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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners
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5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
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Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
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5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
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Connected
Stereo MC's
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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Black Monk Time
The Monks
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Simple Minds
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5 | 2.95 | +2.05 |
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Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
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5 | 2.99 | +2.01 |
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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
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5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
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Real Life
Magazine
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5 | 3.06 | +1.94 |
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Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
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5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
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Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers
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5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
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1 | 3.38 | -2.38 |
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Smash
The Offspring
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1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
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Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
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1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
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In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
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1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
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1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
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Bad Company
Bad Company
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1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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1 | 3.2 | -2.2 |
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Highly Evolved
The Vines
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1 | 3.03 | -2.03 |
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All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2
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1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
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Want One
Rufus Wainwright
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1 | 2.9 | -1.9 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Duran Duran | 2 | 5 |
| The Cure | 2 | 5 |
| Pixies | 3 | 4.33 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Frank Sinatra | 2 | 1 |
| Elvis Presley | 2 | 1.5 |
| U2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 3 | 2 |
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Laura Nyro · 24 likes
2/5
Her voice keeps switching from annoying to beautiful
The Offspring · 8 likes
1/5
Nails on a chalkboard
Dexys Midnight Runners · 2 likes
5/5
Yeah
The Incredible String Band · 1 likes
3/5
Sounds like a modern hipster band
The Cure · 1 likes
5/5
One of my favorites
1-Star Albums (17)
All Ratings
Duran Duran
5/5
I listen to this album a couple times a year. Great album to start with! Upbeat and classic.
Miles Davis
4/5
I had this album in regular rotation back in high school but it's been a couple decades since I've listened to it. Today is now a jazz day and I'm listening to all sorts of old favorites
Sonic Youth
4/5
Sad I missed this band growing up. This was my first time listening to this album. It's beautiful but I think it's a little too '90s for me to really get into now
Van Halen
2/5
I've heard most of these songs individually but never together. I'm not a fan.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
First time I've heard of this band! I like it.
ZZ Top
3/5
Solid music, not my style
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Quality. I remember this well from parties at college
Elliott Smith
3/5
Daft Punk
2/5
I feel like an old person saying this album gave me a headache but I was 14 when it came out. It seems so repetitive, with its only saving grace being familiarity.
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
I should listen to this more. Enjoyed the album thoroughly
Fugees
5/5
Perfect
Fairport Convention
2/5
It's a shame to give it a bad rating because the music style is great but I cannot handle the singer's voice
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Perfect
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Whiny, annoying. Although I did like some hipster music from that era, I never understood the draw of this band.
Bob Dylan
3/5
I'm a fan, but this album is not one of my favorites
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Bizarre
Method Man
3/5
Great. I can see how this influenced today's artists. Not very catchy to me
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
Glad I listened
Love
4/5
Lovely, and in the style of good '60s music the lyrics are painful (in a good way)
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
There is this quality to this album that makes it great rap even after 25 years. I think it's how many collaborators are on it
Chicago
4/5
Lovely. I'll have to pull this out again
Pink Floyd
3/5
Discordant. I didn't know that Pink Floyd went back this far
George Michael
3/5
Smooth, sexy.
Ryan Adams
2/5
Eagles
3/5
Solid, great music
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Beautiful voice, not always my favorite music
Paul Weller
2/5
I can't handle the voice
Erykah Badu
5/5
I can't believe I've never heard this album before! This is going in my regular rotation
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
I love the references to pagers and watching Arsenio Hall on channel 9
Laura Nyro
2/5
Her voice keeps switching from annoying to beautiful
Beck
4/5
I purchased the CD when it came out and was disappointed at how chill it was. I can appreciate it a lot more now but I think Beck is better when he is more funky
The Who
2/5
I love the Who. I hate live albums. The sound quality is awful even though this is one of the best albums.
The Incredible String Band
3/5
Sounds like a modern hipster band
Neil Young
2/5
The songs are fine, I just can't stand his voice
Violent Femmes
5/5
I can appreciate this album as much now as on my first listen when I was six years old. It isn't subtle. It is still brilliant.
The Dictators
4/5
Fun. Never heard of the band before
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Quality music, not my style
Mudhoney
3/5
Another album I wish I had heard back in the '90s
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Some great songs but the rest was too esoteric for me
The Cure
5/5
One of my favorites
Donovan
4/5
Pretty darn good, especially for an album I've never heard of before
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Decent jazz album
Yes
4/5
A very specific sound but also mostly fun
The Band
4/5
The rest of the songs are almost as good as the song The Weight
Traffic
3/5
I've never heard of it, it's inoffensive, didn't blow me away
Primal Scream
4/5
Another new-to-me artist. I think I would have been blown away in the nineties, but now it's okay.
Roxy Music
4/5
Super interesting! I'm still not sure if I enjoyed it but I'll give it more listens later on
Beatles
3/5
There is a song on here that I sang in choir and I thought it was something way more lame than the beatles
The Stooges
3/5
Too much distortion, it hurts my brain
Fugazi
2/5
I like Fugazi but this album just sounded like noise
The Smiths
4/5
First listen of that album but I know Morrissey well. He didn't ever change his style, did he?
Queen
4/5
Some great songs, some not so great songs. But I can't bear to give Queen less than four stars
The Offspring
1/5
Nails on a chalkboard
Aerosmith
2/5
Surprising because I'm a fan of the later pop selections from Aerosmith, but this album was not enjoyable
Crosby, Stills & Nash
5/5
I usually just think of them as classic rock but I was really blown away listening to the whole album together
John Martyn
4/5
surprisingly pleasant for music that is not my style
Fleet Foxes
3/5
One of those albums I put on and then a half hour later remember I'm listening to music. Entirely inoffensive, but I'm not seeing the art.
The Charlatans
2/5
I don't get why this is good
T. Rex
3/5
I've tried this album a couple times and still can't tell if I like it
The Smiths
3/5
The least good of a great discography
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Oh the memories
Gene Clark
3/5
Not my style but I can see how it's good
Muddy Waters
4/5
can't believe I'm giving a live album this high of a rating
Air
4/5
Pretty good, eclectic album. Weird that the only song from it I know was a pop hit
Pixies
4/5
Not their strongest album - odd that it's on this list. But it's hard to go wrong with the Pixies.
Fishbone
3/5
Not my style of music but I actually listened and I can see why some would consider it great
N.W.A.
5/5
Aside from the misogyny, this album is just about perfect
Paul Simon
4/5
Way to chill for most situations but it is a very good album
The Undertones
5/5
One of my all time favorites
The Velvet Underground
5/5
I had only ever heard the song "pale blue eyes" on many mixed tapes - the rest of their music I only knew with Nico. Much better without her.
Goldfrapp
2/5
It's a genre I like so I want to give it 3 stars but it's seriously so annoying I can't
Paul Simon
4/5
Solid. All good songs
Missy Elliott
4/5
Only one fantastic song but the whole album is pretty good
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
If he only had a better voice
Death In Vegas
3/5
Interesting. Worth a full listen a couple times
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
I'm glad I listened to the whole album; I would never have known there were Springsteen songs I could tolerate well. Some I would swear weren't him.
Eurythmics
4/5
I don't like the song Sweet Dreams so I was shocked that I love the rest of the music on this album!
Stan Getz
5/5
Always a classic
Elvis Presley
2/5
Surprised I disliked this. It was annoying with the sliding, drunk-sounding voice
Talking Heads
4/5
I listened four times through. Really great.
The Zombies
5/5
One of the best albums, musically, lyrically, and vocally, I've ever heard
The Gun Club
4/5
Sounded generic on first listen but I really liked it after the second
The Soft Boys
3/5
If give them another listen! Pretty good but nothing caught me
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Not my style at all but so beautiful I'll revisit it for sure!
Killing Joke
3/5
I could give it another try but I'm not feeling it. I could see myself really liking it if I fist heard it as a teenager
Circle Jerks
3/5
Fantastic that they fit a whole album into 15 minutes. of all the hardcore punk I've seen this is some of the more enjoyable.
k.d. lang
3/5
really, not bad. I can tell why she has so many fans. It's just too slow and not electronic enough for me
KISS
2/5
So grating, and I can't find the greatness
Barry Adamson
2/5
A bit too weird modern jazz for me
Motörhead
2/5
Motorhead is good. Live albums are not.
Stereo MC's
5/5
I really should have owned this cassette, damn
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Funky, smooth, and lots of social commentary about drugs.
Duran Duran
5/5
It's impressive when I already know most of the songs on an album. Odd that there are so many repeats made of different versions of songs on two discs, but also lots of other odd choices that made it stand out.
DJ Shadow
2/5
It was gibberish. Not uncomfortable to listen to, and I get that he revolutionized hip hop and all, but I couldn't make it out.
Kanye West
2/5
Something something separate the art from the artist, I don't know what I would have rated this if I didn't know who the nazi is. Then again he talked about women as females after sending dick pics so maybe it deserves two stars? Listened to the whole thing, props to me.
Jethro Tull
3/5
Musically fantastic, vocally grating
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
Too much repetition and electric beat for me in general, though by the Erasure-like song Sometimes it gets more melodic and I started grooving.
The xx
2/5
I had read about the xx and was excited to listen to dream pop. I heard fine electronica. Not much song to song distinction.
The The
4/5
I don't know why I thought The The was in the '60's era of The Who. I'm a big fan of This Is the Day from Empire Records, and the rest of the album is pretty great. I'll give this lots of more listens.
Elton John
3/5
With how much I admire the persona of Elton John, I really want to like his music more.
The Stooges
5/5
I listened to it on repeat for days
3/5
Great early country, if you like that. Surprised I haven't heard of her before.
Van Morrison
2/5
Another one I just don't get. I want to feel inspired by the Celtic poetry, the starving artist beauty that so many hear, but I hear a slightly annoying guy in a cheezy bar in Vegas. It's surely an interesting follow up to Brown Eyed Girl.
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Refreshing when you know the first banger of a song and the entire album continues in that groove
John Cale
3/5
Really underimpressive from the Velvet Underground guy. I'm reading all of these as bland background songs I had to keep reminding myself to listen to
Guided By Voices
2/5
grateful it was so short. I'm grateful for the nineties but not this voice, sadly
Beth Orton
2/5
So little instrumentation and effort can make my shoulders go up to my ears from how awful the songs make me feel inside, but it's also not bad, it's just drivel with a droning voice
The Monkees
4/5
People are always surprised when there is a breakout artist from a boy band or a girl group, not realizing that they are real artists in themselves. This album is when The Monkees were finally able to write their own shit and it shows
Peter Tosh
4/5
I'd never heard of this album, artist, or the main song before, and man what I had missed out on. Glad to listen now.
Bert Jansch
3/5
Folksy, seems pretty socially justicy which i like but I still don't enjoy folk music
The Beach Boys
3/5
If I had this album when I was a pre-teen I would have devoured it. Great American stuff, glad to have realized I really only know Pet Sounds.
David Bowie
3/5
If I didn't just listen to Low it probably would have a four. Not bad, not great
Deep Purple
3/5
The organ is spectacular.
3/5
Fun new wave, a bit cheesy
Dr. John
3/5
Really fun groovy stuff, sounds like they had a blast while making it
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Amazing that I've been hearing these songs for over forty years and that first one can still make me cry. The percussion and instrumentals on Cecelia are delightful. Each time I order a lager I sing "I'd rather be a lager than an ale" to the tune of El Condor Pasa. The range on this album is impressive as hell. I love how many songs are quiet with only guitar, some have choir backing vocals, some have horns or flutes, and each fit the song perfectly, and the songs flow together in an album so well
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
This brings me back. A full listen and I was surprised at how much of the album I know, never having owned it. College houseparties screaming about 'fuck the norm', but listening now the music phrasing is sick as hell.
Pixies
5/5
It's hard to be objective about an album whose cassette I owned and whose songs belonged on a third of all my mixed tapes. Perfect road trip album
Mercury Rev
3/5
Hometown pride (Go Bills!) will never be enough to get me to understand this damn band
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
I recognize how important this album is, and I finished it. I don't like electronic music.
Ramones
3/5
Repetitive, bad use of instruments and vocals, but so much freaking fun. Great energy and lyrics
George Michael
4/5
In the nineties I called his music cheesy. Listening today I'm in a total groove, though I haven't heard most of these songs before. I am very pleasantly surprised
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Aside from the bad covers, chill music
Serge Gainsbourg
3/5
A concept album that works. Creepy as hell, though if you put his albums in order the next song that comes up is "nazi rock"... his songs fit this perfect mood and this album does the thing an album is supposed to do. it takes me on a journey, and before I knew the lyrics I felt really good about the journey.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Beautiful songs, rocking album, can't stand his voice
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Since I saw the album as a teenager, I have wished this was a lesbian power album. Even if the lyrics are about the singer loving an abusive guy, this album slaps.
Megadeth
4/5
Great album, especially on a US holiday. Feels patriotic.
Minutemen
2/5
Better than I was expecting but a double album?! Not fair.
Sam Cooke
2/5
I love Sam Cooke but live albums are rough
Drive-By Truckers
1/5
The worst parts about classic rock, men who think they can sing, and men who love classic rock. The least terrible part was the spoken word song
Black Sabbath
5/5
Damn, what a great album. Good example of a rough voice used perfectly. powerful lyrics, good songs, good flow, and an album that changed the game. Legit.
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
Nostolgia but bad? Don't know how it made the list
Pixies
4/5
Really fun and fresh. Not their best, but some strong songs
Iggy Pop
4/5
I'm sad that China Girl was an Iggy Pop song that Bowie covered. I've always hated that song. Otherwise, this album slaps
Kate Bush
4/5
This was my first listen. How remarkable, I need to remember to go back for more Kate Bush
The Who
3/5
A good groove, doesn't seem like the type of music you'd smash a guitar to now a days
The Kinks
5/5
One of my lesser favorites from this band. Village Green and others really tell a cohesive story, this is some cool songs slapped on an album. Still great songs
Coldplay
3/5
So I love me some heavy radio play pop music, I love a good movie song, I'm not against popular stuff. I just checked and I'm dissapointed the Spice Girls never made this list. But I've never once intentionally listened to a Coldplay song and I know 3/4 of these mediocre, sleep-mood songs. Are they just a more friendly radiohead? I'm so confused. Worst part is they are not bad enough to give a two.
Talking Heads
4/5
I always think of I'm Not In Love as a Toadies song, it was fo funny to hear the original.
10cc
3/5
Gave it a couple tries over weeks, couldn't find the genius I was told was there but there were grooves
Goldie
2/5
Back when I was doing warehouse raves in the '90s I sometimes went to the jungle room because that's where the cute guys danced. I never lasted longer than four songs. I genuinely mean no shade to this artist, I just can't handle the whole freaking genre.
Steely Dan
3/5
A couple bangers (like A Fool), but the rest of the album isn't worth a second listen
Janis Joplin
4/5
I am glad I have grown into Janis Joplin. I was putting this album off because I have always found her voice grating, but now I see a deep soul and feeling. The songs are beautiful.
Moby Grape
2/5
Great harmonies. Otherwise boring
David Gray
2/5
boring '90s crap
Beach House
3/5
I kept forgetting there was music playing. I've heard this album at a house party before so I don't need a re-listen, I am giving it a third star for how unoffensive it is
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
2/5
Double albums now get an automatic -1 star. I don't like that these songs and instruments are fun, good, quality, high-energy, and the untrained and rough voices take away from it so much.
Robbie Williams
2/5
I have no idea how these songs were so popular in Europe. Signed, an American '90s Spice Girls megafan
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Even though it's new to me it's such a feeling of the '90s that I heard my partner and hid my snack because I was so convinced it was my mom
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
WTF? Nick Cave is great at something, and that is making fun murder ballads and looking mysterious with a full band. He is very bad at being emo and introspective. This is easily his worst album.
Queen
3/5
Surprising lack of hits for a Queen album. Still good
XTC
4/5
This one surprised me. It was boring and a little cheezy at first but it's got a lot of depth and gets lots of relistens.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
When I first heard the Yeah Yeah Yeahs I was blown away. I heard them a lot a lot, and now I generally avoid them. I realized in listening to this album, I definitely avoid because of overexposure. They are so solid and I will come back to this band hard in a decade or so.
Kate Bush
5/5
All the emotion. Incredible soundscapes and synth. Powerful
Morrissey
4/5
A good 15 years since I've heard the full album, it's still a banger
The Black Crowes
1/5
boring and annoying
Richard Thompson
3/5
I'm surprised that I didn't dislike listening to this folk music. Almost a point off for the live songs at the end, but the studio recordings were pretty chill
The Specials
3/5
At first sound, I was excited and wanted to give it a five. Then I heard some racial lyrics so I read a blurb that said it was politically reactive to Thatcher and got excited again. Then I paid attention to the lyrics as the songs went on and I gotta say when I do that the mysogyny always lets me down
Tom Waits
4/5
I have never liked Tom Waits voice, so it's a big surprise to give the first album of his I listened to a four. This guy is funny
Caetano Veloso
3/5
fun
R.E.M.
3/5
This was difficult to listen to critically because it kept leaking into the background. It definitely belongs on the list. I've heard far too much alt rock and too much of the poppy REM songs to see this for the first time, but it must have been magical. Now it's good.
Van Morrison
2/5
He sounds like such a douche
Sigur Rós
2/5
I tried, I like other post-rock, but I don't get it.
Bad Company
1/5
All that sound that when it comes on the radio I change the channel
Shuggie Otis
5/5
Pure surprise. This beauty is amazing.
Ice T
3/5
Glad I checked it out
Frank Ocean
2/5
I really like r&b but this doesn't do it for me
Johnny Cash
3/5
Funny
Stephen Stills
2/5
Blah classic rock
Willie Nelson
4/5
Unexpectedly beautiful
Richard Hawley
2/5
If I could cherry pick a few songs the score might double
Roni Size
3/5
I gave this more of a fair shot than I might have otherwise because I have a good friend named Roni. I still dislike drum and bass, but this band does it real well
Spacemen 3
3/5
Pretty chill, great background music
The Stone Roses
4/5
I only knew the (perfect) first song, the rest is not as perfect but interesting
Frank Sinatra
1/5
The first few seconds were great, I love Jobim, then Sinatra's stupid voice had to ruin everything
Suede
2/5
meh
Ray Charles
3/5
Surprising, fun, glad I listened all the way through. This is now officially my favorite country album
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
Brilliant shit
Astrud Gilberto
5/5
Voice as light as air. Songs sway like the breeze
Joy Division
4/5
Fantastic
Muddy Waters
3/5
Much better sound quality than old blues, but awesome in its own right
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
I've heard this album Maybe dozens of times. I don't understand how some artists I love, admire this guy. He seems so College radio.
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Haunting, heart wrenching, sweet, and timeless in a way that my partner guessed it was recorded in 2005
John Coltrane
4/5
Something special. It can be background music but it's the type that makes me stop and breathe and relax every so often.
Massive Attack
4/5
Instead of sounding cool, it makes me feel cool from the outside in
Gang Starr
4/5
Luck of the draw that I missed this cassette in the '90s, I would have memorized this album hard. There were even enough clean lyrics I could have sung them around my mom.
I kept listening to Gang Starr after this and enjoyed their later stuff even more but this album does slap.
The Temptations
4/5
Solid as heck.
Wilco
3/5
It hurts to give this a three because it's truly not good enough. But just fifteen years ago I had this album on repeat and I'm not a dumb person so there must be something to it.
David Bowie
4/5
I am glad for the impetus to listen to old Bowie! Some of the songs were really mind bending. I really enjoyed several listens through.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
I do get down with Ornette Coleman on occasion and I have nothing against stochastic music. I do like some Captain Beefheart songs too. This album was a bit too Free Rock for me, the distortion was so constant I had to check my speakers a couple times. Although it had its moments it wasn't a winner.
Skepta
3/5
Fresh sound, great beats, comprehensible lyrics. If I didn't understand the lyrics I might make this a favorite album, but the singers show grown men unable to handle basic emotion, and I see enough of that in my daily life.
Brian Eno
4/5
Brilliant tones, voice, invigorating and relaxing music. I must revisit
Black Sabbath
3/5
Good, fun, rocking, and if I didn't go in blind knowing their later work it would get a higher score
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Great artist, good album
De La Soul
5/5
Fun as hell
Magazine
5/5
Woah, this is my first never-heard-of-them-before five. I know the singer from the buzzcocks but these songs are much more like a well baked breakfast pastry than his previous band's wonderful Nick Tahoe's garbage plate songs
Weather Report
3/5
This album always is on the edge of that line for me - it is technically my jam, I love many of the artists in the supergroup, but together it sounds so damn CHEEZY
The Pharcyde
3/5
Really fun! Then you catch some of the lyrics
Dr. Dre
3/5
Separate the killer beats art from the awful lyrics artist. Lots of these albums with bad lyrics pass me by because they mumble but Dre annunciates how he will beat a woman if she talks back to him and how women are shit but hoes and tricks. It's tough because there's nostolgia but it's a painful listen
Minor Threat
3/5
Really fun and not nearly as bad on my migraine as any of the electronic albums
Dennis Wilson
2/5
I really feel like I should give it more of a chance but it fell so damn flat for me
The Police
3/5
I started thinking I had listened to this album and realized pretty quickly my sister had their greatest hits album instead. I have decided I like The Police much better than Sting. There are some bangers on here and the lyrics are way less creepy
Faust
4/5
At first try I had a migraine and it was awful. At second try I was high and it was heaven sent.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
4/5
Really smooth and interesting. Note in future for background jams
The Band
3/5
I loved the Easy Rider soudtrack growing up and I'm sad this didn't take me there. But some songs are worth a few more listens.
Dead Kennedys
3/5
Solid. Can't understand a word
The Lemonheads
3/5
It's the '90s. nothing at all bad but nothing too stand out either. They are a great feeling
The Undertones
4/5
Fun as hell
The Cure
5/5
Moody, crunchy, beautiful
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
It's fine, I'm glad they had their political say, there's a place for that today, but there's also a place for a lot of today's well rehersed final cuts to be on this old album. Glad our modern psych rock is much better.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Nah, I'm good.
Common
3/5
Good, but I like his earlier stuff better
2/5
They are such stand up people so how does their music come across so douchey?
Morrissey
2/5
Disliked a bunch, and I wonder.. I think this is the only Morrissey solo album I didn't listen to when it came out. I think Nostalgia has a lot to do with my like of Morrissey
Manu Chao
4/5
Catchy. Brings me back to hippie circles while traveling the country in the early '00s. I heard the guy is a real one, walked away from millions a few times because he won't do commercials
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Smooth
MGMT
4/5
Fun and inventive
Oasis
2/5
Shock - I thought this was going to get a 4 or 5 because I went to high school in the late '90s but this album is whiny trash
Tim Buckley
1/5
Boring songs, annoying voice
Red Snapper
2/5
Meh
Alice In Chains
3/5
90s were a trip. Glad I heard the non radio songs on this album, I didn't realize how damn moody the lyrics were (when I could understand them)
Michael Jackson
4/5
I find myself in a situation where I'm listening to Disco more than I'd like. This entire album seems to be disco that I genuinely like, so for genre I don't like this is a surprising rating
Fiona Apple
5/5
Fantastic, all time high, one of the best
Hole
4/5
Glad I listened, made me reavaluate the band
The War On Drugs
4/5
After dozens of listens in the background while clicking Excel in an office, I finally listened to the lyrics and cringed a bit. Music is still fantastic, voice could be better
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
not good. Don't go back.
Ghostface Killah
2/5
Great beats and all but you'd think by 2006 Ghostface Killah would have less misogynistic lyrics
Radiohead
3/5
So the music - rhythm, melody, is magic. but thom york's voice is so uninspired it makes it a drag to listen to, like homework.
The Stranglers
5/5
If all punk had organ, I'd love punk as a genre
OutKast
4/5
yup
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
I know so many CCR songs. How can this album only have that song I know way better from Tina?
Slipknot
4/5
I'm surprised again! Delightful band, great sound
Can
3/5
Interesting, terrible, wonderful.
Radiohead
3/5
A couple great songs, some good musical elements, a great political message, a very whiny voice
Napalm Death
3/5
Solid. Not my style but glad I gave it a listen.
Buzzcocks
5/5
So much fun. Great Ralph Nader shout out
Silver Jews
2/5
Why do I have to listen to so many whining men?
Patti Smith
5/5
Freaking brilliant rock and roll. The best album I've never heard before, and it will probably soon be my favorite album of the year
Nightmares On Wax
4/5
What my college self wouldn't give to know about this album in the early '00s
The Beach Boys
2/5
Come on, i know they can do better. What's this crap singing?
David Bowie
2/5
This was a rough one, where was popular Bowie in this album?
Sonic Youth
5/5
Don't know why I thought they sounded so different. New fave
Simple Minds
5/5
Excellent start to finish. I only knew a couple songs but was captivated the whole time
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Catchy, good mix of blusey and country, great songs to write parodies from
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
I'm adding a star because mad respect but this album is annoying as hell
Giant Sand
1/5
How is it worse than my college wannabe-boyfriend's music and also the longest album I've seen to date?
Frank Sinatra
1/5
I had to stop listening because he was ruining some of my favorite jazz standards
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
I think the better of the Elvises deserves a better writeup than this but I'm beat. The music deserves to be here, it's good, I like some of it.
Tortoise
4/5
Worth a few re-listens! I enjoy this more than most of the newer, more spa-friendly post-rock bands. Never heard of them before.
Television
3/5
It's so hard to get over the annoying scream-whine of a voice, but everything else, especially the beautiful tones of the guitar, is pretty cool.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Great beats and lyrics
Suzanne Vega
5/5
Simplicity evoking emotion: a PhD thesis
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
I only knew Frank Zappa as grizzled and old. I didn't know he was once young and wide-eyed!
Girls Against Boys
2/5
It's fine? I somehow missed it when I was listening to its contemporaries, and I think there is a reason none of the music heads I knew in school or who worked at the music store showed me this band.
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Interesting, ethereal, calming
Elbow
2/5
Another whiny man backed up by subpar music
The Monks
5/5
What this list is about, dude, brand new to me and rad as hell
Keith Jarrett
2/5
I love jazz and I play the piano so this should be a shoe-in for me. Trouble with piano-only is that it's a percussion instrument. it's jarring, it puts me on the same level of system alertness as death metal but there's way more to pay attention to in death metal. bravo but not something I could enjoy
Taylor Swift
2/5
it's fine
The Style Council
4/5
This shit is wild, in a fun and good way.
Supergrass
3/5
Real good bar music. Fun jam.
Janet Jackson
5/5
Hell yeah
Dexys Midnight Runners
5/5
Yeah
Nanci Griffith
4/5
For something that's not my style, it's astounding
R.E.M.
3/5
Surprisingly good. I think they somehow got muddled with another band in my head because these songs are great
Elvis Presley
1/5
I felt like I should give it a two since, you know, but this is absolute trash
Pink Floyd
3/5
Great synth, wish the vocals were less forced, I've heard it a hundred times so it's comfy
Pulp
4/5
Fantastic
Slipknot
4/5
Just lovely. Should have checked it out earlier.
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
it was fine, only annoying sometimes
The Verve
4/5
Hell yeah. Nostalgia and also good adventure
The Killers
2/5
It sounded like an album of Mr. Brightside but not catchy
Cocteau Twins
5/5
Heaven
Jeff Beck
2/5
He's good but I don't like it
Scott Walker
1/5
I tried, I even went to the good ratings and listened to the songs they said were the best, but this is pure misogynistic cheese. Out here making me hate cheese.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Great. Sweet, good songs with a lot of heart
Dire Straits
2/5
Less good than I thought it would be. droning and cheesy.
The Young Rascals
2/5
Some good tracks, wtf is this cover art
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Funky, fantastic voice, great but not my style.
Ananda Shankar
1/5
I have enjoyed sitar. So why does this suck so bad to me?
Various Artists
5/5
Perfect Christmas album, just for an album made of black artists, Phil Spector has a big part.
The Go-Go's
5/5
Holy. Crap. This is so incredible how didn't i have this in my life before?!
Pere Ubu
4/5
joyous and interesting as hell
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Some songs were banger, the rest were sadly white paint
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Sometimes he's a whiny boy who can't get over PJ, sometimes he's the head of his odd little genre and banging out those murder ballads. This album swings from a one to a high four a few times
Depeche Mode
5/5
Sexy as hell
Dr. Octagon
2/5
I know, I know, 90's hip hop is my jam but this shit gets on my nerves
Funkadelic
4/5
Pure funk. the songs that aren't 10 minutes long have endless re-listen quality. the 10 minute songs are also awesome
Cat Stevens
2/5
Music is great, really hate the live music. Dunno how this album can be such a fail after the last one I got of his was so great
Kid Rock
1/5
One highlight, it brought back some great memories of my high school friend Shannon. This was her favorite CD
Thelonious Monk
3/5
dude I dunno this slaps so hard but sometimes the less smooth piano gets makes me feel like a kid at piano lessons. This is a me problem.
Steely Dan
2/5
great vocals, and proficient at other stuff but all the elements just seem janky together
David Holmes
1/5
Hard to like music that gives me a migraine
Living Colour
4/5
it's so bizarre that I occasionally cringe at the lyrics because when they came out I was slack-jawed at their bravery. Subtlety is a young artist's game.
The Vines
1/5
God save me from whiny men and mediocre music
T. Rex
2/5
I'm of two minds - Some of this was good! But I think this is the kind of music that isn't supposed to lose your focus and this very much lost my focus for most of the album, and it wasn't interesting enough for me to listen to again today. Maybe next year. Wild how popular it is in the UK and I'd never heard of even their top US single
Happy Mondays
3/5
Music in the background: fantastic. Singing: oh, man, if it were a different singer this could be my new favorite band.
I bought this CD when it came out, I liked the song 'Elevation' they were playing on the radio. I listened to it maybe four times. This relisten confirms I was right on the quality of the album
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Legit shocked, I thought I didn't like Todd Rundgren but this album (or the 3/4 that is psychedelic) is fantastic
Fairport Convention
4/5
I'd listen to modern folk rock if it sounded like this
Portishead
5/5
The beats, the voice, the music, all perfection. '90s never had it so good
Carole King
3/5
My favorite type of album - not my genre, an album I never would have listened to, but absolute perfection. I'll never listen again but it was straight bangers and she should have changed her name to Carole Queen
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
Amazing from beginning to end, with my favorite banger that never took off, I Do Not Want This. But half the other songs got radio play and deserved it. Ugh today was a good day for this.