Fav song: The Other Side Some really great production on this album and amazing features, especially from Anderson .Paak. I think the lyrical content is by far the weakest part of this album and at times it provides this almost bizarre juxtaposition of feelings when typical mumble rap lyrics about sex and money are shoehorned in between some actual poetic lines at times. Not to mention how surprisingly deep and heartfelt some of these instrumentals feel - especially 'The Other Side' - which is my favourite song from the album. The instrumental is sooooo good and some of the lyrics are really nice, but singing about buying a new bootie is the bungie rope that snaps me back out of the immersion.

Fav Songs so far: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell Do You Realize?? Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.1 It's Summertime Super interesting and forward thinking production for the time period. Fun from start to finish. Way ahead of its time!

Fav songs so far: Why does love got to be so sad? - features some more unusual rhythms from this era of classic rock. Sounds a bit more like the Doors with some extra guitar solos thrown in. Good combo. I’m not really a fan of classic rock so this album hasn’t really been my cup of tea but this song is great! Like previously mentioned, rock from the 70s isn’t really my cup of tea.

Fav songs: I Don't Mind Great performance from James Brown and his band. Amazing sounding live recording for 1962!

Not my favourite work from Andre 3000 but probably the best Outkast album. Fav tracks are Humble and Bombs Over Baghdad (and MS Jackson ofc)

Fav songs: Deja Vu - absolutely beautiful piece of music. Mind blowingly good stuff.

Great performance from Joplin on this album. Fav song: Piece of My Heart

Fav song: Hardest Button to Button Jack White is one of the most forward thinking and unique sounding guitarists of his generation. Listening to him play is an enlightening experience. Meg White’s performance on this album made me audibly laugh a few times though bless her.

Fav song: The Boston Rag I feel like this album just didn't have any stand out HITS - a bit filler for me.

Fav song: Pictures of You AMAZING album with fantastic sounding guitars and synths the whole time. Some of my favourite work from Robert Smith.

Fav song: Into You Proper 70's funk is a little bit lost on me, but I can definitely appreciate what it is for the time period. Some of the lyrics on this album are WILD (especially the entire song which is basically an allegory for listening to trash music dressed up as taking a big poop).

Fav song: In My Bed SUPER classy production on the entire record - really reminds me of east coast hip hop on a lot of the tunes with the sampled drums and the instrumentation having that resampled quality to it, reaching from a lot of the same influences like Bossa and Jazz. Some of the instrumentals give me that Nujabes feel. Amy Winehouse is FAR from my favourite singer (I often imagine she's one of the biggest contributing factors to the 'singer's accent/baby voice' that modern pop singers do now) but man she absolutely KILLS it, she has this versatility that really shines through on this album.

Fav song: Bel Air SUPER COOL experimental stuff for the time period - really modern sounding and pleasantly surprising. These guys were waaay ahead of their time. Kudos to the drummer for holding down tempo changes so well in the 70s before recording to click became gold standard.

Fav song: For Today I Am A Boy I am a bit bias cos I listened to a ton of this band in highschool, but I really do think it’s a great album. A very honest depiction of pain and longing with great instrumentation (for the most part) and a really unique sounding singing voice - not to mention surprising cameos. I was pleasantly surprised when Rufus Wainwright suddenly appeared!

Fav song: Imagine Personally I feel like without Paul and George, John gets waaaaaay too lost in the sauce. I'm probably never ever going to listen to 'Oh Yoko' again for as long as I live. That being said, I really love Imagine as a song (even if John can't follow his own principles, I still love the message and the sombre feelings) and Gimme Some Truth was pretty cool too.

Fav song: Like Someone In Love Trying and failing to resist falling in love with Björk after listening to this album. It’s cutesy and charming but has this super ice cool edge. I LOVE the 90s rave inspired instrumentals to some of these tunes and how they’re thrown in with tracks like ‘Like Someone In Love’. I LOVE how in ‘There’s More To Life Than This’ she dims the instrumental to make it sound like karaoke from outside the booth. I will not become a Björk stan(repeat for infinity)

Fav song: The Other Side Some really great production on this album and amazing features, especially from Anderson .Paak. I think the lyrical content is by far the weakest part of this album and at times it provides this almost bizarre juxtaposition of feelings when typical mumble rap lyrics about sex and money are shoehorned in between some actual poetic lines at times. Not to mention how surprisingly deep and heartfelt some of these instrumentals feel - especially 'The Other Side' - which is my favourite song from the album. The instrumental is sooooo good and some of the lyrics are really nice, but singing about buying a new bootie is the bungie rope that snaps me back out of the immersion.

Fav song: Off The Wall The sheer class and production quality of this album is off the chain! Regardless of how you feel about Michael Jackson on a personal level you can't deny the absolute magnitude of musicianship that went into creating this album. The drum track alone on each song had me squinting - not to mention the bass player(s). Fantastic album, amazing musicians, great writing. A smash hit imo.

Fav song: Fucking Hostile Not usually the type of thing I’d listen to but really fun album to listen to. Super surprising amount of half time breakdowns for 1992, but I’m a little bit disappointed in the production especially in the drums - these drums sound like they were produced in the mid 80s making this album sound a bit dated despite it being early 90s. Maybe these type of high fundamental/verbed out snare drums was standard for metal at the time and I just haven’t heard enough, but I’ve heard enough of it on this album to know it works against the overall sound. But production gripes aside I do think the album is good. I could imagine some of these tunes on Tony Hawks Underground!

Fav song: The Real Slim Shady This album aged really badly. The singles are still good - I see why they were picked as the stand out release tracks. It feels a little bit like an episode of South Park with no jokes in it at it's worst and a sub-part west coast gangster rap album at it's best. I was really looking forward to giving this one a full listen because I LOVE hip hop but this one really misses for me. Maybe it was 'you had to be there' type of thing.

Fav song: Bodyrock An important album in electronic music history! Lots of great sampling and creativity. Love the singles from Play, especially Porcelain.

Fav song: Young Americans I love the singles on this album! I just wish Bowie would have stayed away from the saxophones again on this one, they tend to cheese up anything they touch where Bowie’s involved. That Beatles cover is also properly terrible. Still a fantastic album regardless though!

Fav song: Street Spirit (Fade Out) I feel like I should preface this by saying that Radiohead are my favourite band. The Bends isn't my favourite album by them but it is still one of the all times greats of the 90's and a fantastic example of a band that only gets better over time (I don't really like their first album at all). I really love how you can hear the development of the way they write their songs with songs like Street Spirit, Bullet Proof and all the slower tunes more sombre tunes and then going to listen to OK Computer, it feels like such a natural progression. I LOVE this band.

Fav song: Till Tomorrow Beautiful, beautiful album. Really exceeded my expectations. This album is what I'll think of whenever I think of Americana from now on.

Fav song: Four Women Beautiful, powerful voice with some amazing and important messages in the 60's. This is my first time listening to a Nina Simone album from start to finish and I see now why she is considered to be legendary.

Fav song: Mood For A Day (Roundabout close second though) I think this album is super interesting, especially for the time period. I would have rated it higher but it's just a bit too lost in the sauce in places for me personally. The production is solid though, especially in the low end. That bass really packs a punch. Not to mention the performance! The technical skill from each band member is extremely impressive. But yeah, just waaaaaay lost in the sauce! Side note: the 10 minute songs are actually kinda sick and interesting, especially America.

Fav song: Otterley This album has some really great ideas - it seems like an early progenitor of shoegaze, a genre I really, really like. But there's one absolutely glaring flaw that I just cannot seem to see past. The production on any of the tracks that include that awful, awful drum machine. They chose the bottom of the barrel, worst sounding drum samples they could and just soaked them in reverb. It makes most of the album down right unlistenable for me. That being said, tracks like Otterley that didn't have any drums sound really great. Those guitar tones are lush, the melodies sombre and the vibe is perfect. Thank GOD they didn't put drums on this one.

Fav song: It's Not Me Unfortunately I found this album to be absolutely dreadful, which is a shame because I really like Gaz Coombes' solo stuff a lot! I didn't properly like a single song on here really - It's Not Me was the one I thought was the best, but man, the bar was low. Supergrass - and this kind of Britpop in general is something I've never been able to personally stomach. I find it a bit bland and lacking any meaningful attitude.

Fav song: Get It While You Can Janis Joplin's voice and performance is amazing. Taken far too young </3

Fav song: Free Bird I was gonna give it a 2 stars because I'm not exactly a big rock n roll fan and nothing was sticking out to me much about this album (with the exception of Simple Man). Then Free Bird came on!!!!

Fav song: Sparks I listened to Coldplay properly for the first time this year (funnily enough, this album). I was expecting it to be bad because of all the stereotypes and the crazy pop collabs - but this album is amazing. Beautiful from start to finish with great production to boot. I WISH I could have been in the room listening to the end of “Trouble” for the first time. Wow. As for people who reject this album immediately on the principle that it’s Coldplay - I’m convinced society has this weird perception that listening to Coldplay is both uncool and unmanly, so there’s a lot of insecure people coming out of the woodwork to prove how cool and manly they are lol. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of reasons to hate Coldplay, but rejecting THIS album because “it’s Coldplay” is just insane to me. I don’t even like Coldplay. But this album is wonderful.

Fav song: Buddy CLASSIC and ICONIC east coast hip hop for the soul (De La of course). One of my favourite genres of music of all time, and one of the all time greats, this De La Soul album has all the strengths that made hip hop in NYC so great in the late 80’s that would persist throughout the whole 90’s. Not taking itself too seriously at all, keeping its samples classy and having some bomb ass features from rappers lik le Q-Tip.. this album was never going to be anything but a 5 star from me. Added to my daily rotation of hip hop albums.

Fav song: It’s Like That Another super important album in the world of East coast hip hop. Some great singles on this one but man, the production on the majority of this album is terrible - the drum samples are dreadful and a lot of the songs consist of just rapping and drums.

Fav song: Bear Hug Kinda fun album. Reminded me a lot of the soundtrack for Malcolm in The Middle haha. I prefer this kind of stuff when they sample into it more though, and this album seems to have more of a recorded and sequenced feel to it which makes it sound like it’s aged a lot worse in my opinion. Maybe a liiiiiittle bit too angsty for me too.

Fav song: Porcelain Amazing singles!! I think RHCP are at their strongest when singing instead of doing that weird funk rapping. Scar Tissue is one of their best songs ever.

Fav song: Hoochie Coochie Man Fantastic recording quality and production value for an absolute LEGEND of blues music. Incredible performances from the entire band and just a joy to listen to from start to finish. Muddy Waters is one of the GOATs for sure.

Fav song: Heliosphan Another album I listened to a LOT in college. I love ambient music and Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92 might be a big reason why. The production sounds a little bit dated these days, but it’s interesting to go back and listen to where Aphex Twin got his start and how he evolved his sound over the years. Don’t listen to anyone who says otherwise - Richard D James is a genius.

Fav song: A Really Good Time Kinda weird, kinda cheesy in that super early Bowie way - just no where near as good. Still, it wasn't BAD, just not very good!

Fav song: She’s Got It Man this album is so much fun to listen to even all these years later! Fantastic performance from the entire band in an era where track recording was in its absolute infancy. A proper music time capsule and just great album all round.