Patti Smith makes me feel strong. Incredible lyrics, this fury inside her, she is so fucking cool. The world she paints in Horses is entirely her own, confident, and integrity. Psychedelic, bluesy, but the highlight is her. Her voice is not traditionally great but that's not the point. The point is her delivery, half spoken-word and half singing.

Phenomenal sampling, super super smooth, early trip-hop and DnB emerging.

Life-affirming, big, tight band. I like the boss better when he is a little softer and sadder, but this is full of absolute bangers

Groovy, conscious, stylish, critique. I really like this. I think it can sound a bit same-y and is perhaps not my exact genre but this is masterful

Surprisingly, I love this. Songs are tight, voice is unreal, audience interaction and theme of the record work.

Undeniably tight and well-made songs but do not make me feel. I think genre problem for rockabilly. Great voice and instrumentation

This rocks. I did not expect glam from this period and would have guessed this was made 10 years later if I did not know. Campy, great lyrics, funny, cynical.

Modern classic. Warm and rich production. Great voice and sense of melody and groove, great percussion. Has a sensitivity that reveals throughout, takes a while to open up its heart. Incredibly tastefully made

Ambient, moody, has this referential quality to classic rock but reinterprets it in a tasteful way. Problem is, this album is very same-y. Same progressions and drums, very repetitve. Has one trick and does it well, but it is one trick

I am shocked I like this. Melodic, beautifully constructed, exceptional singing, sensitive, sad. It is a bit dated in terms of lyrical content but hey this is country. It does not make me cringe as badly as I thought it would, but it does somewhat. It is a bit repetitive toward the middle third

Fun. This whole album rips. Insane debut. Fun interplay of snarling lead vocals and sweet backing vocals. Time capsule to feeling like you’re young and cool in the 70s in London. Simple but effective playing, esp. guitar. Political in a way that hits without being obnoxious

Moody and dark, sounds really really good. Production quality is unreal even without remastering. To me comes across as a bit depressy and slightly self-absorbed, but I got into it more as I listened. Temperamentally this is far from me but I appreciate it

Dark, groovy, super smooth in parts and then howling nihilism. Early experimentation with electronica visible here. This is so bumpy and just cool as fuck. Socially conscious, depressing then moments of brightness. It’s not glossing over anger and struggle

Holy shit this is good. Smooth rap all-time high, bumps along jazz-like and quirky, playful, self-aware. Sick production, warm, right amount of grit. This is above all really fun to listen to (e.g. frog sounds?? <3) . Feels like you are living your best life

Pretensious. Like if a "well actually" college dude downed the canterbury tales and decided to tell everybody he was into jazz. The playing and musicianship is actually reallly good, it is musically dense just not to my taste. Drumming slaps, some beautiful moments

If the beach boys were British and psychedelic. This is glowing warm with youth and life, has this vintage quality and medieval references that work. Soundtrack to youth, autumnal quality

Great guitar riffs when they’re not on the mandolin. Put down the fucking mandolin. The singing in a super heavy American twang and mandolin throws me off though. Don’t care for this. Doesn’t make me feel much; occasional great riffs offset by aside annoyance at singing and mandolin 

George Michael undoubtedly has an amazing voice. Problem is the songwriting is a bit dull and the voice is drenched in so much reverb the audio engineer must have answered yes to how much reverb do you want. Perfectly pleasant but aside some great vocals just lacks lyrics, hooks, something memorable.

It should be illegal to have so many classics on one album. Her voice is astonishing, the instrumentation is tight and groovy and funky. The way she sings is so emotive it makes you want to cry or laugh, it makes me feel strong. Has this explosive energy throughout.

The concept album part of this, about life, is I think really moving. Some really really gorgeous songs (old friends, america). The second side I think isn’t really for me- sounds almost like michael franks brunch music or general folk rock noodling. I like how there you can hear them trying out electronic aspects in first half

She has a cool voice between Lauryn Hill and Nelly Furtado, starts with production more interesting than what I would have thought for early 2000s hip hop but loses steam and is ultimately fine but not great. Some very average 2000s some interesting

This has all that is good about coldplay (politik), and the warning signs of what later went wrong (amsterdam). Here they have a kind of radiohead sound full of emotion, it is edgier than their earlier efforts, and some of the songs aged well. It is simple music but at times works. Nostalgia factor also kicks hard

This comes out the gate storming. The percussion from Moon is unreal, the bass is so tight. I am not sure how I feel about live albums unless they're as good/cohesive/themed as folsom prison. But that being said this absolutely rips. Being in the crowd must have been insane

Anglo-indian beats. I did not expect this. It's groovy, weird, lo-fi, well-produced, uses found sounds I really like, and has some bops. I flows well the whole way through, has great anti-racist lyrics. Surprising good find!Could be leaner and a bit shorter but still good

Plug the 80s straight into my veins! The first track had instrumentation that weirdly reminded me of Jai Paul, the rest was more straightforwardly 80s but just extremely well executed. Then realised that a lot of what i think of as iconically 80s is from this. Detached electro-dance-pop, geat melodic sensitivity, real sense of irony detachment and boredom. Self-aware album. Good!!

Listen… I get they were pioneers of radio rock nu metal, but this is neither good by standards of rap or metal. There are iconic songs on this culturally but they are SO on the nose it's painful. Lyrics are esp painful. Overproduced, too smooth, overblown. Really lacks taste. This does not have to be bad if it was done with more feeling. Sounds like what 11y/o boy thinks is heavy and cool music

Doesn't really do it for me. Does not have the sample talent of public enemy in instrumentation, or the taste and lyrical playfulness they seem to borrow from tribe. Fairly corny, bragging is boring here. Some nice breakbeat production but this didn't grab me. Some MCs better than others

Krautrock energy for the 2010s. This is sonically interesting but not breakthrough for the time and I am not sure why this was on the 1001 albums list over kanye, bon iver. Builds a distinct vibe and flow across the album but nothing particularly stands out. Plays with contrast of whisper vocal with electronic shifting over darker bass instrumentation but I feel others do tht better

Imaginative and confessional songs, interesting lilting singing that plays across shifting acoustics. Has a sense of melancholy, darkness, cutting acerbic humour but also compassion delivered in sing-song format that is unusual and cool. Has a swung feel to the instrumentation. Great guitar by Marr.

Well produced. Beautiful harmonies, creative instrumentation. This bops along. No stand out tracks particularly but very consistent. Definitely darker than other efforts given everybody for divorced just before. It just doesn't do for me that peak abba does

Fun wall of noise- kind of chaotic but with massive bass riffs, frenzy drumming, the whole thing hanging together by a great sense of mischief. The bass has the lead quality of a guitar and h is SHREDDING my god. Chaotic but the whole thing is coherent and also just fun, even if a bit of an assaulkt on the senses. Very mood dependent how this hits

Very pleasant old-timey jazz arrangements that show off his gorgeous voice. Feels like being in a NY lounge and slowly getting drunker and more melancholic on cocktails while watching other people dancing

I may be in the minority but this to me isn't very appealing. Quite same-y, simple songs that all sound the same. Not much variation. Doesn;t really do much. Sounds very hard like you're trying to be cool and make very stylised vintage music out of a private school.

Platonic idea 80s plastic synth yacht rock to the point where I wonder if he actually invented that particular sound... considering he played every instrument on this he probably did. I like this dad rock genre tbh, maybe I am a dad inside really. Great lyrics, a gentle kind of groove, writing isn't exceptional but it is super well executed. Some songs do make me cringe though

Weird, experimental, huge fusion list of influences but somehow does not come together in a way that is particularly pleasing to my ears. It is silly, lyrics are silly, music is silly, and that's fun but it doesn't make me feel much aside from slight annoyance mixed with interest. I am intrigued though, I kind of also like it, and wish pop had the guts to be so weird today

Lush warm instrumentals, sad vocals, delivery is off-guard. Unexpected moments or rock and big folk harmony. This is sad like a rainy day after saying goodbye

Campy, operatic, super 80s from the synths to the female vocals and snares good god. His voice is great. I think this may be too much of a period piece for me to listen to unironically. It is good but not quite for me.

Deserves the hype it gets. Insanely well made and produced, musically DENSE in a good way (mad fusion of genres from shoegaze to folk and electronic bits coming through), lyrically captures something about the alienation and dystopia of britain changing in the 90s. This is impressive but I do think the bends has more of an emotional punch to it

This is weird but really compelling. Sounds like a nightmare that emerges from moments of pleasant dreams. It's super moody, concept heavy, wildly skilled production stitching together a dizzying array of genres. It feels at times detached and then downright menacing, whispering insane shit in your ear. I dont know if you would listen to this for pleasure but it's strong. Guitar tracks on this sound v much like frusciante so points for that too

The funkiest thing that's probaly ever been recorded. This is an absolute joy to listen to. Unbelievable guitar playing. Instrumentation is so tight, lively, inventive and just really really fun. There is so much joy in this and range, from upbeat to slower and more pensive. Wild lyirics. I would genuinely give a kidney to be at a George Clinton gig in the 70s

Opener and closer are so good, the middle isn't quite as strong but it has held up extremely well over time. It still sounds really good, warm, well-mixed, the groove and guitar playing is extremely well chosen. When it's good it absolutely rips

Same confessional flavour of Carole king but does not quite have the same sense of pace, space, and letting songs breathe. She is doing too much I think and the music never really folds out into what it could be. It pushes into showtune in a way I don't like. Mostly pleasant instrumentation but sometimes annoying singing that seems a little precarious

Really really good. Fantastic guitar playing, instrumentation is warm and lush and organic and just sounds cool. The singing is a 70s harmony relic that sometimes adds to the psychedelic hippie feeling that comes out of this, sometimes is a bit annoying. Less enjoyable when leaning country rather than rock, but this is really great esp Neil Young contributions

Classic and sweet riffs, warm and groovy instrumentation that's tight and folky without being a meme (unlike saving england by the pound). Has a sweetness to it and you can just see the mods on little scoots zooming around. Has that trying hard 60s cool about it from this kind of folk rock

Weird AF, sounds like you got halfway through listening to folk and then dropped something psychedelic. Musicianship is a little sloppy and can get a bit too self-consciously concepty. Some of it's not bad some of it is embarassing. The medieval stuff needs to go into the bin.

Exactly what you expect from 1992 indie rock. There are tons of bands and sounds like this. It's annoying. Very similar songs, jangly indie pop and lacking the emotional centre of grunge. Sounds like depressed suburbs teenagers. Best song is a cover which is always a yikes

So much soul, softness, wonderfully created songs that hide this sadness while being deeply cool, beautiful, and warm. Has a delightful analogue sound. Great guitar lines and introduction of proto-punk heaviness. Has some incredible stand-alone singles but the album itself is super cohesive and creates this very particulr image of being cool and young in NY in the 70s