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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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METAL FORTH
BABYMETAL
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5 | 2.51 | +2.49 |
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Ungodly Hour
Chloe x Halle
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5 | 2.62 | +2.38 |
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Savage Sinusoid
Igorrr
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5 | 2.76 | +2.24 |
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Discosis
Bran Van 3000
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5 | 2.76 | +2.24 |
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People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World
AJJ
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5 | 2.81 | +2.19 |
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10,000 gecs
100 gecs
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5 | 2.9 | +2.1 |
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An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
The Caretaker
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5 | 2.9 | +2.1 |
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Join Us
They Might Be Giants
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5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
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Live At Madison Square Garden
Vulfpeck
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5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
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Nearer My God
Foxing
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5 | 3.01 | +1.99 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Give Up
The Postal Service
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1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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In Between Dreams
Jack Johnson
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1 | 3.24 | -2.24 |
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Things We Lost In The Fire
Low
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1 | 3.14 | -2.14 |
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Angel Dust
Faith No More
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1 | 3.05 | -2.05 |
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Cleopatra
The Lumineers
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1 | 3.01 | -2.01 |
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Fine Line
Harry Styles
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1 | 3 | -2 |
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Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
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1 | 2.94 | -1.94 |
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All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats
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1 | 2.9 | -1.9 |
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Alopecia
WHY?
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1 | 2.81 | -1.81 |
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City Of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold
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1 | 2.63 | -1.63 |
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Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| TOOL | 4 | 4.25 |
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| The Mountain Goats | 1, 4 |
5-Star Albums (45)
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The Stooges · 4 likes
4/5
Iggy Live bringing the power and the DANGER. Way to antagonize the crowd Iggy, I wish I sounded this good if people were throwing shit at me. 1! 2! FUCK YOU PRICKS! Dude is there a riot happening in the background?! This is an insane record.
They Might Be Giants · 3 likes
5/5
ALL RIGHT! TMBG are the greatest nerdiest musicians in the game and really any of their albums could be on this list. When Will You Die is such a rad song. What a goofball album.
Anaïs Mitchell · 3 likes
5/5
Loved the musical. This is the cool origin story of that. Still has that sort of ramshackle Nawlins sound on Way Down Hadestown, and definitely has more boogie. Hey Little Songbird is somehow more creepy. Wait For Me always makes me cry, this version is no exception, especially with the voice of Bon Hiver fitting perfectly into the context of the song.
Chris de Burgh · 3 likes
4/5
What even the fuck? A charming and occasionally jarring series of vignettes and story telling. Worth a revisit.
Bran Van 3000 · 2 likes
5/5
This is a really cool hip electronic album. Jean Leloup's Dirty Talk is a weird song. But its like a DJ's DJ record. Lots of crazy samples all over the place. Stepchild is also super fun. With a song with tons of references to the Muppets, what isn't to like on this thing?!
1-Star Albums (19)
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Marillion
3/5
Kayleigh has some chops. Not really my thing.
THE SPORTS
2/5
This album makes me want to throw stones at it.
Dave Matthews Band
3/5
Groan. Okay so Dave's music has a lot of baggage for me, so he is perpetually an artist that I just cannot for the life of me give a fair listen to. There is a lot of good texture sonically, I just cant take Dave's vocal delivery, texture, or really anything about it seriously. This is the guy that literally took a shit on Chicago. When he gets the orchestra involved on Halloween its overstuffed. The Stone is good. Its just this kitchen sink over the top instrumentation. See Crush. And also Dave its okay to make a song that's 5 minutes or less come on. Also multitracking your scatting is bullshit.
Korn
4/5
another hour of Korn? aRe yOU rEaDY?!?! The drum and bass tones dovetail really nicely together. Crazy to think this was '94. Shoots And Ladders is pretty cool.
Tally Hall
4/5
I am into this! I vaguely remember listening to this after finding another Tally Hall album, maybe Good & Evil, definitely because of Turn the Lights Off ? A very cool and weird little album.
Nuyorican Soul
5/5
Yea this is killer. It's Alright, I Feel It is a great track. This was an absolute delight.
Boy Azooga
4/5
This is pretty rad. at the very least its better than fully half of the Brit pop on the regular list.
Billy Squier
4/5
Ok Steve, we are off to a strong start here. This is The Stroke guy?! Yea this is fun and there is nothing wrong with that.
Bon Iver
2/5
Boney Iver, you've locked away in your tiny hoooooommmmeeee. Honestly, this sounds like a knockoff Kanye album. Tbh, I have never really been into Bon Iver. Something about his music always feels just so....overworked? overwrought?
Chloe x Halle
5/5
Love that intro on Baby Girl. Ungodly Hour is another bop. This album absolutely kills it.
The Tragically Hip
4/5
Some solid Canadian Dad rock. Poets, Fireworks, Escape Is At Hand, all incredible tracks. I love the sort of plainspoken lyricism and delivery. Emperor Penguin is a solid closer.
Chet Baker
5/5
This is good, cool, and relaxing as all get out. The Time On My Hands rendition is a good one.
Jellyfish
2/5
overstuffed doesn't even begin to describe it.
The Mountain Goats
1/5
yea fuck this.
Valerie June
4/5
This is really cool. An album filled with refreshing country ballads with real feeling and soul.
Tame Impala
3/5
There are some solid mid teens synth indie bangers on here.
Amyl and The Sniffers
5/5
hell yea, lets go. Security is a great track. Hertz rips.
The 1975
3/5
The mix is a little lean for my taste in this genre. Looking For Somebody (To Love) is a good single, almost like The Bleachers meets Michael Bolton. But I wish that bass and kick had a little more body on the low end in the natural mix. Oh Caroline and I'm In Love With You are limp and overproduced. This album came out hot as a pistol and then totally vanished into the ether.
Igorrr
5/5
oh letttsssss gooooooooo. ieuD is way out there. Who ever made this has lost their mind in the greatest way possible. Trip hop samples, opera, killer break downs and an incredible ear for musical pacing. Wow.
Snarky Puppy
4/5
I'm into jazz fusion. great drum work by Larnell on this album.
Shania Twain
3/5
OHHHHH BOOYYYYY. Man! I Feel Like A Woman! earns its credit as an anthem. The guitar tone and work on I'm Holding Onto Love (To Save My Life) is rock solid. This is the soundtrack to every barn party of my youth from its release until like 2004. This album is pop country goodness if that's your thing.
Bloc Party
5/5
YESSSSS! I love this fucking album. excellent dynamics and mix, great clean guitar tones, honey smooth vocals, crazy synth blats and textures.
Fontaines D.C.
4/5
This is really cool.
Alex Cameron
2/5
ok buddy, lets take it easy with the cheese tones on that synth. What is Runnin' Outta Luck. Is this homage or is it derivative? "Love is a dragon dressed in suede and leathery?" What in the hell?
Daniel Bélanger
3/5
Its cool but I didn't find it was super compelling.
Carly Rae Jepsen
3/5
I totally forgot she had a career. Run Away With Me is a solid song. Why was I Really Like You a hit? Her stance as a narrator keeps shifting track to track. Like are you vulnerable, heartbroken, in love, over it? It makes it hard to connect with emotionally when there are so many different perspectives that don't have any kind of discernable regularity. its a necessary maturation album.
Sublime
3/5
a solid white boy reggae album. Is it deep? no. Is it ground breaking? no. Is it enjoyable? oh yea.
Roky Erickson
2/5
ehhhh. psych rock for a B horror movie.
3/5
Wow this is mega pop. This is really a forward looking album sound, but good god is it sonically grating at times. Though I guess you know its really pushing into something new if it occasionally pisses old guys like me off. Immaterial is club banger. You can definitely hear this album's fingerprints on Chali XCX's BRAT.
Louis Armstrong
5/5
a true and thorough jazz blues time.
Amon Düül II
2/5
Lots of like proto heavy emerging sounds. reminds me of the Velvet Underground. Its just not my thing.
Chromatics
3/5
I love that kick tone on I Want Your Love. This is hard to put into one camp of electronic music, which is why it feels very scattered sonically.
Nik Kershaw
4/5
Woah there cowboy, what is with these drum samples? Wouldn't It Be Good is a hit pitched right down the middle. Drum Talk is WILD. Cloak And Dagger is a fucking bop. This was such a strong 4 star for me that some of the songs deserve a special call out.
The Chats
3/5
yea this is feckin punk rawk. I enjoyed it but cant see myself coming back to it.
The Postal Service
1/5
As one of my former coworkers used to say "Tomm'd up kid singing about being tomm'd up about some dumb shit." This sucked.
Ornette Coleman
5/5
Ornette Coleman coming on the scene and tearing jazz a new asshole is one of my favorite things.
Chris de Burgh
4/5
What even the fuck? A charming and occasionally jarring series of vignettes and story telling. Worth a revisit.
Café Tacvba
3/5
I mean sure, I know nothing about Latin rock. but this is really hard to believe the billing as "The White Album for Latin Rock".
2/5
This is like listening to your hippie friend at a folk fest campfire. If you are high by they time they take out their synthesizer, its a good time. If you would rather sleep in your tent and try to forget how gross you are, its pretty damn tedious.
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
A touching tribute, but in a form and package that I don't have much a connection to or a passion for.
Protomartyr
3/5
Night-Blooming Cereus was a good song. The rest? fine.
Type O Negative
3/5
Very goth and heavy i guess? Summer Breeze cover was....unexpected. Broadly, I think it falls prey to a really thin 90's metal mix that just doesn't seem to gel sonically.
System Of A Down
5/5
Yea this is absolutely should be on the regular list, but glad it got picked up by the listeners. A real high water mark for nu metal.
Mylène Farmer
4/5
Like a French Kate Bush. pretty cool.
Avenged Sevenfold
1/5
oh come on. The drum work? incredible. The whole album is basically a sonic time capsule of when pop metal jumped the shark. this is the metal kid equivalent to ska. Mother of christmas I hate that album.
Chucklehead
3/5
This is about the funkiest I have ever heard a bunch of dudes from the 90s get.
Cardiacs
1/5
What is this trash? See Eat It Up Worms Hero. This is like a goofy carnival hosted by a stadium rock version of The Smurfs. Why do their vocals sound like that? and that's side 1. Side Two starts with Dirty Boy doing more of the same and boy is that ending vocal harmony held forever. Nurses Whispering Versus is actually a song I can get down with. Wow I am happy that is over.
Emicida
4/5
This is cool, though understood none of it. The Portuguese is cool to listen to.
Halfway through and this is a down beat indie record like a lot of the rest. I don't have a good ear for this genre and i don't think it has improved after getting through the project. This sounds so very generic. Comforting Sounds is like a downbeat Killers track.
Arthur Russell
1/5
Yea there was a time I thought John Cage was cool too. There is something sort of hauntingly beauty to these songs, see Being It. But boy does this thing overstay its welcome with the bonus tracks, and the closer on the regular album Let's Go Swimming is no prized peach either. Fuck this thing.
1/5
just an album of bummer songs.
Salif Keita
3/5
Yea this is cool but its so outside my regular musical palette that I have no idea what to do with it or what to rate it.
Jimmy Eat World
4/5
This is a really cool showcase to see what the punk kids really have. It serves as a fun idea and a challenge to 4 chord bands to ask "What kind of music do you really want to make?"
100 gecs
5/5
This opening track is such a banger. Wow this album is such a sonic blender. They are really taking as many sounds from the 2000's and 2010's as they can. Billy Knows Jamie is a honest to god nu-metal song. And then I Got My Tooth Removed is a thirds wave ska/ carnival polka song? Wow what a cool album.
Faith No More
1/5
RV is a weirdo song. This album is odd sounding, like somewhere between Freaky Styley by the Chili Peppers and the Black Album by Metallica. There's a song called Crack Hitler? come on. And the Easy Cover? this is a hard pass from me, dawg.
The Stooges
4/5
Iggy Live bringing the power and the DANGER. Way to antagonize the crowd Iggy, I wish I sounded this good if people were throwing shit at me. 1! 2! FUCK YOU PRICKS! Dude is there a riot happening in the background?! This is an insane record.
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
This is very easy to listen to.
Haley Heynderickx
3/5
This is cool but not my thing. Great vocal tones!
R.E.M.
4/5
Losing My Religion is still a monster hit. Shiny Happy People is also a great tune. The non singles are not super impressive.
Switchfoot
1/5
Christian rockers Switchfoot do the contemporary music. Though they do you a kindness on the opening track Meant To Live by talking around the whole Jesus bit. But goddamn this cheese ball.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Holy god Bruce, you sound like a really aggressive Tom Waits. After that 2 hour tour de force, my ears are tired and sore. That man rocked the shit out of those brits.
The Caretaker
5/5
I've heard this album before, a real triumph of artistic vision and fucking freaky reality. A complete masterpiece.
Men I Trust
4/5
Cool easy indie jazz fusion. Pines is a nice song. The whole album stays in this dreamlike easy downbeat indie space sonically, so if you are up for it; it delivers for 70ish minutes
Sam Fender
3/5
People Watching sounds like a British, softer Bruce. The sax also adds to the comparison
They Might Be Giants
5/5
ALL RIGHT! TMBG are the greatest nerdiest musicians in the game and really any of their albums could be on this list. When Will You Die is such a rad song. What a goofball album.
Stars
4/5
The guitar tone is very much indicative of the mid 2000s combined with a snappy articulate melodies with a fair amount of variety of sonic textures thrown in. I don't find it super captivating but its nice. The First Five Times is a song where all these elements come together for me. Reminds me of a Canadian style Death Cab For Cutie.
Les sheriff
3/5
French classic punk
The Dear Hunter
4/5
Big Coheed vibes on this record. about halfway between a Broadway musical and a progressive rock record. The full experience is getting into the story and understanding the characters involved and i just cant do that working.
Steven Wilson
4/5
cool album but concept albums just aren't my thing. great bass and dynamics work.
Freestylers
4/5
Very cool.
Talk Talk
3/5
Okay the opening has my attention. a slow ambient intro into a swampy blues piano/guitar combo. Okay I am bought in when it hits Eden. Inheritance I'm not such a fan of. I Believe In You is a similar disappointment. Really the back half squanders what was a really promising sonic start.
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
The lyrics one the first track are kinda wild. Like most Arctic Monkeys work, watch it as it goes way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over my head.
John Mayer
2/5
ewwwwwwwwwww. My issues with John Mayer are many, the first of which is his "whaaaaaaaaawnnn" delivery. This album was the high water mark for camp fire guitar players.
Alexisonfire
4/5
I never knew they were Canadian! An absolutely rock solid emo album, though that screamer sounds like he is in PAIN.
The Cure
3/5
Never really found anything I enjoyed much with this band and this album is no exception.
Tori Amos
3/5
Love a good prepared piano track in Bells For Her. Like a mix between Sara Bareilles and Kate Bush. Meh.
Guy Clark
4/5
Cool Texas country from a time long gone by.
My Chemical Romance
5/5
Teenagers indeed scare the shit outta me.
Modest Mouse
3/5
Scratchy aggressive indie rock progenitors. This album comes without any of the smarmy, tongue in cheek I'm better than you trappings of some of the later stuff, so it has this very aggressive shambling sound. Truckers Atlas is very, very weird.
Oingo Boingo
4/5
slick 80s bops with punchy horns. needs a revisit.
Charli xcx
5/5
YAY! fabulous album. I might say something stupid exposes just how heartfelt this thing is. Charli taking over was well deserved, I think the finally the world caught up to her hyperpop DJ sensibilities. Mean girls hit me in another way this listen through.
The Alan Parsons Project
4/5
what a goofy album. in a cool way.
Roger Waters
3/5
cool concept roger, but I'm not a concept albums kinda guy.
Final Fantasy
2/5
a selection of jaunty tunes for jaunty boys.
Neutral Milk Hotel
4/5
This album is outrageous for 1998. What a tastemaker this album became. As a dyed in the wool not indie kinda guy, i appreciate the crap out of this album. I don't know that I love it, but the impact alone is huge.
Johnny Winter
2/5
Honk shooooooooo. Probably hard for guys that need to use boner pills now. Lots of shredding on Mind Over Matter.
Screaming Females
4/5
This is cool.
Madvillain
5/5
I love this fucking album. The sampling is so atmospheric and the DOOM's flow is so natural.
Ween
3/5
This album is pretty everywhere. Drifter In The Dark is set up nicely. Goddamn this album is all over the map! what the heck am i supposed to do with this thing.
Karnivool
3/5
Okay some prog metal. Change was good. The whole thing didn't feel super distinctive from like a Tool or a Dream Theatre album.
Martha
4/5
A cool modern pop punk album. Loads of familiar tones in this one.
Great Big Sea
3/5
a cool gaelicesque folk ensemble serving that crispy soulful 90s melange. Like Dave Matthews without the pretention.
INXS
3/5
New Sensation and Devil Inside is a gnarly track 2 3 pairing. Then into Need You Tonight? Are you kidding me? This is such an awkward spot for music for me. It's almost charming but there is something just so.......
Arca
4/5
really appropriate name on this album, as its out there. Stretchy, choppy almost anti-grooves. Wow this is really rhythmically out there
Times New Viking
1/5
Ok this is mix is aggressively poor. These guitars are just grating. Holy shit what a chore to listen to.
LaBelle
3/5
very cool sister sledge sorta vibes, but really quite dated sounding.
The B-52's
5/5
YESSSSSSSSSSS! ~SURPRISE~!!!!!!! Some great hits on this like Party Out Of Bounds, Quiche Lorraine, and Private Idaho.
Bran Van 3000
5/5
This is a really cool hip electronic album. Jean Leloup's Dirty Talk is a weird song. But its like a DJ's DJ record. Lots of crazy samples all over the place. Stepchild is also super fun. With a song with tons of references to the Muppets, what isn't to like on this thing?!
Death
2/5
This is a foundational album and I am not into it.
Death Cab for Cutie
4/5
Sounds like some foundational early 2000s indie. Sound Of Settling is karaoke goals. Really melancholic and poignant.
King Tubby
3/5
Reggae MOOSIC JA. The dub music always just sounds the same to me but its a cool groove for knocking shit out.
Daft Punk
5/5
Hey its my suggestion! Total masterpiece, obvi.
Sampha
4/5
This is really cool. requires a revisit.
Kayo Dot
3/5
Oh bother. This throws a lot of sonics at the wall during these long, amorphous songs with spoken word, oboes, and death rattles.
Operation Ivy
3/5
hilarious that someone suggested this. a landmark for punk and ska but this thing sounds so terrible.
Adam Green
1/5
no song over 3 minutes and most under two? what the hell is this, a punk record? good god what tired stupid fucking song writing. choke on a cock, Adam, this is like listening to a hipster in williamsburg sing about being a sensitive horny loser and being a dumb pile of bullshit. Fuck that album.
The Breeders
2/5
bland and totally missable.
The Who
3/5
Very wild and self indulgent. a real record for the fans, casuals will be a little bored.
Harmonium
3/5
ahhhh sure
Noname
4/5
absolutely excellent flow, through I didnt find it as arresting as some other artists in the same space.
The Jesus Lizard
2/5
Monkey Trick has a good opening. But thats about it. Lounge lizard guitar tones, a mix that has inaudible bass and also somehow the vocals are buried? Boo hiss.
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
1/5
A sitar on Air? introducing your band on the first song? Get fucked pal. Late 60s drivel.
The Burning Hell
4/5
This reminds me a lot of Tally Hall or the Moldy Peaches. Really wild fun lyrically dense songs.
Spose
4/5
World War Blues is cool. Similar flow to MC Lars. Motherfuckers (Bring You Down) is a great song. Metal Band is also real good.
Susanne Sundfør
3/5
Ok, this is just not my thing.
The Weeknd
3/5
Meh.
Mustafa
3/5
some RNB that just sorta happened at me.
Courteeners
3/5
mehs all round for these lads.
Talking Heads
5/5
Talking Heads on the top of the world. Nothing better.
Sunny Day Real Estate
4/5
Yea this really sounds like proto emo!
Shihad
2/5
This is more of that rock that is so very 90s its almost painful. very pop commercial stuff. Sport And Religion give big U2 vibes. The Metal Song is very much not fucking metal. That's a docked star.
Fall Out Boy
1/5
Oh god what a way to title your pop album the douchiest thing you could possibly think. This also reminds me of the worst ex I ever had so this thing is really batting at a disadvantage. I think if i can survive the two annoying lead singles. I don't hate Alone Together as a pop song, though the melody line is a little dull. Young Volcanoes might as well have been written by Imagine Dragons. Save Rock and Roll with Elton John? fuuuuuuuccccckkkkkk offfffff.
Joe Jackson
4/5
I'm digging the mix on the opening track. Super solid album! the songs are a little generic lyrically but a really fun listen!
Bruce Hornsby
2/5
Soft rocking from out of time. its a little over produced in that way that a lot of the soft rock of the era.
Yay! Back when crust punk was still cool and not as gross.
TOOL
4/5
yep its TOOL alright. I do like a lot of the newer, more organic textures integrated with their more punchy tight bass tones and synths.
Weezer
4/5
hey its that hit band from the 90s! what happened to their career? oh. It's still a great album with some of the most singable singles they ever produced.
Killswitch Engage
3/5
I'm not much for metal core so its kinda flat for me.
Blackalicious
4/5
very much an underground sounding album. reminds me a lot of MF Doom. The last couple tracks are pretty annoyingly positive and almost preachy, especially Making Progress.
Angelo De Augustine
3/5
yea homeboy has problems.
Metric
3/5
pretty forgettable electro pop.
Childish Gambino
4/5
This is a super cool George Clinton inspired album.
Jon Batiste
4/5
Jon Baptiste, you are an icon. What the heck is this album?
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
1/5
good lord this is pretty dull.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
2/5
Mom country rock for sure.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
5/5
YESSSSS KING GIZZZZZZ. Such a fun time bendy album.
The Chameleons
4/5
This moody distant brit rock fits the mood after a weekend of fun and stupid love life drama
Hombres G
2/5
how the heck does Te Quiero have almost half a billion streams?!? I did not see the appeal of this album.
Phish
1/5
You know, the lyrics of Phish are think the worst part. skillful musicianship sure, but the lyrics are really awful. And I get bored of this incessant noodling. What the fuck is Tweezer?
Gurrumul
4/5
This is really pretty rad. Though it is hard for me to separate one chant from the next, to my ears they sound very similar.
Al Stewart
2/5
man whatever the hell that was.
Sparks
3/5
funky bloopy new wave.
Bad Religion
5/5
oh yea baby. American Jesus is such an anthem. Skyscraper is one of my favorite songs ever.
Bright Eyes
3/5
man whatever.
Alexisonfire
4/5
This is a new album for me but Hey, It's Your Funeral Mama is very attention grabbing.
Jimmy Buffett
3/5
There are some cool tracks on here, Life Is Just A Tire Swing, Makin' Music For Money, A Pirate Looks At Forty (even if its kinda gross). An icon for Florida Boomers all over, just getting drunk and doing boomer shit until they die. Sick.
Built To Spill
3/5
Lots of external references, lots of loud noisy indie rocking. Not my thing but it was fine.
Deltron 3030
4/5
This is such a goofy little listen.
65daysofstatic
5/5
Await Rescue is fucking radical! 23kid is also very good. Climbing on Roofs (desperate edit) another absolute cracking track! What an absolutely killer album!
Childish Gambino
3/5
I. The Worst Guys is pretty good. I broadly don't have a good lens for modern hip hop but his flow is very melodic.
Tom Misch
4/5
Yea I can dig this album. Disco Yes is a song I have absolutely heard before.
Descendents
3/5
I don't like this album. As a formational hardcore album it deserves to be on the list but lord I find it a slog. With the sole exception of Suburban Home, that track rips. Hope is the other good track on here, the rest is trash.
Paramore
3/5
This was fine! not as iconic as Riot but very much a natural progression for the band and felt like a very logical maturation.
Harry Styles
1/5
Golden is a solid opener and very lush. Watermelon Sugar sounds like the lyrics came out through an AI blender, God I hate this song. I can almost forgive Cherry, but yea Falling? Go to hell, Harry. Rolling Stone must have been really desperate to feather out their 500 albums. God damnit i hate this super star I'm sad gutter shit. Harry, you wouldn't know heartbreak from the view in your superstar mansion.
Lift To Experience
3/5
A lot of this album flew right by me.
Primus
5/5
Sgt. Baker was the first song to grab me. Les's bass work is incredible. Jerry Was A Racecar Driver is a bop. Is It Luck is rad. Tommy The Cat is a bop. Super cool album!
Jack Johnson
1/5
His breakout album, god Better Together is like seared into my mind in a very unpleasant way. His laid back beachy vibes makes him feel like this generations Jimmy Buffet. Breakdown almost made me physically sick from the collective wave of memory. God I hated this album when it came out and now i somehow hate it more. though Jack's voice is pleasant. so on its merits, without baggage, its fine. but dear lord this was difficult for this listener.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
4/5
ok some late 2000s blues. This guy has chops. Its absolutely dance club and bigger venue blues. This was enjoyable!
TOOL
4/5
A nostalgic album. listening to this at 15 felt so cool. Those drums on Vicarious are just buttery. The Pot is a personal favorite. Though the end of the album is kind of a drag.
Wussy
3/5
eh. its sort of jangly indie rock.
Bob Mould
2/5
Huskar Du is one of those bands that never clicked for me and this solo project isn't really my thing either. The static wailing on Hair Stew is too loud and is absolutely irritating.
BABYMETAL
5/5
As a pop fan this opening track is a total banger. Its structured a lot more like a pop or hip hop record with all the guest stars, but Poppy and Electrical Callboy being on tracks 1 and 2 are so cool. Its like the perfect mix of brutal beat downs, cheesy beginner level Japanese elements, and perfect compression. Algorism rules.
Khruangbin
4/5
Like a band from out of time. This sound is such a throwback to the 60's sound in a modern jam form. I guess thinking about it that way, there is no way that this could have been from the 60's because all its stylistic tendencies are sharpened and modified to fit this format. So a very modern old sound? People Everywhere (Still Alive) deserves its single status. Kinda crazy to think this is a power trio.
Vangelis
5/5
Oh man I never fully appreciated how awesome this score is. The Love Theme is everything! Like tears in the rain.
Cat System Corp.
2/5
What a pain in the butt to find. And its a weird ambient 90s/2000s album. This became a slog around the Weather Channel tracks. Oh lord am I over the joke here. That was really irritating by the end of it.
Espers
4/5
This is a cool indie atmospheric electro folk sort of record. Its cool off the start.
First Aid Kit
3/5
I remember Emmylou get a lot of radio play back in the day. Not a bad country song for 2 gals from Sweden. King of the World also got plenty of play. Ultimately, this is the teensyiest 2010s indie folk pop that ever was.
Danny Brown
3/5
Lots of fun tracks that I don't have the taste for.
Yoko Ono
1/5
Almost 2 hours of Yoko? jesus christ. Mind Train is like a primordial girl art rock big bang that spawns people like Bjork, or Grimes, or other total lunatics every so often. god is it a workout to listen to. It would be much more listenable if someone took just a little off the top of Yoko's piercing fucking shrieking! lord above, the critics that like this slop are the most unwell people. Yoko doing an impression of somewhere between a seagull, a tea kettle, and a baby for 22 minutes on Fly was not on my bingo card this morning. What a horrifying waste of my time.
Procol Harum
3/5
Some alright piano driven blues on The Milk Of Human Kindness. A gentle wave coming and going. A pleasant rocking but not one to remember.
DARKSIDE
2/5
meh
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
4/5
Not my favorite Gizz album but its fun.
Touché Amoré
4/5
I thought this was a really cool album that shows a lot of dynamism and willingness to try on new sounds while trying to stay true to a heavier sound that is already well polished.
3/5
A cool washy heavy alt sound. The Pod is a banger. The vocal treatment is a weak point though, it sits way in the back and the singer is kind of monotone. This production feels so garagey. I Hate It Too is good.
ISIS
3/5
A cool album for fans of post metal. it was fine for me.
Amália Rodrigues
4/5
What's not to like about this?
Chico Science
2/5
honestly this feels like Brazilian rap rock and I'm not here for it.
Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio
4/5
ok Pachuco you have my attention. Its got that early 90s third wave ska sound. If this were in english this would have been one of the biggest ska records in the US. thinking of it like a circus is a cool way to imagine it. very rad record.
3/5
Cool and of its era, but not my thing.
Ornatos Violeta
3/5
I didn't get the hype but i also don't speak Portuguese.
Pink Floyd
3/5
I can't help but think I'm listening to something great but I just don't know what it is.
Vulfpeck
5/5
Love the shit out of this. I'm watching MSG II currently and vulfpeck at the garden is just the best.
Alabama 3
4/5
Woke Up This Morning is so iconic. U Don't Dabs 2 Tekno Anymore is so crazy. And boy howdy do I wish that the politics of Mao Tse Tung weren't so gosh darn relevant. What a thoroughly perplexing album.
Ani DiFranco
2/5
not my thing, also what the fuck is that grinding bear sound on Amazing Grace?!
"Weird Al" Yankovic
5/5
Absolute classic Al.
ROSALÍA
4/5
Really a wild listen. Uber polished, in 14 languages?!, has Bjork, and contains elements of opera, pop, electronica, rap, and orchestra arrangements. If there ever was maximalist music in 2025, this is it.
The Weakerthans
4/5
Benediction is a great song.
Slowdive
2/5
god shoegaze is boring as hell.
Spinvis
3/5
Astronaut is a cool track as is Handige Tante - Jongen Met Geld. The homespun, low production makes for a real homey and heartfelt record. It was nice but pretty ancillary to me.
The Mountain Goats
4/5
This album is lyrically a fucked up and beautiful creation. I need like 15 more relistens to really get with it.
Vince Guaraldi Trio
5/5
As classic as they come. And actually with a lot of chops, not overly saccharine. Good shit.
Yello
4/5
This is the Oh Yeah band?! oh man this went from good to great 3 tracks in. Domingo is a mood.
MF DOOM
5/5
This shit is so good. MMMM!
Savatage
3/5
Produced by the guy that would found Trans Siberian Orchestra. Shreddy metal with lots of high tenor wailing if that's what you are into. Title track is probably the best one on here. The anti drug anthem White Witch might actually do more damage by being a genuinely fun track that would make people want to do cocaine. You hear a lot of the inspiration for And Nothing Elese Matters by Metallica on Last Dawn. This grew on me as it went by.
Songs: Ohia
2/5
This was boring as hell. The best part was when it was over.
Brand New
3/5
Never been a Brand New kinda guy, but there is enough lyrically to keep me around and pass this one around.
Vampire Weekend
4/5
A good, fun, and nostalgic album for me. Cousins will always have a special section in my heart. Though, ultimately, this is fancy boy rock music for a fancier frillier time and I am not a fancy boy and these are not frilly times.
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
I know I am going to love this album. Boogie Wonderland is transcendent. Very excellent but I don't think its a 5 for me.
Aesop Rock
4/5
Rings is sick! This album is sick, what a storyteller this is. the sampling is deep and layered. would need a relisten after i go further into his work! so cool.
Amadou & Mariam
4/5
This is rad. Senegal Fast Food reminds me of the song Me Gusta Tu by Manu Chao, which as I type this i look at the damn album cover and realize it is the same dude. great job. What a solid album! so fun!
Broken Social Scene
3/5
goofy ambient album that was ahead of its time and saw the indie rock tidal wave coming at it. Big for the indie rockers but this one can go on its merry way for me.
The Lumineers
1/5
Ophelia is a fucking stupid pile of shit. The Lumineers is one of those stomp clap hey bands that made the middle 2010 unbearable to listen to the radio. That fucking sucked.
Olivia Rodrigo
4/5
YAY! Great album! If you like pop-punk, you like olivia rodrigo. though sometimes her lyrics are so clunky, like on ballad of a homeschool girl "can't think of a third line/la la la la la la." The guitars on love is embarrassing are so tasty and the mixing on that track is just out of this world.
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
2/5
a wet fart of an album.
Graham Parker
3/5
yea whatever. but cool to know that there were session players on London Calling. Its like a less talented Elvis Costello.
Malibu
4/5
An ambient album! Cool, more an EP than an album, but very soothing and thoughtfully constructed. Sort of a blur for me though.
Courtney Barnett
4/5
This is a great Aussie album. Dead Fox is a standout track.
The War On Drugs
2/5
Holding On sounds like a Bruce song if Bruce was doing a Bob Dylan impression. *yawn*.
Damien Rice
3/5
This was fine. The operatic part on Eskimo was my favorite part.
Muse
5/5
I remember this album hitting the US like a nuclear bomb. totally fit the moment. A high watermark and prophets call to a new band to hold the standard of grand prog and arena rock. Citizen Erased is so fucking good and Bellamy's voice is HAUNTING!
Mogwai
2/5
Yea I don't get this band and why they are critical darlings. Is it the dynamism?
WHY?
1/5
The Hollows is a stupid story song. God this is the softest white boy rap shit. I am also asking myself WHY?
The Groundhogs
3/5
Got a fun classic rock sound and vibe.
TOOL
4/5
Yesterday was a blur and this album didnt get the fair shake it deserved, but freaking love tool.
The Marcus King Band
5/5
super rad!
Anaïs Mitchell
5/5
Loved the musical. This is the cool origin story of that. Still has that sort of ramshackle Nawlins sound on Way Down Hadestown, and definitely has more boogie. Hey Little Songbird is somehow more creepy. Wait For Me always makes me cry, this version is no exception, especially with the voice of Bon Hiver fitting perfectly into the context of the song.
Tom Petty
4/5
You Don't Know How It Feels is the ultimate loser slacker anthem, and i mean that in praise. There is something so liberating in how You Wreck Me sounds. The end of the albums is weaker, House In The Woods is a little too self indulgent for me.
Reincidentes
4/5
I don't know the words but I resonate with the music. Super cool album even though it was a bear to find!
Floating Points
4/5
Damn, this is cool as shit.
Pedro The Lion
2/5
Rejoice, because this album is over.
Lady Gaga
3/5
Big nostalgia on this one. The first 4 tracks absolutely took over the world. The back half is much more of a mixed affair. Paper Gangster is another highlight. Brown Eyes is just an odd duck in this track listing. and Summerboy is even further afield. Discoheaven is so odd! God 2008 was just a fever dream.
Ian McDonald
2/5
Didn't think much of it.
Tosca
3/5
Orozco is a bop. the album is pretty okay all things considered.
Duncan Dhu
3/5
some bops, some skippables, all in a language I don't understand.
The Sound
3/5
Another post punk album. Throw it on the pile
Dead Boys
3/5
Sonic Reducer fucks. Not Anymore is cool, I Need Lunch is stupid and hilarious. a really solid album.
Wet Leg
4/5
Chaise Longue is a cool single. an excellent debut album that feels both new and rooted in indie's history
Polvo
3/5
Noisey, Indie, poorly mixed. though there is a certain garagey appeal, like on The Curtain Remembers.
Agalloch
3/5
ahhhhhh this was fine. not really my thing.
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
4/5
a sardonic thoroughly infectious british dance affair. I love it.
Foxing
5/5
Slapstick has weird hollow victory sort of sound. both triumphant and sad. Gameshark is pretty cool. Indie rock with a little industrial thrown in there. Trapped In Dillard's I could do without. Won't Drown I don't know how to feel about. Lambert as the closer I just don't know how to deal with. An awesome piece.
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
2/5
What in heck?
Lo Fidelity Allstars
4/5
Cool chemical brothers ambient vibe.
Vampire Weekend
2/5
yea this is fancy boy brooklyn indie rocker stuff. Erudite, obtuse, metropolitan. Their music for me is really hit or miss and this one passed me on by.
Rita Ora
3/5
Girl In The Mirror was the first song to grab me. It feels really derivative sounding, big club dub influence that was big in the late 2000s and early teens in pop.
Counting Crows
3/5
A fun jaunt to the 90s radio.
dEUS
2/5
listening to this gave me a migraine.
David Allan Coe
3/5
Solid 70s country.
HELLYEAH
3/5
I don't know if this is satire or not. A metal song about thanks and salvation just doesn't really feel right. Man what the hell do I rate this?
Shpongle
4/5
a really dope sample electronica album. Monster Hit really got me going. Behind Closed Eyelids felt like a workout. really really cool.
Zach Bryan
3/5
I will admit that his vocal approach to the formulaic modern country format is novel, but I don't think his story telling is very evocative. Summertime's Close is fine but not my thing. Fear and Friday's is a good tune. That's about all.
Marillion
3/5
eh whatever.
Screeching Weasel
4/5
This album is going to get a 4 out of me, but i can see why it wouldn't get that from everyone.
The Tragically Hip
4/5
THE HIP! Their sound is like if you took the lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls and then threw them into a blues rock centered classic rock band. This is music for people who are no longer culturally relevant, like myself.
Frightened Rabbit
3/5
late 2000s indie stuff, not my thing.
Ex-Easter Island Head
2/5
so forgettable i've already forgotten most of its ambient atmospheric gyrations.
Jeff Rosenstock
5/5
modern day classic
Porcupine Tree
5/5
This is cool! dig the sound.
Massive Attack
5/5
I remember Teardrop from my youth. Rad album through and through
Ty Segall
3/5
This was alright, not my sort of thing but fine.
Ozzy Osbourne
5/5
Fucking Crazy Train on this album might be enough on its own to get to 5 stars, but the addition of Mr. Crowley is absolutely enough.
Extremoduro
3/5
Amour Castuo was the first song to grab me. With this being essentially a greatest hits album and being 3 CDs long, I am assuming whoever put this here is a troll or a superfan. Either way, I will listen to it until I want to put something else on.
Stray From The Path
4/5
Rap rock? Bold choice. Huge anti Trump too? What is this?!?
Jimmy Eat World
5/5
Oh you mean THE Jimmy Eat World Album? The one that took over the world and remains one of the pop punk canon? easy 5.
New Order
3/5
Age Of Consent is a hit i recognize. The rest is sort of a standard late new wave bleeps and blops, nothing that I found exciting.
Sum 41
5/5
An album that i didnt understand in my youth, but is a thorough masterpiece of the skater pop punk genre. Showing a clear mastery of a heavier sonic palette, Sum 41 became something more than its snot nosed origins.
Queens of the Stone Age
5/5
an album that deftly mixes the dulcet sweet tones of their vocalist and the groove crunch of the band. No One Knows is such a good single. First It Giveth and Song For The Dead are both awesome. The concept of this being a radio station tune search is also pretty rad. Go With The Flow is another great song. An album so stacked up with hits it is impossible to ignore.
John Martyn
3/5
a weird sad divorced dad album from the early 80s. definetly for fans of Phil Collins.
The Upsetters
4/5
This was cool and a really cool origin story for dub, it sounds so modern.
Paul McCartney
3/5
At least this is better than whatever the fuck Wings ever did.
Q65
3/5
kind of like a Dutch version of the Stones and the Beatles mashed together.
My Morning Jacket
3/5
Live records are very seldom the best place to get started with a band. One Big Holiday was the first song to grab me but it was set up nicely by the tracks before it. This is somewhere between a Tragically Hip album and a Radiohead album.
Various Artists
5/5
Absolutely first rate the whole way through.
Mac Miller
3/5
The production on this is full and groovy. I'm not very impressed with Mac's delivery style, sounds like he is trying to do a Marlon Brandon in the god father impression or like he has a bunch of golfballs in his mouth. Good News has some fun stuff in there. Hands actually sucks as a song, which is a shame because the background track around his lyrics and delivery is great.
Toots & The Maytals
5/5
Dude this shit is so rad. Old classics and a completely modern sounding reggae Island funkiness that is a total joy to listen to.
Auri
3/5
This was fine. Not my jam but good for the Finns.
My Morning Jacket
3/5
eh.
The Sundays
3/5
yawn.
Porcupine Tree
4/5
like a softer more ambient Muse, maybe. or like a harder Radiohead without Thom's insufferable wailing.
Powderfinger
3/5
meh.
Jaco Pastorius
4/5
bass time all the time. (Used To Be A) Cha-Cha is rad thought the second lap is sort of taking the piss. 6/4 Jam is cool.
Dio
4/5
Our Lord and Savior Ronald James Dio. Stand Up and Shout fucking rips. Holy Diver has never been my favorite but its solid. Very cool but feels dated in 2026.
of Montreal
4/5
This was a good album but i didnt really like it.
Bruce Cockburn
2/5
Wondering Where The Lions Are is a Christian music Jimmy Buffet knockoff. Whatever.
Freddie Gibbs
2/5
I'm not a huge fan of the gangster style rap here but the samples are sonics are pretty cool.
Charles Aznavour
4/5
This was way cool. Hier Encore I have heard before. And this guy can actually sing, which is an improvement over Frank Sinatra.
David Baerwald
2/5
This is like not as good Nine Inch Nails.
Garmarna
3/5
Swedish folk is out there. the closer, Brun, is a probably the best track.
Charly García
3/5
wave to it as it passes by
Barenaked Ladies
4/5
Enid has got me in the groove. Brian Wilson is a good tune. Blame It On Me is another rock solid song. If I Had $1,000,000 is the song of the early 90s. Lyrically deep, its a little too soft rock for me to put it at a 5 but a really good listen.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Very out there but cool in a mythical prog album way.
Mac DeMarco
4/5
There is something very forward and futuristic sounding in Mac's guitar tone. This is an album that invites me to listen to it more. I like it. Relisten is in order.
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Trent Reznor is a madman. This was a huge album and full of his trademark industrial gothic sound. I personally like his radio stuff a little better but this is a real top notch album to sink some teeth into.
Steve Reich
5/5
This is really excellent!
Future Islands
4/5
One of my dad's favorites for some odd ball reason. There was something in Seasons (Waiting On You) that just got to him. Great album, though maybe not my favorite of that era. Definitely a foreshadowing of how the future synth sounds would take over the pop scene.
The Shins
3/5
Fine but not my thing.
The Hold Steady
3/5
who is this album for? not my thing, mainly because the singing is so flat. Though "I've had kisses that made Judas seem sincere" is a good line.
Interpol
3/5
Yep it's 2000s indie alright.
Beastie Boys
4/5
A totally great album. Though I think I still prefer Paul's Boutique.
Rozi Plain
4/5
Really cool entrant in that sort of mid teens dream pop style, reminiscent of lo-fi MGMT and newer acts like Cosmo Shelldrake. very pleasant.
TOOL
5/5
Oh yea I remember listening to lots of early 2000s prog metal in the day. This is a great album.
Joe Cocker
4/5
Beatles cover? Knowing nothing about this guy going in its all Wikipedia research. So most famous for his covers, he has a great blues rock voice. Gives like a Dueling Piano Bar kinda vibe.
The Decemberists
4/5
This is really cool. Requires a relisten and a deep dive on the story. That organ is wailing on The Queen's Rebuke.
Frank Zappa
3/5
St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast is crazy. the most accessible Zappa work by far is still just weird. A pioneer for sure but a lot of his subversiveness sounds almost tame today, which I guess is the truest testament to winning the cultural battle.
Kashmir
3/5
Woah, guest spots by Bowie and Lou Reed. Perfectly acceptable 2000s indie rock sound.