#291: The Writing’s On The Wall, Destiny’s Child Destiny’s Child broke up when I was in the sixth grade, a time in my life during which I listened to 50 Cent and the Indigo Girls almost exclusively. As RS puts it, they were the “last gasp” of the vocal group…

#290: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, OutKast One. Two. Three. FINALLY! My baby don’t mess around because she loves me so/And this I know for sho! Oh, I’ve so been waiting for this moment, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, because this is a double album. OutKast recorded 170 songs for…

#289: Post, Bjork Man, I still can’t believe Debut isn’t on this list. “Human Behaviour,” anyone? “Venus as a Boy”? “Big Time Sensuality”? Whatever. As the RS blurb so obnoxiously puts it, this record “proved the ‘Icelandic pixie’ who’d dazzled MTV viewers fronting the Sugarcubes, was, in fact, one of…

#288: Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers We haven’t yet seen Jonathon Richman and we shan’t see him again, so everybody pay attention. This record was mostly recorded in 1972, but wasn’t released until 1976. …

#287: Mr. Tambourine Man, The Byrds I love listening to the classics, I really do. But every time I have to review a band I’ve already reviewed, I get a little more weary of old things. Give me NEW things. Give me diversity, give me women, give me math rock…

#286: Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers The last Chili Peppers album we encountered was exactly 100 albums ago: #186, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Did RS do that on purpose? Almost certainly. Very clever, you bastards. Shortly after the explosive success of Blood Sugar, prodigious guitarist John Frusciante decided that fame…

#285: Third/Sister Lover, Big Star I love an album with great lore. Wanna hear some great lore? This is kind of maybe not really a Big Star record, not only because it sounds nothing like Big Star’s debut (#474) and sophomore (#359) efforts, but because the only Big Star members…

#284: Down Every Road 1962–1994, Merle Haggard A year and a half ago, I made what seemed like the extremely manageable choice to review every single one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s 2020 edition of the Top 500 Albums of all time. …

#283: Bad Girls, Donna Summer Donna Summer is a name I’ve heard before (mainly on Bob’s Burgers), but I can’t say I’ve listened to her before. So I took a deep breath and prepared to enter the Red Light District. The RS blurb says that this record sees the Queen…