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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
|
5 | 2.68 | +2.32 |
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Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
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5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
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The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
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5 | 3.11 | +1.89 |
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Dry
PJ Harvey
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5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
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Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
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4 | 2.28 | +1.72 |
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Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
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5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
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5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
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5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
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3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
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5 | 3.45 | +1.55 |
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Germs
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4 | 2.54 | +1.46 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
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1 | 3.87 | -2.87 |
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Play
Moby
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1 | 3.47 | -2.47 |
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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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2112
Rush
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
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1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
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1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
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2 | 4.3 | -2.3 |
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It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
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1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
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1 | 3.16 | -2.16 |
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461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
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1 | 3.12 | -2.12 |
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Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4.75 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 5 |
| PJ Harvey | 3 | 4.67 |
| Radiohead | 6 | 4.17 |
| Bob Dylan | 6 | 4 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| The Divine Comedy | 2 | 1 |
| The Rolling Stones | 5 | 2 |
| Barry Adamson | 2 | 1.5 |
| Bee Gees | 2 | 1.5 |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 2 | 1.5 |
| Ryan Adams | 2 | 1.5 |
| Tom Waits | 4 | 2 |
| Leonard Cohen | 5 | 2.2 |
| Van Morrison | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| TV On The Radio | 1, 4 |
5-Star Albums (30)
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Popular Reviews
Julian Cope
2/5
I wish I loved anything as much as the listmaker loves British guys who jerk off on tape and call it "music."
40 likes
Robert Wyatt
1/5
I don't blame Robert Wyatt for making this album full of noodling nonsense; I blame the listmaker for pretending as though there were anything of merit here.
37 likes
Talvin Singh
2/5
oh, you put South Asian instruments on top of your boring-ass techno. cool, i guess.
15 likes
Pentangle
1/5
"wow, the British folk revival of the 60s is a big deal!" -- no one who is not British
alt name for this list: "fewer than 500 albums you should listen to before you die, plus a bunch of mediocre british acts from the 60s 70s and 80s"
9 likes
1-Star Albums (39)
All Ratings
Green Day
4/5
Happy punk
The Stranglers
4/5
Fun garage-y 70s rock with fuzz and keyboards.
Faith No More
4/5
Fugees
5/5
Classic. Fuck the outro.
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
thppt. shoulda stayed in the Beatles.
Tito Puente
3/5
Burning Spear
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Lotta flute. Lil too much piano.
Elliott Smith
2/5
Too sad for me.
Soundgarden
5/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
He's not as sad a bastard as I thought?
Prince
3/5
Most double albums would be better as single albums.
Deee-Lite
2/5
Not really a house music guy. The single was enough for me.
ABBA
2/5
Not my jam.
Wild Beasts
1/5
Nah.
Bon Jovi
2/5
Got pretty dodgy when it wasn't the hits.
Radiohead
4/5
Memories of the Dwight spot.
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Ride
2/5
OK.
Talking Heads
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
Weird and good, funky.
Buzzcocks
4/5
Dizzee Rascal
2/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Alanis Morissette
3/5
The Verve
3/5
Fine UK alt-rock.
Boston
2/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Sheela had the boogie
Iggy Pop
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Lotta white dudes on this list
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Solange
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Charlatans
2/5
Lotta Brits on this list.
Mudhoney
3/5
Slint
1/5
mumbleing nonsense.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Dirty Projectors
3/5
That was fun!
Richard Thompson
3/5
I think this is one of those records I'm supposed to worship. It was fine?
The Who
4/5
Tremendous live album. (1995 expanded version)
Dolly Parton
3/5
Dolly is good.
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Method Man
3/5
Cream
2/5
The Fall
3/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Better than I feared?
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Sinatra's heart wasn't in it, and neither was mine.
David Bowie
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Various Artists
1/5
don't love the Wall of Sound, don't want to listen to xmas music, don't want to receive any "gift" from a murderer!
The Electric Prunes
1/5
Holy shit, that was terrible. Like a parody of 60s psychedelic rock.
Coldplay
3/5
Fine.
Kraftwerk
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
Not bad, but not really my bag. Sorry, fellas.
The Soft Boys
3/5
80s, punky, British, not bad
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
snnnnnfm hgh omuhgradd
4/5
Saint Etienne
2/5
Aggressively mediocre. This list looks worse every day.
The Offspring
2/5
Didn't age well for me.
Ian Dury
1/5
British. Can't sing. Can't pick a genre, can't do most of them particularly well. Perfect for this list.
5/5
Need to listen to this a lot more
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Yes, of course
Japan
3/5
Not bad, solid New Wave.
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Charles Mingus
3/5
Love
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Hearing a lot of Lush and Siouxsie, but it's not my jam.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
John Martyn
2/5
MEH.
Derek & The Dominos
1/5
Fuck Eric Clapton.
Mj Cole
2/5
Bad. Boring. House music probably shouldn't be on this list.
Sex Pistols
4/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Justice
2/5
Not my thing.
Pavement
3/5
Not bad, actually.
Barry Adamson
1/5
What? No.
Christine and the Queens
2/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Goldie
2/5
that was too much DnB
Joan Armatrading
4/5
That was great!
The Young Gods
2/5
intriguing, but too shouty for me
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
(almost all double albums should be single albums BUT) there are many great songs on here
Hole
2/5
Can't always catch lightning in a bottle twice.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Neneh Cherry
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Buck Owens
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Beatles
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
The Kinks
3/5
Like early Who.
Soul II Soul
3/5
House-y.
The Cure
3/5
Beatles
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
Three hours of this? Fuck off.
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Glad Big's dead.
Queen
3/5
I get the concept, but that doesn't mean I have to love the concept.
Elton John
4/5
Crowded House
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Alice In Chains
3/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
Confusion is a walrus.
The Cars
4/5
Wow, that was really great.
Orange Juice
3/5
I started off suspicious, but there were good bones in there. Collins' voice sometimes drove me crazy, but I liked a lot of what they were doing musically.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Kid's got a future.
Jungle Brothers
2/5
The Doors
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Yeah duh.
Grizzly Bear
3/5
That was nice.
Massive Attack
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
Deep Purple
2/5
hahahaha this list is so dumb, this is a completely unremarkable record
Public Enemy
3/5
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
Solomon Burke
4/5
That man can sing.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
The Pogues
2/5
list so white
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
The National
2/5
That dude's voice just ruins it for me, every time.
John Martyn
2/5
lol another noodly white guy from the 70s, what a surprise
Travis
3/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
The Divine Comedy
1/5
"My slap and tickle made her giggle" haahahahaha this list is like "the 100 albums everyone admits are great and then 900 other pieces of shit like this"
Muddy Waters
3/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
See, I don't hate all white-dude UK rock.
Norah Jones
2/5
Starbucks created her in a test tube.
Miriam Makeba
3/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
Ice Cube
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Good shit.
Brian Eno
2/5
People gonna be mad at me but I found it a little boring
Tori Amos
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
man, kiedis is such a terrible lyricist
Black Sabbath
3/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
There's "here's an acknowledged classic of a genre you may not know well" and then there's "here's a piece of music that's almost intentionally impenetrable so you can feel dumb when you don't get it."
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
I don't blame Robert Wyatt for making this album full of noodling nonsense; I blame the listmaker for pretending as though there were anything of merit here.
Blur
3/5
Suede
2/5
Arrested Development
2/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
::reads 'Bengali in Platforms' lyrics::
YO FUCK THIS RACIST TRASH
The White Stripes
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
The Doors
3/5
Tracy Chapman
5/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
British guys doing blues and twang, huh?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Boring.
Julian Cope
2/5
I wish I loved anything as much as the listmaker loves British guys who jerk off on tape and call it "music."
Electric Light Orchestra
2/5
Prog is boring.
Ray Charles
3/5
T. Rex
2/5
Def Leppard
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
2/5
Nah.
Donovan
2/5
Van Halen
4/5
The Band
3/5
Nas
4/5
3/5
Brian Wilson
2/5
oooof can i just be polite and say "I recognize that Brian Wilson is a musical genius"?
Eagles
2/5
The Saints
3/5
Very Black Flag, I liked it.
U2
4/5
The Kinks
2/5
The The
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Pixies
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
The Band
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Lil dated but not bad
Iggy Pop
3/5
PJ Harvey
5/5
she's so fucking good
Deep Purple
4/5
Great keyboard, great screams.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Still don't get it.
The Sugarcubes
3/5
The Adverts
2/5
Santana
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
The The
2/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
David Gray
2/5
another english singer-songwriter zzzzzzz
Willie Nelson
3/5
The Hives
4/5
Supertramp
2/5
The War On Drugs
4/5
Easy listening, in the good way.
The Temptations
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Love
2/5
The Undertones
3/5
Oasis
2/5
Those guys really stole a lot from better bands.
a-ha
2/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Ramones
4/5
Turbonegro
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
B.B. King
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Killers
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Nico
2/5
I did not like her singing or this music!
Beatles
4/5
Q-Tip
3/5
George Michael
4/5
New Order
2/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5
Like a John Carpenter soundtrack without a John Carpenter movie.
Don McLean
3/5
Sam Cooke
5/5
Fuck the record executives who kept this classic in the closet for 20 years.
Frank Black
3/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
The Who
3/5
Simple Minds
2/5
Björk
4/5
I just told someone "If there is such a thing as a 'mostly the singles' fan or Bjork I am it" but this was interesting and clubby in a way that was accessible for me
John Coltrane
4/5
Metallica
5/5
Stone classic.
Stereolab
3/5
The Monks
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Slits
3/5
Queen
3/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
The covers have long been the stuff of my nightmares, and I imagine this was pretty heavy stuff for its time, but it does feel a tiny bit ... softer ... than my expectations.
Circle Jerks
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Different than I expected - more rock, less R&B? but good.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Jeff Buckley
5/5
Gold.
Megadeth
2/5
Eh.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
George Michael
4/5
Great pop from a star in mid-explosion.
Miles Davis
5/5
yeah der it's very great
Portishead
3/5
The Who
2/5
This is a PERSONAL rating - I acknowledge Tommy's place in musical history, but ... there's too much non-rock in there, and I didn't like most of it.
The Smiths
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
"The Message" (the single) is legendary. Why in the world did the listmaker include this entire record, with the cringeworthy "Dreamin'" and the embarrassing "You Are"?
Machito
3/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
yet another unremarkable british white guy wankathon.
Leftfield
2/5
Good house music is barely tolerable if you're not on the dance floor.
This is not really good house music.
Stevie Wonder
5/5
yes duh, talking book kicks off maybe the greatest four-album run ever
Aerosmith
2/5
hahaha this is not a "you-must-listen" album unless the number went from 1001 to 1000001, steven tyler is the anthony kiedis of singing about fucking
Beastie Boys
4/5
Steve Earle
2/5
i like some steve earle, but i don't like this steve earle, sorry. (i also don't really like most country, so yeah)
Elton John
4/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
i'm sure people on X love this, but, um, outside of the club (and possibly inside it as well), house music is borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring (also LOL at this clown talking about how "robotic" EDM is and then making a super robotic album)
Cornershop
3/5
I enjoyed that!
The Who
5/5
slam dunk classic, absolutely stacked with great songs
Prince
3/5
lil long
The Triffids
2/5
"50 Or So Albums You Should Listen To Before You Die And Then An Unending Parade Of Mediocre White Men"
Elastica
4/5
so much fun
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Queen Latifah
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
XTC
2/5
XTC is boring! Sorry!
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
The Monkees
2/5
hahaha i am aware that some people actually think the Monkees were good musicians and that's fine i guess, but this is not a good record, very dependent on vocals and harmonies except they are not great singers, otherwise a very derivative 60s sound
Amy Winehouse
3/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
there are moments - “paint it black,” “gimme shelter” - where the stones are of course transcendent but when i listen to their albums i mostly hear british guys playing pretty good versions of black and american music
Alice Cooper
2/5
starts off sounding like a cast recording of a rock-theme Broadway musical
Fiona Apple
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Madonna
2/5
AC/DC
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
The Cardigans
3/5
Pentangle
1/5
"wow, the British folk revival of the 60s is a big deal!" -- no one who is not British
alt name for this list: "fewer than 500 albums you should listen to before you die, plus a bunch of mediocre british acts from the 60s 70s and 80s"
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
non-western music!
Yes
2/5
whoever called it "wizard nerd rock" was right
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Leonard Cohen
1/5
you know what? life's too short to keep listening to Ol' Mumbly Joe just because some list said so.
I DON'T LIKE ANYTHING LEONARD COHEN EVER MADE
there i said it. on to "Led Zeppelin III." fuck yeah.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Cure
3/5
Queen
3/5
no hits, but not bad
Culture Club
2/5
yet another totally unremarkable album that makes me think the listmaker just grabbed a few albums he had heard of from various genres that he doesn't know anything about (I am from the generation that made "Karma Chameleon" a hit, it's a fine song, but the idea that I must hear this album before I die is laughable)
Judas Priest
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
kid can sing, "Long Black Limousine" was good, a lot of the rest was schmatlzy and overdone
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
hoooooooo baby CCR is so fuckin' fire
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
a British singer-songwriter who doesn't suck! hallelujah! (also enlightening to an 80s kid who mostly knew "Do Ya" and "Forever Young" growing up)
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
if u don't like this i don't like u
Talking Heads
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
John Lee Hooker
3/5
john lee hooker is great; why is a "___ and friends" cash-in record on this list?
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
them boys can play
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
that was actually not bad New Wave?
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
seriously why do rappers think we want to hear skits where we hear them fucking
Motörhead
3/5
their songs kinda sound the same but we all luv u lemmy
Lucinda Williams
3/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Guided By Voices
2/5
that was very boring
Minor Threat
3/5
Orbital
2/5
i have never been to a rave, i only used X once in my life and that was when friends made me go see Phish with them, i was all relaxed and super flirty, when they played "Twist Around" i did the "Whoo!" in the wrong place and everyone nearby looked at me like i was a narc, anyway writing this review has been far more interesting to me than listening to this record was
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Billy Bragg
4/5
Portishead
4/5
trip hop >>> house
John Lennon
2/5
The Jam
3/5
Sheryl Crow
2/5
John Cale
3/5
Some nice surprises. More albums should be half an hour long.
Beck
4/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
2Pac
4/5
Missy Elliott
4/5
speaking for like a minute after half the songs is a cruel act but it still bumps
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Garbage
3/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
fuck johnny depp
R.E.M.
4/5
Frank Ocean
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Jacques Brel
3/5
Peter Frampton
3/5
Thundercat
3/5
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Can
3/5
The Rolling Stones
1/5
::reads "Brown Sugar" lyrics
hahahaha fuck these culture vultures and fuck their song about raping slaves
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
1/5
lol convinced that whoever chose these records fucking HATES electronic music, so they picked the worst shit they could find, like this lazy nonsense
UB40
3/5
The Replacements
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
like the Stones, but less terrible
Sugar
4/5
i've got to listen to more Husker Du
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Basically a perfect album (esp. musically), with only a little bit of Axl's burgeoning paranoia, instead of the mess that was Use Your Illusion.
Adam & The Ants
3/5
James Brown
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Wire
3/5
Sabu
3/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Some serious bangers in here
Linkin Park
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
i do not like house music and this list's many attempts are doing nothing to change that
Throwing Muses
3/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
50 Million Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, But They Are, Because Aretha Was 50 Million Times Better Than Him
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
King Crimson
2/5
look, I called myself a "nerd" growing up, and I have since learned to let people enjoy what they're gonna enjoy, so, enjoy, nerds! but lord, this album irritated the shit out of me. like Rush but with worse singing and annoying show-offy musicianship (at least Rush rocks).
Common
2/5
I haven't actually listened to a lot of Common - his rise kind of coincides with the time that my interest in new music began to wane and my habits hardened - but listening to this album made it clear to me that I'm not missing much.
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
2/5
cool story, dad
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Beatles
4/5
as tonally weird as "Tommy" but more accessible to me.
Björk
4/5
justice for the swan dress
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
gotta spend more time with Uncle Neil, he's great
The Byrds
3/5
George Jones
3/5
(anguished crying)
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
The Clash
3/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
"let's leave the studio chatter at the beginning of every song, that'll seem really cool!"
The Strokes
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Dr. John
3/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
is this the worst album on this entire list? sure seems like it!
Small Faces
2/5
The two and a half songs I didn’t skip were OK, I guess.
The Roots
3/5
Roni Size
2/5
The Police
4/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
pretty good
4/5
confessing my ignorance: I did not know Dylan (and The Band) could rock like that!
Pretenders
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
i like the Pet Shop Boys, but I cannot underscore enough how unremarkable this album is. Recycled, dated beats with nothing special. Yet another terrible choice by the listmaker!
Talking Heads
3/5
Common
2/5
holy shit, the sampling on "Testify" was so fucking annoying
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Tom Waits
1/5
man, i have TRIED with Tom Waits. really. and I don't like him. sorry not sorry!
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Genesis
1/5
a prog double album by a bunch of English dudes about a Puerto Rican teen from NYC? no fucking thanks!
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
James Taylor
3/5
james taylor singing White Guy Mellow Acoustic Songs: good job. no notes.
james taylor singing the blues: WHO DIPPED THESE RIBS IN MAYONNAISE
Def Leppard
3/5
The Auteurs
2/5
yet another thoroughly unremarkable album. Is the author of the book friends with these guys or something? This album wasn't bad. It just wasn't even close to "you must listen to it before you die".
Germs
4/5
what production alchemy did 70s punk bands use to make their drums sound like that
The Modern Lovers
2/5
sorry, jonathan richman's choice to sing flat and whiny doesn't work for me
Frank Sinatra
3/5
sinatra's a great natural singer, and nelson riddle's band is tight as a drum, but, like, people DO talk about how all these songs sound the same, right?
Ray Price
4/5
whew that hit my sweet spot for orchestral mid-century twang fronted by a golden voice, i am not joking
Eric Clapton
1/5
ahahaha this racist POS is so wildly overrated. just look at all the 5-star reviews for this boring soft-rock trash! amazing that people think he's a GOOD guitarist, let alone the BEST guitarist. anyone with a passing knowledge of the last 60 years in popular music would be able to name five better guitarists off the top of their head.
i'll start: that dude from Limp Bizkit who wears weird contact lenses. so much better than clapton.
in summary, fuck eric clapton and fuck all the dudes who worship him
Peter Gabriel
2/5
yet another "why is this on this list?" pick. exactly as self-indulgent as you would guess it would be, given that it's the debut by a guy who quit a prog group over clashing egos. "Excuse Me" and "Waiting For The Big One" are straight-up embarrassing. ("Solsbury Hill" is, of course, gold, and keeps this in 2-star turf.)
Bob Dylan
4/5
Pantera
2/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
i am legitimately sorry that your son died, Nick Cave. truly a terrible tragedy. there are some beautiful, ethereal and haunting moods on this album.
it's the meandering, pretentiously lyricized singing that ruins most of it for me.
Supergrass
3/5
Jeff Beck
2/5
moderately bland, another british white guy playing the blues, whatever
The Youngbloods
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
Patti Smith
4/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Björk
4/5
bjork is my tom waits? some people can't stand or don't "get" her, and i'm not sure i fully "get" her either, but I can't deny the emotional power of her music for me. she creates musical landscapes that are like impressionist paintings. brava!
The Cure
4/5
D'Angelo
4/5
Merle Haggard
3/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
GZA
4/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
50 Cent
2/5
some good production and beats from Dre, some decent lyrics, buried in an avalanche of gangsterism, homophobia and misogyny
The Prodigy
2/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
The Who
3/5
much better when not literally trying to sound like black artists
OutKast
4/5
"i don't like rap" just say you hate black ppl, we know already
Michael Jackson
3/5
phew. there are like 10/12 songs on here that i would consider formative pop hits for me. i can sing most of them from heart.
i don't know what michael jackson actually did. the things i have read and seen are damning.
i can't ever listen to michael jackson the same way.
808 State
2/5
utterly forgettable. monotonous. boring. why?
Talvin Singh
2/5
oh, you put South Asian instruments on top of your boring-ass techno. cool, i guess.
Funkadelic
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
man I got this the day before "Hotel California" and did not like that but I would file a crime report for some stolen Credence, The Dude is DOUBLE RIGHT
Eagles
2/5
bland. The Dude was right
The La's
3/5
John Prine
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Yes
3/5
Tears For Fears
4/5
Beatles
3/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Orange is way better
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
the vast majority of double albums should be single albums.
Kate Bush
3/5
Neu!
2/5
that was fine ambient whatever music until dude started screaming incoherently toward the end there
The Shamen
2/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Björk
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
i got like 521 albums to go but i'm gonna die now because this noise robbed me of my will to live
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
yeah, I didn't get laid in high school either
Caetano Veloso
3/5
3/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Gorillaz
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
CHVRCHES
2/5
so pop music with guitars?
The Style Council
2/5
i did not like this
Pere Ubu
2/5
another one i'm apparently too stupid to appreciate; I just heard this guy's very bad singing!
Barry Adamson
2/5
Orbital
3/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Ute Lemper
1/5
did you guys ever see "Loqueesha"? there's no reason you should. it's a very bad movie with a very bad premise. but, like, if you watch it (maybe because you, like me, are an appreciator of bad movies), you see that, despite having an awful script, no stars, and a terrible "actor" in the lead role ... the film still seems technically very competent. it's no Marvel movie, but it's far from "Birdemic" levels. it's well-lit, the sound is good, most of the side actors are better-than-local-theater quality. it's just inexplicable how such a terrible idea and lead performance somehow had enough money behind them to make the finished product a quality representation of the Extremely Bad Ideas that were behind the whole thing.
so yeah. this album.
I guess the main difference is that the presence of names like Nick Cave and Tom Waits mean that in my metaphor, the equivalent would be if Lars Von Trier and David Lynch got together to produce "Little Nicky."
addendum: my god, this album is so bad without this Neil Hannon guy. and then it is SO MUCH WORSE when he appears.
The Rolling Stones
2/5
sounded less culture vulture-ish than the other Stones stuff I've listened to. good job!
Traffic
2/5
pre-prog in its boring indulgence
Kanye West
2/5
The Divine Comedy
1/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Korn
2/5
singles OK, the rest pretty bad
JAY Z
2/5
If skills sold, truth be told, you'd probably be in a dustbin somewhere. solid production, weak ass rhymes.
Laibach
2/5
Tricky
3/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
David Crosby
3/5
Nina Simone
4/5
Eminem
2/5
hasn't aged well. by that, i mean it wasn't really that good twenty years ago, but i grew up.
Pink Floyd
2/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
no.
Thin Lizzy
2/5
lol this isn't even a real live album, it's a bunch of live recordings with overdubs on top. almost every live album from the 70s that is mythologized is mostly held in that esteem because the very idea of live recordings of rock 'n' roll bands was revolutionary. and they're not bad. but "you must listen before you die"? GTFO with that, boomers.
Nirvana
5/5
part of me thinks Kurt would have been absolutely miserable growing old in this world; part of me is sad that we don't get to experience the art he might have made in it.
Kings of Leon
3/5
Beck
4/5
Beck has built a great career out of creating new soundscapes out of a wide variety of influences. Good job, Beck!
The Verve
2/5
thoroughly ordinary. like Oasis, but even more middling (even the fucking album cover looks like Oasis!). yet another album that serves more as an indictment of the listmakers' tastes (SERIOUSLY, BRITISH MUSICAL OUTPUT IS NOT NEARLY AS GOOD AS YOU THINK IT IS) than of the artist in question.
Aimee Mann
3/5
The Residents
2/5
if u told me i had to listen to this before i die i would kill myself first to spite u
Sonic Youth
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Kanye West
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
DJ Shadow
2/5
honestly i love hip-hop and i'm a fan of turntablism and DJs more than most of the people I know but fuck dude, not every song needs to be punctuated by long clips of people talking
Underworld
2/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
i was there in the 80s, this record is somehow emblematic of much of the style (overuse of electronic drums, tinny slap bass, wall to wall synths) and yet not very good
Marvin Gaye
4/5
4/5
Blondie
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
i think i appreciate Frank Zappa, Legendary Weirdo and Anti-Censorship Crusader, more than I appreciate the music of Frank Zappa
Mercury Rev
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
The Only Ones
3/5
Slayer
3/5
Ash
2/5
M.I.A.
3/5
stop sayin crazy shit bout vaccines, lady
Django Django
3/5
Prefab Sprout
2/5
i'm roughly halfway through this list and I'm wondering if the rest will be like the first half:
one-third classics that are beloved by most people
one-third stuff I don't know - and may not like - but that are clearly interesting works of art
and then the third like this: garbage tripe that can only be on the list because it hit a sweet spot with the listmaker. this is THOROUGHLY ORDINARY AND BORING MUSIC. it's a genre -- oversynthed, underbaked 80s pop -- that wasn't that great to begin with, and then it's not even one of the best examples of the genre. just because you used to stare at the album cover in your childhood bedroom and wish you were cool doesn't mean this record ever was.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
yet another "White Dude Makes Shitty Music, Is Praised By Other White Dudes For It" pick
Anthrax
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
11 songs in 34 minutes. they don't make em like that any more.
SZA
4/5
all the white dudes who seem so upset that this album talks about sex should probably re-evaluate their feelings for AC/DC and aerosmith and RHCP and all the other middling bands that primarily sing about fucking
Neil Young
4/5
Ghostface Killah
3/5
The xx
2/5
Imagine Dragons but without drums
De La Soul
5/5
i can't offer a real review because listening to the whole album reminds me of just how formative a document it was. a delicious stew of weirdness and hipness that showed that while you might care about being cool, true coolness came from self-confidence. a dramatic curtain pull on a possible future for hip-hop and sampling as art forms, it instead became the victim of being so successful as Art that Commerce demanded tribute, silencing most of De La's catalog for years and then only making it available in neutered form. RIP trugoy.
New Order
2/5
def not my bag, repetitive song structures and off-key singing
Carpenters
3/5
The Darkness
3/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
The Young Rascals
1/5
"white soul" isn't a genre, it's cultural theft
Fairport Convention
2/5
more british folk blah blah blah
Big Black
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
TV On The Radio
1/5
you guys accidentally turned the treble all the way down
Elis Regina
3/5
Rush
1/5
omg while i was listening to this album the ghosts of geddy lee and ayn rand gave me sexual pleasure while whispering in my ear that i'm so much smarter than everyone around me
(adding: jesus christ, they remastered this record during THIS century and they still didn't get rid of that racist-ass riff on "A Passage To Bangkok?" it was gonna be 2 stars until that shit, fellas. go fuck yourselves with that White Foolishness.)
The Byrds
2/5
that moog raga was embarassing
Moby
1/5
take away the blues singers and it's the blandest type of starbucks music
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
4/5
i will likely never become a regular listener of Dwight's brand of country, but man he does it well. great voice, great music.
Metallica
3/5
The Clash
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
Lana Del Rey
2/5
nah
Steely Dan
4/5
stocked with bangers
Christina Aguilera
2/5
yet another double album that should have been a single album
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
good reminder that the greatest hits on that ubiquitous record came from somewhere
Pixies
4/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
k.d. lang
4/5
Van Morrison
3/5
it's a good record! too bad Van Morrison turned into an anti-science shitbag
Gang Of Four
4/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
nah
Brian Eno
3/5
if i heard this in an airport it would be a 5 for sure, relaxing and not distracting
The Beach Boys
2/5
man, I grew up with the same classic Beach Boys singles as everyone listening to their parents' music in the 80s, but now as an adult, all I hear is the overproduction that I heard on "Smile," which I got in this project before "Pet Sounds." And that overproduction - the xylophones, the timpanis, the million-part harmonies - makes me think only of the scene from "Walk Hard." "I need more didgeridoos. A thousand didgeridoos!"
Louis Prima
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Moby + more appreciation for funk. I appreciate DJs and turntablism, but this ain't it
Deep Purple
3/5
Girls Against Boys
3/5
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Can
3/5
Talk Talk
3/5
Raekwon
2/5
i always thought wu-tang was kinda overrated and this record might be the best example for me. pretty ordinary stuff both in terms of beats and rhymes.
Laura Nyro
2/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
American Music Club
3/5
Tortoise
2/5
if you listen closely, at 14:36 of "Djed," you can hear the sound of the band jerking off as they imagine music nerds pretending like this is listenable
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
The Fall
2/5
"i love music so much, my off-key singing is exactly where i want to be, and if it sounds bad to you, that's your problem, man"
Foo Fighters
4/5
Eminem
2/5
boy, eminem sure is a talented rapper.
but then I grew up, and this album - a demonstration of those copious talents, largely through misogyny, homophobia, and various violent, self-harming thoughts - went from "I used to listen to this a lot" to "oh my god, do people still listen to this?"
Soft Cell
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1/5
what kind of fucking child nominated an album with a song called "Gang Bang" for this list? trash.
Arcade Fire
2/5
Wilco
3/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Manu Chao
3/5
Liz Phair
4/5
Daft Punk
2/5
house music is boring! and this was a particularly boring example!
The Coral
2/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
The Birthday Party
2/5
Green Day
3/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
respect to Bruce. but I didn't really like this album. ok bye!
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Pulp
2/5
Madonna
3/5
Sepultura
2/5
i did not like that
The Rolling Stones
2/5
ok boomerz
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
who would have thought that the first "solo" album by one of music's most notorious egomaniacs would be this excessive? oh, wait, everyone
Spiritualized
2/5
the opening is so beautiful, and then there are at least 3 extended noise jams. fuuuuuuuuck no.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Jack White
3/5
Fugazi
3/5
Snoop Dogg
3/5
The Bees
3/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
i liked "evermore" more and i only kinda liked that one, sorry swifties, this was very generic stadium pop to me but I am also old. i loved janet jackson and liked madonna 30 years ago
Bob Dylan
4/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Slipknot
2/5
Miles Davis
3/5
I like cool Miles, I like hard bop Miles. I just can't get with electric/jazz-rock Miles. The arhythmic compositions, the discordant melodies and notes. I can go see a Jackson Pollock painting at a museum and appreciate its place in the art world, but I don't want to hang it in my home.
Paul McCartney
3/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
the "Born To Run" cover was good, but there were too many covers overall. covers belong on b-sides, not albums.
Fairport Convention
2/5
more boring British folk
PJ Harvey
4/5
Red Snapper
2/5
emblematic of 2000s techno and yet still thematically all over the place. derivative and boring.
Tim Buckley
3/5
I listened to this as a person who worships "Grace," the debut from Tim's son, Jeff - I could hear elements of the cacaphonous sound through a 60s prism, the caterwaul in his voice. Good, but not my favorite.
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Billy Joel
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
The Stooges
3/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Joni is someone who, like PJ Harvey - every time I listen to her, I'm like, "WHY am I not listening to her more?!".
Brian Eno
2/5
Venom
3/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
::repetitive beat::
::whimsical melody on top::
::spoken word::
::extra long buildup before beat drops::
no.
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
kinda dull to me, I'm not the biggest fan of Jeru
Motörhead
3/5
we all love "Ace of Spades," but I couldn't help but wonder: how many of the dudes who negged SZA for singing about her pussy think this album, with tracks like "Jailbait" (written and sung by a 35-year-old) and "The Chase Is Better Than The Catch", is a stone-cold classic?
Robert Wyatt
3/5
some interesting stuff in here, some weird noodling nonsense too
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Found the original version of this album on "In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-79, including the detuning on the title track that made me interested when I read about it. I might have been a little more dismissive based on its very simple sound had I not read about how difficult it was to even make music like this in the 70s. Well done!
The Pogues
2/5
i'm sure if i were drunk at an irish wedding, this would be wonderful
The Streets
1/5
I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS, THIS WAS FUCKING TERRIBLE AND YET CRITICS ARE FALLING ALL OVER THEMSELVES TO PRAISE IT HMMMM I WONDER IF HIM BEING A WHITE BRITISH RAPPER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HMMMMMMMMM
Kraftwerk
3/5
Serge Gainsbourg
1/5
nah
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Public Enemy
5/5
i am eager to read the reviews, who is going to attempt to shit all over this perfection? whoever you are, you're very wrong.
Abdullah Ibrahim
4/5
Al Green
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
THREE albums from Dexy's Midnight Runners on this list? No. I was there for "Come On Eileen." No. Fuck off. fuckin' Anglophile listmaker wankers.
Britney Spears
2/5
there are plenty of examples of good pop music. this isn't one of them.
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
unremarkable.
Mott The Hoople
3/5
fine, i guess?
2/5
::wanking motion::
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
The Icarus Line
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
morrissey pisses me off with his racist bullshit
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
1/5
no. no. no no no no no. the album with "Scooby Snacks" is not, in fact, worthy of any praise. fuck off.
Pink Floyd
3/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
TV On The Radio
4/5
might should listen to TVOTR more
3/5
Billie Holiday
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
3/5
Kelela
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
eh. more prog rock.
Soft Machine
2/5
doing LSD seems terrible
Syd Barrett
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
The Avalanches
2/5
Neil Young
4/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
Wilco
3/5
Dion
2/5
Sade
3/5
Jane Weaver
2/5
why is this so supposedly notable?
Hookworms
3/5
John Lennon
3/5
Sepultura
3/5
well-made but it's not for me
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
LL Cool J
3/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
Bad Company
3/5
Hot Chip
3/5
Dr. Octagon
2/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
who would have thunk that critics would inordinately love a guy who looks like he should have been a critic instead of making boring hip-hop
The Human League
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Gillian Welch
3/5
The B-52's
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
1/5
No.
Talking Heads
4/5
Roxy Music
2/5
i liked the other 2 RM albums I got from this list more
Kings of Leon
3/5
The Dictators
4/5
that was fun
Neil Young
4/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
more british mediocrity
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
bless their hearts
Adele
4/5
Television
3/5
Magazine
2/5
bowie-ish, but too much dissonance
Cee Lo Green
2/5
Kacey Musgraves
2/5
music to pick up a grand half-caf hazelnut macchiato by
The Afghan Whigs
2/5
i like "Gentleman" too but jesus christ, enough with the singers who don't really try to be on key
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
better than I expected
Justin Timberlake
2/5
Bauhaus
3/5
Le Tigre
3/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
Ryan Adams
1/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
john lydon:obnoxious arrogance::anthony kiedis::sex and wieners
Parliament
4/5
i hope they made a billion dollars off the samples
Willie Nelson
4/5
Killing Joke
3/5
Weather Report
3/5
3/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Pixies
3/5
Ministry
3/5
Carole King
3/5
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
Hawkwind
1/5
you guys know that Spinal Tap was a JOKE, right?
Chicago
3/5
David Holmes
2/5
extremely average electronic music. i like the "Ocean's Eleven" soundtrack too, but this type of music is a lot more boring without Clooney and Pitt talking over it.
Jazmine Sullivan
5/5
more WHite men angry about women of color making art about whatever the fuck they want
Nick Drake
4/5
very lovely (a bit repetitive tho)
Marvin Gaye
4/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
why am i so turned off by Franti's flow? dunno.
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
he's no jah wobble
Heaven 17
3/5
kinda pretty good for very synth-driven early 80s pop
2/5
lol trent was right, throw this one in the toilet too
Air
3/5
i like air (the natural resource) and Air (the band)
The Go-Betweens
2/5
so boring. just like The Smiths!
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
FKA twigs
2/5
jesus christ, i hated everything about the production on this record, but the percussion that sounded like a malfunctioning washing machine on "Pendulum" was by far the worst single element. she seems to have a nice voice, tho.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
CHIC
3/5
The Vines
2/5
kinda boring
The Louvin Brothers
4/5
beautiful harmonies, that song about the kid whose heart was broken because his bff/sweetheart's family next door was moving away might be the saddest thing i've ever heard
Tom Waits
3/5
wow I liked this Tom Waits more than I have liked the other Tom Waits
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Little Simz
2/5
more british rap, yawn
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Eurythmics
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Antony and the Johnsons
3/5
3/5
Spiritualized
2/5
The Cult
4/5
it's like, so many of The Cult's songs sound the same to me, but FUCK, they sound good.
Living Colour
4/5
Finley Quaye
3/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Elbow
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
jesus christ prog rock and the dudes who worship are so exhausting and boring
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
hahahaha i got this right after ELP, and the difference couldn't be much more stark. joy + art vs. musical masturbation.
Goldfrapp
2/5
like Portishead (good) with ASMR (bad)
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Gang Starr
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
X-Ray Spex
5/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
jesus christ that was annoying, I assume i would not have noticed if i were tripping balls
The Waterboys
3/5
Little Richard
5/5
The Damned
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
New York Dolls
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
M.I.A.
3/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Moby Grape
3/5
MC Solaar
3/5
Randy Newman
2/5
if you've heard one Randy Newman song, you've heard most of them
4/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Khaled
3/5
Bee Gees
1/5
the list is stacked with cruel jokes on listeners, like this one.
Deerhunter
3/5
Boards of Canada
2/5
i like a lot of chill electronica, but I did not like this!
Calexico
3/5
Public Enemy
5/5
i don't love the references to Jews in "Terrordome" or the homophobia in "Meet the G That Killed Me," but I've looked past a lot of shit for other records. this is a top-5 hip-hop album for me.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Peter Tosh
4/5
Maxwell
4/5
that's good romance music
The Everly Brothers
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
i always thought I might find Belle & Sebastian boring.
and I did!
2/5
jesus christ just because you got a blowjob while you high on mushrooms and this record was playing back in 1969 or whatever doesn't make this good or interesting music
The Velvet Underground
3/5
all i could think about while listening to this was all the smart, artsy people who think it's brilliant and also how i never really wanted to listen to it again
The Zombies
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Blue Cheer
2/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Dead Kennedys
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Mylo
2/5
lol this ain't gonna destroy anything except any interest in a second listen. repetitive and uninspired. are the listmakers intentionally choosing boring electronic music because they hate the genre?
Erykah Badu
4/5
Metallica
4/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
might have felt revolutionary at its time, but the vocal sampling now feels repetitive at best, incredibly annoying (Fatboy Slim! Fatboy Slim!) at worst
Paul Simon
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Suede
3/5
ABBA
2/5
sounds like an Andrew Lloyd Webber cast recording.
The Doors
3/5
The KLF
2/5
more boring-ass house music
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Megadeth
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
in between the cool indie rock/punk songs there were sounds like "Sentimental Journey" that made me think they actually hate their fans and were trying to punish me for listening
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
Rush
3/5
Rush's music is fine. Their fans are the problem.
Steve Winwood
2/5
10cc
1/5
annoyingly in love with its own brilliance
Fred Neil
3/5
The Cramps
4/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Suzanne Vega
2/5
The Zutons
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Mekons
3/5
Anita Baker
3/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
U2
3/5
The Police
3/5
John Grant
3/5
Emmylou Harris
4/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
3/5
Sparks
3/5
The United States Of America
1/5
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Paul Weller
3/5
The Crusaders
4/5
Janis Joplin
5/5
Nirvana
5/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Digital Underground
3/5
Prince
4/5
Devendra Banhart
2/5
that was so twee that my hoodie turned into a cardigan while i listened
Gotan Project
3/5
Simply Red
3/5
David Ackles
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Drive Like Jehu
3/5
Adele
3/5
Hole
4/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Scott Walker
2/5
like a parody of obnoxious 60s singer-songwriters
Madonna
3/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
2/5
Doves
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
1/5
take culture vultures like this off the list
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Butthole Surfers
2/5
all downhill after “SATAN SATAN SATAN”
2/5
Slipknot
2/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
The Thrills
2/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Tina Turner
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Giant Sand
2/5
Black Flag
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
at one point she sings “I don’t know the words doo doo doo doo” and it doesn’t matter because her voice is so magical.
Lightning Bolt
4/5
Van Morrison
1/5
King Crimson
3/5
Gary Numan
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Madness
2/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Obviously less foundational for me than for others
The Gun Club
2/5
yet another dude who seems to think that actually trying to sing, with pitch and tone, is below him.
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
The Associates
2/5
KISS
2/5
Eels
4/5