The Beatles' 1968 self-titled album feels freer and even more thrillingly experimental than anything they'd done before. Its length and lackadaisical structure actually stand to benefit this album - you get a sense of knowing the Beatles as people more thoroughly than on any of their other albums. It feels like a true journey - a brilliant work of art through and through.

Although it's hard for me to choose what I'd pick as my favorite Beatles album, no other record they created exemplifies their strengths, talent, and sheer love for each other and music itself than Abbey Road.

I get why people these days find U2 to be annoying, but their work in their 80s and even in the 90s is unimpeachable and The Joshua Tree is the finest example of that. Although it's not in the canon the way it used to be, it's still a fantastic album that has aged wonderfully - even after the three inescapable singles that open the album.

I don't think this album garners the same reception anymore that it got when it came out, but it's still one hell of a record that I find to honestly be underrated at this point. It's incredibly beautiful and I adore how subtly it turns ambient, quiet and lo-fi as it goes on. A masterpiece, honestly.

Logic's beautifully produced third album Everybody is flawed, but it's flawed in such a way that I can't hate it - it's a rare case where it actually sort of becomes part of its odd appeal. Logic wanted to make his own To Pimp a Butterfly and he obviously doesn't get there, but the effort and audible amount of love and passion that went into this is commendable. I get why people dislike this album, but for me, the incredible production (possibly 6ix's best) mixed in with Logic's charisma almost ... read more

Incredibly beautiful, probably the best Eno album I've heard so far.

What else can you possibly say about this album that hasn't been said before? To Pimp a Butterfly is a masterpiece that will be remembered for generations to come.

I've always thought this album was underrated and honestly? Fuck yeah it's a great album. Nothing wrong with Weezer going full 2000s alt rock.

Uneven but that’s kind of the point of this album - it has a really bizarre energy to it that I like because of it. “Survival” is honestly one of the best Muse songs too, simply because they just did not give one single fuck anymore and made the most batshit insane Muse song that could possibly ever be recorded.

Plus honestly the later songs on this album are very underrated and are much more personal lyrically, to the extent that I don’t think I’ve ever heard ... read more

Muse by numbers, excruciating. “Reapers” is fucking fantastic, though - one of their best songs.

Probably Muse’s best album post-Black Holes for me. Everything just seems to work on this album, and it seems to have more of a reason to exist past just providing a fun soundtrack to play live.

Obviously not a masterpiece but really not as bad as some people say it is. Muse have released worse albums (Drones I think being a much better candidate for being horrifyingly bad than WoTP). Also, a lot of these songs just click live way more than on the album, having seen them on this tour. I think Muse knows that at this point - they don't really make music to be heard in a critical manner, they make anthems that will play well on tour and a lot of these songs are just a lot of fun ... read more

"Early Sunsets over Monroeville" and "Demolition Lovers" are two of the best My Chemical Romance songs, not just on this album but in general.

Actually... this is really fucking good? Incredibly entertaining and never flags except for a few tracks, which is honestly impressive for an 87 minute trap album in 2023. One of the most inventive and fun albums of the year.

(7/4/2023 edit: Everyone seems to be overthinking "CS" way, way too much. Let Uzi have fun!!!)

You had to be there

Listening to this album as a whole when it dropped was absolutely unlike pretty much anything else and it’s clear that JID has set himself safely in the conversation for being the best rapper alive. Yet even now, it’s obvious that he still has more to say and more to do.

As so many critically acclaimed projects at this point become so abstract and terminally online to the point of incomprehensibility and as so many mainstream projects simply become vehicles for big names to put ... read more

This is so, so bad, but I can’t possibly give it a lower score because I have so many memories of laughing at this horrible thing with my brother. Of course, it’s obviously terrible and pretty much devoid of any artistic merit, but it’s so hilariously inept that I could never bring myself to hate it - especially with the slightly sadistic joy it’s given me over the years.

It'd been almost two and a half years since Be Here Now was released and the Britpop bubble burst. Whether you regard it as an abject, bloated disaster that ended Britpop or even Oasis' best work and their true masterpiece (like I do), it's undeniable that the party was over. Blur had already transitioned away from the Britpop they'd been making for years on their self-titled release, switching the self-referential and witty storytelling for increasingly personal lyricism and the peppy, ... read more

Blur's debut album, Leisure, is fine and has some quality tracks that have stood the test of time, but unlike perhaps its closest analogue, Radiohead's Pablo Honey - which I personally love and think stacks up well against the rest of their discography - I still find Leisure to be easily Blur's worst album. It's not bad at all but there's not much of the trademark wit that defined their Britpop era, nor the experimental drive and ambition that drove their later work. It sounds like the work of ... read more

Unpopular opinion: this is their best album