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May 06 2024
Low-Life
New Order4
May 07 2024
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac4
May 08 2024
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The xx4
May 09 2024
Definitely Maybe
Oasis4
May 10 2024
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Adele4
May 11 2024
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen5
May 12 2024
The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar3
May 13 2024
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols4
May 14 2024
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin4
May 15 2024
Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine3
May 16 2024
Vespertine
Björk3
May 17 2024
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails4
May 18 2024
Live!
Fela Kuti3
May 19 2024
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan4
May 20 2024
Cosmo's Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival4
May 21 2024
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane3
May 22 2024
Maxinquaye
Tricky3
May 23 2024
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues4
May 24 2024
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy3
May 25 2024
Aja
Steely Dan4
May 26 2024
Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds3
May 27 2024
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney3
May 28 2024
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.4
May 29 2024
Electric
The Cult4
May 30 2024
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde2
May 31 2024
Timeless
Goldie3
Jun 01 2024
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.4
Jun 02 2024
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveHow often are we going to allow influence to carry the day? This album is embarrassing to listen to most of the time, the lyrics are the same level of the first year teacher who wants to teach his 8th grade students Algebra through the magic of hip-hop. If this album is indeed a foundational text in the genre, then what a shaky foundation it is. P.S. the group is called Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five but the album has seven guys on the cover? The f$%&?
2
Jun 03 2024
So
Peter Gabriel3
Jun 04 2024
Dookie
Green Day4
Jun 05 2024
Strange Cargo III
William OrbitMost of this album sounds like the soundtrack for a 90s JRPG with a beat underneath. Nothing wrong with it, but not very interesting unless i'm min/maxing my emo loner teen protagonist at the same time.
3
Jun 06 2024
Ocean Rain
Echo And The BunnymenAn album that's well on its way to 3 star forgettability and then boom, Killing Moon forces the adjustment.
4
Jun 07 2024
Vento De Maio
Elis Regina3
Jun 08 2024
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith4
Jun 09 2024
Fuzzy
Grant Lee Buffalo4
Jun 10 2024
Quiet Life
JapanThis is what people who don't like new wave think new wave sounds like. Repetitive, unadventurous, and uninteresting.
2
Jun 11 2024
Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly PartonI sure do wish contemporary country stars would ask themselves, "are you sure Dolly done it this way"?
4
Jun 12 2024
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash4
Jun 13 2024
Document
R.E.M.4
Jun 14 2024
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf4
Jun 15 2024
The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks4
Jun 16 2024
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.4
Jun 17 2024
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned3
Jun 18 2024
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder4
Jun 19 2024
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison4
Jun 20 2024
Hypnotised
The Undertones3
Jun 21 2024
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch3
Jun 22 2024
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes3
Jun 23 2024
Killing Joke
Killing Joke4
Jun 24 2024
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King CrimsonThis is your God?!?
3
Jun 25 2024
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys3
Jun 26 2024
Gorillaz
Gorillaz4
Jun 27 2024
In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra4
Jun 28 2024
Manassas
Stephen StillsNo songs here that I would describe as unimpeachable bangers, but still, a double album that avoids anything resembling an obvious skip is worthy of some admiration.
4
Jun 29 2024
Aqualung
Jethro Tull3
Jun 30 2024
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones4
Jul 01 2024
McCartney
Paul McCartney4
Jul 02 2024
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz4
Jul 03 2024
Amnesiac
RadioheadThere's 1001 albums here, right? So there's a limited amount of space. Did we really need to carve out a place for the Kid A outtakes?
2
Jul 04 2024
Traffic
Traffic3
Jul 05 2024
Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band3
Jul 06 2024
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem4
Jul 07 2024
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow3
Jul 08 2024
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk3
Jul 09 2024
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino4
Jul 10 2024
Damaged
Black Flag2
Jul 11 2024
...And Justice For All
Metallica4
Jul 12 2024
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand3
Jul 13 2024
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan5
Jul 14 2024
London Calling
The ClashProbably the only double album i've ever heard that I wish was longer. Just outrageously good.
5
Jul 15 2024
Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets3
Jul 16 2024
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5I've heard this album categorized as alternative hip-hop several times. No chance, it's positively retro. And pining for an era much better left in the 80s.
3
Jul 17 2024
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J3
Jul 18 2024
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam4
Jul 19 2024
Infected
The The3
Jul 20 2024
1989
Taylor SwiftThis album really does slap, but let's just not tell Gen Z I said so
4
Jul 21 2024
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy3
Jul 22 2024
Heroes
David Bowie4
Jul 23 2024
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies2
Jul 24 2024
Disintegration
The Cure4
Jul 25 2024
Rock Bottom
Robert WyattI'm sure "talk about ROCK BOTTOM" jokes have been made so thoroughly that I'm ashamed to mention them, but sometimes cliches are razor apt.
1
Jul 26 2024
Music From Big Pink
The BandThis is the stuff that raised me. Hard to disentangle critical appreciation from sentimentality but I don't even care to try. Banger
5
Jul 27 2024
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company4
Jul 28 2024
Lazer Guided Melodies
Spiritualized4
Jul 29 2024
american dream
LCD Soundsystem4
Jul 30 2024
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen4
Jul 31 2024
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen5
Aug 01 2024
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy3
Aug 02 2024
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream3
Aug 03 2024
L.A. Woman
The Doors4
Aug 04 2024
At Newport 1960
Muddy Waters4
Aug 05 2024
Smokers Delight
Nightmares On WaxIf I was on molly, walking the streets of Ibiza past midnight, this would probably slap.
3
Aug 06 2024
Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs4
Aug 07 2024
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters3
Aug 08 2024
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd3
Aug 09 2024
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys3
Aug 10 2024
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads4
Aug 11 2024
We Are Family
Sister Sledge4
Aug 12 2024
Chore of Enchantment
Giant Sand4
Aug 13 2024
Hard Again
Muddy Waters4
Aug 14 2024
90
808 State3
Aug 15 2024
The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu4
Aug 16 2024
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Residents"You're just too stupid to get it, it's supposed to sound awful, that's what makes it good." Yeah...pass
1
Aug 17 2024
Be
Common4
Aug 18 2024
The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES4
Aug 19 2024
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake4
Aug 20 2024
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters3
Aug 21 2024
Copper Blue
Sugar3
Aug 22 2024
Figure 8
Elliott Smith4
Aug 23 2024
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke4
Aug 24 2024
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin4
Aug 25 2024
Joan Baez
Joan Baez3
Aug 26 2024
Trans Europe Express
Kraftwerk2
Aug 27 2024
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins4
Aug 28 2024
Stankonia
OutKast3
Aug 29 2024
1977
Ash3
Aug 30 2024
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn3
Aug 31 2024
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan5
Sep 01 2024
Vulnicura
Björk2
Sep 02 2024
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival4
Sep 03 2024
Hotel California
Eagles4
Sep 04 2024
#1 Record
Big Star3
Sep 05 2024
Shadowland
k.d. lang4
Sep 06 2024
In It For The Money
Supergrass3
Sep 07 2024
American Idiot
Green Day4
Sep 08 2024
Actually
Pet Shop Boys4
Sep 09 2024
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley4
Sep 10 2024
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash4
Sep 11 2024
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin4
Sep 12 2024
Clandestino
Manu Chao3
Sep 13 2024
Pump
Aerosmith3
Sep 14 2024
Let's Stay Together
Al Green4
Sep 15 2024
Ctrl
SZA3
Sep 16 2024
Abraxas
Santana4
Sep 17 2024
Blunderbuss
Jack WhiteThis is an absolutely absurd inclusion. There's nothing wrong with this album, in fact it is pretty decent, but by no means do you have to hear it "before you die". The White Stripes is the only thing from White's career that merits inclusion in this list. Don't put more recent stuff on the list just for the sake of its recency.
3
Sep 18 2024
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul4
Sep 19 2024
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra3
Sep 20 2024
Arular
M.I.A.3
Sep 21 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure4
Sep 22 2024
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys4
Sep 23 2024
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan4
Sep 24 2024
Fragile
Yes3
Sep 25 2024
Revolver
Beatles3
Sep 26 2024
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices3
Sep 27 2024
Chelsea Girl
Nico3
Sep 28 2024
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones4
Sep 29 2024
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock3
Sep 30 2024
James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown4
Oct 01 2024
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys4
Oct 02 2024
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney3
Oct 03 2024
The Last Broadcast
Doves3
Oct 04 2024
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service3
Oct 05 2024
Crime Of The Century
SupertrampSupertramp is the English equivalent of the Steve Miller Band. Forgettable, paint by numbers, 70s rock. Yet another bizarre inclusion on this list.
3
Oct 06 2024
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues3
Oct 07 2024
OK Computer
Radiohead5
Oct 08 2024
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses4
Oct 09 2024
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill3
Oct 10 2024
Whatever
Aimee Mann3
Oct 11 2024
Butterfly
Mariah Carey2
Oct 12 2024
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone3
Oct 13 2024
Opus Dei
Laibach2
Oct 14 2024
Chris
Christine and the Queens3
Oct 15 2024
Off The Wall
Michael Jackson3
Oct 16 2024
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground5
Oct 17 2024
Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers3
Oct 18 2024
Reign In Blood
Slayer4
Oct 19 2024
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili PeppersNot a huge fan of RHCP, but this record is solid as a rock, if a little long.
4
Oct 20 2024
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple3
Oct 21 2024
Elephant Mountain
The Youngbloods3
Oct 22 2024
In Utero
Nirvana5
Oct 23 2024
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix4
Oct 24 2024
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur3
Oct 25 2024
Basket of Light
Pentangle3
Oct 26 2024
Exodus
Bob Marley & The Wailers4
Oct 27 2024
Paranoid
Black Sabbath4
Oct 28 2024
The Idiot
Iggy Pop3
Oct 29 2024
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman4
Oct 30 2024
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile3
Oct 31 2024
The Doors
The Doors4
Nov 01 2024
Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons3
Nov 02 2024
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay4
Nov 03 2024
Sincere
Mj ColeGen X British music critics are going to be flabbergasted when they find out that nobody but them cares anything about English house and jungle. Have fun in that perpetual Ibiza of the mind though, must be nice.
2
Nov 04 2024
Arrival
ABBAA good example of music that I don't particularly enjoy, but merits an inclusion on a list like this because you can't tell the history of Western popular music without mentioning them.
3
Nov 05 2024
Harvest
Neil Young4
Nov 06 2024
The Dreaming
Kate Bush3
Nov 07 2024
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds4
Nov 08 2024
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions4
Nov 09 2024
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath4
Nov 10 2024
The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla3
Nov 11 2024
Teenage Head
Flamin' Groovies3
Nov 12 2024
The World is a Ghetto
War3
Nov 13 2024
Heavy Weather
Weather Report3
Nov 14 2024
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel4
Nov 15 2024
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs4
Nov 16 2024
Is This It
The StrokesOne of the indispensable rock albums. If you were to remove this record from history of popular music than nothing that came after it would have been the same.
5
Nov 17 2024
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth3
Nov 18 2024
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics3
Nov 19 2024
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio3
Nov 20 2024
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin4
Nov 21 2024
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone2
Nov 22 2024
Master Of Puppets
Metallica4
Nov 23 2024
The Bends
Radiohead4
Nov 24 2024
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes4
Nov 25 2024
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd5
Nov 26 2024
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young4
Nov 27 2024
Sulk
The Associates2
Nov 28 2024
Boston
Boston4
Nov 29 2024
1999
Prince3
Nov 30 2024
Rio
Duran Duran3
Dec 01 2024
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins4
Dec 02 2024
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes2
Dec 03 2024
I Should Coco
Supergrass3
Dec 04 2024
Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's4
Dec 05 2024
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground4
Dec 06 2024
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen4
Dec 07 2024
Station To Station
David Bowie3
Dec 08 2024
Suede
Suede3
Dec 09 2024
Close To You
CarpentersSurprised by how much I was enjoying this until the last three songs. It's like they padded out the album with dreck because they just had to be near 40 minutes. Last track is actually called "another song"... Example #3847 of solid curation being the most important element to making a quality record.
3
Dec 10 2024
Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor3
Dec 11 2024
Your Arsenal
Morrissey4
Dec 12 2024
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry3
Dec 13 2024
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie4
Dec 14 2024
Melodrama
Lorde4
Dec 15 2024
Only By The Night
Kings of Leon2
Dec 16 2024
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills3
Dec 17 2024
Parachutes
Coldplay3
Dec 18 2024
NEU! 75
Neu!3
Dec 19 2024
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson3
Dec 20 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós4
Dec 21 2024
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips4
Dec 22 2024
Want One
Rufus Wainwright2
Dec 23 2024
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh3
Dec 24 2024
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses4
Dec 25 2024
Forever Changes
Love3
Dec 26 2024
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists3
Dec 27 2024
One World
John Martyn3
Dec 28 2024
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash4
Dec 29 2024
The La's
The La's3
Dec 30 2024
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy4
Dec 31 2024
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix4
Jan 01 2025
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett4
Jan 02 2025
That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire3
Jan 03 2025
Young Americans
David Bowie4
Jan 04 2025
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra3
Jan 05 2025
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul2
Jan 06 2025
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of HiphoprisyThe compilers of 1001 albums have real issues with hip hop, clearly. There are actually a lot of good hip hop albums out there, but to follow along with this book you would think it's all heinously unfunny alternative hip-hop(The Pharcyde, Dr. Octagon, etc...) or chicken soup pablum for wannabe radicals like this one
2
Jan 07 2025
Urban Hymns
The Verve3
Jan 08 2025
Roxy Music
Roxy Music3
Jan 09 2025
Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen4
Jan 10 2025
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested DevelopmentThis album sounds like a teacher trying to teach his 7th grade students about politics through the magic of hip hop.
1
Jan 11 2025
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa4
Jan 12 2025
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of CanadaTook me a while to get on this one's vibe, but I got there eventually, and found myself engaged and relaxed at the same time. Ultimately, not my thing and a little overlong but I have never heard anything quite like it, and it's inclusion here feels justified.
3
Jan 13 2025
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti PolittiLike if you gave AI a prompt for forgettable, generic 80s pop rock
2
Jan 14 2025
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop4
Jan 15 2025
Hot Fuss
The KillersStarts about as well as any rock album from the 2000s, but is unable to maintain that level, how could it? Nonetheless, the album does lose steam in the back half and the experience is a little uneven. Still, the bangers absolutely bang.
4
Jan 16 2025
Morrison Hotel
The Doors4
Jan 17 2025
Apple Venus Volume 1
XTC3
Jan 18 2025
Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy3
Jan 19 2025
Idlewild
Everything But The GirlI'm going to give this album 2 stars instead of its deserved 1 because I admire Idlewild's, almost tyrannical, commitment to being as boring as humanly possible.
2
Jan 20 2025
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt BandSteeped in old-timey material!
4
Jan 21 2025
The Specials
The Specials3
Jan 22 2025
Gold
Ryan Adams3
Jan 23 2025
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets3
Jan 24 2025
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp3
Jan 25 2025
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley4
Jan 26 2025
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke4
Jan 27 2025
Among The Living
Anthrax3
Jan 28 2025
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill4
Jan 29 2025
Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart3
Jan 30 2025
Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour3
Jan 31 2025
Dire Straits
Dire Straits4
Feb 01 2025
3 + 3
The Isley Brothers4
Feb 02 2025
Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon2
Feb 03 2025
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys4
Feb 04 2025
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest4
Feb 05 2025
Berlin
Lou Reed3
Feb 06 2025
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan3
Feb 07 2025
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van MorrisonObligatory 3 star for a live album that I refuse to listen too. Live albums and studio albums should always be treated as wholly separate things.
3
Feb 08 2025
Bad
Michael JacksonAn album that is dragged down by its duds as much as it is uplifted by its hits. Smooth Criminal is an elite pop song, undone by Liberian Girl, Speed Demon, etc...
3
Feb 09 2025
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues ExplosionCan you imagine how bad the groupies for this band smelled? 3 stars
3
Feb 10 2025
Parklife
Blur3
Feb 11 2025
The Next Day
David Bowie3
Feb 12 2025
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes4
Feb 13 2025
Signing Off
UB403
Feb 14 2025
Skylarking
XTC3
Feb 15 2025
Tusk
Fleetwood Mac3
Feb 16 2025
Home Is Where The Music Is
Hugh Masekela4
Feb 17 2025
White Ladder
David Gray2
Feb 18 2025
Smash
The Offspring4
Feb 19 2025
Diamond Life
Sade3
Feb 20 2025
Nowhere
Ride3
Feb 21 2025
Play
Moby3
Feb 22 2025
Murmur
R.E.M.4
Feb 23 2025
Eliminator
ZZ Top3
Feb 24 2025
Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall3
Feb 25 2025
Queen II
Queen3
Feb 26 2025
The United States Of America
The United States Of America2
Feb 27 2025
Liquid Swords
GZA4
Feb 28 2025
The Queen Is Dead
The SmithsOne of the defining albums of the 80s, the peak of jangle pop, and one of the great pairings between singer/lyricist and guitarist/songwriter that we've ever seen. Obviously a 5 star record, and I appreciate that most of the negative reviews on here are acknowledging that their that their ratings have everything to do with Morrissey as a person and very little to do with the music represented here. Honest, at least.
5
Mar 01 2025
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks3
Mar 02 2025
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions4
Mar 03 2025
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes3
Mar 04 2025
Doggystyle
Snoop DoggThe apex of G-Funk. Revisiting this one was an experience of saying, 'oh yeah, this song rules!', 6-7 times. The five track run from the intro through to Murder Was The Case is about as good as any hip hop album has ever done. Also, nice to see mainstream hip hop getting some shine on this list. So far, i've gotten nothing but alternative silly hop like Octagon and the Pharcyde, or even worse, political hip hop which somehow manages to disgrace hip hop and politics at the same time. More of this in future iterations of this list, I hope.
5
Mar 05 2025
A Short Album About Love
The Divine Comedy3
Mar 06 2025
The Band
The BandThe generator is on a heater at the moment. Three elite albums in a week! With this release, the Band make their case for the best debut and sophomore album combination of all time. One of the more bizarre things about this group is that the guy who sings lead on most of their songs, Richard Manuel, isn't as often discussed as Robertson, Danko, or Helm. I've wondered if getting relatively little screen time in the Last Waltz is to blame for that. Anyway, he has one of the great voices, and this record is his masterpiece.
5
Mar 07 2025
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti2
Mar 08 2025
With The Beatles
Beatles4
Mar 09 2025
Moving Pictures
Rush4
Mar 10 2025
Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear3
Mar 11 2025
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers4
Mar 12 2025
Rapture
Anita Baker3
Mar 13 2025
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex3
Mar 14 2025
Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren3
Mar 15 2025
Bossanova
PixiesNot sure why this album isn't as respected as the first two Pixies records. A parade of bangers, Velouria and Dig for Fire maybe top 5 Pixies tracks ever for me.
5
Mar 16 2025
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council3
Mar 17 2025
Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo4
Mar 18 2025
Madman Across The Water
Elton John3
Mar 19 2025
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto3
Mar 20 2025
Fromohio
fIREHOSE3
Mar 21 2025
Night Life
Ray Price4
Mar 22 2025
The Chronic
Dr. Dre4
Mar 23 2025
The Who Sell Out
The WhoThe only Who record that is aggressively bad
2
Mar 24 2025
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem4
Mar 25 2025
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits3
Mar 26 2025
The Sensual World
Kate Bush3
Mar 27 2025
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube3
Mar 28 2025
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young4
Mar 29 2025
1984
Van Halen3
Mar 30 2025
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons4
Mar 31 2025
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Good, The Bad & The Queen3
Apr 01 2025
Funeral
Arcade Fire3
Apr 02 2025
Sign 'O' The Times
Prince3
Apr 03 2025
Double Nickels On The Dime
Minutemen3
Apr 04 2025
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park3
Apr 05 2025
Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis4
Apr 06 2025
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine3
Apr 07 2025
Doolittle
PixiesThis is why we music
5
Apr 08 2025
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard4
Apr 09 2025
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison3
Apr 10 2025
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell3
Apr 11 2025
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams3
Apr 12 2025
The Joshua Tree
U24
Apr 13 2025
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club3
Apr 14 2025
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton4
Apr 15 2025
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra3
Apr 16 2025
Smile
Brian Wilson3
Apr 17 2025
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals3
Apr 18 2025
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar3
Apr 19 2025
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic4
Apr 20 2025
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.2
Apr 21 2025
Blood And Chocolate
Elvis Costello & The Attractions3
Apr 22 2025
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan4
Apr 23 2025
The Stranger
Billy Joel3
Apr 24 2025
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective3
Apr 25 2025
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin4
Apr 26 2025
Cloud Nine
The Temptations3
Apr 27 2025
Moon Safari
Air3
Apr 28 2025
In Rainbows
Radiohead4
Apr 29 2025
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs4
Apr 30 2025
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins4
May 01 2025
Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds3
May 02 2025
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis4
May 03 2025
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes3
May 04 2025
Real Life
Magazine3
May 05 2025
Debut
Björk4
May 06 2025
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes4
May 07 2025
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye4
May 08 2025
Homework
Daft Punk2
May 09 2025
Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello3
May 10 2025
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra4
May 11 2025
Tellin’ Stories
The CharlatansBaffling inclusion. Run of the mill brit-pop is very much something that people can die without encountering.
2
May 12 2025
Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners3
May 13 2025
Van Halen
Van Halen3
May 14 2025
Teen Dream
Beach House3
May 15 2025
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String BandThis sounds like a parody of late 60s music. If it's not, then it's the greatest argument for a renewed criminalization of drugs.
1
May 16 2025
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse4
May 17 2025
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell3
May 18 2025
Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits5
May 19 2025
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police3
May 20 2025
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads4
May 21 2025
Live At Leeds
The Whoobligatory 3 star rating for all live albums
3
May 22 2025
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse4
May 23 2025
Groovin'
The Young Rascals3
May 24 2025
Tommy
The Who4
May 25 2025
Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair4
May 26 2025
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald3
May 27 2025
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys4
May 28 2025
Peggy Suicide
Julian Cope4
May 29 2025
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire4
May 30 2025
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden3
May 31 2025
Horses
Patti Smith4
Jun 01 2025
Transformer
Lou Reed5
Jun 02 2025
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen5
Jun 03 2025
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis4
Jun 04 2025
Connected
Stereo MC's2
Jun 05 2025
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens3
Jun 06 2025
Suicide
Suicide3
Jun 07 2025
Who's Next
The WhoIt is not The Who's fault that We Won't Get Fooled Again was used in the cold opening of CSI:Miami, or their fault that "meet the new boss..." has become a pop cultural cliche and a vulgar political phrase for morons to overuse. It's not The Who's fault that Baba O'Riley is used at seemingly every sporting event. It's not The Who's fault that Limp Bizkit thought it was a good idea to cover Behind Blue Eyes. But a lot of people seem to hold it against this album that it has had such a far reaching presence in our pop culture. Nonsense. It's a testament to the outstanding quality of these songs. We all just have to live with some of the unfortunate bycatch.
5
Jun 08 2025
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson3
Jun 09 2025
Future Days
Can2
Jun 10 2025
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise3
Jun 11 2025
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno3
Jun 12 2025
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead3
Jun 13 2025
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys3
Jun 14 2025
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz2
Jun 15 2025
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club3
Jun 16 2025
The Undertones
The Undertones4
Jun 17 2025
Being There
Wilco4
Jun 18 2025
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds3
Jun 19 2025
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar3
Jun 20 2025
Maverick A Strike
Finley QuayeThe insane over-representation of Gen X British music strikes again!
2
Jun 21 2025
Ray Of Light
Madonna3
Jun 22 2025
Hysteria
Def Leppard2
Jun 23 2025
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds4
Jun 24 2025
I Against I
Bad Brains3
Jun 25 2025
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles4
Jun 26 2025
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears3
Jun 27 2025
Nevermind
Nirvana5 star album, or top 5 album ever?
5
Jun 28 2025
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall3
Jun 29 2025
Fred Neil
Fred Neil3
Jun 30 2025
Trio
Dolly Parton4
Jul 01 2025
Two Dancers
Wild BeastsDoes improve a bit in the back half. But of all the 00s indie rock that could have been included on the list, this choice is pretty uninspired.
2
Jul 02 2025
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits4
Jul 03 2025
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones5
Jul 04 2025
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno4
Jul 05 2025
Sound Affects
The Jam3
Jul 06 2025
Graceland
Paul Simon5
Jul 07 2025
Olympia 64
Jacques BrelObligatory 3 star rating for live albums, which of course, shouldn't be included on this list.
3
Jul 08 2025
Teenager Of The Year
Frank BlackNo songs that I would consider certified bangers. But the album holds a solid quality for an hour+. That's something to be commended, even if I won't be carrying any of these songs through life with me.
4
Jul 09 2025
Mermaid Avenue
Billy BraggProbably a hot take to say this is better than any Billy Bragg or Wilco album, but F it, we cookin
4
Jul 10 2025
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma4
Jul 11 2025
Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks3
Jul 12 2025
Let's Get Killed
David HolmesLook, I'm already pot committed to completing this project, but goodness, some of the curation is absolutely baffling.
2
Jul 13 2025
The Renaissance
Q-Tip3
Jul 14 2025
Private Dancer
Tina Turner3
Jul 15 2025
Close To The Edge
Yes3
Jul 16 2025
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab2
Jul 17 2025
Surfer Rosa
Pixies5
Jul 18 2025
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow3
Jul 19 2025
Duck Rock
Malcolm McLarenStrong correlation between shitty album covers, and the quality of the music therein.
2
Jul 20 2025
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath4
Jul 21 2025
Hunky Dory
David BowieBowie is probably over represented on this list, but one can have no complaints about Hunky Dory's inclusion. This album is Bowie's best and, conveniently for recommendation purposes, his most accessible. And is probably the single greatest piano rock album of all time. I wish the chameleon had spent a little more time operating in this shade.
5
Jul 22 2025
Sea Change
Beck4
Jul 23 2025
Raw Power
The Stooges3
Jul 24 2025
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet4
Jul 25 2025
Ys
Joanna Newsom3
Jul 26 2025
Happy Sad
Tim Buckley2
Jul 27 2025
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder4