1001 Albums Summary

Didn't realize this was where where My My, Hey Hey was from. Iconic track. A few solid tracks on here, but about the same number of duds. I did generally enjoy the instrumentation and Neil Young's singing and folk+rock sound.

Beginning and end of this album were solid. Maybe I lost interest part of the way through and picked back up towards the end, but the first three tracks (Hotel California, New Kid in Town, and Life in the Fast Lane) felt solid, and the final two (Try and Love Again, The Last Resort) felt similarly. Of songs I have not heard before, my favorite was probably The Last Resort.

Really strong album top-to-bottom. I didn't love every song, but the album as a whole gives some iconic 70s sound wrapped around some solid ballads, funk, and social protest songs.

Not my favorite kind of classic rock. There are a few bops in here but it's not to my taste so far. "I Can't Explain" is decent. The song Tattoo sucks. Also not into Young Man's Blues (lyrics are alright). Happy Jack is fine. I don't hate this outright but it feels very much like a 2 star album.

I had this album in college. I've liked it since then, so this one should be easy. Even the songs I don't love as much, like Daylight, are still strong. It's also hard to beat the run of Politik to Clocks for five-track groups. It's been a long time since I've listened to the album all the way through, and this listen caused me to pick up on the time and longing themes that seem to cycle through the album. Lots of ideas about missed opportunities, rewinding time, and a clock motif in multiple songs (also reflected in the rhythmic instrumentation in songs like A Whisper).

I liked Sunday, Bloody Sunday, but every other song slid right off me. It sounded too samey across the album.

This was a trip. I realized as I started this album that even though I knew of the Velvet Underground and I knew of this album from the artwork, I'd never actually LISTENED to it. I enjoyed basically the whole thing! There were a few sections that went into noise rock more than I like, but there are definitely songs on this album I can see myself coming back to. My favorite was probably Venus in Furs.

Production values are excellent, and the musicians are clearly talented. However, Steely Dan just isn't my vibe. I don't mind the jazz elements, but it's very soft rock for me.

Fun little bit of synth-pop. Had a few catchy tunes but it lost me pretty quickly.

Very cool album and one of the greatest final albums by an artist ever. I don’t love everything but it’s solid for sure and I should go back and listen to Lazarus more.

Very cool bluegrass album. Pretty languid though; I wanted more variance in the tone and pace.

Classic Elvis. I don’t love everything here but most of it’s very good.

Oh hell yeah this album rules. What a bunch of bangers. The groove funk on Maybe Your Baby is impeccable. But nothing tops the groove of Superstition. Revelations for me are Maybe Your Baby, Big Brother (the transition from Superstition to Big Brother whips), and Blame It on the Sun. I Believe is such a good album closer, man.

The riffs are good but I cannot deal with the singing/talking on every track. It just does nothing for me at all and makes the tracks a chore to get through. I could see myself enjoying it more in a different mood maybe, but generally? No thanks.

Beautifully aching Americana in this album. Oh My Sweet Carolina hits a sweet spot of longing country and folk/blues.

Sounds like a British 80s band. I didn’t hate it, but it didn’t do a lot for me.

Crossing punk rock and folk/Irish music is always going to hit a sweet spot with me. And what an album! Great songs from start to finish. The greatest revelation for me was the track Metropolis. As soon as I heard what was happening, I smiled and said “this is so cool.” Crossing Irish reels with echoes of orchestral pieces like Powerhouse and similar city/industrial evocations of the big band era, with half-tone movements happening on horns. Very cool piece.

Very cool album. I don't see myself going back to it too much, but the joyful soundscape created made for a really pleasant listening experience all the way through. Heroes and Villains is probably my top track.

Fascinating bit of soul music. Meanders a bit, but that's rewarding if you just let yourself follow the movement. The singles still stand out to me more than the rest of the tracks, but it's solid.

This is my era of rock/alternative music. Never heard Oasis's first album before; it's really solid. Good tracks on here that sound quintessentially like Oasis. I really liked Supersonic, Columbia, and Slide Away.

Fun stuff from Van Halen. Their debut album is one of those places where, culturally, you can hear a transition to an 80s rock sound starting to happen. It got a little samey for my tastes toward the end (although Ice Cream Man was a nice break-up of the usual sound).

Cool funk/jazz sound, but isn't really my speed.

An album full of fun bangers. It's playful throughout while dishing out solid, head-bobbing rap.

I'm not a big jazz person, but this was a cool album. It feels like a very complete work. The last track felt the best to me.

What a fun album. That is all. Just pure funk and dance vibes.

This album is incredibly catchy all the way through. I'm really enjoying the non-singles much more than the tracks that were singles, but there's a number of songs I can see myself going back to again and again. Best of the singles for me are probably Style and Bad Blood. Having never listened to the album itself it's much better than I had been anticipating. I think this gets a 5 from me. Haha, the Jack Antonoff-produced tracks practically struck me in the face with their Jack Antonoff-ness. But I did like them. Standout non-singles. Out of the Woods and I Wish You Would.

First song was enjoyable, but then everything else sounded like it. The only song that switched it up was 1959, which I didn't care for.

One of the best live albums I've ever heard. Cooke crushes it here, working the crowd and delivering a sizzling performance. Absolutely worth a listen.

Putting aside the person Kanye has become, this is a great rap album. Not exactly sure how much I'll go back to it, but there's a couple of tracks (Power, for example) that I can't help but put on sometimes.

Very much late 60s/early 70s folk. Nick's voice is very pleasant to listen to, and if you don't mind a very "of its time" instrumentation then you'll enjoy this. I thought it was decent.

I dunno about this one. “Common People” is a classic, but I don’t vibe with the overall sound of the album. Much of the sound reminds me of New Wave, with a slightly updated poppier feel. Though the sound doesn't work for me, I do appreciate the themes and lyrics of the songs; there's a strong current of pushing up from below, straining against a world built for the wealthy.

Not doing much for me. There's some cool atmospheric moments on this album, but I don't vibe with the way the lead singer sings and the general sound isn't working for me.

Music to groove to or zone out to. This is just some solid house music to enjoy; it can be actively listened to or thrown on in the background and each experience will be rewarding in its own way. "Come Together" into "Loaded" is a great two-song combo square in the middle of the album. Solid all the way through.

25 years on, this album is just as aggressive, transgressive, and fun as it's ever been. I don't think the skits have aged particularly well, but I could listen to almost every other track on here on repeat.

Hard not to rate this stone-cold classic a five. It's early Beatles, but honestly? I'm a big fan of early Beatles.

Interesting melange of sounds. Fundamentally, the flow is good, and some of the tracks really hit. But I'm not all-in on the avant-garde hip-hop sound. And as it went on it dragged for me. Feels like 2 stars.

Fun album with a few good hits on it. Not an all-time favorite, but an enjoyable listen nonetheless. Has strong blues/southern-rock vibes to it.

Ah man. I don't hate them by any stretch, but I've never been a big Foo Fighters person. I'm trying to give this album an honest go. But ultimately, most of this just isn't doing anything for me. At least it has Big Me on it, a song I do legitimately like.

Queen's theatricality and rock sensibilities on full display. For me, Queen is something to take in small doses, so listening to the entire album is a bit tiring and overwhelming. But there are some good individual tracks - the best discovery for me was probably Dear Friends.

I can't stress how much most of this isn't doing a darn thing for me. I think a lot of it is the singing. I do appreciate The Weight as a classic rock song with a good blues groove. But the rest of the album has given me a headache. Oh hey a cover of Long Black Veil! That's a good song.

Fun rock/punk. It feels like a good rock album to have on in the background as you do other things. Nothing stands out hugely, but the vibes of the album are very good.

I'm enjoying this more than I thought I might based on the opening track. That track, "Dealer," didn't do much for me, in part because I didn't like Martyn's singing style on it. However, there's some chill jazz grooves on the remainder of the album, and Smiling Stranger is really good proto-trip hop. The final track, "Small Hours," feels like something straight off of a Sigur Ros album.

I'm not a huge soul person, but so far I appreciate the big sounds of this album. The first track really hits you with the dynamics. You definitely get the funk/jazz sounds from this album. I don't love it, but it's certainly a strong representative of its genre. I enjoy "In Love With You." Good duet.

Strong opening to this album with Tiny Dancer and Levon. I enjoy Elton John's style, and this album is full of it. I saw the album described as done in a prog rock style, and I can hear it, especially in Madman Across the Water. Second half of the album didn't do as much for me, although "All the Nasties" was decent.

Yep, this is definitely Radiohead. There’s always a few tracks off of their albums that click for me. I think this will need to be a repeat-listen album, because right now this is 3 stars, but I could see it going up as I get more familiar.

Whole album sort of ran together for me. Not bad, but felt pretty forgettable.

I've never listened to this album all the way through, and it really is full of bangers. War Pigs, Paranoid, and Iron Man being three of the first four tracks is just an absurd packaging of great tracks, and the fourth of those tracks, Planet Caravan, is a terrific tonal switch to keep things interesting and stop the sounds from running together. Really solid album.

Cool jazz album. Very much of the big band singer era. Sarah Vaughan's voice is warm and just slightly smokey. Her sound is exceptional. This isn't an every day album, but if you're in the mood for some singing in the lines of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan certainly delivers.

YES! I love R.E.M. These songs are, for the most part, melancholy and bittersweet, and I've loved this album for 20+ years. It was a treat to revisit it.

Really excited to have gone from R.E.M. to this album. Two incredible albums back-to-back. I love the minimalized sound of this album, and the lyrics are aching. This is the album of working people trying to make their way in a world that is often against them.

Cool jazz. Iconic. But not my personal style of music.

You get a real jazz/funk fusion vibe from this album. It's neat, but I still am not a big jazz person, and many of the tracks ran together for me. It's a fine vibe, but not usually the mood I'm going for when I put on music.

The background about this album is fascinating, so it was good to listen through knowing the controversies and the way the audience reacted. It's a sort of window into mid-60s culture and the changes happening at that time. As to the sound itself, it's all solid early Dylan. The acoustic set is pleading and folky, while the electric set is raucous. I do think I would've been better served listening to the album in pieces rather than straight through, as at some point I got a bit tired of it.

I feel like this album misses the arrangements of Brian Wilson. And though the themes are darker and more serious than early Beach Boys, that does not by itself make this album great. Honestly, for me, this album is fine at best. Lyrically, a lot of the songs feel weak to me, and the harmonies just aren't as robust as they are with Wilson.

Cool album. The singles stand out, of course, but I had never heard "Today," and I quite enjoyed it (though apparently it was a college radio staple back in the day! I wasn't aware of that). Embryonic Journey was also a cool folksy instrumental. I'd listen to that track again for sure.

Having now listened to one of Nick Drake's other albums, this is obviously very reminiscent of that. Nick Drake sounds like Nick Drake. However, I do appreciate the more stripped-back sound of this album. It's more intimate, and it makes the songs feel more like themselves, if that makes any sense.

Well, that was an experience. Wasn't sure what I was listening to until I checked the Wiki on this. It's cool that Holger was one of the first people to mess around with sampling, but the album doesn't do a lot for me. Coolest track was probably Persian Love, as the use of the sampled singing was enjoyable, and the soundscapes built around it were interesting.

Another album where I find the singing incredibly grating. It distracts me from both the lyrics and the instrumentation. I gave the album an honest go and listened to the whole thing, it's just not for me, I think.

I'm liking the folk singer-songwriter sound of this. And importantly, the sound feels modern; there are a few tracks where the instrumentation places it firmly in the 70s, but many of these songs feel like they could've been produced today.

Classic outlaw country; this is a great live album due to the reaction and energy of the crowd. "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart" is a genuinely amusing track.

The experimental nature of this album is neat, but a lot of the sounds just aren't to my taste. I might re-listen to this later, but for now it's just too much noise.

Yessss more Springsteen. Great album, great songs. The high-energy songs like Badlands are stadium-rocking classics, but I've really found an appreciation for the slower tracks on this one, things like Racing in the Streets.

I've never listened to much Costello outside of his singles. This is a fun and careening pop album. I can see where fans dig into his sounds and lyrics. Not sure that I'm fully a fan yet, but I appreciate what this album has going on.

What a great album; the compositions are what make me want to listen to tracks again and again. My sentimental favorite will probably always be Sloop John B, but God Only Knows, You Still Believe in Me, and Wouldn't It Be Nice are all fantastic tracks.

This album feels more accessible than Black Star, but it also isn't doing much for me. It's distinctly Bowie, but also feels aggressively "fine."

Odd album to see on here. There were a few good tracks, and a number of songs that I'd like to hear covered by other artists because I don't care for the Bee Gees singing style on all songs (it just doesn't fit a lot of the slower tracks).

What a wild album. It's like it initially breaks in your ears with pure chaotic noise before moving through some more seemingly "composed" sounding pieces that move between jazz and chaos. I also switched to headphone halfway through, right about the time the album shifts slightly, and that helped immensely to enjoy the base and drums rhythms under the saxophones riffing. I don't know if I'll go back to this album, but I'm glad it exists and I'm glad I gave it a listen.

Neat little blues album. Layla still feels like the standout, but there's some good blues jams on here. Key to the Highway and Thorn Tree in the Garden were my key discoveries here.

Heavy album, very intense. In ways it feels very of its time, but I do still enjoy a lot of this album. The industrial "wall of sound" vibe informs so much stuff that came after this album.

I’ve been in a rap/hip-hop mood lately, so this hits at exactly the right time. Intense, thudding production behind raps that still hold up. You can practically measure the timeline of rap by if an album came before or after this one.

Enjoyed the vibes of this album. Just cool, relaxing bossa nova jazz. You can actively listen and enjoy, but it's also a great album to just have on in the background.

Reggae! Never heard this before, but it's got a good groove to it. This is reggae that feels definitively reggae, not too commercial, just sounding like itself. Themes of social injustice and spirituality weave throughout.

Very good album. I already enjoy CHVRCHES and was a fan of The Mother We Share, but hadn't heard the rest of this album. Strong tracks throughout, though I will always prefer the ones with Lauren Mayberry doing lead vocals (thankfully that's most of them).

This was a nice, easy one to listen to. Another album where I've enjoyed singles from it for years, but never listened to the full album. I was pleased by how well all the songs fit together and transitioned one to the next. The music feels melancholy, almost aching, with lyrics that are shockingly relevant right now. As AI alienates more people I can see this album's relevance only increasing.

Solid pop album that lets you see the bridge from 70s pop sounds to Jackson’s later albums. Some good hits on here, but also a few tracks that lost me.

Good country/folk album. The lyrics have a Dylan-esque quality to them; I could see going back to a few tracks on here.

Though the sound is squarely 60's, I can hear so much modern signer-songwriter in this. It's remarkable to listen to. I get very strong Tori Amos vibes from several of the tracks.

Album is much more straightforward than The Velvet Underground and Nico. I think I like that album more overall; the production on this album being more subdued is fine, but I don't love it. There's some solid tracks here, like What Goes On and Pale Blue Eyes. Lyrically the album is as good as anything else by TVU. There's even a decent prog track here in the form of The Murder Mystery. After Hours is a very sweet album closer. I thing this is an album that's easy to like but hard for me to love.

Cool album. I knew the singles but not the rest. The slightly grungy rock-blues vibe is very good across the whole album. Just a good album to throw on and groove to.

The generator really wanted to give me all three Nick Drake albums before I hit 80 albums in total in the project. Wild. Well, this IS more Nick Drake. It's good; my favorite song on the album is probably Day Is Done. Of the three albums, my favorite is probably either Pink Moon or Bryter Layter, leaning towards Pink Moon. None of it bowls me over, but I do think it's reasonably good, forward-looking folk.

First time listening to any Suede. I like the first track! Overall I like the sound and the riffs throughout, though the album does lose me somewhat in the back half.

This one was okay. Couple of tracks got me into it, but I also feel like ti generally went on too long. Nothing really switched up the tone for me, so it all ended up blending together.

Heck yeah, GREAT album. Back-to-front great. The first half of the album is the most recognizable and still feels the strongest, but the back half still has some great tracks that I've grown to appreciate more over the years.

Another album I've loved for a long time. Every track is a banger. Bombtrack is a great opener, and Freedom is a solid closer. I also think Township Rebellion is a sleeper great track.

This is a good one. Probably my favorite of the ex-Beatle solo projects. It feels expansive, forward-looking, and fun. In contract I find some other Beatle solo-work to be a bit too navel-gazing. This is definitely one to revisit. The spirituality of the album isn't smothering, but rather feels genuinely positive and welcoming.

Interesting bossa nova album. Some good tracks, mostly chill vibes throughout. Bebel Gilberto's voice is excellent for this and really lends a cool flare to the entire album.

Sort of a junk food album, but you know what? Junk food is good sometimes. That's how this album feels. You can see punk coming out of it. It's not the most amazing music in the world, but the attitude, humor, and fun totally sell it.

Good sound, the vocals are very 60's folk. You can hear where later indie bands would be inspired by this sound. It definitely scratches an itch of indie-folk-pop that I enjoy.

Is it weird that the synth-instrumentals on the back half of this album might be my favorite part of it? Of course the title track, Heroes, is iconic and a great song. But the things that made me sit up and take notice were Sense of Doubt going into Moss Garden. Ah, and Neukoln continues it. I'm sure these are not the most popular tracks, but I'm really enjoying the the soundscapes they're creating. I also enjoyed The Secret Life of Arabia.

This album is a jauntier and more fun pop album than I was expecting. It's catchy and an enjoyable listen. Didn't realize "Without You" and "Coconut" were from this album. Those are certainly iconic tracks!

So far this album is very cool. The riffs and instrumentation are great, and I really like Baaba's singing.

Classic album. Maybe it's because I've heard plenty of CSN, but as good as the album is it doesn't do a lot for me anymore; it's pleasant to listen to, but doesn't evoke a deep desire to tune in and enjoy.

Fun album! Lots of hits here, and even the other tracks are fun bops. There's some stuff that I think lyrically isn't great, like "TV Dinners," but the whole vibe of the album is enjoyable.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS. God this album rules. Every track is fantastic, and some, like The Chain, are on my personal list of greatest songs ever recorded. This is an all-time great album and likely to be one of my absolute favorites of the entire project.

Fun album, but feels a bit samey as it progresses. The singles are good, but most of the rest of the album is aggressively "fine."

This album was a pretty good punk album, especially for something more modern. It didn't bowl me over, but it was fun and easy to listen to.

Randy Newman sounds like he's writing songs for a musical that doesn't exist.

Crooner jazz as only Billie Holiday could deliver it. Her gift as a singer is on display here, though her voice has lost some of its earlier beauty. However, that translates in practice to a melancholy delivery of these ballads that suits them incredibly well.

Fun, largely instrumental, seventies rock with Mexican guitar flair.

I'm not always a prog rock guy, but this album is pretty cool. Biggest discovery for me was Yes's cover of America, which I thought was really well done; they took that song in a completely new direction musically and it sounded awesome.

I enjoy Talking Heads later stuff, but I got tired of this album quickly. Felt samey across the whole album. The standout was Take Me to the River.

I’m enjoying this more than I thought I might. Some legitimately fun bops here.

It’s not terrible, but this really isn’t for me.

Cool album; Smooth Operator is an all-time R&B jam. This has a smooth blues feeling to it.

Interesting afrobeat/jazz album. However, I'm not sure I'm into the added 16 minutes drum duet. Whatever you need to have inside you to appreciate that, I don't have it.

Pretty cool atmospheric album. I think it’s about 5 tracks too long, though.

Another banger Springsteen album. Definitely his biggest, most well-known album. It's primarily arena rock, but every track is great. My personal favorite is "I'm Going Down," but there really isn't a weak spot in the whole album.

Fun listen, and a couple really good tracks on here. My favorite is probably Earth People. It does start to wear thin after a while, but overall decent.

I was in the middle of Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair when I knew this was a five star album. I realized I knew of Nina Simone but hadn’t really listened to her, and her voice absolutely blew me away. Just some of the held notes absolutely sold me on her artistry and this album’s merit. I got the same feeling listening to this as I have listening to Bing Crosby: I’d listen just for the voice.

Pure punk. Anarchic lyrics and fun grooves throughout. Cool album, even if it's not completely my jam.

Sounds like 90s indy/grunge/garage rock. While I generally like that sound, some of it was too discordant to me, or just uninteresting. There were a few really good tracks though, in particular: Soul and Fire, and Think (Let Tomorrow Bee).

Strong album. I had forgotten how much I enjoy the tracks (particularly the singles) off of this one. It's a pure hit of grunge nostalgia for me all the way through.

This one has surprised me with how much I've enjoyed it. Really liked (Drawing) Rings Around the World, It's Not the End of the World?, and No Sympathy. But all of it is pretty solid.

I don't always love the Pixies, but there's some good tracks here. Some of the known singles are enjoyable, and generally I think their rock riffs are strong. OK, wait, Silver is great. Making a Western/country song for this album is out of left field but really, really cool. Overall, feels like a decent-to-good middle of the road album for me.

Interesting album. I was familiar with The Cisco Kid, but nothing else. Progressive funk/jazz which is cool to groove to. I didn't love it, but I did find it an impressive work.

The lyrics are a bit cringey, but maybe that's because they're the genesis of so much black metal aesthetic. Music overall was fine but I couldn't help but largely find the songs almost parody-like in their content.

Reminds me of the country music I would listen to with my dad as a kid, during the heyday of Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson. I don't remember the name Dwight Yoakam, but I'm sure I heard some of his songs on country radio then, too. Even though I don't recognize any songs on this album, it induces a sort of nostalgia in me. I enjoyed the album. The first track, "I Got You," feels the most like a standard country radio hit, a love song layered with wry humor. The album gets darker until it hits Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room, a murder ballad. It's a good song. I liked the sound of I Sang Dixie even if I don't think it holds up quite as well as a social commentary anymore. Generally positive on this album.

Love how chill this album is, which feels embodied in the well-loved single Can I Kick It?, which is still a great track. I also really dug the fun weirdness of Ham 'N' Eggs.

I liked this album more than I thought I would. I was familiar with Celebrity Skin and Malibu, both of which I think are decent tracks, but I was pleasantly surprised by the first four tracks of the album as a set. Favorite songs that were new to me are Awful and Northern Star. I might put Awful in my general rotation of favorite singles.

An iconic album. It's not my absolute favorite, but it's hard to give this album anything less than 4 stars.

Cool album, feels very jazz-inspired. You can also feel what a deeply personal album this is for Kendrick; it's both self-reflective and a meditation on the world he came up in. The tracks are full of bits and pieces of black American music, and on top of that you can really hear how talented Kendrick is as a rapper. Favorite tracks here are King Kunta, Hood Politics, The Blacker the Berry, and i.

Good album. Some notable singles on here. The Rolling Stones are classic, but not everything about their sound does it for me. Lady Jane and Out of Time were my positive discoveries from this one.

This was enjoyable. Understandably mellow throughout, considering its subject matter of heartache and loss. Lost Cause is still probably my favorite track, but the whole album is easy to listen to.

Another classic Springsteen album. The arena-rockers are all here, but there's really something to be said for songs like Meeting Across the River. Hard for me to add anything else; this is a rock classic in my household.

What a pleasant surprise! Might be my favorite new finding of the over 100 albums I’ve listened to for this project so far. The music is tightly composed, yet often almost whimsical, and fun to listen to throughout. The lyrics are those of a storyteller, and each song seems to transport you to a specific time and place. There’s also a wry humor to the whole thing. I really enjoyed this one and will absolutely be coming back to it. I think the title track (and one or two others) may even make my regular favorites rotation.

I enjoyed this one much more than I expected. Just some good vibing R&B. The way Joan's voice works with the instrumentation is sublime.

Classic album. Almost every track is gold. Gotta be a 5.

This album seems...fine? Like the music is alright, but nothing to write home about. Sort of catchy but also feels pretty forgettable.

The album is good, but it may be time for me to admit to myself that I'm just not a huge Bowie fan. Most of his music doesn't do a lot for me.

This was what electronica sounded like in the early 90s. That’s all I’ve got. It was fine.

Incredible voice from an iconic performer. This has some of her most well-known hits on it. Very good album.

More Bowie. I could never deny the craftsmanship of Bowie's music, but I'm just not that into him (I think mostly due to his singing style).

It's Yes. It's prog rock. If you like prog rock, you'll like this, and if you don't you won't. In all seriousness, I think I liked side 2's "And You and I" more than side 1's "Close to the Edge." But prog rock is really hit-and-miss for me.

Cool album. Fiona Apple has a real talent for channeling angst, uncertainty, and anger into music. I was only really familiar with Criminal; my favorite discoveries off this album were Sleep to Dream and Never Is a Promise.

I enjoyed this one. British hip-hop certainly has its own sound, and it was fascinating to hear one of the early progenitors of that sound. Not all of the tracks hit for me, but I enjoyed the ones that did. The samples are for the most part very sparse and focused on the rhythms, which feel aggressive and choppy.

What a voice! This is the reason I’m doing this project; discovering artists I was previously unaware of who charm me with their talent and music. Makeba’s soulful take on African folk music is captivating. I don’t own or collect vinyl, but this album made me think “I want to own this on vinyl.”

This was alright. Favorite here was probably Glittering Prize. In my (simple) mind this is sort of what all early-to-mid-80s music sounds like. I think that speaks more to it being highly influential than to it being derivative.

I don't know if this album is as strong as her later albums, but it's definitely cool. Human Behavior, Big Time Sensuality, Violently Happy...there are some real hits in here, and Björk is very good at being playful with the album's production and the club-inspired sounds of the songs. I really like the production choices on songs like There Is More to Life Than This; you get the sense of Björk singing right at you, and the end feels like you're walking out of a club whose party is still raging. I think Björk, albums, generally, are just easy to listen to AS ALBUMS. You can just play them and let them wash over you.

Another classic Beatles album. You can really get a sense of the art pop/prog rock sound being formed. But the best thing about the album is how eclectic it is; the sounds really move between a crazy variety of sounds, influences, and themes. This album also fully plays in the space of "themes that just were not explored in pop music at the time" (She's Leaving Home is a great example of this).

Album was better than I was expecting it to be. I'm not generally big on the post-Beatles solo projects of any Beatles members, but I found swaths of this album to be fun, jazzy, and strangely catchy. The lyrics weren't always on par with the sound, but I couldn't resist the grungy production of Let Me Roll It or the energy of Jet. I do think the album drops off a bit after Mamunia though.

Plenty of bops on this album. Unfortunately I'm not a huge fan of 90s R&B. That said, the first several tracks are a heck of a run of songs; the album just sort of blends together for me after that. The gospel song near the end is a nice refresher. Plenty of talent on display here, and even with me not loving the general style it earns a reasonable rating based purely on those early tracks.

It may be a long album, but it's chock-full of great bluegrass. I tend to prefer the instrumentals here to the songs with lyrics, but even so you get some good lyrical songs like the titular Will the Circle Be Unbroken. I don't think this is an album you listen to straight through in the normal sense of an album; I think this is one to take in bits and pieces, enjoying as you go.

Some classics on here, and you can feel the blues-to-psychadelia happening throughout the album. Generally a good listen straight through.

Good sound, a classic album of the early-to-mid 2000s. I admit the whole thing runs together a bit for me, though. Not one I see myself going back to frequently, but good enough.

Perfectly fine album. Doesn't feature any of the KoL songs I know, but I liked the general tone of the songs.

Great album to jog along to. 2Pac’s flow feels so good against these beats, even if the whole project feels perhaps a touch self-absorbed.

Talking Heads are very hit-or-miss for me; the opening two tracks were musically interesting and were things I was happy to listen to. But then we got into what I consider the “usual” sound of the Talking Heads: David Byrne drone-talk-singing over music that does just enough to drown out any attempt to understand what he’s actually saying. And that just doesn’t work for me. This almost inches to 3 stars just for the first two tracks and the final track…but the middle is just too Talking Heads for my tastes.

What a great album. Tracy brings a beautiful soulfulness to her folk music and creates something that feels profound. Of course Fast Car is an all-time great song, but you also get Across the Lines and Mountains o' Things, among others. When one of your two weakest songs is Talkin' 'bout a Revolution, a song I genuinely like (the other being Why?, maybe the only miss on the album), then you've done really well.

Really good album. Lots of strong singles that I remember from high school and college came off of this one. I don’t absolutely love it because it gets a bit samey in the middle for me, but it’s strong. Biggest revelation on listening was Andy, You’re a Star; I wasn’t aware of this song before and it caught me off-guard with how much I enjoyed it.

Ok but actually why is this album included on this project? It’s not awful, but it’s basically just disco. I guess maybe they needed an emblematic disco album? Also, At Last I Am Free was genuinely annoying.

This is a weird one. It’s certainly interesting, and initially I really didn’t care for it. But as I listened it grew on me a little.

Heck yeah, what a great Christmas album. One of the very few “essential” Christmas albums in my opinion.

This was fine; didn't love it, didn't hate it. There were a few good surprises on the album for me; The Hanging Garden specifically was very enjoyable.

Fun album! Very distinct late-80s hip-hop. Latifah has a good flow. My only issue is a I think some of the tracks just go on a little too long. Highlights are Latifah's Law and Ladies First.

I thought I’d like this album more than I did. You can tell Metallica are talented, and they make sure to mix it up in their songs so that the riffs don’t get stale. It’s this close to being prog metal. But unfortunately for the most part that doesn’t do a lot for me.

Most of this sounded samey and droning. A few tracks at the end caught my attention, but overall I felt like I had nothing to latch onto when listening to this album.

Good album, but so strange to see an album with multiple covers of songs that are better known by other artists. The Isley Brothers did a commendable job with them, it just struck me as odd. You do get to hear That Lady, which is a classic.

Cool world music. Great rhythms, just an enjoyable background listen for me.

This is an interesting one; to my ear this album sounds like a midway point between The Velvet Underground and The Strokes. I'll have to give it a few more listens to really find my footing with it, but my initial impression is that I do like it. The interplay of the riffs between various instruments combined with the slightly esoteric lyrics give it a vibe that makes it feel more modern than it actually is. It's a cool album.

I really enjoyed most of this album. Felt like proto-Oasis in its sound. This is one that may deserve multiple listens, and that I could see wanting to bump up to a 5 later. The guitars and the riffs did it for me on most tracks, but honestly the track that may have sold me was the 0:53 track Elizabeth My Dear, which used the Scarborough Fair melody.

Its prog rock. It's mostly instrumental. The tracks get progressively longer. It's fine. Did I mention it's prog rock?

It was fine. I think I prefer early Bowie and very end Bowie to most of his middle stuff.

Pretty good. Tom Sawyer is still a stand-out track. The rest is very prog rock, which I’m not always high on, but there are a few tracks (especially the last one) which I could see myself coming back to.

A fine album, but it is shocking that Nevermind lost to it in Spin's albums of the year in 1991. There's some parts that are good, and I like the sound of 90s rock/alt, but it also didn't stand out in any amazing way.

Good album! I've never really listened to The Smiths, but there were multiple tracks where I really enjoyed the dark humor and 80s pop-rock vibes. I'll be revisiting Girlfriend in a Coma and at least a few other songs.

Album was decent. I like the 90s rock sound, but it didn't blow me away by any means. Lots of the songs ran together. I did like the lead singers vocals, though.

Fun album, but the best part of it are the rock riffs. I've always found the lyrics of VH to be fun if you're in the right mood, but pretty juvenile if you're not. That stayed true here. Still, this album has a lot of their hits, and there's something to that.

Classic rock album. I hadn't really given the whole thing a listen before, and it really is solid all the way through. Plus you get classic like Ramble On and Whole Lotta Love. Listening to Robert Plan use his voice more like an instrument than for lyric delivery is fascinating. Good stuff.

Great album. This is a combination of really hard beats with equally hard lyrics. Cube combines chest-thumping with socially conscious lyrics in a series of bangers. Oddly, It Was a Good Day may be one of my less-favorite tracks on the album, despite being easily the most popular broadly. My personal favorite track is probably When Will They Shoot?, which I may put in regular rotation.

OK. We all know this album has a reputation. It's weird. It feels like listening to Tom Waits in the middle of a bad trip. It's out there and lyrically bizarre and the music is all discordant and arhythmic etc. etc. But you know what? This album IS cool. I can listen and I can hear the Tom Waits in it. I can hear some Nick Cave, and some DEVO, and so many other bits and pieces of groups that were influenced by this album. There are even a few tracks I actually liked, whether because the music clicked for me or I just thought what Beefheart and Co. were doing was genuinely funny. I'm not saying that right now I want to rush back to listen again, or to proselytize to the world about how awesome it is. But I think, at least a little bit, that I got it.

I understand why this album is on here, but ultimately it’s not for me. Everything about it was aggressively “fine” and it all ran together.

I don't love everything on this album, but the songs that are great are truly iconic. "Purple Rain" has to be one of the greatest album closing tracks of all time.

I love this album. This has some of their most iconic songs and it feels like a culmination of the S&G sound. It's great all the way through.

Good album, with some fun funk jams. Most of it isn't entirely my speed, and I feel cheated by being so burnt out on the chorus of Everyday People because of its commercial use.

Fun album, although the best track in my opinion is still the single everyone knows, Piece of My Heart. I also couldn't help but notice on some of the softer tracks/quieter parts that Janis Joplin starts to sound like Marge Simpson. And then I couldn't get that out of head. Anyway, this album was perfectly good, but I didn't love it.

Interesting album. There were a few tracks I was really sold on...but then there were a few too many tracks that were just German speech over some noise. I wanted a little more thumping in this industrial album.

This album surprised me, in part because I'm just not a big Mr. Blue Sky fan. But I found several of the other sections intriguing; the sound gave me a mix of David Bowie and Pink Floyd. It was a little prog rock and a healthy mix of pop. Individual track highlights for me include Jungle, and then the run of songs from Standin' in the Rain up to Mr. Blue Sky. Again, Mr. Blue Sky might be one of least favorite tracks on the album...but the rest of the album made me appreciate it a little bit more.

Som really solid tracks on here, plus a few I wasn’t familiar with that I enjoyed, like The Man’s Too Strong. Brothers in Arms is also a terrific closer. Album lost me a little bit in the middle though.

This album was fine. It's early 90s club music. That's about it. I enjoy club music well enough but this didn't exactly blow me away.

Fascinating album. It's not for me, but I'm extremely glad it's on this list. Experiencing these kinds of albums is important and educational.

Fascinating country album. Very much in the style of classic country, although you can hear some 70s country-rock coming out of it. There were several good tracks; You Ain't Goin Nowhere and pretty Boy Floyd were probably my tops (if you don't count Pretty Polly, which was from the extended re-release of the album).

This was good! There were more tracks that I recognized off of this album than I was expecting. Solid grunge/alt rock, but not all-time good.

Good album from Coldplay, but not my f as favorite. I think Yellow, Trouble, and Spies carry it. The other tracks are decent but Rush of Blood to the Head feels like a more complete album that was the evolution of the sound they were aiming for here.

Cool album. First couple of tracks in particular stood out to me. I like Aimee’s voice on the more folksy/country tracks generally.

I really enjoy Daft Punk, and I went back-and-forth on whether this album was four or five stars. Ultimately I settled on 4; this still sounds like Daft Punk finding their footing with their sound. Some tracks are classic dance mixes, and others sound like generic club songs without much personality.

Very good album; Lupe puts out educated lyrics that are both fantastical and socially conscious. I wish his hooks were a little better, but the lyrics almost make up for that. However, nice as it is to see Lupe express his gratitude to those who helped him, I didn't really need a 12 minute shout-out track to end the album.

Classic album, lots of beloved tracks. Not my personal favorite of the Beatles catalogue, but it's hard to deny how good it is from a song-writing and production standpoint, and "not my favorite" when it comes to the Beatles usually still means a 5 star album.

Very good album. Some classics on here, with the most obvious being Bohemian Rhapsody. I'm not the biggest fan of "Your My Best Friend," but I did discover "'39," which I liked. Seaside Rendezvous was also a fun one.

Retro-sounding punk in the 90's. Wasn't horrible, but didn't do much for me.

This was alright. Numerous catchy songs, but they did all sort of run together after a little bit. I'm realizing I don't have much more to say about this. So yeah, it was alright.

Another album that makes me wonder why it’s here. It isn’t BAD by any stretch; I actually enjoyed a good bit of it. But it was ultimately unremarkable. Fun mid-late 00’s indie rock, and that’s about it.

Cool album. Sultans of Swing is a classic, and the rest of the album has a vibe that evokes a mix of blues and some of the 70s country-rock of the Eagles. Not my favorite Dire Straits album, but still enjoyable.

Really solid. Lots of variance, and as a double-album there's just so much to dig into if you want to do so. I probably slightly prefer Speakerboxxx overall, but both "albums" have plenty of bangers. Best surprises for me were probably Tomb of the Boom and Last Call.

Solid. Really enjoyed Changes, and of course the singles/tracks people know are already classics. I liked the range of sounds The Zombies brought into this album.

I expected to like this more than I actually did. I enjoy The Smiths sardonic lyrics, but musically this just didn't hit me the way I was hoping for.

Fun album with lots of bangers. The run of Murder Was the Case, Serial Killa, and Who Am I (What's My Name)? is an all-time great series of hip-hop tracks.

This album was fine. Nothing jumped out at me in either a positive or negative way. I don't love Groovin' as a single, but it's also just kinda fine.

In my head this sits at a 4.5. It's really good; Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard almost puts it at 5 by itself, and the whole first half of the album is great. The album loses me just a little in the back half, although I still think that section is decent. Ironically, in hearing some of the added demo versions of songs like Duncan, I actually like the demos more, which makes me think slightly less of the official album version. So we're settling on a 4.

My feelings on Prince tracks are as varied as the tracks themselves. I really appreciate the variety that he throws in here, and in general I liked many of the slower tracks, but there are definitely several songs on this album that completely lost me. And it’s a pretty long album. The highlight for me was probably the title track.

Reasonably enjoyable album. It felt more like an album you'd have on in the background than one to actively listen to, even though I did actively listen to the entire thing. Perhaps it was because I couldn't understand most of the lyrics, as from a production standpoint the singing blends into the instrumentation. Still, the actual riffs and rhythms going on were good enough.

Five stars, five stars, five stars. Only a few artists can deliver such a powerful and meaningful work at the end of their lives (Bowie being the only other example that springs to mind). I've listened to this album off-and-on for years and its power never diminishes. It is a man reflecting on his life in song. It is introspective and aware in every painful and beautiful way of what is coming. The cover of "Hurt" is five star worthy alone; everything else just adds to it.

Pretty good! The Police are kings of "white reggae" and this album has plenty of fun tracks on it. Starting off with Message in a Bottle is very strong, and weirdly I really liked On Any Other Day.

Rock-jazz/prog rock. It's a genre that doesn't usually do much for me. This was in that same vein, and it was fine. Not a bad thing to have on in the background.

Cool album. A few standout tracks, including Darkness, Darkness and Sunlight. There were a few throw-aways as well, but overall this album surprised me in a positive way.

Pretty classic album. I'm still not a huge Yes guy, but this album is musically impressive.

A good album that I'd like to give more time. There are definitely some great tracks here, but it feels like it will require repeat listenings to land on a definitive rating for me. It would be a four, maybe a five; until I can listen more I'll settle on four.

Perfectly fine post-punk/early 80's synth. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. I appreciated that it was lyrically playful, but I don't necessarily see myself coming back to this album.

Seemed like an okay punk album, but ultimately it wasn't for me.

Great album. I'm predisposed to enjoying Tom Waits, but there were a few discoveries for me on here, including the title track as well as On the Nickel, which might go into my Tom Waits shortlist of favorites. I'll be revisiting this again for sure, it was great start to end.

Lots of great tracks on this one, and a number of discoveries for me. I already liked E-Pro and Girl, but Black Tambourine, Hell Yes, Go It Alone, and Farewell Ride were all new finds that I loved.

Really good album. Waffling between 4 and 5 for me, but there were plenty of enjoyable tracks. I think I'll need to return to this one a few times, which might affect the rating in the future.

Not for me. There's a few songs where I kinda saw the vision, but the general singing style and most of the vibe just didn't work for me. I think because of that this is going to be one of my rare 1 stars. Sorry, Dead Kennedys.

Fine, but nothing about it really struck me. Stylistically it sounded like early 90s alt-rock, but I couldn't find anything to really get myself hooked.

I’ve never been a fan of this style of R&B; it’s just never clicked for me. Unfortunately this album didn’t change that. I can hear the talent, but the music doesn’t do anything for me. That said I don’t find it actively annoying, so 2 stars.

This was a weird one. I really enjoyed the second half of the album (what would've been the B side tracks) but did not care much for the A side. I think I tend to like Janis on slower songs that feel like a blues/folk combination. When it gets too fast and too loud it just doesn't do anything for me, and it's also where I reach a breaking point with her voice.

Enjoyable album. It's not their best in my opinion, but I like the sound they developed here.

Fine album. I'm not hugely into The Band, but I also never mind having them on. Their blues-rock sound mostly hits me as inoffensive, but not amazing.

Man, this just wasn't my cup of tea at all. I wanted to like it more, but I think this style of R&B just doesn't click for me.

Knew exactly who was singing the moment the first lyrics hit my ears. This sounds like a Gorillaz side project, mainly because it basically is one. Several tracks feels like Gorillaz by way of indy folk. Didn't love it, but it was alright.

Fun album! Starts off incredibly strong with Sympathy for the Devil and continues well from there. Stray Cat Blues, Factory Girl, and Salt of the Earth are good closing trio of songs as well. I don't absolutely love it, but this is an easy four stars.

I'm not a huge fan of improvisational jazz, but this was a beautiful album. Keith finds beautiful riffs and runs over simple chords, and you can feel the emotion pouring out. This was a great discovery, and I'm giving it 5 stars just for how much this album surprised me.

Really enjoyable album. Pop-country that leans a little more toward pop. Standouts are Slow Burn, Butterflies, Space Cowboy, and Rainbow. In fact, Rainbow is one of a very few songs that can get me emotional just listening to it, and I suspect it will get more recognition over time as an all-time great ballad.

My dirty secret is that I've never been a huge fan of Come On, Eileen. This album didn't do much to change my opinion. It's fine, there's clear talent at work, but for the most part it didn't do anything for me. The one thing I do appreciate is the clear folk/Celtic music influence that pops up throughout the album...it's just that what they're doing with that isn't really my style.

A perfectly fine album. Not really sure why it's on the list. I enjoy grunge and 90s rock, so this was good enough, but it didn't stand out in any way.

Really enjoyable album. Some classics on here, from Enter Sandman to The Unforgiven. I think there's a couple of misses, but overall I liked this move of Metallica away from thrash/prog into this sound, which is a bit more mainstream.

This was a really good one that I will definitely come back to. It's a high four stars for me, and one I could see hitting five with more repeat listens. The beats and production are incredible, and the Beasties' rhymes are as fun as they always are.

Enjoyable house electronica. To me they are the essence of what 90s electronica sounded like, and though I some tracks fade into the background a bit, overall I really enjoy it.

It's the Eagles. I feel like everyone knows and has an opinion on the Eagles. Personally, I think they're decent, and they have a few songs I do really like, most of which are on this album. Of the tracks I wasn't familiar with, Chug All Night was fun, and the easy-listening country-Americana sound of the album was generally pleasant to listen to.

This album was alright; I appreciate it more as an inspiration for other bands than as its own work. I may need to revisit it, but for now it didn't do a whole lot for me.

Maybe I've been exposed to too much Arcade Fire. Maybe I just wasn't in headspace to appreciate them. Regardless, my impression of this album was that it was fine. It's clearly musically adept, and some of the songs were enjoyable, but it didn't bowl me over by any means.

I really enjoyed this album. I know it was made as a kind of stadium rock, radio-friendly album, but that's fine by me. Lyrically it isn't the most inspired thing in the world, but that's my only real knock against it. I'd listen to this album again for sure.

On paper this should be something I'd enjoy. In reality the entire album sounds like someone turned Nick Drake into a mischievous twee ghost. I didn't care for this one at all and I'm not sure why it's part of the project.

Cool album. It's not my favorite music style, but it was very easy to listen to.

Totally fine. I didn't realize how much Black Sabbath sounds like early 70's hard rock (I mean, it IS early 70's hard rock, so I don't know what I was expecting). I enjoyed it well enough but it isn't something I'll be revisiting frequently.

Classic R&B that doesn’t overstay its welcome. I’m not. Big R&B guy and this album doesn’t change that, but if I’m going to listen to any, let it be someone like Al Green.

This was very good. Hearing energetic live albums from this period, with the audience getting more and more into it as the set goes on, is just a fun experience. Not quite a 5 for me, but a very good 4.

I enjoyed this one. Nice album to have on while working or exercising. Sort of a proto-lofi beats, but with a bit more interest. Lots of fun samples, and where there are any words, there's a clear social conscience at work. This feels like electronica that stands the test of time.

Great album, lots of enjoyable songs. As in my other review of The Pogues, I'm a sucker for Irish music with a punk attitude, so this is right up my alley. Shane's lyrics and vocal style are perfect for songs about the beauty in the gutters.

Fun, silly hair metal. One of the defining rock albums of the 80s, with a million imitators. While I don't love this sound, it does make me very nostalgic, and it gets points just for that. It makes me want to drive a boxy old Chevy around and headbang.

Very pleasant album. I like classic Willie Nelson's voice, and he does a good job on these covers. I wouldn't classify it anywhere near my favorite cover albums or my favorite Willie Nelson albums, but it's eminently listenable.

Fun album with good covers. Dusty has a nice voice, but I will say in many cases I found myself missing the original versions of these songs.

Varies wildly between proto-90s alt-rock and noise/thrash metal. I tend to like it more when it's in the folk-rock/alt-rock space, with Freak Scene and Keep the Glove being my favorite of the tracks. I also generally enjoy the riffs, but I don't love the lead singer's voice or singing method in a lot of tracks. I kept going back-and-forth on this, but I think there's ultimately enough I enjoy to keep this at a respectable 3 stars.

I don't particularly enjoy Sublime, and this felt like a Sublime knock-off. I didn't think it was absolutely terrible, but it definitely wasn't for me.

I went back and forth on this. On the one hand I enjoy the dance music vibes of much of this album; on the other the singing didn't do a lot for me. It's a very specific sort of drone that likely inspired groups like Depeche Mode later in the 80s. But whereas I like Depeche Mode's vocalizations a bit more, this didn't hit for me. Ultimately I think this places the album solidly in 3 territory.

This was a fun album to listen to. Salsa isn't my favorite to hear for an entire album length, but individually the tracks are lively and enjoyable.

Ended up liking this album way more than I expected. Some really cool riffs and enjoyable songs. Lyrically it's a little weak (or at least uninspired) in spots, but overall this was a really fun listen.

This album was really fun. Considering when it came out, it had the sound of earlier 90s/late 80s hip-hop, but lyrically it was more akin to its contemporaries (with a more life-affirming spin). I tended to like the first half of the album a bit more than the second half, but the whole thing was pretty enjoyable.

There are albums I actively dislike or I find very hard to listen to that earn one star. Then there are those albums which don't actively turn me off, but which just sort of become background noise. Those are two stars. You can tell from my rating which one of those this was.

Still not big on the R&B. This was alright but not really my cup of tea.

I don’t always love Nick Cave, but I do always find is music at minimum to be enjoyable. This album is no exception. Though the two albums making up this double-album have their differences, they both have the usual dives into sex and death that Nick Cave loves. Standouts for me are Get Ready for Love, There She Goes My Beautiful World, Breathless, and O Children.

As awful as Kanye is now, I can't bring myself to rate this album low. It's an incredibly tight, funny, and interesting album with plenty of great tracks on it. I won't put it at a 5, but it does crack 4 stars for me.

Totally fine electronica. Good for me as background music, but that's about it.

Really fun album. Probably not my favorite White Stripes album, as their experimentation in this album doesn't all land for me. But it's still very good.

Good album. I Can't Stand the Rain is still my favorite jam here, but almost all the tracks have something going for them. As I've stated in other reviews, I have a dichotomy where I'm not a huge fan of modern R&B, but I do like hip-hop, so my preference here is where Missy goes into the rap versus when she's doing more R&B-style singing. The biggest selling point, though, is the production. Absolutely banger backing tracks from Timbaland here.

Fun album. It's got some bangers on it, including the singles like One and Mysterious Ways (which is probably my favorite track). The rest is decent-to-good. It's not my top U2 album, but I did enjoy it.

I liked the sound of this album. You could feel the Springsteen/Neil Young and general Americana roots going through it, but with a modern indie rock sensibility. The vocals did get a little lost in the production sometimes, but generally this was enjoyable, introspective, and easy to listen to.

Might be my favorite White Stripes album. Just fun bops throughout the entire thing. Starts off incredibly strong with Seven Nation Army and keeps up the energy from there.

Great album. Plenty of fun tracks on here, especially our lead track Good Times, Bad Times. This is either a four or five star album for me...and I think it just ekes out a 5.

It’s like dance or house music, but without any good riffs to make it interesting. Not fully 1 star, but definitely not for me.

Good stuff, and a pretty fun album. Favorite track on here was probably The Wizard. Black Sabbath doesn't always scratch the metal itch for me, but I also can always enjoy their albums.

I've liked the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singles, but haven't really listened to an album. But this was great! I liked basically every track to some extent. Standouts were Heads Will Roll, Skeletons, Shame and Fortune, Hysteric, and Little Shadow. The acoustic versions in the deluxe album were also really nice. Honestly, awesome album top-to-bottom.

As much as I enjoy Blitzkrieg Bop, every other track sounded like Blitzkrieg Bop but worse. Didn't like this album nearly as much as I thought I would. I appreciate its influence and don't think its terrible, but I have no reason to come back to it.

As much as I like the instrumentation of this album, Bill's talk-singing doesn't do it for me on most of the tracks. It's a shame because lyrically the whole thing is pretty interesting, I just found it to be an incredibly tough listen. Favorite track is probably the last one, Faith/Void.

Really good. Maybe my favorite Radiohead album? Really like how much this is an electronica album. Favorite tracks are Optimistic and Idioteque.

Cool as a sort of proto-ambient album. I'm not a huge improv jazz guy, so most of this strikes me as just fine, but I didn't mind it broadly as being sort of intentionally background music.

This album was great! Traditional African by way of electronic blues rock (or maybe the other way around). I like the opening track the most; it absolutely slaps. The album actually seems to move from blues rock toward the closing track, Mali, which feels much more traditional. Really fascinating album.

Decent concept album leaning all the way into southern rock. I enjoyed the musical references to Lynyrd Skynyrd; several songs either use LS riffs or start to reference those riffs before changing it up. Favorite track was probably Shut Up and Get On the Plane. Didn't care for the vocals and vocal mixing in a lot of the songs though.

Sometimes this type of jazz hits for me...and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe it's the heavy use of brass and the various dissonance, but I just wasn't feeling this one. Not bad, but not for me.

No thanks. This just didn't work for me at all. I've enjoyed plenty of Nick Cave in my time, but the sound, the vocals...none of this worked for me. Just not my style of music at all.

Perfectly fine, but it didn't grab me. The production almost approached wall-of-sound levels, which I found a bit overpowering to the rapping.

This one surprised me. I mean, I do enjoy folk, but I’ve never listened to Bonnie Prince Billy before, so I had no idea what to expect. I really enjoyed it, the whole atmosphere is pure gothic folk and I’ve already gone back to relisten to several songs. Great stuff.

I have a friend who has been into classic rock since he was a kid. I was never into classic rock when I was younger. I messaged him after I listened to this album and said "OK, you may have been right." This album is just very good. It starts off incredibly strong with More Than a Feeling and Peace of Mind. The only part that I didn't love as much was Hitch a Ride and Something About You. Everything else was great.

Classic album. This is one I've enjoyed since I was a kid. I understand it may seem a bit navel-gazing or self-indulgent, but I think it's been done so well that it doesn't matter. Big fan of all the Another Brick in the Wall tracks, plus the whole lead up to Comfortably Numb is one of my favorite atmospheric series of songs on an album.

I have a complicated relationship with Tori Amos due to past dealings with people who were very, very into her music. That said, this album has some tracks that were already a way "back in" for me, as I really like Winter, and I forgot how much I enjoy Crucify. Sitting down to really listen to the album, I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoy Tori's singing voice, and this album is intense and often uncomfortably intimate. Best tracks: Winter, Crucify, China, Me and a Gun, Little Earthquakes.

I appreciate what Minor Threat is doing here, but this sound isn't for me. I just can't get into it.

Perfectly good British pop/rock from the 60s. I like The Kinks well enough, but this didn't stand out to me as especially amazing.

I like the production of this album, and Adele has a great voice, but the subject matter does approach a sameness throughout the songs that makes it somewhat boring in the middle of the album. It is also a little hard to tolerate "when we were young" and "look how old we are" sentiments from someone who's 25 when she made the album. Best tracks are Hello and Send My Love.

I enjoy Prince in small doses; at some point the synth and sex has me rolling my eyes and looking for something else to listen to. This album is decent and Prince is certainly talented, but it did not change my general opinion on his music. Best tracks are 1999, Little Red Corvette, and Free (which was a discovery for me, so that's nice).

Gary Newman is one of those artists where it feels like if you've heard one Gary Newman song you've heard...maybe not ALL of them, but like 90% of them. And I was never a huge fan of his music. I don't think it's bad per se, it just never really did much for me. And this album only reinforced my prior feelings. The tracks rolled off of me like water off a duck, and I couldn't tell you anything that stood out. It all just sounded like more Gary Newman.

Good album. I'm still not huge on the Steely Dan sound, but I can appreciate what they were doing and recognize that there are numerous bops on here.

This is a cool album. It's very playful, and I didn't realize this was where the song Bongo Bong came from. Not every track hits for me, but I definitely enjoyed a lot of it.

Perfectly fine Americana. It has some classics on it, and otherwise was good but not amazing. Best part of these is always the harmonies.

Classic of the gangsta rap genre. Not my absolute favorite, but there’s still some banger tracks on here, and the production is top-notch. This feels like THE album that informed how rap sounded in the mid to late 90s.

Not really my kind of pop; the psychedelia aspect didn't do it for me. I did enjoy a few of the singles, but that was about it. Fun fact, I used to live five minutes from the Merriweather Post Pavilion. It's a cool concert space.

I've heard the name Moby Grape but never listened to them before. Cool 60's rock jams. I can both see why they are lauded and why they are still somewhat underground for most regular classic rock listeners. Lots of very listenable tracks, but my favorite was probably Omaha.

I wanted to like this album, but boy it didn’t hit for me at all. I don’t think it’s actively bad but I don’t see myself going back to it.

Is it weird that my least-favorite track from this album is Free Bird? In any event, the rest of the album is fun Southern blues rock. Not my absolute favorite, but it's good stuff. Favorite track is the one where they fully relish in the roots of their music, the song Mississippi Kid, which is, as its name indicates, Mississippi blues/country through and through.

Nah, this kind of 80s Britpop does very little for me. It wasn't terrible but I got very little out of it.

Fine, even if everything sounded like the song Missing (which is not on this album!). I generally like the sound of a warm woman's voice over trip-hop, but it also sounds very 90s.

I really only like Metallica in small doses. 2+ hours of symphonic Metallica was just too much. It's a perfectly fine live album, but I don't really understand why it's on the list.

Great album. Very much classic country, with a few standout hits. The only thing keeping this from being a five is that there are other Dolly albums that I actually like a bit better; in this one Dolly's voice still feels very young and her most iconic singles are still to come.

Good album. Exactly what you'd expect from Bob Marley; chill reggae with a social conscious. I like it a lot, but don't absolutely love it.

Fun album. Very good late 80s, pre-gangsta rap hip-hop. I don't vibe lyrically with every song, but it's a chill listen.

Good album that reminded me of Ray LaMontagne and some other blues-ier singer-songwriters. Vibes are mostly chill. Favorite track was "Hero."

Some real classics on here. I am one of those people who doesn't love Dylan's singing style, but I can't fault the lyricism or musicality of the album.

Really enjoyable album. Fun to hear Ray's spin on some older pop/country standards. The whole thing is just very easy to listen to, and I'm never disappointed to hear Ray Charles sing.

Really good album. I don't always love Dylan, but I think his folkier stuff is where he's at his best, and this is THE classic of that.

Enjoyable mix of electrnoica with pop and R&B sensibilities. Some songs channel a strong Prince vibe. Overall an enjoyable listen even if it did lose me occasionally.

Just a really fun album. Great early rock 'n' roll/swing/jazz vibes throughout the album. Louis's looseness and playfulness are what really sell it here; it feels close to a live performance, which is what gives the tracks their energy. Quite enjoyed The Lip; Jump, Jive n' Wail; and (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You.

This was a fun one. I enjoyed the poppiness of the actual melodies, and the static and feedback just added an interesting layer that made this album feel very 90s, even though it was made in the 80s. You can tell this was influential to future bands.