Surprisingly Mid. I was hyped to have an MJ album come up on this, but wasn't really into Bad.

"This is Mr. New Vegas, and I feel something magic in the air tonight, and I'm not just talking about the gamma radiation.".

feels a bit dated and repetitive, but each track is a classic in it's own right. Solid album

It was fun listening to the album for this project. I've heard many of the hits, but never listened to a NIN album front-to-back before. It's a classic. One point off for being a tad bit monotonous.

Surprisingly Mid. I was hyped to have an MJ album come up on this, but wasn't really into Bad.

Fantastic and fun album. Hadn't heard of this before today, so was super hyped when "Alright" came on, which of course is a massive hit everyone knows.

I swear this is the rote type of reggae funk I hear during every concert setbreak/pre-show. As someone who can't really focus on lyrics, this is fairly monotonous.

really fantastic from start to finish.

this is my personal list, so it's one star. I don't care about lyrics in music, and that's really all there is to Bob Dylan.

not for me

Classic. Hit after hit after hit

"This is Mr. New Vegas, and I feel something magic in the air tonight, and I'm not just talking about the gamma radiation.".

Hell Yeah, Brother

decent but pretty monotonous

pretty same-ish 90s alternative.

Really enjoyed this album, more so than I was expecting to! I went in thinking, "OK, The Boss is an American institution, but I never really jived with his big hits! Born in the USA (song) kind of sucks." Listening to one of his albums start to finish really helped understand the appeal. It's well paced, diverse, and carries an overall common vibe.

Flawless.

I enjoyed this album a lot! Classic tracks, well produced. Been getting a few soul records in a row this week, and I think Isaac Haye's Hot Buttered Soul is a better overall album, but Marvin is always great

Preemo and Guru perfectly compliment each other on this record, the beats are amazing and Guru just flows so smooth over them. Guru and Gang Starr as a whole are a very underrated force in rap, nothing but some of the cleanest beats and the cleanest rhymes you'll ever hear. Step in the Arena may not be their very best or most experimental album, but you can hear them finding their way as a group with something to say.

Hard to believe this came out in 1974. Seems ahead of its time are various points. "Falling in Love with Myself Again" is a very annoying song. This whole album just sounds like i'm in a haunted circus. Overall, this album clearly was an influence on many artists to come after, but I just think this is an incredibly obnoxious album.

Yeah, I'm into this one. You can hear the remnants of the early punk movement in the lyrics, while exploring psych and proto-80s electronic tones in the music. There also seems to be a big switch-up in theme/mood from the A-side to the B-side of the album. A band, that based on this album, some would consider underrated, deserving the popularity the Banshees or Gang of Four got. Perhaps they're perfectly rated. Good album.

it's great. Can't explain why, but it just clicked right from when the drums came in on breadcrumb trail. The lyrics are fantastic, the atmosphere is fantastic. Slow burn, melancholy. A whole song about Nosferatu? that deserves it's own star added to the album. Perhaps a star removed for being very "young-person" angsty?

Struggling with this one. This album came out right when I was starting to discover my own music in middle school. This reminds me of all-night WoW leveling sessions, or CS 1.6 Games with this in the background. Unfortunately, I'm not sure it's actually all that good of an album. The lyrics are really cringe, the angst is too manufactured. despite it being the soundtrack to a lot of my memories, I never latched on to this band, going more for System of a Down and other Nu-Metal bands that were less angsty.

I always thought James Taylor was just a soft-singing folk artist. Boy this album turned that opinion around. There really isn't a bad track on this thing. Love it.

It's fine. It's a good soul (or Proto-Soul?) album from 64. It has a lot of the "sameness" throughout the album as a lot of these early releases did. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it didn't really grab me as much as Sam Cooke's live album, or Isaac Hayes' debut did. 2

The album is a scattered mess, so much so that their produced quit halfway through recording. And that's what makes this album a good one!

....nahhhhh. I wanted to give this a fair shot since I have a soft spot for 90s alternative pop, but this is really a huge nothing-burger of an album. Unfortunately this is inoffensive background music, which I doubt is something Crow was going for. "All I wanna Do" is an absolute banger though. Love that track.

Ozzy Rules!!!!

"The State I'm In" is a great track and was rightfully ranked by pitchfork on their "best of the 90s" list. I enjoyed "Expectations" even more. Off to a great start! If You're Feeling Sinister seems to be the better album by this group, however.

It's as I thought. The Hits on this album, "Starlight", "Supermassive Black Hole", "Knights of Cydonia" are great tracks and invoke a feeling of nostalgia. The rest of the album is unremarkable, same-y tracks. Not bad at all, to be sure, but needless. This would have been a decent EP.

Gothy, post-punk. I can see why it's on a list like this, but wow it was not a fun listen.

yeah it's ZZ Top; what else do you want? La Grange!

The Singer sounds like a zesty Ozzy Osbourne. 20 tracks and 69 minutes (nice) all sound the same. Why is this album so long? Why does it sound so bad? What *Exactly* justifies it's placement in this list?

it's not bad but it sounds just like every late 80-s early-90s rap. It's honestly kind of crazy how old hip hop has aged; Like, it's not bad at all, it's just all sounds exactly the same regardless of who the artist is. Kind of crazy TBH. It is cool seeing a female artist breakout in the genre so early, though. The song featuring De La Soul was fun.

this is not a remarkable album at all.

i don't think any other indie album was as influential on the overall sound of the 2010s as this one, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing anymore.

It's a great album, for sure. I just don't really understand how it's in the top 5 of most lists.

Hey Chat GPT, compose an incredibly generic "punk record" using the same drumbeat on every song, and make sure to include every punk trope into the lyrics. Ok that all said, I feel like this album probably had a big influence on John Dwyer of the Oh Sees. "Jack on Fire" Sounds like a mid-album track you'd find on an Oh Sees album nowadays.