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.