Lightnin Hopkins could be a Chili Peps song.
A couple bangers and a nice vibe.
Welcome to the JetBlue lounge
Would launch a thousand copycats 40 years later.
The roots of rock perfection
Much better than I remember.
An already exceptional voice gaining character with age. You can feel Johnny and the Rick Rubin experiment winding down.
You’d never know this was a British list.
This was bad house music at the time. It’s even worse now.
A long, boring slog to get to the only good song (Tusk)
The second-best movie soundtrack of all time (Caddyshack II)
Revolutionary in its day and still a rhythmic mind-blower.
I could go for some popcorn
I’d like to do something about global warming, but I also want to have sex with my car.
If he didn’t look so badass, people would mock him for this poetry slam claptrap.
So hilarious when Brits attempt hip-hop. These assholes heard Public Enemy and made Muzak for The Gap
Ronald Reagan’s best vocal performance
Pete is the best British guitar player
Do you realize this album is still pretty good??
The sweet spot between Nirvana and the Jonas Brothers.
Never hard any of these songs and it’s still a pretty good album.
Everybody knows this is awesome
Not the best Hello of all time.
What if the Kingston Trio had a cousin who told them about taking acid?
Now I can die with sabor.
Was this band brilliant or fucking insufferable? Time hasn’t been kind.
Never thought I’d say this but has Noel Gallagher had a better post-band career than Albarn?
Even lesser Husker Du is moster than anyone else. Never clocked the REM similarities before, but they’re thick on this album.
A fun surprise, which is quite a feat for a German.
Nobody beats the king but the king
Some Brits can make a convincing Americans turn.
What if The Rolling Stones were white?
Shouldn’t be surprised that Skylarking is a playful album, but “dear God” sets a tone that suggests otherwise.
Put early 90s rock in a blender. Maybe 6 too many songs.
Happy to get introduced to some new music, but this is taking up a space that should probably belong to Bob Seger.
More like fill my ears, amirite?
When Paul’s harmony comes in on “If I Fell,” … damn.
Misty Roses is a bona fide fuck jam.
A milestone in raga rock. Sagar is great
This is your funk on acid.
Kids and parents lost their minds over this, for different reasons.
Severe drop-off after 3 songs.
The coolest white people ever got.
Bro, when Don’t Bother Me hits … George changes the game.
I could go for a Second Helping
Gibberish never sounded so good.
Grindcore has come a long way
Her real name is Dusty Sprungfeld
Too much fat on this steak. And cheese.
Racing in the Street is a killer
Why does trip hop sound so dated?
At the end of every Leonard Cohen song, say “in bed.” Hilarious.
A hell of a step away from punk, as lame as that sounds.
The soundtrack of the “jerk-off” hand motion
Some great tunes, but Lars is the most timid metal drummer of all time.
Not as good as Thriller, but pretty damn close?
Not as good as Thriller, but pretty damn close?
One of the best album openers of all time?
Let’s go back to The Shire!
Solid grooves and kinda blah
Not her best songs/performances
Wish I was there, glad I wasn’t a tween girl there.
This is what happens when you smoke weed.
Always a lot of filler on a doors album.
Not the classic lineup, but the seed of a rock monster was planted.
The power of the acoustic guitar
Ain’t nuthin to fuck with
Annie deserved better than Dave Stewart.
What if Elton John was cock 7?
Maybe the dorks in high school were right…
I wish I was fluent in Hopelandic
This is the best French music ever made.
What buying a Kia Soul sounds like
Rocky III gets some love. Respect.
If you got a handjob in a girl’s dorm room in 1998, this album was playing.
Stupidity belongs in rock.
More British garbage taking up space that rightfully belongs to Bob Seger.
White guys can do jazz sometimes
The best album of all time. Second-best Beatles album.
Sure captures a moment, donit?
One of the best voices in pop history, but this performance felt a little tame, especially considering King Curtis and his crew were backing.
“I shot my mouth off and he showed me what that hole was for.”
I’m sure this choice has nothing to do with Rex Harrison.
Look, Ray is an indisputable genius, but his skill is best displayed when he plays bluesy fuck jamz for sweaty teens.
Fun fun fun on the man machine
He has better albums, but he’s still Bob Dylan with writers block and a head cold.
It’s great! It’s good. It’s OK
Disgusting prog folk. Sick. Gross.
Ray expands the great American songbook, and rightly so, but these arrangements don’t always do the songs justice.
All Dwight is good, but this ain’t his best album by a longshot.
An 8-second sample you must listen to before you die
Horny sophistication for 60s squares.
Welcome to the most boring dentist office
The best Morrissey I’ve ever heard.
Born-again Bowie ain’t bad.
I’m the son of Mr. Green Genes
This is the best French music ever made
This guy seems cool. World music sure has a sound.
This is the best French music ever made
Starting to think some of these Brit prog acts didn’t have much to say.
It’s 2003. You walk into the W Hotel. You hear the soundtrack to your life and realize you are a secret European spy. THIS IS THE REAL YOU.
Excessive, mostly in a fun way.
Pretty good gimmick. Lars never sounded better?
The sax turns like half these into the SNL theme.
Rusty Kershaw and honeyslides ftw.
Expected this to suck. It didn’t!
Chris Hillman is a vital organ of the American rock corpus. Discuss.
The start of something interesting
Air is good. This is fine
One for the hardcore pg heads.
The best Nick Cave album I’ve heard?
Beyoncé: Can you sing a verse on my new album about our passionate love life, family and women’s sexual empowerment?
Jay-Z: Imma beat it like Ike and Iron Mike
The authentic Starbucks sound
This motherfucker right here
Love this stuff. Not even ginger baker can ruin it.
A hit in the UK! Mid Americana in the US.
The songs get better as the production improves.
This NPR-ass bullshit is example infinity for why Brits can’t do hip hop. Wish I could give it zero stars.
Beautiful all the way through
Thousands were there, but only one of them started a band.
Mike Patton is no Chest Rockwell
A good joke would be to give this 2 stars because of her boobs.
The origin story of Mr. Skin
What if we did hip-hop without the MC 25 years later? Still kinda fun
Mike Mills' harmony is one of the great gifts of rock
This list is losing all credibility. Still no Seger.
Pure 90s rock, better than it should be
Harbinger of musical genres to come
This list is hilariously 95-05 heavy
Baz Lhurmann does Dolemite
Bill Berry is a damn drum god
Has a few compelling moments
British Invasion juuust before the acid hit.
Really odd deep cut to put on this list. It's cool, but probably not even worthy of 1001 blues/jazz albums to listen to...
Never has a great voice done so little
Nice to learn about Eisler, but seriously what the fuck is this?
Some of the biggest dicks in pop music, trying to be as limp as possible.
Tortured bombast, the epitome of the aughties
One of Ry’s most tasteful moves was to let them play.
Some cool stuff I’d never heard before but man this fucking list
Not the sad strummer I was led to believe.
Kinda funny. Still no Seger
I was really drunk at the time
Turns out odd future lived up to the hype
Under the pressure indeed
You slog through one of the worst albums ever made only to be rewarded with a final, 10-minute track of farts. Epic.
He’s the GOAT for a reason
Ain’t it like France to lionize lukewarm pop 10 years behind the zeitgeist
Great words. The delivery could use some pizzazz
If Breakfast In America is also on this list I swear to fucking god man. Still no Seger.
Something new, something fine.
You think it has one great titty song, but really every track is a great titty song.
The birth of a sneering, cynical, doo-wop loving countercultural genius.
What if Robert Goulet and Billy Corgan had a Jaguar?
Motherfuckin’ OG Henny Loc strikes again.
One of the great works of American art
Did not expect to see G Love on this list.
The soundtrack to digging through a bag of pills in a mobile home
It’s possible The Stones understood gospel better than the blues.
Can’t go wrong with Curtis.
Hard to beat Merle, but Ralph Mooney steals the show
That guitar on Faith is surprisingly country. Gets a little same-y, but hits are hits
These guys were hot shit on the jam scene back in the day. Now it’s borderline cringe?
Innovative, influential, somewhat painful.
The soundtrack to white privilege
Welcome to the revolution
It's the reason for the season
Seeing Summer Breeze live changed my life
Gets more compositionally boring and less emotionally convincing as it goes on. Criminal that HAIM gets the worst song on the album.
Every 60s brit musician wanted to do Vaudeville
I've listened to this so many times and it just won't click
Nobody does rock minimalism as perfectly as this.
Sounds woefully wholesome these days.
Would be a good album if not for Morrissey’s voice.
More influence on the White Stripes than you might expect
M&M as a pedo serial killer just works
A whole album of 80s TV theme songs. Still no Seger
I appreciate the Kinks, but they never seem to put it all together on one album...
Such high hopes for an album is never heard of. But it’s Neil Diamond with extra schmaltz.
Probably a friend of the author?
Billions of Spotify plays can't be wrong! Slightly more exciting than the standard adult-contempo fare.
Never really my thing, but I think Green Day might be a great band.
Glad I finally gave them a chance
Glyn Johns also thought these guys were pussies
Undeniable. But Songs for Young Lovers is better
I’ll give them an extra star for being Scottish?
He invented all your favorite music
One of the greatest works of human creation
My jamband ass would have loved to see this live.
A goddamm masterpiece. 7-7-7.
An incredible band and one incredible song. And some other stuff.
Aside from Lydon's voice, this shit is clean and tight
It's nice to have some of these old-timers on record, but this shit drags and is a c-hair from being an exercise in cringe pandering.
The drum tone on Fantail is glorious. 5-Star album cover
Never heard it before. It's OK
So many Smiths. No Segers. Ugh.
I get the importance, and Ian’s voice gets better throughout, but I’m not coming back to this one
Just the sort of derivative drivel I expect from a Mancunian.
“Knight Moves” comes on my headphones and a finger of the monkey’s paw curls.
Overplayed and overhyped, but goddamm what a singular voice, and the production is killer.
I liked this album at the time, but it’s boring
One of the greatest works of art in American history
Lukewarm Zappa. Humorless bombast
Midlife angst sounds boring
If Wes Anderson was an album.
Like T. Rex and Queen took Molly together at an EDM festival but then accidentally got locked in a porta-john overnight?
Monkey Man puts it over the top
This shit kicks ass. Cock 7
I love Jack white like a little brother
I loved this era of weirdo rap. Highly influential to Odd Future et al
Starts pretty good but damn it drops off HARD
My favorite album cover as a kid
Some of my favorite metal, but I’m not enough of a fan to enjoy a whole album.
I expected this to be some euro garbage this list writer fell in love with in 7th grade, and I was right, but it’s a notch above garbage.
Best album ever. Day in the life is the best song ever.
The only Radiohead album I like. And I love it.
really testing my poptimist tendencies. Still no Seger.
A singular, stubborn weirdo
Cool shit periodically interrupted by spa music.
I know this is important, and I've tried soooo many times. She seems amazing, but...
One nation under a groove
A mid Wilco makes the list. Will Son Volt?
Mid. Guess this list needed some Africadabra
There better be 100 3rd Bass albums on this list
I was not familiar with the world's 4th greatest singer of all time according to the LA Times, but I'm glad to know him. Inspired a rewarding trip to YouTube.
Snide Tom Jones having fun
Robert Dimery must owe these guys money.
More rockin than the D&D titles suggest
After 3 songs, I thought maybe I misjudged this band back in the day. Nope.
The album that made white college students think they could play funk
Now do a song about Louis Kahn!
What are you gonna do when Maggie Thatcher destroys your future? Molly.
These guys needed disco more than disco needed them
Not bad for a Scottish band.
Bratty white parody of hip-hop has gained stature
Billy Joe Shaver gets Waylon on the right track
No bangers, but it turns out broadening my Simple Minds horizon was a good move.
Seger deserves reparations. Zero stars.
Planting the seeds for the future of music
Like if Randy Newman had a stroke and lost his sense of humor.
What a happy hooker song!
Heavy pitch wheel work on this bad boy. Love little Stevie
Shout out to Trump! Beyoncé ruins everything
Sometimes beautiful, but sad in a lot of ways
Loses steam, but an undeniable classic
I still don't get why hipsters fucking loved this band
A better album than expected from what I assumed was a singles band.
I'm learning to appreciate shoegaze!
Another critical darling I've never given a chance. This one pays off.
I can see why this was influential, but it leans too heavily theatrical.
Love how it fucks with my head
what if a movie, but for blind people?
Peter Cetera used to be cool
Hockey arena organ player on acid
They get better, but this is a groundbreaker
Like LCD Soundsystem with more Lou Reed
Not sure he’s demonstrating his poetry skills here, but Bobby is a legend
What if The Beach Boys grew up inside an industrial clothes dryer?
I bet their dads loved George Thorogood.
Brian Eno ran so Moby could trip on his dick
Some incredible songs on this one, but a few duds too. Still, it’s Emmylou
Good lord. Still no Seger.
I guess I should know about this person? She's pretty good.
I’ll give this a one. And that’s grading on a handicap
Pretty amazing follow-up of the post-Boone Minutemen.
They changed the game! On the internet! The internet sucks.
Love the Lanois production. A top-5 Bob for me.
The queen of cynical detachment. She captured a moment, and it was great.
A wonderful trip into the Joel Hoel to hang with Sgt. O'Leary, Mama Leone, Brender and Eddie and Tony et al.
Way better than I expected.
Let the bodies hit the floor
So much production for so little spine
Dude recorded the “rain rain go away” song. But sign your name is a bop
This is not a Fugazi review
I guess I appreciate the Mark E Smith ethos
This list is comically, detrimentally 90s
Fucking garbage. Still no Seger.
The soundtrack to the 90s most boring movie scenes.
We are all dumber for having listened to this. May god have mercy on our souls.
Bring back pop harmonica!
Human Nature does the heavy lifting here. Thanks Toto.
Another UK embarrassment.
This passes for great in some cultures. It’s fine.
New to me, and great! Thanks, British dude from the 90s with an otherwise basic bitch taste in music!
Diminishing returns after track 4-5.
So John Lee Hooker is a fucking beast, but this album turns him into a candy ass. You know something is wrong when Thorogood is the best pairing, but the title track with Santana is an abomination.
I suddenly want to watch Moonraker
I don’t know, kinda Peter Gabriel lite?
I think I've finally come around to the Mars Volta.
What if Bruce Springsteen lived long enough to use an iPhone?
Techno has gone straight downhill from here
I don’t know, I listened to the new De La Soul album. 4 stars. This is probably mid.
Leave it to the Irish to recognize the brilliance of Seger. But one song does not an album make. This English list is still pure rubbish.
Lots of filler, but the good stuff is killer.
One of the greatest folk albums ever made
I appreciate the DBs, but shit gets tiresome