1001 Albums Summary

These hippies were on to something

Eddie Van Halen is a god and this is his origin story. Incredibly revolutionary band and the older I get the more I appreciate super solid music that is 100% about having fun.

I still remember walking from school to buy this in the old long form cd box the day it came out. Document - Green - Out of Time - Automatic for the People have got to be the best four-album streak by band ever, although for me the REM artistic energy kind of ran out after this. I don't think this is as consistent as those other three albums but Nightswimming, Everybody Hurts, and Drive for me in particular are classics.

Saw them live on this tour in a small club before they blew up and now I won't shut up about it every time their name comes up. Haven't kept up with them but this album remains tight AF.

What a monster 5 x 5 star album. Gigantic hits from start to finish. It was only in this decade that I learned Michael Jackson stole his leather and zippers look during this era from Warrant who were still a still unsigned LA local band at the time. More people should know that.

I feel uncool for thinking this is the best Beatles album

The #1 reason you shouldn't trust anything I say is that I prefer Sammy Hagar to David Lee Roth and think 5150 is VH's best album. But, while there is some filler here, Jump, Panama, and Hot For Teacher are simply three of the greatest songs by an American rock band ever.

Was not in the mood for today's offering so went back and listened to this. The second best album by the first best American band. This and Green (their best in my unpopular opinion) cut through the hair metal and teenybopper music of 1989 and made me the weirdo I am today.

You have disturbed me almost to the point of insanity...There. I am insane now.

perfect album for many types of occasions

I frequently travel far without a little Big Star

Sometimes a little beer drinking and hell raising is just what you need.

This band is way better than Incubus which is extra impressive because this album came out 33 before Make Yourself and the Beatles didn't even have a turntable guy.

This is like REMs 6th best album and it's still a five-star album. Boggles the g-damn mind.

The patron saint of midwest Christian hipsters of a certain age, and for good reason. It's all too much at times but respect at all times.

Fine but I still don't get it.

Praise You and Rockafella Skank are still cool. Much of the rest sounds the same, but more interesting and clever than a lot of the other EDM on here.

Some stellar prog rock, I prefer early Genesis a bit more but this is great.

One of my all time top ten favorite albums. And maybe the #1 most influential on me. I bought this in sixth grade when the Monkees-esque Stand video was all over MTV. At that point for me, it was all about Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Def Leppard, Warrant (sorry not sorry) and the rest, with a lot of U2 in there too, but REM was truly the first "alternative" band in my life, in that they were just weirder and more unpredictable and elliptical than U2, and certainly much more so than the hair metal (which I still love) that dominated MTV and which everyone else in school was listening to. This album still kills. You Are the Everything is the most underrated REM song out there. I do feel a lot of nostalgia for this so that may bias me as I know most REM fans do not consider this their best (and indeed a lot of them hate this album), but whatever.

Heavy! Duty! Heavy Duty! Rock n Roll! And I had no idea this album ended with a Mork from Ork shoutout.

I think I had more of a personal, psychic connection to this album at the time it came out - going through a divorce, exhausted by NYC and corporate life, and trying to get my ass to California - than I did a true appreciation of the work itself as a whole. There are a lot of songs here that don't do much of anything more, but the ones that do really do in a sublime and at times epic way. Haven't kept up with them as much as I thought I would.

before my time by a bit but not much, good stuff.

In a Buffalo Stance forever

Top 5 album ever and the best hard rock album of all time. Stop pretending like it isn't.

Rare to find an album where each song is a five star banger. I know it helps there are only 5 songs. This is my 3rd favorite Pink Floyd album, you'll never guess 1 and 2.

Ah wow didn't know there was another Amy Winehouse album, very cool.

An all time top ten album. Hit after hit after hit...after hit. Hey kids, don't let the co-opted chorus of Born in the USA turn you off one of the greatest rock albums of all time.

Thank god Bob Dylan invented the electric guitar just a couple years after this, because, for all the immortal gems on here, this drags a lot.

...and David Byrne. Also if you were wondering who was playing the Frippertronics on Regiment, it was Robert Fripp duh.

Perfect album to put on and kick back with the old lady.

Dave Grohl seems like an all around awesome rock and roll dude. Which the world needs more of. However, outside of Everlong and Best of You I gotta say the Foo Fighters have never really done it for me.

Perhaps Beck's greatest album.

Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are obviously mega-talented dudes, but let's not pretend this is not primarily some juvenile stuff at a time when Public Enemy and others were doing their thing.

I have a high tolerance for silly classic metal, but this pushed it a bit. The guitar work and attitude are something to behold, but if I'm looking for a classic British metal fix, it's going to be Maiden or Sabbath, not this.

not great

My love for fretless bass, idiosyncratic guitar soloing, singers that can't really sing, and mid-80s sentimentality elevates this above the boring parts.

Pleasantly surprised by this

Some good shit. Not nearly as good as Paranoid which came out only six months later (!) but still listenable and rocking. A little self-indulgent.

The Eagles are NOT yacht rock. And that's all I have to say about that. Hotel California is nonetheless an all-time great song apparently about California.

The Rolling Stones and me just aren't really happening.

Aptly titled album

Now I Got a Headache

Aphrodisiac Jacket sounds like a Citizen Dick song title.

J Mascis has a monopoly on being J Mascis. And he uses it for good.

the greatest of all rock concept albums

This must be that "LA sound" everyone is talking about. I love it.

Pure metal mania. And perhaps the greatest mid-career lead singer replacement in rock history.

Most of this was new to me (well everything besides Me and Julio) and it was an unexpected delight. Never heard him so stripped down, and he's a beast on guitar. Also I had no idea that Gatorade was ubiquitous enough in 1972 to be mentioned in a song - f'ing fascinating.

Was not expecting to see 2 (so far) pre-Sex on Fire Kings of Leons albums here. Hmm. Solid rock n roll band and I'm all for that, but not much in the way of tuneage here.

I think these guys are probably cool but this sucks big time.

If you're a dad of a 16-year old in 1973, and you hear this coming out of the hi-fi in his bedroom, you should definitely look through his shit while he's at school.

I only came about 20 years too late to this but it rocks

This album was neither unknown nor a pleasure. Discuss.

Of all the Beatles' solo careers, Lennon's is definitely in the top 4.

I got free tickets to see Moby play on this tour in my neighborhood at the time and only saw the last 30 minutes. It was far out.

Some great scat

That was a lot. Of notes.

I owned this on CD and clearly never listened to it all the way through as it's a little not great outside the hits

This ain't no two star record. It's in fact one of the greatest country albums of all time. Half or more of it is happily seared in my brain.

I'm one of those people that claims to like jazz, but when you ask what kind of jazz I like, I just mention this album and strain hard to think of anything else. In that sense, this album is perfect for me and a clear 5-star accomplishment.

The Goo Goo Dolls could regain a lot of their pre-Iris rock and roll credibility if they did a cover of Showroom Dummies. Or perhaps not but what have they got to lose, c'mon guys just do it.

The 1984 SNL version of them doing Born to Run is peak SNL music.

Pure Canadian Gold.

Loved it. Listened twice in a row. Want to get a copy of this vinyl, a lazy-boy, and a glass of whiskey.

I'm not sure how I did not know this album existed when it came out because it's right up my alley.

I feel like kids today don't know about Disintegration and that's a damn shame.

the creme de la creme of elevated yacht rock, please don't punch me I'm holding a full champagne flute

Perfection

Took me back to some junior year of high school MTV buzzbin memories. This has aged quite well. But not the most consistent throughout.

Interesting that this was the 2nd best selling album of 1982 after...Asia. The era of the 80's superstars had not really begun. Pleasant stuff. Belinda Carlisle forever.

This guy could do no wrong in the 70s. Not even my favorite or second favorite Stevie Wonder album but still a 5-starrer.

That's some good Byrds.

I wanted to rate this 4 stars, but then I listened to it all the way through. It all seems fine, I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

One of my three favorite albums ever since about the time it came out - and yet not even my favorite U2 album, which is The Unforgettable Fire. I like it now even more than back then. 10 out of 5 stars.

Was way into the Ramones in perhaps their least popular era, the last few years of their existence in the early 90s before they became dead legends / t-shirts to put on your kid to let people know you're a cool parent. Honestly, I heretically like the later more produced stuff a bit more, and even though there's like four songs in a row that sound exactly alike, this is a got-dam classic.

This was a big deal when it came out my freshman year of college. Didn't do a lot for me then, doesn't now, but I can get the appeal.

Extremely familiar with the hits but never listened to the whole album. Super fine. This album could come out today and be a critical smash.

This came out a few years before my entry into the 120-minutes-verse, and I was familiar with the first two songs (which are solid) and the general "classic" reputation of the album, thus I was confused as to why the rest of the album was just kind of boring.

I was excepting and hoping for some deep cut Yacht Rock a la "I'm Not in Love." What I got seems to be the original cast soundtrack of an off-broadway show that opened and closed on the same night in 1974. Things have changed for me and 10cc.

Definitely most apt album title relative to the quality of the band ever. Big props to the bass player though, he is underrated.

Dark, repetitive, haunting, I'm into that.

Not my thing. I feel like a lot of the music that I find annoying - and which is far more pervasive now than in 1997 - can be traced back to this. And yet that bassline in Around the World (which I have certainly heard before) is about the greatest thing ever.

Owned this album when it came out and I remember it the same as I hear it now - some amazing songs and a lot of slow, unmemorable dirges. Fight Test, Yoshimi, and Do You Realize are classics, but overall not as great as The Soft Bulletin.

Had never really listened to LCD Soundsystem so interesting to have the chance. One song - Someone Great - I loved, the rest didn't really do it for me, but I can sort of see the appeal. More accessible than Daft Punk.

Glad to finally hear this album after knowing about the Tom Tom Club for a long time - big fan of Talking Heads and of the Genius of Love segment in Stop Making Sense. Liked Under the Boardwalk and Lorelei. Some of the other songs a bit more prosaic. Don't know that I'd listen to the whole album again, but good and enjoyable listen.

Wanted to give this five stars based on the rock and roll perfection of Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion, and Toys in the Attic, but damn there is some filler crap on this album and Big Ten Inch Record subtracts a star on its own. Aerosmith rules, but I can't abide the cheesiness.

Amazing acoustic guitar playing and what a voice. Have long been aware of him and this album but never listened to it. I grew up with this kind of sad-guy singer-songwriter stuff and have mostly avoided it since my early 30s but this was fantastic.

Not exactly my go-to music genre, but has all the hallmarks of a five star album. Inventive, sprawling, and no filler. I had heard SOS but never any of the songs on this album. I shall return to this album.

Loved it. Never heard the full album before. High standard deep cut disco is always good by me. Brilliant guitar and bass, solid tunes. Will go into regular rotation.

Loved Just Kids and Because the Night. This however makes me doubt my commitment to SparkleMotion. Maybe you had to be there.

I owned a digital copy of this in that odd period before Spotify but after we stopped buying CDs. And like many of those albums from that period, totally forgot it existed. Still rocks although doesn't really have any "hits." Unexpected to see it here.

Another guy I've always heard about and never really listened to it, can't believe this came out all the way back in 2003, which is the same year White Winos by Loudon Wainwright III came out which was a song I was quite obsessed with. This feels like Billy Joel meets Radiohead both of whom instill existential anxiety in me. 3.5/5

I always thought this was some kind of second-tier 60s jam band. I must have been mixing them up with a similarly fruit-titled band. Moby Grape? Anyway. This is great. In fact this kind of music is literally the soundtrack of 1980s B-movies which is my shit. Their wikipedia page is way more complex than I ever would have imagined. 127 albums and several dozen members. May 18, 2025 is the day I finally understood Tangerine Dream.

I don't know, CAN you? In fairness, at 18 I would have given this five stars.

Another band I missed out on, although I recognize Novocaine. Didn't realize Eels and E were the same guy - one of the first shows I ever saw E was the opening act and I figured that guy disappeared but Wikipedia indicates he is quite successful in the soundtrack world. This was right up my alley genre-wise and for when it came out but somehow I just can't get into it. Maybe a little too much ironic detachment for me. Maybe I have no further capacity for alternative rock that came out in the mid-90s.

I guess this is here for historicity, but I'm not quite seeing it. Jimi Hendrix's first album came out the year before which had the guitar sounds but with infinitely better playing, songs, and singing. And The Who were already well into their career. Having a somewhat heavier distortion on its own doesn't seem like a big deal but I guess I'm missing something here.

Of all the songs I’ve ever heard about a gypsy woman casting a spell on an unsuspecting singer-songwriter, this one was the longest.

No one told me we were going to have to listen to Tom Waits albums. I feel a little misled.

I would advise against offering to hold on to the hard drive of any person who owns this album.

In high school, I thought maybe being into Sonic Youth would get me in with the hipsters, but they all - to the extent took the time to look - saw the truth that I was really a Soul Asylum guy. I have a feeling Grave Dancer's Union is not on this list, but if it were, instant 5 stars.

When I saw the cover and title, I hoped this would be an underground yet critically-acclaimed Christian metal album that would be new to me and potentially life-changing. Twas not. D.A.N.C.E. was pretty great however - one of many things that eluded me in 2007. All in all, better than Daft Punk and if I was home-invaded and forced to play EDM I'd be okay with putting this on.

Surprised Bert Jansch has never been on my radar - he is a g-damn guitar hero. Astounding guitar work for a 22-year-old in 1965 and I can hear the influence on Jimmy Page and Neil Young and later virtuosos like Michael Hedges. That said the songwriting and vocals leave a bit to be desired, particularly in comparison to Nick Drake from a couple weeks back. .

Much like with Bert Jansch, I can hear the sizable influence MBV had on its immediate successors - a lot of whom are my teenage favorites - in the 90s, specifically Smashing Pumpkins. And to extend the comparison, I was missing the more dynamic songwriting and vocals of those successors.

Curious choice over It Takes a Nation of Millions... Good reminder of how big of a deal of Public Enemy was for a couple years there in my formative youth. And a good reminder of how big of a deal Anthrax was for me for a brief period too. One of the most important groups ever but this doesn't feel like their best work.

I was 9-10 years old when this album came out and very much attuned to what was on the radio. Nothing more annoyed my soul than when Anita Baker came on - the musical equivalent of waiting in Jo-Ann Fabrics with your mother for two hours. Now that I am a lover of all things soft rock in my elder years, I appreciate this a good deal more. But not tons more.

Another artist I never really paid much attention to. I recall it being a favorite of stoner grad students in the mid-aughts, and now that I hear it, that checks out. A little aloof for me, but that seems like the point.

This band reminds me of the house band at the go-go bar in Girl in Gold Boots, as presented by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in one their most entertaining episodes. I think that band might have been better. They certainly didn't play anything as awful as The Toonerville Trolley.

Not cool (or fair) that I had to listen to a 20+minute song to get to a song with my name in it which was over in less than 2 minutes.

Didn't like them then, don't like them now. The patron saints of guys who want to be in bands but can't sing, play guitar, write songs, or express themselves without unmerited scorn. That said, it has some nice moments.

Sounds like they had a good time dicking around and cool someone had enough storage on their iphone to record it all. Wonder if they ever formed a band and recorded an album.

Well I guess I'm an old man now because I love this.

Great stuff. The output of music by the Beach Boys between 1962-66 is staggering to state the obvious. A little dated and teenage-y for me to truly get into but definitely appreciate the work. RIP Brian Wilson.

Elvis Costello is brilliant. But it's so much output and it runs together. Hard to see myself going to this over a greatest hits collection. Also I feel like so much of his later work makes more sense if you're a fairly well-to-do Brit.

I had to google Incubus to see if they are a Christian band based on that vocal styling. They are not. Some very solid guitar and bass work. However multiple penalties for "Battlestar Scralatchtica" and this: "And it feels like a matador is taunting me With his reddest red cloth and I am the bull Yes I feel emphatic about not being static And not eating the bullshit that's being fed to me no more 'Cause now I'm full"

As far as EDM goes, not too annoying and enjoyable at times. More soulful than the typical stuff I hear in the genre.

I can finally put a full-length album with the name. Giving this one star feels like what they want, so I'm going to give it two.

Major props for this band putting out an album in 1988 that sounded like nothing else, merging metal and alternative. Mountain Song and Jane Says are five stars. That said, Perry Farrell is so annoying.

It's mind boggling that we went from Meet the Beatles to this in five years while most popular pop, rock, and country today sounds like it could have come out in 1984. A veritable, dare I say, smorgasbord of iconic riffs, I basically learned to play both guitar and bass from this record.

Even though this came out in the height of my teenage music idolatry years, I was never into them. Maybe too nasally, too dark. I was surprised by how much I dug this. That voice is otherworldly. 4.5 stars that I'll round up to 5 why the f not.

I appreciate that this album made the list. Listened to it when I came out and enjoyed it. Musically though it never transcends beyond background music for me though.

Fascinating artist from the (well at least my) glory days of 120 Minutes who sometimes but doesn't always do it for me. We Float is gorgeous.

You could give a room full of monkeys with typewriters a trillion years to come up with a better name for this band and they would not succeed.

Beautiful voice, beautiful guitar. Trying to figure out what makes this feel like 3 stars compared to Pink Moon's 5 stars. Presumably the songs themselves. But going forward can't imagine needing a Nick Drake fix and putting this on over Pink Moon.

From now on, whenever someone brings up the song Sex Machine (which does not happen!), I can be a twit and mansplain how Sly and the Family Stone released a song called Sex Machine *before* James Brown and claim that it's far superior (which it's not!).

As background work music goes, this is pretty top notch.

Solid funk album, feel like it just needs a little more on the hook side to bring it up to five stars.

A pretty perfect soul/funk album from Cincinnati's own. Ronald Isley has been the lead singer of this band for 70 consecutive years which is funkin crazy.

Interesting from a historical perspective of that era of hardcore music which I know very little about. Guitar and bass are off the chain. But can't get into the whole package.

An absolute top-tier five star band. But a little too much atonal filler here for a five star album for me.

A sentimental favorite. Bob Mould's voice and guitar sound were definitely a key part of the soundtrack of my mid-teens. That sentimentality rounds this up to a 4.

Pleasant, easy listening jazz (the kind of jazz that involves flutes). I'm assuming this album has some historical significance that did not come through for me based on just listening to it.

Norwegian Wood, In My Life, Nowhere Man, Michelle...just mind-boggling that guys in their early 20s were writing and recording these songs in 1965 out of thin air.

Loved it. Willie Nelson on bass and backing vocals if you didn't know, who also wrote the title song.

Pure bliss, love the singing, the big band arrangements, and the song choices. Would love to own this on vinyl.

Good on MIA for doing her thing. Every time I try to listen to an MIA song that is not Paper Plans or Bad Girls I realize I am not the target audience for MIA's music.

Loved it, never listened to the whole album before. Totally forgot about Jack Ass and how much I love that song. A little too jumbled and quirky for my taste to give it five stars.

As far as background chill vibe music you might hear while boarding a Virgin Airlines flight in the mid-2000s goes, this is solid.

Jorma is a beast. The hits still pop. Most of the rest sounds pretty dated and forgettable to me.

I feel like I'm the target audience to give a five star to this. Mega props for him being one of the few new guitar heroes created in this century and crafting an unmistakeable wall of sound. But 8 minutes a song?

A rare pick where I've never even heard of the artist, but I'm sensing a British-centric trend here. Interesting. Of its time and place I suppose. I like the mix of disco and alternative rock but not particularly return-worthy.

I'm realizing that while I'm quite familiar with 80s/early 90s guitar pyrotechnic Ozzy era, Black Sabbath is an oversight for me outside of the bigger songs. Fascinating to see that while 80s Randy Rhodes/Jake E Lee/Zakk Wylde Ozzy defined a certain shredding era, 70s Black Sabbath was its own thing that seems to have help lay the framework for 90s grunge.

Me giving an electronic album 3 stars is the equivalent of any other genre of album getting 5 stars. Never heard of this before, which is probably not that shocking.

One stunner of a song - Dear God - and a lot of perfectly fine English, bookish pop. Fascinating band and, like many others on this list, I'm impressed they built a whole career out of this even if it's not something I would regularly put on.

All these years watching Bottle Rocket and now I can finally put a name with the music. A lot of these late 60s psychedelic albums seem goofy in their deep tracks, but I'm going to round up for this one.

Great for people who find Pavement too uplifting and vocally gifted.

I wish I liked this more. But I also like that I wished that.

My obligatory three-star rating for hip hop that doesn't annoy me or particularly move me.

All I really knew about Motorhead before this was the song Ace of Spades. Turns out every other song is just a crappier version of Ace of Spades as written and performed by sex offenders.

There was a time in my life I would have rated a guitar singer-songwriter sad guy album like this 4 or 5 stars. I'm glad that time is not now.

I feel like this didn't make sense because I didn't see Faust I through III, but I keep meaning to see whichever one has Mr. T in it.

No thanks.

I hope you all realize the effort it takes me not to make a snarky comment about this being the third Kings of Leon album I've encountered so far on this list, but if one truly belongs here, it's this one.

Hey the hits - Bad Moon Rising, Lodi, Green River - are obviously great, and I imagine I will not need to load up the album to have those be in my life as those don't seem to be going anywhere. The rest kind of sound like John Fogerty just riffing. Not ashamed to be a CCR greatest hits guy.

Mama Weer All Crazy Now is super cool. The rest sounded better and more sophisticated than Motorhead but not by a huge margin.

I never heard of Thundercat before the HBO Yacht Rock documentary. I was expecting something more Yacht Rocky based on that, but this is pretty good. Bass playing is off the hook. Vocals are weirder than I was expecting. Loggins and MacDonald are gold.

Of course the Humpty Dance was inescapable in 1990 but I had no idea how epically stupid Digital Underground was. So epic I had to give it an extra star. This is like an advil to temporarily clear up 90's nostalgia.

A less shitty version of The Shitty Doors than Joy Division's version of The Shitty Doors.

This list is interesting because all the cultural boogiemen of my youth, i.e. Boy George or Ozzy, all sound so quaint and downright pleasant. Never really appreciated how great his voice was, or how unusual of a band Culture Club, especially to score such a huge huge hit with this album in the US in the early 80s. Karma Chameleon is just perfect. I feel like I'm not the target audience for the rest.

Well this is sort of delightful in a PBS story of pop music kind of way, and while undeniably important in the lineage, I can't imagine anyone rocking out to this on its own terms rather than for nostalgia sake.

Well hot diggety damn this takes me back. I played this CD a lot in my junior and senior year of college. Some sentimental shit. And, unexpectedly, I like it more than I liked it then. Back then it was all about Sleep on the Left Side, Brimful of Asha, and then often skip to Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again. But the whole thing sounds pretty perfect to me now. And somehow I feel nostalgia without too much painful longing which is kind of a rarity, or maybe the therapy worked.

By the time In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was over, I had already forgotten what the rest of the album sounded like. I'm not sure I'd ever listened to all 17 minutes, thank you 1001albumsgenerator.com. Strange to think they are from San Diego, as this album really does not scream San Diego.

I remember NPR talking about this album in mid-2020 and then naming it album of the year. That checks out. As far as R&B goes, I found it pretty tuneless.

Sparse and beautiful. Just like this review.

A lot of nostalgia for me here, which pushes this up to 4 stars. I owned all of Liz Phair's first four albums, and in truth I would only go back to 1 or 2 songs on each. And my huge teenage crush on her certainly played a role in my devotion. I probably don't need to listen to this all the way through again but thx for the memoreez.

I can't say it better than this random Redditor: "They suck. Their shit is buttock trying to be 10 different genres at the same time. At the end of the day it's boring ass shit."

I know Kendrick's great. I also know that I don't actually know that.

Machito was only 5'4" but before he called himself Machito he went by "Macho". That's fantastic. Glad I now know about Machito fka Macho.

I give myself 5 stars for listening to all 3 hours and 15 minutes of this. Pleasant stuff. The lyric "So I'm looking for a boy 'Bout five foot six or seven" is not something that is familiar from contemporary online dating profiles.

Sounds like music created by and for trust funders.

Fascinating wikipedia page, dull album. I did like some of the basslines.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. PJ Harvey was a mainstay on 120 Minutes in my prime 120 Minutes watching years and she seemed cool but never my thing. I tend to avoid anxiety-inducing albums, but this is the best of her albums I've heard.

This sounded pretty much like I expected it to sound. Quite an original vision and the accolades make sense to me. A little too art installation for my taste.

Garbage is some real mid-90s nostalgia, and upon revisiting I realize it is a cut above the rest. Never heard an entire Garbage album before, consistent stuff and I realize I never really appreciated what they were doing at the time.

I owned this CD when it came out and listened to Growing on Me (a highly underrated classic) and I Believe in a Thing Called Love a lot, and then tried to force myself to listen to the rest, and typically failed. Those two songs are five-star bangers. The rest is commendable but generic.

I feel like this should have been the 1001st album because it definitely puts you in an open-to-death mood. I owned a promo copy of this CD when I was 22 and in peak sad-guy music season and didn't care for it then either. But hey it's 90's brit-pop so I should have seen this one coming.

My guess as to what this would sound like based on the artist name and title was pretty spot-on, thank you very much.

All I knew about the Buzzcocks before I heard this was the song What Do I Get? Presumably from a car commercial 20 years ago. I think that may have been all I needed to know. Punk is a pretty overrated genre there I said it.

In a Spice World, be Le Tigre.

Some of it was pretty good but now I'm just anxious LL Cool J is going to steal my girl.

That is one smooth voice. But it violates my rule about the inclusion of songs over 10 minutes that don't need to be over 10 minutes.

My first experience listening to an entire album of Peter Gabriel's Genesis and I feel like I couldn't have named a single song from that era before this. I go back and forth on my tolerance for prog rock, but having Peter Gabriel's voice involved is a huge argument for it. This inspires me to do a deeper dive on early Genesis. And maybe in the future this nudges up to 5 stars.

It all kind of sounded the same (partially because I don't understand French), but it was a delight to be introduced to this artist.

My favorite country voice and one of my favorite all time singers. I would have picked Wrecking Ball for this list though.

I was expecting this to be 5-starrer for me, what can I say I guess I'm more of an Innervisions guy. Some of it just went on a little too long for my warped 2025 brain, but Stevie Wonder in the 1970s was on fire.

Can't imagine why this didn't catch on in America. Reminds me of the Nigel and Antoine Key & Peele sketch. I did appreciate that if you miss a rhyme the first time, it gets repeated about 8 more times per song.

This is obviously not an album you'd play on Touch Tunes on a Friday night but it is perfect.

I think if this had come out five years earlier when I was 14 and not 19, I probably would know every word on this album. Kudos all around but a bit twee, although happy to have an opportunity to use the word twee in these not very twee times.

I fully appreciate that Nina Simone is a legend and for good reason but this album gives me the heeby-jeebies and not the fun kind.

This is what I love about this list, hearing a lost gem like this. Not so much hearing another random Britpop group. High caliber nearly-lost-to-time early 1970s California country rock is right up my alley.

True story: I in fact saw the Goodyear Blimp on Sunday and said "today was a good day" to another woman looking at it, who said she just said that to someone else, and this album came up on Tuesday. Not my cup of tea but you have to give it up for a song that is inextricably tied to a delightful life event for over three decades now.

Three Nick Drake albums in the span of a few months feels like guerilla marketing for anti-depressants, but from checking his wikipedia page, I do believe this means no more will be coming. His guitar playing and vocals remain gorgeous but we need some Halen or something up in this b.

Fascinated to learn this album was recorded when the singer was 20 and he wrote all the songs in high school. And that he's a devout Christian, who knew? This album seemed to be a mainstay of the nerds I was around my freshman year of college, but don't think I ever heard the whole thing. Much better than I expected.

This album was of course ubiquitous in 1995 my freshman year of college, yet I only listened to the whole album for the first time fairly recently after getting into a latter-day Alanis kick. I liked the hits back then and I like them even more. I think I saw her as an industry plant back then, and maybe she was, but I don't give a shit now. Also I remember for a weekend in 1995 there was a widespread rumor that she died that I think made it across the whole country - ah life before the internet.

I remember reading about this album at length in the book Mystery Train which I read when I was 22 thinking I might be a music critic someday. I also bought the album on vinyl around at that time and don't think I made it all the way through. Which is why I am not now a music critic, other than this. I feel like I need to listen more closely (i.e. not while doing stressful, brain-intensive work) but I really like it. I also had no idea he wrote "You Can Leave Your Hat On" which I have to come to learn is apparently a huge, timeless hit in Ukraine via Joe Cocker's version of it for the movie 9 1/2 Weeks. Now you know.

This could have been great and started off with promise. Instead it was dull, mediocre, and, at times, annoying. Whatever came on next after this on Spotify was similar but infinitely better.

Okay 1001 list you have made me a Nick Cave fan. And a Smiths fan. But still not down with Morrissey.

I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I would never put Trip Hop on over, say, Reggae, but I wouldn't be mad if someone put this on.

I used to love music like this. Now it bums the shit out of me. Voices, guitar, and lyrics are beautiful. But dude. This last song is longer than some of my relationships.

I did not expect to see this mainstay of VH1 one hit wonder lists show up here but interesting to hear an entire album. I think at least one other of these songs could have been hits. A great sound but a little goes a long way. I was relieved to finally look at the Wiki page for this album and see I only needed to get through the first 10 songs. I did have some good times in college dancing to Come On Eileen if anyone wants to hear more about that.

I feel like a bad citizen of the world in saying this, but this was just too repetitive and boring to elevate itself beyond the dreaded 2-star badge of shame. I really do love his song with Mumford and Sons though. I know that doesn't reflect great on me, but I'm just as God made me.

Kind of a fascinating, unclassifiable band. Not exactly my thing, but I salute the Meat Puppets and mostly thought about how cool it was that Kurt Cobain at the height of his fame devoted 20% of their Unplugged show to this band and specifically this album.

I was a huge Whiskeytown fan and their first album Faithless Street should be on this list. Ryan Adams has put out a lot of amazing songs but they are unfortunately drowned out by an abundance of not amazing songs, and I can't get down with the self-sabotaging mopey-ness the way I did in my 20s. If this were a 36 minute album it would be five stars.

I was puzzled by ABBA growing up - I saw commercials for their greatest hits albums on cable tv all the time but never heard their music on the radio or MTV and never heard anyone talk about them. I was kind of surprised they actually had albums and not just greatest hits compilations. This was great. But I can see why they have 9 albums and 13 greatest hits compilations.

People don't talk enough about how the introduction of CD technology led to artists putting twice as much content as really necessary on their albums.

I was today years old when I realized Royskopp and The Knife are not the same thing. I can dig some Royskopp.

Never owned this album but Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, and Head over Heels ruled the airwaves just when I first became conscious to the concept of top 40 radio. Very cool to hear the extended versions and the whole album. Will be purchasing this vinyl pronto.

Not sure I had any of these Temptations songs before - love some soul deep cuts. The I want my mommy parts were def unexpected. I feel like I should learn all the bass parts on this album.

Interesting little history lesson here - I can see how this became a cult classic. That voice is something else. But I can also see how it didn't become a hit.

Pleasant and layered enough to make for a good listen, but sounds more than a little passionless and generic, as if a group of nepo-babies started a band with the help of AI.

As far as 90s albums by British bands I've never listened to and nobody I know cares about go, this one was actually pretty good.

This was just what I needed yesterday. Among the big 4 of thrash, Anthrax really holds their own position. And strangely compared to their brethren - Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer - their lyrics are actually pretty positive and life-affirming, which I always appreciate in thrash.

Having never actually heard Sleater-Kinney but aware of their general place in the pantheon and of course aware of Carrie Brownstein, this was a lot more abrasive than I was expecting, although it got better as it went along. I was assured by a major Sleater-Kinney fan in my life that this is definitely on the anxiety-inducing side of their canon, so curious to hear more.

I feel like I can't not give this five stars even though some of the silliness and experimentalism (aka junk) is not my jam. But listening to other 60s era rock albums on this list has made me realize just how astronomically superior the Beatles were to every other band in that era.

I feel like a lot of millenials and younger folk assume us Gen X'ers were rocking out to Nirvana and maybe Pearl Jam on repeat in the early 90s. We sort of were, but for me and my kin we were primarily obsessed with Siamese Dream, the absolute greatest rock album of the 90s. Even better than I remember, 10 out of 5 stars.

I really love me some Pink Floyd. I have actually spent a good amount of cash seeing an extremely good Pink Floyd cover band (what up Australian Pink Floyd) on more than one occasion. But I just cannot get down with the Syd Barrett and not David Gilmour version of Pink Floyd.

This album was a big part of my late teens, early 20s and I'm not sure why I never saw this band live. What Jail is Like is epic. They should have been more popular, particularly for their later album 1965. Rounding up for being the coolest band to ever come out of Ohio.

Yeah so what I'm giving an EDM album five stars, everybody f'ing relax, it's not a big deal and it probably won't happen again.

There's a lot to commend about rejected latter-day Michael Jackson tracks sung by a highly punchable douche-bro but you won't find those commendations here.

Happy Mondays seem like the British version of RHCP: solid band, nauseating frontman.

One was a game changer for me seeing it on MTV for the first time in sixth grade. It took me a number of years before I fully embraced the long form thrash of these early Metallica albums. This, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets are all forever five star albums. Can't say that I feel that way about any album they've done since then.

I owned this on cassette back in college when I went through a big Steve Earle phase. Seems like it's definitely his most straightforward country album which put him on the map before he got steadily weirder and more interesting. I Feel Alright from 1997 should have been on this list instead of this, but this album is super solid.

I love how weird Sly & The Family Stone is. Whilst also being funky. I guess that's kind of the whole point.

I think my favorite part of this list so far is appreciating Chic on a deeper level. Chic all day works for me.

Now I'm wondering if I've never really heard any other Eurythmics song besides Sweet Dreams. I'm sure I did as they seemed to be on MTV a lot in the 80s. Anyway, this was almost entirely new to me. A little odder than I expected. But I'm down with it.

If there is one thing this list has taught me it's that John Lennon's solo output is...not that great. I'm in the minority that thinks the lyrics to Imagine are kind of ridiculous, especially coming from a serial cheater and all around not very nice guy. Oh Yoko is pretty great and brought back memories of the Rushmore soundtrack. The rest is forgettable.

Well more generic EDM and I know it's probably not technically EDM but you know what I mean and no I don't need an explanation on why it's not. I did like that it mostly went by without me noticing it.

This is definitely a top 3 Led Zeppelin album for me, just after Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin IV. For some reason I didn't really discover it until adulthood and didn't really appreciate until later adulthood. Tangerine is also a top 3 LZ song alongside Over the Hills and Far Away and, sorry not sorry, Stairway. I still don't quite get Hats Off to Roy Harper, but let me mansplain to you that Roy Harper sang lead vocals on Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar which is an infinitely better song. Also don't f with the Immigrant Song.

If an electronic artist on this list is miminally cool to listen to and doesn't annoy me, they get 3 stars. This group came dangerously close to losing a star with the rap in the last song, but it's the holidays so I'm going to let it slide.

I feel like I write the same review every time of Bob Dylan, which is that I'm glad I'm old and wise enough to not feel like I have to pretend to be into Bob Dylan all that much. Like when I owned this CD 25 years ago. Make You Feel My Love and It's Not Dark Yet are good. The rest is snoozy.

Now I've finally listened to a whole Kiss album. They're just like not that good of a band, but kudos on them for going so far with the image to distract people from that fact.

Yet another album where it is astonishing that I've never listened to it in full before as it came out when I was a junior in high school playing guitar in bands. Green Day has just never done it for me, but it all makes sense. In fact it seems like this was the most influential rock album of the entire 90s given the number of other bands that followed in the next 10 years?

A 2009 time capsule for better or worse. The three hits remain as big as hits as ever and the rest remains the rest. But those are some great hits.

Pretty solid 90s alternative rock I suppose

I can see why unhappy mid-70s rock critics thought this was the t-i-t-z. I do feel like I should have known before today that Jerry Harrison was in this band. I'm less concerned that I didn't know the Cars drummer was also in this band.

No album containing Baba O' Riley can come in at less than 4 stars.

Hit after hit after hit after hit after hit after hit after hit. There were literally that many hits on this album. Thank you for the time capsule.

Another classic from my high school days that I never owned or listened to all the way through. I respected Soundgarden but never too into them. Black Hole Sun was constantly on the radio for years and pretty annoying. I get it a lot more now. A lot of really brilliant music on here and less sludge than I was expecting. My Wave, which I haven't heard in forever, is absolutely on point and should have been a huge hit. In honor of that song being in 5/4 time I will award this 4/5 stars.

My ex-wife threw me a 30th birthday party and one of my coworkers gave this CD to me as a gift. I had never heard of it. Immediately thereafter my ex-wife decided this CD was hers and also that we should get a divorce. Upon relisten, this is a great album but geez get yourself together.

I feel confident in saying that, given sufficient preparation time, I can successfully debate anyone who argues that there is not enough quality drumming on this album.

These guys seem to take themselves pretty seriously, as dudes in this scene seem wont to do. More musicianship and less soul than I was expecting.

My life has mostly been spent in locations where this kind of music is not played so I don't know if I'm the best person to judge. Seems like am album title better suited for a middling 1970s prog rock band though.

Fascinating to see this band had 18 top 40 hits in the UK. Sadly, I didn't really hear much in the way of hits here. But if I ever get into a romantic relationship with a Gen X British indie rocker type, this list is making me feel well-prepared.

Can't tell whether I'm bored or just indifferent to this band. I don't enjoy a fair amount of albums on this list but at least I kind of understand why they are here. I don't understand why this is here.

If they do a Brazilian version of Austin Powers, this would make for a good soundtrack.

I think I used to own this on vinyl and dumb of me to let it go. Perfectly great reggae although not so singular that I did not realize the album had ended until I heard 4 other songs from other reggae artists once Spotify went into its algorithm.

There was a lot of country-rock type stuff that I loved (or at least claimed to love) in my early 20s that doesn't really hold up for me. This one does. Also the Last Waltz is amazing and I need to revisit it.

I remember him singing with Peter Gabriel back in the day. Grateful that this list gives me a chance to hear a number of full albums of African artists that show up as supporting casts for various western artists like that - this one was very listenable.

Prog rock with Peter Gabriel seems to be an irresistible mix for me. Early Genesis may be one of the biggest revelations of this list for me.

Some very solid late 80s dance music I in fact danced to it

Sociopathic yet compelling

Some great backing tracks but seems mostly from other artists. The rapping itself was consistent and clever but fairly repetitive. And not a lot in the way of hooks. Interesting listen.

I remember buying this on CD with a Circuity City gift card when I was about 26. Which would suggest I know this album better than I do. It starts out very strong and then kind of fades into what feels like an endless, undifferentiated vibe towards the end. Five stars for the first half, 3 for the second.

I was surprised how popular Pet Shop Boys have remained in the UK to this day, really not having heard them since they were huge in the US when I was a kid. I was also how surprised how much I liked this. Probably won't go through their whole discography as I've got well over a 1001 albums to listen to here, but this was good.

Sitting through 75 minutes of noise gave me a lot of time to think about what I wanted to write here. But having a lot of time on your hands does not mean you are going to know what you want at the end. The first song made me want to quit doing this list. The second song was interesting. The third sounded like some former college jazz musicians who are now middle-aged dads got together in a garage and tried mushrooms for the first time. Fourth song too for that matter.

Here I thought this was going to be some British hip-hop act to humor for the sake of this list, but instead was my dream of what a band could be if I had practiced more.

This was surprisingly great. Lovefool is of course a classic, and cool hear to that same sound throughout the album. And who knew the Cardigans did an Iron Man cover? Inspired choice.

Yay more mid-90s brit-pop. Always well done, never relatable.

I listened to all two hours and twenty minutes of this. #AMA

Thought this was going to be a soundtrack to the Charlie Sheen movie, it was not.

A three star album from the first to the last note. No points awarded for the album title.

Better than expected. I feel like I missed out on him having a sitcom in the early 2000s.

I just listened to Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory for another list and I thought that was really juvenile but entertaining at times. This makes that look like Led Zeppelin. I knew I never liked Marilyn Manson as the person/personality, but I had no idea how much his music deeply sucked. Garbage riffs and vocals for 71 minutes. But that said he really paved the way for incels and edgelordz.

I was curious to hear this as I've heard of the legend of fIREHOSE but never heard them, and also because I too am (famously) Fromohio. And I currently live about 20 miles from where the rest of the band started in San Pedro. I was expecting something more punky like Husker Du, and was not expecting a garage band level Rush vibe. Which hey man that's cool in my book.

I've heard of Throwing Muses since my teenage years but they never seemed to come up on 120 Minutes or my local alternative station, although Tanya Donnelly certainly did with the Breeders and Belly. Of those three Donnelly-bands, this is my third favorite. I appreciate what they were doing but a little too jagged for me without enough pill.

Impressive Brian Wilson stylings here, in case anyone was looking for a newer version of that.

Further proof that punk sucks? I'm just asking the questions here, man.

Wow that was a gaping hole in my music knowledge. I had no idea Funkadelic shredded like that. Maybe they were mentioned in all the guitar magazines I read growing up, and I just missed it. But that was as close to the spirit of Hendrix as I've ever heard. And on the track Maggot Brain, I was like oh he's ripping David Gilmour off but then I realized this was two years prior to Dark Side of the Moon and then I realized the dude was like 21 and an African-American kid from New Jersey when he recorded this so maybe Gilmour ripped off him.

Hey man. I gave Disintegration a 5 and would have given it a 6 if the scale I went that high. I also would give their newest album Songs of a Lost World 5 if it were on here. This album kinda sucks, assuming you're not pretty depressed. I like other early Cure but not this. Monotonous and just uninteresting. I suppose that opens me to accusations of not being a real Cure fan, but I can handle it. I've handled worse.

I've never heard of this artist, but this was a delight. And an inspiration to us 40-somethings the world 'round.

This is far out, man. Maybe a little too far out.

I'm somewhat obsessed with a lot of 70's rockers - Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Springsteen, Neil Young, etc - but man David Bowie has never done it for me, even if I realize he is probably the most complete package of musical talent in comparison to all of them. He's just too weird, which I know is the point, for me to get too into. Heroes is a great song, the rest felt like art history homework.

Guitar Hero 1 memories forever. I also bought this CD at a goodwill in Queens for $1 in 2011 but this is the first time I've listened to it. Solid album, probably don't need to hear it again.

My old band used to play Alison as part of our two hour at-times sloppy residency at some sports bar in Columbus. We half-assed a lot of songs, but we actually delivered this one pretty well. Watching the Detectives also great.

I have nothing bad to say about Tito Puente. Time well spent.

This was wacky, this was wild, and eventually it won me over.

Never listened to this album before. Always kind of wondered how George Michael went from Faith which was just no. 1 hit song after another to never really having that presence again. I guess it's because he did all these acoustic songs. They're pretty good.

I'm not sure I've ever heard a wider gulf between the talent of the drummer and the talent of the guitarist in one band. The former sounds like a pro, the latter like he just got his first guitar this week.

Mudhoney was name-checked a lot in those early days of the grunge explosion, but perhaps there is a reason they didn't go big? My only previous reference for them was the weakest song on the Single soundtrack, an all-time top ten for me. That was plenty of reference. At least there will only be one Mudhoney album on this list.

So much noodling, and not so little but indeed so much time. Sounds like a fun party to have been at.

Finally put a sound with the name I've heard here and there throughout my life, and I kind of knew they were from Ohio which is a huge plus. But being from Ohio doesn't make borderline-unlistenable music borderline-listenable.

Turns out I was wrong about there being only one Mudhoney album on this list.

A mainstay of my teenage years, and while I would take the time to explain why this is definitively a 5 star album, you'll have to please excuse me while I kiss this guy.

I feel like a lot of these songs were rip offs of Spinal Tap's Gimme Some Money

The Pet Shop Boys are never unpleasant but not their best in my opinion. Good to hear some Dusty Springfield in there.

About as impressive a one-man show as you can find, RIP D'Angelo

Not afraid to channel my inner-soccer-mom-circa 1989 to enjoy this

Its brilliance is only matched by its weirdness.

On some forgettable sitcom in the late 1980s a character said he was late because he was in Traffic longer than Steve Winwood. Today I finally heard Traffic. I get it now. And I guess it wasn't forgettable after all.

The SHANKANATOR! newsflash: you just got Shanked

If this had popped up earlier in my time in this list I would have given it 3 stars but this list has really helped me develop an aversion to mediocre 90s brit-pop (which I'm realizing is a redundancy now).

Taking Salsa and Disco to the HNL* *(hole nother level)

Their wikipedia page is a good deal more interesting than this album and the album ain't bad.

Just when I thought I was more of a Sinatra guy, this Elvis guy keeps bringing me back. Everyone on this record was TCB.

That's some big guitar sounds at times which I like. Feels like a precursor of Hum, but not so much in the way of tuneage.

My original introduction to Bruce when I bought the vinyl of this for a quarter in the 90s. Guessing it probably costs more than that now. Loved the movie, watched it twice.

Clever stuff for 1968 from a very prolific band but I find it depressing for reasons I can't and don't necessarily want to really articulate.

who knew Portishead had other albums besides Dummy? I guess a lot of people. Inventive but too anxiety-inducing for me to love it.

This album wins the superlative of most attempts by me to get through it. I thought, much like Steely Dan, my appreciation for this band would grow as I get older. Hasn't happened yet. Last song was pretty good though.

I will never complain about ABBA being on and I fully support the ABBA lifestyle. But while interesting, doesn't seem to have the hits and the hooks.

For as much as Peter Gabriel is associated with 1980s MTV this dude could do no wrong in the 1970s.

The best of the Cure's goth AF phase.

As far as background music goes this is very workable

There's too much talent here for me to rate this as less than 3, but too much schmaltz to rate it any higher.

International arty disco at its near finest.

I need more funk.

Best album of 2013 and one of the best of the decade.

Sure why not, it had it's moments.

One of my favorite albums of 2002 but man is it long.

Simply the best in 1987 and still today.

This band was briefly a big deal on MTV and I'm still not sure why, and even less sure why this album is on the list

This was far out. Brian Eno continues to 60 percent mistify me 40 percent bor me.

I rocked this shit in 7th grade and still do.

An Emusic.com $2.50 classic from the late 2000s. I listened to this a lot in 2009 for some reason. Still great.

Earnest and boring, sorry to say.

Well this was way worse than I was thinking it would be. If I'm going to hear endless jamming, give me some like good jamming.

Substitute is one of the more underappreciated (at least today) songs of the 1960s.

Bjork is a genius but the general feeling I get when I listen to her is anxiety, and we're all good on that over here, thx.

One of the better albums of the 1980s and one I'm plan to own on vinyl - Side 1 is about as good as pop comes and Side 2 is pretty good too.

My least favorite indie band of the 90s fails to strike again. Making something that intentionally sucks does not make it less sucky. I might be more charitable if they were not such uncharitable dudes themselves.

Best Olsen Twin's album ever.

Easily a high point of my conservative parents' very small record collection.

Interesting but not surprised that I'd never heard of this band before. Seems more like a scene than a band.

Pretty good shoegaze - but doesn't do a whole lot for me, rounding down.

I'm sorry that I am unable to appreciate Elvis Costello more than this.

This is definitely not what I was listening to in 1994 but it's certainly something I should have added to the mix.

Psychedelic yacht rock, I can dig it

Sprawling, amazing, impossibly ahead of its time.

The two hits I knew of Echo and The Bunnymen - which are great - before this list really did not prepare me for how boring I would find this band.

This band was quite the flavor of the month at the start of 1992, hadn't really thought of them again until now. Totes fine.

Definitely of its time. Too bad about this dude.

I do enjoy the Band but this is more of the Band than I need. I like the "hits" Up on Cripple Creek and the Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, but that's good for me.

All these years of Bjork being present in my life and I've never listened to a Sugarcubes album. It was generally quite solid and inventive. Not sure I'd go back to anything besides Birthday which was a 120 Minutes classic, but that's alright. Rounding up just for that one.

Bawitdaba is great. Cowboy is kind of great. Every other Kid Rock song seems to be a variation of those two, when it's not just regular white boy 90s dumb rap. I can separate the art from the artist, but also F Kid Rock.

I owned this CD when it came out, and in fact was one of the earlier CDs I owned. And I don't really remember why I owned it, perhaps a Columbia House pick. Stop is great. Been Caught Stealing was always kind of stupid to me. Three Days felt cool at the time. Now, I just can't suffer Perry Farrell because he is what you might call insufferable.

I liked that the music on here was actually pretty good, and Morrissey didn't seem overly Morrissey, and it kind of ran together and was over before I expected it to be.

I'm surprised and pleased this was as much of a hit as it was in the 80s.

Not nearly as annoying as I thought it would be.

A little myopic when it comes to future-telling but some nice beats.

Not the best in the Gabriel canon but still pretty damn great

About 2/3 of the way through this album, I started to get worried that I might have to give 5 stars to Coldplay, the band that I proclaimed the worst band in the world around 2005. My position has relaxed significantly since then, but still was not expecting to like this so much. Fortunately it kind of petered out at the end.

There are so many Byrds albums on this list. But that's a lot better than a lot of the other artists who make strangely numerous appearances here.

It does seem New York Dolls don't quite get their due (outside of rock critics and hipsters) for being such early punk rockers, but at the same time they didn't quite have the tunes of the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. Pills is a standout here.

I do love that the kids have made Kate Bush a thing again, although hopefully not just for that one song.

Sorry angry young people but this album rules.

They don't make em like they used to. I enjoy how weird this is.

One of the rare albums in my house growing up, and one of the even rarer still good ones.

One of my listened-to albums, still as good as it ever was.

quaint and ponderous at times, but still some classics that still work today

Ceaseless

Gotta give it up for any band from Ohio that makes this list. But still not my thing.

I still have a visceral reaction to British people rapping - that's our thing after all - but a lot better than I expected.

Coldplay for the thinking man or at least the contrarian man.

a perfect album and a lifetime go-to

Today I realized the Everly Brothers and the Righteous Brothers are not the same people. I think I'm glad not to have grown up in this era.

This started strong. Track 2 is great. But it really descends into a lot of the Radiohead type stuff that drives me a little nuts towards the end. Although to their credit it seems like they were doing this before Radiohead really made it their entire sound.

So it's about 2 minutes of one of the greatest movie themes ever and then 45 minutes of some ponderous stuff.

I like me some Van Morrison but this makes me realize I don't like him as much I thought. Great voice, but so much of it. Sounds like a great show, but doesn't hold up for me 52 years later.

Fantastic debut and let me remind you that Chrissie Hynde is from Ohio

One of the greatest albums ever and still not MJ's best in my very questionable opinion

You dis Lou Reed, you dis yourself.

The Other Side is a brilliant song.

This was great, I missed the boat back in the day. Like it a lot more than Ice Cube on one side and Tribe Called Quest on the other.