724
Albums Rated
3.22
Average Rating
66%
Complete
365 albums remaining
Rating Distribution
Rating Timeline
Taste Profile
1970s
Favorite Decade
Grunge
Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
Balanced
Rater Style ?
41
5-Star Albums
23
1-Star Albums
Breakdown
By Genre
By Decade
By Origin
Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Truth And Soul
Fishbone
|
5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
|
Teenage Head
Flamin' Groovies
|
5 | 3.03 | +1.97 |
|
Make Yourself
Incubus
|
5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
|
Permission to Land
The Darkness
|
5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
|
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
|
5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
|
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction
|
5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
|
Vivid
Living Colour
|
5 | 3.2 | +1.8 |
|
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
|
5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
|
1989
Taylor Swift
|
5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
|
Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes
|
5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
|
1 | 4.43 | -3.43 |
|
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
|
1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
|
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
|
1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
|
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
|
2 | 4.07 | -2.07 |
|
evermore
Taylor Swift
|
1 | 3.04 | -2.04 |
|
The Dreaming
Kate Bush
|
1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
|
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
|
1 | 2.95 | -1.95 |
|
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Redding
|
2 | 3.93 | -1.93 |
|
Kala
M.I.A.
|
1 | 2.91 | -1.91 |
|
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
|
1 | 2.86 | -1.86 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 4.5 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| Green Day | 2 | 5 |
| The Clash | 2 | 5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2 | 5 |
| Jane's Addiction | 2 | 5 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Doors | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Waits | 4 | 1.5 |
| Björk | 3 | 1.33 |
| Public Image Ltd. | 2 | 1 |
| Orbital | 2 | 1.5 |
| Sonic Youth | 4 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Taylor Swift | 1, 5 |
| Kanye West | 4, 1, 3 |
5-Star Albums (41)
View Album Wall
Popular Reviews
David Bowie
2/5
Ah yes, the classic "artist has recently died so let's pretend that their weird-ass, self-indulgent final album is actually a genius masterpiece".
59 likes
Pink Floyd
1/5
Aimless, meandering, and interminable with an incessant cacophony of nonsense. There are some decent songs buried in there, but you have to slog through so much shit to get to them. Time is decent enough once it finally starts in earnest. And Money is the obvious best song because it's the one most structured like, you know, a song. But even that becomes tiresome by the end.
This is an album that I will never understand.
10 likes
The Clash
5/5
Played in Rock Band 4.
My high school calculus teacher once gatekept me for liking this album. I was wearing a shirt with the album art on it and she asked my favourite song on the album. I said Train in Vain (which fucking slaps) and she said "Oh, I prefer the more political songs like Spanish Bombs" as if I was some simpleton. She then proceeded to quiz me on the band member's names. I could only name Joe Strummer in the moment and was embarrassed but looking back, who the hell cares? I just loved every song on this awesome blend of punk, reggae, ska, and disco.
It's still the only double album I've ever heard that completely earns both discs.
7 likes
1-Star Albums (23)
All Ratings
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
The first few tracks (and Truckin') are awesome but it definitely loses me in the middle when it gets too slow and meandering.
The Smiths
3/5
Some surprisingly good basslines! Morrissey's voice is not my jam though.
Patti Smith
2/5
Fuck "Birdland". So long and aggressively annoying. The rest of the album was a mixed bag. Definitely one that's more important than it is enjoyable.
The Police
4/5
A couple duds (especially Mother) but overall it was pretty enjoyable! The title tracks are especially good.
Fela Kuti
3/5
The songs were initially pretty fun to listen to but were too long and unfocused, losing my interest.
M.I.A.
1/5
I feel like someone loaded a blunderbuss with every possible style of music imaginable and shot me directly in the face.
Kraftwerk
3/5
I desperately need some indie video game developer to make a spooky 2D metroidvania using this album as the score.
The Strokes
4/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Easily the most pleasant vocal experience we've had to endure thus far.
3/5
Starts and ends strongly but the middle loses me. Leans a little too psychedelic at times (see: Mr. Kite). Within You Without Out is like when your family makes you watch a slideshow of their vacation photos. When I'm 64 sounds like the theme song to a children's show.
The title tracks, Getting Better, She's Leaving Home, and Good Morning Good Morning are great though.
k.d. lang
4/5
It was hard to focus because the weather was aggressively awful while I was driving to work and listening to this, but it think I enjoyed this elevated lounge act a lot!
Merle Haggard
3/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Fugees
2/5
Lauryn Hill is clearly the standout here but is grossly underutilized throughout, save for a couple of tracks.
Bonnie Raitt
4/5
I don't enjoy these musical styles at all individually (80s pop, country blues, etc.) but something about this combination really works for me.
Pink Floyd
1/5
Aimless, meandering, and interminable with an incessant cacophony of nonsense. There are some decent songs buried in there, but you have to slog through so much shit to get to them. Time is decent enough once it finally starts in earnest. And Money is the obvious best song because it's the one most structured like, you know, a song. But even that becomes tiresome by the end.
This is an album that I will never understand.
Morrissey
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Not my favourite CCR (that would be Cosmo's Factory) but there's still a few all-timers on here (Lodi, Bad Moon Rising in particular).
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
This was surprisingly enjoyable considering my very low expectations. It's a little bloated though; if they had trimmed some of the more egregious hipster indie bullshit it could have easily gotten a 4.
Ravi Shankar
1/5
The sitar is not a very pleasant instrument to my ear. And the tracks are just too long.
Beastie Boys
3/5
I like the Beastie Boys, but I think only in small doses (though I do love Licensed to Ill). This is just too chaotic, quickly switching between awesome and annoying, often within the same song.
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
The singles are of course top tier but everything else rocks just as hard. Electric Funeral and Rat Salad especially were great.
Public Enemy
2/5
Elis Regina
3/5
Genesis
2/5
Jamiroquai
4/5
Really dug these funky beats
The Prodigy
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
She's Out of My Life is a horrendously sappy ballad, but everything else is pretty great!
The Streets
2/5
Sounds like a bored Stephen Merchant doing a shitty hour-long SNL sketch.
BUT it also has a strange earworm quality to it. I can see this growing on me over repeat listens, but I don't want it to.
Spacemen 3
1/5
I really do not enjoy these long, repetitive, meandering tracks that don't build to anything.
Derek & The Dominos
4/5
Too long, but some pretty great bluesy rock.
Fiona Apple
2/5
Some good songs, some bad, some meh. A true 2.5, rounded down because it's not my typical genre
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
Solid jazz, but still jazz
Dire Straits
4/5
That is some sexy guitar
Led Zeppelin
4/5
III will never be my go-to Zeppelin, but this was better than I've given it credit for.
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
This is an extremely 80s and extremely dark album. Not really my scene but there's some good shit. This Corrosion is weirdly compelling.
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
The songs with Neil Young singing are my least favourite part (also, today I learned that Neil Young was in Buffalo Springfield).
The more guitar-driven songs (i.e., Bluebird) suit my tastes nicely.
Nick Drake
4/5
I'm not really a folk or acoustic guy, but this really resonated for whatever reason.
Mudhoney
4/5
I tried getting into Mudhoney several years ago before seeing them open for Pearl Jam. It was a little too raw for me then. But now I have a better appreciation for heavier and rougher stuff, so this was good.
MC Solaar
3/5
If yoy take away the French, this is my preferred style of rap: a pleasant voice with some upbeat, funky backing music.
Ministry
3/5
I've been craving something heavy lately and this somewhat filled the void. Some good stuff in here, but also a lot of very short repeated loops and annoying background noises that distract from the goodness.
Garbage
5/5
Exactly my style.
Kanye West
4/5
Once again, a great rap album marred by unnecessary skits and whatever that 1w minute spoken word outro was. The degree skits were actually kind of fun, but still not what I want from an album.
The actual songs were bangers though.
Lou Reed
3/5
Mostly solid but unremarkable throughout, but the last couple songs are kind of annoying. I absolutely do not want to hear whining children when listening to music, thank you very much.
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
Decent beats scattered throughout. Glad I don't speak French so I couldn't understand what I assume to be creepy subject matter.
Van Morrison
3/5
The title track is great! The rest was pleasant enough but inoffensive and unremarkable.
Nick Drake
4/5
I really seem to enjoy this fellow, though I think I prefer his unaccompanied stuff a bit more.
David Bowie
4/5
I don't always love Bowie's voice, but this was mostly pretty great. The trio of instrumentals were interesting, especially Sense of Doubt.
Louis Prima
3/5
We need more standup bass in modern pop music.
CHIC
3/5
Some great guitar riffs throughout. Savoir Faire was a particularly great instrumental.
John Coltrane
2/5
That certainly was some chaotic jazz.
Blur
2/5
Man, Damon Albarn's voice is grating
Femi Kuti
2/5
Every track started out fun and interesting but just lasted too darn long to maintain my interest.
fIREHOSE
4/5
The instruments all sounded phenomenal, but the singing was more hit and miss.
Elvis Presley
2/5
Not enough variation, too many croony ballads (my least favourite type of Elvis song).
Also, In the Ghetto is incredibly pretentious, pandering, and borderline offensive. Wild that it's the only hit from this.
Spiritualized
2/5
I really dislike spacey, weightless, meandering songs that are 6+ minutes long.
Cypress Hill
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
The The
4/5
The Black Crowes
5/5
FKA twigs
2/5
Mostly annoying but occasionally catchy.
Radiohead
3/5
Perhaps I've been too hard on Radiohead in the past. This was pretty solid, if a little too slow for me overall. Solid 3.5
Boston
5/5
Just an absolutely perfect album.
Slipknot
4/5
Kind of really into this, especially the parts with more melodic vocals.
Frank Black
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Carole King
4/5
Green Day
5/5
Ah, high school.
4/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
The Bottle is a standout, the rest is fine.
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
This is fine but I prefer the more refined style of Raising Hell
Thundercat
4/5
Fishbone
5/5
Loving the funky ska vibes and the frantic bass.
XTC
3/5
Queen Latifah
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
The Clash
5/5
Played in Rock Band 4.
My high school calculus teacher once gatekept me for liking this album. I was wearing a shirt with the album art on it and she asked my favourite song on the album. I said Train in Vain (which fucking slaps) and she said "Oh, I prefer the more political songs like Spanish Bombs" as if I was some simpleton. She then proceeded to quiz me on the band member's names. I could only name Joe Strummer in the moment and was embarrassed but looking back, who the hell cares? I just loved every song on this awesome blend of punk, reggae, ska, and disco.
It's still the only double album I've ever heard that completely earns both discs.
Beatles
4/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
I only knew a few songs ago in and was a little disappointed by the rest.
Beck
2/5
There are some great songs buried between a bunch of distorted vocals and a cavalcade of weird noises and samples.
Iron Maiden
5/5
Woe to you, oh earth and sea
For the Devil sends the beast with wrath
Because he knows the time is short
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast
For it is a human number
Its number is six hundred and sixty-six
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
Not necessarily bad, just extremely dull. It was much more interesting reading about this guy than listening to his music.
Violent Femmes
4/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
Beatles
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
This is frustrating because the opener, Teenage Riot, is exceptional. But the rest of the songs are buried under a bunch of unpleasant distortion and fuzz.
Not looking forward to the other 4 (!) Sonic Youth albums we'll have to endure, since my understanding is that this is their most accessible.
Queen
4/5
2/5
Would have much rather preferred this as a studio album instead of live (and probably would have bumped it up a star or two). This proto-punk sound just doesn't really work live on a first listen for me. The bluesy Motor City Is Burning is about the only effective track in this format, due to its different style.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
2Pac
3/5
Pulp
4/5
The Gun Club
4/5
Orbital
1/5
Ray Price
3/5
A strange blend of standard country fare with almost Hawaiian-sounding guitar.
Wu-Tang Clan
3/5
The Clash
5/5
This is chock full of bangers: I'm So Bored of the USA, White Riot, Hate and War, London's Burning, Career Opportunities.
Some less notable tracks as well, but the highs are very high.
Jane Weaver
2/5
I find it hard to believe that an album without a Wikipedia page is something that I MUST listen to before I die. Especially when it's as bland as this.
Pavement
4/5
This has a lot of that rough Sonic Youth energy to it, but for whatever reason is much more compelling to me. I still don't love the occasional wailing vocals though.
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
New York Dolls
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Kanye West
1/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
David Holmes
2/5
Well that Bond theme comes out of nowhere!
Since this is '97, I'm guessing they also approached this guy to do a version for Tomorrow Never Dies but ended up going with Moby instead.
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
Kanye West
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
Really leans into that classic 80s thing I hate where the super deep vocals have this weird distorted echo effect layered overtop.
N.W.A.
4/5
David Bowie
2/5
Individual songs are way too long and repitive to be of much interest.
Ghostface Killah
3/5
I appreciate Mr. Killah's enthusiasm for explaining the metric system on "Kilo" and his Iron Man references before they were cool.
Dolly Parton
3/5
Iggy Pop
2/5
Beatles
5/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Hookworms
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Okay, so this is obviously obscenely long. But I'm not even mad because it's consistently pretty fucking great.
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Taylor Swift
1/5
Any one of these individual songs would be fine as a change of pace track on a more upbeat album. But when you have an entire album solely consisting of one anticlimactic song after the other, each comprised of the same breathy vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano, it becomes an exhaustingly dull slog.
When did Swift become allergic to writing hooks? no body, no crime is the only track that comes close to being enjoyable for me. Everything else is just... nothingness.
The Undertones
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
Wire
3/5
The Lemonheads
4/5
Rocked pretty hard for being largely acoustic.
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Solomon himself has a nice voice but I'm not crazy about the backing vocalists and they are featured heavily throughout.
Tito Puente
3/5
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Megadeth
4/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
No.
Gene Clark
3/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
The Avalanches
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
E Street Band = great!
Bruce singing = bad
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Donovan
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Khaled
3/5
Some awesome songs with good beats but the vocals were a little grating on others.
Massive Attack
2/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
Eminem
3/5
The victim complex schtick gets tiring after a bit but there are some great songs and beats on here. Was going to be a 4 but some tracks on the back half (especially Kim) and all the skits bring it down.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
Neil Young
2/5
Brian Eno
1/5
The musical equivalent of eating flavourless foam: light, airy, bland, and insubstantial. Maybe it pairs well with something, but on its own is wholly unsatisfying.
B.B. King
3/5
Supergrass
4/5
Supertramp
3/5
The Verve
2/5
Queen
4/5
Radiohead
2/5
Thom Yorke's vocal style and the band's general weirdness are absolutely not my jam.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Not at all my usual style, but pretty darn catchy.
Jeff Beck
4/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Björk
1/5
George Michael
2/5
Some songs are good but there are too many slow, long, meandering ones to hold my interest.
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
4/5
Riotously 80s production in the best possible way.
Jeff Buckley
3/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Alice in Chains has never been my favourite of the early 90s grunge acts. I always found their style a little too heavy, a little too sludgey for my tastes.
Dirt is easily my favourite of theirs though, as it has some fucking awesome songs (all of the singles and a handful of others).
But the deeper cuts remind me of that unique AiC style that doesn't really do it for me. The more plodding, darker tracks don't resonate like the rest.
Nirvana
5/5
Tori Amos
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
I definitely preferred this over Exit Planet Dust, but the Chem Bros are still not my thing in general.
Gary Numan
3/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
The National
3/5
Le Tigre
4/5
This is kind of annoying but also kind of great?
Justice
4/5
Not at all my usual genre but this is pretty fucking fantastic.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
The Doors
5/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Elevator music. Good elevator music, mind you, but still elevator music.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
David Bowie
2/5
Ah yes, the classic "artist has recently died so let's pretend that their weird-ass, self-indulgent final album is actually a genius masterpiece".
The Fall
2/5
GZA
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Fried ice cream is a reality.
Liz Phair
4/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Pixies
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Mitch Mitchell is arguably the most underrated drummer of all time. Dude can rival anything Bonham or Moon were doing but Hendrix overshadowed all, so he's rarely in the discussion.
Speaking of, it really bothers me that these albums are just credited to Hendrix himself on Spotify and not the Experience. Further minimizing Mitchell and Redding's efforts.
The Cure
2/5
These British sadboys need to have shorter intros and outros. There is absolutely no reason for these songs to be as long as they are.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
The Yardbirds
4/5
JAY Z
4/5
ABBA
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
3/5
The songs with the male vocals were so much better than those with the female vocals.
The Byrds
4/5
Prince
2/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Various Artists
4/5
I wouldn't be upset if a lot of these became the go-to standards.
The Specials
4/5
Peter Tosh
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Orbital
2/5
Some good beats buried in there (Lush 3-1 is a bop) but everything is waaaayyy too repetitive and long.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Billy Joel
4/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
The Style Council
3/5
Quite the jarring tonal shift from coffeehouse jazz on side one to delirious 80s synth pop on side two.
Robbie Williams
4/5
Huh, maybe North America really is missing out. This was pretty great!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4/5
The Cramps
3/5
Van Morrison
2/5
The songs on this sound fine, but most are needlessly long. Why is Madame George almost 10 minutes long when the last half is just an endless loop?
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Far too "easy listening" for me
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Duran Duran
3/5
The War On Drugs
2/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Started out strong, but ended with some weird shit that brought it from a 4 to a 3.
Dire Straits
3/5
Anita Baker
4/5
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right.
The Modern Lovers
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
2/5
The Byrds
4/5
Keith Jarrett
2/5
That guy sure did play that piano
PJ Harvey
3/5
It was a 4 until the awful strained vocals chimed in during the back half.
Supergrass
4/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Soundgarden
5/5
No one sings like you anymore, Chris Cornell
Kraftwerk
2/5
Prince
2/5
Shuggie Otis
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
4/5
Tom Waits
1/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Don't think I'll ever be a Waits fan, but this is certainly the most listenable thus far.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Aerosmith is one of those bands that's always Livin' on the Edge of greatness and terribleness for me. On any given day, I'll either love or hate Steven Tyler's mewling. Today was a good day for it, but I could easily see rating this a 2 any other time.
Also, Pump is notably an album where the enduring singles are some of the worst tracks. Love in an Elevator is fine I suppose, but Janie's Got a Gun is just bad.
Rahul Dev Burman
2/5
Aimee Mann
3/5
Neu!
3/5
Tricky
2/5
Faith No More
4/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Rush
4/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Gorillaz
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Probably The Doors album I'm least familiar with, but it was pretty great!
Animal Collective
2/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
Adele
4/5
The Verve
3/5
Coldplay
2/5
There was nothing particularly bad about this, it's just not at all my style. Daylight is about the closest to something I'd normally listen to.
Sparks
2/5
The near-constant falsetto is exhausting.
Lupe Fiasco
4/5
Beth Orton
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
5/5
Never listened to QOTSA's debut since it didn't really have any notable singles, but damn is it good!
Funkadelic
3/5
Erykah Badu
2/5
Mostly fine but too long and not particularly remarkable; mostly just faded into the background.
Kate Bush
1/5
One of the most obnoxious things I've heard in recent memory.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
Air
3/5
The Adverts
4/5
Yes
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
The Human League
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Mekons
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
I was very concerned after the first track that this would be another tedious, drawn out electronic album. Turns out I was pretty into the rest of the album? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Bad Company
3/5
Bee Gees
2/5
It's a travesty that this exercise is flaccid balladry is included on the list but the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack is ineligible since it's not wholly original.
The Saints
4/5
James Brown
3/5
Al Green
3/5
Rush
3/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Roni Size
2/5
Os Mutantes
4/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
The Doors
4/5
The A-side is perfect but the back half isn't as strong.
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
808 State
2/5
The Undertones
4/5
OutKast
3/5
Speakerboxxx is a rock solid hip hop album (a 4), The Love Below is an extremely inconsistent mess (a 2). No wonder they did their own separate things for this. Splitting the difference makes this a 3 I guess.
Little Simz
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
I guess Rod Stewart doesn't always suck?
The Triffids
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Kind of disappointing. A lot of long, plodding tracks, which I'm generally not a fan of.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
This might be my favourite brand of this shoegaze mumblecore fuzziness style.
Chicago
3/5
Joy Division
2/5
New Order
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Some great tracks, but too transgressive at times.
Deep Purple
4/5
TLC
3/5
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
God I hate post-punk
Nina Simone
2/5
I'm not mad about it, there's just not really much there.
Sister Sledge
2/5
Surprisingly low energy, aside from the title track.
The Zombies
4/5
Some top tier songs (Care of Cell 44, This Will Be Our Year, obviously Time of the Season) but a fair amount of middling ones too.
Holger Czukay
2/5
The Band
3/5
Linkin Park
5/5
Green Day
5/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
The Jam
4/5
The Cure
3/5
A true 2.5. Completely faded into the background and totally unremarkable. But at least it didn't actively annoy me?
Beastie Boys
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
A bunch of these songs would be pretty good if they were 3 - 4 minutes long. Instead, oh so many of them stretch out to an interminable 6 - 8 minutes for seemingly no reason.
Didn't know that Coolio ripped one of these though, that was interesting at least.
Elvis Presley
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Massive Attack
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Elton John
5/5
Moby Grape
4/5
Parliament
3/5
Thin Lizzy
4/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Björk
1/5
Can
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Rocket From The Crypt
4/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
The Offspring
5/5
I'm not a trendy asshole
Depeche Mode
3/5
Will be good ambience when I finally open up that haunted house.
Cat Stevens
4/5
Bauhaus
2/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
The The
3/5
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
The Fall
2/5
Pixies
2/5
Nas
4/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
I don't understand why music critics love Costello so much. It all sounds... Fine. I'm never mad about it but it doesn't ever seem particularly interesting. But apparently there's 6 albums of his on the list. Go figure.
Goldie
1/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
4/5
Guided By Voices
2/5
The individual "songs" sounded fine but it was so schizophrenic. Felt like giving the aux cord to that annoying guy who changes tracks after 30 seconds, never letting the full song play.
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Is it just me or do none of these songs have choruses?
Pink Floyd
3/5
3/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Scott Walker
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Bananeira is a bop
Pulp
3/5
The Darkness
5/5
https://media.tenor.com/wlZU0JjHqNEAAAAC/thumbs-up-cool.gif
Soul II Soul
3/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Eagles
4/5
Jane's Addiction
5/5
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
Nico
2/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Yes
3/5
X-Ray Spex
4/5
That sax really makes it
Spiritualized
2/5
AC/DC
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Tom Waits
1/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Portishead
3/5
Jethro Tull
4/5
Petition for more hard rock flute
Elton John
4/5
The Monks
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Q-Tip
4/5
4/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Everly Brothers
3/5
Richard Hawley
3/5
The Thrills
4/5
Faust
3/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
4/5
Christina Aguilera
4/5
Television
4/5
Big Star
4/5
Dirty Projectors
3/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
Beck
4/5
Björk
2/5
Sepultura
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Shack
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Taylor Swift
5/5
Pop perfection
Britney Spears
3/5
Needed fewer sappy ballads and more Max Martin pop bangers.
"E-mail My Heart" is the most late 90s thing I've ever heard.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
4/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
OutKast
3/5
Love
4/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
The Jam
4/5
Otis Redding
2/5
I like Otis, I really do. But all the covers I recognized were just worse versions of the originals...
The Kinks
3/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Doves
3/5
Moby
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
5/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Madonna
2/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Doves
3/5
The Electric Prunes
3/5
The Who
3/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
Beatles
4/5
New Order
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Klaxons
3/5
Drive Like Jehu
1/5
Mmm, noise
Sigur Rós
2/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Damn right
4/5
Ozomatli
4/5
Japan
2/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
George Michael
3/5
U2
2/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Solange
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Bad Brains
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Anthrax
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
Scritti Politti
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Leftfield
2/5
Madness
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Culture Club
3/5
Skunk Anansie
4/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
John Lennon
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Syd Barrett
2/5
Pantera
4/5
Peter Frampton
4/5
Listened on vinyl
Eric Clapton
4/5
Koffi Olomide
4/5
Metallica
3/5
Gang Of Four
2/5
The Damned
4/5
Joan Baez
3/5
Todd Rundgren
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Carpenters
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Radiohead
2/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
John Prine
3/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
Little Richard
4/5
John Grant
4/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
2/5
The Waterboys
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Dr. John
2/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Cee Lo Green
3/5
Venom
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
Best live album ever?
Queen
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
CHIC
2/5
Stereolab
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
The Residents
1/5
Black Flag
3/5
Slade
3/5
T. Rex
4/5
Buzzcocks
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
SAULT
2/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
The Sonics
3/5
Elastica
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Aerosmith
3/5
George Harrison
4/5
Pentangle
3/5
Snoop Dogg
4/5
The actual tunes are awesome, once you cut through the intros and skits and everything.
Method Man
3/5
Hole
3/5
Sepultura
3/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Common
3/5
The Black Keys
4/5
Metallica
4/5
They should have gotten this collab for a Bond theme
The Cars
4/5
The Cult
4/5
Korn
1/5
Primal Scream
3/5
Screaming Trees
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Big Black
2/5
D'Angelo
3/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Def Leppard
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Janet Jackson
4/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Jane's Addiction
5/5
Blue Cheer
4/5
Hüsker Dü
4/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
James Taylor
3/5
The Police
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Minor Threat
4/5
U2
3/5
The Zutons
4/5
Judas Priest
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
The Monkees
3/5
Destiny's Child
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Incubus
5/5
Ramones
5/5
Adele
4/5
John Lennon
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Beatles
3/5
2/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
Santana
3/5
Eminem
4/5
The Replacements
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Lana Del Rey
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
4/5
The Go-Betweens
4/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Napalm Death
2/5
The Who
5/5
Red Snapper
3/5
Oasis
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
4/5
Hits different after watching A Complete Unknown
The Cure
2/5
Cream
4/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Vines
4/5
Marilyn Manson
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Easily my favourite Beastie Boys
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Ice T
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
N.E.R.D
4/5
Lightning Bolt
2/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Motörhead
4/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Jack White
5/5
Daft Punk
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Megadeth
5/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
AC/DC
2/5
Iron Butterfly
4/5
Justin Timberlake
4/5
Slayer
4/5
4/5
Madonna
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
Probably a 3.5 without We Will Fall. Absolutely grinds the album to a halt and is virtually a third of the runtime!
King Crimson
3/5
The actual songs are great, but the gratuitous ethereal wankery between them drops this down a star.
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
LL Cool J
3/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
The La's
3/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
Ice Cube
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Why do so many songs have such unsatisfying fade outs? Just have a definitive end to a song!
Aretha Franklin
3/5
SZA
3/5
Hole
4/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
The Youngbloods
4/5
Pearl Jam
5/5
Morrissey
4/5
Laibach
2/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
T. Rex
3/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
The Stooges
3/5
DJ Shadow
3/5
One of the fun parts of this project is discovering the original samples from other tracks I like. In this case, the main riff in Fuel Injected by Swollen Members comes from this album.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Motörhead
3/5
Foo Fighters
4/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Suede
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Underworld
2/5
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
Joe Ely
4/5
The Who
4/5
Living Colour
5/5
Circle Jerks
3/5
Pavement
3/5
Suicide
1/5
UB40
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Genesis
3/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
Tim Buckley
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
MGMT
4/5
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
Fleet Foxes
2/5
50 Cent
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Steve Earle
3/5
The Who
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Simple Minds
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Wilco
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Morrissey
4/5
CHVRCHES
4/5
Beck
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Meat Puppets
3/5
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
The Stranglers
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Def Leppard
3/5
Talvin Singh
3/5
2/5