1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

If you’d like to follow along or am curious when I’ll get to your favorite album, check out my full list.

My scoring system is based off of the other albums in the list and largely around how much I enjoyed listening to them. A 3 star rating is essentially me saying, ‘listen to this if you want’. From there, a higher or lower score suggests my level of encouragement or discouragement.

Resources:

2024-07-22
Sonic Youth
Sister (1987)
★★☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-07-22
Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets II (1983)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-03-04
Prince and The Revolution
Purple Rain (1984)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-28
Dennis Wilson
Pacific Ocean Blue (1974)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-22
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-19
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Exodus (1977)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-19
Fats Domino
This is Fats Domino (1957)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-16
ZZ Top
Eliminator (1983)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-15
The Chemical Brothers
Exit Planet Dust (1995)
★★☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-07
Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator) (2001)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-02-06
Ministry
Psalm 69 (1992)
★☆☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-31
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters at Newport (1960)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-29
Janis Joplin
Pearl (1971)
★★★★★
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-25
Red Snapper
Our Aim is to Satisfy (2000)
★★☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-19
The Mothers of Invention
We're Only in it for the Money (1967)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-19
Marianne Faithfull
Broken English (1979)
★★☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-19
John Lennon
Imagine (1971)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-19
Jeff Buckley
Grace (1995)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-12
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega (1985)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-10
Sonic Youth
EVOL (1986)
★★☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-10
Youssou N'Dour
Immigrés (1988)
★★☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-10
Outkast
Stankonia (2000)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-8
Peter Tosh
Legalize It (1976)
★★☆☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-05
Beck
Odelay (1996)
★★★★☆
Spotify, Apple Music

2024-01-04
Paul Simon
Paul Simon (1972)
★★★☆☆
Spotify, Apple Music