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You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Suicide
Suicide
5 2.46 +2.54
Yeezus
Kanye West
5 2.74 +2.26
Ys
Joanna Newsom
5 2.79 +2.21
Tago Mago
Can
5 2.81 +2.19
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
4 1.89 +2.11
Kala
M.I.A.
5 2.91 +2.09
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
5 2.92 +2.08
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
5 2.99 +2.01
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
5 3.03 +1.97
Smile
Brian Wilson
5 3.03 +1.97

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
A Night At The Opera
Queen
1 3.95 -2.95
Brothers
The Black Keys
1 3.53 -2.53
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
1 3.29 -2.29
Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
1 3.23 -2.23
Back In Black
AC/DC
2 3.83 -1.83
American Idiot
Green Day
2 3.77 -1.77
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
2 3.73 -1.73
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
2 3.7 -1.7
21
Adele
2 3.69 -1.69
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2 3.68 -1.68

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Bob Dylan 5 4.8
Beatles 7 4.43
Radiohead 5 4.4
Stevie Wonder 4 4.5
Metallica 3 4.67
Miles Davis 3 4.67
Black Sabbath 3 4.67
Kraftwerk 3 4.67
Neil Young 2 5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse 2 5
Kanye West 2 5
Brian Eno 2 5
Bruce Springsteen 5 4.2
Steely Dan 4 4.25

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Queen 3 1.67

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Imagine by John Lennon

Although I would have Imagine as the fifth best post-beatles album, Jealous Guy and Oh Yoko are possibly the two most affecting songs for me in the post-beatles catalog. John was always the edge in the Lennon-McCartney pairing and his songs have a way of slicing so deep for me... Imagine is extremely corny (but I can't help but sing along) and How Do you Sleep is the like first rock music diss track from what I can tell! The issue is that none of the other songs are particularly memorable... but man does Oh Yoko! fuck my shit up every time

...And Justice For All by Metallica

I'm sick and tired of being judged for Metallica being my favourite band... you guys cannot take this away from me.

High Violet by The National

I just think the national is the most boring and inoffensive band around ... just middle of the road - it's not even bad! it just does nothing for me

Live At Leeds by The Who

i feel bad cuz everything i read thinks of this as one of the greatest live albums ever and it is pretty cool dont get me wrong ... i just dgaf :(

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Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival
May 24 2024

happy to see some road bike appreciation on this album cover - but the bike looks like shit... stu cook is looking absolutely zooted and like a st8 chiller ... music rocks, coolest dudes ever

Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
May 27 2024

first off - album artwork is just undeniably epic... dude is singing his heart out, artwork looks extraordinarily modern considering this thing is 68 years old, love the colorway ... I am pretty shocked to see that most of these songs clock in at 2mins & something as I see a frequent criticism of contemporary rap music and 'tik-tok era music' that the songs are too short! Meanwhile this guy singing standards is left unbothered with his 2min long songs... I am curious to know when we got it in our heads that a long song = a good one because clearly that is a post 60s idea, however I feel very comfortable blaming prog rock for this. I was trying to parse out why old people like Elvis so much, beside the fact that he reminds them of their youth... in my teens I was searching for the most abrasive and offensive music I could find, so far in my twenties I have been interested in coming back to earth through calming music, now that I near my thirties, I have been increasingly searching for the sublime, looking to classical music and opera to find the most beautiful music my ears can hear... while I find Elvis to be generally deplorable - there is moments of devastating feeling in this album, deep seeded emotion and undeniable beauty... it feels as if he's singing right to you and I found many of these songs to be deeply moving and heartbreaking. bad man, okay album but some really beautiful moments ...

Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman
May 28 2024

tracy chapman is looking like a ghost on this album artwork - kinda matches the sad ass proletariat music in which it contains!!

The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe
May 29 2024

my lord ... i haven't heard this since it came out and really enjoyed it at the time ... i found it to be incredibly grating and irritating music. I had hoped that Tightrope was a misnomer on this album as far as annoying tracks go but the whole thing is annoying as absolute hell ... theatre kid with a budget.

Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones
May 30 2024

As a noted Beatles fan the Stones were always a bit too crass and vulgar for me. The Beatles are undeniably dorky and their music generally sounds like it was made for children - this could not less true about the Stones who ooze sexual energy. I would feel comfortable calling them criminally horny. Just an aside but I actually have no frame of reference for why the blues are so popular with white people... anyways the music was fun and I like this album artwork a lot even tho some of the pics are racist.

1989 by Taylor Swift
May 31 2024

Hate the album art, pastiche music. Really boring

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
Jun 01 2024

While I think it pales in comparison to the Powerslave-Somewhere In Time-Seventh Son of a Seventh Son era of Maiden which is when they start to incorporate prog metal aspects into their albums this album undeniably kicks ass and the art is super epic... do wish it was more thrashy tho but this is the defining album of NWOBHM

The Band by The Band
Jun 02 2024

Real chiller music ... vibes are absolute perfect. this is the vibe im on this summer

The White Album by Beatles
Jun 03 2024

The White Album is an absolute freakfest. Especially compared to the beatles preceding album Sgt. Pepper's which is so sunny and schmaltzy that it sounds like children's music... Listening to the The White Album to me has always felt like you can hear the seams of the 60s unraveling and the hippie movement collapsing in upon itself. It's very raw and frantic at points, it veers into a psychedelica that borders schizophrenic and Revolution 9 will always stick with me for what it meant for the most popular band on earth to put out a Fluxus-esque piece of music concrete at the height of their fame... it would be the equivalent of like if one direction made a collab album with merzbow in 2014.

Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jun 04 2024

Was really excited for this & expected to love it but I unfortunately did not find the music particularly fun or interesting

Peter Gabriel 3 by Peter Gabriel
Jun 05 2024

Extremely epic and badass album. Anytime kate bush is on an album… i love it!

Master Of Puppets by Metallica
Jun 06 2024

The more Metallica I listen to the more i may just have to admit to myself that they are my favourite band. No music energizes me more than trash metal and I think Metallica is the best at it. This is likely my second favourite album by them but it is always a treat to listen to and I love the classical guitar influences on the album.

Jun 07 2024

Just an absolute joy to listen to. Really fun and enjoyable - had a wonderful time with this one!

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel
Jun 08 2024

This is exactly the kind music I love but something about this duo has never sat right with me... i just think i am sadly a paul simon hater but the music is very pretty and sweet

Garbage by Garbage
Jun 09 2024

Pretty solid but ultimately not my style!

Dirt by Alice In Chains
Jun 10 2024

have never known the difference between this band and alexisonfire ... did enjoy this tho felt extremely 90s.. i liked the grunge and metal mix more than I thought i would!

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Jun 11 2024

i don’t quite know how to explain but there’s nothing that recaptures the angst and heartbreak of being a teenage for me than folk punk…

Rhythm Nation 1814 by Janet Jackson
Jun 12 2024

Album rocks and its deranged but also epic to put an interlude between every track

Jun 13 2024

imho he should change his name to jeff wilco... also i like songs that bring up KISS because they remind me of weezer so heavy metal drummer got a big thumbs up from me

Dog Man Star by Suede
Jun 14 2024

had never heard of this or really encountered it! Fun but kind of a bummer!

Crime Of The Century by Supertramp
Jun 15 2024

Obviously i know these blokes from the Magnolia soundtrack. I was shocked to learn that they are from the uk tho. They have a real American sensibility … anyways. I enjoy their vibes and am gonna check out more trax

Jun 16 2024

This has to be the most obscure album on this entire list! I guess we were due for some Honky Tonk representation .. pretty okay album - still scratching my head at this one's inclusion ...

Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock
Jun 17 2024

Some of the absolute coolest music ever recorded. the only reasonable complaint one could make about this album is that it's too damn funky!

At San Quentin by Johnny Cash
Jun 18 2024

just unreal - tunes rock and the setting is perfect. really one of the coolest and most badass albums ever

Shadowland by k.d. lang
Jun 19 2024

Pretty enjoyable but I wasn't struck by anything special here! Usually when I listen to lesbian music I like it to be a bit sadder ...

Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
Jun 20 2024

Monk's 50s works have never been my favourite - partially because he never quite got weird in the way that I appreciate from his contemporaries (Mingus, Coleman and Cecil Taylor specifically) - Not to sound like a pretentious dickhead but I like the freak side of jazz - and at the end of the day I'm a spiritual jazz head more than any other movement in jazz (altho i have embraced third-stream in recent years) I like Monk's 60s ragtime-y stuff which is weird, but only weird because it's incredibly normal. Anyways, this dude was pretty normal at the end of the day and I guess it seems like that was my basic issue with him. But I also think hes epic and he rocks.

Jun 21 2024

Very beautiful album that feels to be entirely about Cash’s faith and mortality. Really incredible stuff on here, I can say with confidence that these two Cash albums have made me a fan for sure!

At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
Jun 22 2024

this is like the textbook definition of dad-rock, laid-back, lowkey and dope as hell

Tres Hombres by ZZ Top
Jun 23 2024

The beards might be long but the songs are short! These are fun and playful tunes but these guys have never been my fav

Most certainly in the canon of "awesome" music... my main issues is that I felt it made mistakes that a lot of "made it" albums have where the album is too dang long and the band is attempting to show their versatility as group by making music in many styles... i think theres a really good 40min album in here without the slow songs if you just kept the rift-heavy nu-metal tracks... anyways, album is badass and these dudes rule

Zombie by Fela Kuti
Jun 25 2024

So... this should come as no shock - but I am a bit mentally ill. and one of the ways in which that manifests is that I am obsessive with musician discographies... that being said I have listened to 43 Fela Kuti albums in the past two years and Zombie is by my measure one of the three best albums he ever recorded (Expensive Shit & Gentleman being the other two). What makes Fela's 70s so damn good is his band, Africa '70 and specifically Tony Allen, his percussionist who is really the driving force behind the success of this era, which is by my count the most successful and consistent era of any musician in recorded history. Afrobeat is a genre with a lot of variation but what I really appreciate about Fela's music is how consistent it is. You can listen to any of the Fela & Africa 70 albums that came out in the 70s and have a rough idea of the music you are about to hear. He created a sound that is absolutely timeless, unparalleled in its consistency and good as hell every damn time.

Gris Gris by Dr. John
Jun 26 2024

I really liked this album in high school and haven't revisited it in a long time... its really great! what a delight

Machine Head by Deep Purple
Jun 27 2024

Generally a fan of super rift heavy music - this album fell a bit flat for me. It was certainly one of my favourite albums when I was 12 due to learning the Smoke on the Water rift on guitar and playing Guitar Hero at my friend Shayan's house. I always loved Highway Star which I still think is very good. I almost feel like the songs are a bit long and drawn out and it made the album feel much longer than it actually was.

Nowhere by Ride
Jun 28 2024

When I was more of an avid shoegaze head this album was pretty big for me ... it's still a really nice and pleasant album ... but i remember it a bit more fondly... alas

American Idiot by Green Day
Jun 29 2024

Famously my least fav band, I was shocked by how many of these songs I did remember from the last time i listened to this album (i must have been nine years old?) I will at a later date maybe try and do some research about the best art made during the bush era of political activism (there was basically nothing good made tho...) Anyways still think it sucks :)

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
Jun 30 2024

the concept is nice and I have affection for this album from my youth but it is extremely long and can be a bit tedious. This thing basically singlehandedly got me four albums behind on our listening journey so that was also extremely annoying

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
Jul 01 2024

Liked it more than i remembered but i do not really enjoy these guys and their weirdo concept

Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
Jul 02 2024

very fun and super enjoyable pop bangers on here - album was a bit long for my tastes but did not really overstay it's welcome

Jul 03 2024

Really fun and cool album, I remember when I was like 12 I really felt like I would never understand music until I 'got' this album... still haven't quite gotten it but I really enjoy it, especially the free jazzy breakdowns

Jul 04 2024

Very pleasant and enjoyable… i guess i like it when spouses make music cuz i can think of like 4 other albums i like where a couple made the music

In Utero by Nirvana
Jul 05 2024

Never really been a Nirvana fan but this one has always been my fav of theirs… i really appreciate the hardcore breakdowns and noise rock influence on this thing. Really makes ya wish they made some more music cuz they were headed in a really interesting direction

Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings
Jul 06 2024

I have always been a bit weary of this album because I’ve always felt like McCartney’s schmaltz goes unchecked and borders upon a sorta cringy over-earnestness... Paul’s post Beatles albums are all really strange in a way I really appreciate because they are just him tinkering around in his farm house (at least the McCartney series) so the operatic scale that comes with a backing band is ultimately not my favourite Paul. The album is really non-stop fun and has some all timers on it (Let Me Roll It is a personal fav) but it doesn’t reach the heights that albums like McCartney II and especially Ram do.

The Wall by Pink Floyd
Jul 07 2024

Pretty long and dense album - I was complaining that this feels pretty empty in it's anti-authority stance and doesn't really saying much considering that Roger Waters is one of the most political and vocal rockers of this era now...

The Good, The Bad & The Queen by The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Jul 08 2024

I sorta have nothing to say about this one other than it is some perfectly serviceable indie rock music, not a huge Albarn fan - but of course my fav drummer Tony Allen shines on this thing and it was pretty fun overall!

Van Halen by Van Halen
Jul 09 2024

Van Halen is super fun and I am especially partial to this early era of theirs... never been my fav band but its fun... kinda perfect watching hockey in the garage music

My Generation by The Who
Jul 10 2024

Never been a big The Who fan and kinda lean toward thinking they suck, but I am glad for a classic rock album that doesn't fall into the "blues rock" genre (altho i think theres two tracks on this album that would be categorized as that. Anyways it's pretty decent for a debut and the title track is a fav from childhood.

Shalimar by Rahul Dev Burman
Jul 11 2024

Ultimately I felt this album was a bit generic and overly western compared to the Bollywood soundtracks we listened to around the house when I was a child. It was very jarring to hear an English language sung tune too... I was a bit disturbed by the music here and generally confused at this album's presence as this album's inclusion on this list seems to be the only noteworthy thing about it... some of the instrumental tracks were pretty good and I enjoyed the Hindi sung songs but One Two Cha Cha Cha was maybe the most grating and perturbing song I have heard in a long time...

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
Jul 12 2024

Hard to talk about this album objectively because it is by my count one of the three 'all-around' best albums of all time (Pet Sounds & Songs in the Key of Life being the other two.) It is otherworldly in its grace... makes me wanna yearn and pine, but also marked by some incredibly thoughtful lyricism and orchestration... It's really hard for me to quantify but I just really adore this album and think it's unbelievably special. When I was 16 I bought the vinyl and would lie on my floor in the centre of my bedroom and be brought to tears by this album's beauty. Some of the most sublime music I've heard and it was a blessing to be able to listen to this today...

Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf
Jul 13 2024

Always been taken by the background of this album? Very much has the air of a musical theatre album... written entirely by Steinman and preformed by Mr. Loaf... i think the real benefit that this album has is having Todd Rundgren producing it... it really is a convergence of a number of people at the height of their power which is impressive to me... that being said I have always found the music to be a bit too corny and never quite able to reach the heights it sets out to reach.

Electric Warrior by T. Rex
Jul 14 2024

A perennial album for me, one I have loved dearly for my whole adult life. A one time 'favourite album' and joyous and funky celebration.

High Violet by The National
Jul 15 2024

I just think the national is the most boring and inoffensive band around ... just middle of the road - it's not even bad! it just does nothing for me

Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Jul 16 2024

I have always really enjoyed this album but never quite understood why it is so wildly popular compared to some of it's contemporaries that i've found a bit more enjoyability in. Regardless... its wonderful

Imagine by John Lennon
Jul 17 2024

Although I would have Imagine as the fifth best post-beatles album, Jealous Guy and Oh Yoko are possibly the two most affecting songs for me in the post-beatles catalog. John was always the edge in the Lennon-McCartney pairing and his songs have a way of slicing so deep for me... Imagine is extremely corny (but I can't help but sing along) and How Do you Sleep is the like first rock music diss track from what I can tell! The issue is that none of the other songs are particularly memorable... but man does Oh Yoko! fuck my shit up every time

Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
Jul 18 2024

Really, really great stuff - super vibrant and fun. Kinda shocked I had never listened to this before as I know Willie Colón to be kind of like the king of Salsa music!! Really happy to listen to this one!

Bayou Country by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jul 19 2024

i mean like I said in my first review, these guys kick ass and are one of the best bands ever. the music is so consistent and good - i love it!

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Jul 20 2024

exteremly funky and epic... loved it!

Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Jul 21 2024

towards the sublime .......

One of the first forays into industrial music for me in high school, was a band that lead me to a lot of really amazing music... I really enjoy it but I feel that they're one of those bands who are a bit more influential than good

Illmatic by Nas
Jul 23 2024

Sorta can't overstate how important this album was to me in youth, and I definitely have made and retained a lot of friends due to my early immersion in hip-hop music... it does seem in recent years that there has been a re-evaluation of hip-hop's greatest album, which would have been Illmatic basically since it came out in '92. it's sort of interesting listening to this as the 'old' best hip-hop album of all time (obviously, To Pimp a Butterfly is the new GOAT hip-hop album, although i don't even think it's Kendrick's second best album and I would place like 4 albums before it, including Illmatic) anyways, I don't understand the distinction of this as an "old school" hip hop album, to me it sounds incredibly modern and I do think from top to bottom it is a perfect album. I do wanna give a special shout out to the production on "The World Is Yours" - if there was any question that Pete Rock is the greatest producer in hip-hop history just that track alone would dispel any doubt.

Live / Dead by Grateful Dead
Jul 24 2024

Never been a big Dead fan but I do enjoy their live albums more than the recorded ones! This one has always stood out as my favourite of their recordings that I've heard. It's really nice, I love a meander-y guitar... fun zone for me

Caetano Veloso by Caetano Veloso
Jul 25 2024

really enjoyed this gentleman's album titled Transa which i remember listening to vividly because it was the day after my birthday (may 20) in 2020 during covid lockdowns lol - anyways it was a bit funny to revisit his music as it kinda brought me back to at time and a place, BUT the album is really nice and pleasant - really enjoyable.

The Chronic by Dr. Dre
Jul 26 2024

Truly juvenile, I find this album to be so sincere in a very endearing way… lots of very vivid imagery in these songs. Sorta made me nostalgic for a time when artists in the mainstream were murders and like actually ‘scary’ people? So much of the image of pop music is now manufactured. I guess it just felt good to listen to something ‘authentic’

Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin
Jul 27 2024

Have always been a Zeppelin skeptic, this is the album I remember the most from childhood and I was shocked at how much I enjoyed this... generally speaking i am not a huge blues rock guy and this verges on the edge of being blues rock but generally stays in the Hard Rock genre, which is totally much more my speed. Thought the rifts and vocals were solid and enjoyed a lot of what i heard, excited to listen to more zeppelin as we do this challenge!

Soul Mining by The The
Jul 28 2024

pretty fun! always knew of this band because of their epic name but now i know them for their new wave music

John Prine by John Prine
Jul 29 2024

Always had a sweet spot for Mr. Prine, past TVZ and Lucinda Williams I always thought he was one of the best storytellers in the folk/country scene... the album is really fun and kinda zany - dude kicks ass!

Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone
Jul 30 2024

Always been in awe of this one, incredibly powerful stuff... this album has sadly become a bit tainted in my brain because of the Jay-Z song that samples Four Women but then subsequently the beat of that Jay-Z song being used for that Pusha T song where he exposes Drake for having a child...

Live At The Regal by B.B. King
Jul 31 2024

B.B. King is like one of those musicians that is totally ubiquitous but whose music ive never heard in my life.. it was more rock than i expected and really fun!

Aug 01 2024

Pretty interesting and kinda all over the place, I enjoyed it enough altho I agree with the group that it was just fine for the most part

Hms Fable by Shack
Aug 02 2024

i do not understand this album or why its on this list and I wish i never heard it

OK Computer by Radiohead
Aug 03 2024

Sorta always been skeptical of this album being considered the 'Best Album of All Time' - although that by my estimation is mainly because the Gen-Xrs and Millennials have aged into guiding culture since the 90s... not to say that I have a better alternative to suggest, but something about this being the best album ever doesn't sit right with me. That being said, I do have a very strong personal connection to this music as I listened to this a few times in my early teens and didn't quite get it. When I was 16 or 17 this album really connected and I would listen to it and The Blue Album every day. I owned this album on CD (one I inherited from my brother) and would lie on the floor in my room and pop this into the first slot of my 6 disc player. The summer of 2015 was one of endless rejection in my memory. I had a girlfriend who I loved very much and I often felt very dismissed by (nowadays, reflecting on my reactionary and uncontrollable temperament it makes total sense why someone would have kept a healthy distance from me) and I was a bit constricted by my mom who I was supporting through a painful divorce at the time. Oftentimes, it was expected for me to stay home for weeks at a time, and since we lived far from where all my friends lived (1hr-ish on transit) I obliged. I would go to the library and get stacks of DVDs to watch between the living room and the computer room (disc drives!!) It was not a good summer. I looked at my letterboxd (which btw I joined way later than Nick and Luke because I was for some reason really paranoid that those guys didn't want me on there - just to illustrate what was happening in my brain this summer) stats page and I was impressed to see that on July 17th 2015 I watched 7 movies in one day... which is a record for me I think... I mainly watched movies from Criterion, foreign stuff and would sort metacritic by what had the highest rating and watch whatever I could find... I guess this is all to say that this album reminds me of that summer because I spent a lot of time laying on the floor in my room between the two 4ft black floor speakers my parents bought in the 80s (they still sit on either side of me as I write this review!) listening to this album and weeping uncontrollably. Which I still find very funny because it's not even like I related to the lyrics THAT much - but there was enough pity in these songs to really get me going. I guess this is all to say that I have a bizarre emotional attachment to this album as it reminds me of basically the most mentally ill and depressed I ever was in my life 👍.

Rust In Peace by Megadeth
Aug 04 2024

I was a big Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? fan when I was a teen but never branched out and listened to their other albums!! this kicked a lot of ass and was probably better than Peace Sells... who knew!

After The Gold Rush by Neil Young
Aug 05 2024

By my accounts the practical pick for Neil's best album, it kicks off maybe the most productive and prolific half decade any musician has ever had... my connection to Neil (my favourite artist) is kinda bizarre as I always liked him but his music never connected until I decided to put on Harvest when we were first renovating the garage that Hearth opened in October 2019... my motivation was actually to try and 'impress' or 'relate to' Rowan's dad who was helping us insulate the walls and rewire the lights... In retrospect it was kind of silly but it was the first time I actually listened to a Neil album and i was hooked right away... The timing was funny because once pandemic lockdowns started I was basically listening to Neil Young every day, other than my friends on discord his music was the most consistent 'relationship' I had in lockdown and I was often listening to him when I felt down and he always helped me feel better. I have become very endeared to this old ass man and I am very proud to call him my favourite artist. This album is one of two that never leaves my phone (with The Blue Album) and it is endlessly relistenable... the music on here was famously inspired by a screenplay that Dean Stockwell wrote with a guy who wrote lyrics for Captain Beefheart which is really cool cuz at times you can kinda tell its a soundtrack for a movie that doesnt exist... anyways, every track here is perfection for me and its the last neil album that Danny Whitten played on before he died (see: The Needle and the Damage Done) I'm sure I'll be playing this game for every neil album that comes up here but I do think this is ultimately his best album, but im sure I'll be saying something different when we listen to Rust Never Sleeps and On The Beach...

Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
Aug 06 2024

This album is good and I am a fan of the boss but knowing his contemporary context really puts the whole proletariat rock thing into perspective and makes these albums all a bit less believable

Penance Soiree by The Icarus Line
Aug 07 2024

Sincerely, I need to find out where the hell the guy who made this list is finding these albums, the music here was completely fine, totally unremarkable - nothing about this album was influential, it didn't even get good reviews when it came out. Really the only thing remarkable about this album is that it's on this 1001 album list... basically sounded like a White Stripes cover band but a bit edgier and honestly not that good !

Lady In Satin by Billie Holiday
Aug 08 2024

Read up on Billie Holiday's very tragic life... had never listened to her music, the songs were very pretty and this was a very nice album.

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
Aug 09 2024

I am at a point in my life where I can enjoy things devoid of irony and expectation... this is like the biggest meme album ever and obviously its the t-shirt of the century... but I can say with certainly devoid of influence that this album is just okay! lol. I am a way bigger new order fan and always found joy division to be pretty underwhelming

Highway to Hell by AC/DC
Aug 10 2024

kinda famously one of those bands that I love to hate - i was shocked that i enjoyed this as much as i did - it was really fun as far as the 'hard rock' genre goes (which i am seriously starting to dislike due to this list)

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Aug 11 2024

There are a few things that hold me back from giving this a perfect rating, but i have always really enjoyed this band and their messy dynamics. Goes without saying, this album has some massive bangers on it, shit kicks ass.

Aug 12 2024

pretty teenage and angry but thats what makes punk fun! reminds of of being a teenage, wish I had listened to this while biking around because it was very energizing. Instead i listened while I answered emails at my work desk ... rip

The Bends by Radiohead
Aug 13 2024

Sorta a mixed bag of feelings on this one. For a long time it was my fav radiohead album and I think that’s mostly cuz Planet Telex was the theme song to Q on CBC radio... anyways - sorta their most successful ‘alternative rock’ album? And the britpop vibes really work on me, but i ultimately think it can be a bit tedious at times.

Pearl by Janis Joplin
Aug 14 2024

When I used to date Rowan, I was always so confused why her mom and all her friends loved the blues… it seemed so bizarre and random to me that southern ontario white hippies would be so obsessed with a genre that in my (clearly) limited prevue seemed so Black… this 1001 list has made it extremely apparent to me that I just haven’t heard a lot of the music that was popular in these white hippies’ youth… which seems to overwhelmingly be blues rock, which for the record, i think sucks. It sorta makes the white co-opting of Black music so much more apparent than i ever knew… like what does this white lady from texas know about ‘goin down to detroit’ … anyways this is my fav era of music generally but I mostly stick to the jazz, folk and modern classical music of the late 60s… which all feels a lot more authentic to me than whatever the hell this shit is. Anyways crazy joplin is still so revered when she died a year after woodstock with only one solo album to her name. I was surprised to learn this was a posthumous album! Its not even half bad i just dont believe anything shes saying and i don’t find her affect cool or charming

Tragic Songs of Life by The Louvin Brothers
Aug 15 2024

Now this is the kinda music white people should be making instead of pastiche-y blues.

Aug 16 2024

As a childhood prog-rock fan this album was always one of my favs... i do think these days that prog rock is for loser nerds but I still have a lot of affection for the bands I liked when I was in grade 9 (king crimson, rush, yes, ect.) this album i think is really pretty and good - it never really allows itself to get boring and I think it's neat runtime accomplishes that.

Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Aug 17 2024

band sucks, this is their only good album and you could argue that it's 'fun' but imo it's actually not fun at all and rather sucks shit

Aug 18 2024

had honestly never heard of this band or project and really enjoyed it! very kickass

Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian
Aug 19 2024

Very soft nd tender music, always liked these guys but seem to frequently forget they exist

Beauty And The Beat by The Go-Go's
Aug 20 2024

lots of fun!! never really registered this band in my brain but knew a bunch of tracks

Vivid by Living Colour
Aug 21 2024

who's coming to Orillia with me to see these guys at casino rama on sept. 27th?

Aug 22 2024

was a big common fan when I was a teen but I think i kinda find this music cringey now... it's very earnest and common is really clearly trying to say 'something' which i find annoying

Dire Straits by Dire Straits
Aug 24 2024

just really good stuff, so smooth and pleasant. Always liked these guys but this is my first album of theirs and I was very impressed!

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Aug 25 2024

as a guy with a newly broken heart this was not fun to listen to

Sail Away by Randy Newman
Aug 26 2024

alawys been a randy fan but i think in 2024 I disagree with his methods of getting his politics across (taking on personas)

Closer by Joy Division
Aug 29 2024

Really great stuff, honestly its pretty heavy at points and it makes ya wonder how these guys got so popular... they seem very anti-mainstream!

Blood, Sweat & Tears by Blood, Sweat & Tears
Aug 30 2024

shockingly great jazz rock instincts on these boys! almost convinced me they were the real deal for a second there

Aug 31 2024

for the first time in my life, dylan clicked! I have been a lifetime skeptic of his even though I know I should like him... i like his influences (seeger, guthery ect.) and his politics (at least in the 60s)... but something about him never clicked until today! generally my issues is that he is sorta one of those songwriters that is trying to say a lot in his songs and they come along wordy and almost preachy, for whatever reason today, altho I could feel those things... i was totally charmed! Worried I'm about to go down a deep rabbit hole but let's see lol

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sep 01 2024

Certainly doesn't reach the heights of Cosmo's but this album is an absolute slugger fest, these guys are basically the most consistent band in swamp rock and they consistently kick ass

Roxy Music by Roxy Music
Sep 02 2024

These first two Roxy Music albums really appeal to me as an Eno guy, it's the points where I can really hear his instincts come across that I enjoy the most on these two records... that being said I've still never been the biggest Roxy Music fan and something about them just doesn't work for me... anywho it's great just not always my thing!

Aladdin Sane by David Bowie
Sep 03 2024

never ever been one of my fav bowie albums and have never quite got what people like about this one... its a mess and really an anomaly for me considering I like nearly all of bowie's other work...

System Of A Down by System Of A Down
Sep 04 2024

I love SOAD... they kick such extreme ass

Bluesbreakers by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Sep 05 2024

😴💤😴💤😴💤😴

Sep 06 2024

have a really hot and cold relationship with this band... i liked them when i was a kid and then HATED them, when I was dating rowan she was a really big fan and I never got it but then their Little Dark Age album reallllly connected with me.. and I still think its a really wonderful album, but that might be sorta where my fandom starts and ends... altho there are some really great tracks on this album and Congratulations.. none really connect or reach the heights of LDA...

The Rising by Bruce Springsteen
Sep 09 2024

ultimately kinda boring for bruce but i think it suffers from being a bit too 'modern'

War by U2
Sep 10 2024

pre-eno album but you kinda hear how he would perfectly compliment their style when they connect to make their masterpieces... u2 is good (sometimes)

Done By The Forces Of Nature by Jungle Brothers
Sep 11 2024

Really good and fun golden age hip hop... i loved it and haven't heard any JB albums but Straight out the Jungle... and thought this one was way better!! will explore further

Infected by The The
Sep 12 2024

not for me!

The United States Of America by The United States Of America
Sep 13 2024

i thought this was The Presidents of the United States of America and was soooo excited ...

Hard Again by Muddy Waters
Sep 15 2024

not my fav style but really great!! i enjoyed it a lot

C'est Chic by CHIC
Sep 16 2024

one of the goat of all time sounds !! always loved this band but not my fav album

Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
Sep 17 2024

generally like this band but never liked this album that much !!

Eliminator by ZZ Top
Sep 18 2024

better than i expected!

Fragile by Yes
Sep 20 2024

now we are certainly moving towards the sublime ...

Talking Heads 77 by Talking Heads
Sep 21 2024

Certainly a debut!! Got me sooo excited to listen to the following 4 TH albums!!

Paris 1919 by John Cale
Sep 22 2024

John Cale has been such a big part of my music listening journey, from TVU to The Theatre of Eternal Music and his Terry Riley and Brian Eno collabs… i really like him and am finally exploring his solo work… who woulda thought - i love it!

American Beauty by Grateful Dead
Sep 23 2024

I’m gonna be brave and say that I like the dead!!!

With The Beatles by Beatles
Sep 24 2024

u can really tell the boys were coked up for this one

Whatever by Aimee Mann
Sep 25 2024

really great!! nice and chill

Timeless by Goldie
Sep 26 2024

I like and love dnb!!!!!!!!

Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
Sep 27 2024

absolutely love THIS

The Idiot by Iggy Pop
Sep 29 2024

Never really connected with this one but its cool that bowie produced it and i always will connect it to ian curtis’ death

Back to Basics by Christina Aguilera
Sep 30 2024

Can’t help but agree with the crew, disc one was really fun and awesome and there is an extreme drop off. Woof

Oct 01 2024

I liked it better than i thought i would! like the ambient-y chill vibes that we fall into sometimes

Oct 02 2024

This was just ok. I am at a place in my life where i kinda resent music like this … his mom seems cool tho

xx by The xx
Oct 04 2024

Hmm really loved this 1 at the time but have kinda come around to thinking it was boring and i do generally like romy and jamie’s solo stuff a lot more!

The Doors by The Doors
Oct 05 2024

I kinda hate the doors but this is easily their best and most successful album! Gotta give it up

Oct 07 2024

i like tommy boy and its great to get a sense of his personality with a release like this - really silly and fun! great tunes

Green by R.E.M.
Oct 09 2024

Yea its undeniable

Oct 10 2024

The production is very fun and i do enjoy the tunes but i find him corny especially compared to how complex his contemporary work is (which is way better than this btw)

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails
Oct 12 2024

came to these guys as an adult and used to be a certified hater, sometimes you just gotta ask yourself... what am i accomplishing by hating something this epic and badass?

Don't Stand Me Down by Dexys Midnight Runners
Oct 13 2024

i like to call them Jexi’s midnight runners :)

Tical by Method Man
Oct 14 2024

this was a big one for me back in the day and it really holds up !!

25 by Adele
Oct 15 2024

i had no idea XL put this out... thats fucked up lol

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Oct 16 2024

just absolutely mind bending

Fear and Whiskey by Mekons
Oct 17 2024

not the biggest cowpunk fan but this was pretty sweet!

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden
Oct 18 2024

i mean come on you guys know how i feel about this

Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
Oct 19 2024

her voice has a very nice texture... its really crazy to remember just how much of a news story she was back in the day ... the music is good even tho its not exactly my thing

Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan
Oct 20 2024

Of course as everyone knows this is my fav band... but pretzel logic is sadly their weakest album! there is some low points, and I hate to admit it ! I love steely dan!!!!

Hypnotised by The Undertones
Oct 21 2024

Never heard of this but super fun !! And the pic of the lobster guys is so funny

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin
Oct 22 2024

pretty crazy this is a debut!! already fully formed!

Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Oct 23 2024

I always wish i was more into nick cave!! he's good

Dusty In Memphis by Dusty Springfield
Oct 24 2024

A name i had always heard but not someone who's music i had ever listened to! really beautiful stuff - I love covers!! the two randy newman covers kicked ass imo... really gorgeous and uplifting album

The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett
Oct 25 2024

I really liked this!! excited for this list to force me to listen to a lot more floyd !!

The Next Day by David Bowie
Oct 26 2024

I remember being really disappointed by this when it came out, but i can enjoy it now for exactly what it is ... very solid late bowie album! Crazy to think that in three years he would make his opus and best album... we had no idea what we had in store when The Next Day came out!

Pictures At An Exhibition by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Oct 27 2024

prog goes free (?) Always liked ELP (altho i think Asia sucks!!) but Greg Lake is just undeniably the goat for his one year in King Crimson... I'm sure there will be more of their non-live albums on the list which i look forward to!

Oct 28 2024

my like older millennial friends are obsessed with this dude and i remember like the dance floor of my friend tea's wedding featuring Bill Callahan tracks which was very funny to me... i think i dont exactly get it and it kinda occupies the same corniness that like conscious hip hop does in my mind

Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Oct 29 2024

i like these guys and the FLUTE

Meat Is Murder by The Smiths
Oct 30 2024

i love the smiths but this shit is funny sometimes

Oct 31 2024

I had seen these guys' music videos but never listened to a full album - way more jazzy and dancy than I ever even knew! Really good and fun - I feel like I could put this on anytime and it would brighten my day

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen
Nov 01 2024

Really strong argument for Bruce’s best album. I think it is a really succinct encapsulation of Bruce’s whole thing. His politics are on full display and the songs are catchy and impassioned. I will always be a Nebraska lover first and foremost but as far as his rock albums go, it doesn’t get much better than this.

Dookie by Green Day
Nov 02 2024

i feel like i have ostrich egg all over my noggin

Nov 03 2024

i love ice cube and his first four album - this album came out when he was 20 and believe it or not ... there is some immature shit on here! but it reminds me of being an angry teen which is a feeling ive been tapping into more and more as of late

Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction
Nov 04 2024

never knew this band but enjoyed this enough

Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Nov 05 2024

the rockier versions of the Hitchhiker tracks are interesting to hear now that we have finally heard that album after 50 years on the shelf... it's really an unreal album - and the second disc is some of the hardest rock he's ever recorded (the live versions on the Weld disc are basically the most fucked up songs I've ever heard) and its no doubt that this is his most influential album (in tandem with ragged glory i suppose) Pocahontas is sorta complicated cuz it reminds me that he has recorded some really important music about Indigenous struggles, and preformed at standing rock and stuff .. but i think ultimately does so in the most white guy way that ends up being a bit distasteful in the long run... that being said i was trying to convince my friends sage and kelsi (who are both Indigenous) that it was actually cool that he wrote these songs like two weeks ago, so look at me now ...

Fuzzy Logic by Super Furry Animals
Nov 06 2024

Erm …

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Nov 08 2024

this was so nice!

Nov 10 2024

i love the smiths and this is a fun last album for them!! its kinda weird compared to their other stuff and i like that they tried some stuff ...

Femi Kuti by Femi Kuti
Nov 11 2024

I love femi's dad and i also love highlife ... this was enjoyable but so similar in sound to his dad that in all honesty it just made me wanna listen to his dad's music !

Purple Rain by Prince
Nov 12 2024

This is a stone cold classic and a helpful reminder to get more into Prince ~ !

Hysteria by Def Leppard
Nov 13 2024

a little too 'awesome' for me

Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3
Nov 14 2024

Always liked Spacemen 3 more than Spiritualized (their joydivision/neworder esque sequel band) and I had never heard this album but really enjoyed it - i think the psychedelic and post rock influences work really well with the drone-y and dream pop vibes on this record .. anyways i really liked it!

Remedy by Basement Jaxx
Nov 15 2024

was really looking forward to this one but thought it was just okay!

Nilsson Schmilsson by Harry Nilsson
Nov 16 2024

i always really enjoyed Nilsson! i love that hes silly !!

Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins
Nov 17 2024

just undeniably one of the most consistent bands of all time, each album better than the last, with this their masterpiece... some of the most sublime music in the history of pop

Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Nov 17 2024

found this grating and annoying and felt that its only relevance was its inclusion on this list and maybe it deserves to be forgotten to time !

Live! by Fela Kuti
Nov 19 2024

I dont mind being brave and saying that Ginger Baker being on two of these tracks actually takes away from the tunes when Tony Allen, literally the greatest drummer in all of music is just chilling waiting for his turn... it is pretty remarkable tho that Baker did record these songs in Nigeria in 71, im sure it did much to bring Fela to a western audience ! The problem for me tho is that i also think Cream sucks

Hot Fuss by The Killers
Nov 20 2024

used to like this as a teen but i am def embarrassed by it now!

Nov 22 2024

its so impressive when you consider how young these guys were... and that comes across on some of the more immature tracks and lyrics on this album (mostly from easy-e who was kind of a dumbass i think) but its still just really something to behold.. i think ultimately it is a bit overrated which is to say that I think its very good but the lads sorta get in their own way a couple of times... should be shorter too !

The Cars by The Cars
Nov 23 2024

Just What I Needed is just the most weezer song of all time ... seconding nick's comment that this album is making up for the lack of Weezer on this list! we love Ric Ocasek !!

Pretenders by Pretenders
Nov 25 2024

hmm never heard this and it kept my attention ... but not sure i need to venture back to this one again

It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Nov 26 2024

i do like a couple songs but i had sorta a hard time locking into this one. it was fun and enjoyable but not my fav!

Faust IV by Faust
Nov 27 2024

i always loved this album ... it kicks ass

Nov 29 2024

i have historically been a nirvana hater but i am coming around to appreciating them as i near my 30s and i revert back to being a depresso angsty guy

Dummy by Portishead
Nov 30 2024

kinda unreal album to listen to ... all killer no filler but hasnt quite connected strongly enough for me to give her the old fiver

Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis
Dec 01 2024

is there such thing as being too cool? hold your horses miles!

Yeezus by Kanye West
Dec 02 2024

sorta interesting to think of as Kanye's response to chicago drill ... stripping down the noise and clutter and making a minimalist drill album lol while keeping his lyrics extremely maximalist. certainly one of the most formative albums of my lifetime, it was a true alignment of the planets that resulted in this album coming out when i was 16 years old... man, i forgot how hard New Slaves goes, i had to run it back at least 5 times... just one of the most raw and passionate albums of the century... it doesnt get much better than this... also just an aside, i do think this is unironically maybe the funniest album of all time? kanye's horny ass brain is just so impressively hilarious. some real deviant ass shit on this album

New York Dolls by New York Dolls
Dec 04 2024

I like this album ! i really like the lyrical content

Dec 05 2024

some really fun and entertaining tracks on this one! it sorta struck me ultimately as unremarkable but i did have like a great time listening to it

Walking Wounded by Everything But The Girl
Dec 06 2024

honestly EBTG... i was not familiar with your game. this was flames ... i LOVE DnB !!!!

Fear Of Music by Talking Heads
Dec 07 2024

eno and the heads laying the groundwork for one of the best albums of all time ... this thing rocks and the heads are unreal on it. it is so preposterous to think of eno's output at this time... between the heads, bowie, his solo output... devo, no new york... obscure records... like its mind boggling how productive he was and how everything he touched is some of the most important music made by white people ever ....

Be by Common
Dec 08 2024

yeah i mean its undeniable. beautiful album ... somehow makes conscious rap not corny af and kanye and dilla's production is truly unreal. I actually really enjoy kanye's vocals being used as a 'production effect' i think it adds a beautiful texture to this album ...

Disraeli Gears by Cream
Dec 09 2024

sorry but cream sucks and eric clapton is a stupid piece of shit

Blue by Joni Mitchell
Dec 10 2024

this for me is one of the most beautiful albums of all time ... joni's voice and lyrics invoke such incredible images in my mind ... and Case of You is one of the most devastating songs ever written i reckon ...

Let's Stay Together by Al Green
Dec 11 2024

this was a childhood favourite of mine and as i grow older and more yearnfull it only hits harder and harder... How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is just an absolutely devastating song. it absolutely floors me in its beauty... its so elegant, so longing... you can tell this mf has seen some shit. this is some real loverboy music for sure

Raw Like Sushi by Neneh Cherry
Dec 12 2024

i do not know this individual but it seems like she has been involved in some really impressive musical projects!! and she's don cherry's step-daughter ! woah! this album seems like a real departure for her cuz she seemed really involved in the post-punk scene ? anyways it was fun but like mostly silly i thought

Feast of Wire by Calexico
Dec 13 2024

erm i did not get it really ... white indie rock dudes who make mexican music ?

Ten by Pearl Jam
Dec 14 2024

Had never actually listened to these guys could i kinda had a feeling I wouldn't exactly love it ... certainly still feeling that way after listening but it was fun to listen to. And nice to give me a better appreciation for the first wave of grunge... should come as no shock that I love their collab album with Neil Young lol but I was having a hard time hearing the connection between this album and neil when I know they are huge neil fans and he was a big influence on them ... anyways it was cool!

Step In The Arena by Gang Starr
Dec 15 2024

one of the mount rushmore groups in hip hop imo ... i think these guys are just timeless and sooo cool... I unfortunately have had the pleasure of having listened to all their later albums so this ends up feeling like a precursor to me... not only would they go onto make some of the best hip hop albums of all time but Moment Of Truth is just one of the best albums of all time period... anyways i should stop hating and just say that the production is really clean and guru's vocals kick ass ... these guys are just the absolute best

Smash by The Offspring
Dec 16 2024

never actually listened to these guys but this rocked! apparently John Mayer did the spoken word trax also ? lol ... pretty good tony hawk pro skater tunes . nice energy

Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
Dec 17 2024

the kinda music that just makes me wanna turn it off the moment i put it on ... i like joy and pleasure but there's something just stomach turning about this music to me and i especially hate the album artwork ... whats insane is that i dont even think its bad it just makes me physically ill BUT i do wanna try the hunter biden special (getting a lap dance while smoking crack cocaine to this music)

Now I Got Worry by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Dec 18 2024

This was pretty cool! Don't know how I feel about Blues Punk music I appreciated the noisy moments

Rage Against The Machine by Rage Against The Machine
Dec 19 2024

admittedly the only RATM album ive heard .. I do think ultimately the music is really exciting and entertaining and it is nice to see a band who I share politics with be successful... me and Tom are actually in the same union :) and its nice that he has sorta kept the socialist folk singer thing alive with his The Nightwatchman project... anyways the band really does kick a lot of ass and I gotta listen to the rest of their stuff ... and audioslave apparently

Homework by Daft Punk
Dec 20 2024

perhaps the most nostalgic album for me - I listened to this obsessively and it was for me a marker of 'cool' music that for example an older brother would listen to... it is def the second best album in their catalog but I do think the basslines go really hard and i love exactly the texture of the 909 bass ... so ya this one is a winner for me

Moondance by Van Morrison
Dec 21 2024

I honestly think van morrison is one of the weirdest guys ever and like why does he make like blue eyed soul... hes a lad from northern ireland i wanna hear some pro IRA folk rock not some corny ass rnb from his plumber ass... anyways i do have a sweet spot for anyone who was in The Last Waltz but yea idk ive never been particularly impressed with this guy.

So Much For The City by The Thrills
Dec 23 2024

we have had to listen to a lot of forgettable music on this list but this 1 might take the cake

Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones
Dec 24 2024

i sorta never gave the stones a chance and certainly do not love them ... i think i was surprised at how 'experimental' this record was and by that i mostly mean that they used a lot of 'world music' percussion... funny i almost basically entirely associate the stones with martin scorsese movies at this point so listening to this did sorta make me feel like I was in a martin scorsese movie... anyways i dunno always mixed with these guys - i liked the country tunes but I don't appreciate the like ... oozing horniness on the record cuz i think the dudes are a lil nasty ...

Live At Leeds by The Who
Dec 25 2024

i feel bad cuz everything i read thinks of this as one of the greatest live albums ever and it is pretty cool dont get me wrong ... i just dgaf :(

Dec 26 2024

I have no relationship to christmas music and tend to avoid it because it is too cheerful and I have prejudice against christians. Luckily for this guy I like two things... Brill Building music and murderers so I will be giving this 3 stars

Dec 27 2024

very nice album! makes me wanna watch the movie

Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
Dec 28 2024

very nice and pleasant album! prob my number 3 nick drake but real nice music !

A Little Deeper by Ms. Dynamite
Dec 29 2024

this was like perfectly fine but sorta scratching my head at its inclusion on this list

Dec 30 2024

this one was in the older brother rotation as a kid and i certainly do enjoy the singles (in my arms is really killer) but yeaaa i dont think this one quite lived up to my memories!

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Dec 31 2024

Always oscillate between this one and RAM for the best post-beatles album... it really does appear as if George was bursting at the seams to get his ideas out during the Beatles run, it makes this album all the more sublime... almost like listening to a decade of one man's thoughts

Highly Evolved by The Vines
Jan 01 2025

i didnt know anyone made music like this in earnest ...

Disintegration by The Cure
Jan 02 2025

Just one of the most impressive albums of all time... I always wonder how grown adults are so able to capture that feeling of crushing despair that I associate with being 12 years old (Maybe some just never grow out of it?...) anyways, its a remarkable achievement and the best album by one of the best and most consistent bands of all time ...

A Girl Called Dusty by Dusty Springfield
Jan 04 2025

this was pretty nice but weirdly not for me even tho i thought i was poised to love this

The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Jan 05 2025

this was pretty fun but also a bit boring i thought at points ... but i had a good time

Headquarters by The Monkees
Jan 08 2025

saw these guys on TV ... 3 stars

The Coral by The Coral
Jan 09 2025

you when something is on, and even when you try to listen you can't hear it so you just kinda sit there and wait for it to be over

Jan 10 2025

yeah this shit goes so hard !! its so hard to imagine american music with any kind of political messaging now ... album kicks ass for a multitude of reasons!

Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears
Jan 11 2025

Pretty amazing but a bit inconsistent for me … still epic as all hell

Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Jan 12 2025

today i was in the car with my friend Mani and we both got so excited cuz we saw a licence plate that was labeled CSNY XXX and it made me sad that ill never own the CSNY 420 licence plate ... anyways its always been weird to me that neil decided that the best use of his time in the early 70s was to form a super group with these three guys who were already making records together ... i love crosby, and think N & S are totally good musicians but yeah there is super super killer tracks on here and Ohio is just an all time neil track ... ultimately Teach Your Children is my fav one ... its beautiful :)

The Fat Of The Land by The Prodigy
Jan 13 2025

Very cool and in your face. Always liked this one as a kid, fun album to revisit!! Also fun to listen to today cuz im seeing kool keith tonight and hes sampled in the first track!!

Definitely Maybe by Oasis
Jan 14 2025

I just think its a bit boring altho funny enough it is sort of a more consistent album than whats the story but without the hits this band is useless to me

A Date With The Everly Brothers by The Everly Brothers
Jan 15 2025

Not the kinda music I generally find myself listening to. Very pleasant and unchallenging … but nice!

Elastica by Elastica
Jan 16 2025

Pretty fun!! I have no thoughts

Jan 18 2025

I will not be taking any questions but i do like it .. i just think it lags and there a lot of skippable songs ... funny enough one of the things i appreciate about this music is that it is so incredibly emotional, not really like positive or good emotions but very emotional in a way you kinda don't expect from rap music of the era ...

Tanto Tempo by Bebel Gilberto
Jan 19 2025

I wasn’t that into it but its cool that she is related to joão… nice and pleasant

Punishing Kiss by Ute Lemper
Jan 20 2025

Very confused by this bootleg kate bush… how tf did she get philip glass, tom waits, nick cave and scott walker to write songs on this thing. This was boring and confusing

Seventeen Seconds by The Cure
Jan 22 2025

really beautiful record, I really like the cure and agree with nick that they are just super consistent and so fun to listen to!

Stankonia by OutKast
Jan 23 2025

really modern feeling record - lots of fun and really spectacular showing from the most consistent group of the century... i just always felt like this was their third best album ... i just love the 90s shyt a bit too much i suppose

Truth by Jeff Beck
Jan 24 2025

i hate blues rock... but this album is wild cuz i had NO idea it wasn't beck himself singing and to learn the vocals on this album were done by ROD STEWART of all people... anyways i have affinity for beck and honestly i have no idea why cuz who cares about the yarbirds ... this guy wasn't even in any famous bands ... why do i like him ?

Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson
Jan 25 2025

willie is so ubiquitous that i had never actually really listened to any of his albums - but this was straight fire . loved it - as a huge outlaw country fan this is totally my shiT! will be checking for more willie albums

Connected by Stereo MC's
Jan 26 2025

I feel like this is music i have no context for … i needed to live thru the 90s to understand this

Come Away With Me by Norah Jones
Jan 28 2025

Immediately pissed me off but ngl i would put this on if i was entertaining a shorty 😭🤣😌

Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Jan 29 2025

I guess this is like their first “great” album… stones have always bored me to death and the more i listen to them the less i like em!

A Hard Day's Night by Beatles
Jan 30 2025

First off rip nick who died today :( i’ll miss him a lot. Second off the music is fast and fun and thats just a winning combo for me. Songs about love are so comforting! And all these tracks are about love!

E.V.O.L. by Sonic Youth
Jan 31 2025

similarly never really connected with the youth but i did really enjoy this ! I am seeing a path where i learn to love sonic youth

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Feb 01 2025

always liked this in hs but sorta fell to the wayside as i aged... seeing them live this past summer made me really fall in love with a lot of these songs again ... really pretty music and so positive and nice vibes

Ctrl by SZA
Feb 02 2025

really good and nostalgic - really amazing debut... reminds me of a simpler time :)

Blue Lines by Massive Attack
Feb 03 2025

i really dont know much about these guys nor do i care ... but i guess they're banksy ? lol

Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Feb 04 2025

Basically one of the 19 best albums of all time according to me ... its sooo epic and ozzy is soo stupid which I love about this band

Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C.
Feb 05 2025

it's just fun and I like that they are just rapping about regular stuff ... wearing adidas, walking down the street ... just simple guy stuff that appeals to simple guys like me

Feb 06 2025

Should be no shocker that I love mr crosby. He was all over neil and joni's albums in the 70s (produced Joni's debut!)... hes also just one of those guys who is quietly everywhere ... in the byrds of course, writing songs for jefferson airplane... playin with his old bandmate and my personal fav Gene Clark... anyways - Crosby rocks and this is his best album by far - its pretty and fun and heavy and psychy at points... for me a true pleasure. One of the sadder covid deaths for me ... rip to an absolute unit of a moustache and i loved his lil red knit hat... gotta get me one of those.

Legalize It by Peter Tosh
Feb 07 2025

I always thought that Peter Tosh was sooo cool and I wonder if it is due to the fact that he is a Wailer but just not as like ... earnest as bob marley ? like his music is just way more cool i find... anyways the album is really mellow and chill and just reminds me of the summertime, it was really nice to listen to in this dreadful winter... did you guys read about his murder ?? crazy shit

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince
Feb 08 2025

really still not 'getting' Prince... but really enjoying everything i hear and excited to learn to love his music more ... this was also the best thing of his i ever heard tho it was really amazing

Copper Blue by Sugar
Feb 09 2025

never even heard of this but i really enjoyed it! my kinda rock music

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams
Feb 10 2025

what can i say ... this couldn't be more in my wheelhouse if it tried. I LOVE lucinda williams and her music means a lot to me even tho shes such a new addition to my life!

Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder
Feb 11 2025

man this album reaaaaaaaly kicks ass - and i love the album art! Not the biggest stevie head of all time but I do have a deep appreciation for his music, he is orbiting the sublime for sure ...

Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers
Feb 12 2025

I'm sorry to say it but being from sweden is funny to me. its also hard to take you seriously when you're not only from sweden but you also named your first album IV... which is roman for four... do they like start counting at four in sweden? is this some extreme cultural difference that a good old fashioned north american guy like me can't understand? is the title of this album (which is just I guess the latin name for a rat...) some kinda dig at norway ? is that who they're planning to strangle? norwegians? rats??

Scissor Sisters by Scissor Sisters
Feb 13 2025

you know when something is just immediately so offputting and pisses u tf off right when you put it on

The Poet by Bobby Womack
Feb 14 2025

funny enough the only album by this bloke ive heard is his 2012 comeback album right before he passed ... but not familiar with him really otherwise. some nice and funky soul tho ... pretty fun but nothing mind blowing!

The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Feb 15 2025

I always hated when people described music as 'timeless' because I don't really believe that things should exist outside of the context in which they were made... that being said one thing that has always attracted me to TVU is how they really straddle the line (I think) of music that your dad likes but also if I showed this to my nephew I think he'd really enjoy it... I don't really know how to describe it but TVU just has this undeniability ... also I did the whole Lou Reed solo discog last year and it was just so freaking good. I really love and respect him... the bisexual king <3 anyways, my preference of TVU albums puts this one at number three.. (I Love Loaded) but yea .. number three is still pretty damn good for this band!

Want Two by Rufus Wainwright
Feb 16 2025

not my cuppa tea but nice nonetheless !

You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr.
Feb 17 2025

another band that I know is good but hasnt totally connected with me! this album is really fun tho!!

Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk
Feb 19 2025

straddles a hard line of being both the coolest and nerdiest shit of all time hahaha

Kenza by Khaled
Feb 20 2025

This was sooo nice and enjoyable !! Been getting into Algerian music and Raï slowly over the years … feel like this is so far the best ‘discovery’ from this list for me

L.A. Woman by The Doors
Feb 21 2025

honestly i think jim morrison is kinda stupid as hell and i hate this kinda music ... i dont think time will reflect well on the doors

Power In Numbers by Jurassic 5
Feb 22 2025

this album is very consistent and the guys all have really solid flow! i saw chali2na one time at hillside and got into these guys after... this album is very solid! not worldbreaking but good!!

Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
Feb 23 2025

really can track this to the exact beginning of my consciousness... being 15.. and looking back at the absolute list of all timers that came out in 2012... just an incredible time to be alive and into music... anyways it has aged pretty well, honestly i havent revisited this one in a while ...

Melodrama by Lorde
Feb 25 2025

this album just straight up kicks ass ... undeniable

Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine
Feb 26 2025

historically been my fav mbv album which i am kinda questioning in this moment lol... seems like a bit of a contrarian take lmaooo .... anyways it is really good and really different than loveless or m b v (which i feel like i would probably like the most on a re-listen). Anyways - not one of my fav bands but they are really amazing, and I do like their music quite a bit...

Water From An Ancient Well by Abdullah Ibrahim
Feb 27 2025

Pretty chill… but in all honesty… a bit pedestrian for my tastes! But this guy seems cool

In Rainbows by Radiohead
Feb 28 2025

i like that its sort of a heavier rock-y sound compared to the early 2000s stuff... i mean i like radiohead, fuck it

Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney
Mar 02 2025

always really liked Sleater-Kinney! they are super fun and consistent...

The Who Sell Out by The Who
Mar 03 2025

gotta be one of the most british albums of all time. monty python ass mfs

Here's Little Richard by Little Richard
Mar 04 2025

this guy was lowkey the goat (of music and being a bisexual pervert) also crazy he died this decade ??

Sheet Music by 10cc
Mar 06 2025

this was a really weird album lol... never encountered this band! funny ones

Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix
Mar 07 2025

honestly. kicks ass. didnt know... shit rocked. i had no idea.

Queen II by Queen
Mar 08 2025

best thing about this band is Freddie Mercury's Mineshaft shirt... i hate queen

Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits
Mar 09 2025

pretty chill and cool... ik luke loves these guys ... not exactly sure i get it

Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys
Mar 10 2025

never encountered this or really heard of it at all but i quite liked it ! really solid :) I liked the noise rock and kinda psych touches to what would have otherwise been a really normal britpop-y album

1984 by Van Halen
Mar 11 2025

honestly this album is kind of 'awesome' as hell but its maybe not my speed looool

Damaged by Black Flag
Mar 12 2025

just such a perfect capsule of one of the coolest sounds on earth

Is This It by The Strokes
Mar 13 2025

Just one of the best albums ever. It’s kinda truly unreal how good this thing is

It's Too Late to Stop Now by Van Morrison
Mar 14 2025

Still dont love van m but this was a nice album and i feel like hes the kinda guy i’d enjoy more in greatest hits fashion than album fashion so it makes sense

Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow
Mar 15 2025

probably the core album for me . mateen kinda forced me to buy a used copy of this at dr disc when i was like 14 and im glad he did! it really changed about what i thought music could look like and also introduced me to a lot of older rap music which I still really love... dont tell mateen tho...

Picture Book by Simply Red
Mar 16 2025

honestly idk what the hell this one was but i liked it

G. Love And Special Sauce by G. Love & Special Sauce
Mar 17 2025

i was gonna keep this album to be my 1001st album but it was getting confusing so i listened to it ... and had 0 thoughts but it really wasnt that bad, kinda fun but also the kinda thing you see at the transac on a wednesday night at 9pm and not usually the kind of music i would expect to be recorded, listened to and considered hahahaha

I Should Coco by Supergrass
Mar 18 2025

never ever heard of this and it was ok not my cuppa

Mar 19 2025

I have no patience for this bullshit but i do like the song where roger taylor is in love with his car and the best friend song is so nice

The Predator by Ice Cube
Mar 20 2025

Ice cube is the goat !!

Ocean Rain by Echo And The Bunnymen
Mar 21 2025

Never given these guys a fair shake! I liked it!!

Cut by The Slits
Mar 23 2025

Love this album a lot but since im writing publicly i have to mention that the album art is racist. Thank you

Fear Of A Black Planet by Public Enemy
Mar 24 2025

Undoubtedly cool. I miss when mainstream music was this political

Crazysexycool by TLC
Mar 26 2025

so fun and nice!! TLC rocks :)

Abbey Road by Beatles
Mar 27 2025

I'll always love this album and band... this is to me just what i call 'music' and i'll always think about playing beatles rockband in my basement with adam and going to Australia with just an mp3 player with every beatles song on it when i was 11... this is their best album ...

Bad Company by Bad Company
Mar 28 2025

this hurt my heart

Mar 29 2025

i was doing the christopher walken shuffle with spike jones in front of the cinema if you kno what i mean #dvdwatcher

Mar 31 2025

i am not a floyd guy. i am open to it. i know nothing about them. but this was their first album and its pretty cool and weird. maybe i will like more of their albums

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Apr 01 2025

not rlly a nick cave guy ... this album was interesting but also i guess sounds like every other nick cave album ive heard ?

Scum by Napalm Death
Apr 02 2025

This shit kicks TOO much ass!!!

Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
Apr 03 2025

Best non joanna newsom album of the 2000s?

Seventh Tree by Goldfrapp
Apr 04 2025

i was inexcusably bored

Sea Change by Beck
Apr 05 2025

beck is such a genuinely weird musician... its so funny to me that he was making like anti-folk and alternative country for like a decade and then now just makes singer-songwriter folk rock ... this being the start of that transition. anyways hes good at both so no complains but he is a walking fucking paradox ,,, no hes not .,, triceratops

Rocks by Aerosmith
Apr 07 2025

hey, as far as worst bands of all time go, these guys are pretty good!

Rock 'N Soul by Solomon Burke
Apr 08 2025

only heard his later stuff but this was real nice!

Can't Buy A Thrill by Steely Dan
Apr 09 2025

This is my fav band... their music makes so happy and makes me wanna move

Apr 10 2025

still so baffling to me that eno produced this, i love the stories that the band hated everything he said to do and just waited for bowie to show up to remix the album. anyways its one of the best of all time

Apr 11 2025

Honestly i didnt understand this music. Couldn’t comprehend what i was hearing at all. Absolutely indecipherable for me

Kid A by Radiohead
Apr 12 2025

Ice age coming, ice age coming… tell your familyyyy… march 15th two thousand and twoooooo

Truth And Soul by Fishbone
Apr 13 2025

Honestly just not for me. I like their next album way better which is a funk metal album and that kicks ass

Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Apr 15 2025

Never been much of a Marley fan but this was very enjoyable and nice!! Also i knew so many tracks off this bad boy!

Dry by PJ Harvey
Apr 16 2025

hey! pretty good... i liked it !

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Apr 17 2025

i like it but i gotta admit ive never gotten it... liked it more that previous listens but it still kinda does nothing for me

Parallel Lines by Blondie
Apr 19 2025

always really liked these albums .. i just dont think i understand CGBG at all... like the first band i associate with the club is the ramones (punk rock?) but so many other bands associated with the club are like pop rock bands like this ? random ass club

Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Apr 20 2025

pleasant... perfectly nice

Apr 22 2025

ok randomly ive been listening to so much coldplay lately and Yellow has like been the soundtrack to my grandfather's death (no idea why) i remember begging my piano teacher to let me learn Clocks on the piano and she wouldnt let me because it wasn't royal conservatory ... anyways it was cool to listen to and i kinda wanna listen to their 2024 album ...

Chirping Crickets by Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Apr 23 2025

Buddy Holly i was not familiar with your game... this shit bangs

Buena Vista Social Club by Buena Vista Social Club
Apr 24 2025

Love the music & story of this band. Rlly need to see the Wim Wenders documentary !!

evermore by Taylor Swift
Apr 25 2025

i just feel like she has such negative vibes ? does everyone feel that ?? like she seems like such a loser LOL ... anyways this is like the most okay i find her, and I was telling Nick that i like the other 2020 one more but like jesus she is intolerable

Guero by Beck
Apr 26 2025

Beck is so confusing to me. Like his grandpa was a great Fluxus artist, his mom was andy warhol’s protegee, in mekas movies and Vaginal Davis(!!)’s bestie. His dad is like an extremely prolific producer and film composer. All these people are cool. Beck is a stupid cheugy scientologist. Anyways the music is pretty nice

The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Apr 27 2025

he still hasnt fully connected but i enjoyed this!

Happy Sad by Tim Buckley
Apr 28 2025

was a huge tim b fan in hs... guess what... i still am

Reggatta De Blanc by The Police
Apr 29 2025

most random band of all time ... they make Reggae ????

Real Life by Magazine
Apr 30 2025

never heard of this but it was cool

The Man Machine by Kraftwerk
May 01 2025

one of the albums and bands of all time

Back In Black by AC/DC
May 02 2025

this band sucks and so does this album... they shoulda stayed in aus

Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
May 03 2025

just unreal, i loved it... dylan is finally clicking

Dance Mania by Tito Puente
May 07 2025

new yaaaaaaaark!

Songs Of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
May 08 2025

this is an all timer for me and the army of depressed men I represent

May 09 2025

super fun!! this has always been one of mateen's favs so i heard it a lot growing up... i like it too but mostly tainted love haha

Urban Hymns by The Verve
May 10 2025

not only did this suck... but it was also long as fuck

Africa Brasil by Jorge Ben Jor
May 11 2025

i like this guy and his music is nice as hell!

The Only Ones by The Only Ones
May 12 2025

sometimes you listen to the most random shit cuz of this list ... btw we're almost at a year of albums!!

This Is Fats Domino by Fats Domino
May 14 2025

i actually had never listened to this bloke ... i guess it was cool ? lol ... i liked it enuff

Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
May 15 2025

more like gooning squad also he said the nword but 'white n-words' ?? wtf is that bullshit . anyways i actually like ec so i was a bit appalled

Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp
May 16 2025

this really sounded like stereolab, i honestly enjoyed it!! it was way better that the piece of shit album of theirs we listened earlier in this process

Funeral by Arcade Fire
May 17 2025

yea sorry but this was a certified crying on the floor album for me . love this bugger but honestly i think i outgrew it and this band is so despicable on so many levels LOL

Pelican West by Haircut 100
May 18 2025

british people really make me laugh man ... what a crazee bunch

Music From The Penguin Cafe by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
May 19 2025

i really liked this album in high school due to the brian eno connection (produced and put it out on his label!) its pretty cool and quite fun!

Brothers by The Black Keys
May 20 2025

im sorry but this is absolute dogshit lol

Leftism by Leftfield
May 21 2025

this was awesome as fuck but basically I couldn't summarize it better than the top review on rateyourmusic Weed + Leftism = Divinity.

Traffic by Traffic
May 22 2025

i guess its fine ? i didnt really know steve winwood was in bands

Life's Too Good by The Sugarcubes
May 23 2025

pretty fun! had never heard this band but i enjoyed what i did... hear that is

Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
May 24 2025

wait... this was extremely epic

The Score by Fugees
May 25 2025

The score you ask? five out of five...

Murmur by R.E.M.
May 27 2025

undoubtedly one of the debuts of all time

1977 by Ash
May 28 2025

uhm .. yeah i guess this was fine idek

Ace of Spades by Motörhead
May 29 2025

okay FINE - I'll download Motörhead's discography when i get home from work

London Calling by The Clash
May 30 2025

probably been 15 years since i listened to this ... its good ! i like this band and their politics... good shit!

Teenage Head by Flamin' Groovies
Jun 01 2025

yeah i suppose ... the punk precursor stuff is cool

The Yes Album by Yes
Jun 03 2025

yes no maybe ,,,,, ,can you repeat the question ///// you're not the boss of me now !!

Bummed by Happy Mondays
Jun 04 2025

before listening wikipedia said that the band made this album after listening to a lot of house music and doing a bunch of ecstasy and somehow the music recorded didnt reflect that at all

Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin
Jun 05 2025

prettttttttty gooooooood

Mama's Gun by Erykah Badu
Jun 06 2025

soooo good !! love her

All Directions by The Temptations
Jun 07 2025

as far as kicking ass goes ... this one does in fact kick ass

Crosby, Stills & Nash by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Jun 08 2025

no shocker that i love this one ... always loved the harmonies on this album... just good freakin vibes

Jun 09 2025

i have come to really love george michael over time ... he's one of my fav pop stars and Freedom 90 literally might be one of my like 10 fav songs lol

Tapestry by Carole King
Jun 10 2025

this album is like a classic 'classic' album... really fun!

Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis
Jun 11 2025

wow i had never heard this music or really ever heard of this guy... i realllllly liked this! what I like to call 'morning music' music that is just downright pleasant to wake up to

Trio by Dolly Parton
Jun 12 2025

i love this album and all three women in the TRIO... a trio of queens if you ask me. this is kinda morning music too.. imagine making eggs while listening to this.. holy shit. putting some harissa on the eggs, and this is playing from the speaker... chef's kiss. you're toasting pita bread and you hear 'to have known him is to love him' gently playing from the bedroom as the love of your life stirs from their slumber.. wow. just wow

Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Jun 13 2025

the kinda album that just makes you wanna break down and sob... so achingly beautiful... wilson really taps into the sorrow that love brings with it... "... to resist love and inoculate yourself against heartbreak is to reject life itself, for to love is your primary human function." - nick cave

Aja by Steely Dan
Jun 16 2025

sorta goes without saying that i am obsessed with this record... its my fav band's best album ... fuck it

21 by Adele
Jun 17 2025

Still the funniest thing about this record is that XL records put it out... like that is inconceivable now looking back on it - one month before they put out Goblin by tyler, the creator... just bizarre... anways i have nostalgia for these songs i suppose because i heard them all in the dentist's office and in my mom's car but honestly who gives a fuck? the music kind of sucks and album is boring as hell... i just dont care at all

Joan Baez by Joan Baez
Jun 18 2025

i love Joan... i love Greenwich Village... i love folk music so much

Devil Without A Cause by Kid Rock
Jun 19 2025

just absolutely confounding... there are unequivocal truths in this world... one such unequivocal truth is that Uncle Kracker wrote 12/14 songs on this album... another unequivocal truth is that the last thing i expected to hear while listening to Kid Rock is an interpolation of fleetwood mac's second hand news.. a third unequivocal truth is that Kid Rock should have been arrested for writing Black Chick, White Guy just sayin... next time I see nick im quoting that awesome em line from fuck off about how kid rock and em are two white boys who like to drink punch and smoke joints and hang out around drugs, loud music and like lots of noise

Jun 20 2025

ok I do like it but unforch for me it is a bit too long for my liking and not every track is hitting as hard as i'd like.. its a 3.5 for me

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
Jun 21 2025

i def had mateen's CD of this but im not sure i ever listened all the way through until now... i was never a big smashing pumpkins fan but loveee 1979 and have really come around to them thru this list! i really liked it .. big fan!

Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter
Jun 22 2025

havent heard this since it dropped when I was 12 years old due to its positive pitchfork review and i usually hate bullshit like this.... but i liked it :)

Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab
Jun 23 2025

i feel like stereolab is one of those bands that all the coolest millennials love haha ... its really really good music, I have enjoyed everything ive ever heard from them.

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jun 25 2025

i mean this is the best band ever and Changes is an all timer

Revolver by Beatles
Jun 28 2025

Revolver and Abbey Road have always been my favs into adulthood with these guys... just kinda back to back bangers and with every beatles album i just have such incredible nostalgia for these songs... i suppose I'll love them for the rest of my life...

Talking Book by Stevie Wonder
Jun 29 2025

I feel like stevie is the true underrated GOAT... idk if im right but from the discourse I observe he often isn't considered one of the great musicians as far as the critical reception of his albums (no one is denying his talent of course) but he has incredible albums and this is one of them!! If I had to rank them I feel like Talking Book is his 4th best album but the 4th best stevie album is like still one of the 200 best albums ever made haha (or 1001 i suppose...)

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Jul 01 2025

I have a lot lot lot of issues with frank zappa... primarily I think he's untalented and a fake freak (worst offence imaginable) but sometimes the stars align with him and something interesting comes through in his albums... anyways I know im being a bit pedantic and not explaining myself much but he sorta represents all the worst things about the hippie movement to me (i.e. he's racist, stupid and has nothing to say) but i also liked this album enough LOL so fuck it 4 stars

Shaft by Isaac Hayes
Jul 02 2025

Isaac Hayes has an album called Hot Buttered Soul that is basically one of my 10 fav albums of all time.. it rocks my socks off. Shaft also rocks my socks, but they remained on... 4 stars

Being There by Wilco
Jul 03 2025

wilco is really easy to listen to but im not sure if they're good yet or not

Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers
Jul 04 2025

i feel like i hear about this band a lot ... but i actually dont think that is true .. i think theyre the band called my chemical romance. and this is the first time ive listened to either my chemical romance or the chemical brothers. the brothers are good ill see about the romance some other time

Document by R.E.M.
Jul 06 2025

listened to this on cassette on my new tape deck this morning while I got ready and while R.E.M. has never been my fav band I really do understand the appeal! they are pretty good and bisexual !

Blackstar by David Bowie
Jul 07 2025

I feel that I have a very conflicted relationship with mr bowie. I more or less only like his output with mr eno and mostly just think hes a bit of a fraud... at the same time he has a lot of music i deeply love despite not particularly loving the musician... anyways, the blackstar album makes me deeply emotional and i honestly consider it one of the most remarkable and special albums released in my lifetime. i remember distinctly not exactly giving a shit it came out, being surprised that it got a good review from pitchfork, then the bastard kicked the bucket and i was floored and listened to it right away and it blew my socks off. listening tonight with fresh ears was such a pleasure - i forgot how expansive and touched this music is... its really something!

Frank by Amy Winehouse
Jul 08 2025

Amy Winehouse music is like kind of interesting and unique i feel like ? she def is a very distinct musician but i don't quite understand why she has such a stronghold on cultural discourse... i suppose besides the fact that she had a very troubled and tabloid heavy life the music is not like so unique or life-changing ... anyways the two albums are good but i kinda find her oeuvre unremarkable

Abraxas by Santana
Jul 09 2025

I have come to really like Santana and Abraxas is probably my fav album of theirs. one thing i dont get is why is the band named after carlos.. he did produce this album and write two songs but so much of this music feels extremely collaborative ! its just funny that its named after him when its such a group effort

Jul 11 2025

really awesome when socialist music goes mainstream and i love the inclusion of some topical songs on this list! also i like the tunes - they are awesome

The Healer by John Lee Hooker
Jul 12 2025

pretty cool and good guests ... i guess him and canned heat made an album together in 71, sounds cool idk

Kilimanjaro by The Teardrop Explodes
Jul 13 2025

this shit sounds so insanely british it is a pain in my ASS

Jul 14 2025

Bands like Pavement are funny to me because like today, I'll listen to an album by them and be like WOW i finally get it... pavement rocks... and then never listen to them again, forget they exist, get prompted to listen to them and have my mind blown all over again lol. maybe its my oogga boogga neanderthal brain ... jk i have no neanderthal dna unlike u knuckleheads haha .. .. .. .

Jul 15 2025

big album for me as a lad... really love the production on this album and how simple it is... gives raekwon lots of room to absolutely glide over these beats

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell
Jul 16 2025

i love joni and listened to her entire discog this year ... she is probably i guess one of my goats even tho she is insane and very racist. i love folk music

3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Jul 17 2025

really awesome album and kind of an undeniable intro i was into it right away and also i was really stoked to hear a cover of the premier baha'i band seals and crofts on this bad boy

Tuesday Night Music Club by Sheryl Crow
Jul 18 2025

if i was born like 5 years earlier i bet i would have been obsessed with this

2112 by Rush
Jul 19 2025

Listened to this tonight while I stressfully try to withdraw 200 dollars canadian from my Bet365 account to in-part pay for a switch 2. I know that this makes me seem like a degenerate gambler but I actually only put 20 dollars in here in 2022 and made a 10x return in three years from only betting 1 and 2 dollars on basketball games and the academy awards. I know its haram but it was harmless and i made 180 dollars that I will now use, along with 250 dollars in gift cards to subsidize a 700 dollar switch 2... if you ask me I am stealing from amazon and I feel awesome about that. anyways rush was my fav band growing up and I don't really like them as much anymore but I still think they undeniably kick ass soooo 4 stars.

Third by Soft Machine
Jul 20 2025

i like Robert Wyatt and never listened to his band but turns out i like the band too! who knew. anyways i like jazz rock... sue me

Doolittle by Pixies
Jul 21 2025

I do really enjoy the three pixies albums but they never totally connected for me and lets just say i am really scared of all the post kim deal music... anyhow its great!

Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi
Jul 22 2025

one time in grade 7 me, brian danielson and cole jefferies all wore canadian tuxedos to english class and performed a lip sync'd version of Livin' on a Prayer as like a boy band. I do not remember what assignment inspired us to do that but I do remember two things distinctly. number 1 is that it was completely my idea. the song, the dress code, the choreo. I also stayed up until like 2am on a school night to fully memorize the lyrics to the song to improve my lip syncing. The second thing I remember is that we were the only students who came to class in costumes, the only students who did a performance of any kind AND we got a near failing grade on the assignment because apparently I completely misunderstood what we were supposed to do and convinced bryan and cole (a students) that I understood the assignment better than them (B- student btw) anyways, unrelated to the story bon jovi sucks

Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis
Jul 23 2025

yeah i mean the goat's goat album ... just goat of all time shit

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
Jul 24 2025

new revelation just dropped: maybe black sabbath is my fav band...

Fromohio by fIREHOSE
Jul 25 2025

I had never actually heard of this album or this project! cool that hurley and watt got together to make this band after Minutemen broke up, altho they didn't quite reach the high highs of Minutemen it was still a solid listen... sometimes this list is so strange tho cuz like why this album hahaha

Pink Flag by Wire
Jul 26 2025

feel like these guys had one of the strongest first three albums ever ? just an awesome bad no two ways about it

You Are The Quarry by Morrissey
Jul 27 2025

very curious... somehow both good and bad at the same time... something im now calling bood. this album was bood.

Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Jul 28 2025

this was one of my first CDs and just some of the absolute most badass music ever made... i absolutely loveeee this era of orchestral soul music with the nasty ass horns. btw i legit think this and curtis are two of the best albums ever... just undeniably cool

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down by The Dandy Warhols
Jul 29 2025

cant really explain why but i was anticipating this pissing me tf off but it was actually pretty good! i love space rock so all the spacey stuff works on me

My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello
Jul 30 2025

honestly Alison used to be one of my fav songs.. i am still really undecided on mr costello but he has some really great tracks and also some other ones that make me wanna kill myself <3

Moby Grape by Moby Grape
Jul 31 2025

2 thoughts about this band... one is that san fran seems like it was super super cool in the 60s and that this band has the worst name ever. one of the guys in this band was in a band called The Ducks in santa cruz with neil young in 1977. They tried to just be like a local bar scene band but bc neil was in the band they blew tf up and broke up in 6 weeks. anyways i thought that was cool and neil put out some live recordings thru the NYA in 2023... they did some rock n roll covers of neil songs which are cool but this was actually a helpful reminder to download the full album... anyways i hate blues rock but the more folky songs on this were nice but i honestly think it kinda sucked <3

Heavy Weather by Weather Report
Aug 01 2025

one thing i really appreciate about Wayne Shorter is that he was maybe the most dynamic of all the 60s titans of jazz. the fact that he spent his 70s and 80s basically playing in bands and making albums with joni mitchell is so cool to me. i actually had never heard of weather report but it kinda blows my mind that Shorter and Jaco Pastorius were in a jazz rock band and it kinda upsets me that i didnt already know about it!!!! anyways i am slowly starting to make a mental case for Shorter being the goat ...

Paul Simon by Paul Simon
Aug 03 2025

i dont love paul simon but i do love that me and julio down by the schoolyard is in the royal tenenbaums ... kinda true that this guy was the original sauced up white boy eh ? opening the album with a reggae song.. come on... anyways i loveee the flutes on Duncan... this album is awesome hahaha.

OK by Talvin Singh
Aug 04 2025

i was impressed that this guy was only 18 when he made this album but i am curious why the list maker felt the need to include two Asian Underground albums ... just feels like a movement that wasnt particularly influential or groundbreaking... anyways it was cool at points dont get me wrong 3 stars

Scream, Dracula, Scream by Rocket From The Crypt
Aug 05 2025

pretty fun and uptempo but sorta unremarkable i felt. Atom Willard who plays drums on this record seems like the coolest dude ever

Bossanova by Pixies
Aug 06 2025

this is awesome for me because after listening to Doolittle two weeks ago i was thinking it was a shame i never heard bossanova and i wanted to listen to it!! clearly the algo read my mind... pretty cool and i enjoyed the more post punk sound this album has... still not lovin the pixies but still finding them perfectly enjoyable and good!

Aug 07 2025

always been a husker du fan!! they are really cool and good and i like bob mould. never ever heard this record but it was awesome! Listened to it as i drove into banff and it was an awesome soundtrack for giant mountains.

Aug 08 2025

this was like the ultimate album that my cool older cousins and brother liked and i always wanted to be let into the club, then i forgot about it and listened to it again when nick, jonah and I traveled to nyc when we were 18... pretty much loved it since then....

Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers
Aug 09 2025

i just dont even know what this was

Repeater by Fugazi
Aug 10 2025

one of the goat of all time bands... just unreal how good this shit is

Cafe Bleu by The Style Council
Aug 11 2025

hey! this was fun

Miriam Makeba by Miriam Makeba
Aug 12 2025

i always thought she was really interesting as like the first african musician to gain widespread recognition globally... and so cool that she was married to kwame ture... she has a really awesome story and i liked the album too!! its always in dollar bins nowadays but supa solid

Post Orgasmic Chill by Skunk Anansie
Aug 13 2025

hey this was pretty cool... kinda doin every genre haha

Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons
Aug 14 2025

its just funny to me that the byrds arent my fav band ever when Gram Parsons, Gene Clark and David Crosby were all in the band... anyways im gonna read the Laurel Canyon book to find out if this guy was a CIA covert opp <3

NEU! 75 by Neu!
Aug 15 2025

i think this is some of the best music ever

Talk Talk Talk by The Psychedelic Furs
Aug 16 2025

hey not bad at all

Queen Of Denmark by John Grant
Aug 18 2025

i really had never heard of this album but i really enjoyed it.. it was so nice!! awesome!

The Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald
Aug 19 2025

deeply rude to put an album this long on the list and i like ... couldn't have cared less about it the whole time but i enjoyed it nonetheless

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Aug 20 2025

this music is SO fun

Kala by M.I.A.
Aug 21 2025

honestly one of my fav albums growing up - it was really cool to me to hear 'eastern' music, decontextualized in this really interesting and cool way, and I still think its the best bloghouse album ever... honestly i love it a lot!!

Snivilisation by Orbital
Aug 22 2025

i loveeeeeee techno !!! this album was so fun

All Mod Cons by The Jam
Aug 23 2025

hey this was super fun... i liked it! kundun... i liked it!

Superunknown by Soundgarden
Aug 24 2025

oh jeez i just dont know... it wasn't bad but i think not for me!

The Last Of The True Believers by Nanci Griffith
Aug 25 2025

honestly from the album art i thought this was like a city pop album but turns out its actually just a very nice country album LOL. kind of random and seems like an album that is relevant for being on this list but nonetheless it was enjoyable!

Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes
Aug 26 2025

i thought this band was counting crows and i was stoked to listen to it but it was actually some bullshit i did not care about at all

Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company
Aug 27 2025

this is like the only janis joplin thing where i kinda start to understand what people like about her but generally speaking she does nothing for me

Madman Across The Water by Elton John
Aug 28 2025

listening to this i kinda realized i had never listened all the way thru an elton john album and it was actually basically exactly what i expected which is pretty good in my books!

Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves
Aug 30 2025

huge album that gets an incredible amount of play of play in our house... i really don't like the wonder woman song but i enjoy everything else! How could I not like my nephew's fav album...

Elephant Mountain by The Youngbloods
Aug 31 2025

started and ended and i suppose i heard it. i do agree with nick about the instrumental trax... they were sick

Off The Wall by Michael Jackson
Sep 01 2025

the best Michael Jackson album BUT i do love teddy riley and the Dangerous new jack swing album...

I See You by The xx
Sep 02 2025

yet another example of this list being random as hell.. the xx' third album? what the hell lol. anyways their first album was really good i listened to it last year and still liked it and this one i didnt listen to since 2017 and its just totally fine and i didnt need to hear it before i died imo

Survivor by Destiny's Child
Sep 03 2025

so i do think this album is a bit milquetoast and i actually prefer the album that came before this one.. but its fun... i sorta barely liked it tho sadly

Music in Exile by Songhoy Blues
Sep 04 2025

i love music from mali... its just a fact about me

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly
Sep 05 2025

kind of an awesome idea for an album: Lets make an album where every song sucks except the last song which is the best song ever

Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
Sep 06 2025

really bizarre album, a bit fringe and closer to outsider music than not... tom waits is cool man i love that hes famous for being a weirdo haha

The Renaissance by Q-Tip
Sep 07 2025

really nice... really smooth ... qtip the goat

Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sep 09 2025

jeez i think think this album starts out insanely bad lol but finishes really strong and Maps is really like one of the best songs of the 2000s... pretty nostalgic listen and a nice testament to how my tastes have changed since i was an early teen

Entertainment by Gang Of Four
Sep 13 2025

one of the fun albums of all time... been lovin this thing for like 15 years!!

Sister by Sonic Youth
Sep 14 2025

learning to love sonic youth, I think they kick ass but the conversion process is slow

Sep 15 2025

genuinely inconceivably good ... so impressive and still so fresh... love this album a bit too much

...And Justice For All by Metallica
Sep 16 2025

I'm sick and tired of being judged for Metallica being my favourite band... you guys cannot take this away from me.

Pump by Aerosmith
Sep 18 2025

what the eff is this sheet

Triangle by The Beau Brummels
Sep 20 2025

now i should really like this but i am generally skeptical of San Francisco and for some reason its just not workin all that well for me

Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds
Sep 21 2025

here is a copy of David McGowan's Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream: https://archive.org/details/weirdscenesinsid0000mcgo where you can learn all about how The Byrds and other similar bands were CIA co-operatives who created the hippie movement to de-ligitamtize the anti war movement in the 1960s...

Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand
Sep 22 2025

honestly never connected for me but its fun and exciting and i think if i was a millennial this would go so hard

The Rise & Fall by Madness
Sep 24 2025

Literally this album must be on here cuz of our house... like what the hell was this wacko album. I did not need to listen to it before i died

Let It Be by The Replacements
Sep 25 2025

nicer and cuter than i remembered !! i liked the part where gary had a boner

Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Sep 26 2025

really amazing and sublime album... there is so many eno-y touches on this album ! I really wonder if he's the most represented producer on this list? I really loved it and amazing that he made this within my lifetime... just so pretty and nice

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Sep 27 2025

elliott smith is one of those guys who like every time i listen to them make music im like wow this guy is awesome and then i forget about his existence immediately after

Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres Of Paradise
Sep 28 2025

not too sure about this one... coulda been an email!

Broken English by Marianne Faithfull
Sep 29 2025

reminds me a bit of joni's albums from the same era... kinda interesting to track both of their arcs as kinda similar... folk star turned experimentalist obsessed with jazz and funk music haha. but ms faithfull goes a more new wave which i probably attribute to her being british... anyways cool album

Welcome To The Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Sep 30 2025

i do like that genre of really gay british music (I guess its called "new pop" ... anyhow this was just ok for me but I suppose i will automatically like anything that is fun, gay and british

Coles Corner by Richard Hawley
Oct 01 2025

this was so nice!

Basket of Light by Pentangle
Oct 02 2025

i had no idea the goat Bert Jansch was in a band!! and the band was awesome!! what the hell

Under Construction by Missy Elliott
Oct 03 2025

I do think this is like the third best missy album, but i do kinda think it works so well bcuz Timbaland is really uninhibited... the production on this album is awesome haha

Oct 04 2025

Tortoise was one of those bands i always felt like i was supposed to like but never knew why and guess what... i do like them... so take that!

Let's Get Killed by David Holmes
Oct 05 2025

weird ? kinda cool... mostly weird

Roots by Sepultura
Oct 07 2025

I think the inclusion of this album actually tells us a lot about the methodology of this list... there's two Sepultura albums on the list... Arise from 1991 (their best) and this one which I would consider not one of Sepultura best albums but rather one of their most unique and interesting in the ways it uses Afro-Brazilian rhythms and traditional Brazilian music... anyways like a dumb thing to remember but i guess its not a list of the 1001 best albums ever but rather the ones this one guy thinks you need to listen to before death.. but still im mad at him for some of the bullshit hes made me listen to ngl... 4 stars

Made In Japan by Deep Purple
Oct 08 2025

i recognize that this is good but boy did i not GAF

Dare! by The Human League
Oct 10 2025

one thing i like about british music is that its kinda inherently gay and lots of straight musicians were sorta forced to make music for gay guys

Horses by Patti Smith
Oct 11 2025

man new york rocks... shout out john cale

Beach Samba by Astrud Gilberto
Oct 13 2025

hard genre to fuck up... she got close

Rising Above Bedlam by Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
Oct 16 2025

nicks review made me laugh a lot but ive always been curious about this guy and i see i should have never even begun to start considering him

Ramones by Ramones
Oct 17 2025

andddddddd... imma keep it real chief but the ramones kick ass

Vauxhall And I by Morrissey
Oct 18 2025

When I typed "Does Morrissey have mommy issues?" into Brave search the AI overview answered with a bunch of lines about Morrissey's profound connection to his mother, and I would say that he has all the markers of a man who was loved a little too deeply by his mommy... He really takes on the maternalistic martyr role with his lyrical content that is so concerned with how he is a victim for loving too much... sound like anyone you know? I think partially that's why I find it so easy to connect to his music? I similarly have a weird relationship with my mom who's biggest crime in her eyes was loving me too much... maybe I should write a bunch of songs about it.

Nick Of Time by Bonnie Raitt
Oct 19 2025

i dont exactly get it,,,,,,, kinda the most generic and boring shit of all time ?

Smokers Delight by Nightmares On Wax
Oct 22 2025

i like stoners, they're just good people ... and they move real slow you never gotta worry about them

Sincere by Mj Cole
Oct 23 2025

hard to say... it was most certainly music, that i can confirm

Eternally Yours by The Saints
Oct 24 2025

it was fun but i am still aussie-phobic

The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest
Oct 25 2025

has been heavy in the car rotation lately... i think this record is often overlooked in the greatest hip hop album ever conversation because the lyrics are a bit more goofy than something like illmatic or the infamous but honest to god I think this is best hip hop album ever because of how varied the lyrics are and how much ground the production covers here... anyways its basically the most perfect albums by one of the most perfect groups so yeah... you know what it is

Casanova by The Divine Comedy
Oct 26 2025

please,,, please stop

Rubber Soul by Beatles
Oct 27 2025

like constant unfathomable nostalgia playing these albums.. i need to see an analyst asap.. anyways 2/10 of my fav beatles trax on this album... In My Life and If I Needed Someone

L'Eau Rouge by The Young Gods
Oct 28 2025

kind of hilarious ? what the hell is going on here

Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye
Oct 31 2025

i like long albums when they kick major ass basically

Heartattack And Vine by Tom Waits
Nov 01 2025

honestly ive barely listened to this bloke before this list and he kicks a whole buncha ass

Nov 02 2025

i kinda can't believe how long it was... sorta went on forever. for the right kinda white guy i can totally see how this is like PEAK music but for me... im good. it was kinda funny to me how much of marc maron's jimmy pardo episode (i think 5th or 4th from the end) was basically just all about how pardo has seen chicago live like 120 times and the most recent time he saw them he was like... wait maybe they suck. anyways.. .3 stars ... i guess ?

Nov 03 2025

not actually that funny but just interesting that the chicago album had a cover of a song that Steve Winwood wrote on it and the next day we got a Traffic album... Steve Winwood's band... it really is a small world afterall

Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Nov 05 2025

wow this kicked mega ass lmao

Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Nov 07 2025

just completely my shit

Heroes by David Bowie
Nov 08 2025

i mean... its just like me bait honestly. I do think "heroes" is potentially the best song of all time and its really to cool to me that brian eno... my hero had such direction on this album and the two before it. anyways i sometimes think bowie sucks cuz he was a genre hopper but he had really obscure taste to be honest... making a krautrock album in berlin in the 70s is just like the coolest thing anyone could ever do... and he got to do it with brian eno... come on... my only issue tho is a lot of bowie music is samey to me and i get a lil bored ..

Manassas by Stephen Stills
Nov 09 2025

pretty good but i think its too long... i kinda forgot how long it was.. come on man

Lost Souls by Doves
Nov 10 2025

less ass than i anticipated

GREY Area by Little Simz
Nov 11 2025

I like her i always liked her

Immigrés by Youssou N'Dour
Nov 12 2025

I've listened to a bunch of the Star Band's stuff and i'm generally a really big fan, and of senegalese music in general!

Lust For Life by Iggy Pop
Nov 13 2025

i honestly had no idea that david bowie produced the first three iggy pop albums and also was like the recording engineer for them? kinda random as all fuck

Street Life by The Crusaders
Nov 14 2025

this was awesome and also hilarious that the playlist for this album on youtube was compiled by a japanese guy whose username was "Donald Fagen"

Maverick A Strike by Finley Quaye
Nov 15 2025

great scott! (this guy is from scotland)

Surfer Rosa by Pixies
Nov 16 2025

good and has that one really good song

Le Tigre by Le Tigre
Nov 17 2025

basically epicsauce as hell ... need i say more?

American Gothic by David Ackles
Nov 18 2025

this album was soooooo weird, i can def hear the Bernie Taupin production on this thing!

Tellin’ Stories by The Charlatans
Nov 19 2025

I read this in the wikipedia article and i started scoffing "Stories is a Britpop, hip hop soul, and rock album that has been compared to the work of Patti Smith and Neil Young." but then i kinda got it ... but I think it set some unrealistic expectations. kool that Martin Duffy from Felt and Primal Scream played on this but uncool that he had to replace a guy that died a pretty horrific sounding death

Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Nov 21 2025

that was the first time i ever listened to linkin park and no offence to nick but it needs to grow on me a lil bit

Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Nov 22 2025

its kinda funny i never think about it but i guess Animal Collective is like one of my fav bands (after steely dan of course) but ... i was listening to this and I was like mentally ranking the albums and thinking this is probably their 5th best album (strawberry jam, sung tongs, feels, spirit they've come, then this one...) and i was like... crazy cuz in saying that I actually still love this one a lot... altho i think when it came out i had a really contrarian take when i was annoyed that this album which is worse than their other shit was being so lauded... anyways its still amazing and AC is really one of the most special bands of the 2000s... very like definitive band for me too ... also very interesting to me that like everything they've made since this album in 2009 hasn't really been that well received or honestly that good.. except the 2022 and 2023 studio albums which are super underated... i do like foridada thoooooooo anyways i love AC

Take Me Apart by Kelela
Nov 23 2025

should out kelela shout out Arca this album rocks

No Other by Gene Clark
Nov 24 2025

the conspiracy book i read about the laurel canyon has made me so suspect of all the members of the byrds but honestly so far ive really liked all of gene clark's solo albums and he seems like honestly just a chiller and ambassador of vibes

Close To You by Carpenters
Nov 25 2025

never really knew why but the carpenters are my mom's fav english speaking band... karen c has a really beautiful voice and i am super endeared to them because they remind me a lot of my childhood... i also often sing we've only just begun at karaoke and lemme say.. i had no idea Paul Williams wrote it .

Night Life by Ray Price
Nov 26 2025

this was quite nice and calm

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
Nov 27 2025

she is really the best!! awesome album, only good piece of pandemic art (?)

The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
Nov 28 2025

there is legit 2 good songs on this sack of shit

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Nov 29 2025

ok like i hear the music, and I think its good. I like what im hearing... and this album is basically a Roger Waters album so i like it even more... but then i just have never understood the ppl who think floyd is the best band ever... like theyre good!!!! but idk

More Specials by The Specials
Nov 30 2025

honestly why is no one making music like this anymore? it kicks ass

Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev
Dec 01 2025

looks like i rated this album 5 stars on rym on feb 17th 2014 and now 12 years later I will also rate it 5 stars as it is one of my fav albums of all time

Screamadelica by Primal Scream
Dec 02 2025

Madchester is like the funniest name ever for a music movement ... anyways album rocks

I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen
Dec 03 2025

its so fucking funny to me that for like 9 years all music was just people scatting over casio keyboard presets and this album is no difference, altho... pretty good!

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen
Dec 04 2025

cant explain it and im not trying to give North American jews the brown pass (yr white sorry bro) but cohen became spiritually more oriental in his old age ... cool album and rip to a pretty classic pathetic man (tm)

Different Class by Pulp
Dec 05 2025

honestly never been a huge pulp guy but they have really high highs!!

Vanishing Point by Primal Scream
Dec 06 2025

liked less than the other primal scream album ... these guys are weird as hell man

Teenager Of The Year by Frank Black
Dec 08 2025

this was so fun!! i think this guy played supercrawl the first time i went ...? in 2011 /////>>???

Who's Next by The Who
Dec 09 2025

ok so I didnt know the riley in baba o'riley was TERRY RILEY ! made me like the who a lot more haha... also that track makes me feel like im watching a scorsese movie... but honestly the album i feel like opens and closes really strong and everything in between is just like ... ok lol... i dunno i kinda felt like i got tricked a lil bit,

Dec 10 2025

listened to those principle 4 kinks albums last year and really liked them!! they are i think a really fun and enjoyable band with tight and cool trax... waterloo sunset being the best track on this album of course

Sunshine Superman by Donovan
Dec 12 2025

I think of this guy as basically the ultimate dirty hippie and kinda hate him for that fact but he also seems chill enough lol...?

Tidal by Fiona Apple
Dec 13 2025

but surprised that this is the second of two f apple albums on the list! but its damn good... shes the best !!

Fever Ray by Fever Ray
Dec 14 2025

i think its pretty good but like at the end of the day not exactly for me

Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Dec 15 2025

admittedly a pretty strange and interesting album... on the wiki it has this line "Described as "one of the most harrowing documents of pain and confusion ever made" and let me say that did not come across at all... i was like am i listening to the right album after reading that lol...

Stripped by Christina Aguilera
Dec 17 2025

so what this guy just loves Christina Aguilera? in all honesty i am wondering why he doesn't just go and marry her...

Spiderland by Slint
Dec 18 2025

just one of those albums that i know is great so i never listen to it but when i get around to it... goddamn!

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby by Girls Against Boys
Dec 19 2025

honestly this was awesome and i like most pigfuck music, kinda surprised it was on this list!

Dec 20 2025

tryin to get into this guys psychology where he thinks i gotta listen to two happy mondays albums before i die...? anyways was shocked to learn this album was produced by Paul Oakenfold that is honestly a bit too random

Station To Station by David Bowie
Dec 21 2025

i feel like i always forget that bowie was like actually a weirdo for being such a popular musician

Brutal Youth by Elvis Costello
Dec 23 2025

would have happily died without listening to this fuckass album

Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Dec 24 2025

man can i be so for real right now ........ i just dont see it at all, i dont get it in the slightest bit and think he actually just sucks ass and the only interesting thing on the album is the celtic folk elements

Suicide by Suicide
Dec 26 2025

foundational text for me ... just one of the best albums ever and some of the most harrowing and desperate music of all time

The Sounds Of India by Ravi Shankar
Dec 27 2025

someone on letterboxd this week called me 'that friend who's too woke' and not to play into that but to me including this as the sole Ravi Shankar album is obviously orientalist and kind of racist, I know that Ravi made this to 'introduce' indian music and primarily ragas to the west but this like the least dynamic album of his and one that is mostly introductory and not representative of how interesting and good he is as a musician! it just bugs me!!!! anyways its obviously amazing cuz ravi is the goat but like come on!

Hail To the Thief by Radiohead
Dec 28 2025

theres 5 other radiohead albums on here why would we need what is like very much accepted as their third worst album.

Woodface by Crowded House
Dec 29 2025

I would happily die if it meant never having to listen to music from Australia again :)

Bright Flight by Silver Jews
Jan 01 2026

my David Berman issue is that im not a lyrics listener but this album is so nice!

Good Old Boys by Randy Newman
Jan 03 2026

honestly i like it... i know its misguided white guy music so nick and luke aren't allowed to like it but it just works for me LOL.

On The Beach by Neil Young
Jan 04 2026

I do think this is like the ... deep cut neil album even tho its on of his best regarded albums. it just rocks my fuckin world... and i got to see him play ambulance blues twice this year in toronto ... holy moly

I Against I by Bad Brains
Jan 05 2026

album was awesome... love these guys!

The Stooges by The Stooges
Jan 06 2026

i think its pretty good! iggy pop is weird as frick tho

Maxinquaye by Tricky
Jan 07 2026

pretty strange stuff but also interesting and banksy adjacent

Only By The Night by Kings of Leon
Jan 08 2026

just one of the most terrible things i ever heard in my life

Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Jan 09 2026

feels like a hard album to rate in the context of this list lol but it was pretty good eh

Debut by Björk
Jan 10 2026

pretty awesome album!! i need to become more of a bjork person

Metallica by Metallica
Jan 11 2026

they hate when i talk about how metallica is my fav band... its literally called being a victim and i suffer from it

Cross by Justice
Jan 12 2026

man this album still rocks, bloghouse still rocks, france still rocks...

Licensed To Ill by Beastie Boys
Jan 13 2026

these guys are the funniest... i was a big beasties fan in hs and def still enjoy them but have a bit more of a chill vibe now

Eagles by Eagles
Jan 15 2026

easily the worst of the entire Laurel Canyon scene and overall I would say one of the worst bands of all time. the only redeeming thing about them is that Jackson Browne was writing songs for them and they were according to my sources (David McGowan) one of the least CIA affiliated bands in the canyon

Ingenue by k.d. lang
Jan 16 2026

I love this album!! it's really beautiful

Vespertine by Björk
Jan 17 2026

ya i mean... come on... its literally perfect

At Mister Kelly's by Sarah Vaughan
Jan 18 2026

this was so nice! i really liked it!!

Suzanne Vega by Suzanne Vega
Jan 20 2026

deeply unfamiliar, kinda unsettling ... not my jam but cool that lenny kaye worked on it

Mott by Mott The Hoople
Jan 21 2026

so theres two mott the hoople albums on this list and that just pisses me off. at least on the next one i get to listen to All the Young Dudes but what the hell is this on the list for

A Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren
Jan 22 2026

I got into Todd Rundgren last year and I think he kicks like an unreal amount of ass

Savane by Ali Farka Touré
Jan 23 2026

if someone told me something along the lines of like... if you like Ali Farka Touré too much you should marry him... lets just say SAVE THE DATE 16/05/2026

Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout
Jan 24 2026

quite good and quite fun!

Risque by CHIC
Jan 25 2026

kicks an extreme amount of ass

Orbital 2 by Orbital
Jan 26 2026

i had never heard this before and i almost gave it 5 stars... it was a bit too legit... i was scared by its legitness

Crocodiles by Echo And The Bunnymen
Jan 27 2026

it's nothing against echo and the bunnymen but the inclusion of music like THIS (pretty average to good white guy music) to me is so indicative of why this list is ultimately racist and it sucks

Green Onions by Booker T. & The MG's
Jan 28 2026

spongebob ass music

Bubble And Scrape by Sebadoh
Jan 29 2026

yo this was awesome. i like it. im a 90s guy. everyone knows that about me

The New Tango by Astor Piazzolla
Jan 30 2026

this guy has like 7 all timer albums, an undeniable master in his field, and probably the most highly considered tango musician on earth and this random throwaway live album is what the dumbass who makes this list decided is the album of astor piazzolla's i have to listen to before i die. i actually hate him and this stupid ass terrible list

California by American Music Club
Feb 01 2026

would not join this club

Feb 02 2026

i downloaded all the genesis albums for a listen through this year but goddamn this kicked ass.... excited to listen to all their albums!!

For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music
Feb 03 2026

kinda interesting that eno quit the band right after this album bcuz he fuckin hated bryan ferry, its quite the full project and i think probably the best roxy album... crazy how weird and cool this band is ... every member uniquely kooky. anyways it kicks ass what else is there to say

Tank Battles by Dagmar Krause
Feb 04 2026

listen im as big of a fan of the weimar republic as anyone but some things I wonder if they're best left in the past

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Feb 06 2026

Pretty incredible as a second album (released within the same year!)... Neil really came out fully formed... this is sort of the quintessential 'classic rock' album to me in the sense that it hits all the stuff old guys like... its about perfect i reckon, probably my third fav neil album :-)

The Man Who by Travis
Feb 08 2026

to put it plainly... ass and a half

Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes
Feb 10 2026

was always number 1 on my topsters lists... i basically think its the best album of all time. ive loved it my whole life

Tago Mago by Can
Feb 11 2026

opens soooo strong and gets a bit loopy by the end but i love this album... always been one for the books

At Budokan by Cheap Trick
Feb 13 2026

I learned a lot about the Budokan venue by listening to this. honestly, cheap trick is super unremarkable... surrender is obviously a classic track but like .... who cares lol

Ready To Die by The Notorious B.I.G.
Feb 14 2026

he has such a complicated tenor to his voice... really dynamic range, and I suppose it makes sense that a vocalist uses their voice like an instrument... feels like a real kindergarten think to strike me this far into my life loooool.

The La's by The La's
Feb 15 2026

so random they only made the one album and it was crazy to place There She Goes a song ive probably heard 100 times and never had any idea who made it/anything about it

The Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones
Feb 16 2026

sorry but this was the literal definition of an ass... hole, cheeks and all.

Arular by M.I.A.
Feb 17 2026

the music ... is epic

Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal
Feb 18 2026

one of the coolest albums ever!! it's so formed and amazing, crazy he wrote a bunch of these songs as a teenager... what the heck

Marcus Garvey by Burning Spear
Feb 19 2026

I've been listening to a lot of Roots Reggae, which I think is one of the best genres of music ever basically. I also think that Reggae is one of those genres that has lost a lot of texture from the trade up to digital equipment... I kinda feel like there's gonna be a big roots revival in toronto in the next 5 years

Fire Of Love by The Gun Club
Feb 20 2026

I listened to this album one time in 2015 and honest to god i thought there were Black people in this band... shocker there isn't LOL. Anyways i get it that its problematic but i like it :)

Darkdancer by Les Rythmes Digitales
Feb 21 2026

finally! a good album

Pyromania by Def Leppard
Feb 23 2026

okay so the album art is super awesome but the music sucks ass

Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart
Feb 24 2026

i'm trying to think of a joke about them pumping his stomach cuz there was so much cum in it and say that they also pumped gasoline out... any input would be helpful.

Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz
Feb 25 2026

bought this album without really knowing what it was when i was like 12 at the VV in the east end, near eastgate mall and jfc is it a stone cold classic

So by Peter Gabriel
Feb 27 2026

i loveeeee eee the song with Youssou N'Dour... just saw him in Xala i almost yelled at the screen!

McCartney by Paul McCartney
Feb 28 2026

i like the story of this album... that he just locked himself in a barn and just made all these tracks by himself. honestly cool guy thing to do imo. super fun album!

Back to Mystery City by Hanoi Rocks
Mar 01 2026

ok so .. not bad at all but like what the hell is this

Make Yourself by Incubus
Mar 02 2026

honestly had never listened to them but this was very kick of the ass

At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
Mar 03 2026

i just think the conceit of these albums are awesome as hell. who's cooler than a bunch of random guys in jail

Rid Of Me by PJ Harvey
Mar 04 2026

pretty fun! kinda getting into PJ Harvey

Trafalgar by Bee Gees
Mar 05 2026

i like the beegees but this album is weird as hell and ya i do not like the song about israel :/

Duck Rock by Malcolm McLaren
Mar 06 2026

sorry but TWO tracks from this going top 10 in the UK is the funniest thing i ever heard. obviously this is 'problematic' in the ways that MM didn't credit any of the musicians he sampled and worked with... interesting because the world famous supreme team are so foregrounded which says something about how he engages with cultures and which he finds more palatable... very strange and interesting album and I guess it got me thinking about Graceland which i think is way more offensive especially considering Paul Simon broke the cultural boycott against apartheid in South Africa to record it... anyways the music i thought was really awesome and reading more about MM it seems his politics were solid and good.. on his wiki it says his last words were: "Free Leonard Peltier"... so shout out my guy LOL

Gorillaz by Gorillaz
Mar 07 2026

basically the Duck Rock of the 2000s

From Elvis In Memphis by Elvis Presley
Mar 08 2026

yo he ate this shit up... im becoming an elvis guy for sure

Thriller by Michael Jackson
Mar 11 2026

unfortunately, this album, despite it's incredible highs has always fallen a bit flat for me... it is sometimes a bit to elevator music adjacent for me (the girl is mine and human nature being one the worst examples of this imo) my fav track is P.Y.T. which feels spiritually like an Off The Wall track (the FAR superior album IMO) anyways.. its totally fine and more iconic than anything methinks

Justified by Justin Timberlake
Mar 12 2026

i read that he was gonna call this album The Justified and a little birdy told him to drop the The

Bad by Michael Jackson
Mar 13 2026

pretttttty dated I think ultimately and there's two songs on here i can't hear without WISHING i was listening to a parody of them or a cover... so there's that. i think conceptually as always with MJs music there's a lot of really grand ideas at play, some of which fall a bit flat for me and i think the failings and flaws of this album are much more palpable than the ones on Thriller which at the end of the day isnt that exciting to me....... anyhow nice to think about these albums deeply when i feel like they are so ubiquitously 'music'

Signing Off by UB40
Mar 14 2026

I like reggae and dub music a LOT ... england is funny man. this album was good but it was a bit too clean and polished for me... i wanted a bit more stank on it

Axis: Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix
Mar 15 2026

I like blues and I like rock but when they are combined for some reason it just isn't resonating as hard as I'd like it to!

Parachutes by Coldplay
Mar 16 2026

a bit too boring at points but the highs are SO high... damn... don't panic is a killer opener

Germfree Adolescents by X-Ray Spex
Mar 17 2026

just one of those bands that all around kicks a huge amount of ass

Mar 18 2026

the kind album that makes you fall asleep at your desk and fart yourself awake

Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
Mar 19 2026

totally pleasant music! honestly had no complaints, wasn't the most ambitious album but i dont think it was trying to do that much ultimately...

The Wildest! by Louis Prima
Mar 20 2026

I almost coyote ugly'd my desk listening to this

Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.
Mar 21 2026

maybe the only good album ever made in england?

Django Django by Django Django
Mar 22 2026

I hope that Major Payne leads a platoon to take out the recording studio where this was recorded

Mar 23 2026

I enjoy statements... im sorta done with the question... no more questions!! just statements!!!

Will The Circle Be Unbroken by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Mar 24 2026

I always remember seeing this thing at the record store and it was cool to finally hear it. never been a bluegrass guy which is weird cuz im a steve martin guy. these are the shortcomings I have to live with every day. I'm trying to be better, really... I am...

Ys by Joanna Newsom
Mar 26 2026

it makes me too emotional... its just indescribably beautiful...

Kenya by Machito
Mar 27 2026

i like old stuff. Sue me!

Goo by Sonic Youth
Mar 28 2026

my interactions with the members of sonic youth are as follows: thurston moore: none lee ronaldo: saw at hillside with the medicine singers and some israeli. he is married to Leah Singer who is a visual artist from Toronto so they're kind of randomly at art events sometimes and ive never spoken to them Kim Gordon: I sent her an email 2 months ago about her visual art for an exhibition I'm putting together and she never got back to me. I even emailed her gallery and they never replied. Steve Shelley: never heard of him. interestingly and its a longer story the whole reason i was able to work on michael snow's archive and become close to him before his death is rooted from a sonic youth concert in the 90s where CCMC was the opener in Toronto... shout out my bud john oswald who just put out an official plunderphonics remix album called Diamond Seas this year... madness

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
Mar 29 2026

i find it so badass when people release their best album as their last album... logically you'd really want to capitalize off of a hugely critically acclaimed album right? these guys were like whatever fuck it. and just for the record im team art fuck paul simon.

Heaux Tales by Jazmine Sullivan
Mar 30 2026

mm better than i remembered. you know this sorta brought up an issue for me with this list is that there should be way more EPs on it!! less long playing please more extended play. come on!!

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
Mar 31 2026

the ultimate 3.5 on rym band. like nothing is bad but its all like.. not that exciting. and just good and solid. honestly good for them for really making some iconic rifts in an era where guitar music was kinda dying? I feel like white millennial dads are listening to the white stripes in the garage like white boomer dads listened to venom and anvil in the garage y'kno what im sayin

Apr 01 2026

i had never listened to one of her albums... cool that shes kinda like a contemporary folk.. issues songs singer. i like it. shout out ireland and they gotta free northern ireland asap

Two Dancers by Wild Beasts
Apr 02 2026

sorry to be negative but when i hear something like this it just pisses me off to no end

Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Apr 03 2026

i used to like this album a lot and guess what i still like it

Marquee Moon by Television
Apr 04 2026

good band... Tom Verlaine is a cool guy.. album is good too.

Surf's Up by The Beach Boys
Apr 05 2026

I remember hearing this album for the first time. It's so impeccably bizarre and really lovely and beautiful. i love the beach boys!!

Like A Prayer by Madonna
Apr 06 2026

i think this is the album where madonna officially 'taps' in and becomes cool... the madonna album choices on this list are a bit silly... but alas i like most madonna albums :)

Slanted And Enchanted by Pavement
Apr 07 2026

the concept of being a slacker is cool to me... i am a slacker

Apr 08 2026

i do like that all of john's solo material is like... baring his soul broken man music. very relatable

Strange Cargo III by William Orbit
Apr 09 2026

honestly i am extremely endeared to stupid ass music like this. i really think i woulda liked the 90s guys... seems right up my alley

Space Ritual by Hawkwind
Apr 10 2026

so random that lemmy was playing bass for this live album... pretty awesome if you ask me but space rock and really quickly become cringe and sadly this became a bit cringe

Actually by Pet Shop Boys
Apr 11 2026

these guys are sooooo fun i love them!

Cypress Hill by Cypress Hill
Apr 13 2026

listening to this just makes you wish you were latino... #real

Liege And Lief by Fairport Convention
Apr 14 2026

honestly i got really into these guys last year... i love folk music!!!

Blur by Blur
Apr 18 2026

there is some pretty good parts... i guess ultimately im not a britpop guy and i sorta don't understand it as a scene/genre but im a guy who loves london, uk so i gotta give it up y'kno

Low by David Bowie
Apr 19 2026

gotta be the best non death related bowie album right? gonna listen to the drum and bass album next

Oedipus Schmoedipus by Barry Adamson
Apr 20 2026

really strange album... acid jazz is funny... kinda cool if you ask me

Yank Crime by Drive Like Jehu
Apr 21 2026

i dont like this band's name but I do like their MUSIC

The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Apr 22 2026

I guess this band is good. I will investigate further

Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners
Apr 23 2026

trying to mind my resentment for having to listen to three albums by this band (I can now confidently say I needed to listen to 0 dexys midnight runners albums before I died...) but all in all Come On Eileen is awesome and thats sorta all i gleaned from these three albums

The Clash by The Clash
Apr 24 2026

as a london fan... i like it!

Either Or by Elliott Smith
Apr 25 2026

ok i admit it... its really good and awesome

Logical Progression by LTJ Bukem
Apr 26 2026

loved every second of this well worth the runtime

Raw Power by The Stooges
Apr 27 2026

ABSOLUTE POWERRRRRR

Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings
Apr 28 2026

very swag good and awesome 4 STARS

D by White Denim
Apr 29 2026

2 stars for keeping my attention despite everything about it sucking butt

LP1 by FKA twigs
May 01 2026

more like FKA bad cuz its now known as good... 4 stars

May 02 2026

man the first three tracks on this album are total all timers. the kniks are pretty epicsauce but I feel a bit trepidatious about them... but tbh i never knew they have almost 30 albums and some of them (Soap Opera) seem hilarious

Bone Machine by Tom Waits
May 03 2026

learning to love this incredible weirdo. this album was super cool... what a guy!

Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
May 05 2026

i really like rovert wyatt and am a bit more partial to schleep but i listened to this album a lot in highschool. its very cool to me that Mike Oldfield played on it and wyatt has such an interesting and resilient story... this is his first album after becoming a paraplegic, and its so good and heartfelt!

The Nightfly by Donald Fagen
May 06 2026

So ... steely dan is my favourite band ......

The Atomic Mr Basie by Count Basie & His Orchestra
May 07 2026

imagine of the costco guys found out about this. the booms would be out of control

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones
May 08 2026

opening - best song ever middle - worst songs of all time closing - okay-est song ever

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive by Merle Haggard
May 09 2026

album is awesome but if there's no townes van zandt albums on this list i may end my life

The Libertines by The Libertines
May 10 2026

honestly not even that bad but i was dreading it so hard

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris
May 11 2026

very nice!! i love her neil young cover wrecking ball obviously. and the trio album (I listen to wildflowers like every day) she's good!!

Sex Packets by Digital Underground
May 12 2026

i used to listen to this album all the time (never considered it to be afrofuturist until now) but the voice that shock g does when hes playing humpty hump makes me laugh soooo much. anyways the fun fact about these guys is that 2pac was their backup dancer for a long time and thats basically how i knew about them originally. fun tunes!

The Sensual World by Kate Bush
May 13 2026

kind of a bit of a more random kate bush album but hey. all her album are good... nice !

Come Find Yourself by Fun Lovin' Criminals
May 14 2026

this album is a testament to nick's uncontrollability... like is this the ony 1 star album he's even given? when reading the description of it i was like oh this is gonna be one of those albums that nick gives 5 stars to and I don't understand at all and somehow i'm giving it a higher rating than he did.

Since I Left You by The Avalanches
May 15 2026

For some reason this album has never connected in the way it should have. i know its good and the best im just gonna keep listening to it until its my fav

Ananda Shankar by Ananda Shankar
May 16 2026

wow!!! raga rock. so funny... it totally doesn't work but I like it!!

The Specials by The Specials
May 18 2026

i was just in london and i was telling everyone i totally understand the specials now and they're so awesome and make so much sense

Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
May 26 2026

one of my first time really connecting with a dino jr album!

Group Sex by Circle Jerks
May 27 2026

i love hardcore and i love the length of this album

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
May 28 2026

one of my albums of all time... just the freakest best music ever

Remain In Light by Talking Heads
May 29 2026

its really good but like chill...

Odessa by Bee Gees
May 31 2026

the bee gees suck ass

The College Dropout by Kanye West
Jun 01 2026

yeah so... basically the best and most formative music ever for me... soooooooo ..........

Butterfly by Mariah Carey
Jun 02 2026

this was so fun and good! imagine listening to this on a discman with your feet bent straight up in the air

The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan
Jun 03 2026

always liked this guy and his weird music!! i miss the analog days

Unhalfbricking by Fairport Convention
Jun 04 2026

i was really excited to see richard thompson last year cuz of fairport c but he was kinda underwhelming. i guess people get old and they sorta become a bit less impressive.. I love folk music tho

Chelsea Girl by Nico
Jun 05 2026

the lenny bruce song makes me laugh everytime but goddamn it I love this psycho nazi and her astoundingly beautiful music

Bongo Rock by Incredible Bongo Band
Jun 06 2026

kinda like one of the foundational albums eh.. one of the breakbeat originators... and yet the album itself is just fine

Boston by Boston
Jun 09 2026

more than anything this reminded me of listening to the radio and how awesome it was to hear like random ass songs like More Than A Feeling than you'd never listen to just like going about your day... then it comes on the radio and you're like o ya this bangs... but ya those first three trax are bangers and then the rest kinda happened

Histoire De Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg
Jun 10 2026

kind of a good idea. make some cool music and then just talk over it. france rocks man

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
Jun 13 2026

I used to listen to this album all the time and its awesome... i also like how often its been sampled and used in rap songs and I basically now just know it as The Exorcist theme haha... its so dope!

Peggy Suicide by Julian Cope
Jun 17 2026

pretty strange album that seemed to straddle most genres? i kinda like albums like this: "a hodgepodge". never heard of this guy but he seems talented i suppose... didnt blow me away but soild!

Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti
Jun 18 2026

interesting of these british guys to make a prince album

Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton
Jun 19 2026

i really dont get it and its SO long... i can see someone's dad listening to this in the garage tho...

Rip It Up by Orange Juice
Jun 21 2026

i listened to these guy's debut like a year ago which is like a straight jangle pop album (white people music) and then put this thing on and was like WHAT and I guess this Zimbabwean guy joined the band and totally freaked their style for this album... it was pretty chill and fun honestly!

Rio by Duran Duran
Jun 22 2026

just good old fashioned fun

Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
Jun 23 2026

everytime i listen to a stevie wonder album im like fuck my life up man this guy is the best to ever do it

We're Only In It For The Money by The Mothers Of Invention
Jun 24 2026

honestly me listening to this was like the shaq meme where he says i wasn't familiar with your game... is it possible that frank zappa is both goatd and a CIA asset......

Lam Toro by Baaba Maal
Jun 25 2026

pretty random but not bad at all... i liked it enough!

The Stranger by Billy Joel
Jun 26 2026

Billy J is my dad's fav guy sorta randomly and this album just is a bit unusually good... it has a lot of hits and nostalgic songs for me... i really love She's Always a Woman and Movin Out is obviously the best and strange in awesome ways... das racist moment too remember guys

Achtung Baby by U2
Jun 28 2026

not that this is relevant to this album at all but I really wish I was alive and sentient in the 90s. I really think i woulda thrived. I also know that this is like at this point 10% of my reviews but I woulda been reallllllllly good at being alive in the 90s. just sayin

Pieces Of The Sky by Emmylou Harris
Jun 29 2026

yes i love this. yes i am spiritually sometimes a white woman. sue me.

16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens
Jun 30 2026

yaaa totally fine... no notes

1999 by Prince
Jul 01 2026

so i think i have been waiting to 'get' prince but here's what I didn't understand. He's just good and that's the only thing to get. so now I get it...

Jul 02 2026

its really good! been listening to a lot of peter G lately and this is a good reminder to go listen to all those early genesis albums! pretty dope album but super long if that's a consideration of some kind for any one reading this

Atomizer by Big Black
Jul 03 2026

i think this one is just way better than songs about fucking these days... back in the day i did not agree

Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys
Jul 04 2026

i love ireland. this was nice! and irish!

Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention
Jul 05 2026

this one is worse than the last one but i do like this just super freaky weird records. i just love the fact that people were like buying these records and really engaging with them... quite cerebral if you ask me (even tho the music is undoubtedly made by a stupid guy for an audience of stupid guys.) also did i mention yet that zappa's dad worked for the U.S. Department of Defense fucking Lockheed ... the guy was a mustard gas expert #cia #deepstate

Tommy by The Who
Jul 06 2026

The Who gives a fuck amirite

The White Room by The KLF
Jul 07 2026

always really enjoyed these blokes and their antics... I am a big fan :)

Movies by Holger Czukay
Jul 08 2026

this was really fun and cool... and i liked the iranian song... i like can

Jul 09 2026

I forgot to save my review but basically i was listening to this at work and i came to the conclusion that the 90s were the last time that white people were considered cool. nowadays they're the bottom of the coolest pyramid... and i think i said that i liked when ice cube was on the album and fred durst is always fun y'kno. tbh tho the album was really bad i thought. i really thought i was gonna like it

Coat Of Many Colors by Dolly Parton
Jul 10 2026

sometimes it takes great art to make you realize that you only have single coloured coats... gotta change this asap

Run-D.M.C. by Run-D.M.C.
Jul 11 2026

just good old fun. i love the production..

B-52's by The B-52's
Jul 12 2026

I know this is absurd to say but at points I think its a bit too unserious for me. and seeing these guys live for some reason made me kind of hate them lol

Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
Jul 13 2026

Was really blown away with this! I have never listened to miss Amos and methinks she has a new number 1 fan.

Something/Anything? by Todd Rundgren
Jul 14 2026

Albeit not quite hitting the highs that A Wizard / A True Star hits I really love this Todd Rundgren album and he was one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. I read more about his relationship with Liv Tyler and that seems really nice too... cool guy all around. I need to listen to his 1993 theramin abstract hip hop album called No World Order. Nick, remind me.

Wonderful Rainbow by Lightning Bolt
Jul 15 2026

see. if i was alive in the 90s i could have gone to Fort Thunder and see lighting bolt and awesome noise rockers ... brian chippendales kicks ass man and hes a good graphic novelist

The Dreaming by Kate Bush
Jul 16 2026

somehow every better than I remembered ... its crazy how consistently good she is goddamn!!

Electric Prunes by The Electric Prunes
Jul 17 2026

im sure that the testicles of the members of this band are also quite pruned

Dust by Screaming Trees
Jul 18 2026

not bad by any means but just a whole lotta nothing

Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers
Jul 20 2026

just imagine... the year is 1997 and I'm like 22... i have a hackey sack... me and the boys are hitting the quad...

Life Thru A Lens by Robbie Williams
Jul 22 2026

watched a whole movie where this guy was a monkey and if you gave me 15 guesses I dont think i would have figured out that his solo albums were britpop

Faith by George Michael
Jul 23 2026

i really like him :) hes so awesome

One World by John Martyn
Jul 24 2026

all i needed was to read the title of the album to know that it was a white guy dabbling in dub music... and honestly it was pretty chill... 3 stars, good job chap

The Undertones by The Undertones
Jul 25 2026

really really awesome, you can really hear how influential this was on like alternative rock... couple songs on here i was like damn this is like a The Strokes song or something... kool shiet

Jul 26 2026

More Songs About Buildings And Food has to have the worst wikipedia album of all time. their first album produced by Eno, doesnt even have a sentence explaining how they connected, who was a fan of who, what interventions Eno did to push the sound... anything! Says the album was recoded in Nassau, Bahamas... surely there's a mention of that fact in the text of the article... NADA! anyways i clearly wanna know more!! i'll look into books. way more fun and better than 77. crazy these guys are so old you kinda wouldnt think that like this band is from 50 years ago as they still feel insanely contemporary.

Fifth Dimension by The Byrds
Jul 27 2026

theres only so much you can say when you are reviewing your 4th byrds album y'kno. ive covered the CIA stuff and that i generally like them. its kinda nice that they're like folky country guys and not like annoying rock and roll guys...

Architecture And Morality by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Jul 28 2026

one of the first records i ever bought and it still hasnt really clicked for me. its pretty good !

Killing Joke by Killing Joke
Jul 29 2026

this is music for ME

Morrison Hotel by The Doors
Jul 30 2026

just abysmal. i have never understood these guys and regret liking their debut album after having heard this

Autobahn by Kraftwerk
Aug 01 2026

I did kinda feel like i was driving while listening to this ... do you think thats what the kraftwerk guys wanted

Black Monk Time by The Monks
Aug 02 2026

pretty awesome... you can tell how influential this was but something about the guy's name being gary just isnt sitting right with me

Grace by Jeff Buckley
Aug 03 2026

he has such a beautiful falsetto and he freakin loved nusrat fateh ali khan... interestingly on this listen of Grace I think for the first time i heard and understood just how explosive this album was for the alternative rockers of the 90s... it totally clicked how much thom yorke's vocal stylings are borrowed from jeff b... monumental and huge album. really tragic that him and his dad combined didnt live past 60... lots of talent in these buckley boys.

Smile by Brian Wilson
Aug 06 2026

totally fucked my shit up, started tearing up from the opening notes on Our Prayer... obviously I am lucky to live in a post SMiLE Sessions world so I have loved these songs practically my whole adult life... I can't imagine putting this thing on in 2004 it must have melted people's brains haha... it has all the energy of the older recordings!! so so so amazing to hear. I enjoyed the fun additions and added orchestrations to these versions that aren't on the 60s sessions... just overwhelmingly fun and joyful.. rip brian, i hate that people die but he gave us so much... i know he is resting in peace :)

m b v by My Bloody Valentine
Aug 08 2026

sorta always in the same boat with these guys... i know its good but i just dont really give a crap

Vento De Maio by Elis Regina
Aug 09 2026

sooo this seems to be some weird British rerelease of her 1980 album called Elis... why was that so confusing... it was nice .... heck ya

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