Favorite track(s): Fu-Gee-La, Killing Me Softly With His Song, Cowboys
Favorite track(s): Tiny Dancer, Madman Across The Water, Indian Sunset
Favorite track(s): Love Vigilantes, The Perfect Kiss, Sunrise
Favorite track(s): Soubour, Irganda, Al Hassidi Terei
Favorite track(s): You Want It Darker, Traveling Light, It Seemed the Better Way
Favorite track(s): Immigrant Song, Since I've Been Loving You, Gallows Pole
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Favorite track(s): Rio, My Own Way, Save a Prayer
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Favorite track(s): 5000 Miles West of the Future, Red Eye to Jupiter
Favorite track(s): Plastico, Pedro Navaja, Siembra
Favorite track(s): The World is Yours, Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park), One Love
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Favorite track(s): Breaking Glass, Sound and Vision, Warszawa
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Favorite track(s): Blitzkrieg Bop, I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
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Favorite track(s): Mystic Lady, The Slider, Buick Mackane
Favorite track(s): Metal Gods, Breaking the Law, Grinder
Favorite track(s): Groove Is in the Heart
Favorite track(s): Honky Tonk Heroes, Omaha, Black Rose
Favorite track(s): Sour Times, Strangers, Roads, Pedestal
Favorite track(s): Moon Dreams, Budo
Favorite track(s): Pitch the Baby, Fifty-Fifty Clown, Heaven or Las Vegas, Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
Favorite track(s): Frankly they all sound so similar that I couldn't distinguish one from any other
Favorite track(s): America, Punky's Dilemma, A Hazy Shade of Winter
Favorite track(s): How I Could Just Kill a Man, Real Estate, Psycobetabuckdown
Favorite track(s): American Pie, Vincent, Winterwood
Favorite track(s): Brighton Rock, Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy
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Favorite track(s): Halo of Ashes, All I Know, Witness
Favorite track(s): Sister, Sacred Attention
Favorite track(s): Just What I Needed, Don't Cha Stop
Favorite track(s): it's all straight bangers
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Favorite track(s): Let's Make This Precious, Liars A to E
Favorite track(s): Crystalised, Fantasy, Infinity
Favorite track(s): Heads Will Roll, Dull Life
Favorite track(s): Autobahn
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Favorite track(s): Young Americans, Right, Fame
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Favorite track(s): Movin' on Up, Higher Than the Sun, Damaged
Favorite track(s): Mother and Child Reunion, Armistice Day, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Favorite track(s): Good Times, A Warm Summer Night
Favorite track(s): Victoria, Brainwashed, Australia, Shangri-La, She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina
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Favorite track(s): Lust for Life, Some Weird Sin, The Passenger
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Favorite track(s): no standouts, perfectly inoffensive, could've listen to Lorde or Charli instead
Favorite track(s): Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Rene, Song of a Baker
Favorite track(s): Planet Telex, High and Dry, Just
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Favorite track(s): Neighborhood #2 (Laika), Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), Wake Up
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Favorite track(s): proof that depression and addiction and bankruptcy can't turn an okay songwriter into a good songwriter
Favorite track(s): You're Still on My Mind, One Hundred Years from Now, Nothing Was Delivered
Favorite track(s): clearly I don't possess the right kind of white boy angst to enjoy this. Also Jack White's solos suck
Favorite track(s): The Face I Love, Oba Oba, My Foolish Heart
Favorite track(s): Help Me, Car on a Hill, Down to You
Favorite track(s): who cares man, it's Christmas
Favorite track(s):
LP 1: But Not For Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It
LP 2: The Man I Love
LP 3: For You, for Me, for Evermore, Of Thee I Sing (Baby)
LP 4: Slap That Bass, Love Walked In
LP 5: Embraceable You
What are they doing putting boxsets on this list?
Favorite track(s): Shameika, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Relay, Newspaper
Favorite track(s): Lost, Plateau, Oh, Me, I'm a Mindless Idiot
Favorite track(s): Straight Outta Compton, Fuck Tha Police, Gangsta Gangsta, Express Yourself
Favorite track(s): California Stars, Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key, Christ for President
Favorite track(s): Frustration, Sex Dwarf, Chips on My Shoulder
Favorite track(s): Too High, Golden Lady, Higher Ground, Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
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Favorite track(s): Debaser, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Gouge Away
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Favorite track(s): Holes, Opus 40, Goddess on a Hiway, The Funny Bird
Favorite track(s): Highway Star, Child in Time, Smoke on the Water, Space Truckin'
Favorite track(s): it's all the nastiest funk in the universe, only on WEFUNK
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Favorite track(s): Cry to Me, Can't Nobody Love You, You're Good for Me
Favorite track(s): all pretty milquetoast except for the title track and Musclecar Reform Reprise which are absolutely infuriating
Favorite track(s): There Goes the fear, N.Y., Pounding, Caught by the River
Favorite track(s): Dancing Queen, Money, Money, Money
Favorite track(s): Pipes Honour
Made for good background music while reading, but maybe I don't slonk gang weed enough for this to stand out
Favorite track(s): The Sensual World, The Fog, Heads We're Dancing, Rocket's Tail
Favorite track(s): Message in a Bottle, Walking on the Moon, The Bed's Too Big Without You, No Time This Time
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Favorite track(s): Solid Air, Don't Want to Know, I'd Rather Be the Devil, Dreams by the Sea, The Man in the Station
Favorite track(s): Drunk in Love, Blow
Favorite track(s): I Saw the Light, It Takes Two to Tango (This Is for the Girls), Sweeter Memories, Black Maria, Couldn't I Just Tell You, Little Red Lights, Hello It's Me, Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me,
Don't blame me because there are so many good tracks, blame Todd and his Ritalin
Favorite track(s): Sympathy for the Devil, No Expectations, Street Fighting Man
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Favorite track(s): Stan, The Way I Am, The Real Slim Shady
Favorite track(s): Another victim of the time and place that birthed this list, a desperate hope that kids in Britain would revive rock music in the early 2000s. You figure out for yourself how that went.
Favorite track(s): Girl from the North Country, Masters of War, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Corrina, Corrina
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Favorite track(s): bootleg Bjork and a Tally Hall reject cause immense aura damage to even some of the greatest songwriters
Favorite track(s): Desafinado, E luxo so
Favorite track(s): Blue Rondo a la Turk, Strange Meadow Lark, Take Five
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Favorite track(s): what is there to say (besides that this isn't even their best album)?
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Favorite track(s): A New Level, This Love
I think my lack of a female partner who I desire to make the victim of physical violence hinders my potential enjoyment of this album.
Favorite track(s): There Goes Norman, Tearproof, Wednesday Week
Favorite track(s): No Woman, No Cry, Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block), Revolution
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Favorite track(s): Execution of a Chump (No More Mr. Nice Guy Pt. 2), Check the Technique
Favorite track(s): If I Were with Her Now, Symphony Space, Take Your Time, Sway
Favorite track(s): Protection, Weather Storm, Euro Child
Favorite track(s): Blister in the Sun, Kiss Off, Add It Up, Prove My Love, To the Kill
Favorite track(s): Joni herself said there's not a dishonest note on this whole album. A rare and astounding feat.
Favorite track(s): please there was more music coming out in the 2010s that wasn't trying to salvage rock please we can't keep doing this
Favorite track(s): Right Here, Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank
Favorite track(s): an album that left me truly flabbergasted as to its widespread critical and commercial success. I can't say I wasn't entertained, I was laughing damn near the whole way through.
"Are you smoking crack or something? We cannot have that behavior in this establishment."
Favorite track(s): Tanz Debil, Steh auf Berlin, Kollaps, Abstieg & Zerfall
What I had hoped this list would've been full of, no wonder so many people hate it.
Favorite track(s): The Wall Street Shuffle, The Worst Band in the World, Somewhere in Hollywood
Favorite track(s): Gloria, Birdland, Free Money, Land
Did this album invent rock? No. Does it sometimes feel like it did? Yeah.
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Favorite track(s): E-Pro, Missing, Black Tambourine
Favorite track(s): Ma and Pa, Bonin' in the Boneyard, Ghetto Soundwave
Favorite track(s): White Winter Hymnal, Ragged Wood, He Doesn't Know Why, Blue Ridge Mountains
Favorite track(s): Freedom! '90, Cowboys and Angels, Mothers Pride
Favorite track(s): In the Flowers, My Girls, Summertime Clothes, Daily Routine, Bluish, Taste, Brother Sport
Even if the album wasn't amazing, I'd still rate it 5 stars for the criminal underrepresentation of AnCo on this list.
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Favorite track(s): Possible Worlds
Favorite track(s): 2 + 2 = 5, Where I End and You Begin, There There, Myxomatosis
Favorite track(s): Quiet, Life
Favorite track(s): Summer's Cauldron, Grass, That's Really Super, Supergirl, Ballet for a Rainy Day, Big Day, Mermaid Smiled, Dying
Possibly the greatest permutation of 60s pop influence ever arranged. Nobody can do it like Andy (and Colin).
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Favorite track(s): Love's in Need of Love Today, Contusion, Sir Duke, I Wish, Pastime Paradise, Summer Soft, Isn't She Lovely, Black Man, As, All Day Sucker
They're calling it the least bloated double album of all time. How did he do it?
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Favorite track(s): Oh How Your Love Is Strong, Needle of Death, Angie
Favorite track(s): Swimsuit Issue, Theresa's Sound-World, Drunken Butterfly, Sugar Kane
Favorite track(s): The Stars (Are Out Tonight), Love Is Lost, Where Are We Now?, (You Will) Set the World on Fire
Favorite track(s): Born in the U.S.A., Cover Me, Dancing in the Dark
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Favorite track(s): Sunshine, A Minha Menina
Of the best tracks, one required an extra songwriter on top of the other two. The other is a cover. I think that says a lot.
Favorite track(s): Bracelets of Fingers, Balloon Burning, Trust, Old Man Going
A most honorable mention to the non-album single Defecting Grey
Favorite track(s): Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Time After Time, She Bop
Favorite track(s): Mea culpa, Regiment, Help Me Somebody, The Jezebel Spirit, Moonlight in Glory
This is what happens when you get two of history's most quirked up white boys in the studio together.
Favorite track(s): Section 43, Love, Bass Strings
Favorite track(s): an hour and a half of flavorless songwriting, derivative or outright bad vocals, and off-meter lyrics about how us Yankees don't understand Lynyrd Skynyrd or "the Southern Thing™". I couldn't wait long enough for the next exit off Highway 72.
Favorite track(s): What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4), Stem/Long Stem, Midnight in a Perfect World, What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)
Favorite track(s): the desire to save good ol' rock-n-roll has crossed the Pond. The results are musically the same but lyrically worse.
Favorite track(s): Rehab, You Know I'm No Good, Back to Black, Tears Dry on Their Own
Favorite track(s): Don't Know Why, Come Away With Me, I've Got to See You Again
Favorite track(s): Ether, Natural's Not in It, Not Great Man, Damaged Goods, I Found That Essence Rare, At Home He's a Tourist
The riffs, the grooves, the lyrics and themes. It's all here. One of THE punk albums.
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Favorite track(s): Mother's Hands, The Trenches
I'll respect it for pushing my boundaries. I'm not big on musical theater/cabaret to begin with, but it's made somewhat awkward on top by the translations. A few glimpses of interesting arrangement. Overall, pretty bizarre. I'll take my Dagmar with Henry Cow or Slapp Happy instead.
Favorite track(s): just the part where he said "Latino lover mode"
The worst album so far in this list's continued obsession with the death rattles of rock. How great that I'm as far away from the release of this album as this band is from the death of the glam metal they tried to replicate to astoundingly bad results.
Favorite track(s): The Good's Gone, My Generation, The Kids Are Alright, The Ox
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Favorite track(s): El cayuco, Llego mijan, Mi chiquita quiere bembe
Favorite track(s): Spellbound, Into the Light, Arabian Knights, Halloween, Monitor, Night Shift
Foundational. Too bad everyone with piercings is busy listening to Fall Out Boy instead.
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Favorite track(s): I'd Have You Anytime, My Sweet Lord, What Is Life, Let It Down, Awaiting On You All, Art of Dying
There's a contest between this and Ram for greatest post-Beatles album in my heart but let's just say only one album has It's Johnny's Birthday.
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Favorite track(s): Mis-Shapes, Common People, Disco 2000, Something Changed
Favorite track(s): Chunga's Revenge, Triptico, Last Tango in Paris
Favorite track(s): Son of a Preacher Man, I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore, The Windmills of Your Mind
Favorite track(s): Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin'), Let Me Ride, Nuthin' But a "G" Thang, Lil' Ghetto Boy
Favorite track(s): She Has Funny Cars, Somebody to Love, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds, How Do You Feel, White Rabbit
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Favorite track(s): Sex Beat, She's Like Heroin to Me, For the Love of Ivy, Ghost on the Highway
Favorite track(s): Gloria's Step, My Man's Gone Now
Favorite track(s): Death on Two Legs (Dedicated To.....), You're My Best Friend, The Prophet's Song, Bohemian Rhapsody
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Favorite track(s): Monk Time, Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy, Complication
Favorite track(s): My Tulpa, Shot by Both Sides, The Light Pours Out of Me
Favorite track(s): London Calling, Hateful, Rudie Can't Fail, Spanish Bombs, Lost in the Supermarket, Guns of Brixton, Death or Glory, The Card Cheat, I'm Not Down, Train in Vain
I know I said Entertainment! was one of THE punk albums, but that's only if you're a commie nerd. This is THE punk album for most people, including some of those commie nerds.
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Favorite track(s): Welcome to the Occupation, It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), The One I Love
Favorite track(s): It's Nasty, Scorpio, The Message
Favorite track(s): All My Loving, Till There Was You, I Wanna Be Your Man
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Favorite track(s): I should've skipped this album out of protest against Big Indie.
Favorite track(s): Radio Free Europe, Laughing, Moral Kiosk
Favorite track(s): Scar Tissue, Otherside, Get on Top, Californication
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Favorite track(s): Spanish Castle Magic, Ain't No Telling, Little Wing, If 6 Was 9, You Got Me Floatin', Castles Made of Sand, Bold as Love
Probably the least talked about of the Experience albums but it's Jimi all the same.
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Favorite track(s): You Don't Know Me, I Love You So Much It Hurts, Hey, Good Lookin'
Favorite track(s): Krautrock, The Sad Skinhead, Jennifer, Giggy Smile/ Picnic on a Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableau, It's a Bit of Pain
When you start your krautrock album with a song called Krautrock, you better deliver. This album delivers.
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Favorite track(s): Down to the Waterline, Six Blade Knife, Sultans of Swing, In the Gallery
Favorite track(s): WRU, Good Old Days, Ecars, Feet Music
I'm frankly astonished John Zorn made it on this list in any capacity. Should've been by way of Electric Masada but whatever.
Favorite track(s): It's a bit of deviation from the typical indie mill because the lyrics were so bad that I felt truly angry at points. Get me back to the Clone High theme song ASAP.
Favorite track(s): they all sound the same.
Just because your production sounds like shit doesn't turn your band into The Stooges. Back to the Seven Nation Army covers, guys.
Favorite track(s): Across the Great Divide, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Up on Cripple Creek, Look Out Cleveland, King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
Favorite track(s): Return of the Grievous Angel, Brass Buttons, In My Hour of Darkness
Favorite track(s): Hate to Say I Told You So
A bit more entertaining than some similar albums on this list, but certainly not new favourite band material.
Favorite track(s): The Modern Age, Soma, Barely Legal, Someday, Last Nite, Hard to Explain, New York City Cops
After all my moaning about indie bands on this list, we finally get to the one that got it right. Is that hypocritical of me? Maybe.
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Favorite track(s): Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', Baby Be Mine, Thriller, Beat It, Billie Jean
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Favorite track(s): Forever, Science Friction, Attached
Favorite track(s): Paper Tiger, Lost Cause, Already Dead, Sunday Sun
Favorite track(s): Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, Drowning Man, Two Hearts Beat as One, Surrender
Favorite track(s): I Started Something I Couldn't Finish, Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me, Paint a Vulgar Picture
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Favorite track(s): Elevation
Favorite track(s): Whole Lotta Love, Lemon Song, Heartbreaker, Ramble On
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Favorite track(s): Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Rock With You, Workin' Day and Night, Get on the Floor, Off the Wall
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Favorite track(s): Supervixen, Queer, Only Happy When It Rains, Milk
Not usually my thing, but far from being garbage.
Favorite track(s):
Disc 1: I Don't Believe in the Sun, All My Little Words, Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits, I Think I Need a New Heart, Parades Go By
Disc 2: Grand Canyon, No One Will Ever Love You, Washington D.C., Papa Was a Rodeo
Disc 3: I'm Sorry I Love You, The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure, I Can't Touch You Anymore,
There are highs and lows, but it certainly isn't a strong argument for anybody else for follow suit.
Favorite track(s): Fell in Love With a Girl, We're Going to Be Friends
Favorite track(s): Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On, Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
Favorite track(s): Janie's Got a Gun
Favorite track(s): Wouldn't It Be Nice, That's Not Me, Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder), I'm Waiting for the Day, God Only Knows, I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, Caroline No
The pinnacle of a band, a decade, and a generation. Brian Wilson was a trailblazer for soulful white boys everywhere.
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Favorite track(s): Let Me Love You, Beck's Bolero, I Ain't Superstitious
Fine stuff but why it's the only Jeff Beck album on the list baffles me.
Favorite track(s): If you're gonna write an album this boring, make sure it's well below a duration of 80 minutes.
Favorite track(s): the whole damn thing.
Pretty much everything you hope a jazz record is. Complex without losing any listenability. Every instrument has so much character but none are lost in the crowd. You'll dance, you'll cry, and you'll ask for just one more ride.
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Previous rating: 9/10
Favorite track(s): Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Funky Shit, Firestarter, Fuel My Fire
Favorite track(s): One Chord Wonders, New Church, Bombsite Boy
Additional shoutout the single Gary Gilmore's Eyes.
Favorite track(s): I'm convinced this album was included on the list to slander the good name of the people of Ireland.
