“Starlings” has to be one of the finest opening tracks on an album that most causal music fans have never heard. Just breathtaking.
Besides 3 Feet High & Rising, this is easily the greatest use of samples ever on an album!
Where to begin? A revolution in sound. It didn't last, but the Alternative nation was an incredible era of music to grow up in.
The beauty of this record never ceases to amaze me. Homemade samples, scratches and Beth Gibbons’ immaculate voice.
“Inner City Life”, along with “Block Rockin’ Beats” by the Chemical Brothers opened my mind to EDM in high school. I’ve loved it ever since!
Bowie doesn’t get enough credit for being a kickass piano player!
Double the fun, double the Max, soluble the brilliance of Lindsey!!!
The sound of the resistance!
1,000 hip hop samples were taken from this bad boy!
The perfect double album, arranged, performed and produced to the nines!
One of the concept albums that never really leave my rotation. A glorious story of betrayal, murder and redemption.
This is just fine. I would prefer Bob Marley or even The Mighty Mighty Bosstones...but this is just fine!
So many great Aerosmith songs throughout their career, but this is the one true classic, 5-star Aerosmith album!
It’s hard to pick a fave, but I think this is mine for the best post-Beatles album by any member!
Biting, devastating, hilarious. All of the feelings with this album.
The king, killing the game that only he could play!
It's easy to forget how good of a pop album band Blondie was. Their singles were brilliant, but their albums were kinda perfect.
A headphone masterpiece, that you better hope involves wireless headphones because you are going to pull your stereo off its shelf dancing around if those headphones are wired in!
Hero worship of David Byrne begins here.
The title song of this album, though not widely known, is one of my go-to sad songs of all time.
Roots rock before that was eve a genre!
All in all, one of the finest stories ever put to vinyl. Pretty sure it got me through high school.
Pollard has written more songs than some people send texts in their lifetime!
Country folk at a level most artists outside of Willie Nelson never reach.
80’s Electronic pop with a sad soul.
The first classic Beatles album to feature all original compositions…and they all Rule!!!
A peak of the hip hop genre that has aged better than almost any album from the period.
The pre- Thriller MTV era in a nutshell…and a great dance pop album!
So perfect. So deeply sad.
The king of New Orleans soul gives us some of his finest sides!
Where Lana starts to become a major album artist.
Breakin' the law, Breakin the law!!!
Harder to listen to now because of the homophobia, but at the time of its release, one of the most important hip hop albums of all time.
Some would say this is better than Thriller. I wouldn't go that far (Thriller is my second favorite MJ album. My first? Bad.), but this is perfection from start to finish!
The versatility on this release. From the baroque folk of “Lady Jane” to the blues jam “I’m coming home”…Incredible stuff!
The most immaculate VU cover ever lived here.
Early Beatles firing on all cylinders.
Such an incredible follow-up to something that probably felt impossible to each or surpass. Perfection.
A hip hop manifesto. Glorious stuff.
A singer/songwriter stretches his wings to give a hint of the path he would take in his experimental 1980s.
Literally save me life, this one.
A sea change at 33 1/3 RPMs
