instant 1. Holy shit this is terrible. This came out one week after In Utero, just for a reference for how dated it sounded at release.

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.".

Yet another album on this list that is perfectly fine, but I just don't understand what warrants this being included. It's a mid-90s coffee shop album. Not controversial, not particularly interesting, etc.

Wow this is so different than the more prolific PF albums. Barrett really provided a different vibe to the band, leaning more into classic psych. I have to say nothing really stood out, but it was fun to hear little themes in this album that would become the Pink Floyd sound.

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.

instant 1. Holy shit this is terrible. This came out one week after In Utero, just for a reference for how dated it sounded at release.

interesting....very interesting... probably won't ever listen to it again, but it wasn't really all that bad. Definitely can see the influence it had on punk going forward

This is just another Steely Dan Record.

Dark vibes, great lyrics

Wow this is so different than the more prolific PF albums. Barrett really provided a different vibe to the band, leaning more into classic psych. I have to say nothing really stood out, but it was fun to hear little themes in this album that would become the Pink Floyd sound.

Each track is put in a specific order: I Love you, I hate you, I love you, I hate you. Figure it out, girl!

BANGGGERRRRRRRRRR

Yet another album on this list that is perfectly fine, but I just don't understand what warrants this being included. It's a mid-90s coffee shop album. Not controversial, not particularly interesting, etc.

Pretty boring. Ages poorly compared to other 2005 rap albums, which was a particularly dry time in music.

The singer's vibrato is excessive and incredibly annoying. The album started off really bad in my opinion, but improved as it went along.

We love a good live blues album, and this is the best one.

Masterpiece for sure! I still prefer The Bends, but OK Computer is a 5 star album

It's just not good. Sorry Syd...

I think U2 is cringe and avoided their music. The hate may have stemmed from that album being forced on everyone’s iPhone/ipod. It may have stemmed from Bono being wildly obnoxious. Who knows. Anyways, I committed to Listening to this album, and I must say…it’s very good. Not as good as many album lists have them ranked. But good nonetheless.

Loved it. So goth, but also gave me vibes of shoegaze. Classic!

There were a few songs on this album that I felt had HEAVY Beatles influence. "Keep the Customer Satisfied" is a good example of that. Of course, it's borrowing heavily from Soul/Blues, but does so in the way the Beatles did. "Baby Driver" is even more obvious with the Beatles influence (and even Beach Boys with the "ba ba ba baa" adlib) with the chord progressions and vocal harmonies. Sounds like Paul could've covered this song perfectly. "Why Don't You Write Me" sounds like it would fit just fine on Sgt. Peppers. And that's totally fine! This is a really great album.

On one hand, this album is clearly immensely influential to future rap albums. A lot of the lyrics have aged terribly, the beats are dated and monotonous. "It's a Man's World" is straight Cringe.

Loved it! Dreampop, ethereal. Great as background music, or active listening. It's versatile

A great album that had a massive influence on the rap game in the 90s. effortlessly sampling older works and endlessly sampled by modern hip hop artists, this album has everything. Perhaps, more than that, it features Lauryn Hill, who would just two years later put out one of the greatest albums of all time as a solo artist.

Never heard of Bad Brains before, but I'm glad I know them now! It's right up my alley of hardcore-adjacent music. It's a little aged, some bad moments, but I will be exploring this artist more.

This album got me back into listening to whole albums after years of spotify slop playlists. I had already been a fan of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, but Cocteau Twins introduced me to a whole different subset of shoegaze/dreampop music. An absolute classic.

an overrated album by one of the most overrated bands of the 20th century. "hey, our music is really terrible, lets all get in a plastic ball and blast confetti everywhere, maybe our idiot fans will forget how bad this actually is!" When your fans can only praise the band by talking about the concert experience, and that live experience isn't tied to the music itself, it's a bad sign.

The quintessential album for boys in the 90s. I was 9 when this came out and my best friend of the same age got this album. His parents didn't care what albums he got. I remember this album, Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, and Tupac being in his rotation. I remember "Role Model" really making me laugh as a kid. I knew even then that the lyrics were satirical. It was kind of a comedy album to me. Anyways, it's a good album. It would be great, but the lyrics, always goofy, have also aged a little poorly.

"Upon its initial release, Suicide was greeted with some favorable reception from the UK press, but was universally panned in the United States, where it failed to chart." Yea that's par for the course for this list, seems like. That said, this is an album that was a huge influence on many genres including Punk, New-Wave, noise, industrial.... It belongs on the list for sure. It's just not particularly entertaining!

So many hits! Was really surprised that I already knew just about every track on the album!

WTF?

Fun album!

lyrics far-too on the nose. Self-righteous drivel. early-2000s musical trends. Just all-around bad and forgettable.

I prefer boarding the Starship compared to the Airplane, but this is an all-time classic for sure!

Thundercat - Drunk perfect album for a chilly Sunday morning. love the meandering jazz along with random hilarious lines scattered throughout. It starts so strong, but does fall-off a bit as the record goes on. I Want to give it a 4, but it'll likely be a 3

I've heard the hits off this album many times. This was my first time listening to the whole thing. My first impression, of course, is that it's great. A classic for sure. My second thought is that just about every song is far too long. I'm not usually one to complain that songs are longer than the radio-friendly 3 minutes, but its just true that the riff that's being played at minute 7 is the same as minute 2 and therefore is not necessary.