Best song: Even after it all Raggae works, especially in 1997 when it teetering from pop-grunge into boy bands.

Best song: Rehab She has a helluva voice but based on the songs, not too surprising she ended up the way she did.

Best Song: Tuesday's Gone If you look at the track list, I think Lynyrd Skynyrd made an entire 50+career off of this album. Oh, Sweet Home Alabama isn't on it. The other four songs I know from them are on this one.

Best Song: Taj Mahal The music is fine. I can't understand a word that is being said so rating is kind of hard. For all I know he can be talking about adding ice cream, peanut butter, and pickles to a a spaghetti dinner. Mmmmmmm, spaghetti.

Best Song: Life after Wartime The best song may be a little premature, but it is the song I am most familiar with. The entire album is out of this world. You know it's good when the first thing you do after listening is go to Amazon and grab it on vinyl!

Best Song: I Walk on Guilded Spiders This was ok at best, it goes from bluesy to weird really quick. I just don't see myself ever listening to it again.

Best Song: Knives Out It's a good album. I'm not going to take anything away from it. It's a bit on the mellow side and, in my opinion, not as good as Kid A, In Rainbows, or OK Computer - but solid nonetheless. I just don't see myself putting it on too often with better options out there.

Best Song: The Sad Skinhead Til there is a thing called "krautrock" and if this is it, then it's not for me. It's not terrible, just not for me. I'll stick with sauerkraut, that's German enough.

Best Song: Quiet Life Holy New Wave Batman! This has pretty much everything I don't like about new wave including some saxophone. I would NEVER listen to this again.

Best Song: Help Me, Rhonda This is my first experience with The Beach Boys from beginning to end. Of course, I have heard some of their songs over the years. As a 50-year-old, my child's mind associated The Beach Boys with, "old people music" when I was young and it kind of stuck with me which is a damn shame, this album was great and a lot of fun to listen to. A couple of filler songs which brought it down to a 4 but good nonetheless!

Best Song: Don't Know Why Norah Jones has a great voice. However, this type of music has a very limited relistening quality to it. Unless, of course, you run a speakeasy in 1930.

Best Song: It Had to Be You This is good, but like a lot of music in this era, I just don't see any opportunity where I will throw this on again.

Best Song: Suzanne This was a first for me. I listened to this with my 18-year-old daughter who said, "all the songs sound exactly the same." I may blame this on naievete but the fact of the matter is, she was right. Not my thing.

Best Song: Mexicola I like Queens of the Stone Age. I am not a die hard fan, by any means, and this might be the first album I listened to from beginning to end. Stoner rock at its finest!

Best Song: What is Life First time listen and a great album. Poor George needed to get more attention from the Beatles!

Best Song: Down Through the Night I never heard of this band. It reminded me of pre-Darkside of the Moon Pink Floyd. Plus, being Lemmy's band before Motorhead helps with the heavy side of their music. Cool stuff!

Best Song: The God that Failed Some may say this is when Metallica went commercial. So fucking what! Great album and perfect introduction to someone new to Metallica.

Best Song: Paris 1919 My only experience with Cale was his time in Velvet Underground. This isn't Velvet Underground, it is more approachable with great music and lyrics.

Best Song: Deceptacon I didn't hate this, I didn't love this. It was just kinda, "meh." It breaks no real ground and most the songs are forgettable. I originally was going to give it a 3 but the Deceeptacon song was good enough to push it to 4.

Best Song: American Girl I like Tom Petty. That being said, this isn't the best I have heard of Tom Petty. It isn't bad per se, just not as good as other stuff I've heard from Tom & The Heartbreakers. How can anyone hear American Girl and not think of the woman getting kidnapped in Silence of the Lambs is beyond me!

Best Song: Train in Vain (Stand by Me) Rolling Stone called London Calling the best album of the 80s. It came out in 1979 - in your face Rolling Stone! I don't really mind The Clash but I think this album is overrated. I don't really see myself listening to it again.

Best Song: Mannish Boy I'm not the biggest straight blues fan but this is a quintessential blues album. Mannish Boy is a damn masterpiece.

Best Song: Optimistic I've listened to this album a handful of times. Great album and probably my favorite from Radiohead. Mellow with some great rock accents. Melodies, lyrics, production, all great!

Best Song: My My, Hey Hey This is fine. I've never particularly been into Neil Young, he's like Canadian Bob Dylan. My My, Hey Hey is a great tune though.

Best Song: Prove it All Night Is Bruce Springsteen blue collar? I wish he would write more songs about it. Not bad, not as good as Nebraska.

Best Song: The Bucket There are bands and albums that you think of and can put yourself right where you were when you listened to it. This band is associated with very painful memories with me so, no matter how good they may be, I will have a hard time disassociating from them. That being said, this band sucks. 1/5 for their annoying, mush mouth, wannabe Chris Robinson lead singer. Music isn't terrible but it's hard to listen to without douchey singing, "ayyooo" or something else pompous and douchey over it.

Best Song: Kashmir This album is so good, it is almost impossible to pick the best song so I just picked Kashmir since it was the song that got me to buy this when I was just a wee, teenage, suburban dolt who thought that would be the only song worth much. I would say perfect but side 4 was a 9/10 while the other three sides were 10/10. Unforgettable album!

Best Song: Intervention I didn't like this as much as I liked Funeral but that isn't taking much away since I really loved Funeral. This is a good, solid album. 5/5.

Best Song: Scar Tissue Bing ding dong and ringing a ling a dong, California. - RHCP lyrics. Anyway, this was basically a soundtrack to the first couple of years in the 2000s. A good album, it had a few songs that could have been cut and made it a banger.

Best Song: Childz Play Don't get the hype

Best Song: Brother my Cup is Empty This author has an obsession with Nick Cave. Nick Cave is the waitress and the author is Charlie in Always Sunny. I am not sure I understand it. This was ok, better than the last Nick Cave album I listened to but nothing I would call memorable. A smidge higher than, "meh" but not quite at an, "eh." A generous 4/5, probably should be a 3.5 but I rounded up.

Best Song: Regiment

Best Song: Bring it on Home to Me Such a cool piece of music history and borderline Sam Cooke's greatest hits. 5/5!

Best Songs: Tellin' Stories First time for me, a really solid album. The back half was not as strong as the first half or it would have been a 5.

Best Song: Ace of Spades Lemmy ftw! 5/5.

Best Song: We Do Wie Du Gotta say, I'm not a fan. I can kind of hear where there is some very early punk in here but that gets overshadowed by either boring or irritating songs. FYI, as of July, 2025 this isn't available on YouTube Music.

Best Song: White Rabbit This is a really good album that captures the time. But it is still kinda funny when their lead singer gets punched out at Altamont. What? Too soon?!?!

Best song: Love Hurts This may be someone's thing, but it is not mine. At least I learned Love Hurts wasn't written by Nazareth. I never cared but now I can say I know.

Best Song: Block Rocking Beats Back with another one of those block rocking beats. Talk about a time machine back to the late 90s. While I don't really like electronica, this is better than average electronica (or at least I'm more familiar with it since I would still have been going to bars/clubs that play this type of music back then). Not something I really would ever listen to often (or ever again for that matter) but, as a 50-year-old I will give a 3/5 for nostalgia purposes if nothing else. If I were a 22-year old like when this came out, and on molly at a club, this might have gotten a 4/5.

Best Song: The Hardest Button to Button This is not really a first per se. I have heard probably all of these songs at one point or another but the first time I listened to them in order. To be fair, I'm a White Stripes fan so this was going to be a 5 before I even listened to it in order and it is good. Personally, I like White Blood Cells better but that is a rather high bar. One thing that this albums shows is that Jack and Meg were not afraid to experiment a bit. A really good listen. 5/5!

Best Song: Long as I can see the Light Who has the most distinguishing voice when you hear it: Bob Dylan; Ozzy Osbourne; David Byrne; John Fogerty? It took about 1 second of Fogerty singing to answer that question. Borderline greatest hits album for CCR before all of their drama. 5/5.

Best Song: Here She Comes Now The Velvet Underground remind me of the art students you'd meet in high school and college. Their brain(s) just work different. I didn't think this was as good as their debut album but it accomplishes what it sets out to do. This is supposed to be their anti-beauty album and it accomplishes that. 4/5.

Best Song: Loaded This is my first time hearing Primal Scream but always thought the band name was cool. This album did nothing for me though. Goes to show you can't judge a book by its cover any more than you can judge a band by its name. I'd much rather listen to the Motley Crue song Primal Scream than this album - and that is really saying something. The only thing worse than bad house music is a rock band's attempt at bad house music. Boring and repetitive. 2/5.

Best Song: Tales of Great Ulysses A really solid album. A few songs could go and this would be a greatest hits. 5/5

Best Song: She Talks to Angels I have some experience with this album. I went and saw the Black Crows open up for Aerosmith for this album in 1990. They got booed by the Alpine Valley crowd. On the way home, two of the four friends got very upset at me because I said that the Led Zeppelin book, 'Hammer of the Gods' was mostly bullshit. They took this very personal. Thirty-five years later, it is pretty much confirmed that book is, in fact, mostly embellished storied with some down right being false so, I was right! I'm sure, wherever those two friends are now, feel the shame of my vindication. Anyway, really good album. My only complaint is some of the songs start to sound a like a little in the back half but that is pretty common. 5/5

Best Song: Banks of the Pontchatrain

Best Song: Me Myself & I 2/5. Not my thing!

Best Song: Peaceful Easy Feeling I always said, "I really don't like the Eagles." But, that was before I was forced to listen to them. Now that I have, I can honestly say, "I really don't like the Eagles." When the album was done streaming, "Keeping on Trying" by Poco started and I thought, "oh this is at least a good song." Nope, wasn't them. This album was yawn inducing. 3/5.

Best Song: Snowblind RIP Ozzy. There is no such thing as a bad Black Sabbath album and this one is no exception. 5/5!

Best Song: Roots Bloody Roots I think I have heard some Sepultura through friends and random playlists but first time listen from start to finish. Metal done right. Nu metal done right to be more specific. I can hear the Korn influence in some of the riffs. A solid album. The downside is it goes on too long and the singer is really good at doing one thing - too bad he only does one thing. 4/5.

Best Song: Cry to Me Feels like it could be the Bull Durham soundtrack. I liked it! This dude's voice must have gotten him all the women or men, whatever he liked.

Best Song: Hurt I have owned this pretty much since it came out. An absolute classic of an album. 5/5.

Best Song: Charlotte the Harlott A solid start to one of metal's pioneers. 4/5.

Best Song: Teen Age Riot Not really my thing. 3/3.

Best Song: Pristine This falls into the category of why. I don't see any reason that this is on this list. It isn't bad per se, but there is nothing ground breaking, interesting, or even special to this. I don't see myself ever listening to it again any more than I ever see myself jumping out of my seat to turn it off. It's not as much good music as it is background music in a strip club in an 80's buddy cop movie. 3/3.

Best Song: The Cisco Kid This is really good. And, I as someone who loves Phish, Grateful Dead, and other jam bands, I enjoy some of the longer jams on this album. But, there is always a but, these kinds of jams usually don't translate well to production and are best served spontaneously live. Sadly, this album suffers from that. If they would have shortened the two jam songs down by a few minutes, this would be a 5/5 but instead 4/5.

Best Song: Blitzkrieg Bop This is the first time that I listened to this through. Great album. I would have been one-year-old when this came out so I didn't have a chance to listen when it launched but I was able to make up for lost time. 5/5.

Best Song: Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far) It's like someone went to California and decided to put their Trip Advisor review to music. Repetitive, 60s inspired, indie music that longs to be on The OC soundtrack. It gets stale fast. Every other review mentions the annoyance of the singer's voice so I'll leave that alone. It's ok at best and doesn't deserve to be on this list. 3/5.

Best Song: Midnight in a Perfect World Recorded and produced DJ music is like produced jam bands, it works better live. This is nothing special. I guess it works while cooking dinner. 3/5.

Best Song: Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd is one of my all time favorite bands so it is no secret that this album would be part of my rotation. There are now bad songs and nothing bad to say. An absolute masterpiece. 5/5.

Best Song: Renegades of Funk 3/5.

Best Song: Fernando I always disliked ABBA for really no reason. I guess I always considered them to be poppy, bubble gum, music. And, they are, but in all the good ways. 5/5.

Best Song: Something This is tied with Fleetwood Mac as the highest rated album on the 1001. Will I go against that grain? Of course not. This album is as close to perfect as you can get, especially for the time. The production, experimentation, song writing, just everything is fantastic. 5/5.

Best Song: Rock Your Body This album may be called 'Justified' but there is no way that this album being in the 1001 can be justified. Terrible. Dear Justin Timberlake, what you think is "sexy" comes off as whiny and annoying. Also, the Michael Jackson impersonation isn't even a good one. Absolute waste of time and should not be included on this list. 1/5.

Best Song: Can't You Hear Me Knocking Is this a perfect album? No. Is it real close? You betcha! I am not really sure why I am seeing 1s and 2s with other people's ratings of this album, maybe the listened to something else. A near perfect album from start to finish. Two tiny complaints would be that the best song on the album, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, goes on a bit too long in the saxophone area and that cover is pretty terrible. A must listen for anyone that likes music. 5/5.

Best Song: Gloria: In Excelsis Deo This album is odd. While I can respect it artistically, this is another scenario that I would never really listen to this whole album again (or at least not often enough to give it a 4/5). Gloria is a banger, but for every good song there is a 9+ minute song that goes on for 8+ minutes too long. This album is beloved by critics and the music equivalent of The Simpsons Comic Book Guy, but perhaps my palate isn't refined enough for it. 3/5.

Best Song: The Message I get it, this is old school hip hop and I wouldn't get the hip hop I know and love without it. That being said, this did very little for me. This was a first time listen that I am sure would have been rated much higher if I had listened to it at the before listening to later hip hop. But, I didn't so a 3/5 it is.

Best Song: Wonder Wonder This isn't bad, it's just not really my thing. I can see listening to this when cooking or cleaning but will not be adding it to the playlist or anything. 3/5.

Best Song: Take Five It's jazz. It works when doing menial tasks I guess. I wish I could make myself sound smarter and say that I understand (or care, for that matter) about the musical arrangements and all that. I am not a musician and have zero plans to ever become one so I don't need to know how the sausage is made. 3/5.

Best Song: Long Tall Sally I surprisingly really liked this for my first time hearing it. Of course I've heard most the songs before but was nice to hear them together instead of as part of the soundtrack of some movie. Little Richard is the equivalent of an energy drink if it were a musician. 5/5.

Best Song: This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us Strangely, I enjoyed this more than I ever would have thought that I would. Now, that being said, this is weird, theatrical, and not my cup of tea. I wouldn't listen to it again but also wouldn't fault anyone's taste that would.

Best Song: Pacific Ocean Blues This was ok, not bad but also not great. It is kind of reminds me of the sound that would be made if ZZ Top sang Beach Boys songs. I enjoyed it overall but don't see myself throwing it on often or picking it up on vinyl or anything. 4/5.

Best Song: L.A. Learning a little bit about his history, I was expecting this to be Pink Floyd's The Final Cut with a bit of Trent Reznor's Pretty Hate Machine, but it wasn't nearly as depressing as I expected. I had never heard of him before and enjoyed this. I am not 100% sure I would listen to it too often but there is a much better chance than a lot on this list. 4/5.

Best Song: Muzzle For full transparency, I bought this in 1995 and have listened to some songs off of this ever since. It very well may be nostalgia talking, but I love this album. A 5/5!

Best Song: Driftwood There is a very fine line that many performers have to tip toe to go from good to whiny. Travis is 100% whiny. This might be someone's thing, but it sure isn't mine. 2/5.

Best Song: Walk on By When Darkside of the Moon came out, it had stayed on the charts for some crazy amount of years, like 40-50 years. Anyway, one of the theories behind its longevity was that it was a great album to bang to which came as a shock to Pink Floyd. However, this album being a great album to bang to wouldn't be a shock to Isaac Hayes. That seems to be what he was going for. I wasn't familiar with him outside of Chef on South Park and this was a good listen. 4/5.

Best Song: Bohemian Rhapsody I am not a huge Queen fan but do appreciate and enjoy them (I had both Classic Queen and Greatest Hits in high school). However, this album is a first from start to finish. It is good, a bit more theatrical than I normally enjoy but their talent is impossible to miss. Plus, Bohemian Rhapsody will always be awesome! I'm sure that there will be more Queen that leans more towards rock and my liking. 4/5.

Best Song: Xtal Back in 1992, a 19-year-old attends a rave with a ton of Molly in her system, sucking a pacifier, when a methed-out 23-year-old with more tattoos and piercings than face enters. Aphex Twin comes on and the two grind it out with a concoction of Molly sweat, lube, Boone's Farm, and Zima spritzing passerbyes. The memory of that night is hazy except for the same five beats of Aphex Twin that lasted 90-minutes. Nine months later a future, failed YouTuber is born whose resume never leaves the ""we'll pass"" pile of applicants at Trader Joes.

Best Song: The Thing you Said Woohoo, more new wave music, just what this list needs! 3.5

Best Song: Don't Look Back in Anger I had to have listened to this back in my college days but don't really remember. This is a good album, not great, but good. Don't Look Back in Anger is quite possibly the best pop song to come out of the 90s, so this gets a 4/5 for that song alone!

Best Song: High and Dry I seem to see two camps when it comes to Radiohead, those that love them and those that think they are pretentious. I fall in the former camp. I am not sure if this is their best album when Ok Computer and In Rainbows are on the board, but it is definitely fantastic. 5/5.

The writer seems to have a certain kind of voice that they are drawn to, like Morissey meets Depeche Mode. And, it is irritating. There is such good music that was around during the 80s/90s and we keep being forced to listen to this British, new wave mediocrity. I guess musically, it isn't terrible but it is REALLY hard to get by listening to that singer. 2/5

Best Song: El Paso This is absolutely not my thing. I'm sure if you are a fan of this genre this is good, I'm not. El Paso is good, though I prefer the Grateful Dead version. Outside of that, I could have lived my entire life without listening to this album and I do not feel I would be missing out on anything. 3/5.

Best Song: Search and Destroy After a couple of dud albums in a row, this was a welcome surprise. I've never paid much mind to The Stooges, or Iggy Pop. I knew Lust for Life and I Want to be your Slave and that was it. This was how punk is supposed to be done before it ends up being brutalized by a bunch of copycats. I just wish the mix wasn't so subpar. 4/5.

Best Song: Eleanor Rigby I don't know if I have ever listened to this album front to back but am familiar with 90+% of the songs. It's a good album, but by no means my favorite Beatles album. I am still giving it a 5 because it's still the Beatles. 5/5.

Best Song: Tiny Dancer I like me some Elton John and this was the first time listening to this particular album. Of course, I knew Levon and Tiny Dancer but the rest of the songs are great too. 5/5.

Best Song: Venus as a Boy I always passed over Bjork because, quite frankly, she is weird, like to a scary degree. But she also can sing with a one of a kind voice. You have to be in the mood for this but I can see me relistening to this more than a lot of other albums on here. I wish musically it was a little darker as a juxtaposition with her higher octaves. 4/5.

Best Song: Psycho Killer A great debut album from a great band. While, often times, the debut album from a band is their best stuff since they have the most time to work on it without the record company breathing down their neck, in Talking Heads case their stuff just gets better. That is not a dig on this album whatsoever, it's great. So are the albums that follow. 5/5.

Best Song: Sucker MCs This was good. It showed what was to come, which was arguably one of the most influential artists in hip hop. 4/5.

Best Song: Piece of my Heart I think technically I can say that this is a first time for me. However, I have heard every song on here dozens of songs, just not in this form. Greatest hits albums can be both a blessing and a curse. This is quintessential 60's music with one of the greatest singers ever. 5/5.

Best Song: The Wait I enjoyed this overall. It probably isn't part of the permanent rotation but I've heard MUCH worse on here. 4/5.

Best Song: Djam Leeli Interesting listen. Definitely not gonna be added in the rotation. 4/5

Best Song: Mysterious Ways I enjoy U2 quite a bit. I knew about 85% of this album from being in high school when it came out and the radio playing several of these songs pretty much non-stop. The songs I didn't know were not as good as some of the more popular ones but nothing that would detract from the strength of the album. 5/5.

Best Song: The Sweetest Embrace I didn't like this. Listening to this reminds me of doing work outside in the yard on a hot Summer day but, for whatever reason, you are unable to shower after and have to sit with the dried sweat covering your body. You feel icky. That's how this album made me feel. 1/5.

Best Song: Love Song The Cure still suck. Looking at the reviews, it seems people either love it and give it a 5 or hate it and give it a 1. I am in the middle, if I hear this I'm not grabbing a belt and looking for the nearest means to hang myself, but I am also not reaching to turn it up either. 3/5 and that is being generous.

Best Song: Nuvem Sigana Milton Nascimento is very talented and this is a really solid listen. I really wish I could understand the words he is saying! Overall solid, but I probably would never listen again for the simple reason that I want to understand what is happening. Simply speaking, I'm a simpleton. 4/5.

Best Song: New Years Day It's a good album. New Years Day and Sunday Bloody Sunday were both bangers. The back half is a bit weak though. 4/5.

Best Song: So Far Away I'm not the world's biggest Carole Kane fan but this album is basically her greatest hits and she has plenty. I was surprisingly impressed with this and enjoyed it. 5/5.

Best Song: Roadhouse Blues I have owned this album since 1995 so it is safe to say I had heard it before. And, it is one of the greats from a great band. Roadhouse Blues, Peace Frog, Land Ho, Indian Summer have been in and out of playlists since I made the purchase. 5/5.

Best Song: Seven Seas of Rhye This was interesting. Part of it is pretty heavy; heavier than your run of the mill Queen. The second half was a bit more experimental and theatrical. Overall, it's entertaining and enjoyable. 4/5.

Best Song: Let's Get it On This is a good album. It is pretty short and almost feels like an EP. The title track is its highlight, after that it kind of all sounds like one long song. 4/5.

Best Song: Listen to Me I wish I could understand this, we get one James Brown album but the "C'mon Eileen" band we get three albums from. And, they are NOT anywhere near worthy of three albums on here. Sad and a waste of my time. 2/5.

Best Song: Tightrope This is not my type of music and does nothing for me. Even if this were, I have heard much better albums than this so I'm not sure why this would be 1001 worthy. 2/5.

Best Song: Fuck with Dre Day ""Never let me slip, 'cause if I slip, then I'm slippin'" - pure poetry!"

Best Song: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough I wasn't crazy about this, it sounds rather dated to me. There are some good songs on here but nothing like Thriller. 3/5.

Best Song: Blister in the Sun Blister in the Sun is great, the rest of the album is pretty non-eventful. 3/5.

Best Song: Protection More electronica. Hooray. This isn't as bad as some of the other electronic music on here, it reminds me in some ways to Zero 7 who I enjoy (given, in relatively small doses). This still doesn't do a whole lot for me but act as background music while I do other things. 3/5.

Best Song: Love Song This was ok. It is better than some punk at the time and tended to lean more towards the rock side in a few songs. It is better than a good deal of punk in the 70's. 4/5.

Best Song: California Waiting Author of the 1001 Albums book, "here's a garbage band's debut album that wasn't completely hated when it came out and got just below a B in grades from most publications. Perfect for my book!" This isn't good, but neither are Kings of Leon. Freaking hate this band! 1/5.

Best Song: John McLaughlin More jazz. It's like Godfather 3, "every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in." This is more music that does nothing for me, besides maybe writing/cleaning to it. But, this time the songs are way longer. 3/5.

Best Song: I Don't Love You Anymore I never heard of this band before and it was ok. The music is up my alley but I found it rather uninspired and dull. 3/5.