POV: Your friend is driving you around in his mom’s car because his is in the shop. You don’t want to listen to the radio so you decide to rifle through her CD booklet. You pick one at random and pop it in. It’s boring. I like some of the PJ’s songs, but this is peak 2000 Toyota Corolla music imo. I unfortunately only started vibing at the chorus of We Float. However, I will give props for probably inspiring a lot of In Rainbows

Album for true Brexit Geezahs. Quite possibly the most British album ever recorded. And yes, that includes the borderline rockabilly song at the end and the guy in brownface on the album cover. Our House fucking BANGS tho

More kind-of-forgettable early-2000s indie. These guys kind of sound like a band that would be playing in a beer garden or something. The album was fine, but it seems pretty out of place on this list. This isn't even the album with their biggest hits on it!

One of the most beautiful albums ever. Sufjan’s voice has that amazing, airy timbre and the instrumental arrangements are so distinct and layered extremely well. The aesthetic of the album is so unique and the concept is so rich; I have not heard anything like it since. This thing is dense as hell without ever getting old. So many songs, especially Predatory Wasp, truly move me every time I hear them, and I can’t say that about a lot of albums. This thing is close to perfect. Easy 5.

The energy of RATM is unmatched. Listening to these songs is the only time I’m ever angry in a fun way.

This came out right after I graduated high school, and my relationship with this album was basically just liking it more and more as I progressed through college and grew up. I had a record player at my college house and this was near the top of the most played list just because everyone would pick it when searching through the record collection. The music is great (obv awesome vocals, but all of the songs are overall super memorable and the perfect amount of poppy), the lyrics and the central themes are great (oversaturation of the party lifestyle, confusing relationships, etc), the production is great (basically made Jack Antonoff a known name imo). At the end of the day though, it simply bangs and will certainly be remembered as one of the best albums of the 2010s.

It goes hard. Whenever I put this on in my headphones I will straight up struggle to resist dancing. Every single song does this. When I hear Genesis I transcend.

I was scared to death of the Jeremy music video as a kid after seeing it in the Hard Rock Cafe in Chicago. I deprived myself for years of one of the hardest, most unique rock songs ever for that reason and that truly saddens me. Such a well-rounded, well-produced (perfect amount of reverb) album with incredible vocals and great grunge arrangements that are sophisticated enough to maintain the legacy this album has into today. While its sound is clearly a product of its time, it doesn’t sound stale or dated. There are some weaker songs (Why Go and Garden, mainly), but they still have their place on the album between the massive hits and better deep cuts (Oceans is one of the most underrated songs of the 90s). Edward Vedward and the Crew really did it to em with this one

A lot of my music taste falls into a genre I like to call “sunroof music”: music that one could easily blast while driving a car with the windows down on a beautiful day. This album fits that description remarkably well. It’s ultra-90s, ultra-sunny, and packed with ultra-powerful guitars. Incredible sunroof music. Man on the vocals does kind of sound like Jake from Adventure Time on The Slim though

POV: Your friend is driving you around in his mom’s car because his is in the shop. You don’t want to listen to the radio so you decide to rifle through her CD booklet. You pick one at random and pop it in. It’s boring. I like some of the PJ’s songs, but this is peak 2000 Toyota Corolla music imo. I unfortunately only started vibing at the chorus of We Float. However, I will give props for probably inspiring a lot of In Rainbows

Ice Cube: suck my ding-a-ling Eazy E: suck my wing-ding-ding-a-ling Dr. Dre: I will never 😤 smoke weed 🤮 MC Ren: My name is MC Ren The production is awesome on this thing, and the first two songs are two of the greatest rap songs ever. The album is def an enjoyable listen but I will say they pretty much keep the same flow the whole time and all the songs go like a minute and a half longer than you’d think they would. Good album but you can tell it ended up being a precursor to at least Dre and Cube making better music in the future. 6.9/10

Louis Prima be like “Hold up I’m gonna fuck with my saxophonist real quick. ZIDOODLYBOPDIHOYMEYOY” 6/10 bc the first half’s fun but then it’s just the same stuff

Everything I’m reading is saying this is soul music but I think they’re just too afraid to call it ska 5/10

These guys are all like 22 on this album and they sound like old men for some reason. Half the songs are good and the other half are forgettable. Bluebird is a fucking ripper and it's comical how large the gap is between how much I like that one and how much I like the second best song. 6/10

First two songs were nothing special, and then Living For The City started and the album started popping off. I was night swimming in the rain while listening to this and felt like I was in a Scorcese movie or something. 7.25/10

The age of streaming really fucked the dudes who only got to be on the back cover

Side 2 is a masterpiece. Side 1 is almost as good which is saying something because they have that cute and cheeky little song about a dude beating a bunch of people to death on it (Octopus’ Garden obv)

Country artists just don’t sing about killing their girlfriends and contemplating suicide in prison like they used to 4.5/10

If you don’t like to hear Randy fire off n-bombs but you like the melody of Rednecks, good news: he uses pretty much the same melody on a lot of the other songs on here! He also uses the structure “Title of the song, Title of the song, some other line, some other other line” for at least five songs on the album. Kingfish and Louisiana 1927 are quite good. 4.5/10

This was quite a pleasant album. Some of the songs blend into one another, but at least they're good. He was really going for a Brown Eyed Girl II on Glad Tidings. 7/10

I have an unfortunate relationship with this album, as I've re-listened and tried to like it all the way through a bunch over the past few years. There are some bangers and really nice tracks on here (title track, Stay Another Season, Frontier Psychiatrist obv, ETOH, Electricity, some others that I've warmed up to recently) but there are so many more misses than hits and the misses are, dare I say it, annoying sometimes. Ahh, had to- to book a flight tonight, ahh, had to- to book a flight tonight, ahh over and over is a bit grating, and there are some loops in other songs that are just as unpleasant to me. It's super unfortunate because of how cool and dense the construction of the album is, but there are some songs that remind me of being stuck on a dance floor just waiting for the DJ to move on from the current song. 5.75/10

This was unpleasant. There were a couple songs with good parts but then they would always throw in something that was just quite unfortunate, really. The lady who sings on the first song sounds like the I Play Pokemon Go Every Day kid. 2/10

This is clearly what they were going for on that Os Mutantes album, but this one has a little more beatboxing. Giving it two stars because the first few songs aren’t that bad, but the rest of the album is just strange. I think if you played this to me while I was on drugs I would probably never forgive you for the rest of my life 3/10

This guy be like “hmm, I can’t seem to hit these low notes. Oh well”

This is a great album. It’s not perfect, but there are definitely some perfect songs on it. High And Dry and Fake Plastic Trees, for two, are absolute masterpieces to me, along with Black Star, which imo is tied with Airbag for most underrated Radiohead song. But even the ones I like the least are still really good. I’m a total sucker for guitar-heavy alt-rock, so it’s like Radiohead made this album to completely fit in with my taste.

LIME IN THE COCONUT JUMPSCARE

Some really cool psychedelic bangers (5D, Wild Mountain Thyme, What's Happening), some snoozers. That's all I can really say. Like Buffalo Springfield did a bit more LSD.

As a kid I used to hate All I Wanna Do bc I thought it was just rambling. I have since become enlightened. There are some good songs on here but a bunch of them didn’t make too big of an impression on me. She really had her Joker Moment on Leaving Las Vegas and by that I of course mean the song sounds like Joker by Steve Miller Band but it totally works

There’s a high barrier of entry to old Cure albums for me. They’re always mixed so flatly that the instruments kinda sound like MIDI (especially the drums). Robert Smith sounds like he’s singing into one of the drum mics from across the room, and two chords over and over on the guitar gets kinda stale after a couple minutes, even when they turn the chorus pedal all the way up. I guess I’d throw this on if I wanted to feel like I was in a Halloween store or something. Maybe I’ll warm up to it later in life.

This is almost a 4. There are a lot of songs on here that sound pretty ahead of their time, like a proto-Tame Impala or Thundercat (especially Earthquake Weather)

Okay turns out I had no clue what kind of music Alice Cooper made. Luney Tune and Grande Finale go hard, and I hate to be a basic bitch but School's Out bangs. The childish "badass" lyrics did elicit a couple giggles from me but I don't think they're a detriment to the album bc they were probably written that way on purpose. Light 3 stars bc most of the album was just fine.

This just made me wish I was listening to Aretha or Ella instead the entire time. I just don’t think I like Billie’s voice/inflection, and that paired with some of the blandest slow-oldies ever written did this album no favors.

Dude writes music for the opening titles of a 2000s rom-com. Specifically, the shot of the main character’s Toyota Corolla driving across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Alternate track listing: 1. One of the best songs ever written 2. Banger 3. One of the best songs ever written 4. Banger 5. I Believe 6. Banger 7. One of the best songs ever written 8. Not quite a banger but I’ll give it to em Two dudes who look kind of like each other and sound kind of like each other decided to come together and make one of the best albums of the 80s. Very strong 4; it might have been a 5 if I Believe wasn’t on it.

When I was probably seven or eight years old, I went to a friend’s birthday party and we watched Shrek The Third on DVD. One of my friends at the party had an mp3 player, and for some reason he offered to show me a song. It was American Idiot. I was listening to it during some sort of scene where people are flying on brooms, and I was like “This is literally the best song I have ever heard.” Some time shortly after, my parents gave me an iPod Nano. We were looking at iTunes to see what songs I should download and I went to that one first. My mom looked at it and said “Do you know what this label ‘explicit’ means?” I said no. She did not let me download it. I ended up downloading the Green Day version of the Simpsons Theme from The Simpsons Movie instead. All of the songs on this are good. The singles are fucking crazy. I have no choice but to give this a 5.

Easy 4 for me. To be honest, when I saw the cover, the title, and the tracklist, I felt like I might be in for a chore, but that was not the case. The story behind the album is fascinating, especially the fact that the guy who wrote most of the lyrics disappearing shortly after its release. The lyrics are extremely heavy (especially Yes and 4st7lb, two of the best songs on the album overall) and are clearly the product of someone going through a lot of emotional turmoil. They're a strength of the album, but at the same time, it's clear that they were written separately from the music because of all the liberties the singer takes with their pronunciation. But that doesn't really take a lot away from the album since the singing is such a strong instrument on its own. This is odd to say, but the singer sounds kind of like a cross between Gerard Way and Andrew Garfield in Tick Tick Boom, idk. The guitar work is also insane. There are some great songs on this thing, and some that I probably won't listen to much in the future, if at all. Crazy album, 4 stars.

This was fine. They’re a good band. These are all covers but one. The list couldn’t have used this spot for Weezer’s Blue Album?

This shit was fucking awesome

There’s Jump, Panama, and a bunch of vessels for Eddie Van Halen guitar solos. Hearing David Lee Roth’s very 30-year-old-man speaking voice pretending to be a kid on Hot For Teacher was very interesting.

Ngl I would love to swing with my lover to this. Funniest album cover so far as well like why is Frank looking upon the swingin’ lovers like God and why does the girl have a mullet

Highs: Ramble On and Thank You Lows: Robert Plant’s porn impression on Whole Lotta Love If these guys keep it up, they could be the next Greta Van Fleet!

Started off strong with the first three songs, but it got a bit boring as the album went on. Guitar tone is fucking sick though

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Pleasantly surprised. A lot better than Seventeen Seconds. Mixing was better, the songs were more complex and interesting, and I could hear the vocals. Lullaby and Fascination Street are dark bangers and the first two songs go off as well. Nice job, Cure!

This was really nice. Didn't click at first, but then I got the hype. If you were like "I liked Moondance, but I wish it had way more African influences," this is the album for you. The run from You Can Call Me Al to Crazy Love Vol. II is an all-timer and I will be staying away from roooooly-poly little bat-faced girls from now on.

It was alright, but maybe just by today’s standards. Some of the songs were just too long. If this didn’t somehow influence Sgt. Pepper I’d be surprised.

Contender alongside TPAB for hardest album art of the 2010s. Sometimes SZA has similar-melody syndrome on her verses but come on man these are good songs. The run from Drew Barrymore to Anything is dope.

A couple standouts, but lots of kind of standard punk stuff that isn’t really memorable.

The writing process for On Any Other Day: "Let's make an awful version of Message In A Bottle"

Sex Machine is a preety good title since it’s essentially 13 minutes of fucking around

This was dope. Marvin’s voice is fucking insane. Hilarious how he basically just reprises Let’s Get It On with Keep Gettin’ It On. This is one of those albums where I don’t exactly save a ton of songs off it but the album is just great as a whole. Totally an album to play through on a turntable (except the part with the sex noises).

Having trouble understanding why this is on here when it’s basically just a not-as-good version of Good Old Boys which is also on this list. All the potentially good things about Randy Newman songs (biting lyrics about America of the past and present, beautiful instrumentation, saying the title of the song in one line and repeating it in the next line, etc.) are done better on the other album.

Clearly this is a hot take on this website but I actually really liked this

Cool. First five minutes of song 2 gave me a new outlook on life. His little yelps throughout the whole thing kept making me think someone was behind me.

Fucking amazing album; one that grew on me a lot over the years, as I didn't like most of it when I first listened back in high school or something. In fact, it's still growing on me to this day, as I only saved Spaceboy and Luna after this listening session (I only have Quiet left). Billy Corgan is honestly an underrated guitarist and he rips on a ton of these songs, a handful of which I consider perfect (a large handful tbh). Not a bad song on this thing though. The drumming is also insane. Deservedly ranked among the best albums of the 90s, as it truly captures the "sad happy music" sound that makes so many of the best albums of that decade so great. If you like this album, you must watch the acoustic album release show they did, especially the Cherub Rock performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwOwzGtiZw

Album for true Brexit Geezahs. Quite possibly the most British album ever recorded. And yes, that includes the borderline rockabilly song at the end and the guy in brownface on the album cover. Our House fucking BANGS tho

This is one of those albums that you can tell has influenced a lot of stuff that came out after it. I feel like there wouldn’t be a Phoebe without this album, for instance. It has that kind of raw, blunt energy in its lyrics and very singular vision in its instrumentation. Like, she’s probably not playing all the instruments on the album but it feels like she made the whole thing herself. There are a lot of highlights: the lyrics/meaning behind Fuck and Run, Divorce Song, and Flower hit especially hard, and I feel like the slower songs are Liz’s strong suit on here musically, especially Canary which is amazing. However, I don’t think it’s consistent enough to give a 4. Very strong 3 though.

First two songs had me like “oooh the John Denver-Moby collab might hit!” and then it lost its energy completely. Apparently this was on the UK Top 100 albums chart for THREE YEARS from 2000-2003. Toyota Corolla Music was truly an epidemic in the early 21st century and I’m glad we finally got the cure (Party Rock Anthem)

Repotted my plants while listening to this. Perfect album for that occasion

Nina’s voice has such a unique timbre that even the romantic songs sound haunting. Also, she’s been sampled on so many big rap songs that she could practically be on a greatest producers of all time list

EASY 4. Lots of absolutely beautiful songs. Brings a bit of a tear to my eye because this was the third album I picked when I was doing my independent Album of the Day Club with my college friends a little over 5 years ago. I surprisingly have pretty much the same opinion of the album today as I did back then (which was pretty great), although I've certainly warmed up to the last song a lot. In my review back then, I said that Nightswimming could be a Disney or Christmas song, but in a good way. I think I still stand by that. Near-perfect song. The slow songs are the strongest on here, but Man On The Moon, Ignoreland, and Sidewinder are great uptempo ones that diversify the album well. Overall, super consistent album that has remained wonderful over the years. Quite nice to listen to it all the way through again.

Okay album. I was never really a huge fan of Bob Dylan’s voice, and some of the songs just kind of sound like one stanza of a Shel Silverstein poem over the same music over and over. Nothing against Shel Silverstein poems tho. Like A Rolling Stone, however, is a certified classic, along with the fucking slipping-on-the-banana peel sound effects in the title track.

First listen-through was highkey one of the worst musical experiences of my life. It felt like one of those sections of a rock song where everyone just plays whatever they want to make it sound chaotic on purpose, but for 39 minutes straight and with more trombone. The second listen-through made me rethink my entire life experience because it wasn’t even close to as bad. How could I hear it so fundamentally differently after just one day? I do think that there’s still something I’m missing about this album though, because I was still very glad it was over after the second time through.

Of all the songs to be an original composition on what’s essentially an Otis Redding karaoke album, I did not expect it to be Respect. This was good.

Oddly enough, the first Nirvana album I ever listened to all the way through, because my dad had the CD. One of those albums where I don't have a ton saved, but the context of the album and the way it works as a whole allows me to recognize its merit enough to give it a 4. Would highly recommend watching the full concert (or at least some songs) on YouTube.

More kind-of-forgettable early-2000s indie. These guys kind of sound like a band that would be playing in a beer garden or something. The album was fine, but it seems pretty out of place on this list. This isn't even the album with their biggest hits on it!

Glam as fuck! Pretty good album for sure; a strong 3. Her singing voice reminds me of Robert Plant’s, oddly. I like that she said furthermore on the first track. Also, she says “daddy” A LOT on this.

I was surprised at how much I liked a couple of these songs, especially Papa Won’t Leave You and Straight To You. He sounds kind of Elvis-like in vocal timbre and song style. The album tapered off in quality after the first few tracks, and I had to straight up skip Christina the Astonishing, so I’ll give it a 3.

Nice Nick Drake album with some nice Nick Drake songs. You have to like Nick Drake songs to like this album, but I do which is fortunate.

I didn’t feel this one very much. Hungry Like The Wolf and Rio are good of course, but none of the other songs really made any impact on me.

Ben said pretty much everything I was thinking about this album while listening. Nine Inch Nails does everything Marilyn Manson sets out to do without the lyrics being edgy to the point of cringe. I like some of the music on this but The Downward Spiral and The Fragile by NIN do all that better too, so I’ll just listen to them instead.

Super interesting album. I didn’t think I was gonna like it at first but it ended up being pretty cool, and it seems to be quite a pioneer in new wave; I hear a ton of influence from this album in all the 80s CDs my parents would listen to, and hearing decade-defining sounds in an album released earlier than that decade is super cool. Vsauce music would be nothing without this album. Extremely strong 3, would rate it a 3.5 if I could. Also, I have to say: Jimmy Fallon probably has an impression of this guy locked down in case anyone ever asks him

This album sounds like they all were required to record it shirtless. Good amount of all-timers (Enjoy The Silence, Policy Of Truth, Personal Jesus), okay amount of other good songs, hearty amount of mid.

Bruh Moments from this album: 1. “I got the cleanest, meanest penis” 2. Biggie really starting to go hard in Fuck Me (Interlude) when she starts talking about all that food 3. Fuck Me (Interlude) in general 4. “They call him Two-TECs, he tote two TECs” 5. “You look so good, I’d suck on your daddy’s dick” 6. The fucking blowjob at the end of Respect. This is a good song, but I had to save the censored version bc I don’t wanna listen to a full minute of Biggie pretending to get sucked off whenever it comes up on shuffle. 7. The Raven-Symone line in Just Playing?????????

Bad Company has a couple standout songs. They’re not on this album

I say this with respect: this album is Muppet-Show-core

Seeing the release year and the cover, I was prepared for more forgettable early-2000s music, but some of the songs were actually really good!

This was goofy as fuck. It felt like I was listening to a random silly album and Spotify accidentally added Psycho Killer to the queue. It’s not like Psycho Killer is an island tho, David Byrne really tried the gibberish stuff on a bunch of these songs and was like “I just know one of em’s gonna make it work”

Started out as a 4 with some surprisingly awesome songs that sound like they could have been recorded yesterday. Like, We Will Not Be Lovers killed. But a lot of the songs in the back half of the album were a bit *too* folky or dragged on compared to those in the first half. Still pleased that this was on the list though because I never would have heard it otherwise

Answers the age-old question “What if Peter Gabriel sucked?”

Really sick instrumentation on here, especially on the first and last songs. Super interesting album sonically and one that you can tell has had an influence on a lot of artists. I do wish the lyrics were about something other than fucking a 14-year-old.

Sometimes you can tell when an older album on this list has one song on it that’s way bigger than all the others because it’s mixed 10x better and like twice as loud

Very vibey album. Definitely has its moments and there are a couple all-timers on here (The Rain is amazing), but I’d classify most of this as really dope background music. Slightly above a 3. I’ll prob put it on next time I’m high or something.

I liked this more with each listen. I guess I like department-store-core. A lot of these songs go hard in a really soft way; if Freeze Tag and Small Blue Thing had drum drops, they would unironically pop off. It’s giving Cranberries, it’s giving 90s, it’s giving Tarzan soundtrack, it’s giving Schoolhouse Rock. I apologize for all the Gen Zed slang in this review

Isaac Hayes sat in despair. The album deadline was fast approaching, and he had a severe case of writers’ block, stuck with only four song ideas and a record label contract mandating at least 45 minutes of music. Suddenly, he had an idea.

Literal divorced dad music. He was really channeling Bob Dylan on that first track. Also, the lines “why do I have to pay attorney fees? This is a joke” kinda have SNL Digital Short energy. I hate my wife now

I think I would have liked it more if I was more of a punkhead. Plastic Bag was super enjoyable; it’s like a proto-Black Country New Road.

Lever Street walked so Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead could run

Sweet album. Really epic instrumentation that wasn’t too cheesy. Still Life makes me feel like I’m having a profound connection with the world.

Most overrated album of all time. Disorder is good.

I know I might be a pleb/pophead for saying this, but I think Celebrity Skin is the better Hole album 🫢. This one is still good tho. I love female vocalists in grunge bands and Courtney Love kills it. Miss World is a slapper

This has some good songs on it and really great guitar work/solos, but it’s not consistent enough to warrant a 4 from me. The quality definitely took a drop after the first three songs, and I’ve had to skip Don’t every time I’ve listened to it. I do appreciate how 90s it sounds for being an 80s album; I love it when those appear on the list.

I don’t know why I like The Conference so much. I feel like I need to do some serious introspection.

I find Common albums vibey but unmemorable most of the time. A couple good beats but overall nothing that stuck out.

They sound oddly like They Might Be Giants. Waterboys did it better

This album suffers because of the beats. Queen Latifah has a great voice for rap, and her skills are at least on par with other rappers from this era (she has better songs on her other album that I've heard, Black Reign), but these instrumentals are either uninteresting or poorly constructed, in my opinion. For a lot of these songs, it feels like the samples aren't in the same key with one another, or the bassline doesn't fit, or they're based around an annoying loop or something. It brings the whole thing down, unfortunately.

Nine Inch Nails really know how to write great Nine Inch Nails songs. I was gonna use this review to showcase my hot take that The Fragile is better but I don’t know if I think that anymore.

I liked when she pronounced “ghetto blaster” with a soft g

Pretty good. Starts out quite strong and gets a little forgettable toward the end. Very Schoolhouse Rock at times. Made me really wanna listen to You’re So Vain by Carly Simon.

Fine. A lot of sitar songs just sound like a lot of other sitar songs

Video game menu music would be nothing without this album. I can almost hear some really shitty southern rapper over Aegispolis. Green Calx is David S. Pumpkins-core.

Some ones with big staying power on here, but most of these didn’t keep me super interested. Hanging On The Telephone was an out-of-nowhere hit for me though

They have the guy going “doogadoogadoot” in the background working overtime

Wow, no album has ever made me feel like I’m in line for Space Mountain quite like this one

I know it’s prob not this guy’s fault that his voice sounds like Thom Yorke, but it’s a bit hard to ignore. The music’s not bad, but the production sounds corporate compared to their influences, which are kind of hard to get out of your mind, especially for the first half of the album. Like, my thoughts were essentially this until Exo-Politics: Take A Bow: Oh nice, it’s like if Radiohead did a Queen song Starlight: Oh nice, it’s like if Radiohead did a Coldplay song Supermassive Black Hole: Oh nice, it’s like if Radiohead did a Nine Inch Nails song Map of the Problematique: Oh nice, it’s like if Radiohead did Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode Invincible: Oh nice, it’s like if Radiohead did MCR covering a U2 song Assassin: Oh nice, it’s like if Radiohead did a hard Guitar Hero song