Not bad. Repetitive. Didn't seem to add much or build upon anything. Not for me.

Some good stuff, but overall it is just a generic pop record.

Some classic songs on this one. Half the album is pretty catchy, the other half is pretty forgettable. Track listing flow is pretty all over the place.

I was very excited for this album. But I found it painfully boring. The hits are honestly great, but there is a reason they were the singles. The rest of the album is very repetitive. Every time I thought they were going in an interesting direction with the song, they'd just basically stop and go back to the same old repetitive part. Really disappointing. I can't ever see myself voluntarily listening to this entire album again.

Biased because I’ve been a Doors fan for years. This is not my favorite by them, but certainly a strong record with a lot of interesting tracks. Jim’s voice is sounding great and the flow is solid. The band is super tight as always.

Never heard this one before. Really wonderful singer/songwriter stuff. Reminds me of sitting around making music with my friends. Simple, catchy, insightful. My biggest issue is the flow. I would have picked a different track listing.

Always an enjoyable listen.

Overblown. Pretty sloppy guitar work to boot. The Dead are certainly a band worth remembering, but this album does not stand the test of time in my opinion. Maybe this captures their live sound, but based on this recording I'll probably opt to stay home.

I will give it credit for ambition, but Todd Rundgren has an album where he did the exact same thing back in 1985.

Some good stuff. Some forgettable stuff. Probably wouldn't listen to most of it again voluntarily but I understand why it is noteworthy. Probably didn't need to hear it before I died compared to some of the stuff left off this list.

Never heard this record before. Will absolutely be listening again. Really raw sound. Some catchy stuff, some noisy stuff. Really good listen.

Track 1 lost me around minute 14... Some good stuff in the back half, but it is really nothing special. Didn't need to hear it before I died.

Yeah… this album is fine

Never listened before. Listened to it 3 times in one day. Excellent mix of disco, R&B, funk, and pop. Really great record.

Some absolute bangers on this one. It suffers from being way too long. But it is certainly important in its genre.

An excellent collection of songs by Paul here. One of the best post-Beatles albums.

Some very nice harmonies and a few catchy tunes. But for the most part this is background music. It may encapsulate a time and place, but this album is probably a sleeper for most. It's fine. Not bad but not amazing. Probably did not need to hear this before I died.

This album was absolutely beautiful. A quick listen. Haunting vocals. This is the kind of shit I'm looking for with this list. I will definitely return to this record time and time again. Really wonderful stuff.

Kinda one note all the way through. I agree with others: it sounds like a musical you don’t want to watch/listen to.

I fucking love the smiths. Every song on this album is great

Phenomenal

Overall I enjoyed it but it didn’t blow me away

Sometimes it’s astounding that so many good melodies lived inside Ray Davies’s head.

Morrissey is such a boner but damn can he write a pop song. Andy Rourke is one of the best bass players of his time. I love this shit.

If you’ve listened to Oasis, Blur, and Third Eye Blind, you’ve already listened to Shack. Pretty generic Britpop. Nothing special.

Perfect jazz fusion. Great hooks, excellent musicianship.

Not bad by any means. Great voice, I love the sax work. Just kind of one-note. Every song sounded kinda the same. But very well produced.

Very cool, chill sound. Just kind of one-note throughout. But amazing, trippy production.

Reminded me of shopping at KMart in the 90s. Completely inoffensive. Very nice Autumn morning music. But kind of one-note and unexciting.

Fine. Completely inoffensive. Not sure I needed to hear it before I die. This list has a surprising amount of bossanova.

I’ll give it credit for ambition. But I found this to be a pretty unemployable listen. Maybe in 1994 this would have been considered edgy, but I found most of it to be pretty juvenile. By “Heresy” I was actively rolling my eyes. Maybe if Trent Reznor had been, like, 16 when this came out I could understand the praise. But the lyrics were pretty lame for the most part. Seems like he is trying a bit too hard to piss off the social conservatives. I am far from socially conservative, and I found a lot of this album to be pretty cringy. And the Sharon Tate connection is honestly pretty gross and in really bad taste. Knowing the backstory of the album’s recording made the listening experience even more uncomfortable. If that is what Mr. Reznor was attempting with this album, I would say he has succeeded.

Very well performed background music. Jazzy, but ultimately nothing exciting.

This album sounds like your neighbors decided to get drunk on the anniversary of Elvis’s death and have a drunken jam session. I totally understand why people don’t like this, but I also see any some people would love this. I appreciate the noisy, bluesy punk sound but still probably wouldn’t want these guys as my neighbors.

Very fine old-school country. You can certainly hear the Woodie Guthrie influence. He's even featured on the record. Some of it was quite funny as well (Boll Weevil, for instance). Probably won't revisit. But some nice porch-sittin' music.

The opening tracks is one of the greatest prog rock songs in rock history. Closer is also an amazing song. The three in the middle are fine, if not a little dragging.

A pretty fucken perfect record

Really beautiful music. Gave me chills sometimes.

Very nice jazz 👌

Beautiful voice. Varied style. Bonus point for being culturally significant.

An absolute fucking banger of a record. Completely drug fueled. I don’t agree with all the methods but how can you argue with the results?

A very good record full of ambition and big ideas. Great flow to the record as well. No real standout bangers and I most likely won’t revisit, but I probably know some people who would count this among their favorite records.

Pretty front loaded, 4 of the first 6 songs were major radio hits. That being said, Anthony Kiedis must be one of the least talented rock stars in the history of rock music. Thank Christ for Flea’s bass playing. Overall some catchy stuff here, but most of it is largely forgettable. I guess it sold a lot of copies tho…

First time listening to anything Wu-Tang aside from 36 Chambers. This was fantastic.

Maybe the Kinks best album. Ray Davis is awesome. Great concept album.

Badass guitar work, wild lyrics that combine filth with religious imagery, and some cool flute to boot. I love this record.

This was a really good album, true singer/songwriter stuff

I understand why this album would be considered important. Really great guitar work. “Bloodsucker” is the standout track for me. Unfortunately the organ ruins most of the songs whenever it shows up, even though I understand this was a popular sound at the time.

This album was fine. It does explore a few different styles. But it honestly did not stand out to me at all. Seems like a very generic album for the time period.

Great flow, great sound, at times it reminded me of a Robert Pollard album. I really enjoyed this one. Sounds like a bunch of friends cutting a record in their basement.

Generic Britpop. An overall enjoyable listen but nothing stood out to me at all. Probably will not revisit.

I expected this to be terrible. It wasn’t. It’s very British and very of-its-time, but I found it to be rather interesting and, at times, enjoyable. No real earworms but something tells me Dury accomplished exactly what he set out to with this one.

First two tracks really drew me in and made me think this was gonna be, like, a disco punk album. But for the most part the rest of the album is pretty boring and forgettable. A lot of other music from this time period sounds pretty similar and is much better than this. Overall, not a fan.

I appreciate this for what it is, but most of the songs were just way too long and repetitive for me to find this an enjoyable listen.

Overall this album is fine. But it’s pretty monotone.

A totally fine 80s album. But oh man is it an 80s album. Relentless synth, guitar solos, and vocal wailing from Roth. Overall an enjoyable listen. Some noteworthy, albeit repetitive, singles.

A total fine, unexciting album. I’ve heard this one a few times before and it has never done anything for me. Probably a good example of a fan base so pretentious I can’t take the product seriously.

The music of theater kids making their own terrible musical theater album

Like a modern day minimalist Brian Eno record. Not bad but kinda one-note throughout. Nothing memorable.

Crazy original and highly influential. Pixies are very cool.

Top notch instrumentals 👌

Def gets credit for being culturally significant, but each song is a droning 6 mins. It would probably like it more if the songs were half the length, but I also understand that is the cultural aesthetic.

Exactly what you would expect a New Order record to sound like. Nothing more, nothing less.

The perfect autumn record. A total hidden gem of the 60s. So many different styles explored and perfected. Excellent stuff all around. This one has earned its place in history.

I liked this more than I thought I would. You can absolutely hear the Byrds influence on this record. Really wonderful vocals and instrumentation.

Majority of the record is cover songs, including the 25 minute mostly instrumental opening number, so it loses points right there for that alone. Also, this isn’t really a psychedelic rock album. It’s a blues album that sometimes gets loud. Just because it’s fun to smoke pot while you listen to it doesn’t make it psychedelic rock.

This album was fine. It is probably culturally significant, but overall I found it to be rather unexciting

I didn’t really enjoy this. Seems like a lot of other artists were doing the exact same thing, and much better, around the same time.

This is a very good album, but I fucken hate Axl Rose. I’m glad Nirvana killed hair metal.

This record is absolutely wild. You can tell the musicians are really having fun making this music. Opening track is heartbreaking, while other songs like “Back in Our Minds” actually made me laugh. A really great listen.

Super tight album with great songs. Reminds me of college.