Basically a top 10 album at this point… easily my fav country album ever. So many songs on this thing utterly blew my mind when I first heard this… I prob discovered John Prine in the last 6-7 years and I just think he is brilliant… authentic and sardonic and rebellious! This album is so reliable for me, and listening to John Prine all day was pretty healing! “Your Flag Decal…” is one of the coolest songs of all time, and “Angel from Montgomery” is one of the prettiest.

A bit uninteresting for me, musically, which I didn’t expect from the vibes/aesthetics/history. Oh well!

Good as hell

Between 2 or 3 here…. It was ok, obviously influential and I liked more of the ballad-y songs, the ones that were more Roy Orbison… the whole thing has a real Hayes Code horniness to it. Glad it was short!

Hadn’t heard this in full but very good! Impressive as a blend of catchy singer/songwriter fare and blunt, poetic lyrics - I loved her vocal textures on Behind the Wall and would have loved more experimentation with a cappella but as I said, the music is a very strong vehicle for the messaging!

Not much to say.. a bit too long, I like the concept but didn’t do much for me. Not my fav Janelle Monae

Kinda wanted to refrain from rating this but it won’t let me. Not so sure I liked it but Rocks Off and especially Sweet Virginia were great songs, I will surely be spinning that one for a while. Don’t pay the 2/5 much mind, it could and maybe should be higher lol

Sorry………

5/5 for the cover art, I was just staring at that for like 50% of the listening experience and it got me way more amped.. look at those jeans! Some real crispy drums, fast guitar riffs and the vocals just scratch that ‘80s heavy metal itch… love it! Would love to be spinning this on a crunchy October afternoon!

Good album…. But I can think of a lot of other bands that deserve to be called THE band instead.. The Beatles, for instance. Sugar Ray, for another instance.

What's with the part where he goes "Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun" What is pretty amazing about this is how short yet iconic countless songs on this record, and their other records, are - they feel like snippets, don't overstay their welcome, and yet they are long-remembered as significant works... very cool! And impressively modern, I almost can’t believe Helter Skelter is a Beatles song! I probably prefer the first disc but overall a truly great album. Revolution is also a very catchy song but it sounds like Bill Maher wrote the lyrics

Perfectly decent album… had to come to terms with why this doesn’t click with me quite as much as some other funk rock bands, which I think has to do with the fact that 1) it’s just kinda boring save for a few all-time classic bangers, and 2) I’m realizing it’s probably funk metal that I actually like …… the real question is …. Do they have songs that they need to be doing all that for (wearing socks on their weiners)

This was terrific! Super modern, as mentioned in the chat, I thought some of the industrial sounds as well as the ambient tracks were super reminiscent of NIN/Trent Reznor … just chock full of great textures!

Really excellent stuff… would love to familiarize myself with Metallica’s oeuvre more but I love this tempo of metal and it is rightfully iconic through and through! Kind of weird that they named it after Jeff Dunham though…

A breezy and lovely country album that also seems to function as a collage of Americana - I was a bit perplexed at first upon realizing that a lot of these songs are covers, but I think it’s a really cool approach that seems to be rooted in a reclamation of the genre, in a lot of ways… “You’re Still on My Mind” is very pretty!

Do you think they ever considered calling themselves Paul and Art?

Had a lot of fun with this, I could definitely see it growing on me over time - no major complaints, just nothing in it that blew me away!

Honestly… much the same as yesterday! Enjoyed and appreciated it but wasn’t totally moved, though I could see their style growing on me.. maybe I’m just not a big grunge guy. Much prefer cleanliness

Just an all-time favorite, so much uncomfortable angst with such exciting instrumentation and volatile vocals! I love every track on this thing and have been hooked on it for ages, rarely finding anything that scratches the same itch (even within their own discography). Plus I always associate Add It Up with Tony Hawks Underground 2 which gives this bonus points!

Unsanely good. *I* am a part of the rhythm nation ☝🏻

I revisited this album the last time I watched Funny People and I loved it! Jesus Etc. is such a fantastic song and this whole album is just super lovely and well-produced!

I was sick yesterday so I listened but it was not the vibe and didn’t really leave an impression at all…

When I was a kid, my parents had this on CD, and they also had Smash Mouth’s Fush Yu Mang. I guess because both covers are in space and have the band title in the top left, I got them mixed up. This doesn’t really sound like Smash Mouth, it turns out. Album’s pretty good though and the cover/title kinda rule

Real schamltzy and sweet! A lot of the country that I love really wears its heart on its sleeve and this reminded me of some of my favs (John Prine, Hank Williams) - liked it!

Obvi just unreal

Sooooo good! He’s funny and cool! Honestly a radical album, the response from the audience is so unique and palpable, and the moment where he plays San Quentin twice in a row is all-timer stuff. Close to a 5…

Captures the same jazzy melancholy, and conjures the same images of liminal Americana, as Roy Orbison’s music does for me. Did not know what to expect from this, but this is really really cool! Prob like a 3.5 but I like it!

Love this absolute legend, banger album - one of the first jazz artists I was introduced to, courtesy of my brother Greg!

Moral of the week: I was not familiar with Johnny Cash’s game. The title track is unreal, and then so many cool and very moving covers to make up the rest - to make something this cool, moving and tapped in at 70 (a year before he passed no less) is very impressive. I especially love his rendition of his own “Give My Love to Rose” all those years later, the whole album feels very reflective, which is all the more touching considering how soon he passed after its release!

The ALL-MAN BROTHERS? Pass!

This album… is very funny. I listened to it twice today and moved firmly from a 3 to a 4. To the Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers just waitin for the bus, a haw haw haw haw

What other album ends with Ben Stiller making fun of it, and then laughing for 5 minutes straight, followed by a voicemail from Rob Dyrdek? Cannot give this less than a 5. Inarguably one of the most iconic albums of my lifetime.

Stellar! Unreal instrumentation that you just get lost in before the sublime vocals come in on each track!

Liked the vibes, interested in the doc - didn’t make an huge impression on this listen but cool album!

Sadly didn’t do too much for me… I think it was a bit mild for my tastes, but in fairness I have been assaulting my senses with a lot of grindcore recently and altering my brain chemistry/attention span. Smoke on the Water is still very satisfying, and Space Truckin’ is fun too!

Enjoyed this quite a bit! Came out of nowhere but it was a fun ride! 🌊

Right off the bat… a MAJOR album for me when I was a kid.. THE album, in fact. The singles actually don’t do a lot for me tbh, but the ambition of this project and a lot of the songs in particular within a pop punk concept totally works on me and kinda opened my eyes when I was young. There’s way more filler than I remember but tracks like Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming have always kinda blown me away There’s also a lot of corny touches, and dated language here and there - honestly it’s more of a mixed bag than I remembered from my relatively recent re-listen, but most everything is catchy and the project as a whole (and a heap of nostalgia) color it positively overall in my eyes. Certainly an influential album and, while in my opinion this does not compare at all to these heights, I can’t deny that it influenced all-time favs of mine like MCR’s Black Parade - I mean the impact this had on steering other pop punk bands towards more “serious” music with emo aesthetics was huge for my personality. blink-182 beat them to it of course, and with much more creative success.

This album is long!! How many songs are on this freakin thing? Not only does this guy sounds just like Jens Lekman, his lyrics are just as earnest and esoteric as his…. But I enjoy this a lot, gotta respect it tbh! I had a pleasant time listening basically all the way through. “Busby Berkeley Dreams” is an all timer Definitely a couple songs that haven’t aged super well tho..

Definitely went into this fairly Arcade Fire neutral, but even then was surprised by how unmoved I was by this. Wish it did more for me! Oh well!

Very cinematic (even outside of Mr Blue Sky, how many of these songs have been used in movie montages… sounds like all of them would fit). Kinda flopped back and forth, I think for that very reason, between finding this to be good-but-not-my-thing (thought a few too many times about Guardians of the Galaxy) and finding the construction as pop music very exciting and progressive (other times I thought about Sufjan’s Age of Adz).

The seamless transitions from treacly brit-pop type stuff into string-heavy spacey (yeah) ambient into real chaotic shoegaze-y rock is suuuuuper cool and was incredibly fun to get lost in! Great record!

Really good…. Very lovely and sometimes eerie.. into it!

The production on this is so unbelievable, credit to Steve Albini (RIP). I have been listening to a lot of Shellac this year and some of his other credits, and I’m so pleased that the sharp/abrasive percussion and morose but mathy guitar riffs carried over into this record by a band this massive, one that I’ve honestly taken for granted, I think. Born from a perfect moment, sort of, and obviously that much more tragic given the loss of Cobain soon after… kinda surprising myself here - and it’s maybe like a 4.5 - but this hit for me today/this year!

Totally hits all the way through - 9 pretty undeniable pop rock bangers! I love the way it weaves in and out of itself too, full of reprises and repeated motifs, just a delight!

Not as good as Weird Al’s Poodle Hat 🤞🏻🤞🏻 Shout out to Roger Waters

A good album, quite pretty! I hadn’t come across it before! Damon Albarn has a ton of projects, and a lot of them are hit or miss I feel like.. but I enjoyed this and like to hear him doing something a little dreamier and more straightforward. Last couple tracks are especially good!

I think I’m going 4 (like a 3.5) on this because while it didn’t totally blow me away, the vibes were right for today and I thought the first two songs were excellent, which makes me think this has some staying power and I’ll be revisiting it!! Some real impressive guitar on here, to no one’s surprise!

It’s a meh from me…already finding myself going, The Who was that I was listening to earlier today? Also it should be The Whom

Difficult to fully judge without having seen the film, but a really lovely piece of music! A bunch of really catchy tunes, but the instrumental tracks are really impressed me most! I’d love to see more surprises like this come up on here!

An unbelievably smooth album… truly just the best!

Cannot help but find this quite silly overall, like a parody version of a hit rock opera hiding under heavy metal aesthetics… in fairness, I’m sure it’s very iconic and influential in the world of rock operas, so I’m sure its originality within the genre contributes to that feeling, but I’m just not sold on how operatic it seems to think it is… harmless but didn’t do it for me.

I thought Life’s a Gas was really good, and the vibes were pretty consistently solid throughout, but I wasn’t too moved by it! Maybe it will grow on me over time!

I used to love these guys a lot… it’s not my favorite of theirs — this doesn’t hit as much as Alligator or Trouble Will Find Me — but I do think that Matt Berninger’s vocals go a looooong way in my enjoyment of this band/record, it’s hard to go too wrong! Very rousing and affecting!

An album that, for a while, I’ve been wanting to click the way that it did for me today - I listened to this 6 times today, and was so moved by it and lost in its world. Got me thinking a lot about simplicity as a choice in music, about the image that one can conjure by just sitting down with a guitar, and how much you learn and receive from the negative space of that. So lush and lonely and beautiful, I shed some tears listening to this. Perfect for a rainy day like today. Also a favorite of my dad’s!

Kind of a reluctant 3 I guess.. don’t particularly care for John Lennon, don’t care for the title track, the album feels really safe compared even to some of his other stuff, let alone The Beatles best stuff but yknow.. he’s a Beatle, so what I like about their music shines through. Enough solid songs on here that I didn’t dislike it even though it wasn’t super memorable.

Quite enjoyed this! Would like to dig into these guys’ catalogues a little more…

Back to our roots…. Love this! I’ve listened to the entire CCR discography in the last couple months and I really love them. This album is no exception! Retroactively wish I could give Cosmo’s Factory a 5 on here too!

Amazing album!! So groovy and pointed and every song goes hard… I was gonna shout out my favs but it would have just devolved into me naming all of them!

Magic! Incredible album cover, first of all, but this is unbelievable progressive jazz that totally transports you to its world! I also really love Wayne Shorter who does amazing saxophone work on this thing… I love it!

A bag of nuts and bolts

Rightfully one of the most iconic rap records of all time, and a pillar of the jazz rap subgenre. Feels totally perennial; rite of passage beats; iconically New York. It’s amazing! Sadly didn’t get to spin my vinyl copy of this today!

I guess this is just jazz 👍🏻

This really won me over! It was pleasant and pretty from the beginning but I loved how mildly psychedelic it got with shades of chamber-y, easy to listen to pop music!

Some seriously mind-blowing sounds on this thing, right from when the first beat kicks in… I really love this album!

Found this a little hard to care too much about at the beginning but it’s pretty good. I generally think the back half is a lot stronger and that’s where it won me over. I liked In The Light and Bron-Yr-Aur and Down by the Seaside back-to-back.

One of my favorite parts of this project, and generally listening to canonical albums for the first time, is getting to hear songs you kinda know through osmosis in their original context. That happened here with “This is the Day”, which I loved! The album is kinda shaggy but hey it’s a lot of fun! I dug it!

Basically a top 10 album at this point… easily my fav country album ever. So many songs on this thing utterly blew my mind when I first heard this… I prob discovered John Prine in the last 6-7 years and I just think he is brilliant… authentic and sardonic and rebellious! This album is so reliable for me, and listening to John Prine all day was pretty healing! “Your Flag Decal…” is one of the coolest songs of all time, and “Angel from Montgomery” is one of the prettiest.

Some of the most gorgeous songs ever performed on here, are you kidding!

Very enjoyable and energetic! Probably like a 3.5!

Cool name. Wasn’t particularly moved otherwise…

I don’t really know, this was fine… a couple songs that actively bothered me, some were more pleasant but it was consistently shy of satisfying me. Kinda sounded like REM but not as good… probably not the best Liverpudlian band out there…

I’ve always liked Radiohead but have not given the albums the time to really click with me and blow me away… that said I think this is the most I’ve ever enjoyed it! It’s truly incredible rock music with very special attention paid to unique textures that add to its world-building and monumental status

Tbh this kind of thing has been scratching an itch recently! Definitely used to conflate this band with Metallica, only to find out that this band was founded by an ex-Metallica member! Excels in the art of making music that sounds exactly like its album cover looks like… or vice versa I suppose. Either way… thumbs up!!

Had my Frank Reynolds “I get it” gif moment listening to this in the shower today after soliciting tons of Neil Young recommendations from Sameen over the past year… not that I didn’t already really like this but quite simply, the way that Neil Young’s voice hit my ears today (especially on those first three tracks) shook me. The way that he sings alone is extremely moving, and that’s not even accounting for the stunningly sad lyrics and the gorgeous instrumentation. Thumbs up from me!

Spruce Bringsteen

Huh… really random. Like a sleazier White Stripes? Honestly sounded like so many other bands but did not click at all tbh…

Beautiful, beautiful tunes!! I was roused with each swell of the strings and with each quiver of her voice!

I’ve never truly known the pleasures of this album myself….

Enjoyed this a lil more than I thought! It’s fun! This list has been super populated with hard rock!

So breezy and totally undeniable. A fantastic collection of songs but I’ve particularly always liked Never Goin Back Again

A good amount of fun! That drum breakdown towards the end of the last track is very cool and rousing!

Some really full and romantic sounds on this thing… obviously less futuristic than many of Radiohead’s successive albums, but even if it’s less ambitious, it doesn’t strike me as any less cohesive.

Think I need this to grow on me…. But I liked it.

Basically live for this kinda stuff… a couple of country brothers harmonizing about some real sad stuff. Legends!

you already know what I’m gonna say: yeah!

Cannot believe Paradise City is almost 7 minutes long. Also thought I wasn’t crazy but Guns n Roses told me otherwise 😔 Pretty close to the middle on this one but I think I have to lean negative, it’s pretty shrill but in a calculated way more than a really effective or emotional way. Not my cup of tea Nonetheless pretty tempted to listen to their other albums “”The Spaghetti Incident?”” and “Chinese Democracy”

Wee bit meandering for me.. kinda cool. Cool cover.

A very lovely album! I think If You’re Feeling Sinister is a masterpiece, and this is not as good as that, but it has the same twee, flowery vibes. My fav song is I Don’t Love Anyone!

Ohhhhh this rules. This really rules. Hell yeah

Much like yesterday: ohhh wow. Oh yeah. This rules. So much fun.

My first time listening to a Common album that isn’t Be - it’s real good! Wears its influences in its sleeve, a very openly communal album, and has some really smooth and classic J. Dilla production on it!

I’ve had more psychedelic experiences watching the freaking Boss Baby. I’m kidding I just don’t know what else to say about this

I dug this! Like a 3.5 for me

Had only ever heard Psychocandy and I think it caught me off guard that this sounds like.. the Smiths? Velvet Underground? It’s a solid alt rock album with good vibes but did not meet my expectations fully I’d have to say.

To be honest I don’t really understand Randy Newman’s vibe, but this is really pleasantly composed, and obviously his vocals are totally unique and compelling.

Kicks off with a seriously riveting riff on Ole Man Trouble and does not let up! And those vocals are so unbelievable, right down to his signature grunts. I got misty-eyed at points of this album from the sheer passion of the music!

Found this to be a very odd amalgamation of sounds and eras that never really connected with me, with some mildly off-putting vocals (that admittedly made me laugh a respectful, “gotta give it up” kinda laugh at times)… sorta like C-grade movie montage soundtrack songs….

Honestly like a loooot stronger than Unknown Pleasures in my opinion. I actually knew a hell of a lot more pleasures listening to this one. Right from that very first track, Atrocity Exhbition, which honestly hooked me. CLOSER to a 3.5 but I’ll give it the 4!

I listened to this this morning but that’s basically a whole day ago…. However… I really liked it back then. A fun journey through genre and music history with some especially stellar drums! Love the Erik Satie bookends too!

I actually just heard this for the first time a couple of weeks ago after watching Dogfight! Super super pretty, especially Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right. Bob Dylan was also my first ever concert lol!

Unbelievable, you already know!! These guys have stole my CC-heaRt! I see the bad moon a-rising!

Pretty zany! Didn’t totally move me, but a band I’d like to explore a little more regardless

Not really my thing but not bad! A light 3/5 here

Hell freakin yeah!! Not their best but man they are such a cool ass band!

Pretty cool stuff!

I underrate this album quite a bit! Who can forget the classic bangers but every track on this is so fantastic and they were already so fully formed as a band! Congratulations is my fav album of theirs but man does this one go!! Weekend Wars and Future Reflections are two of my favs on here!

Damn this is cool!

I love this album, it’s such a confident debut with a strong voice and smooth production! And yet, I think I like her next two albums even more! She’s iconic and had an amazing run right out of the gate

Not bad tbh!! Pretty long but also highly listenable. I looked at the sky for a bit while I listened which was cool.

U2’s War! What is it good for? think it speaks to my investment in this band that I’ve heard all of their albums before and yet I don’t really have any strong feelings about them … I think this is a serviceable album though with a couple of standout tracks, but it’s just not really my sound.

“U” better believe that I like this album! Definitely leaning 4, I think this could click with me more over time.. there’s some standout beats as well that I didn’t note the names of but, good album!

The… the… the what??? Spit it out already!!

A little tepid for my tastes. Didn’t love this

Oh man. The coolest shit out there!! Beautiful and futuristic textures galore!

Runs a little long but undeniably pretty iconic and classic!

This is sooooo much fun, and the groovy bass lines do not stop for a second! So chic!

Not a bad album by any means but starts off with a classic, ripping White Stripes banger that made me feel like I was in for something much better than I got. Pretty significantly dies down as early as track 2, but there’s some good riffs and clean drums sprinkled throughout that make this a good enough listen. They, of course, have far better albums than this!

Honestly what is the deal with these guys… they’re kinda hilarious. I thought Tres Hombres was a really slick crystallization of their chill yet unserious vibe, and I got some of that outta this (and probably more laughs) but it’s not as good… Christine ass cover also..

Haven’t come across a country album that these 1001 list makers have selected that I disliked yet… thank god I’m a country boy, I guess…

I think you guys know what I’m gonna say… Yup!

Had to double check that the 77 in the title referred to the year it was released, bc I thought, no way this is that old! It’s so modern, and of course, these guys are just so, so fun and talented! Love it!

This grew on me as it kept going! Very lush and pleasant! I could see myself liking this even more with revisits too

This surprised me!! To be honest I felt a lot more positive on this than I did their live album, I don’t think I’m as much into the jam band stuff, and was not expecting this to be so simple and pleasant… a light 4!

The Beatles are low-key influential… …and they were influenced (lots of covers here of course) but those first three songs especially are sooooo good

Pretty iconic tbh, very of its era! Easy to give myself to it, very unsubtle in its lyrics in a way that I’m sure connected for people pretty hard… fun!

Oh this is such a cool album, incredible to vibe out to!! Dare I say…… an enduring album. Immune to time.. etc…

This was cool… the cover on the anniversary edition that I listened to on Apple Music was less cool…

Liked it marginally more than the other Deep Purple one. Funny cover too. It’s not real though

Quite good

First disc of this is surprisingly excellent, some really inspired and exciting production! Not so much a fun or the second disc tbh, and it’s already running a bit long at that point so I’m docking points for that…

Liked this quite a bit more than I thought I would! Really cohesive and modern! But guys.. I was watching Oz the Great and Powerful when I put this album on…. And I couldn’t hear the damn movie! 🤦‍♂️

Very 2000 abstract hip hop, reminds me of early El-P and Saul Williams even, but definitely less passion for the most part. Can’t say I would lean that I disliked it overall, there was enough cool sounds and ideas even if it gets a bit repetitive and is overall slight. Like a 2.5 for me

Interesting I suppose

Tempted to go higher on this, I do think it’s very influential and I love its internal world, that very minimalist sound makes this an indie classic, and I love how Jamie xx in particular took that sound to make the much better In Color… much respect to this and I could go higher after more listens, it holds up better than I remembered. Plus that Intro track is sooo good

Enough standout songs for me to praise this. A good overall sound, with keys and vocals that bring it a level above I think! Kinda reminds me of Austin Powers again… Alabama Song my fav I think.. also Break on Through rules and is the first song that plays when you boot up Tony Hawk Underground 2.

Not super memorable for me but made for some decent October listening tbh! Veers into some gothic sounds here and there… decent but forgettable. Shout out to this for being the only place I’ve heard the word Barmy other than my family’s group chat

This is really a good vibe, sounds like a hell of a show, but it wore for me just a little bit as it went on. But Tom Waits rules and I’d never heard this one before! I like the looseness and jazzy nature of this performance, and Waits, as always, has such a compelling voice

This is honestly good as shit. And I don’t mean as good as shit is. It’s better than that So glad to see Girls Just Wanna Have Fun for what it is now, as a complex and iconic pop song and not just a water park theme song

Ok this was very good!! Might need Luke to be my REM recommendation guide!! My fav song was The Wrong Child, and I really liked Hairchild too, really appreciated hearing Michael Stipe do some soulful and emotional singing.

A rightfully legendary album, and super ahead of its time.

Found this very danceable and with exemplary sampling!! Enjoyed it all the way through!

Would not argue with someone saying NIN is the best band of all time quite honestly. This probably isn’t even in my top 3 of theirs…

Get ready for this… Jexi’s midnight runners

Looooove this album

Perfectly fine and she’s talented but not really my thing! I’m (2 years) too old for this album anyway!

These folks have got mag-GOAT BRAINS!

Ooh I loved this! Was listening to Plowing Into the Field of Love by Iceage recently, which is one of my all time fav albums, and was looking into this Cowpunk genre, which I think is such a cool sound, and this scratched that same itch!

Pretty good I have to say! After the Number of the Beast came up on here, I went back and listened to a good chunk of their albums, and I enjoyed pretty much all of them, some more than others -- and sometimes depending on my mood -- but I was fairly underwhelmed by this one. I liked it more this time around, but they have far better works than this. Still prob like a 3.5

A quite good album! There is a song on this (He Can Only Hold Her) that I quite literally had stuck in my head for 6+ years, and could never figure out what it was. I was convinced I’d never find it, or maybe it’s wasn’t even real. My brothers gf finally found it this May which was a miracle.. but imagine I’d discovered it this way.. lowkey that would have been cooler.

Sorry to the Deely Stans in here but I have yet to be completely moved by them.. but I think it can be done! I thought this was good but just didn’t click for me entirely. Awesome cover though

Good and fun! Very funny cover!

This was definitely pretty good but didn’t entirely click with me still, hard to say why!

I like the gothic vibes of this but was surprisingly a little cold on this.. not actually very familiar with Cave’s style though so I’d like to dive into his stuff more

I actually really like the soundscape of this album, it's very sprawling and conjures, for me, images of mountains and nature. Has a lot of depth to it, I dug it overall!

Kinda got Pink Floyd vibes from this

Decent! “If You Can See Me” has a really cool riff. Cover looks a bit familiar though…..

Pretty cool, I especially vibed with the second track (“The Gnome”) but I don’t think I totally get what is going on with this band and album and performance…

I think I could see this growing on me, I’m surprised I never got into it before because it seems like something I would have really enjoyed in high school! Some great lyrics and his voice lends to the tone and minimalism of the project really well

This was so awesome… would love to hear more about this Aqualung character… he sounds charming

In spite of Morrissey's..everything...and in spite of this being probably my least favorite Smiths record... I really like their sound and this is a very solid and listenable album. Probably like a 3.5 for me but I'm gonna lean towards a 4.

This shit had me movin like Napoleon… last song (Didgin It) was epic

Spruce, uh.. let me see here.. Spruce Bingstein

Dookie is so good. I love Dookie. Once I had Dookie in my ears, I was having a great time 👍🏻 Not the Green Day I grew up loving but in retrospect (which is the case for a lot of my fav Pop Punk bands as a kid) their early sound is so so strong and this is like, probably their best work

Not one while listening to this did I ask “Are We Done Yet?”. In fact, when it was done, I was like, “We’re Done Yet?!?”. FANTASTIC album

Going to actually lean 4 with this. It’s like a 3.5 for me but I really like this vocalist with this sound, it creates a pretty unique effect that consistently worked for me all the way through

Very excellent… that voice working its magic, and just stellar and exciting songwriting all around… excited to listen to this a bunch more times!!

Not a fan of what these blokes cooked up here

Actually so bizarre... of the three Bowie albums that have come up, I've enjoyed this the most, musically... obviously took note of the funk and soul elements he meshes with his sound here, and he collaborated with some icons of the genre/scene (including Luther Van Dross, goat!!), but reading up on this, confounded by and unsure of what to make of him specifically calling this "plastic soul" aka a pale imitation and appropriation by a white musician (a "limey" to use his words). Also the multiple Beatles homages, including a full cover of Across the Universe? Weird, weird album... enjoyed it though.

Always ranking things relatively on here so don't pay this too much mind, this is pretty, but didn't do very much for me today tbh

Really liked this!! I feel like there’s always some darkness behind this sunshiny kinda music, and I like that a lot - California Dreamin’ is prime example of that! Also never knew that Jens Lekman’s Maple Leaves was built on a sample but I learned that listening to this! And that’s one of my all time fav songs!

And this is my #1 fav Smiths album. Just the platonic ideal of their vibe for me, this is what I always come to when I need a fix of Smiths tbh. Again..fuck morrissey…but divorced from that, I think this is so catchy and moody and sardonic and I really love it tbh!

Hey this was good!! I was not aware of this before but it was a great listen front-to-back

A pretty undeniable collection of songs, the end of the title track is so excellent… damn! So THIS is what it feels like when doves cry?

Kinda funny to me that these guys are British, I had no idea. They should have called that one song “Pour Some Sugar in Tea” to make that more clear This is such a corny sound but I’m not mad at it. That’s My Boy-core

Vibey and droney and easy to get lost in! I enjoy the vocals too, the last song is a very nice closer

Ugh…. Just awesome. A strong 4 stars from me.

“Nilsson Schmilsson, Schmilsson Schmilsson!” - me if I thought this album was rubbish, which I don’t!

Ridiculously good omg. I think that first track is particularly addictive.

This was definitely music. Not too many doubts about that. I listened to it, after all.

Truly epic music. So, so grand and so, so good.

Really fantastic… to no one’s surprise. The rest of this list could be Fela Kuti and I’d be happy

Frankly impressed with how loaded this is - a ton of bangers, and just wholly consistent in a way that I don’t think any of their other albums are… very confident! I enjoy this one, probably like a solid 3.5

I think this spoke to me a lot more than the last album we heard from The Fall. A better, shaggier and more rebellious sound to me. Also quite like the cover and album name

Really front-loaded, and to Sameen’s point about the Ice Cube album, immature in some moments, but also incredibly mature in other ways, undeniably influential, the production is unbelievable… a hit!

Guess this will have to make up for the absence of the Blue Album on the list…… hmmph. But really, I do kinda think of this as a perfect pop album. It’s so much fun and full of cool, out-of-the-box sounds! Love it!

Not gonna lie… this busted my brain wide open!! Everything that I love!!

More music that I listened to and enjoyed but was not particularly excited by.

Karen O is great... this was a fun record and honestly the cover is cool as hell.

Hadn’t heard this one before but I was really into it! It reminded me of Ween in a lot of ways

I enjoyed this! Definitely a couple of “big tunes” on here. 3.5

I quite literally experienced nirvana while listening to this. Just kidding, it was metaphorical. Also I didn’t

Close to a 5 tbh… this is pretty damn unbelievable, like some of the coolest sounds everrrrr. Such a front to back banger

Very good.. very.. cool!! Honestly, far from the best thing I’ve heard from MD, but really smooth and a great time nonetheless!

Sorry but… still one of the most mind-blowing albums ever, to me. Like def one of the most important of my life time. Every single song is incredible and perfect and timeless! Some of my fav songs of all time here! Has risen to becoming my fav Kanye over the years, which is saying a lot!

Really enjoyed this, more than I thought! Great voice, great sound, just really great stuff!

A bit uninteresting for me, musically, which I didn’t expect from the vibes/aesthetics/history. Oh well!

Some pretty avg synth pop to me! Did the trick! Of being avg synth pop! Voila

I’ve been enjoying this kind of album a lot lately!! Didn’t hit quite as hard as some others I’ve heard but very danceable and pretty!!

Good group of guys…. Really good music. Shocked once again that this is from the 70s! Cheers all around

Such a fantastic pairing of voice and production, this is some thoroughly excellent work from Kanye…. A really great album

Pretty cool!! A solid and consistent sound, good drums and guitar. Enjoyed this

Very very pretty and lovely. Had a good time listening to this in the shower (with clothes on, of course)

Me listening to this: mmmmmm mm mm

Had a lot of fun with this! Some really good pop rap with strong and layered production. Really interested to hear her later albums that are produced by Four Tet (!!)

A wild album that I have never encountered before.. first of all, really cool cover. Some really interesting instrumental cuts, some jazzy, some straight out of a western score - honestly, in a much more modern/indie rock/Conor Oberst kinda context, this reminded me of that Byrds country album that came up on this list before, as a capsule of all things Americana. Weird but pretty enjoyable, I gotta say!

I don’t know honestly. Iconic enough and at times funny enough that I could see myself leaning more positive but… not crazy about it. I like Alive. The band name, I will not be commenting on.

Awesome……..

Love the Offspring!! I just listened to this one again a couple weeks ago. Really great skate punk with vocals that are equally compelling and shrill, and another grab bag of random influences thrown in. SMASH from me!

Today was a lil emotional but oh my god did this hit! Every beat, strum, and harmony made a hair raise. Genuinely made me feel the magic of music so deeply. Gorgeous!

Enjoyed this a lot honestly. A fun mix of sounds for me. Not exceptional or anything but a good listen!

Genuinely some of the best riffs ever recorded I think. Was listening to this while skating a couple years ago and embodied my destined self. So unbelievably awesome.

I think this goes really hard. Rock’n Roll was kinda rocking and rolling me. Not their best but a great listen

A lot of my expectations for these albums starts at a 3 tbh and this one mostly surpassed that. Really good vocals that elevated the whole project! 3 stars. Point five maybe.

This goes hard!!! That Anthrax track is so cool and just such a full worldview realized by the whole album - Shut Em Down prob my fav track.