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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
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5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
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This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
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5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
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Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
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5 | 2.9 | +2.1 |
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The Only Ones
The Only Ones
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5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
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Spiderland
Slint
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5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
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5 | 3 | +2 |
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
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5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
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Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
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5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
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Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
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5 | 3.03 | +1.97 |
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Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Bad
Michael Jackson
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1 | 3.81 | -2.81 |
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Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
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1 | 3.78 | -2.78 |
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
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1 | 3.73 | -2.73 |
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Moondance
Van Morrison
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1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
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1 | 3.68 | -2.68 |
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The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
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1 | 3.66 | -2.66 |
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
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1 | 3.64 | -2.64 |
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Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
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1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
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1 | 3.6 | -2.6 |
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Hotel California
Eagles
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1 | 3.6 | -2.6 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Nirvana | 3 | 5 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.67 |
| Pavement | 2 | 5 |
| Wilco | 2 | 5 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 4.33 |
| Pixies | 3 | 4.33 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Van Morrison | 3 | 1 |
| Tim Buckley | 3 | 1.33 |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 1.33 |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 1.33 |
| The Divine Comedy | 2 | 1 |
| Eminem | 2 | 1 |
| Eagles | 2 | 1 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 5 | 1.8 |
| The Smiths | 3 | 1.67 |
| Aerosmith | 3 | 1.67 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 1.67 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 5 | 2 |
| LCD Soundsystem | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Verve | 2 | 1.5 |
| Dusty Springfield | 2 | 1.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers | 2 | 1.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2 | 1.5 |
| Oasis | 2 | 1.5 |
| Emmylou Harris | 2 | 1.5 |
| Coldplay | 2 | 1.5 |
| Hole | 2 | 1.5 |
| The xx | 2 | 1.5 |
| Doves | 2 | 1.5 |
| Slipknot | 2 | 1.5 |
| Orbital | 2 | 1.5 |
| Everything But The Girl | 2 | 1.5 |
| George Michael | 2 | 1.5 |
| Christina Aguilera | 2 | 1.5 |
| U2 | 4 | 2 |
| Morrissey | 4 | 2 |
| The Byrds | 5 | 2.2 |
| Elvis Presley | 3 | 2 |
| Madonna | 3 | 2 |
| Frank Sinatra | 3 | 2 |
| Queen | 3 | 2 |
| Kings of Leon | 3 | 2 |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 3 | 2 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 4 | 2.25 |
| Joni Mitchell | 4 | 2.25 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Funkadelic | 2, 5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 1, 4 |
| Beck | 2, 4, 5 |
| Björk | 4, 4, 3, 1 |
| Metallica | 2, 4, 3, 1 |
5-Star Albums (51)
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Doves
1/5
701 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die...Plus 300 Assorted British Albums
71 likes
The Sabres Of Paradise
1/5
The dancehall is haunted by the ghosts of those who died of boredom listening to this.
11 likes
The 13th Floor Elevators
1/5
The electric jug is an awful, horrible, terrible, evil "instrument".
11 likes
Linkin Park
1/5
"I cannot take this anymore." You and me both, buddy. Something about the guitar and vocal tones of this is physically exhausting.
5 likes
Derek & The Dominos
1/5
The cover of Little Wing is unlistenable, especially the grating refrain they added. I never want to hear this album again.
5 likes
1-Star Albums (93)
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The White Stripes
3/5
Wow, I used to *really* like this one but upon relistening for the first time in a decade+, it's just okay. I still dig Hotel Yorba and Fell in Love with a Girl.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Love his voice but doubt I will listen to this again.
Santana
3/5
The Smiths
2/5
meh
Machito
3/5
John Coltrane
4/5
Kate Bush
2/5
The Crusaders
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
1/5
Holy crap this is repetitive and every song is too long. So many of the sounds are annoying AF.
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Faith No More
1/5
Whoa, ick. Did not enjoy this at all. And somehow it got a combo of Epic and Tom Sawyer stuck in my head and that's just awful as you'd think.
Sigur Rós
3/5
not really a fan of the vocals but I like the rest alright
Sebadoh
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Animal Collective
5/5
Fred Neil
2/5
the left/right separation of instruments made this an uncomfortable headphone listen
The Mamas & The Papas
2/5
California Dreamin' is great but all of the covers are pretty bad, especially 'I Call Your Name'.
2/5
Not my thing but I can see some people loving this one. I liked '4 Ever 2 Gether'.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
Well that was a wild flashback to a cassette I got for my 11th birthday. Haven't listened much since then, but this is solid '80s rock.
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Q-Tip
3/5
The Verve
1/5
Terribly boring.
Neil Young
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Arctic Monkeys
1/5
Mildly annoying shout-singing stop-start songs that all sound the same.
Fever Ray
2/5
The Avalanches
4/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Alice In Chains
2/5
57 minutes and all kinda the same. It was okay.
The Who
5/5
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. I get a lot of the same feelings from this that I had as a child at our evangelical Christian church (I'm an atheist now). I thought those feelings of joy, excitement, and wonder came from God and Jesus but it was really the music and stories. What a wild story Tommy is and the music is fucking great---love those instrumental tracks.
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
I was a big Beatles fan as a teen but wouldn't have bought this album for $2 at Half-price Books back then. I'm really wondering if trying to listen to all 1,078 albums here is largely a waste of my time because this is yet another 2 (I use the Goodreads scale: 1=didn't like it, 2=it was OK, 3=liked it, 4=really liked it, 5=it was amazing.) How can something so pedestrian be a 'must hear' album?
John Martyn
2/5
Wire
5/5
So very good. I love the story of when Wire resumed touring in '87 after many years off. The opening band covered Pink Flag in its entirety so Wire didn't have to revisit their old sound.
https://gojohnnygojohnny.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/the-ex-lion-tamers-wire-the-amazing-story-via-cassette/
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Liked this more than I thought I would. Starts out bleh but gets better. I can hear a lot of similarities to slacker stuff I listened to in college so I wonder why I never bothered with this group. Probably won't listen again, so no real loss I guess, ha.
Raekwon
1/5
70 minutes of boredom. The beats and background samples are numbingly repetitive and snooze inducing.
Dusty Springfield
2/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Did it help that I listened to this on a wet, overcast day? Probably.
Robbie Williams
1/5
Easier to take if you pretend you are Tina Belcher but I did not like this. Laughably bad lyrics; "I hope I live to see the day the Pope gets high" made me snort.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Feels so familiar even though I'm sure I've only listened to the whole album a few times---probably heard the singles a million times on the radio in the '80s. Love those synthesizers. Fuck Reagan.
Nick Drake
3/5
A very pleasant listen.
Peter Tosh
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
The Smiths
2/5
meh
Steely Dan
2/5
This feels like a dentist office in 1983. Steely Dan is so weird to me---like, this was nominated for album of the year? Really? /shrug
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
Oh boy, another 2. (2 = It was okay)
Eurythmics
4/5
Synthesizers, yeahhhh. Maybe a Gen X thing, but the video-gamey sounds in 'Love is a Stranger' and 'I Could Give You' are THE BEST. The subway noises in 'This City Never Sleeps' are very pleasing. I always loved the single Sweet Dreams and I'm glad it fits into the rest of the album well. Love Lennox's voice, especially when she does her own backing vocal.
Van Morrison
1/5
This may be #19 on Rolling Stones' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, but I haaaaaate it. Van's voice is all over the place and the instruments sound equally haphazard; every musician seems to be in their own little world. The harpsichord on 'Cyprus Avenue' is insufferable, partly because the song is 67 minutes long. Oh, holy shit, 'Madame George' is even longer. Really not looking forward to when his other two albums pop up after this miserable mess.
Megadeth
2/5
Okay. Worst part is easily the vocals but I seldom like metal vocals.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1/5
I like to think that this band is actually an extremely elaborate joke.
Deep Purple
4/5
Been a while since I listened to a studio album but it sure seems like they're better live. That was fun.
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Prince
5/5
WOW---was expecting this to be a 2 based on the radio hits I remember from middle school. Prince always made me feel weird and icky back then but I think that was the damn evangelical hometown distain of Prince. Favorite track: Lady Cab Driver.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
Not terrible, but not terribly interesting. 65% riffing on 'Who Do You Love' and 35% noodling guitar.
Elvis Presley
2/5
Another album with annoyingly extreme left/right separation of instruments.
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Her voice is way too high for me to enjoy this. It's uncomfortable to listen to.
Gorillaz
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
Loved H2Ogate Blues.
3/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Funkadelic
2/5
The Pogues
4/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Oasis
1/5
Exhaustively boring. I don't know if it's the mixing or compression or what but I felt like I was like listening to this on a rotary phone. Blech.
Dizzee Rascal
2/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Meh, I prefer his dad. I hated "Old Whore's Diet" but it sounds like he's saying Old *Horse* Diet so that's kinda funny.
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
This is okay. 'In A Space Outta Sound' should be on this list instead.
Stan Getz
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Much better than Blood and Chocolate.
Merle Haggard
2/5
The Cure
2/5
Fiona Apple
2/5
Van Halen
4/5
Listened for the first time earlier this year and it was a 3. With that added familiarity, this time was a 4.
The Temptations
3/5
The Kinks
5/5
Listened to this one twice---mono first then stereo and really liked it both times. I think I like the mono mix better but the stereo version is better quality sound. I previously avoided The Kinks b/c of only having access to deluxe/super deluxe/expanded versions; makes for annoying last.fm scrobbles and I don't like having to look up what the original album included and then have save a playlist to avoid the extra, unneeded tracks later. Anyway, I really liked People Take Pictures of Each Other and Big Sky, which has been in my head all weekend. I think I like this as much as my previous favorite Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies.
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Sometimes the jaw harp is super annoying but damn this is good.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
2/5
Dusty Springfield
1/5
Dusty's Karaoke Album. Seriously, these are all covers and they're not particularly good ones. What makes this a must hear? Her voice is not as great as people seem to think and the string additions are awful.
The Doors
4/5
I was moderately obsessed with The Doors and JM for a while in high school. I wrote "I am the lizard king I can do anything" in sharpie on my track spikes for inspiration. It feels weird that Morrison still seems older than me even though I'm now almost twice the age he was at death.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
Boston
3/5
Daft Punk
3/5
Songs are often too long and many repetitive beats and sounds grate. If you're gonna put a Daft Punk album on a list like this, it should be Discovery.
The Afghan Whigs
1/5
I've listened to this like 3 times now after never getting around to it in high school and I still don't like it. I hated his voice less than previous listens but this album just makes me feel shitty. It's like the House of Cards of albums---interesting at times but ultimately gross and not worth it.
Soundgarden
4/5
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Stereolab
5/5
Superb
SZA
2/5
AC/DC
3/5
...second best-selling album in music history? I think I've been surprised by that before. Kinda simplistic but fun and I've heard these all a million times but man, those drum beats are boring AF.
Pearl Jam
3/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Wow, was not expecting to enjoy that. *sugar*
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
OutKast
2/5
Pavement
5/5
Bought this LP after I was denied getting into a bar to see Yo La Tengo. Loved it. Was later denied getting into a bar to see Pavement. Effing Puritanical laws denied me many good shows as a teen. 5-4 = Unity is super fab.
Radiohead
5/5
Elton John
2/5
I like the chorus to Tiny Dancer and that's about it.
Erykah Badu
2/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Elton John
2/5
Air
4/5
Unexpectedly good (after not liking Moon Safari as much as I remembered). Might have to see this movie now.
Roxy Music
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Aerosmith
1/5
Gross
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Lightning Bolt
2/5
The Fall
5/5
I know few of The Fall's albums but this is fantastic. Looking forward to wading through their other 31 albums for anything approaching TNSG. I love the sequence of 'My New House', 'Paintwork', 'Damo Suzuki', and 'To Nk'.
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Thin Lizzy
2/5
Beck
2/5
Good grief they picked the most boring Beck album. Almost nothing musically interesting and almost all the songs sound the same. This is far inferior to my favorite Beck: One Foot in the Grave (the deluxe version has the better version of It's All in Your Mind).
The Smashing Pumpkins
1/5
Wow, I forgot how much I hate this. I really liked Gish and Siamese Dream when they came out but this album ruined the band for me. A few songs in I thought if they'd done this as thrash/black metal with distorted vocals it could totally work. Somewhere in disc 2 I had to start hitting 'next' after half a song and even that was tough to get through.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Devendra Banhart
1/5
Annoying, repetitive riffs and vocals. His voice is not fun to listen to. Bleh.
Johnny Cash
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
The La's
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Was not looking forward to this but liked it a lot more than I remembered.
Paul Weller
1/5
128th album and this is the first one I bailed on halfway through. I can't take the shitty lyrics and how songs feel like they'd be at home in a non-denominational suburban Christian mega church. Barf.
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Kid Rock
1/5
"Got more game than Coleco"....well, they went bankrupt so that's not saying a lot.
Lauryn Hill
2/5
The Go-Betweens
3/5
Hookworms
3/5
Travis
2/5
Sometimes thought it was okay, sometimes hated it.
Dead Kennedys
4/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
'Dirty, Dirty Feeling' oof
Nico
2/5
This was okay but Nico is right: the flute ruins it.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Madonna
2/5
Has some good bits but songs are too long and ultimately pretty boring.
Portishead
5/5
Absolutely love this album.
The The
3/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
Meat Loaf
1/5
I don't understand why this is/was so popular.
Emmylou Harris
2/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Cee Lo Green
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
John Grant
1/5
Richard Hawley
2/5
Michael Jackson
1/5
New York Dolls
4/5
OutKast
4/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Neneh Cherry
2/5
David Gray
1/5
Grateful Dead
5/5
Grateful Dead were an acquired taste for me, but I love this album so much now.
Beatles
4/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Good background music for working. Reminded me a bit of Acetone and Luna.
Bad Company
2/5
Yet another album that is *not* one you must hear. Seagull is a fucking terrible song.
Soft Cell
1/5
Awful.
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
Sounds alright until you know what it's about and then it's creepy and gross.
Talking Heads
3/5
Dolly Parton
2/5
She's a wonderful human being but I do not like her voice.
Baaba Maal
2/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Emmylou Harris
1/5
Bleh.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Good, but I really prefer Damn the Torpedoes.
FKA twigs
2/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Justice
4/5
KISS
2/5
This is pretty tame---people thought they were wild satanists?
R.E.M.
3/5
N.W.A.
3/5
ZZ Top
4/5
Britney Spears
2/5
Didn't completely hate it! Vocal effects are a little ick.
The Only Ones
5/5
Very surprised I've never listened to this before. Reminds me of the Undertones, Buzzcocks, a little Television. Never knew The Whole of the Law was not a Yo La Tengo original (and I like the YLT version better).
Gary Numan
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Some really annoying bits in here like the high pitched whine towards the middle of Rockafeller Skank and the repetitive lyrics of In Heaven but the rest is so good.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
I knew the US & UK versions had different covers but was surprised to learn they had some different tracks and track ordering. Never occurred to me in 30 years of listening to AYE despite knowing Beatles albums did this. So, today I listened to the original North America track order and afterwards the original UK order. Unsurprisingly I prefer the NA order. Purple Haze and The Wind Cries Mary in the NA version are vastly superior to Can You See Me and Remember in the UK version. North American version is a 5 and one of my favorites of all time; UK version is a 4.5 and rounds to a 5. Third Stone From The Sun is possibly my favorite song of all time.
The Byrds
3/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Incubus
1/5
Dire Straits
3/5
I always thought Money for Nothing was the coolest song---that guitar tone is so great. I don't think I'd ever heard the full version with the 'faggot' verse. The keyboards in Walk of Life are great but once the album hits the unrestrained saxophone in Your Latest Trick it really drops off.
Ray Charles
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
Always meant to get around this this one and was surprised to not hate it or find it that much of a challenge---must have heard enough music inspired by it over the years that it doesn't seem that crazy. I really like Double Nickels on the Dime by Minutemen and today realized that Trout Mask Replica was likely a huge influence.
Wild Beasts
1/5
Icky vocals.
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
Boring country pop with lazy lyrics.
Talvin Singh
2/5
meh
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
The Smiths
1/5
Every song sounds the same and I don't like Morrissey's voice or manner of singing. 3rd Smiths album I got and there's also 3 Morrissey albums on this list? Ugh. Might be time to switch to Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Janet Jackson
3/5
Michael Jackson
1/5
Manic Street Preachers
1/5
bleh
Supergrass
2/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Peter Frampton
3/5
Interesting to finally listen to this ubiquitous LP from my used record buying days. I was sometimes tempted to pick it up b/c it was always cheap and I thought the talkbox was cool (I think Baby I Love Your Way persuaded me not to?). Not great but not completely terrible.
Steely Dan
2/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
The Byrds
2/5
5 albums on the list? Sheesh.
Bee Gees
3/5
Throbbing Gristle
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
was a 4 until I got to No Sympathy (hated the lyrics) and Juxtapozed with U (hated the autotune). Cut off the last 5 tracks and it's a good EP.
Ice Cube
3/5
The Doors
4/5
The Prodigy
2/5
Used to really like this but now it seems overly repetitive and too long.
Screaming Trees
3/5
Carpenters
2/5
No surprise this got dropped from the RS 500.
The Dictators
4/5
Somewhere between The Stooges and Ramones. Not the most amazing punk album ever but apparently one of the earliest? I listened twice and saved it to my collection.
Happy Mondays
2/5
meh
Patti Smith
4/5
Love
2/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Al Green
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
1/5
The electric jug is an awful, horrible, terrible, evil "instrument".
Randy Newman
2/5
5/5
My favorite PJ Harvey album. I heard a lot of PJH in Patti Smith's Horses when it came up in the generator earlier this week.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Neu!
3/5
Finley Quaye
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
D'Angelo
2/5
Liz Phair
5/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Germs
3/5
Le Tigre
5/5
One of my all-time favorites. Kathleen Hanna is a national treasure.
The Undertones
4/5
The Shamen
2/5
Blur
3/5
Stereo MC's
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
2/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Early Pink Floyd seems to have a similar sense of humor to early Kinks, which I like, but this isn't an album I'll listen to often. I like that there's a song about Barrett's cat (Lucifer Sam) and I'm saving that one.
Coldplay
1/5
Boring, samey, and forgettable (thank goodness).
Pink Floyd
3/5
Faust
3/5
If the whole album was like track 1, this would be a 5.
CHIC
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
MGMT
1/5
Miriam Makeba
2/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
The Everly Brothers
2/5
The Clash
4/5
I love The Clash but realized that 60% of my scrobbles are from London Calling. This one never stuck with me as much. At some point the UK version became the default used by streaming services and that kinda threw me; I liked Clash City Rockers, I Fought the Law, and (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais more than the songs they replaced.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
I like 'Just Like Honey' a lot, but this album is too echoey.
Supergrass
3/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Venom
3/5
Not bad but drums are mostly boring. Recording seems like it could use a clean up.
Dolly Parton
2/5
Burning Spear
3/5
The United States Of America
2/5
Terrible name for a band.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
The Divine Comedy
1/5
Baaba Maal
4/5
I didn't really care for the other Baaba Maal album; maybe Mansour Seck was key to this one. Tracks 10-12 didn't seem to fit or be as good but I may have only thought that b/c I knew they weren't on the original album.
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
Shack
2/5
Dr. John
3/5
Gang Starr
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Jazmine Sullivan
2/5
Method Man
2/5
Femi Kuti
2/5
Donovan
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
2/5
Kanye West
1/5
Aimee Mann
2/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Yes
2/5
Moby
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
The Slits
4/5
Dion
1/5
Absolute snoozer.
The Clash
5/5
One of the best albums of all time and the best cassette I ever stole from my brother. This album never fails to make me feel good. Oh the days of blasting it from the stereo of my '79 VW beetle with the top down...
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Wow, this was pretty great. I'm putting it on my 'albums to do puzzles to' list. Since I listened on 14 December, this will probably always feel like a Christmas album.
Hole
1/5
Did not enjoy.
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Not sure which I like less, the banging piano notes or the shrill sax.
Tracy Chapman
2/5
Public Enemy
3/5
The xx
2/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Gonna come back to this one, seems like a grower (maybe becomes a 4 after another listen or two). I like the Iggy Bowie sound and 'Fall In Love With Me' has some Lou Reed vibes.
Missy Elliott
2/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
The Birthday Party
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Johnny Cash
2/5
Various Artists
3/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Movin' Out and Only the Good Die Young are good but Just the Way You Are is oof.
The Stooges
4/5
Listened to Bowie mix, Iggy mix, Rough Power, then Bowie again. Rough Power sounds better to me than the released Iggy mix and ultimately I think I prefer the Bowie mix---basically went through what Ron Asheton said about the original Bowie mix, ha! (see Wikipedia).
Cornershop
3/5
Sheryl Crow
2/5
All I Wanna Do sounded better on the radio in the 90s than it did this time around.
Jurassic 5
4/5
Great but fuck the homophobic bullshit track One of Them.
Cheap Trick
2/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Started out decent but I was bored by the 30 minute mark. Glad the label clipped the last 5 songs b/c this is already too long.
Pulp
2/5
Getting pretty bored wit all dis Britpop
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Duran Duran
2/5
Dennis Wilson
4/5
This was a nice surprise. I listened twice b/c it's short and will have to revisit the deluxe+Bambu version later. Appreciated the Steely Dan-ish dad rock vibe after having hit a bunch of their albums on this list already. I'm not one who pays attention to lyrics and I think that helps this album out.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Ananda Shankar
4/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
2/5
Ramones
5/5
One of the greats. I love it but it feels slow once you're used to their blistering fast live pace (see It's Alive and Loco Live).
Tim Buckley
1/5
loathsome
The Damned
3/5
The Black Crowes
2/5
Unremarkable
David Bowie
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Zeppelin sounds better to me on vinyl, so I use this while streaming albums: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/dustyScratchedVinylNoiseGenerator.php
Derek & The Dominos
1/5
The cover of Little Wing is unlistenable, especially the grating refrain they added. I never want to hear this album again.
The Adverts
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
This is going in my 'albums for working' stack.
Billy Bragg
3/5
Wilco
5/5
Always a joy and always a bit sad. My favorite listen was when Wilco played it front to back as an encore at Solid Sound in 2017.
Bobby Womack
2/5
The Replacements
4/5
I'll take this Let It Be over that other Let It Be.
Jethro Tull
3/5
I really dig the Black Sabbath + flute tracks (some great riffs there) but don't care for the others. If you dig JT's riffs, check out JEFF the Brotherhood. I especially like the JtB album 'Hypnotic Nights'; one track from 'Wasted on the Dream' features JT's Ian Anderson on flute ('Black Cherry Pie').
The Byrds
1/5
Unremarkable
Ozomatli
2/5
Doves
1/5
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King Crimson
1/5
I didn't hate it as much as the last time I listened. The cover is an approximation of the face I'd make when someone suggests I listen again. Annoying flute, sax, and guitar noodling; nightmarish.
The Jam
2/5
4/5
Chicago
4/5
Surprisingly good.
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Wilco
5/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Hearing Prince in this. Dig it.
The Stone Roses
2/5
Muddy britpop, not pleasant on headphones.
Beach House
3/5
Portishead
4/5
Van Halen
4/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2/5
James Brown
2/5
Unexpectedly boring.
Johnny Cash
2/5
Common
4/5
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
Metallica
2/5
Enter Sandman is great but after that it's slow-paced metal with super boring drums.
William Orbit
3/5
Depeche Mode
2/5
Kate Bush
2/5
2/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Instrumental tracks > tracks with vocals.
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Much better than the black album.
B.B. King
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Eels
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Never really got around to this group but I like it. I assume the band Crocodiles is named after this album; if you like this you might like Crocodiles' album Sleep Forever.
Arrested Development
3/5
2/5
Ill-advised U2/Radiohead collaboration.
U2
2/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Will definitely listen next time at an airport.
Nirvana
5/5
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Yes
4/5
Wow, that was pretty fun---I listened twice and will revisit in the future. Yours is No Disgrace grabbed me pretty quick though the vocals take some getting used to.
Weather Report
2/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Linkin Park
1/5
"I cannot take this anymore." You and me both, buddy. Something about the guitar and vocal tones of this is physically exhausting.
King Crimson
3/5
Title track(s) are cool but I don't like the rest. Waaaay better than In the Court of the Crimson King though.
Suicide
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Eminem
1/5
Skipped much of this homophobic trash and will skip the other album too.
Iggy Pop
3/5
Richard Thompson
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Slint
5/5
Had heard this once before but liked it much more this time. Non-abrasive hardcore; reminds me of Minutemen. Listened to the original release, then remaster and remaster bonus disc. Next up is their other album Tweez.
T. Rex
4/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Pantera
1/5
Accidentally listened to the wrong Pantera album first---Cowboys From Hell is better than this (2 stars for Cowboys). A lot of tough-guy asshole posers I knew in high school loved this album. It's not the worst album on the list but there's not much here to like; removing the vocals might get it another star.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Before this list I didn't mind Costello but now I can't stand him.
Beatles
3/5
I like it but many songs feel unfinished, especially Tomorrow Never Knows with its abrupt cut ending.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
3/5
Listened twice and might revisit. Probably going to check out the rest of their stuff at some point; this list doesn't have a great track record of picking out a band's best album imho (but maybe that's not the point?).
Alanis Morissette
2/5
Meat Puppets
3/5
3/5
Joy Division
2/5
Maxwell
2/5
a-ha
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Nina Simone
4/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Neil Young
5/5
The older I get, the more I like Neil. I thought this was a 3 or 4 on the first spin but the second time around I absolutely loved it.
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
The Triffids
1/5
The Day of the Triffids is also boring.
Mekons
3/5
Waylon Jennings
4/5
The generator made me listen the first time, the second time I done it on my own.
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
Interesting at times but 65 minutes of harshness is too much.
Orange Juice
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Traffic
2/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Solomon Burke
2/5
Bauhaus
3/5
Otis Redding
3/5
Beyoncé
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Jeff Beck
3/5
MC Solaar
3/5
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
Supertramp
3/5
JAY Z
2/5
Pretenders
4/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
I don't really care if I "get" the story or if it makes sense because the music, sound textures/samples, and hooks are so great.
The Who
3/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Would've been a 3 had it been one of the first albums of his generated. So tired of EC.
Louis Prima
3/5
Pulp
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Neil Young and Grateful Dead vibes. I was not optimistic when I saw he was in the Byrds but enjoyed this.
Syd Barrett
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Beatles
2/5
Streaming services only having the stereo version sucks because that mix is shit. I listened again in mono but honestly the album ain't that good.
Mike Oldfield
3/5
The National
2/5
This band has always bugged me. The vocals on this album are annoyingly louder than the instruments, forcing their importance and it's boring and tedious. All the songs sound the same.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Madness
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
I thought I liked Tom Waits. Fake night club, fake audience, fake drunk singing. Tiresome. Bass player kicks though.
Ian Dury
2/5
The Vines
2/5
"frequently compared to Nirvana"
...
well that was disappointing.
White Denim
3/5
The Charlatans
2/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Could've used some trimming of songs and song length. Houses of the Holy and Presence are better than this!
Mike Ladd
4/5
Circle Jerks
3/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Once again, the stereo version available on streaming is an awful headphone listen. Mono is a must for Beatles albums before Sgt Pepper.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Black Flag
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Slipknot
2/5
Gillian Welch
2/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
This resembles so many other early 2000s "indie rock" albums that I am amazed I ever found interesting.
Brian Eno
3/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
The Auteurs
3/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Rod Stewart is unremarkable and I don't care for his sore throat vocals.
Eminem
1/5
Album #467 and this is the first one I'm completely skipping. The Marshall Mathers LP was trash.
Public Enemy
3/5
New Order
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Who
3/5
Joan Baez
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
2/5
Genesis
2/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Turbonegro
3/5
Skunk Anansie
2/5
Pixies
4/5
starts off a 5 but dips a bit later
Billy Bragg
3/5
Gotan Project
2/5
The Zombies
3/5
Orbital
2/5
T. Rex
4/5
Talking Heads
3/5
The Pogues
3/5
Anita Baker
2/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
2/5
The Strokes
3/5
Slayer
2/5
GZA
2/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Laibach
1/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Leftfield
2/5
3/5
Dr. Octagon
3/5
Mostly enjoyable (too long, too many butt jokes) but glad it brought back to my attention Dan the Automater of Handsome Boy Modeling School---man does that guy love Chris Elliott.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Didn't care for the beginning or ending but quite liked the more electroclashy middle section of Lovers in the Backseat, Tits on the Radio, and Filthy/Gorgeous.
Hüsker Dü
2/5
Always found the guitar in this to have way too much treble.
The White Stripes
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Many tracks made by Gene Belcher. About Funk would fit on Katamari Damacy.
Astor Piazzolla
3/5
The The
2/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
Tom Tom Club
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
2/5
John Prine
4/5
The Fall
4/5
2Pac
2/5
Garbage
2/5
Björk
4/5
Tom Waits
4/5
I like this album but I grow tired of the fake-drunk carnival singer.
Janis Joplin
3/5
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Norah Jones
1/5
Stephen Stills
2/5
I enjoyed the organ in the Hendrix-backed song Old Times Good Times, the giraffe on the cover, and the fact that I never before noticed the steel drums in Love the One You're with.
Adam & The Ants
2/5
Butthole Surfers
2/5
k.d. lang
2/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Pixies
5/5
This has been in my personal top ten favorite albums for 30+ years. 6 stars.
Iron Maiden
3/5
Little Simz
3/5
Genesis
3/5
George Harrison
3/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
The Icarus Line
2/5
Lorde
2/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
I do not like Sinatra's voice. After this one I think maybe it's his constant vibrato, which is especially grating when it's subtle.
Van Morrison
1/5
Listened to the first half of each song on LP 1 and thought, "is it too late to stop now? No, it is not."
Sabu
3/5
Michael Jackson
2/5
I think the middle section of Thriller, Beat It, and Billie Jean is great but that's probably middle school nostalgia talking. (but oh man, I totally forgot about Eddie's solo!) The rest is as bad as the other MJ albums on this list.
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Really drags at times and To Live is to Die seems proof that they are better without vocals. Could use a better drummer.
Mudhoney
3/5
Kanye West
2/5
The Soft Boys
3/5
I really hate it when reissues add another albums or 2 worth of tracks and give the album the same damn title. Streaming services need a 'play only the original tracks' option (which, yeah, I would turn off for some deluxe versions, ha). Anyway, gonna have to listen to this again as I've always dug I Wanna Destroy You.
The Roots
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
2/5
John Cale
2/5
Digital Underground
1/5
Mj Cole
1/5
Seemed okay to start but only because my last album was Sex Packets...
Gotta remember the title of the book says 'albums you must HEAR', not 'albums you must listen to in their entirety'.
The Killers
2/5
Listened to an uncompressed stream of this on $300 monitor headphones and it still sounds like it's coming out of $10 earbuds. Atrocious mix.
Nick Drake
3/5
The Cars
5/5
Tito Puente
2/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Parliament
3/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Boring in a way that I kind of liked but man I'm never listening to this again.
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
The Modern Lovers
4/5
Steve Earle
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
2/5
Bit of chore to listen to, the reissue even more so since it's a revisionist version with "bonus" tracks sprinkled in instead being tacked on at the end---it was already too long, dudes.
John Martyn
2/5
Magazine
4/5
I love Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady and am a huge fan of Wire, but this one didn't really click until the third listen (previous listens were years ago). I only remember liking Definitive Gaze before but really enjoyed the whole thing this time, even the bonus tracks.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
The high praise for this feels like a lifetime achievement award---he has much better stuff.
Violent Femmes
4/5
R.E.M.
3/5
TLC
2/5
Prefab Sprout
2/5
ABBA
3/5
Madonna
2/5
Cream
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Joe Ely
2/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Music is good, lyrics are not.
Björk
4/5
Lots of satisfying clicks, pops, and interesting sound textures on this. The first track had me thinking there'd be loads more, so a little bit of a let down but still highly enjoyable.
Roxy Music
3/5
Coldplay
2/5
Not as boring as A Rush of Blood, but still pretty boring.
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
On the list b/c it's Bruce's 9/11 album. It's terrible. As someone else said it should be on the list as an example of what 9/11 did to music.
Korn
1/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Frank Black
5/5
There are so many odd things here that I've loved for almost 30 years. TIL that Two Reelers is about The Three Stooges. What an odd dude.
Living Colour
2/5
Sparks
3/5
Def Leppard
3/5
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Mott The Hoople
2/5
Ute Lemper
1/5
The Divine Comedy *and* Costello? This is going to be awful.
...
Yep. Awful.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Morrissey
2/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Heaven 17
2/5
Barry Adamson
4/5
Suede
2/5
Blondie
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
The Boo Radleys
4/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Morrissey
2/5
Too much Morrissey on this list.
Holger Czukay
4/5
This was pretty great. Looking forward to the Can albums after this one and will def check out more Czukay solo albums.
Death In Vegas
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
CHVRCHES
2/5
Björk
3/5
The Darkness
3/5
The Police
3/5
Mariah Carey
1/5
Big Black
2/5
Love
3/5
Roni Size
1/5
This won the Mercury Prize over OK Computer? I could barely finish disc 1.
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
Tricky
3/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Her voice is unpleasant to my ears.
The Beach Boys
3/5
The Cult
2/5
50 Cent
2/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Fishbone
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
all you haters are lucky they didn't put triple LP Europe 72 on the list instead :P
The Offspring
4/5
Drink your milk!
Fugees
3/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
The Cardigans
4/5
Guided By Voices
4/5
I don't love this quite as much as Bee Thousand. Auditorium and Motor Away back to back makes a great standard length song.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Ice Cube
2/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
Good, but not as good as Campfire Headphase.
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Traffic
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Moderately annoyed most streaming services don't list the artist as The Crickets---Tidal just says Buddy Holly. 🙄
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
ABBA
2/5
CHIC
2/5
Suede
2/5
meh
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
The Undertones
4/5
The Mars Volta
2/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
1/5
The dancehall is haunted by the ghosts of those who died of boredom listening to this.
Rush
2/5
Elastica
2/5
Lou Reed
4/5
The Libertines
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Dagmar Krause
2/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
Emblematic of the 'don't really need to hear before you die'-ness of this list.
The Zutons
3/5
Arcade Fire
1/5
extra boring U2
Snoop Dogg
2/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
Japan
3/5
Blue Cheer
2/5
Iron Butterfly
2/5
Hahaha I never noticed the riffing on God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen around 11:20 of the title track.
Aphex Twin
3/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
Kelela
2/5
Green Day
2/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
Aretha Franklin
2/5
The Isley Brothers
2/5
Björk
1/5
I like Bjork. I do not like Bjorkappella.
Deep Purple
2/5
Madonna
2/5
Disappointed this was not Madonna's country album like the cover suggests. Mercifully the North American version leaves out the laughably bad version of American Pie---I played the single and it made me lol.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
another listen will probably make this a 4
Coldcut
2/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
Fugazi
3/5
Thundercat
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
The Style Council
2/5
The Band
3/5
Can
3/5
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
The Cure
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
liked it but not gonna relisten
Everything But The Girl
1/5
Made me of think of the Robot Wars promo that said:
and why is this on PBS?!
...
IT'S BRITISH!
Stephen Stills
2/5
Jesus, Stephen, did you really have to wake me up at 4 a.m. and make me listen to this?
M.I.A.
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Christine and the Queens
1/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
5/5
Best experienced in mono, which can be found on disc/volume 4 of the Super Deluxe Edition aka 50th Anniversary Edition.
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
Would've been a 3 if it wasn't a double album---was fun for a while but becomes tiresome and samey.
Tom Waits
2/5
I grow tired of the shtick. Outside of this list I will not listen to this muppet.
Television
5/5
Jack White
2/5
Killing Joke
3/5
Cat Stevens
2/5
Lambchop
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Iron Maiden
2/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Billie Holiday
4/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
The Sonics
2/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Django Django
4/5
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Funkadelic
5/5
That was amazing. Makes slogging through all these 1's and 2's worth it.
Marty Robbins
2/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Spacemen 3
4/5
Thought this was going to be another 'because British' inclusion but I really enjoyed this. Too bad only 2 of their 4 studio albums seem to be available for streaming.
Massive Attack
2/5
that last song is terrible
Underworld
1/5
3 to 5 minutes of interesting music painfully stretched into 73.
The Young Gods
2/5
Small Faces
2/5
Red Snapper
2/5
Tori Amos
3/5
2 stars plus 1 nostalgia star (owned this tape at release time)
Eric Clapton
2/5
Guns N' Roses
2/5
Sweet Child O Mine is so overplayed that we played it in my high school marching band in the early 90s.
The War On Drugs
2/5
Got really bored around halfway through but finished. Realized I had listened to this before and bailed halfway through that time.
If you like the atmospheric guitar work, check out William Tyler (you don't have to suffer through Dylan/Petty-ish vocals because there are no vocals).
Kraftwerk
4/5
Eagles
1/5
The drumming is particularly annoying, especially the left-right panning.
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
A bit ridiculous but enjoyable.
Randy Newman
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
I liked it but this is not the must hear PSB album.
Ghostface Killah
4/5
The Coral
2/5
Napalm Death
2/5
absolutely *not* the worst album on the list
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Blur
4/5
U2
3/5
U2 before they became insufferable.
Os Mutantes
2/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Deep Purple
2/5
Motörhead
2/5
A lot of people are reviewing anniversary/expanded/deluxe versions of albums and then complaining about the length or some crappy bonus track. Just listen to only the original album release after looking it up at musicbrainz.org or http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/index. For this one that saves you from having to listen to Jailbait again.
John Lennon
3/5
Skepta
2/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Alice Cooper
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die...If You're British?
Suzanne Vega
2/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Rush
2/5
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
George Michael
1/5
How in the world does this have an average over 3?
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Keith Jarrett
3/5
The Associates
2/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
2/5
The cuíca isn't as grating as the electric jug but it's pretty damn close.
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Bert Jansch
4/5
Don McLean
2/5
Lou Reed
2/5
Can
2/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Mr. Soul is great and Richie Furay is not.
The Last Shadow Puppets
2/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
This soundtrack has some great bits but is mostly skippable and not worth your time---JUST LIKE THIS LIST 😮
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Amazing that they fit the album on a 3.5" floppy but that explains the compression.
Beck
4/5
Sepultura
2/5
Arcade Fire
1/5
😴
1/5
Joy Division
2/5
Sex Pistols
4/5
De La Soul
4/5
It's a crime against music that this wasn't available for streaming until March of 2023.
Spiritualized
3/5
I think I liked it but also kinda don't remember even though I just finished listening. Seems consistent with other reviews, ha.
Moby Grape
2/5
It's a shame the version on Tidal, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music is incomplete...nah, just kidding you aren't missing anything amazing. That said, why even list the album when only *one* of the original album songs is available for listening?
The Black Keys
3/5
Little Richard
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Didn't like this as much as Freewheelin' but I could see it becoming a 4 if I spent more time with it.
The Cure
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Lucinda Williams
4/5
Drive Like Jehu
3/5
Goldfrapp
2/5
Hawkwind
2/5
Mix is not good. Feels like you're missing something the entire time---maybe the light show and dancer(s?) were great.
Soft Machine
3/5
Finally, something short---only 4 songs! The cover confused me but served as a reminder to go to discogs for viewing album covers. I wish streaming services would implement front/back/gatefold cover views.
https://www.discogs.com/master/16783-Soft-Machine-Third
Neil Young
3/5
Queen
2/5
Tim Buckley
1/5
Grizzly Bear
2/5
Not terrible but not that interesting. Listened after Tim Buckley's 'Happy Sad' so at first it seemed rather good. Falls into sameness and whiney vocals pretty quick.
Elis Regina
2/5
The Band
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Tortoise
5/5
My go-to album for calming my brain. Djed is perhaps my favorite song ever.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
should be removed, not a must hear
The Rolling Stones
3/5
really drops off after WOO WOO
Deee-Lite
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
This has convinced me you have to love a band to like a live album of theirs. I taped the live radio broadcast of this and figured it would never get an official release. I didn't have MTV but still bathed in this post Kurt death, and again when the LP was released---with two more songs, woo! I love it but it also makes me sad to listen so I can't very often.
ZZ Top
3/5
The Police
2/5
Gene Clark
2/5
The Fall
3/5
Girls Against Boys
3/5
Not bad but it's no Spiderland.
UB40
3/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Gave this a second chance b/c of the generator but it remains creepy and unpleasant. Nick Cave is on my avoid list.
Klaxons
2/5
2/5
Haircut 100
2/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
N.E.R.D
2/5
The Hives
2/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Better than the other one on the list but both are of questionable inclusion. Another reminder that overall, this list is not a very good one.
Manu Chao
1/5
I listen to a lot of music with repetitive elements that I think many people find annoying but this album bugged the crap out of me. Give the Galaga sound effect a rest, dude.
Radiohead
2/5
I love Kid A and OK Computer and Amnesiac is pretty great too. I've listened to The Bends six or seven times and don't find it at all compelling. After this listen I wondered, "Do I even like this band?" If Radiohead hate is based on this album then I kinda get it. The vocals drown out all the music, which seems compressed or smooshed down by distortion and makes it hard to notice anything interesting, if there's anything there. It's just boring.
Morrissey
3/5
Overall a 2 but I'm adding a star for Margaret on the Guillotine.
Terence Trent D'Arby
1/5
Sepultura
2/5
Better than Roots. I enjoyed it more by the halfway mark. Heard some echoes of Master of Puppets.
Robert Wyatt
4/5
Took a little bit to get into but I listened 3 times.
Godspeed You! Black Radiohead
Talking Heads
4/5
XTC
2/5
First few songs are a misophonic minefield. Dear God is lame and so is having multiple versions of the album with it at different places. Han Shot First.
Pink Floyd
5/5
The Verve
2/5
John Lee Hooker
2/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Van Morrison
1/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Common
2/5
David Holmes
2/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
The Gun Club
4/5
Christina Aguilera
1/5
Marianne Faithfull
4/5
Probably won't listen again but that was quite enjoyable. Plenty of post-punk goodness in there.
Motörhead
2/5
title track is great but not sure I like much more
The Electric Prunes
2/5
Almost certainly sounds better in mono but not enjoyable enough to track that down and relisten.
Minutemen
5/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Giant Sand
1/5
*Snore* of Enchantment
Minor Threat
3/5
Throwing Muses
3/5
Sleater-Kinney
5/5
Got this the day after Throwing Muses debut and could really hear their influence on S-K. Love the back and forth vocals and guitar parts and the Kinks tribute cover . Janet Weiss remains my favorite rock drummer.
The Lemonheads
5/5
A bit of a nostalgia rating but I fucking love this album.
LL Cool J
2/5
Sugar
1/5
Bob Mould projects generally sound like tinnitus with vocals and drums.
Fleet Foxes
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
2/5
Throbbing Gristle was better.
Foo Fighters
3/5
The Waterboys
3/5
Mostly made me want to listen to The Pogues.
George Michael
2/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
The Residents
1/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
Elbow
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Beth Orton
2/5
Sleepy.
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
The Young Rascals
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
This is the band to make you question the generator including albums that were removed from the book---three albums in the book and ALL THREE have been removed. 💀
The Beta Band
3/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Tina Turner
2/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
Paul Simon
3/5
The B-52's
5/5
Green Day
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
808 State
2/5
James Taylor
2/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Talk Talk
2/5
Prince
3/5
I liked this alright as a casual Prince fan and I can see diehards loving it.
Fats Domino
3/5
Prince
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Mudhoney
2/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
My favorite Albarn album.
The Saints
2/5
2/5
Songs go on too long and end up...making you forget what you were going to say I guess.
Definitely maybe a little better than Definitely Maybe.
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Massive Attack
2/5
Listened via Youtube in order to hear original master, since the 2012 is also a reMIX (kinda wish streaming services would stop replacing originals with remasters). I intended to compare the original to the 2012 mix/remaster but the album didn't compel me to me listen twice.
Tears For Fears
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Arbitrary!
Air
3/5
Simple Minds
2/5
Lana Del Rey
2/5
Questionable to include this but hey there's
3/5
Nas
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Solange
2/5
Pentangle
2/5
Shuggie Otis
2/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Hobo's Blues: "ooh, sounds like Django. Oh, it's Stéphane Grappelli on violin, nice!" Wish that track was longer.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Culture Club
1/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4/5
Think about it too much and you might hate it but that was a really fun listen.
The White Stripes
2/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
Def Leppard
2/5
aggressively mediocre
Queen Latifah
3/5
David Crosby
1/5
DJ Shadow
3/5
M.I.A.
2/5
A lot of interesting sounds and samples but the songs take so much time to develop they end up being too long.
Jean-Michel Jarre
5/5
Amazing! This is one of the albums that has made slogging through all the crap on this list worth it.
Deerhunter
3/5
Slipknot
1/5
Beck
5/5
2/5
Still not feeling this band---thanks to the reviewer who reminded me Squeeze exists tho. They are cool for cats.
Antony and the Johnsons
1/5
bailed halfway when the vibrato knocked my headphones off
Queen
2/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
no doubt better in mono
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Hole
2/5
John Lennon
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
New Order
2/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
The Prodigy
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
10cc
2/5
The Human League
2/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
Buzzcocks
4/5
Robert Wyatt
4/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Calexico
2/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Another album where the only available streaming version is an unpopular remaster. All tracks except Brown Sugar are labeled (2009 Mix) so we're listening to a remixed version, different from what put it on this list. Bah!
Röyksopp
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Adele
2/5
Slade
2/5
Silver Jews
2/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
American Music Club
2/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Kings of Leon
1/5
Absolutely cannot stand dude's voice. Might be specific to this album's production because the other two albums didn't grate like this.
LTJ Bukem
1/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Do not want One or Two.
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
The Monks
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Pavement
5/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
The Dandy Warhols
2/5
k.d. lang
2/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Well, that's the last time I listen to a Tom Waits album on purpose.
The Doors
3/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Ministry
2/5
The Bees
3/5
2/5
Megadeth
3/5
Ravi Shankar
3/5
The Monkees
2/5
Morrissey
1/5
The Stooges
4/5
Anthrax
3/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Ice T
2/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
One of those "I don't understand the high praise" albums for me. The instruments blur to the background and the vocals and lyrics are bland.
Marvin Gaye
3/5
The xx
1/5
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Oh, so The Beatles in Mono box set is also an album? Whatever, Bob.
The Jam
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Hooray, done with Costello! One album was enough.
Koffi Olomide
3/5
Julian Cope
2/5
I feel bad for the people who thought they had to slog through the deluxe edition; the original album is hard enough at 76 minutes.
The Stranglers
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
Ash
3/5
Liked it but won't revisit. Has enough Weezer elements to push the 'why is the Blue Album not on this list' button.
Orbital
1/5
Duke Ellington
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Hot Chip
2/5
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
The Divine Comedy
1/5
Jeff Buckley
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
Dr. Dre
3/5
The Specials
3/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
Love this. The title track is a great one for singing kids to sleep.
SAULT
3/5
The Who
5/5
Laura Nyro
2/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
The KLF
2/5
Khaled
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Queen
2/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
Adele
2/5
Doves
2/5
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die...If You're British?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
David Ackles
2/5
George Jones
2/5
The Streets
1/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
Kanye West
2/5
Ride
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Goldie
1/5
Big Star
3/5
The Incredible String Band
2/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Carole King
2/5
Mylo
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Ray Price
2/5
Jamiroquai
2/5
Eagles
1/5
Jacques Brel
4/5
Buck Owens
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
This list is terrible.
Neil Young
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
The Thrills
3/5
Country-ish, less-weird version of Grandaddy? Not bad.
The Who
3/5
Don't try to reconstruct the original album release from what's currently available on streaming. Doing so adds 6+ minutes of banter that kills the original flow. Reconstructed 6 song playlist gets only 2 stars IMO.
Original LP here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MmguY2Cwzk
Big Star
3/5
The Cramps
3/5
ugh
Sade
2/5
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
Crowded House
2/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
The Specials
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Simply Red
1/5
Metallica
1/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5