You can buy a record guide and spend $600 on the 30 essential albums of the music.

They may just have minted the new decade's first essential album.

Some essential albums from down the decades to get you started, personally chosen by Bruce.

In 2000, Vibe magazine included it on their list of the 100 essential albums of the 20th century.

An essential and important album to alternative rock.

The magazine later listed it as one of the "Essential Albums of the 90s."

Amazon.com has called this an essential album.

Allmusic awarded the album 5 stars and called it "one of the essential ambient albums."

In 2007, Vibe rated Brandy among the 150 most essential albums since its launch.

Similarly, Chill Out is cited as "one of the essential ambient albums".