122/500 Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral. Industrial, mechanical, nihilistic and edgy. It sounds like the noise of the robot uprising combined with heavy depression. Is it odd that I kind of like it? #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
122/500 Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral. Industrial, mechanical, nihilistic and edgy. It sounds like the noise of the robot uprising combined with heavy depression. Is it odd that I kind of like it? #500best2020 #BestAlbums
123/500 LED Zeppelin II. It’s a glorious thing this. I sometimes forget how much I enjoy this record and then I listen. Yes there are steals from the old blues guys, but the energy and power doesn’t get much more exciting than this. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 13, 2026 at 9:28 PM
123/500 LED Zeppelin II. It’s a glorious thing this. I sometimes forget how much I enjoy this record and then I listen. Yes there are steals from the old blues guys, but the energy and power doesn’t get much more exciting than this. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
124/500 U2-Achtung Baby. For me this is where art and music collide well it’s definitely stylised arty and thought out. But there are good tunes and songs that have rawness and edge. It doesn’t stray too far from what music is about. It’s a bit too high up the list though. #BestAlbums #500best2020
February 12, 2026 at 11:28 AM
124/500 U2-Achtung Baby. For me this is where art and music collide well it’s definitely stylised arty and thought out. But there are good tunes and songs that have rawness and edge. It doesn’t stray too far from what music is about. It’s a bit too high up the list though. #BestAlbums #500best2020
125/500 Beastie Boys-Paul’s Boutique. I don’t like the beastie boys as much as say de la soul but this intelligent and clever hip hop is streaks ahead of the dross that is all about guns and money. Love working out the samples too! #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 11, 2026 at 6:58 AM
125/500 Beastie Boys-Paul’s Boutique. I don’t like the beastie boys as much as say de la soul but this intelligent and clever hip hop is streaks ahead of the dross that is all about guns and money. Love working out the samples too! #500best2020 #BestAlbums
126/500 Mary J Blige-My Life. For the most part a decent album that sort of is neo soul with a touch of hip hop. It’s spoiled by a couple of interludes that have no place there and the fact that I already am forgetting it. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
126/500 Mary J Blige-My Life. For the most part a decent album that sort of is neo soul with a touch of hip hop. It’s spoiled by a couple of interludes that have no place there and the fact that I already am forgetting it. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
127/500 Ray Charles-Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. Some absolutely stunning songs and performances on here and worth at least a listen, even if it doesn’t have much to do with country, and the over the top use of massed choirs that makes italo too slick. #BestAlbums #500best2020
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 AM
127/500 Ray Charles-Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. Some absolutely stunning songs and performances on here and worth at least a listen, even if it doesn’t have much to do with country, and the over the top use of massed choirs that makes italo too slick. #BestAlbums #500best2020
128/500 Queen-A Night at the Opera. Over theatrical and overblown it’s all very over the top and a bit silly. In its way it’s wonderful but don’t come looking for subtle. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 8, 2026 at 5:58 PM
128/500 Queen-A Night at the Opera. Over theatrical and overblown it’s all very over the top and a bit silly. In its way it’s wonderful but don’t come looking for subtle. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
130/500 Prince-1999. God it’s funky. It opens with two of the greatest singles of the decade if not ever,and the standards barely drop from there. Sexy, groovy and individual. Love it. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 6, 2026 at 8:59 AM
130/500 Prince-1999. God it’s funky. It opens with two of the greatest singles of the decade if not ever,and the standards barely drop from there. Sexy, groovy and individual. Love it. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
131/500 Portishead-Dummy. When I first heard this album I loved it. It hasn’t changed. Deep dark and dense. Full of groove and depth and special in a way that meant something to me. Love it. #590best2020 #BestAlbums
February 5, 2026 at 11:23 AM
131/500 Portishead-Dummy. When I first heard this album I loved it. It hasn’t changed. Deep dark and dense. Full of groove and depth and special in a way that meant something to me. Love it. #590best2020 #BestAlbums
132/500 Hank Williams-40 Greatest Hits. Hank Williams is great. Most of these songs are too. This is everything wrong with compilations though. A collection of quite samey sounding songs never meant to be together as one pretty much becomes noise. Doesn’t belong. #bestalbums #500best2020
February 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM
132/500 Hank Williams-40 Greatest Hits. Hank Williams is great. Most of these songs are too. This is everything wrong with compilations though. A collection of quite samey sounding songs never meant to be together as one pretty much becomes noise. Doesn’t belong. #bestalbums #500best2020
133/500 Joni Mitchell-Hejira. Songs of big skies and open spaces, songs of intimacy and deep personal connection. Joni is a wonder and this album is one of the reasons why. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
133/500 Joni Mitchell-Hejira. Songs of big skies and open spaces, songs of intimacy and deep personal connection. Joni is a wonder and this album is one of the reasons why. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
134/500 Fugees-The Score. Some stunning grooves on here, and interesting covers of classics. Pity its bright down by that sort of rapping that is filled with ego and no substance. When it’s good it’s great, when it’s not it’s really not. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
134/500 Fugees-The Score. Some stunning grooves on here, and interesting covers of classics. Pity its bright down by that sort of rapping that is filled with ego and no substance. When it’s good it’s great, when it’s not it’s really not. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
135/500 U2-The Joshua Tree. These days U2 have it hard. It’s cool not to like them and it’s their own fault. However for a period they had a series of great records of which this is one. It’s well worth a spin even for a bit of nostalgia. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
February 1, 2026 at 9:46 AM
135/500 U2-The Joshua Tree. These days U2 have it hard. It’s cool not to like them and it’s their own fault. However for a period they had a series of great records of which this is one. It’s well worth a spin even for a bit of nostalgia. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
136/500 Funkadelic-Maggot Brain. Funk gets deep and groovy and awesome. Genuinely a superb album that you really should listen to. In fact do it now. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 31, 2026 at 2:19 PM
136/500 Funkadelic-Maggot Brain. Funk gets deep and groovy and awesome. Genuinely a superb album that you really should listen to. In fact do it now. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
137/500 Adele-21. Adele lays it all on the table here, singing of the end of a torturous relationship, but somehow it doesn’t cut. The edges have all been dulled, perhaps by the omnipresence of the music, perhaps by it all being a touch too polished and worked out. #BestAlbums #500best2020
January 30, 2026 at 9:08 AM
137/500 Adele-21. Adele lays it all on the table here, singing of the end of a torturous relationship, but somehow it doesn’t cut. The edges have all been dulled, perhaps by the omnipresence of the music, perhaps by it all being a touch too polished and worked out. #BestAlbums #500best2020
138/500 Madonna-The Immaculate Collection. It doesn’t matter that this is filled with some of the 1980s greatest pop bangers or that Madonna, love or hate her music, is an iconic figure. It’s still a compilation and it doesn’t belong. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 29, 2026 at 8:55 AM
138/500 Madonna-The Immaculate Collection. It doesn’t matter that this is filled with some of the 1980s greatest pop bangers or that Madonna, love or hate her music, is an iconic figure. It’s still a compilation and it doesn’t belong. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
139/500 Black Sabbath-Paranoid. Almost all your favourite sabbath songs on a single album and it’s not a greatest hits, it’s not a compilation, it flows and tells a story. What’s not to like? #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
139/500 Black Sabbath-Paranoid. Almost all your favourite sabbath songs on a single album and it’s not a greatest hits, it’s not a compilation, it flows and tells a story. What’s not to like? #500best2020 #BestAlbums
140/500 Bob Marley and the Wailers-Catch a Fire. It is a great record, fun, deep, groovy, unfussy and quite frankly awesome. Listen. Skip the greatest hits. Listen to this. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 27, 2026 at 10:23 AM
140/500 Bob Marley and the Wailers-Catch a Fire. It is a great record, fun, deep, groovy, unfussy and quite frankly awesome. Listen. Skip the greatest hits. Listen to this. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
141/500 Pixies-Doolittle. It’s angular and odd. A bit arty for arts sake but with a sense of itself. When it rocks it really is at its best, but for me I won’t go back to listen as a whole. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 26, 2026 at 8:51 AM
141/500 Pixies-Doolittle. It’s angular and odd. A bit arty for arts sake but with a sense of itself. When it rocks it really is at its best, but for me I won’t go back to listen as a whole. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
142/500 Bruce Springsteen-Born in the USA. Rousing social commentary disguised as a singalong. Songs of love. A great sense of groove. What an album. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
142/500 Bruce Springsteen-Born in the USA. Rousing social commentary disguised as a singalong. Songs of love. A great sense of groove. What an album. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
143/500 The Velvet Underground-The Velvet Underground. However many times I listen to it, this is never what I expect from a Velvet Underground album. It’s quite quiet, gentle and melodic, along with not being too odd or conceptual. I like. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 AM
143/500 The Velvet Underground-The Velvet Underground. However many times I listen to it, this is never what I expect from a Velvet Underground album. It’s quite quiet, gentle and melodic, along with not being too odd or conceptual. I like. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
144/500 LED Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti. Excellent. Classic Zep with the power and majesty of the band at their prime. I’m surprised it isn’t higher on the list. Sure it’s exactly what you’d expect from them. But then you expect greatness #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 23, 2026 at 8:49 AM
144/500 LED Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti. Excellent. Classic Zep with the power and majesty of the band at their prime. I’m surprised it isn’t higher on the list. Sure it’s exactly what you’d expect from them. But then you expect greatness #500best2020 #BestAlbums
145/500 Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP. At times I think it’s funny, others it’s deep, undoubtedly it was a hit factory. It is puerile nonsense for a large amount but when it hits it’s amazing. #500best2020 #BestAlbums
January 22, 2026 at 8:59 AM
145/500 Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP. At times I think it’s funny, others it’s deep, undoubtedly it was a hit factory. It is puerile nonsense for a large amount but when it hits it’s amazing. #500best2020 #BestAlbums