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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Muddy Waters brought the blues from the Delta to the city. This meant not only his own journey from Mississippi to Chicago, but his remarkable writing, which expressed the lives and thoughts of the newly-urban black working class. The Anthology collects fifty songs from his classic era, most originally released on the Chess label (not that there aren't other great Waters songs from before and after these years). His massive, sonorous voice, backed by the finest bands in the genre (the training ground for such stars as Little Walter, Buddy Guy, and James Cotton), makes his deceptively crafted lyrics sound like sermons from the mount. "Mannish Boy," "I Just Want to Make Love to You," "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" — they're all here, laying the groundwork for the rock & roll that followed.