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0.27
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You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle | 5 | 1.88 | +3.12 |
| Rock Bottom | 5 | 2.39 | +2.61 |
| Oar | 5 | 2.46 | +2.54 |
| Welcome to the Afterfuture | 5 | 2.56 | +2.44 |
| Devotional Songs | 5 | 2.58 | +2.42 |
| Darkdancer | 5 | 2.58 | +2.42 |
| The United States Of America | 5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
| Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche | 5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
| The Madcap Laughs | 5 | 2.62 | +2.38 |
| Chelsea Girl | 5 | 2.63 | +2.37 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| In The Court Of The Crimson King | 1 | 3.6 | -2.6 |
| ...And Justice For All | 1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
| Diamond Life | 1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
| From Elvis In Memphis | 1 | 3.36 | -2.36 |
| Achtung Baby | 1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
| A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector | 1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
| System Of A Down | 1 | 3.26 | -2.26 |
| Vivid | 1 | 3.19 | -2.19 |
| Frampton Comes Alive | 1 | 3.19 | -2.19 |
| Loveless | 1 | 3.17 | -2.17 |
Artist Analysis
Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Dylan | 7 | 4.86 | 4.3 |
| Beatles | 7 | 4.86 | 4.3 |
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.67 | 4.25 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 5 | 4.14 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 5 | 4.14 |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 5 | 4.14 |
| Leonard Cohen | 5 | 4.8 | 4.13 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 5 | 4.8 | 4.13 |
| Neil Young | 4 | 4.75 | 4 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Radiohead | 6 | 4.33 | 3.89 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.4 | 3.88 |
| Joni Mitchell | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| Paul Simon | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| The Doors | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Kraftwerk | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Curtis Mayfield | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Sly & The Family Stone | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Fela Kuti | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Stan Getz | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Muddy Waters | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Hole | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Pulp | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Aretha Franklin | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Stephen Stills | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Ali Farka Touré | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Frank Sinatra | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Beck | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Deep Purple | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Nick Drake | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Cure | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Kate Bush | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Blur | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Smiths | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Prince | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Fall | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Kings of Leon | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Stooges | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and low weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Bloody Valentine | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Slipknot | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 3 | 1.67 | 2.33 |
| Elvis Presley | 3 | 1.67 | 2.33 |
| Def Leppard | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Motörhead | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Randy Newman | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| TV On The Radio | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Scott Walker | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Sepultura | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Big Star | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
5-Star Albums (276)
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Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
If this album is on this list then Cats should have won an Oscar and Vladimir Putin awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
50 likes
Talk Talk
5/5
Everyone working their way through this project loves music.
And everyone who loves music has an album that means more to them than the rest.
And this one is mine.
I got into Talk Talk when I heard their single 'Life's What you Make It', which reached Number 16 in the UK charts in November 1985. The two singles vying for the Number 1 spot at the time were the theme to Miami Vice by Jan Hammer and 'We Built this City' by Starship.
No offence to Jan Hammer and Starship, but those fun tunes never left 1985. Thirty-eight years later Talk Talk's Colour of Spring still feels as fresh as, well, spring I suppose. When I first heard it I didn't fully understand it - and I still don't fully understand it. It feels different with each listen. A true work of art.
21 likes
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Enjoyable, but yer not getting more than 3 for an album of covers.
12 likes
Hole
5/5
I'd like to publicly apologize to Courtney Love for just dismissing her as a tabloid time waster. I hadn't listen to any Hole music on principle until now. My loss. I'm sorry. This was really excellent.
12 likes
1-Star Albums (52)
All Ratings
The Black Keys
5/5
10/10
Brian Eno
4/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
5/5
10/10. Prog Rock gold.
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
The Stone Roses
5/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Pavement
2/5
Def Leppard
2/5
The Who
2/5
The Roots
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Gang Of Four
3/5
Ananda Shankar
1/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Everything But The Girl
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Willie Nelson
2/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
The Style Council
2/5
The Pogues
4/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
The Byrds
3/5
Jacques Brel
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
The Cardigans
2/5
Talking Heads
5/5
5/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
5/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Alice Cooper
2/5
The Replacements
2/5
Red Snapper
2/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Richard Hawley
5/5
Billie Holiday
5/5
Bad Company
3/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1/5
Lou Reed
4/5
The Dictators
2/5
The Jam
4/5
Dr. John
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Television
5/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Thundercat
4/5
Motörhead
2/5
Morrissey
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
The Who
3/5
Suede
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
5/5
David Bowie
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
The Pharcyde
1/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
New Order
2/5
Ghostface Killah
2/5
Culture Club
2/5
The Cars
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
The Temptations
4/5
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Living Colour
1/5
Serge Gainsbourg
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
Common
2/5
Beck
5/5
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
Erykah Badu
5/5
Bill Evans Trio
5/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Minor Threat
2/5
David Gray
3/5
Various Artists
1/5
Dire Straits
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
Deep Purple
5/5
The Stranglers
5/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
CHIC
3/5
Barry Adamson
1/5
I liked the imaginary end credits best.
2/5
Beach House
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
2/5
The Doors
4/5
Randy Newman
1/5
Cypress Hill
2/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
5/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
Sister Sledge
4/5
Pixies
2/5
The White Stripes
3/5
PJ Harvey
5/5
SZA
1/5
Atrocious lyrics. Auto-tune vocals. Dull tunes. Worthy of a zero.
Cream
5/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Carole King
4/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
Al Green
5/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
Machito
3/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
TV On The Radio
1/5
Mudhoney
2/5
The Shamen
2/5
This music makes little sense without drugs.
Fela Kuti
5/5
The Temptations
4/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Supertramp
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Buffalo Springfield
2/5
Ice Cube
3/5
OutKast
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Metallica
1/5
Metallicock
Hookworms
3/5
Robbie Williams
2/5
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
The Louvin Brothers
1/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Korn
2/5
The Cure
4/5
Frank Sinatra
5/5
King Crimson
1/5
Donovan
2/5
Lou Reed
5/5
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
Little Richard
5/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
The Soft Boys
2/5
The Doors
5/5
Elton John
4/5
Carpenters
2/5
This album gave me diabetes.
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Gorillaz
3/5
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Fats Domino
3/5
The Youngbloods
2/5
2Pac
4/5
Motörhead
1/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
4/5
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Brian Eno
1/5
JAY Z
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Deep Purple
5/5
Coldplay
2/5
CHIC
3/5
The National
2/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Tracy Chapman
5/5
Beatles
5/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Santana
4/5
The Crusaders
3/5
Pretenders
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
The Kinks
3/5
The Zombies
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Beck
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Simple Minds
4/5
George Michael
4/5
Funkadelic
2/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Portishead
1/5
System Of A Down
1/5
They lost me at RRRRAAAAAAAAA!
Tim Buckley
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
Miriam Makeba
4/5
Tricky
4/5
Blue Cheer
2/5
Don McLean
4/5
John Martyn
4/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
ABBA
4/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
James Taylor
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
U2
1/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
5/5
Daft Punk
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Eminem
2/5
Nina Simone
5/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Queen
4/5
Supergrass
4/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Peter Frampton
1/5
Pearl Jam
2/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Dead Kennedys
2/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Spiritualized
4/5
Orbital
5/5
Anthrax
1/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Dire Straits
5/5
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Wilco
2/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Beatles
5/5
B.B. King
3/5
Arrested Development
3/5
Bobby Womack
4/5
D'Angelo
2/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Brian Wilson
2/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Kate Bush
5/5
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Alice In Chains
5/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Blur
5/5
Femi Kuti
5/5
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
The Verve
4/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Ice T
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Traffic
4/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
The Specials
4/5
Mylo
5/5
Burning Spear
2/5
Weather Report
2/5
The Young Rascals
2/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Primal Scream
4/5
Sex Pistols
5/5
Tears For Fears
4/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
John Prine
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
Drive Like Jehu
1/5
The Smiths
5/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Khaled
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Paul Weller
4/5
The Strokes
5/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
Manu Chao
4/5
Dirty Projectors
1/5
Incubus
2/5
The Kinks
4/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Morrissey
5/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Justice
2/5
Little Simz
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Air
2/5
New Order
4/5
Primal Scream
5/5
Scott Walker
2/5
The Cramps
2/5
Billy Bragg
4/5
The Hives
2/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Teenage Fanclub
4/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5/5
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
If this album is on this list then Cats should have won an Oscar and Vladimir Putin awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Lana Del Rey
4/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Dennis Wilson
5/5
Morrissey
3/5
John Grant
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Blur
3/5
Mekons
2/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Jeff Beck
3/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Cheap Trick
5/5
Cat Stevens
5/5
Silver Jews
2/5
Ice Cube
3/5
Queen
4/5
Green Day
4/5
The xx
2/5
The Who
5/5
Massive Attack
4/5
808 State
5/5
Janelle Monáe
2/5
The The
4/5
5/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Solange
2/5
Kraftwerk
5/5
The Smiths
3/5
ABBA
4/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
Yes
2/5
Ray Charles
5/5
Cee Lo Green
3/5
a-ha
4/5
Green Day
4/5
AC/DC
4/5
Megadeth
2/5
The beginning of Devil's Island would make a good ringtone. 2/5
Def Leppard
1/5
Gang Starr
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Deerhunter
3/5
Funkadelic
5/5
David Bowie
5/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
The Clash
4/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Alf Garnett
Aerosmith
3/5
Eagles
5/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Garbage
4/5
Talking Heads
5/5
The Birthday Party
1/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Jethro Tull
5/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Patti Smith
5/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Method Man
2/5
Pixies
4/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Crowded House
3/5
Elvis Presley
1/5
Elvis has been one of the most surprising things I've learned from the list so far. Once you get past the hype and the stagecraft, his albums are truly dreadful. He slurs and lurches through this one, sounding just like the tuneless, aging barflies I've heard.imitate him a thousand times. No amount of hammy howling can give these songs any soul and his lyrics die the moment they leave his ludicrously curled lips. Music for annoying drunks.
Peter Tosh
5/5
Iron Maiden
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Stan Getz
5/5
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
The Band
2/5
The Kinks
3/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Tortoise
2/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Björk
4/5
The Sonics
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Megadeth
2/5
Julian Cope
5/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Supergrass
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
GZA
4/5
Jeff Buckley
5/5
The Lemonheads
4/5
Gillian Welch
5/5
The Band
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
1/5
Two Pet Shop Boys albums on this list is a surprise - and not in a good way.
Bee Gees
1/5
Admiral Nelson will be turning in his grave.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
The Auteurs
3/5
Mike Ladd
5/5
The Who
5/5
Metallica
4/5
Cornershop
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Is there such a thing as a 4-star Bowie album? If there is, I haven't heard it.
Bob Dylan
5/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
The Young Gods
2/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
Q-Tip
4/5
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Top marks for the haunting sample of the Lost Cosmonaut in Final Days. If it's true, it's one of the saddest things I've ever heard.
Fugazi
2/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Adele
2/5
1/5
Turbonegro
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Ministry
4/5
Well, that was fun!
Jungle Brothers
4/5
Ramones
4/5
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
The Verve
2/5
OutKast
5/5
The Undertones
4/5
Can
5/5
Queen
3/5
Metallica
2/5
The Icarus Line
2/5
Marianne Faithfull
4/5
Guns N' Roses
2/5
Sabu
3/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Sepultura
2/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Wire
4/5
Bert Jansch
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Kraftwerk
5/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Ash
3/5
Dizzee Rascal
4/5
Welcome to London GLHF
Rod Stewart
5/5
Baaba Maal
5/5
David Bowie
5/5
Gary Numan
5/5
Eminem
2/5
Music for angry incels.
Tina Turner
5/5
Never realized 1984 was a Bowie track written in the 70s for a George Orwell-themed musical. I'm surprised to say I think it's the weakest track on an excellent album.
Baaba Maal
3/5
Second Baaba Maal album in a week. Enjoyable, but simply not good enough to keep Salif Keita or Cesaria Evora inexplicably off this list.
Norah Jones
2/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
2/5
The Jam
4/5
Fever Ray
4/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
Neil Young
5/5
Stoner heaven.
Soundgarden
2/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
It's not Stevie's greatest album, but it's still amazing. I was hovering over giving it a 4, but They Won't Go When I Go tips this into yet another masterpiece.
Antony and the Johnsons
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Metallica
3/5
Hole
5/5
I'd like to publicly apologize to Courtney Love for just dismissing her as a tabloid time waster. I hadn't listen to any Hole music on principle until now. My loss. I'm sorry. This was really excellent.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
5/5
Elastica
4/5
Boston
4/5
Deee-Lite
3/5
In time I will give this a 4, but for now it's a 3 because the early 90s aesthetic is so out of fashion - it hurts my eyes - and I'm that superficial - sorry.
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4/5
Eric Clapton
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
1/5
Yeah, sip your Chardonnay, watch the sunset, order the salad, listen to this album and fuck off.
Prince
5/5
Frank Zappa
5/5
Raekwon
2/5
Billy Bragg
1/5
I vote Labour just to get Billy Bragg to shut up.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
The Waterboys
3/5
Fela Kuti
5/5
Lightning Bolt
2/5
There's certainly a crock at the end of the rainbow, but it's not full of gold.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
The Divine Comedy
4/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Common
4/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Van Halen
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Chicago
4/5
Scott Walker
1/5
Paul Simon
5/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Slipknot
1/5
Gene Clark
2/5
The Black Crowes
2/5
The perfect accompaniment to a laminated menu.
Public Enemy
5/5
Mercury Rev
4/5
John Lee Hooker
5/5
MGMT
4/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
I've taken some time to rate this album. The more I think about Jamiroquai the lower the rating goes. I'm now at a 3. As the music receded, I'm left considering a silly little white guy singing black music, dressed as a native American and preaching environmental messages from behind the wheel of a gas-guzzling supercar. In a few hours I'll probably regret rating it so highly and I'll have to console myself with the memory of the time that photographer broke Jay Kay's nose with an epic headbutt.
Prince
4/5
R.E.M.
5/5
William Orbit
4/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Small Faces
3/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
Tea Deus and the Finite Patience
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Enjoyable, but yer not getting more than 3 for an album of covers.
Digital Underground
2/5
Joy Division
5/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Joan Armatrading
5/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
4/5
The Police
4/5
Pulp
5/5
N.W.A.
5/5
Duke Ellington
4/5
Madness
3/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
Elbow
4/5
Neil Young
5/5
Lorde
3/5
The Only Ones
4/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
Suicide
2/5
Travis
2/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
Aphex Twin
2/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Ozomatli
2/5
The Mamas & The Papas
5/5
k.d. lang
2/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
They should have taken themselves more seriously. I think their silly band name and their 'quirky' biggest hit (King of Rock n Roll - not on this album) ultimately made them seem like a gimmick and detracted from their talents. I'm pleasantly surprised by this album.
De La Soul
5/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Yes
3/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Hawkwind
5/5
Charles Mingus
5/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
George Jones
2/5
Tim Buckley
4/5
The Offspring
2/5
Laibach
1/5
Nico
5/5
Orbital
4/5
Ian Dury
5/5
Pure genius.
Snoop Dogg
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Wild Beasts
2/5
Jimmy Smith
4/5
4/5
Adam & The Ants
4/5
Still the coolest look in pop, and a unique sound too.
Big Star
2/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
Simply Red
5/5
Venom
1/5
Venom are still touring because Satan doesn't want them stinking up Hell with this terrible racket.
Joe Ely
2/5
The Fall
5/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
Maxwell
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Suzanne Vega
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Waylon Jennings
3/5
The Pogues
5/5
Adele
3/5
Harry Nilsson
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Electric Light Orchestra
5/5
Sam Cooke
4/5
Blondie
5/5
Kings of Leon
4/5
The Fall
5/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Calexico
4/5
MC Solaar
4/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Frank Black
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
The Killers
4/5
The Avalanches
2/5
Hot Chip
4/5
Linkin Park
2/5
DJ Shadow
5/5
Syd Barrett
5/5
Sad. Beautiful. Majestic. Chaotic. The Van Gogh of music.
Skunk Anansie
3/5
The Saints
4/5
Throwing Muses
2/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Tom Tom Club
5/5
M.I.A.
5/5
S.I.K
Fiona Apple
2/5
This album sounds like it was composed by ChatGPT.
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Kate Bush
5/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
The Damned
2/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Big Black
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Pentangle
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2/5
Fugees
4/5
Sebadoh
2/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
XTC
2/5
Sufjan Stevens
5/5
Never heard of this album or this artist. Spectacular.
Pere Ubu
2/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Talk Talk
5/5
Everyone working their way through this project loves music.
And everyone who loves music has an album that means more to them than the rest.
And this one is mine.
I got into Talk Talk when I heard their single 'Life's What you Make It', which reached Number 16 in the UK charts in November 1985. The two singles vying for the Number 1 spot at the time were the theme to Miami Vice by Jan Hammer and 'We Built this City' by Starship.
No offence to Jan Hammer and Starship, but those fun tunes never left 1985. Thirty-eight years later Talk Talk's Colour of Spring still feels as fresh as, well, spring I suppose. When I first heard it I didn't fully understand it - and I still don't fully understand it. It feels different with each listen. A true work of art.
Elis Regina
4/5
Elton John
4/5
It would have been a 5, but minus 1 for the world album cover art in this entire list.
M.I.A.
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
The Stooges
5/5
Scissor Sisters
2/5
I don't think anything on this list has dated as badly as the Pet Shop Boys, but Scissor Sisters are getting there. Both were great fun at the time, but listening to them now feels like returning to the scene of an epic party the morning after.
4/5
Guided By Voices
1/5
Big Star
1/5
Madonna
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
Sparks
3/5
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
I enjoyed this trip back to an 80s wine bar but I got a little bored towards the end and reckoned I could leave early and get back home the catch The Word on TV.
Jurassic 5
4/5
The Yardbirds
2/5
The Everly Brothers
3/5
The Libertines
2/5
I remember going to one of the last Libertines gig in Camden in 2004. It was in a tent out the back of an art gallery. They were jeered by some of the crowd as they shambled through their set. "Once a Libertine, always a Libertine!" shouted one of their hangers-on. The band split up about a week later. As I walked home in the rain there was a junkie screaming for his mother in a phone box outside the tube station.
The Libertines is like skipping the all-night bender and just going straight to waking up in a puddle of your own vomit.
Elvis Costello
3/5
Good, but this list doesn't need three Elvis Costello albums.
George Harrison
5/5
Each side of this six-sided monster is a stone cold 5.
The Residents
2/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
Christina Aguilera
4/5
Oasis
4/5
John Cale
2/5
Caetano Veloso
2/5
New York Dolls
4/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
The Afghan Whigs
2/5
Brian Eno
5/5
The B-52's
4/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
Kanye West
4/5
Black Flag
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Kings of Leon
4/5
The Monks
4/5
Traffic
4/5
Robert Wyatt
5/5
Pixies
3/5
Rush
2/5
Bad Brains
2/5
N.E.R.D
4/5
Pavement
4/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Stephen Stills
5/5
Björk
4/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Janet Jackson
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
5/5
This is the second album by these guys on this list. Never listened to them before. They're great!
Saint Etienne
3/5
Hüsker Dü
2/5
Every song reminds me of the Friends theme tune.
Underworld
4/5
I know I'm going to regret rating this so high in about 20 years, by which time this album will sound laughably dated. Oh well.
Tom Waits
5/5
Robert Wyatt
3/5
Paul Simon
5/5
Slayer
1/5
Rain of Shite
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5/5
50 Cent
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Neil Young
5/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
The United States Of America
5/5
I've just given 3/5 to some insipid dullness from Goldfrapp and then am immediately confronted by this album. I'm wracked with guilt. I admit when I began listening to this I started off hostile but, six tracks in, I'm totally won over. This is a fantastic album.
Barry Adamson
5/5
Le Tigre
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
I'm not giving Peter Gabriel a 3.
Prince
4/5
Slade
2/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Buzzcocks
2/5
Spacemen 3
2/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
5/5
The Undertones
4/5
Madonna
4/5
I think this album has been dropped from later versions of this list. It shouldn't have been.
The Darkness
3/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
The Electric Prunes
3/5
Gram Parsons
2/5
Ride
5/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
Bauhaus
4/5
Tori Amos
4/5
Goldie
3/5
Air
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Moby
5/5
Milton Nascimento
5/5
The Isley Brothers
5/5
The Bees
3/5
The Smiths
5/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
The Gun Club
3/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
Happy Mondays
5/5
Rush
3/5
Shack
5/5
Call the police! I'd like to report an album that's been criminally under-rated.
David Ackles
1/5
Who's the luckiest man in the music industry?
I know. You're thinking Ringo, right?
Wrong.
The Beatles wouldn't have been the Beatles without him.
The luckiest man in the music biz is Bernie Taupin.
For some reason he has made a career out of setting laughably bad lyrics to Elton John tunes. Check out the nonsense of Yellow Brick Road. And then he produces this crap and it somehow makes this list.
It's a bloody travesty.
Steely Dan
2/5
10cc
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
5/5
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
Minutemen
4/5
Pulp
5/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
5/5
When they finally release GTA 6 this will be the music I'll drive around town to.
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Gotan Project
3/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Kings of Leon
5/5
Koffi Olomide
5/5
FKA twigs
3/5
Röyksopp
4/5
2/5
Faust
4/5
Kelela
3/5
Dagmar Krause
2/5
The Doors
5/5
Genesis
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Christina Aguilera
4/5
The Incredible String Band
2/5
Jack White
3/5
Nick Drake
5/5
SAULT
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
The Who
4/5
The Divine Comedy
4/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Napalm Death
1/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The KLF
2/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
Kanye West
4/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
The Psychedelic Furs
4/5
Leftfield
2/5
Justin Timberlake
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
Three decent albums fused together for no apparent reason so that listening to it is a real chore.
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
The Cure
4/5
Beck
5/5
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
Giant Sand
2/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Circle Jerks
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
Merle Haggard
2/5
CHVRCHES
3/5
The airline food of music. It's perfectly fine and neatly packaged. The perfect accompaniment to gazing vacantly out of a little window as the distant world drifts by. But it doesn't stand up to a comparison with the real thing with your feet on the ground.
Kanye West
5/5
R.E.M.
5/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
4/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Skepta
2/5
Germs
2/5
Stereolab
4/5
Django Django
5/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Herbie Hancock
5/5
Public Enemy
5/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Dr. Octagon
3/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
5/5
Hugh Masekela
5/5
Suede
3/5
Pantera
1/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Bon Jovi
2/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Eagles
4/5
Japan
4/5
T. Rex
3/5
The The
5/5
Only now - 38 years after I bought the somewhat disappointing Infected album - do I realise that I bought the wrong The The album.
Scritti Politti
2/5
Violent Femmes
5/5
Anita Baker
3/5
Lambchop
2/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Foo Fighters
5/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Stephen Stills
5/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Genesis
5/5
Heaven 17
3/5
Sugar
2/5
The Blue Nile
5/5
Nirvana
4/5
The music is five stars, but I'm taking a star away for the corporate branding and whichever boardroom of suits signed off that abysmal album cover.
Nas
5/5
The Go-Betweens
2/5
American Music Club
3/5
James Brown
2/5
I think the choice of backing vocals from a bunch of screaming 14-year-old girls high on sugar were a miss-step by the great James Brown.
Sepultura
1/5
Devendra Banhart
4/5
Sade
1/5
Like taking a warm, candle-lit bath in porridge.
Marty Robbins
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Radiohead
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
When I was a teenager I would have given this a 5.
It's not that the music has aged badly.
It's that I have.
Michael Jackson
5/5
Parliament
5/5
Ms. Dynamite
4/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Coldcut
2/5
Joan Baez
4/5
X-Ray Spex
4/5
UB40
5/5
Goldfrapp
5/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Randy Newman
2/5
Malcolm McLaren
5/5
What people might not appreciate in 2024 is that ideas traveled much more slowly in 1983. It took people like Malcolm McLaren to go out and find new material and then encourge musicians to experiment with it. And what exciting ideas he discovered. This album shows the enthusiasm and consideration with which MM undertook the task - very different from the algorithmic fire hyrant of randomness and cat videos that replaced him.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
The Police
4/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Doves
4/5
Liz Phair
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2/5
LTJ Bukem
1/5
I got bored after exactly 7 minutes and 4 seconds.
Fishbone
2/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Björk
2/5
The Associates
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Killing Joke
5/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
George Michael
4/5
The Streets
3/5
Otis Redding
3/5
I said this about the Rolling Stones and I'm going to say it about Otis Redding too. Enjoyable, but you're not getting more than a 3 for an album full of covers.
Massive Attack
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Music for high school shooters
David Holmes
1/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Bee Gees
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
5/5
The Clash
4/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
Joy Division
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Astor Piazzolla
5/5
The only thing better than discovering a brilliant album is discovering a brilliant artist with a whole back catalogue.
David Crosby
5/5
Moby Grape
3/5
5/5
Animal Collective
3/5
Faith No More
3/5
T. Rex
4/5
Soft Machine
3/5
It got a lot better, but the first track was terrible.
John Coltrane
5/5
Slipknot
1/5
The Modern Lovers
5/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
The Human League
5/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Throbbing Gristle
5/5
This album caught me in the right mood. I was all ready to join the pile on, but then I discovered it was a fascinating listen. I found myself groping for images to accompany each track in a way few, if any, albums on this list have made me do. I loved the garbled voices on Hometime and Valley of the Shadow of Death - so evocative of 1970s Britain - which may be lost on many listeners. It's not an album I'll return to frequently, but I'm amazed to say I'll be back.
In a list of 1000 albums there should be at least one the goes down this path to explore the limits of the medium.
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
The Che Guevara of Beverly Hillls has a rebel anthem perfect for the next Apple commercial.
Ray Price
2/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Neu!
3/5
The Cure
5/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
Depeche Mode
5/5
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
Slint
2/5
1/5
The miserable life of an under-age bride, set to jaunty music and described in lyrics that offer zero empowerment, redemption or hope. Truly disgusting.
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
4/5
The Vines
2/5
U2
4/5
Jorge Ben Jor
5/5
Emmylou Harris
2/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
Can
4/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Hole
5/5
Grizzly Bear
3/5
2/5
The Dandy Warhols
5/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
John Lennon
2/5
Having listened to all their first solo albums, it's clear that George Harrison thrived after the Beatles. Lennon, by contrast, was a mess and that's reflected in his music here. Only the track Love has any appeal to me, and would fit better on his far superior second solo album.
I feel sympathy for anyone who had to deal with Lennon at this time - except Yoko Ono of course.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Talvin Singh
2/5
Eels
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Donald Fagen
2/5
Doves
4/5
Fred Neil
4/5
The War On Drugs
5/5
Björk
4/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Thelonious Monk
5/5
The Slits
2/5
The Monkees
2/5
Van Morrison
4/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
5/5
Eurythmics
4/5
This City Never Sleeps is an amazing track.
The Triffids
2/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
Fun, but I'm not sure if this counts as music, in the same way I'm not sure if MadDonalds qualifies as food.
Van Morrison
3/5
The xx
2/5
Portishead
4/5
Magazine
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Wilco
4/5
The Prodigy
5/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Death In Vegas
3/5
Steve Earle
2/5
Tito Puente
5/5
Morrissey
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
2/5
The Specials
5/5
John Lennon
5/5
The Coral
3/5
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
Dion
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Kid Rock
2/5
Aimee Mann
4/5
The Thrills
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Beyoncé
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
5/5
Ute Lemper
2/5
Girls Against Boys
3/5
The Adverts
3/5
Louis Prima
4/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Mudhoney
4/5
Sleater-Kinney
2/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
KISS
2/5
LL Cool J
4/5
Boards of Canada
5/5
Stan Getz
5/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
Meat Puppets
2/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
TLC
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Madonna
3/5
The Cult
3/5
Van Halen
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
I marked down an early Stones album because it was all covers. This is all their own work - and it still feels stolen. And this album was written when they were tax exiles - yet another example of them taking and not giving back.
Roni Size
4/5
Orange Juice
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
The Byrds
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
5/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
fIREHOSE
2/5
Britney Spears
2/5
The Zutons
2/5
Buck Owens
1/5
The Charlatans
4/5
Queen Latifah
4/5
Love
5/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
Coldplay
2/5
The Gwyneth Paltrow of music.
The Fall
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Klaxons
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
The La's
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
5/5
Paul McCartney
5/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
White Denim
4/5
Rahul Dev Burman
1/5
Love
2/5
The Byrds
2/5