Essential Goth music for any spooky fall season.

Funky little blues album. I can imagine being a kid in my parents living room, shag carpet and worn couch, with one smoking a Parliament and the other drinking a scotch, dancing in the fading sunlight of a Saturday afternoon while this vinyl spun on the record player (not that this ever happened, but I can imagine the scene)

Sonically it's not bad, but lyrically it's pretty gross.

Favorite tracks: Killer Queen, Flick of the Wrist, In the Lap of the Gods ...Revisited

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is cooking by the end, but this one comes out swinging. Hot and fresh. Feels like a Fallout soundtrack.

The highs were high but the lows were low. Highs: The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn, Sally MacLennae, and Billy's Bones.

Very Portland, very 90s, a very appropriate fall soundtrack actually. I liked this one more than I thought I would.

I knew going in the Beach Boys really wasn't for me, and this just confirmed that for me 👍🏻

Can't hate on a classic (well, I can, but not this one). This album was everywhere during my youth - cool older cousins, art teachers, even my damn parents liked the Beastie Boys. Still holds up today. Some real gems on this one.

Essential Goth music for any spooky fall season.

I don't think it's possible to hate Rush. Even if it's not your thing, it's still good.

Classic PFunk album. Some real bangers, bookended by some fun experimental tracks.

Pretty bland Britpop album. The concept aspect was pretty much lost on me. Not bad, but probably wouldn't reach for this one again. Best tracks: That's Really Super, Supergirl, Earn Enough For Us. Dear God was kinda catchy too.

The first half of this album slaps, the second half less so.

Mid country pop album. I can see the appeal but not for me.

Great background music, terrible active listening.

Probably not as bad as I think but unfortunately reminds me too much of my ex. 👎🏻

Great vocalist for the era. Best tracks: Son of a Preacher Man, Windmills of Your Mind

I ended up liking this one more than I thought I would. I can definitely hear the influence he's had on some of the artists I love now (Muse came to mind).

A 20 minute opening track is definitely a choice, but hey, it's still Rush.

Another I ended up liking more than I thought I would, but by the end it felt like an hour of sameness.

Didn't like Bob Dylan when they made us listen in high school, haven't really changed my mind.

I remember one of my middle school teachers telling me I would probably like PJ Harvey, and I didn't listen to her then. My teacher was right, I probably would have been into her back then.

This was a very nostalgic album for me. A lot of these songs were favorites of my mom, and I must have listened to this album with her at some point.

Sounded like it was written for indie-adjacent romantic dramas. Songs of Love could have been in a Wes Anderson piece. Didn't care for it though.

I first heard Starlight when I was in the 6th grade. My radio alarm clock went off at 6 AM and my routine was to spend an hour in bed laying to the alt rock morning show. The single was released in September and was in heavy rotation that fall, so I probably heard it every morning for months. In the summer of 2020 I "rediscovered" Muse while on a road trip through the desert. Knights of Cydonia was our theme for every washed out, unpaved, rock-filled death trap we drove over. That winter, I met and fell in love with a Muse superfan. In 2023 we got to see them live together in Las Vegas - what an incredible show. They've been in my top artist rotation for the last several years, 20 years since I first met their sound. Muse has always been a force in my life, I can't imagine my musical library without them. I wept during this listen through.

It's definitely a classic of the genre, but I am not Slim Shady's target audience.