5/5 every song on this one is fantastic, any time someone tells me they don’t like country I point them in this direction.

ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK! 3/5. Super catchy songs all throughout. I don’t usually enjoy such piano heavy albums, but it’s to be expected here. Standout: Vienna

Corgan’s voice has always been a huge hindrance for me as I’ve attempted to enjoy this band. Despite this, 1979 has always been one of my favorite 90’s songs so I at least wanted to listen that far. It was rough. I give this one 2 out of 5 stars, and that’s solely because of 1979.

Not my cup of tea, but I can definitely understand why it was/is so influential for the genre. Had I been driving while listening to this album I would’ve easily gotten a speeding ticket.

Short and sweet with a nice mix of fun, upbeat songs and slower ballads. Let the Good Times Roll and Jump Into the Fire were my favorites. Coconut gets a ton of hate and has a reputation for being a bit of a meme. Is it repetitive? Absolutely, and on top of that there’s only a single chord in the whole song, but the way that it slowly builds as the song progresses is endlessly entertaining to me.

Smooth and sexy from start to finish, but it felt like there was really only one tempo. The bass lines are great, as well as the sax. Clear standouts to me are When Am I Going to Make a Living and Cherry Pie.

I narrowed the track list down to 12 songs because there’s no way I was gonna listen to this for three hours. I’d have difficulty doing that for my favorite bands. I chose songs based on how interesting the song titles were to me, and I enjoyed it! It goes without saying, her voice is amazing. The band was great too!

I’m in the tiny percentage of people who can’t stand Janis Joplin’s voice. It’s never impressed me, and more often than not it irritates me. The band on this album was exactly fine, nothing to write home about. My favorite on this one was Buried Alive In the Blues for obvious reasons. I’m giving it 3/5 because I’m positive there are albums on this list I’ll dislike more.

As a Gorillaz fan who knows next to nothing about Britpop outside of a handful of Oasis songs, I was excited to check this out. It didn’t disappoint! Catchy songs all over the place, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out I already knew a couple. Standouts: Bank Holiday, London Loves

Some great songs on this one, and Victoria is such an awesome way to begin an album. Yes Sir, No Sir is so damn catchy, I couldn’t get it out of my head for hours afterwards. Some Mother’s Son and Shangri-La are a couple others that really stood out to me. I’ve always been told that The Kinks were just as good if not better than The Beatles and while i cannot definitively say I believe that or not, I’m excited to dig deeper

I’m really familiar with the singles on this album, but I’ve been meaning to listen to the whole thing for seemingly decades, and I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. Everybody Wants to Rule the World just might be the best song of the 1980’s, but I particularly love the way the last four songs on the album fade into one another and share similar motifs. Of all the albums I’ve gotten up to this point this by far the one that excited me to get.

ZZ Top was created in a lab to write songs for your stepdad. When it comes to their albums it’s easy to predict what you’re gonna get: white people blues rock about having sex with beautiful women. All of the music is performed well, and occasionally the songs are good! I wasn’t psyched about this one, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected, and that might be because I found it so easy to tune out. Until one of them began singing about 69ing.

I expect someone paid big money to have this album included. I’ll give it one star because at least they knew how to play instruments, and I give myself five stars for finishing the whole thing.

I wasn’t in love with the instrumentation, a lot of it was very plain. However, I loved her voice, and each song was so well written. I feel like this is the kind of album I’ll love more upon release each listen. My favorites were California, This Flight Tonight, River, and The Last Time I Saw Richard.

This album has some excellent guitar parts, and Taylor’s voice was pleasing to listen to. The more blues focused songs were a little weird to me, but overall it wasn’t bad.

Of all the 80’s albums, this is definitely one of them. There really isn’t much to write home about here, it’s inoffensive, but I feel like it just misses the mark.

This isn’t the first time I’ve tried delving into The Smiths but unless they’ve got other albums on this list it’s likely my last. I wasn’t impressed by much here, but I guess it’s cool that so many people love it.

These boys sure do love reverb! I might’ve been in a poor headspace when I listened to this album, but I kept finding myself getting bored and distracted. If I had heard this album in high school I would’ve either loved it or pretended to in order to impress some hipster girl.

If we’re not counting the three hour Etta James album I narrowed down to roughly 41 minutes, this is the first album on the list I didn’t finish. I made all the way to track 8 before I tapped out because it’s all just the same format: One dude chooses a preset on his drum machine, the other dude finds 2 chords to strum, and the vocalist layers nonsense on top of nonsense. They add as much reverb as possible and boom, you’ve got this album. I could’ve vibes with 2-3 songs layering the vocals like this during the last chorus or something but every song? No thanks. Perhaps if one of the fellas took over background vocals just to add some tonal difference it would’ve worked better. I don’t know. I’m not sure who this is for, but I know it ain’t me.

I had a good time with this one! The music is pretty typical 90’s Americana, and the lyrics were just fine. I enjoyed the more political songs, you could’ve told me they were written yesterday and I would’ve believed you. My favorite song might be the one where he fucks a ghost.

This album is a bit long in my opinion, I think 3-5 songs could’ve easily been trimmed. It’s easy to forget how inspired by blues music the Stones are if your knowledge of them extend only to their radio hits. I enjoyed quite a few songs, but I kept finding myself tuning out from time to time.

This album has everything that I love about Prog, and none of the things I hate about Prog.

5/5 every song on this one is fantastic, any time someone tells me they don’t like country I point them in this direction.

I’ve always enjoyed Neil’s songwriting, though I’ve never listened to a full album before and I’m not sure a live album counts. I enjoyed this, and I'm aware he’s got other albums on this list so I look forward to listening when they come up.

I enjoyed only two tracks on this album and they sit pretty far apart in the sequence. They also happen to be the only two songs with any noticeable percussion. I feel like more percussion would have been a nice distraction from Rufus singing primarily in whole notes.

I had assumed this album would be similar to the Cocteau Twins I listened to previously, and in many ways it was, but I enjoyed this one much more. I feel like the songs here felt more intentional and while it also struggled to keep me fully engaged with its all-the-sameness, there were some songs I really enjoyed.

I’m in the minority of people who just aren’t impressed by Queen. It’s undeniable that Freddie is one of the best vocalists of all time, and the rest are decent players as well, and at one point I did consider myself a Queen fan. I don’t really know what happened, maybe I’ve just been inundated by their biggest hits for too long that I’m turned off by the rest of it. This album was exactly fine in my opinion. My favorite song of theirs has always been Killer Queen, so for me that was the peak of this album.

I’m a fan of quite a few REM songs but I’ve never listened to a whole album before, and what a great place to start. I really enjoyed this one, and it’s hard to believe it was their first album.

As far as songwriting goes, it doesn’t get much better than this.

This is the second Joni Mitchell album I’ve been given in the last month. I’m not complaining though, I just think it’s a strange coincidence. Her albums are pretty far away from what I’d choose to listen to normally, but they just seem to work for me. I had more fun with this one than Blue!

I wasn’t psyched to be getting an Interview Elvis album, especially one from so late in his career but I was pleasantly surprised by track one. Unfortunately, it was mostly downhill from there until In the Ghetto and Suspicious Minds. Overall I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it.

I was pretty underwhelmed with this one perhaps because I was given Bridge Over Troubled Water earlier this week.

Of all of the needless versions of Summertime Blues this one was the worst I’ve heard, and unfortunately it was the highlight of this one for me.

I had more fun with this one than Sheer Heart Attack, but I still just don’t like Queen. If I never hear Bohemian Rhapsody it’ll be too soon.

This is one of the first albums I discovered when I was in my early teens just getting into music, and it still holds up.

This was super listenable 60’s pop that didn’t immediately strike me as just a Beatles clone, but ultimately this album is mostly forgettable.

This is what Country music should sound like. I know that genres have to change and grow as time passes, but a majority of what we’ve got today simply isn’t Country. My only complaint is that it was too short.

One star for Michael, three stars for Quincy.

This was a great soundtrack while I washed dishes! I’m glad I listened to it, but ultimately it’s not for me.

I’m pretty familiar with Pretenders’ biggest singles, but this is the first time I’ve listened to a whole album and I really enjoyed it. Brass in Pocket is obviously a classic, but I also really enjoyed Precious, Space Invader, and Private Life. I’ve never enjoyed Tattooed Live Boys for some reason, but I like it more now than I did yesterday!

This is the most brown album I’ve heard on this list so far, and I mean that in the best way possible. IYKYK. Several of these tracks went straight to my playlist immediately, I was pleasantly surprised and I’ll be digging further into their whole discography soon.

This album was definitely better than Heart and Bone, but after Papa Hobo it starts to get a little boring. Run That Body Down, Me and Julio, and Peace Like a River were the highlights for me. I was about to give it three stars, but I’m giving it one more because I’m a sucker for well placed whistle solos.

This one was really cool, but it could’ve been shorter, and I feel like the beats could’ve been more varied.

This was not what I was expecting from a Beck album and it wasn’t bad, but from start to finish the vibes/sound didn’t change much. I feel like it’s a three for now, but it might grow on me with future listens.

I didn’t want to like this album because of the new Kanye, but unfortunately the old Kanye made a good album.

While i didn’t hate this album, none of these songs really held my attention. In fact, I forgot I had listened to it within two hours after the last track ended.

This album is definitely very dated, but it was upbeat and energetic so its age didn’t hinder my enjoyment. It’s not typically what I’d listen to, but that’s the entire reason I started this list in the first place.

I’m pretty familiar with U2 but despite that this is my first time listening to a full album. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.

I thought this was a really fun album, with a few weird moments. I’m a big Prince fan and I think he wrote incredible songs but I don’t think he ever released a truly flawless album. The highlights for me were the title track and It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

Boilerplate 60’s music. I feel like I would have liked it more if they had spent 10-15 more minutes working out the melodies for each song. I’d be giving it three stars if not for 2-4-2 Fox Trot, which might be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard.

A bit of a long album but it didn’t feel that way because it was so playful and fun. I love De La Soul and I love Tribe so this album is always a treat to listen to.

This is a foundational album for me and my taste in music. Easy 5/5.

This is another one that I don’t really feel belongs on the list, and the final track being 9 minutes long is a bit excessive. The only highlight for me was hearing the chorus to Babylon and thinking, “ Oh yeah, I remember hearing this all the time when I was eight.”

I was familiar with War before this, but only a few songs. I was not expecting to be blown away like I was! 10/10.