A classic. Already owned this but nice to revist.

I was not prepared for the length of these songs! Didn't love this one.

I avoided this LP at the time because I didn't love the singles, which were played all the time on the radio. listening to it all the way through, I sorta get it, but its not for me.

A surprise. Really great.

I had never even heard of this band. A bit derivative but okay.

I already know this record well but a fresh listen was fun

Had never heard of this band. Not a genre I typically listen to. The sound of this record is good but after a while it was boring.

Didn't know much about this band, but liked this.

Already knew and liked this LP. Don't think I'd ever heard the UK sequence with Sunday Best. I get the context, but the slur in Oliver's Army always makes me cringe.

I don't know enough about jazz to evaluate this record. Not for me, though probably a great record.

Already own and love this one. "Casimir Pulaski day" always makes me cry.

Probably one of the first 25 to 50 lps I bought as a teenager. Hard to evaluate now since I associate it with that time in my life.

I only knew their monster hit "don't you forget about me" and it never occurred to me to listen to their lps. This was pretty good.

Sounds like the grateful dead but with precise non-noodling performances. I'm just not a fan of the vocal styles or the vibe, though I can recognize its a good record.

I liked this mostly but a double Lp was a lot to take in at once. What a talented horn player he was. I hadn't idea.

Better than I thought it would be but not my thing.

Why is this on the list? Forgettable lightweight pop. I only made it thru 4 or 5 songs. If you want good French pop try Air (which is on this list) or Les Rita Mitsouko ( which isnt)

Aw yes, that's more like it. Already know his catalog pretty well but this is a pretty good representation. Coconut has not aged well tho.

Never noticed the Bowie backing vocals on satellite of love before. This is a pretty decent record from someone who let's gave it doesn't have a great singing voice

Omg I listened to this so much in my 20s I can't not love it now. Would be interested to know what a tabula rasa experience with this lp is like. Gotta 10/10, sorry not sorry.

Oh yeah. I legit love this period of hip hop where things were gleeful and nobody was routinely called a ho.

This was a weird one. I've heard all their back catalog, but this is one without any obvious singles/hits on it. Kinda prog rock (in a good way) and you can definitely see how they go from this to bohemian rhapsody. This is fine but I feel like sheer heart attack, NATO, DATR are stronger conceptually and more fun to listen to.

over the last 30 years I've tried to get the Dylan mystique and it has not happened. Is Dylan a better vocalist than famously anti-singer vocalist Leonard Cohen? no. Is Dylan a better songwriter than Leonard Cohen? debatable, but I like Nick Cave and Jennifer Warnes covers of Cohen better than any non-Hendrix Dylan cover i've heard. Maybe I'd be more sympathetic to Dylan's schtick if Brel, Cohen and Scott Walker didn't exist, but they do, and I still don't get why this dude became the standard bearer instead of, I dunno, Mimi Farina.

Like big pink that we got last week, I'm just not into this style of music. But this album was okay, though I'll never pick it up again. That last song, King Harvest, was my fave and I would have loved to see Queen cover it.

This was fine but I don't see it as a must hear.

Still don't understand dylan veneration.

I don't love this guy's voice, but I didn't hate this. A few cringy hippie rhymes. I've already forgotten about this record a few hours after hearing it.

I think "Loaded" is one of the greatest singles of the 1990s, and the Screamadelica (1991) LP that single is one is on this list, so I guess we'll encounter that eventually. The other songs I know of theirs are "Rocks" (on the Give Out But Don't Give Up 1994 lp, not on the list) which is kinda a Black Crowes groove (vs the Madchester sound they are associated with) and "Movin on Up" (also in Screamadelica). So what I'm saying is I get why Screamadelica is on this list and I'll rate that one better than this, but I don't see why there are 2 primal scream lps here, especially this one. While I'll admit this LP was a nice balm after all the Dylan/Band 60s stuff the algorithm has thrown at us lately, it was too long (no one wanted 53 minutes of this) and superfluous if Screamadelica is already here. plus the cover of Motorhead by Hawkwind (and later motorhead) was not needed at all.

More bluesy than I'd expected. Tumbling dice was the only song I recognized. Will listen again.

Okay I do not like this bandbut this was not as terrible as I thought it would be. I really liked the east st Louis instrumental. 3 more SD lps on this list, ugh.

If I wanted juvenile misogyny and undeserved swagger, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are more radio friendly. If I want a hip-hop group that samples pfunk/george Clinton a lot, digital underground did it better, without nBombs or bitch/ ho lyrics. Sex Packets by DU predates this by 2 years and is a masterpiece. This is machismo garbage, no matter how catchy the underlying groove might be.

I know these guys have progressive politics, but I didn't love it for 2 reasons: 1) the songs were a little too repetitive/anthemic. If I'd been 16 when this came out instead of entering grad school, maybe it would move me more. 2) I can't help but feel like these guys might be somewhat responsible for Nu Metal.

One banger single, and the rest of it is good, though i suspect this lp is on the list for its influence more than it's merits. What is the background "bubbly" sound in most of these songs? Its prominent in "through the rhythm ". It could be a vocal or could be something run thru an effects pedal, but once I heard it, I couldnt ignore it and I liked the songs a bit less.

This was a big deal when it came out, and I didn't get it then. I know this came out a few years before Oasis but I can't help but think that Oasis is the much better band of this type and there's no need for this to be on the list.

Better than the snoop dogg record, but I'm just too old to see how "n***a wipe your ass" gets you a Pulitzer.

Okay, this is obviously on the list because the first rap lp to hit #1 on the billboard charts was by white dudes. But how does it hold up, especially knowing that Check your head ( #10 on the charts) is a more sophisticated and probably better album ? It's hard to evaluate it now. I was 16 when this came out and "fight for your right to party" was -everywhere-. At the time this seemed snotty and brash and like it was maybe not cool for rich white guys to co-opt rap. The music is more minimalist than I'd remembered. The album is definitely juvenile. But it works.

A pleasant surprise! I wonder how many other jangly-pop guitar bands like this I missed out on at the time due to the Grunge Ascendancy. I will listen to this again.

Interstingly enough, in the 2018 print ed of the bk, the doves record is Lost Souls. Revision, or error? This was pleasent enough but I don't understand why it is on the list.

I think this is as good as classic Buzzcocks, even though it's borrowing heavily from other post-punk classics. "Waking up" is the Stranglers "No more Heroes", Connection is Wire's "three girl rhumba", etc. While relistening, I noticed "blue" is similar to siouxsie's "Mirage". there are likely other borrowings I can't place. BUT IT DOESNT MATTER because all the songs are catchy, not too long, and still sounds great 30 (?!) years later.