Our run of great albums had to end at some point. We really had like two weeks there of mostly 4s and 5s. The opener to this sounds like when a sitcom parodies a DARE psa hip hop group but the eighth listen of it I’m finding it enjoyable in a making fun of it way, I think. This album has the target demo of Elementary school P.E. Coaches and the band that made the Macarena. Maybe it’s because I’ve loved almost all of what we’ve been listening to recently to then get hit with HUMAN NRG put at the same “you must hear this” importance as fuckin War Pigs is insane. I’m trying to give this a 2, we’ll see how I feel when the time comes.

Come find me anytime I’ll gush about this album. I already listened to it today (I rolled this before midnight) and I’ll do it again. I will argue to listen to the extended version there’s some good jams on there. I cite this album specifically as breaking down the entry barrier for me being into a lot of long, drone music. A lot like Foo Fighters self titled, this is a man out from his first band success (Kyuss this time) making an album alone and making something better than anything the previous band put out (with help from Kyuss’s drummer). Let’s get into it brother. Regular John sets the tone by proving you do need to hear the same riff uninterrupted for minutes at a time. It also is the first taste you get from Josh, top 25 guitarist all time, where you go huh that’s a weird note. Not the strongest vocals but he sure can curate a vibe (he hires 3 different vocalists over the course of the band before figuring it out himself). Avon is the first time he really stretches out and shows off his little unique scale that he loves (I have a music major and I still haven’t really figured out, it’s like a mixolydian sharp 2 something or another). If only continues the drone, playing into the scale a little more. There’s a lot of songs on here that can be described as Josh vibes for a long time and then plays a fucked up scale really well, it’s sort of the whole album. If there is a criticism it’s that, but personally it’s what makes this album so unique to the like Grunge (Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters are on top of the world when this comes out) happening at the time. I’m going to abandon the track by track review but this album is so special to me, as is queens entire discography. I will be understanding if this is not the cup of tea this group will love but Josh Homme is so informative on how I play and listen to music still that this can’t have anything less than a 5 for me. If I remember correctly Liam does not like teenage hand model. Clockwork > songs for the deaf > era > rated r > this > lullabies > villains > new Roman And they’re all at least 4’s.

I adore this album. There was a point somewhere in history where I could play every guitar part on this album because I was just obsessively listening to it. The last few songs aren't as strong as the rest of the album which is the only thing keeping this away from a 5 for me. Great album, love Jack, hope we see him again on here.

I have never purposefully listened to this band or Janis before, here we go. This is a very solid blues/psych rock album honestly. Not what I would go for in casual listening but I definitely see the appeal and why this is on the list. Janis definitely takes a minute to get used to but she is a phenomenal vocalist. The marge simpson comparison is apt. The piece of my heart cover is iconic if not only because of that 30 rock episode where they make fun of it. I don't know man I like this album. I just gave blunderbuss, a clearly better album a 4, but this is like the lowest four I can give.

In the words of Jeremy Bolm, I’ll go to L. Cohen to answer my questions cause Ian Curtis was dead. Truly powerful album, just a man dying on a mic. Introspective, scary, and celebratory idk it's the ideal album to come out 17 days before you die.

Alright this is wonderful but I got bored during the first half of it. Let’s go crazy rules and the when doves cry to purple rain run is phenomenal. Everything after let’s go crazy but before doves sounds like it exists solely for the accompanying movie. Great movie though.

Preemptive review - I love this album and it’s getting a 5 before I even listen to it. Actual review, this might be the best full synth-pop/new wave album of all time. Unbelievable song writing, arrangements, and mixing. Im really in awe of how they got the mix to sound how it does. The first four songs are incredibly strong. I believe is the first part of this album that starts to lose interest but I can’t deny it, for I am a Virgo too. The energy is immediately picked up by broken, which is a perfect intro into head over heels, the best song on the album. Listen is a perfect soundscape anti Cold War protest song album closer if one ever did exist. Im going to call Liam’s mom to talk about this album, my mom was more into INXS.

This is a perfect example of something that I’m sure in the right context/setting is great but that context is not at my desk while I’m playing pokemon. Very cool to see where drum and bass originated but thank god artists have been able to make it significantly more interesting as time has gone on. State of mind was great, the sensual vip mix is a crazy track name but also pretty good. One positive is the album does a great job dropping in motifs throughout the mix and call backs to 45 droning minutes ago. Not my thing but a good history lesson.

This is a great reminder that The Smiths really don't do it for me. The album starts of great with A Rush but then takes a nosedive into some of the most average songs to come out of this band. It turns around with Last Night I Dreamt Someone Love Me (a song that would be better without its 2 minute intro) but is immediately followed by one of the worst lyrically written songs I've ever heard in Unhappy Birthday. "I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie" followed by "It should be this way? I say No, I'm gonna kill my dog" The last three tracks amp back up to an enjoyable listening experience but leave me teetering between a 2 and a 3. I'm landing on a 2 because I Won't Share You reminded me that I'd much rather be listening to REM's Document that came out the same year and is infinitely better.

This is that kind of album that my dad puts on and goes "shit my dad loved this shut up and listen" and he is correct. Eric Clapton as a person aside, this album is so tight. Vocally, harmony-ly, guitarly, what have you all solid. Even the self indulgent guitar parts manage to be interesting almost all the way through (Key to the highway and Have You Ever Loved a Woman excluded). Solid version of Little Wing, and of course Layla rules but could be 2 minutes shorter. Not necessarily something I would seek out to listen to but a very comfortable sound.

This shit rules. Songs to listen to with my grandmother.

This band has been highly recommended to me for years by a friend from college who was homeschooled and in private cello lessons since he was 3. The first four tracks didn’t do a lot for me on first listen but for whatever reason Two Doves was a turning point that I really enjoyed. It made me realize they’re capable of more than I was giving this album credit for. I let it run and loop back after that and really loved the first four tracks too. Maybe a real grower of an album, I will definitely be returning to it.

Perhaps not for my grandmother but this is another example of shit rules. Such a sick album to come out when it did. This is close to my brand of 80's "post-punk". I remember listening to this in high school bc Tanner made me and thinking eh but since becoming an REM fanboy this really stands out more clearly as a great album. Gary's Got a Boner is so good. I'm happy the list made me relisten to this as I will continue to relisten to this.

I can't express the how genuine the "fuck yes" that escaped my body when this album popped up after submitting yesterday's review was. Linkin Park is one of those bands that was everything to me in like 2006 but has not aged along with me; I'm guilty of immediately skipping any time one of their songs come on because I just don't need to hear In the End for the 2823rd time in my life. That being said, just a phenomenal album all the way through. Is it cringe? Is it shit rap rock? Is it everything I love to make fun of? Yes, but goddammit if these songs don't slap harder than anything else. I'm ecstatic I had to hear "FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM" today as an assignment. With You and By Myself are low points compared to the rest of the album. I think Cure for the Itch is a solid instrumental but doesn't have much replay value. The only criticism I really have is I think the track order could have been better; it's confusing to end on the only instrumental track followed by an average tier song. In closing, if you've never seen Luckybucket's RSMV (Runescape Music Video) for In the End that is required viewing to cap off the day of listening to this album. Since I can't go 4.5 I will skew up to 5 because I think it's deserving of that.

Is this an album you need to listen to before you die? No. Is it great? Kinda. It runs the same thing all 90's electronic music does where it's unnecessarily self indulgent and long, but a lot of the sound design here is great. The album feels like a long primer for Are We Here? a song that I think outlives this project as it comes up in all electronic music textbooks at this point. I really enjoyed the Alison Goldfrapp contributions and I suspect that we'll get an album or two of Goldfrapp eventually which I'm excited for. In all, a good listening experience and sound design but not something I'll return too unless I'm really in the mood for it. There's better drum and bass on here than on the goldie album. Sorry that I'm a linkin park enjoyer I will do better.

I've meant to relisten to this album, I don't think I've heard it since maybe 2012. Intro is cool. VCR is cute and great. Crystalized is a really great song immediately followed by Islands which is just as strong. If it was just these four songs it would be a 4/5. The album starts to nosedive a little after Islands for me with each track progressively getting worse. The MIDI harp on Heart Skipped a Beat hurt me. Fantasy is a great idea but a bit of a snoozer, I'm sure it's stronger live. Shelter rights the ship slightly but there is only so much Direct In Reverb Guitar I can take and it never really reaches the climax it was building to. Basic space gave me false hope again that they were going to pick it up but nah. Infinity did bring an improvement finally, though those claps were infuriating. The melody is the same as Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy. Night Time is like a good attempt at making a band focussed Crystal Castles song, I liked that. Stars is another song that I want to like but the idea is so stretched out that it's difficult. I think if I listened to this album nonstop all day I would come around to like it, it definitely needs to grow on you. There is a lot to like about the songwriting on this. I often see people cite The XX as a gateway to Dreampop which I did not understand listening back to this. I don't think Cocteau Twins or Loveliescrushing is going to magically make sense to you after listening to this if it didn't before. I think the main appeal of Dreampop's lofi sound is that there is such strong intentionality and production behind those bands where this xx album feels like they just didn't know how to record and instead of learning to mix they called it lofi. I'm probably being too harsh, it can take this light 3 and we can move on.

Our first of I assume 57 Bowie albums finally hit. As a lifelong Bowie indifferent person, this is was a great experience. God this album is so strong. The first two tracks are great, and then the Iggy Pop collab just runs away with it. I don't love Sound and Vision, Always crashing is a little sleepy but really solid, and Be my wife rules. Such a beautiful shift on A new Career where the rest of the album went almost fully ambient. It's so good. I love you, Brian Eno. Those ambient tracks are so good oh my god. I think sort of disliking one song makes this a 5, right?

White man review here, white man reviewing! My dad put this album on our family shared iPod when I was like 6 and that was the earliest I heard it and I listen to it maybe every couple years. I have been told by Mr Lamar that this is an excellent cultural representation of the west coast at that time, but I am not here to speak on that. I am here to say musically this album is incredible. The beats, sampling, and playing on it are mind-blowing honestly. Dr Dre as a producer, true chef's kiss moment. What I love most about Dre solo albums is he lets other people really shine. Snoop is the obvious star of this album. The fact that this album is cited as so culturally important, musically impressive, and doesn't take itself seriously at all are all very impressive. I do have to comment on how misogynistic this album is and how hard it is to get into when he's just spouting hate/violence towards women and gay people. Snoop makes an interesting argument for this that they're just rapping about what they know and that's what they knew growing up but that's the easy way out of not addressing the issues with the lyrics. I don't think anyone needs to apologize for rapping about their life experiences or what they're about within reason, but I don't need to agree with it. That aspect of this album has really aged horribly. Lyrics aside, I'm really enjoying this whole project. Also huge shout out to the dude who reviewed this album a 1 and said this album decimated the neighborhood of Salisbury, Midlothian, Va when it came out. I grew up in the neighborhood truly right next to it, just a life changing review please go seek it out.

Imagine if Wham! sucked ass. The word girl was painfully boring. I was begging for small talk to end. Absolute finally has a cool instrumental but is 20 years long. Right back to boring for a little knowledge. Don't Work That Hard at ripping Prince off, am I right? Perfect way is listenable but again, 5 minutes? Lover to Fall asleep, am I right? Wood Beez is alright but I feel like I'm truly trapped in hell at this point. Hypnotize is fine and perhaps the only song that didn't feel like it overstayed its welcome. I hope I never have to hear anything on this album ever again. Garbage.

Really trying to stare another electronic album in the face and get through it right now. All I can really say is I'm sure this went hard in a club in 1995 but it's 30 years later now and we have the Macarena. Song of Life and Original were pretty good. This album is another example of the purgatory of drum loop torture that this list seems to love.

#1 Steely Dan apologist right here. Bought this in a used bin freshman year of high school and never looked back. Potentially the most pretentious band of all time but I'll be damned if Do It Again doesn't slap. Do It Again unironically domino effected me studying music composition in college and led me down the demon path of AV, all thanks to the steam powered dildo. The hits on this album hit and the fodder are all fun. I won't lie and say they're all incredible, but I love this album all the way through.

I don’t love the Beatles, I have never been a fan. I understand their impact, I understand it’s pretentious to write off the fucking Beatles, but that’s where I am. It’s good but it sounds like children’s tv show music so often. In my life is a great song. Great song writing, amazing harmonies, just really not for me. I like them more at the beginning and end of their career than this point. I’ll give a strong 3.

I went into this ready to hate it but I am so surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Is this what they mean when they say country used to be good? Dude’s got strong one liners, great stories, and really hates the Vietnam war. Sam Stone is one of the most devastating songs I’ve ever heard. The instrumentals aren’t amazing but they’re exactly what this needs. A perfect example of an album you need to hear before you die, especially if you wouldn’t have otherwise like I wouldn’t have.

Really solid musicians and good songs but just boring. Nothing really stood out to me as a gotta come back and listen to this. Somebody to love maybe. More a single you need to hear before you die, not an album.

Bruce if he was terrible. So sparse, so boring. Appreciate his outspoken socialist views, wish he was better at making music. He’s got back to back shows at tin pan in Richmond coming up, might have to add a rule that if the list subjects me to an album I have to go see the artist if they’re in town.

There are parts of this that slap and there are parts of this that are so boring I wanted to quit. Questions 67 and 68, a slap. Free Form Guitar, legitimate torture material. The skill of the group is undeniable, Terry Kath is absolutely one of the greatest guitar players to ever live, but the songs ain't really doing it for me. This is the most 3 star rating I can give.

I guess I wasn’t ready for this yet when it came out. This is a densely textured nightmare of sound in a very positive way, a really cool predecessor to the sick computer music that is still coming out now. I can’t believe this was made in 2007 on Logic. It’s not all hits, there are some misses on here but the aesthetic choices are so sick that it saves it. Shout out paper planes of course.

Man, that is some jazz music. Compositional wonder, amazing playing, incredible piece of art.

This album starts playing the moment you enter Fredericksburg. Billy Gibbons is such a solid guitar player and riff crafter, but damn if the lyrical content doesn’t suck. Almost every single song on here is about bangin women and how hot women are but they won’t let me hit sometimes so I gotta jerk. Tv Dinners is at least funny simply in that it’s not about that. Hand the instrumentals to Steve Earle and we solve everything wrong with both bands, might even have a 4 on our hands. 8 out of 11 of the songs had a fade out on a guitar solo, just play the one and end the song man. Overall really disappointed, waste of great guitar.

This album does a lot with only a 28 minute run time. I didn’t grow up with these boys, this is my first time purposefully listening to music of theirs other than sound of silence. Good writing, fun instrumentals, I get it. It makes full sense to me that this came out the same year as revolver and pet sounds. I don’t think I’ll come back to much if any of this album but it is deserving of the list.

Hard for me to get into a trumpet/flugelhorn driven jazz album. Obviously, the musicianship is top tier and those chord changes are incredible. I found myself often wishing that this was a solo piano album as my boy Larry Willis was really holding down my interest in this album single handedly. Inner Crisis immediately stood out to me as sick and if you look up the writers, who wrote it? Larry Willis. Minawa also sticks out as killer with it's piano intro, maybe I just only like Jazz piano. The drums on Blues for Huey are incredible and the outro piece ties the album together while really demanding that you focus on it in the end. I do think this falls onto this list well, I just wish I was sitting with every Jazz instructor I've ever had so they can explain the nuances of it to me.

Listen, this isn’t devoid of musical value. It sounds so much like a parody of the 50s that I can’t tell if that makes it a good love letter or if it’s an insult to how easy it is to make music that sounds like this. I understand that it was common for artists to cover other artists all over the place, but there’s not a single song on here that Dusty is either the original songwriter or even performer of. For that reason alone I don’t think this deserves to be on this list. Easy listening, great vocalist, but artistically next to nothing of value. I want to slap this with a 1 but I think that’s too harsh, this 2 is a 1.5. That mockingbird cover was doodoo.

My brain is tuned to love all 90s rock that sounds like this. The unfortunate truth of mudhoney is that they’re good, just not as good as every other band from Seattle at the time, and when you have Soundgarden why do you need mudhoney? It is a great grunge album. Superfuzz Bigmuff is stronger, hoping it’s on the list too.

I don’t know, I forgot I was listening to this multiple times throughout its runtime. So homophobic. Guillotine was good I guess. I sure didn’t enjoy this one. Good flows but boring.

Excited to roll this, I’ve been told forever it’s the best album ever by Twitter.com. An insane debut album, so good and so influential to all the prog that came after for good reason. I really loved the arrangements on this and how unafraid it was to be sparse at times. There are a couple moments on here where it fits its reputation of "I listen to this bc I'm a music guy, i really love music man I listen to prog rock, those time changes bro???" but I feel like even if you listen to this because you want to be cool you're gonna find out quickly that it rules. Really high 4. Isn't it crazy that the Kingdom Hearts Dearly Beloved/Kayne's Stronger mashup wouldn't exist without this album?

Really easy to rag on his voice, and I plan to, but this is one of the best examples of how you don’t have to be a “good” vocalist to make great music. I am shocked by how much I love this album. I have listened to it five times today and I’ll probably do it again tomorrow. Great songs, he’s funny, he’s got great stories, impeccable chord progressions, really got it all. If you all hybrid theory me on this one I will cry.

I have never heard of this band or this album. Pleasantly surprised, we’re on a nice lil streak of good music. It’s like sparklehorse but every once in a while they press the random noise button and the last thing you could ever guess starts playing. Danny Elfman esque but not as purposeful. I need help immediately ass bonus track. Definitely a if I listen to this 3 more times it’ll be a 5 but we’ll leave it at a 4.

THE DAN RIDES AGAIN!!! I love the Dan. Not my favorite of the Dan. Rikki don’t lose that number is a top five Dan though. When the Dan hits, it just hits. Not as strong as can’t buy a thrill but still the Dan continues to provide jams in only the way that the Dan can, bite sized morsels of incredibly tight pop jazz.

It’s alright. An enjoyable listen but monotonous at times. I’m sure lyrically and stylistically this was amazing in the 70’s but it doesn’t still stand on its own as a paragon of the genre. Especially with maggot brain coming out the same year before this.

This was my first college roommate’s favorite album. Played it truly every day. I like him but this is listen 300 something of this album. That said, phenomenal album. Debbie Harry is such a good vocalist and an icon for good reason. The fact that she is effectively a pop, punk, and rnb singer on this album is a feat, especially because she’s a perfect fit for every style. Quick shout out to Clem Burke who died literally today, great drummer, rip.

I always forget how much I love Black Sabbath (the Ozzy Osbourne years), especially this album. Tony Iomi is such an incredible guitarist. They’re all amazing musicians and from a historical standpoint point this shit is so innovative to what was going on at the time, but simultaneously is an incredible album that stands on its own today. Hilarious that this was heavy back then and we have like Full of Hell now. I don’t know, I’d take this over a cream album almost any day.

Hard to say anything about this album that hasn’t been said before. It’s perfect. Whatever secret formula Radiohead tapped into they’ve sure got it. This is a top 100 album ever. I listened to this like 4 times and then spent the rest of the day listening to the entire Radiohead discography. This is definitely their shining achievement but I'm still excited for the onslaught of 4s and 5s they'll bring when we roll the others. The tourist has a part that has the same riff to we begged 2 explode, love u Jeff.

Our run of great albums had to end at some point. We really had like two weeks there of mostly 4s and 5s. The opener to this sounds like when a sitcom parodies a DARE psa hip hop group but the eighth listen of it I’m finding it enjoyable in a making fun of it way, I think. This album has the target demo of Elementary school P.E. Coaches and the band that made the Macarena. Maybe it’s because I’ve loved almost all of what we’ve been listening to recently to then get hit with HUMAN NRG put at the same “you must hear this” importance as fuckin War Pigs is insane. I’m trying to give this a 2, we’ll see how I feel when the time comes.

What club is playing these classics?

I have always liked this album. The playing is phenomenal, the songs are fun and cheesy, and it’s not UK Electronic music. Some of the most iconic riffs and guitar parts of all time. Similar to hybrid theory, the hits on here are skips if they were to ever come up due to overplay fatigue but I still really like them. Rock and roll band does not stand the test of time, it’s a bad song except for one cool moment in the chorus, and the other non hits (something about you, let me take you home) are weak compared to the rest of the project. Thanks Boston for making a pretty good album that got milked to death by radio.

I think it’s lame for any live albums to be on this list. I really want to rate them a 1 by default but let’s give it a chance. Speaking on Bob - not a fan and never have been. I get the appeal but give me Tom Waits if I have to listen to a terrible vocalist with good lyrics. This starts so gratingly boring and is so grinding to my ears it was really a slog to get through. Truly 7 or 8 listening sessions throughout the day and the first time I'm finishing an album in a time crunch. I am arriving on Side B at 10pm... Thank God for the second half. Without it I would have review nuked this into the ground. I'm sure the first half is sick if you're a fan of the man, but truly did not enjoy anything until The Band (lol) started playing. Complete 180, became a great listening experience. Evolves into something you absolutely need to listen to before you die, historically and musically. Too bad that first half is torture. Not an album you need to listen to before you die, but absolutely an improperly labeled bootleg to listen to the second half of and also read the wikipedia page for context before you die.

So cool for this to exist in 1977. I’m sure this is absurdly ahead of its time experimental, ground breaking, inspirational, and life changing to young upcoming artists who drew from this unique at the time album. Too bad it’s boring as hell. I have to note that Frankie Teardrop rules. Saves this project from a 1, especially because it’s a third of the run time.

It’s college jazz band rep time! Frank is great but I do agree with the general consensus that it feels like he wanted to cover bossa nova music because it’s the cool thing to do at that moment. The original arrangements kick the shit out of these but we got these on the list because it’s Frank. I’m sure we’ll get more Frank that’s better than this, and in the meantime go listen to the Getz/Gilberto album that a lot of Jobim's original compositions are on. Which of the five girl from ipanema recordings on this album is YOUR favorite?

Inoffensively okay. I would rather listen to the Beatles, Queen, or Pink Floyd than all of them at the same time. Mr Blue Sky does go hard. Musicianship and arrangements are so good and the talent is obviously there but my enjoyment sadly wasn’t. Steve rating: 4.5/5

“Banger alert” I whisper to myself as we roll the album. Let’s stay together, a perfect song. Impossible to live up to the single but good vibes and immaculate guitar playing throughout this whole project. Short as hell too, can’t beat that run time for how tight this is. This is all before the “Personal life” section of his Wikipedia (highly recommended reading) so the multiple assault charges don’t need to be discussed yet.

I get why this is like the holy scripture for every punk band in the 90s. All it’s missing is stronger, more distorted vocals and this is just every Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack band. The production is phenomenal for a 70s punk release, shout out Martin Rushent. I love it, I think it’s pretty perfect. The only things that would make it stronger either didn’t exist mechanically or stylistically yet. I also aced while listening to this so +1.

He’s alive this time! This is good. Goat lyricist, instrumentals ranging from bad to sick. This album started really sleepy and boring but it really picked up for me at Stranger song. That and sisters of mercy were so good. Everything after those two held my attention. Maybe I just need to warm up to Leonard when I listen to him, idk, the first three were better on the run back than I remembered. I like the death album more but this is great. I love the random instruments he sneaks in. It’s a high 4, I might need to re rate the death album a 5 and make this a 5 too. TBD.

So good. So sampled on every rap record in the last 15 years. I love portishead, they will always get a 5. “We want to make spy music with hip hop beats” yeah you did it.

I like this a lot more than the usual bs electronic music albums, but it’s still bad.

Is this what people who don’t care that much about fall out boy feel like when they hear panic at the disco? It’s the exact oasis formula over and over. This is like Dr Bob. To say, maybe if I understood oasis better I would understand this at a different level, interested to see what Liam says. Inoffensively a 3. “My melody will set you free” should get your record deal burned on the spot.

Oh boy. The only worthy successor to Can’t Buy a Thrill’s throne. I don’t need to gush about the Dan again, it’s the third time we’ve gotten them in 50 days, you know how I feel.

I hope this was hype when it came out. It falls a little flat for me, I like it when Jack White does the same thing but maybe it’s because his is upbeat, distorted, and poppier. Good blues but just didn’t do anything for me except for no substitute.

Pleasantly surprised by this one. I previously only knew Fox in the Snow by them, which I adore. First song is so good, really set the tone for the rest of it. It really only gets better as it goes too, weaving a lot of prominent genres of the time together while also sounding a lot like the indie rock that was yet to come at this point. My best reference point is to describe it like a better Arcade Fire way before Arcade Fire existed. This is such a strong debut album. I will be listening to this all day.

I thought this was going to be a load of garbage. It seems I wrote off Mr Morrison too early, this album is some great easy listening. There was nothing on here that I didn't like but nothing on here that blew my mind. Obviously Moondance is the stand out but every song has its own charm. This may be due to the fact that there is a very apparent songwriting formula on this album where everything is sort of interchangeable with each other but I did like the one song they created so whatever. The only complaint I really have is that Glad Tidings (1970) is truly just Brown Eyed Girl (1967) but with different lyrics, like same key same riffs same post chorus (he doesn't say Sha on the la's, I guess it is a different song). All in all I can see playing this on a 5 hour car ride and being happy it's on.

I really do see how this was bad ass and cool when it came out. This album was “life changing” for my dad, just doesn’t hit the same anymore. Great guitar, great attitude, great songs, just heavily out classed by like 62 other bands that came decades later. Love highway to hell and beatin round the bush. Beatin round the bush is like if Van Halen was a good band. Lots of “didn’t I already hear this one?” to the point where the autoplay at the end of the album ran 3 more songs of theirs before I realized the album was already over.

He’s back. I think I just really like Leonard cohen. I don’t have a lot to intelligibly say about this one. Just like it.

It’s time for me to admit that I’ve never listened to this album. Here we go. Not a bad track on here, but not all of them held my attention all the way through. Hard to rate this anything less than a 5 when three of the best songs ever written are on here. Meme as it is, Wonderwall rules, Champagne Supernova is a masterclass, and Don't Look Back in Anger has to be one of the best choruses of all time. I did not delve into the extra two hours of the deluxe edition but maybe I will as the day progresses. Good job, Oasis brothers. Hope the reunion tour doesn't blow up.

Ugh. Is this the album where Lars was a giant tool and demanded his drums sound like shit and to delete the bass parts out of existence? (it is!) This is one of the worst mixed albums I have ever heard if not the worst. I don’t care how groovy, metal, in the pocket, whatever this album is, it sounds like shit. I am not a fan to begin with but this was an incredibly painful hour. Even the remastered version is ass. I don’t get it. I guess the songs are okay. The parts where they are not just three minutes into the same chord grooving and when James is not singing I like most of it. I’m sure if Josh Homme made these I’d think they’re great, but this is just not my brand of big muff distorted chugs. One stands out as a genuinely good song, shout out guitar hero three. Definitely sounds a lot like Kyuss at times, a band I enjoy, but Kyuss has well mixed albums. I’m torn between a 2 and a 3. It really isn’t so bad that it deserves a 2 and I fully understand the appeal. Just know this is the lightest three possible.

This is really not what I was expecting to hear from a 1974 album. I almost want to refuse to do any research on this. It just sounds like a dude having the time of his life in his studio. I love this. It’s experimental, it’s engaging, and it’s good. Nothing stands outs as the hit single but I don’t think it’s supposed to. This rules. Easy 5.

How is a live album covering Mussorgsky a top 1001 album. This is not something you need to hear before you die. Mussorgsky’s original is barely something you need to hear before you die. This is a big “fine” for me. Musical value, 2-3. But inclusion on this list is a big 1. The nutcracker encore was absurd.

Yeah yeah it’s a 5. It’s obviously a marvel so I will take this time to poke holes as they come. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is a great but definitely weaker compared to the rest. Octopus Garden is a par Phineas and Ferb song. She’s so heavy is a cool little riff and is exciting at first but then drags like nothing happens but I do like the end where they just do the riff forever. That’s all I got. Rest of it ranges from great to inoffensive. I think I’m a Paul girl with a crush on George. Worry B-Side clears.

Any album on this list that is 12 songs and 28 minutes should be an instant 5. Something beautiful about how quick and to the point this album is. Good to my baby has got to have gotten some guy laid by him going “this is so us”. When I grow up is a blink-182 song. Do need Brian Wilson to stop singing about how hard the test was when he’s 25 at this point. Bull session was probably the best behind the scenes look into their lives the fans could get so I’ll excuse it.

I haven’t asked him yet but I think my dad is going to say this rocks (he did, but it’s not his favorite). Great guitar shred music but the songs are bad. Also how many times does dude have to go “uuOWWW”. Fits the same niche as the AC/DC album from last week for me. A little upset that there’s probably going to be at least two more of these on the list.

I think this is okay. I loved care of cell 44 and then I feel like I blacked out in “this is fine mode” until time of the season, a top 1001 song ever. All in all feeling a high three, maybe a light 4.

Zimbra is a good opener but mind is bad. Paper was an improvement but not by much. It picks up through air, which is a highlight for sure, but I’m starting to hit the same wall I hit with almost every project pre 1985: “I get why this was awesome at the time but it just doesn’t do it for me now.” This was a discouraging listen for me for the future of the list as I feel trapped in that mindset for so much of what we listen to. But I am reminded there are at least 3 more talking heads albums that are much better than this on the list. And David Byrne can do whatever he wants.

This is three years before slipknots first album??? Was slipknot not innovative at all? This is such a joy to roll after having my I think I need to quit moment yesterday. Slipknot is like a top 20 band for me somehow and this is like Slipknot meets Korn but none of it is cringey. It is so strange that that can exist and I love it. The only thing that this is missing from the Slipknot formula is Joey Jordison but their drummer is phenomenal as well. The Brazilian influence and representation is so sick too, this is a masterpiece. Canyon jam didn’t have to be more than 3 minutes though. 5/5/5/5/5/5.

It was time for one of these I guess. “It introduced hip hop to England” — cool I guess something had to. Obviously, it’s not great. It’s better than a 2 hour uk electronic album. My enjoyment is still at a 2.

Top 10 favorite band all time 5/5 love you thank you list. I love their songwriting, I love Michael’s lyrics, I love his voice, I love the way they sound, I love their experimentation, I love how every REM song sounds different but sounds like an REM song I just adore this band. Peter Buck is a top 10 underrated guitarist of all time, Mike Mills rules as a bassist, Bill sure is there. Album specific, a lighter/brighter than usual, fantastically politically charged album. I love that this was a purposeful effort to not write REM songs and they created some of the most REM songs possible. It’s a cool departure from their usual garage rock but I can’t wait to get those albums on the list later (murmur and document are on the list, right???). Highlights are obviously the singles but world leader pretend rules and so does I remember California as a sleeper hit. I will admit it’s not their strongest album but not their strongest is still a 5. Orange Crush is a top 10 for them. I don’t know what REM albums are on the list but I want to say what I think should be if Green has made it: Murmur, Document, Green, Out of Time, Automatic, and Monster. Realistically, I will accept that whole list minus Monster. *Future Drake here they left out Out of Time, I can not believe that that is probably my favorite album of theirs*

I don’t think I can come up with anything funnier than Trés Reznor. I liked it, I’ve never been faced with French industrial music but I found it enjoyable for the most part. I could do with some more, like, everything in every song. Very cool bones, needs the meat. High 3/5.

He’s back. I realized I’ve never listened past the first minute of let’s get it on before. Don’t think I need more than that. I liked please don’t stay more. Whole album is just more horny jams from Mr Gaye. I don’t know that the list needs both of these albums but this one is better I think? Idk, horniest man alive, beautiful instrumentation, livin round a 3 for me.

I was coasting at a modest 3 until the drum solos came in. Ye Ye drum solo is incredible, the 13 minute one is a bit much. Still enough to push it up to a 4 for me, obviously Ginger Baker is amazing but it was proof of his ability to make drum parts that sing. Also the album cover pic of him is hard as fuck. Fela Kuti married 27 different women on the same day.

3 great hits surrounding some pretty forgettable songs. This was a similar case to What’s the story but I think what’s the story had much better middle than this. Therefore, 4. Honestly, won’t get fooled again didn’t do as much for me as I remember it doing.

I think he’s having sex in this suite.

I do not like Kiss, but this is probably what they should be remembered for (and Alive!). It feels like they tried to make a Queen album, but the timelines are spotty at best to support that. Beth is so hilarious and a genuine good song but so hilarious.

It took a long time to accept the production for what it is. There are times where the sampling and instrumentals really take away from the album. It may be a limitation of the time but the collages feel very purposeful so idk. Otherwise, very good and I’m sure very historically important. It’s definitely as punk as any of the punk rock at the time. Fight the power rules.

Fuck Johnny Rotten. Having a lot of trouble separating this from how hypocritical/terrible he is but I’ll try. Elements of this first track are really cool and beckon to a lot of the music I love now, although 9 minutes is a bit much. The spoken word poetry was lame but I liked it better in song on the third track, but still not a great song. Annalisa is the first song on here that I could see myself relistening to but even then we're pushing it. More mediocrity until Fodderstompf, an unbearable, terrible album ender. Bonus track cowboy song is bad too I really don't get it. I think this album is a cool little experiment for 1978 but it didn't land for me at all and I'm tired of albums relying solely on historical context for their inclusion on this list.

Okay yep more Mr. Gaye. I'm sorry his wife left him but I'm pretty indifferent to this too. Obviously it's great music, I just am not feeling it. UNTIL IS THAT ENOUGH CAME ON. What a banger. The why do I have to pay attorney's fees line is so good. I don't think he's trying to be funny but this song is hilarious and it grooves. There's also a square wave synth in the jam section. It really turned things from indifferent to more active listening. Most of these songs are too long. Still, would do it all again to hear Is That Enough again. There's something about him complaining about his divorce that is really appealing to me, mainly because it's funny. Mr Gaye can have this 4.

Pretty but boring. The piano instrumentals were pretty good but too long. I think it’s a good album though. Its inclusion on the list is worthy, I think, if it’s more “you should hear this” instead of “this is one of the best 1001 albums ever”

Finally we got Tredegar. Everyone has been right forever, one of the best albums ever. 5/5.

I like that she is the original performer on more of these than last time. I also like this more than the last one. Not much to say other than solid songs and solid vocals.

Listened to the album while shoveling chicken shit and it felt great. I didn’t love Mannish Boy, too one idea for 6 minutes for me, but the rest was some great one idea for 6 minutes. It really was that mannish boy stayed on that one riff and never went to the 4 or 5 or anything. The rest was great blues music and some of it was too long. High three.

It’s a beautiful thing. Four women is obviously the stand out but lilac wine RULES. I would listen to anything on this album if someone else put it on with no complaints. The piano playing is beautiful, whoever that may be I don’t know because there is no personnel listing. I gotta get on my high horse of “she didn’t write anything other than four women of which from what I can tell is also the only song that isn’t a cover” but they’re so beautiful covers. It seems to be a recurring thing so maybe I need to get over it.

I love mindless noodling, but I like it a lot more when queens does it. This album was way better than I thought it was going to be when I went into it but I have a treble headache. If I played this 5 times in a row I’m sure I would love it and think it’s genius but on one listen I got a little bored and it did truly hurt my ears. It makes sense that so many bands that I love idolize them though. Schizophrenia might be my favorite but it’s hard to pick out anything else as it all kind of melts together in a sound collage. Cotton Crown was great but again felt like spikes being nailed into my head. I need the scooped highs version of this album. Master dik is vocally weak. I have no idea what to give this album. It’s like a 3.5 on the dot. I’ll go 4 but that feels too high and 3 is too low.

This is probably a great reggae album. I am a little close-minded/don't listen to any reggae so this sounds just like all the other reggae I've ever heard. Enjoyable but sort of blends into each other. Sitting at a 3 right now, I'm gonna try to listen to it again and see if I change my mind.

My day is upon us. I can’t believe this is the album they picked over Colour and The Shape, arguably a top 100 album all time. This album still rules and is the best example of sad dude alone in his garage making an album by himself. I am a big nirvana fan but this album really lays the groundwork to fix everything wrong with Nirvana while still having the same energy and stronger songwriting (further expanded on in colour and the shape!!!) This is a 10/10 (colour is a 15/10) and then the third album is like an 8 and then nose dive into oblivion except wasting light was really good. This album has sick rock, radio friendly jams, screamo elements, hardcore songs, and a couple shoegaze esque selections, I’ve got no complaints on anything here except his lyrics are a little weak at times (i heard he fixes this on the colour and the shape!!!) Great album, go listen to colour and the shape

It’s good, it’s Dylan. There are some great moments on here, it’s Americana baybeeee. Way better than the first half of that live album. 115th dream rules. Definitely disingenuous to write him off but he’s absolutely not what I’m looking for most times. I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would though, but still pretty 50/50. High 3.

I fully get why they are constantly cited as like the Beatles 2. However, I really loved this album. There wasn’t a moment here where I was bored or wanted it to end. I didn’t delve too much into the lyrics but instrumentally this is incredibly tight. First album in a while that I haven’t known and then proceeded to listen to multiple times that day.

I previously only knew this band as the writers of the theme song for Veronica Mars, a banger. Thought I was gonna hate it, had to delete my angry first comments as I listened. I love the reverb, brother. Songs, they’re good. It’s like a great middle ground of shoegaze and alt rock. I think I’m back to back 5s today. The I love you and don’t do heroin songs really sold it for me. I listened to it like 4 times today and it’s better every time go team reverb.

This is a boring album by The Black Keys. If Jack white is derivative, I’m not sure what to call this. Tighten up and howlin for you get it done. The rest, maybe I would like it more if xl102 shoved it down my throat too. Just a really boring hour of my life where nothing really stood out except the songs I was familiar with but even on those the context of the album made me wonder if those are even good. Take this 2, Dan.

Bill Evans is my favorite jazz pianist/musician/everything. I adore Bill Evans. I own the complete works of Bill Evans master collection. I am heavily biased here. Bill has such a way of melodically pulling in listeners to absurd chord changes in a way where you forget you’re listening to a virtuosic pianist who may be the best musician to ever live. My best comparison to rock music is Rush, another trio of the best players of all of their instruments making music that is technically innovative but simultaneously accesible and easy listening. Also Scott LaFaro (bass) is just an insane talent who tragically died at 25; can’t imagine the beauty they would have continued to create had he not. I beg with the list that Waltz for Debby is on here, or at least Undercurrent.

It's xl102 week apparently. I only know Take Me Out. I have a vague memory of Lexa telling me that this album is really good. Let's find out. First two songs were alright, take me out remains an incredible song. I see why this album fits in with people who like the strokes after Matinée but I also am not sure that I liked that song, that bridge is ripped straight of a first impressions song in a good way but the chorus is annoying. I think I am into the dancey-rock based vibe that they are curating but I can't say I love it. 4 seems too high, 3 too low, going 4 but know it's really on the fence.

I am processing. I was not excited to see the run time and genre of this thing but I really like it. The company flow feature was particularly great (and absurd and funny). This whole project has phenomenal production, rapping, bars, everything. There are huge Gorillaz vibes throughout this thing but there's also like jpegmafia moments and he'll rap like Earl Sweatshirt or Mac Miller, it's very cool. Obviously there is a lot of MF DOOM on this too, I hope they were contemporaries and not just orbiting each other. A very nice mixture of a lot what I like now but done way before all of it. Like this predates the self titled Gorillaz album by over a year which is awesome. Mike Ladd has gained a new fan today and I am happy the list has provided.

This is not great. I really thought it was gonna be a 5 upon the roll but I’m struggling to get past a 3. I don’t know it was a lot of the same, great vocalist of course but I also got bored of her as it went. Sucks cause her Valerie might be a top 250 song all time. Idk, very underwhelmed by this and I really wanted to like it.

What is this??? It’s well written but to quote another review it really is Billy Joel’s attempt at a high school theater musical. I feel bad to bring modern stats into this but very jarring seeing a 6500 monthly listener artist with an album that’s highest streamed song is sitting at 300k be on this list (that song is by far the best on here, makes sense). I laughed through the ship state song. It’s funny how “what the hell am I listening to” this album is, maybe if I listen to it 5 times I’ll love it. Billy whitecloud is a fucking insane song. This has value, I don’t hate it, I don’t think it should be on this list. I listened to it again, does this album rule? I’m so lost. I take back doesn’t deserve the list, I definitely wouldn’t have heard these cheesy musical theater tunes otherwise and now I can send this to my coworkers and make fun of it while whistling the songs to myself while I hear my old friend Jesus speak.

More like sucks-ass-wind.

I feel like I can copypaste my review of The Chronic. I think it's great production, vibes immaculate, don't know why they hate women so much. I like it more than the chronic but I don’t think it’s a masterpiece so it’ll land at 4 as well.

This feels like the Good Charlotte or We The Kings to Fall Out Boy and Paramore, where The Go Betweens is a fine but notably worse version of the Cure or the Smiths. I think it was good, I like the line I love you so much I think I’m gonna bust, everything on here was very “yeah”. Pristine “this is fine” music.

Just incredible. How did music exist before this. I hope this was considered as a milestone, or like logical conclusion to everything that was happening at the time, because it truly is. Not even their best work but it’s undeniable how talented and perfect this band can be. Another case of how is it this album and not the second album, but I’ll allow it. Toxicity is required listening though. No one is touching Serj vocally in the scene and no one is even in the same room as him lyrically. All instrumentalists are firing on all cylinders, every song is as important as the last (except sugar is the most important).

This feels incredibly rigged. Man died today, going to try to rate this objectively. I’m glad I read the Wikipedia article to learn this was an abandoned album that he finished 30 years later, explains a lot. It’s a lot of snippets and unfinished ideas and it sounds like demos for a beach boys album. It’s no pet sounds but I did fluctuate between indifference and thinking about how cool his vocal layering is. Nothing is bad, most of it is good, some of it is monotonous. I’m feeling a strong 3. RIP.

Alright I knew it was coming, I’ve never listened to it, here we go. First song is pretty good, gorgeous is atrocious. Power has a good chorus, the rest of the song is so boring. All of the lights interlude is really swell, loved that, but all of the lights the real song? Another good chorus ruined by the rest of the song, what the hell is that drum throughout the whole thing? Monster continues the trend of just a horrible song. So bad. You ever had sex with a pharaoh???? Only enjoyable part of so appalled was that I realized Kendrick interpolates it on Hiiipower, a far superior song. Devil was a great instrumental but a boring song. Don’t get me started on Runaway, if I ever have to hear one of my students play an E on a piano ever again I’m quitting. Hell of a life interpolates iron man? And then what is this butchering of Avril 14???? Blame game is the worst song on here I did not need to hear one of my favorite songs of all time with Kanye talking about choking a woman and then Chris Rock talking about new parts of the pussy over it. This Bon Iver track is really good though. Who will survive in America kinda caps it off nicely. I cannot fathom why most people think this is a 10/10 masterpiece of an album. Forget Kanye being a Nazi, that’s its own shit but this album made me so angry. People have been yelling at Fantano for years over giving this album a 6/10, that’s like 2 too high. I’m glad it inspired a generation or whatever, it sounds like shit on first listen in 2025. How is this my brothers favorite album. At least a lot of the lyrics are really funny and the production is incredible (except for that drum on all of the lights) I have to agree with Mr Fantano that this album probably rules if you care about Kanye lore and have been following and heavily invested in his personal life but that is not me

Saying this in a way where I’m not fully serious but I think it best describes how I felt, Highway Star blew my mind and really set this album up well. Richie Blackmore might be a good guitarist. Maybe I’m a Leo wasn’t as great but good little jam. Pictures of home brings it back up, keyboard player goin dumb, even their bass player gets to have fun. Then we get a solid good times bad times rip off? Very skynyrd meets zeppelin and I like it. I feel like I don’t need to write about smoke on the water. It might be because it’s a megahit but it feels out of place on this album. Still a great song. Lazy is a lot of fun and space truckin is a perfect ending. Following our boy Ye this feels like a 5 but it’s probably more realistically a high 4. Loved it, thanks deep purple.

Come find me anytime I’ll gush about this album. I already listened to it today (I rolled this before midnight) and I’ll do it again. I will argue to listen to the extended version there’s some good jams on there. I cite this album specifically as breaking down the entry barrier for me being into a lot of long, drone music. A lot like Foo Fighters self titled, this is a man out from his first band success (Kyuss this time) making an album alone and making something better than anything the previous band put out (with help from Kyuss’s drummer). Let’s get into it brother. Regular John sets the tone by proving you do need to hear the same riff uninterrupted for minutes at a time. It also is the first taste you get from Josh, top 25 guitarist all time, where you go huh that’s a weird note. Not the strongest vocals but he sure can curate a vibe (he hires 3 different vocalists over the course of the band before figuring it out himself). Avon is the first time he really stretches out and shows off his little unique scale that he loves (I have a music major and I still haven’t really figured out, it’s like a mixolydian sharp 2 something or another). If only continues the drone, playing into the scale a little more. There’s a lot of songs on here that can be described as Josh vibes for a long time and then plays a fucked up scale really well, it’s sort of the whole album. If there is a criticism it’s that, but personally it’s what makes this album so unique to the like Grunge (Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters are on top of the world when this comes out) happening at the time. I’m going to abandon the track by track review but this album is so special to me, as is queens entire discography. I will be understanding if this is not the cup of tea this group will love but Josh Homme is so informative on how I play and listen to music still that this can’t have anything less than a 5 for me. If I remember correctly Liam does not like teenage hand model. Clockwork > songs for the deaf > era > rated r > this > lullabies > villains > new Roman And they’re all at least 4’s.

Is the band a boy band? Like do they fall into that classification? I think this album is exactly what an album by The Band should sound like, the weight rules. Everything else, since I'm not familiar except maybe one listen ten years ago, is really just exactly how I thought it'd go. We Can Talk is the first stand out for me other than the weight, loved the guitar tone and it was very fun. This Wheel's on Fire also got a save, loved the keys and energy on that one. I Shall Be Released is also phenomenal, I don't see myself going back to listen to it often but I really enjoyed the emotion of it. Feeling a steady 4.