This is closest I can get to listening to Kanye these days without feeling icky

Great pop songs, even if she sings like a seductive baby

I preferred Oasis as a kid, but time has definitely been kinder to Blur. (PARKLIFE!!!) Noel is a tosser and Liam is a git. (PARKLIFE!!!) A few of the songs are a bit too whimsical, but the highs are high. (PARKLIFE!!!)

I love Dylan when he's sad. Unfortunately, it sounds like he had a lot of fun making this one.

The '80s country punk thing is almost cool, but the singer sounds shitfaced drunk

I feel like I'm sipping a cappuccino while eating a bran muffin in a coffee shop in the '90s

How dare John Lennon criticize "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" when he wrote the trash that is "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill." One star automatically deducted for that one.

Catchy and fun, dark and intense, and way weirder than your average alt-rock album

Hooks on hooks on hooks! It's on the shortlist of "great post-Beatles solo albums."

I love Dylan when he's sad. Unfortunately, it sounds like he had a lot of fun making this one.

Macho music for bullies and jocks

Beautifully produced, as expected with Danger Mouse behind the boards, with lush and stylistically diverse arrangements. The melodies don't really stick and I doubt I'll ever revisit.

So long as she isn't doing Tom Waits-ass poverty cosplay ("There Goes a Tenner"), braying like a donkey ("Get Out of My House") or doing whatever the title track is supposed to be (is that a bad Australian accent?), it's pretty great

Maximalist production and minimalist intelligence

"Buffalo Stance" and then some songs that sound exactly the same but not quite as good

When this album first came out, I was disappointed that the YYYs had made a new wavey synth album, because everyone was doing that at the time. Karen O's voice really saves the day here.

I saw Jack White live twice this week!! Even his weirder albums (like this one) are great.

It's a fun party album, and, like many a real-life party, gets a little repetitive by the end

I preferred Oasis as a kid, but time has definitely been kinder to Blur. (PARKLIFE!!!) Noel is a tosser and Liam is a git. (PARKLIFE!!!) A few of the songs are a bit too whimsical, but the highs are high. (PARKLIFE!!!)

Comedy music, although I'm not sure if the members of Jethro Tull are in on the joke

Very appropriate that I got this during my weekend in Las Vegas, yes indeed uh-huh-huh thankyouverymuch

Sorry, dad! No album should have this many songs that exist solely for plot exposition.

I considered giving it four stars, but then Spotify autoplayed a song from The Idiot right after, and it was so much better than anything on Lust for Life

Honka honka burnin' luv 🎺

Joni's jazz era is the best. Super weird arrangement choices (loud bass, distorted drum loops, etc.) but it's also really pretty.

David Bowie's 12th best album is still pretty great 💫

A seven nation army couldn't hold me back from giving this five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Radiohead: The Musical!

Maybe you had to be there (and on drugs)

The most gothic music ever written in a major key. They wrote bigger hits later in their career, but this one is pure vibe.

"In Your Eyes" inspired me to hold my Samsung Galaxy over my head outside my girl's window

I'll never get to visit space, but at least I've got Low 🚀

When people say "boomer" as an insult, this dusty-ass dad rock is what they're talking about

Janis Joplin's voice makes me want to clear my throat. Difficult to listen to, but a bonus star for "Piece of My Heart."

They funny voices they do on every song get a little tiring, but the funk is strong

A time machine that transports me to my aunt's high school boyfriend's basement in the 1970s in London, Ontario

The Chef serves up the whole menu

Bravo to Jeff Beck for playing some cool guitar parts, and bravo to Rod Stewart for sounding so confident while singing absolute garbage

The golden ratio ️‍🌈

The Disney version of Satanism

Dreary boho ballads for pretentious English lit undergrads, and I kinda dig it

Who am I to criticize a mystical harp faerie woodnymph 🧚

WOO-HOO 💥

Noodly, under-written half songs that sound like demos to be finished later

The most front-loaded album of all time, but when it hits, it hits hard

Captures the vibe of the shitty English town where my mom's from with piercing accuracy

The '80s country punk thing is almost cool, but the singer sounds shitfaced drunk

Trashy neon spandex cock rock that I reasonably enjoyed in spite of myself

Love those digi-funk grooves where it sounds like my Bluetooth is struggling to connect

Neither the funk grooves nor the vocal hooks fully stand out, but it's a nice listen

Music for airports, answering emails, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, walking to the gym, cooking and folding laundry — everything becomes more beautiful with this on

It's a pastiche of '50s/'60s crooners, and it's an exceptionally good one

This is closest I can get to listening to Kanye these days without feeling icky

Surprisingly meek and pleasant for an album called Electric Warrior in a genre associated with flamboyance

Destiny's Child: "I'm a baddie with a sexy booty and you can't handle all this jelly" 😏 Also Destiny's Child: "Sluts are gross" 🤮

This is the one I've waited for!!!

It can't quite take five (stars), but these are some catchy dinner party songs so it can take four

The only thing better than Neil Young playing rock is Neil Young playing folk

It's my top post-Pixies pick, see? There's 22 songs and they're all good.

The affected "soulfulness" of the cursive singing grates on me, even when the pop hooks are undeniable

It's amazing how every new post-punk band still sounds like this. The only snag is that I'm kinda sick of those bands, even though this version of it is obviously very good.

I can't imagine why I'd want to listen to 54 minutes of this when the White Stripes, the Hives, DFA 1979 and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs all exist

I always knew Bob Marley was chill and pleasant. I perhaps didn't account for just how chill and pleasant he truly is.

I'M CANADIAN!!!!!

The disco cover of "Comfortably Numb" reinforces the way this feels like a gimmicky album of '70s knockoff novelty pop. "Take Your Mama" slaps, though.

Years ago at a party, I smoked weed and listened to this album and thought it was amazing. Weed makes me anxious now, but this album still rules.

New Yawk City, baybee! Ayy I'm walkin' here!! Fuggaddaboudit!!!

Knowing that Songs in the Key of Life followed it, I expected a little more

People keep calling White Denim a "jam band" because of the Wikipedia extract, but they don't jam at all and absolutely aren't a jam band in any way. The album has that funny conundrum of having sweet pop melodies but no actual hooks. Nice but forgettable.

I love Joni's early stripped-down folk and her later jazzy experimentation. This was right in the middle and a little less distinctive.

Angry, funny and hard as fuck

The guitars are sick as hell, and they would sound even better with proper songwriting

It's definitely one of the jazz albums of all time

To quote my dad when he found out my ex was a fan, "Talking Heads are a band of taste"

I enjoyed the arrangements/production a lot, but it seems like a classic pop album should have some more memorable hooks than this

It's absolutely hilarious how rinky-dink the keyboard sounds. I liked it when they found some more melodic grooves in the second half and it wasn't purely atonal skronk.

I was fully ready to hate this Disney version of shock rock. Turns out the tunes are pretty fun!

Imagine being there?! Damn.

Plinky plink plonk plank!!

It's my second consecutive vibraphone jazz album — what are the chances? Being a deadbeat dad has rarely sounded so good.

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!! MOTHER FUCKERRRRRR!!!

Surprisingly sweet for mafiosa rap <3 Great old-school beats, fantastic flows, and skits I could probably do without.

Sounds more like a movie soundtrack than a proper album, but I wasn't mad about the trippy psych grooves. Another situation where I'm enjoying an album, but the second it ends and Spotify auto-plays something from a different album, I immediately enjoy that next one more.

Obviously Nick Cave's whole vibe is to sing like a vampiric crypt keeper, but this was a gimmick

The worst skits and the best rapping — the latter outweighs the former

It's helpful that she frequently reminds listeners what her name is and how rap music works. Impossible to get confused! It's charmingly dated and quite repetitive.

The White Lotus theme song inspiration discovered LOO-LOO-LOO-LOO-LOO

I wouldn't want to see a ballet set to this, but that's more an issue with ballet than jazz

Short 'n' sweet, featuring "Alison," the greatest incel anthem of all time. I loved this album a couple decades ago but hadn't listened in years, and I was surprised how much stuck with me.

It's a vibe. Nothing really stands out, but I enjoyed working to the hypnotic mood.

Better than a kick in the ass with a frozen boot

Sounds like building mode on the origins Sims game, and I mean that as a compliment

22 years since I bought this CD on release day, I'm still not sure if I'm scared or horny

I was introduced to this album through that scene in Almost Famous where everybody is mad at each other, but then they listen to "Tiny Dancer" and by the chorus they've made up. Lazy screenwriting, but a great song. The rest of the album wouldn't inspire such character development.

People who don't care about music also need a soundtrack for their dinner parties, and that's okay

It's ironic they all hated each other so much, because this album sounds like they're having fun

Perfect boom bap beats, gorgeously soulful melodies from an incredible singer, and a few too many vocal runs

Free Palestine

The first 30 seconds of "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" permanently altered my brain chemistry

The song choices were kinda whatever, but the he's got that voice like butter

No one has ever accused Funkadelic of false advertising

The first time I ever listened to Either/Or, it was the summer of 2005. I was walking through downtown Vancouver with my head down, feeling a bit depressed on account of the music. Suddenly, just beside me, a car leaned on its horn. I looked up to see that a car had been pulling out of a parking space just as a cyclist was coming up the street, and the car had nearly sideswiped the cyclist. The cyclist was a tall guy with a Chicago Blackhawks jersey tied around his waist, and he turned his head and waved to acknowledge the car. I saw the man's face — it was John Cusack.

Community theatre ass album

Not his best songs, but Rod Stewart always sounds pretty good doing Americana cosplay

If by "the masses" they mean drunk Gen Xers with their nipples exposed through mesh shirts, the title is spot on

Rolling in the deeeeep, putting me to sleeeeep

More cheese and corn than a Taco Bell, but the lead guitars are cool

Sounds like a summer's day 😎

Oooh boy that's smoooooth

Great pop songs, even if she sings like a seductive baby

Sounds like fake music specifically made for after school specials and corporate training videos

For a guy associated with two of the craziest families ever (Wilson, Manson), Dennis made some nice-sounding rock music

Very easy to listen to. Almost too easy?

Grimy and menacing, and then such a beautiful final track

Sounds very quaint in 2025. It's cute that artists used to rap like this, and that people used to dance to it.

The ultimate "ta-tsss, ta-tsss" jazz album

I am not a cool guy, but listening to this album makes me feel like I am

Honestly, I'm starting to understand why people in the '60s found hippies annoying

A little hokey, a little honky — pretty fun

It's not the most exciting thing ever, but it's impressive that such a '90s-sounding album came out in 1976

Fun to listen to, but smoking weed isn't a personality

I guess I'm just not dramatic enough to enjoy this

Spooky ooky fun that makes me wanna go trick or treating

Johnny Cash's amazing voice elevates the boring concept of "imagine if these well-known songs were performed on...ACOUSTIC GUITAR?!?"

So THIS is where Father John Misty got it from. My toxic trait is that I love Phil Spector's production.

Any time I paid attention to the lyrics they were SO cheesy, but the music makes me feel like I'm strutting down the street with a boombox on my shoulder, so overall I had a good time

The trouble with putting one of the greatest rock songs ever as the opening track is that the rest of the album struggles to live up

These boys sure do love twiddlin' and diddlin' and noodlin' and doodlin'

I wasn't sold until the last song, which fully blasts off into the cosmos

R.I.P. Brian Wilson! Pet Sounds is my favourite album ever, which gives any of their other albums a lot to live up to. I love "Help Me, Rhonda," and the rest of the album is fun but flimsy.

And you may find you yourself working your way through the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. And you find yourself listening to Talking Heads' Remain in Light. And you may ask yourself, how many stars should I give this? FIVE STARS!!!

He sounds like the third member of Hall & Oates, which is fun in a dated, corny way

Young, dumb and full of fun

By far the best Beatles solo album. If this had been a Beatles album, it would have been one of their best — maybe top 3.

My first favourite album from when I was nine years old. I knew every word, even if I only understood half of them. The perfect pop-punk album.

Sadly not a collaboration between MJ Lenderman and J. Cole, but rather a stock electronic album with generic R&B singers

It's certainly not RUBBISH, but it's not as good as the other Blur albums on this list

It exists in the shadow of Ziggy Stardust, which is fair when it's the follow-up to one of the best rock albums ever. The fucked up jazz piano really elevates this one beyond mere immitation.

A few classic songs, but it's too inconsistent, cute and kooky to fully work as an album

Some very Kanye-coded production (especially those bass-driven tracks), which is awesome because Little Simz isn't a Nazi. Tight album that's smart, thoughtful, swaggering and maybe just a little preachy.

I'm just not enough of an alpha male gigachad jock to tolerate music this macho

Great talent used for evil!

The guy at the ren faire who takes it a bit too seriously

YESTERDAY I HAD WANT TWO!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN!!!! Thankfully enjoyed this one more than Want Two, since it has catchier baroque pop songs, even though the ballads are dreary and directionless.