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Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

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1950

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Latin

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164

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	5	1.89	+3.11
Scum Napalm Death	5	2.08	+2.92
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	5	2.26	+2.74
The Modern Dance Pere Ubu	5	2.48	+2.52
Duck Rock Malcolm McLaren	5	2.62	+2.38
Shalimar Rahul Dev Burman	5	2.64	+2.36
Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors	5	2.69	+2.31
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	5	2.69	+2.31
90 808 State	5	2.69	+2.31
Space Ritual Hawkwind	5	2.7	+2.3

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Is This It The Strokes	1	3.81	-2.81
Hot Fuss The Killers	1	3.73	-2.73
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.45	-2.45
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.4	-2.4
Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	2	4.33	-2.33
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.32	-2.32
Celebrity Skin Hole	1	3.31	-2.31
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	1	3.29	-2.29
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	1	3.27	-2.27
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.27	-2.27

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Artist	Albums	Average
Miles Davis	4	4.75
Pink Floyd	4	4.75
Jimi Hendrix	3	5
Peter Gabriel	3	5
Bruce Springsteen	5	4.4
Stevie Wonder	4	4.5
Prince	3	4.67
Beck	3	4.67
The Beach Boys	3	4.67
Stan Getz	2	5
Fela Kuti	2	5
Van Halen	2	5
Jane's Addiction	2	5
Def Leppard	2	5
Björk	4	4.25
Yes	3	4.33
My Bloody Valentine	3	4.33
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	3	4.33
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.33
Tom Waits	5	4

Least Favorites

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Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	3	1.33
Eminem	2	1
Ryan Adams	2	1
Slipknot	2	1.5
The Verve	2	1.5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	1.5
Pavement	2	1.5
Christina Aguilera	2	1.5
Kings of Leon	3	2

Controversial

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Artist	Ratings
Belle & Sebastian	4, 1
Megadeth	1, 4
Ice Cube	4, 1
M.I.A.	1, 4

5-Star Albums (164)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

Popular Reviews

this album is everything that punk pretends to be.

You have two choices. Either: - recognize that this is one of the greatest albums of all time - be a contrarian twatwaffle So what if Roger Waters decided to be Putin's cabana boy in later life? So what if he released a bullshit de-Gilmourized crummy watered-down (heh) remake? Dark Side of the Moon, as released in 1973, is a flawless, timeless album. If I only get to pick one record to bring to your deserted island... to be honest, I'm picking Bitches Brew but this would be a close 2nd choice.

This is one of the most versatile albums of all time. You want a great record to listen to with your full attention, eyes closed with $3000 headphones on? Kind of Blue! You want a record playing in the background while you work door at a dinner party? Kind of Blue! Coffee bar? Kind of Blue! End of the evening on a date and you're sitting on the couch and you want the perfect soundtrack while make your big move? That's right, Kind of Blue!

This album is testament to the genius of Sir George Martin. You know how when folks in the UK want to honor someone the knight them and call them "sir"? In the USA we should honor them by adding the middle name F-ing. This guy right here would be Sir George F-ing Martin.

"Cause the same people that tried to blackball me Forgot about two things, my Black balls" - from Gorgeous Yeah well I never tried to blackball Ye, and yet here I am, having totally forgotten about his black balls. And I look forward to forgetting them again.

1-Star Albums (37)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings (1089)

This is an album that I didn't appreciate in the 80s, but wow now I get the hype. what a solid pop record. it's trite to say, but every modern pop producer owes a debt to what Prince put together for this album.

solid light funky disco soul

Pure rock. it's like extract of rock. So much rock.

whoo-hoo. whoo. hoo.

I've never understood why people refer to The Who as a psychedelic rock band, (I've more thought of them as kind of bland 70s rock) but Sell Out is a psychedelic masterpiece. This fits in alongside Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Sgt Pepper.

This is a perfect album. Lots of variety but no throwaway tracks.

It's interesting to hear the Kinks do psychedelic stuff, lots of Beatles & late Beach Boys influences on this record.

Love it. I'm not a huge C&W fan but great songwriting is great songwriting.

I mean... considering some of the, uh, "presents" Phil Spector gave to folks, I'm happy with this. Seriously though this is a great record, in heavy rotation in our house during the holidays.

This one surprised me, I've always kinda been "meh" and ignored CSN but wow. The songwriting and production on this is so on point

Wu. Wu peed on your rug.

Try it, you'll like it!

I was very surprised at what a solid record this one.

There is literally nothing I can say about this album that hasn't already been said.

Sony/Epic were smart to sign RaTM, it was the perfect act of controlled opposition. Frat boys and other privileged heirs of the machine enthusiastically embrace RaTM because they know the lyrics won't actually bring about change. In context, this album can only be considered a patronizing capitalist insult to those who are getting ground up by "the machine". That said, this shit rocks.

Indian Trip-hop, this is pretty goddam fantastic

Left my wallet in El Segundo!

"Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass"... I just... c'mon man

it's called bass, guys.

sorry to hear about your dad, Rog

This is a very good album, the story of how they dicked Linden Hudson really kind of sours it.

great album, but not quite Nagelbett

"how do you do fellow kids?"

FFS, what music industry exec did Ryan Adams blow to get this massively generic tripe hyped so much? Oh and another thing - if my name was Steven Miller, and I formed a rock band called The Steven Miller Band, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't act like a little bitch every time someone yelled out for "Space Cowboy".

The bass playing on this is just so flawless. JPJ completely makes this record.

sometimes the dude from Crash Test Dummies just doesn't go low enough. For moments like that, we have this fine album.

This was a surprise, what a great album!

why would you put the verve on this list. Jesus Christ they put every cough and sneeze from every throwaway britpop band from the 90s on this list. It was fine but ffs the britpop thing was kind of like the swing revival that lasted about 6 months in 98. Get over it already.

Da Capo means da top-o. Not really my thing but it wasn't terrible.

The first time I listened to this I was riding in the front passenger seat on a road trip, tripping balls on mushrooms. It is, to date, one of my all-time favorite records.

The title cut is the Pachelbel's Canon of classic rock. Some people love it, some people hate it, but it's got this freaking endless cyclical progression that never ends, ultimately causing the listener madness as it repeats infinitely in the background of the brain. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave, indeed. There is some really good songwriting and performance on this record, there's a good reason it is somewhat legendary, above and beyond the aforementioned madness thing.

If I had to choose only one record to listen to for the rest of my life, this would be it.

I am utterly, totally shocked at how much I like this record. Didn't think it was going to be my thing but wow.

This is a great album; you can hear how Jean-Claude Desmarty has inspired producers like Nigel Godrich (check out "Paper Tiger" by Beck to hear what I'm talking about).

I'm shocked at how good this album is, it covers a lot of territory and is a satisfying journey. I had no idea; the only song I'd heard before was "Relax" which, by the way, mashes up really well with Rammstein's "Du Hast". If you're the kind of person who likes every song on the album to be similar then skip this, you won't like it. Also, you're lame. Go back to the safe playlist bubbles of Spotify or whatever.

The thing people don't realize about this record is just how revolutionary it was at the time it came out. For all of the knockoffs and wannabes in the later 80s, this album was a significant nexus between pop and hard rock. The history of the production of this album is also fascinating, with Templeman and Roth working in a WB studio, while Eddie the Van et al were working in EVH's home studio, which he built b/c he was so pissed about how many covers they forced him to do on Diver Down. Also, if you listen to that quiet little melodic line at the end of Jump (c-b-c-a c-b-c-g c-b-c-c), you'll hear what would eventually become Top of the World.

look if you can't get laid when you put on "Sign My Name" on the stereo then man you just can't get laid.

Never heard of this one, solid songwriting.

I can't stop laughing, this shit is so ridiculous. Not to be taken seriously under any circumstances.

*I Do Not Want What I Do Not Have

I'd like to hear Weird Al do a cover of Spray Paint, it's pretty much a polka already.

get a load of Muzz' bass line on Open Letter to a Landlord

this album is everything that punk pretends to be.

My grampa listened to this record a ton right after my dad was born in 1989. My dad listened to this a lot right after I was born in 2002. I'm about to have my first kid in about 6 months; you better believe I'm going to be rocking out to this shit the first few days after he's born. Thanks gramps, this is a killer record. And in our family, it's the daddiest of dadrock albums.

OK -- you've made your move on the couch, Miles Davis Kind of Blue has just played out but she's just getting warmed up, so what now? You gonna say "excuse me for just a second, don't go anywhere", go put on this record, and resume the snogging.

Not the feel-good album of the year, but a great album anyway. For those of you old enough to remember, this album came out in 2002, about a year after the Saudis orchestrated 9/11 and we were all still pretty shell-shocked from that shit. So this big-ass bummer of an album was kind of exactly the thing we needed. Also, the bass line on Paper Tiger is pure perfection.

Surprising album, never heard of this. You can hear an influence on Nigel Godrich's production style, especially on Beck's "Sea Change"

This was better than I thought it would be.

Female Lives Matter. Fuck you, Ice Cube.

is it pronounced "portis head" or "porti-shed"?

Piece of My Heart is pretty much interchangeable with La Bamba, Wild Thing or Twist And Shout. And maybe Magic by the Cars.

tbh I can't rate this higher b/c I know some of the musicians and industry people that have worked with her professionally and, well, they say she's "difficult". It's not a bad record, but I can't listen to it for the same reason I have a hard time listening to Buddy Rich records.

This is one of the few times when it's really worthwhile to pick up the remastered version instead of the OG release.

This is a solid record; good songwriting and solid performances. Not life-changing per se but I can't help but wonder if the hate is from Gen X'ers who, upon listening to this album in 2004, realized that they were in their 30s now and that their youth was behind them. So the bile might be more of an association thing as opposed to a problem with the album itself.

criminally underrated album

This is a great pop album. Haters are missing out; to them I'd say let go of your ego, listen without thinking about what you're going to say about the album later, just experience it now, in the moment.

I'm just gonna say Tony F. Levin.

I believe in a thing called lunch.

It took me way too long to figure out that the woman in the background of the cover image had her feet up on the railing and wasn't just missing a leg or two.

I've never bought into the "Cobain was the voice of a generation" crap. This surprisingly intimate, honest live album is so much more than just KC, especially viewed in context of the greater music industry. Much of the major label music released after 1993 is extremely overproduced and polished; even stuff that was supposed to be raw and edgy is now sterile and safe. Those of us old enough remember that MTV itself went to shit starting in the mid-90s, moving away from music to TV and "reality" shows. So it's not unreasonable to regard this album (and the live event it captured) as a funeral for rock.

very good record - I had a hard time with the vocals. Bryan Ferry's voice is kind of a slightly less aggressive Jello Biafra. If that super quick heavy vibrato is your thing then you'll absolutely love this record. Still tho - there's an awful lot to enjoy here. The Bogus Man was what bumped this up to 4 stars in my book; it's a cool track.

This is a solid, solid pop record. Great songwriting & production. Out of curiosity, I went and listened to the "Taylor's Version" re-recording of this and it's even better. This is one of a few 1k1 albums that has completely surprised me in a positive way; I never would have thought to give this album the time of day but am very glad I did.

That vibrato tho.

I can't believe this needs to be said, but "this isn't on Spotify" isn't remotely a legitimate criticism of an album. Spotify is a cancer on music (even more so than the rest of the industry) and is for soccer moms and other "I like to have something on in the background" casuals. If you have such limited resources that your only place to listen to music is Spotify and YouTube ("o noes, there are ads, whatever will I do!??"), that's your problem. In fact, reviews that mention Spotify should be discarded outright. If that includes this review, then fine. OK now that we've gotten that out of the way, this is not a bad album. I'd never heard of it before; while it didn't really grab me, the songwriting is solid and it does anticipate, by a few years, one of the dominating radio sounds of the early 90s.

This is a great album; the fact that this list doesn't contain much if any Ornette Coleman isn't Zorn's fault, and doesn't make this a worse album. It's a solid, great album.

I got more out of this one than Blue; this is my favorite Joni Mitchell record.

This is a very good record. Makes me want to break shit, which is what a good thrash record should do. Though Dave Mustaine frequently chooses to act like an complete asshole, we must separate the art from the artist. And to be fair -- if I dropped a banger of an album like this and everyone said "meh" because Master of Puppets had just dropped a few months before, I'd have a pretty big chip on my shoulder too. Sorry you got mogged by your former band, Dave.

I was tempted to make the obvious "music for them asses" joke but it really is a good record.

This is the perfect 80s pop-rock record. No throwaway tracks, no filler. Just wall to wall bangers and flawless production.

Is Tang the same as fresh orange juice? no. There's no need to compare them, they're two completely different experiences. One is natural juice, the other is a manufactured artificially-flavored sweet treat. Sometimes I want to drink a nice glass of fresh orange juice, other times Tang is just the thang. If I want fresh orange juice, I'll pop in Sharon Jones, Roberta Flack, Aretha. If I want Tang, I'll pop in Beyoncé, Rihanna or maybe Janelle Monáe. People whining about how this record is "made by committee / artificial / manufactured" are just bitching about how Tang isn't orange juice. Nobody said it was.

I never heard of this until it popped up yesterday. I love this record, and can't even begin to explain why I do.

another surprise; I'm really not into country but the songwriting on this is top shelf.