Queen’s only good album, and perhaps the most straightforward. The one where they give us what they’re really good at, 13 tracks of pure glam rock. Tons of killer riffs and relentless energy that you can just jam to. Also if you told me this was a The Who album I would’ve believed it.
Favorite tracks: Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, Now I’m Here, Stone Cold Crazy, She Makes Me
It’s Neil freakin’ Young. It might sound like your average boomer folk album, but do they have songs like Out on the Weekend, Heart of Gold, and Old Man? Yeah, probably.
The low points are the orchestrated tracks like A Man Needs a Maid and the unbearable There’s a World, a song perfected by Sufjian Stevens 50 years later.
Favorite Tracks: Out on the Weekend, Heart of Gold, Are you Ready for the Country, Old Man, The Needle and the Damage Done
Gives the same type of feeling as watching mid Woody Allen movies. Extremely neurotic in both lyrics and sound. Midway from punk and new wave lies whatever the heck this is.
Favorite Tracks: This Year’s Girl, Pump It Up, Radio Radio
Great, your annoying little brother and his group of friend started a Britpop band and now they’re making perennial power pop/pop punk-whatever anthems for other dirtbags teens. Can’t write for shit, but that’s “alright” since the music doesn’t need it to have a good time.
If Oasis and Blur were the Beatles and Stones of their scene, then Supergrass must be the Monkees.
Favorite Tracks: I Like to Know, Caught by the Fuzz, Alright, Strange Ones, Sitting Up Straight, Time, Sofa (of my Lethargy)
Baby's first art-pop record, and a good one too. Kate Bush literally owns the word baroque with one of the best and luscious, orchestrated pieces ever put on record. Combined with a couple of 80s synths and you get yourself an ethereal experience. Perhaps it is a frontloaded album with a lukewarm back half, but the highs are too high for me to care.
Favorite tracks: Running Up That Hill, Hounds of Love, The Big Sky, Cloudbusting, Hello Earth, The Morning Fog
Did you know country punk is called cowpunk? That was the only thing I got from this.
Favorite Tracks: Chivalry, Last Dance, Lost Highway
A very nice and elegant album, moreso for a prog rock album. Something to eat your smoked salmon and caviar to. Plus, this album has Roundabout on it!
Favorite tracks: Roundabout, South Side of the Sky, Long Distance Runaround, The Fish, Mood for a Day, Heart of the Sunrise
The year is 1994. Suede and Pulp engage in a ruthless battle for the top of the UK charts. Pop historians will call this the Battle of Britpop. Brett Anderson of Suede is quietly thinking, " Thank God there's no other Britpop band(s) that could possibly surmount us or Pulp."
Favorite Tracks: Heroine, The Wild Ones, The Power, New Generation, The Asphalt World, Still Life
It’s Prince at his peak. It’s Prince at his best. It’s Prince! Not sure the double album is warranted but there are tons of solid tunes on this album to justify it.
Favorite Tracks: Starfish and Coffee, Slow Love, U Got the Look, If I Was Your Girlfriend, I Could Never Take Your Place, The Cross, Adore
Dadrock, and not the fun kind. No thrown punches from these pacifists, and a damn shame too.
Favorite Tracks: It’s No Use, Chimes of Freedom
Wonderfully chaotic, sloppy and rough. Its power comes from the rawness of the performances, the lack of a cohesiveness for sound. You might think they’re amateurs, but they’re just one loud jam away from changing your mind.
When you think of punk rock, you think of the Clash. Ramones sure, but it better be the Clash.
Favorite Tracks: Janie Jones, I'm so Bored with the USA, White Riot, Police & Thieves, Garageland
Great vocal jazz from the great and newly appreciated, Sarah Vaughan. You know what? Hell yeah. You go girl.
it's a fun listen, indietronica group from Britain but sounds American type ordeal. Hot Chip but worse, but not that worse.
Psych rockers having fun is the best type of psych rock.
Imagine how great the band would be if they added a fourth member 🤔
Crosby, Stills and Nash still gives one of the best folk rock performances of all time. Listening to this on the a breezy evening day is transcendental; the vibes of this album is simply immaculate.
A worthy contender for the biggest album drop off in music history after the first three songs cuz man it’s ROUGH.
The first three songs are just that good, however.
I was never a Pet Shop Boys fan, and this solidifies that I will never be one. Very dated dance music for the nightclubs, whose 80s and 90s pop production were nothing to write about, then and now.
The natural assimilation of Ok Computer, Kid A and Amnesia. It's rockier than their previous efforts, but who's complaining- I'm certainly not. Its variety is its strength, and tons of great songs in this overall underrated Radiohead release.
This would go hard if I knew German.
Four songs. Four hot buttered bangers. Four stars.
It’s the 90s. The word on the street is Bob’s washed. His poetry is sloppy, his heart’s weary, and soul nonexistent. Is he going to be able to put out a good album in his twilight years?
Hell yeah he can.
Bob “got ice water in my veins” Dylan 🥶
It’s always Beats by Dr. Dre, but never Lyrics by Dr. Dre. #Noticing
Glad to see Iggy Pop can still find work in the art sphere, let along the 90s trip-hop and psych rock scene. Dirges is pretty cool, but the whole album left an overall “meh” feeling. Massive Attack they are not, and that’s okay.
First 9 songs are the greatest stretch of 10/10s tracks Kanye has ever made only just to stumble across the finish line. Practically a near-perfect album otherwise. Plus this album has Runaway on it!
Songs to fall asleep on the beach too. Beware, Melatonin Blues was a working title!
My favorite Simon and Garfunkel album, with all the bells, whistles and moog synths that you love so much. Brave to have a song called America and single handily be the only best song in music history to be titled America.
Not to mention the 3-track finisher with Mrs Robinson, A Hazy Shade of Winter and At the Zoo. How cruel.
(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang is one of the best opening tracks ever. Everything else is pretty nice synth pop music, but nothing too outstanding to write about.
I named my dog Jimihen after Jimi Hendrix :)
Electric Ladyland is also good and his best, but you don't need me to point out the obvious.
It’s the Beatles! Love them boys.
Jungle Brothers never being as popular or recognized as A Tribe Called Quest or De La Soul is criminal. A perfect showcase of what some parts of rap were going to at in the years that followed
The more underappreciated Pixies album. A lot more tuned into surf rock and surf punk, and a lot more tuneful than Doolittle and Surfer Rosa. Still a fun time regardless.
Transcendental. A religious experience for millennials (that's me). Contender for most tears shed on an album.
Win Butler you will pay for your crimes.
This made me nostalgic for the days living as a free-spirit, lead eating, glue huffing teen in the 70s (I wasn't even alive back then, but damn does this record convince you otherwise).
Pavement's best record. The archetype for all modern California rock bands, with their untuned guitars and equally untuned singer, you really think somebody would've written a better indie tune than "Cut Your Hair" by now (spoilers: nobody has).
A 60s psych-rock band that wears its hard rock influences on its sleeve, all two of them. Also, can we stop conflating hard blues rock with metal already?
The Beastie Boys try to actually rap this time, and its good???? Them white boys were moving different back then...
This album had to compete with Unknown Pleasures and 154 for the best post-punk album of that year. Tough for a Wire covers band.
Did you know shoegaze is pronounced like fugazi? Another MBV banger.
This album ruled my childhood, and it STILL slaps. Good on you 12 year-old me.
Stevie Wonder does Stevie Wonder things, it's good but being the album between Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life must suck.
Not as dreamy as Hounds of Love, but damn does it rhyme. Equally unconventional and ambitious, Kate Bush is what the art in Art Pop stands for.
Sorry to break this to you, if you aren't American, you will NEVER get this album the way we do.
I always found Surf's Up to be overrated. It's experimental and psychedelic (for Beach Boys standards, at least), but Sunflower is literally just that but fun. Shoutout to the last two tracks, 'Til I Die and Surf's Up, for being perfect songs.
Ian Curtis heard that you want it darker. Well, here's a supermassive black hole you can wither away in.
Do you really need any other Beatle album than The White Album? Let's be real here.
Serj Tankian's rookie season and he's already averaging triple doubles. He's #him.
White women music (positive). I love you Adele, they will never make me hate you.
