I was raised to love the beatles, and thus I love the beatles. Every tune here is near perfect (sans Polythene Pam, which has never been great and has aged poorly). By far The Beatles best use of stereo sound. This album sounds so incredibly full while listening on headphones. An album that begs to be listened to loud to catch all the details. Specific favourite moments: the ‘bang bangs’ right before the chorus on Maxwell, the guitar riff on Oh! Darling, the guitar riff on Octopus’s Garden, the guitar riff on I Want You (I’m sensing a theme here), the entire medley, the horns on Golden Slumbers & reusing the You Never Give Me Your Money melody, and Ringo going crazy on the drums on The End.

Not quite my speed of country but undoubtedly important and impactful. Such empathy for those who have found themselves in troubled circumstances. I especially love how the recording quality emphasizes the uproar of the crowd- the crowd mic is constantly peaking and it’s so killer. The title track is an absolute riot.

I’ve always liked Michael Jackson well enough but never loved anything that I’ve heard. What a strange career to peak when you’re like, 12 years old. I feel the same way about this album as I feel about Prince’s Purple Rain. The tunes are solid but there’s often too much going on, resulting in songs that sound more theatric than enjoyable. This is especially true of the singles, which are by far the worst batch of tracks on this thing. The slower, sparser songs really shine through. I find it difficult to fully immerse myself in this album with Jackson’s reputation in the current day. The love songs are great, but are undoubtedly tainted by his actions. Overall pretty good!

The first of the 1001 albums that I’m intimately familiar with already. Played most of these charts in high school and have had the honour of seeing the Basie orchestra live. I feel that many of the arrangements are more foundational than they are truly great, but every track still sounds so damn cool. A fundamental stepping stone for some of the greatest jazz recordings of all time. Radical album cover as well. If I want to listen to Basie, I much prefer Straight Ahead, but there’s really no going wrong here.

One of the greatest albums of all time. Surprised by how familiar I have been with the album this generator has given me so far, though I certainly don't know more than ~30% of the albums on the list. What's there to say? An album that artists (mostly unsuccessfully) try to recreate over and over because it's so damn good. Angeles has one of the 10 greatest guitar parts of all time. The guitar solo on Say Yes is fucking insane. 2:45 AM and Between the Bar are brutal. Every song here is endlessly catchy and has stuck in my head since I first heard this at 13 years old.

Competent, jammy, doesn't do too much for me! All the stereo sound stuff going on here is great. The songs just don't really stick for me outside of the hits (Down to the Waterline, Sultans of Swing). Really feels like this should be up my alley but there's not that oomph for me to latch onto.

Not as immediate of an album for me as Doolittle, but still good. Will be listening to this quite a bit. Much more audacious. Kim Deal is stellar.

Just completely washes over me. Don't care for this at all. I don't think it's bad or anything, just painfully uninteresting. The type of rock album that lacks any real character and coasts on solid instrumentation and songwriting. Made to be played at sports games and shitty dive bars and guitar hero games. The mixing on the vocals is horrendous.

Just superb. Takes so many absurd and huge leaps and somehow lands every single one of them. Okay, maybe not every single one— I could do without Touch Sensitive— but as a whole this is pretty incredible and feels quite singular to me. I've always dismissed neo-psych as something that's 'not for me' but I consistently find releases in the genre to be stellar and overflowing with creative and surprising songwriting. The electronics on No Sympathy are fucking insane and I love it.

Overflowing with energy. Wonderful stuff

Never been too into Jack White, or blues rock, really. This and Elephant are by far my favourites of his because I feel like they don't fall into all the blues rock tropes that hurt my enjoyment. Love how noisy this is but I especially love the moments when it quiets down. Meg kills it on the drums.

Certainly well done and Ella Fitzgerald is an unbelievable talent, but this just isn't for me and *oh my god* is this thing long. Really blends into itself.

My second favourite Fleet Foxes behind Crack-Up. I don’t think this reaches any of the highs of that album outside of maybe Blue Ridge Mountains. What this does it does very well. Catchy folk pop songs that are so full in sound and flawlessly produced. Pecknold is a master songwriter. Embarrassingly reminds me of my junior high “girlfriend”. Hope she’s doing well. White Winter Hymnal is forever ruined by Pentatonix.

Pretty good! Understandably reminds me a lot of other 2000s hip hop classics (college dropout, blueprint, be) but rarely hits the same heights that those records consistently hit. The biggest issue with this album is that there are lots of moments that sound dated/haven’t aged well. Most of the beats are absolutely brilliant and Lupe is one of the best lyricists in the genre. Good stuff

pleasant. Not a big fan of the stereo mixing here- why is it almost only the bass in the right ear?? Unfortunately, none of the songs really stuck with me. Again, pleasant. Last song rips tho.

Perfectly fine. Has forever been uninspiring to me. Would much rather listen to a Kurt Vile record.

Like every other QOTSA album I’ve listened to, this is largely uninteresting rock moments with a few great moments over far too long of a run time. Doesn’t have one high that comes even close to some of their other albums, and the lows are generally lower. I do not like this band very much! The stereo output on this thing is kinda cool tho.

An undoubtedly quality pop album that unfortunately doesn’t do much for me. Genuinely impressed by how daring some of these instrumentals are and how conceptual the album can get. Wish it wasn’t 80 minutes long.

An album that’s familiar to me through the countless hip hop records that sample it. Some real beautiful moments here.

Certainly enjoyable but not my brand of metal. Master of Puppets becoming a huge hit with that length + time signature is truly baffling to me. I think I'd much rather listen to a metal-core or nu-metal album, but I don't mind this! Fun! Orion is the definite stand out of the bunch.

Proto-Dan Bejar. Not quite my thing but I respect it.

The songs here just don’t do as much for me as the ones on Dookie. Certainly more conceptual and daring, but not particularly better.

Fine and well written. Another rock album that just isn’t my speed. Wish there was more soloing/improvisation like the first track.

Absolutely stellar. The Beatles at the top of their game. Bloated, for sure, but even the bloat is good enough that I don’t mind. Better use of Stereo than most of their discography, though I still prefer the mono mix. Have always adored the bird field recordings on Blackbird.

A stunning track 2 and a bunch of tracks that I find pleasant.

Surprised how much I liked this! Jammy and certainly a style of hard rock that resonates with me more than many of the albums on this list. More of 3.5

Pretty killer throughout. Don't Look Back In Anger is obviously one of the greatest songs of all time, but it's all great. Half of this album reminds me of GBV, which is probably an insane take. The idea that Oasis vs. Blur was ever a legitimate discussion is crazy. Oasis actually makes good tunes.

Perfectly competent, but why would I ever listen to this when pretty much every contemporary is so much better?

Love the big band horns here. Great tunes. Reminds me of high school.

Was really dreading this one once I saw that it was released this century. I have little faith in Ghostface Killah in the 2000s!! Anyway, I was wrong and this is great. A bit bloated, edgy, misogynistic, but still great. The production on almost every track is incredible.

I was really expecting this to have more 'oomph' as a live recording, but this recording fails in a lot of ways to capture the energy of the live recording. There's little crowd interaction and the crowd mics needed to be quieted during some of the performances. Man, that squealing can be annoying! There's also the fact that Cheap Trick has five or six truly incredible songs, but only three of them appear here. Still, those songs are so good that it lifts this from two stars to three.

A little rough in the middle, but bookended by some of the greatest songs of all time. Listening back to this now, it's shocking how much artist like George Clanton rip their whole shtick entirely.

Grown to love this a lot over the years and this listen it *really* clicked with me. Feels like proto-shoegaze in a lot of ways. Every song just has this grimy wall of sound that is so overwhelming yet works so perfectly. The Cure cover is obviously amazing, and was my first exposure to Dino Jr when my brother showed me the music video when I was 13 years old. Poledo is a notable weak point of the album, but it is very obviously influential to Lil Ugly Mane’s *Volcanic Enemy Bird…*, which is also one of the greatest albums of all time. Impossible to hate on it.

A perfectly fine album. Coldplay/Radiohead influences are clear but it never really comes close. What the hell is going on with Grounds for Divorce??? Why is there a car commercial song in the middle of this album??? I don’t mind it, but certainly something I have no interest in listening to again.

I like ABBA way more in the abstract than I do in reality. The best moments of this remind me of the theatrics of The Cardigans, while the worst remind me of the sloppy surf rock of the Beach Boys (Bermuda, Bahama, oh pretty mama). The singles are great, and there’s catchy melodies here, but many of the instrumentals here feel kitsch to me.

Enjoyed part 1 way more than part 2. 1 sounds like the theme from Halloween 2 sounds like it's from Ocarina of Time Until they both don't sound like that anymore. It's good.

Absolutely loved this. Thinking about how liberally I should give out my 5s on this site, because this is absolutely stellar. Proto-riot grrrllll and every bit as good as the genre greats. Such energy. Love love love it.

As great as it has always been. Heart of Glass is by far the best track here and is a stylistic departure from the rest of the album that I wish they indulged in more. Very obvious influence on Regine from Arcade Fire.

I was raised to love the beatles, and thus I love the beatles. Every tune here is near perfect (sans Polythene Pam, which has never been great and has aged poorly). By far The Beatles best use of stereo sound. This album sounds so incredibly full while listening on headphones. An album that begs to be listened to loud to catch all the details. Specific favourite moments: the ‘bang bangs’ right before the chorus on Maxwell, the guitar riff on Oh! Darling, the guitar riff on Octopus’s Garden, the guitar riff on I Want You (I’m sensing a theme here), the entire medley, the horns on Golden Slumbers & reusing the You Never Give Me Your Money melody, and Ringo going crazy on the drums on The End.

It’s good. Lots of cool ideas but also lots that I find a bit grating.

Certainly my least favourite of the three CHVRCHES albums (what do you mean there was a 2018 album??) but still quality. Mother We Share is far and away the best part of this album. Never understood the tracks with the man singing- play to your strengths! Lauren is such a great vocalist, just stick with her.

Similar to what I said in my Master of Puppets review, I'm surprised that something this hardcore (at times inaccessible?) ever became a huge mainstream hit. Of course, the biggest hits are mostly the tamest, but something like Endless, Nameless is so radical and goes against my perceptions of what popular music is. I've always shied away from this album thinking that it was overrated compared to In Utero, but no, it really is just that great.

I’ve always been a bit of a Springsteen agnostic. And by that I mean that I believe he’s great, but have never been able to quite get there. There are moments of brilliance within his discography, but it doesn’t do much for me ultimately. Mostly glad he inspired many of my favourite artists.

I respect Pharrell a lot as a producer, but have absolutely zero interest in listening to any of his music! Multiple times on this record where I audibly went "wow, this sucks"

perfectly fine and pleasant!

A classic that I've never quite connected with as much as I wish. The first three tracks after the intro are unimpeachable, and I'll always love a track with Q-Tip on it. It's pretty damn good, but not as good as people often cite is as being imo.

Cool! More proggy than I'd typically go for, but lots of fun ideas on this one. Found some moments a bit grating and a bit too unserious, but it's a very impressive record. Can't be mad at it. More of a 3.5.

Liked it but certainly not blown away. Don't have a problem with the vibrato as many people do (though let's be honest, there's some amount of transphobia in a lot of those complaints) but it just didn't overly connect with me. Very beautiful arrangements!

A transitional album for the beatles between their pop and experimental sound. Doesn't have the juice of their later albums, but it's still damn good.

Had never heard this one before. It’s pretty good, but feels pretty weak in comparison to Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, which is a modern classic. Certainly a quality album and a great debut, but lacks the depth of her later work. She can write a hook though!