Back in 2024, Apple Music started publishing a list of the top 100 albums of all time. Based on everything I could find, it received a lot of negatrive response, which is the only response it could’ve gotten. The nature of any published list called “The top X things” will always be hatred and negativity. Everyone has their opinion, and everyone elses is wrong.

So, I spent years studying music at an academic and specialized level. Classes spent breaking down and scrutinizing the great recordings, their formulas, and why they were acclaimed but also artless? I don’t know, studyhing any art form in depth immediately removes the shine from it. Learning how the sausage gets made can have irreversible negative impacts on one’s phyche. But I digress.

I have decided that I am going to listen to all 100 of these albums in their entirety. Afterall, an album containing only one hit and 11 tracks of garbage surely can’t make the list right? So, here we go!

Album 100 - Body Talk by Robyn

I have to admit here that I did not know who Robyn was. She is a Swedish pop singer, and this album was released in 2010. A very electro synth vibe is present from go. Claps and gunshots are used as backbeats, thumping four on the floor base prevails in all cases. The tone changes from song to song, but it is predictable synth pop. A rather strange track called “Don’t F***in tell me what to do” stands out as an experimental, almost Beatles #9 style track.

The single on this album is called “Indestrucible”. It is the most obvious mass market track on the album, with simple but effective single note synth leads.

Objectively, it is well produced, and varied enough to keep you listening. I personally failed to find anything astonishing that plants it as a foundational top 100 album, although there is a cameo from Snoop Dog which perhaps added some weight. On the editorial side, much emphasis is placed on it’s feminist empowering themes, and that might be enough in this day and age to give it the boost it needed to get to the top 100.

It’s not my cup of tea from a daily listening standpoint, but it’s well produced, not terribly repetitive, and maintains some originality in a genre that can suffer from lack of identity. Pretty good. We’ll move on to #99 tomorrow.