1001 Albums Summary

First album on here and such a solid start..you can tell the historic importance of this album for future sounds. Does it stand out in history of pop? Not really, but not a bad way to start.

bloviated bloated self centered

Ingredients: Lyrics- Diary of a 15 yr old girl intoto tech theatre.   Rhythm- 90s producer who made a shit ton of money using the same drum machine. Melody: 15 yr old girls older sister who listens to the rent Cd over and over again. A dash of harmonica to make it alternative. =A ton of radio hits

Do we even make “baby making music” anymore? Second half is way better than the first. A little generic but also jazzy and jam like in that 80s steely Dan way which I can appreciate.

Would be three stars but Mike Hamptons Guitar freaking sings! Also, is it mandatory that 95% of funks lyrics have to be the word funk over and over again?

Blue lived on the radio so this could live in the Smokey club. Beautiful melodies, flowing piano and jazzy pop tunes to stand with the best of them. A way to sing poetry that reminds you of Patti Smith without the spit.

I understand it's legacy - and help create a sub-genre...but so so so much better 90's hip hop out there that this isn't. From Tribe to Jurassic 5 this aint it. Ramblings of a super horny 16 yr old boy into weird science fiction - idk, i'll pass.

Maybe the best LZ album?! Immigrant song to the deep blues of since I’ve been loving you…to the acoustic jams and pure dedication to real delta blues style rock. Everything I love about LZ in one album.

If I’m floating for eternity out in space and need to boom sound waves reverberating out to the endless galaxy- this ain’t a bad option at all. Wall of sound any and every day.

Love hate relationship - love the driving guitars - hate the timepiece that is the cringe inducing falsetto.

What is left to be said about Muddy- he’s the greatest. One of the foundations of every rock album that came after him. The guttural soul of his music can’t be and never will be matched.

As high as I’m gonna rank hair metal. A little annoying and want to punch David Lee Roth every time I hear him but Eddie’s guitar is so good and it is a good amount of fun..

A classic that a full listen through made me a radio head fan.

High school memories, High school anger. Maybe it’s all nostalgia but hey what music isn’t.

The jump into production quality is kinda nuts. The first half is a great drum driven blues rock album way more than the opener would make it seem. Still 3.5? It’s just a bit of a slog. It gets a 4 because of the final and title track

There she goes might be the best jangle to ever jangle? Some other good ones in here that pave the path for Gin Blossoms and the other jangles to come.

I mean...what is there more to say that hasn't already been said....I WANT to give it 4 stars for Number 9 and a few others...but when 90% of Disc 1 are just literal classics that will never get old including Blackbird - how can you not rate 5?

Maybe the greatest punk album of all time. A true classic, an automatic 5 star..rise above, doc pack, tv party. The essence of hardcore it’s all there. Anyone looking to know what hardcore punk is- this is its bible. This isn’t a punk album- avant garde hardcore. So ppl who compare this to the clash, Ramones etc- completely off.

Same sound on every song- I like the sound don’t get me wrong. But every do g this band out out was just created to later be used in a montage of the Vietnam war/late 60s. I also kinda was to punch Fogertys all American cockiness.

It's just, its so hard to on a normal sunny day to turn this on. It's so great for when you need it - but dreaded listening to it today. Though Say Yes, might be one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

What else is there to say...lyrics might be a time piece but the beats are timeless.

One of the albums that started it all- going from Sunday AM to I’m waiting for my man…the French 60s sounds with Nico’s baritone German accent. Huge fan of Lou Reeds solo work but to see the amount of musical movements that came from this… Only issue…the heroin addicted John Cale/Lou Reed and their monotone trances - def a rougher listen.

Some good jazzy beats but nearly nothing memorable about this album at all.

Pretty milquetoast McCartney but I do like his discovering the synth and you can see the seeds for albums later albums. Bluebird makes me want to stab my ears though. Ban the guiro in all western rock/pop.

East coast/Zulu beats and sampling with 90s Gangster lyrics…oddly works incredibly well. The sampling on this is timeless. Oddly though, way more socially conscious than Common…can’t believe how socially conscious the album is. This album changed my mind forever about ice-T

Uhhhhhhhh

Innovative indie punk - those lyrics though…oooof brutal…sound has B-52s with distortion? Where is my mind onward in the album though is where this album thrives.

You know when modern artist painters take a white canvass and throw three squiggles of paint on it - and try (and often do) sell it for millions. Yea, not buying it...the difference between schizophrenic and creative might be pretty thin....but i know which one this one lines up on.

Is it the worst of pretentious 2000s hipster indie…maybe not…but just leaves no impression what so ever- just bland goop.

Need more of this in my life! That brass swings!

Some other reviewer noted, there is absolutely great Radiohead and then there is unlistenable falsetto draining on Radiohead

Back when country spoke about real Human emotions and not weird ass faux nationalism. A little jazzy, a little bluesy, a little rockabilly. Slow, sad and oddly beautiful. Pretty repetitive though.

An absolute timeless classic of poetry- both stunningly beautiful and haunting. No Elliot smith or Phoebe Bridgers without Nick Drake and this album.

Maybe Willie Nelson just inst meant to do covers...of soul classics? Kinda bland - odd how you can take the Ray Price album and has a lot of soul and feeling and this feels cheap?

The album that was on the forefront of it all. So many emcees all owe it to the native tounge/zulu. The perfection of socially conscious rap, the perfection of boom bap. They might of walked so Tribe could run but this album never gets old. De La Soul to laugh Tribe to be political.

Fun new wave perfection - a little repetitive but a lot of fun.

Generic off brand Oasis

Not meant for me, but for 5 years you couldn’t escape Hello and Send My Love- and maybe there is a good reason why. When we were young makes me want to gouge my ears out though. First half way way stronger than 2nd.

This is the album where you get to truly u stand Cobain as a vocalist and lyricist. The covers show the creative possibility of the band if they had more time. The cultural significance of this album would make it a 5…only hard piece is the repetitive one trick of his music…means every song of his is the same. The covers more than make up for it.

I mean…what is there more to say that hasnt already been said. Wow that first half is a classic...39 mins on the shorter side but just so classic.

Beats are great - but man those lyrics and vocals are rough. As others said here…is it house, hip hop…maybe both but neither really well. The reggae vibes and sampling for the time is excellent though. Unfinished Symphony earns its stripes though

The ability for this list to have both some of the greatest hip hop ever created and the worst all at the same time is impressive.It really is a spoken word album not a hip-hop album. I’ll give the album credit through- If you give it a listen the storytelling is well done. That’s the only redemption.

Did you know that the come on Eileen band was a ska band, me neither.

Solid post punk but nothing that screams super unique. All songs pretty much ran into one another, sounded like one long post punk song?

Oh, only one of the top selling albums of all time and the definition of a no-Skip. The album that made Fleetwood Mac.

Beautiful guitars and of course power vocalist- just as a western trained listener hard to really know/fully enjoy sounds like Qawwali.

I thought i liked shoe-gaze....maybe i dont.

No Women No Cry- not be my #1 album. But name a Marley album that isn’t fantastic The roots, the blues-y guitar and the production value is great. A preview of what was to come.

Why is it when you turn into a father you just understand Steely Dan. Is it magic, hypnotism in the smooth saxophone? Legit though- maybe not the greatest album ever written but up there with the greatest ever mixed/produced/sounding.

I know why the weird theatre girl in high school was into Kate Bush, I don’t know…both weird and leaves no lasting impression. As an odd comparison as this is - sometimes the "i want to say something art-y" conecept album becomes blovated crap...so with the Wall by Pink Floyd so goes The Dreaming.

Solid post punk- anything that separates it out from others? Not really

I’ll take that mojito in a dark Havana night club any day.

Man...it's hard to take Prog Rock seriously. But I'll give the other reviewers creisdt here - the muscianship is extensive, even if its not osmething i'd come back to often.

The opening track is one of the best dance songs ever made…the opening track!! Some funky beats on here that would make parliament blush. If there is anything to critique it’s how much disco doesn’t hold up and how much weaker the 2nd half is (you can tell how much he was listening to Stevie though).

Besides video game and sci fi movie soundtracks not sure who this is for...what a slog.

Miles really redefines what jazz can be- jazz is hard, not sure how often I’ll come back to it, but the groovy-ness is of this album is fantastic, especially how early it was and how great it sounds.

Have had some slogs on the list recently, this ain’t one of them. It flew by! While the mix isn’t great- which is understandable- the king of soul’s ability to still makes you swing 60 years later.

Feels like artist like madness and social distortion perfected the sound more than a decade later. But it’s cool to both see the outlaw punk and it’s early farm and post punk bands actually be a little - punk, even with a fiddle. Mostly great spots with a few very weak response but that’s on last dance makes up for all of it.

Sounds like a bunch of Swedes wrote what they thought American hip hop was? I know they were going for Paula Abdul more than tribe called quest- but just kinda sounds like a suburban mall talent competition.

Freaking love this band- best thing to come out of post-punk and 2nd best thing to come out of CBGBs. Not their best album imo but so solid as always.

Take the more pop side of The Clash and mix it with black flag and throw in the absolute classic of androgynous…easy 5

U2 has always been Coldplay? Rock's Schmaltz

I have always had a hard time with Wilco because i could never pinpoint what they are. Are they alt country? indie rock? folk? just Chicago...? This album definitely did not help - but whatever they are...i like it.

Sorry miss jackson...less interludes! But legit, when they are on...they are ON...when they are not, meh. But Miss Jackson + BOB = 4/5.

If I’m ready to go back to the mid-80s Grow out my hair, put in some glitter and pop some pills with a bottle of vodka. I know what I’m putting on.

Here’s the thing…I like Metallica…but this is my least fav Metallica. Love the thrash/punk vibes- the weird gothic doom ballad metal, not my thing.

I want my funk pure and uncut! Legit though, why is it required that every other word be funk?

While the first half had some redeeming qualities, the second half made Trout Mask Replica sounds like the white album. Maybe if i was also dealing with the physiological pain of what my parents and grandparents just did in the war i also would make "Peking O"

Bland late 90s adult contemporary barf.

It’s not for everyone- but fuck yea! Folk punk royalty. It's def an uneven album with the first half much stronger and growing a little weary by the end..but when the sound is done right. It's really right.

A tiny bit uneven but just such a great capture at the Talking Heads. Once in a Lifetime is a near perfectly written song. Maybe a 4 but the rhythms are so so tight.

Dark as hell and of course he’s a hard listen but MY word he can write a song!

I understand the cultural/historic significance But unless I’m trying to have Lofi electronic music to work to or make a pretty boring sci-fi movie. I don’t understand why you would re-listen to this.

Really solid classic rock with an ear towards either influencing or being influenced by Bowie. It was a little boring at times though.

In hindsight way more disco should be on this list - as we look back on it and the movement it actually was vs the racial homophobic backlash. This album should be up there with others like Donna Summer and EWF.

Here’s the thing about west coast “dinner party” jazz. It won’t mow your face off but it’s very enjoyable. A nice snowy day outside, this album and a hot cup of joe. Perfection.

I know this album gets mixed thoughts from fans- but the epic wall of sound that is this album will never be able to be touched by another one of their albums or metal band. A truly unique album that sounds fantastic and presents the full 2+ hour concert rather than just 35 mins cuts.

So every white British boy in the 50s/60s just sat around listening to blues and Phil Spector records? My generation might be the best rock ever written though…if the rest of the album sounded as intentional.

Two hits surrounded by uninspiring forgettable songs.

Would be a 5 if it had a bit more of the artistry of spiritulized or less moody/whiney vocals. But still the guitar driven multi layered wall of sound…miss you in modern rock!

Man I miss boom boom bap. Not as fun as De La Soul or as Revolutionary as Tribe- but still great.

The 2nd half of this album sums up the Oughts hipster moment more than maybe anything else. Give me Wake Up and Lies anyday with some skinny jeans, a PBR and a mustache. The album as a whole is a bit weaker than i remember.

Not offensive but just generic cheesy early 70's empty uninspired folk.

boring bland and someone who thinks they are being avant-garde but actually just cringey?

Another reviewer pointed it out- why are we so captivated by Bowies voice? Idk, but I can’t help it. There is still something about this album that doesn't grab me the same way. Just doesnt have the same spark.

I just dont understand how anyone could not consider this album some of the most beautiful 30 mins of music ever recorded? It is also just mastered and produced so perfectly.

Okay, out of all of the things I’ve learned in this so far- it’s that I was wrong about “gangster rap”. Crazy in hindsight how much MORE socially conscious it is than 99% of hip hop today. That all being said…this one is a little bit of a one trick…it’s great but just kinda the same note.

Cover Art 4 Music/Melody 4 Lyrics+Vocals 1

I mean of course it’s Miles but man Joe Shulmans bass lines!

Well that’s the horniest album on the list.

unremarkable and oddly grating

There are some highs here - but the lows are VERY low. The highs come nowhere near their debut which is one of the best rock albums ever released...sigh

I mean if Sam Cooke doesn’t make you feel good, nothing will. If this album doesn’t want you to sit by a fire in a wood cabin with your partner, I got nothing for you. Of course it’s dated and yet at the same time - a timeless snapshot of good feeling love. An American classic.

Well that just about sums up the empty droning sound of the hippie. It is atmospheric but also pretty bland.

Always had a hard time with the Pixies and the gloomy mood. But Bossanova's consistency of solid indie rock is mad impressive - maybe its more accesible than others (like surfer rosa) but each track just hits the right tone.

First Side: Eno + Bowie + Heroes (maybe his best song)= A fun listen that feels great and maybe a bit to much like Talking Heads. Not Bowie's best album but a fun one none the less and with Heroes on it...how can it be anything less than 4. 2nd Side- Ummmmmmm

Not sure why this one was so hard for. The first three-four tracks turned me off so much and honestly i think its because i hate when Stevie tries to write social commentary. It just comes off as forced and out of touch. BUT as far as love songs, funk and musicianship - i mean, the album is this highly rated for a reason. Yes its long (to long), yes some of the tracks (IMO the first three in particular) are weaker - but look..."Contusion" to "Isn't She Lovely" on its own - would make the greatest album ever written.

I like it just fine...my last album was so ha in the key of life so this just feels - not special.

This was one long song...right? Def not the only one on this list - but for sure an album where right away you go..is it bad? Not really. Did i need to hear it before i die? DEF NOT

What an amazing gift for my 100th album! Yes, I’m a Big Dylan fan so I’m biased but this kicks off the three run of albums that is the greatest run of any artist in pop music. From the first whistle of Subterranean to the final note of its all over baby blue, music would never be the same.

I know this album gets hate but truthfully I don’t know why. Dad Rock, sure but who cares it’s such a fun classic rock album. If it’s a guilty pleasure, fine so be it! It also did for quite some time to sell a shit ton of records! So…

So it’s new wave? No it’s adult contemporary soft rock/pop? It’s neither? Who wrote these lyrics? This should have been buried with Maggie Thatcher and Regan.

One long jam- I like the jam but it’s still just one long blues jam. Not much of an “album”.

Weather a hot cup of coffee on a winter morning or a glass of scotch at the end of a long day - this album apparently needs liquid to go along with it. Here's the thing - after the drink is done, so is all of the fun with this one. I mean what more is there to say - of time/place/feeling - this is untouchable. It is of course, the same song over and over again and doesn't have the same musicianship of pop music that comes later.

Close your eyes, it's 1987. Regan is president, the wall still stands and you're in the mall sipping an orange julius...this is what is on your walkman.

Solid jangle with annoying 80s vocal. Makes me appreciate the gin Blossoms vocals way more.

It's not the Black Sabbath of Paranoids and and Masters of Reality but MAN what a incredible 70's rock album. They just dont make rock like this anymore, i know how that sounds, but legit. There just inst a weak track on the album!

As someone who loves Lou Reeds solo work so much - you can see the origins of it here way more than Nico. And look I get it. No one is gonna listen to The Gift more than once - but still feels so important for me what rock and roll could be.

One of those albums you have to admit that it wasn’t made for you and you are not the target audience one bit. So sure, out of ignorance it I just don’t get it. Look, i dont care what Wikipedia says, this is NOT Americana. This is overproduced acoustic pop with bad lyrics and no soul. Jack Antonoff should never try writing Americana ever again.

Going in blind thinking ive only heard OF Bjork but never heard her music....and cant decide if im intrigued or not. The pure dance hits are bangers - the avante garde stuff is pretty brutal.

I know it's supposed to be funny - just not sure it actually is? I might hate this but hey at least you gotta give the musicianship is tight.

I wonder har far back we can push the mids in the mix? But Legit, this album is GREAT. Every song flows, pogos, jangles and jams.

Funky, powerful, popy..is what's love one of the best songs ever written, of course! Some feel a bit drawn out, the title track as the perfect example. But the sould of tina doesnt get better.

The fact this was 71 is pretty crazy early and with an opener of one of the greatest rock songs in history!?! Feels like a totally different band than a few years ago and ahead of its time. The mid section is a little weaker but wow the bookends are incredible. Look, is it as groundbreaking as Tommy, prob not. Is it them at their best, i think so!

Been a fan of desert blues for awhile through artists like Bombino - but this is a whole new level. To listen to these guys and not see how all of rock and roll came from the traditional rhythms of Mali and west Africa! The blues, the rock, the funk - I know the gene is based in repeating sections, but the sound is hypnotizing in the best of ways

Whatever it would take to get punk like this back, I’ll do it, pay it or whatever. Bring it back please!!

Of course not the target audience - but look, no this album could not (and for the most part nearly 15 years later) still cannot be escaped from in pop culture. Taking the mantle from Winehouse - there are very few if any weak points on this album. Is it pop replayed on radio to an annoying point, yes...is it as good as pop gets...maybe?

I like the atmosphere of the mood- the whisper hipster vocals I could go without.

Love the vibe - and not a slam to say the perfect music to work to. Not sure i needed to listen to it before i die, but im glad i did.

CREAM is an all time classic - look, i like this time period of hip-hop, hell i gave Ice-T OG a 5...but this album just feels like a random mix tape, with little real thought? Idk, maybe im missing something.

3rd floor please- legit, I mean elevator music has a place but the vocals are cringey. Another I def dont need before I die. It was 2 stars until the rap…just please no.

Look is it up there with the greats, no. Is it a really solid vibe of blues rock that just gets the feeling right? 100%

Automatic 5! Was so far and ahead of everything else at the time. Listening to this album I feel like Lester Bangs going on a tirade about that THIS is what a rock and roll is all about. From the White Stripes to Van Halen from Black Flag to Metallica - they all owe it to Iggy who w/o they would not exist.

The first notes happened and i wanted to hate this, - the first song ended and i didnt hate it but thought ok...generic synth pop. How was i wrong. Beautiful Melodies, perfect amount of experimentation and a sound WAY ahead of its time. The fact this was in '81 is crazy. The fact synth pop hadnt been run into the ground yet - might be why i loved it so much.

I mean, this list has given me several 5's recently so it was about time for one of these. I don't know, why? Just why? Is it the worst album on the list, probably not. But does it deserve an hour of literally anyone’s time, not one bit.

Pitch Meeting: Let’s take hit soul songs by black Motown artists and give them to a pretty soulless white hot blonde British women and make a ton of money!

It’s a snowy day outside, you wake up early and get yourself a cup of coffee. Is it Charlie Brown Christmas or do you want to pretend you are somewhere warm but still fits the mood just right- you turn it on. I don’t know much about Bossa Nova but I do know I like the vibe. That all being said, it did feel pretty limited for me personally to the vibe.

To all of the Europeans not willing to spend 5 mins to google, listen and understand how complex and the DBT commentary is here, i got nothing for you. This record is not only a shining example of the powerful sounds of blues and southern rock + the muscle shoals history but tackles the complexity of southern history, music, vulture and politics with such careful regard and thought. I do not come from or live in the south, but someone who loves the sound of that slide guitar and appreciates when real political thought is expressed in music in a nuanced way, this record does it perfectly.

Tipper Gore can lick these balls.

Ohhhh, art rock… there is a very small subset of people this is meant for. And for them, I hope they enjoy it. For the rest of us, we just want it to stop.

Okay a bit torn, i do like the genre/style and i love me some country slide...but still feels a bit one note and boring? They are all covers, right?

I’m not the target audience and the lyrics are written so clearly by 21 yr old rich white women- but the production for EDM and the piano songs are solid.

Maybe its cause im listening 36 years later- but man this sounds hokey? Just a little late for old school and a little too early for gangster- it sits in this awkward spot. Social Conscious of Zulu, nope. Life of poor upbringing of gangster, nope. Just kinda feels like trying to be both while being nothing.

Sonically great, lyrically pretty rough. Has the potential of someone if they could have hung on in life a bit longer could have made great music. It’s also just pure uncut 70s.

The "My Girl" guys got some FUNK. The first half slaps, the second half i fell asleep through.

Holy moly this rocks hard. Sure is the prog falsetto cringey 40 years later..yes. But damn do those drums drive and guitar shreds. It’s all gas, no breaks.

Man this sounds good even for today! Are Irish/British folk dirges something I'd go to all the time, you know what maybe! Man, i oddly enjoyed this!

Holy Indie Rock Batman! Why hasn’t this band been in my life before?!? Is there a weak second or note on this album? No..there is not. Quote from the wiki.. “For me they were good days. The simple focus of writing and recording that album; no personal fuck-ups or problems, I was in a good place. We were just in it riding the wave – enjoying the act of making music – so simple!" You can absolutely tell it’s a band on top of their game just letting all flow out easily. No filler.

Look, sometimes I really wanna be a contrarian and hate what everyone loves and is so popular. And while I have my gripes (EX…We get it. You’re high as hell, take your damn finger off the slider) and that I still think the drumming on Jimi Hendrix records vastly outshines Hendrix. There is just no denying how good and classic and revolutionary this record was.

Super solid driving punk/alt-rock. No weak tracks, and whole nothing that also jumps out to to blow me away, I keep coming back. Just a solid album.

Look, I love the sound, I love atmospheric space layered …whatever you want to call it. I just wish this one didn’t sound like the same 7 min jam for an entire album. Otherwise, it’d be up there!

I don’t think there will be a faster 5/5 on this site. The album that changed the genre forever.

Normally when the word “electronic” comes up on this list I groan and prepare for two hours of weird sci-fi movie soundtracks. At least this had SOME melody!

When you listen to ELP you realize how poppy and catchy Steely Dan actually is. Look, I’m not sure who the first track is for? Honestly. The only reason this gets a two and not a one is “are you ready eddy!”

Started out pretty hooky but kinda lost its way. Not bad 90s rock but ehh nothing special.

Hey honey, Candles are lit, steaks are done, lights down low and the cab franc is open and ready to pour. One sec just have to put on this album.

There are days I really wonder if this project is a good use of my life. Today is 100% one of those days.

Okay, title track….Is it endearing or eye rolling pandering? Honestly, no idea. Either way, weakest on the album? Traveling Man…picks up so much. The ability for old country to tell a story in 3 mins!

Look, all you British Gen X’ers on this site. I’m truly sorry BritPop did a number on your psyche and apparently truly hurt you, I really am. That sucks, but not my problem. This album rocks and was the perfect album at the right time. Leave your hangup at the door, pick up an acoustic guitar in 7th grade and play wonderwall for your crush.

He's a legend - just, does this album bring something new to the table? Not really?

Like the Brit’s and britpop - when you grew up a certain time this album was just inescapable. The hits are absolutely incredible, but the rest of the album feels like sleepy filler just to get to the radio hits

Pretty weird, a LOT of fun. A little to one note but no the later I’m coming back impressed and going up to 5

There will be NO faster 5 star album for me...plain and simple. This is one of the greatest rock albums ever made, in instant classic - near perfection.Put it into my veins for all eternity. It might be my favorite album of all time and anyone who ranked this a 3 or less should get off this site, casue i have nothing for you.

The band from rocky horror comes to life and rocks my damn socks off mad daddy!

Did i just like a electronic album? Am i OK? What is wrong with me. Nearly every electronic album on this list has been some weird sci-fi soundtrack drum beat - but this actually used other instrumentation - some melody and some dance-ability. I'm oddly impressed.

Now this is a great birthday gift, thank you generator!

I know it all began here- nothing that came after it would be the same..def a compilation and not an album where it feels disconnected and outlet meant for DJs. Until the second half of the album where it really picks up.

It's fine...just standard brit-pop with a little shoegazing vibe. Nothing that really stands out as special?

Hard with the YT quality but was rough. You could feel the start of something but not ready yet..still feels like an amateur pub band or college battle of the band. Hate My Way is the prime example of why this got it's rating.

It’s solid but not great- repetitive sound of the time, indie like Modest Mouse, vocals like the Killers and some of the hipster attitude of Arcade Fire. But that’s it, it just sounds like everything else. If post punk sounds like Sparks get a 4- this can’t be up there with it…is my reasoning.

Really solid post punk! Not sure it’s on the pantheon but really enjoyed it.

Here is the thing with this album……….. Sorry fell asleep even trying to write it. Some cool sounds with odd annoying vocals. Honestly, it’d be a 2 without that dumb falsetto.

Great...Elvis just stealing other (most black) artists songs and using his dumb voice. Look, i'm not the target Elvis audience. The session musicians here are solid - and there are some good vibes- but it gets old pretty fast. The recording of in the ghetto should be buried 6ft in the ground to never be seen again.

It may not be the Stone's best (Exile) but it sure is damn good. From Gimme Shelter (one of the best rock songs and openers ever) to Satisfaction (one of the best rock songs ever) from Country Honk to Monkey Man - the Stones show their blues and country bonfides...why they are different than the other British rock band they are compared to and why they would go on to sing the blues for decades to come.

Okay, will be honest…when this came up I wasn’t so sure. Holy moly…this should be required listening for everyone who wants to (or says they already do) understand American music, its history and how rock was formed. Look, you don’t get much of the American folk cannon here (as opposed to 94 Brit pop albums) so maybe we can take a beat and appreciate just a second.

The production on this album might still be the best of anything I’ve heard on this list so far. Man, maybe culture is so strong… I just have such a hard time taking some of these seriously. “Save the Children” sounds like an SNL skit, while “Right On” and “What’s Going on” feel like stone-cold classics.

Ohh the beach boys- a band perpetually and forever in an identity crisis. Wilson’s y’all can explore emotion like no-one but leave the social commentary at home, you’re just not good at it.

I don’t know why - but this felt OK…and just that. I know I’m not the only one that thinks this is way to many Bowie albums.

Every other Rock Band when they heard this album for the first time... "Ahhh shit- welp, that's it...hanging it up, we're done. They did it, they made the peak of the genre, i will never be able to do it better, period...this is pointless, we're done."

You can tell how professional and tight these musicians are. It’s sexy, smooth and delightful.

I want to like this, truly I do. It just dragggs.

BB with a horns section and full band—-get the hell out of here my word!!! Every single second of this set is perfection!

3 for music - 1 for lyrics= 2. That’s all I can seem to muster to write about this album.

Please list no more Crosby I beg you. Poor man’s Grateful Dead and even poorer man’s Simon and Garfunkel.

When they aren’t trying that hard it’s fun, sexy and raw…could remind me of the stooges. When they try hard it sounds as annoying as Jim Morrison looks.

At its worst genetic sounding BritPop - at its best the better of the generic BritPop?

Does it sound a little dated? Of course…but did it break wide open hip hop and rock…bring it to white mass public plus hit perfect the backbone of breakbeats. Absolutely- still fun even if a bit dated. It also doesn’t take itself to seriously.

Please less Bjork..PLEASE. Wow, i couldnt wait for this painful hour to be over. Bjork i get it, you're weird...can we stop now. TY!

The Cramps + Velvet Underground + Television + Rolling Stones + The Clash and mix in delta blues.

Super solid mid-wave punk. Nothing super unique but danceable and fun. It’s just a little to one note?

All time classic- hardest and rawest clash album. If you don’t love Janine Jones, White Riot, Bored With The USA, Londons Burning, Career Opportunities, Police and Thieves…I just don’t understand you.

Lifelong Dylan fan- so look, anything before and including Infidels is probably gonna get a 5, very easily. Dylan live now is so horrendous - that when you have a recording of him where he actually gave a shit, it’s special! Dylan live at Bodokan might be the best Dylan live recording- but early Dylan…recorded so cleanly…just amazing to hear. NOT TO MENTION: Dylan + The Hawks (The Band)..give me anytime and twice on sunday. Judas can sure rock! Danko's bass...Robbie guitar and Levon leading it all...man, they didnt know what they had.

Vibe 4…Lyrics 2. Is this a bit of dentist blues? Idk, it’s…fine.

I mean it’s a debut that opened with Blister in the Sub! It might have literally invented a genre.

Dance-able and hypnotic - with a global mega-hit thrown in as the cherry on top. Not my fav Daft Punk album though and first half is way stronger.

Am i bothered that he sounds just like Stevie? Yea, of course. Does that stop me from shaking my butt for an hour? Not one bit!

Wooo boyyyy does that guitar sing and wail! Solos melt my face- an injection of gulf war adreline and monster energy.

Son of a Preacher Man is an ALL TIME single - but the rest of the album is so filled with schmaltz it cant overtake the incredible session musicians. Windmills of your mind is a wonderful cover but its so hard to overcome the rest of the album.

21st Century Man is such a strong opener that it would have gotten a 5 right then and there. The classic book-end...Moon-Child? Just record a EP if you dont have that much music, seriously...just dont.

Precursor to chill hop meant to be listened to in chunks while working on a playlist. Hard slog through a 80 min album. Solid for what it is but def not needed before I die.

Still not my Fav Marley - but like every Marley Album a good time with so many classic tracks. Stop That Train, Stir it Up, Kinky Reggae...just put it on..relax and enjoy life for a moment and listen to the social message.

Ian Mackaye and Fugazi are hardcore and punk gods for a reason. I have nothing bad to say about this album.

Well that was 70's fun…won’t go back to it much but gad I was exposed to it.

The white boys sing the black blues. Look, cool to see how Mick, Keith and Brian got it all started but doesn’t belong in the book.

What earlier might have been a 4 in this project turns into a 3 the longer it goes on - and this one might be the perfect example. There is way better Talking Heads, with catchier hooks, better singles and less monotony. But they are still the heads and the sound is always still so unique and timeless.

There are a number of concepts in this album - all of which are good but not fully realized. Choose one, make it tighter and it's a great album.

The joke isn’t funny. Not sure what else to say…the troll album is just that a troll album but I’m sure Zappa felt self righteous. Teens all suck but the smug teen is the worst of them all. Why is Zappa a 26 yr old still angry he didn’t get the girl in HS?

Damn Atlantic City is a great song!! I always loved the idea of this album more than the album itself. That being said...sitting down, struggling with it and trying to get into the mood - it is a brooding, dark, poetic treasure. Will i go back to it, not much...does it have it faults and overblown...yes. But the more you take a beat and listen the more you appreciate.

I do not care how much crap Jack White or White Stripes get on this site - or if there are to many White Stripe Albums. This album can DAMN ROCK! From cover to cover - it is not stop rock and blues at its finest - there is no taking his foot off the pedal, no weak points, no filler.

Every damn second of this record is perfect. Every sample, every bar, every track. This just shows what creative underground hip hop can be...just TIMELESS.

That was a lot of fun, great electro pop and dance that is just enjoyable. Great music to both work and workout too. Does it belong on the pantheon of music, no. Does that make it not worth it on this list, also no.

Is it possible for Pink Floyd to write an album non bloviated and self obsessed and taking themselves SO SO seriously?!? Look, Waters is not my jam but the song wish you were here is beautiful and parts of shine on can shine…so I guess if I had to have one Floyd album..

Some of the faster moving rock jams - are just that...great jams with great guitar. Where they do to much SF psych - and try to be a poors mans Dead...they lose it.

Feels like he has the ingredients and they are all in the mixing bowl but not yet cooked. A solid preview is what is to come but just to much in its infancy. Better Foo Albums could have been here.

Let go all of your preconceived and mostly all incorrect assumptions about this band, what they represent and how they made music. This album is PURE classic rock - this album might be a near perfect example of the "genre" we call 70's/Classic Rock. If you can't appreciate that because of how you perceive them, i got nothing for ya. From the sweeping ballads, to the southern slide, the blues to the hard solos.

Ohhh look a drum machine and a synth sitting in the side of the road, should we make the biggest hit of the decade? Look, Take on Me is the song of the 80s, but the rest of the album is pretty uninspired and sappy. Pretty clear why ppl see them as a one hit wonder.

Side 1: : Flow is pretty untouchable - male machismo untouchable by anyone else. Maybe the heights of the gangster album genre and yet - it kinda feels like a slog. Beats and samples are pretty uninspired and the sex interlude is well...if he hadnt been killed, not sure he'd be in the same category ppl hold him in today? Side 2: Whoa some damn good hits on there....and theres the BJ at the end of the song....

I’m a hardcore punk/music fan…I think? Is the line between noise rock and punk/hardcore thinner than I thought?

Is it all supposed to sound like the soundtrack for a sex crime thriller like Basic Instinct or Fatal Attraction? Also Bo Burnham, that you? Legit, moody as hell but clean and creative and feel like there are a million new things you’d hear with each listen.

Garage rock for art school grunge kids...and it's...*whispering...not good!

Honestly, the bubble gum rock wasn’t bad…the psychedelia….could do without. Maybe I just hate David Crosby that much?

First Half: Wooo those hooks are infectious. The line between really good and gimmick.novelty with Riot grrrl is really really thin. This album blows that line away and shreds with it. Infectious indie, infectious riot grrrl punk, infectious pop Second Half…sigh, at least it’s creative.

Sub par garage grunge with crappy vocals and an auroa of how cool they think the sound

Talking Heads and Depeche Mode have a baby with an early 2K hipster edge? Yes please! Pop, funk, rock, melodic, endlessly hooky…not a weak second.

Some damn good cocktail lounge jazz- that’s not a bad thing or slight on it. It’s great and sounds so good for 1962!

It might be dated but damn does it funk and groove whoooeeee. Also raise you hand if you also had NO idea half this album was Stevie wonder soul?

Clint Eastwood was and to some extent still is inescapable…the whole album might not love up to the single but one cool intersection of triphop with britpop vibes.

Yaaay - the Nazi art school kids make sub-par post punk and the other nazi art school kids go crazy for it..wooo.

The hits on this album are undeniable - or I’ve heard them so much that they have become undeniable. Sure is it kinda souless and campy 100% - but are those hits also timless oddly so? Also, yes.

While i probably wont go back to it on the daily, the musicianship here is incredible.

30 years later, still sounds incredible. Not the largest grunge fan – maybe this is the best of what grunge could be. Melodic, haunting and just not a weak second.

If I’m at a dinner date with the band/album - I’m getting up, faking a bathroom trip and exiting out the back door. They trying to be arena rock, Bruce Springsteen, gwar, ballad rock…idk and not do they, but whatever it is, they aren’t good at it.

Funky, sexy, endlessly hooky, pop, synth rock…and so dirty. Is there anything prince can’t do. Hooks like they are on a fire sale. If there’s downsides - not every song needs to be 9 mins..and I GET IT - you f*&*( a lot...i know! My word.

Learning about how influential this band is you can’t help but be impressed too by how good it sounds so early. Will it go back to it a bunch, prob not…are these oddly still enjoyable? Yes

Pretty sexy and silky and at the same time- kinda boring.

The most beautiful bustling in your city..underneath it all is the foundation. The part that makes it ALL possible. Here’s the thing though, that foundation is nothing but gray concrete and metal. It’s not pretty, or complex and very boring…but it’s where the beauty was all built upon.

I love this sound but have no context if this is truly special or not. Yea it’s repetitive but it’s complex too.

Ohh early Beatles…idk. First half sounds like a 12 yr old learning to play guitar writing songs about his crush in math class. 2nd sounds like a rock and roll band still finding their footing but with potential. It was still at marketing at this point to me - i'll be over here listening to Ray Davies.

Some all out funky classics and a BUNCH of sappy first wedding dances. But the ending and the hits are so good. This is a 3.5 at the end of the day.

First, I love Lou Reeds music and many of his albums are so special - so I give him more benefit. His Dylan esque voice and literal lyricism is not for everyone- but what he is able to do here. To tell a story, one that he is meant to tell and in a way so uniquely him while also some experimentation. Is pretty special- and yet it’s not cohesive and feels a little…out of frame. This one will need more time and repeat listens- to high cause I’m biased or right? Idk yet.

Whooa Nelly do those horns cut right through your soul. I have such a hard time with the Soul Falsetto and wish the smalltz-y ness of it wasnt there so i could actually focus on and appreaicte the lyrics. I've had some really challening albums recently, that need more than 1 listen and this one is no exception. Is it a 3? Is it a 4? For the cover alone it gets a 4.

RIP Shane MacGowan. From the most beautiful Christmas song ever written to an album that spawned a genre and a million bands to follow. There is/was nothing like the Pouges! I don’t know how you can find a weak spot or complain about a second of this album.

Sam Cooke did it better but man they don’t make music that makes you this happy anymore.

Find me another album that so perfectly sums up the "70's classic rock sound"..i'll wait.

If you don’t rate this as a 5 - I don’t want to hangout with you and i dont trust you.

Expected to not like it and was impressed by the solid combo of drum/Bass and modern pop.

I mean, holy fucking damn!! Is there a second weak NOTE on this album? This was 1972!?! I mean, just wow, just wow!

It’s the GOAT- what else is there to say?

Not sure why I hadn’t dived into ELO before this. If all prog were this fun or adjacent to this, it’d be a much better genre. This was oddly fun. Sweeping orchestrations, broad ballads, catchy synth hooks, and prog-adjacent hits packed into 3.5-minute songs. There is not a weak moment or note..uplifting and fun, weird and ahead of its time, so 70s and so timeless.

Won’t return to it but can appreciate the technical complexity. Just not my thing. The layers and technical aspects could earn it a 3 even if my level of return to it would be a 1.5.

I like the Nazi's first album better than the second. Starts off stronger than gets weaker.

Run of the mill thrash metal. It's not bad just not special.

Mega mega mega hit aside… A. Damn does Niles bass bounce. B. Hoping now that we are at a very different cultural moment this list can give discos revolutionary social/cultural impact some respect. Not a bad place to start imo.

The more listenable and talkented of CSN - it might get a three if only becasue hes not Crosby.

Same year and same producer as Back to Back. For the frist half before ALL the filler - Take back to black, take out the actual instrumentation and just some early aughts drum beats - look honestly, it isnt as bad as i thought it would be. I actually kinda enjoyed it. But it is WAY to long and then the second half is so lazy, so self indulgent and so much filler.

Might be a 5 if I hadn’t heard the hits more time than my own voice. It’s also little long - but damn does Fleas bass flow.

Not even the best REM and still just a great album - scuh pitch perfect indie. Is it a masterpiece, probably not but is there a weak song here..no.

One Poet + One Jazz Pianist - maybe not the two together. I love protest music but what makes protest music last, is its timelessness - not sure this record shouldnt have been left behind in the with Watergate. Brian Jackson though has some grooves.

I get it- doesn’t mean I like it. Is Kuntz racist? Probably?

Jamaica Jerk aside and the fact its front loaded - such a classic album full of incredible songwriting and mega hits. Did you know Elton can get down with some Prog?

He had one shot to prove the haters wrong. Not only did he do it, but he did it three times I’ll put up against not only any Beatles solo album but Beatles album. Haters gonna Hate and George gonna wah wah.

Perfect example of a “3” album. Not offended either way on or off the list. Could be a 4 with a little less repetition.

What do I have to do to get leas Crosby and Stills- hell at least I got Young. Neil’s dirtiness is the entire key and none of these guy should have made music without him- except maybe Nash.

I really am trying to separate the album fy hie much of a nazi assaulting fucking rich twat Casablanca is…but also. It’s just boring, pretentious and monotonous…brings nothing new to the table. Sounds like an odor album made with daddy’s money.

Maybe im just not in the right headspace but trying to understand who would listen to this not as part of a sexy spy film soundtrack. Who turns this on, on a random day?

Cinematic hipster varied sound about the suburbs…my millennial heart swoons. Maybe it is a hipster masterpiece meant to live in that era…or maybe musically it’s orchestral rock and universal themes are so pitch perfect for the time that it’s timeless. Is it a smidge to long, yes…is it essential absolutely.

It’s Zepplin what is there left to say that hadn’t been said. Damn does When the Levee jam into your soul…my word.

Some fun white British guys blues - but nothing that really stands out.

I’ve said it every time Stevie’s Classic period albums come up here… Funky, Jazzy, Jamming, TONTO Stevie > Sappy and Cheesy Stevie!

Phew- so so so so so innovative and important - and yet, the story takes way way bigger precedent over the songs. You also can’t make an argument against how important this album is.

Here is the thing - i really like Steve Earle. I like his music and as a person. Even though this isnt his best album or music - i still really like it...but...is it essential listening? It's just not, there just isn't a reason this needs to be on this list, despite how much i like his sound.

A bottle of red, a bottle of white and a five-I’ve-I’ve-I’ve-I’ve. When will you realize Vienna waits for you? That only the good die young?

Is there anyone more over represented on this list? So many great jazz, blues and world artists but FIVE Nick Cave Albums??! 5! Idk, it’s…fine..SO boring and relying on the fact that its brooding to make up for any musicality at all.

It’s good classic Neil Young but it also just kinda floats over me…nothing to special. Just solid Neil Young but not essential.

Avante Garde Post Punk with black flag style jazz - and its fine for a song or two...not an entire album.

Really puts the double in double album! And yet every single track is fire. Funk, jazz, P-funk, old school, great samples, hit after hit. Ohh look a hip hop album that sounds different…that hasn’t happened in 15 years. Love below should have been trimmed down by 3-4 songs but overall doesn’t take away from the creativity and new voice it brought to pop music.

Take a few guys who are the less famous or drop out members of other famous bands...do some drugs, have the crappiest mix ever and call it experimental and post punk.

Pretty inoffensive bland late 70's soul/r&B hokier than it is good.

Yes, the production value is great…yes, the creation of G-funk would influence pop music for a decade if not more and yes, the content is just a bunch of 12 yr olds making dick jokes. Snoop has never been my taste, it’s to long and man the lyrics are brutal 30 years later…but the production…sigh, fine

Every so often a album comes along in this project that you don’t know much about and blows you away for an hour…you are not only shocked you didn’t have this in your life before …but makes the project worth it. Today is such day. Hate it if you want, call it just sampling and overplayed. But when it comes to making electronic music accessible and going for a vibe- he hit the nail on the head so directly it sold 20 Million copies.

Just trying to pinpoint what this is. Post punk? Dub? Riot Girl? Art pop? I know infamously they couldn’t play their instruments..idk, sexist..maybe.. but they sound like a HS cover band (cause they literally were 16/17).

I know this band was so big in the UK and never made it in the US. But it’s just feels to me like feel good generic party rock with and crappy lyrics. It’s not bad per se (the lyrics are though). It’s fine..just not listen to before you die. Pure 2.5

All the pieces are there for what they’ll achieve. It’s not the beat of what they’ll do - but it’s the first and for that it worth it!

Part industrial? Part Star Wars soundtrack? Part German death metal? I have no idea what’s happening but oddly enough, I don’t hate it musically. Ascetically, I’m done with the this BS excuse of using Nazi imagery for “farce” and “irony”. I don’t give a shit, no one buys it.

It sure hits the indie grunge/feminist alt scene perfectly. At first, it's rawness seems like a downside and then it starts to rather show its strength. Almost has a early folk punk vibe

You can hate this band/album all you want for "selling out" or whatnot - but it FREAKING rips!

Walks into a Guitar Center...i wonder if we could put ALL of these in the mix. Dude, i gotta listen to more Dinosaur Jr. Even without being thier best, it's still so good - mix of wall of sound guitar, shredding solos, great indie, noise rock..all of it low-fi to the best way.

A bunch of horny white dudes drink cheap beer and make it gross. Is it kinda fun? Sure. Does it feel like Slade's evolution, also sure...is it meant to be on the list? No.

Hard but actually jazzy. Tied Gfunk with old school boom bap and sampledelia. If anything a little to one note - but like Biggie that flow and attitude are unmatched.

Maybe its the mood im in today - looks its a very fun song. But its just that a 40 min song!