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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dub Housing | 5 | 2.35 | +2.65 |
| We're Only In It For The Money | 5 | 2.47 | +2.53 |
| Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room | 5 | 2.6 | +2.4 |
| Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche | 5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
| Sex Packets | 5 | 2.67 | +2.33 |
| G. Love And Special Sauce | 5 | 2.74 | +2.26 |
| Group Sex | 5 | 2.74 | +2.26 |
| The Grand Tour | 5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
| Djam Leelii | 5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
| Tarkus | 5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 1 | 3.68 | -2.68 |
| Hail To the Thief | 1 | 3.44 | -2.44 |
| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
| The College Dropout | 1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
| Astral Weeks | 1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
| OK Computer | 2 | 4.1 | -2.1 |
| Nowhere | 1 | 3.01 | -2.01 |
| You Are The Quarry | 1 | 2.86 | -1.86 |
| The Sounds Of India | 1 | 2.85 | -1.85 |
| Siamese Dream | 2 | 3.83 | -1.83 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 7 | 4.86 |
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.67 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 5 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 4 | 5 |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 5 |
| Steely Dan | 4 | 5 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 5 | 4.8 |
| The Who | 5 | 4.8 |
| Tom Waits | 5 | 4.6 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 4.75 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 4.75 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 5 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 5 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 5 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 5 |
| Marvin Gaye | 3 | 5 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 3 | 5 |
| Joni Mitchell | 4 | 4.5 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4.5 |
| Queen | 3 | 4.67 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 3 | 4.67 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| Prince | 3 | 4.67 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.67 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 | 4.67 |
| Billy Bragg | 2 | 5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest | 2 | 5 |
| Aretha Franklin | 2 | 5 |
| Rush | 2 | 5 |
| Funkadelic | 2 | 5 |
| The Band | 2 | 5 |
| The Clash | 2 | 5 |
| Elvis Costello | 2 | 5 |
| Adele | 2 | 5 |
| Emmylou Harris | 2 | 5 |
| Amy Winehouse | 2 | 5 |
| Willie Nelson | 2 | 5 |
| King Crimson | 2 | 5 |
| The Pogues | 2 | 5 |
| Sly & The Family Stone | 2 | 5 |
| CHIC | 2 | 5 |
| The Specials | 2 | 5 |
| k.d. lang | 2 | 5 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 2 | 5 |
| AC/DC | 2 | 5 |
| Dolly Parton | 2 | 5 |
| Metallica | 4 | 4.25 |
| Neil Young | 4 | 4.25 |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 4.33 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 3 | 4.33 |
| Frank Sinatra | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Byrds | 5 | 4 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Kanye West | 3 | 1 |
| Morrissey | 4 | 1.75 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 1.5 |
| Van Morrison | 3 | 2 |
Controversial Artists
Artists you rate inconsistently
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Scott Walker | 4, 1 |
| Beck | 5, 5, 2 |
| Radiohead | 4, 2, 3, 2, 5, 1 |
5-Star Albums (330)
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Alice Cooper
3/5
Kind of like a very competent Halloween gag. Also, weirdly, I don't think I knew what Alice Cooper sounded like until this.
10 likes
Justin Timberlake
4/5
Not bad for the guy who threw Janet Jackson under the sexy bus. 4 stars.
8 likes
1-Star Albums (12)
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John Lee Hooker
5/5
The master with a cavalcade of extra guests, great stuff.
Radiohead
4/5
I am generally not a Radiohead fan, but this album is quite good.
Living Colour
5/5
Amazing. From start to finish, this album is funky, rockin' and gets you moving.
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Been ages since I listened to this, but it still holds up. Very 80s, and yet still classic Springsteen.
Motörhead
5/5
Saw them live once, they were great. RIP Lemmy. Fantastic album.
Donald Fagen
4/5
Couple of tracks were definitely familiar, I had not heard the rest and dang if it isn't a fine album. Steely Dan-ish, of course.
Boards of Canada
3/5
Well done, not really my cuppa but interesting.
Björk
4/5
Very impressive, more danceable than I was expecting, bouncy good fun.
Small Faces
3/5
First side: well, that's pretty interesting and proggy. Second side: What the ... ?
Billy Bragg
5/5
Like both artists, makes sense they would sound good together. This album is lovely, bouncy and clever.
The White Stripes
4/5
Footy! Really great album all around.
R.E.M.
5/5
Radio Free Europe remains one of my absolute fave R.E.M. songs, and the rest of the album is equally fantastic.
Jungle Brothers
5/5
Really fantastic, these guys are great, clearly they paved the way for a lot of groups who came after. I hear them in De La Soul and even a little in Digital Underground.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Meh. OK, but I like their earlier albums better.
Joan Baez
5/5
Lovely and haunting, spare and magnificent.
Adam & The Ants
4/5
A little uneven, but good and rockin', nice start to the day.
Madness
3/5
Love these guys, this album is fantastic.
The Icarus Line
3/5
Fun messy punk. A bit of Stooges and Strokes in them.
Queen
4/5
Early rocking from them, not quite as theatrical as their later work, but definitely great.
4/5
Finest band in plastic flowerpot hats ever. Really great album.
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Lovely way to start the morning.
ABBA
3/5
Disco folk music, as it were. Bright, shiny and happy, danceable and nostalgic.
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Classic sound of SF, couple of massive hits supported by a bunch of fantastic songs.
4/5
Classic album from a country legend.
Fleet Foxes
2/5
Remind me oddly a little of Fairport Convention. But if they got Jack White to play along.
Daft Punk
2/5
Meh. Like hot food that's hot for the sake of being hot, not the flavor, this album is a lot of sound looking for a more groovy plan.
The Soft Boys
4/5
Fantastic album, psychedelic new wave, was not familiar with this band at all.
Jeff Beck
5/5
Epic.
Michael Jackson
3/5
Very polished, bouncy album.
Gotan Project
4/5
Fantastic, groovy, a little clangy at times, reminds me of the "Frantic" soundtrack, a bit of north African trance with the tango.
Os Mutantes
3/5
Super-trippy, like late-stage Beatles but also some very Beach Boys-ish stuff.
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Lush, disco relaxation music
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
1970s French pop is a thing, that's for sure.
Alice Cooper
3/5
Kind of like a very competent Halloween gag. Also, weirdly, I don't think I knew what Alice Cooper sounded like until this.
OutKast
4/5
A sprawling, fantastic classic.
Tim Buckley
3/5
Pretty darn sex funky.
The Waterboys
4/5
Really great, like Fairport and Flogging Molly made an album. (I know, this predates that, just sayin'...)
Deep Purple
2/5
wow.
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Nice and folky-psychedelic
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Such a fantastic album, Ry Cooder is a national treasure.
The Smashing Pumpkins
1/5
A whiny discordant mess.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Bouncy, aggro punk awesomeness.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
5/5
A classic. Raw, powerful, soulful. And that voice.
U2
3/5
Better than I remember. Still prefer their early stuff more, but this is pretty good.
David Bowie
4/5
Fantastic, truly.
Soul II Soul
3/5
good funky grooves.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Really fantastic, has hits but also the whole album is great.
Steve Earle
5/5
A god damn classic. "I got a 2-pack habit and a motel tan" is one of the greatest lines in a song.
Bon Jovi
3/5
I mean, you can hear the mullet loud and clear.
Jane's Addiction
4/5
A fucking classic.
Garbage
3/5
Pretty great. Solid damn album from the doyenne of Scottish alt-punk.
George Michael
3/5
Pretty fabulous.
Nirvana
4/5
Pretty much a modern classic.
Stan Getz
4/5
Sexy, bossa nova-y, good morning jam on a Friday.
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Pretty 70s, pretty fun, good rock to start the day.
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Such a fantastic album. Proof that anger makes excellent rock.
Q-Tip
5/5
Really groovy and excellent.
Drive-By Truckers
4/5
A sprawling southern classic.
Pixies
3/5
So much sprang up from what these guys did.
Killing Joke
2/5
Bracing.
Bebel Gilberto
4/5
Breezy and lovely.
Frank Zappa
5/5
Orchestral rock, and groovy rock it is.
Tim Buckley
2/5
This guy again? Really? Sounds like someone force-fed him Jethro Tull and a lute.
Lucinda Williams
5/5
A classic, truly.
Pearl Jam
4/5
A modern classic, much of its time but also timeless.
Bob Dylan
3/5
I tend to prefer Dylan's music covered by other artists, but this album is really great.
Fairport Convention
3/5
lovely.
Talking Heads
4/5
Very good.
The Byrds
4/5
A veritable classic. Even without the Shatner.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Very very good.
R.E.M.
3/5
Pretty good, earlier stuff is better.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Pretty enjoyable.
The Verve
2/5
clangy and messy
Eminem
4/5
Solid classic.
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Lovely.
3/5
Oh good, ANOTHER Dylan album.
Aerosmith
3/5
The 80s were weird, but this is a pretty good album.
The Cure
3/5
lovely and melancholy.
The Byrds
4/5
Pretty great. You can really hear the Crosby.
Paul Simon
3/5
Lovely album.
Cee Lo Green
3/5
A pretty solid album all around.
New Order
4/5
pretty groovy stuff.
Fairport Convention
4/5
Really good, more rocking than I expected.
The Undertones
4/5
Pretty stinkin' great.
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Crunchy.
Scott Walker
4/5
Like Rogers & Hammerstein had relations with a jukebox.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Really damn good.
The Who
5/5
Epic.
Beth Orton
4/5
Really fantastic, lovely mix of folk and electronica.
T. Rex
3/5
pretty uniformly the same, but groovy.
Gang Of Four
4/5
Love this. Great punk rock.
The Avalanches
4/5
Great, super-funky and groovy.
Pavement
3/5
Pretty good punk.
Parliament
4/5
Oh hells yes, funk-tastic!
3/5
So great.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Really excellent album.
Peter Tosh
4/5
A reggae classic
Cypress Hill
5/5
420 stars.
Brian Eno
4/5
Fantastic, art rock, theatrical majesty
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Melancholy and lovely.
Love
3/5
Weird but interesting. Like Fairport with a bit of Jethro Tull mixed in.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
A modern-day classic.
The Only Ones
4/5
Really great, interesting, mix of punk, power pop and psychedelia.
Don McLean
2/5
Mostly meh with a couple of lovely moments.
Madonna
4/5
lazy disco-y lushness
Massive Attack
5/5
A true classic. And if 3D Del Naja is Banksy, then even better.
Todd Rundgren
4/5
Amazing album, Rundgren is a genius.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Great. More Dylan.
Ryan Adams
3/5
Not bad for an arrogant dickhead.
Slint
3/5
Good chunky punk.
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
Music to overdose to.
Maxwell
3/5
putting the fun in funky.
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Pretty rockin', pretty '90s, pretty great.
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Really quite good.
PJ Harvey
4/5
Rockin' and artsy and excellent.
The Stranglers
3/5
Crunchy punk fun
The Smiths
3/5
Pretty good considering the lead singer is a shit racist.
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Really excellent stuff.
Elton John
3/5
weird but pretty great. Jamaican Jerk-off?
John Coltrane
5/5
Sublime
Slipknot
2/5
terrifying. but not bad.
Red Snapper
3/5
tasty electronica
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Flat-out classic album. Six stars.
Prince
4/5
A classic.
Burning Spear
4/5
so very good.
Brian Eno
4/5
lovely, spare and weird.
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
It's Tricky to rock around it's tricky.
Public Enemy
5/5
Epic. Should be mandatory listening everywhere.
Louis Prima
4/5
"Gimme a C, a bouncy C."
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Makes Monday sound like a Sunday.
Deep Purple
3/5
Suede
3/5
pretty good, not super-memorable
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Jeff Buckley
3/5
Nice version of Hallelelujah.
4/5
Pretty darn good stuff here.
Joan Armatrading
5/5
Fantastically great stuff.
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
Pretty darn good. Not sure I can take a whole grime album, but this is good stuff.
Shack
3/5
Was not familiar with them, this is a lovely album
Manu Chao
3/5
Really cool, funky stuff.
Metallica
4/5
Love this album.
Bauhaus
3/5
groovy and ghostly.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Dark and theatrical.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Lovely.
The Temptations
4/5
A classic. And it's a classic for a reason.
Johnny Cash
5/5
Supergrass
4/5
Pretty funky and rockin'.
5/5
chaotic, rebellious energy, motherfuckers!
Gene Clark
3/5
Nice relaxing album, the anti-MC5.
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Nice Friday morning album, ethereal and poppy.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
'Tis an OK album.
Morrissey
2/5
he's a wanker.
Alice In Chains
3/5
Solid, powerful and dark.
Animal Collective
3/5
pretty groovy
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Great stuff.
Solange
5/5
Deep and funky. Beyonce might be the Queen, but Solange is amazing.
Mekons
3/5
Really good. punky-arty-country Brit-pop-ish fun
Bob Dylan
3/5
Oh hey, more Bob Dylan...
Syd Barrett
4/5
good, creative, weird, interesting
New Order
3/5
Chill, smooth, poppy and slick.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
five stars
Santana
5/5
stupendous!
Taylor Swift
5/5
superbly crafted pop music.
Jazmine Sullivan
3/5
funky and soulful.
Boston
4/5
A definite classic of the AOR rock radio days, pretty much not a bad track on the album.
MGMT
3/5
Super fun psychedelic pop.
Turbonegro
3/5
Bracing!
Basement Jaxx
3/5
groovy and funky pop goodness.
Screaming Trees
3/5
You can really hear the Mike McCready
Fugees
5/5
A modern classic. 6 stars.
Lou Reed
3/5
Pretty good for a whiney old punk.
Gary Numan
4/5
Solid, classic electronica, and who makes the single the ninth cut on the album?
The Doors
3/5
Good stuff, more bluesy than I remembered.
Paul Simon
5/5
A classic, even if Steve Berlin's story gives me pause...
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Another classic, even if Stairway is the most overplayed song in history.
The Stooges
3/5
Oi!
Bob Dylan
2/5
More Bob? Hurrah. I sure hope there are like 27 more Bob Dylan albums on this list.
Thelonious Monk
5/5
6 stars
The Stooges
4/5
Fun!
Beastie Boys
5/5
Perhaps their best album, absolutely brilliant. 5 stars.
Grizzly Bear
2/5
weird.
Le Tigre
4/5
Reminds me a bit of the Ting Tings. Good poppy fun.
Minutemen
5/5
A modern-day punk classic.
Pixies
4/5
Seminal album from a pioneering band.
The Offspring
4/5
smart pop-punk.
Frank Sinatra
4/5
swingin'!
Tom Waits
4/5
Lovely and sleazy in equal measure.
Stereo MC's
4/5
Grooooovy.
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Lovely classic.
Jane Weaver
3/5
trippy and groovy and a nice Friday morning album
R.E.M.
4/5
Pretty darn good stuff, Maynard.
The Birthday Party
3/5
Sounds a lot like Nick Cave... oh. Cool!
Gang Starr
4/5
Super funky fresh flow and groooooovy
Fela Kuti
5/5
Brilliant! 6 stars.
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Like a modern-day Fairport at times. Lovely.
Iggy Pop
4/5
Really good, more going on than I initially expected.
Bee Gees
4/5
Not at all what I was expecting. More like Elton John at times, and also folkier than I would have thought.
Coldplay
2/5
Meh. But like, really meh. Had to listen to Beyonce halfway through.
Muddy Waters
3/5
great stuff!
Various Artists
4/5
Phil Spector is a monster, but this album is fantastic!
Ray Charles
4/5
so good.
Aretha Franklin
5/5
A true American icon.
Bad Company
4/5
Really rockin'.
The Youngbloods
4/5
Jesse Colin Young's first band, pretty good stuff, was not familiar.
Black Sabbath
5/5
Oh hells yes.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Dylan album #27 is a lot like the others.
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Brilliant.
Ananda Shankar
3/5
weird but entertaining.
The National
5/5
Mope-y, dirge-y and wonderful.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
4/5
Pretty good despite the presence of a racist, anti-science shitbird.
Beastie Boys
5/5
They evolved more after this, got more aware, but this album remains a classic.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Lovely and grand.
The Gun Club
5/5
Really fucking good stuff. Cow-punk rocks.
David Bowie
5/5
Very good stuff this.
The Notorious B.I.G.
5/5
Compellingly good stuff.
Green Day
4/5
Pop punk excellence, their first step toward being a stadium band.
Van Halen
4/5
80s majesty
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Sultry country blues torch singing
Finley Quaye
3/5
Quality album, shame there was no more.
Missy Elliott
4/5
Really excellent album, she has great flow and great beats.
Billie Holiday
5/5
Beautiful, incandescent, glorious.
Oasis
3/5
Meh. It was OK.
Liz Phair
4/5
most excellent.
Fever Ray
3/5
Kinda like if Enigma and Bauhaus had a child.
Rush
5/5
One of their best. Classic Peart storytelling, side one is ONE song. Fantastic all across the board.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Stupendous. Should have nine of his albums on here instead of Dylan.
Really good rock. Solid album.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Pretty darn great, classic rock
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
They are fantastic, this album is transcendental.
Rush
5/5
Classic. Maybe their most perfect album after 2112.
Radiohead
2/5
Aren't there more Bob Dylan albums you could have put here?
Venom
1/5
Is this a Tenacious D album?
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Brilliant.
M.I.A.
4/5
Fantastic! Engaging and stirring.
John Prine
5/5
An American treasure.
Pretenders
3/5
A modern-day classic
The Stone Roses
4/5
Pretty darn good, although they leaned HARD into the "remastered" nonsense.
The Beach Boys
3/5
I just don't get it, but I know people love them.
The The
2/5
Meh. But nice.
Eminem
4/5
Seriously good stuff.
The Beach Boys
3/5
relaxing.
Sarah Vaughan
5/5
So very good.
Fats Domino
5/5
What a treasure, great music.
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Such a fantastic album. 6 stars.
Peter Frampton
5/5
hmm... never heard of him. (kidding, of course this is a classic)
Elvis Presley
3/5
Pretty darn good.
Funkadelic
5/5
Transcendental psychedelic madness in the best way.
Method Man
5/5
Fuck yeah. Keep it moving, ya punk.
Neil Young
4/5
Fantastic stuff, Young in fine form.
5/5
Brilliant.
PJ Harvey
3/5
OK.
Everything But The Girl
4/5
Ranges from electronica to folk/country, quite nice all around.
Scott Walker
1/5
Nope.
Raekwon
4/5
Really fantastic stuff here.
Traffic
4/5
really great stuff.
Dr. Dre
5/5
This album is like Kind of Blue (the first Wu-Tang is too) in that so much talent appears on the album and almost everything AFTER this album from the people on it is great.
The Jam
4/5
pretty damned good.
John Martyn
4/5
Wild, interesting album from someone I knew nothing about.
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Loungey and weird but nice.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Pretty good, and the 7pm News song is powerful.
The Monks
4/5
fascinating stuff, really interesting.
Beatles
5/5
Brilliant
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Shame that Clapton is such a shitbird, otherwise this album is fine.
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Sounds like Bauhaus.
Black Flag
5/5
Brilliant. An American classic.
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
Not just super fly: Super-duper fly. 6 stars
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
Quite excellent stuff there.
Green Day
4/5
Really great. A punk band becomes a stadium rock powerhouse.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
One of their best and a fine rock album.
Bobby Womack
4/5
Pretty darn good.
Motörhead
4/5
Super-heavy. Hilarious how the "slow song" just drops from 150mph to, like, 90.
The Band
5/5
For Canadians, they are quite the American treasure.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
properly good.
4/5
Rocking good time.
Jethro Tull
4/5
While it makes no sense that they won an award for metal, this is a pretty rocking album.
Beatles
5/5
Sublimely entertaining.
Milton Nascimento
5/5
Really fantastic, ethereal and rocking at the same times occasionally.
Lenny Kravitz
5/5
Super-groovy and awesome.
The Boo Radleys
3/5
interesting.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
A classic rock triumph.
Sister Sledge
4/5
Smooth disco classic.
Roxy Music
4/5
Broad, sprawling epic album.
Rahul Dev Burman
4/5
A scintillating and engaging soundtrack.
Public Enemy
5/5
Should be mandatory listening in schools.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
3/5
A new disco classic
Miles Davis
4/5
Interstellar
Faust
1/5
meh
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Always a good time.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
Amazingly good, Costello doing what he does best
The Young Rascals
5/5
Hells yes. great stuff. very groovin.
The Clash
5/5
8 fucking stars. This album is a sonic attack on assholes and sitting still.
JAY Z
5/5
Maybe his best. Great beats, he can definitely spit it (but taking on Nas? Sheesh...) And a nice Em guest spot.
Orbital
4/5
Groovy tunes.
The Cure
3/5
Pretty good. Not compelling, but I'm not really a Cure guy.
Cream
3/5
Shame Clapton is such a massive wanker, but the album is pretty good.
Laura Nyro
3/5
Lovely, weird and entertaining.
Van Morrison
1/5
Shame he's such a shitbird and anti-science. 1 sad little star.
David Bowie
5/5
Another gem of a classsic
The Go-Betweens
3/5
interesting, spare lilting pop rock.
Hole
3/5
Pretty good stuff.
Love
4/5
Pretty groovy. One song really wanted to be "What's New, Pussycat?" but couldn't quite get there.
Wire
4/5
Brilliant stuff here.
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Bracing and aggressive, well crafted and weirdly bouncy at times.
Roxy Music
4/5
good stuff here.
James Brown
5/5
Hot! In the Hot Tub!
The Stooges
4/5
Good dog.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Classic walk through the 80s musically.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
rocking. free.
Air
2/5
meh.
David Crosby
5/5
Lovely -- and how have I not heard this before?
Incubus
4/5
Pretty fun and funky. Hard to characterize, like the band, but solidly entertaining. Plus Battlestar Scralatchtica is absurdly good entertainment.
Neu!
3/5
weird and funky.
The Blue Nile
3/5
2.5 stars
PJ Harvey
3/5
Bracingly good stuff to start the day.
Mariah Carey
4/5
syrupy sweet and very "discount sexy" -- breathy hooks and moans, Donna Summer did it better. But Puffy does know what he's doing, it's a solid album.
Elastica
4/5
Good rocking stuff, Really fun and punky.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
More Spinal Tap than I expected.
Elvis Costello
5/5
Fantastic. Great punk.
The Cardigans
4/5
Lovely and weird, but also engaging and poppy.
Genesis
3/5
Groovy.
Elvis Costello
5/5
Fucking awesome!
Dr. John
5/5
Fantastic stuff as always from The Dr.
Violent Femmes
5/5
A classic.
Taylor Swift
4/5
Truly a lovely album. National guitarists and one of the best country-pop songwriters equals a stunning classic, even if it wasn't created during the pandemic.
Elliott Smith
5/5
5 stars
Marty Robbins
3/5
Mighty damn white.
Thundercat
5/5
funk-tastic!
Dire Straits
5/5
Fantastic album, one of their best.
The Temptations
5/5
Groovy and funktastic.
Beatles
4/5
A sprawling epic pop rock adventure. Silly, engaging, rocking, light, heavy and more.
Al Green
4/5
Smooth and soulful.
Adele
5/5
A modern classic.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
lovely and spare
Elvis Presley
3/5
Pretty good for stealing music from black musicians.
Eagles
5/5
California Classic.
Dwight Yoakam
5/5
Excellent stuff, country crooner of the highest order.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Pretty solid album.
Iron Maiden
5/5
An album of fucking bangers. Maiden is a great hard rock band kind of disguised as a novelty act.
Mercury Rev
3/5
pretty groovy
John Martyn
3/5
Really good rockin' stuff here.
Emmylou Harris
5/5
Really great as always from Emmylou.
Sex Pistols
5/5
Like being thrown in a cold pool to start the day.
Wild Beasts
4/5
Really good, groovey, new wavey pop.
Depeche Mode
4/5
Really excellent, forgot about their "Route 66" cover.
Iron Butterfly
4/5
The rock and/or roll.
Amy Winehouse
5/5
A perfect Sunday morning album.
James Taylor
4/5
Lovely, and all jokes aside he makes a fine album.
Pet Shop Boys
5/5
Very very very good. actually.
Simple Minds
4/5
This is a sold 3.5 star album.
The 13th Floor Elevators
4/5
Not sure what I was expecting, but this is excellent. Jefferson Airplane and the Moody Blues had a trippy kid.
50 Cent
4/5
OK, not bad.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2/5
weird and meh.
Frank Sinatra
5/5
Another excellent Sunday album.
Kate Bush
4/5
A classic of quiet breathy englishness.
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Elegant, folky, rocky and wry.
Ramones
5/5
Oi! Oi! It's great! Oi! Oi! It's great!
Jacques Brel
4/5
Zut alors.
Common
3/5
Pretty groovy stuff.
The Lemonheads
4/5
Really good stuff.
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Wild, fantastic rock and roll.
4/5
Really good stuff, Britpop and better than Oasis.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
pretty good, not stellar
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
very fun, punky rock and roll
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Nice and mopey, but also groovin'.
Miles Davis
5/5
So very good.
Merle Haggard
4/5
swinging!
Sonic Youth
2/5
Pretty compelling, I must admit it is not my jam but I see why folks dig it.
Def Leppard
4/5
80s metal in a perfectly distilled package. I saw this tour, it was as glitzy and flashy and hairy as you can imagine. But this album absolutely rocks. Even manages to pull off the metal ballad, not always a sure thing at all.
Elbow
3/5
weird and wonderful.
Ice T
4/5
Really damn good.
Sam Cooke
5/5
Classic. CLASSIC. So good.
David Bowie
5/5
Spare and wondrous, rocking and reeling.
Carpenters
3/5
oh so very lovely
Travis
2/5
ok.
Deep Purple
4/5
A solid 3.5 stars, maybe 4
Fred Neil
4/5
Wild story about the guy. Dolphins? Still, pretty good album.
4/5
Like a lost U2 album.
Kelela
3/5
Really soulful, lovely stuff.
SAULT
5/5
Super-dope tunes.
Van Halen
5/5
six stars
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Good shit, man.
Deerhunter
3/5
weird but good
The Who
5/5
A rock classic.
Korn
3/5
Pretty good, and the Cheech & Chong cover is epic.
5/5
Maybe my favorite album of theirs.
Radiohead
3/5
OK, OK, OK, look: some of their stuff is really great, some of it is unlistenable. This is a good mix of those two extremes.
The Killers
3/5
A bit flash, but pretty tight and rocking.
Charles Mingus
4/5
Soulful and clangy, like jazz should be.
Nirvana
5/5
A modern classic. 5 stars.
Alice Cooper
3/5
A classic song, plus a bunch of other bonkers stuff.
Funkadelic
5/5
Always funky, always groovy.
The Smiths
3/5
meh.
Radiohead
2/5
2 stars
Ash
4/5
Pretty rocking stuff, sounds pop-sludge-y in a good way.
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
Solid stuff. Super creative, great beats, compelling raps.
Willie Nelson
5/5
Wonderful album, he's got a great voice as always and the band is incredible.
Brian Eno
4/5
Wild, weird, fascinating and clangy.
The Fall
2/5
Not terribly memorable, sadly.
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Six stars. So good. So many good songs.
Otis Redding
4/5
Brilliant.
Lorde
3/5
super-plus good
Ravi Shankar
1/5
Not really my bag.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5/5
6 stars out of 5
Tom Waits
5/5
So. Bloody. Good. Eight stars.
Butthole Surfers
4/5
Really fantastic, like Mr. Bungle with less porn and more LSD.
Gillian Welch
5/5
An extremely lovely album.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Lovely.
King Crimson
5/5
Brilliant.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
A southern classic.
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
Pretty wonderful, reminds me a bit of Peter and the Wolf.
Jamiroquai
5/5
Disco space funktastic!
David Bowie
5/5
Amazingly good. and the only Bowie album to not have him on the cover.
Thin Lizzy
4/5
Rocking and rolling
Lauryn Hill
5/5
A modern classic
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Stunning. Beautiful and spare and amazing.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
classic stones
4/5
Wonderfully 80s album.
The Kinks
3/5
great stuff.
Nick Drake
3/5
Lovely music to do other things to.
Gorillaz
5/5
This band made something new happen in a super-funky and rocking way. 6 stars.
Tim Buckley
3/5
meh, but nice.
Isaac Hayes
5/5
five stars, for a brother man
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Brilliant album, not the least because her backing band is the Dap-Tones, they combine to make a magical album.
Throwing Muses
3/5
Could not find it to listen to, but later albums are great.
Eurythmics
4/5
Wonderful spacey and rocking.
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Wild 80s stuff, kinda sounds at times like Queen, surprisingly.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Punky pop-rock goodness.
Justice
4/5
A fantastic rock-tronica album.
Earth, Wind & Fire
5/5
Smooth funky goodness
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Varied and interesting.
Tito Puente
5/5
Astounding! Great stuff.
Prince
5/5
Stunningly good stuff (and not at all surprising, this better not be the only Prince album, especially as we get 12 Dylan albums)
OutKast
4/5
Sprawling hip-hop classic
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Stunning, lovely stuff. Solsbury HIll is a modern classic.
Randy Newman
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
new shit
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
brilliant
Nico
2/5
ok
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
really good britrock
B.B. King
4/5
The king.
Radiohead
5/5
the best one and only one that should be on the list
Metallica
3/5
Probably pretty great.
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Fantastic stuff, a groove-a-licious gem.
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Brit-rock-y goodness from Arctic Monkeys bloke.
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
weird, spacey and spare, good morning album
Kate Bush
4/5
It was very Kate Bush-y.
Astrud Gilberto
4/5
Wonderful stuff! That breezy, sensual Brazil sound.
Public Enemy
5/5
Seminal classic, should be taught in schools.
Kraftwerk
4/5
Love. It. Makes. Me. Boop. And. Beep.
Ella Fitzgerald
5/5
The queen. five stars.
The Zombies
3/5
Great Moody Blues album!
Beatles
5/5
Maybe their best album.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
I mean, dayum.
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
Quality boop.
Queen
5/5
rock-tastic!
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Fantastic debut rock album
The B-52's
4/5
New wave excellence
The Cure
3/5
Good early stuff.
Fela Kuti
4/5
Stupendous as always.
Goldie
3/5
Really good spacey drum-and-bass.
The Byrds
3/5
Classic and hippie-ish.
Soundgarden
3/5
Sounds like Seattle, in a good way.
The Pretty Things
2/5
weird.
The Pogues
5/5
So many good songs on this album. Shane at his best (the band always was).
Tori Amos
5/5
So good, still, after all these years.
Aphex Twin
4/5
Boop. But also, and I am quite serious in this: Beep.
Norah Jones
4/5
Lovely and comforting.
Missy Elliott
5/5
This album is super-duper fly.
Beastie Boys
5/5
Hells to tha yeah, this is the shiznit. Six stars.
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
Better than I was expecting, honestly.
Everything But The Girl
2/5
It was OK.
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Rock-punk-tastic. 4 stars
The War On Drugs
4/5
Pretty darn good. 4 stars.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Even without the wizard of oz, it's an amazing abum.
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Super-fun album!
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
Classic, rock owes a lot to these guys.
Khaled
4/5
Cool stuff, Algerian singer with a great voice.
The The
3/5
wildly meh, quite entertaining but unrememberable.
Herbie Hancock
5/5
Fantastic as always.
Iggy Pop
4/5
Pretty darn good. 4 stars.
The Mars Volta
3/5
Very rocking and much like At The Drive-in. Not at all like 30 Seconds to Mars.
Hugh Masekela
5/5
Really fantastic stuff. 5 stars.
The xx
4/5
Love this, love them, spare atmospheric longing...
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Louvley. 3 stars.
Ministry
3/5
Industrial icons, a little bracing for a Sunday morning but really good.
The Jam
4/5
Jammy!
The Flying Burrito Brothers
5/5
Fantastic stuff, really great old folk-country
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
A damn modern classic. 6 stars.
Tricky
4/5
Excellent stuff here, four stars at least.
The Clash
5/5
EIGHT STARS! This is a modern classic, maybe their finest album and the "Only Band That Matters."
Barry Adamson
3/5
really interesting idea, very good and entertaining.
Portishead
5/5
Ethereal, driving, brilliant, haunting.
Eric Clapton
2/5
Sounds like unscientific trash. Knopfler is a much better guitarist.
The Roots
5/5
Stupendously funky and awesome.
Gene Clark
4/5
folky and very nice. 4 stars.
Ray Price
3/5
Croony and wonderful, nice morning album.
Pulp
3/5
Sounds like a lot of other bands. Not bad, just not unique, really.
Sonic Youth
4/5
Pretty great, bracing, some sounds like Pink Floyd, some like Bowie, all entertaining.
Dead Kennedys
5/5
Fantastic classic punk.
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Oontz Oontz Oontz.... 3 stars
Megadeth
4/5
Kind of insane, but REALLY well done. 4 stars.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Very very very good.
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Fascinating musicianship.
Kraftwerk
4/5
Really like what they do, this album is a great example.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Very fantastic. 4 stars!
Janis Joplin
5/5
Classic and powerful, she was.
Tom Waits
4/5
A modern-day sleazy classic.
Carole King
5/5
Epic goodness. 5 stars.
Sepultura
4/5
Pretty darn good rawk. 4 stars.
Yes
3/5
Really darned good.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Sublime beauty infused with raw power.
David Bowie
4/5
As usual, his albums are interesting, inventive and fun to listen to.
Sigur Rós
3/5
weird.
Talking Heads
5/5
Solid album as always from them.
Machito
4/5
Groovy and fantastic. 4 stars.
Saint Etienne
3/5
Lovely and spritely
Wilco
3/5
Lovely spare folk rocky goodness
Cheap Trick
5/5
Hells yeah! 8 stars!
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
She is so talented.
Blondie
5/5
Fucking amazing!
Iron Maiden
3/5
3 stars! Rawk!
Brian Wilson
3/5
Not really my bag, but it IS a tremendously well-made album and it sounds lovely.
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Fuzzy and warm.
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
Saucy, salsa, envigorating music.
Massive Attack
4/5
Ethereal, dancy and grooving.
Blur
4/5
BritRock at its absolute toniest, great album, 4 stars.
The Black Keys
3/5
Good groves and danceable tunes
The Byrds
4/5
Hippie lovely folkiness. 4 stars
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Brilliant as always/.
2/5
Completely insane. Compelling, true, but almost unlistenable. 2 stars.
Beck
5/5
Maybe my all-time favorite of his. Low-hi funkiness and sleazy folk rock-y dance music. DJ Funkypants.
The Who
5/5
Maximum R&B. Surprising number of great covers.
Magazine
4/5
Kanye West
1/5
Hell no. 0 stars.
Nas
5/5
6 stars. A true visionary.
Mj Cole
4/5
Nice dancey album, good grooves. 4 stars.
Neneh Cherry
4/5
Solidly good album, she's got a great voice and the grooves are excellent. 4 stars.
The Cars
5/5
A modern pop-rock classic. Every song rocks. 5 stars.
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
Billy is such a whiney wanker. 2 stars.
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Charming bossonova tunes
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Except for the appalling racism, a fine album.
The Modern Lovers
5/5
really really great. tight, poppy and clever, dry sense of humor. 5 stars.
Dr. Octagon
4/5
Very clever, great flow, funny, good beats. 4 stars.
Little Richard
5/5
I mean, DAMN! 5 stars.
Pantera
4/5
Explosive awesomeness. Didn't expect to like this as much as I did. 4 stars.
5/5
One of the best albums from a couple of guys who can't stand each other.
David Bowie
4/5
Quirky and bold
Stephen Stills
5/5
Lively, lovely and groovy, in equal measures. Latin-country-blues-rock-LA sound-etc...
Pink Floyd
5/5
If seven stars was possible, this album woulkd get 7 stars.
Lou Reed
3/5
Pretty good for an old punk.
Rod Stewart
4/5
Really a great, spunky album.
Röyksopp
3/5
Nicely boopy.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
SZA
4/5
Pretty groovy, nice Kendrick guest spot
Grateful Dead
5/5
One of their best, very much the hippie country band on this one. 5 stars.
The Sonics
3/5
Pretty darn good. Pixies before there were Pixies, kinda. 3 stars.
Queen
5/5
Stunning! Brilliant! Even kinda proggy!
De La Soul
5/5
So bloody good. One of their best and one of of the best. 5 stars.
Aimee Mann
4/5
Really great, nice mix of styles.
Michael Jackson
3/5
As always, I am torn. Great album, but sheesh.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Morose and spare and lovely. 4 stars.
Culture Club
4/5
Much deeper and more interesting than I expected, pretty great version of that 80s sound.
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Well now that you mention it, that album WAS pretty incredible. 4 stars.
The Go-Go's
5/5
Great album! Really good pop-punk-rock LA sound, six stars.
The Slits
4/5
Great punk/post-punk album, nice dub stuff too. 4 stars.
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Pretty groovy dub stuff.
Talking Heads
5/5
Stupendous. 5 stars.
Hüsker Dü
4/5
A classic band, a really rocking album. 4 stars.
Coldplay
2/5
They're not bad, they're not offensive, they're just boooooring. Whole album played and it was fine background music.
Prince
5/5
One generation had Bob Dylan, this generation had Prince Rogers Nelson. 5 stars ALL DAY LONG.
Arrested Development
5/5
5 stars. so good.
Donovan
3/5
Pretty good, not great but more interesting than I expected.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
Pretty good, but I sure they'll never make a dime. 4 stars.
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Yes Yes Y'all! 4 stars
Suicide
2/5
Wasn't even sure they called music "alternative" back in 1977. This was bracing and challenging and interesting. Can see how and why it is considered a seminal album. 2 stars for me dawg.
Richard Hawley
2/5
kind of meh.
Chicago
3/5
Like Chuck Mangione and a prog band decided to record an album. 3 stars for being weird af.
3/5
Pretty good rawk from some LA punks. 3 stars.
Aerosmith
4/5
Rawks. 4 stars.
Fugazi
3/5
Wild, aggro and fun. 3 stars.
Fiona Apple
4/5
Really great, far groovier at times than I was expecting. Anger makes for great music. 4 stars.
Moby
2/5
not too shabby for borrowing a lot of other folks’ music.
Randy Newman
4/5
pretty great. He made fun music before Toy Story. 4 stars.
The Beach Boys
2/5
pretty good, really, but I am not a BB fan, so...
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
ALL THE STARS.
Guided By Voices
3/5
Pretty good, 3 stars, didn't stun me but didn't turn me off, either.
The Electric Prunes
2/5
Uhh... weird stuff, written by other folks. Toonerville Trolley? Yeah... 2 stars.
Nick Drake
4/5
The VW ad guy! What a sad story, but a really nice album, spare and dark and moody. 4 stars.
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
OK.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
moody and beautiful. 4 stars.
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
boop beep boop oontz oontz oontz 4 stars
The Velvet Underground
3/5
3 stars.
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Pretty flippin' great. Nice U2 cover. 4 stars.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
It's a classic for a reason. 4 stars.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
It's just weird that back in the 60s so many bands' first albums were just cover tunes. 3 stars.
5/5
brilliant!
Frank Black
3/5
Pretty interesting stuff, 3 stars
Arcade Fire
4/5
Very good album, they do earnestly sleazy French country rock better than most. 4 stars.
Elvis Presley
3/5
Quite the debut album. 3 solid stars.
Mudhoney
4/5
Crunchy, grungey goodness. 4 stars.
Sebadoh
2/5
meh/
Air
4/5
Really really really really groovy. Like 4 stars groovy.
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
Classic early rock and roll, very much of its time and pretty darn good. 4 stars.
Radiohead
1/5
Bloody hell no. No more of this terrible band. 1 star unless I can give it zero stars.
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
MORE OF THIS AND LESS RADIOHEAD. 5 stars.
The Triffids
3/5
Pretty interesting stuff. 3 solid stars.
Fiona Apple
4/5
Really compelling and good, fresh and creative.
Drive Like Jehu
4/5
Post-punk as fuck. Pretty damn great. 4 stars.
The White Stripes
4/5
Rocking good stuff from Jack and Meg. 4 stars.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
moody and lovely, gravely and dark.
Morrissey
2/5
Not a bad album, shame he's such a shit. 2 stars.
Femi Kuti
5/5
Astounding. 5 stars. His dad weould be proud.
Buzzcocks
4/5
Fucking great rock and roll.
Mudhoney
4/5
rocking grungey goodness. 4 stars.
Frank Ocean
5/5
Brilliant. So good. 5 stars.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
awesome sauce
Kanye West
1/5
crap
Cocteau Twins
3/5
spare and lovely
The Isley Brothers
5/5
Groove-tastic, fat beats, some cool stuff the Beasties stole and a great Doobie Brothers cover! 5 stars.
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Nice. Not stupendous, but nice.
The Allman Brothers Band
5/5
Hells yes. 5 stars.
808 State
4/5
groovy danceable stuff. 4 stars.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
A genuine classic, wonderful album, 6 stars!
The Yardbirds
3/5
3 stars
Nirvana
5/5
A modern-day classic like White Album or Dark Side. Nirvana could have been huge, but even the band's minimal discography is solid. 5 stars.
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Weird and good, rocking fun.
Sabu
4/5
4 stars, good grooves.
Björk
4/5
wild album, mostly voice-based but sounds like electronica. 4 stars. weird.
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
Pretty damn good, seriously thought about turning it off during the first track, then it got better. 3 stars.
Klaxons
2/5
weird but entertaining. 2 stars.
The Kinks
4/5
4 stars all day long.
Ray Charles
5/5
5 stars all day long.
Guns N' Roses
5/5
A modern rock classic. 5 stars.
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
more soulful than I was expecting, really lovely album. 4 stars.
Lupe Fiasco
4/5
4 stars, groovy and funky, good guest spots
The Prodigy
4/5
hyper funk? Groovy post punk dance music? Whatever you call it, much more interesting than I was expecting. 4 stars.
David Ackles
4/5
kinda like randy newman
CHIC
5/5
Super-fly and funky fresh
Stereolab
3/5
interesting and fun
The Strokes
4/5
Legendary. Shame about the Puritanical US version cover, but the rock is indisputable. 4 stars.
Happy Mondays
4/5
A rocking good album, 4 stars.
10cc
2/5
weird. Not bad, just weird.
Tangerine Dream
3/5
bloop. I said BLOOP. bloop stars.
ZZ Top
4/5
Earlier ZZ Top is also really good, but this is a darn fine album in its own right. 4 stars.
Beck
5/5
great stuff
Patti Smith
5/5
stupendous
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
Second Dexys album in a couple weeks, and for the second time I am genuinely enjoying this album. 4 stars.
Dion
3/5
Like a lovely interesting nap. 3 stars.
Blue Cheer
4/5
Great rawk, 4 stars.
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
not bad.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
a rock classic. 6 stars
Underworld
4/5
4 stars. Great EDM.
Beck
2/5
Mopey folk Beck is fine if you are into that sort of thing. For my money the real entertainment is DJ Funkypants Beck. 2 stars.
Michael Kiwanuka
2/5
Nope. 2 stars.
Depeche Mode
4/5
4 stars. Not really my bag but extremely well done.
Gram Parsons
5/5
Taken too soon, he's a country rock genius and this album is fantastic. Great Emmylou Harris vocals as well. 5 stars.
Tortoise
3/5
weird. 3 stars.
The Flaming Lips
3/5
A usual Flaming Lips album. 3 stars.
Yes
5/5
Classic AOR rock
Nick Drake
4/5
More Nick Drake.
Spiritualized
4/5
pretty weird
Marianne Faithfull
4/5
Stark, brutish and British. 4 stars.
Kate Bush
3/5
Oh that's right, Kate's weird. 3 stars.
New York Dolls
5/5
According to the Apple music blurb: "The Dolls were a sleazier Stones in eye liner." Sounds about right. 5 stars.
Neil Young
5/5
A haunting American classic. 5 stars
KISS
5/5
hells yes!
Willie Nelson
5/5
wonderful album from america's troubador. 5 stars.
Astor Piazzolla
4/5
A sonic adventure. 4 stars
Orbital
3/5
beep bloop oontz oontz bleep boop. 3 stars.
The Specials
5/5
Ruuuude boy! 5 stars.
Minor Threat
4/5
The musical equivalent of a quad espresso. Solid punk rock. 4 stars.
5/5
So good. 5 stars.
Bert Jansch
3/5
meh. 3 stars
Primal Scream
4/5
pretty good 4-star rock right here.
The Dictators
4/5
what the hell did I just listen to? 4 stars
The Everly Brothers
4/5
Sounds like a cardigan sweater and some penny loafers. 4 stars.
Supertramp
5/5
fantastic. 5 stars.
D'Angelo
5/5
Brilliant album, start to finish.
Rod Stewart
5/5
Such a very good album. An underrated singer, Stewart makes great music.
Scritti Politti
3/5
Sounds like band called Scritti Politti. 3 stars.
The Shamen
3/5
More entertaining than i initially expected, still 3 stars but a fun 3 stars.
Spiritualized
3/5
weird bloopy background music. Nice, tho.
Devendra Banhart
3/5
weird and interesting, 3 stars.
Christine and the Queens
5/5
Brilliant stuff, engaging and poppy. 5 stars
Destiny's Child
5/5
Quality stuff here, R&B royalty in the making. 5 stars.
Can
3/5
Groovy and weird.
LL Cool J
5/5
So fucking good. 5 stars.
Ozomatli
5/5
Stellar album, 5 stars
Bonnie Raitt
5/5
fantastic album, great rock and roll.
Scissor Sisters
4/5
4 stars
Kid Rock
2/5
Not a terrible album considering he is a giant asshole. 2 stars.
2Pac
5/5
five brilliant stars
Miles Davis
5/5
Eight stars. This is a jazz classic, brilliant and beautiful, everyone on it is fantastic.
Faith No More
4/5
Brilliant, 4 stars
Muddy Waters
4/5
Solid rock album. 4 stars.
Black Sabbath
5/5
Genius, 5 stars, no notes.
Hookworms
3/5
weird but interesting. 3 stars.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4/5
really fun and criminal. 4 stars.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
Fantastic stuff, great album, 5 stars.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
Lovely classic. 5 stars.
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
wild and wonderful. 4 stars.
Ute Lemper
4/5
Operatic wonderment, 4 stars.
Suede
3/5
weird but good? 3 stars.
Meat Loaf
4/5
A classic from a guy who turned out to be a shithead. 4 stars.
Calexico
3/5
veeerry interesting. 3 stars.
k.d. lang
5/5
would be six stars if I could.
Metallica
5/5
Pretty damned good stuff from these guys, another killer classic. 5 stars.
U2
5/5
5 stars. When they were a great band.
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
Pretty interesting. 3 stars.
The Specials
5/5
stupendous, 5 stars.
Crowded House
4/5
pretty good stuff, 4 stars methinks.
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Stupendous. 5 stars.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
4/5
Wild and entertaining. 4 sitars.
The Monkees
4/5
They are better than a "made for TV" band from the 60s should be. 4 stars.
Steely Dan
5/5
stupendous!
Slipknot
4/5
More interesting and talented than I was expecting, which is, of course, totally on me. 4 stars.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Shuggie Otis
5/5
CHIC
5/5
George Jones
5/5
Solomon Burke
5/5
Soulful and awesome.
Beatles
5/5
A classic
Anita Baker
4/5
Lovely stuff.
The Crusaders
4/5
Solid soul, jazz and funk. 4 stars.
Harry Nilsson
3/5
3 solid stars.
Emmylou Harris
5/5
Glorious, beautiful, soaring. 5 stars.
Bad Brains
5/5
stupendous. dreadlocks and mohawks! 5 stars.
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
3 stars
Doves
2/5
completely meh. 2 stars.
The Young Gods
4/5
Wild French rock, pretty good stuff there. 4 stars.
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
weird. 3 stars.
Haircut 100
4/5
tasty new wave pop. 4 stars.
Justin Timberlake
4/5
Not bad for the guy who threw Janet Jackson under the sexy bus. 4 stars.
Def Leppard
5/5
5 one-armed stars!
Mylo
3/5
weird
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
jazzy but could not find whole album
Steely Dan
5/5
Brilliant. 5 stars.
The Doors
4/5
Lizard-y. 4 stars.
The Police
5/5
A modern pop classic. 7 stars.
The Adverts
4/5
weird, punky goodness.
The White Stripes
5/5
Great rock album. 5 stars.
Aerosmith
4/5
Solid classic rock album, maybe their best. 4 stars.
Duran Duran
4/5
Darn fine album.
The Libertines
4/5
Good for a wanker. 4 stars.
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5/5
Really fucking good album. 5 stars for sure.
Goldfrapp
3/5
lovely and weird. 3 stars.
Robert Wyatt
4/5
Really enjoyable, dug it more than I thought I would. 4 stars.
The Replacements
3/5
The Band
5/5
Amazing, one of the best Canadian bands.
TV On The Radio
4/5
Buck Owens
4/5
Buckaroo gettin' busy. 4 stars for the sexy time.
Ian Dury
4/5
fun punky rock.
Britney Spears
2/5
Made it through about 5 songs, that was enough. 2 stars.
Tears For Fears
5/5
Bloody good stuff, 5 stars.
X-Ray Spex
5/5
Fucking epic! Oi! 5 stars.
Erykah Badu
5/5
Brilliant. 6 stars.
Elliott Smith
4/5
it was OK. 4 stars.
Tom Waits
5/5
Stupendous.
Cornershop
4/5
Great album. 4 stars.
Brian Eno
4/5
Weird and wonderful.
Baaba Maal
5/5
Stupendous.
Van Morrison
3/5
wonderful album. Shame he's an anti-science wanker tho.
Big Star
4/5
good stuff
Brian Eno
3/5
bloop.
The Hives
4/5
Pretty rawkin'. 4 stars/
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
weird and interesting. 3 stars.
Linkin Park
2/5
Tellingly, the Crystal Method Remix is the best song on the album. 2 stars.
Television
4/5
pretty good rock. 4 stars.
Pere Ubu
5/5
Really really good stuff. 5 stars/
The Magnetic Fields
5/5
Lovely and weird. 69 stars!
Morrissey
2/5
meh.
The Psychedelic Furs
4/5
Truly a classic pop-punk-new-wave-whatever album. 4 stars.
Jurassic 5
5/5
5 stars at LEAST. So good.
Joy Division
4/5
4 stars
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Stupendous album, very excellent. all five stars to Gryffendor.
Kacey Musgraves
5/5
Lovely, lyrical and lush. 5 stars.
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Sexy-time!
John Grant
3/5
Vaudeville folk? Not bad, not really my jam. 3 stars.
Happy Mondays
4/5
Really good rocking album. 4 stars.
Madonna
3/5
Not her best, but pretty good. 3 stars.
The Fall
4/5
punky goodness! or, well, post-punky goodness.
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Like Kanye, he's an awful shitbird who makes darn good music. 2 stars.
Talvin Singh
3/5
oontz oontz oontz punjab oontz
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
solid, melancholy and driven.
Miles Davis
5/5
Phenomenal music, brilliant melding of new and old technology by a master. 5 stars.
The xx
5/5
Love me some XX. 5 stars.
Koffi Olomide
5/5
Very good, very groovy, 5 stars.
4/5
Hard to find, easy to listen to. 4 stars/
Queen Latifah
5/5
stupid good. 5 stars.
Janelle Monáe
5/5
SuperFunkyDanceAlicious! Elebenty stars.
John Lennon
3/5
3 stars.
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
3 stars. would be 3.5 but there we go.
Frank Sinatra
4/5
smooth and tan and easy and classy. 4 stars.
Christina Aguilera
3/5
She has a great voice, not really my bag, but a real talent. 3 stars.
TLC
4/5
CrazyDanceyCool, 4 stars.
The Saints
4/5
Rocking eternally. 4 stars.
Beach House
4/5
lazy shoe gazey. 4 stars.
The Who
5/5
It's Tommy. It's a classic. 5 stars.
Pulp
4/5
pretty dope, tasty Brit-pop with snarky lyrics. 4 stars.
David Holmes
4/5
Oontz oontz oontz... 4 stars.
3/5
weird and wild and wooly. 3 stars.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
weird and wonderful. "Don't do it that way, you'll never make a dime." 3 stars
ABBA
3/5
dreamy and abba-rific. 3 stars.
Nina Simone
5/5
Sublime and smokey. 5 stars.
System Of A Down
2/5
Nope. too crunchy.
Big Star
3/5
Nice and un-assuming.
American Music Club
3/5
Pretty good stuff maynard. 3 stars.
Slayer
5/5
Brutal and insane. 5 stars.
Steely Dan
5/5
Brilliant! 11 stars!
The Style Council
4/5
4 stars!
The Zutons
4/5
It's no Valerie, but a darn good album. 4 stars.
The Velvet Underground
2/5
2 stars.
Jorge Ben Jor
5/5
Fantasticly funky and brilliant. 5 stars.
King Crimson
5/5
gloriously weird. 5 stars.
Arcade Fire
4/5
smushy goodness.
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Boss album. 5 stars.
Duke Ellington
5/5
Glorious and groovy. 5 stars.
The Charlatans
4/5
Darn good rock. 4 stars.
Cyndi Lauper
5/5
An 80s classic in all the good ways.
R.E.M.
4/5
Probably my second-favorite REM album. 4 stars.
Julian Cope
4/5
weird and captivating. 4 stars.
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Nope. weird and far too long with the same weirdness. 2 stars.
Roni Size
3/5
oontz. repeat. 3 stars.
Kanye West
1/5
That's a bit nope for me dawg. Fuck him and Clapton.
The Damned
5/5
Awesome, like a punk jam band. 5 stars.
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
pretty fun and dancey. 4 stars.
DJ Shadow
4/5
groovy AF. 4 stars.
Ryan Adams
3/5
Meh. OK for a wanker. 3 stars.
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
5/5
Damnfinestuff. 5stars.
CHVRCHES
5/5
Fantastic stvff, trvly, always a great band. 5 stars.
Beyoncé
5/5
Smokin' hot. 5 stars.
Traffic
5/5
Splendid stuff that.
Napalm Death
3/5
whoa. 3 stars.
The KLF
3/5
oontz PLUS/ 3 stars.
Hole
4/5
Darn fine album, 4 stars.
Eagles
4/5
A classic California country rock album, with possibly their biggest hit. Darn fine record. 4 stars.
The Undertones
4/5
Good stuff! 4 stars.
The Darkness
5/5
FUCK YES. This album is what RAWK shoud be. Hawkins is great, the band is solid as fuck, 6 stars.
Megadeth
4/5
Pretty good for a goddamn car wreck of a band. 4 stars.
Robbie Williams
3/5
Not bad for a wanker
The Who
4/5
A right classic. 4 stars.
The Mothers Of Invention
5/5
Pretty great stuff here. 5 stars.
Todd Rundgren
5/5
Very darned good stuff. 5 stars.
Big Black
4/5
wild and weird. 4 stars.
Japan
3/5
Pretty weird but interesting. 3.5 stars (OK, OK: 3 stars)
Anthrax
4/5
rawkin' good time. 4 stars.
4/5
Saucy and sultry
The Beta Band
4/5
wild and crazy, but darn good. 4 stars.
Gil Scott-Heron
5/5
5 sitars.
Janet Jackson
5/5
Damn fine album. Fuck Justin Timerlake. 5 stars.
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Funkay. 4 stars.
Grateful Dead
4/5
Groovy funky jazzy hippie rock at its finest. 4 stars.
Laibach
2/5
Kinda like a Rammstein parody band. I can see the appeal but it's hard to get into. 2 stars.
The Doors
4/5
better than expected, 4 stars
Metallica
5/5
maybe their best
The Sugarcubes
4/5
lovely and weird
Holger Czukay
3/5
weird and interesting. 3 stars.
Genesis
4/5
groovy and weird, 4 stars.
The Vines
4/5
pretty good 3.5 star album, but since I am feeling generous, 4 stars.
Ali Farka Touré
5/5
Brilliant. 5 stars.
The Residents
3/5
that was ... weird. 3 stars.
Simply Red
4/5
Soulful and smooth. 4 stars.
Dire Straits
4/5
Really good. Not their best, but their most popular. 4 stars.
Sonic Youth
5/5
A sonic masterpiece. 5 stars.
Common
4/5
Groovy, impactful and 4 stars.
Joy Division
4/5
Pretty darn good. 4 stars.
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
Piggy piggy piggy piggy. 5 pigs. piggy.
Billy Joel
4/5
Solid rock album from the piano guy.
The Incredible String Band
3/5
very weird. 3 sitars.
Bill Callahan
3/5
mild and lovely, kind of like a more hippie James Taylor. 3 stars.
Coldcut
3/5
Funky and fun. 3 stars.
The Byrds
5/5
Glorious. 5 stars.
Dirty Projectors
4/5
Groovy, a little Vampire Weekendy, 4 stars.
T. Rex
4/5
Bang a gong, get it on. 4 stars.
Songhoy Blues
5/5
Very groovy album
John Cale
5/5
brilliant.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
4 stars.
Fishbone
5/5
Funk Yeah! 5 stars.
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
pretty smooth in a good way. 4 stars.
Dennis Wilson
3/5
groovy. 3 stars.
MC Solaar
4/5
Stupendous album. 4 stars.
Richard Thompson
5/5
Lovely stuff. 5 stars.
2/5
2 clangy, atonal stars.
Pere Ubu
4/5
groovy
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
awesome stuff
Digital Underground
5/5
LEGENDARY SHIT RIGHT HERE. 5 stars.
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
Such brilliance. Man (and the band) are a cultural touchstone and a musical force. 5 stars.
Nanci Griffith
5/5
She is an American treasure. 5 stars.
George Harrison
4/5
Truly lovely album, 4 stars.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
Motivational and inspirational. 4 stars.
Stan Getz
5/5
Glorious/Gwonderful. 5 stars.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Lovely. 4 stars.
Pentangle
3/5
weird but nice, kinda like Fairport at times. 3 stars.
The Prodigy
3/5
Smack my 3 stars up.
The Streets
3/5
Interesting stuff, not a huge grime fan but the roots are there. 3 stars.
Michael Jackson
3/5
It's a great album. He's problematic. Music is really good. It's complicated. 3 stars.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
Glorious. 5 stars.
Ghostface Killah
4/5
Solid as fuck. 4 stars.
Paul McCartney
5/5
5 stars. Great stuff.
Lana Del Rey
3/5
I am not her target audience, and this is pretty "hip." That said, I'll give it 3 stars. Too much autotune.
The Human League
3/5
Not bad but a bit repetitive. Not bad but a bit repetitive. Not bad but a bit repetitive. Not bad but a bit repetitive. Not bad but a bit repetitive. 3 stars.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
Really good stuff. 4 solid stars.
Death In Vegas
3/5
weird and repetitive but fun.
Goldfrapp
4/5
pretty OK.
Blur
4/5
Great BritPop, the originators. 4 stars.
Weather Report
3/5
Groovy. 3 stars.
Giant Sand
3/5
weird but entertaining. 3 stars.
Lambchop
4/5
Pretty groovy, 4 stars
Sleater-Kinney
5/5
7 stars. Glorious punk from a glorious band.
Björk
3/5
gloriously weird. Score: 3 pineapples
The Cult
2/5
2 stars
Judas Priest
4/5
Bloody rocking good fun. 4 stars.
Björk
4/5
weird and wonderful, 4 stars.
Flamin' Groovies
5/5
Rawk and rolle. 5 motherfuckin' stars.
Beatles
5/5
Quite good, one of my favorites. 5 stars.
Rufus Wainwright
5/5
Pretty darned lovely. 4.5 stars... Oh. what the heck, give him 5.
Miriam Makeba
4/5
4 stars, groovy and soulful, she has a great voice.
Sepultura
4/5
Heavy, not exactly breakfast music but good. 4 stars.
Kings of Leon
3/5
smooth-listening, 3 stars.
Hawkwind
4/5
pretty wild stuff. gonna go 4 stars but depending on the song could be 1.
Throbbing Gristle
3/5
kinda ... throbby... 3 stars.
The Divine Comedy
3/5
fine. 2 stars. maybe 3.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Keep on chooglin', I guess? 4 stars.
Wilco
5/5
wonderful album
LTJ Bukem
3/5
3 sgtars.
a-ha
2/5
the same song over and over and over. Nice song tho. 2 stars.
Tom Waits
5/5
weird and wonderful and Waits-y. 5 stars.
Robert Wyatt
3/5
very mellow. 3 stars.
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
8 motherfucking stars!
Billy Bragg
5/5
5 stars. 6 maybe.
Christina Aguilera
5/5
Pretty damn good. Not really my jam but she has an amazing voice. 5 stars.
Morrissey
1/5
nope.
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
Punky and fun. 4 stars.
Talking Heads
5/5
5 stars. Great fucking album.
Youssou N'Dour
5/5
Brilliant, of course. 5 stars.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Explodey. 3 stars.
Tina Turner
5/5
She was a national treasure. 5 stars.
Elton John
5/5
A classic, really great album, loads of hits and lesser-known gems. 5 stars.
Stephen Stills
4/5
Really lovely, great stuff, American treasure. 4 stars.
Primal Scream
4/5
Kind of all over the place, but all good. 4 stars.
M.I.A.
4/5
Really damn good. She reminds me, at times, of Lady Sov. 4 stars.
Madonna
4/5
Another fine Madge album. 4 stars. 5 stars for "Express Yourself"
Slade
5/5
So much fun! And great fucking songs. 5 stars album. Great old-school Brit rock.
Soft Machine
3/5
what... did I just listen to? 3 stars? Or perhaps a rhombus.
Django Django
4/5
tasty
Joe Ely
4/5
four stars, great stuff, good country songs performed very well.
Kings of Leon
4/5
Groovy and rocking. 4 stars.
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
nah. 2 stars.
Elis Regina
4/5
Three stars, great stuff. Maybe 4.
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
4 stars. good rock.
FKA twigs
3/5
Pretty ethereal and spare. 3 stars.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
5/5
5 wonderful weird stars.
TV On The Radio
5/5
groovy goodness.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
3 stars. same thing repeatedly, mostly.
The Pharcyde
5/5
5 mutherfucking stars.
The Associates
2/5
meh. 2 stars.
David Gray
3/5
it was OK
Skepta
3/5
Sounds like Dizzee Rascal. cool. 3 stars.
The United States Of America
3/5
freaky and fun, late-60s psychedalia. 3 stars.
Johnny Cash
5/5
Stupendous! 5 stars.
Cat Stevens
5/5
a damn classic. 5 stars.
Super Furry Animals
4/5
expansive, wonderful and weird, spacey and 4 stars.
Kraftwerk
4/5
BEEP BOOP STARS.
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Solid stuff. 4 stars.
Paul Weller
5/5
He's fucking great. 5 stars.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
5/5
Brilliant, glorious, wonderful. Roots, Americana, bluegrass, whatever you call it, it's so good. 12 stars.
Fatboy Slim
5/5
All the way to the stars. Just a fantastic, funky, danceable album with banger after banger and some major hits. 5 stars.
Tom Tom Club
5/5
5 stars. So good.
The Cramps
4/5
crampy goodness. 4 stars.
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
rocking and rolling. 4 stars.
Afrika Bambaataa
5/5
Funktastic! 5 stars.
Van Morrison
2/5
2 stars. Not bad for an anti-vax jerk.
Paul Simon
4/5
Pretty darn good
N.W.A.
5/5
Solid American classic, up there with The Chronic. 5 stars.
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
great stuff! 4 stars.
Spacemen 3
3/5
noodly appendage. 3 stars.
Sparks
4/5
Really sparky! 4 stars!
Pavement
4/5
Some groovy indie rock, 4 stars.
Deee-Lite
5/5
So good. The whole album is great groovy dance music. 5 stars.
The Police
4/5
Not their best, but darn good. 4 stars.
The Smiths
4/5
Pretty good for Morrisey being a shit. 4 stars.
Einstürzende Neubauten
2/5
meh. 2 stars for technobabble nonsense.
fIREHOSE
3/5
Meh. pretty good, I guess. 3 stars.
Talk Talk
3/5
lovely album, kinda groovy but not too heavy. 3 stars.
Ice Cube
3/5
3 stars. Pretty good music but some problematic ideas.
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Not bad, they clearly stole "Werewolves of London" for one song. 3 stars.
David Bowie
5/5
As always, a brilliant album. 5 stars.
George Michael
4/5
pretty solid dance music.
AC/DC
5/5
A damn classic. 12 stars.
Snoop Dogg
5/5
solid shit, dawg. 5 stars.
Doves
3/5
3 stars. Did not hold my attention.
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
rockin'. 4 stars.
The Mothers Of Invention
5/5
So damn good. 5 stars.
Steve Winwood
5/5
Really groovy and exciting. 5 stars.
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
3 stars
Neil Young
4/5
4 stars, classic stuff here.
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Classic as always. 5 stars.
Foo Fighters
4/5
So very good. 4 stars.
Baaba Maal
4/5
4 stars, grooviness.
Jack White
4/5
solid album
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
pretty weird and interesting
White Denim
4/5
Darned fun rock and roll
UB40
4/5
Smooth and groovy, really good stuff, 4 stars.
Sade
3/5
The loveliest taboo. 3 stars.
XTC
4/5
Pretty fly for some white guys. 4 stars.
Pixies
4/5
A damn classic. 4 stars.
k.d. lang
5/5
Sublime. 5 stars.
Prefab Sprout
3/5
pre-fab, no doubt, kind of a blur? 3 stars.
The Pogues
5/5
Fantastic!
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
5/5
So damn good. 5 stars.
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Glorious. 5 stars. should still be on the list, imho.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
4/5
Lovely 4 stars.
Super Furry Animals
4/5
four fun and funky stars
The La's
4/5
Fantastic rock and roll, did not know they were the "There She Goes" band.
Heaven 17
3/5
Pretty good Brit synthpop, tends a bit clangy sometimes.
G. Love & Special Sauce
5/5
5 stars, funky and fresh.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Solid if unmemorable.
The Kinks
4/5
4 stars, rocking good time.
Sugar
5/5
five stars, fantastic album. More bob mould!
Little Simz
4/5
good stuff. 4 stars.
GZA
5/5
5 swords.
The Fall
4/5
Groovin and rockin. 4 stars.
N.E.R.D
4/5
4 stars, needs a Lap Dance/
2/5
2 stars. maybe.
Roxy Music
4/5
Roxy-tastic. 4 stars.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Glorious and groovy. 5 stars.
Supergrass
4/5
Pretty rocking stuff. 4 stars.
Moby Grape
4/5
4 spacey stars.
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Meh. 2 stars.
Pink Floyd
5/5
brilliant, should still be on the list.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
4/5
4 lovely stars.
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
3 stars
The Bees
4/5
Pretty groovy. 4 stars.
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
Greta album. 5 stars.
Hanoi Rocks
4/5
pretty rocking, really. 4 stars.
Dolly Parton
5/5
Such great harmonies, really fantastic stuff, they are all legends. 15 stars.
Ride
1/5
Bloody boring and tedious, terrible. Showgaze is the perfefct name for this terrible style of music. 0 stars if I could.
Germs
4/5
punky goodness. 4 stars.
Circle Jerks
5/5
circle pit of stars!
ZZ Top
5/5
5 beards!
Tracy Chapman
5/5
Very good as one would expect. Should still be on the list, imho.
Orange Juice
4/5
4 stars. Funk Scottish soul.
Sheryl Crow
4/5
Solid album, good songs, 4 stars.
Silver Jews
2/5
2 stars, weird.
John Lennon
3/5
3 stars.
Pretty darned good U2 album.
Meat Puppets
4/5
Classic cowpunk, really good stuff. 4 stars.
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
meh. 2 stars.
Adele
5/5
Glorious and lush. 5 stars.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
Wild and lovely and entertaining, experimental folk-tronica, but with live musicians. 4 stars.
William Orbit
3/5
weird but groovy.
The Thrills
3/5
entertaining. 3 stars.
Leftfield
2/5
umm...
Bee Gees
4/5
Really good, not what I was expecting, 4 stars.
The Verve
4/5
Pretty darn good, feel like we listened to it before? 4 stars.
The Beta Band
3/5
fun and rocking. 3 stars.
Steely Dan
5/5
Fucking brilliant. 5 stars.
Eels
4/5
solidly good rocking album. 4 stars.
Ms. Dynamite
4/5
Really fucking good. 4 stars.
Peter Gabriel
5/5
5 lovely, nostalgic stars.
Ice Cube
4/5
4 stars, pretty damn good stuff.
Dolly Parton
5/5
Another damn classic. Dolly is a national treasure. 5 stars.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
5 doobies.
Jerry Lee Lewis
5/5
rock and fucking roll. He was a maniac but a great rock 'n' roll man. 5 stars.
AC/DC
5/5
5 stars. maybe 6.
Cowboy Junkies
5/5
5 stars, should still be on the list.
The Coral
3/5
3 stars of confusion
Crosby, Stills & Nash
5/5
glorious
Joni Mitchell
5/5
tremendously good album
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
pretty good stuff maynard. 4 stars.
Kings of Leon
4/5
4 rocking stars.
Girls Against Boys
3/5
meh? 3 stars
Dagmar Krause
3/5
could not find. 3 stars on principle.
Can
4/5
wild and crazy and all over the map. 4 stars.
Johnny Cash
5/5
so darned good. 5 stars.
Sonic Youth
4/5
really good rock album. 4 stars
Waylon Jennings
4/5
honky classic.
Neil Young
4/5
groovin.
The Auteurs
3/5
it was ok.
Portishead
4/5
glorious. 4 stars.
Soft Cell
4/5
softly awesome. 4 soft cells.
Mike Ladd
3/5
pretty OK stuff.
Barry Adamson
4/5
wild and interesting album. 4 stars.
Hot Chip
5/5
Damn fine album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Super good stuff!
Lightning Bolt
2/5
nope. 2 stars.
Joanna Newsom
4/5
like a modern fairport convention. 4 stars.
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Pretty OK.