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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche | 5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
| Alien Lanes | 5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
| Scream, Dracula, Scream | 5 | 2.78 | +2.22 |
| Planet Rock: The Album | 5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
| Freak Out! | 5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
| Damaged | 5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
| When I Was Born For The 7th Time | 5 | 2.91 | +2.09 |
| Come Find Yourself | 5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
| Beach Samba | 5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
| Fire Of Love | 5 | 2.99 | +2.01 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kid A | 1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
| The Rise & Fall | 1 | 3.05 | -2.05 |
| Red Dirt Girl | 1 | 2.86 | -1.86 |
| Apple Venus Volume 1 | 1 | 2.85 | -1.85 |
| What's That Noise? | 1 | 2.78 | -1.78 |
| Dummy | 2 | 3.71 | -1.71 |
| Jack Takes the Floor | 1 | 2.71 | -1.71 |
| Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 2 | 3.68 | -1.68 |
| California | 1 | 2.68 | -1.68 |
| The Joshua Tree | 2 | 3.67 | -1.67 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 7 | 5 |
| Neil Young | 4 | 4.75 |
| Kraftwerk | 3 | 5 |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.22 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 3 | 4.67 |
| A Tribe Called Quest | 2 | 5 |
| Green Day | 2 | 5 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.2 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 4.25 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 4.25 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 4.33 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 3 | 4.33 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 4.33 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.33 |
| Queen | 3 | 4.33 |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 4.33 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Slipknot | 2 | 1.5 |
| Tom Waits | 5 | 2.2 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| XTC | 5, 1 |
| Pink Floyd | 4, 5, 5, 2 |
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The Beta Band
3/5
In the words of my good friend Jon - this was the perfect last album for us
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Bullshit ✔️
38 likes
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Whenever I get asked what is something most people love and you don’t I say Bruce Springsteen. I’m tired of having to say this, please randomly give us something else
23 likes
The Cult
3/5
If you asked an AI audio model to generate a hard rock album from 1987 this is what it would give you
22 likes
1-Star Albums (18)
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David Bowie
3/5
I am pretty sure I’m pro-Bowie..I am not anti-Bowie or Bowie-neutral. I am however still seeking the album that REALLY gets me into Bowie. I believe I am someone who can and should be really into Bowie. Aladdin Sane is coming across my musical path I think at the right time for me to discover MY Bowie album. Is this it? Time will tell - but I am inspired now to dig back into this catalogue.
Elton John
3/5
Lou Reed
2/5
I #respect Velvet Underground and Lou Reed’s contribution to music and the influence of so many of the bands I love. I don’t dislike this but it’s not for me. I’ll keep trying. The dish of a cooky deep voice guy is best served by Iggy Pop for this reviewer
Radiohead
1/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Kate Bush
2/5
Good for Kate Bush
The Cure
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Kate Bush
2/5
2/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Fever Ray
2/5
Alice Cooper
4/5
Donovan
2/5
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
Cream
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Doves
2/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Ray Charles
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Teenage Fanclub
4/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Television
4/5
Sebadoh
2/5
The Doors
4/5
Supergrass
4/5
Scott Walker
2/5
DJ Shadow
4/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
New Order
3/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Neil Young
4/5
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
Tito Puente
5/5
Incubus
3/5
Common
4/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
4/5
Stan Getz
5/5
Pavement
3/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Hawkwind
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Method Man
3/5
The Jam
4/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Ramones
5/5
David Gray
4/5
Oh! That song is called Babylon. Someone likes Dylan, got it.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
5/5
Neil Young
5/5
10cc
4/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
Eric Clapton
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
5/5
The Modern Lovers
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
The Stranglers
4/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Death In Vegas
4/5
4 out of 20 if ya KNOW WHAT I MEAN
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Nico
2/5
Tori Amos
2/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
X-Ray Spex
5/5
Astrud Gilberto
5/5
Radiohead
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Lucinda Williams
3/5
Maxwell
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Faust
3/5
Elis Regina
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Sister Sledge
4/5
Black Flag
5/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Khaled
3/5
The Everly Brothers
4/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Ian Dury
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Slipknot
2/5
Was going to give you a three but the album just kept going, Slippies must enjoy a long album
The Stooges
5/5
Janis Joplin
4/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
Simply Red
3/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
Cool! Then weird.. Then cool! Then scary
John Martyn
2/5
Parliament
5/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Jazz
Boston
5/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
FUN
Suede
3/5
New Order
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5/5
LL Cool J
3/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Animal Collective
3/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
It’s jazz!
Fishbone
4/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Blur
3/5
Blue Cheer
3/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
The Undertones
3/5
2Pac
4/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Sade
4/5
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would
The Young Gods
1/5
Je ne sais pas
Minutemen
3/5
Pantera
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
The Doors
5/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
I too have listened to the Beatles
Koffi Olomide
5/5
Fuckin love this
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Anita Baker
3/5
George Michael
3/5
System Of A Down
4/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Slipknot
1/5
Randy Newman
2/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Ryan Adams
4/5
Morrissey
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Kraftwerk
5/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Nirvana
4/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Rush
3/5
Arrested Development
4/5
The Blue Nile
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Streets
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
3/5
The Coral
3/5
Jane Weaver
4/5
Tortoise
4/5
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
Safe 90s rock is better than some, worse than others
Deerhunter
3/5
Mj Cole
3/5
Gang Starr
4/5
The Fall
3/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
I like music I like sitar I like learning
James Taylor
5/5
Every year I get older I get more into James Taylor. A quintessential attribute of my suburban white dad final form I have to assume
Milton Nascimento
5/5
If you liked this, check out the history of rock in Latin America documentary on Netflix. I’ve got a corresponding playlist on Spotify too. If you didnt like this, also check out that documentary and then maybe you will
Fela Kuti
5/5
Gimme this all day. Added to the Drinking and game playing rotation. Good candidate for vinyl purchase
Moby Grape
3/5
Making an assessment based on the three songs on Spotify. I think it get it
Rush
5/5
I mean..it’s Rush..cmon now
Wire
5/5
I enjoy reading the wiki entries on each of the albums and this one was a good one that reinforced why this album stands out from the rest of the random late 70s to mid 80s British bands that have an entry on this list. tldr; “Richard Hell but good. See Black Flag, Robert Pollard, and Franz Ferdinand”
David Bowie
5/5
Holy Eno, Batman. Tommy likey
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Don’t know if it’s how little music I listened to this week or if it’s just a bunch of bangers right in a row. Bob rules
Sepultura
4/5
Compared to what I thought this was gonna to sound like starting off, this album was actually really badass. Every time I thought they were about to lose me they hit a guitar solo or breakdown that was hitting the spot. Definitely will go back to this when I’m in the mood
Paul Simon
4/5
I go back and forth between “Paul Simon is so good” and “okay, Paul Simon..I get it”
Brian Eno
5/5
Music for airports got me through a lot of grad school coding projects and has served me well when I’ve needed to call on it since. Good stuff, aptly named. I Stan Eno
Dwight Yoakam
3/5
The Icarus Line
3/5
2000s Brit rock got it
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Groovy
Van Halen
5/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
The Isley Brothers
5/5
The Isley Brothers absolutely kick ass always
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Beautiful, haunting, above my mental pay grade
Orbital
3/5
If I ever need to pick music at a luxury resort ocean / poolside happy hour I have my album
Queen
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
“Bust a nut inside your eye to show you where I come from”
…cmon now
Sugar
3/5
File under : 90s on 9
Pretenders
3/5
Pretending I remember a song from this album, fun listen but nothing memorable to this reviewer
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
Young Neil + Stephen Stills = Less refined CSN&Y magic
Tina Turner
4/5
Fun 80s Tina Turner ROMP
Randy Newman
3/5
Randy Newman -thank you for your service. My third and final wish is to set you, and us all free
Jean-Michel Jarre
5/5
New space music for coding, blessed
Elvis Costello
3/5
Okeydoke
Beck
3/5
Always been Beck-neutral. Nothing changing here
The Damned
5/5
Hell yea
Suede
2/5
File under ‘we get it buddy, you’re from London and like weird late 70s early 80s shit’
Coldplay
4/5
Coldplay puts me back in a very specific time
a-ha
3/5
[Michael Bluth looking into bag marked ‘The a-ha album with take on me on it’
“I don’t know what I expected”
TV On The Radio
3/5
This is good and nice and fine but the kind of modern alt radio sound that doesn’t quite get me and that’s okay. I can hear the Bowie in them, that’s cute
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
5/5
Hell yea
Madonna
4/5
Ya know not bad
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Nothing but love & respect for Lou Reed & the gang
Beatles
5/5
Yes
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
I wonder what it’s like to have written the album that inspired 10 Fast & the Furious movies
Depeche Mode
4/5
Spook synth with lots of non-commercial stuff on purpose according to the Wikipedia article. Plus 1 star for naming it music for the masses when the intent was the opposite
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Elvis Costello neutral
Solomon Burke
3/5
A pleasant listen of early rock n roll / soul
David Bowie
4/5
A delightful Bowie time
The Divine Comedy
4/5
Ben Folds does a great cover of Songs of Love so this gets an extra star. Pleasant listen, something different
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
I’m okay
The Clash
4/5
Classic Clash
T. Rex
3/5
Catchy pop hooks in some classicest of rocks. Nothing to complain about but nothing to fawn over
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Lots of people get super horny for the Stones. Not this reviewer so much. Good album - calm down
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Extremely uncomfortable but also very good. I am torn. Might go back to this. 3 for now
The Zombies
3/5
Peace sign emoji
Nick Drake
4/5
A pleasant 60s folk
Elvis Costello
4/5
Actually kinda liked this one
Pixies
3/5
Weird how I’ve only ever heard Where is my Mind off this album just kidding. Extra points for being only 1/2 an hour long
Miles Davis
5/5
Absolute fucking classic
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
I only have one ‘the boss’ and it’s MY WIFE!!! Am I right, fellas?? Never really been a Bruce guy. Sorry
‘Stay with me’ was already a classic in this house, love the cover of ‘Memphis’ and the supporting tracks on this album. Rock on
The Kinks
4/5
A fun album from 1966 that sounds like a fun album from 1966
Coldplay
4/5
I don’t necessarily love or not love Coldplay but as I’ve reviewed the other album(s) their music takes me back to high school era days very distinctly. Points for that
Slint
3/5
Talking over hard riffs
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Much love to Bob & crew always
Talking Heads
5/5
Decided I’m a guy who really likes Talking Heads now, saved to my albums
The Rolling Stones
3/5
It’s the Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
5/5
This album is great because it also contains the 1001 greatest guitar riffs you must listen to
John Prine
5/5
Loved it. Saved forever
Portishead
2/5
Not for me
The Prodigy
2/5
This is what the goths in Letterkenny listen to, but not what I listen to
Kraftwerk
5/5
Absolute classic
Ryan Adams
3/5
Okay!
Erykah Badu
4/5
The Slits
4/5
Yes
James Brown
4/5
I feel good
Taylor Swift
4/5
Overall some of that good catchy pop stuff in here that bothers me less when it isn’t the 1000th time I’ve heard it that week. I still cringe every time she says haters or players or ‘fa sho’
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
The Kinks
3/5
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
Had it on at work, nothing stood out as good or bad
k.d. lang
3/5
This was..fine
Al Green
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
Fun!
The Black Crowes
3/5
File under 90s rock
The Youngbloods
3/5
File under 60s rock
Hookworms
4/5
Gary Numan
5/5
Gary Numan kicks ass
Beastie Boys
4/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Very Stephen Stills, pleasant
AC/DC
5/5
Absolutely kicks ass
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
Fine
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Ooh la la
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Playing in the background
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Paul Simon - always good, but calm down
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Always here for some Young Neil
Willie Nelson
3/5
Indifference where I feel I should have more feelings
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Supertramp
3/5
It played in the background of me working, thanks
Elvis Presley
4/5
A delightful rainy morning listen
Bob Dylan
3/5
Traffic
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
I am #always #available for some Joni
PJ Harvey
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
Green Day
5/5
You already know
Black Sabbath
4/5
🤟
Common
4/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
4/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Some really fun stuff in here, only complaint is it felt kind of long but it is a soundtrack so I DUNNO
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Like all Rolling Stones albums - A fine Rolling Stones album
Elliott Smith
3/5
I’m not moody enough for this on the regular, but maybe with winter coming up, maybe
Mike Ladd
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Massive Attack
3/5
This was fine but file under electronic that’s on this list because UK
Van Morrison
3/5
Some good tunes, minus points for Van Morrison being insane
Rod Stewart
5/5
If this excitement has taught me anything it’s that I guess I like Rod Stewart
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Carried largely by the two big hits, the rest is great if I’ll be having a little somethin somethin beforehand
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Gotta give it up
Carole King
5/5
Absolute bangers
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Pulp
3/5
Some standard Brit pop for me
Oasis
4/5
Giving Oasis the edge here in the Brit pop battle because Rock and Roll Star will always make me think of You All Everybody
AC/DC
4/5
This is a classic rock album
Miles Davis
4/5
Jazzy
Public Enemy
4/5
Good stuff
Love
3/5
Boring
Little Simz
4/5
Anyone who is friends with Michael Kiwanuka is a friend of mine. This is the rap I’m here for
John Grant
3/5
All I can think is that these are songs that Ben Folds would do a cover of
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
I looked up why this is considered an important album, and that’s fine, but that doesn’t mean I have to care
The Pogues
4/5
File under St Paddy’s Day
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
When it’s time to rage there is no more aptly named band or album
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
I got a little bored SORRY
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5/5
This is the shit I am here for
Eminem
3/5
Some of the hits, overall kind of weird to listen to in the modern era
Pulp
2/5
I don’t remember any of this
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
The most redeeming thing about Bruce is how easy he made it for people to do funny impressions of him. While I made it through this one easier than the last, my guy just isn’t anything more than okay to me
CHIC
4/5
Groovy
Green Day
5/5
Absolutely fantastic shit that I ignored for so long just because I hated how beloved it was in middle school or whatever
The xx
3/5
Good concentration music
Marvin Gaye
4/5
A good reminder that Bruno Mars only exists because Marvin Gaye gave him permission
The Jam
3/5
The Wikipedia page references this album being a mix between Off the Wall and Revolver, I hear it. A cooler description than sounds in actuality
Tangerine Dream
2/5
I mean, great. Someone had to do it I guess. But of the ding dong beep boops to work or study this isn’t the one I’d choose first
Leonard Cohen
3/5
A peaceful drive home
JAY Z
4/5
Same feelings as The Marshall Mathers LP but better
Steely Dan
3/5
A fine collection of Yachty delights
The Cardigans
4/5
I like the cardis
Eels
4/5
I’m into this - but I’m also a little high. I’ll try again later to make sure
The Doors
3/5
LA Woman or bust
Gene Clark
3/5
A delightful folky journey
Massive Attack
3/5
Pretty chill Brit boy sample hop
Sparks
3/5
Okay?
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
A funky good time
Frank Ocean
3/5
File under ‘horny albums’
Spiritualized
4/5
Groovy baby
Beatles
5/5
Soft spot
Weather Report
3/5
Birdland is fun still
Ice Cube
4/5
Here for it
The Verve
3/5
Okeydoke
Soundgarden
3/5
Identifying Soundgarden - Yep, it’s Soundgarden
Various Artists
3/5
See also : the Motown Christmas album
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Jazzy blessings that are almost instrumental Chicago tracks at times. Fun!
Alice In Chains
3/5
It’s Alice In Chains!
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
If you’re getting a little high and shoveling snow - this is for you
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Most of this was “ooooooooohkay” but there were some fun riffs and lines (“I wasn’t born with enough middle fingers” hits hard some days). I checked a few times hoping it was the last track though so 2 stars from this local critic
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
As stated in the title this album has ‘Layla’ and other songs
Metallica
4/5
A selection of Metallica-style songs off the album Metallica by Metallica
William Orbit
3/5
File under electronic music to play at Luxury Resort pool area
Roxy Music
2/5
This one of those albums where they are exactly in between so many genres that I’m not quite sure who it’s for. Not me I don’t think
Led Zeppelin
4/5
These guys totally ripped off Greta Van Fleet!!!!!!
Justice
4/5
Toe tappin electric dancing time
The Fall
2/5
I’m much more attuned to this sort of post punky uh oh the 80s are here style sort of stuff, which makes it easier to know that I just don’t care too much for this one
Faith No More
3/5
File under : 89X
The Cure
3/5
If you’re looking for an album by The Cure, this is one
The Hives
3/5
Good garage rock renaissance but not my new favourite band
Bee Gees
3/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Can
2/5
Although I love me some funky riffs, this was all over the board and far too long
Motörhead
2/5
If you’re seeking a live Motörhead album - this is one. Would be three stars but two hours long is too long
The Go-Go's
4/5
You know me
The Band
4/5
A collection of vibin ditties perfect for setting the tone on a weekend morning
Ash
4/5
File under 90s on 9. I have an affinity for the middle of the road 90s rock and this one started with a Tie Fighter so extra points
Cypress Hill
3/5
Identifying Cypress Hill : It’s the album Cypress Hill by the band Cypress Hill
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Peaceful, charming
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Really enjoyed this one. Love some funky bluesy folky soup
Buzzcocks
3/5
It’s Buzzcocks!
Rocket From The Crypt
5/5
There’s something about this that I really like and I can’t figure it out
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Gotta give it up
Megadeth
3/5
It’s Megadeth!
Queen
5/5
One of the good ones
Screaming Trees
3/5
An adequate spin through 1996 American Rock
Air
4/5
File under the spacey tunes they play at boutique hotel pools. Bumped up during my lunch time walk around the office and it took me away which adds bonus star
Flamin' Groovies
5/5
You can draw a direct line from this to my sweetheart Detroit 90s-00s rock scene. Hell yea
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
I guess not for me
Air
3/5
Just chillin
The Yardbirds
3/5
It played, I listened, I moved on
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
This album is a great guitar solo, don’t think I needed to hear it though
Public Enemy
4/5
Absolutely here for it
Michael Jackson
5/5
MJ, Paul McCartney, Eddie Van Halen, Quincy Jones, Vincent Price, and a couple of the guys from Toto walk into bar. The fuck did we think would happen?
Paul Simon
4/5
Faul Simon
Richard Hawley
3/5
This would have been a great album in 1965
The La's
3/5
There She Goes and other songs by the band who did There She Goes
Paul Weller
3/5
You know when you’re at an art and food festival and you have to walk past the small stage where some band is playing to get to where you really want to be
Sonic Youth
4/5
Like it not ready to love it
ABBA
4/5
Identifying ABBA : it’s ABBA! Couple of hits and a whole Scandinavian easy listening experience
John Coltrane
3/5
It’s jazz!
The Soft Boys
5/5
Right in my sweet spot, post punky power poppy with catchy choruses not trying to be anything it isn’t. Saved to the ol Spotify albums which is criteria for 5 stars
Ute Lemper
2/5
I’m not quite sure who this is for? Kind of a collection of songs that would play during movie scenes that last a little too long? I didn’t turn it off (which is my criteria for a 1) but I did a lot of checking to see how close to the end I was
Jeff Beck
4/5
File under Jeff Beck
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Yeah
Julian Cope
2/5
Not sure where I land on this one, but tldr; a long album
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Extremely badass
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Big ups for a 29 minute album
Yes
3/5
Do you want to listen to Prog Rock today?
———> Yes
Pentangle
2/5
This is the album that ended the hippy movement
George Michael
3/5
The fact that you call it that tells me you’re not ready
Emmylou Harris
1/5
This cd is stuck in some grandma’s car
Solange
3/5
I’m not the target market here, decent background play
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Always #available for some B&S
The Dictators
4/5
You know I’m here for it
Songhoy Blues
4/5
You know this is the shit I’m here for
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Yeah gotta love it
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Identifying Smashing Pumpkins : It’s Smashing Pumpkins
Missy Elliott
4/5
[nodding head] 2002 Missy
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
24k gold, one of if not the first vinyls I remember purchasing. Bless up
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Turns out I love this
Buck Owens
3/5
Somewhere in the multiverse is a me quietly wiping down a bar off an isolated state road while two people play darts off in the corner and this album plays overhead
Lana Del Rey
2/5
I am bored by this
Otis Redding
5/5
Some good ass soul. Otis is the man
Johnny Cash
5/5
Forgot how fucking good the American albums are
Isaac Hayes
3/5
As described in the album title
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Yes
The Who
4/5
Yeah yeah yeah
The Adverts
4/5
Bored Teenagers would have been a great song as a bored teenager. Gary Gilmore’s eyes, woof. Safety in Numbers maybe birthed new wave? Fun stuff.
Talvin Singh
3/5
OK
King Crimson
3/5
This should have been the 420th album, huge miss random album selecting algorithm
Fela Kuti
4/5
This list could be 1001 Fela Kuti albums and I’d still do it
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
This guy was pretty good at guitar
Hole
4/5
Hard rockin
The Roots
4/5
Always salutes the Roots
Laibach
3/5
This is bonkers. Thanks Germany
Suicide
3/5
Like Dear Zachary, Suicide by Suicide is a good piece of media that is difficult to consume more than once
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Whenever I get asked what is something most people love and you don’t I say Bruce Springsteen. I’m tired of having to say this, please randomly give us something else
Fats Domino
3/5
Sunday Monday Happy Days
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
Hell yea
Neu!
3/5
1001 albums that got us from The Damned to Flock of Seagulls
The War On Drugs
3/5
‘Burning’ sounds like a Bruce Springsteen song but I enjoyed listening to it so three stars
Prince
3/5
Identifying Prince : Yep, it’s Prince
Steve Earle
3/5
File under : Albums I’ll keep in my jukebox in the scenario I play in my head sometimes where work goes sideways and I move far up north or down south and open up a bar where someone is always in the corner playing darts
Les Rythmes Digitales
4/5
The scene : cleaning my car in my garage, pretending to be in a Fast & the Furious montage
Primal Scream
3/5
I always forget Primal Scream isn’t actually screaming and get pleasantly surprised
3/5
Chill good times
Elvis Presley
3/5
Identifying Elvis - it’s Elvis
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Folksy and alright
The Byrds
3/5
Country Byrds are country
Def Leppard
3/5
Identifying Def Leppard : it’s Def Leppard
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Funky & smooth & chill
Arcade Fire
3/5
Arcade Fire is FINE
Pavement
3/5
I love me some fuzz but this was largely background noise with some occasional ear pleasing hooks. Bless ‘em
4/5
MC5, very important yadda yadda
Manu Chao
4/5
You know I’m here for the Spanish vibes that are also French sometimes
Astor Piazzolla
3/5
VIBIN (get it?) to what I assume has been used as the soundtrack to a quirky indie movie at least once
Megadeth
3/5
File under : the kind of metal that has aliens and shit on the cover for some reason
Travis
2/5
This is what you hear in your head when you’re in a coma
Pink Floyd
5/5
This is the stuff right here
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
It’s well known Paul Simon picks album tracks with Mad Libs - There’s no other way to get a bossa nova song about Frank Lloyd Wright. Anyways, love the hits could take or leave the rest.
3/5
This could easily be any synth poppy album of the era
Hole
3/5
You can really taste the Billy Corgan
OutKast
2/5
If this was just one album split in half, probably a three stars but this is just too much. Some good stuff in here but it’s a lot SORRY
Muddy Waters
3/5
A delightful bluesy treat
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
When I listen to the rock and roll music on this record I say “classic”
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Amazing album as always
Neneh Cherry
3/5
That late 80s early 90s sound that sounded so good on a lo-if KMart speaker
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
This would be lovely to have on vinyl and play while sipping a cocktail by the fire and holding a pipe that makes bubbles etc etc
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
For those playing along you may notice I loathe a double album, this one didn’t hurt like normal. First half was a little rocky blusier and the second half more mellow all along feeling like a good gothy time
The White Stripes
5/5
One lunch in early high school Joel Meersman was humming the riff to Seven Nation Army and tapping on the table and I had to know what it was. The rest as they say..is history
Billy Bragg
4/5
Folk off, mate
CHIC
3/5
Gotta give it up for Disco. It gave hip hop tons of great samples and made New York teens so pissed off they had to invent punk. This is a smooth listen but not too much too it
The Sonics
5/5
Absolutely love this album. The thought of the MFrs doing this in 1965 brings me so much joy and has so much impact on all the music I love that came after it. 🤘
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Identifying Sinatra albums : It’s a Sinatra album !
Funkadelic
4/5
Funky, chunky, trippy, you already know
Deep Purple
3/5
Sounds just like an album titled ‘Deep Purple In Rock’ from 1970 should
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Added to jazz playlist
The Mars Volta
2/5
Didn’t get it then, don’t get it now
Fiona Apple
3/5
Interesting an album from 2020 made it, this is up and down for me. Overall enjoy me some Fiona
Miriam Makeba
4/5
You know I’m here for it
Daft Punk
5/5
Ya know ya love it
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Identifying mellow Sinatra : it’s mellow Sinatra
Beck
3/5
I find Beck Odelokay
4/5
Devo is nuts, love em forever
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
A beautiful collection of catch Faul McCartney pop tunes. Let me roll it
Jurassic 5
4/5
This was the good hip hop
Iron Maiden
4/5
It’s Iron Maiden, baby
Circle Jerks
3/5
Great album to have on here when you’re trying to play catch-up, other than that some fine hardcore
fIREHOSE
3/5
This is an album that exists
The Stone Roses
4/5
You can taste the decades of Brit pop that ooozed out of this record
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
53 minutes and 19 seconds of doing that little head bob dance you can do to Pet Shop Boys
Barry Adamson
4/5
At first I was like why is this? but then read the Wikipedia article. Cool concept and therefore +1 star
The Style Council
3/5
This is..fine? Weird collection of stuff. One of those albums that reminds me this is some random British guy’s list
Bad Company
4/5
Some of the most classic of rock
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
Okay?
The Verve
3/5
The definition of 3 star rock
Billy Joel
4/5
Ya have to get excited knowing you have a little BJ coming your way
Elbow
3/5
A lesser Coldplay
Sabu
4/5
You can always tell when an album will be 🔥 just from the cover. Best part of this one is the first playlist recommendation on Spotify is Boogaloo Essentials
David Bowie
5/5
When you google this album the first suggested question is “Why is Heroes so good?” which just about sums it up
Alice Cooper
4/5
I also love the dead
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Oh look, a late 70s early 80s UK pop rock new wave post punk band I haven’t heard before
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Cool as hell
Talking Heads
4/5
Talking Heads are my fine wine band, they get better to me with my age
The Cure
3/5
Spooky as always
MGMT
4/5
This is an album that happened around me in my lifetime that I largely ignored. It’s pretty good ya dummy
Rahul Dev Burman
4/5
This was fun Bollywood action, let’s watch this movie
Iggy Pop
4/5
Fuck yeah, 500 albums
3/5
File under the shit they play at boutique hotel pool areas
Fugazi
4/5
Fugazi knew how to kick ass
Crowded House
4/5
Some catchy pop hooks and early 90s sounds, but most importantly Jimmy Buffett covered ‘Weather With You’ so plus one star
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
As intended this easily bleeds into ambient noise in the background as you focus into something else, good work tunes
Scott Walker
2/5
I agree with the liner notes that say maybe one day Scott Walker would do something good
Spiritualized
3/5
Chill town
Willie Nelson
4/5
That’s a beautiful Willie
Baaba Maal
2/5
What? Why?
Dire Straits
4/5
Great album, Mark Knopfler’s the man
Judas Priest
4/5
Rock the fuck on
Sonic Youth
3/5
I know I’m not a ‘music guy’ and more of a ‘guy who likes music’ because I still listen to Sonic Youth and go “…okay?”
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Didn’t know Leonard Cohen like this existed. Pretty cool. This is how you adapt to a new era of sound while still maintaining what makes you great
Pere Ubu
2/5
👏 Every late 70s early 80s post punk album isn’t one we must hear 👏
50 Cent
3/5
I’m rappin I’m rappin
Big Star
3/5
Identifying Big Star
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
You already know
Garbage
3/5
Fittingly seeing Garbage perform with Tears for Fears tomorrow, thanks for the warmup
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Not on Spotify but presumed ‘I would be okay with this’
The The
3/5
I love This is the Day but the rest is a bit of file under every post punk synth pop album is not one we must listen to
Peter Frampton
5/5
Just a good fuckin album
Nirvana
5/5
Catchy choruses and messy guitars. Great then, great now
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
Salsa now y’all
The Specials
3/5
It’s no self titled Specials but it’s fun
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
I am and remain LCD Soundsystem neutral
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Dooodeeeee dooo dooo dooo
Roxy Music
3/5
This happened and I listened
Linkin Park
4/5
Hell yeah
Moby
3/5
Oh yeah that Moby song
Joy Division
4/5
Beautiful, haunting, groovy
Michael Jackson
4/5
I cannot and will not stop until I get enough
The Replacements
3/5
The Replacements are fine to me
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Love me some Stevie
Raekwon
3/5
East Coast Hip hop for a long time
Steve Winwood
3/5
Cool synths that passed the time
Radiohead
3/5
Radiohead makes me sleepy
Living Colour
4/5
Always enjoyed driving around San Andreas listening to ‘Cult of Personality’. Rest of the album is pretty good too
The B-52's
3/5
So kooky!!!
Tricky
3/5
Chill vibes, cool samples
The National
3/5
What it sounds like in my brain to hit the snooze button
David Holmes
3/5
File under that sort of Need for Speed 90s beats and samples electronicy nonsense
Norah Jones
4/5
Norah Jones is a peaceful angel
Elliott Smith
3/5
A pleasure
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Run-D.M.C. doing Run-D.M.C. stuff
Sonic Youth
3/5
Sonic Youth neutral
Beatles
5/5
It’s fucking Abbey Road
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
wtf was this
Thundercat
4/5
Badass
Kelela
3/5
Not my normal groove but a delightful morning focus time listen
Nick Drake
3/5
Peaceful 70s folk
Carpenters
3/5
Karen Carpenter was the last good Karen
Def Leppard
4/5
Big hair, big riffs, poppy choruses. According to Wikipedia this album upset Def Leppard purists which brings me joy and one extra star
Metallica
2/5
I just don’t like Metallica enough to listen to 2 hours of more boring versions of their songs. Hit a couple and it was fine. Love this concept (Ben Folds orchestra versions are 5 star) but this one isn’t for me
Adele
4/5
Great stuff, great voice, chill vibes
Wilco
3/5
It’s Wilco!
Slayer
2/5
Heavy riffs and guitar solos, didn’t / couldn’t pay attention to the lyrics. Went by fast so that’s good?
Iron Maiden
3/5
It’s Iron Maiden!
Nirvana
4/5
It’s Nirvana!
Björk
3/5
It’s Björk!
Röyksopp
3/5
Classic electronic beeps and boops
Dr. Octagon
3/5
This is the style of hip hop I like best, runs a little long though. You know I like em 40-50 minutes
Q-Tip
4/5
My kind of hip hoppery
Dirty Projectors
3/5
Indie vibes
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
If there is one thing this list has been successful at doing, it is convincing my Spotify algorithm that I am attempting to pick out music for a Fast and the Furious reboot
Dolly Parton
3/5
Some delightful Dolly
Blondie
4/5
Pop Blondie is pop but good and fun and damned if you aren’t singing Heart of Glass for two hours after this
The Stooges
4/5
Yeah baby
Boards of Canada
4/5
Cool samples to create cool beats
The Specials
5/5
Great stuff
The Shamen
2/5
One of those albums where you go to Wikipedia to see the accolades that landed it on this list, but the only notoriety it has is being on this list
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Michael K is the best
Eagles
4/5
The classicest of Eagles rock
Ananda Shankar
4/5
You know I love that sweet, sweet sitar. And sitar covers? Go on with ya bad self
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Funky
Silver Jews
3/5
Have you heard of ‘indie’ music ?
Dead Kennedys
5/5
Great album, huge part of my personal punk renaissance of 2020-2022
The Birthday Party
2/5
Hm, no thank you
Violent Femmes
5/5
Ya gotta love it
The Offspring
4/5
I like the Offspring and you should too
Dolly Parton
4/5
This is the country that I like
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Rolling Stone neutral
The Beau Brummels
3/5
I too have hear Bob Dylan
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
I listened to this yesterday and all I remember is that I was largely bored
Talk Talk
2/5
Largely bored
Metallica
3/5
Identifying Metallica : It’s Metallica
Aretha Franklin
4/5
She’s the Queen for a reason
Missy Elliott
3/5
This is indeed Supa Dupa Fly
Michael Jackson
4/5
It’s no Thriller but still some good shit
Duran Duran
5/5
Ya gotta love it
k.d. lang
3/5
Rooten and tooten
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Deep
David Bowie
4/5
Good Bowie. Dark Bowie. Spooky Bowie
Ghostface Killah
3/5
Some good stuff but too long! You know the rules. 46 minutes or under
Pearl Jam
3/5
Best part of this album is when I accidentally searched for Pearl Ham
Van Halen
4/5
Van Halen rules
Fugees
4/5
Great album - it is known
Bob Dylan
3/5
Identifying Dylan : It’s Dylan
Sam Cooke
3/5
Does he tell the crowd he doesn’t have leukemia in the middle of Somebody Have Mercy? That’s weird
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Identifying the Red Hot Chili Peppers : It’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Who
3/5
Classic classic Who with inklings of future classic Who
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
This is fine OH SHIT FREEBIRD
The Stooges
3/5
Very clearly a small collection of songs padded by songs written over a weekend as it is that
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
I too see a Darkness
Small Faces
3/5
This is nuts, kinda dig it
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
Rock and roll
The Smiths
3/5
This album was randomly picked the day after Queen Elizabeth II died so I’m not sure if that automatically gives it a 1 or a 5 so it gets a 3 because The Smiths
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Post-Brit pop super group movie anthems
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Yes
Thelonious Monk
3/5
It’s Jazz!
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
One of my favs
Syd Barrett
3/5
Okay
Guided By Voices
5/5
Best lo-fi album?
Lorde
3/5
The Auteurs
3/5
The first review on the Wikipedia page mentions that this isn’t their best record. It’s a good listen
Can
3/5
Atmospheric etc
The Byrds
3/5
Far out man
Funkadelic
3/5
Extremely funky…
Kate Bush
3/5
I can’t believe we had to do ANOTHER Kate Bush album it was FINE
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
You have heard this 90s post grunge before
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Delightful early rock and or roll
Brian Eno
4/5
The cooky spacey sample thing only those Eno & Byrne boys could come up with. Thank you Wikipedia for applying the context ‘a vision of psychedelic Africa’
The United States Of America
4/5
That sweet sweet 90s POTUSA
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Much blues
Ray Charles
3/5
Some delightful Ray
D'Angelo
3/5
So silky smooth
Aimee Mann
4/5
You could say I’m an Aimee Mann man
Patti Smith
4/5
Gotta give it up for Patti
Merle Haggard
3/5
🤠
FKA twigs
2/5
Not my thing but didn’t need to turn it off
Foo Fighters
3/5
Classic 90s early Foos
Nas
4/5
Absolutely here for it
Pink Floyd
5/5
As it turns out, The Wall still kicks major ass
KISS
3/5
It’s KISS
U2
3/5
It’s U2!
Orange Juice
3/5
Vaguely familiar stylized 80s sounding stuff
Pixies
3/5
It’s Pixies!
David Bowie
4/5
Bowie to Bowie
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Joni Mitchell does Joni Mitchell
The Temptations
3/5
Motown gotta Motown
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Laurel Canyon Country Bear Jamboree
Jane's Addiction
3/5
The 90s were weird
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Identifying Pet Shop Boys
Jorge Ben Jor
5/5
👏 I 👏 am 👏 here 👏 for 👏 world 👏 music 👏
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Identifying Elvis Costello
Malcolm McLaren
4/5
This shit is nuts. Love it
Saint Etienne
3/5
Another cooky sample party that is fun at times
Genesis
2/5
Just not in the mood
Deep Purple
4/5
The classicest of rock
Ray Price
3/5
Night life in 1963
The Triffids
2/5
I did not care about this
The Beach Boys
5/5
It’s fuckin Pet Sounds
Dennis Wilson
4/5
A hidden gem in Beach Boys canon
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Jazzy bluzzy groovy saddening reminder that as much as we change we still stay the same
Lightning Bolt
2/5
The review for being on this list included that it was a “challenging listen”
yep
Led Zeppelin
4/5
It’s Zeppelin
Pixies
3/5
It’s Pixies
Hanoi Rocks
4/5
Pretty good compared to most of the mid 80s European post punk that we absolutely HAVE to listen to
Billie Holiday
3/5
Some beautiful Billie Holiday to put on over a fire with a nice drinky poo
Don McLean
3/5
American Pie and other sad folk songs
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Twee on outta here
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Oh yeah I remember that song plus other songs which made me forget that song again
Marvin Gaye
3/5
This is a lot of Marvin Gaye
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Some of that good early hip hop with the good samples
George Harrison
5/5
This is the correct answer to the desert island disc question
Metallica
3/5
This is so extremely Metallica
David Bowie
4/5
Somebody!
Iron Butterfly
3/5
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida as well as other songs
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Looking around then nodding my head
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Identifying Hendrix : It’s Hendrix
I have a thing with U2 where sometimes I’m like “gah! U2! Ugh!” and other times where I’m bobbing my head and asking “do I like U2?”
M.I.A.
3/5
Paper Planes and some other pretty good stuff
Femi Kuti
5/5
Always here for Afrobeat. Fela Kuti A+ Femi Kuti A+
R.E.M.
3/5
Every once in a while I think that maybe I should dive into the R.E.M. catalog and then I listen to an album and decide that I’ve pretty much got the gist
UB40
4/5
Hell yeah
The Band
4/5
Ya gotta give it up
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Bluesy, Rocky, Janisy
B.B. King
4/5
Like sitting at B.B. King’s bar and grill
Devendra Banhart
3/5
This is fine ‘I’m a quirky guy with a small guitar singing about whatever’ not sure why it is here?
Machito
4/5
Boogie
Radiohead
3/5
This is 400000th time I’ve had to listen to this album because of some list or group declaring the best and a must listen etc. I’m still largely bored. I feel like this is one of those things everyone says is great because they feel like they’re being smart but no one is actually into it
Little Richard
3/5
Here’s Little Richard
David Bowie
4/5
Me likey
Bob Dylan
3/5
Stop trying to make me listen to Dylan!!!
Johnny Cash
4/5
The best to ever do it at the coolest place to do it at
Fatboy Slim
4/5
This would make me want to riot in a Woodstock 99 airplane hangar too
Elvis Presley
3/5
Elvis Presley off Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
Le Tigre
4/5
Hell yea
Todd Rundgren
2/5
This was indeed something..but I would rather listen to anything..else
Underworld
4/5
Started off like some more Need for Speed movie music but displayed some enjoyable electronic throughout the rest
Tom Waits
3/5
Just weird enough for me to nod my head and go hmm at the end in a good way
Kid Rock
1/5
Usually try to separate the art from the artist but not here, because the art is also bad
The Byrds
3/5
This is notoriously the Byrds
ZZ Top
3/5
La Grange and other songs you might not know that are definitely recorded by ZZ Top
Ride
3/5
I wish this was Nowhere on the list!!!!!!! Shoegaze not my thing but I zoned out at work and got through it
Nine Inch Nails
3/5
Very NIN
Paul Simon
4/5
I grow to enjoy P. Simon a little more every year
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Delightful sunshine pop and Laurel Canyon vibes
Stevie Wonder
4/5
All bops from one of the best but my guy 1:45 runtime, chill
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Oh good, the birth of post punk
Jeff Buckley
3/5
Okay!
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Quirky, whimsical, oh Eno produced. Got it
Brian Eno
3/5
Not convinced this list was actually prepared by Eno
Depeche Mode
4/5
Hey - it’s Depeche Mode! And they rule
SAULT
4/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Oh look! 80s Post Punk / New Wave!!!!!! From England!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Killers
4/5
Don’t know if this is nostalgia driving but I will continue to bump this into the future
Madonna
4/5
When Madonna sings “let the choir sing” and then the choir sings…chef’s kiss
New York Dolls
4/5
The root of my beloved late 90s early 00s Detroit rock and roll and part of the tapestry of punk so big ups to the NY Dolls
Sonic Youth
3/5
I continue to be Sonic Youth neutral
The Police
3/5
Yeah this sounds like The Police
Supergrass
3/5
I will salute Brit Pop if you run it up the flag pole
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Da best
Tom Waits
2/5
Have to be in the right mood and environment for Tom Waits, which one day I will find
John Lee Hooker
4/5
Some of that good ass blues
Magazine
4/5
As far as our late 70s early 80s post punk new wave albums go this one actually hit the spot
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Always enjoyed the hits, never listened to the album. Good stuff
The Avalanches
3/5
Samples making soundscapes for working or chillin
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Stevie
Chicago
4/5
One of those albums where you have to be in awe that all those songs are on the first album. Little long in the end though, but that’s JAZZ
Leftfield
3/5
I was locked in a crisis mode at work and this played throughout in the background so I made it through. If it wasn’t for that I would’ve been very upset with the two hours
Santana
3/5
Identifying Carlos Santana : It’s Carlos Santana
Napalm Death
2/5
I didn’t turn it off but boy was that a long half an hour
Cocteau Twins
2/5
I don’t know who this is for, but it’s not for me
The Black Keys
3/5
A very nice album of Black Keys music by the Black Keys
Sigur Rós
2/5
Uhm hm not for me?
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
There are some bangers on here but you know the rules…way too much Smashing Pumpkins here for this reviewer
Sepultura
3/5
Why do you have to be mad? Lots of riffs with words about something. A day’s commute of nü metal
MC Solaar
3/5
Un Tribe Called de Quést
Dion
3/5
Some late state Dion produced with some late stage wall of sound and a great runtime!
Orbital
3/5
Kraftwerk descendants beep and boop me in a nice way for a nice little while
Mike Oldfield
4/5
Absolutely bonkers. Love it
The Crusaders
3/5
That’s some smooth, smooth sax
Liz Phair
3/5
Grrrrrrrl!
Culture Club
3/5
Karma Chameleon and other songs by the band that did Karma Chameleon on the album with Karma Chameleon
Gang Of Four
3/5
I owned this record at one point let it go because my ears were weren’t attuned to late 70s early 80s post punk new wave from the UK but now this list has inundated me with late 70s early 80s post punk new wave from the UK so I can confidently say I’d let this record go again. Nothing bad, some catchy things but im having a bit of fatigue
Kraftwerk
5/5
The founders
Genesis
3/5
This album played and I listened and then it was done
The Lemonheads
3/5
You know their cover of Mrs Robinson? It’s like that
The White Stripes
5/5
A Tom Certified®️Classic
T. Rex
3/5
The tiniest Rex
The Strokes
3/5
Hey hey it’s the Strokes
Eurythmics
3/5
All the synths!
Bert Jansch
3/5
Bert coming in with that era of acoustic poets doing their thing
Stereo MC's
3/5
Funky early morning work jams
Prince
5/5
One of the best
5/5
Forgot this is a great album
King Crimson
3/5
I’ve been pretty high, but never King Crimson high
Sex Pistols
5/5
My recent punk renaissance led me to pick up a copy at a record store in London which according to my ranking rules equals five stars
Pink Floyd
2/5
Why is this on here
Gotan Project
3/5
Fun beats with some fun rhythm
Leonard Cohen
3/5
I actually did not ask for it darker
SZA
3/5
Assumed this was going to be more tinny modern computer pop but it had a nicer R&B side that made it an enjoyable listen
The Who
3/5
Hey it’s the Who
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Take em to church, Curt
John Lennon
3/5
Yep yep
Yes
3/5
Some people say the key change from See all Good People is still going
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Come on Eileen and other songs by the group that did Come on Eileen
Deee-Lite
3/5
Groove is in the Heart and other songs by the group that brought us Groove is in the Heart
Queens of the Stone Age
2/5
Important to listen to as it marks the start of mainstream rock becoming profoundly boring
Jane's Addiction
3/5
A fine album of fine music
Eagles
4/5
One of those debut albums where you’re like how can this be the debut album
OutKast
3/5
OutKast is awesome but I really wish they’d trimmed down their albums
The Temptations
3/5
Funky Temptations gonna give it to ya
Turbonegro
3/5
I too have listened to the Stooges. Rock on
Bauhaus
2/5
The only praise listed on the Wikipedia page for this album was that it was better than their first album. Going to start hate rating these late 70s early 80s European post punk new wave albums
Sheryl Crow
3/5
All I wanna do is such a bop
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Sounds like the Flaming Lips to me - well done!
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
What in the world why
Arcade Fire
4/5
Used to listen to this album quite a bit, still good. Best use of gigantic organ sound? Probably.
Miles Davis
4/5
It’s jazz!
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Actually not upset to have had to listen
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Interesting that this is late 80s, congrats on mid to late 2000s indie on just stealing the sound
The Gun Club
5/5
Was frightened to be walking into another post punk nonsense album but this kicks ass. Definite forefather to the late 90s early 00s garage rock revival sound I hold dear, especially a lot of the Detroit bands from that era that you can hear in this album. If I would’ve heard this shit in 1981 I would’ve lost my goddamned mind
Steely Dan
3/5
The Yachtiest rock
Goldfrapp
3/5
This is what happens when Magical Mystery Tour is your kid’s first Beatles album
Talking Heads
4/5
achievement from this list - I am into the Talking Heads now
Queen
4/5
The classicest of Rocks
Heaven 17
3/5
A fun little 80s synthy ditty
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Guitar man does guitar stuff
Dr. John
3/5
Dr. John is nuts, love it
De La Soul
4/5
It’s a shame most De La Soul has been unavailable to stream until coincidentally the day this album was randomly generated
Bad Brains
3/5
I didn’t listen very closely but nothing snapped me out of ‘this is some 80s era rock musics’
Finley Quaye
3/5
There are some good tunes in here with some good grooves, little long, and the artist is insane but sticking with the music here
Herbie Hancock
4/5
The funkiest
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
A beaut of a collection of beaut songs
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Da beef man
Frank Black
3/5
Okay !
Jamiroquai
4/5
Funky town
Taylor Swift
3/5
Snowy Sunday morning vibes
Johnny Cash
3/5
More bad prisoners, more good tunes
Burning Spear
4/5
Da good good reggae
Calexico
3/5
I like the Mex-influenced stuff more than the Tex, thanks
Wilco
4/5
It’s Wilco!
Korn
2/5
Ya know for Korn, not as upset as I was expecting
The Cars
5/5
Absolute OP record
Beach House
3/5
Dreamy zone out times
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Beautiful weaving of some meaningful songs by the man himself
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
A tight 29 minutes of rock and roll CCR style
Ozomatli
3/5
Hip Latin beats for you and me
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Good stuff but you know the rules, Lauryn Hill..too long
Bob Dylan
3/5
Identifying Dylan, it’s Dylan
Blur
4/5
A lovely bit of Brit Pop
Snoop Dogg
3/5
West coast best coast
4/5
A lovely bit of Brit pop (again)
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Lupe…too long my friend
Portishead
3/5
It’s fine chill times
David Ackles
3/5
Weirdo early 70s fancy ass folk pop
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
That one Arctic Monkeys song you remember plus some other songs that are kind of like that
Elton John
4/5
A good ass album
N.W.A.
4/5
The great grand pappy of generations of hip hop
Meat Puppets
3/5
Meat Puppets are good or not good not sure I think I like them enough
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Apache of course an absolute bop, a lot of bongos in the middle, and then the instrumental ancestral jams of some of favorites such as Mother Fuckin Budos Band and Bacao Rythym & Steel
3/5
This album is short enough that it played through almost twice before I noticed, so alright
Marty Robbins
4/5
This is exactly what you think it is and such a very specific and spot on collection of the genre as described by the album title
Spacemen 3
2/5
No more shoe-gaze albums that have Wikipedia pages where the only note is that it is on this list
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Oh boo hoo
Stephen Stills
4/5
Love me some Stills especially with a super group, breaks my album length rule but I’m allowing a pass
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
I really more than anything else just don’t want Spotify to think I keep choosing to listen to Bruce Springsteen
The Prodigy
3/5
File under Need for Speed music
GZA
4/5
Hell yea
Adele
3/5
If I allowed myself to feel or pretended to do so on every commute looking out a rainy window on public transit, I’d probably be super into Adele. Great musicality and voice three cheers
The Go-Betweens
3/5
Zzzz post punk new wave pop pop
Thin Lizzy
3/5
If you’ve ever been listening to ‘Jailbreak’ or ‘Boys are back in town’ and thought to yourself wow I wish I could hear live versions of these classic rock tracks plus one hour ten minutes more of other ones by Thin Lizzy this is the album for you
The Police
4/5
I Stan Sting
TLC
2/5
OkIprobablyDidntNeedToListenToThisThough
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Young Neil kicks ass always
Grateful Dead
4/5
I think I like the Dead more than I knew
Radiohead
2/5
No more Radiohead
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Fun twangy time
The Clash
4/5
Grandpappy of the 950 UK post punk new wave albums on this list, but good actually
Red Snapper
3/5
File under : need for speed soundtrack playlist
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
File under : jazz!
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
I am very indifferent about this
Neil Young
5/5
Young Neil - the best
Mekons
3/5
I bounced in and out of this one while I was working, sometimes rocky and sometimes real twangy which confused me but apparently was their thing. Cheers
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Really? All in all it went by quick and I didn’t have to check to see how close I was to the end (criteria for a 2 star) but I was distracted by working. Idk
Madonna
3/5
I mean yeah it was music
Tim Buckley
3/5
Spooky time
Soft Cell
3/5
synth pop classics indeed
Skepta
3/5
I had this on low because work but some groovy brit hop
Frank Zappa
3/5
Zappa time
3/5
Love this era of country
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
You can hear what inspired this and what was inspired by this and for that - I was interested
Morrissey
3/5
It’s Morrissey alright
The Beach Boys
3/5
Could not be a more aptly titled album
The The
3/5
I don’t think we need every The The album, knock it off
Stereolab
2/5
Cool name, don’t really know what this is for
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Anti Brit pop Brit pop because the guy who made the list is Brit
2/5
Stopppp
Beatles
5/5
Ya know ya love it
CHVRCHES
4/5
Kinda like this now
The Who
3/5
It’s the Who alright
The Who
3/5
The Undertones
4/5
I’m into it
Richard Thompson
4/5
Peaceful folk times
The Waterboys
4/5
A delightful reconnection the scenery of the region the musicians call home
808 State
4/5
Beep boop boots and pants but all and all pretty enjoyable
The Associates
2/5
This was a roadblock album that I just was never inspired enough to listen to and caused me to fall behind. It actually had some fun 80s synth dancey times but something about it never made me want to finish it. But I did finish it so 2
ABBA
3/5
The ABBA album with dancing queen on it
Throwing Muses
3/5
I listened to the wrong Throwing Muses album but it was still pretty good
Killing Joke
4/5
Killing Joke rules - saw them open for Tool. Badass
Holger Czukay
2/5
Parts of this I thought it was going to rule but other parts I had to pause and ask aloud wtf I was listening to
The Pogues
4/5
Love me some Pogues anytime of the year
Mudhoney
3/5
This is fun but not sure why here
Goldie
1/5
This was another roadblock album for me, just couldn’t get through it. I am fine with some beeps and boops but not 2 hours worth, sorry
Public Enemy
3/5
Identifying Public Enemy : It’s Public Enemy
2/5
Wh..what
Bee Gees
3/5
Soft Bee Gees are soft
Dr. Dre
4/5
One of the best
The Saints
4/5
Punk + horns = love
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
I was very devotional during this time
Venom
3/5
🤘
Gorillaz
3/5
It’s Gorillaz
Beck
4/5
The first and only Beck album I’ve ever gotten into
Bill Callahan
3/5
Cohen vibes? Chill modern folk times
Klaxons
2/5
Indie that isn’t for me
5/5
Ya know
Beth Orton
2/5
This one dragged for me, I need some pep with my airy ballads
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
This makes me uncomfortable but not in the good way
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Reverb indie folk thanks you for your service
Waylon Jennings
4/5
Becoming an Outlaw Country guy
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
I feel sad
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Dark & stormy
Janelle Monáe
4/5
Liked this a lot. Many genre many song
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Ultimate dad rock
R.E.M.
3/5
Identifying R.E.M. : It’s R.E.M.
Peter Tosh
3/5
Ja mon
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Yes, good, yes
Janet Jackson
3/5
I did not require 1hr of Janet but I wasn’t that upset
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Sophisti-pop = probably played on shitty retail store speakers or in the lobby of a medical office?
Brian Eno
3/5
Long live Eno
Jungle Brothers
3/5
File under the good hip hop
Kanye West
3/5
I like that old Kanye
Tim Buckley
2/5
This was a roadblock album for me. Vibraphone was cool but I never got into it
Motörhead
3/5
Ace of Spades and other Motörhead songs that kick ass on the album that has Ace of Spades by Motörhead
John Martyn
3/5
Solid folk
XTC
5/5
Sometimes in the pocket with Tears for Fears, sometimes providing a melodic power pop link, it had been long enough since this list served us up a random 80s British new wave album I was open and ready. Really enjoyed and saved for a re-listen
Afrika Bambaataa
5/5
One of the originals and one of the best
Beyoncé
3/5
Identifying Beyoncé : It’s Beyoncé
The Electric Prunes
3/5
Someone gave the guys from The Association a six pack of beer and let them stay up past 7:00 PM
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
World music is why I am here thank you
Todd Rundgren
4/5
The kind of insane prog shit I want on my shelf for my children to randomly pull off and have an experience with their friends. Adding to my Discogs want list for that purpose but not saving to Spotify so by the rules 4 stars
Wild Beasts
2/5
Who ordered the uninspiring indie again
Beatles
5/5
It’s the Beatles, what are ya gonna do. Incredible amount of bops off one of a string of albums changing music and society. Can’t and won’t knock the hustle
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Made for a peaceful evening deck sit
Gillian Welch
3/5
This would be nice sitting on the porch of an Appalachian cabin, but would require me to go to an Appalachian cabin
Fairport Convention
3/5
Folk off, mate rooted in British and Celtic folk tradition which made it more interesting than the normal Laurel Canyon adjacent USA folk that usually pops up on here
The Smiths
3/5
It’s the Smiths
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
Cool album art,
Ice T
3/5
O.G. indeed
The Vines
3/5
Y u so mad
Robert Wyatt
3/5
I’m not sure what this was but it went by fast
Traffic
3/5
Cool dude music
Adam & The Ants
3/5
80s nondescript
George Jones
3/5
Pleasant classic country
Gram Parsons
4/5
Cosmic American music as described
Cee Lo Green
2/5
On this list and needs to be listened to because it’s notable 🔄 is notable because it’s on this list to be listened to
Paul McCartney
3/5
Faul records Maybe I’m Amazed and then some other tracks that maybe could’ve amazed had they strangely been collaborated on with 2-3 other people?
Kings of Leon
3/5
Never pursued Kings of Leon since for me the one song popped up on alternative radio and was played at an annoying rate. This is a fine early 2000s alternative degree away from garage rock revival
The Velvet Underground
3/5
It’s Velvet Underground!
Eminem
4/5
I mean yeah
The Monkees
3/5
To me, very cool that the Monkees finally learned to play and perform their instruments so they could ghost write the Beatles an album after Revolver. Although this leans back towards more towards Rubber Soul so I see why they went and did Sgt Peppers instead.
Duke Ellington
3/5
Environment: on the deck with friends, sunny afternoon
Attitude: 1 cigar, 2 coronas
Review: Lots of talking, squealing, pleasant jazz for the situation
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Environment: work
Attitude : oh god
Review : This is EXTREMELY 1999 rock
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Environment : work
Attitude : green tea buzz, optimistic
Review : Jazzy with a touch of pop
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Catchy classic Gab
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Classic Creedence
Van Morrison
2/5
For a live album this sounds great..I just don’t need this much Van
1/5
I got through about half..I just couldn’t. Thrash drums and screaming sax in a way I can’t follow or ‘get’
Brian Wilson
4/5
I watched the documentary around this on a plane, cool story great album Brian Wilson is the man
Britney Spears
3/5
Catchy pop tunes written by the chatGPT of the time
Big Black
2/5
Wasn’t in the mood for our curators post punk BS today
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Back to back post punk…hurtful
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
File under : The good hip hop
John Cale
3/5
John Cale pretends to be a normal dude to make a normal pop album and it works for me
Peter Gabriel
3/5
I appreciate the Peter Gabriel drum sound heard round the world and his pop sensibilities, this is enough of his albums now though
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Na na hey hey rock and roll is here to stay
The Magnetic Fields
4/5
This shattered my time rules and I didn’t have a track number rule but since it’s 69 I think no ruling is necessary. Album is actually a pretty cool idea and the sounds are enjoyable even after 2.5 hours. I really would like Ben Folds to do an album of covers off of a select number of these
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
That’s enough Nick Cave, okay?
Tears For Fears
5/5
I saw Tears For Fears last year and it unlocked that I fucking love Tears For Fears
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Absolutely insane and then more so when you contextualize it for the time
Stan Getz
3/5
Smooth elevator jazz
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Identifying The Rolling Stones : it’s The Rolling Stones
Jack White
4/5
Listen - you and I both know I love Jack White. This is my least favorite of his solo albums and I rarely pick it up but it was nice to revisit. You can hear a lot of the musical themes he uses again and again in later work, fun.
Minor Threat
3/5
A minor Minor Threat album, good morning email read rage type music
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
G. Love gets play on radio margaritaville so I already had some familiarity. I enjoy the sound, this more of the same
Björk
2/5
I don’t know that I’m a Björk person? Maybe the environment I listened in
Kacey Musgraves
2/5
Not interested
Tom Waits
2/5
The soundtrack to some movie I don’t intend to watch
Grateful Dead
2/5
This was probably really great if you were on acid and there also
Big Star
4/5
#1 record gets a lot of hate for being one those albums people over-list as being “sooo good” which sucks because it is to me “pretty good”
Slade
3/5
Slayed? Slade. Slade!
Steely Dan
3/5
This is so Steely
PJ Harvey
3/5
PJ is cool
David Crosby
3/5
A delightful slice of Crosby
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
I accidentally hit another song while a couple of tracks into this and I didn’t go back
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Bluesy and explosivey
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
Sounds good
Joan Baez
3/5
Joany Joan
Suzanne Vega
4/5
I found this to be very pleasant, maybe the calming vibes were extra effective in the office environment
Joe Ely
3/5
Honky as well as tonky providing some nice padding to my rough country bar playlist
Happy Mondays
3/5
Bourgeoning Brit pop deeply partnered with 90s pop. A fun listen
Dagmar Krause
1/5
This seems good on paper but just wasn’t for me. Gave up and moved on
Cornershop
5/5
Absolutely loved this. Brimful of Asha has been on rotation in my playlists for sometime but I never checked out the album. Great late 90s Brit scene tunes with culture. Saved to albums and would absolutely pick up a vinyl if I spot it
Sonic Youth
3/5
Still just haven’t got into Sonic Youth / 90s alternative of this type
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
I thought this was pretty fun. File under boutique hotel pool with Latin vibe
The Incredible String Band
2/5
I was distracted a lot while listening but mostly I was like “this is a lot” and was okay being distracted
Prince
4/5
Lots to love here, catchy tunes, great synth sounds, fun production. Prince was the best
The Mothers Of Invention
5/5
Delightfully wacky interpretation of 60s rock that I find very cool. Saved to my albums for a relisten which by my rules is a FIVE
The Cult
3/5
If you asked an AI audio model to generate a hard rock album from 1987 this is what it would give you
Mylo
3/5
At least ‘dance’ electronic has something to it
Roni Size
1/5
I started listening to this near the end of work and then during the commute home. The Spotify album is like 4.5 hours long so I checked when I got home what tracks were actually part of the album and realized somehow I was only on track 5 of a million. Not finishing which according to my rules is ONE
The KLF
3/5
File under : generic electronic boops
Bebel Gilberto
4/5
File under : cool boutique hotel cocktail bar soundtrack
Arcade Fire
3/5
First entry by everyone’s favorite 300 person indie band with a thematic album about something I’m sure. It’s a 00’s indie listen
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Classic rock and or roll from the very beginning
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
Really fun, so much more than Come on Eileen
U2
2/5
U2 is real hit and miss for me. Sometimes I can get into it and sometimes I can’t. Mostly couldn’t on this one
Ice Cube
4/5
Absolute bump for a Leather Tuscadero reference but solid album otherwise
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Considering who made this and when and why of course this is what it sounds like. Some bops
Morrissey
3/5
Oh god, it’s Morrissey again
Coldcut
1/5
New rule - if I can’t find you on Spotify or Apple Music auto 01
The Young Rascals
3/5
Groovy, baby
The Residents
1/5
I don’t have time for this.
Love
3/5
Goddamned hippies
Jacques Brel
2/5
Not only French..but live!!! Aghhhh
Neil Young
5/5
Young Neil is badass and I often come to this album more than Harvest
Kings of Leon
3/5
Fully realized 2008 ‘alternative’ radio rock
Os Mutantes
4/5
I find Latin Rock so interesting. Watch that documentary. This is wild
Radiohead
3/5
For the first time I had a reaction to a Radiohead album..which was “oh this is Brit Pop that grew up”
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
The kind of indie where you can tell this guy would be really hard to talk to because he fancies himself such an artist (ar-teest)
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Definitely what a rock album from 1973 by a band wearing tight leather pants called Mott The Hoople should sound like
Pere Ubu
2/5
Non-alignment pack is a pretty fun punk song and the rest of these are not
Digital Underground
3/5
One of the albums we must hear which of course features the lyric “I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom”
Anthrax
3/5
You know what this is
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
I can get down to The Psychedelic Furs
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Shoegaze.. do we need it? I don’t know. Do I need it? Definitely not
TV On The Radio
3/5
Turn on the Sirius XM alternative channel - is it playing this?
Ministry
3/5
90s metal hut different
M.I.A.
4/5
MIA is great, fun
1/5
This is unavailable on Spotify or Apple Music ‘in my region’ so F off
Morrissey
3/5
At first I was like ugh Morrissey again? But then I actually didn’t hate it
Björk
3/5
Congrats to Björk on her debut, hope she makes it
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Fine work background beats, probably the same in a Mary wanna trance
The Only Ones
3/5
Yep yep British punk power pop etc got it decent
Stephen Stills
5/5
One of the first vinyls I bought because it was easily obtainable at thrift stores. It kicks ass. Love the whole thing still to this day
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Fatboy Slim without any of the hits
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Good ol’ Joni - straightforward stuff here
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
One of the best
Keith Jarrett
3/5
This is some nice piano and it help me get a lot of work done
Billy Bragg
3/5
Wikipedia said this is folk punk, and I guess like yeah?
Django Django
5/5
I liked this very much so and saved it. Apple Music explanation is great
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Absolutely psychedelic sounds - correct
The Human League
4/5
new wave synth pop the way god intended
Robert Wyatt
3/5
This kind of cool kind of kooky oh Brian Eno was there got it
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Classic Echo and the B-Boys, post punk yadda yadda with a touch of that gothy mystique
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
This is extremely 90s alternative in a way that I just don’t care too much about after 1018 albums
Jazmine Sullivan
2/5
R&B, like wine, I can tell you that I know when a unit is very good or okay but not explain quite why. Lack of exposure for certain, but that’s why this list has been helpful. There is really just a handful of random R&B on this list so that hasn’t helped. I can tell there is something here but am not literate enough to tell you what. That plus being behind made me just want this to be done. Sorry, Jazmine
The Zutons
2/5
Whoever named this band and album and song titles and ok’d the art thought they were one thing, and then the songwriters thought they were a different thing. And those songwriters also disagreed on what the thing was. None of this is bad, but I don’t know why it is here and it’s all over the place
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
File under : music I would play at my small town Canadian bar on a dreary Tuesday evening
Japan
3/5
Oh god
Elastica
4/5
This sounds like the cover looks but slightly more awesome
Aphex Twin
3/5
This was Ambient and I did listen to it at work?
Soft Machine
3/5
Jazzy and proggy and would fun to play Risk to
The Thrills
3/5
AI - please generate me some early 2000s indie inspired by alt-country / folk stylings and make the band from Ireland but don’t let that impact the sound or songwriting at all
Louis Prima
4/5
Surprise surprise I love it. Why don’t I have a vocal jazz playlist?
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Ya know I think I could like Drive-By Truckers. This was a long album which I had to keep checking how far along I was which is normally a two star but I’m inspired to seek out a different ‘essential’ album so three
Baaba Maal
4/5
Senegalese excellence for a Thursday morning
Rod Stewart
4/5
My Rod Stewart and James Taylor appreciation goes up the more my dad energy goes up
Tom Waits
2/5
That one Tom Waits album on here I thought was not too bad and this one I was back to not liking very much
Lambchop
3/5
Interesting mix of sounds Wikipedia potentially lists as ‘alternative country’ but largely sits in the broad label that is ‘indie’. Also great that it was a nothing burger in the US but found popularity in the UK and now is on this list from our UK writer
Joanna Newsom
2/5
You have to absolutely give it up for any album described as being ‘extremely difficult to listen to’
Scritti Politti
3/5
Offbrand 80s synth pop
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Runway music with lyrics
Justin Timberlake
3/5
I appreciate this next progression of Michael Jackson pop music
Christina Aguilera
2/5
I could be fine with this if it was shorter but it wasn’t!!!!
3/5
Groovy please
The Monks
3/5
The Monks story is far more interesting than their music to me
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Yes, Brazil
The Cramps
4/5
The Cramps are nuts - great records that I have in rotation around Halloween time
Cheap Trick
3/5
This is a Cheap Trick live album
Jethro Tull
3/5
Iconic Jethro, great dad music
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Maybe I’m just hearing what I want to hear or maybe those horn players really love the Come on Eileen motif
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Toe tappers of the modern day
Queen Latifah
3/5
File under : the good hip hop. I wish these albums were a tight 40 minutes though they’re always an hour and change and it’s just a little too long
Scissor Sisters
4/5
A nice collection of dancey bops
Kanye West
4/5
I miss that old Kanye
American Music Club
1/5
Can’t find it I ain’t got time for this
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
The correct evolution of hip hop
The Libertines
4/5
Perfectly nestled in the Brit Pop strain of early 2000s Garage Rock revival
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Identifying Led Zeppelin - it’s Led Zeppelin
PJ Harvey
4/5
This would be a great Dead Weather album
Destiny's Child
3/5
Survivor is certainly a classic, after a while these are all the same song to me but it keeps the mood up through a snowy work morning
The Charlatans
3/5
Hit me with your Brit Pop
Hot Chip
3/5
Toe tapper boopity boops
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4/5
Love ELP - this show was probably extremely badass to be at
Serge Gainsbourg
3/5
Listen - I’m the first one who’ll tell you how much I hate the French, but this one is nuts and kind of fun
The Darkness
3/5
Gotta give it up for The Darkness. They have a schtick they’re schticking to and it’s fun
Butthole Surfers
2/5
Haven’t done enough drugs for this
5/5
Pulled at my vinyl copy which as you know means it a 5
Aerosmith
3/5
Identifying Aerosmith - it’s Aerosmith
Björk
2/5
You can put all the Björk you want on here but it doesn’t mean I ever have to get into it
White Denim
3/5
Good drugs music and if I do some drugs again I may listen to this music
The Bees
3/5
This was fun, sometimes more fun than others. Summer indie
Nina Simone
3/5
Some beautiful Nina as always
Kanye West
3/5
Some bops but also some boops
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
The Dandy Warhols have always been Brit Pop from space for me. This album is a little long but probably because it’s the deluxe version
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
Extremely relaxing world music
Fairport Convention
3/5
Folky and fun and good tunes waiting at the car dealership for your tire to be changed
The Beta Band
3/5
The Beta Band has already graced my smokin and jokin playlist - more of the chill stuff here
Germs
1/5
I think I would be down with this and I know Lexicon Devil but the album isn’t easily streamable so bye
LTJ Bukem
1/5
No, I do not need 3 hours of drum and bass even if it does sound like the menu screen of every cool early 2000s racing video game
Kings of Leon
2/5
This is so very boring to me
N.E.R.D
3/5
Rocking album with ‘Pop’ pop sensibilities because Pharrell
Girls Against Boys
3/5
Post-hardcore bands all sound like they think they are going super hard but aren’t which I guess is the point?
The xx
3/5
You know in hotels when they have a resort channel and it has some non descript indie indicating fun and adventure in a non-threatening way playing in the background
The Fall
3/5
Early 90s confused brit rock
Shack
3/5
Late 90s safe rock
Hüsker Dü
4/5
The good 90s alternative
The White Stripes
5/5
You know I love me some Jack and Meg. I remember when this album came out and my mom had grabbed the CD for me while I was at school and I came home and played the absolute shit out of it. Crazy that this is the follow up to Elephant
Fiona Apple
3/5
Peaceful Fiona Apple for a Thursday morning
Madness
1/5
Wasn’t on Apple Music auto 0
The Byrds
4/5
The American Rubber Soul, beautiful west coast Folk Rock of 1965
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
80s synth pop masterpiece, got them Frankie hits
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
1/5
Not on Apple Music auto 0 sounds like it would’ve been a nice pickin time too bad
3/5
Funky and jazzy and a good listen
Doves
3/5
Lovely indie
Giant Sand
2/5
More like Giant Bland
John Lennon
3/5
Identifying John Lennon - it’s John Lennon
The Beta Band
3/5
In the words of my good friend Jon - this was the perfect last album for us
Generic ✔️
British ✔️
Bullshit ✔️