https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4sEcIHG0Yc By definition, if the album is part of the fucking Library of Congress but not on the list, then I'm putting a pin in the Robert Dimery voodoo doll, because how the hell was this not on the original list. And yes, that includes "Sesame Street: All-Time Platinum Favorites" which is also in the Library of Congress. That is actually true, you are free to fact check. It's free jazz/avantgarde jazz/soundscapes from the elephant torture chamber. It won't be for everyone, but I think this is more my kind of jazz than that smooth stuff. Not sure why. Like, I very barely understand what the hell is going on here. Some parts of this sound like I'm listening to a random note generator, until he randomly pulls out the saxophone Konami code and plays the coolest shit ever for 10 seconds, before reality falls apart again. 4/5. Also somebody should put "The Shape Of Punk To Come" on this list as well. That's a good ass album.

Heartbreaking: Another potentially amazing modern pop album held back by generic, soulless production. Still catchy and an unabashedly queer, decently fun listen though. Belongs on the original list, and I can honestly see it getting added in the newest edition (Brat is absolutely getting on, right?). "HOT TO GO!" was great. Just really hoping to one day get to hear a modern pop album that doesn't sound like a slab of processed ham.

Now this is definitely not something I expected to see on here! I imagine this pick was sort of an "Everywhere at the End of Time" surrogate, since siccing a 7-hour long, incredibly depressing album about Alzheimer's on unsuspecting strangers might be a bit too evil. Solid ambient music with an interesting concept. 3/5 from a musical enjoyment perspective, but you're a legend for submitting this. Waiter, more weird shit please.

This is my suggestion! It was either this or "The Glow, Pt. 2" by The Microphones, but I think we have enough Indie Folk on the list already, so an insane curveball like this was the winner. One of my all time favorites, from one of the most creative, yet also most neglected bands of all time. A mindblowingly dense, extremely fun album. Carefully constructed madness. There's more ideas in a single song on here than some bands' entire careers. The greatest guitar solo of all time on "Fiery Gun Hand", the way Tim Smith holds the final note on "Dirty Boy" for 2 whole minutes, the deep-fried Britpop that is "Manhoo", the mosquito riff on "Nurses Whispering Verses". So much shit to love. Just an insanely deep rabbit hole. Also immensely influential: Mike Patton, Napalm Death, Blur, Radiohead, TOOL, Steven Wilson, just to name a few, all cite these guys as one of their influences. Cheers to everybody who gave this a fair shot despite the fact that it's 90 minutes of not the most accessible music (to say the least). Personally, every time I listen to this, I find it to be the shortest 90 minutes of my life. I don't think I'd cut a single song from the tracklist. 10/10. RIP Tim Smith.

Most 70s prog rock albums are 1 extremely long "best song you've ever heard in your life" and then like 4-5 throwaway garbage that sounds like third-rate Disney soundtracks. Alan Parsons says fuck that, I'm doing "best song you've ever heard in your life" 4-5 times, then 1 extremely long throwaway garbage that sounds like third-rate Disney soundtracks. Truly the Anti Tarkus. 4/5.

Hello, just arrived in this realm. This is my first user album. I probably won't do the entire thing, but I'm excited to see what interesting stuff got submitted! This was a very fun Latin album. I know next to nothing about this kind of music, but I fuck with it. Insane amount of variety for an hour long album. All that was missing was a random Grindcore song to tie it all nicely together.

Fuckers took a bite of my horse, can't have shit in Detroit. Very, very slow. Not my type of folk.

I really love how insane this album is. Some of it works better, some of it falls completely flat on its face, but the one thing that's consistent, is that you have no clue what the next song is going to be. Gotta be the only album in existence to have both the "Baroque Pop" and the "Hip Hop" tags in its Wikipedia infobox.

It's like a generic 80s synthpop album, but with the twist that the lyrics sound like something you'd find written in a public toilet stall. Just to be clear, that's not a bad thing. It is a bit of a jarring combination though.

I saw the genre name for this was "Neo-Prog". My mind went to stuff like Cardiacs and Black Midi, but all I got was U2. This is one sleigh bell away from being actual Christmas music. Not a fan.

Yeah, now that's the shit. An absolutely insane omission from the original list - both this, and Lateralus. I'd say this is their best album. Hits the perfect middle ground between the heavier Undertow and the proggier Lateralus. "Third Eye" is the best song they've ever done. That refrain will never not give me chills.

I like post-hardcore, but man, this guy is only capable of yelling in one specific tone and it makes everything blend together so much. Very repetitive and very depressing. Wasn't in the mood for something like this right now. Rarely am. Interesting choice though.

Great choice! Crazy how there are NO Emo/Emo-Pop albums on the original list. Just an entire subgenre (one of the most popular ones of all time) completely ignored because Robert Dimery said that "he doesn't like this kind of music". Weak. The children love it and the children crave more of it. I am the children. This shit rocks. 4/5.

"Me and Your Mama" and "Redbone" are great, but nothing else really stuck in my mind... Except for that one song with unfathomably dogshit autotune that completely ruins the vibe of the record and made me burst out laughing. It's alright though. A completely fine album, and a better and more worthy pick than like 90% of the 2010s albums on the actual list.

Family Guy cutaway music. Props to the guy who submitted this though.

"Picaresque" is one of my favorite albums, but I've never bothered to check out the rest of the Decemberists' catalogue, so this was a fun listen. Interesting rock opera, way more proggy than I expected. Very "Central European fairytale"-esque plot. Cool pick!

Factory settings country music.

To cite my almost 3 year old review of the EW&F album that was on the original list: "Listening to Earth, Wind & Fire gives me the same vibes as watching UFO sightings on Youtube." Still haven't figured out what that truly means, but it's true. Anyways, this is pretty alright.

Album cover goes hard as fuck. Screenshotted and shared with my 32-year-old grandson "Félipé" immediately. Unique vocal style for this kind of punk. Was there even any 90s pop-punk on the original list other than Green Day? Guess there wasn't any space for it, because god forbid somebody dies without hearing all three Dexys Midnight Runners albums. Whatever, this slaps. Great pick!

World music is always appreciated, but this was kinda annoying.

Thank you for the user album submission, Robert Dimery.

This is like submitting "Air Bud" to a 1001 Movies List, but I deeply respect that, and I'm all here for it. Actually way more fun and consistent than I expected. Sampling "Lullaby" by The Cure is a nutty choice.

Getting an album with the opening track "The New Year" on December 31st. Cute indie, nothing special though. I was also under the impression that this was an Emo band, so it was a bit of a surprise when Owl City Man 2.0 came in with the vocals.

For an album that seems to put so much effort into its sequencing, this felt like a completely incomprehensible disjointed mess. Too ambitious for its own good. Overlong, boring. Still has some standouts though, like "3005". I like the fart synths on that one.

Heartbreaking: Another potentially amazing modern pop album held back by generic, soulless production. Still catchy and an unabashedly queer, decently fun listen though. Belongs on the original list, and I can honestly see it getting added in the newest edition (Brat is absolutely getting on, right?). "HOT TO GO!" was great. Just really hoping to one day get to hear a modern pop album that doesn't sound like a slab of processed ham.

Very chill jazz. Would have personally gone for "Chet Baker Sings" for a Chet album. Guy was both a great trumpeter and a singer. Don't do three trillion kilograms of heroin, kids.

Not much of anything. Forgettable alt-country.

I was going to say that this sounds suspiciously similar to Les Rallizes Dénudés, and as it turns out, the lead singer was in a LRD cover band (and like 30 other bands, holy shit). "Sticky Hulks" especially, with its screeching psychedelic guitars, the vocal effects, the intonation. The inspiration is extremely clear. Amazing, loved it. Definitely not what I was expecting from the album cover. Strong 4/5!

His second best album, love the guy's work. Amazing, beautiful, heart wrenching. Five outta five.

I thought The Posies were a really generic pop rock band for some reason, but this was not that. Surprisingly very solid. Some darker alt rock is always a good time. Cool shit. 4/5.

Dob Bylan. These guys had an album on the original list as well, but I can't remember anything about it. This sounds vaguely like The Postal Service sung by a Bob Dylan homunculus. It's alright. Not anything I'd ever revisit though.

Inexplicably unavailable on streaming in Europe (same thing for their debut). Less post-punk and catchy hits, but way more cheese. I think the original list's B-52's was enough.

I sadly couldn't get any enjoyment out of this, because I'm still lost on the fact whether MF DOOM is a dangerous evil villain feared by many and if Spider-Man is after him. I think one more 3 minute long skit of 50s cartoon characters talking could have really brought this one together. Also, obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THOUT3vZnSY

"This sounds like Elvis Costello" is the scariest possible sentence to see when you first open the reviews before listening to this. Slightly better than Elvis Costello, but maybe that's only because this one doesn't carry the "Oh god, I still have to listen to 5 more of these" weight that getting an Elvis Costello album album meant on the original list.

This sure was a bunch of very quiet 10-minute long French songs.

More painfully average 80s music with one big hit and a whole bunch of nothing. Sorry, not a fan in the slightest.

Cool stuff! -50 points, because now I'm going to have "Lady Marmalade" stuck in my head for a week.

Inferior version of the Persona 3 soundtrack.

A fine addition to my "What the fuck is this and why does it slap so hard" collection that I am slowly accumulating by going through these user submitted albums. Also a worthy addition to the "Albums that sound the least like their album covers" list. Extremely unexpected but welcome Ska Punk jumpscare.

This was sort of like listening to dust and cobwebs.

Donkey Kong Country music. Pretty interesting, despite the fact that I don't exactly dig this sort of electronic music. The Kate Bush cover was surprisingly really well made. "Tick of the Clock" was the standout though. Despite being 15 minutes of roughly the same thing, it's strangely hypnotizing.

Damn, and I thought I was kind of crossing the treshold for submitting that 80-minute Cardiacs album. Can't stand this dude. I could hardly sit through "Born to Run". Listening to an over 2 hours long Bruce Springsteen live album is an actual Tartarus punishment for my wicked soul.

Wasn't expecting to be listening to Australian Aboriginal music today, but what a great surprise. The guy who submitted this understood the assignment. A hidden gem. Thank you for sharing this.

Not something for me, but I see the appeal. Personally found the singer's voice kind of grating and everything too samey. I'm probably not American enough for this.

I think I prefer his debut "We Cool?" a bit more, but there's no denying that this guy's probably the best and most consistent modern pop-punk artist. Four outta five. I'm a sucker for this kind of thing.

Mr. President, a second two-hour long live album has hit the user-submitted albums. Okay, you know what, fuck it. I AM in the mood for this today. Bring it on. (2 hours later) That was not so bad. Wish more of this was as psychedelic as "Stash" and spent less time on pointless noodling like the entirety of "You Enjoy Myself" and "Tweezer" (the two longest songs, ugh). Still, I'm really surprised it kept my attention all the way through.

Other reviews mention this not being on Spotify, but I personally found it in one search, so I think it's just a region-locking issue? This is awesome. Very interesting backstory as well. More African albums are always appreciated.

Pretty good hip hop. Very Tupac-esque. I've heard of this before, but never listened to it. From the praise I've seen this get, I was expecting something more envelope-pushing, I think. Still an interesting listen though.

Primus was totally robbed a spot from the original list, same with Ween. I demand more bullshit music like this. Not as good as "Frizzle Fry", probably even "Pork Soda", but a worthy inclusion and a great time. Strong 4/5.

Listening to this album reminded me of how it feels to not be listening to an album.

A bit too overly-dramatic for me to file this under the best music genre of all time - "goofy medieval music". Also, this is going to be extremely specific, but it reminded me too much of music you'd find in Youtube compilations titled something like "Royalty Free Viking Music For Your D&D Campaign 10 Hours (No Ads)". 2/5, but a weird kind of 2/5, because I can tell that I would have absolutely loved it with some production tweaks.

Dollar store Eddie Vedder. Genuinely can't tell if this is supposed to be a parody album.

Some of that goofy shit, love to see it. I've only heard "Only a Lad" by Oingo Boingo before and while I think I prefer that one, this was absolutely groovy as hell. Knows how to stand out, which is a super important thing when it comes to New Wave.

🫲😩🫲 Not bad. Kinda generic.

Gizzing so hard right now. Not only do King Gizzard deserve a spot on the list, they feel like a band that should have at least 3 albums on there with their insanely diverse discography. This is 42 minutes of raw energy. It's one of the most pure fun albums ever recorded and one of the best of the 2010s by one of the most hard-working bands of all time. Easy 5/5. Also recommend "I'm In Your Mind Fuzz" to anyone who liked this and would like to hear more.

Fartstep. Pretty minimalistic krautrock. Very gloopy, very bloopy.

Every second, this album throws a coin to decide whether it wants to be indie rock like Interpol, or hard rock like Pearl Jam. Would this count as Emo? No idea. Anyways, interesting record, thanks for sharing. Kinda depressing, but I was sort of in a mood for that. I don't think I'd ever listen to this over the aforementioned Interpol though.

Not really the biggest fan. It's just kind of pointless noodling for an hour. I have nothing against jam bands (that Phish live album on this list was pretty good!), but I couldn't find anything here to latch onto. Very nondescript vocals, lyrics and guitar playing. It's like a jam band with default presets and no sauce. The most interesting moments were when they quoted some famous songs, like the Pink Panther or Ghostbusters themes. That was pretty cool. Also some meta bullshit: I think some users forget that nobody is forcing them to listen to these albums at gunpoint. There is literally zero reason to tell someone to rethink their life choices over an album choice, lmao

Smooth electronic R&B. Probably too smooth, even. It's good background music, but not something I ever look for personally.

Somebody beat me to the Sega video game music comparison.

I didn't notice the release date and listened to the whole thing thinking that this was a 1970s band. So if their goal was to record "more of the same old, played out country", I'd call it a success. Not for me though.

80s new wave albums try to be anything more than "Two pretty good singles and ten more of the most boring songs you've ever heard in your life" challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Pretty cool Avant-Folk. A bit too samey though. "Ogre" was great. Above all else, I am very fond of the funny red creature on the album cover.

Switches between "generic pop" and "ethereal forest music" like a metronome. I think I liked it?

Scientifically proven, you can't get more Australian than this before imploding into a black hole. 4/5

Reminds me a bit of drowning in mud.

Listening to this is feels like inhaling tonnes of microplastics and preservatives. All the songs are either the guy singing like he's getting chased by a Scooby Doo monster over FL Studio preset trap beats, or the obligatory "obvious radio hit bait". Not a fan.

A brave cross between Swedish folk music and the Hampster Dance.

"Chamberlain came crawling from Munich, with one piece of paper..." Feels weird listening to this today. Feels weird acknowledging how weird it is. ...And that's about all the emotions I got from this. Rest's the usual jangle pop dross. Singer sounds like all the Beatles at once, but with the cadence of Bob Dylan.

Some amazing lyricism, also has the sound quality of a 1900s telephone broadcast from across the Atlantic - which is actually a positive thing. Heard some stuff about this album and band before, but never listened to it. As it turns out, it's really good. 4/5.

Not as good as "How It Feels to Be Something On", but still a milestone Emo record that should definitely have been on the list. Also one of the rare albums where some of the best songs are the bonus tracks. Very much worth it to stick around for "8" and "9". Strong 4/5.

Actually mindblowingly incredible, holy shit. So far my winner for the best new album I've discovered through the user submissions by several orders of magnitude. Now I have to go on a Dub binge.

Weakest of the three big modern psych acts (King Gizz, Oh Sees, this), but still enjoyable. Vocals all over the place, shit travels into the nightmare dimension in the last couple of songs. Weird. 3/5?

+50 points right off the bat for the gall to submit an avant-garde metal album. Never heard of this, but I'm super intrigued. Wow, incredible. An insane blend of metal, post-rock, jazz and a whole bunch of other stuff that the album cycles between before any of them can get stale. Probably a really unusual comparison to make, but the band that this reminded the most of would be Talk Talk. Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock, Metal edition? I hope everybody gives this the fair shot it deserves and doesn't immediately get scared away by the Wikipedia tags or song lengths, since it's not even all that inaccessible all things considered. Fantastic pick, 5/5.

I really can't take Steven Wilson's lyrics seriously in Porcupine Tree or his solo work, but the guy can compose a fine ass tune. Somebody should tell him to finally bite the bullet and become a full-time "JRPG final boss battle theme" writer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5pEFAm63NM

Cute finger food album. Not what I was expecting from the album cover at all. Hard to hate. 3/5.

No idea what this is. Haven't even heard "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and that's got like 200 million streams. Did I just slip into a different dimension? Extremely similar to Genesis. Formed in the same year. Seems like one of those things where if a butterfly flapped its wings on a random day in 1967, we would have had the drummer of Procol Harum doing the Tarzan soundtrack instead. Anyways, pretty good, but not something I'd ever return to.

Well, they don't exactly call it "Easy Listening" for its depth and complexity. Great music for when I'm deviously setting up Rube Goldberg traps in my home to catch a stripey-shirted robber with a burlap sack on his back.

John Mayer seems like the type of guy to find mayonnaise too spicy.

This album sounds like it's violently fighting against every interesting idea that pops into its head.

Very unusual pick for a TMBG album. I think most people would go for "Flood" or "Lincoln" instead, but hey, it's a free country. Pretty good. Has that same nerdy quirkiness of their older stuff, just not as tight of a package with no real standout tracks. 3/5.

Like listening to a divorce.

As a connoisseur of silly creatures, I have to begin by saying that I am a big fan of the silly creature on the album cover. Whoa, this is awesome. It's like zoomer sophisti-pop. Very reminiscent of, and I also imagine, very inspired by various video game soundtracks such as the "Earthbound-like indie RPG scene" and Persona. Maybe it doesn't flow the best and should have probably been like 20 minutes shorter, but I was fully in the zone. Strong 4/5, maybe even a 5/5. Depends how I'm feeling tomorrow. Update: Alright fine. It's a 5/5. This is an immaculate vibe. Also remembered I am legally not allowed to complain about album lengths after submitting the Cardiacs album.

Enormous sound. Reminded me a bit of both The Decemberists and Mars Volta, which probably sounds like the most fucked up Venn diagram known to man. Theatrical and over the top, which isn't a bad thing in my book. Feels weird to be thrown into the fourth part of a massive six-part story, but then again, not like it makes this much more incoherent than your average prog rock concept album.

Just some more alt rock for the alt rock pile. Not bad, not great. Whatever, man.

Norwegian penis music.

This is my third time hearing this album and I've only just realized that there is no woman involved in this. That's a man's voice through a filter. All of it. What the fuck. Anyways, it's alright. Porter Robinson is more of a singles artist to me. One or two songs in a while is fine, but an entire album's worth of this stuff is too much for me. I've tried to get this to grow on me, but it never goes past "that was pretty good, I guess".

Hell yeah. The most baffling exclusion from the list save for "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea". MCR is the quintessential 2000s band. When you think emo, early internet, aughties music, or literally just the concept of black clothes - this is the first thing that comes to mind. 10/10, and shame on Robert Dimery and his blatant anti-emo bias.

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A bit like The National, but without the feeling that you just took thirty kilograms of Ambien. Not the most mindblowing thing ever made, but sometimes some "pretty good alt rock" is all you need in life.

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SU0gFPMwP8 Jesus fucking Christ, who is the evil warlock forcing modern pop/indie artists to sing with that godforsaken affectation and how do we break his curse. Justin Vernon was pretty good though. Other than that, this is a pretty standard concept album about the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with an Americana spin. Extremely cheesy, kinda just straight up stupid at times, but that's par for the course, I guess. Not a Musicals kind of guy. Interesting choice nonetheless. Strong 2/5.

Big fan of albums that sound like they were recorded inside a giant pressure washer. RIP Steve Albini, greatest to ever do it. Gets better with every listen.

The Sound is basically the most "good" post-punk band. Not mind-blowing, not amazing, but there isn't a bad moment on here. It's all good. Is "good" good enough? Who knows. 3/5.

This makes me feel like the walls are closing in. It's like the music's in an uncanny valley between Metal and "Ay, ay, ay, I'm your little butterfly"-ass Eurodance. So insanely over-the-top dramatic and epic, that it ends up feeling plastic, fake and annoying. The male vocalist is especially awful. Dude probably thinks he's Sephiroth. I kinda see the appeal, and "Amaranth" is a great single by them (not on this album though), but it's a 1/5 from me.

Arguably one of the most influential bands of all time? Kinda crazy this wasn't on the original list now that I think about it. It's death metal, so obviously it won't be for everyone, but I think even those people can appreciate the insane musicianship on display. Personally love it. Some of the riffs on here are genuinely some of the coolest shit I've ever heard in my life. Five outta five.

Grime is such a funny genre. Why do all of these beats sound like cartoon characters slipping on ice. Much better than that godawful Dizzee Rascal album from the original list. Actually had fun with this. A pleasant surprise.

One of those albums where you'll be saying "This reminds me of [insert indie band here]" to yourself after every song. Vaguely Middle Eastern/South Asian sounding psychedelic rock. Kind of a mixed bag with some bangers and some total misses. Second half was better than the first. I think I enjoyed it though. Interesting choice. 3/5.

Sounds like a cross between The Dismemberment Plan and Deftones. Drags on like a motherfucker by the end and kind of ruins the well knit-together first half of the album by falling into pretty generic alt rock territory (basically everything after "X-French Tee Shirt"). No issue with Post-Hardcore, in fact please inject that shit directly into my bloodstream, just kinda thought this was pretty unremarkable all things considered. Strong 2/5.

Second dub album, hell yeah. A genre that was sorely missing from the original list. Not as good as the King Tubby album I had a few weeks ago, but still - hell yeah. This ape is so super, dude.

Their best album and the album that got me into music. I still remember the first time I heard the vocals on Sheep transition into a synth, mimicking the bleat of a sheep, and realized that music is more than just fun bleeps and bloops. I've heard this probably close to a 100 times already, and it hasn't grown old or stale. A masterpiece. Thanks for submitting.

It seems like every time somebody says they don't like Sublime, it's not because of the music, but rather because they associate it with an annoying frat bro they knew named Chadley or something. Anyways, banger. Another baffling exclusion from the list. On a roll the past few days.

Eighty feral hogs are rapidly approaching your location.

Most 70s prog rock albums are 1 extremely long "best song you've ever heard in your life" and then like 4-5 throwaway garbage that sounds like third-rate Disney soundtracks. Alan Parsons says fuck that, I'm doing "best song you've ever heard in your life" 4-5 times, then 1 extremely long throwaway garbage that sounds like third-rate Disney soundtracks. Truly the Anti Tarkus. 4/5.

Ah, Fontaines D.C. Thought this was a K-Pop band for the longest time for some godforsaken reason. It's a pretty good post-punk record. Nothing mindblowing, but it gets the job done with some really thick Irish accents. 3/5.

One day I'm going to wake up and find out that somebody submitted the Tarzan soundtrack to this fucking thing. More power to you of course, but listening to this felt like slowly succumbing to "The Rot".

Crazy this wasn't on the list, since this is exactly the type of British nothing-alt rock that music journalists go crazy for. Wish I understood what makes this special.

Don't really care for Death Cab For Cutie, but this is pretty good. Opening and closing tracks especially. So many people ripped this sound off. Not this album's fault or anything, but I can't get that fucking "You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies.." song out of my head while listening to this.

I can't take this band seriously, man. The Blink-182 singer is like the male version of cursive singing. Enema is better. Both kinda suck though.

Better than I expected. Worth sticking through those ungodly boring opening 3-4 tracks, because it actually gets pretty interesting after that. Once the whole band finally chimes in is when this gets good. More of that and less of Norah Jones 2.0 singing over "piano_preset.mp3".

Not gonna lie, this was fucking awesome. I was very skeptical going into this, since a French live punk album that's 70 minutes long is a totally demonic concoction, but it somehow didn't get old. It's just really solid punk rock. A lot of fun despite the fact that I have no idea what's being said. Sounds a bit like Misfits or Bad Religion.

This is better than the Korn album in the book, since with this I don't have to listen to that Fred Durst rap-battle song. "Blind" is pretty good. "Daddy" is really heavy and disturbing. Not sure about the rest of the songs. Might be heresy to say this, but I think Korn is more of a "put your favorites in a playlist"-kind of band rather than an albums band. Also still not sold on the vocals.

Type O Negative albums are always like 20 minutes longer than they need to be, and I don't think anybody would miss those sex sound intermissions, but cool shit nonetheless. "Black No. 1" is probably the undisputed best goth metal song of all time. Peter Steele is also probably the undisputed "guy with the most powerful aura" of all time. RIP, legend. 4/5.

This is my suggestion! It was either this or "The Glow, Pt. 2" by The Microphones, but I think we have enough Indie Folk on the list already, so an insane curveball like this was the winner. One of my all time favorites, from one of the most creative, yet also most neglected bands of all time. A mindblowingly dense, extremely fun album. Carefully constructed madness. There's more ideas in a single song on here than some bands' entire careers. The greatest guitar solo of all time on "Fiery Gun Hand", the way Tim Smith holds the final note on "Dirty Boy" for 2 whole minutes, the deep-fried Britpop that is "Manhoo", the mosquito riff on "Nurses Whispering Verses". So much shit to love. Just an insanely deep rabbit hole. Also immensely influential: Mike Patton, Napalm Death, Blur, Radiohead, TOOL, Steven Wilson, just to name a few, all cite these guys as one of their influences. Cheers to everybody who gave this a fair shot despite the fact that it's 90 minutes of not the most accessible music (to say the least). Personally, every time I listen to this, I find it to be the shortest 90 minutes of my life. I don't think I'd cut a single song from the tracklist. 10/10. RIP Tim Smith.

Sounds like every other Vampire Weekend album I've heard, but this one doesn't have any of the hits. Not feeling it.

I don't think this is masterpiece, or even anything close to one, but it definitely deserved to be on the original list. One of the landmark 90s albums, super nostalgic, and songs like "My Name is Jonas" and "Say It Ain't So" are still certified bangers. Shame on the dumb fucking anti-Emo bias the book had. So insanely stupid to write off an entire genre - one of the biggest ones of all time - just because Robert Dimery's not a fan. And yes, that's actually the reason this and many other Emo albums weren't on the list. The Arcade Fire entry of the book talks about how the band is saving music from "Emo trash". Suck my nuts, man. Still the funniest album cover of all time though. They're just standing there. Favorite activity of mine is photoshopping the guys into backgrounds of various photographs.

In the famous words of a fellow reviewer: Ni fu ni fa. I get this has a legendary status in Canada, but to me it just sounds like They Might Be Giants if they made generic alt rock.

These guys are like RHCP, but instead of doing black tar heroin, they all had comically oversized lollipops and propeller hats. It's good.

Ah cool, the weekly obligatory "overproduced modern pop album". This sure was 12 songs arranged in a particular way, alright. It had music, by god, it even had lyrics. What will they think of next?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4sEcIHG0Yc By definition, if the album is part of the fucking Library of Congress but not on the list, then I'm putting a pin in the Robert Dimery voodoo doll, because how the hell was this not on the original list. And yes, that includes "Sesame Street: All-Time Platinum Favorites" which is also in the Library of Congress. That is actually true, you are free to fact check. It's free jazz/avantgarde jazz/soundscapes from the elephant torture chamber. It won't be for everyone, but I think this is more my kind of jazz than that smooth stuff. Not sure why. Like, I very barely understand what the hell is going on here. Some parts of this sound like I'm listening to a random note generator, until he randomly pulls out the saxophone Konami code and plays the coolest shit ever for 10 seconds, before reality falls apart again. 4/5. Also somebody should put "The Shape Of Punk To Come" on this list as well. That's a good ass album.

Mogwai is fine, but they're my least favorite of the "big 90s post-rock" bands. Not really sure why. Probably because they haven't perfected that buildup->payoff formula as well as the others. Some songs are way too much buildup for not enough payoff. Most notably "Mogwai Fear Satan" which barely goes anywhere despite being 16 minutes long. Still enjoyable though, and I definitely agree that the list needed more post-rock.

Whoa, this is some cool stuff. It's cute, simple indie folk. Very easy listening. Vocals remind me of The Magnetic Fields and a bit of the Black Country, New Road guy if he wasn't in constant agony. Clever lyrics, but that kind of clever where one half of people will really love it and the second half of people will want to throw rotten tomatoes at this dude. Great pick, thanks for sharing! This is one of those albums I would have never come across.

World War II combat footage audio quality.

Can't do Gecs. It's totally beyond me. It's probably the fifty layers of autotune and the "random xd" humor that makes this sound like nails on chalkboard to me. The Garden pulls off this weird manic shit so much better. Better than their debut. 1/5.

There's like a 98% chance this will be in the new edition of the book if they're still making them, so greetings from the User Albums list to all the people listening to this over on the original list in 2028. This is probably their best album since Disintegration. Not like that's a particularly big hurdle to overcome, but it's always awesome to see an artist pull off something that can stand alongside their classics 40 years after their prime.

Halo 3 kill montage music. Extremely "Early 2000s". Endearingly kitschy in a weird way, but this is very much not my type of metal.

They fucking got me. I'm so mad. It's like a Dutch RHCP clone. The "Dutch" part makes that seem like it would be kind of interesting, but really, if I didn't read that little Wikipedia blurb before listening, I would have never even suspected this is a non-Anglosphere band. Just your run-of-the-mill funk rock. Very long, very dated.

Nowhere near as consistent as I remember it being. "Face to Face" is amazing, "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Crescendolls" are pretty good as well, but the rest is generic, overly long electronica. Really weird production on here as well. Can't describe why it sounds so off to me. It's strangely hollow and uncanny valley. Especially noticeable on "One More Time". "Alive 2007" is better. 2/5.

Arguably one of the most influential album of the 90s, even if mostly retrospectively. Changed both indie music and annoying music discussion forums forever. Like another reviewer said - this truly was like the second coming of "The Velvet Underground & Nico". I dare to say that this is the original list's most glaring omission. A beautiful masterpiece with some of the greatest and most genuine lyricism of all time. It's a 5/5. Actually even a 10/10.

I think this is her most consistent and creative album. Weird how they had Medúlla and Vulnicura on the original list over this one. That's like having Ummagumma instead of Dark Side of the Moon for Pink Floyd.

Now this is definitely not something I expected to see on here! I imagine this pick was sort of an "Everywhere at the End of Time" surrogate, since siccing a 7-hour long, incredibly depressing album about Alzheimer's on unsuspecting strangers might be a bit too evil. Solid ambient music with an interesting concept. 3/5 from a musical enjoyment perspective, but you're a legend for submitting this. Waiter, more weird shit please.

Not a fan of blink-182. They kinda stink-182.

They call him Led Blimp. They call him Shallow Purple. No idea who this guy is, but it's like listening to a homunculus of every 70s hard rock band imaginable. Serviceable.

Just started getting into this band like three weeks ago. It's great indie rock with a slight alt-country tinge and a vocalist that sounds like he'd be on stage spinning around like Taz from Looney Tunes. Maybe just a tad bit too long, but it's alright - that messiness actually sort of fits the vibe. "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" is an incredible opener. I absolutely adore that fucky guitar outro that sounds like somebody choking a hamster. 5/5, great pick.

If you'd asked me to predict what this album sounds like before I listened to it, "Newfoundland sea shanties" wouldn't have been in my top 100 guesses. Kinda silly, not gonna lie.

This is the most 3/5 thing I've ever heard in my life.

I thought Jimmy Eat World was more of an Indie Pop/Emo band, but this is just straight up no bullshit Emo. Pretty cool. I think I like this one more than "Bleed American". Also just realized why I've never seen anybody refer to this band with an acronym before.

You know what, if I randomly stumbled upon this in my Spotify recommendations, I'd probably write it off as just some simple, kinda cute, but ultimately forgettable alt rock. But the fact that somebody out there loves this enough to submit it onto this list over literally every other album ever made endears it to me so much. Cool shit. I love it. And it reminds me why I love this list so much as well. Does that make sense? Not sure. 4/5 though. Reminds me a bit of The Bends-era Radiohead, strangely The Kinks as well. Very interesting instrumentation. Every song has something extra in it that makes it stand out from the rest.

A banging, super fun Krautrock album. Huge fan of jam bands that sound specifically like this. Swear to god, the Germans had a time machine back in early 1970s. It sucks that the "Improvisation" tracks aren't on Spotify, because they rock as well. Definitely don't skip them. The title track sounds like a lost "Saucerful of Secrets"-era Pink Floyd song.

Were there really no East Asian albums on the original list or am I forgetting something? Kinda crazy. That being said, this is just kind of basic J-Pop. Some cool moments near the end, like the Kingdom Hearts song, but pretty generic over all. I think something city poppier like "Timely!!" by Anri would make a better first impression for this genre.

My biggest problem with R&B is usually the fact that the songs are way too long and super overpolished, so this is right up my alley. Crazy how well this works despite being unfinished. If you had told me it's meant to sound like this, I would have totally believed you. Some really, really cool sounds. 4/5. Thanks for sharing.

The least sleepy album by everybody's favorite auditory Ambien producer, The National. Not sure what's up with this band's sound, but the second a soundwave of one of their songs touches my ear, my whole body powers down like a cyborg getting unplugged. I think I should like this more than I actually do. Better than "High Violet", but so is smoking asbestos.

Default preset R&B. Like listening to the concept of oxygen.

This has aged 10 years in 10 months. Charli had a great thing going with almost Industrial-sounding Hyperpop back on "how i'm feeling now". Not sure why everybody looked at this pretty fun, but ultimately shallow club pop album and said: "Yes, this is our favorite diva now." It's still good and I enjoy a significant chunk of the songs on here, but people were talking about it like it saved pop music or something. All chips on this being mostly forgotten about in 5 or so years. Already feels like it has faded away after the depressing way Brat Summer had to end in November 2024.

Not as well paced as their later works (by that I mean literally their next album), but still amazing. One of the most apocalyptic-sounding albums of all time and a side of post-rock that wasn't captured by the original list at all. Wish the LP version was available on streaming as well.

This is like a musical weighted blanket. Strangely comforting, insanely heavy soundscapes. The MBV and Boris influences are very clear. Wish the album sequencing was a bit better done. Like another reviewer mentioned, this really does feel like a collection of disconnected songs rather than a full album. Still love it though. 4/5.

Solo album by Roger "🗿" Waters. Really shows how much Roger needed the other guys and how much the other guys needed Roger. There was a celestial balance that tipped during The Wall and got obliterated inside a black hole during The Final Cut. Could have been an interesting concept album if he had somebody yanking his chain, because this just ends up feeling like "Middle-aged man rambling for 40 minutes" otherwise. Wonder how the alternate universe where they worked on this instead of The Wall looks like.

Nine Inch Nails meets Butthole Surfers meets that one Futurama episode where Bender goes to Robot Hell. Really dumb. On purpose of course. Also fun and way more musically diverse than you'd expect from an album like this. Enjoyed it. Not as good as "Hole" though, the only other Foetus album I've heard. Strong 3/5.

Poo Fighters.

Awesome surprise to see this band on here! Fantastic shoegazey indie rock from Denmark that stays consistently beautiful throughout. Probably a really shitty comparison, but it sounds a bit like if you told the Sigur Rós guys to do a Radiohead album. "Comforting Sounds" is an all-timer.

Not sure what to think about this. Pretty sure I wouldn't like it even if I understood the lyrics. Just kinda seems like kitschy hard rock to me.

Ian MacDonald and Michael Giles concoct a potion in their lab that extracts every bit of fun from a King Crimson album. Very talented guys and KC is pretty much the greatest band of all time, but this is very much not my thing and lowkey highkey kinda boring.

Default preset screamo. Not great, not terrible. Their later albums are more interesting from what I remember. 3/5.

Probably the loneliest sounding album of all time. A very heavy listen. I know some people call this their comfort album, but it's so strangely disturbing to me. The emptiness and the way the vocals echo feels very crushing. It's like you've been stuck floating in space alone for 30 years and your brain is occupying itself by trying to recall Nick Drake songs. Strong 3/5. Super interesting.

Word of the day: Purgatory.

Third John Martyn. "Solid Air" is solid (ha), but the rest of his catalogue seems to go way too deep into generic 80s territory. It's not bad, but it's also totally forgettable. What can I say. They call him John Martyn cause he be fartin. 2/5.

Having a band named Savages in the 2010s is so crazy. Like, how was that not already taken. That should have been the name of a 1970s one-hit-wonder garage rock band. Siouxsie & The Banshees but with a bit less sauce. Still good though. Anyways, just learned that this band has the funniest feud of all time with Sufjan Stevens of all people, after he criticized the font choice on this album cover (valid).

We really went from no Tool albums on the original list to three Tool albums on the user list. Gotta hand it to Tool fans. I always underestimate this band. This is really not the kind of music you'd expect to be pulling 200 million Spotify streams on some songs. Is it an essential metal opus like Lateralus and Aenima? Nah. Too unfocused and bloated for that. Did I still have fun with it? Definitely. 4/5.

Band name doesn't ring any bells, but I recognize "Don't Marry Her" from somewhere. No idea where though. That godawful album cover is really not doing this any favors, but it ain't that bad. Folksy sophisti-pop, with some crazy-ass curveballs thrown into the track listing. Not something I'd ever return to, but at least it was listenable. Strong 2/5.

Sufjan S-two-vens.

First third: Thirty squirrels standing in a circle in the forest, alternating their piss streams in a harmonizing way. Second third: Scrapped soundscapes from the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack. Final third: Tripping balls in the bathroom stall at a rave. I fuck with this heavy. No idea why. It's so hard to describe Ambient music and what makes it work for me. It's almost like my brain throws a dice and picks whether I enjoy it, or find it to be the most boring thing I've ever heard in my life. Rolled a 4/5 this time.

X-Ray Spex but without the saxophones, what even is the point smh Like an angel without its wings. 2/5.

Instrumentation as generic as it gets, lyrics sounding like they were written by a fifteen year old, 26 people working on the production - now we're cooking with gas. Unfathomably boring. [GIRLYPOP-SERIAL_NUMBER-3291394] doesn't bring anything interesting to the table. Comparing this to the other (actually good) contemporary pop artists on the user list like Chappell Roan and Charli xcx, this is a slab of tofu.

Jarvis, shove saltine crackers down my ears.

This is a bit better than the other Alexisonfire album on here. Some more song diversity and the switch-ups between singing and screaming seem less random. Opening track's a banger. Still, not really my type of Post-Hardcore.

First side's pretty good hard rock, but it really hits its stride on the second proggier side. Way cooler than I thought it would be. Also the album cover emanates an immaculate aura. 4/5.

On the first song, she says that: "I like to imagine I'm playing SimCity, all the people look like ants from up here". This is very blatant SimAnt erasure. This type of silly lo-fi indie rock is exactly what tickles my brain. So much variety. Not an album you'd expect to have multiple shredding guitar solos from that album cover. I loved it, thank you for the recommendation. Strong 4/5.

First three songs are bangers. There is no shame in admitting that. We all know it to be true. Then just when you start to think to yourself: "Wait, hold on, am I actually really enjoying a Backstreet Boys album?", the rest of the album starts and you suddenly find yourself listening to 9 different songs they'd play in a DreamWorks movie while an animated animal sadly looks at his reflection in a puddle of rain. That being said, this definitely should have been on the original list. One of the best selling albums of all time. Massive cultural influence.

I think I generally prefer Mothers Zappa to Solo Zappa. Hot Rats is the exception. The Yellow Snow suite is a bit too "random xd" humor for me to enjoy. Zappa's always been known for wacky lyrics of course, but I really don't think it lands on here. It's kinda boring honestly. The rest's solid though, especially "Cosmik Debris", the title track and "Uncle Remus".

No idea what this is. *Opens reviews* "This reminds me of Elvis Cost-" *Immediately closes reviews* Suddenly the album generator starts feeling like clocking into your 9 to 5. It's not bad or anything, but I feel like I've already heard every single combination of notes a new wave song could possibly have after enduring the original list.

Magnolia Electric Co. is one of my favorite albums of all time, so it's great to see some Jason Molina on this list. He has to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time and it's such a shame he died so young. Brilliant, dark, heart-breaking. Definitely a 5/5.

Painfully slow start but picks up quite a bit in the second half. It's not the most exciting folk rock or anything (especially when comparing it to the Jason Molina album I got yesterday), but I guess it gets the job done. Three outta five.

This band does literally nothing for me. I could very well be listening to 40 minutes of cricket noises. Sorry, Canada.

Yeah yeah, it's basically the most important piece of music ever to exist, but I'm not going to pretend like I get that much enjoyment from listening to an entire hour long compilation of extremely low quality trumpet recordings from a century ago.

Forgettable funk from the absolute trenches of the mid 90s. There's so little information on this album and band anywhere on the internet that I have to assume the backstory as to why this was the pick of the first person to ever finish is thirty pages long and contains drama, romance and betrayal.

Professional word sayer saying words over instruments going BWOHHH for 40 minutes. Blends together so much that I didn't even notice when the album ended and Spotify started autoplaying other stuff from this band. In the 2010s, there were roughly 3 dark brooding post-punk bands per capita. These guys, Squid, Women, Iceage, Fontaines, Savages, list goes on. Every now and then somebody interesting breaks the mold, like BCNR putting a trillion horn instruments into every song, or Viagra Boys singing about having sex with my mother. This ain't it though.

Way better than Dogrel. That one was mostly just pretty safe post-punk. This one is much more varied and confident in itself. I think they finally found their niche. "Starburster" is a highlight. What an earworm. Strong 4/5.

This is one of the most unique electronic albums of all time. It might not be as consistent as "Music Has the Right to Children", but there is just something so captivating about the weirdly nostalgic soundscapes it creates. One of those albums where no matter how many times you listen to them, you always find something new to appreciate. It's a musical kaleidoscope. Also one for early 2000s netizens, you might recognize the song "Beware The Friendly Stranger" as the Salad Fingers theme song.

This guy went on to compose film soundtracks, but what this really reminds me of is a video game soundtrack. Not only does it sound like one, it even has the structure of an OST. During every song I was saying something like: "This sounds like a dungeon theme", "This sounds like a song they'd play during an emotional cutscene", "This is the overworld theme". And it opens with that one robotic voice they used for that one fucking terrifying video of the android woman singing "I Feel Fantastic". 4/5.

That sure was an hour of really crusty garage rock.

The fettuccine sequence. Tool album number 3. Not quite as good as Ænima, but still an essential listen and a glaring omission from the original list. Cut everything after the title track and you have a 10/10 on your hands.

The album on which Alex Turner finally discovers that his true passion lies in LARPing as a 50s crooner. Much more of a grower than the other Arctic Monkeys albums, especially since everyone's first thought when hearing this is: "What the fuck is this. Why are they doing this." But it's not that bad and actually has some very nice songs like the opener and title track. This is them mid-air doing a somersault while jumping the shark. The shark only gets fully jumped on their next album, "The Car", because what the fuck was that. Why are they doing that.

The guy who submitted this went through the entire list, gave a 1/5 to everything that wasn't cock rock, finished, submitted a cock rock album, then went through the users list and gave everything a 1/5 until he finally got to his own submission, gave it a 5/5 and left forever. I fully respect that but I also really fucking hate cock rock, so it's a 2/5 from me, chief.

The three album run of Portishead is a gradual transformation from gloopy fungus music to James Bond villain theme songs. Every time I listen to this album, I find myself enjoying it more and more than "Dummy". It might honestly be their best. Certainly has the most vivid soundscapes of their catalogue.

Justin Vernon, your voice is completely fine, why in the actual everloving fuck do you insist on using thirty billion layers of earpiercingly godawful autotune that ruins the entire vibe of your album. Every single potentially ethereal experience is replaced by visuals of that one video where Travis Scott falls off stage while yelling in autotune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCkU-eIlJA). Inject experimental music directly into my veins, but this feels like experimentation for the sake of experimentation. It really just sounds like the creative process was: "I wrote a bunch of indie folk ballads, idk put some glitchy filters on top of it lmao, also make the track titles random unicode characters".

Wish the entire album sounded like "Hair Stew", because the rest was kind of forgettable. Way more Sugar than Hüsker Dü and I sadly don't care for Sugar that much. Interesting pick though, I think most people would have gone for Zen Arcade (which definitely should have been on the original list!).

Short and sweet indie folk album. Not much to be said, not much to hate either. It's cute. I like it.

Yeah that was basically exactly what I was expecting from The Vaccines. What if Interpol made car commercial music.

Never heard of it, didn't seem very interesting at first, but it totally hooked me in by the end. Something between Mars Volta and Tool. Very cool pick. It's nice to see so much diverse metal on here, since the original list was sorely lacking in that department.

Better than the other Bon Iver album on here, but I'm still not really sold on them. Justin Vernon is only behind two layers of autotune as opposed to eight hundred on "22, A Million" on here, so that's a plus. Still no idea why he chooses to do that when his voice is completely fine. Songwriting is fine, the beginning and end are quite strong, but something is missing and I can't really put my finger on it. It's just not very interesting. In one ear, out the other kind of thing. 3/5.

Only familiar with "Today's Active Lifestyles" because Spotify keeps autoplaying songs off of that every time I finish listening to a post-hardcore album. Very good. The textures of some of these tracks are ethereal. Sounds a bit like Dinosaur Jr. but even fuzzier and more like absolute ass (in a good way).

What if Stereolab was French and really boring. Oh wait.

This sounds like being strapped in the Clockwork Orange chair and getting brainblasted by every rock song recorded in the late-80s/early-90s at once. Sounds like Queen for a bit, then immediately sounds like Pearl Jam a few milliseconds later, then Cardiacs, then Supertramp, then [insert band here]. It's a bit silly.

Ska Punk and TOOL, the British post-punk and Elvis Costello of the user albums list. This is fine early ska punk, enjoyable enough. A bit long and unfocused, but it is a compilation album after all. 3/5.

This is the type of shit you'd expect to hear in a Youtube video titled "10 hours of royalty-free chill beats to study to" or something. Blandly bland. The blandest to ever do it. At least it's short though.

Less interesting Viagra Boys. I have absolutely nothing else to say about this.

Beautiful Swedish folk. Americana is such a weird genre, because it simultaneously contains some of my favorite albums of all time and some of the worst shit I've ever heard in my life. This one of course belongs in the first category. What can I say, I'm a sucker for whiny folk. Very good, 4/5.

Naming your album after an Ornette Coleman album and promising to be the sound of the future of punk just like "Shape of Jazz to Come" was for avantgarde jazz has to be in the top 5 most pretentious things ever done in the history of humankind, but then actually pulling off something genuinely as progressive and interesting as this is kinda astounding. Jazzy, electronic hardcore punk, loud as fuck, infinite energy. It's a great time and paved the way for a bunch of music I love.

Imagine putting all 3 MBV albums on the list and not having Souvlaki by Slowdive on there as well. The "piranha flood" is approaching, Robert Dimery. Quite possibly the greatest shoegaze/dream pop album of all time. "Alison" in the running for greatest song of all time in general as well. Used to fall asleep to this in college almost every night and it still hasn't gotten old.

If this was less generic grunge and more whatever the fuck "Roi" and "Mad Lucas" were, I would have loved this way more. Not the best, but definitely in the top 5 for "Album covers I want to eat the most".

Still incapable of stomaching Talking Heads without getting a throbbing headache after 30 minutes, but this wasn't as awful as their other albums. It is pretty much a glorified "Best Of" compilation after all. There's some catchy songs on here ("Psycho Killer", "Girlfriend is Better") and I'm sure it works very well with the visuals of David Byrne having a seizure in an oversized suit. I haven't seen the movie, but I might have to now.

New winner of "Most obscure album on the list"? This is some weird shit. Krautrock with latin chanting. Some songs are almost avant-proggy. Not sure if I'd ever want to return to this, but points for creativity.

10 gecs. It's fine.

It takes a while for your ears to get used to the noise and get properly sucked into it, but it's worth it. So strangely beautiful underneath. Genuinely made me a bit emotional towards the end. One of my favorite user album discoveries so far, amazing pick. Strong 4/5.

This will surely click for me one day, but that day is not today. It's kinda just very consistently alright for 90 minutes. Obnoxiously consistently alright. I think I prefer Adrianne Lenker's solo work.

Thank you for the cool intro music, now I can finally start my Minecraft Youtube channel.

Starts out slowly and opens with a jumpscare full-on bullshit yeehaw country song, but thankfully moves on to a much better sort of folksy singer-songwriter sound later on. That whole song run from the title track until the end was great.

Yesss, I love GY!BE and this is definitely their best album. One of the best post-rock albums in general. Definitely should have been on the main list. Extremely vivid and apocalyptic on an active listen, but also just a straight up banger on a passive one. If you don't start levitating in your seat during the final 5 minutes of "Sleep", your ears are probably broken. Crazy how well paced this album is. It's 4 songs, each of them 20 minutes long, but it never seems longer than like 45 minutes when I listen to it.