What am I supposed to say about one of the most lauded albums of all time?

“Ain’t no question if I want it, I need it” and by “it” I mean the old Kanye

classic goth. The Corrosion absolutely rips

Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic is perfect

A glorious mess

What a voice!

Still as impactful all these years later but I can't imagine listening to this in 1970 and how much it would blow your mind.

First three songs remind me why I loved this stuff back in the day but it lost me after a while.

There are so many better Hot Chip albums.

can't deny her

Near perfect

hard to follow The Soft Bulletin but still great

Side A of this is one of my favourites of all time. Side B could never get to those heights but still a fantastic album.

Yasss queeen

We get it bro, you vape.

Testing the audience’s patience with 6 covers (3 Meat Puppets ones in a row!). So incredible and points to what could have been.

Can't say I was too familiar with Emmylou Harris' work before but this was a lovely aughts country album. Likely won't revisit too often but enjoyed it.

A stone cold classic. Starts off near perfect and ends on another crescendo, only slightly dipping in the middle. Will never pass up the opportunity to listen.

Earl James Brown live show that shows shy he was such a popular concert. I've listened to it a bunch but it never really got into a steady rotation. Still a great listen that I enjoy every time I revisit.

Far from the prog of Genesis, Gabriel had really honed in his pop chops to the point where someone listening along kept asking if I was sure that it wasn't Phil Collins playing.

Stone cold classic. Probably take their next album by a hair but still a favourite of mine.

Naw son. Don’t need this. The best part is the baseball play-by-play.

A sign of great things to come but ultimately not a particularly noteworthy album.

A psychedelic classic. I was familiar with Somebody To Love and White rabbit before and they’re the standout tracks. The rest is a bit uneven but Funny Cars rips.

Classic Celtic-Punk.

Give me a break.

Prime years of Motörhead. Typically Don’t love live even when I’m a huge fan, can’t deny how tight the band sounds here.

Timeless but not hitting the highs of Déjà Vu with Young being thrown in the find.

Maybe the peak of Britpop. Biggest album with the most crossover appeal. Still holds up to this day. Banger after banger.

I’m too shy to listen to this!

The First Lady of folk’s debut. A sign of the great things to come.

Classic trip hop. Can’t say that I like it as much as their debut but still a great revisit

I thought that we left this behind in the aughts.

Good solid reggae. Doesn’t include some of the bigger hits that we’ve been inundated with over the years and is better for it. More collaborative and free.

I mean okay. Guilty pleasure but I don't need much more of this. "Feel my serpentine" is something else.

I love writing a song about your best friend’s wife inspired by ancient Persian poetry.

Fourth and last of the 70s Eno pop albums and maybe the best. Side two gets let’s pop but so atmospheric and great. He’s simply the best.

A classic of my youth. Holds up so well to this day.

I know it's coming but that last line of Rose Parade kills me every time.

I believe you that she's great and this album is amazing. I can even recognize it sometimes. I just can't get there.

Greatest song ever written about a blow-up doll.

Last album recorded by The Lizard King, probably my favourite Doors album. Mellow Blues.

Why not have some fun for once? Great South African Jazz.

A classic of my youth. Masterful production by Beck and the Dust Brothers. Not quite as innovative as it felt in 1996 but still a classic.

I will never love it as much as the album that preceded it but it's still Kinks at the top of their game. Victoria is particularly a delight.

This is the music your parents warned you not to listen to.

A few years before they would hand Keith Flint the mic to sing on their biggest hits, The Prodigy released this classic which, might not be as flashy as Fat of the Land but probably holds up better.

What am I supposed to say about one of the most lauded albums of all time?

The three singles stand out but still an early America alternative classic.

I had never heard of these Australian punks but there are some bops here.

Excuse me while I kiss this guy.

An ES album I wasn’t previously familiar with. Sad that it was his last but more cheer than Either/Or which is my go to for ES.

Among the greatest albums. Infinitely listenable.

Andre 3000 is exhausting sometimes. Could have been an incredible single album.

What can you say about one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.

Not the Nick Drake album I find myself reaching for usually but you can’t really go wrong with any of his music.

Doesn't quite reach the peaks of The Three EPs but still a chill listen.

A bridge between the fun but uneven art punk debut and the near perfect two albums that follow.

What can you say about the legend. Suffers only so slightly from the practice of the time of keeping hit singles off the albums but still great top to bottom.

A favourite of mine. When I first encountered this album I wasn’t ready for it but after repeated listened it just clicked. I don’t need to take drugs if I can just listen to Heroin whenever I want.

The legend Steve Albini. I wasn't as familiar with this album as their next one whose name I'm too shy to say out loud but definitely goes hard.

Fun metal. Bonkers lyrics at times.

The title track is probably one of the best Dolly songs and the rest of the album holds up well enough but boy were they pumping out albums in those days.

Whatever. I guess it’s competent enough.

An album that I hadn't spent too much time before but short enough to listen a few times today. I enjoyed it very much.

Title track and Season of the Witch are stone cold classics but the rest is mostly forgettable Donovan.

The man’s a legend

Opening track rips but the rest doesn’t quite hold up.

Because he spits hot fire.

Garbage. Absolute Garbage.

Great voice but come on.

Classic bossa nova album.

The singles are miles above the rest and are among the best Duran Duran songs.

I had never heard of this album but it was a great listen. Not quite as good as the classic Pixies albums but quite enjoyable and Headache is a classic tune.

Three queens of country.

Touch me I’m sick.

Maybe not my favourite Stevie Wonder album but still an absolute classic.

The first of their truly classic albums. Unfortunate choice for final track though.

I’m a sucker for people who write songs about their bicycles.

Sometimes you pump. Sometimes you get pumped.

Great live piano jazz. Alice in Wonderland is such a great jazz standard and Bill Evans does magic with it.

Drags at times but a modern classic for a reason.

Miles' first fusion album. He'd figure out the formula over the years and perfect it but a classic in its own right.

Nothing I do is good enough for you.

Would and Rooster are still some of my favourite grunge songs.

Missy be puttin’ down.

Sure, why not.

Progressive rock? With a flute? Unheard of! Thick as a Brick is where they really perfected things.

Listened to both French and English versions. Great pop.

ACAB includes Jazz Cops. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Competent but not that interesting. Decent early psych.

REM sells out and we all benefit.

Davies you geniuses.

Trip Hop staple. Not one that has been part of my steady rotation.

Near-perfect follow up to a near perfect debut.

Thanks for being my Hoochie Coochie Man

You’re a shining star

Ultimately, the next big thing level was probably prematurely taken out of the protective case.

Ahh to be young and at the Men in Music Business Conference again.

I would be shocked if this wasn’t objectively the worst album on this list.

I used to think that this was the best Smiths album. While I still love it, I think that I was mistaken.

Never got into this one. I like the Melody Nelson inspired song.

One of my faves. I love a man in uniform.

I had never heard anything about this artist/album before but I enjoyed it. Wishing Well was rightfully a hit!

Debut album from the legend. Missy and Timbo teamed up and set the blueprint for hip hop in the years to come. Sock It 2 Me/The Rain/Beep Me is an incredible 3 song run.

What’s your name? Who’s your daddy?

I was so hyped for this when it came out after loving Funeral so much. It let me down then and still does little for me.

One of my favourite solo Beatles album. Best album with a Cookie Monster reference.

This one surprised me with how much I enjoyed it.

my kinda freaks

A little long. Signs of their fallibility start to show.

Not my fave Steely Dan album but you simply can’t deny it.

So funny that albums like this middling one are on this list alongside some canon classics.

The Boss' 9/11 response album shows a return to form after a decade of mixed albums.

Groundbreaking for 1960. A little less interesting 60+ years later.

The moment that you hear Subway Theme from Wild Style, you know that you have to listen to the album from start to end. A classic.

Iconic Hammond organ that could only be Jimmy Smith.

Just when I thought that I was tired of the album we got some really fun stuff at the end. Still a bit too long.

Is Flav arguing that the NYPost shouldn’t have written a story about him beating his wife? Wth?

You’re really going to make me listen to this middling Morrissey album?

Debut marks Björk’s arrival with a bang. She would refine and perfect the formula throughout the decade but this album is undeniable. Fun and singular. Big Time Sensuality rips.

The legend’s swan song.

Trigger cut might be the blueprint 90s indie song.

Some ol’ classic folk.

From the run of albums that spawned multiple music genres. Truly visionary.

Hip hop classic full of joy.

The band would hit their commercial and pop peak with Money for Nothing but a lot of that is present in this quality debut.

From the ashes of the Sex Pistols comes this early post punk. No matter what anyone says Fodderstompf is great.

Fripp demonstrating his genius from day one.

Ewww

Take Five is a stone cold classic. Untouchable. Blue Rondo is great too but the rest of the album doesn’t quite reach to those peaks.

Album that has both Closer and Hurt on it. Definitely prefer the Pretty Hate Machine era but Trent was definitely doing his own thing.

An album full of instrumental classics from Hayes. Title track gets you moving.

Adult contemporary Thom Yorke.

Woo woo Woo woo Woo woo Woo woo Woo woo

Canadian angsty classic

Not my favourite of Stevie Wonder’s classic album run but still great.

I was more familiar with the JB’s debut album and was never really able to get into it. This one on the other hand really hits the Golden Era hot spot.

Beg Matt for forgiveness.

As someone who enjoyed the 90s dancey stuff, this return to rock was not appreciated and even though the first few songs start out strong, this is a rough listen.

An album that I never grew up listening to but I know that it has a huge reputation. Always makes me happy to listen but I still don’t quite connect to it the way that I wish I could.

I thought that I would have been over this album that I listened to a lot in the early aughts but boy did this hit hard on a revisit. I’m sure that most of it is nostalgia but the first half really works and even though it loses steam towards the end, I love it.

A nice return to form after a decade of silence after a few weaker albums but not quite the classic that was hoped for but would be delivered a few years later with Bowie’s final album.

Classic metal.

Imagine there’s no music. Damn deep.

For real though, they peed on the monolith.

Album that inspired a whole movement in hip hop. Still funky enough.

I can see it but still can’t get it to 5 stars.

This album was so big when it came out. I’ve tried but I could never really get into it. Holds up for the most part but can’t say that I was wowed.

All I came to do was to Cum On Feel the Noize and instead I had to listen to some fun glam.

Much like Deloused in the Crematorium, this is one of those albums where I’ve listened to the first two songs dozens of times but never bothered continuing past that. Definitely miss the fun of earlier Britpop sound.

Not quite hitting the highs of Low, the middle album of the Berlin Trilogy, somehow coming out the same year as it’s predecessor continues the Eno-inspired experimentation while giving a taste of the pop of the past. Heroes is one of Bowie’s best.

Never cared for this Freak Folk revival when it happened and it definitely does nothing for me now.

Before things got really freaky, this debut album by Captain Beefheart demands much less from the listener than some later work will. Some of it may even be familiar as music to your ears.

When you’re 15 minutes into a mediocre Algerian pop album and you get hit with an Imagine cover :S Probably in the album’s favour that I don’t understand the lyrics.

“Ain’t no question if I want it, I need it” and by “it” I mean the old Kanye

what more can be said about one of the most highly-regarded jazz albums of all time. A timeless classic.

Album that I’ve listened to a couple times over the years but never got deep into it.

Not my favourite Tom Waits album but still a good’un.

Not as freaky as you would expect from Zappa but still a solid jazzy album.

Tribe arrived fully formed with Instinctive Movements and they followed it up with another classic just over a year later with a sound all their own. Incorporating jazz samples and continuing the lighthearted humorous lyrics, this one holds up to this day as basically perfect.

Maybe the peak of YYY’s output, they really hit their stride with this one. Confident and fun.

FLA twigs is making some of the best RnB to come out in recent years and this debut landed with a bang with all the promise that she had shown with her earlier EPs. Not something I go to often but great to revisit after a while.

What can you say about the album that basically invented punk and influenced so many. Stripping rock down to the studs and not taking themselves so seriously, the Ramones bursted onto the scene with their stage-perfected sound and nothing was ever the same again.

Hey Bruce, you just put out a classic double album of rock and roll with some huge hits. What’s next? What a moody, dark album without a band? Influenced by Suicide? Sure, why not?

three songs in and there is no doubt why Ric Ocasek was a legend in power pop from this point on.

White people lose it for this stuff.

Greasy, nasty early Rod Stewart was just so raw and fun. None of the hits that he would be known for later but definitely something there.

I guess this is okay late 90s reggae. Sure, why not.

Power pop kings at the height of their game.

I mean fun idea but not sure who this is for and why it’s a double album where every song is so long.

RIP to a real one.

A band and album previously unfamiliar. I dug it. Can’t say that it left a mark but was pretty fun.

Ambient perfection by the patron saint of Ambient. I couldn’t love it more.

Kim Gordon saying FU in The Sprawl is my kink.

Somewhat sillier and joyous than the follow up that is sometimes considered the peak of Tribe, I can’t help but find the energy here more fun and somewhat naive. Regardless the first two Tribe albums are timeless and incredible.

Tracy comes out of the gate swinging. The album loses some steam as things go ahead and it can be a bit preachy at times but Fast Car alone makes it all worthwhile.

First Stones album without covers, an important milestone in Richard’s/Jaggers development as song writers. Ultimately, it’s weighed down by some immature, misogynistic lyrics and have aged poorly and weren’t necessarily welcome in its day either. Under My Thumb is still my problematic fave though and with the US version trimming a bit and adding on Paint It Black it’s all pretty great, musically.

classic goth. The Corrosion absolutely rips

Post-rock classic. Among my favourites. Slint would be broken up before this album was even released and maybe the transitory nature of Slint added to the legend and mystery. Along with Spirit of Eden Laughing Stock, albums that developed a style and defined a genre.

Solid album that suffers from following The Soft Bulletin and not meeting those highs but still great.

Legendary singles artist but often uneven albums. This one comes out the gates blazing but loses steam fast.

Frusciante’s return is appreciated but it’s not really until the next album where things click. But really nothing can save this album. Really the second half is barely worth listening to and as much as I love Otherside… woof.

Not quite as iconic as Mayfield’s debut or Supefly, still one of his classics.

Not one of the first of the post Deja-Vu CSNY solo albums that I go to but still a solid one that holds up great.

Smooth from the beginning. Slightly dinged because the two best songs are covers.

Joni Mitchell never lies.

An interesting project that had its moments but can’t say that it did that much for me.

A mid-career album from the wanderer. Not much to get excited about but harmless in the end.

A classic of early garage rock. A lot of covers on this album but fun to see harder takes of songs recently also covered by the Beatles. The originals are great too. Strychnine holds up among the best of the era.

The peak of Sigur Rós output, dreamlike and so great.

A classic of my youth. Billy Corgan showing his breadth beyond grunge/alternative but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that a young me would end up skipping quite a few tracks back in the day. Still a cohesive album that takes you on a journey but imagine how tight this would be as a single album.

I doubt if I will ever listen to this album again in my life.

Swan song for the Man in Black being puppeteered out to perform some interesting covers and standards. Not much there there but worth a listen.

Here I always thought of the La's as a one-hit-wonder. I guess they are but I didn't know that they had a well-regarded album to go with it. An interesting album. Essentially a progenitor to britpop.

Basie in the Placie London!

What can you say about a legend?

Van at his peak.

Shine on you quirky fella.

I should listen to more Orton.

Gotta appreciate an album that ends with Lynch.

Every Police album sounds the same. Solid singles band though.

I wasn’t familiar with Kiwanuka before. Now sure how I missed on this three-time Mercury Prize nominee (and one time winner) but it was a nice discovery. Quality album.

I really do not enjoy Walk This Way

The only thing that would make this album better is more Eno!

I can't help but feel like every Gorillaz album is too long and self-indulgent.

So you’re saying that this is one of the best albums of all time? Certainly that means it doesn’t have any silly songs on it. What?? Four silly songs?!

Three years before Graceland, Malcolm McLaren would take credit for the work of South African musicians for his benefit. Buffalo Gals is a jam though.

I always found trip hop to be a bit cringy. Shara Nelson raises this to an undeniable classic.

Definitely a skit or two that I never need to hear again.

It’s not very often that I listen to a live album and wish that I was in the room for the recording. This is one of those albums. Cooke is firing on all cylinders and we’re better for it.

As my cursor hovers over 4 stars, I have to ask myself how can I deny an album that launched (and defined) a scene. That made New York cool again. Nothing groundbreaking, just tight, catchy, confident rock.

Yes, there are some very cringy lyrics as Kanye appears to have surrendered to his worst impulses but the production is incredible. The cracks are starting to show but still an album that holds up as singular and original.

Our lovable weirdos come out the gate fully baked.

Not a Joni album that I reach for that often but a really great one that demonstrates an evolution of her sound.

Fried ice cream is a reality.

Krautrock legends never shy to be true to their sound. I gave serious consideration to put the song Jennifer on my wedding playlist but I talked myself out of it.

Our lovable LA weirdos hit it out of the park with their debut album.

The two best Beatles Harrison tracks plus the B-Side medleys make up for a somewhat uneven album.

I’m mature enough to admit that Blur won the Britpop wars of the 90s.

Sweet indie pop classic. That Neil Young cover though.

Right about now

Something for everyone.

Just what Bowie needed. Eno, Eno and more Eno.

If only the non-single tracks were better. The hits hit hard though.

Surprisingly, I had never heard of this one. Decent early-90s alternative.

Transitory album between their college radio indie pop darlings to ruling the alternative radio waves. Ultimately, Green ends up somewhere between and doesn’t do it for me.

Post-Ayers Soft Machine starts moving towards a jazz rock sound. Lots of cool stuff happening here. Rather undeniable if you give it a chance.