A great album. I listened to it a lot when it first came out and considered it one of the best albums of the 21st century. Revisiting 20 years later and with their image tarnished by the allegations against Win Butler, it still sounds fresh and every bit as good as I remembered.

Mixed - 3 great songs (Perfect Day, Walk on the Wild Side and Satellite of Love), and a lot of mediocre songs.

One of the greatest albums of all time. It still sounds fresh and innovative 56 years after it was recorded.

Pixies were my favorite band in college and their early albums are still among my favorites. While Kim Deal went on to more great things with The Breeders, The Amps, and her first solo album this year at age 63, Frank Black’s post-Pixies solo albums are poor. This is not worthy of a place on this list.

The second one star album in a row. Growing up in North of England while the Madchester scene was happening, I have tried very hard to like the Happy Mondays but have never been able to understand their appeal. This was not an easy listen.

Inoffensive background music. Formulaic and bland.

The album starts great with Beetlebum and Song 2 but is mixed after that.

This was a struggle to get through. Bland soft rock.

This was a fun(ky) listen. Not a genre I would normally listen to but I really enjoyed this.

Pretentious and dull. I was not a fan of the The The when I heard them in the 80s and they don’t sound any better now.

I've had a visceral dislike for Billy Joel since hearing Uptown Girl and Just The Way You Are. I have never listened to a whole album and was not looking forward to it, even more so when I saw The Stranger was from 1977, the year punk broke, where there was so much good music being released. It was better than I was fearing and I enjoyed Vienna and She's Always A Woman but some of the tracks were dreadful, particularly Only The Good Die Young and Get It Right The First Time. I'm relieved to see this is his only album on the list. It wasn't quite as bad as I expected, but I in no hurry to listen to it again. 1.7 stars rounded up to 2.