2.5 stars i wish i liked this more coming from a queer trans artist like Chris. i generally struggle to enjoy 80s revival music and this is really part of that category for me. i liked listening to it in french, and 5 dols is my favorite. however, the album starts to feel redundant. there’s so much stuff that could’ve been more experimental. that’s all! it’s all right

this is so 2007 - derogatory - so tired of this UK shit

this, more than any other album i’ve gotten so far, will absolutely be in my rotation of stuff i regularly listen to. i love it

4.5 stars suuuuch good bops on this one. such a pleasant listen and im better for it!

this album is stunning front to back, and i really think The Band deserves the level of notoriety given to The Beatles. such a defining and influential band.

i get why people like this. i feel like i can do anything when i listen! wouldn’t reach for it super often, but good stuff.

this album goes crazy. i love how the songs are either 2 and a half minutes or like 6 minutes. i would give this a 4.5 if i could. melds genres so well and has some really impressive geetar

so incredible so smooth so varied

i have long been a “beatles are overrated” kind of guy but i loved this listen so much. it makes me understand more of it. really good songwriting and just super fun to listen to and instrumentally stellar. nice one! ya got me

impossible to be in a bad mood while listening to this!

absolute no skip album. takes me through the full range of human emotion. rip marc ❤️

dunking on thatcher is lit. i respect the dedication and don’t think i’ll listen to it a ton but ive also been soooo bob dylan pilled its tough!

it really is that good

thank god for weird guys from ohio

this is what happens when you tell men repeatedly that they’re interesting. incredibly uninspired, no song had any business being 5+ minutes

good ol blues music!!!! so musically impressive. go off

genuinely no skip! a classic for a reason! juicy, skillfully done bass lines in every song. really found myself relishing those. these guys just know how to write a catchy, timeless tune

i love his voice so much…wow! such strong songwriting. this whole thing is a delight to listen to. i wish it was easier to find but i respect it! one of my favorite finds so far. i’m definitely going to explore his discography.

4.5 stars if i could! feels like a sunny day it’s a triumph to be able to enjoy this again

lucy said that a lot of this sounds like the part of a 90s family movie where the chimp/dog/animal they’ve met starts doing a bunch of crazy tricks on the ski slope/court/skate ramp/computer

so, so fun to listen to. these guys know how to do a theme. i love the instrumentals in this and noticed them more than i had in previous albums of theirs

4.5 stars! JUST GOOD STUFF!

4.5 stars! god this guy has a good voice. smoooooth rock but can also shred and isn’t afraid to get goofy

i’m gonna be so honest that i didn’t listen to all of it but hope to at some point. it’s just such a long album and feels not particularly inspired like so much of their other stuff does

4.5 stars suuuuch good bops on this one. such a pleasant listen and im better for it!

i really wanted to like this, and i do somewhat, but there’s so many other 90s bands i prefer: Helium, Kelly Deal 6000, Swirlies being my favorites. this just doesn’t scratch the same itch for me, but i get its merit and i love to see a cool girl singing

this, more than any other album i’ve gotten so far, will absolutely be in my rotation of stuff i regularly listen to. i love it

truly no skip, absolutely masterful, really fun to listen to. never gets boring

i have heard this so many times against my will. this is what happens, in my opinion, when an annoying theater guy becomes too famous. i just really find his style of music so grating, i don’t care for his voice, i don’t like his storytelling. it is just decisively not for me

3.5 stars i like the banger tracks the best by far!

so significant and well done and awesome 4.5

i love this album. it has such strong songs, and it’s such a good first half. the last part gets a little like yeah we get it. but i love it!

some really fun bops! honestly so soured for me by working retail at a place that played this incessantly, but i still have love and respect for it!

dudes absolutely rock. this is awesome

sounds like a U2 album, unfortunately. a flop from a musician i really do admire. not musically interesting and the lyrics felt so redundant and vaguely empty.

this contains so many of the beatles songs i’ve clowned on before. i really did enjoy sgt pepper’s, but this one just sounds like the result of what it was: a bunch of adult men arguing. some good songs, for sure. while my guitar gently weeps is a certified timeless banger, and i understand why it wowed people. the entirety of the album is not for me and it’s too long. sorry!

i did not need to hear this before i die! the grating vocals, backed by a 4-octaves higher shriek, followed by the same 3 guitar chords, are so boring to me. i do not understand the appeal.

a really fun album! definitely psychedelic leaning. i really appreciated that each song sounded distinctly different.

her voice is perfect. a beautiful late 80s time capsule

this is such a good album and i’m so glad i heard it before i die! so lush and varied and good

3.5 stars — this is a fun one, not one i think i’ll reach for a ton but glad to have listened to it

rating this as what it is for me — i know this is historically, musically so important and it’s good! i just don’t think i’ll listen again

Little Green is a downright perfect song and always moves me to tears. 💚 i love the first half of this album, and the last song is so powerful. it starts to all blend together at some points, but this is definitely my favorite Joni album. 4.35 if i could 💙

incredible voice and musically interesting. the bangers were my favorites, a few too many ballads for my taste but man is he good!

2.5 stars rounding down on my official review because i want to send a message that WHY the hell would i need to listen to this before i die? this is such a spectacularly mid album. Stills is a great guitarist, and when that gets to shine the songs are good, but the vocals, the inexplicable choir, the songwriting, it’s all just meh to me. not something i needed to listen to.

this album is stunning front to back, and i really think The Band deserves the level of notoriety given to The Beatles. such a defining and influential band.

im sorry but i think this is a snooze fest. he’s done so much more interesting, fun stuff. a few good songs but mostly just no thanks

2.5 stars i wish i liked this more coming from a queer trans artist like Chris. i generally struggle to enjoy 80s revival music and this is really part of that category for me. i liked listening to it in french, and 5 dols is my favorite. however, the album starts to feel redundant. there’s so much stuff that could’ve been more experimental. that’s all! it’s all right

masterful, perfect, gorgeous, life affirming to listen to. i love him so much

really solid album and enjoyable and varied to listen to. the greatest thing you’ll ever learn / is just to love and be loved in return ❤️

so fun!!!!!! beach beach beach

this is absolutely scrumptious 60s psych rock it’s awesome

this is such a good film score and also just so fun to listen to in the car

unparalleled, imitable, stunning

very fun! i love how wacky the mix is, how loud and fuzzy

people were hating on this, but i personally really enjoyed the departure from the entirely predictable stuff that mostly is on this list. this was an awesome album to listen to as i navigated a snowstorm, and it’s a fun prelude to some of my favorite ambient artists to follow. i’m glad i listened to it

this actually rocked so much, and i’m saying that as someone who does not really care for the beatles but i think this really has the sauce. i will absolutely listen to it again

the parts with her were awesome. needed more of that and less of the rest

boring british sludge like too much stuff on here

this is so awesome. every song is great, i love the hardcore sprinkles throughout, interludes, all of it

this is so 2007 - derogatory - so tired of this UK shit

sooooo of its time…does not hold up as well…

such a playful, strong album. so much interesting stuff happening stylistically and definitely expanded the horizons for its time. a really fun listen

i love shoegaze!!!! this is such a good album. absolutely lush guitar and really interesting songwriting

shred it

these guys get it

retail music

i’m always thrilled to see anything not UK/USA on here and this is so superb. perfect for cooking, eating outside, driving. loved it so much

4.5

i’m good on that thanks though

1.5 this is angry dad music

this album has such a special place in my heart. i think the first half is strongest. some really good songwriting and so much of what it feels like to grow up in the world a girl. this album helped me learn how to be pissed off. i’m so grateful for that

for sure musically impressive but just not for me

okaaaaay not what i was expecting from these kings. nice easy listening, a few bangers and some less inspiring stuff

not my favorite amy but impressive for being so young

some fun stuff! i will admit that by the second half i was getting pretty tired of it. there’s some fun tongue in cheek stuff, and then there’s some things that could’ve stayed in the drafts. some good geeeetar though

go off kings

sounds and feels like being in a cool older cousin’s car

she’s a genius, always has been and always will be

he really is that good of a songwriter

started off being like, why does everyone hate this? it’s fun 80s stuff, some fun synth. then it definitely is too long and starts to get so derivative. but still waaaay better than some of the british crap on this list, respectfully

i thought this was fun and original and i love his voice. it’s inventive and impressive and it bums me out that taylor swift has a higher rating than this

some of my favorite dylan

iggy pop is michigan excellence

diabolical that there’s two albums by them on this list? i said it before and i’ll say it again: retail music. i feel like im in a tjmaxx. it’s by no means the worst thing ive ever heard but i also do not care for it

4.5 stars! i’m shocked that the only song i really knew was Time of the Season, and i like every other song better. a really great album

awesome

ENOUGH!!!!!!

lesbian excellence

very derivative — mainly i’m giving it a lower rating because i absolutely didn’t need to hear it before i die and it really rips off so many other better albums. not the worst on this list by a long shot, but very uninspired

lesbian excellence. such strong songwriting and a voice unlike any other

they really are that good

insane that he was only 24 when he released this album

such a good, strong album. it’s really special for a band to be able to make a pivot like this and have it work so well

i love his weird freakin voice and i think this is worthy of this list for how genuinely unique it is

i love when this endeavor makes me listen to bands i’ve only heard one hit song from. i like every song on this so much better than what i had heard. Glittering Prize! so good! so 80s so awesome i loved it

i had only ever heard sympathy for the devil, and the rest of this album is my favorite of the stones i’ve heard so far. i love it!!!!

i liked the ambient part best i’ll say it. thank you brian eno

the amount of his albums on this list makes me dislike them more unfortunately

an absolute pleasure to get this album on a beautiful june day! dreamy summer light linen shirt of an album

3.5, but rounding up because this is the only beck i’ve ever enjoyed

DID NOT NEED TO HEAR BEFORE I DIE

the first few tracks are really strong, but this album long overstays its welcome and becomes derivative

this is so fantastic and good and makes me feel awesome

i’m rounding up on my review for this because it’s so surprisingly refreshingly better than a lot of the other britpop on here. fun album

this is the kind of album that should be on here

i do not really care for his voice or his vibe but this is pretty good. some duds and some good ones

4.5 stars, rounding up because i love blur and this album is so good

this album is so fun, so original, so much more interesting to listen to than so much of the slop on this list. i loved it even more than i thought i would!

kind of mystified that this sheryl album is on this list. not my favorite of hers musically, lyrically, or thematically but i will always have a soft spot for her voice. toooooo many ballads, though

honestly this is a no skip album for me and i love it so much. awesome music to listen to on a july day with the windows down

this is pleasant enough to listen to. there’s other jazz i like more, and every song sounds the same, but it’s very easy listening and i can see why it appeals to the masses.

did not need to hear this before i die and don’t you dare compare it to nirvana…yawn

you know what? everyone does need a bosom for a pillow

my goodwill for this reeeeally was stretched thin by the last track

the only thing my extended family is right about is this album rocking

i’d never heard an Ice T album before and i was so pleasantly surprised. fiercely political, experimental, lots of fun.

immensely boring. this is fine enough to hear in the grocery store or something, but i’m truly tired of seeing stuff like this on this list that’s supposed to have some magnitude

this is the kind of stuff my friend’s scary mom would have playing on NPR while she made buckwheat pancakes. very talented musician, not up my alley

this is this list at its best, when the music is so worthwhile and original. i thoroughly enjoyed it

i’ve just had enough of him

so awesome, so interesting, so fun

michigan excellence

THIS ROCKS

getting this album on the day Ozzy left this mortal realm was really something. it felt like communion. this album is really, truly perfect. timeless. i’m 29 and i love this like i was alive for it

so boring and musically uninspired. morrissey has a great voice, aside from being the most fuckin annoying guy ever. but like many have pointed out in their reviews, his solo stuff makes it painfully obvious that the heart of the smiths and the talent of the smiths largely belonged to his less annoying, more humble band mates.

she absolutely bodied this!!!!!

it’s super nice to see them developing their sound here

these aren’t all bad, but it’s such retail music. nothing to really hold onto

so much more lethargic and downtrodden than a lot of the earlier stuff i love. still an inherent magic to what these guys get up to, but more of a slog.

unfortunately boring! i like some of his other stuff and the xylophone was cool but only for so long

is this sort of a bunch of songs that sound the same? absolutely. but i gobble it up because i love that sound

smooth, awesome, fun to listen to

justice for janet…she has always deserved so much more recognition and this is such a fun album

i love Bruce Springsteen, and no one was immune to the banal, trying so hard to be deep soft rock of the immediacy of 9/11. it genuinely feels like Bruce picks a few words: blood, lips, seed, sky, and then just tries to weave them into every song even if it’s super contrived. lyrically tired, musically uninspired, and i have to agree with another review that said why not pick an artist at their prime in 2002? there certainly were some. i love The Boss SO much, and this is not his finest by a long shot.

truly a remarkable album

truly a remarkable album

solid indie album that’s aged better than many others. didn’t grab me super tight, but it’s a pleasant listen

really cool departures from their sound in this while still being so distinctly them. Tangerine is one of my favorites

i love these guys, i cannot explain why, but i do, and even then there’s still a limit where i think they could reel it in perhaps. the good songs on this album go so hard, and there’s also a lot that are a little toooooo quirked up

music that a really cool older cousin would have playing in their sedan in the 2000s

he’s very good at piano i just do not like this kind of thing

this album knocked my socks off! i love it!

love his vibe but this did not need to be on this list

totally fine, but perplexing to be on this list

a masterpiece. moonlight mile, wild horses, can’t you hear me knocking…amazing