1001 Albums Summary

The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks

This is extremely 60s in the worst way possible to me

Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf

I wonder how much budget was spend on coke

Court And Spark by Joni Mitchell

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel

I Should Coco by Supergrass

Brothers by The Black Keys

B-52's by The B-52's

Bert Jansch by Bert Jansch

Men with acoustic guitars has to be one of my favourite genders

Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

Toys In The Attic by Aerosmith

Musically it's quite good but the lyrics are just gross

The Specials by The Specials

It's ska.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers by The Byrds

Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

One of my favourite albums, just fantastic

Berlin by Lou Reed

The Score by Fugees

The Chronic by Dr. Dre

Great but way too fucking long

Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector by Various Artists

Raw Power by The Stooges

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys

Dear Science by TV On The Radio

Very by Pet Shop Boys

Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Technique by New Order

Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney

Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction

Elephant Mountain by The Youngbloods

The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem

Even worse than the rampant homophobia is how annoying some of the songs on this album actually sound

Bitches Brew by Miles Davis

Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers

Talking Heads 77 by Talking Heads

Moon Safari by Air

Bryter Layter by Nick Drake

Northern Sky is one of the best songs ever made.

Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners

As I'm making my way through this list of albums I've come to the realisation that I don't really like new wave music. Come On Eileen is a banger tho

The Bends by Radiohead

If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues

Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones

A pleasant listen, but nothing really stands out on this album

Groovin' by The Young Rascals

Did we really need another Beatles ripoff in 1967?

Blood And Chocolate by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Your New Favourite Band by The Hives

All of my 1-star reviews so far are albums that piss me off, while this is just so completely forgettable that I can't even remember any single hook or riff from the album. So no, The Hives won't be my new favourite band

Clube Da Esquina by Milton Nascimento

Dry by PJ Harvey

A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay

Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes

The only thing bringing this album down is the ten minute monologue

In Utero by Nirvana

Dr. Octagonecologyst by Dr. Octagon

My tolerance for medical sex jokes was running out by the end but an interesting album nontheless

Young Americans by David Bowie

Chris by Christine and the Queens

Perfectly enjoyable but not particularly memorable

Rock 'N Soul by Solomon Burke

OK by Talvin Singh

Huh

Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush

It's a masterpiece

Sound Affects by The Jam

I went into this album with low expectations because of my dislike of post punk music but was pleasantly surprised

Parallel Lines by Blondie

Surfer Rosa by Pixies

Mama's Gun by Erykah Badu

A shame about the length, because there are some great songs on here

For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music

Zombie by Fela Kuti

The Beach Boys Today! by The Beach Boys

Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode

Shaft by Isaac Hayes

Achtung Baby by U2

An extremely enjoyable album

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got by Sinead O'Connor

Gorillaz by Gorillaz

Mothership Connection by Parliament

You know that this is funk music because they keep telling you that you're listening to funk music

Strangeways, Here We Come by The Smiths

A shame that Morrissey is such a cunt because this album is actually pretty good

My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello

Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams

Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs

If you get the chance, try to see The War on Drugs live, they're fantastic

Vanishing Point by Primal Scream

Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits

At Budokan by Cheap Trick

Surprisingly dull for a live album

Van Halen by Van Halen

Rings Around The World by Super Furry Animals

Really fun and varied

Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I've been wanting to get into Nick Cave for a while now, and now I've finally got an excuse. This album is just fantastic, but I will concede that the second disc drags a little bit, although for a double album the pacing is surprisingly good. A great entry point into a fascinating artist

The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets

Chirping Crickets by Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Vespertine by Björk

How many other albums end with an orgasm?

I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen

The Atomic Mr Basie by Count Basie & His Orchestra

Cypress Hill by Cypress Hill

The casual homophobia ruins so much of 90s hiphop

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie

Haha, imagine not connecting at all to one of the most beloved albums of all time

The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees

If I Could Only Remember My Name by David Crosby

Truth And Soul by Fishbone

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka

The production of this album is just immaculate

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) by Simple Minds

Roger the Engineer by The Yardbirds

Virgin Suicides by Air

Purple Rain by Prince

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black by Public Enemy

Back At The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith

If you love the organ, this is the album for you!

Coat Of Many Colors by Dolly Parton

Gentlemen by The Afghan Whigs

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx by Raekwon

Dirt by Alice In Chains

Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets

Was it not necessary in the 80s to be able to sing?

Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan

Fishscale by Ghostface Killah

If you cut 20-25 minutes from this album you'd end up with a fantastic album. As it is, it is a bit too bloated

Doolittle by Pixies

Teenager Of The Year by Frank Black

Blackstar by David Bowie

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus

Ya like jazz???

Kenya by Machito

Home Is Where The Music Is by Hugh Masekela

After three jazz albums in a row I'm feeling a little jazzed out

Horses by Patti Smith

Closer by Joy Division

Connected by Stereo MC's

Celebrity Skin by Hole

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches by Happy Mondays

The Contino Sessions by Death In Vegas

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen

Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention

More Songs About Buildings And Food by Talking Heads

Third by Portishead

Double Nickels On The Dime by Minutemen

Bone Machine by Tom Waits

I pity the person whose first interaction with Tom Waits is Bone Machine. It is abrasive and challenging, and if you're not in the right mindset to process that it will bounce right off. But if you are receptive to this sound (and conditioned by some of Waits's other albums like Rain Dogs, Swordfishtrombones and Mule Variations) you'll find a harrowing beauty in it

Go Girl Crazy by The Dictators

Went into this album with kinda low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. You can really hear the punk sound in the vocals. I also love the production here, sounds really good. I also love that the album ends with a goodbye, love when that happens

The College Dropout by Kanye West

Second Toughest In The Infants by Underworld

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears by The Mamas & The Papas

Rum Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues

Off The Wall by Michael Jackson

Meh

Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service

A Girl Called Dusty by Dusty Springfield

Talking Book by Stevie Wonder

Less ballads more bangers please

Murmur by R.E.M.

Harvest by Neil Young

Close To The Edge by Yes

So unnecessarily overindulgent I can't help but respect it

Back In Black by AC/DC

Moving Pictures by Rush

My Generation by The Who

Goodbye And Hello by Tim Buckley

Joan Baez by Joan Baez

Ramones by Ramones

The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground

Vulgar Display Of Power by Pantera

Suede by Suede

In It For The Money by Supergrass

American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash

Os Mutantes by Os Mutantes

Pornography by The Cure

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields

Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten

Fear Of Music by Talking Heads

Woodface by Crowded House

Dull

Parachutes by Coldplay

I prefer it when Coldplay makes bangers so this album isn't much for me. Also 1 star less because of Yellow. Fuck Yellow

Scum by Napalm Death

no

Winter In America by Gil Scott-Heron

Hard Again by Muddy Waters

Crazysexycool by TLC

In Rainbows by Radiohead

Arguably the best Radiohead album period, certainly the best Radiohead album of the 2000s

good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar

Another Green World by Brian Eno

Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Rain Dogs by Tom Waits

Nilsson Schmilsson by Harry Nilsson

4 stars for the music 1 star for the album cover

The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths

Morrissey is a cunt

Natty Dread by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Maybe I just don't like reggae

xx by The xx

Something Else By The Kinks by The Kinks

Odessa by Bee Gees

The Bee Gees were a lot more successfull at ripping off black artists than they were at ripping off white artists

Superunknown by Soundgarden

There's No Place Like America Today by Curtis Mayfield

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Call of the Valley by Shivkumar Sharma

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim by Frank Sinatra

Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

This album just makes me want to listen to the Smiths

Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Nevermind by Nirvana

Bright Flight by Silver Jews

Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin

British Steel by Judas Priest

Goes hard* * United and Red, White & Blue do not go hard

Blunderbuss by Jack White

Tanto Tempo by Bebel Gilberto

Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper

Cross by Justice

French electronic artists are the only people on earth who actually understand how music production works

A Love Supreme by John Coltrane

Among The Living by Anthrax

I would enjoy most metal a lot more is the singers were actually able to sing

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by Small Faces

Some of it sounds great, some of it sounds horribly dated

Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Hot Fuss by The Killers

Loses steam by the end but still great overall

Feast of Wire by Calexico

Peter Gabriel 3 by Peter Gabriel

I like Talking Heads too Peter

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain by Pavement

Diamond Life by Sade

Ragged Glory by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Enjoyable but a couple guitar jam sessions to long

OK Computer by Radiohead

The Fat Of The Land by The Prodigy

I used to like The Prodigy quite a bit when I was younger bu I have to say that this album really doesn't hit me the way it used to. Maybe I just got old idk

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison

This album is way too long, features way too much guitar slides and has a completely unnecessary instrumental section at the end. 5 stars

Homework by Daft Punk

Teenage Head by Flamin' Groovies

Moss Side Story by Barry Adamson

I really wouldn't recommend listening to this album while drunk in bed. The vibes are just clashing

Heartattack And Vine by Tom Waits

Bayou Country by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Fuzzy Logic by Super Furry Animals

Bland and boring

Fly Or Die by N.E.R.D

Stephen Stills by Stephen Stills

Smokers Delight by Nightmares On Wax

Pyromania by Def Leppard

Hms Fable by Shack

Why is this on the list? Who the fuck cares about Shack? Who even remembers Shack in 2023? Imagine the great album whose place on the list is kept occupied by fucking Shack

Queen II by Queen

Coles Corner by Richard Hawley

Sail Away by Randy Newman

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel

The Only Living Boy in New York made me cry

Walking Wounded by Everything But The Girl

Shalimar by Rahul Dev Burman

White Light by Gene Clark

At Mister Kelly's by Sarah Vaughan

The Rise & Fall by Madness

John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

Time Out Of Mind by Bob Dylan

The Last Of The True Believers by Nanci Griffith

Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John

Album good

Kimono My House by Sparks

Dub Housing by Pere Ubu

The vocals are the weirdest thing about the album. Starts of strong but I lost interest by the end

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

Kanye is a great producer but he is by far the weakest rapper and singer on the album

Elvis Is Back by Elvis Presley

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine by Cee Lo Green

Made In Japan by Deep Purple

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath

Copper Blue by Sugar

Like R.E.M.'s Document, only smothered in shitty production

The Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk

Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye

Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.

Great instrumentals combined with some of the worst vocals you can imagine. I know post punk isn't know for great vocalists but come on

Junkyard by The Birthday Party

At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash

1999 by Prince

Being There by Wilco

I can count on two hands the amount of double LP's that actually benefit from being that long. This is not one of them. Shame because there is some great material on here

Ready To Die by The Notorious B.I.G.

Hip hop artists make a 40 minute album challenge (impossible)

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill

You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr.

Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes

The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan

Doggystyle by Snoop Dogg

Stankonia by OutKast

Bongo Rock by Incredible Bongo Band

Shame they didn't go for the full 17 minute cover of In A Gadda Da Vida

This Is Fats Domino by Fats Domino

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators by The 13th Floor Elevators

The jug just ruins what is a pretty good album

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Medúlla by Björk

Killing Joke by Killing Joke

Dusty In Memphis by Dusty Springfield

Sheet Music by 10cc

Songs Of Love And Hate by Leonard Cohen

The Sounds Of India by Ravi Shankar

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols

Shadowland by k.d. lang

Hot Shots II by The Beta Band

Great opening track, but the rest of the album is quite unremarkable

Amnesiac by Radiohead

Whatever by Aimee Mann

Kid A by Radiohead

Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears

Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder

Django Django by Django Django

Pelican West by Haircut 100

Rage Against The Machine by Rage Against The Machine

Pink Flag by Wire

Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors

This album is the result of combining every acclaimed indie album of the 2000s

Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp

A boring version of Portishead

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa

Darkdancer by Les Rythmes Digitales

Yeezus by Kanye West

I really don't like this album enough to excuse Kanyes bullshit like I do with some of his other albums

Oracular Spectacular by MGMT

Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan

All Hail the Queen by Queen Latifah

Thriller by Michael Jackson

Gets one star less just because of the girl is mine. Who decided that that wet fart of a song should be the lead single

Odelay by Beck

This is so 90s in the best possible way

1989 by Taylor Swift

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) by Ministry

Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees

Live At The Witch Trials by The Fall

evermore by Taylor Swift

Folk Taylor is a lot more interesting than pop Taylor

Jazz Samba by Stan Getz

Never manages to be anything other than background music

L.A. Woman by The Doors

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Beatles

GREY Area by Little Simz

The World is a Ghetto by War

I See A Darkness by Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Sulk by The Associates

Sounds like a drunk David Bowie

Roxy Music by Roxy Music

Parklife by Blur

Grace by Jeff Buckley

Apple Venus Volume 1 by XTC

Deep Purple In Rock by Deep Purple

Private Dancer by Tina Turner

Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo

Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub

The Clash by The Clash

It's fun to hear the Clash being so versatile even on their debut. Makes them far more enjoyable than most other punk bands that usually suffer from more monotonous albums

Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones

3.5

S&M by Metallica

Frank by Amy Winehouse

Underwater Moonlight by The Soft Boys

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes by TV On The Radio

Teen Dream by Beach House

The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett

Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth

Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings

Funeral by Arcade Fire

Follow The Leader by Korn

I wish that we as a society could pretend that nu-metal never happened

Your Arsenal by Morrissey

Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies

Africa Brasil by Jorge Ben Jor

Arc Of A Diver by Steve Winwood

Whitest music ever made

Punishing Kiss by Ute Lemper

Sunday At The Village Vanguard by Bill Evans Trio

Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi

m b v by My Bloody Valentine

Who's Next by The Who

It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Slipknot by Slipknot

In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra

From Elvis In Memphis by Elvis Presley

Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones

Blue by Joni Mitchell

Back to Mystery City by Hanoi Rocks

Document by R.E.M.

Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Tonight's The Night by Neil Young

Throwing Muses by Throwing Muses

A little bit too lofi for my tastes

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry by Billy Bragg

Queens of the Stone Age by Queens Of The Stone Age

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul by Otis Redding

1984 by Van Halen

The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses

Songs Of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen

Scissor Sisters by Scissor Sisters

Group Sex by Circle Jerks

In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson

Let's Get Killed by David Holmes

David you're not Godspeed You Black Emperor, no one cares about your shitty street interviews

Rio by Duran Duran

Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem

I don't particularly like LCD Soundsystem or this album, but All My Friends is one of the best songs ever made and I cannot ignore that.

Peter Gabriel by Peter Gabriel

Another Music In A Different Kitchen by Buzzcocks

Honky Tonk Masquerade by Joe Ely

Fun House by The Stooges

Butterfly by Mariah Carey

Music by Madonna

Ruined by its shit production. The glitchy beats really ruin a couple of potentially decent songs

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) by The Kinks

All Directions by The Temptations

Modern Kosmology by Jane Weaver

A Short Album About Love by The Divine Comedy

Guero by Beck

Mask by Bauhaus

After sitting through 2 weeks of mediocrity I'm probably rating this higher than I would normally, but it is also some really interesting post punk

To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band

Jack Takes the Floor by Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Future Days by Can

Buffalo Springfield Again by Buffalo Springfield

At Newport 1960 by Muddy Waters

Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence

Water From An Ancient Well by Abdullah Ibrahim

Live At Leeds by The Who

Black Monk Time by The Monks

Hell yeah, finally a 60s album on this list that doesn't feel like it's ripping of one of the big B's: Beach Boys, Beatles and Bob Dylan

Crosby, Stills & Nash by Crosby, Stills & Nash

Ambient 1/Music For Airports by Brian Eno

Hotel California by Eagles

I expected to hate this album because of my hatred of the title track, but the rest of the album is surprisingly competent, if a bit forgettable

Face to Face by The Kinks

Please tell me this is the final Kinks album on the list I'm so fucking tired of them

The Genius Of Ray Charles by Ray Charles

Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen

I'm a sucker for prominent piano in rock songs so this album is right up my street

Queen Of Denmark by John Grant

Astral Weeks by Van Morrison

I'm sorry bu I need hooks in my music, this just borea me. Sometimes Van sings A LITTLE LOUDER, and sometimes he sings a little softer. That's about the only interesting thing here

Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan

3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers

Legalize It by Peter Tosh

Cafe Bleu by The Style Council

White guy rapping

Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Foo Fighters by Foo Fighters

Bad Company by Bad Company

Me Against The World by 2Pac

As with most hiphop albums it is too long. However this album is at least not filled with obnoxious skits

Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix

Dare! by The Human League

Rapture by Anita Baker

Abraxas by Santana

Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Touré

Melodrama by Lorde

Chicago Transit Authority by Chicago

The Band by The Band

James Brown Live At The Apollo by James Brown

Liege And Lief by Fairport Convention

Ten by Pearl Jam

Different Class by Pulp

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room by Dwight Yoakam

Pink Moon by Nick Drake

Smash by The Offspring

Sheer Heart Attack by Queen

Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys

Beauty And The Beat by The Go-Go's

Casanova by The Divine Comedy

Shleep by Robert Wyatt

Ctrl by SZA

Lam Toro by Baaba Maal

90 by 808 State

There's A Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone

Axis: Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix

Illmatic by Nas

Fear and Whiskey by Mekons

Lady In Satin by Billie Holiday

My dad would disown me if I rated this any lower

Suicide by Suicide

This is fantastic most of the people here are just stuck in their boring dad rock

Seventeen Seconds by The Cure

The Wildest! by Louis Prima

Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park

This could only be considered cool in the early 2000s, because nowadays it sounds dated as shit. That said, I'll still scream along with In The End every time I hear it though

The Stranger by Billy Joel

Olympia 64 by Jacques Brel

Crime Of The Century by Supertramp

Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal

Rip It Up by Orange Juice

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) by Loretta Lynn

Girl just leave him he ain't worth it

Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices

Ritual De Lo Habitual by Jane's Addiction

Street Life by The Crusaders

Myths Of The Near Future by Klaxons

The Cars by The Cars

Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers

The White Room by The KLF

Club Classics Vol. One by Soul II Soul

Ingenue by k.d. lang

New York Dolls by New York Dolls

One World by John Martyn

Youth And Young Manhood by Kings of Leon

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics

One of those albums where the big hit really overshadows the rest of the songs. Sweet Dreams is great, but I don't really care about the rest

Ys by Joanna Newsom

Ill Communication by Beastie Boys

Great music if you want to be yelled at by a bunch of 12 year old kids for an hour. There are however a couple tracks where you are not being yelled at like Futtermans Rule and they are genuinely great.

Talk Talk Talk by The Psychedelic Furs

Faith by George Michael

George should have just called this album Songs About Fuckin' A very appropriate album to get on Valentine's Day

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell

Step In The Arena by Gang Starr

Sweet Baby James by James Taylor

Vento De Maio by Elis Regina

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg by Jerry Lee Lewis

Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin

The Slider by T. Rex

Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman

Rather annoyingly the first three tracks are the clear standouts, overshadowing the rest of the album. That said, these three tracks are all classics in their own roghts

New Forms by Roni Size

It's more than 2 fucking hours long!!!

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos

Permission to Land by The Darkness

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge by Mudhoney

Atomizer by Big Black

Germfree Adolescents by X-Ray Spex

"I eat Kleenex for breakfast" A lyrical masterpiece

Damaged by Black Flag

The Wall by Pink Floyd

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Marcus Garvey by Burning Spear

Locust Abortion Technician by Butthole Surfers

There are a couple of good songs in here, but most of it veers into annoying weird instead of interesting weird

Bummed by Happy Mondays

The Smiths, but boring

The Undertones by The Undertones

Take Me Apart by Kelela

Graceland by Paul Simon

Ocean Rain by Echo And The Bunnymen

Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds

Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis

Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones

For a band that is well known as a singles artist as opposed to an albums artist, there sure are a lot of Rolling Stones albums in this list.

Here Are the Sonics by The Sonics

Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine

Rejoicing In The Hands by Devendra Banhart

Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective

G. Love And Special Sauce by G. Love & Special Sauce

Like Water For Chocolate by Common

Typical hip hop album that's way too long and is mildly homophobic

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lost Souls by Doves

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen by The Residents

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space by Spiritualized

The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground

The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe

Who Killed...... The Zutons? by The Zutons

Calenture by The Triffids

Catch A Fire by Bob Marley & The Wailers

No amount of Bob Marley on this list is ever gonna make me like reggea

American Beauty by Grateful Dead

São Paulo Confessions by Suba

Done By The Forces Of Nature by Jungle Brothers

Welcome To The Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Remove all the covers and the instrumentals and you'd have a great single album, instead of this bloated double album.

Manassas by Stephen Stills

Tommy by The Who

Right, so the reason this doesn't work for me as opposed to something like The Wall is that it feels insincere. It's like they constantly started adding whatever bullshit they could think of in order to justify the length. There are a couple good songs on this album (as usual with the Who, way more a singles band than an album band), but as a whole it's just a slog to get through.

Snivilisation by Orbital

A Northern Soul by The Verve

Colour By Numbers by Culture Club

The most 3/5 album ever made. Pleasant to listen to, short, completely forgettable, ugly as fuck album cover. Just a perfect example of mediocrity.

Sunshine Superman by Donovan

If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian

The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers

Spiderland by Slint

It's funny how Slint and Talk Talk are seen as foundational artists for the genre post rock, when the two bands couldn't be more different from each other. Talk Talk is intimate, vulnerable, and life affirming, while Slint is angsty, unsettling, and oppressive. Yet within later post rock releases you can find traces from both bands. While I prefer Talk Talk's Laughing Stock over Spiderland, I cannot deny the influence this album has had on so many later bands.

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle by Bill Callahan

When I Was Born For The 7th Time by Cornershop

This is so 90s it hurts

Surf's Up by The Beach Boys

Of course the worst song here is written by Mike Love

Definitely Maybe by Oasis

Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin

Aftermath by The Rolling Stones

Autobahn by Kraftwerk

Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers

Picture Book by Simply Red

A Hard Day's Night by Beatles

Sex Packets by Digital Underground

Rubber Soul by Beatles

The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald

Buena Vista Social Club by Buena Vista Social Club

Green by R.E.M.

It's a good album, but also the weakest of REM's 80s output

The United States Of America by The United States Of America

Hippie bullshit

Basket of Light by Pentangle

The Man Who by Travis

Commits the eternal sin of reminding you of far better albums you could be listening to

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Life Thru A Lens by Robbie Williams

Bland and inoffensive. I'm tempted to bump this down to a 1 because of Angels but nothing else here is that awful

Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Elastica by Elastica

Bug by Dinosaur Jr.

Beyond Skin by Nitin Sawhney

Entertainment by Gang Of Four

The Real Thing by Faith No More

In A Silent Way by Miles Davis

Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys

I'd rather listen to the Coltrane album

Wild Gift by X

Moondance by Van Morrison

It's better than Astral Weeks but I still don't like Van's voice and songwriting. The fact that he is a xunt in real life doesn't help

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco

Trafalgar by Bee Gees

Boring, dull, supports an apartheid state, uneventful, lethargic.

All Mod Cons by The Jam

Born To Be With You by Dion

Sister by Sonic Youth

Dummy by Portishead

Songs For Swingin' Lovers! by Frank Sinatra

Dance Mania by Tito Puente

Kenza by Khaled

Way too poppy, way too long, way too much imagine

A Walk Across The Rooftops by The Blue Nile

Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers

Tank Battles by Dagmar Krause

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

This is such psych rock bullshit I kinda love it

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath

Remedy by Basement Jaxx

We Are Family by Sister Sledge

Central Reservation by Beth Orton

The Man Machine by Kraftwerk

Moby Grape by Moby Grape

This album has a song named "Indifference" and that perfectly sums up my feelings towards this album

Hunky Dory by David Bowie

Blood, Sweat & Tears by Blood, Sweat & Tears

Wtf is this shit

Kilimanjaro by The Teardrop Explodes

Emergency On Planet Earth by Jamiroquai

Chemtrails Over The Country Club by Lana Del Rey

Meh, Lana has way better albums

Actually by Pet Shop Boys

Is This It by The Strokes

Only By The Night by Kings of Leon

This Is Hardcore by Pulp

The introduction of CDs as the most popular album format has done disasterous things to album pacing

Wild Wood by Paul Weller

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde by The Pharcyde

Transphobia in the very first song. Just fuck off

The Stooges by The Stooges

Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson

Be by Common

Gets an extra star for not being filled with pointless filler and skits like most rap albums.

Justified by Justin Timberlake

I hate Justin's voice. I might be kinder to this album if it was sung by someone who could actually put some power but with Justin it just sounds like pathetic yelping

Will The Circle Be Unbroken by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession by Laura Nyro

2112 by Rush

Want One by Rufus Wainwright

A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets

The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu

Quiet Life by Japan

Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying by Megadeth

Reggatta De Blanc by The Police

Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow

Beach Samba by Astrud Gilberto

The Coral by The Coral

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down by The Dandy Warhols

Porcupine by Echo And The Bunnymen

Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of Leon

Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen

Night Life by Ray Price

You've Come a Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim

On The Beach by Neil Young

Let It Be by The Replacements

The Renaissance by Q-Tip

Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo by Devo

Public Image: First Issue by Public Image Ltd.

Sometimes an artist is called influential, not because they made good music, but because they had a good idea but were shit at executing it

Sincere by Mj Cole

Possibly fun in the club when you're shitfaced, but not when you're sober at home

Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Repeater by Fugazi

Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons

Now I Got Worry by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Da Capo by Love

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden

Channel Orange by Frank Ocean

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams

The Suburbs by Arcade Fire

School's Out by Alice Cooper

Fear Of A Black Planet by Public Enemy

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs by Marty Robbins

Black Holes and Revelations by Muse

The Joshua Tree by U2

First three tracks are absolute classics, the rest is pretty meh

Trio by Dolly Parton

16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens

Scott 4 by Scott Walker

Let's Stay Together by Al Green

Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company

Oh man that album cover has not aged well

The Good, The Bad & The Queen by The Good, The Bad & The Queen

Supergroups sound cool in theory, but most of them just end up as less than the sum of their parts

Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone

Live At The Regal by B.B. King

Supa Dupa Fly by Missy Elliott

Opus Dei by Laibach

Life's Too Good by The Sugarcubes

Would be a lot better if the bloke could shut the fuck up and let Björk sing. Anyway I've got no idea why this is on the list but Post and Homogenic are not. Post is a bit messy but contains one of the best songs of all time with Hyper ballad while Homogenic is one of the most influential albums of the 90s. There is plenty of mediocre slop (including this album tbh) on the list that I'd happily remove in favour of one of those two.

The Who Sell Out by The Who

If it wasn't for I Can See For Miles I'd give this album a 1

The Sun Rises In The East by Jeru The Damaja

Revolver by Beatles

More Specials by The Specials

Heroes by David Bowie

Berlin Bowie is best Bowie

Le Tigre by Le Tigre

Savane by Ali Farka Touré

Third by Soft Machine

The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers

Innervisions by Stevie Wonder

Liquid Swords by GZA

Eternally Yours by The Saints

Like A Prayer by Madonna

Penance Soiree by The Icarus Line

Miriam Makeba by Miriam Makeba

Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins

The Only Ones by The Only Ones

A Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren

She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper

Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

Superfuzz Bigmuff by Mudhoney

Joan Armatrading by Joan Armatrading

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels by Dexys Midnight Runners

Tres Hombres by ZZ Top

The Visitors by ABBA

Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre

Stripped by Christina Aguilera

Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk

Electric by The Cult

The Cult drop the post-punk/gothic rock influences of their previous album Love in favour of this sell-out, cock rock, derivative garbage.

Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis

Two Dancers by Wild Beasts

Beautiful Freak by Eels

Caetano Veloso by Caetano Veloso

Reign In Blood by Slayer

Back to Basics by Christina Aguilera

The Healer by John Lee Hooker

I do not begrudge John Lee Hooker for selling out like this, he is a blues legend and I'm fine with him securing his retirement funds. However, I do not see the point of adding this album to the list in favour of some of his classic stuff.

Morrison Hotel by The Doors

Femi Kuti by Femi Kuti

Back To Black by Amy Winehouse

...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears

The title track is good, the rest is typical Swedish pop garbage that only belongs at Eurovision

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite by Maxwell

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit

Hysteria by Def Leppard

Rising Above Bedlam by Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

This album is the dictionary definition of white guy world music

Dust by Screaming Trees

Vauxhall And I by Morrissey

The problem with Morrissey (aside from the fact that he is a twat) is that he is a great lyricist but he needs a musical genius like Johnny Marr beside him. That is what ultimately made the Smiths work. Some musicians need that collaborative friction to bring out the best in them, and the Smiths are a prime example (alongside the Beatles and Pink Floyd)

The Slim Shady LP by Eminem

Music for annoying, edgy, misogynist, homophobic, 12 year olds

Crocodiles by Echo And The Bunnymen

Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand

The La's by The La's

Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton

Country Life by Roxy Music

Live Through This by Hole

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins

I'd agree with the reviews calling this a masterpiece if Billy Morgan wasn't such a shit singer

Out of Step by Minor Threat

Survivor by Destiny's Child

I hate early 2000s pop so much

Rid Of Me by PJ Harvey

Stardust by Willie Nelson

You Are The Quarry by Morrissey

The lyrics feel like they are the result of asking an AI to write Morrissey lyrics

Imagine by John Lennon

Superfly by Curtis Mayfield

Black Metal by Venom

It's funny to compare this to current black metal and how much heavier it has become. This album seems tame in comparison

American Idiot by Green Day

I like Holiday, but don't care about the rest

The Nightfly by Donald Fagen

This is exactly the kind boring music my dad would try to convince me is actually really good and interesting. I am genuinely surprised this album isn't in his LP collection.

Midnight Ride by Paul Revere & The Raiders

Make Yourself by Incubus

First Band On The Moon by The Cardigans

Sea Change by Beck

Low-Life by New Order

Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3

Paris 1919 by John Cale

Disraeli Gears by Cream

A Night At The Opera by Queen

Space Ritual by Hawkwind

I might like this in a studio setting where all the fat is trimmed and the vocals are cleaned up, but as a 2 hour live album? Nope

The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett

Solid Air by John Martyn

Dookie by Green Day

If you're a gen x'er who grew up with this album you'd might think it were good, but I didn't so I don't.

A Date With The Everly Brothers by The Everly Brothers

Paul Simon by Paul Simon

Protection by Massive Attack

Yeah it's not Mezzanine but it does the job

Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles

It gets a bit sappy at times with all the strings and the background choir, but it's influence is undeniable

Low by David Bowie

Yeah this album is pretty blatantly ripping off Neu! at times but honestly, who cares when the music is this good

The Libertines by The Libertines

Landfill indie, AKA dad rock for gen x'ers and millenials

Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens

Debut by Björk

Commits the cardinal sin of not being quite as good as the albums that came after that are somehow not on the list. There seriously wasn't any room for Homogenic, one of the most influential art pop albums of all time?

With The Beatles by Beatles

Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention

Pearl by Janis Joplin

Untitled (Black Is) by SAULT

I 100% support what this album stands for, but sonically it just doesn't do it for me

Live / Dead by Grateful Dead

Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev

Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys

Aladdin Sane by David Bowie

Madman Across The Water by Elton John

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard Thompson

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Hejira by Joni Mitchell

NEU! 75 by Neu!

Heroes to Zeros by The Beta Band

Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes

american dream by LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem is, for me, a weird band. I love all their obvious influences (Talking Heads, New Order, etc.) but yet, outside of a few songs, I don't like LCD. The instrumentation is all there, but I can't connect with it. The problem with this album specifically is that all the songs are way too long and it is missing an obvious highlight like All My Friends. It is not bad per se, but it does feel like a waste of potential.

McCartney by Paul McCartney

Maybe Paul's "granny songs" weren't that bad John

Ray Of Light by Madonna

Architecture And Morality by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra

That's The Way Of The World by Earth, Wind & Fire

Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes

The Poet by Bobby Womack

Live! by Fela Kuti

Brown Sugar by D'Angelo

The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

White Light / White Heat by The Velvet Underground

Rust In Peace by Megadeth

Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Elvis throws out the n-word so casually you start to wonder how often he actually uses it

Screamadelica by Primal Scream

Something/Anything? by Todd Rundgren

Vivid by Living Colour

Fire Of Love by The Gun Club

Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson

Warehouse: Songs And Stories by Hüsker Dü

Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye

TMI the album

Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz

LP1 by FKA twigs

This album made me realise that I would like Björk's music a lot less if it wasn't for her very powerful and distinct voice

Electric Warrior by T. Rex

New Boots And Panties by Ian Dury

Like listening to your British uncle, who nobody in your family likes to talk about, do karaoke

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' by 50 Cent

Really enjoyed In Da Club, but then the f-slur came up. Fuck off

461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton

Scream, Dracula, Scream by Rocket From The Crypt

D by White Denim

Another day, another album everyone completely forgot 2 years after its release

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo by MC Solaar

Destroy Rock & Roll by Mylo

Orbital 2 by Orbital

Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder

Idlewild by Everything But The Girl

Peggy Suicide by Julian Cope

I actually quite like this but just like most albums from the 90s it's way too long

Kala by M.I.A.

Welcome to the Afterfuture by Mike Ladd

Dirty by Sonic Youth

The Idiot by Iggy Pop

O.G. Original Gangster by Ice T

Wonderful Rainbow by Lightning Bolt

Dog Man Star by Suede

If it wasn't for the typical 90s muddy production I'd actually like this album a lot more

Disintegration by The Cure

Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada

Abbey Road by Beatles

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit

Yesterday I got Abbey Road, arguably the best album of all time Today I get this

Close To You by Carpenters

Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres Of Paradise

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 by George Michael

Strange Cargo III by William Orbit

Histoire De Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield

Love me some prog rock wankery

Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby by Terence Trent D'Arby

Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac

So Much For The City by The Thrills

Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson

I Against I by Bad Brains

Live And Dangerous by Thin Lizzy

People complain about all the post punk on the list, but the real scourge are all the boring 70s hard rock live albums that basically serve as greatest hits albums because these bands weren't able to string together a proper album and instead relied on their half-decent singles.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail by Buck Owens

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by The Incredible String Band

This is what Neutral Milk Hotel sounds like to me

At San Quentin by Johnny Cash

Pump by Aerosmith

vile

Remain In Light by Talking Heads

London Calling by The Clash

Phaedra by Tangerine Dream

Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses

...And Justice For All by Metallica

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) by Bob Dylan

Our Aim Is To Satisfy by Red Snapper

Slayed? by Slade

Farquaad ass haircut

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

BEYONCÉ by Beyoncé

Electric Prunes by The Electric Prunes

Music in Exile by Songhoy Blues

Master Of Puppets by Metallica

Green Onions by Booker T. & The MG's

Annoying

Signing Off by UB40

Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Has this underlying feeling that it could go full Trout Mask at any moment where the songs threaten to fall apart, but they never do.

John Prine by John Prine

Broken English by Marianne Faithfull

Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves

Under Construction by Missy Elliott

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips

Arular by M.I.A.

Like the other MIA album on this list, this is way more focussed on percussion rather than melody. Sadly, the percussion has a lot of bells and whistles to conceal some pretty basic 4/4 beats. If it were more ambitious in that regard I might like it more

The Predator by Ice Cube

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby by Girls Against Boys

Fifth Dimension by The Byrds

Scott 2 by Scott Walker

This Year's Model by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

I See You by The xx

Mediocre 2010s commercial music

Tragic Songs of Life by The Louvin Brothers

They look like they're gonna call me a slur at any moment now

Licensed To Ill by Beastie Boys

I don't care how creative the sampling is, the album still sounds like three annoying teenagers yelling at you for 45 minutes

Tuesday Night Music Club by Sheryl Crow

Guitar Town by Steve Earle

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted by Ice Cube

Love how this site's users constantly complain about misogyny and violence in hip-hop albums but never about misogyny and violence in rock and metal. I wonder why...

One Nation Under A Groove by Funkadelic

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

I prefer Neil when he's properly rockin', so his collabs with Crazy Horse are usually right up my alley. This is no different

21 by Adele

The album loses some steam in the second half, but Rolling in the Deep is so good that it can basically carry this album on its own

Goo by Sonic Youth

Play by Moby

The important thing to remember about sampling vocals, is that you don't just loop them constantly for an entire track because then they get annoying. So why would you do that on your opening two tracks?

Gold by Ryan Adams

Post Orgasmic Chill by Skunk Anansie

Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned by Liars

I'm being generous because at least this album is something different, but if you want to listen to experimental noise rock there is just way better stuff out there than this.

The Lexicon Of Love by ABC

Textbook definition of white guy funk

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain

#1 Record by Big Star

Eliminator by ZZ Top

Hypnotised by The Undertones

California by American Music Club

We're Only In It For The Money by The Mothers Of Invention

The Yes Album by Yes

Cloud Nine by The Temptations

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse by Faces

Triangle by The Beau Brummels

The Infotainment Scan by The Fall

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear

Murder Ballads by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I would've given this 5 stars if O'Malleys Bar wasn't so long

Duck Rock by Malcolm McLaren

This is basically the textbook definition of cultural appropriation in music

La Revancha Del Tango by Gotan Project

Raw Like Sushi by Neneh Cherry

Happy Sad by Tim Buckley

Good Old Boys by Randy Newman

Hunting High And Low by a-ha

Forever Changes by Love

Risque by CHIC

The Trinity Session by Cowboy Junkies

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan

The Gilded Palace Of Sin by The Flying Burrito Brothers

Arrival by ABBA

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh boiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... by Arrested Development

Fromohio by fIREHOSE

Nixon by Lambchop

It's not bad but it's not buttering my parsnips

The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips

It's allright but I ppprefer the grander instrumentation of Yoshimi.

Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt

So by Peter Gabriel

Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C.

Nick Of Time by Bonnie Raitt

Devotional Songs by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest

Fever Ray by Fever Ray

3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul

Treasure by Cocteau Twins

Maxinquaye by Tricky

Chelsea Girl by Nico

Pretty decent music for a massive racist

Machine Head by Deep Purple

The Doors by The Doors

The organ solo in Light My Fire could be 10 minutes long and still it wouldn't get boring. That alone merits 5 stars.

Oedipus Schmoedipus by Barry Adamson

Gris Gris by Dr. John

Immigrés by Youssou N'Dour

Suzanne Vega by Suzanne Vega

Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart

Sorry Rod, but I've still not forgiven you for your shitty cover of Downtown Train

Viva Hate by Morrissey

As with all of Morrissey's solo work, I like his songwriting, but instrumentally it's missing the thing that made the Smiths so special (it's Johnny Marr)

Tapestry by Carole King

Turns out I know every song on here despite never listening to this album as a whole before

25 by Adele

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette

Why did every woman in the 90s sing like this?

Konnichiwa by Skepta

Real Life by Magazine

Electric Music For The Mind And Body by Country Joe & The Fish

I don't mind this type of psychedelic noodling, but I miss some kind of hook to draw me in, not just noodling for noodling's sake.

Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix

I was complaining about psychedelic noodling yesterday and today I get Jimi. At least he knows how to do the noodling right.

Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Not Nick's best work, but Papa won't leave you Henry and Straight to you are obvious highlights

Tical by Method Man

Floodland by Sisters Of Mercy

Behaviour by Pet Shop Boys

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone

Second track is gonna kill at the karaoke

Come Away With Me by Norah Jones

Timeless by Goldie

Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) by Motörhead

Meat Is Murder by The Smiths

Arise by Sepultura

I prefer my metal to have some more melody than this

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon

Fred Neil by Fred Neil

Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch

Pretty much every song on here would benefit from being minute or so shorter

System Of A Down by System Of A Down

Maverick A Strike by Finley Quaye

En-Tact by The Shamen

Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab

Eagles by Eagles

Since I Left You by The Avalanches

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo by The Byrds

Hippie dippie bullshit

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts by The Adverts

Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis

Nowhere by Ride

Lazer Guided Melodies by Spiritualized

C'est Chic by CHIC

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz

Metallica by Metallica

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris

American Gothic by David Ackles

This album is genuinely great when it goes into the unhinged showtune cabaret territory, but immediately becomes boring with every 'normal' song. I'll give it 4 stars purely because I do find it interesting, which cannot be said about many other albums on this list

Highly Evolved by The Vines

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen

Bad by Michael Jackson

Fragile by Yes

Aqualung by Jethro Tull

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys

Vulnicura by Björk

Exile In Guyville by Liz Phair

Songs From A Room by Leonard Cohen

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor by Lupe Fiasco

Smile by Brian Wilson

Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur

White Ladder by David Gray

Before And After Science by Brian Eno

I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons

Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós

The Sensual World by Kate Bush

Songs The Lord Taught Us by The Cramps

Classis case of "just cause you can combine music genres, doesn't mean you should"

Tago Mago by Can

Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro

Pieces Of The Sky by Emmylou Harris

War by U2

MTV Unplugged In New York by Nirvana

Genuinely one of the most overrated live albums of all time

Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake

Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings

L'Eau Rouge by The Young Gods

Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan

It's A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads

This is some 90s alt rock all right

A Seat at the Table by Solange

The Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones

Come Find Yourself by Fun Lovin' Criminals

Faust IV by Faust

GI by Germs

Ananda Shankar by Ananda Shankar

World Clique by Deee-Lite

Hail To the Thief by Radiohead

It's lesser Radiohead, but it's still radiohead

Music From The Penguin Cafe by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic

The White Album by Beatles

Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine

Skylarking by XTC

Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson

Soul Mining by The The

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche by Koffi Olomide

It's a shame that so many "world music" (a stupid name to begin with) albums on this list are clearly watered down versions of the local music ready-made for a Western audience. Like with this album: all the edges are sanded off and replaced by this 90s as fuck production. Africa has so much interesting music and yet on this list we get the commercialised stuff because anything remotely authenticly African is scary for western people. I don't hate this album, I hate what it represents

All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2

This Nation’s Saving Grace by The Fall

Tidal by Fiona Apple

Phrenology by The Roots

Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan

Can't Buy A Thrill by Steely Dan

I'm not middle-aged enough yet to like this album

Violator by Depeche Mode

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm by A Tribe Called Quest

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey

Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes

The Bones Of What You Believe by CHVRCHES

Younger Than Yesterday by The Byrds

Penthouse And Pavement by Heaven 17

Synchronicity by The Police

Power In Numbers by Jurassic 5

Station To Station by David Bowie

Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti

Nice to see that yuppies also get some representation on the list

Here's Little Richard by Little Richard

American Pie by Don McLean

Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise

Music For The Jilted Generation by The Prodigy

Don't Stand Me Down by Dexys Midnight Runners

Kings Of The Wild Frontier by Adam & The Ants

Live At The Harlem Square Club by Sam Cooke

Bubble And Scrape by Sebadoh

What's That Noise? by Coldcut

Either Or by Elliott Smith

The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd

The Next Day by David Bowie

Drunk by Thundercat

Transformer by Lou Reed

Heavy Weather by Weather Report

We could've had the 2 hour long experimental fusion masterpiece Get Up With It by Miles Davis on the list, but instead we get this drudgery. I like this list overall but for too many artists and genres it values commercial succes over actual artistry

Larks' Tongues In Aspic by King Crimson

All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot

E.V.O.L. by Sonic Youth

The Grand Tour by George Jones

The Blueprint by JAY Z

Next by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins

Ellington at Newport by Duke Ellington

After The Gold Rush by Neil Young

Street Signs by Ozomatli

New Wave by The Auteurs

Bluesbreakers by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

Dire Straits by Dire Straits

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive by Merle Haggard

Highway to Hell by AC/DC

Pictures At An Exhibition by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Here Come The Warm Jets by Brian Eno

Greetings From L.A. by Tim Buckley

Sounds like musical blackface

Nighthawks At The Diner by Tom Waits

Palo Congo by Sabu

Heaux Tales by Jazmine Sullivan

Post-Condé-Nast-Pitchfork-core

Countdown To Ecstasy by Steely Dan

Devil Without A Cause by Kid Rock

Movies by Holger Czukay

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno

Planet Rock: The Album by Afrika Bambaataa

Chore of Enchantment by Giant Sand

Slanted And Enchanted by Pavement

Djam Leelii by Baaba Maal

Want Two by Rufus Wainwright

Let England Shake by PJ Harvey

Pretenders by Pretenders

Leftism by Leftfield

Truth by Jeff Beck

Microshift by Hookworms

The New Tango by Astor Piazzolla

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy

Tellin’ Stories by The Charlatans

The Last Broadcast by Doves

No Other by Gene Clark

Blur by Blur

Cut by The Slits

1977 by Ash

Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane

Headquarters by The Monkees

Destroyer by KISS

Seventh Tree by Goldfrapp

Aja by Steely Dan

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OutKast

Boston by Boston

Blue Lines by Massive Attack

Brutal Youth by Elvis Costello

Urban Hymns by The Verve

Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian

Suffers from being not quite as good as its successor. I like the opening track but the rest of the album never reaches the heights of Sinister

In Our Heads by Hot Chip

Basic indie pop, not really remarkable

Lust For Life by Iggy Pop

Melody A.M. by Röyksopp

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle by Throbbing Gristle

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

Ace of Spades by Motörhead

Infected by The The

Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout

Run-D.M.C. by Run-D.M.C.

Marquee Moon by Television

Music From Big Pink by The Band

I might've just been in the wrong mood but I found this album really unbearable. The first song is this 5 minute dirge and it completely ruins the rest of the album for me

Traffic by Traffic

Garbage by Garbage

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith

Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk

Clandestino by Manu Chao

Selling England By The Pound by Genesis

Every Picture Tells A Story by Rod Stewart

It's Too Late to Stop Now by Van Morrison

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden

Third/Sister Lovers by Big Star

Kick Out The Jams (Live) by MC5

Rocks by Aerosmith

Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman by John Zorn

Hearts And Bones by Paul Simon

(What's The Story) Morning Glory by Oasis

Automatic For The People by R.E.M.