I dig the early sound that Oasis had, that ran counter to the more popular grunge in the 90s.
Sick 80s sound. 10/10 would shoot down Soviet helicopters over Afghanistan to this music.
If this was all the music British people had to work with then it’s no wonder they invaded so many countries.
2/10 needs Problem Child.
Listening to anti-apartheid jazz while watching ICE trucks barreling down my street towards the the farms is definitely making me feel a type of way…
It’s okay. I liked the mellow vibe of the album. It got better towards the end, after Sultans of Swing.
I heard bits of Single Ladies and a couple other songs, but I've never actually given Beyoncé a chance and listened to her stuff. Not sure where this sits in her discography, but it was pretty good.
Played it three times in a row. Great driving and lounging music.
I enjoyed none of this weird British man talking at me to bad lounge music.
Listened to the standard edition twice on my commute today. Now I'm listening to the Legacy Edition that's got another hour of recordings from the San Quentin session. Love Johnny Cash.
I liked the sound, but it wasn't really memorable. There's better 90s bands.
I breezed through that album without realizing what songs were which. It all sounds the same.
Good background music but not much more going for it
Love this album. Early punk had such a nasty raw sound that you’d expect to hear at the dive bars they played. And there has to be someone picking these albums, with how topical it is.
It’s not Joshua Tree, but it’s okay.
I should've been into this, but his voice is so droning that it felt like he was rambling one big long-ass weed puff rant.
Loved this album. A good example of how diverse Afrobeat is with parts of different genres the African diaspora has influenced. Only think I didn't like was how short album was.
third album so far of a white guy talking over a guitar. If I have to hear it again, I'd prefer it be Johnny Cash.
One of the first “modern” rock albums I got to listen to as a kid.
It sounds like glam rock before glam rock knew what to sound like. Still feels too 60s.
Lyrics were okay, but I really liked the experimental beat and instrumentals. Reminded me of the rap they’d play on early [adult swim] like MF Doom.
Loved it. Another saved album.
Another saved album. 10/10
It was okay. Most of the songs sounded like the same 4-second loop of a Cranberries song on slow-mo.
I was more distracted by the Frenchman whispering sexily at me during my morning commute, than anything...
Hell of an album to listen to on America's birthday.
I really liked the variety in this album.
I hadn't actually heard anything else a-ha did, besides Take On Me. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the whole album. I liked every song.
Didn't realize that "Dance Till You're Dead" beat came from this album. I prefer this version over the dance remixes.
I've got soul but I'm not a soldier.
I get that this was supposed to be objectively good, but I didn’t enjoy a second of this.
I was listening to this and my dad overheard and talked to me about how he heard this album in the Marines, when one of the black dudes in his Recon platoon introduced him to Soul music. This music goes steady enough to let you ponder the lyrics while enjoying the rhythm.
Never gave Adele a chance, and was pleased with what I heard. Every other song saved.
Never heard anything by Radiohead besides Creep. They’re good, but not amazing, if this album is anything to go by.
Liked the tracks everyone else knows, but I forgot how rapey some of their other tracks were…
In Utero is fine, but I always liked Nevermind better.
Never heard of these guys before. I like them.
One thing I've loved so far has been going back to albums I grew up on and having a newer appreciation for, as I've gotten older.
All the buildup of a mediocre 80s band, just to lead up to the one song everyone knows from that one commercial on TV or movie trailer or whatever...
Great for lounging poolside to.
Not my favorite Bowie stuff, but the sound was interesting.
I forgot how good this album was. The movie was okay.
Every song saved. This dude was belting out lyrics that had no right being as amazing as they were. RIP to the Godfather of Metal.
Can't listen to the Eagles without thinking about that Country Bears movie lol.
The tracks where Jimi just gets to do Jimi are amazing. The ones with his backup band trying to do Monkee shit are garbo
Every live album at Budokan I’ve heard sounds like a great time.
They'd be better if they had a bass player
Loved the first track. It follows an Aksak rhythm, which is something that was big in the Ottoman Empire. Hearing the sequence in a jazz track was cool.
I was waiting for Marky Mark to start rapping, and never got it. 0/10
Def sounded like a synth album
That was definitely a Bob Dylan album.
This sounds like Aerosmith got into rock 20 years too late. Sabbath and Zeppelin were already around, but they still sound like a cover band going down the list of a Johnny Rockets jukebox.
Awesome, from start to finish. Awesome composition, awesome lyrical storytelling, awesome vibes. Had to listen twice.
Not their strongest stuff but still some solid tracks
I only heard these guys before in Guy Ritchie movies. This album was a lot more mellow than that stuff. I dug the R&B rap vibes
had to find the album on YouTube. I liked the diversity. A little bit of indie, country, and soft rock. Surprising to hear from the 80s.
Listened to this trash and then washed my ears out with The College Dropout. This list has two Kanye albums, and neither are College Dropout or Graduation. That’s some bullshit.
21st Century Schizoid Man was great. In the Court of the Crimson King was good. Everything else sounded like they were just rehearsing and tuning and forgot the recorder was on.
I didn't hate it, but I don't think I particularly liked it, either. No idea why this is on the list.
I know it's popular to shit on the Beatles, but I still like their stuff. Not so much because I like their music over other bands of the 60s, but more from an objective technical point. Sgt. Pepper isn't quite rock or pop, like the rest of their previous albums. There's a lot of sound engineering and effects in this album that had never been practiced or attempted in music before. It raised the bar for what people could expect from a music album.
I like Zappa's unhinged stuff, but I was pleasantly surprised by this instrumental work.
Loved the beats in this album. I didn't realize how much influence LL Cool J had, because I know I heard these beats in other rap albums that came out years after. Definitely heard the same vibes from Jurassic 5's Quality Control.
Her stuff was okay. The album was hard to find, and it wasn’t even one of her best albums. Not sure how some stuff makes this list.
Any excuse to listen to this album again. Love Fleetwood Mac.
I have a better appreciation for hip-hop as protest music. It makes you think, and it vibes like FUCK. 10/10.
Like a lady Bob Dylan, but the lyrics had a little more cohesion.
Sat through waiting for pinball wizard, then sat through the rest of the original. I was not going to sit through the rest of the 2+ hours of bonus content in the platinum edition
totally snoozed through this one. Never even knew the Dandy Warhol’s were a thing, and I still wish I didn’t.
I guess this is the album all of his good stuff was on. I liked most of it.
Sounds like the shit you’d hear at a really boring German orgy in the 1980s.
The last couple stinkers got redeemed by this guy.
I feel like this album could've been vastly improved upon if the singer just said less. Maybe even nothing.
I got excited with Back in the Saddle, but every song after felt like falling out of the saddle and awkwardly trying to climb back up mid-stride. Still better than the last Aerosmith album we had.
Had the same vibes as Aerosmith to me, but just sounded better.
Not as mind-blowing as some of his career’s work, but still very good for his final album.
Okay so there IS some good music on this list!
Love Run DMC. They're also my preferred method of listening to Aerosmith.
The best rock is the stuff that folks try to prevent others from listening to.
Eminem gets a lot of shit for his lyrics, but at least he's been consistently self-aware of what he raps about and people's reactions.
Not bad, out of the other “white guy with an acoustic guitar” genre that’s been on here so far.
Good album to hear the first bits of this band figuring out their sound.
I liked every other song. I dig the proto punk, but wish Lou Reed didn’t sing like he’s in a Doo-Whop band at a sock hop.
It was okay. Too many skits and diss tracks, and not enough solid songs. I get that this was Dre's first solo rap album and needed to show his own sound off, but I don't think even he figured out what that was supposed to be yet. Pretty sure this is on the list more as a historic milestone.
Revolver might be my favorite Beatles album, if only because it's the album where they stopped being the campy poppy stage band of the early 60s, and before they got full of themselves and went overboard with the experimental stuff in the late 60s. Plenty of tracks that walk the tightrope between both sounds.
Short, jazzy, funky. Hell yeah.
I like The Smiths, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think all their songs sounded exactly the same.
I liked every other song, but I honestly don’t get what the big deal was with Janis Joplin.
I liked the funk and soul melodies in this. Reminded me of Childish Gambino’s R&B stuff.
TV On The Radio has so many better albums than this, but I can dig it.
We’re gonna run out of Bowie and we aren’t even done with the first year!
Not bad, but this didn’t really stand out for me.
I'm not as versed with Stevie Wonder's stuff, but I enjoyed this very much.
I like Stevie Wonder’s experimental stuff, but I far prefer Ray Charles. Also, kinda weird that they threw the two blind black piano players back-to-back…
Grooving on my morning hike the whole time this played.
These dudes tried way too hard to be some next big thing. Easy music to burn a couple hours while cleaning the pool…
Modern fuckery makes for a better appreciation for the lyrics of albums like this.
I liked this guy’s sound. Reminded me of Warren Zevon
Still can't believe Mel Brooks got him to play his orchestra for a throwaway gag in Blazing Saddles. What a legend.
Led Zeppelin never made a bad album.
I really liked the first track, but the rest of the album was just kinda mid.
Van Halen slamming banger after banger, this whole album.
I don’t think you’re supposed to listen to this without cocaine.
Seriously get a bass player.
I'd bet money that this only popped up now because of the track "Caught Up in the Rapture" I could only listen to like half of the album on Spotify. It was okay R&B.
One of the albums I was excited for. I love Green Day. I listened to the 30th anniversary deluxe edition. So cool to hear the alt cuts and hearing how different some of their best songs could’ve turned out.
I felt like I was at a day spa for an Italian circus
Loved how diverse the tracks got
I remember liking this when I was young, but now it's just noise to me.
Definitely what the box said it was....
Didn’t expect to like it as much as I did.
Great soundtrack for an awesome movie.
I didn’t know so many white guys with guitars sounded so uniquely boring.
This sounds like music I'd hear in a Goodwill in 2007. Very white noise...
I liked their later stuff better, but this was a great start.
Immediate 5 stars as soon as I realized it was a ska album.
Good vibes the whole way through.
Better than some of the other stuff that's already been on here.
Felt like I was listening to a season of Scrubs.
I have no opinion on Lorde’s music. This did little to change that.
Surprised by how much I dug this. Smooth.
I really liked this. I recently learned about Indian Konnakol, the tongue-twisting scatting in some of the later verses. Hindi language sounds naturally musical to me.
I thought I was in for a good listen with that first album. I got tricked. That first track is the only reason this isn’t one star.
The one star is for Wake Up. The rest was white noise to me.
Not his best stuff, but still better than most pop country out there now.
I preferred Peter Gabriel's solo work over his tenure with Genesis, and this was a good start.
Half of this was mid piano covers of songs that he wished he wrote.
So many better tracks than I expected off one album.
Still don't get what the big deal is with Janis Joplin...
The first two tracks go hard, and the rest of the album feels like a funky cooldown.
More awesome tracks than I remember.
Had a couple good songs but nothing especially noteworthy.
I refuse to listen to the French if there isn’t enough snooty guffawing and accordions.
I've never heard anything by Amy Winehouse besides Rehab. I kept hearing how great of an artist she was, but I don't get it. She's okay.
I always preferred AC/DC's stuff with Ben Scott as frontman, but this was a great introduction for Brian Johnson.
I liked their sound. Another discovered band to enjoy.
I was surprised by the tone of this album. It wasn’t bad, just not what I expect from The Beach Boys.
My favorite Rush work. Such a sick concept album.
I was digging this band. I figured they were some forgotten band from the 60s, until I saw the album came out in 2004. They really nailed the sound.
Still not sure where this rates in their stuff or in general, but I recognize this album art when people talk about their good music. I guess this is one of Radiohead's stronger albums, because this was much better than OK Computer.
This sounds like one of those free music albums that would just be left on brand new computers, because that's the only way they could make any money on the music...
Only ever heard his "Coconut" song and was surprised to hear that pop up while listening. The rest seemed pretty okay.
The whole album feels like a slow buildup to a climax that never hit.
Every song sounded the same
Solid Classic Rock album.
I love how all over the place this album is.
Interesting to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Bossa Nova style
I liked some of what was in this album, but the sound and tone was too all over the place for me to really get into.
Really liked the upbeat bluesy folk. Haven’t heard much of Paul Simon’s stuff outside Simon and Garfunkel.
I liked it fine, but no way an 80s pirate rock album should be on this list.
Anthrax goes harder than I expected.
I think the live, raw, dirty rock is my favorite music sound from the 1960s.
You know someone's good when even their album full of cover songs is better than what some people crank out over their whole careers.
Not my favorite album of theirs, but still has a couple good tracks.
I like Reggae, but I don't see what warrants this album to be on the list...
I don't think I heard anything off of this album before, but it was still one of the best rock albums I've listened to.
Didn’t expect this to be country, but I liked this guy enough.
Never heard of this band, and loved every second of this.
Another new band I appreciate learning about. I love their sound, and need to find a good translation so I can understand the lyrics. I feel like they have a lot to say about what forced them out of their country.
One of the best of Glam Metal, but that's not an especially high bar.
I've heard of these guys, but never listened to them before. I dig the early 90s dirty alt rock sound. Honestly reminds me a bit of the J-Rock band The Pillows.
I like the 80s sound, but not sure what I'd see to put this on the scale of other bands...
I love when a band can have such an iconic sound through vibes alone, and not always need vocals.
Not my favorite stuff by the Cure, but not bad either.
Probably the second-best White-Guy-With-A-Guitar artist on here.
Not as funky as the other Beck stuff I like, but pretty good.
Top 3 white guy with a guitar.
I don't think I was in a run-down enough former Soviet discotheque or zooted on enough cocaine to enjoy any of this.
I like the bluesy tracks, but would rather prefer a more cohesive sound across a whole album. This was all over the place.
The two songs in the middle were okay, but wasn't into the very white Brits trying to do Blues covers...
It was fine, but not very memorable.
The Who just sounds like The Who in this album. Not trying to match other bands with covers like their early stuff. Fully into their own mold.
This is a great album to listen to when you’re really angry.
I was into the first part of the album, but lost interest halfway through.
It has the one song everyone knows they did, but I really dug the full instrumental tracks.
The whole album felt like each track was leading up to You Can Call Me Al, then just wound down.
I listened to Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt so much that I forgot how haunting the original NIN version was.
Only Ray Charles could take classic country songs and make them even more depressing.
It's not as great to listen to classic Hip-Hop when literally everyone else has sampled your tracks in every other genre...
Probably my favorite S&G album, and not for Mrs. Robinson. America is a much better track.
Didn’t realize how much I prefer their later stuff.
Another album I didn't have any real complaints about, but I probably won't remember in a week.
Didn't expect a forgettable Morrissey album....
This feels too much like a good funk blues band trying to sound like a shitty Medieval minstrel troupe...
Never heard this stuff before. Wasn’t disappointed
Dirty garage punk is the best.
I prefer the more punk stuff they do
I listened to a German guy say the same sentence for 20 minutes, and checked out from the rest.
Pretty good, but way too over-played.
I don't hate Rod Stewart, but his music is just grocery store white noise to me.
Listening to this was enough for me to realize I haven't listened to enough ELO.
So far, the only Bob Dylan album where I enjoyed most of it.
Hendrix is great, but there’s a lot of padding around his hits. There were a few tracks I never heard before that I really liked.
Rap should still do skits between tracks like this. Great sound, and hilarious.
Couldn't get what exact sound this album was supposed to have, but I didn't care for much of it.
Had no complaints, but no song on this album popped out to me.
A solid door-breach introduction to one of my favorite metal bands of all time. I love how they reinterpret traditional Armenian folk music with modern metal instrumentation. Every track is a political essay, and it doesn't pull punches for whoever Serj or Shavo are aiming for. Not as varied an album as Toxicity, but still an amazing example of early Nu Metal.
I liked a few of the tracks, but wasn't really into it for most of it.
The single hits really carried this album, but I prefer their later stuff.
Surprised by how varied this was. Also didn’t realize I’d heard some of this band before.
These guys are good, and I liked the album, but I didn’t hear anything that warrants them getting on the 1,001 list.
I genuinely liked this whole album of [adult swim] bumper music.
Digging this smooth jazz on a lazy Saturday.
Didn't expect this sound from an 80s album.
The music had no rhythm, and that made this dude's voice even more obnoxious.
Not terrible, but they kept blue-balling me with tracks that would've been better if they'd gone 60% harder.
Too many white-guy-with-a-guitar albums on here. It’s starting to sound like white noise.
I liked Green Onions. I didn't like it enough to have a whole album of Just Green Onions.
One of the few times a follow-up album is just as good as the original hit album.
Never really got the hype for Grateful Dead. They're okay.
I like this sweet spot where The Beatles moved past their poppy concert sound, but before they got convoluted with experimental studio engineering. Just different vibes, each track, playing what they liked.
You can tell when someone swears a lot because they’re compensating for lack of substance. The whole album was this.
No complaints, just not particularly memorable. Like a mid Blondie album
I really appreciate that they asked the rest of the questions pertaining to your love.
There's a lot of lackluster acoustic solo albums on this list. I was pleasantly surprised by this diamond in the rough.
Another white noise solo guitar album
It had the one song that lasted half of the album, and the rest was forgettable.
Lot of really great tongue-in-cheek lyrics to carry the track narrative. I love these kind of dark poetry albums.
70's rock just hits different
I didn’t expect these Hwite boys to have so much funk…
Never heard Janelle Monáe before. I was pleasantly surprised by how diverse this album was.
It’s frustrating when you get an album with your favorite songs by someone, but they don’t deliver the same energy in that live version.
Never really gave Jane's Addiction a proper listen. Lot more great tracks they've done besides Jane Says.
Didn't feel very beach with this album with the word "Beach" in it...
This album got me pregnant.
Liked getting live and studio versions of a few tracks at once.
This wasn’t on my radar, and I liked what I heard.
Classic Ska feels weird to say, but still sounds great to skank to.
Of all the stinkers the Beatles had, their covers were the absolute worst.
