"There are albums you love. Ones that, tastemakers and list-creators be damned, you're going to put on repeat year after year. There are albums considered the best of all time. Ones annointed by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and that guy in college who made it a point to tell you about them in great detail. And then there are albums that changed everything. Ones that may have gone unrecognized in their time, sold no copies, were marred by disaster, or just flat out failed to connect with people. But like wine, cheese, and good whiskey, time revealed them to be masterpieces.
Not every record here is a cult classic you've never heard of but every single one shifted the culture, inspired generations, and helped shape the sound of everything that came after. Some were underground cult classics. Others were global phenomena. But every one of them left a mark."
