This book is crucially lacking in non-Anglo based music, and I initially thought that while it was missing countless Brazilian classics, Brazilian metal probably would not need to be included do to that genre’s more homogeneous sound. And man, I was really wrong, these guys not only sound so distinct from most of their influences, but their own impact pushed well beyond their country.

Boring dad rock with synths as a saving grace

Good and stuff just a bit too proto for me

Good album, don’t think it needs to be on this list though

Literally the coolest altruism has ever sounded

Love the album, unsure about its inclusion

Gonna need more listens but good

Much better than I thought it’d be, really good playing

Some okay jams but britpop as a whole flies over my head, sounds so bland.

I get it, well produced, well performed, but for what? Nothing enthralls me on it, doesn’t stand toe to toe with any of the other creative legends in English rock at the time.

Fun as hell even though it’s repetitive, and definitely shines a light on a sound a lot of people really wanna hear

First time listening to an album of his, and I wish I had listened sooner.

Some very good jazz… but I might need more context on why it should be on this list

Great playing, but does not really feel like it brings anything new or outstanding sounding.

Not as hard as Curtis to me but still great.

I really hate Aerosmith but still gave this a try and came out unchanged.

One of the most enticing albums ever, and it feels like its in a genre all its own, far too cool to be singer-songwriter or rock.

Respect Beck as a musician but I’ve only ever enjoyed his music he did for a video game lol. This album sounds like a 10/10 to the right ears I’m sure, but I wasn’t too hooked at the pristine but familiar textures and sounds.

God damn, this is pop perfection to me. I haven’t even given it a re-listen yet but this album has been in consistent rotation with me for 10 years. Pop is always just the “in” genres exemplified to glamorous proportions, and new wave was perfect for it in this time. No skips.

Almost gave it two stars because the playing was a lot better than that last Aerosmith album I got, but after reviewing the music as a whole again it dropped back down

Fantastic playing to my ears but I’m not very good at piano. The ideas he really rides here are super fun, I wish this was the kind of playing people lined up to see and smile to more

Gee man I sure love instrumental tracks in my rap album. Legendary hits from this band but their albums ooze with filler.

I know I’m not even 20 albums in but this is just so infuriating. 1001 albums is genuinely far too short to be including forgettable Anglo butt rock side projects. I tried my best to listen and be in the music, and I can’t remember anything besides the same recycled jangle-brit-pop garbage. Alex Turner makes good music. But not here.

The Ocean is really gorgeous. The rest is kinda boring but that one song is really good and the rest was easy on the ears so meh.

Very important album in rap’s canon and has some classic bangers, but man all these dudes were at their worst misogyny-wise during this time. Not to mention besides the hits, there are tons of duds.

Insane. Wow. Was expecting a little too much of the grandiose filler that eventually plagued prog rock, but this was felt very deliberate and necessary in every way. Shoutouts to Easy Money.

Thought it was ok post-punk, definitely understand their importance as they are an influence on some of my favorite British bands

I can’t help it, I’m so biased. Besides “Rusholme Ruffians,” this album is no skips to me and seems to not go out of fashion. At first, I thought that only “Queen is Dead” would be worthy of a place on this list, but coming back to this, it’s so much more solid, innovative, and downright cooler than I remembered.

The album SpongeBob listens to when he goes on walks and does his silly little dance. Honestly though, feels more like a proof of concept for Gorillaz, just kinda an ok samplefest.

Not my first listen, but certainly my most impactful one. Never really clicked until now, and it’s damn innovative as hell, clearly inspirational to many, and has a compelling story behind it with its anxious feelings of growing up.

Honestly, never been too crazy about this one, probably because it’s sandwiched between their two actual best albums. Still great, Orion was much better than I remembered, definitely gonna have that song on repeat for a while. But the rest is just fine.

I’ve given this album a shot plenty of times, but I always leave underwhelmed. Jamie’s fantastic though, and their influence on pop can’t be understated. I guess I just look for a certain different sound when I want minimalism.

Not the most groundbreaking jazz to my ears, but sounded good.

Honestly doesn’t feel too impactful, there are a million dudes with a guitar making simple songs with more aura than this.

Just too good texturally, too well put together, too emotional, relatable, and just surprisingly down to earth as an album despite its out-of-this-world themes, to give it anything less than a five.

First of all, this is just a two hour album. If you listened to something longer, I’m guessing you listened to Logical Progression LEVEL 1, which does not include the original on streaming. This is a bonus compilation that instead comes with two hourlong mixes of… this same bonus compilation but in one track for instrumentals, and one with vocals. Essentially, you listened to the same album three times and it wasn’t even the right one. The correct compilation can be found on Soundcloud or YouTube, and I personally listened to it on Soundcloud from an account called ‘DJ Jo Public,’ who has it split into two tracks. If two hours is still too much drum n bass for you, I highly recommend just listening to disc 2 (CD B). It’s the stronger half of the album but I loved this whole thing immensely as someone who’s dabbled in IDM, and I only ever first heard of it yesterday.

It’s alright, I just don’t feel a lot of influence from this nowadays compared to the rest of the hippie scene music.

Never liked big band as much as later styles, but this was much more in line with what I typically enjoy about jazz.

Actually my first time listening to a full record by these guys, always been turned off by comparisons to Coldplay and Radiohead… but I think those comparisons are unwarranted now and that they have a pretty idiosyncratic sound. Love that they blast on their instruments sometimes but not all the time.

Suffers heavily from having all the good songs up front, genuinely all good stuff but I rarely get past “Walk of Life.”

I usually hate large collections of songs, especially when they're shorter, but these guys are fantastic and in a lane of their own. They say a lot more than most do in punk with much less distortion and way better grooves.

Never been too crazy for Wilco but this is probably my favorite I’ve heard from them, and I’ll probably have to check out Bragg as well since I can’t tell the difference from their contributions here.

I feel like if you like dad rock, this must be pretty good. But I couldn’t find anything memorable for me at all.

I’ve never heard a full NIN album because I never liked their biggest songs. I definitely should have been trying a full album.

I’ve listened to Mustt Mustt before which is way more Western-tinged, and I honestly enjoyed this one way more. Much more interesting even if it can be just as repetitive, which I don’t think is a flaw.

I can feel the hurting behind a lot of songs here, but unfortunately most tracks fall far behind on either the production side or composition side.

Peak jazz funk before it was even cool

HFY man first time listening to this outside the gym and my arms still started swelling after

Certainly sounds like collapse, I’m reading a lot that this band belongs here but should have included a later, more accessible album of theirs instead, and that sounds pretty exciting to me.

Human League walked so New Order could run

Man what a weird album, but this is definitely one of the best weirdo-pop albums ever.

Previously, I never really got Sinead O’Connor. Yesterday I gave myself this same haircut so I felt much more connected and sympathetic towards this strong and emotive album.

Insane how fantastic this is back-to-back, has a dud or two like ‘Oh Father,’ but songs like ‘Til Death Do Us Part’ make up for it tenfold. A time capsule to a time where digitization could be scary for live musicians, but also proof that they will always be cherished.

Sick album title and way more nuanced thoughts in it than I expected.

Was jaw dropped the first time I listened to this album with all its twist and turns. Incredibly versatile singer and rapper who poetically depicts the cesspool that is LA.

Oldest Miles Davis album I’ve heard, and it puts into perspective how quickly this man adapted and morphed jazz at his will.

Pretty damn good for music for upper class art students

Absolute hot dog water. Tried to power through the first annoying radio song only to be followed by another radio song that I didn’t know was Adele’s. I like pop, I really do, but I cannot relate to or enjoy any of this wine mom garbage.

Very lovely to listen to honestly

I tried to be onboard but this melancholy throughout the album just never blossomed into anything exciting.

Some fun moments but not too enticing overall.

I think this is plenty forgettable considering the musicians themselves didn’t even flesh the songs out much, although I do like some ideas and will probably steal some of them for my own music. A xerox of a xerox.

Got halfway through but I really need this on streaming or on local download so I’ll edit this if I feel different, but I like the lyrics and subject matter a lot, the presentation got me excited cus it looks all Metal Gear, but it’s a tad bit too theatre for me.

Some good songs here but overall, a little too instrumental for me.

Was excited to hear this because I always thought Tiny Dancer was really cool, but there’s really not much other high points like that one on this album for me.

There are some records here that feel like they’re not even that influential to a lot of musicians, but that are just critic-praised for generations. I did enjoy this one, but it feels like that.

Had an ok time with Stars Are Stars and Crocodiles. That’s it really.

After years of being lukewarm to this, I actually really appreciated it this time around. Energetic and maximalist with a vision, and none of the chalkboard scratching sound that nearly all britpop sounds like.

Unpleasant and overly dramatic adult easy-listening for a pompous generation. The pinnacle of unlistenable singing lies in “When Do I.”

Interesting and well played but not exactly groundbreaking

Springsteen is still pretty new to me, and it surprises me how unique his style can be among his contemporaries.

Always a nice listen, always makes me scratch my head and wonder what it is I’m missing or that I don’t get about it, because it’s just that to me.

Hard to listen to this and find any flaws, definitely a must listen to for anyone wanting to make it big in pop rock

Might have to edit this one in the future, but I think he’s had better bands in other albums but this is my first listen of this album and I’m gonna focus more on lyrics in later listens

Okay, turns out I’m gonna love this band so I’m very biased towards them now

There’s a good amount of fantastic songs here but it’s also a very long album

This band definitely has chops and talent, but their strand of eclectic sound is a little too plain unenjoyable to listen to for me, soul sucking even.

mustve been inspired by panic at the discos second album

Hotel California is great but then the rest just kinda falls flat in comparison, kind of like with Making Plans for Nigel by XTC you can tell they worked their hardest one that one song and made an album to supplement it.

Erratic and fantastic at times but often focuses too much on their fun and not the listeners

Some of the best dynamics I’ve heard in jazz

Hadn’t heard this one in a long time and knew I wouldn’t like it as much as when I first found it, but I liked it even less than I thought. Just a bit too bright and visible for me, I like my shoegaze a little more spacey and dreamy.

Sounds so painfully like just a collection of demos, but maybe I’m just amazed that Paul would release such raw and rushed work.

I’m sure there’s no Soda Stereo or Almendra or Charly Garcia or Los Cadillacs or Invisible on this list but thank god we have some hip electro-tango for art school and ivy league students. It does sound super smooth.

Very gorgeous songs, love the instrumental breaks that go wild throughout as well.

Every moment of this album is super easy on the ears, perfectly mixed and complimented with confident lines from Common and Kanye who also dive just as heavily into introspective themes. Just super smooth overall.

wtf bro why she so sad I thought I was gonna have a fun pop bangers album here but I get a bit of that and it slowly gets to “Take Care” levels of crying in the club vibes 😭😢😭 Perfect production throughout.

Always felt the highlights on this one were “Mother” and “God,” with everything else being much needed catharsis for John, but does not make for much great listening music. The ending of “Remember” is always pretty funny though.

Started off a little too garage rock for me but turned into some real cathartic dissonance near the end

These guys have influenced quite a lot of musicians I like but I can’t remember what any of this album sounded like immediately after, but I’ll sit with it some more

I listened to a lot of Miles when I first got into jazz of course, but this one always felt much more lukewarm than his previous albums, such as the chaotic “Miles in the Sky,” which has always been my favorite record of his. This is probably my most attentive listen of this album and hanging around for the much livelier second disc was worth it, because they felt much less tense and build-up-ish than the first disc. Definitely enjoyed my time with it as a whole, though.

Wow, never been too crazy on Blur, didn’t like their debut and enjoyed Magic Whip quite a bit but why the hell did I never listen to this one cus it’s phenomenal.

Super charming album with really good production, hard to put into words the way it stands out if you look closely enough, because from a distance it sure does just look like an average album of its time, but I think this one will be on repeat for a long time for me.

Wanted to like this more than I did, but unfortunately psychedelia can come with insane innovation for a band or turn them into something that sounds all blended together, mushy and you can’t really distinguish one moment from another. I feel the latter on this one.

Not an album I expected to see at all, but very pleasantly surprised. Definitely not even a top 10 rapper for me but there are a lot of bangers hidden away here like ‘Pressure,’ and the production as a whole is top notch.

Absolutely skilled musicians, but what a drag of an album. I love all the genres these guys are influenced by and a lot of bands that have been influenced by them, but they make such boring music to me.

Honestly one of the most unnecessary and insulting inclusions in the list.

Pretty good 80’s popslop, goes down real nice and greasy like the unhealthiest, tastiest burger.

One of the top reviews is “I’m surprised this is on the list! Critics hate prog!” Dude was this the first album on your list? If anything, I expect to see all the top 20 from Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, etc., NOT because I want that, but because these writers have their heads so far up Anglo-rock’s rectum and they seem to love long, trite, instrumental noodling. That being said, I do enjoy some pretentious progslop noodling here and there. I love long songs too, I love having my attention demanded and earned. The fantastic first track to this album did just that. The B side dragged out and showed off in ways I didn’t really enjoy, but it wasn’t awful.

Thought I’d be mellow towards this but it was fun as hell and had my attention loud and clear for the lyrics. Good, clean, simple music whilst saying all the right things.

Was kinda nodding off until Juicy hit and this long album picks up way more after that. Plenty of tracks I would cut, but overall it’s bumpin. Minus one star for making me hear head or an imitation of head. Don’t know which would be worse.

Accurate album title.

Amazing stretch of songs on this album with tons of surprises. I thought it’d all be groovy like the first song, only for them to get jazzier and even includes a fantastic Talking Heads cover of Heaven, and they killed it. Very rare for this book to give me a new album this amazing. Really wish it happened more.

Just so unremarkable

Fun as hell hard rock with the best guitarist ever despited some dated stylistic choices.

Some really pretty gems in here, I’m left wondering if maybe there’s some other under-the-radar country records that could’ve taken its place because it sort of feels like it

This book is crucially lacking in non-Anglo based music, and I initially thought that while it was missing countless Brazilian classics, Brazilian metal probably would not need to be included do to that genre’s more homogeneous sound. And man, I was really wrong, these guys not only sound so distinct from most of their influences, but their own impact pushed well beyond their country.

Insanely creative and beautiful throughout, the fun Bjork has on this album is contagious

His voice sounds alright sometimes and his lyrics are very clever, but it’s not quite for me

Sounds unique for the time, but I feel like it hasn’t really impacted the music scene in any notable way.

I haven’t gotten the other M.I.A. album on this list yet but I’ve heard it before and enjoyed it a fair bit. Much more than this one.

Definitely my most enjoyable listen of this album, but man I’ve always hated Zero. Sounds so rancid and expired, but a lot of tracks I see myself coming back to. Definitely don’t love it, but it nails the teenage angst that Billy Corgan seems to bask in.

Great record even if it kinda falls flat after Last Night I Dreamt, but everything before would make for a 5/5 EP. Honestly doesn’t need to be on this list, but it’s a fun farewell record for The Smiths, massive shame it could not be a farewell record for Morrissey as a performer too.

Yeah it’s very good but the second half drags on, The Same Deep Water As You could have been perfect as the last song.

In high school when I found this, Going Mobile was quite the inspiration. I dreamed of decking out a van to make it livable and travel with a few trusted friends like many did, but it also shines on Keith Moon’s insane drumming. Still blows my mind that you can just play really crazy for two bars and then just hit the snare on the next, just creates a really sick vibe with such simple playing. A real master of keeping you on your feet. Besides that song, the dramatic intro, and banger ending, I didn’t feel too crazy about the rest.

This is one of the best sandwiches ever