beautiful album! otis redding’s butter-smooth voice had me hanging on to every word.

my favourite talking heads album <3 mind is a masterpiece

it feels like i’m ignorant of some of the sins this record commits because i’m not well-versed in the beatles. it’s a decent pop record with a few catchy standouts.

i was so ready to love this album but the second half of it dragged on and got samey

you could get any information you wanted out of me by using this album. i’d probably fold during the first track.

i was not expecting tom waits to sound like cookie monster

feels pretty apt to be reviewing this the day before the u.s. election….There’s No Place Like America Tomorrow

filed under “albums that probably would’ve changed my life if i’d discovered them as a teenager”

edited april 17, 2025 to change the rating to five stars!! this is one of my favourite albums that this project has introduced to me. the tracklist is full of gritty, anthemic bangers. nicotine really goes to my head!!

this album came out a week after my seventeenth birthday, so it’s total nostalgia-bait for me. it soundtracked some of the best nights of my life, driving home at dawn to perfect places, and some of the worst ones too, pining in my bedroom to liability. easiest five stars i could ever give.

men’s humour be like “rape 🤣🤣🤣”: The Album

dr. dre is in the house, yeeeah a hell of a debut album - probably closer to a 4.5 for me. some of the tracks are a bit too repetitive to justify their lengths, and musique should definitely be on here, but otherwise, homework ticks all of my boxes. fun, catchy, and makes me wanna move. i think it’s really tragic that daft punk’s true masterpiece (imo), discovery, didn’t make the cut for this list. daft punk is dead. long live daft punk.

ella fitzgerald has a gorgeous voice, but it’s not enough to justify the sheer length of this thing. 6 whole discs??

love this one! i do prefer talking heads’ later albums, where their production choices get funkier, but the songs on here are so damn earnest that it’s impossible for me not to like. i also love that if anyone unfamiliar with their discography were to check out this album based on psycho killer, they’d find it sandwiched between songs about reading books and loving your friends.

i don’t really get it, but i wish i did, and that must be worth something

2 scott 2 furious

fucking awesome. warszawa was oddly captivating to me - it sounds like it wouldn’t be out of place on a dune soundtrack.

what the hell sure

i think that part of the reason i enjoyed this album is because bob looks like fran lebowitz on the cover

help! i’m being held hostage by a jam band!

taking some time out of my christmas to review my least favourite LCD soundsystem album. it’s what james murphy would have wanted. this album really suffers from the lore surrounding it, i think. LCD soundsystem breaks up, films a documentary about their final show, and returns seven years later with an album that re-hashes the sound that made them blow up. i spent all 7 minutes of other voices thinking “this really sounds like pow pow…doesn’t it?” fortunately (for me, at least), i will eat anything this band does up, and they can pose as old dogs re-learning old tricks forever and ever. i don’t care. i’ll be in the audience.

happy/embarrassed to report that wouldn’t it be nice still makes me teary

pop perfection! i can’t believe there’s an of montreal feature on this thing.

i was expecting to go easier on this than most because kings of leon was big when i first started really listening to music….but i just can’t! the singers’ voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me - pretty much an early iteration of the indie voice, with heavy emphasis on stretching the vowel O as far as possible. get it away from me!!! 2 stars for the mainstream bangers and i want you, which is a song i loved as a moody teenager.

i have nothing nice to say about eric clapton. rip ray liotta.

i was so excited to hear the lead singer say “goodnight”…..and then it just kept going. i’m starting to think that live albums do not belong on this list. if you’re not a fan of the band they’re like being in purgatory.

it’s good and i’m sorry

fabulous album if you like the way that elmo sounds

in the past couple of weeks, two notable things have happened to me: 1. i had a leak in my apartment that lasted for 10 days 2. i had 2 public image ltd. albums generated for me the public image ltd albums were worse! if there’s another one of these on the list i WILL [redacted].

i would’ve much rather talked with the poet man about taxes. probably would’ve made for a better album. extra star for the song about being a cuck.

knew nothing about the band going in, so the brit reveal towards the end of the album was a jumpscare

i’m surprised at how much i liked the non-single songs on this album! i don’t think ballads will ever quite be My Thing, but adele’s voice is beautiful and i cannot believe she was twenty one when she released this.

some killer. more filler than i was expecting for an album as highly lauded as this one.

really, really enjoyed this. i gotta listen to more jazz!

what are you? some kind of lad insane?

i'm not a country gal, but we need songs like "your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore" now more than ever. thanks for fighting the good fight, mr. prine.

more like Seven by Pearl Jam. let me rate things with half stars!!!

this album IS 3.5 hours long, but it’s 3.5 hours of drum and bass, which works for me. if you aren’t into drum and bass, this is probably torture.

love madge but some of the choices on this album…including and especially the american pie cover (as the closer!!!!)...phew

1001 Albums Generator aka I Learn What Nirvana Songs Are Actually Called

perfect album to me!! andre 3000 is corny in a way that makes me want to get naked, which might push his side of the album above big boi’s. it’s an impressive feat.

listening to this album felt like stepping into an alternate universe where i got perma-fried by a bad trip and could only listen to gentrified sitar music for the rest of my life

this album was huge when it came out, so i was expecting a little more from it, but i’m not a country fan to begin with. regardless, it’s a fun album and kacey’s personality really shines through! need to queen out with her.

i was 4 years old when funeral was released, and my canadian gen-x parents are responsible for the fact that some of my earliest memories include this album. wake up used to scare me to the point of tears, because it included the lyric “turn the summer into dust”, and my birthday is in the summertime...kids say the darndest things. it’s the first album i ever cried to (and maybe the only one i’ve ever cried to out of fear). funeral has followed me around ever since - into adolescence and adulthood and bedrooms and hallways and first-love passenger seats. Can’t Be Normal About It/5.

one unexpected perk of being a zoomer is that i only know about marilyn manson from self-sucking rib removal rumours and sex pest allegations. i’m happy to report, after listening to this album, that i don’t seem to have missed out on anything of value. also….hard r is crazy.

after nearly 200 albums of digging, i finally hit a beatle. i’m shocked that it took me this long. sucks that it had to be this one. or....does it suck? i liked the non-title tracks on this album a lot more than i thought i would. how do you sleep is shady boots, obviously, and i think oh yoko is a sweet, catchy tune. the cancellation of long-dead artists is so intriguing to me. i used to care a lot more than i do now, and i think i’ve settled on “maybe we should pay attention to the shitty people that are actually alive/the 26th most listened to artist on spotify is a self proclaimed nazi”. three stars!

it insists upon itself