beck has some good ideas and there must be a reason for him being so liked but oh my god i find him so fucking irritating i feel like there's a kid next to me trying to tell me the plot to their favourite video game that they can't remember properly when I listen to this music. for that reason fuck this album its a 1

you can hear how important this album is and it's cool to think form the perspective of the time. that being said most of this album is trolling

knew that the exclusively classic rock obsessed saddos would hate this album without thought so was gonna give it a 5 anyway to spite them but it actually deserves it too so a double win

make metallica cornier and talk about satan more

started off not really clicking with me despite how amazing his voice is and a love for music with similar timbres but by the end of the last track I was in a daze and hadn't realised how moved I was for past however many minutes. Then checking the release date and it was early 90s??? Who the fuck produced this it sounds so crisp and massive. The mixing on this was ahead of its time for sure, ranging formform beutifully crisp sounds of the more stripped down tracks to big soaring ones that almost sound like something that Mike Dean would produce. So sick wtf

better than i thought it would be, for sure enjoyed it more than most springsteen I've heard before. This is all that the midwest emo kids used to have

cmon dog its david bowie and robert fripp

wooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

wayyy better then I remember holy shit this is awesome

ehh? he's just fine, some real cool ideas but it's just kinda annoying and brooding without feeling genuine. killer opening track but overall just mediocre

make metallica cornier and talk about satan more

ok adam it's good

some great tunes but fuck he's one note aye jesus

cool as hell, not as good as yoshimi tho

hell yeah B)

GONNA KICK IT ROOT DOWN

nah fuck this is actually so sweet I love it. in a golden hour of your life and taking the time to recognise that??? yes!!!

god i have no idea how this was as successful as it was. it sounds HARSH

not a huge dylan fan but this one was great, gonna relisten to highway 51 and see if I appreciate it a bit more with more context

cool, not my cup of tea composition-wise, maximalism in rock just sounds really weird to me

you can hear how important this album is and it's cool to think form the perspective of the time. that being said most of this album is trolling

pretty gangstered sounding but anxiety's going ape-mode today so definitely could've enjoyed it more on another day, so in reality like 3 stars but I know it'd be 4 on a good day

there are some truly amazing songs on here. but still feels like an incel in a leather jacket to me a little idk what to say maybe i'll like their other albums more

just sounds a little tinny to me compared to revolver and abbey road, still absolutely killing tho

this was a weird inclusion but interesting to hear. that being said, a lot of ASS songs on here. If you can't play the blues, don't???

woooooooooooo

i like this era of dance music but this sucks straight up

i mean cmoon HE WHO FUCKS NUNS WILL LATER JOIN THE CHURCH

idk I guess I just don't get it, her lyrics are.. good? her songwriting is pretty cool, production is super normal and uninteresting, bad blood is an atrocious song, but some good soundscapes and melodies. Just feels super middle of the road to me I don't understand what the fuss is

a little one note but that note is sooo good it sounds exactly like the album cover

4 and a half would be the go for me, i enjoyed this way more than i thought i would but it still doesn't come close to metallica's disc. for me. still a banger tho and awesome guitar parts

I did really enjoy this, but something about knowing too much about the dunedin sound and the people that inspired it just makes me think about how much of a wanker these people always are. wah wah i'm more artsy than everyone else wahh wahhh. people that do stuff that's a little different and act as though it's wholly unique piss me off

enjoying hearing more sonic youth for sure, didn't enjoy this one as much as I thought I would but I'm pretty sure this'll grow massively on me

not huge on the beginning tracks so never got properly invested in this album but it gets sooo good. I love a little meditative session where the music's about just being, so cute. kanye could've been so much more than what he is now :(

still not quite my cup of tea but I enjoyed it more than most Yes I'd already heard. some really cool passages but doesn't do heaps for me overall

alright sure yea it's good, nice big soaring choruses and sax parts. everyone impersonating springsteen as their version of doing "rock vocals" for the last 40 years has kinda made it sound corny asf tho

just not very good, surface level political observations with none of the grit and anger to make it some kind of a chant like a Public Enemy or RATM. So much of it felt like shitty versions of songs gil scott heron had done better two decades earlier. disappointed cos some of the flows and beats were nice and the heart was in the right place but fuck this album kinda blows

not been a huge neil young fan before now but fuck that was awesome, the two "blues" songs especially were absolutely fucking minted. Only downside is having to listen on youtube and forgetting autoplay was on and getting blasted by black midi when I hadn't realised the album had finished

i will always maintain they have the exact same appeal as AC/DC, songs with great tone that are really fun to chant in a stadium, not much more. this shit just isn't moving idk, maybe i just think the gallaghers are wankers

3 enjoyed myself a lot having a little boogie but there wasn't a whole lot to it and wouldn't have enjoyed it heaps if I wasn't working while listening

nah actually had such a great time listening to this, late night and having a whisky kinda music I love it

not huge on the eagles and this has its issues but fuck when it's good it's GOOOOD

beck has some good ideas and there must be a reason for him being so liked but oh my god i find him so fucking irritating i feel like there's a kid next to me trying to tell me the plot to their favourite video game that they can't remember properly when I listen to this music. for that reason fuck this album its a 1

queen i love her this was great

this grew stale fast lmao but i still had a lot of fun at certain parts

enjoyed this a lot more than i thought I would, there were some really cool musical moments on here, but don't think I'll have much of an urge to return to it. 3.5 stars would be more accurate

some really cool horn layering throughout and some cool wacky synths. I enjoyed myself a lot but if I'm honest with myself that enjoyment definitely came from being able to hear the amount of uppers they were on as opposed to good songwriting and structure. of which there was little...

oh my god I loved this, poppy angst is so so good. Few moments that didn't hold up quite as well but I just had so much fun

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lets get funky :)

oh god i knew one would come up eventually Listening to a zeppelin hit: awesome, groovy, I'm having so much Listening to a zeppelin album: tedious, fatiguing, by the end of it feel like I'm listening to two petulant children scream for attention to drown out one of the nicest rhythm sections in the genre ultimately I just don't get it like everyone else does, they're just good, and the response to any criticism against this band just makes me wanna double down on it cos everyone's so fucking annoying about it that being said it's still like 3 stars of course

i feel like I'm in the most musically-savvy spy movie ever whenever I listen to this album it's so so good. top 3 miles davis for me

best mixed megadeth album by far, but like a lot of their albums is just a little too silly to take the subject matter seriously somtimes

definitely wasn't an album-oriented artist but this is always one where it's gonna make you feel something strong, crazy crazy influence. some of my favourite pac beats on this one as well

everything he touched grooved so hard, and a lot of the production on his albums sounds so crisp for the time

I mean it's not bad but they were a bit fucken late to the party with this sound lmao

nirvana have grown on me so much in recent years but this album I don't think ever will. I love how On a Plain and Something in the Way sound in this style but everything else is super grating to me. The Man Who Sold the World does sound good but I prefer the Bowie version a lot more. God I wanna like this as much as everyone else

this whole thing is making me realise I absolutely adore neil young, haven't heard a bad album yet

they just killed it every time, a lot more melancholy sounding than expected

wish this era of music clicked for me more, but still a fun album with some great high points but generally not for me, maybe I'll get there in future

really glad I went into this with no knowledge this was so much fun, awesome blend of punk, new wave, and just that general wacky shit associated with talking heads etc. really enjoyable

he actually cannot make bad music

if I'm in the mood for it this album makes me absolutely transcend, so good for so many different occasions

enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would but also I guess I was raised on this kinda music, unfinished sympathy bumped it up a star then the song after immediately brought it back down lol

the bee gees are overhated and have some great tunes so I wanted to like this but oh my GOD it was SO DRAB, it was worse than watching paint dry it was like watching old wall paper peel. A couple tunes at the start were pretty good but the intstrumentation is just rubbish, the strings make the music feel like it's been dropped in a muddy puddle. The song about Israel was an interesting one too lmao

I'm having a great time with all this mum rock tbh. didn't think I'd love it so much

grew on me after a few songs, really fun guitar tone that added a lot to songs that are otherwise not super interesting

wow holy shit, I thought I'd probably enjoy it but this is PHENOMENAL, the spaciest smoothest sax ever over classic motown grooves. So good

pretty fun, but glam just wasn't THAT interesting musically

i think i had fun, so, nice

didn't fully get the hype when I listened to it first years ago but then I got good headphones and could hear Jamerson's basslines, then learned more context, now it's one of my favourites lol

were never my favourite but when I do listen I just get lost in it it's so well done

acid casualty music is my favourite music

i love him so much but Aretha Franklin really dookied all over any chance of me ever enjoying the original version of respect

cmon it's awesome

little boogie :) wahooo

idk how I'd never actually ended up listening to a Janis Joplin album but it was pretty much as expected. Nice blues arrangements with some hearty screeching, always sick but wish there was a bit more musical versatility

this is the best one straight up it just takes u out of the world and puts u in vast expanses of ocean and space just with music. so fucking good

wow u know what make this fantastic era-defining album better? dotting a bunch of garbage inbetween all the amazing tracks and padding out the runtime to 2 hours for no reason

nah this was wicked, wayyy better than expected

never listened all the through before, the most Blur-like Gorillaz album. But that's a pretty cool thin, just some of the songs were pretty irritating to listen to on a stressful work day, but that's also my fault

john lydon consistently surprises me with how many great tracks I've never heard of from him, not that I knew that many to begin with. But shit this was great, dragged here and there but I had lots of fun so 5 stars

the beatles had such a strong "losing my mind from acid" vibe at this point in their career that really doesn't sit well with me on this album. I like it on Magical Mystery tour but on this one I feel like I'm being held hostage and fed tabs by Charles Manson's cult. But also it's got shit like while my guitar gently weeps and influential asf stuff so liek it's still a good album just weak for the beatles imo

fuck I really did hate them back in the day but they're just such classic little cute indie music where u imagine some cringe ass romantic gesture happening to it. It's CUTE and people that don't like it are AFRAID!

this was lovely, lots of influences from places I wuite enjoy. Nothing too special about the songwriting, but some really nice soundscapes

I have a lot more nostalgia for this era of soft kind of nothing-rock from singer songwriters of the late 90s and early 2000s than I thought. 5/5 for the soft cell cover alone tho holy shit what a TUNE

just really not much there. Don't like the lyrics, they're super stale. Sound of the music is nice enough I guess idk it's pretty boring. They are to radiohead what norah jones is to traditional jazz singing except norah jones could play the traditional stuff too and coldplay can't do radiohead

just gorgeous

started off not really clicking with me despite how amazing his voice is and a love for music with similar timbres but by the end of the last track I was in a daze and hadn't realised how moved I was for past however many minutes. Then checking the release date and it was early 90s??? Who the fuck produced this it sounds so crisp and massive. The mixing on this was ahead of its time for sure, ranging formform beutifully crisp sounds of the more stripped down tracks to big soaring ones that almost sound like something that Mike Dean would produce. So sick wtf

let's fucking gooooo I find this type of blues cool but really boring and the rhythms on this spice it up the perfect amount. Creamed my knickers for this one for sure

Just another CCR album. Cool as fuck but tinny and grating sounding if you're not in the mood for it lol. Luckily I stopped it and listened to it later when I wanted to and had a great time

just doesn't really get better than this aye

I don't really get the big deal with elton john but I did have fun so 5 stars who cares

eric clapton is so unbelievably overrated. That being said, some fun songs on here of course, he wasn't famous for NO reason. I think the novelty of this sound was one of the biggest things it had going for it and that most of this album is a little boring

cmon its just the fucking best

not as good as with ry cooder but man this guy just loves to have a jam

knew that the exclusively classic rock obsessed saddos would hate this album without thought so was gonna give it a 5 anyway to spite them but it actually deserves it too so a double win

kinda annoying lol but some cool bits

i mean come on

classic bowie but particularly sax heavy lets gooo

when I'm not in the mood for it it's annoying asf but when I am in the mood for it it's so much fun he such great energy

the fun songs were a lot of fun but the early synth sound stuff always drags a bit for me. But still had lots of fun and super infulential

A big surprise how much I enjoyed this god damn!! I loved all the dance elements to this and ended up listening to all the bonus tracks and remixes on the deluxe version. also introduced me to paul oakenfold properly which is awesome, only knew him from a The Streets song reference lol

First time I've listened to her since actually experiencing heartbreak and it's definitely a lot better lmao, not her best work tho

Sent me listening to like 3 of their other albums afterwards it's just so much funnn

1 cos researching the artist they sound like an annoying asshole and this album is such mediocre 80s pop music that them being a dick immediately brings it way down. Them claiming this was the most important album since Sgt Peppers is so funny lmao

eh it's fine I don't think they've ever been for me but a pretty cool atmosphere building, just not an atmosphere I care for

I'd listened before and not cared for it so I was shocked at how much I absolutely adored this album this time through. Just such stirring rises and falls of beautfilly orchestrated music accompanying such vivid yet cryptic poetry is just awesome. I get it now lol

not sure of Pixies could do any wrong back in the day everything they made was so genuine it's awesome. Unencumbered creativity that makes you love the songs even if they aren't necessarily pleasing to your ear initially. Glad to have pulled it back into the rotation when assigned this album

turns out I had heard a LOT more of this album than what I thought (which was none), it's played in every second hand store I've ever been in I swear. It sounds phenomenal when it's not coming out of their tinny speakers though. Just as beautiful as I thought it would be, this is the blueprint for songwriters for a very very good reason, it's just everything you need from a good song, every time.

Fela's the goat no question. Ginger Bakers drums did more for me on this than I expected, they worked well. Fela's band has always been killer tight but the production for the time was really really good for a live album, a lot of shitty sounding ones going round those days

I really want to like John Lee Hooker as I've enjoyed small bits of his sound and music but I've always felt his albums dragged or stayed on one vibe too long. This was finally the one, I thought it was awesome, super glad

was very excited for this to end tbh

I love Brazilian music but the instrumentation on this is just not for me unfortunately. That being said the good definitely outweighs the bad, but I found the opening track really irritating for some reason

I've always figured I'd find this overrated. I did. It's still 5 stars cmon.

grew on me over a lot of years and now I just fucking get it. I think when people talk about this album they don't specify enough how psychedelic this album is instead of jazzy. This just takes you to weird weird places it's so cool, I really think maybe Miles Davis couldn't do wrong. In music that is.

I've heard this so much from a flatmate blasting it way too loud but hearing through headphones this was fucking awesome, like I knew it was good but the jamminess of it is just so much fun

I expected to enjoy this based on what I'd heard of her. I didn't expect to recognise almost every single song she's inescapable and so so good

This is not to say that frank zappa wasn't clever or funny because he was, but he wasn't close to as funny and clever as he thought he was

knew it would be good but holy shiiiiiiit this was amazing

The Band are just so so so good, like come on, cool ass folky songs with killer instrumentation? Sick asf

lmao this might be the most fun I've had so far this whole project I just had a blast. Except that weird final patriotic song that was weird but I'm pretending it didn't happen

5 out of 5 for the swag but obviously not all the songs hold up as well as the hits. but Gangsta Gangsta makes this perfect on its own

awesome addition to this era of punk. Probably the closest thing to bad brains I've heard without it being bad brains. AND I FUCKING LOVE BAD BRAINS!!!!!!

I have no idea why I put off listening to Pulp properly for so long. In my opinion, a far far stronger album than Blur and Oasis ones but not the moving powerhouse singles so not as many get drawn in, but you're blessed if you do give them a proper go

Didn't know what to expect here but absolutely loved this. The exact folky vibe that I love and the exact kind of pyschy/jazzy/funky guitar tones that I'm into on the more upbeat tracks, super cool definitely listening many more times

never really gave aerosmith a proper shot but I should've known I'd enjoy this this much just based on how much I love the start of Dazed and Confused. Awesome album just nothing but fun the whole way through, even if it's a little too horny

I don't think this album clicks for me like it does for other, but I can absolutely see why it hits so hard for those people that do get it. Very ahead of its time at parts in terms of the atmosphere it created, and pretty cool someone leaning into more atmospheric music during a very songwritey era

He's never clicked like he seems to for everyone else but that doesn't mean it's not still awesome

not quite bjork, still 5 stars

this was awesome lmao

awesome, stunning, gorgeous, amazing, left me with a strange need to listen to kraftwerk

IM YOUR pushermaaaan

had some really cool parts and some parts that felt like absolute wank but given the time it came out that's fair enough

Never gave any of her albums a front to back listen and now I'm gonna do all of them this was so much fun. Dated but in the best way possible

I feel like I've often overlooked just how polished and noisy this was for the time it came out. Obviously there were others doing similar things, but this is a sound that we take for granted so much nowadays that it feels easy to forget this was so special

think this might be my favourite I've heard of theirs so far (have listened but not in years). Never been big on Zeppelin (compared to most of their psycho fans) and this brought up my opinions on their music which is awesome cause I like liking things. This has not, however, changed my opinion that their musical career peaked with their first song

I mean is Morrisey the wankiest frontman ever and really difficult to listen to for a full album? Yea for sure. But other than him every Smiths album absolutely bangs and the bass tone on this album is so gorgeous

It's a shame most people hear Heaven or Las Vegas first since it sets the standard so high for their other albums but there's something so fun about their one of a kind sound melding with more conventional songwriting devices that make this a super super fun listen for me :)

he always has some duds in my opinion but that's true for so many in that transition between the late 80s and early 90s. and when an Ice Cube song hits it HITS

not too sure why this is their big one everyone raves about but it was great, I don't know if any other act has grown on me as much as arcade fire considering how much i used to not like it. They manage to really gently weave in intense emotion when u least expect it which i find great

no song makes me feel like I'm on drugs as much as the big crescendo in Epitaph what a goated album

I've heard this blasting a lot while growing up while trying to sleep in on a Saturday morning after dad decided he was going to go to town with his power tools and speaker setup. It sounds a lot more enjoyable now when I've chosen to listento it lol

Liked this wayyyy more than I thought I would, thought it'd just be cool songwriting but the amount of different styles and themes across this album while still remaining super cohesive is fantastic. Cool asf

This is what plays in the brain of a child when you say the term heavy metal and honestly that's sort of super endearing lol. Lost one star because the name made me think this would be an early all-black hardcore punk band and it was disappointing finding that wasn't the case

The imagery and name of this band has never made them feel real to me they feel made up, listening to this album has only solidified these feelings for me, kinda awesome

They made a lot of really boring shite music after this and it really pisses me off that this album really is good enough for me to be all good with them coasting for the next couple decades (even tho a lot of people claim they still like the music)

Giving this a 5 before I listen because Fats Domino doesn't have any misses they're all so fun, but also because I can never find the exact version of these old albums that were all just collections of old standards. I'm sure the one I listened to had some of the right songs, if the correct album didn't have "Ain't That a Shame" then the wrong album's on this list anyway!!!!

have left this to the wayside a bit so fairly sure this was assigned to me very close to christmas (not sure if that's done on purpose) so annoyed with myself that I didn't listen then I didn't realise all these songs were released like this we listened to Annie Lennox's christmas album instead and it sucked!! But yea all of these songs are classics and are amazing and that piece of shit Phil Spector can rot in hell for eternity!!! :)

This era of Bowie is unbeatable, like most of them to be fair. A few songs I'm not as hot on but there's something so captivating about his music even when it's not your favourite ones

This was really weird and unexpected but I love crooning so 5 stars hell yea

Before I listen to this I am writing down that I've always thought this is one of the ugliest album covers ever made. After listening, that was as good as expected, very

This is better than Thriller

I should never have listened to Say Yes before the rest of his stuff cos the rest of it's good but not in the same way and it took me way too long to appreciate it. That being said this album is gorgeous and the heavier moments come at perfect times and Say Yes as a closer is just stunning

If Ween had made a 70s blues style album it would've sounded kinda like this, so that's good cos Ween is sick

HOW have I not listened all the way through this one before, the first half isn't my favourite Pixies but the back end of this is LOADED. creamed my knickers to this one fr

it simply IS that good unfortunately

Beach House have really sneakily become one of my favourite bands of all time and this album is so so good getting to hear them a little bit earlier on a litte rougher around the edges and adhering to a sound that was less distinct but they were still capable of producing soundscapes like Silver Soul that showed what they'd go on to make later in their career. Just really touching and amazing and lush and emotional

Absolute classic cmon, and assigned to me on a day of beautiful weather lets go

When I read the name I thought I would enjoy it a lot less than I did. After reading who they'd worked with I thought I'd enjoy it a lot more than I did. Overall pretty good lol

can't believe I've never heard this before, stunning

I think Paul Simon is finally growing on me I really liked this one, except for the one about cars that was annoying asf

Thought I'd kinda hate this because I find their hits annoying but the deeper cuts are great, dripping with grumpy old man irony, and thankfully some songs not sung by Sting and his weird asf semi-Caribbean accents

silly music, awesome

I don't think the gimmick was conducive to a good cohesive project, but if it forced people to respect that both parts of the duo were integral to how amazing they were then I am cool with it. Great album track by track for the most part, overall not quite there but still awesome and spawned some crazy big hits, could listen to Roses and The Way You Move every day and love it

his best one

idk what I expected but that wayy exceeded it that was such a fun album, definitely revisiting

Every song sounded like one I thought I knew but realised I didn't, weird experience. Cool album though

man their early shit is weird, idk I kinda had fun I guess but a lot of this was just not it they didn't know what they were doing yet

Real talk a lot of the sounds on this are a style of dance music production that I don't like, the harsh sounding stuff doesn't work for me in this context. But otherwise an absolutely SMOKING HOT album, so good and they just got better and better

As expected despite not being sure how many I knew it turned out I'd heard pretty much all of these before, a full album of hits which is always pretty cool. A little tacky tbh but I think it was seen so at the time too tho so whatever it's fun

why is this in here hjahahahaha the most one hit wonder band of all time. Strange dudes tho so the album was fun I guess

I've always found The Who to be made up of talented and fascinating musicians, but I've never found any of their songwriting compelling. There are moments where it comes together to sound great but it'll be a minute of a 6 minute song, really hoping it'll click one day but currently to me it's a lot of awesome bells and whistles attached to a piece of plywood. That being said, a live album is a way better way to experience this setup and Townshend's playing on this album absolutely rips a lot of the time so fuck it, I had fun

the only one so far that I'm not even revisiting because I listen to this album so often. This could easily be the greatest hip hop album of all time, its an effortlessly high class and standard debut that maintains the raw energy that comes from fresh new artists. Hearing lyrical comradery on this level had only been touched on at this point and in my opinion this is the first album where it truly felt as though every member knew each other like family and that's where the cohesiveness came from. This album has everything you could want from a hip hop album, storytelling, bragging, INCREDIBLE flows that chop and change in heart beat. I could almost listen to this album not knowing the words and enjoy just as much simply from how they interlock with the beats. RZA's (and others') beats on this album are also what make this so special. While working with elements of the rhythmically infectious bouncing beats and jazz samples of other boom bap artists, RZA managed to expertly turn up the harshness and darkness of the sound, while still having the finesse to create emotionally potent tracks like Tearz. Beyond this, this being the genesis for countless amazing solo careers and completely changing the face of what rap and hip hop could be, and from the sound, seemingly without even trying. I've always credited this to RZA having huge plans for the group but not being transparent with all the members lol. Truly a genius, who just happened to be surrounded by a bunch more geniuses. In a way, thank god no one gave a shit about Staten Island so we could be given this album. One of the best of all time.

LETS FUCKING GOOOO NEVER LISTENED FULLY BUT THIS WAS JUST AS GOOD AS I HOPED FATHER AND SON IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN

horny guy huh

just absolutely fucking phenomenal, stupidest thing the beatles ever did was ignoring these songwriting ideas

I think missy could've made some real proper all time greats but was held back to some extent by the industry expecting her to be tied into the mellow rnb side of things. This is almost there and has tracks that would be at home on an all time great hip hop album but the whole tracklist doesn't quite get there and that's super dissapointing to me because Missy had the ability if she'd been allowed the freedom that other artists were at the time. That being said this album is still a great time and a really enjoyable time capsule for this period

Kraftwerk are too hyped up based on how influential they were, which is not to say I don't love them to bits, but rather that people constantly go into their music expecting their minds to be blown and that's very unlikely to happen. What's actually awesome about them is how weird and silly they were all while grooving super hard. I'm so glad they're still touring because I think it was seeing them live that made me just get it, these guys are so silly and German and I think that's so great

The only album from his crazy 5 album run that I hadn't listened front to back yet. Firstly, Boogie on Reggae Woman is one of the greatest songs ever made with one of the synth bass parts ever written. Beyond that, I'm constantly shocked at how all the songs sound like Stevie songs but there's still ALWAYS fresh ideas. They Won't Go When I Go is such a moving piece after such a funky album and I love when he lets the more gospel side of his music out. Not all of his music reaches me emotionally as much as it seems to reach others but his passion for music and his ability to make that passion shine through in how it sounds is completely undeniable and lets all of his music grow on you in different ways until you can't live without it. To me he is the epitome of what music means to the world and I want an international day of mourning when he passes

There's really nothing quite like what they do, and I've always loved their ability to know their place in the general world of hip hop and they play into that. They're silly white dudes who lean into that aspect in their music at the same time as paying homage to the the genre as a whole. A perfect example of skill and self awareness meshing to create something wholly unique, so sick

I feel like I normally wouldn't be so down for this but I had a blast listening lmao great way to start a monday morning. Bit of grooving, great voice, the cover of Heaven was absolutely killer, all round cool asf

lmao that was a real wacky inclusion on the list it just kinda sounded like some guys at the pub. But I do like going to the pub. But also I don't think I'd rate going to the pub as a top 1001 musical experience of all time.

Unfortunate that I'm a bit lazy with listening to music that isn't on spotify because Joni Mitchell is one of the best things to ever happen in music and I've loved everything I've heard but I've barely listened. Been in love with anything I've heard from her since listening to her album with Charles Mingus, she's just so creative with the most beautiful voice ever, really don't have much to do but just gush lmao

I listen to this at least once a week because she is the greatest person to ever pick up a microphone except for maybe Etta James. It'll be hard to include an Aretha album here that isn't 5 stars for me lol

Man so much fun I love early punk stuff. I also (due to alphabetical seating) sat behind someone with a The Slits patch on her jacket for every exam I did in high school and it's very satisfying to finally give a proper listen and enjoy it. Finding out they didn't really know how to play the instruments makes sense lol but they made so much with so little at their disposal and I think that's the absolute pinnacle of what music can, and is supposed to be. I may not come back to this album too much but it easily gets 5 stars for being a representation of why I love music so much.

This was great, this kind of class of classic 70s and 80s songwriters were the exact kind of albums I was trying to force myself to get around to listening to wen I started this. This was great and it's always awesome to see how political music in the states progressed, Everybody Loves Me, Baby instantly went into the regular rotation, great song the still pulls on the melodic stylings of the decades prior but in a completely new context in terms of production and songwriting.

Thought this was gonna be perfectly rated as soon as it started, and I was right. I absolutely adore Afro-Cuban jazz but have found it a little hard to get into and learn about and finding out about one of the more seminal records of the genre through here is just awesome. Finding out that Cannonball Adderly was part of making this album as well makes sense as to why I loved this one in particular so much he's easily my favourite alto player as every single time he plays he exudes so much joy, and is the best possible reminder that, at its core, jazz isn't some stuffy music snob genre and it's actually about smiling and dancing and connecting through the music you play. And honestly that kind of sentiment feels intrinsic to this album, that the musicians would have known was not destined for the success of the jazz stars but was made for the love of the genres and cultures that were brought together by people that simply love music

whatever intangible element of frank ocean's music makes people obsess over it so much I do not get at all but like it's still all really good, just not very emotionally poignant for me

I mean you can just tell how much of a joy they would have been to listen to when they first came out in the 60s and that being so apparent all these years later speaks for itself

kinda think most of his music is too samey but he's got a lot of energy so it's fun to hear him perform anyway

god what a pretentious loser I actually can't stand listening to this guy. Look at me I'm so cool I'm a soulful huge rockstar. No you aren't!!! He had mild success and can play guitar and has a good voice and wrote the least authentic, most generic and meaningless ass songs and just started acting like he was Prince. Prince already behaved like a weird egotistical loser if you ask me, he just had the music to back it up. God idk why i hate this guy so much but fuck him. lenny crapshitz hehe

Super refreshing to hear some dnb in here, the early stuff is just so nice to sit back and do some work to, and this is an absolutely primo collection. Early dnb and jungle is an area I've wanted to know and understand more about for some time so this is a great doorway into part of that, this really made my morning a lot better :)

This was really enjoyable. Another in the list of albums I don't think I'll actively seek out again but I enjoyed thoroughly and am glad I heard it all the way through at least once. The incorporation of the fuzzy psychedelic guitars that seem popular within certain parts of Africa (currently escaping me where, maybe somewhere nearer the East coast but not quite the horn?) was so so good and the production over felt one step away from being what I would describe as lush and instead using a base of acoustic instruments that feel quite raw at times and are greatly enhanced by these "lush" embellishments. Very cool vocal inflections too

Springsteen's pretty goated that's all I'll say

I always think a Smiths album will be painful and then the rhythm section saves me once again thank god. Still am not a big fan of the way Morrissey writes and sings a lot of the time but oh well

This does feel a little samey after a while but the overall sound is supercool. I really hate bittersweet symphony so it's nice to finally have an intro to the verve actually sound like this shits great

God I would've got so sick of hearing this voice everywhere at their peak. Thank god I wasn't around then and this shit kicks major ass EEVEEEN FLOOOOOOW

While I think that the many many times in which people have attempted to dismiss this album as nothing but an iconic album cover and something that people convince themselves they like have some sort of validity, particularly in the internet age in which there's music you are expected to know inside out and appreciate to even be considered within discussions and people absolutely force themselves to "love" something because they're supposed to. Or even the exact opposite in which people dismiss this album's greatness for it not being groundbreaking and ambitious enough, there is still some validity to this of course as there were more ambitious musical statements within the band's own discography and most fans often won't have DSotM as their favourite Floyd. What I think people are choosing to brush over too hurriedly here in the quest to have a unique opinion in which they truly believe (as opposed to the hundreds said just for the controversy), is that this album to the average music consumer is weird. It's strange and uncomfortable and even unpleasant to listen to at times (I have many people who refuse to listen to Time due to its intro), and it also takes its time to make its statements. All of these elements are historically and contemporarily a product for complete disaster in the commercial realm and yet, in spite of this, this album became the longest charting number 1 album of all time against the likes of artists like Michael Jackson (I know the rankings change all the time but point stands). And while I'm a big proponent of the idea that commercial success is usually negligible in regarding how great an album is, when it comes to the truly all-time greats of respective fields, you absolutely have to pay attention to the fact that certain artists managed to create something that was truly a beautiful and well-thought out artistic statement that manages to push some boundaries and still appeal almost universally to a commercial AND artistic audience. To me that is the mark of what makes this album wholly unique, is that, while Pink Floyd were special in being able to make somewhat odd sounding and artistic (comparable to what usually charts) albums where many had this wide appeal. There is something so special about an album like this where the worlds of drug-addled artists trying to create the sounds echoing round in their heads on tape, and that of the commuting, top 40, "I just like a good tune" types of the world come completely together to create something that's more than an album, it truly is an icon. The Beatles weren't The Beatles because they wrote the best music of all time because you can't measure that, they were The Beatles because of what they left the world with after they left, coming into a black and white world and disbanding it at a time filled with colour and the the sounds of the true artists that inspired them being heard throughout the whole world. Likewise, this album is so special and beautiful to me because it's one of the main strongholds of the general population feeling, caring, and listening more than anyone seems to give them (us?) credit for. Art sometimes feels like its dead to many people and I choose to view this album's status as a shining beacon that that will never be true.

This is one of those albums you listen to and go huh pretty cool, then as soon as you see the year it came out you immediately think what the fuck how

still pretty boring but easily the best u2 album ive ever had to listen to. the 5 stars is for the album cover not the music

Holy shit had never listened to anything other than the hits, this was so awesome

Way better than their name sounds (I hate their name so much), but this is a bit of fun. The second half dragged massively for me but enjoyed overall

I had a really good time listening to this. Bauhaus have always just escaped my listening so I'm glad to have finally sat down and had a crack and this weas really just a great album. What a fantastic voice for all of the spoken word sections as well, gave me chills at times

I mean yea of course its good

I had a really great time listening to this one, what a little boogie

I remember really not caring for this band the first time I heard them. Then I grew up, was able to afford good headphones, and stopped hanging around the bogans that showed it to me, and god damn it if this isn't the greatest album ever to crush 12 shitty beers to. Fuck I may have become the people that showed them to me.

on album 207 I will finally break my streak of making sure I listen to every album all the way through because work has not been kind to me today, the only listenable kiss song I've heard was the album opener, and gene simmons can go fuck himself in his fat fucking ass, kiss sucks fuck you 0 stars

This was everything I expected and wanted it to be what an awesome songwriter she really picks up on some universal feelings and experiences that are lesser-explored and loves to explore them in her songs which I find really cool. If she only didn't sing with the speech impediment voice lmaooo

I like the song where he switches it up and goes for ear-splitting blues guitar instead of ear-splitting harmonica. Thanks bob very cool

Fela is truly one of the greatest artists to ever live and mixes the two greatest aspects of music which are political rage and grooving hard as you can. If you don't move when any of his songs come on I think you might actually be a bad guy. Like a real piece of shit. What kind of asshole doesn't dance to this? What do you have no soul? You're the scum of the earth you know that? Fuck you.

Admittedly I am now a big Radiohead fan after years of them growing on me, and this album is one that still continues to grow on me to this day. There are points I don't care for but the opening 2+2=5 is a super exciting blend of a lot of sounds they'd explored prior to this album and There, There is a nice call back to sounds before Kid A. Overall just another great Radiohead album surprise surprise

Just one of the greatest performers to grace god's green earth no biggie

This was really really enjoyable, always love seeing this heavier kind of stuff arising in the 60s, especially since half it isn't the vocals necessarily being heavy and screechy but the mics being so abused by how loud it is that's its distorted and scratched to shit lol

This album had a live version of a song that I'd never heard before from the previous album I listened to and it's freaking me out more than it should

I lived a lot of my life only vaguely aware of REM and really enjoying a few of their songs but not giving a proper listen. It may now be time to dig through the whole discography this was just so enjoyable to listen to

This album helped me finally figure out my issue with Prince and I think it's with his fans (who seem to be everyone). It's that Prince is an inherently silly artist, partially due to making music in the 80s and that being fairly normal, but also he was a weird guy. When I listen to this music and approach it the same way I approach something like Talking Heads, I love it, it's only when I try and approach it in the "heady all time artist such a mysterious and clever guy" place that it doesn't hit how it should. I suppose this is on me but people seem to miss that this music is silly and fun most of the time and that's its strength as opposed to being something that's serious and moving all the time, even though it can be at certain moments. Idk I've also thought stories about him being super cool and mysterious made him sound annoying so maybe it's just not the kind of artist archetype that I enjoy, but anyway, had a great time listening because I approached it differently!

Had briefly glimpsed this album cover before in a "greatest psychedelic album" poll and I was very excited to listen and this really pulled through. Through some good headphones, this album is super immersive and enjoyable to listen to, right up my alley, with just enough variety in songwriting to keep it interesting

Duran Duran are fucking awesome I could dance to this any day for any amount of time. This is to synth-based rock what Boston is to blues-based rock. The best possible version of the stereotypical sound

Despite being really big into Eminem when I was a kid, a front to back listen of this album had still somehow escaped me for some reason. Upon listening I think my favourite would still have to be The Slim Shady LP, but I can absolutely understand why this is the acclaimed album. Songs from this record make it feel like he must have made them years into his career and fame as opposed to about two years after he became well-known in the mainstream. It's ironic that he's become the artist that he's become (seems like he's doing better as a person though), because this album drips with self-awareness of who he is, his space in hip hop, and his place in the musical zeitgeist in an almost soothsayer-like fashion. Just awesome stuff, if listened with context in mind as a LOT has changed since this album came out.

2nd prince album in a few days and I had a blast. Now that I've embraced him being a silly fun guy instead mysterious cool musician I absolutely get this stuff now this was great I grooved hard asf

I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would, there's something about the instrumentation that doesn't support her voice quite as well as I would have liked but towards the back half of this it started to mold into something that I really enjoyed, very angelic. Also contains a cover of the best beatles song so automatically gets points lol

Despite being a big fan of this era of reggae, the wailers, and bob marley, this album still exceeded my expectations this was great. There's a quality to tosh's voice that feels unique amongst the various powerful voices of early reggae and ska and makes a lot of these songs feel closer to the american soul music of the day than a lot of other acts. His vocals are tender and sweet yet he will absolutely command your attention when he needs to in a way that makes this album's blend of politics, love, and heartbreak gel so perfectly with his performance that this album flows effortlessly. Doesn't hurt that the sweet little guitar parts all over the record also sound absolutely heavenly

This album was really great and the horn production creates a super out-there soundscape that's unique and especially so for the time this came out but more importantly this album gets a bunch of bonus points for making me find out about Dennis Wilson's connection to charles manson and his murders that shit is crazy

I have listened a billion times and studied this with several people and it endlessly has things to listen to. I'm not one for simply agreeing that a greatest album is a greatest album but if you actually like jazz and listen to a fair amount, it's so easy to find yourself continuously coming back to this album and losing yourself in the sound. The combination of musicians puts all of my favourite's into one room together and lets them explore an avenue of jazz that was largely untouched at the time. One of the greatest feats you can undertake as an artist is serving a regular music listening audience a piece that's in an odd meter, mode, or scale, and have it be digested as though it were nothing out of the ordinary. The players on this album weren't exploring modal jazz because they wanted to be cool (haha) and unique, they were doing it to chase after textures and sounds they hadn't had a proper chance to explore in tandem with a record-buying public yet. And all of these great minds and conflicting personalities, the dark and brooding Coltrane, the in-your-face, joyous Adderly, and the soft-touched and spoken, sparse, almost clinical Evans all come together with this want to truly and thoroughly explore an area of the world they inhabit as much as they can, and it shows. The chemistry and the sound come together to create something that, in jazz, is usually left to the wind and those standing directly in front of the musicians. By virtue of the music being improvised andchanging every time it's played, moments like this a rarely caught in such quality in the jazz world and holy fuck am I glad this one was.

I'd just found out about this dude a couple months ago and thought he was the coolest ever and it's great to see he has more albums that go as hard as the one I found (none of these songs hold a candle to Oba, La Vem Ela though)

Maybe the best album of one the greatest musical acts of all time. It's always hard to write when I come across an album like this that maybe changed my whole life and I'm so close to because it feels like I can't say anything that I haven't already heard others say. Everyone has there own niches of what makes them understand what music can truly be and what it can make them truly feel and for me that falls within Tribe's whole discography and community, reaching out to De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, Busta Rhymes. My whole life I have had an affinity for art and music particularly that's worked in contrast to the more sensible and "normal" environment I was raised around, and moreso in my contrast to be able to express myself. This is why ATCQ has always been so important to me, they create everything that makes me feel the music sooo hard yet they never lose their sense of humour or their ability to just be silly and it makes the music so much better for it. But my own random personal feelings aside, this album really is that good. Not necessarily the first to tackle Jazz within hip hop (RIP Guru) but they were the first to clean it up and package it the way they did. By all reports this was due to Q Tip being the perfectionist he is and it really does show. Hours sitting in a studio listening to potential records to sample and tweaking the mix as you run back and forth between the studio and your car to see how it sounds is all that can make an album this minimalist and sparse sound like something that can undeniably move heads. I can still vividly remember the first time I heard Buggin Out as I was leaving my house to walk to school and it was just the perfect moment as that snare hit so crisp and Phife comes in with one of the greatest verses of all time. I rewound it and played it over and over again and didn't hear the second verse until I was halfway to school. And despite hearing it that many times I'm still bumping it regularly years and years later. Scenario is maybe the greatest posse cut of all time, rivaled on its own album by Show Business which in my opinion may be the most underrated posse cut in hip hop. But beyond just my personal experiences with it, this album is an ode to jazz and the culture from which hip hop was born. There's a large voice often saying that hip hop and sampling culture is somewhat "stealing", but when Q Tip specifically makes a point to shout out Ron Carter on Verse from the Abstract, this is more love than individual musicians were usually shown within Jazz itself. People don't regularly talk about McCoy Tyner, they talk about John Coltrane (and his quartet) despite the fact that without the lush and rhythmically dense piano on those records, they simply wouldn't be what they were. But this is because these musicians are tools used by an auteur (for lack of a less wank word), and this is crediting how important the arranger and organiser and conductor of musical performances is, while displaying great trust in these musicians to do in knowing they cna do what you require while adding their own flavour to it. This is the culture that was passed down to hip hop and I think is displayed so beautifully on this album, with moments such as the one I mentioned not relying on you having prior knowledge but telling you where this music came from and why, transforming the musical sphere from simply self-referential, to self-preserving. But this is taking the piss! No one wants to hear people talk about jazz like this and really what's important to me is that this album is intrinsically intwined with my whole life at this point, the highs, the lows, hanging out, hyping myself up, meeting new people, this album is more than music, it's a constant, it's gospel, it's just fucking awesome.

If I'm honest I think I morphed Tori Amos and Toni Braxton into the same thing in my head over the years and so this was a surprise. But a pleasant one! Another great in a long line of all-time women singer-songwriters and this just absolutely goes off for a debut album. The back half in particular feels super loaded so it just keeps getting better and better. Can't wait to listen again through better headphones so I can pay a bit more attention to lyrics, Mother was a big highlight of this album

This is one of the only Kanye albums that I can still happily listen to other than his debut, otherwise it's just marred by images of the broken and hateful man that remains after the fact of these albums he's made. This one I can still listen to however, because it's transformed for me into something truly sinister. Other albums of his were beautiful talent he wasn't able to hold onto his whole life, but this album (to me) represents what broke him. The exploration of his mania in the wake of his mum dying, his WEIRD issues with sex and pornography, and the lush over-the-top nature of fame that led to him no longer inhabiting a plane of sanity. A realisation I had this time through the album was that Kanye has what many rich people have with money, an insatiable need for more even though the money has plateaued in value, in any practical sense. But he has this with sex, not money. Sex is value to him and all through this album you hear it no longer having the value it once had, yet him having a completely insatiable craving and need. This is harrowing to listen to, it sounds to me like a Shakespearean tragedy now, and it is indeed beautiful, dark, and twisted

This was incredibly unpleasant to listen to for much of it. I think on purpose. 5 stars.

Nile Rogers is the GOOOOAOTTTOTTOAOOT

yea manngggg this shit grew on me so much since the first time I listened. Still not a big fan of Billy Corgan's voice but the guitar on this album just sounds so fucking GORGEOUS

yeeeeea motherfuckerrrrrrr

If I'm being honest, much of this was an uphill battle against the inner 14 year old version of me that couldn't fucking stand this shit, and trying to remind myself that I had a newfound appreciation for bands like Sepultura and even Limp Bizkit, and so maybe there was something here for you. It halfway worked, these guys definitely wore their influences on their sleaves to start with which I think is kind of endearing, although unfortunately the rapping has just never worked for me and never will. There were some more psychedelic sounding passages on here that I thought were really cool and wanted more of, and I kinda loved it when Corey just made weird as fuck noises I thought it was hilarious but totally fit the vibe, kinda like the sound effects on Funkadelic albums.But yea ultimately this album just really underwhelmed me a bit and I constantly found myself wishing I was listening to the band that inspired each song instead of that song. While I give almost exclusively 1s or 5s to albums because I pretty much enjoy it or I don't, this album gets a 3, there's something in it, but it's just not present enough, maybe that comes later in their, I should probably check.

All the best from this era are just solely fun and good times, I will dance to this any day. And Nile Rogers once again pushing a great album to be even better.

I was a little underwhelmed at the start of this one but it kept getting better and never went backwards which was really cool, I'm a big fan of back loaded albums on a first listen. This was a mix of some really great elements of different songwriting, and while it may not be a style that moves me a particularly large amount, it's just such a unique blend of different ideas that it's just a joy to listen to and I didn't want it to stop

Well this was totally fucking awesome. Just swept away into another dreamworld with this one, the instrumentation is just sooo lush that you really feel like you're bathing in sound. On the other hand though you have this melodic and harmonic writing that fills this floaty music with tension at a second's notice and constantly keeps you on your toes. I'd imagine this is music for old shut ins on the subcontinent the way that vivaldi is in the western world, but in drawing that comparison, I can enjoy and get lost in this album in the exact same way. I can totally see why this so heavily affected musicians in the 60s who were less familiar with other cultures music as it grabs you instantly and never loosens its grip for a second

The most annoying people you know throughout your life will try and get you to listen to this album. DON'T DO IT!!! Not because the album isn't good, because it absolutely is, but because you need to listen to this album on your own terms. Only then do you really sit in it and have an easy time putting yourself in the shoes of someone in 1967 hearing these sounds for the first time and feeling unlimitedly inspired by what you could do with it. This album has taken some time to grow on me but the greatness of it ultimately will always shine through for those that love and understand music

This was fanTASTIC!!! The only downside of this album is that I love the song Booo!!! so much that I wish this album was her vocals over garage beats :( the instrumentation is still awesome though and this just drips in all of the things that were good and great about early 2000s RnB, all while leaning into the benefits of the english accent in a way that only benefits the sound

So good, exceeded already high expectations and also made sense of a lot of songs that I'd heard sample it over the years lol

Chilled so hard to this, these uptight chilling haters could never

It's a tough life in this day and age truly thinking this is one of the greatest albums ever made. No one's gonna agree with you :( that being said this is the best thing ever, when I think of classic rock or dad rock or whatever you wanna call it this is what i think of to a T. Some completely iconic powerballads with crazy soaring harmonies, stunning harmonising guitar solos, wildly exciting organ parts, including a raucous blues number in there, a self referential song, several love songs, then close it out with an absolute SLAMMER that also slows it down a bit. This album IS the new york pizza or hot dog, it IS that street meat you got that the 5 star restaurant could never hold a candle to. I can talk all day about what I want from an album, the thought I want an artist to put into something, what consideration of history I think is important to make something an all time great, why sentiments of songs hit or fall flat for me. I'm sure I could say all of this about this album too and justify thinking it's so good, I COULD talk all day about what makes something great, or I could just sit there and appreciate that what I want has already been made, and it's amazing

I've never really understood why people go so crazy for this album over others of a similar sound that were made at the time (although while writing this I'm realising this probably came first lmao), but still this is definitely a fantastic album that just perfectly paints pictures of desolate, hard-done towns where so little is there that every heartbreak and pain feels like your whole world. Fuck fallout fans are annoying though.

As is the case with most Ice T I've listened to, the passion is clear and visceral but majority of the production choices have aged in a way that takes a lot of sting out of how hard it hits. While Public Enemy's instrumentation still sounds over the top and ferocious and almost off-putting, California hip hop was largely based around loud and heavy-hitting kick and snare beats, which cause Ice T's music, despite having a similar ethos, to not have the same level of bite that other acts had. That being said, this then falls into the category of "try and experience what it would've felt like at the time", and Ice's passion and pure anger pulls through so hard that this incredibly easy to do. To contemporary hip hop of the day, this was heavy metal, nothing exemplifying this more than the song Body Count, which he later named his metal band after. So while the beats fall short in a modern context, the aggression and love radiate out from this album like a glow and you end your experience with that passion planted inside you. And I think in this regard I can't view this album as anything but a complete success.

It's a shame so many people will be rating this after their first listen because this is an album that's dependent on a bit of context, as well as being one that took a while to grow on me and I think people won't get to sit with this record for quite enough time to truly appreciate it. I was already a huge Wu Tang fan when I first heard this, but didn't properly understand the surrounding movements in hip hop at the time. Seeing how this deepens the lore and style that Wu Tang brought to the scene, and understanding where these influences went in the following years of hip hop history give this album so much more depth than it seems at first listen. Overall this album just absolutely flexes the chemistry of all contributors and shows a bit of depth to RZA's production that was yet to be explored, all while doing so much to cement the legacy of the Wu Tang Clan. Main takeaway: some of the skits are too long but B.I.B.L.E is one of the greatest songs ever made so who cares

Enjoyed this a lot more than their early albums I'd heard this has much a much more cohesive sound. Also forgot that they were coked out weirdos some of these songs are fucking bizarre. But all in all had a great time, awesome musicians, silly guys, great combo

Having spent my teenage years listening to and trying to educate myself about a lot of jazz instrumentalists, it took me far too long to work out that some of these songs were melodies I knew INCREDIBLY well that I was just hearing with words for the first time. That being said that was the first time I listened to this and there have been MANY repeat listenings since as Willie Nelson is just one of the supreme calming musicians. Nothin can be truly wrong in the world in the moment in which he is singing. The version of Moonlight in Vermont particularly makes me feel this way on this album it paints it's picture so vividly and you really imagine he's picturing it alongside you. Cool asf

I couldn't stop thinking about how annoying it must have been to live with this guy when he was working on all the weird noises he liked to make. Great album though.

This was a pretty standard sounding blues based rock/folk album with some nice sounding production for the time. Luckily I'm massively into that.

I mean it's just a classic no more no less, always good

I've been a bit of a Nick Cave skeptic all my life due to all of his fans that I've met being an insufferable group of self-loathing yet preachy people stuck in a loop of poor decisions to keep their mental health just bad enough to not enjoy fun music and maintain an air of pretense that listening to this man somehow makes them more than. With all that being said I've given him the time of day since and his music is great, a real songwriter's songwriter, it feels like there's an element of "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" with his music that in this case is a positive and not a hinderance. It instead results in a large variety of ideas tied together by virtue of Nick Cave going into everything with a lot of passion for music, and a keen awareness of his limitations (I don't say limitations in a negative way, we all have them). Unfortunately, despite my full 180 back into the loving arms of old Nick, I was in turn quite shocked at the sound of this record. There are obviously some greater tracks here that really stand out, mostly in regard to the ballads which is a style he seems to excel at, however during any song that gets a little bit louder and faster, I couldn't help but think about his famous quote about how every time he's annoyed by something obnoxious on the radio it's the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Every second spent listening to these songs I felt exactly what he was describing and couldn't help but think about the hypocrisy of not taking care to curb the obnoxious corners off of your "rocky" songs and instead turning out these tracks of mediocre, boringly produced, and loud without purpose tracks that sound as though they belong in a coming of age film from 2006 (and not a good one). Ultimately, I'm really disappointed by this one, but only because I've set the standards high for him and don't believe I'll feel this way towards the majority of the rest of his albums that I haven't heard yet.

This took me straight back to my weird phase when I was 13 and SUPER into this er of music for like 3 months because I was crushing so hard on someone that I ended up relating to songs about love from the 50s and early 60s. Embarrassing? Yes. Kinda cute and nostalgic in a fun way? Also yes. This was great and he really was an all time performer, Jerry and Little Richard were both just ahead of the pack.

She's the best and if you don't like it and think it's boring you're a scared little child

This was great, the only issue i ever really have with these albums of soul (sort of) singers from african nations that were granted funding and platforms for albums throughout the 60s and 70s is that they had to pander to a western audience through inclusions of western canon standards. It's not always a bad thing because usually the singer is a big fan of this music themselves, but there is definitely something lacking in most of the non-African tunes on this album, maybe a passion or personal connection that doesn't feel as strong and I think the album suffers for it unfortunately. That being said this doesn't apply to all of the performances and majority of the record was a joy to listen to. But also was the laughing song supposed to sound so sinister because that was SCARY.

Once again another all time PE classic. They churned out way more hits than it felt like and this production was just so ahead of it's time with how harsh and almost industrial it was at times. A little interesting to hear some of the views on this album about their own feelings towards how black people in america act, very akin to The Blacker the Berry by Kendrick in which you do feel if they were asked now to talk about it, they would approach it with a lot more nuance than is presented here. But nuance is usually limited in the medium of music so it does make sense. But overall this was fantastic and I left fueled up to to point passion and energy somewhere and was ushered out by my favourite hip hop/metal crossover maybe ever.

I'd only tangentially heard of Kieth Jarret through his playing with Miles Davis and Art Blakey so I didn't know what to expect finding a full solo piano album of his on this list but I simply get it 100%. This was moving, it played with rhythm, it soared, it was dreamy, it was violent, it was passionate, this was just everything you want from a whole, complete piece of music. This was a gift from him to the world, I truly believe that.

FUCK YEAAAAAA

you can definitely hear that they're still figuring out but they're clearly just having so much fun :) I don't think they can really do anything wrong even if this is one of their weaker records

Maybe my favourite Dylan album right now, some more lush and less harsh production than usual, mixed with some of his most endearing songwriting styles is just so nice and complete to listen to. Shelter from the Storm, Tangled Up in Blue, and A Simple Twist of Fate are all just absolute top tier Dylan for me so this album is always gorg

What a weirdo. 5/5 stars.

MY EYES ARE BLIND BUT I CAN SEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Another inclusion that's a little odd but I thought was absolutely fantastic. She has so much charisma which definitely makes up for parts of the album that are a bit weaker sonically for me. This feels very cohesive and, above all, the spite really shines through to the listener. It's more commonplace in the modern era but women who'd been broken weren't allowed, or struggled to know how (in the public eye that is) to display their brokenness and an unwillingness to accept it in a way that truly struck home. This is a gorgeous example of someone airing their grievances with life and the world around them and winning for it, which is a beautiful thing that really gets to the core of why music is so important.

Why don't more country artists smoke weed? That shits definitely working for this guy

Awesome as always, there's nothing I can say about these guys that hasn't already been said, they just make great music lol. Helps that I listened to it religiously at 13

Only 3 notes for this one: -Still don't go crazy for Depeche Mode but their relevance and influence is undeniable and you can feel it -This would have sounded way better if I was dancing to it, I listened at work :( -Reminds of my dad, whom I love, 5 stars

holy fucker gonna have a cry now i guess

I really wanted to like this more than I did, this was incredibly innovative at the time it came in regard to the sound and particularly the attitude, and the plethora of other things that were fresh and new about MIA and the music she was making. Some of these songs are really great like the opening track there are definitely some bangers here but overall I don't think she truly understood the ways in which she was pushing the envelope. That opinion is largely influenced by how her career has gone since this time as well. Ultimately I think she sort of accidentally stumbled onto a massive and innovative sound that informed a decade or more of pop music to follow, and I think I love the music that she influenced a lot more than her music itself. That being said though the miserable old fucks on here that only wanna hear the same 50 blues-based white guy artists can get fucked she's getting a perfect score

nothing like listening to Slayer to remind you how garbage lars ulrich's drums are in comparison

I've never gone that crazy for this kind of singer songwriter style music but when it's good it's good you can't deny it

This is one of those classic albums that you just get as soon as you hear it. This doesn't capture one of the best musical performances of all time because the performance itself is not important what it really captures is the atmosphere and the period of time. You can learn so much just form this recording about how people behaved, how they expected others to behave, what was so appealing about Johnny Cash, why was it so important to perform at prison. What really shines through for me on this albums is his personality. You don't just see why people loved his music, you can see why people loved HIM. He was so charismatic and passionate, everything he's saying in his songs just floats right from his mouth and into your being, he was just simply made to capture people and he chose to do the right thing with it and used that gift to fight FOR people. A deeply troubled but great man, one whose legacy it feels simply can't die at this point.

Not a huge Zeppelin fan but this one's great I remember really not being sold on them back in the day and then hearing bring it on home which is still probably my favourite song of theirs. But yea just some great tunes, although I've always thought the solo in moby dick is just a little unwarranted and not very great to listen to, but still a jam anyway

This was the era for sure, I think the negative feelings I harbour towards this are entirely rooted in the music that I know was inspired by this, and most of that is shite. But yea what do I know 5 stars

This is quite easily one of the best albums ever made by anyone

I love listening to people who were born to play metal but metal didn't exist yet, it feels like seeing someone wearing a jacket that's really cool but it's so tight it restricts their movement

A really cool record from the britpop era that I had a great time listening to. Some of the experimental parts fell a little flat for me and fell into a bit of a silly annoying noises category, but some of them were lovely surprises, particularly the forays into styles of dance music and incorporation of record scratching just really amped up the level of fun you can have listening to this. The main highlights for me were the ballads on the backend of the album that may borrow a liiittle heavily from Blur's sound, but they do it justice so who gives a shit lol the songs are good. Overall had a great time and cherry on top I'm a big Rhys Ifans fan really cool to find out he was in this group for a time.

chic are the best they just groove so hard how can u not like this shit

I'd say I had a better time than I thought I would, but I think this is predicated on how much trip hop and adjacent music my dad played growing up when I was a kid and of course would find it immensely boring. 8 year old me marginally preferred this to my mum playing Norah Jones. That being said there's a lot to love here and the textures are gorgeous, although my endless problem with being unable to detach the sample from the song that samples it goes on (James Brown - The Payback in the first song particularly). But on a quiet day sitting in the last rays of the sun, or waking up on a rainy saturday morning, this album has its place and knows it well, and as such I don't think I can really fault it.

Fuck you I'm giving this a 5 stars without listening because Welcome to the Terrordome has always been and always will be one of my favourite songs of all time.

Goated

Wayyyyy less horny than his last album I listened to and it made it wayyyyy better!! Awesome instrumentation all over this thing, he clearly knows how to let others shine when it's their time and I think this album is so much better off for it. That being said his vocals are as crsip and clear as ever, really like the Stevie wonder cover too, one of my favourite ever songs.

This album is perfect it has no flaws. You might like something else more or their lyrics on later albums might hit better for you, but this album is truly p[perfect at what it's supposed to be. Pure passion, musicianship, and raw SOUND this thing is absolutely fucking huge. The bass tone alone could make this perfect. On top of that I think the ideas and themes are still so potent and important and come from such a real place, especially being released around the time of the Rodney King riots. Awesome music, awesome message, awesome performance, and if you say "well if they like communism so much why are they rich from people buying their music" then you clearly just don't understand the subject matter, what else are they supposed to do lol. But also fuck their stupid price gouged tickets maybe everyone's right

I think liking this album brought me closer to my dad, 5 stars

The first time I listened to this album I was about 15 and trying really hard to like the jazz records I was supposed to, and looking back I understand I just wasn't ready to listen to something so left field that requires context to really appreciate. But I kept listening and every single time I listen to this album the experience feels more profound than the last. I believe the day that Coltrane truly clicked for me was when I read two things, "when he plays I hear him speaking to god" and "I watched him in black and white but when he plays I saw colours". And I don't think there's a better encapsulation of why this is so important than those, this is spiritual music. So sure, maybe there's some weird kind of religious guilt that made me internalise the god statement, but this album changed the way that I understood music. I started thinking about it as simply another medium for art instead of something to immediately please me. A tool to understand the world around me and worlds I will never be a part of, and I dare say in the years since I suffered through this record for the first time it and its flow on effects have imbued my life with more colour than I understood to be possible.

This is probably due to knowing fuck all about these guys but the keys on this album were wayyy better than expected this was great, very mature sound for the time, and the recordings great too (a lot owed to the remaster I presume lol)

While I think this album is usually wildly overrated in the jazz canon, that's only because people love it SO much. This album is still cool, stylish and sleak, allowing for a more invested listen or to put this on in the background while you do other things or pretend you're classy. My ramblings aside, Blue Rondo a la Turk is one of the best jazz performances ever and that first drop into 4/4 is one of my favourite tone-setters ever to kick off an album. Just classic stuff.

Man this shit was awesome I thought this was maybe a filler pick for this list but I had a great time listening to this one, just everything you could want from this era of synth-based music

My only interaction with this man before now was seeing footage of a room full of children dressed up to look like him with fake beards, whisky, and cigarettes, all singing to him as he wept. One of the funniest things I've ever watched and also this album was pretty good

Every time I listen to a full MJ record I'm surpriseds by the number of dud tracks, like on this one Speed Demon is garbage, but I guess he was a hit single-based artist so it makes sense. Either way of course this album was great, the production was just something else entirely during this era of his music. Weird guy fun songs.

One of the best groups of musicians ever formed, that innovated so much seemingly without even trying. While the sounds on this album weren't as wildly unique as those to follow, you can hear that simply no one was making music like this at the time. While some might argue, I also feel as though music like this hasn't been made since. Aural experimentation for the sake of passion and joy will always sound better than experimentation for the sake of innovation alone and this record stands as a testament to that

Shit I had a blast listening to this. Probably never again but who cares.

I didn't immediately click with this album when I first listened but revisiting again after discovering the rest of her discography and falling in love this is now one of the most gripping singer songwriter albums I've ever heard

I'll be honest I regularly forgot he was in Faces and is entirely capable of making good music. So this was a very welcome surprise lmao

doobedoobady doodoodoo doodoodoo doodoodoo dooooooo that's me singing along to the guitar in phantom of the opera

Weak for the temptations, strong for a group that's not the temptations

Sooooo much better than the first time I listened to this. There's something just so correct about Jeff Lynne's songwriting, you put on a song and go yep, that's a song right there, it's got everything I need. About as simple as that, this album is a joy

Definitely not my favourite Cohen I've heard but he's one of those songwriters where there's always something to get out of the words even if they don't quite speak to you, so very much still a positive experience

Listening to industrial metal is a lot like eating an absurdly hot chili pepper, it's going to be a bad time but I AM gonna do it. The pepper simply won't taste good it's not possible, the very foundation of why you are eating has to do with how horrible it is, and all of those accessible aspects of the flavour chilis add and the lovely warmth you feel from some nice heat in a meal are thrown out the window as you come face to face with the reality that you've actually decided to eat something that yes, is familiar, but is in fact going to be almost as bad a culinary experience as it is bad from the heat, pure acrid bitterness. This is industrial metal, it will not only hurt me, it will hurt me in more ways than I expected even given the fact that I've chosen to listen to it so that it will hurt. The noises are not just harsh they are specifically selected from the oppressive and grating sounds of a city's warehouse area that I already do not want to be in and you can be sure functions on tenuous safety and garbage pay. This already harsh sonic experience is now reminding me of every very real anxiety I have about modern life all at once and making me have a far more harrowing experience than would ever tend to be expected or sought after. But all this negativity to say, me feeling like this unfortunately mean the band's goal has been achieved and, most importantly, I WILL eat the chili!

I mean it really just bangs

I mean they really cranked out the bangers on this album didn't they, beautiful soundscape and aggressively 80s, doesn't get much more fun than that.

This was a fun time with a lot of wacky sounds, exactly what I want from these guys, a little more beach housy than their earlier work which is very cool

Not my favourite of theirs but that doesn't mean much cos this still grooves so hard its so gooood