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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Tago Mago
Can
|
5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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Skylarking
XTC
|
5 | 3.03 | +1.97 |
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Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur
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5 | 3.13 | +1.87 |
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Third
Soft Machine
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4 | 2.43 | +1.57 |
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Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
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4 | 2.46 | +1.54 |
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Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
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5 | 3.47 | +1.53 |
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Penance Soiree
The Icarus Line
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4 | 2.5 | +1.5 |
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
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5 | 3.53 | +1.47 |
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OK
Talvin Singh
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4 | 2.57 | +1.43 |
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Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
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5 | 3.64 | +1.36 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Aja
Steely Dan
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1 | 3.47 | -2.47 |
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
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1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
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1 | 2.9 | -1.9 |
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Picture Book
Simply Red
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1 | 2.88 | -1.88 |
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I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
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1 | 2.85 | -1.85 |
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Metallica
Metallica
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2 | 3.79 | -1.79 |
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Yeezus
Kanye West
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1 | 2.77 | -1.77 |
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Music
Madonna
|
1 | 2.68 | -1.68 |
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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
|
2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5 |
| Blur | 3 | 4.33 |
5-Star Albums (14)
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Bee Gees
2/5
Expectation: Some funky Bee Gees beats to energise my day
Reality: What the hell is this
43 likes
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Liked it. Not surprised the Dude didn't get his Creedence tapes back to be honest. Sorry Dude, life goes on, man.
30 likes
Can
5/5
Did not know what to expect with this one. There's so much going on here and it gets better with every play through.
Stand out tracks for me are Mushroom and the experimental, brooding crescendo of sounds in Aumgn which transported me somewhere else altogether. Perhaps the wailing soundscape of Peking O goes a little too far into the avant-garde, but overall this is a stunning album, I can't even imagine being hit with this in 1971. So good.
Probably not one to play at a dinner party though, unless your friend Saffron is planning to lace the avocado salad with something.
26 likes
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
Thursday morning. Nearly the end of the week. Lounging on my velour recliner for a moment of contemplation, it's a sunny day and the light is streaming through the window highlighting the dust in the air. Rising out the seat, I glance in the mirror and my oversize collar is on point with the brown and yellow earth tones in the tie I picked out earlier. Aviators on and quickly check the moustache - nice.
I leave for work, climb into the car and Curtis plays in the background on the 8-track. Sunlight glints on my glasses and I'm feeling the beats, one arm out the window as I drive. It's going to be a good day.
23 likes
Soft Machine
4/5
- DO NOT LISTEN TO TRACK 1 FIRST -
It was alright, but nearly lost the will to live after the opening minutes of track 1, and this is coming from someone who usually rates prog rock quite highly. Quite an enjoyable listen once I got past that.
22 likes
1-Star Albums (10)
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Radiohead
4/5
XTC
5/5
5* for Dear God alone, the rest is pretty sound too.
Tori Amos
2/5
Fugees
3/5
Some great tracks. The grade-school level novelty at saying "fuck" in verb or noun form for no discernible reason wears very thin very quickly, 3 stars.
The La's
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Simply Red
1/5
no
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Wouldn't go out my way to listen to it again
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Not offensive but not particularly remarkable
Black Sabbath
3/5
Def Leppard
4/5
Saint Etienne
4/5
The Prodigy
4/5
'avv it
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Wilco
4/5
Tailed off a bit towards the end, but this was right up my street
The Charlatans
3/5
Tortoise
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
Tainted Love is obviously a classic and I also enjoyed a couple of other tracks, but the rest of it was fairly forgettable
The Undertones
3/5
Listening to this album made me imagine my Dad careering around the streets of suburbia in his Vauxhall Viva modified with twin carbs; me in the back seat barely secured to the hot, faux leather vinyl that passed as a bench seat, him with his brown Aviators, 'tash, flared trousers and mop of hair blowing in the wind. Then I remembered he was more into Meat Loaf at the time and the daydream was shattered.
Although lyrically, teenage kicks is still relevant today and the album as a whole was not unenjoyable if a little repetitive towards the end, I think this will end up forgotton, like a rusting car with Teenage Kicks as the singular component rescued and remembered in a museum of classics.
Can
5/5
Did not know what to expect with this one. There's so much going on here and it gets better with every play through.
Stand out tracks for me are Mushroom and the experimental, brooding crescendo of sounds in Aumgn which transported me somewhere else altogether. Perhaps the wailing soundscape of Peking O goes a little too far into the avant-garde, but overall this is a stunning album, I can't even imagine being hit with this in 1971. So good.
Probably not one to play at a dinner party though, unless your friend Saffron is planning to lace the avocado salad with something.
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
4/5
Had never heard of Skip and doing a bit of pre-reading I was ready to dismiss this out of hand.
It's a surprising one, there's a variety of stuff on here and it never felt samey. War in Peace sounds like something Radiohead would produce and there's a range in his voice which adds to the appeal. Seems like Skip had a difficult life and you can feel it in some of these songs. It's not in any way polished but maybe that's part of the appeal. Overall, I enjoyed this.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
baseline reggae
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Sinatra: None of the memorable ones
The Girl from Ipanema is obviously the high point, but Getz / Gilberto is superior
So, why bother with this?
Solange
3/5
I'm definitely not the target audience for this but there were some good tracks on here, if anything the second half of the album was more musically engaging than the first. If I could relate to it more lyrically I would rate it higher.
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
Do like me some hip-hop, but many of the tracks here have either aged like milk or were puerile to start with, and it's another culprit for pre and post-fixing tracks with skits which add little or just detract completely.
Probably went down better in a cow-hide Chrysler Fifth Avenue, discussing your gang issues, at the time of release.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Liked it. Not surprised the Dude didn't get his Creedence tapes back to be honest. Sorry Dude, life goes on, man.
The Monks
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
I lurched between being intrigued and wishing it would end but there's a certain something about it that lifts it out the ordinary - I'd go back to for another listen
Donovan
2/5
Nirvana
5/5
I realised I was listening to this reminiscing about university days, and even though this album came out quite a long while before I attended, it somehow became part of the soundtrack to those times after being introduced to Nirvana by a friend I met there.
Fired this up and it took me back, being as great to listen to now as it was then.
So yeah I'm probably slightly biased, but the last track notwithstanding which I never got on with (I'm gonna ignore that), it's a solid 5 for me.
Cocteau Twins
3/5
I was on the cusp of giving this a 4, Cherry-Coloured Funk has been a favourite for as long as I care to remember with its haunting synth and contrasting range of vocals, some of which are Kate-Bush-like in nature but ultimately all gel together brilliantly as a song that doesn't go on too long (unlike this sentence).
And the rest of the album is, well, alright. But always found myself wishing I was listening to the first track again.
Roxy Music
3/5
Alright, but spent a fair bit of time wishing it was Avalon
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Suede
3/5
Motörhead
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Blur
4/5
Burning Spear
2/5
Doves
2/5
Ah, the "indie dirge" genre.
Haunting melody on M62 song that I kinda liked, but overall this was a just a downer which I didn't appreciate being afflicted with.
Ray Price
2/5
So much tiresome crooning, and I did a cringe at half the lyrics
Beck
2/5
Portishead
4/5
Steve Earle
3/5
If I was a trucker in the 80s, I'd probably have played this
Goldfrapp
3/5
Waylon Jennings
2/5
Björk
4/5
I love the uniqueness of her voice, the production values and the quirkiness of her music. On the flip side, it was rather maudlin overall, which was a barrier to engaging with it more.
"Heirloom" gets a shout out for featuring some kind of Casio keyboard percussion track but making it work
Bee Gees
2/5
Expectation: Some funky Bee Gees beats to energise my day
Reality: What the hell is this
Pavement
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Carpenters
4/5
On one hand this isn't really my preference but it's undeniably great as inoffensive easy-listening and who doesn't know at least some of these songs?
Dwight Yoakam
1/5
Didn't like the lyrics, or the genre, or the same old same old country sob stories drawled out ad infinitum. Production seemed fine but that doesn't redeem it. Spent most of the time rolling my eyes and checking whether it was about to finish
Rod Stewart
2/5
Quite liked the title track. Scratchy Rod didn't really do it for me after that
Wild Beasts
3/5
Orbital
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Initially, I rolled my eyes at having to listen to a Bowie album, and one I'd never heard of at that. Surprisingly, I found myself quite enjoying it, thought it was a 3.
Went back for another listen and I think it deserves more than that. Four stars - Bowie, but not as you know it, and all the better for it.
Radiohead
4/5
The Cardigans
4/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Neu!
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
The Crusaders
4/5
Turns out that I didn't know I needed some sweet, sweet Jazz Fusion on a random Wednesday, but I did.
It's an easy listen and the 11 minute version of Street Life is the icing on the cake.
Fats Domino
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
Queen
3/5
Definitely Queen, and obviously a foundation for greater things to come, but there was nothing particularly remarkable about this album to my ears
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Slint
4/5
Otis Redding
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5
The Queen and the Solider and Marlene on the Wall are standout tracks, didn't much enjoy the rest.
4/5
Peak U2 before it all went downhill
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
The Avalanches
4/5
Tina Turner
4/5
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Massive Attack
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Beach House
4/5
Quite liked it. Would probs have given it a 5 if I'd been doing a lot of shoegazing in 2010.
Minutemen
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Femi Kuti
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Nas
3/5
Antony and the Johnsons
3/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Supergrass
4/5
Eels
4/5
Beatles
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
Funkadelic
4/5
There's some great stuff in here and it's well worth a listen. On balance, the genius moments outweigh the cuckoo-clock-shrieking of the last track
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Tricky
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Prince
3/5
Al Green
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
It's not Black Sunday, is it?
Merle Haggard
1/5
5/5
Finley Quaye
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Soundgarden
4/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Eminem
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
Ya Mama's musical taste is so bad she played Dwight Yoakam backwards through a hairdryer and still liked it
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
1 killer, lots of filler
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
Thursday morning. Nearly the end of the week. Lounging on my velour recliner for a moment of contemplation, it's a sunny day and the light is streaming through the window highlighting the dust in the air. Rising out the seat, I glance in the mirror and my oversize collar is on point with the brown and yellow earth tones in the tie I picked out earlier. Aviators on and quickly check the moustache - nice.
I leave for work, climb into the car and Curtis plays in the background on the 8-track. Sunlight glints on my glasses and I'm feeling the beats, one arm out the window as I drive. It's going to be a good day.
Miles Davis
5/5
Eminem
3/5
Metallica
2/5
Enter, Sandman. Then leave before you have to listen to the rest of the album.
Slipknot
2/5
It's not entirely without merit, had to look hard for it though. I think it's the drumming
Röyksopp
4/5
I'm a sucker for circa 2000 trip-hop
The Offspring
3/5
JAY Z
3/5
Eagles
2/5
Hotel California is the first good thing that springs to mind when someone mentions the Eagles. Unfortunately, that's not on this album so, moving on...
By the time I get to Earlybird, and the banjo kicks in, I'm thinking of Convoy. Y'know, the Movie. Yep, we're in peak flag-waving, soft-rock, 'Murica territory. Which is fine, but there's a limited appeal and audience for that, which I am not in.
Pass.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
The Strokes
4/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
OutKast
3/5
POV: You start your album by letting everyone know how horny you are, and you've got other stuff to say but mainly you're horny IDK
David Bowie
3/5
Three great tracks, three stars.
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
The United States Of America
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Nick Drake
5/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Laibach
3/5
Felt like I was being trolled throughout the entire album, but maybe not unenjoyably so.
Aretha Franklin
3/5
The Fall
2/5
Primal Scream
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
2/5
Machito
3/5
Strong start, descends into something quite samey. I don't say this unkindly - I could pick any of the tracks on the latter half of the album and enjoy them, but after a few I'd zone out.
Coherent - but needs more flare.
The Clash
3/5
Pretenders
4/5
Steely Dan
1/5
Well prepared, forgettable soup.
Didn't hate this. Unfortunately though, it elicited no discernible emotional response beyond apathy. What is music if not to lift the soul?
There's some thought behind the lyrics - but the music they're saddled with is so non-descript it's hard to care less. All the nuance is lost in the cloying do-bops and tsch-bop-bops that smother the record like an unremarkable blanket.
Probably at one point I've heard snippets of this in a hotel lobby but I don't know because I wouldn't remember it; case in point ended up listening to most of the album twice for the purposes of this because it fused with the background noise on the first occasion.
Trying a little harder on the second attempt, the initial chord progressions in the unfathomably beloved Deacon Blues set the scene for a whole bunch of nothing to happen, and as listeners, we're not proved wrong with this assumption.
Music should make you feel alive, this is beige soup for beige people with beige lives and beige ambitions who live in beige houses and drive beige cars to beige stores and ask for a manager when they get there because beige products are out of stock. There's a scene. And Steely Dan is playing in the background, naturally.
So anyway, it was dull. Maybe one day I'll hear it again and not even know. 1/5
ZZ Top
3/5
High energy mullet staring me down from the past, mixed emotions tbh
Green Day
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Bon Jovi
2/5
Big Hair P(l)op
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
The Who
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Minor Threat
2/5
Moby
4/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Adele
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Suede
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Joy Division
3/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Daft Punk
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Yes
2/5
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Peter Frampton
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Eurythmics
4/5
David Crosby
3/5
Queen
4/5
The best Queen album I'd never heard
Hookworms
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
William Orbit
3/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
I don't know why, and this isn't a reflection on Peter's musical prowess, but this album just makes me uneasy and I did not identify with it at all. "Peak boomer rock" probably conveys it best.
Thundercat
2/5
Mike Oldfield
3/5
Mixed emotions. Was kind of digging this on and off, and then the Klingon wailing bit started and I was like nah...
Kelela
3/5
Enjoyed the electronic parts, which kinda outshone the vocals. JUST STOP SINGING. But no, she did not stop singing. Not that it was bad singing, it was just interfering with that sweet, sweet electronica I wanted more of. Slick production, though.
Spiritualized
3/5
Gang Starr
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1/5
42 punishingly mundane 'Murica audio experiences I want to forget sooner rather than later
Love
4/5
CHIC
4/5
Great. Made even better by the memory of the late, great, Sean Lock using samples of Le Freak as a buzzer sound effects on "8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown", accompanied by a completely non-apologetic shit-eating grin.
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
5 - it reminds me of someone being the best.
Yet also 1 - reminds me of same someone being inexplicably shitty.
It's got to be a 3.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
2/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
X-Ray Spex
4/5
Punky AF. Lyrics still relevant today, some decent tunes. What's not to like?
Rush
2/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Hello, and welcome to Jazz Club.
Next up, Thelononius Monk with Scuba-dooba-dooba-bal-ue-surrender-panna-cotta-sandwich, with Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry and Clark Terry. Also featuring Off Kilter chords and Sax that gatecrashed from a whole other song.
Listen out for the smoky bass 10 minutes into Bolivar and get ready for those textured drum beats. Sensational.
Let's listen again. Nice👌🏻
Stan Getz
5/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Q-Tip
4/5
I listened. I liked, I went back to listen again.
MC Solaar
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Great harmonisation but after listening all the way through I'd had my fill.
Jungle Brothers
3/5
Butthole Surfers
1/5
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Slayer
1/5
Soft Machine
4/5
- DO NOT LISTEN TO TRACK 1 FIRST -
It was alright, but nearly lost the will to live after the opening minutes of track 1, and this is coming from someone who usually rates prog rock quite highly. Quite an enjoyable listen once I got past that.
The Dandy Warhols
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
Maxwell
1/5
The Prodigy
3/5
OutKast
4/5
Megadeth
2/5
Kanye West
1/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Doves
3/5
David Gray
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Talvin Singh
4/5
Sepultura
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Randy Newman
2/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
The Zutons
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
4/5
Van Halen
3/5
Great riffs. I can imagine the hair
Duran Duran
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Snoop Dogg
3/5
The Vines
3/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
Beatles
4/5
It's good, but inevitably I anticipate a way will be found to not STFU about it even come heat death of the universe, which stops it being a 5.
James Brown
3/5
4/5
Blur
4/5
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Air
4/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Santana
4/5
Yes
3/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Aphex Twin
4/5
Madonna
1/5
jfc
Taylor Swift
3/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Expected the worst looking at the genre but this was, for the most part, a good time.
Sister Sledge
4/5
Culture Club
3/5
Linkin Park
2/5
"The best-selling rock album of the 21st century". What if that said more about the state of rock than it being an endorsement of this?
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Ash
3/5
a-ha
3/5
DJ Shadow
4/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Traffic
2/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Traffic
3/5
The Gun Club
2/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
Leftfield
3/5
White Denim
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
Gorillaz
4/5
Death In Vegas
4/5
Norah Jones
3/5
The xx
3/5
Gotan Project
4/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Coldplay
4/5
This is the best Coldplay album, you won't change my mind.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Icarus Line
4/5
Unexpectedly enjoyable noises