Two big hits on this one, Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence. I can’t see myself putting the whole album on, but for sure, this thing is a whole vibe.

Really surprising! Almost prog rock in places?

Yeah. Wish the recording wasn’t so muddy. Smoke on the water is a classic, hands down. Can’t see putting the whole album on.

Yeah! I was surprised to find I knew practically all these.

This is one of my favorite albums. It sounds great, and it’s bonkers!

2 stars: Not my bag.

So strange to listen to. Really filthy lyrics set to almost lounge-y rock.

No.

Really cool album with a tight band.

A+, favorite album.

Wow, I thought this was all the same song?!

It’s been a long time! Really great.

🤘

I can imagine someone would really dig this. Best of luck to them!

Wow, I knew almost every track like a genetic memory.

I liked it, but someone really needed to force them to trim 15 minutes off of this thing.

Humanity went from this to Slayer in less than 30 years!

This spoke to me. Initially, I rated this 4 stars. But I keep coming back to it and it just keeps speaking. So I used the edit feature for the first time to make this 5 stars.

I know you don’t get the latter day Beatles without these Beatles. I just wasn’t interested in doing this kind of musical archaeology. This has got to be their worst.

Why?

Honestly, I was ready for a lot worse than this.

This sounded like the art on the walls of rental office space.

Wow, this rocked way more than I remembered!

We're at the 10% mark and there's been only one other jazz album so far. I'm so happy this one made the list! It's not one of the usual suspects from Miles or Coltrane, but man, it really captures a lot of mid-century jazz greatness. It's not flashy. It's not pushing the envelope or redefining anything. But if you walked into a bar and these cats were laying this stuff down, you'd remember it forever.

This caught me off-guard. The description of "late 90's indie rock" had me worried. It was pretty cool!

25% fun, 100% forgettable

It’s probably great if you like this kind of thing?

Such an incredible mood.

Half the songs on this are legendary, maybe more than half. There was a time I found this amazing, but I just rarely find myself wanting to listen to it now. In part, I think it's the sound quality. I dunno man.

I was surprised to hear Cannonball on this! The rhythm section is killer. And, I love Cannonball, but his stunt casting here I think does the material a disservice. He just sounds so out of place, and he can't really swing with some of these grooves. I'll still add it into the cocktail hour rotation, but, this was a weird one.

Man, this is about as good as it gets for big band.

This is not my thing, but you can't deny this is greatness.

Started off interesting, if a little antiseptic. Really tailed off at the end.

It's a great album, but I don't find myself returning to it often.

This was surprising. We knew a few songs from this, probably stuff that made it into movies over the years?! The band is incredibly tight. But, it slots in a strange place that I don't see revisiting, not jazz, not rock. Erik Satie though? Wild.

A supergroup isn’t really super if they don’t have any good ideas.

Damn. This was great. I feel crazily stupid for never checking this out before.

I couldn't hang with this. There's not enough composition to get into. Obvious talent though, especially in the rhythm section.

Legendary.

Ice-T is the most gangsta rapper ever to be able to communicate with this white guy. It might be the dimples?

I was in high school when this came out so I am condemned to know every single note on this thing. It's remarkable that every last track here got airplay where I live. But I never put this album on and I never really need to hear any of these songs. Master of Puppets is a 5 for me, so this has to be like a 3.

Starts great, ends weird.

This rocked.

If you’re not raging then maybe you’re the machine

The Black Album roasted all these guys' brains.

One of the greatest albums ever in the entire history of the world.

I found out in my early 20's that "This Land is Your Land" was not a song that had existed forever, but was written only about 50 years earlier, in 1945. (And Guthrie's original recording of it is much, MUGH harder hitting than a bunch of kindergarteners singing it.) "Bridge Over Troubled Water" feels kind of the same, like it must have always existed. But no, here it is for the very first time, in glorious stereo. And it, too, is now a little over 50 years old. Kind of crazy.

Yeah. Here in 2025 we’re as far removed in time from this album as it was from the music it was in conversation with. This thing was so out of place in 2003. It’s a novelty, and that one track is a banger. But, man I dunno, not sure you needed to hear this before you died.

I love Maiden, but I never really got into the original singer. I've heard these all a thousand times sung by Bruce live, and only listened to this album a few times all the way through. It's a fun listen, and great to hear how fully formed the band's ideas were right out of the gate. Four stars for the hints of what's to come

Like anyone, I like a bunch of the Stones stuff. Country rock though?

I guess maybe I’m bringing preconceptions of what this music is supposed to sound like, but wow, the stuff on the first track was super out of tune. Couldn’t hang.

I sort of get it, just doesn't hit for me.

Honestly, DNF at track 3. Not without merit, but not for me.

I almost always choose Animals or Meddle over this when I want Floyd on the hi-fi. Or sometimes it's Wish You Were Here, or a smattering of tracks off The Wall. But, I put this on occasionally. For me, this is like a 4.5. Undeniably an all-timer.

I don't know why this is here. It sounds awful. Maybe two OK songs? I survived the whole thing though, so it gets two stars.

Life on Mars is one of my favorite tracks of all time. Changes is great, Song for Bob Dylan is great. But, the rest of the album is too all over the place for me to really want to put this whole thing on.

There are a bunch of tracks on this that are all-timers. But, this is a lot to take in one sitting.

I suppose its not without merit but, no.

Hadn't heard this before! You can still hear grunge's roots here, more punk, less radio friendly. Really cool.

I liked this one that I totally missed in the 90's. I'll revisit it at some point, and I bet my rating will grow.

I’m sure Radiohead prepared me to hear this.

I was white, surburban, and in 4th grade when this came out. I wouldn't encounter these guys for at least another two years when Raising Hell blew the doors wide open. This album was in the "formative mix" of my middle childhood, but not nearly as much as Raising Hell or the Beastie Boys' Ill Communication. It's great.

Not without merit but I don't want to listen to it.

Pretty exciting at first, got kind of same-y later on. As I'm learning from working through this list, that can happen when I don't have a great frame of reference for the music. Will revisit.

I can't get down with this. I get that they're trying to do something here. It's just not something I want.

Of course we knew "No More Mr. Nice Guy". But, the rest turned out to be really great! Will revisit.

Not interested enough to try to get it.

Wow. We only knew "Games Without Frontiers", but it was way weirder and sparser than our memories of it. This was a super cool album!

A lot of hate gets directed at this now, but boy, it was *everywhere* in '92/93, right when I was leaving high school and entering college. It's difficult to separate from that time in my mind. I think it's still pretty great AND all the criticism of Kiedis is totally right. But you can't take Kiedis out of this and get the same stuff.

This was a real surprise! Like a metal Portishead? Post-grunge, but not really nu-metal. A lot to take in all at one time.

Yes: "I Can See for Miles" No: a thousand other annoying tracks

I guess the whole thing just doesn't translate well to an album?

Crazy to think this was 1981. Not something I can imagine listening to frequently, though.

This is a hugely important album for half of the adults in this house.

This was the kind of dynamic sound CD's promised but rarely delivered. A super cool album!

Orbital 2 is an all-timer for me, but I could never get into this one.

Life is too short for this.