TIME 100 ALBUMS PODCASTS

PODCAST: Welcome to the All-TIME 100 Albums - the musical compilations of the last half-century that need no introduction. That said, listen in below as music critics Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light introduce the list and talk about the top albums of the 1950s and '60s.

PODCAST: We know. Twenty-nine of the 100 greatest albums of all time come in the 1970s, and Pink Floyd isn't there. Play this podcast to learn why we picked the titles we did, and if you have something to say, tell us about it using the talkback link below.

PODCAST: Maybe it's a Sign O' The Times that you're listening to critics' audio recordings about great music, but this podcast about how we chose the best albums of the 1980s really is a Thriller. Give it a listen below.

PODCAST: Here's music even the younger set will know by heart. Listen to selected clips from the 1990s through present day as music critic Josh Tyrangiel discusses his picks.

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Legendary DJ John Peel wrote the first ever review of a PJ Harvey song, "Dress", in 1992: "Admirable, if not always enjoyable." For a decade, the label stuck, at least in part thanks to Polly Jean's own insistence on reaching for Big Themes while screeching over blues guitar feedback. But Stories resolves almost everything about her career—the battle between rough blues and sweet rock melodies, between demons and bright days—over the course of 45 minutes, and without a single dud track. On the roaring opener "Big Exit" she feels immortal and makes you believe she might be. "You Said Something" hovers gorgeously over Manhattan. Even a duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke can't drag her back into paranoia. One of modern music's great artists at the very peak of her abilities.