My fave of the big lineup. Lindsey's album tracks are great. Sister Moon is the best Nicks tune IMO. Christine has some good ones as well. There are a few clunkers for sure. It's not the White Album or Exile but all four sides are worth listening
Lucked into a sweet Hi records original vinyl of this one. Let's Say Together (overplayed) and Broken Heart (weepy Bee Gees) are the only ones I can't get behind a 100%. The album tracks are fantastic.
His voice is amazing and I love all 60's soul. But I can't get behind these tunes
I'm not versed in a lot of hip hop but have been trying to familiarize myself with the classics. Cool production from a pre-not see Kanye but the words are meh.
Not really my thing but I was 16 when this record came out and remember how huge it was. It holds up well.
Prime Frank without the baggage of the greatest hits I am so used to hearing brings out the vibe of this record.
More straight up hooks than the previous album but I miss some of the My Bloody Valentine screech
My Favorite Velvets Album at this point. So good.
Hero and Light are great but there's not quite enough happening here to grab me full on.
Early 70's Motown funk and soul. Not Stevie but solid.
Some great songs. He had it going on for a while but no one needs a two hour album from anyone. The Wall is 80 minutes long. This one is 40 minutes longer. That's gonna cost you a star Billy Boy
Good stuff and then Angie comes at the end and your head explodes.
Not a jazz guy but this was really fun. She's relaxed and obviously having a great time. Good stuff
21st century and the title cut are certainly Prague Ground Zero. I forgot how much flute and jam things were going on in the rest of the record. Some of that held up some of it not so much definitely on the list.
Not a dud on this one. Even Home Tonight is a solid ballad with some balls. Obviously. Last Child proves that Walk this Way wasn't a fluke. Solid funk once again. Sick as a Dog is the great Aerosmith sleeper track. Just perfect.
Two chords songs are easy to write. Good two chord songs are incredibly hard to write. PJ is proof
Cool album. Out of my dumb old rock guy wheelhouse, but I liked it quite a bit. Good for a late night drive.
So much anticipation for this record in 1987 and I think they nailed it. Almost 30 years later, it's a really good rock album, held back by some of Bono's overwrought everything. Bullet the Blue Sky is kind of terrible. I understand why Streets and With or Without You were HUGE.
When Bono sings about losing a friend or the heroin addiction in his hometown, it's not over the top. Running to Stand Still and One Tree are perfect songs.
God's Country is the sleeper.
Wow. She pulled off 68 minutes and it never missed a note IMO. This is absolutely one that needs to be heard.
I think I'm partial to Head in the Door forward. Not enough melody
Didn't hit hard today but I've heard it before and it was really great.
Solid Bowie for sure and a great late career surprise but no reason anyone needs to hear this after they’ve got the classics in the list. Docking one star for that
Great album! Deserves to be on the list twice.
Powerful but gets awfully monotonous after three songs or so. Glad it was included
Appreciate the importance of the message for young WOC, but I'm an old white dude. Not meant for me. I didn't need to hear it and I don't really like this type of R&B.
Too bad Morrisey was such a tosser. Great band, great album but not as good as Queen is Dead.
Hey Joe Bonamassa. This album has a message for you. Piss off, you silly white boy.
Some boring Bowie on this along with the obvious classic title track. V2-Schneider is great and the rest of the Eno stuff is cool as dark foreboding ambient goes. Doesn't need to be on the list
Some great standouts and consistent otherwise. No real misogyny as I don't consider "my music is more important than chicks" to be that bad, at least for young twenty somethings. Sick synth at the end of Who's Gonna Take the Weight. As I Read my S-A a great late album standout
Great singer. Never heard proto-South African music before. You can hear the beginning of the super melodic guitar lines to come. One More Dance laughing guy is as annoying as everyone says.
John is a beast on this one. His best large block of work until the White Album.
Never actually sat down and listened to Cohen despite reading about him for years. Praise warranted. This will be a great record for a long drive on a rainy day.
I can see driving around in the 2010s as an indie kid/young adult, listening to this on repeat thinking that it's totally about me. It doesn't sound like The Who, but it has that sort of Quadrophenia "no one gets me" romanticism. I would say it's too long but I guess it's a double album. Good stuff. Not great stuff. I wish there was a 3.5
Good setup. Nice sound bed, voice fits the music. But no big hooks. This kind of music needs BIG hooks. Example: Passion Pit - Take a Walk. No Take a Walks on this one as far as I made it.
I can't listen to this now as I don't do post Syd Pink Floyd when the sun is shining as it seems pointless. However, being a 59 yo American white guy who is a rock dork from the age of twelve, I've heard this record hundreds of times. It's perfect. Just the best. That's it.
Robyn Hitchcock fan since the A&M push with Balloon Man back in 1987. Finally saw him with the Egyptians in Columbus on half a hit of quality blotter and it was glorious. I didn't to hear Underwater Moonlight until the late 90's as you had to buy your records back then. It's catchy and weird and rocks. And with Kimberly Rew and Robyn on guitar it sits right behind Marquee Moon as the greatest punk/new wave guitar record. The weird, clunky songs (Old Pervert, I Got the Hots) server as great palate cleansers for the insane hooks of all the other tunes. Five Stars all the frickin way on this one. If you get a chance to see Hitchcock live, do it. LSD not necessary, he's a trip no matter what.
To steal a line from another Steely Dan album, "perfection and grace". If you don't get this, try again.
Pleasant. Not a revelation but well done. I won't be on my deathbed thinking "My life is complete because I listened to Startdust".
Throw all restraint out the window and make the biggest, slickest, hookiest record that technology can manage. Then pull it off. Really fun record.
Exposure to something new! C'est la Nuit and El Bab went right onto the 1001 Keepers playlist. Some songs just went buy without grabbing much interest. This is a three for me, but really glad I heard it.
This band was soooo great. This is one of the weird ones, along with Remain in Light. You can't go wrong with Fear of Music.
I bought this in my initial Who obsession back in 78 as an eighth grader at Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High in Springfield VA a couple years before Grohl went there. Other than Kids, and My Generation, I skipped most of it. I didn't listen to it much. Tommy and what came after got most of my attention. Now in 2025 in the last year of my 50's, it's a way different listen. La-La-La-Lies is great. Goods Gone and Much too Bad are close behind. It doesn't sound like any other Who. It's gooey and thick. One mass of energy rather then Pete, Keith and John occupying their own space. Roger hasn't found his anthemic, bare-chested, tassel vest place yet, but that's a good thing here. I have a feeling, that when need some Who going forward, I'm going to be listening to this one.
How did such a serious ass make a string of just flawless records? Another perfect one that deserves to be on the list.
Interesting for exploration but not critical
Didn't need to be on the list, but I guess I get it since a Limey wrote the book. A fine example of smoothed out Brit Pop I guess?
Great musicians good tunes.
I need to wait for an evening with an S.O. to listen to this all the way through. It honestly feels ridiculous listening on my own or while working. But that means it nails what it's trying to do.
Y.A., Fame, Win and Fascination are great to good. No reason at all for this record to be here. And that's coming from a Bowie fan
Queen's best album hands down. All their records are stylistically all over the place. This is the only record where they nail everything. Extra point for inventing thrash metal with Stone Cold Crazy.
A big step towards the brilliance of Something Else, Village Green, Lola vs, Arthur and I'm going to throw in Muswell Hill. Not perfect, but still pretty great.
God I hate David Crosby. Back Pages and So You Wanna Be a RnR star are songs everyone needs to hear. Have You Seen Her Face is great. CTA is weird, drippy hippy euphoria and catchy. Girl with No Name is solid. So is Why. The Crosby lead songs are abysmal. Fuck you Dave. 3 stars
This project has been my Willie Nelson intro. I got Stardust first. It was ok. This is art. If there was a music Louvre, this would be prominently displayed.
Obviously, you have a big songs on this one but there are some tunes that don’t really hold up that takes a star. My sleepers on this our planet caravan which the Jefferson airplane wish they could’ve written and fairies wear boots which isn’t really a sleeper. I’ll take the next three albums over this one, but it’s Black Sabbath so it’s still great. Four stars.
I graduated from high school in 1984. Van Halen was the biggest band in the world. Saw the tour bought the T-shirt everything. I haven’t listened this album. Top to bottom in many decades. It’s amazing and proves how much Roth and Van Halen needed each other.. semi sucks
Great band interesting to hear belongs on the list. I put a couple songs on my playlist, but saying good not great so three stars.
The impossible follow up. Certainly well-made smooth criminals a great song. Probably belongs on the list, but thriller may have been sufficient although if you’re gonna put nine Bowie albums on here an extra Michael or two doesn’t hurt. As far as Dirty Diana. No. Just No.
Straightforward but then the pets join in and you remember this is the guy who found Damo Suzuki on the street and instantly asked him to sing for Can. Not weird then weird. Belongs on the list. Probably won't listen to it again though.
Loud American Football. Cool but not really for my old ass. Belongs on the list though.
There are many better songs in the universe than Salisbury Hill and Peter Gabriel absolutely belongs on this list but not this album. It’s transitional there’s some great songs, but I would’ve gone with the third album security or so before I would pick this one.
When I first heard My My Hey Hey in 8th grade, I knew I had heard it before even though it just came out. It was floating in the ether with the rest of this perfect record. A must hear and I think if you only hear on Neil Young record, you are missing out, but this is the one.
Everything was in place from the get-go. Obviously things change when Bruce comes in but belongs on the list. For me three stars is a pretty good album for a classic five is indispensable. This is a three.
Couldn't finish. I like The Jam a lot, but this didn't work. Obviously, Paul Weller listened to a lot of Terry Riley, Joe Cocker, Manassas and a bit of Free. Good mimicry I suppose and good guitar but nothing original. Absolutely zero reason for this to be on the list.
Sure it's a downer but it's a really good one. Belongs on the list. Also, way more hooks than one would expect for a capital A "Art" statement.
I would do 3 1/2nif I could. Seemed weighted at the end which is nice. If she added bridges, at least for me, we would be talking 4-5 stars. Glad it was on the list.
It's a great double album, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles White Album, shut up! ~ Paul McCartney. Same thing here. Maybe you prefer Wish or you are a Syd fan and it was over after Piper. Doesn't matter. Shut up! It's the fucking Wall.
"Ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gone bad!" Chili Willy did not age well. I played in a white boy funk band in college in the late 80's so early Chili's were a big part of our set. It all sort of embarrasses me now.
Belongs on the list. A fun, original record. I think I have to rate on the sprawl rather than the hits though. It's obvious they had so many ideas and couldn't hold back. I don't know what I would have left of but this doesn't hold for an hour. Editing to 40 could have warranted 4 but it's a three for me.
Some bands you miss and then you realize you were an idiot. This is one for me. I would have loved these guys in the oughts. Great indie rock and carries a feel all the way through the record. That feeling is a bit of a downer but in a good way. Belongs on the list. Good one and I will be coming back for more National
She's clearly a great great singer. The beginning of American Soul's influence in Britain's pop scene is interesting but no reason I needed to hear this. Dusty in Memphis is plenty to get the picture. She gets one extra star because she was so insecure and I want her ghost to know I think she was awesome.
No need for this to be on the list. It's cool to hear them find their place, but with Sheer Heart Attack and Night at the Opera on here already and are the culmination of the different facets of Queen. Still, great record. 3
Meh. No reason at all to be on this list. Prime example of the Brit leanings. ONE STAR
I wasn't crazy about this but I can see why it's on the list.
I really like this record. I need melodies in my hip hop so this works way better for me than Enter the Wu Tang which came up this week as well. Need to go back to it more.
Belongs on the list with the other three 70's albums but not may favorite style. A little to smooth jazz major 7th for me. Still, Stevie is a genius.
Pleasant enough and I guess an example of something but not something I needed to hear before I die. This one took me over a week to get through and made me pause my feed. Two stars as it's ok but docking one star for length. Shut up. You don't need an hour. FFS!
He's super talented but this was too much of a Michael copy. Didn't need to be on the list.
This is a fantastic example of 2000's NYC indie rock. Great melodies, great production. A very fine record.
I expect this kind of music to be somewhat hypnotizing. I just found boredom in active listening. There may be some EDM boundaries crossed by this record that I'm not aware of so I'm giving it an ignorance star + one because I didn't really like it.
I don't know if this one needs to be on the list even though I love it. Close to the Edge and Fragile are better representations of prog. Great hooks though. A good listen.
I hadn't listened to this whole album before though as I missed the whole early 90's rave culture as it didn't really translate to ski towns. Belongs on the list. Great lore from The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Truly subversive. Devo for the early 90's. Plenty if hooks and Tammy Wynette. Good stuff.
Tempted to do five. Almost perfect example of Britpop.
Belongs on the list. I love Exodus but this one has Peter Tosh, who I like more than Bob. The band kills it. Clavinet and raw production are a huge plus. Classic
I am more familiar with Teaser and the Firecat which has some great songs but the ballads are so soupy, they make me turn it off. This is a much better record. Plenty of 70's singer-songwriter sensitivity but it's not so wimpy. Belongs on the list as a good example of the genre.
Yeah, it needs to be here and it's fun to hear Frank torn between celebrating and mocking the hippy thing that he's clearly part of, but I won't ever listen to this again.
Since the Dead hadn't figured out how to make a great live album, I think this and the first Moby Grape records are the best examples of the San Francisco sound at the beginning of 67. Great songwriting, Jorma and Jack rip, Marty turns in some great stuff and then you have Grace with her Great Society exports. A really really good record
Ramble Tamble is the best CCR deep cut by a mile. Could have been an 80's country punk tune and would have been lauded to the skies. Then you got everything else. From a belongs on the list perspective, of course it does. But you don't need any other CCR. This one covers everything you need to know about them from albums to hear before you die
The late period come back album is staggering. 60 something artists never kick ass like this. And the path through his 90's albums to get here is fascinating. But it's too long of a listen for me. All the respect to Bob. We aren't worthy, but I don't see myself listening top to bottom again. Maybe when I'm in my 60's? Later this year. Fuck me.
Probably needs to be on the list. Influential and takes rock music in a new direction. Not an easy Monday morning listen though. Teenage Riot is great of course.
A great example of prog at it's best. Catchy but complicated. Hooky but hard. And Heart of the Sunrise is just badass.
There are three Yes records in the list: Fragile, Close To the Edge and The Yes Album. We really only need one of the more proggy ones. The Yes Album is classic rock cannon, it needs to be here. I like Close to the Edge a little more than Fragile so that would be my choice.
Why not put Nuggets here instead and be done with it? I don't need to here anything other than Too Much To Dream before I croak. There are some ok songs here otherwise, but absolutely nothing important. Two Stars because Dream.
I probably need to listen to this while driving to give it more attention. I'm sure I missed great stuff from Otis Spahn and James Cotton. I just don't have a great attention span for 12 bar but it's obviously historical. I'm going 4 stars because I know I'm not giving it it's due today.
Oh, hello Living Color. I see where you came from. Very metal. Might have been better to include something ealier.
Petty is amazing. His catalog is unbelievably deep. Try "Echo", an unheralded album that just kills. His first album has American Girl, Breakdown and solid album cuts. That being said Damn the Torpedoes blows this record away. Full Moon Fever, Wallflowers, Long After Dark, Hard Promises are all better. Right artist, wrong album
Don't ever need to hear this one again. It's important. A classic. Great songs and production. But I was born in 1966. I've heard this record thousands of times. Enough Rumours for me.
