i've been walking around shouting "THIS IS RELIGION!" in a johnny rotten voice all day. my wife is annoyed, my cat worried. has got to be one of the worst songs ever recorded; the spoken word version doubly so. a real twat, this guy. the guitar on annalisa and public image is interesting enough to elevate the album to a 2, which really just means i'd take it over most 70s prog.

my favourite beatles record. the red canadian version was one of my first lps. this version has more songs, unfortunately including "you can't do that," one of john's spousal abuse anthems.

PLONK PLONK PLONK PLONK PLONK

doesn't even have "Boris the Spider" on it

never been a fan but i dig the mood of this album. "Agent Orange" is great.

pavement were my favourite band in jr high so this was fun

i get that jaco pastorius was the best bass player in the world. wayne shorter's 60s solo records and work with the jazz messengers are some of my favourite jazz albums. but goddamn if this isn't some of the worst shit i've ever heard

lifelong bowie fan but this wouldn't even crack my top ten bowie albums. doesn't do anything ziggy didn't do much better.

full of little surprises that reward close listening. "space odyssey", set in the far-off future of 1996, is the only misstep, and it's too goofy to hate. great album

i know she wrote 'em but there's no world where i would listen to these versions over the shirelles or aretha.

not as much fun as i remember jethro tull being. kind of a drag.

always psyched to see something outside the pop/rock sphere on this list. i only knew tito puente from his brief stint as music teacher at Springfield Elementary. this is good fun.

maybe not my thing but its creative and weird. some big hooks and wild beats. "jezebel" sucks tho

was psyched to find something completely new to me (never heard of it!) but it just reminded me of better things (country feedback, evan dando's gram parsons obsession).

one of his great "____'s G_____ On" records. this one's a concept album about a guy who likes to fuck. i like to imagine the look on the faces of the guys behind the console when marv dropped "stop beatin' 'round the bush." the title track remains funny, horny, ecstatic, unimpeachable, even after so many bad movie needle drops have turned it into a cliché. funnier and hornier still is the reprise "keep gettin' it on" at the end of side a, reminding you that he is, indeed, still gettin' it on ten minutes later. fucks my shit up everytime. love the drums at the end of "please don't stay." love the little red toque. love the pacman-ass typeface on the cover. last record he told us "god is love" and here he tells us sex is love. law of commutativity. we're all sensitive people with so much to give.

loved it.

despite years of recommendations from big boi and my friend jack, i've never latched on. still, i dig the invention and the self-consciously weird stuff even when the worst bits feel like performance poetry. and who could dislike a song about falling in love with a computer program from 1989?

side three is pretty good. the rest sucks.

the talking guitar parts are corny as hell, but my heart sank even more when he pulled out the acoustic. how has he managed to convince us this was a rock record for 50 years? who can explain the staying power of this record? was it the wayne's world joke? lisa bonet and big mountain? spotify tried to sell me frampton comes alive keychains and throw blankets.

try as i might, i've never been a fan. he gets a lifetime pass for his half of "shipbuilding" tho. reading contemporary reviews of this record is a real lesson in how poorly we can predict what will become a classic. oh well. "a man out of time" and "you little fool" are among his best, i figure.

not sure why kendrick has such a problem with this guy he seems chill

you just know he suggested calling it "stingchronicity" at least once. andy's always been the star member for me, and he's got some cool guitar parts here. some fun synth across the board. "mother" is great and makes me wish the guys had let themselves had a bit more fun sometimes.

i grew up in the napster/st. anger era so i've never known a world where these guys were anything but corndogs. coolest thing they ever did was help raise the alarm on the west memphis three, but it took the dixie chicks to find the real killers.

kim thayil's a cool guitarist and i dug some of the psychier songs, but the rest is mid90s dross.

yeah this is a lot of fun

timbaland drops an all-time worst guest verse on the last song

i've been walking around shouting "THIS IS RELIGION!" in a johnny rotten voice all day. my wife is annoyed, my cat worried. has got to be one of the worst songs ever recorded; the spoken word version doubly so. a real twat, this guy. the guitar on annalisa and public image is interesting enough to elevate the album to a 2, which really just means i'd take it over most 70s prog.

there is no conceivable universe in which this is essential listening

the beginning of a pretty incredible 70s run (don't skip the live album or the ep), even if it is the baroque outlier. this was my first time listening to the whole album in ten or fifteen years, and it was even better than i remember.

they're the best thetre is at what they do, and what they do sucks

i had their poster up in my bedroom as a teenager and i loved Sister and Daydream Nation, both of which are better than this record (i also had Goo, which is probably worse). now i figure they're kind of a buncha jerkoffs. one of us hasn't aged well. either way, i'll never forgive 'em for being bullies to Nardwuar.

there was one summer i listened to this on my discman on repeat. i met a girl at summer camp who also loved it and she was the first girl i ever dated.

produced by mutt lange, so every song is a fiddle away from shania or a synthesizer away from loverboy. at least they sang about relatable things like being a woman or working for the weekend.

my favourite beatles record. the red canadian version was one of my first lps. this version has more songs, unfortunately including "you can't do that," one of john's spousal abuse anthems.

some cool production

https://youtu.be/t5Tg_-LDyfg?si=3b8QVwn8z2yul-c_

coulda sent this up with the voyager spacecraft instead of those gold records. it would have served the same purpose. timeless but frozen in the seventies. universal but swedish as hell. even at their corniest ("the tiger," "dum dum diddle") they've got more hooks than a barrel of monkeys. if i had written "knowing me knowing you" i'd retire and die happy.

these guys would call the cops if you offered them a joint

i wish i could play this record for my the cure- and my bloody valentine-loving 16 year-old self.

he's got skills but you'd swear he invented internal rhyme according to the hype. the best rapper of all time if you've never heard rap before or you don't listen to black people. if only he'd used his powers for good. instead we get more gay jokes about nsync over some of the weakest beats in hip hop history. shit sucked when it came out and its just embarrasing now. best moment is the LFO parody.

shit sucks

one of the first cds i ever owned, but this was the first time i've listened to it in maybe 20 years, and though i'd reach for murmur, new adventures in hi-fi or up most days, i can't deny this might be their best set of songs, and the band never sounded better. but what struck me this spin was how formative and album this was for me in the late 90s. it not only acted as a gateway to lots of indie and college rock, but michael stipe offered a model of masculinity i could relate to and hadn't seen before. so yeah, maybe i am who i am in part because of this record.

easily their best album

years ago i heard jack black say he loved the idea of the show Battlebots but was bored to death watching Battlebots. i love the idea of lightning bolt, love the album artwork, love the song titles, but whenever i sit down to listen to it i'm bored outta my mind. i'll give it three stars cause the drumming's great, and i always hope some day i'll come around on it, and its abysmal ranking here bums me out when its still a million times more creative and fun than a lot of the records on this list.

ps1 racing game-ass music

so much of the 90s sucked in this exact way

this shit was everywhere when i was in junior high - it's honestly much worse than i remember

"all my friends" is fantastic. the rest feels like a joke i'm not in on

hated every second of it

sags a bit after runaway, but it wouldn't be the best album of whichever decade it belongs to if we lost "yeezy taught me." an incredible album all the more because of its flaws, meanderings, and self-indulgence. he err... reupholstered the game with this one.