Apparently neither 'Purple Haze' nor 'The Wind Cries Mary' were on the original British release, what the hell? So I guess I'm reviewing the US version.

And 'The Wind Cries Mary' I must have heard before, so beautiful. I have to say that the rest are all good, but filtered by 58 years (my whole life), like I said about the Beach Boys (#2) they don't seem as innovative. Very much blues with great guitar and bass work.

#30 Jimi Hendrix, 'Are You Experienced?' #RollingStoneTop500 'Purple Haze' must have hit like a ton of bricks back in 1967, and it still does! No one had ever heard anything like it! The only other song I could have identified is 'Foxey Lady' (with an 'e'?') absolutely classic.

The second album is weaker IMO, with standouts 'Birthday,' 'Helter Skelter,' and 'Revolution 1.' But 'Revolution 9' is maybe too experimental to be 8 minutes long.

'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' is a masterpiece. I still want to know more of Rocky Raccoon's strong. And let me recommend the Breeders' cover of 'Happiness is a Warm Gun.'

#29 The Beatles, 'White Album' #RollingStoneTop500 The first album is great starting off strong with 'Back in the U.S.S.R.,' 'Dear Prudence' (which I knew better from the iconic Siouxsie and the Banshees cover), and 'Glass Onion' (early meta?). Even 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dah' holds up surprisingly well.

If the lyrics had something profound to say I didn't hear it because the mix was mostly the bass. I did kinda like "Devil's Pie."

#28 D'Angelo, 'Voodoo' #RollingStoneTop500 I just found this boring. Maybe driving alone is not the way to listen to this. It struck me as background lounge music. A lot of bass and occasional riffs on a trumpet or sax or something. And him vocalizing along.

I kinda liked 'Method Man', and I definitely appreciate the rather quiet use of the "strangled horse" noise on one track. And I might have to listen to 'Tearz' again to catch the Streisand sample.

#27 Wu-Tang Clan, ‘Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)’ #RollingStoneTop500 Not to my liking, but kinda fun. They almost have to be kidding. There's like 9 guys rapping on here and they're definitely having fun.

Wu-Tang clan is next, actually

I'll have to check that out... After 473 more albums or so.

And amusingly a reference to the pituitary gland, probably the only song ever that mentions it.

But no! It's punk rock (from before there WAS punk rock) and poetry. That line about Jesus--It's from a poem inside an almost unrecognizable cover of 'Gloria.' Then the next song is a lesbian song about suicide (even though it's really just about worrying about her sister).

If I had even heard of it at all I would have thought it was some kind of easy listening or something. An album named "Horses" by a female artist? That has to be some kind of Tina Belcher-friendly shit.

#26 Patti Smith, 'Horses' #RollingStoneTop500 "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." Holy shit that's badass. This album kicks hard from the beginning and never stops! I only slept of this one for 50 years. Though to be honest I probably won't have liked it when I was a teen.

Turns out I know lots of them and they're classics. 'Natural Woman,' 'I Feel the Earth Move,' and "It's too Late" and more. And I didn't know she wrote 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow' or that it doesn't have 'still' in the title.

#25 Carole King, 'Tapestry' #RollingStoneTop500 Another one I've always wondered about but never bothered to listen to. I knew about Carole King from 'Really Rosie' which I loved as a kid. And I even have this on CD (accidentally stolen from a roommate) but never listed to it.

Great album, but I don't feel like it lives up the the conceit that it's a whole different band. The members of he Beatles said it was freeing but I always wanted a cohesive feel promised by the intro.

I remember being at a party at Senior House at MIT and hearing that it was 20 years ago today that this came out. I think I was wrong though or my memory is faulty because as I figure it I'm two years off, but whatever.

#24 The Beatles, 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band' #RollingStoneTop500 Another great Beatles album. 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' 'With a Little Help from My Friends,' and 'A day in the Life' all classics. 'When I'm Sixty-four' hits differently now. A bunch in the middle I didn't know.

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'some of the drone in the middle'. Need an edit button @bsky.app

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Synthesizer maybe? Anyway, much to cool for me! So it wasn't until 2008 that I bought this (I still haven't listened to 'VU') and it wasn't at all what I expected. And I love it. Not a big fan of so the drone in the middle 'Venus in Furs,' 'Run run run', but I love 'Sunday Morning' and Nico's voice.

The Velvet Underground, 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' #RollingStoneTop500 The first album on the list I actually own, though I didn't get it until well into adulthood. I remember seeing 'VU' in a record store with the VU meter on the album cover. What kind of music could this be?

The Notorious B.I.G., 'Ready to Die' #RollingStoneTop500 Another one not aimed at my but I kinda love it. The guy is just so obviously happy to have made it doing rap--he's just infectious. Sad that he was murdered only a few years later.

Anyway, 'Thunder Road' is fantastic and so is the rest of the album. Trivia: I immediately reconized the opening to 'Jungleland' as identical to most of Dire Straits's 'Romeo and Juliet.' It is, and it turns out it's the same piano player on both.

For a high school talent show, my friends and I sat on stage and lit ourselves on fire with butane. I also seem to know 'Dancing in the Dark' but didn't know it was him. I partially slept on Springsteen because a friend of mine in college liked him in high school and she didn't act like it was cool.