Oct 03 2025
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
Discovered A Tribe Called Quest through Midnight Marauder and The Low End Theory earlier this week, so this is a very fun happenstance.
This album is solid, especially for a first album. I still think MM and LET are better, but this is a solid entry. 5/5.
5
Oct 06 2025
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
I understand the cultural importance of Bob Dylan, but his music doesn't resonate with me well. I don't like how his voice sounds when he sings, and the harmonica gets old very quickly especially when sustaining a single note.
There are some decent songs on the album though.
2
Oct 07 2025
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
This was sometimes a painful listen. The album gets better as it develops, but the first two songs had me thinking it was a joke. The production quality was abysmal with instruments sounding like I was listening to some random high school band practicing in the music room.
This is probably the worst album of the three I've listened to so far from pretty much every standpoint.
1
Oct 08 2025
Odelay
Beck
Pretty good album with some solid songs, but some a little bit more experimental that don't hit quite as hard.
Still, an enjoyable listen.
4
Oct 09 2025
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
Very good album with a nice sound to it.
Barbarism Beings at Home has a excellent instrumental track and resonated very strongly.
5
Oct 10 2025
Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
Amazing discovery! I'd never heard of Skunk Anansie before but I love their sound! The album tapers off in the part that wasn't in the original tracklist but I won't judge it by that.
Very solid album.
5
Oct 13 2025
Tapestry
Carole King
Much better than the Bob Dylan album I'd listened to, but the lyrics didn't resonate with me at all.
3
Oct 14 2025
Ramones
Ramones
This is the first time I'm getting an album that has a song I actually know.
I have a lot of feelings towards this album. I understand where it's coming from and how it was revolutionary in a way for its time, but I can't help but think this is music meant to be listened to live, as listening to it on my own makes it very underwhelming. The Ramones were more interested in being loud than in being interesting, it sounds like.
Still, it's not a BAD album, but it's trying something and not quite achieving it.
3
Oct 15 2025
Leftism
Leftfield
I didn't love how it started, but there were a couple of songs (like Afro Left and Space Shanty) that really vibed with me.
This is the first electronic music album I've gotten too, and considering how much of the music I normally listen to derives from electronic music, I think it's important to remark on its legacy.
There are a lot of techniques used in this album that I still hear very often.
Overall an enjoyable listen, though some songs bothered me a little more.
4
Oct 16 2025
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
A couple of songs I recognize on this album! But overall, while the sound is okay, Billy Corgan's voice just bothers me a little too much, a bit like Bob Dylan's voice bothers me. This really affects my enjoyment of the album.
3
Oct 17 2025
Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
Enjoyable listen. Again, comparable to Bob Dylan, but with a better voice and a bit more self-awareness. I thought it was a fine album, but there were no songs that came to get me - they were all just passably fine to listen to.
3
Oct 20 2025
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
First album from 50's, but a solid one. I knew Tutti Frutti, but I thought the rest of the album was very enjoyable to listen to.
4
Oct 21 2025
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Pretty good album! First reggae album, but definitely a solid one.
4
Oct 22 2025
The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie & His Orchestra
First song (The Kid from Red Bank) started extremely strong, but I think it did capture the spirit of the 50's Cold War era, but it makes for an intense listen. The more relaxed songs are a lot more enjoyable to listen to casually.
Overall, this is a very solid album, and while it starts off a little bit much, the rest of the album is extremely nice and fun to listen to.
5
Oct 23 2025
Blur
Blur
This album makes it painfully obvious that the list was created in the early 2000's. While it's fine, it's definitely not an album I would consider particularly good or even influential. It's a fine album with Song 2 being the obvious popular one that I'd heard very often before. But while its songs sound nice, it doesn't have that "influential" vibe that I would expect from albums in this list.
3
Oct 24 2025
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
This definitely sounds like the precursor to things like chillhop lofi music that I listen to all the time. However, there are some parts of the album that made me pause the music and stop for a little because it was a bit too much.
However, I can definitely tell this is a highly inspirational album.
2
Oct 27 2025
British Steel
Judas Priest
A couple of songs I recognize from this album.
Definitely a solid metal album of the very early 80's. There was one section in Rapid Fire that felt like the guitarist had a great rift idea but had trouble executing.
That being said, it's very solid classic metal that is enjoyable to listen to.
Red, White & Blue kinda sucks though and really clashes with the rest of the album.
5
Oct 28 2025
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
Pretty good album, very nice to listen to while doing working. I haven't been able to pay close attention to the music, but I'm sure there's a lot of think about based off of the small blurbs I could catch.
Definitely an artist I will continue to seek out.
5
Oct 29 2025
Scum
Napalm Death
I am a fan of metal in general, but this is barely listenable. The members barely stay in rhythm with each other and everyone plays so loud you're not even sure what you're listening to. As the album progresses, the sound gets a bit better however. I learned this is because the two sides of the album weren't produced by the same folks.
Like the Ramones, I feel like this is the kind of music that is meant to be experienced live, where a lot of noise drowns everything else and you create a massive moshpit.
That being said, this is undoubtedly an album that had an immense influence on death metal and the other types of metals that I use to listen to all the time as a teenager.
1
Oct 30 2025
Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
Very nice listening especially considering yesterday's album.
I like the mellow voice and almost ethereal sounds.
However, some songs almost sound like parodies of themselves, which is interesting, but I don't think that was where they wanted to go.
4
Oct 31 2025
25
Adele
Some very classic Adult Contemporary. I know Adele is 25 on this album, but she has the gravitas and voice of someone much older.
There are obviously some songs I know from this album. Overall it's pretty enjoyable to listen to, but Adele does fall a little outside of the typical music I listen to. That being said, the quality of the songs and the production quality is definitely there, and I have no doubt Adele is going to influence music to come, though in the genre that she is, she sounds more like the culmination of singers that came before her (like Celine Dion or Mariah Carey). Only time will tell how this goes.
4
Nov 03 2025
A Night At The Opera
Queen
The presence of Bohemian Rhapsody makes it start at a 4 because it's too much of a banger. That being said, the rest of the album is not particularly excellent, though there are some other good listens in there.
Do I want to listen to the full album again? Probably not. Do I want to listen to Bohemian Rhapsody again? 100%. Without it the album would've probably been a 3.5.
4
Nov 04 2025
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
I know Everybody Hurts is supposed to be the big hitting song of the album, but I find Man On The Moon to be a lot more agreeable.
Overall, this is just one of those other 90's album that I feel we have a ton of in this list. It's not bad, but it's not revolutionary either.
I'm getting sick of 90's alternative rock, but it would be disingenuous to give it anything below a 4; the album is still enjoyable.
4
Nov 05 2025
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
I hadn't realized I'd never sat down and listened to Dead Kennedys, and I knew some of their songs.
This sounds exactly like I expect the early 80's brit punk scene to sound like, despite not being British, so very reminiscent of Ramones which I've already reviewed here. But, I think the sound of the Dead Kennedys is a TON more interesting than the Ramones. It sounds like the refined product of what Ramones tried to do.
California Uber Alles is particularly good and might make its way into my main playlist.
5
Nov 06 2025
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
This is exactly the kind of album I was hoping to get with this generator.
I understand now why some (typically older) people call Electro music a bunch of alarms and random sounds - this is exactly what this album contains. But, they're able to make it sound coherent and give it musicality. If anything, it proves that any sound can be music if built around it.
Is it good? Sure, it's a vibe. Do I like it? Yes. I think it's well arranged, and interesting to listen to. It's definitely influential.
However, only giving it 4 stars because I don't think I'll be listening to it more often, despite it working really well.
4
Nov 07 2025
Ray Of Light
Madonna
I'm not even sure I would consider this Madonna's best album, so it's hard for me to say it's a great album.
I'm starting to see patterns in how the original author decided which albums to put on the list and which not to put, and I feel (pun intended) that this was added in an effort to recognize how electro music made its way into more mainstream popular albums.
Sure, I'll take it, but this is the late 90's, so it doesn't feel as important to note.
Overall, not bad, but not amazing either. Pretty mid.
3
Nov 10 2025
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
The first impression with the first song didn't convince me, but as the album progressed, I really started to like it.
A great listen and overall enjoyed it quite a bit.
I can tell we're getting to more modern stuff because this is very close to the kind of thing I listen to.
4
Nov 11 2025
Synchronicity
The Police
Every Breath You Take is probably the reason this album is in here in the first place.
This is a fine album, but I wouldn't put it in my top 100 I don't think. I don't hate it as background music, but I don't think I'll ever actively listen to it ever again.
3
Nov 12 2025
All Directions
The Temptations
I am so very happy to be getting an album in a genre I don't know much about from an artist I've never heard of that sounds pretty good. This album is exactly why I'm using this generator.
This is a pretty solid list of tracks. Papa Was A Rollin' Stone is particularly good, and it looks like it's the most popular track of the album, for good reasons in my opinion.
4
Nov 13 2025
Survivor
Destiny's Child
This is one of my partner's childhood/adolescence album, and it does fall into the same years that I was also growing up. They are also songs I haven't listened to in a while.
Nasty Girl's slutshaming message was very bizarre, to the point where I'm thinking I must be reading it wrong.
Fancy has this weird quality where the beat sounds like a song from Ocarina of Time which I thought was funny.
It does feel like the album has very conflicting messages, but (thankfully) the songs that are the best lyrically (Independent Woman and Survivor) are also the best musically. This creates a huge divide in quality on the album. There are too many songs I would classify as 1's or 2's, and then there's Survivor which is probably a 5. I wish I could give this album a quantum ranking. In the absence of such a thing, I'm gonna have to give it a 3.
3
Nov 14 2025
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
Oh boy. This is the first Kanye album I'm getting, though I think there are multiple.
I never really listened to Kanye before (apart from the obvious ones like POWER that used to be on the radio all the time).
It's extremely hard to dissociate the artist from the art when it comes to someone like Kanye.
The problem is, the album has some quite good songs. It's got very good beats on most tracks. Some of the lyrics are actually quite good too.
I cannot, in full objectivity, give this album anything below a 3, but the connection to the artist also prevents me from giving it a 5.
4
Nov 17 2025
The Clash
The Clash
Hey look I'm gonna talk about Ramones again.
This is definitely within the same genre and within the same years, but The Clash sounds better overall. That being said, there weren't any songs I'd consider bangers on the album.
Overall enjoyable, but no more. I'd give it a 3.5 but I'll round it up to a 4 simply because this is pretty solid punk music for the 70's.
4
Nov 18 2025
Brothers
The Black Keys
We're getting into more recent music and I can tell. I don't think I've ever listened to the Black Keys (at least not actively) before, but I've definitely listened to a ton of bands inspired by The Black Keys (or at least, within the same niche).
There is no part of me that can say this is not at least enjoyable, even if maybe generic.
4
Nov 19 2025
Dog Man Star
Suede
Wow, this is pretty good! I'd never head of Suede before, and they've got a vibe that really works with me.
However, I don't think there was any single song that resonated with me, but the album overall is cohesive and nice to listen to.
4
Nov 20 2025
Black Metal
Venom
I was bracing something as bad as Napalm Death from the year and the album name, but this was surprisingly better.
The sound quality is absolutely bad. The songs themselves at least have musicality. If I'd discovered this when I was 15 or 16, I would probably have liked it a lot, but in hindsight, this is just okay.
Would give 2.5 stars, but deciding to round it down.
2
Nov 21 2025
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Liars
Let's be honest: this is noise, but it's good noise. There's definitely musicality in it, and I can respect that a lot.
The titles for the songs are quite nice.
Will I listen to it again? I don't think so. But I cannot in all honesty say I didn't enjoy myself at least a little bit.
"Flow My Tears The Spider Said" is pretty solid. 2.5 stars, rounding up.
3