Having made sites to share my favourite pop/rock songs and my favourite classical music compositions before, I now have made this site for my favourite pop/rock albums.
Although I have toyed with the idea for many decades, my first list only materialized in Covid time. I set restrictions on what albums would qualify (no live albums, no compilations, no soundtracks, no Christmas albums) and eventually ended up with a list of over 600. Looking at it again after a few years, I decided this was way too much - there were too many albums that I just liked instead of loved, or in other words, too many albums that were not essential from my point of view. So in 2025 I re-did this exercise, aiming for about 300 albums total. I made one extra rule: an album has to be at least one year old (based on release date) before I can include it.
In line with the aforementioned other sites that I made, I have used AI (ChatCGPT) to come up with reviews for the selected albums - specifically asking not to give a song by song discussion, and to include a striking title. I have also added a few lines of my own to each review - these were written before the AI reviews were generated.
The albums are listed in chronological order. I have included a link to the complete list (top right) as well as labels of the artists/bands to facilitate finding what one is interested in.