are way longer but also way more repetitive. It lacks the cool vocals and samples that make the crab album so fun to listen to. In conclusion, just listen to "The Fat of the Land" instead. It even has a funny crab on the cover.

♪ I'm sorry Miss Jackson ♪ ♪ I am four eels ♪ ♪ Never meant to make your daughter cry ♪ ♪ I am several fish and not a guy ♪ I like these gentlemen, but I think they skipped the "how to not make your album insanely bloated" class, because both this and "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" are like 3x longer than they should be. Has some crazy catchy songs though.

Jazz is only good when I feel like I'm being assaulted with a crowbar in musical form, and this fits the bill. Reading this guy's Wikipedia article was a trip. One day I aspire to also do so much heroin that people in San Francisco begin worshiping me as God incarnate. John Coltrane has officially joined my expansive list of a whopping four good jazz artists along with Charles Mingus, Frank Zappa and Fela Kuti.

My asscheeks were vibrating gleefully to this album. Not better than "Thriller" though.. but then again, not many albums are. The title track was my favorite song because it starts with witch sounds, but the entire first half is pretty much nonstop bangers. Man was truly off the wall. Bonkers. Unhinged even.

Well that was a massive waste of my time. I got nothing from this album and listening to it was the longest half an hour of my life. Halfway through I just put it on as background noise and started playing Civ 6.

I respect Adele, because I think she's one of the few modern artists who are popular for actually being talented (genuinely what is the deal with people like Ed Sheeran?). She's got some pipes, man. That being said, this is not as consistent as "21" and way simpler. Too many songs here feel like throwaways and nothing reaches the same highs as "Hello" and "When We Were Young". Good album, not an essential listen though. I can see why they removed this from newer editions of the book.

Now we're talking. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. A full 51 minutes of nonstop bangers. There's so many different genres thrown into this thing that you'd think the end product would be an unfocused mess, but every single song lands, is distinct from one another and nothing feels out of place or boring. Okay, maybe a part of that is my nostalgia talking, but this album is definitely not garbage (world's most original joke). The best songs are "Supervixen", "Queer", "Only Happy When It Rains", "Stupid Girl", "Milk". Can't narrow it down more than that.

Damn, this generator REALLY wants me to listen to Rod Stewart. This guy was absolutely made in a lab or something. I don't believe it's humanly possible to be a more boring person than Rod Stewart. Man had to go out of his way to create an album that has literally no interesting qualities whatsoever. Can's Tago Mago released in the same year as this, there are no excuses. Essential listen my ass. My crackhead neighbor yelling out of the window at 3AM is a more essential listen than this album. The Hampster Dance probably had a bigger impact on the history of music than this.

Man who cares.

The first 5 songs (almost half an hour of the album) is genuinely some of the worst music I've ever heard in my life. I'm convinced that I could make a better song than "Bubble and Slide" and I can barely play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on a piano. After this half an hour of the worst shit my ears have ever heard and me debating whether I should smash my head through a brick wall, the album suddenly realizes that "Wait, we're supposed to be doing music here" and chases away the sneaky goblins pressing random buttons on a synthesizer out of the recording room. Listening to the four songs starting from "Wilmot" and ending with "Theme 4" felt like divine intervention. My ears couldn't believe that they were actually being stimulated in a good way. It was like the musical equivalent of having a pizza after being stranded on an island eating nothing but bugs for a month. Sadly this "actual music" streak didn't last very long and with "Return to Planet D", the goblins returned (with a bubble gun or something? What the fuck is that instrument?) They go out with a bang in what I genuinely think is the worst song I have ever heard in my entire life ("Chapel Street Market 9am") and then let my sleep paralysis demon finish the album off with whatever that final track was. My overall opinion on this album is a 2/5 - I'm pretty glad I got to hear this, even if a significant part of it was about as listenable as "Woodpecker No. 1" by Merzbow (check that out if you haven't heard of it before - I promise it'll kill you instantly). Sorry for writing an entire college essay about this, but this album is a fascinating mess.

The Clash are excellent and it's great to listen to an album of theirs that has no filler, because both "London Calling" and especially "Sandanista!" suffer greatly from that. However, the highs on this album aren't nearly as high as the two aforementioned albums and I can't even really name a least or most favorite song because they were all consistently like a 7.5/10.

Unhinged music for crazy people (term of endearment). Favorite Pixies album that I've heard (not gotten around to Doolittle yet - a felony in 197 countries - I know, I'm aware). Songs like "Velouria", "Is She Weird" and "Dig For Fire" are the type of music that would randomly start playing in your brain at 3AM when you're trying to fall asleep. (again, term of endearment). Also "Rock Music" goes hard. Don't trust people who say it sucks. It's what separates the boys from the men. Factual information.

I like how the Television song has turned from a huge progressive left-wing statement to something you'd hear from your racist 80-year old grandpa's Facebook page. "Television is bad! Books are good! Kids these days don't know where Panama is! Media makes kids violent!" - This shit is completely embarrassing today. I'm very much not interested in hearing about America's political issues in 1992 for a whopping 70 minutes. I'm Eastern European. I don't know or care about who Pete Wilson is. I don't know what's a Pell Grant. I only know about potatoes and sauerkraut.

Fine. Nothing special, just fine. I have no strong feelings one way or the other, although I can probably say that I enjoyed this more than "Faith".

This is a mess. I have no idea what I just listened to, but I'm pretty sure I didn't enjoy it. It's almost like every song is from a different album. There is no cohesion and it all felt like listening to some mad man's Spotify playlist on shuffle. And despite that, every song was completely unmemorable. The only lyric I remember was when he mentioned Donkey Kong for some reason - that was also when I realized that this album isn't from the late 70s, but from 1991. Also Jesus Christ, that album cover is hideous.

EEEEEVEN FLOW I suddenly have an urge to buy a skateboard and steal a kid's lunch money. Goes hard. Definitely one of the biggest albums of the 90s.

Contains a 4 minute long song of yo mama jokes. Truly the peak of human achievement. As far as 90s hip hop albums go.. yeah, this is definitely a 90s hip hop album. I didn't hear anything that blew me away, but it was fun enough. Essentially an ascended shitpost in musical form. "Yo mama got the wooden legs with real feet" - Shakespeare could never.

Let me be frank, this album is pretty good. I gave "Back to Black" a 2/5 back in January 2022 because my goals are far beyond the mortal understanding. I now consider that album to be a 4/5 and formally apologize for my sins. This one is weaker than that one. It really feels like the beta version. The performances are a bit blinder and the lyrics.. well actually, I didn't mind the lyrics that much. Three outta five.

Fucking incredible. If this live album isn't a 5/5, then no live album is a 5/5. One of the greatest live performances of all time and if you disagree, I WILL be in your walls. Notice how there's only two "big hits" on this ("Come As You Are" and "All Apologies") and the rest is pretty obscure songs from their discography and a bunch of non-mainstream covers. They even brought in the fucking Meat Puppets as guests. The album concludes with a cover of the traditional song "In The Pines" which probably ends up being one the best Nirvana songs. Kurt's performance could give goosebumps to a goldfish.

Downtempo? Trip-Hop? Nah. This genre of music is called Mushroom music. Proper Fungus funk. Mycelium madness. Toad from Mario? He loves this shit. Listens to it every day. It's like Portishead but slightly less toadstoolish than that. Whereas "Dummy" sounds like being lost in an underground mushroom cavern, this sounds more like frolicking in a whimsical fungal forest.

I'm sorry, but this was a gigantic waste of my time. I've been slowly warming up to jazz music throughout this musical journey, but this subgenre of boring elevator music that is essentially just one guy playing random piano notes for 76(!!!) minutes, is something I will probably never understand. I can't give this anything but a 1/5. I apologize for my ignorance, but this was basically the musical equivalent of watching paint dry.

⚠️ WARNING! If you search for this album on Spotify, the first thing that comes up is the 2 hour version. You don't have to listen to all that jazz (ha), because the original 1956 LP was only 40 minutes long. Look for the playlist by the user "josesanzgc" instead. TL;DR: If the version you're listening to starts with the Star Spangled Banner, that's the wrong version. Man, I kinda hate the fact that this album is actually pretty good, because now I can't make my review: "Duke Ellington? More like Duke Smellington".

It's fine. One of the best country albums I've ever heard, so let this 3/5 be an indication of how low the bar has been set so far (except for my man Johnny Cash). Nice one, Steve.

This is probably objectively pretty good, but trying to focus on R&B for an hour feels like being trapped in a time vortex for 300 years. I will now proceed to live the rest of my life without ever thinking about this album's existence again.

You could throw the world's worst indie rock album at me, and I'd probably still give it like a 3/5. I'm a slut for whiny virgin music. I assume this guy is as well, because this album feels like somebody putting every single popular indie artist in a blender. It works better than I expected. I'd still much rather listen to actual Elliott Smith and Neutral Milk Hotel than the tracks on this album inspired by them, but it's a very pleasant collection of tunes. Some songs are huge. "Cause a Rockslide" especially sounded like the ADHD-ridden brain of somebody who's been trapped in the Shadow Indie Dimension for 7 years. I will now remind everybody that "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" is not on this list.

Angelfire-ass music. I can see the rotating gifs and bright links as I listen to this. Masterful lyricism: "Ugh yeah. Blowjobs are awesome!" - repeat for an hour and 13 minutes. Jesus, this album is long for absolutely no reason. Anthony Kiedis can sing pretty well, so I don't understand why he's so insistent on rapping. I get second-hand embarrassment every time he tries to rap-sing about a "creamy beaver hotter than a fever" (that's an actual lyric from this album. You can doublecheck). "Under the Bridge", overplayed as it may be, is the best song here. 2/5. Come on man.

GENERALS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSEEEEEEES JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIIIIIIIIIS This album is flawless. Every song bangs, every idea works, no second is wasted. Here's a fun one for the zoomers in the audience: Notice how the song "Rat Salad" sounds like the "Among Us Drip" song. People who know what I'm talking about are now crying into their pillows.

This album is a trap. It lures you in with "Roundabout" - oh boy! An entire album of songs like that famous classic! - Guess again fuckface!! All you're getting is an album full of scrapped Super Mario 64 music and weird experimental jams! YOU FELL FOR IT FOOL! THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK! You know what the kids love? Random minute long instrumentals. Let's make an album that has like 3 actual songs and the rest is weird goofy noises. It's like they were trying to create the greatest album of all time but their studio got hijacked by goblins. 3/5, because "Roundabout" and "South Side of the Sky" are that good. "Heart of the Sunrise" is pretty good as well, but Yes has better prog medleys. The rest is goblin slop.

Fun little album, but nothing to write home about. Alice Cooper just sort of exists. They wanted to make hard rock and they sure made hard rock. I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out what the end of "Alma Mater" reminds me of. It's the iconic Ink Spots intro. I'd also really want to know why "Street Fight", the 50 second interlude that's barely music, is the second most streamed song on this album.

One of my favorite albums of all time. What a great time to generate this record as well, with "Memento Mori" releasing in 2 days. The formula to make a good album is actually very simple - a lot of funny noises that make me go ha ha. This album has a lot of funny noises. I especially like when "Policy of Truth" goes BEEP BOOP BABABAPWOOP. Or when "Personal Jesus" goes BUM BABA BUMBUM. Thank you for reading my deep analysis of this album.

You already know an album is going to be a 3/5 at best when you see that the Wikipedia article for it is like 8 sentences long. One of those sentences being: "The Libertines was voted the third-most overrated album ever made in a 2005 BBC public poll." This sounds a bit like The Cla-oh, it was produced by Mick Jones. That makes sense. Yeah, it's exactly what I expected. More British punk - the most important genre in musical history according to this book. Kind of goofy. Yup, it's a 3/5.

This album is ethereal and heavenly. Please put it back on Spotify. You're ruining my playlists. Do not trust people who think her voice is annoying - they might be skinwalkers. 5/5. Really good music this week! Should I be worried?

Goofiest album of all time. This feels like an internet shitpost. Something you'd hear on an ironic Youtube video about the "Top 10 Hottest Anime Characters" that's just a Windows Movie Maker slideshow with really blurry images. Cockney rappers are the funniest shit ever. I think I understood like 3 words this guy said. My ears feel sore now.

Fucking incredible opening and closing tracks, but the middle is mostly unmemorable. Cool rock tunes, but nothing special.

David Bowie does so much crack cocaine that he accidentally ends up writing Final Fantasy dungeon music. That's truly what being German is all about.

I was reading up on this album, and it apparently beat Abbey Road for the Grammy in 1970?! I'm not even the biggest Abbey Road fan, but that's a snub and a crime. This album is really weird. Starts with a cover of a classical piece, then goes into a Traffic cover, there's an 11 minute full-on jazz jam and it all ends with another classical piece. Overall an interesting enough listen, but definitely not my kind of music.

Fela's a big fella, large even. This album goes way harder than it should. Probably one of the funkiest albums of all time and that's not an exaggeration - there's just something about Afrobeat/African jazz that makes me want to hit up some Johnny Bravo poses and smile for the camera. That's also probably why "Remain in Light" is the only Talking Heads album I can tolerate. Strong 4/5. Now I'm off to listen to "Zombie" again.

Wow. A psychedelic rock album from 1967? These guys were truly innovators. There were definitely no other psychedelic rock albums from this time period! I'm sure this album belongs on the list and is not just a footnote in one of the most oversaturated music genres of all time! Country Joe should shut up and let THE FISH speak for a moment. I want to hear some blubs. Truly one of the albums ever. 2/5.

Soundgarden never clicked for me. This entire album sounds like generic hard rock and every song (except for "Black Hole Sun") follows basically the same formula. I've had one album from each one of the Big 4 of Grunge, and this was almost definitely my least favorite. "Black Hole Sun" is awesome though.

From what I've seen and heard, there are apparently two rules to music: • Pretend to hate Coldplay • Pretend to enjoy jazz This album is very cool and I enjoyed it quite a lot. I'm not super familiar with Coldplay apart from the big hits (holy shit, these songs have a lot of Spotify plays). I get the "bootleg Radiohead" comparisons and all that, but hey, gay British alt rock has always been one of my favorite genres so the more the merrier. I don't get how people can call this album soulless with songs like "Clocks" and "The Scientist". The Goblin King is pleased. He will not awaken today.

"Eruption" is absolutely disgusting. Top 3 guitar solos of all time, no contest. I love the sound of the guitar. It's a very crunchy, ghastly (in a good way) sound. Van Halen should have gone the Buckethead route and made a fully instrumental album, because the weakest part of this are the kitschy lyrics and vocals. I want to hear that awesome guitar but there's this guy who keeps screaming about all the women he's fucked. So in conclusion: If this didn't have any lyrics it could be one of the best instrumental albums of all time. With lyrics, it's just a pretty good "dad rock" album.

Not better than "The Idiot". Still has some really good songs like "The Passenger" (even if I prefer the Siouxsie version more) and the title track, but then there's also stuff like the song "Turn Blue" which is... something. I appreciate the strangeness at least, even if the song sucks ass. The moral of the story: Don't do drugs or you'll randomly wake up in Germany one day. Also stop smiling at me.

I really liked N.W.A.'s debut album, so I'm kind of disappointed with this. Every song sounded the same. Ice Cube's an angry dude, I get it, but screaming in my ear for 50 minutes got pretty tiring half way through. Second half also falls apart in the beat department. Not to mention the weird misogyny (although that's sadly to be expected in 90s gangsta rap). 2/5. Better ice type rapper than Vanilla Ice, because Ice Cube learns Ice Beam at level 29, which is super effective against dragon types.

This sounds like something they'd play in Better Call Saul for a montage of Mike Ehrmantraut making a Looney Tunes-tier trap to fuck over the cartel. A really cool record. I'm always happy to see something non-western. I don't understand a word of Portuguese, but I'm sure he's spitting straight facts. "Tropicália" is truly the perfect name for this genre.

PJ Harvey has that "goblin guarding a stash of gold" vibe. A true icon. You go girl. This album sounds like Björk if she actually made music. Or maybe like Patti Smith if you dipped her into hydrochloric acid. I don't like how I can see her nose hairs on the album cover though. That's not funky fresh, I'm afraid to say.

I only listened to the "Very Best Of The Gershwin Songbook", because that's where this site links and because I'd rather eat a full family-sized bag of unseasoned dicks than listen to jazz for 3 hours. (Note: If you want the full version, search for "Ella Fitgerald Sings The George and Ira Gershwin Song Book" on Spotify) Alright, first of all, why is a box set on this list? This is essentially just a compilation and those are supposed to be excluded, right? I'm very glad I decided to listen to the abridged version, because even the "best hits" started getting old 5 songs in. Listening to 59(!!!) variations of "woman crooning about how she's sad while Tom & Jerry background music is playing" would have been my Tantalus punishment.

Weaponized printer music. Crazy how this is probably the shortest techno album I've had so far. It starts out pretty interesting and ends up on a cool note (that final song sounds a whole lot like Depeche Mode), but the middle is like an hour and a half of weird forgettable beep boops. Not for me, sorry.

Nobody actually cares about U2. Everybody claiming to be a "U2 fan" is a government plant. Bono isn't even real. His voice was made using speech synthesis and the guy on stage is a Serbian chap named Stanislav Jebović. Look it up. I know for a fact that the album cover was created after the guy who makes the artwork came to Bono with 16 concepts and told Bono to pick one, and Bono was like "I don't fucking know man. I don't work here. Just put them all on there somehow." Best U2 album I've heard so far. 2/5

Ah yes. Crippling depression.

Something about this album feels claustrophobic. All the songs have the same flow. All the beats are barely 2 second long loops. The songs that aren't boring are downright annoying. Hype men are pointless and Flav's voice is grating. Gonna be a no from me.

The Who were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. This is the kitschiest album of all time with the stupidest and most annoying concept of all time. Maybe if they fully committed to the bit it would have worked, but this is essentially just a boring psychedelic pop album with fart sound effects before and after every song. Hide those nipples. 2/5

Go go gadget painful erection. Absolutely discombobulated at the fact that I actually enjoyed this. It's stupid music for dumb people and I am dumb people, so I approve.

I can't believe so many people in the 70s made this band their entire personality. I was promised psychedelic rock that cool hippies go mental over and all I got was 42 minutes of the most boring country I've ever heard. I don't get it. Just do LSD in your garage like a proper gentleman, no need to chase these guys in a Scooby Doo-ass van or whatever. Guess you just had to be there.

This is the most okay album of all time. UB40 are an actual enigma and you will never meet a person who considers them their favorite band, but they're not exactly on anyone's "worst bands of all time" lists either. I liked the more ambient parts of this album. This is still a strictly "no reggae" household though.

This album feels like being stuck in a time vortex, but like... in a good way. It's like the musical equivalent of taking a wrong turn and now you're suddenly in a random Bulgarian village (population: 383). The people yearn for more albums of German people making funny noises.

I don't know why I like this album of "looping electronic bleeps and bloops" more than the dozen other "looping electronic bleeps and bloops" albums this generator has thrown at me. There's some black magic fuckery going on here. My brain has been properly tickled and I feel violated. 4/5

This album is the musical equivalent of getting your head smashed into a concrete wall. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to you. I had no idea that Killing Joke's debut was this raw, as I mostly know them from their goth hits like "Love Like Blood" and "Eighties" (both amazing songs, by the way). The mixing is hard to get used to. Some songs sound like they were made by speaking into a fan and the vocal effect is kind of annoying. I'm sure it was really cool in 1980 though.

This is what I would listen to if I were cooler. Alas, I am lame as fuck, so I must give this a 3/5. Recording vocals over the phone from prison? That's crazy.

You know you're in for something fuckular when you check and see that the "short version" of the album is 78 minutes long. Well yeah, this was definitely a lot of D&B. Way too much D&B for one man in one day, to be honest. Obviously very important historically and the hits slap, but... 140 minutes, man. That's insanity even for the late 90s (the era of the most bloated albums known to man). Highlights: The first three songs, "Heroes", "Destination", "Trust Me", "Electricks". That might seem like a lot but remember that this album is 23 DAMN SONGS LONG and only 6 of those songs are under 6 minutes. So basically in conclusion, this is awesome but I also fucking hate it.

Beck is such a word-saying guy. He's absolutely obsessed with saying words. Every time I've looked up the meaning to a Beck song, it's just that "this song is gibberish". Good for him and the maggot on his sleeve. This guy could sample a giraffe farting and rap his grocery list over it and I would be like "ah, classic Beck". Classic Beck. 4/5

This is like a James Bond soundtrack written by aliens. A good ol' trip-hop album is always a welcome sight. Holy shit at "Utopia". It's been so long since I've heard a new song that instantly shot me into space. It's so beautiful. Loved it. A strong 4/5 rating from me.

Me, the heartless fuck, the absolute buffoon, found this album to be very boring. I'm very rarely in the mood to listen to some bossa nova, and this day was no different. I can't even say this is "elevator music" as a gotcha, since "The Girl from Ipanema" is literally the cliché elevator music they use in movies. It's also the best song on the album and the only one that I can recall.

One of the most creative hip hop albums I've had the pleasure of listening to. These guys didn't deserve the horrible fate of being known as "the Jimmy Fallon band". The last few songs drag on a bit, but the bangers outweigh the relatively boring tracks by a lot. Really enjoyed this. Strong 4/5.

I'm a big britpop apologist and some of my favorite albums of all time are britpop ("Dog Man Star", "Attack of the Grey Lantern", "The Bends", "In It For The Money" to name a few) , but this album was just completely inoffensive. Oasis is my least favorite of the big four and this band sounds like even more boring Oasis. More bands should have ripped off Suede instead.

Alright we're just making up albums now. You can't convince me this existed before this exact moment. This album generator is a psyop - wake up sheeple. Objectively a "cool as fuck" record, but I am begging hip hop artists to shorten their albums. I will be returning to some of the songs here, like "Daydreamin'" (banger), but a big part of it is filler. Near the beginning especially - a rare phenomenon where the second half is better than the first. Also very cool of him to personally give a shoutout to every single person who has ever existed on planet Earth in that final song, very cool. Very glad I listened to the entire 12 minutes of that. Shoutouts to the western diamondback rattlesnake I ran over on the lunar eclipse of November 9th 2003 near Las Vegas strip. Rest in peace, bless his family.

I'm not a middle-aged American father of five, so I sadly can't say that I enjoyed this. Somebody PLEASE get John Fogerty some cough drops.

Pussy and farts and also dicks and balls. Truly a thinking man's album. I recognize this guy from that one song on "Fat of the Land" by The Prodigy. While listening to this, my most prominent thought was that I should just go listen to the funny crab album instead. I get why people would like this and the spooky atmosphere is cool, but overall, not an album for me.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - you can throw the world's worst indie album at me and I'd still probably give it at least a 3/5. I'm enamored by gay indie records and I don't know why. John Grant has put a spell on me with his fabulous gayness and now my hand is forced to give this a 4/5 else I suffer the horrible fate of being deported to Denmark in a steel box. My favorite song was the one I can't say the name of. Also the piano melody from "Marz" is very familiar. I thought it was "Bloody Tears" from Castlevania, but nah. I'm 99% sure I've heard something that's note-for-note identical.

Oh fuck yeah, now we're talking. Wait no, I swear I'm not being pretentious. This is the lowest rated album on this site because I guess mostly people aren't very fond of German people smashing metal plates together - who would have guessed. But halle-fucking-lujah, this is something this list needs more of. Albums that make you go "well, that was an experience and now I'm a changed man". Nobody is lying on their deathbed wishing they heard more crappy 80s post-punk or late 60s psychedelic rock. THIS is what we all deserve to be listening to as we embrace eternal oblivion. I'm giving this a high rating not only because I genuinely really love it, but also to help Kid Rock move to his rightful place as the actual worst album on this list. Together we can make a difference. Save the turtles.

This album being actually pretty damn good feels like a glitch in the matrix. During multiple points I was like "yeah, I like it so far, but they'll DEFINITELY drop the ball on this next song!" ... and they never did. They did in fact slay. Strong 3/5 in the music department, but horrible spelling. See me after class.

You just have to be American to enjoy Bruce Springsteen, I guess. Regular dad rock - nothing bad, nothing offensive, but nothing that would stick in my mind either.

They call 'em ZZ Top because you'll be catching Zs after listening to their music. Their best album by a metric fuckton. Still a 2/5 though because I suck.

The process for choosing electronica albums to add onto this list must have been throwing darts at a board, because I have no fucking clue how they managed to dig up the most obscure albums by DJs that exactly seven people in London have heard of. This album is about as influential in the history of music as me singing in the shower. What going to NYC does to a motherfucker. (Album number 500! Almost halfway done, who would have thought. I really thought I would get bored of this like two weeks in, but here I am and I'm not quitting until I listen to all 1001 of these things)

I'm very familiar with "Loveless" but never checked out the other albums by this band. This is their first one and it just kind of sounds like a bootleg Sonic Youth. Still good, but overshadowed into the nightmare dimension by their next album. I think it's pretty clear that they were still honing their craft here.

"Oh, I love Message in a Bottle, I hope the rest of this album sounds like that" I say as I am hit in the face with a bunch of songs that sound like alternate takes on the DuckTales theme song. The Police and Queen are the royalty of having some of the best singles you've ever heard in your life, but the rest of their songs being silly lasagna music. I don't know what that means either, but you get what I'm saying. Sadly this album doesn't contain any songs in which Sting has a conversation with a brontosaurus, so I can't go any higher than a 3/5. Glad they fixed that in their later albums.

These albums keep spawning from the mist, man. What the hell is this. Completely unenjoyable. The world's most British man yelling at me about how he wants to have sex, while using fiddly-diddly-shimmy-shammy-blimey-hokey-pokey slang.

What a cool album! I sure do hope this guy isn't a racist pedo psychopath with a god complex - boy would that suck!

Judging by that album cover, you would never guess that this is actually an indie country album with mariachi influences. Very unique. I don't think I've ever heard anything like this.

Four albums by this fucker, my arch-nemesis, and this is the first one that I would call even barely listenable. I don't get it. I know that he's probably in the top 3 most influential musicians of all time, but my brain rejects his music. This is strictly a Charles Mingus and John Coltrane household.

Objectively a good record, but I still haven't clicked with British rap. Blimey crumpets, god save the king or whatever. Feels weird to say that instead of "God save the queen". I have nothing to say about this, I'm just writing random words.

This is now the fourth Bruce Springsteen album I've heard, but if you pointed a gun at me and told me to sing any song by this guy I'd tell you to shoot me in the head. Not being from the Anglosphere comes with the perk of never being forced to listen to Bruce Springsteen. Boring white boy noodling with a bunch of thingamajigs. Get outta my face.

It's like a warm hug in musical form. I want this album to tuck me into bed and tell me that everything's going to be alright.

Bribery is the only explanation as to why this is on the list. Notice how almost all the reviews for this album start with "Never heard of this band...". Seriously, who the fuck are these guys? Even you, currently reading this review, have never heard of this band before. I thought Wikipedia would help me understand why this could be considered an essential listen, but 75% of their page is about sexual assault allegations and their official site is an uncustomized Blogspot blog. Okay let's talk about the actual album now. It's nothing special. The first three songs are actually really good, but after that I think they forgot they were making an album. No fucks were given by anyone after that point. "Boxing Day" could have been the best song on the album, but it just abruptly ends without any rhyme or reason. 3/5 from a musical enjoyment perspective, but who cares man.

Y'know, despite the fact that this is 69 songs long, I never got tired of it. The musical diversity, multiple singers and some completely batshit curveballs really helped keep my attention ("Experiment Music Love" for example). Even the duller moments weren't bad and just inoffensive background music at worst. I think pulling that off takes a lot of talent. Shit, I guess making 3 hours of consistently great music deserves a 5/5... Although I absolutely understand people who give this a 1/5.

Just had "69 Love Songs" yesterday, and this somehow felt longer than that. Boring crooning for boring people. Obviously a talented singer or whatever, but I can't keep my eyes open listening to this.

A fucked piece of shit. A consensual curb stomping. More proof that the "Lowest Rated Albums" on this site are generally more exciting and fun than the "Highest Rated Albums". This was awesome. Haters will be turned into molten slag in the molten slag machine that comes free with every junkyard.

If they ever put me on trial for all my crimes and shove me in a cement mixer, this is what I want playing in the background as I leave all you mortals behind. I want to go back in time to the 1600s and play "Silver Rocket" to the king of England so his face melts like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Amazing album. Could be considered The Velvet Underground of the 80s influence-vise. Definitely a 5/5.

HELL. DEATH. PISS. I FUCK DEMONS. FIRE BURNS. SATAN RISES. I DON'T PAY MY TAXES ON TIME. This sounds like a fake album that a kid in an 80s sitcom would listen to as a parody of "trying too hard to be edgy"-metal. "Teacher caught me masturbating underneath the desk" - actual lyrics from this album. Also featuring the world's blandest production of all time.

Have they had Nick Cave voice a Disney villain yet? His voice was made for a role like that. I still haven't heard a bad album from this guy. He has to be one of the most consistent people in music, even taking his other projects like The Birthday Party into consideration. A very consistent double album that was never dull. Glad the album cover was a jape, because it's really unfitting and boring. It's also weird how I unabashedly hate crooning, but when you mix it with dark and gothic vibes, it's suddenly great.

Cute little album. Reminded me of a bunch of different bands like Weezer or Pavement. Although I can't say I agree with Spin magazine on this being better than Nirvana's Nevermind, but to each their own.

YOU'RE LISTENING TO FUCKLER ROCK FM RADIO *eagle sound effect* THE ONLY RADIO STATION WITH BALLS. THIS AIN'T YOUR GRANNY'S MUSIC *explosion sound effect* ROCK SO HARD, YOUR DICK WILL GET HARD AS WELL *Livin' On A Prayer starts playing* Cheesy, fake, plastic, but also kind of endearing in a way. Can't say I'm not glad that Hair Metal is a thing of the distant past now, but it sure was a thing that happened.

My favorite part was when he started calling in instruments like Pokémon. This album contains about 10 minutes of eargasmic perfection and 40 more minutes of random goofing around with a bunch of stuff Mike Oldfield found in his garage. Man ruined what could have been one of the best drops in prog history at 11 minutes into Pt. II by making horrible growling orc noises. I've heard people complaining about them before listening to this, and it's even worse than I could have ever imagined. Special shoutouts to the short "Mike Oldfield's Single". It's not on the official release of the album, but it was on Spotify so I listened to it, and I liked it more than Pts. I and II. Weak 3/5. It sucks how much better this could have been without the goofy noises.

Would be cooler if this was sped up by 50% and sung by an anime girl. That would make me want to smoke a fat blunt and pledge allegiance to the glorious UK of GB&NI. Don't make any sudden movements, lest the Goblin King awakens.

This is unflavored hip hop. Just a slab of tofu for the ears. Way too simple to be 60 minutes long. I was so over it by the third song, but they just kept going and going with the same flows, same beats and same lyrics. Curses. Foiled again.

Electronic picks on this list are always something like: "Gooberology by DJ Shitass from Newhampfordworcestershireshire (Length: 182 minutes) (Global rating of 2.58/5)" Imagine willingly listening to this in your spare time. Not OK. 1/5

One of the bands that didn't deserve their cosmic punishment of only being known as a one hit wonder, because truth be told, there's at least three good songs on here. I wouldn't call it a "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret", as there were some flaccid moments here and there, but over all an enjoyable experience.

Lou Reed plays a cantaloupe on this one. "The Gift" to be specific. That's real, you can Google it. IDK, I think this is their most boring album. It's noisy, but not in an exciting way. They play some regular 60s rock that's mixed so low you can barely make out the lyrics, and once in a while Lou Reed comes in with a very distorted guitar. Marvel at their genius. Eh, it was cool in 1968 at least.

Sounds like more distorted Pulp. Eh. Not a very exciting or memorable shoegaze record, if you can even classify this as shoegaze. Maybe something to come back to later because I barely remember any song from it.

One of my favorite albums from one of my favorite genres. You love to see it. Only 9 songs and 40 minutes and no dull moment to be found. "Definitive Gaze", "Motorcade", "Parade", and of course "Shot By Both Sides" and "The Light Pours Out Of Me". It makes me want to clap my feet together like a baby. Nutbuster Ultimate. The better proggy post-punk 70s album between this and Marquee Moon, although I owe Marquee Moon an apology for giving it a 2/5 and calling it "generic" - I was a stupid ass.

I guess the natural evolution of Joy Division would have been something like this even with Ian Curtis on board. A cute synthpop album. No longer any goth energy to be found, and you're left with something even the hoes can dance to. I don't fully get why this is on the list instead of "Power Corruption and Lies" though. Strong 3/5.

Bozo ass music. I want to shove this album in a locker and force it to do my homework. Oh, Eminem sampled this? Alright cool, guess that makes it worthy of being one of the 1001 albums you have to hear before you die. Thanks Robert Dimery.

He ain't the healer!! Man casted a slow yet deadly Poison spell on me that costs 30 mana points, be wary!!

Janis Joplin's vocals are a "you either love it or you hate it" kind of deal. I personally love them, but I won't blame anyone who thinks they're ear-grating. In my opinion, this is up there with Led Zeppelin's debut as one of the best blues rock albums of all time. Lovely listen.

"What if Depeche Mode was really really boring" My reaction to this album is the right guy's face. Why do these guys have 3 whole albums on this list?

There is no such thing as "the best album of all time", because of how subjective music is. That being said, I don't know why, but this album feels like if there ever was an "objectively best album", this is the closest we've come to it so far. I wouldn't even call this my favorite album of all time, because I don't really share a deep emotional bond with it as opposed to albums like "The Holy Bible" by Manic Street Preachers or "Animals" by Pink Floyd, but I can't find a single flaw in it. All songs are beautiful and heartfelt both musically and lyrically, there are exactly 0 filler moments, Sufjan, the Illinoismaker Choir and all the backing vocalists have voices of angels. There's songs that will make you cry, there's songs that will make you dance, there's songs with song titles longer than the Constitution. Man. Sorry for gushing so much. I could probably go to an uncontacted Amazon tribe, play "Chicago" to them, and they would love it. Gonna have to give this album the rare 6/5. I'm 532 albums in and this is the best one so far, save for maybe "Wish You Were Here".

Last time this generator gave me a Morrissey record, the Queen died the very same day. I'm interested to see what huge historical event happens today. The Smiths slap, but Morrissey's solo career is bland as rice cakes. Historical Event Update: Okay, so the Russians blew up a Ukrainian dam and caused "the largest European man-made disaster in decades". This is your fault, Morrissey.

Wait a second, this actually sort of slaps. Completely distorted guitars? Screaming vocals? Random "glitches" where the audio goes 500% louder for a millisecond and blows your eardrums? Rooster sounds effects?! Sign me the fuck up. A global rating of 2.55/5? Come on now, y'all just hate fun. Never heard of Jon Spencer before, so this was a very cool find.

Sorry, but every Rage Against The Machine song sounds the exact same to me. It's all different variations on "Killing In The Name", "Bombtrack" or "Bulls on Parade" with slightly different words being said. I don't care about American politics, so to me the lyrics just sound like edgy teen "fuck the system!!" shit written by somebody who's all words and no actions. A spoiled college student angry that his part-time job at McDonalds doesn't earn him enough money to buy a Nintendo Switch. War is bad. Police brutality is bad. No shit. Want a cookie? Now write an album about dinosaurs and cool laser swords. That's never been done before.

On this album, John Smellon goes monkey mode. Just full on primal vine-swinging Donkey Kong Barrel Blast™ monkey mode. Guest starring the Cookie Monster. "I was the Walrus, but now I'm John" - Factually untrue, the Official Lore clearly states that the Walrus was Paul. His best post-Beatles album, but that's not a very high bar, innit. Extra marks for no "Imagine" at least. Also obligatory: https://i.imgur.com/XoPXrdJ.jpeg What a silly guy, I bet his domestic life was completely uncontroversial.

Love me some Buckley (both of 'em). A really beautiful record and a nice stepping stone between the medieval folky "Goodbye and Hello" and the avantgarde skullfuck that is "Starsailor". Weird how instead of finishing one of the most interesting artistic evolutions in musical history, the writers of this book picked "Greetings From L.A." as the third Tim Buckley pick instead of the aforementioned "Starsailor" (or "Lorca", I guess). Sorry for the tangent. This album is a strong 4/5. One of the best voices in folk rock.

Bumps in the whip.

I have come to the horrifying realization that I really like Janet Jackson's music. This is what the manliest man in the gym is listening to on his headphones. Eat raw steak with your bare hands, chug the nastiest, bitterest beer and put on "Rhythm Nation" like a real man, pussy.

Pretty fun, but I want to fight the evil wizard forcing hip hop artists to stretch their albums to 70 minutes and break his hex. Stop with the skits, my guy. Please.

Leonard Cohen is just Bob Dylan but without the horrible harmonica and a better voice. Not the best album of his that I've heard, but it's still nice and chill.

I know these guys from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged show. Jesus, this is crazy. A bit too crazy. Not a fan of the vocals at all. Too many throwaway songs, but I enjoyed the ones that Nirvana covered. Sorry to report that I didn't like this. I was going in with high hopes and generally like noise, but I just didn't click with it, I guess. Maybe something to return to later.

False advertising. Wasn't very green.

The people calling "Rednecks" a racist song failed first-grade listening comprehension. Pretty funny little album. Not something I would personally ever return to, but it's definitely in the best quarter of country albums I've heard. I keep expecting him to start singing "You Got a Friend In Me".

Okay so maybe some cheesy 80s synthpop is good. I especially really like the last two songs that go for a darker song. "The Chauffeur" might be one of the best songs of the 80s.

There are so many things I'd rather be doing than listening to the Byrds' country album, including but not limited to committing arson and getting a prostate exam. Dogwater. I can't think of a more boring and vanilla band than The Byrds. They might be influential in pioneering the folk rock genre or whatever, but they're the ultimate "product of its time" band that has zero appeal to modern ears. They just didn't stick in the same way that The Beatles, The Beach Boys or even The Kinks did. Have you ever met a hardcore Byrds fan younger than 50? I don't get why these guys have 5 albums on this list - "Mr. Tambourine Man" is understandable at least, but anything else is mega overkill.

How to trick people into thinking your album is a masterpiece: 1. Record a generic alt-country album; 2. Add glitchy distortion and cool spaceship sound effects to some songs; 3. Watch as music critics laud you as the second coming of Jesus Christ himself. It's a cute album with some great songs ("Jesus, Etc." my beloved), but one of the best albums of all time? I don't think so, buster. More of a 7/10 in my book. Jeff Tweedy is a really boring singer.

This is great. As a fellow annoying whiner, I can always enjoy a nice old whiny album. Leonard Cohen but by a guy that looks like Han Solo. Gotta love it.

Not beating the pretentious allegations with this one.

This sounds like that one Spongebob episode where Squidward goes to the future and everything is shiny and chrome. It's cheesy and parts of it remind me of intros for old nature documentaries about fish with really bad CGI, but I actually liked it quite a bit.

Boring old people music. I come here solely for albums of German people smashing metal plates together, not this "country rock" stuff or whatever. "The Weight" in question is the weight of my fucking balls, get fucked idiot, more like Music From Big Ass. 2/5

Sad cowboy folk? A much more interesting take on the country genre than the fifty "yeehaw pardner we don't like yer kind in Tennessee (banjo solo)" albums I've had to listen to. Reminds me of Nick Cave's "Ghosteen". They both even have a horse in an ethereal environment on the cover. Yeah, I really like this. 4/5

The whole thing, I think, is sick. Eh. It's fine. This type of nu metal works best in short bursts (40 minutes max for an album - System of a Down are perfect at this), because after a while everything starts blending together and you're left with a bunch of songs of being yelled at about pussy warts or whatever, and it gets old. What I'm saying is that this album is good but repetitive and way too long. It's still probably their best album experience over all. Slipknot's more of a "put the singles in your workout playlist"-kind of band, and that's completely fine, because their singles slap hard.

Twisted and evil album. A true glimpse into the wicked mind of Christina Aguilera, best known for being one of the voice actors in the 2017 hit classic "The Emoji Movie". Shit's fucked. No way to unfuck it.

Haha my name is Eminem. Pee pee, poo poo, farts and pussy (repeat for 50 minutes). He's got the Dr. Seuss "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" flow and it gets annoying fast. Not funny, not even that "offensive", just boring. Aged horribly. Get in the locker.

I still refuse to believe that Country is a popular enough genre to justify having about 50 entries on this list. Imagine all the cool Asian, African and Eastern European albums they could have put on there instead. Not the worst album I've ever heard, but.. come on man. Imagine dying and your last words being "My only regret in life is that I never got to hear that 1974 Gram Parsons album". You're banished from the omniverse, old man. Also negative points for making me think that this was going to be something cool, because the title "Grievous Angel" is metal as fuck. Foiled again.

This is how it feels to drink milk as a lactose-intolerant person.

Yeah speaking of fat people, this really just feels like a slimmed down (ha) version of "The Fat Of The Land" by The Prodigy. Every other Big Beat album pales in comparison to the funny crab album, sorry to say. The most interesting thing about this album is the cover. Who is that man? Is he 15 or 50? Is he still alive? If yes, why didn't he reveal his identity even after Norman Cook wanted to send him money?

Just a few GI bros casually inventing punk rock over 10 years before the actual punk movement started. This is literally the coolest shit ever. This is the musical equivalent of those 10th century Swahili coins that were somehow discovered in Australia and nobody knows how they got there. These guys were doing this since 1965, predating both The Beatles' Revolver and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. That's the power of the bros gettin jiggy with it together.

This is not even rap at this point. This is just a British man talking over GTA loading screen music. One of the worst things I've ever heard. 1/5 is too generous, please change my rating to "Banished to the Shadow Realm". Thank you.

Weird choice for a Talk Talk album when "Laughing Stock" and "Spirit of Eden" exist, but alright. Still good though, like really good even, but kind of seems like Robert Dimery choosing his personal favorite over the objectively more influential choice. "Living in Another World" is one of the best songs of all time.

Peter "Goblin Summoner" Gabriel coming in with another album, and it's probably my favorite of his. I love this silly guy. He seems very capable of casting evil spells and debuffs, but he uses his powers for good. I can definitely imagine Peter Gabriel sitting on a comically oversized boulder with dancing gnomes circling him like he's their nourishing mother (the nourishment being sweet tunes). I really enjoyed it. It's a 5/5.

An exceptionally okay record that made me feel completely no emotions, positive or negative. This is the second album I've had this week that claims to be "the origin of punk", and I definitely enjoyed "Black Monk Time" way more than this. Plus it was released 10 years before this, so I think it has the tighter alibi.

Every song sounds the same. The beats are very underwhelming and the flow is dated. Ugh. Yet another hip hop album that's way too long for its own good.

Stevie's most OK album. It's still good of course, but it's not Innervisions or Songs in the Key of Life. I like the funkier side of his music more than this soft one, and this one just has too many softies on it. Sorry for being a heathen.

This sounds like if you put X-Ray Spex in a pressure cooker and I will not elaborate further. More proof that women are better at punk than men.

Well I wouldn't exactly call this great or anything I'd listen to in my free time, but I got a lot of enjoyment out of it, because it's funny as fuck and never boring. This is basically like baby sensory play for metalheads. Focus on the funny noises. This is the noise a bear makes. What is this one? Right, that's a duck! You're a smart cookie, Xthipsthorfth the Scourge! Definitely doesn't deserve to be one of the lowest rated albums on this site when you have dogshit pig slop like that Kid Rock album as well.

As much as I wish this list had more World music, this album just didn't do anything for me. A very chill album. Too chill. Boringly chill.

This album could just be "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" followed by two hours of fart sounds and it would still be a 5/5.

This feels like God himself came down from Heaven with the blueprint for the greatest album of all time in his hand, but got mugged and the blueprint ended up in the hands of a drunk crackhead. The music fucking sucks ass, but in a good way. I don't know how that works.. it just does.

Phrases like "pretentious artsy bullshit" should be saved for albums like this and not stuff like Throbbing Gristle, The Residents or Captain Beefheart, because those are just people having fun with stupid goofy sounds. This is an album that was specifically designed at a business meeting to be ART. Robert Wyatt rolled into the studio with the preconceived notion that he'd be making ART for NERDS. It doesn't feel genuine or real. It's like if you told an AI to "write a 10/10 album that music magazine reviewers can jerk themselves off to". "Oh you don't get it, the fact that he's singing off-key over the blandest instrumentals known to man is actually a profoundly intricate dadaistic subversion of rhythmical tropes crafted with meticulous attention"-SHUT UP NERD, GET IN THE LOCKER "The Wire named Shleep its record of the year in its annual critics' poll." Yeah, of course it did. Genuinely psychopath music. Listen to Kidz Bop instead like a real man. 0/10.

I swear, there's so much country on this list that I'm going to have this godforsaken genre in my Spotify Wrapped, and people will throw cans at me and laugh. Is that an unedited image of her on the album cover? She looks like a mannequin of a tree spirit, and I mean that as an utmost genuine compliment. Okay, so do country artists ever write their own songs or is the whole genre just a circulating mass of 30 different songs to cover? This is probably the third time I've had to listen to "Coat of Many Colors", and if I had something nice to say about this, it's probably the best version I've heard so far. Certainly better than having to listen to Dolly Parton's Spongebob laugh-ass voice. Who cares. 2/5

Early Bob Dylan. This only means one thing - I'm about to have my ears blown out by the loudest harmonica known to man, causing life-long tinnitus. ...Okay so this was just more generic Country. I was tricked into listening to Country again. God damn it, Robert Allen Zimmerman.

Unhinged clown music by psychos and for psychos. A tad bit TOO crazy, but I still enjoyed it a lot.

First of all, obligatory "Fuck Morrissey" and "Haha I'm eating a steak while listening to this" remarks. I think this is the weakest of their four studio albums. It feels less like a cohesive experience and more like just some songs thrown together. It's the Smiths though, so the songs are still really good. "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Barbarism Begins At Home" are peak. Weak 4/5.

I see that this week's theme is "Weaker albums by my favorite artists". Very influential record, but "Juju" and "Tinderbox" exist and blow it out of the water. Why is the foot on the cover so big.

A disturbing and brutal masterpiece - my favorite album of all time. I'm not very good at writing sincere positive reviews, so I'll just say that I love every song on here. I recommend reading up on Richey Edwards before listening to this. It might seem like an album written by a whiny edgelord at first, but you'll understand that it's essentially a broken man's suicide note. The lyrical structures might not be for everyone. There's not many rhymes here and at times it feels like the singer is really struggling to make the lyrics fit. (Big props to James Dean Bradfield for somehow making it all work). I think it adds to the brutality of the whole experience. There isn't much to latch on structurally, so you're just kind of on a bumpy ride to Fuckville, or whatever. It's like reading a block of text with no punctuation in musical form. (And pretty sure that's how they printed the lyrics as well) I'm rambling here. I don't even know what half of the words I just wrote mean, so I'll stop now before I get super obnoxiously pretentious. Listen to this damn album, man. Stop reading the reviews, MICHAEL. A big ol' 10/10.

Well that was absolutely lovely. This could very well be the most objectively good album I've ever heard. I can't even think of any flaws anyone could find in it. I think you have to be an actual psychopath to hate this (finding it boring is acceptable). Two 5/5s in a row? Shit, maybe this "music" thing ain't so bad after all.

If Björk had been born 40 years later, she would be a TikTok livestreamer. She's the first quirky girl and her biggest sin is not realizing how ungodly boring she is. "What if I put FL Studio glitch sound effects into my songs?" Wow. Never been done before. Björk is truly an experimental visionary. She's been doing the same thing since "Homogenic" in 1997 and music critics have been eating it up, because they have a special dictionary where the word "Experimentation" is defined as: "noun - the act of mumbling over video game pause music". I don't even think she cares about music anymore. Her albums are just an excuse for her to dress up in wacky costumes for the cover.

More inoffensive new wave in a sea of inoffensive new wave. Another album to add to the "I'll never think about this ever again" pile.

Music for people who clap when an airplane lands. Neil Young is Mario, David Crosby is Luigi, and Stephen Stills is Toad. I will not elaborate further, but there are mountains of factual evidence to support my claim. Four albums featuring this guy on a list like this is insanity. That's like four crusty phone videos by your drunk neighbor Ted on a "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list.

This is a pretty good album. I don't get to complain about album length after giving a 5/5 to "69 Love Songs", but I'll say that I'd like more diversity in the songs. They all started to blend together halfway through and there weren't any curveballs that broke up the flow as with "69 Love Songs". I'm probably going to listen to this again, get completely hooked, and then regret this rating, but a 3/5 for a first listen.

I don't know how to properly put this into words, but listening to this album with ADHD feels like getting suffocated.

I have no opinion on this, because I could barely pay attention to it without falling asleep. Absolutely not my kind of music, but at least it didn't assault my ears.

Personally, I would have survived in these situations. A bunch of ballads about murder (shocker) from everybody's favorite Australian Disney villain. It always sucks when the worst song is also the longest song. There is no reason why "O'Malley's Bar" had to be 14 minutes long. Thankfully, that's the only stinker on the album, and the rest is really solid. Nick Cave's got one of the best voices in music. Can't get enough of that scary gremlin. Wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley though.

This had to have been a mistake. - "Hey put that one 2000 underground hip hop album with electronic influences on the list" - "Oh, you mean the Mike Ladd album?" - "No, I mean Deltron 3030 you fucking idiot. Who the hell is Mike Ladd?" - "Whoops, too late. I accidentally put the Mike Ladd one. Can't be undone." How did they even dig this up? I can barely find any info on it on the Internet. It doesn't even have the album cover on Wikipedia, the songs barely have 10k plays on Spotify and the entire album has only 300 ratings on RateYourMusic (about 3 times less than that one album that's just an hour of porn recordings). Okay, this was pretty alright I guess. It's definitely no Deltron 3030, but I'm still glad I got to listen to it. A bit too bloated and long. The rapping parts aren't as good as the atmospheric parts - good thing they spend a considerable time exploring those cool soundscapes, because that's when the album is at its best. This whole thing should have just been an ambient trip-hop album. Man's not a very good rapper.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this isn't one of the most important African albums of all time. I'm going to take another wild guess and say that the writers of this book don't know a lot about African music in general, so they just randomly picked a bunch of albums for diversity sake.

I always feel like a douchebag when I give one of these albums by a smooth gentleman a low score, but I just don't enjoy this kind of music.

I do like me some vaguely-gothic post-punk once in a while, but I don't get Echo & The Bunnymen. They're a diet version of The Cure that suck at song diversity. I've now heard two entire albums by these guys and the only song I remember is "The Killing Moon" off of "Ocean Rain". Everything else blends together into very middle-of-the-road goop of 80s post-punk clichés. Happy to hear that the dog from Family Guy did photography for this album as well. Oh yeah, and speaking of Porcupines, I recently learned that there are no Porcupine Tree albums on this entire list. That's gotta be a crime.

I can't believe KISS was ever considered a heavy band corrupting the youth with their demonic metal. This shit sounds like Christmas music. Hair metal ages in dog years. None of these guys are particularly talented. They're a marketing brand that just so happened to start as a music group. It's like listening to "Hello Kitty - The Album".

This is pretty cool, despite being another album with absolutely zero cultural impact, that was dragged out of the deepest pits of hell and put onto this list by demon king Beelzebub himself. A very "it's the middle of the night and I'm on an empty highway"-kind of album. I dig the aesthetic. Haven't heard anything quite like this. Interesting listen overall. Glad I gave it a chance.

There's a constantly nagging part of my brain that can only be satisfied by listening to German people repeat the same three words for half an hour. Probably Kraftwerk's best album. As always, listen to the German version over the English version.

Oh, this is some crazy ass shit. I was expecting britpop, but I got literally every single genre ever conceived in the history of humanity rolled into one album. Their song diversity game is undefeated. It's like the album itself has ADHD. Strong 4/5.

Fungus music. James Bond music, but infected by The Spores™ (imagine Daniel Craig, but with a giant fungus on his head, ala Toad from Mario). If there's ever a spy movie where the titular spy has to frolic through a mushroom cavern (The Gloomy Grotto), this would be the perfect album for background music. This album's beautiful in a similar way that mold is beautiful. Ever seen a cool piece of mold? This album's a really cool piece of mold. The Terrifying Toadstool of Tokyo shall consume us all. Five outta five.

Why is he singing like he just had a tooth extraction and half of his mouth is anesthetized. It's fine. Can't say I'm a fan of his voice, but I enjoyed some songs.

Water is wet.

Me and the boys going to random whimsical places around the world to pose near cool rocks for our album cover. This album is awesome. If this is by far the worse album between this and "Forever Changes", I'm really excited for the latter one. If there are any lovers of obscure videogames that are confused where they recognize the outro of "Seven and Seven Is" from, it's the victory theme from Space Funeral. You're welcome, I was racking my brain trying to figure that out all day.

Nobody has listened to this album outside the context of this book since like 2006. Snoozefest. I have nothing meaningful to say about this. Next album.

If they ever trap me inside a metal crate I want this album to be playing in the sped-up montage of me slowly losing my mind. Is this a real album or was poor old Ramblin' Jack Elliott recorded without consent by his next-door neighbor? I feel like I'm in a college dorm having to listen to a guy practice guitar at 3AM. Wanna throw canned beans at him. 2/5

MORE? There's TWO Christina Aguilera albums on this list? She's not going to fuck you, my guy. This is apparently the better one though, so whatever. It's more R&B. As always, way too damn long. Nobody should be listening to R&B for over an hour at a time. That's the musical equivalent of overdosing on sugar. Disc 1 is an actual Tartarus punishment. I think I could get married and have 6 children by the time that slogfest wraps up. Disc 2 is where Christina remembers that there's more to music than crooning ChatGPT prompt-ass lyrics over beats that are about as deep as a metronome. It opens with a weird circus song that reminded me I'm listening to a music album and not white noise, and then had a diverse streak of some nice songs. I really liked "Welcome" and "Hurt" especially. 0/5 for disc 1, 3/5 for disc 2. Over all a 2/5 experience that I will never return to in the 378 more years I plan to live on this Earth. (Also this is my 600th album! I bitch and whine a lot, but it's been a fantastic journey so far. I'll miss this a lot when I'm done.)

This is so much fun. This entire album was probably injected by a comically large syringe labeled "FUN". Craving some potatoes right now. The only issue is that this album is too long. Just very slightly too long.

I really like indie rock and noisy music, so I don't know why I can't take Pavement. They sound like a headache to me, which is weird because I can listen to stuff like Sonic Youth, Lightning Bolt or even Einstürzende Neubauten no problem.

Sounds like an impression of Seth MacFarlane's impression of Frank Sinatra. Like something they'd play in Family Guy for a single gag. People who listen to this in their free time are scarier to me than people who listen to harsh noise wall. Too many words. Here's my reaction summed up in three emojis: 😴😴😴

We should take all 90s English Electronica (except Massive Attack) and burn it like Fahrenheit 451. Hunt all copies and any proof of existence, and go full pyromaniac on them. Going "AaaAaaWoooOooAaaa" in your boring instrumental electronica doesn't make it more interesting or sophisticated. "I listen to WORLD MUSIC" and then they put on crap like this. Grab a shovel man. Learn how to grow your own crops man.

"Cult of Personality" is a classic, but I thought most of this album was sort of forgettable. Not bad at all, but not something I'd ever return to. I respect this a whole lot more than a bunch of other 80s rock. You can tell these guys have passion, unlike bands like Kiss and AC/DC.

Björk but good. Really good, god damn. I wasn't expecting to like this but I was completely enchanted. This sounds like something you'd hear a Disney princess singing. Seems like her voice is a bit controversial from reading the other reviews, but I like it. I get that the weird bird yelp she sometimes does can be kind of jarring at first though. Very talented! Glad I listened to this. Definitely doesn't deserve the low global rating (2.72 as of writing this review) - should be above a 3 at the very least!

This album sounds like sewer sludge. In a good way, of course. I don't know why my brain enjoys when the audio quality sounds like total shit. Helen Keller on the mixing serving up straight fire 🔥 5/5 and I will not elaborate further.

Fun, but I'm too dead inside for this kind of music.

Yeah this isn't my sort of music. I've grown to like folk rock music, but this kind of "gather 'round the campfire" folk is nothing but background noise to me. If the main driving force behind the album is the lyrics, you can count me and my ADHD out (unless your name is Joanna Newsom, because I have a strange obsession with goofy medieval music).

This album will come in handy once my insomnia starts acting up again. I can't take this guy's music seriously. I keep expecting "You've Got A Friend In Me" to start playing.

I'm fighting for my life, man. This is the third extremely slow folk album I've had in a row. Begging on my knees for the generator to bless me with anything exciting. I will not waste my finger joints on a deep analysis of "The Trinity Session" by a band named Cowboy Junkies. Here's an image of a fucked up eagle instead: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/454/854/8f9.jpg

Clapton's a man worthy of being boiled in a comically large witch's cauldron, but thankfully they shoved his ass into a corner and told him to be a good little boy and only play the guitar (which he's only adequately good at). The album itself is fine. If I'm ever craving extremely consistently "alright" music, this would be my go-to.

This is easily their best album by several orders of magnitude. Going all in with the afrobeat influence and toning down David Byrne's annoying mumbling makes this the only Talking Heads I can listen to without wanting to rip off my ears! "The Great Curve" is absolutely the best song of their discography. Sometimes I think the only reason people like "Once in a Lifetime" more is because of the great music video. They're both amazing songs though. In fact, all of the first 4 songs are masterpieces. Album takes a nosedive into the shadow realm in the second half though. "Houses in Motion" is boring, but fret not, because "Seen and not Seen" is even more boring! How about three boring tracks in a row? The Talking Heads have you covered - four boring tracks in a row, take it or leave it! It's more of the generic Talking Heads bullshit that I've had to endure two entire albums of ("77" and "Fear of Music"). Boo. Get the funk back on. That makes this album really hard to rate. If this was just the first half, it would easily be one of my favorite albums of all time and a clear ten outta ten. Adding the second half into the equation drops this to something like a 7/10. Gonna listen to Fela Kuti's "Zombie" for the hundredth time now.

This is honestly so cool. Been a while since I've gotten a foreign album that's not only culturally relevant, but also good as hell. You win this time, Robert Dimery.

These motherfucking hour long Playstation 1 demo disc ass albums. Crappy UK House garbage that nobody has listened to outside the context of this book in the last decade. Why are there so many of these shitty electronic albums on this list. Do people actually listen to this slop, or is this a part of some large underground conspiracy? Stay vigilant people, the mole people are real.

This is my favorite Radiohead album, because I'm basic like that. While I think that OK Computer is the obviously better album, I have a stronger connection to this one. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and "Just" are both in my Top 5 most played songs of all time according to Last.fm. Definitely a no skip album, just an amazing trip from the first to the last song.

"California Dreamin'" plus 11 of the most generic 60s pop songs known to man. I don't recall anything from this album and I listened to it 3 hours ago. Who cares. 2/5

Proto Britpop with some surprisingly shoegazey elements. I can fuck with it. A bit middle-loaded (is that a term?), but picks itself back up with the last few songs. I'm an absolute sucker for this kind of music, what can I say. 4/5. Will definitely listen to this again.

I don't get it, I'm afraid :( On paper, this should be a perfect album for me - loud, crunchy sounds, yelling random shit into a microphone that sounds like it was bought at a Tesco clearance sale and it's all only 38 minutes long (the perfect album length)! I'm just kind of underwhelmed by it all. It's not bad or anything, but I don't hear the "best alt rock album of all time" thing so many people seem to be hearing. Most songs blended together except for "Here Comes Your Man", "Monkey Gone To Heaven" and "Gouge Away" which were fantastic. Gonna go with a weak 3/5.

Their most OK album. Not anywhere close to "Funeral" and "The Suburbs" in my opinion. Arcade Fire is so good at making their songs sound nostalgic though. I don't know how they do it, but it's always really cool.

Deep Purple might be the most generic 70s metal band, but jeez sometimes you need a palate cleanser like this to remember that generic doesn't equal bad. A bit samey, but not in an annoying way. "Child in Time" was especially great, really wasn't expecting it to go full on prog rock. Gonna go with a 3/5, not as good as "Machine Head" but still a nice listen.

This is the seventh album starring Neil Young that I've had so far. That is way too much Neil Young for a lifetime. Best album by him so far though. "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" is probably gonna be the only song by Neil Young that I'll actually remember after I'm done with this project. Also put your music back on Spotify you old miserable geezer. Listening to music on Youtube feels degrading somehow.

Fuck off. No more country. Let's be real here - NOBODY listens to country music. We should stop treating it like a major music genre. It makes a lot of money? It's a huge industry? Third most popular genre in America? Nope. All fake. Conspiracy. Money laundering. Paid actors. Thought this book was British. There's really no need to pretend you care about this, Robert Dimery.

Yeah and no more British 80s new wave as well. Unless you lost your virginity to Dexys Midnight Runners, there is no reason to put three of their albums on this list. Rice cake for my ears. Blandest shit ever made.

How did she sample the candy that pops in your mouth on "Banana - Skit". I thought my headphones were breaking. This is awesome. I'm going to steal the top negative review, because I agree with it, but not in the intended way: An album where every song is a seizure. Hell yeah it is, and it SLAPS. I want my brain to be turned into mush with experimentation and crazy sounds.

This whole album feels like being stuck in the Loading Screen Dimension. I was in a trance, barely paying any attention to this album, until the guy said "I think I'm Kenshiro, I think I'm Goku" and I had to triple-check the lyrics.

Spongebob music. I keep forgetting this is an actual genre of music and not just something you put in a movie opening to symbolize a happy day.

Pretty good Joni. Didn't click as much as "Blue" did, but it was still an enjoyable experience. Now put your music back on Spotify, because I feel like a dirty peasant when I have to listen to music on Youtube.

What in Halo: Combat Evolved skateboard dorito chip is this shit and why is it on the list. Listening to the whole album on Spotify seems like the wrong way to consume this. I should be listening to crusty MIDIs of these songs while looking at a GIF of a flaming skull on an old GeoCities site. I love dumb music, but this is sadly kind of boring. Wasting such perfect song names like "Rendezvous with Anus" on a bootleg The Hives track.

Best Gilberto family album so far. More bossa nova, which I'm not the biggest fan of, but with a slight tinge of trip hop which kept it interesting throughout. Surprisingly interesting and tragic backstory on this one as well.

Thought this would be more dogshit 80s synthpop with zero cultural relevance. I was wrong, this is actually pretty good 80s synthpop with zero cultural relevance. Shit, there might actually be something wrong with my music taste, because every time I like an album in a genre I don't usually care for and check the global rating, it's always at something like 2.66/5.

It's no secret that this album is fucking impossible to find anywhere. It's not even simply unavailable like other albums ("Ys" by Joanna Newsom or Neil Young's entire catalogue), there's literally no proof of this album's existence on any streaming service. How does that even happen? Sure as hell wouldn't happen if this were actually good. I sure listened to something. Found a weird Youtube playlist that was missing 14 of the 26 songs. Eh, I guess it was enough to form an opinion. Strange German circus music about war being bad. Truly a thinking man's album. There's some picks on this list that can only be explained by my theory that Robert Dimery consults a Magic 8-Ball. This is one of them. I can't even wrap my head around how this would be on anyone's "most essential albums of all time" list. 1/5 for shitty music and 1/5 for ruining my Spotify playlist where I put the best song from every album on this list. I cast the Curse of Ra upon thee, Dagmar Krause. 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉

At this point I'm more impressed to learn that a psychedelic rock album from the late 60s DIDN'T make this list. It's not bad and "Onie" was beautiful, but come on now.

Most songs sound the same and it hasn't aged the best, but it's still pretty fun. By the way, listen to the Spotify 40th anniversary mono mixes. They sound so much better than the regular 2016 remasters.

Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black, and I'm the Indian of the group. We the people demand more albums that sound like they were made by insane people locked in a steel shack with dwindling supplies. Song structure, choruses, catchy melodies - all of that is for weak babies. Dip your LP into hydrochloric acid and gargle mayonnaise, pussy. This is the real world.

I have become numb to punk albums featuring 4 black-haired British dudes looking at you on the cover. There's better stuff out there. Didn't hate it though.

Ehhhh. Not my favorite type of hip hop. The beats sound very dated and I thought the whole thing dragged on for too long. Definitely not the worst album ever made though.

Background music, but at least I can pretend to be very intelligent while listening to it. Never heard of this guy, but he's apparently won every single award ever conceived and is considered one of the most famous African artists of all time, so good for him!

This is honestly really cool. I'm a fan of weird indie. Reminds me of a much shorter version of "69 Love Songs". The songs drastically vary in quality with some being downright dogshit, but I think that's part of the album's charm in a strange way. No idea where I recognize "My Valuable Hunting Knife" from.

Splinkady-dinkady-doo uhhh my name is Eminem. Orange, blorange, four inch, door hinge, I fucked (sex) and came (penis), this woman is a slut (bitch) and doo doo feces (caca). Please clap. Look how edgy this album is! Here, have another skit about how edgy this album is! Hey, did you know that they won't play this album on the radio? Has some undeniable bangers though. I can't hate on "Stan" and "The Real Slimy Shady".

Whoa this is not what I expected from that album cover. It reminds me of Johnny Cash's later work, but with vaguely Thom Yorke-ish vocals. I have a strange obsession with extremely gloomy and depressing music, so this is right up my alley. Okay yeah, this is incredible. Instantly fell in love with it after my first listen. Easy 5/5.

Prince invents Final Fantasy Chocobo music and talks about sex a lot. There are zero reasons for this to be over 70 minutes long. It might be fun, but do you know what's also fun? Huffing lead paint. Really makes you think.

Donovan strikes me as a guy capable of turning you into a newt, so I don't want to anger him by giving his album anything lower than a 3/5. I can excuse some late 60s psychedelic pop. Especially if it vaguely sounds like weird Renaissance fair music. Shoutouts to my man Tim Buckley.