#364: More Songs About Buildings and Food, Talking Heads I’m always in an interesting position when reviewing the Talking Heads. I love their music, but I’m not the biggest David Byrne fan. …

#363: Mothership Connection, Parliament It may be poor listmaking methodology, but I always like when the RS 500 list puts two albums from the same band (or basically the same band) close together. …

#362: Never Too Much, Luther Vandross I get the most out of this project when I’m tackling genres and artists that I don’t have a lot of experience with. Here we have the slow jam — that’s one of them. I didn’t even know who Luther Vandross was. This was…

#361: The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance I love emo music. But growing up, there was a definite sense that nobody really respected emo music. Hell, Rolling Stone certainly didn’t. As such, emo isn’t that well represented on the RS 500 list. This is the only emo album we’ll get. …

#360: One Nation Under A Groove, Funkadelic I published my first Funkadelic review nearly two years ago: Maggot Brain, #136. I hate reading through my early reviews, because it took me a while to find my voice with these. …

#359: Radio City, Big Star Believe it or not, Big Star frontman and chief lyricist got his start as the singer of a blue-eyed soul group called the Box Tops. The story goes that Chilton of Big Star had a life-changing encounter with Roger McGuinn of the Byrds. That explains…

#358: Goo, Sonic Youth Three hundred and fifty albums in, the albums that get me excited are fewer and farther between. But I can still get excited about Sonic Youth! I was constantly playing Daydream Nation when I was sixteen, and Goo was the album they released next (though they…

#357: Rain Dogs, Tom Waits I kind of thought I knew who Tom Waits was — there are so many musical Toms (Morello, Petty, Verlaine, and my personal fave, Delonge) that he just kind of slid in with all the rest. Turns out I had NO idea who Tom Waits…

#356: Gris-Gris, Dr. John Dr. John, the Night Tripper. Sounds spooky, right? Well, his real name was Mac Rebbenack and he went to Jesuit high school. Don’t let that make you think he isn’t legit, though. Eric Clapton was a fan of his — in fact, Dr. John plays on…