STANDOUTS: Blank Space Style Out of the Woods All You Had To Do Was Stay I Wish You Would Wildest Dreams How You Get The Girl This Love Clean New Romantics Is It Over Now? OVERALL 5/5—my first 5!

STANDOUTS: Break on Through (To the Other Side), of course. Soul Kitchen. Don't know it BUT the background noises/production sounds very familiar. Sample? Smash Mouth "Walkin' on the Sun"??? Twentieth Century Fox. Fun. Just fun? Is it the accordion I like? Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)...this seems so polka-y? Wut? Light My Fire....but way too long, omg. SKIPPED through a third of it. Need to go listen to the radio edit. 2:52 (single version)? IDEAL. OVERALL: 3.5/5

STANDOUTS: Good Fortune One Line This Is Love I struggle with rock/indie rock all sounding so similar/not dynamic enough to notice a difference between tracks. The lyrics are incredible. But I'm such a pop hook/melody music listener. OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: n/a; not the kind of album I'm here for. OVERALL: 1/5

STANDOUTS: N.Y. State of Mind Life's a Bitch The World is Yours Halftime (kinda homophobic but I was into it) One Time 4 Your Mind OVERALL: 3.5/5; for a genre I don't enjoy and with themes i do NOT relate with, the lyrics were great!

STANDOUTS: I Just Can't Be Happy Today Anti-Pope OVERALL: 1.5/5; it sounds like it was recorded in someone's parent's garage. Punk rock—unsurprisingly NOT for me.

STANDOUTS: Bad The Way You Make Me Feel Man in the Mirror I Just Can't Stop Loving You Smooth Criminal OVERALL: 4.5/5

STANDOUTS: Even Flow Alive Black Jeremy OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5

STANDOUTS: Satanic Reverses Famous and Dandy (Like Amos 'n' Andy) Television, the Drug of the Nation OVERALL: 3.5/5

STANDOUTS: Let's Stay Together OVERALL: 3/5...It's...fine?

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5; NOT for me.

STANDOUTS: Trampled Under Foot Kashmir OVERALL: 2/5; love the die-cut vinyl story though

HIGHLIGHTS: Tiny Dancer Levon OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: Tears? Maybe? OVERALL: 1.5/5; sick of these 1970s albums at this point.

STANDOUTS: Faster, I guess?? maybe? OVERALL: 1/5 sick of all these shitty rock albums.

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5

STANDOUTS: Mr. Grieves OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: It Won't Be Long All My Loving Till There Was You Please Mister Postman Roll Over Beethoven Hold Me Tight OVERALL: 4.5/5; FINALLY an album I could see myself returning to.

STANDOUTS: This is the Day The Twilight Hour OVERALL: 2.5/5

STANDOUTS: King Kunta These Walls Alright OVERALL: 2.5/5

STANDOUTS: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For With or Without You OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: Razor Boy OVERALL: 2.5/5

STANDOUTS: ....none? I didn't mind the tracks, but nothing STOOD out. OVERALL: 2.5/5

STANDOUTS: Killing in the Name Bullet in the Head OVERALL: 1.5/5

STANDOUTS: What's Going On OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: Celebrity Skin Hit So Hard Malibu Dying Petals OVERALL: 3.5/5

STANDOUTS: Hells Bells Back in Black You Shook Me All Night Long OVERALL: 3/5; pretty much ALL the big singles were my favorites. It's a great album...if you're into loud male noises, I guess.

STANDOUTS: In My Place The Scientist Clocks Green Eyes OVERALL: 3.5/5; some enjoyable songs BUT a lot of filler. at least they're not screaming at me, though.

STANDOUTS: Remember Me OVERALL: 1.5/5; it took me four tries to get through this. Nothing offensively bad—just bland.

STANDOUTS: Pictures of You Lovesong OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2.5/5; just lots of horny, sinister, German, robot, Stranger Things synth noises. Which, I'm into, I fear.

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2/5; I'm unsure why this was necessary on a "must-listen" album list.

STANDOUTS: The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) Pass da Blunt OVERALL: 2.5/5; great to hear a woman on this list—the album was okay/fine. Not a lot stood out.

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2/5; nice lil inoffensive elevator music but nothing that stands out.

STANDOUTS: Monday, Monday Go Where You Wanna Go California Dreamin' OVERALL: 3.5/5; some classics in here. Another "dad album" vibe.

STANDOUTS: n/a; the first album I started skipping once I became bored OVERALL: 1/5; bad jesus dad music....I THINK NOT

STANDOUTS: Solsbury Hill OVERALL: 3/5; bumped up a half point for the beautiful cover art.

STANDOUTS Pop Song 89 Stand OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: Let It Rock You Give Love A Bad Name Livin' On A Prayer Wanted Dead Or Alive Raise Your Hands Without Love OVERALL: 4/5; I feel like this is Teenage Dream for the 80s straights.

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1.5/5—won't return to ANYTHING here.

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2/5—somewhat okay soul...but I won't return to this. None of their big songs are on this.

STANDOUTS: He's the Greatest Dancer We Are Family OVERALL: 2.75/5

STANDOUTS: I Heard It Through The Grapevine OVERALL: 1/5; just...no. Noises.

STANDOUTS: Let's Go Crazy Darling Nikki When Doves Cry I Would Die 4 U Purple Rain OVERALL: 4.25/5

STANDOUTS: Smooth Operator OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1.5/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5; whyyyyy is this here?

STANDOUTS: Time to Pretend Electric Feel Kids OVERALL: 4/5; a nice college dorm nostalgia album

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5

STANDOUTS: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. OVERALL: 0/5

STANDOUTS: Sidewalk Serfer Girl (Drawing) Rings Around the World It's Not the End of the World? Juxtapozed With U OVERALL: 3/5; shockingly, I liked it more than I thought I would!

STANDOUTS: You Want It Darker Treaty On the Level OVERALL: 3.5/5

STANDOUTS: n/; blah generic dad music OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: American Girl OVERALL: 2.5/5

STANDOUTS: Blank Space Style Out of the Woods All You Had To Do Was Stay I Wish You Would Wildest Dreams How You Get The Girl This Love Clean New Romantics Is It Over Now? OVERALL 5/5—my first 5!

STANDOUTS: Maybe I'm Amazed OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: Like A Rolling Stone OVERALL: 2.5/5; I can see how you could like this but it's not my thing.

STANDOUTS: n/a and DNF OVERALL: 2/5; I wonder if I'm allergic to male vocalists.

STANDOUTS: n/a; all sounded the same OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: Quiet Life OVERALL: 2/5; there's no need for this album to be on the list.

STANDOUTS: Big Iron El Paso OVERALL: 4/5; you probably have to be in the MOOD for this, but I thought it was fun!

STANDOUTS: Androgynous OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: Scooby Snacks Smoke Em OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2/5; I certainly didn't ask for two Leonard Cohen albums in the span of two weeks

STANDOUTS: Only Happy When It Rains As Heaven Is Wide OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: ABSOLUTELY NONE OVERALL: 1/5; truly a contender for worst album so far

STANDOUTS: My Best Friend's Girl Good Times Roll Just What I Needed OVERALL: 3.5/5

STANDOUTS: Born in the U.S.A. I'm on Fire I'm Goin' Down Glory Days Dancing in the Dark....and Courtney Cox! B-Sides Bonus: Pink Cadillac Shut Out The Light OVERALL: 4/5; truly felt like a heaping slice of American culture. Especially when it was straight-up bashing American culture.

STANDOUTS: none. OVERALL: 2/5; I saw the band name and expected exactly this.

STANDOUTS: No? the DARK subject matter interests me but...sonically? nothing unique. OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: Dreams Don't Stop Go Your Own Way Songbird The Chain I Don't Want to Know OVERALL: 5/5; Rumours is that bitch, what else is there to say??

STANDOUTS: naddda. OVERALL: 2/5; riot grrrl music...is ALSO not my thing.

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1.5/5; I enjoyed the first PJ Harvey album this gave me. THIS ALBUM?? No. Possibly too experimental?

STANDOUTS: Fell In Love With A Girl We're Going To Be Friends OVERALL: 3/5; those two ^ songs sound NOTHING alike, and I kind of dig it.

STANDOUTS: Cult of Personality OVERALL: 2/5; that song ^^ is 90s dad

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 2.5/5; It's tricky because I LOVE these synthy German robot sex noises, and it sounds like historically, the synthesizers used here CHANGED the game. HOWEVER, it's not an album I'd ever need to return to.

STANDOUTS: Karma Chameleon Mister Man OVERALL: 3/5; I'll take this over bad grunge dad garage music ANY day, even if it isn't a solid album.

STANDOUTS: Green River Bad Moon Rising Lodi OVERALL: 4/5; at this point, it isn't even dad music—this is grandad music. However, I fear I am a simp for CCR.

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5; an absolute NO for me, dogggggg.

STANDOUTS: n/a; I'm going to start adding DNF to these reviews, because DNF. OVERALL: 1/5

STANDOUTS: n/a, although there's one I assume I'm supposed to mention. OVERALL: 2/5; this wasn't good by ANY means. For boomers only???

STANDOUTS: Red Alert Bingo Bango OVERALL: 3/5; it got a bonus point for the hot album cover.

STANDOUTS: Isi OVERALL: 2.5/5; I was EXCITED for the first half's Mannheim-esque noises and general ambiance...but then the second half of the album got weird.

STANDOUTS: n/a; DNF OVERALL: 1/5; truly awful—gives off school shooter energy

STANDOUTS: n/a and DNF OVERALL: 2/5; no critical thoughts. Just bland.

STANDOUTS: n/a...maybe the cover art? OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: It's A Man's World OVERALL: 2/5; I don't think this album was necessarily for me?

STANDOUTS: Today Disarm OVERALL: 3/5; I wanted to like this more than I did. But those standouts were good/very 90s sad teenager.

STANDOUTS: First We Take Manhattan Everybody Knows OVERALL: 3.5/5; my THIRD Leonard Cohen album already...seems a bit much. But the 80s synth juxtaposed with his bass-baritone voice is kind of...nice??

STANDOUTS: none. OVERALL: 1.5/5; unnecessary. Why.

STANDOUTS: Sunshine of Your Love (yay pep band!) OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: not a highlight to be had OVERALL: 1.5/5

STANDOUTS: I DNF'd most of these, so no. OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: Maybe...Supersonic? OVERALL: 2.5/5

STANDOUTS: no, just lots of angry metal garage noises OVERALL: 1.5/5

STANDOUTS: Nope. OVERALL: 2/5; Sounds like any British 60s-70s band, tbh

STANDOUTS: maybe D.A.N.C.E? OVERALL: 3/5; I liked the general album noises. A relief from the British 70s rock/90s garage band noises I've been held ransom by.

STANDOUTS: Tuesday's Gone Gimme Three Steps Simple Man Free Bird OVERALL: 4/5; some absolute all-time bangers on here.

STANDOUTS: NONE WTF IS THIS OVERALL: 1/5; it's all just AMBIENT NOISES

STANDOUTS: There's not a specific song, just very relaxing R&B OVERALL: 3/5

STANDOUTS: In the Ghetto Suspicious Minds OVERALL: 3/5, bad Elvis is better than most of this list—LET ME MAKE THAT CLEAR.

STANDOUTS: A Hard Day's Night OVERALL: 3/5; I hate that a "listenable" rating now deserves three stars, but... here we are. There's one standout Beatles song, but it's otherwise a fairly forgettable album.

STANDOUTS: Selfish OVERALL: 2.5/5; I love the album art though. Fun to see a NEW album on the list.

STANDOUTS: nope OVERALL: 1.5/5

STANDOUTS: not really, but it was fine OVERALL: 2/5

STANDOUTS: Wouldn't It Be Nice Sloop John B **God Only Knows**, one of the best songs of all time I Just Wasn't Made For These Times OVERALL: 4/5; God Only Knows elevated this rating an entire digit

STANDOUTS: nothing, i DNF'd every song OVERALL: 1/5

STANDOUTS: 1999 Little Red Corvette OVERALL: 3.5/5; I wanted to like this more than I did.

STANDOUTS: Viva Las Vegas (Cover) OVERALL: 1.5/5; fun band name though.

STANDOUTS: Maybe...One? OVERALL: 1.5/5; hard metal—infamously not my thing.