"Great book that due to the subject matter reads somewhere cross between a collection of reviews and essays. Sticks to the subject very purposefully - it is not 100 great albums (and 500 songs...), or 100 albums you need to listen to. It is 100 albums 'that changed music'. And as such, the selection is quite good. Enjoyable writing as well."

2.5 stars, to be specific. I learned some things about music I didn't know before, and this book is packed with information. But DAMN, the misspellings, the unnecessary punctuation, the way several words ran together without spacing...that all made it difficult to enjoy this book. Ex. Sex Pistols spelled Sex Pistol's. Ugh, it pained me to type that!

While I have a lot of the albums in this book, there's a lot more I don't have. So it's time to spend some money beefing up my already too large library.

There is some great writing in here, a lot of very rock by numbers uninspired writing and some down right embarrassing writing. Exactly what you’d expect from this sort of publication.

i have read a lot of books and lists on 'the 100 best...' albums/songs/artists, etc etc etc. this one differs tho because it isn't necessarily the 100 BEST albums, but the 100 MOST IMPORTANT albums, in that they changed trends and influenced others. so in that respect it was interesting to read the stories behind both many revered classic albums, and many that were overlooked at the time but in retrospect were very imortant in the shaping of music genres and trends.

Fantastic collaboration of music from all eras

I LOVE these list books, but this one wasn't great, for a couple of reasons. First, it was WAY too UK focused for my tastes. There were several bands included that I had never heard of, much less their albums. Second, the book might as well have been called 100 Albums that Joe Strummer of The Clash liked a lot, because he's quoted in about every third review. Third, the typos - sheesh! Fourth, number 100 is "Spice" by the Spice Girls. Ugh.