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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
|
5 | 2.37 | +2.63 |
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A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
|
5 | 2.67 | +2.33 |
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Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
|
5 | 2.68 | +2.32 |
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Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon
|
5 | 2.69 | +2.31 |
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Scott 4
Scott Walker
|
5 | 2.8 | +2.2 |
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Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
|
5 | 2.95 | +2.05 |
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The Last Broadcast
Doves
|
5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
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White Ladder
David Gray
|
5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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Pump
Aerosmith
|
5 | 3.11 | +1.89 |
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Pyromania
Def Leppard
|
5 | 3.13 | +1.87 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
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1 | 3.72 | -2.72 |
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
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1 | 3.53 | -2.53 |
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Aja
Steely Dan
|
1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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...And Justice For All
Metallica
|
1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
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Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
|
1 | 3.4 | -2.4 |
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
|
1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
|
1 | 3.35 | -2.35 |
|
Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple
|
1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
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S&M
Metallica
|
1 | 3.26 | -2.26 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.33 |
| Aerosmith | 3 | 4.67 |
| Oasis | 2 | 5 |
| Def Leppard | 2 | 5 |
| Van Morrison | 3 | 4.33 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 4.33 |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Steely Dan | 4 | 1.25 |
| Public Image Ltd. | 2 | 1 |
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1 |
| Sepultura | 2 | 1.5 |
| Baaba Maal | 2 | 1.5 |
| Mudhoney | 2 | 1.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. | 2 | 1.5 |
| Grateful Dead | 2 | 1.5 |
| Willie Nelson | 2 | 1.5 |
| Pere Ubu | 2 | 1.5 |
| Todd Rundgren | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 2 | 1.5 |
| Big Star | 2 | 1.5 |
| Metallica | 4 | 2 |
| Sonic Youth | 5 | 2.2 |
| The Byrds | 5 | 2.2 |
| Tom Waits | 5 | 2.2 |
| Deep Purple | 3 | 2 |
| The Fall | 3 | 2 |
| Pixies | 3 | 2 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 3 | 2 |
| Echo And The Bunnymen | 3 | 2 |
| Björk | 4 | 2.25 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | 1, 4, 2, 4 |
| Blur | 5, 2, 3 |
| Paul Simon | 3, 5, 2 |
| Radiohead | 3, 2, 5, 4, 2, 2 |
5-Star Albums (55)
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Popular Reviews
Oasis
5/5
Basic musicianship. Nonsensical lyrics. Derivative. Guitars are mud.
Absolute masterpiece
88 likes
George Harrison
3/5
There’s probably a 4 or 5 star album buried in here but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna spend another 2 hours trying to find it. A more selective approach might’ve resulted in a shorter, better album. All things must pass quality control
84 likes
1-Star Albums (107)
All Ratings
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
🤘🏻
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
First track great. The odd one is pretty good.
Cheap Trick
3/5
Takes a while to warm up. Second half is top notch
The Avalanches
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Classic. Search the hard drive of anyone who says otherwise
The Electric Prunes
1/5
Gets one star for the effort of actually going to the studio and recording this pish
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
KISS
4/5
Great fun. God of Thunder and Great Expectations are just too much though and take away from the rest which stay just the right side of ridiculous.
Femi Kuti
3/5
Some good fun tracks, can see myself dipping back into it, but doubt I'd ever listen to the whole album again
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Just too bleak for me. Sounds underproduced. We get it, there are unemployed people in America, play Born to Run and shut up about it ffs
Blur
5/5
The first half of this album is as good as pop music gets. Sensational. The second part loses momentum , but still has This Is A Low and To The End to pull it round. Easy 5 stars.
Fats Domino
3/5
Liked everything on here. 2 or 3 absolute crackers
The Zombies
2/5
Liked the first track and a couple at the end. A lot of nonsense on there in between though
Randy Newman
2/5
Robbie Williams
2/5
Sub standard faux-Britpop waffle for the most part
Elvis Presley
3/5
Has its ups and downs. The vocal on Fever is amazing. Dirty Dirty Feeling & Such A Night are undiscovered gems.
Deep Purple
1/5
Preposterous drivel. You could almost hear the midget dancing round the 18 inch Stonehenge
Magazine
1/5
I will not be subscribing
Merle Haggard
2/5
Sepultura
1/5
Make it stop
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Enjoyed it. No bad songs on there but also no amazing ones, rattled along nicely.
Leonard Cohen
5/5
An incredible listen. Really bowled over by it from start to finish. Fully felt the weight of a man facing the end. Superb.
Dr. John
3/5
An easy 3 in the end. Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya, Walk On Gilded Splinters and Jump Sturdy are all great. Not bad for an album with only 7 songs on it. Groovy in the purest possible sense. ✌🏼
Youssou N'Dour
2/5
First track is great. The rest is ok. Tough for Western ears to get. One star for the musicianship + one star for my white guilt.
Beatles
4/5
Takes a few listens before the ‘filler’ tracks start to make a bit more sense. There’s a lot of good stuff on here
The Lemonheads
3/5
Nice inoffensive, stuff with a couple of classics with a small ‘c’
The Prodigy
3/5
Khaled
2/5
نغمة واحدة أو اثنتين جيدة
The Triffids
1/5
If god is real why did he make me listen to this? Come back, Electric Prunes, all is forgiven
Sonic Youth
1/5
😩
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Kravshitz
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Excellent
George Michael
3/5
Bonkers
Moby Grape
3/5
A good bunch. Aged like a fine wine 🍇
Prince
3/5
Takes a few listens for a few of the lesser tracks, but a really good album
Frank Ocean
4/5
Some juicy tracks that get under your skin 🍊
Janis Joplin
5/5
Jantastic. Jop of the Pops
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Braille-iant
The Sabres Of Paradise
5/5
Spooktacular 👻
Harry Nilsson
4/5
10cc
1/5
Sheet Sandwich
Guns N' Roses
5/5
It's so easy (to give this 5 stars)
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Unusual to have a dream that sends you to sleep 😴
Beth Orton
3/5
Pretty middle of the road
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Mac-nificent
The xx
2/5
X-tremely dull
Underworld
1/5
Born Shitty
Cornershop
3/5
I’m a satisfied customer
Tito Puente
4/5
Havana great time 🕺🏻
Sheryl Crow
2/5
Snoozeday Night
The Crusaders
1/5
Keek Life
Radiohead
3/5
Aerosmith
5/5
Great fun
Oasis
5/5
Basic musicianship. Nonsensical lyrics. Derivative. Guitars are mud.
Absolute masterpiece
LL Cool J
2/5
(C)rap
David Bowie
5/5
Heroic
Ravi Shankar
2/5
Raverage
AC/DC
5/5
Crackin’ Tracks
Billy Bragg
2/5
Not much to Bragg about
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Lyrically perfect. Fantastic musicianship. Unbelievable delivery. One of the best of all time. Blue me away
The Yardbirds
1/5
Birdshit
Elton John
3/5
Standard Elton
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Meh-rilyn Meh-nson
Radiohead
2/5
UB40
2/5
The Police
2/5
Not much cop
The United States Of America
1/5
Electric Prunited States of America
Paul Revere & The Raiders
2/5
Not to be revered
Yes
3/5
Motörhead
2/5
Lemmy be honest with you. This isn’t great.
Erykah Badu
3/5
Not bad, u have to say
Kid Rock
1/5
Didn’t mind it and was all set for giving it 3 stars until the last track, which is absolutely vile and puts a different light on the rest of the album
Cocteau Twins
1/5
Keep this treasure buried
John Prine
3/5
Optimus Prine
Mercury Rev
1/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Credecent
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
Outstand!ng
Baaba Maal
1/5
Baad
Scott Walker
5/5
Great Scott. Total masterpiece.
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Come off it Eileen
Nirvana
2/5
All apologies to my ears
Sonic Youth
3/5
Björk
4/5
Lovely wjork
George Michael
3/5
By George, I think he’s got it
The Pogues
3/5
Tiocfiadh alright
Minutemen
1/5
Bin it, man 👎🏾
Bauhaus
3/5
Take a Bau, son
Wilco
2/5
Oscar Kilo
Pentangle
1/5
Megadeth
2/5
No sale
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Let’s get it off
The Byrds
3/5
Byrd is the wyrd
Mudhoney
1/5
Dudhoney
Nina Simone
3/5
The Smiths
5/5
William, it was really something
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Fang average
Public Enemy
5/5
John Lee Hooker
2/5
Eurythmics
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Turbonegro
2/5
Metallica
1/5
A decent orchestral album absolutely ruined by letting Metallica play on it. Metallica ruin everything, the big wankers.
The Go-Betweens
1/5
Worst one yet
John Martyn
3/5
Pavement
2/5
Kerb Your Enthusiasm
Roxy Music
3/5
Ferry Good
Bob Dylan
1/5
John Lennon
4/5
Yoko O Yes
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Infinite
The Fall
2/5
Jane Weaver
2/5
On paper, this sort of thing is right up my street, but it just didn’t grab me at all
Fairport Convention
1/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
THREE
Manu Chao
2/5
Electric Light Orchestra
2/5
Electric Shite Orchestra
Crosby, Stills & Nash
2/5
Needs more Young
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
1/5
Half a star for American Girl, half a star for the hot woman on the cover
Sugar
4/5
Pretty sweet
Neil Young
2/5
Not shore about this one
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
Rolling Clones
Pink Floyd
1/5
Stink Floyd
The Everly Brothers
3/5
Loverly
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
The B-52's
2/5
Cream
3/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Hot stuff
Small Faces
2/5
Face like a smacked arse
Björk
1/5
Vesperate
Cee Lo Green
1/5
Ar Soul
David Bowie
3/5
Not one of his best, but still a few classics on here
Missy Elliott
3/5
Hit and Missy
Ride
2/5
The Clone Roses
Pink Floyd
4/5
Dennis Wilson
2/5
Can’t Sea What The Fuss Is About
Faith No More
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
It’s the bomb
ZZ Top
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Werks for me
The Stone Roses
5/5
This is the one
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Shite Yoakam
Liz Phair
3/5
Phairly decent
T. Rex
3/5
Thought it was quite good without it Bolan me over.
Eagles
2/5
Hotel Cali Boring Ya
Depeche Mode
4/5
U2
4/5
Genesis
4/5
Weight for it
Soundgarden
3/5
Averageunknown
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
H20 so bland
Def Leppard
5/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Fine folk
Gang Starr
4/5
(Old S)Cool & the Gang
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Herb is the word
Ray Price
1/5
The Price is wrong
Brian Eno
3/5
Brian Threeno
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Kelly’s Hero
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Halfway between the gutter and the stars. A mixed bag.
David Bowie
4/5
Tortoise
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
Feels like we’ve already had this album a dozen times 😂
Sam Cooke
5/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Best Neil Young I’ve heard
Eminem
5/5
Still stands up. Still stands up
Van Morrison
5/5
Vantastic
Patti Smith
3/5
Orbital
2/5
Snorebital
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Pixies
2/5
Didlittle for me
Al Green
3/5
Al right
Slipknot
3/5
Knot bad
4/5
Peppered with great tunes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Yes yes yes
ABBA
3/5
Not abbad albbum
George Jones
2/5
The bland tour
Lucinda Williams
2/5
John Grant
4/5
Yasss slay Queen! 💅
Steely Dan
1/5
Not even doing a pun. This is absolute dogshit
Green Day
3/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Lou Reed
4/5
TransFOURmer
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Core blimey
Violent Femmes
2/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
The Jam
2/5
Metallica
1/5
The Cardigans
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
1/5
I don’t Raitt it
David Bowie
4/5
Hunky Foury
👍🏾
Bob Dylan
4/5
Bob’s your uncle 👍🏾
Isaac Hayes
3/5
The Doors
3/5
Scores on the Doors: 3⭐️
Elliott Smith
2/5
Lambchop
2/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
T. Rex
3/5
Rush
2/5
Won’t rush back
Sabu
1/5
This album congo fuck itself
Koffi Olomide
1/5
One star haut of five
Tom Waits
3/5
A vine effort
Eric Clapton
2/5
Eric Crapton
Carole King
4/5
Van Halen
3/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
The Strokes
4/5
Television re-run
Pink Floyd
2/5
Brick ShitHouse
Miriam Makeba
3/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Fab
Neil Young
3/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
OutKast
3/5
4⭐️ for Speakerboxxx
2⭐️ for The Love Below
The The
3/5
Leftfield
2/5
Not right
The Isley Brothers
3/5
The ise have it
Prince
3/5
3/5
Bobs your uncle
Suede
3/5
Can
1/5
No Can Do
Various Artists
5/5
Killer production 👍🏾
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Super
Kate Bush
3/5
Blue Cheer
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Absolutely shit
Bob Dylan
3/5
Three-wheeling Bob Dylan
TV On The Radio
4/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Couldn’t bring myself to dee-rrrrop them down to a 4
Simple Minds
2/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
The Mars Volta
2/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
JAY Z
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Franz Ferdi-grand 👍🏾
FKA twigs
2/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Possibly the most overrated album of all time, but still very good
Queen
2/5
Dizzee Rascal
2/5
Shack
3/5
Ship shape
The Gun Club
1/5
The Shite Stripes
Beck
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
The War On Drugs
2/5
Snore on drugs 😴
Dr. Octagon
5/5
Just what the doctor ordered 👍🏾
Sex Pistols
5/5
The dogs bollocks 👍🏾
Paul Simon
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Traffic
1/5
A load of crop
Dr. Dre
4/5
Paul Simon
5/5
CHIC
2/5
Chite
Spiritualized
2/5
Goldfrapp
4/5
Nico
4/5
Yet another incredible Chelsea performance
Elis Regina
1/5
Pish
Johnny Cash
3/5
Not as Fol of great tunes as the other one, but som good ones on here
The Beach Boys
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Bloody good
Primal Scream
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Some epic songs, but a lot of them are way too long and it really begins to drag
Garbage
3/5
Three Starbage
Motörhead
4/5
Ace ♠️
The Streets
5/5
Grand 💵
Adele
2/5
3/5
DJ Shadow
5/5
One of the all time greats
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Proper Beau, I tell thee
Bob Dylan
3/5
A winner, man, from Zimmerman 👍🏾
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Really enjoyed large parts of this but it just goes on forever
Nirvana
3/5
The Who
2/5
Steely Dan
1/5
Possibly the worst band of all time
2Pac
3/5
3pac
Fishbone
3/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Mainly a 3⭐️ album, lifted up to a generous 4⭐️ by The Passenger & the title track 👍🏾
Buck Owens
2/5
Animal Collective
2/5
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
The One I Quite Like
Suicide
1/5
Made me want to throw the rope up. Does exactly what it says on the tin 👍🏾
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
The Offspring
2/5
Smash and drab
The Allman Brothers Band
2/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
N.W.A.
3/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Adele
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Flaming good
Arcade Fire
4/5
🔥
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Air
4/5
The Who
4/5
Miles Davis
3/5
😎 🎺
The Stooges
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
The Band
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Skunk Anansie
2/5
Cum off it
Dinosaur Jr.
1/5
Beatles
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
The Stooges
4/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
XTC
2/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
The Temptations
4/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Jazz. Nice.
Megadeth
2/5
Elbow
5/5
Hookworms
2/5
Sleater-Kinney
2/5
3/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Brewslog
Elvis Presley
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Grayt
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Don McLean
4/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Donovan
3/5
Common
3/5
The Cure
3/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
The Clash
3/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
Nice songs, nice singing & nice production. ‘Rainbow’ is a 5⭐️ banger
Sebadoh
1/5
Seba don’t make me listen to this shite again
Buzzcocks
2/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Ruben me up the right way 🕺🏻
Taylor Swift
3/5
Shake It Off & Blank Space are 2 of the all time great pop songs. The rest is pretty decent.
Chicago
2/5
The Human League
2/5
I don’t want it baby
Wild Beasts
2/5
Poo dancers
Waylon Jennings
2/5
Gunky trunks
MGMT
3/5
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duuuuuuuuuh duuuuuuuuh. They look like Clem Fandango and the other fella on the cover
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
Take 3⭐️
Ryan Adams
4/5
Takes the idea of wearing your influences on your sleeve to a ridiculous level, but a great album
Le Tigre
3/5
Madonna
3/5
A couple of absolute bangers. The rest is passable enough.
But enough about Madonna lol 👍🏾
Meat Loaf
3/5
3⭐️ out of 5 ain’t bad
Queen
3/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Farts & moans
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Milton Nascimento
1/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
A handful of great tunes and some decent filer. A solid 3
Louis Prima
3/5
The Auteurs
2/5
Fairly meh pre-britpop, without any real standout track to make it worthwhile
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Burning Spear
3/5
Throwing some fire 🔥
808 State
3/5
Mj Cole
1/5
Shite
Johnny Cash
4/5
Right on the money
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Dusty bin putting out some great albums
The Band
3/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Eminem
4/5
Some great stuff on here
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Mostly decent. Becomes a bit boring after a while. A generous 3
Television
4/5
This television set gets a great reception from me 👍🏾
Travis
4/5
Absolute charmer of an album. The singles, in particular, are excellent 👍🏾
The Stooges
3/5
Good stuff all round
David Bowie
5/5
Stone cold classic. Bowie at his weird best 👍🏾
Deep Purple
3/5
A generous 3⭐️ Smoke on the Water is shite 👍🏾
Parliament
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Decent, if the rest of the album was half as good as Born to Run, it would be deserving of its status as a classic 👍🏾
Venom
2/5
Might have bumped it up to a 3⭐️ if it hadn’t been recorded through a duffle coat
The White Stripes
4/5
Overrated 👍🏾
The La's
3/5
3⭐️
Was looking good for 4 but fell apart at the end. Must be a Liverpool thing.
Have also struggled to do much of note since 1990 lol 👍🏾
Prince
4/5
Neu!
4/5
Neu that’s what I call music 👍🏾
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Cosmic 🌎 👍🏾
R.E.M.
5/5
Fantastic album. Every track still holds up
Ian Dury
3/5
New Order
2/5
2 Order
New York Dolls
3/5
Massive Attack
2/5
Title track is a 5⭐️ classic but it loses marks at an alarming rate from there on in.
The Byrds
3/5
Some really good stuff on here and some absolute bollocks. Standard Byrds album by this stage 👍🏾
Kelela
2/5
Not much wrong with it but didn’t grab me
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
ZZ Top
2/5
Dos estrellas ⭐️ ⭐️ 👍🏾
2/5
2 ⭐️, which is a 5⭐️ in country terms because country music is shite 👍🏾
fIREHOSE
2/5
Doesn’t hold water 👍🏾
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Rotten
The Sonics
3/5
Rush
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Beck
3/5
Sea plus
Anthrax
2/5
Shuggie Otis
3/5
George Harrison
3/5
There’s probably a 4 or 5 star album buried in here but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna spend another 2 hours trying to find it. A more selective approach might’ve resulted in a shorter, better album. All things must pass quality control
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Pixies
2/5
A extremely generous 2⭐️ purely on the strength of Gigantic and Where Is My Mind. A load of auld toot.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
The Smiths
4/5
Aphex Twin
4/5
The Cramps
2/5
The Craps lol
The Afghan Whigs
2/5
Hole
2/5
Shithole
Tricky
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Some great stuff on here. Obviously very dated though
Justice
3/5
Really close to a 4, but just not enough variety.
Santana
4/5
¡Ay curamba!
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Finger lickin good
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
Could possibly have done with trimming a few tracks from this but generally a very pleasant listen. Reminds me of good times
Michael Jackson
5/5
He may enjoy fingering little boys bumholes, but if you can separate the art from the the artist, this is an all time classic
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
I think I would have scored this higher had it been in English. Ties are quality but didn’t have an ‘in’ through the lyrics
Brian Eno
4/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
Might be more boring than the actual Bible. Well done
Elvis Costello
4/5
Hits the target 🎯
Taylor Swift
2/5
Not much to elevate this above average
Röyksopp
4/5
A modern classic
Happy Mondays
4/5
Never heard this album before. Pretty great all round
2/5
Rubbish
Ramones
3/5
Some great tracks on here, but it gets tired very quickly. Drags even at 30 minutes long
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Much like the Ramones, a couple of great tunes but I wanted more
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Miles Davis
4/5
An all time great. Love this album. Feel like I’m in Mad Men when I listen to it
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Probably the best of the CCR albums. A bit of quality control might’ve made one classic album rather than 3 good ones
The Cure
2/5
B.B. King
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Lovely album 🦊
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
I’m Louvin it
Radiohead
5/5
No surprises ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cocteau Twins
3/5
System Of A Down
2/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
Bit karaoke but pretty decent
The Icarus Line
2/5
Wickarus
Duran Duran
3/5
3 great singles and some reasonable filler
Wire
2/5
I’d rather be pulling my wire lol
Def Leppard
5/5
Probably a 4⭐️ but it’s getting the full 5 because Def Leppard are awesome
Lou Reed
4/5
Nas
5/5
Masterpiece
Paul Weller
4/5
Love this album. A Sunday morning favourite and a career best for Weller
Jerry Lee Lewis
4/5
Great live album. Star off for being a wrong ‘un
The Who
3/5
2 standout singles and a lot of filler
2/5
Q: Is this not shite?
A: Yes
Dolly Parton
3/5
Decent country music, elevated to a 3 star by a couple of great songs at the start.
And people say she’s just a big set of tits.
The Smiths
3/5
The Smiths weakest album. Needs more protein. 🥩
Arcade Fire
3/5
Really disappointing apart from two excellent singles
Stephen Stills
2/5
David Crosby
2/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Alice In Chains
2/5
Dog dirt
Daft Punk
3/5
Some bangers but a bit too long
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Black Flag
1/5
Cack Flag
The Kinks
2/5
Lifted up to a 2 by the amazing Waterloo Sunset, which gives you an idea how shit the rest of it is
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Far out
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Ghostface Killah
3/5
Roni Size
3/5
For a 2 hour jungle album, this flew in. Not much to dislike on here
Grateful Dead
2/5
Marty Robbins
2/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Generous 3
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Surprisingly enjoyable
Minor Threat
3/5
Enjoyed that
David Bowie
4/5
Talking Heads
3/5
This is not my beautiful Talking Heads
Gary Numan
4/5
Screaming Trees
4/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
Shit
Yes
3/5
Not bad
Beatles
3/5
Very decent
Judas Priest
3/5
Some real highs on here. Imagine it would be brilliant live
The Velvet Underground
4/5
So close to a 5⭐️ if it wasn’t for the mental last 10 minutes
The Replacements
1/5
Radiohead
4/5
Excellent Britpop record. Up there with the very best that The Bluetones and Kula Shaker had to offer.
Ray Charles
3/5
Lovely album
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Generous 3. Lifted up by Jane Says, which is a classic
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
This album should be called Spring Onions
Morrissey
2/5
Another disappointing Arsenal performance
Elliott Smith
3/5
Generous 3. Pretty disappointing
Pixies
2/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
One of her best
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Pretty decent country music tbf
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Classic debut. Never bettered it.
4/5
The Stranglers
3/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Surprisingly enjoyable. Much better than expected
Dire Straits
3/5
Few classic singles and a lot of auld 80s easy listening pish. Can’t believe it sold as many as it did
The Fall
1/5
I’d rather be burnt at the stake than listen to this again. The Fall were shite.
The Doors
3/5
Some brilliant songs padded out with blues jams . Close to a 4 but a bit too much filler
Green Day
3/5
Still a good listen. Has dated pretty rapidly. Fairly poptastic
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
4/5
Had a great time with this 😂
Soul II Soul
2/5
II stars
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
1/5
This is absolutely wick
Blur
3/5
Some genius tunes and some absolute shite. Blurs career summed up in an album
5/5
A 5⭐️ album with another 5⭐️ album on the b-sides. The 🐐 Regardless of what Neil McGaughey says, the big wally
The Birthday Party
2/5
Slightly better than anticipated tbf
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Undoubtedly a great songwriter, but Bruce leaves me cold
Lorde
3/5
Good Lorde
Beatles
4/5
Was all for giving this 3 stars before I re-listened. There's not really a bad track on it and one or two stunners
Willie Nelson
2/5
Cheesy Willy
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Racist paedos. 3⭐️ Would listen again
Cat Stevens
4/5
Just my cup of tea ☕️ 🫖
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
They go too folky on this one
Pere Ubu
1/5
Rare PooPoo
Kanye West
4/5
Beautiful, dark, twisted, fantastic 👍🏾
The Only Ones
2/5
A nailed on 2⭐️ from the first note
The Doors
3/5
Peace Frog lifts this up to a generous 3
The Cars
4/5
Top Gear 🚗
The Blue Nile
1/5
Hopefully walking across rooftops with a view to chucking themselves off. Shite.
Kate Bush
4/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Hounds of Love, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ for The Ninth Wave
Iron Maiden
3/5
666 minus 663 stars
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
I dig the hole thing
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
The Temptations
4/5
James Taylor
3/5
Nice easy listening album, propped up by Fire & Rain, which is exceptional and reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes into space, which is a classic.
Steely Dan
1/5
Lame. Pound for pound, the absolute worst band in this book
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Tempted to drop a star off for the lack of original material, but it’s just too good
John Coltrane
2/5
Too jazzy
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Blondie
4/5
Another classic album that’s largely split between 5⭐️ and 3⭐️ songs
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Generous 3. Could see myself enjoying it late at night but didn’t grab me
Leonard Cohen
3/5
MC Solaar
1/5
Moi non plus
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Would be a 5⭐️ if only I could get on with I Want You (she’s so heavy), which takes up too much space
Raekwon
4/5
Excellent
Tori Amos
4/5
Tremor-endous
Eagles
2/5
The Kinks
2/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
The Velvet Underground are at their best when they’re doing weird, subversive shite. This is very orthodox and a bit anemic. By the time anything interesting starts happening in the last 10 minutes I’d already lost interest
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Vocals and arrangements are great. Just a little to one-tempo to grab me.
Eels
3/5
Some great tunes. Brought back a lot of memories
The Clash
2/5
King Crimson
4/5
A-spictacular album
Queen Latifah
3/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Portishead
3/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Couple of decent tunes on here
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
Belongs in a skip
The Charlatans
5/5
One of my favourite albums of the 90s the 4 singles are superb. Definitely the high point of their career.
One to Another is one ofthe greatest indie disco tunes of all time. 4.5 stars bumped up to a 5.
Coldplay
3/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Moby
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Makes me feel like I’m about 100 years old. Don’t get it
Funkadelic
4/5
The Roots
3/5
Some real high points on here. Could’ve done with maybe losing 15 minutes or so but a good album all round
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
Hot Chip
3/5
The Undertones
3/5
One of the great British punk bands to come out of Londonderry 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Duke Ellington
2/5
Metallica
3/5
Gene Clark
2/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Q-Tip
2/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Howzat! 🏏
Kanye West
2/5
Notable for being the exact moment Ye lost his mind and very little else. Load of bollocks.
Supergrass
4/5
Objectively a 3.5. But it’s a lot of fun and brings back a lot of mid 90s memories
Gene Clark
3/5
Napalm Death
2/5
One of the best Grindcore albums I’ve ever heard
Pulp
3/5
Pushing a 4 but not quite
Paul McCartney
3/5
Maybe I’m amazed at how some of these songs are so good and some as so pished
Caetano Veloso
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Music for divorced middle aged men in poorly fitting jeans and tshirts bought from HMV 👍🏾
Traffic
3/5
Some good tunes on here
Talvin Singh
3/5
Ambitious and interesting
4/5
Beach House
2/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
M.I.A.
2/5
Gotan Project
2/5
Anita Baker
1/5
Awful
Silver Jews
2/5
Silver Snooze
The Who
2/5
Unbelievable that this lot have been successful for 60 odd years. 95% of their output is total dogshit 👍🏾
David Bowie
5/5
Absolute genius from start to finish
Butthole Surfers
1/5
Better stuff surfs out of my butthole
Hole
3/5
I didn’t Courtney Love it, but I did Courtney Like it 👍🏾
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
50 Cent
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
Mariah Carey
1/5
Always wanted to give one to Mariah Carey, and here it is 🌟
👍🏾
Deerhunter
2/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Ministry
3/5
The Police
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Poo, more like lol
Suzanne Vega
2/5
The The
2/5
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
Shitin Sawney
Fela Kuti
3/5
Rare instance of a Ginger with a soul
Kings of Leon
3/5
Britney Spears
2/5
Title track is a stone cold banger. Some other decent singles but largely a load of shite
Jeff Beck
2/5
5/5
John Lennon
3/5
Extremely generous 3
Neil Young
3/5
Great songwriter but this cunt needs singing lessons 👍🏾
The Beach Boys
4/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
The title says it all tbf. Some dogshit this 👍🏾
Dire Straits
2/5
The Pretty Things
2/5
Roxy Music
2/5
Poxy Music
Simply Red
2/5
Sound exactly like what you think a Simply Red album would sound like. It absolutely sucks 👍🏾
Calexico
4/5
Calexcellent
Bob Dylan
4/5
Right up my street
Grizzly Bear
1/5
Must have produced this in the woods 💩 👍🏾
Tim Buckley
2/5
crappy bad
David Holmes
5/5
Let’s get thrilled
Billy Bragg
3/5
The Cure
2/5
Fittingly, a load of wank 👍🏾
Pink Floyd
4/5
Outstanding production, great playing and a great listen. Just lacks an out and out 5 star song to get top marks
k.d. lang
3/5
Not my thing at all, but good vocals and well produced. Bonus star for the photo of a young Frank Lampard on the cover 👍🏾
Aerosmith
4/5
I know it’s one for the purists, but there’s a couple of other Aerosmith albums that could’ve been in the book ahead of this IMO. Lacks a standout single
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Really enjoyed this 🩸 🥵 😭
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Jack White has based his entire career on this album 👍🏾
Snoop Dogg
5/5
Five stizzles 👍🏾
Grateful Dead
1/5
Gave up halfway through. A terrible load of pish 👍🏾
Destiny's Child
3/5
The first three tracks on this are as good as the first three tracks on any album in this book, but it absolutely careers off a cliff after that. Dreadful early 2000s production and lyrics that make you cringe so much your chin touches your forehead. An extremely generous 3, based purely on the first 3 songs 👍🏾
Aretha Franklin
3/5
De La Soul
3/5
Deee-Lite
3/5
Surprisingly pretty good in places
Mudhoney
2/5
Extra star for keeping this shite down to 21 minutes 👍🏾
Ice Cube
5/5
Brilliant
3/5
The Joshua Three
Joan Baez
3/5
Good voice, good guitar 👍🏾
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Good stuff. One star removed for being a nonce
Pavement
2/5
Finley Quaye
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Coming to the conclusion that Bruce is greatly overrated
Everything But The Girl
3/5
There’s some real charming stuff on here. Tracey Thorn’s voice is great. The 80s production takes away from it a bit
Willie Nelson
1/5
Really hated this
Sisters Of Mercy
2/5
The Undertones
2/5
I am getting sleepy. Very sleepy
Madonna
2/5
Ray of shite 👍🏾
Billy Joel
4/5
Holger Czukay
4/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Pretty sweet
Serge Gainsbourg
4/5
Fantastique
Dion
4/5
Thought this was great. Liked everything on here
American Music Club
1/5
American Snooze-ic Club
Talk Talk
2/5
Talk shite
Laura Nyro
2/5
Boston
3/5
No more than a three-ling 👍🏾
Joe Ely
1/5
Music to tap all eleven of your toes to 👍🏾
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
One of the all time greats
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
The Monks
1/5
Vow of silence please
Pulp
5/5
Common People is one of the best British pop songs of all time and the other singles aren’t too far behind it. Some cracking album tracks too. Possibly the best Britpop album
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Nat bad
Richard Thompson
2/5
Love the title track. The rest is largely a load of old shite
The Darkness
4/5
Radiohead
2/5
Forgot to write any tunes lol
Jurassic 5
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Standard MBV noise
Gorillaz
1/5
A total load of bollocks that wasn’t good enough to become Blur b-sides 👍🏾
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Poor all round. Even the cover is shit
Earth, Wind & Fire
2/5
Apart from Shining Star, which is just that, the rest of it is pretty lame
Todd Rundgren
1/5
Probably a 2 star album but losing a point for being so long. Nothing really of note here and this goes on for 90 MINUTES??? Definitely not worth your while. Spinal Tap is only 82 minutes. Watch Spinal Tap instead 👍🏾
Coldcut
3/5
Some ok stuff on here
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
Really excellent hip hop album totally derailed by a song about god and a song about wanting to bum Stevie Wonder 👍🏾
Aimee Mann
2/5
Nothing offensively bad on here but forgot about the entire album the second I finished it
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
Trés bien
The Libertines
2/5
Can’t stand them now
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Smatterings of genius and a decent listen all round
The xx
2/5
Decent enough. Nothing that grabs the attention though. The Cocteau Twins less interesting cousins.
Hüsker Dü
3/5
There’s about 6 or 7 really good songs on here, but they get lost amongst a sea of unnecessary filler. Trim this back to 10 of the better songs and it’s probably a 4 star album. 👍🏾
Prefab Sprout
1/5
Load of pish
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Fairly disappointing. Pieces of a Man should be on this list. Much better album
Bobby Womack
1/5
The Poet
Made a shit album
And didn’t know it
Mike Oldfield
4/5
Steve Earle
1/5
Totally shite. One of the worst albums in this book. Music for wankers
Derek & The Dominos
1/5
Eric Clapton absolutely sucks
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Not great. I wonder if it’d be in the book if it didn’t have a picture of the twin towers burning on the cover
The Beta Band
2/5
Another album where you just wait for it to become interesting, then it’s over
Peter Frampton
3/5
He’s not going to eat all that watermelon 🍉
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2/5
Hoped this was a Bonnie Tyler, Prince and Billy Ocean supergroup doing Darkness covers. Disappointed doesn’t even begin to cover it
Janelle Monáe
3/5
I admire the ambition on this and there’s some good tracks, but a few too many fall short
Radiohead
2/5
This cockle eyed cunt has a brass neck calling anybody else a thief. He’s been stealing a living for the last 25 years.
Solange
2/5
Nothing amazing on here. Point off for trying to hit Jay Z in the lift that time, the daft mare.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
I’m forever listening to albums from this book saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Mylo
4/5
The Byrds
1/5
You’re not making country music any better, you’re just making the Byrds worse
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Some gems on here
a-ha
3/5
Reasonable 80s euro pop lifted up to a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ by 2 great singles
Django Django
4/5
Very good
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Kate Bush
2/5
Generous 2 stars as I like Kate bush, so am giving her the benefit of the doubt, but this is a right load of old keek
Tina Turner
2/5
Not as good when Ike’s not around to beat a tune out of her
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Frank Crappa
Death In Vegas
3/5
Very very generous 3⭐️ based mostly on how good Aisha is. Takes the term ‘filler’ to another level for a lot of it though
CHVRCHES
4/5
Comes out of the traps like an absolute rocket, but slowly gets more samey, and a bit boring by the end. Probably a 3.5 star, but I’ll bump up to a generous 4 because the first few songs are so strong
Red Snapper
3/5
Really enjoyed this
Bad Company
3/5
Had its moments, so a generous 3, but possibly the most uncool album in the book.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Shit
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Dope
The Dictators
2/5
I like the cover. Music is OK
The Waterboys
1/5
Load of carp 🎣
Christina Aguilera
4/5
Ironically, for an album called ‘Stripped’, it could easily have lost half the songs on here and been a 5 star album. Some great tunes on here but it’s too long. Decent pop album that didn’t need to be over 75 minutes long.
Wanked myself raw to the Dirrty video back in the day, too. 👍🏾
Talking Heads
2/5
Starting to think that Talking Heads are pretty overrated
The Black Crowes
3/5
Not much to Crowe about
The Killers
3/5
This first half of this is an absolute juggernaut, but the second is just middling. All Killers, half fillers.
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Disappointing and too long. And 2 Aguilera albums in one week are going to ruin my Discover Weekly ffs
Jazmine Sullivan
4/5
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’s slag sister
The Fall
3/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
Basement Caxx
3/5
High brow stuff
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2/5
Ordinary
Monotonous
Disappointing
Barry Adamson
2/5
Ambitious but pointless
Bee Gees
3/5
The Vines
3/5
M.I.A.
3/5
Some class stuff on here
John Martyn
3/5
Solid
Baaba Maal
2/5
Listened to this in the bath and the wife shouted in to ask if I’d joined ISIS
Gram Parsons
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
The musical equivalent of a crywank 😢 💦
Heaven 17
2/5
The White Stripes
3/5
If these bozos didn’t wear red trousers they’d still be playing in pubs in Detroit
Slade
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
The Modern Lovers
3/5
Korn
2/5
Awful music for awful people
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Jamiroquai
2/5
Dreadful. Extra point for wearing a funny hat.
The Soft Boys
2/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Frank Black
2/5
Better than any pixies album tbf
Culture Club
3/5
Karma Chameleon doing a lot of heavy lifting on this rating
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Some great songs on here but also about 40 minutes of slap bass filler with white men singing about how funky they are
Happy Mondays
4/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Loved this
Morrissey
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Brian Eno
1/5
Didn’t like this
1/5
No
Suede
3/5
Liked this
Elastica
4/5
The Verve
3/5
Would have been an easy 4 ⭐️ if it wasn’t 20 minutes too long
Tim Buckley
2/5
That one where he says he loves his lady’s chamber? Is he talking about her cunt?
Meat Puppets
2/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
Excellent stuff
Weather Report
1/5
Van Morrison
4/5
I never thought I would associate Van Morrison with a good time, but here we are. Brilliant live album.
Donald Fagen
1/5
Fuck me, this is shite. I mean, Steely Dan are wick but this is another level.
Dagmar Krause
1/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Boxed my ears
Fugees
4/5
This lot should still be making records
The Saints
3/5
Some decent moments on here. Rattles along nicely
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Really good voice, playing and production
Kraftwerk
3/5
Goes of the tracks now and again, but a decent journey overall 🚂
LTJ Bukem
2/5
TLC
3/5
Decent all round
Fela Kuti
4/5
Dead good 🧟
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Great album for a Friday afternoon
Michael Jackson
4/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Lana Del Rey
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Really enjoyed this. Everybody Wants To Rule The World is one of the all time great pop songs. Loses a bit of momentum in the middle.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
The Associates
1/5
3/5
Worth a listen
Hawkwind
3/5
It’s pretty far out tbf, but works well over the full album. Much better than I was fearing
Peter Gabriel
3/5
🫠🫠🫠
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
3/5
3 is probably a bit generous, but it’s worth persevering with
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
Fugazi
3/5
The Specials
4/5
Japan
2/5
CHIC
3/5
Some worldies on this
Laibach
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
Listened to this during a flight to Paris and the whole way back. Still had half an hour of it left to do 😫
Not bad, but nothing needs to last for 3 hours
The Black Keys
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Metallica
3/5
Metallica at their absolute peak. 2.75 stars
Digital Underground
3/5
Definitely not without its flaws, but I still enjoy this
Slipknot
1/5
Balloon knot 🍩
Scritti Politti
1/5
If Wham! are a bit too hardcore for you, this will be right up your street
Dead Kennedys
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Some decent tracks on here
The Damned
3/5
Pretty Damned good
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Brilliant stuff
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
Thought this was great
Method Man
3/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Weird but good weird
Supergrass
4/5
Britpop gold
Elvis Presley
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
Gibberish
Gang Of Four
2/5
William Orbit
3/5
Really enjoyed this, probably about 20 minutes to long though
Doves
3/5
Kraftwerk
2/5
Surprised by the pan pipes on this ngl
Peter Tosh
3/5
The Style Council
2/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Love
1/5
Da Crapo
David Ackles
3/5
Neil Diamanté
Fred Neil
2/5
Shite Said Fred
The Coral
2/5
Scissor Sisters
3/5
First half is great, but the back end is pretty weak
3/5
Jacques Brel
2/5
Big Star
2/5
The Beta Band
2/5
GZA
4/5
The Verve
4/5
The last great Britpop album
2/5
Some decent stuff but some annoying bollocks
Sade
2/5
Twooooth Operator
James Brown
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
2/5
Shitty in Pink
Bee Gees
2/5
The Twee Gees
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The Specials
3/5
SAULT
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Drive Like Jehu
1/5
Hated this
Syd Barrett
1/5
Not to make light of mental illness, but this jerk losing his marbles was the best thing to ever happen to Pink Floyd, cos this is shite
Giant Sand
2/5
Can
3/5
Really enjoyed this
Public Enemy
4/5
Beck
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
N.E.R.D
2/5
Can’t believe we used to let these wallies make all the music back in the 2000s. Load of shite.
Faust
2/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
Shivkumar Sharma
2/5
Offensively inoffensive
The Residents
1/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Ice T
3/5
Just my cup of T 🫖
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
Didn’t enjoy this at all
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Isn’t anything good on here
Klaxons
3/5
The benefits of a killer single and a great cover. A very generous 3, but if Golden Skans & It’s Not Over Yet weren’t on it, it would be almost unlistenable
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Shitte Orca
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
U2
3/5
Standard U2. Couple of great singles lifting up a lot on averageness
Mekons
1/5
Hated this from the first note
The Byrds
2/5
It Bit Byrd Shit
D'Angelo
2/5
Coldplay
4/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
The Cult
4/5
Fantastic
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Skepta
4/5
Air
2/5
Slayer
2/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Ozomatli
2/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Listened to the first half of this, and it was good. But , 3+ hours? Wise up ffs
Tom Waits
2/5
Morrissey
3/5
Couple of epic singles and some unremarkable album tracks
Brian Eno
3/5
The Zutons
3/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
Very enjoyable
Deep Purple
2/5
Deep shit
Tom Waits
3/5
Likes the feel of this but couldn’t remember a single song
Todd Rundgren
2/5
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting the IRA to get a shout out on this. Mental album
Charles Mingus
5/5
Tremendous stuff. My favourite jazz record of all time
Joy Division
3/5
Otis Redding
5/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
4/5
Machito
4/5
Great stuff
Bert Jansch
3/5
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
Surprisingly not bad
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Had a great time with this. Flirted with a 4
Supertramp
3/5
Joanna Newsom
2/5
Wilco
3/5
Very enjoyable
Sonic Youth
2/5
Chronic Doof
Massive Attack
4/5
The Bees
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
John Cale
3/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Very enjoyable to walk around town with this in your headphones. Bit too long though, I got jazzed out
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Scott Walker
3/5
Goldie
2/5
Too long
Maxwell
3/5
Went over a speed bump whilst listening to this and now I’m 7 months pregnant
Living Colour
3/5
Flirted with a 4, but it takes some wild turns in the home stretch. Glamour Boys, I’m looking at you
The Pogues
3/5
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Was looking good for a 4, but definitely worth a listen
The KLF
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Not really my cup of tea, but giving it less than a three would be very harsh. It’s not without its charms
Neil Young
3/5
Madonna
3/5
Much like her face these days, too much filler
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Never got going on this
Love
3/5
New Order
2/5
Poo Order
King Crimson
2/5
Some brilliance, a lot of bollocks
R.E.M.
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Björk
2/5
Bjoring
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Orbital
3/5
Pretenders
2/5
Big Star
1/5
Hated this
Girls Against Boys
1/5
Kings of Leon
4/5
Iron Butterfly
2/5
Extra star for the Simpson’s episode where Bart gets everyone to sing this in church
The Jam
3/5
Boards of Canada
2/5
Bored of Canada
Little Richard
4/5
Peak Little Richard is as good as it gets
The Monkees
1/5
Shite
Billie Holiday
3/5
Common
2/5
Muck
3/5
SZA
3/5
Nt bd
The Who
2/5
The Slits
1/5
The Shits lol
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
The Young Gods
2/5
C’est vraiment terrible. Je le donne un plus etoile parce que j’essaye appendre francais et le m’aider un peu
Killing Joke
1/5
I was working in the Limelight when these guys played. When it was showtime the lead singer turned left instead of right coming out of the dressing room and went full steam into a wall. That was much more entertaining than this album.
Björk
2/5
Ambitious and there’s a few decent moments on here, but it’s just too weird
Ali Farka Touré
1/5
Norah Jones
4/5
The small amount of sex that I managed to have in the early 2000s was soundtracked by this album. Or the first 90 seconds of it at least
Pantera
2/5
Pants - tera
Sparks
4/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2/5
Ash
4/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Core blimey
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Van Halen
4/5
Haircut 100
2/5
Bet Greg loves this shite
Stereolab
3/5
Saucy 🍅
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
There are 100 albums in this book from 1967 that all sound exactly like this
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Not bad. Like it better than Psychocandy
Primal Scream
4/5
Listened to this on an exceptionally strong pill one night, whilst sitting in a half built bar and it was a revelation. Been a firm favourite ever since
Stephen Stills
3/5
1001 albums by Crosby Stills Nash and Young you must listen to before you die
ABBA
4/5
Os Mutantes
1/5
There’s one great tune on here, but it’s not enough to lift it up from one star, that’s how bad the rest of it is
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Ryan Adams
4/5
OutKast
3/5
Some bangers on this but some muck too
Jack White
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Neil Dung
Ute Lemper
1/5
Punishing piss
Nick Drake
3/5
Ms. Dynamite
4/5
Enjoy-he-heed this
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Made me want to throw the rope up 😵
White Denim
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Guided By Voices
1/5
The music is worse than the cover, if you can believe that
Iron Maiden
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
David Gray
5/5
Spacemen 3
1/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Difficult to see how you can give this more than one star
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Good quack 👍🏻
The Shamen
3/5
Not terrible by any means. The version on Spotify has got ‘Move Any Mountain’ on it, which adds a star
Les Rythmes Digitales
4/5
Very enjoyable. I know a good few of these songs from being out and about back in the day. Always assumed they were Daft Punk tracks
Black Sabbath
4/5
Lyrics were much better than I ever gave Sabbath credit for. Lots of class riffs, but can be a little samey
1/5
Load of shite
The White Stripes
2/5
The Shite Stripes
Jeff Buckley
2/5
If this silly bastard knew how to swim, this wouldn’t be in the book
Orange Juice
3/5
Pretty smooth, but still had some juicy bits 🍊
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
Some very unexpected high points, but some very expected mid 80s neo soul pish
Tom Waits
1/5
Music for try hard wankers
The Thrills
3/5
Bought this on CD back in the day, and listened to it quite a bit. Through modern ears it doesn’t sound great, and, when you think about it, the whole thing is pretty ridiculous. These cunts are from Dublin ffs 😂
The Wikipedia entry is full of facts that make you shake your head in disbelief
“ It was released on 27 May 2003 and quickly achieved success in Ireland, spending 61 weeks in the top 75 of the Irish Albums Chart.[12] The album also won 'Album of the Year' at the national music awards” 🤦🏽
“ The album was nominated for the 2003 Mercury Prize but lost to Dizzee Rascal's Boy in da Corner.”
“ The song "Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)" was ranked by Q Magazine at number 550 on their list of the 1001 best songs ever made”
“ The song "Say It Ain't So" appeared on US President George W. Bush's iPod in 2005” 😂
Nostalgic 3 stars as they were quite good when I saw them open for the Stones in Dublin, but it’s really a 2
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Adverts
3/5
The version on Spotify has Gary Gilmores Eyes on it, which drags this up to a 3
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Can’t give a full 5 stars after what Diddy has been up to, the dirty baste
Adam & The Ants
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Bonkers, but ultimately too long. Worth a spot in the book for the back story alone
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Madness
3/5
Fantastic singles band, never made a great album, although One Step Beyond should be in ahead of this.
Solid greatest hits.
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Very enjoyable
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Charming enough, but not essential
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Thought this was really charming with solid production. Flirted with a 4.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
My head dropped when I saw we had another nick cave album, but this is excellent
Doves
5/5
An underrated masterpiece. This album should have had them filling stadiums
Bad Brains
2/5
Steve Winwood
1/5
Bollocks
Alice Cooper
3/5
Great fun throughout. School’s Out is such a strong song that it really carries the whole album though
Throwing Muses
2/5
Didn’t really enjoy this at all
Circle Jerks
3/5
Goldfrapp
2/5
One earphone stopped working halfway through this, which can’t have done it any favors tbh. Loved Seventh Tree but found this a bit wanky
Justin Timberlake
3/5
First half of this is great, second half is wick
Nick Drake
3/5
Charming as usual
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
I’ll be honest, I only listened to about the first 20 minutes of this. Not sure it was gonna take any different directions in the subsequent 70
Elton John
4/5
His best album , some absolute classics on here 👓
The Hives
3/5
Hate to say it but told you so is an undeniable banger. But even over a run time of 28 minutes the Stooges shtick gets tired. And this is a compilation too. Generous 3
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Bit of a 21st century classic. Really worth listening to
The National
2/5
Lightning Bolt
1/5
A right load of crap. No reason to exist, let alone be in this book
Germs
1/5
Load of balls
Linkin Park
2/5
Stinkin’ Fart lol.
In The End is a tune. The rest is absolute garbage.
Van Morrison
4/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
2/5
Not nipping this shite in the bud is the reason we have Cage the Elephant. Don’t let white people try jazz
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Echo and the Bunnymen are shite. And Liverpool fans.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
Absolutely fucking hated this
Slint
1/5
Total waste of my time
Gillian Welch
2/5
Janet Jackson
2/5
Unsurprisingly, from a shit Michael Jackson, it sounds like a shit Michael Jackson album
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Didn’t mind this at all. Scooted by nicely
Carpenters
3/5
Queen
2/5
A pack of art school wankers who make music exclusively for children’s birthday parties.
Queen have always absolutely sucked 👍🏻
Julian Cope
3/5
Not bad at all. Could have scored higher if it had been a bit shorter. Kinda zoned out towards the end
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
One or two enjoyable tracks on here
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Great listen. A modern classic.
Saint Etienne
2/5
Liked this in parts, but was pretty disappointed overall.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Jesus Mary Joseph and the wee donkey chain
Soft Machine
1/5
Turd 💩
3/5
First track is a barnstormer. The rest is good but I wanted more of the first
The Kinks
3/5
Meh, it’s ok. Sunny Afternoon is great but not sure there’s much else here
David Bowie
4/5
Great stuff
Beyoncé
3/5
Bey +
Arrested Development
3/5
Sepultura
2/5
Ballroots
Thundercat
2/5
Thundercats are on the move
Thundercats are loose
Feel the magic, hear the roar
Thundercats are loose
Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats
Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats
Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats
Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats!
Someone in this group got sucked off by Mum-Ra on my stag do but I’m not a tout.
Genesis
3/5
I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn’t understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group’s undisputed masterpiece. It’s an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I’ve heard in rock. Phil Collins’ solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist.
Cypress Hill
4/5
🥴
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Nobody has enough good songs for a double album
Sister Sledge
4/5
Some absolute monsters on this 🕺🏻 🪩
Talking Heads
3/5
Not sure whether Once In A Lifetime lifts up an average album or makes the rest of the album seem average
Richard Hawley
2/5
Brian Wilson
2/5
Once left a Daft Punk set to go and see Brian Wilson at a festival. A decision that haunts me to this day.
4/5
Thought this was class 😂
Bon Jovi
4/5
I will always love this album 😂
First half is top notch
Little Simz
4/5
Randy Newman
2/5
Put this on in work and now HR want to talk to me
Big Black
1/5
Like an even more shit version of the Pixies
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Franktastic
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Sounds like Hitler frustratedly trying to put up a shed for half an hour
Kings of Leon
3/5
Liked this album at the time, still like it now. Crawl is great, Sex on Fire is just played to death, but it’s still a good song. Not sure I ever listened to it all the way through though.
Aerosmith
5/5
Great album, but Steven Tyler is a wrong ‘un
Lupe Fiasco
5/5
Never heard this before. Absolutely fantastic. Not sure it needed a 12 minute outro shouting out sexual predator Tim Westwood and neo-Nazi Kanye West 😬, but even that’s really good.
Portishead
2/5
Was close to giving this one star. It’s a right load of old shite
Crowded House
3/5
The singles are pretty great. The rest is the filleriest of filler
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
Castles made of sand and little wing doing a lot of heavy lifting on here
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Possibly my favourite French transgender electro funk album of the 2010s
Beastie Boys
3/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Didn’t mind this at all
Incubus
3/5
Stellar reminds me of Guitar Hero and the rest is pretty interesting. Nu Metal for grown ups
Buena Vista Social Club
2/5
No me gusta
k.d. lang
3/5
Some interesting parts, and Constant Craving is objectively a tune. Generous 3 stars
Morrissey
2/5
There are the same amount of Morrissey albums in this book as there are Smiths albums. What’s that about?
The Prodigy
3/5
Some great tracks on here, but like many 90s albums, it’s just too long. Flirted with a 4, but a star dropped off in the last 20 minutes
Tom Tom Club
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5