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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faust IV | 5 | 2.78 | +2.22 |
| White Light / White Heat | 5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
| For Your Pleasure | 5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
| Exile In Guyville | 5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
| Ocean Rain | 5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
| Daydream Nation | 5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
| Raw Power | 5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
| The Downward Spiral | 5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
| The Köln Concert | 5 | 3.39 | +1.61 |
| The Village Green Preservation Society | 5 | 3.4 | +1.6 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back In Black | 2 | 3.86 | -1.86 |
| Dire Straits | 2 | 3.72 | -1.72 |
| Californication | 2 | 3.71 | -1.71 |
| Tommy | 2 | 3.35 | -1.35 |
| Slippery When Wet | 2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
| Chirping Crickets | 2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
| Fever To Tell | 2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
| 461 Ocean Boulevard | 2 | 3.12 | -1.12 |
| The Rising | 2 | 3.05 | -1.05 |
| The Man Who | 2 | 3.01 | -1.01 |
5-Star Albums (24)
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Anthrax
4/5
Though I don’t necessarily mind Thrash, it’s hardly my thing; but this was surprisingly catchy and almost punk-ish at times.
13 likes
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
The Bruce Springsteen 9/11 album. Goes pretty much how you’d expect. It was a commercial revitalization for The Boss, but to me it sounds pompous, a checklist of every bad 00s (rock) production technique, and without a hook in sight.
8 likes
It was good, I especially liked “Stay With Me” and “All You Need.” I don’t think I’ll be coming back to it often, though. However as someone who grew up in Rod’s standards era, this was nice.
7 likes
Lou Reed
5/5
Lou Reed made better records before and after, but ‘Transformer’ has a hold of my heart. From the stellar glam rock production contributions of David Bowie and Mick Ronson to Lou’s subversive tales of the early 70s glam/gay scene, this album is a landmark in queer art.
4 likes
Merle Haggard
4/5
Left me broken inside. Damn, Merle, why’d you have to be so loud. Country music really is the music of pain.
4 likes
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Merle Haggard
4/5
Left me broken inside. Damn, Merle, why’d you have to be so loud. Country music really is the music of pain.
Talking Heads
5/5
Truly bangin’ album. Band in top form, kickstarting the 80s and art rock of the decade.
Anthrax
4/5
Though I don’t necessarily mind Thrash, it’s hardly my thing; but this was surprisingly catchy and almost punk-ish at times.
It was good, I especially liked “Stay With Me” and “All You Need.” I don’t think I’ll be coming back to it often, though. However as someone who grew up in Rod’s standards era, this was nice.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Took a few listens to get into, but I’ve come to think it’s great. I really love Robert’s vocal phrasing here; actually, I think his vocal performances in general on this album are quite good. The blending of the folk and rock elements on this LP provides wonderful texture.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Pretty good. Acoustic side best side. First two and final track were favourites.
TV On The Radio
4/5
Mindblowingly good, despite hideous cover. Really excited that it’s by a nearly all black rock band.
Lou Reed
5/5
Lou Reed made better records before and after, but ‘Transformer’ has a hold of my heart. From the stellar glam rock production contributions of David Bowie and Mick Ronson to Lou’s subversive tales of the early 70s glam/gay scene, this album is a landmark in queer art.
Tom Waits
4/5
Dr. John
3/5
Nice swampy rock. A slightly better album cover.
RE Tom Waits - Idk what the hell he’s saying but I am living. The things he does with his voice are fascinating and the production is very bare and caustic.
Kate Bush
5/5
A perfect album that I have written just... so much about. Top 10
Saint Etienne
4/5
Euphoric french house/downtempo electronic. Deep grooves that never overstay their welcome and a siren of a singer. Transcendent.
Moby Grape
3/5
Pretty good psych-folk. Some interesting performances and almost a punk-ish energy to some of them. A shame they had such a shit manager and that it’s unavailable to stream.
Elis Regina
3/5
It was simply okay. She is/was a talented vocalist and some of the arrangements were nice, but I don’t need to hear again.
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
Phenomenal. Wu-Tang comes swinging right out the gate with gritty lyrics and a dirty, almost lofi, sound. A classic.
Happy Mondays
2/5
It was fine. A regular degular rock album. It sounded good tho, and combine that with it mixing in some lite dance elements, I could see how it might have been like “wooaahh” in 1990.
Happy Mondays
4/5
not another fucking Happy Mondays album.
oh wait it’s good actually. pretty tripped out. some of the songs kinda blend, but the vibe’s good. a more interesting, less sterile version of the following album.
Maxwell
4/5
Fuck amazing. Smooth when it needs to be smooth, grooves when it needs to groove, and a couple bangers along the way. And it only gets better the longer you listen. “Urban Theme,” “Dancewitme,” “Whenever Wherever Whatever,” “Suitelady,” and “The Suite Theme” are gems.
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Perfectly pleasant. Interesting to me that it was also a 1967 Verve release.
The Damned
4/5
Pretty fucking good. Weird. Some psychedelic touches (particularly in the key parts) that give it an almost new wave/post punk flavour.
Pulp
4/5
I don’t have a fully formed opinion on it yet after my fourth listen. But I like it and am gonna keep trying.
I appreciate the Roxy-isms and that final track is a thing of beauty.
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
The Bruce Springsteen 9/11 album. Goes pretty much how you’d expect. It was a commercial revitalization for The Boss, but to me it sounds pompous, a checklist of every bad 00s (rock) production technique, and without a hook in sight.
Raekwon
3/5
If you liked 36 Chambers (you did), you’ll like this. Raekwon & Ghostface pretty much co-headline w/ RZA handling the production makes it a kinda Wu Tang album by proxy. A little overlong, though, but no idea what I’d cut (well, besides the copious “faggot”s - I’d probably start there).
Foo Fighters
4/5
Surprisingly very good. Only listened once, so the ones that were more obviously melodic grabbed me more.
Bert Jansch
3/5
Pretty solid folk album. Nice atmosphere and I love that there are some purely instrumental tracks. His playing was as good as his writing.
Sparks
3/5
Is Sparks the least of the Big 3 “artier” glam rock acts? Sure, they rock hard and there are some truly catchy tunes bolstered by their deliriously high pitched singing, but not much that truly wows me like “In Every Dreamhome a Heartache” or “Aladdin Sane.”
Queen
4/5
It’s good heavy fun. I prefer the proggy fairytale second side despite “Seas” being slight and “Black Queen” being a clear BoRhap dry run.
Sugar
3/5
Pretty fun. Great guitar tone. Really noisy, but without totally obscuring the power pop.
Travis
2/5
Boring. So boring. “Why Does It Always Rain On Me” and “Slide Show” were pretty great though.
Stephen Stills
4/5
Probably could have been cut down to a single disc, but I think there’s enough good material to warrant the second.
Mudhoney
3/5
Not really my thing, but still quite enjoyable psych garage.
The Smiths
5/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
One of my favourite albums of the decade, a truly satisfying double LP. Also possibly the only actual rock band of the era I care about.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Justice
4/5
A tremendous dance record. Gold standard for french house. So inspiring to learn it was all recorded in garageband.
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Todd Rundgren
4/5
On first listen a brilliant but exhausting single LP (emphasized because of a 55+ minute runtime).
The Doors
3/5
Some good tracks (“Hyacinth House,” “L’America,” title track), but rarely captures what was great and cool about them in the first place (“Riders On the Storm”).
Neil Young
4/5
John Martyn
4/5
Fugazi
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Blondie
4/5
Megadeth
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Van Halen
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Bon Jovi
2/5
The Who
2/5
Roni Size
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Blur
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Beatles
3/5
Faust
5/5
The Kinks
5/5
The Cure
4/5
Stan Getz
4/5
The xx
4/5
System Of A Down
4/5
CHIC
3/5
Various Artists
4/5
N.W.A.
5/5
The Doors
4/5
Goldie
4/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
3/5
Jacques Brel
4/5
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Dennis Wilson
4/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Erykah Badu
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
The kinda tacky cover made me nervous, but it was pretty good, actually! I think I liked it better than her second album. Some weaker numbers (mostly the ballads that kinda drag), but for the most part straight bops. My favourites were “Leaving Las Vegas,” the Wendy & Lisa-ish “Solidify,” and “All I Wanna Do.”
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Really diverse set of offerings here. Astounding that it was recorded in five days as a school project. It’s like proto-Sufjan.
Shack
3/5
Killing Joke
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Moby
3/5
First two third sounds like a commercial, final is just bland. At least he made that money tho (a fact that will never sit well with me when the artists he sampled surely did not).
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Definitely angling to be 90s Beastie Boys, but still pretty enjoyable overall.
Minutemen
4/5
The Auteurs
3/5
Missy Elliott
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Yes
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
Slipknot
3/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
Genesis
4/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
The Clash
3/5
Pavement
3/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Kanye West
4/5
David Gray
4/5
Cee Lo Green
2/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
2/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Electric Prunes
2/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
Stereolab
4/5
Lorde
4/5
The Jam
4/5
Wire
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Awesome record, great atmosphere. I love Wayne’s voice. Favourites are “A Spoonful Weighs a Ton” and “The Spiderbite Song.”
Incubus
3/5
Honestly had no strong feelings about this. Three track run from “Drive” to “Battlestar” rocks tho.
New Order
4/5
Scott Walker
3/5
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
I’ve tried so many times to get into it, but I just can’t. I love funk, I love things inspired by this record; I just do not love this record.
Tortoise
3/5
Opening track is a masterpiece!
3.5/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Tangerine Dream
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
This is on-paper not up my alley, but I cannot help but be charmed every time I hear it.
4/5
AC/DC
2/5
I’ll give them this: I like the opening of “Hell’s Bells,” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” is an all-time banger.
The Stooges
5/5
What else is there to say about Raw Power except that it’s fucking awesome?
The Rolling Stones
4/5
It’s a great album, arguably the start of The Stones’ classic era, yet it feels like more than the sum of its parts.
Buzzcocks
3/5
It’s fine. “Sixteen” is a jam tho.
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Just a perfectly written and beautiful sounding expression of a melancholy universal.
Korn
3/5
Way too long, or how I came to tell my aunt I like Korn now.
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Was gonna give this a 2 on first listen; on listen 4, i am sufficiently Buffalo Springfieldpilled.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
I haven’t revisited this in about a year. I really forgot how quaint it sounds next to the following Heads albums.
Curiously, Side 2 is perhaps the better side?
Richard Thompson
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Last three songs - “White Rabbit,” especially - go hard.
Miriam Makeba
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Not being able to give this a 3.5 hurts.
The Black Crowes
4/5
“Angels” is actually one of the weaker songs on here; the least of the ballads, anyway.
Green Day
4/5
I have loved American Idiot since I was but a preteen; some of it has aged for the worse (“Homecoming” and the title track), but most of it (including “Whatsername,” “Give Me Novacaine” - thank you, Angus - and fan favorite “Jesus of Suburbia”) for the better.
The Band
4/5
“Up On Cripple Creek” unlocked old memories with my dad.
Oasis
4/5
Wow, maybe Britpop is good.
Living Colour
3/5
Stacked back-half, but still not really for me. I’m glad Living Colour exists, though; they were vertainly better than the Chili Peppers.
Love
4/5
Every single song went hard, but “!Que Vida!,” “Seven and Seven Is,” “She Comes in Colors,” and “Revelation,” especially.
David Bowie
4/5
I have loved David Bowie since I was a child (he’s my most scrobbled artist at over 8k) and the Young Americans album has only gotten better with time. It is a frequent go-to for me.
Also, “Fame” on great headphones is an experience.
Keith Jarrett
5/5
What do you mean this is all improvised?
Bob Dylan
5/5
Side C kinda drags, but “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” has me crying and throwing up at work; let’s call it even.
The Temptations
4/5
The Pogues
3/5
The sweet propulsion of the first three songs grinds to a halt for “Fairytale,” but the quality of the music keeps this not just afloat but sailing.
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Ride
4/5
Every song is amazing, even the bonus material on the reissue.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Those harmonies brought me to tears (im high).
Tears For Fears
5/5
I am already a bug fan of this record and it somehow still gets better with each listen.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Adele
3/5
The hits have aged very well and the album cuts’ consistency were pleasant surprises.
Cream
4/5
The mono mix is probably better.
3.5
Joy Division
4/5
Roxy Music
5/5
Life-changing album; thanks to Oscar, you blew my mind.
Traffic
4/5
Sounds like dozing in the barn on a late Summer day.
3.5
Donovan
4/5
I have a pretty huge crush on Donovan, but this isn’t my favorite of his. ‘Hurdy Gurdy’ all tha way.
3.5
Black Sabbath
4/5
I very recently relistened to the Ozzy-era Sabbath records, and this surprisingly easily was the runaway favorite.
4.5
Radiohead
3/5
3.5
Big Black
4/5
Did not expect to like this so much, but it fucks pretty hard.
4.25
Massive Attack
3/5
Not my favorite Massive Attack, honestly, but still a solid start for the group and the Trip Hop genre.
3.5
ABBA
4/5
I am a huge ABBA fan, but I even I will concede that the hits here - “Dancing Queen,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Money, Money, Money,” and “Fernando” (on some International editions) - are the biggest hitters. However, it would be foolhardy to overlook Arrival’s album cuts. Opener “When I Kissed the Teacher” is as potent a pop song as the hits. For all their kitsch-iness, “Tiger” and “Why Did It Have to Be Me?” charm. And the title track and closer might be the most beautiful piece of music the group ever did - an ode to Swedish folk music, a wash of keys, strings, and vocal harmonies.
4.0
Van Morrison
5/5
I am having a bad day and I really needed this.
4.5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
A stunning, beautiful, maximalist blast.
4.0
Alice In Chains
3/5
I’ve always been a bit afraid of Alice In Chains. (Rightfully so.)
3.5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
I feel like this year I finally get 90s music. This is awesome (though, I do agree it makes a bit more sense in the context of a 1997 release).
3.75
The Incredible String Band
3/5
Amazingly trippy psych folk. It just scratches a certain inch on my brain.
3.5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Did these guys ever make a bad song???
Despite all odds of my being a CCR fan… 3.5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Banger after banger. The last minute or so of the title track drives me wild.
4.25
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
4.5
Rod Stewart
3/5
I always forget that there was a time when Rod Stewart was cool and not the creepy lounge lizard he eventually became. (I hope this means that) I finally understand what my grandma sees in him.
3.25
Dire Straits
2/5
2.5
Parliament
3/5
3.5
U2
4/5
First listen: This is good, I just have no strong feelings about U2 either way.
Second listen, high: Is this the best album ever? Y/Y?
3.5
Liz Phair
5/5
I LOVE HER!!! Liz Phair, your music helped define my 2021!
4.5
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
Horrific album cover, terrific music.
3.75
Jurassic 5
3/5
Old man rap that rewards multiple listens. yeah
3.25
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Some nice tunes. You could argue that there’s nothing wrong with it, but that’s not really a compliment, is it?
3.25
Common
4/5
I found this album on my own a year pr two ago. Before then, I had an image of Common in my head as a cornball a la John Legend (who happens to be featured here). Maybe he, like Legend, has earned that title over the years since ‘Be,’ but it could not be further from the truth here. ‘Be’ knocks.
4.0
Spacemen 3
4/5
I think this is actively changing my life; I am also a musical artist, and I think they get what I’m trying to do? Sorry, this is just the first time I’ve heard that.
Also, the organ on “Let Me Down Gently” is so beautiful.
3.75
Weather Report
3/5
3.5
The Youngbloods
4/5
I feel like this is something y’all won’t like, so naturally it is right up my alley.
3.75
Doves
3/5
3.25
The Prodigy
4/5
Succumb.
(The Narcotic Suite is nuts.)
4.0
Miles Davis
4/5
Drive Like Jehu
4/5
3.5
The Beach Boys
4/5
3.5
Echo And The Bunnymen
5/5
I’m starting to feel like this kind of music (late 1970s through the 1980s, British, reverb-y) was engineered in a mad scientist’s lab especially for me.
(Also, re: the Beach Boys album I neglected to say anything about yesterday, it is very good early 70s psych-pop. Like the rest of their music, it took me some time to warm up to Surf’s Up, despite being a fan of the genre.)
4.5
Eric Clapton
2/5
Half a good album (+ “Motherless Children”).
2.25
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4/5
Now, Keith Emerson is a God.
4.25
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
If you don’t like this, idk what to say, man.
4.0
Brian Eno
4/5
Perfect, amazing, never been done before, ahead of its time, etc.
4.0
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Smooth and funky.
3.75