I’m a big White Stripes fan, but I really feel like Jack White lost the magic after TWS. This album is good, Jack White is good, but none of it is great. Meg never *seemed* to contribute a ton to the band, but it certainly seems like she’s the bay leaf that added the je ne sais quoi that made The White Stripes so perfect.

It’s really sad that Kanye West died in that tragic plane crash shortly after releasing Yeezus. He was such a promising talent; one can only wonder what else he would have done. Sure he had a few controversies, we’ll never forget the VMAs incident, but I’m certain he would have matured and mellowed out in his old age. Alas, we’ll never know. MBDTF is a masterpiece of lyricism, beats, production and collaboration. Everyone is firing on every cylinder here. This is a once in a lifetime confluence of massive talents all at the top of their game producing something that manages to break the escape velocity of Kanye’s planetary ego. Also, DEAR GOD, Nicki Minaj exploded out of this album like a xenomorph chestburster and I mean that in the best way possible.

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Not my favorite Cohen album, but obviously still great because the man was a genius.

I listened to the BB&THC album prior to Cheap Thrills, and they really did not know what they had with Janis. They only really let her off the hook with Cheap Thrills, and it is absolutely to everyone's benefit. They're a so-so band with one of the best and most emotional vocalists of all time.

My favorite Talking Heads album

Shocking little singing but irresistible rhythms. I found it boring, though.

Beatles albums rarely feel coherent to me in any meaningful way, and Sgt Pepper’s is the worst offender. I like a lot of the songs on this album independently, but it’s lesser than the sum of its parts.

An interesting bridge to 00s indie rock, but not one I personally enjoy

How have I never heard of Neneh Cherry? This album is excellent

Could have been a much stronger shorter album. Hindsight is 20/20, but it’s wild to not have Grace Slick on every single song

Hard to separate my nostalgia from the objective quality of this album. It makes me move, though

I love me some socially conscious hip-hop, but Common has always slid just a little too corny for me. Testify rules, though.

So far I haven't been a big fan of instrumental or jazzy albums, but funk is a horse of a different color. I really enjoyed this one.

This was a fascinating album to get right after War's The World is a Ghetto. Two funk albums that are generally considered a darker turn after the collapse of 1960s Summer of Love optimism. Consider me fully emersed in the time.

I am always simultaneously exhausted by Neil Young while also loving his music. There's an irritating pretention to After the Gold Rush that stems very directly from the fact that it was written for an unproduced movie about how a flood in Topanga Canyon would be some great global loss. Between the always excruciating snobbery of Southern Man and mother nature's silver seed in After the Gold Rush, I just can't deal with this album despite how good some of the songs are.

I love Queen, but I do find their albums messy.

Not a super well received Elton John record, but I have no preconceived notion of what an entire Elton John album should sound like I’ve only heard the hits, and I thoroughly enjoyed all of this album except for the poorly aged Indian Sunset.

The thing I have learned most about myself so far is that I don’t like psychedelia half as much as I thought. I understand that this album is important, but it’s mostly just like listening to Bob Dylan without the genius lyricism.

I think it’s genuinely genius that Dolly opens this album with a song about the most loving mom imaginable followed by a mom who steals her daughter’s boyfriend and abandons her.

Almost every double album has at least five songs that don't need to be there.

A little uncomfortable but I love Randy

It’s…fine? It seems inessential and the only songs I really enjoy were the ones that made me wish I was listening to R.E.M.

I listened through this album three times and couldn’t tell you a single lyric or sonically interesting thing that happened. Absolute snoozer. I’m sick to death of these 90s UK bands.

I never particularly enjoyed a Smashing Pumpkins album before or after this one. Siamese Dream was really their one masterpiece. Gish is fine.

I’d never heard of Sugar before and wasn’t impressed on my first listen, but after my second listen I was fully hooked on this album.

Nice fusion of genres. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the spoken word poetry portions but the music was irresistible

Kurt not doing Smells Like Teen Spirit is wild, true grunge.

Maybe my favorite album so far. I had never heard of her before and this has already made the endeavor worthwhile.

Them: Jim Morrison is the greatest poet of his generation Jim Morrison: Little girl I'm a cool cat / Look at my new hat This is just to say I really can't stand Jim Morrison.

One of my most listened to albums of all time...kind of. The US version of this album was engraved into my bones somewhere around 2005. Every song is a part of me, vibrating at the same frequency as my atoms. I hit New York City Cops and my body freaks out. Imagine my surprise when I discover that there's another version of this album with a butt on the cover and a song I've never heard before. It's like feeling along the contours of your own body and suddenly there's a bizarre new, but not entirely unwelcome, appendage. 5/5 for the US version of Is This It The Sensation of Walking Up a Staircase and Thinking There's One Last Step But You Misjudged and You Just Stepped Into Air/5 for the international version.

Prog Rock is not my favorite. My heart sank when I first saw it was a Yes album because I thought it would be an exhausting ordeal. Instead it was just...fine. I recognize the exceptional musical ability of these guys, but that just never affects me in any meaningful way. I will always take the ugly rawness of punk over the mathematical cleanliness of prog rock.

Kind of a surprise to discover the guy I only know from WOW compilations had a more complex career than most CCM artists. This is still absolutely not my vibe, though. Sorry, Dion.

Probably not essential, but this is another albums that is just etched into the molecular structure of my body.

Much better than I expected from a bunch of extremely goofy British glam rockers, but still not great. Their music is excessively catchy.

Another excessively dull British rock band.

Catchy, propulsive and innovative. It's not my favorite LCD Soundsystem album, but it's still a solid entry in his discography.

A lot of bangers on this album but also a lot of filler too. I maintain that virtually no double album needs to exist.

Lupe can be a little corny sometimes but this is still a crazy good debut album.

I've never truly enjoyed a song by The Band. They're plenty talented, but this sound is just not for me. I can't even begin to parse the significance of a Canadian band rolling in Lost Cause muck when I can barely even stand to listen to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down on a musical level.

It’s no Doolittle, but I will always enjoy some Pixies

Based on my experience with other Vietnam-era psychedelic-adjacent bands I expected not to like this one. As soon as I heard the organ I had unpleasant Doors flashbacks. But this actually whips. I re-listened to this album five times yesterday. It’s sad this is their only album, but after listening to their additional songs like Cuckoo and He Went Down to the Sea…well, maybe that’s for the best.

Absolute history. There’s a lot more R&B in this album than I knew, since I was just familiar with The Message. It was a nice surprise.

Lou Reed was a pretty brilliant guy, I have to say.

I knew way more Isley Brothers songs than I thought. I love the mix of smooth R&B vocals with the rock guitars.

Very influential and important, but not an album I am ever going to enjoy listening to.

Great beats, will never listen to again

Very experimental and jazzy. I prefer License To Ill by far, but this still slaps.

Alright I was gonna be a big curmudgeon about listening to a long album by a 70s rock band I only knew from one song, but this is actually really good. The goofy back and forth between the vocals and guitar in Strange Kind of Woman ultimately sold me.

I don’t love Faith No More, but I really cannot deny their influence on a lot of bands I do like.

I’m a big White Stripes fan, but I really feel like Jack White lost the magic after TWS. This album is good, Jack White is good, but none of it is great. Meg never *seemed* to contribute a ton to the band, but it certainly seems like she’s the bay leaf that added the je ne sais quoi that made The White Stripes so perfect.

A bunch of dull beeps and boops

I know it's heresy, but I'm always inclined against a musician that's considered untouchable by boomers. The album is too long and too weak in spots to be anything other than good. Jimi was an innovative guitar player, for sure, that's undeniable. Whether he actually wrote good songs is more debatable.

Absolutely dreadful

The UK: We have Nirvana at home It's fine though

This dude looks so much like Bill Hicks it's distracting

They do some cool things with percussion but I absolutely despise their rancid vibes

I mean, it’s one of the best heavy metal albums of all time. This is unimpeachable stuff.

It’s cheesy, but I dig the house party vibes. Socially conscious hip-hop is good and all, but I always love it most when it’s just someone gassing themselves up. Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children is terrifying, though. A genuinely haunted song.

It’s nice and simple

I think this is a very good album overall. It may just be overexposure, but I really cannot stand Criminal.

It's not Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, but all the pieces are there.

Leonard Cohen's output just before his retreat was strange and fairly dark. It's not as disturbed as The Future, but the man was going through something in the Reagan era and it really shows in this album. There's a cold intensity throughout this album. His voice is deep and sinister even during lighter songs like Take This Waltz and Ain't No Cure For Love. Meanwhile, First We Take Manhattan is straight up terrifying. This is all to say, I love this album and I love Leonard Cohen. I think he was right to disappear into a monastery for several years to escape the 90s.

This is really fun. It’s wild that these guys almost single handedly invented the rap album skit concept. I grew up in a world where this was so much a part of hip-hop that I never even considered who started it. Now I know. There’s maybe a little TOO much going on with this album that keeps it from being perfect, but it’s still a lot of fun just the same.

This is great, no notes.

It just didn’t wow me. They’ve got a good groove, but nothing stood out to me in this album.

I have never been able to get into Elvis Costello and that streak remains unbroken.

Listening to this again really makes me glad that my kid doesn’t listen to this album endlessly on repeat anymore. Lots of it is catchy, sure, but it’s all just so exhausting and calculated in a way I will never be able to tolerate.

I never listened to Amy Winehouse during her heyday but she’s good. I can see why she was a phenomenon. Rehab, uh, sure hits in a bad way now though.

This album has always been a slam dunk for me since I was a sensitive and literarily-minded Christian teenager in the Midwest when it came out. Even then, I have to acknowledge that this album is too long and has too many songs. I knew it was a problem because my very gentle morning-time alarm went off while I was listening to this and I didn’t notice for three minutes.

I’ve heard every song on this album before ever hearing this album just because of samples. This is Ur-text hip hop.

It’s really sad that Kanye West died in that tragic plane crash shortly after releasing Yeezus. He was such a promising talent; one can only wonder what else he would have done. Sure he had a few controversies, we’ll never forget the VMAs incident, but I’m certain he would have matured and mellowed out in his old age. Alas, we’ll never know. MBDTF is a masterpiece of lyricism, beats, production and collaboration. Everyone is firing on every cylinder here. This is a once in a lifetime confluence of massive talents all at the top of their game producing something that manages to break the escape velocity of Kanye’s planetary ego. Also, DEAR GOD, Nicki Minaj exploded out of this album like a xenomorph chestburster and I mean that in the best way possible.

I played a lot of video games when I was a kid and subscribed to Nintendo Power Magazine, but I never remember seeing anything about a game called Olympia 64. Good soundtrack, though.

I always think I enjoy Daft Punk more than I do because I usually only hear one song at a time. Listening to 70+ minute long album is a different beast altogether.

I have never in my life heard of this guy, but he scratches a Morrisey itch and, as far as I know, is much less insufferable.

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By all accounts Grizzly Bear should always be right up my alley. I enjoy sensitive 2000s Indie Rock without a doubt. It’s just that his vocals so frequently vanish into the music that I forget I’m listening to anything. Two Weeks is a standout with that Brian Wilson stank I love to hear, but outside of that this is a forgettable album for me.

Normally I’m underwhelmed by Sacred Boomer Bands, but The Rolling Stones truly are just that great.