Preliminary 4 stars. I didn't give it the full listen it deserves yet but I like most of what I've heard. Welcome to the Terrordome is amazing.

This album seems like it's meant to be played in full at a dance club. I really like the bass and guitar work. It gets a little repetitive in some places but other than that I don't have any real criticisms. This isn't a genre I have a ton of experience with and I don't know if I'll go out of my way to listen to this album in full again, but I had a good time with it today.

Great first half, but I'm not a fan of the instrumentals on side B.

There are like 3 great tracks on here. The rest range from pretty good to skippable, but not awful.

Great opener and closer. Garbage in the middle.

Led Zeppelin is the ultimate classic rock and roll band. This is like their 5th best album and it still gets 5 stars.

Not bad but kinda boring. The banter sections don't help. I'm more impressed by the recording quality than anything else here.

What the hell is this

This is neat proto-punk, hard to believe it's from '79. I enjoyed it the whole way through even if it's probably not going in permanent rotation for me.

These covers are fascinating. Johnny Cash lends a humongous gravity to each one.

How had I never heard this before??? This album rules. Super energetic and chaotic instrumentals with wild vocal performances.

What a gem! I never would have listened to this on my own. I can't tell what he's rapping about, but he seems to be doing so very skillfully and the beats are all great. This is music to make you feel cool. Loved it the whole way through.

Uninteresting. Didn't finish this one.

There are enough great songs on this double album to make a one very good album. Enjoyable but bloated.

Great first album from The Who. Hadn't heard most of these songs before. The Ox was my favorite, what a fantastic rock and roll instrumental.

I already liked The Smiths and I enjoyed my first listen to this album even more than I thought I would.

This album is better played in the background than really listened to. At least it's short. Petty here sounds like he's doing mediocre covers of nonexistent Springsteen b-sides. Not a fan of his voice on this.

Cool album! I like this psychedelic surf sound, especially the guitar. Never heard of this band before.

Boring slog with a couple of ok songs.

Great jazz-rock, I played this album twice today.

Aggressively bland. Not my kind of music.

I like the beats and Nas has a great flow.

Stevie Wonder has a great style. Not all of these songs are great but enough are for me to like it.

Sounds like music that plays when you call a utility company and they put you on hold. I don't think that the "world" music genre is for me.

This is The Beatles actually being as good as people say they are. Revolver is maybe their best album. No filler here and a perfect blend of innovation and catchiness. These songs are iconic. Paul McCartney's bass is especially incredible.

Moody and dark. One of the best acoustic singer-songwriter albums. Free Ride is my favorite song on here.

Awful singing over good guitar playing. I didn't make it through the second song.

Well made but not really for me.

This album is pretty ok!

Corny lyrics over mostly solid instrumentals. This would be a 2 without Give it Away and Under the Bridge. Most of the rapping is pretty bad and detracts from the overall experience, but Give it Away is hilarious and one of their best songs. I hope that Californication is on this list because that album is a 5.

Love their sound! These guys deserved to be more than a one hit wonder. A couple songs on here sound like they're inventing ska and made me really happy.

Some of the big singles are kind of grating now, but I had this album on repeat for so long after it came out that I still have to give it a 4 even if I don't feel like listening to it on repeat anymore. I can't help but compare 1989 to Lorde's Pure Heroine from the year before and CRJ's Emotion from the year after, which have both held up better imo.

It's interesting! I respect the experimentation.

Competent, inoffensive 80s arena-rock. Don't love it, don't hate it, I'd just rather listen to something else.

Some good songs but like half of it could have been cut at least and it would have made for a better project. That's how I feel about Gorillaz in general, too much dicking around with some real songs thrown in every once in a while.

Good first half, unnecessary second.

Super pleasantly surprised, this is great 80s pop. I'd never heard The Sun Always Shines on TV before, what a banger!

Fantastic jazz pop. The couple of moments where Vaughn makes a mistake only humanize her and add to the live experience.

They sound like a less experimental, more straightforward REM. This album is a little too safe/watered down for my taste but they're not bad. Better second half than first. 3.5 stars but I'll round up to 4.

Here The Kinks sound like all of the other best bands of the 60s. I'm just not sure what their own sound is based on this album.

Weird but extremely listenable! Several highly skilled musicians exercising their creativity.

Simply incredible. Some of the best soft rock I've ever heard.

There are just enough good songs on here for a solid EP, but this album is an overlong mess, and it commits the cardinal sin of art by being boring.

It's fine

I wish I had heard these sorts of interesting production techniques on a more engaging album

This man sounds like he is going to imminently vomit and I can't deal with it. Tom's voice is actively unpleasant to listen to so it gets a 1.

Preliminary 4 stars. I didn't give it the full listen it deserves yet but I like most of what I've heard. Welcome to the Terrordome is amazing.

Mountain Song is fun but this album is hella boring otherwise.

Such a fun album. The Darkness had a sound they wanted and just went for it.

It's remarkable how lucid and uplifting this album is. I would not have thought that Kanye was capable of making music like this given his current state.

I really like Tom Sawyer, YYZ, and Limelight, but the other songs were different combinations of forgettable, boring and overlong.

I don't need 33 mediocre folk songs to fill 2 hours of my life.

If I had grown up listening to this album I would probably have enjoyed it. As it is, I'm bored and I don't like the singer's voice.

Short and incredibly sweet. Loved this.

Eminem is one of the most skilled rappers ever and Dr. Dre's beats are perfect for him. Unfortunately, the edgiest teenager you've ever met wrote all the lyrics on this album.

I'm at least glad that Britpop is its own genre so I can easily tell when an album is going to suck. Not only are most of these songs boring but they are all too long.

Fantastic instrumentals ruined by an AWFUL singer. I want to hear these songs sung by someone who can actually carry a tune.

Pretty ok, but some really questionable lyrics in Turn Blue.

Dark, moody, atmospheric. I enjoyed this a lot.

Some of the best country songs I've ever heard. Loved Prine's lyrics, especially on Flag Decal and Angel from Montgomery.

Raekwon and the rest of Wu Tang have incredible style and skill, but this album is too long for lyrical content that amounts to "sell drugs, get money, fuck bitches." Other 90s rappers had more to say.

Generic 70s music. It's fine.

Most of this sounds like it could have been on a Roxy Music album but the last 3 songs sound like what I expect from Brian Eno. Both styles were great.

Another band that's like REM but not as good. Didn't hate it but probably won't listen again

Some of the lines on here are great but this album is long and unfocused. I don't think I'll be listening again.

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I do like jazz, and this is not bad, but it's slower than I'd like.

I wish this had vocals but it's a good soundtrack. Very Pink Floyd-ish in a way that I like.

Yep, it's The Cure!

I liked this at first but found it grating after a while. Don't expect to revisit this album often.

Great background music! Not super engaging but I still enjoyed it.

A bit too long, and the second jam track over 10 minutes long was unnecessary, but Jimi and his band are incredible musicians. Really liked most of this.

Decent but a bit repetitive.

Didn't finish this one, it's one boring.

Loved most of this. Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, and Freebird are terrific. Things Goin' On and Mississippi Kid are not.

Can't get past the awful singing

Great beats! This style of rapping and a lot of the lyrical content haven't aged well unfortunately. I get that NWA's attitude was intentionally abrasive, but these guys just didn't see women as people. Express Yourself is also a very funny inclusion on an album largely about raping and killing. All that said, I like some of these songs, and I recognize how important this album was in the evolution of rap from the 80s to the 90s. I'd just rather be listening to Dr. Dre's production on something else.

One of my favorite prog rock albums. The shorter songs are kinda goofy but they add character. The longer songs are dynamic and interesting and actually earn their length. Roundabout especially is just a masterpiece.

Great classic psychedelic rock. I already knew and liked a couple songs going in and found several more. This is going on rotation.

This is a really interesting mix of pop/rock/orchestral, glad I listened to it. Black Plant and In My Room were the standout tracks for me. 4 stars right now but I could see this growing even more on. I'm probably listen again soon.

Inoffensive background music suitable for a pilates class. Groove Is in the Heart was the only standout track for me, but I didn't hate this album.

Nick Drake's albums are my favorite finds from this site so far. This one joins his other two in my personal rotation.