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5-Star Albums
43
1-Star Albums
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Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
|
5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
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Sex Packets
Digital Underground
|
5 | 2.67 | +2.33 |
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Yeezus
Kanye West
|
5 | 2.77 | +2.23 |
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Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
|
5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers
|
5 | 2.82 | +2.18 |
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BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
|
5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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Fly Or Die
N.E.R.D
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5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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Slayed?
Slade
|
5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
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Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
|
5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
|
Ingenue
k.d. lang
|
5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
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1 | 3.87 | -2.87 |
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Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
|
1 | 3.82 | -2.82 |
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Dummy
Portishead
|
1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
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The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
|
1 | 3.58 | -2.58 |
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Blue
Joni Mitchell
|
1 | 3.49 | -2.49 |
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If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
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1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
|
1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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xx
The xx
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1 | 3.36 | -2.36 |
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C'est Chic
CHIC
|
1 | 3.34 | -2.34 |
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You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
|
1 | 3.34 | -2.34 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 5 | 5 |
| Radiohead | 6 | 4.67 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 4.75 |
| Prince | 3 | 5 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 3 | 5 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Who | 3 | 4.67 |
| Ray Charles | 2 | 5 |
| R.E.M. | 2 | 5 |
| Muddy Waters | 2 | 5 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 2 | 5 |
| Supergrass | 2 | 5 |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 4.33 |
| Deep Purple | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Doors | 3 | 4.33 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Joni Mitchell | 4 | 1.5 |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 1.33 |
| Portishead | 2 | 1 |
| Slipknot | 2 | 1 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| The xx | 1, 5 |
| Coldplay | 2, 5 |
| PJ Harvey | 2, 5 |
| Amy Winehouse | 5, 2 |
| Suede | 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (130)
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Popular Reviews
Joni Mitchell · 50 likes
1/5
What have I done to deserve two Joni Mitchell albums in three days?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
The Prodigy · 9 likes
2/5
There's an enjoyable song on this album. The problem is that they play it 10 times with different names.
Beatles · 3 likes
5/5
This app should deactivate the account of anyone who rates Sgt. Pepper's anything below four stars. For their own benefit.
The Human League · 2 likes
3/5
Great Value Depeche Mode
Michael Kiwanuka · 1 likes
5/5
That was terrific. Thanks to Alex for creating a tool that brings unexpected music to my computer each day!
1-Star Albums (43)
All Ratings
DJ Shadow
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
The Rolling Stones
1/5
James Taylor
3/5
Thin Lizzy
4/5
CHIC
1/5
The first track reminded me of how unfortunate the late 70s were. So self indulgent. There are redeeming cuts later in the album, but overall this was the aural equivalent of a cocaine binge in a toilet stall.
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
A lovely album that I didn't expect to enjoy. I wouldn't have listened to it without the generator.
John Prine
5/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Billie Holiday
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
The Cars
5/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
Funkadelic
5/5
Korn
1/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Portishead
1/5
What a lazy and cynical exercise in a valueless genre with a stupid name.
“Maybe if we take our lack of musicality and 1 octave-range breathy vocals, and throw in a few turntable scratches, people will think we are avant-garde”
Nick Drake
3/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Def Leppard
3/5
Somewhere between hair metal and butt rock, and can’t make up its mind.
Hiring Mutt Lange is a deal with the devil - he will get you some hits, but you’ll have to sacrifice your edge for commerciality.
The Byrds
5/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Air
3/5
Crowded House
5/5
Portishead
1/5
AC/DC
4/5
A fine example of "butt rock". RIP Bon Scott.
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
The Auteurs
2/5
The Soft Boys
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
When I was 8, I would have given it 5 stars. Of course back then, I also enjoyed eating a spoonful of Tang out of the jar. When I was 15, I would have given it 7 stars.
With hindsight, it's clear that this is the peak of 70s excesses. Each song is 50% to 100% longer than it should be. It's bloated, overwrought ... and still fun.
His name is Robert Paulson.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
John Lee Hooker
4/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Ray Charles
5/5
I'm stunned that the average review isn't higher. Maybe it's a recency bias.
This album is exactly why the "1001 albums" project exists. This is a groundbreaking and culturally significant album, that also happens to be pretty darn good. Is it my favorite Ray Charles album? No. Did it have more impact on the course of American and World music than any other Ray Charles album ... and really most any album? Absolutely.
Manu Chao
1/5
For poseurs only. Much better music can be found in this genre.
Kate Bush
3/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Genesis
4/5
Probably the best of "prog rock" Genesis.
Beastie Boys
3/5
At the time, fans liked it for all the wrong reasons. I disliked it for the same wrong reasons. Well played, Beasties.
The Replacements
5/5
Coldplay
2/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Prince
5/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
The La's
4/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
It's interesting how people cannot hold two conflicting ideas in their minds.
It's possible for BOTH "The Smiths are good" and "Morrrissey is a prat" to be true. One has nothing to do with the other in the context of a review.
Review bombing is the hallmark of sad, simple minds. If you don't like Morrissey, boycott his work. But no, that's not enough. You have to use what puny bit of power that you have to try to influence others to not listen to him. Pathetic.
Anyway, this album is average. Three stars. And Morrissey is a prat. Still three stars.
Donovan
2/5
Eurythmics
3/5
Kelela
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
5/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Deep Purple
4/5
The Charlatans
3/5
MC Solaar
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
This album is very soothing. To the point where it makes me sleepasdf;kjna;sdlkfnlksndf;kdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
The Prodigy
2/5
There's an enjoyable song on this album. The problem is that they play it 10 times with different names.
Cat Stevens
4/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
5/5
MGMT
2/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
N.W.A.
2/5
I'm not going to clutch my pearls like some reviewers. All N.W.A. said on this album reflects what a subculture wanted to hear at a certain point in history. Many of those views remain, so take it up with them.
That said, this album took hip hop in a pretty nasty direction at a time when casual listeners were starting to pick up on it. There was a battle for the soul of the genre and BDP, Tribe and assorted street philosophers and skilled rappers got pushed to the periphery.
Kraftwerk
4/5
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
That was terrific. Thanks to Alex for creating a tool that brings unexpected music to my computer each day!
Blue Cheer
4/5
Shack
4/5
Queen
4/5
Queen
4/5
Can
4/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
Pitchfork-bait.
R.E.M.
5/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
The Temptations
5/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
Stevie Wonder if he were in a jam band. And couldn't play instruments. And couldn't write bangers.
Radiohead
5/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
2/5
I thought that Germany was out of the "crimes against humanity" business...
+ 1 star for sheer audacity, and the final few tracks which veered toward being tolerable.
Tina Turner
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
Miles Davis
4/5
The Doors
5/5
Al Green
5/5
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
Metallica
2/5
I had an idiot roommate in the dorms play this at 2am every night. I might be biased. Metallica, take your 2 stars and let's move on with our lives.
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
The War On Drugs
4/5
Nice. Discovering new bands like this are why we use this generator.
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
I don't understand review bombing. If you don't like someone, or their politics or if you think they are a pedo - then don't listen. Why do you feel like you need to give it a bad review/score? Do you feel like you need to somehow keep other people from listening? Slag off.
Thriller is a masterwork of pop music. It's not my preferred style, but it is demonstrably excellent.
Lou Reed
2/5
My rating got lower the more I listened to it. I settled on 2 stars, because there's worse Lou Reed out there.
Common
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Dirty Projectors
3/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Madonna
2/5
Paul Simon
5/5
Pixies
4/5
Tangerine Dream
4/5
Cocteau Twins
1/5
CHIC
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Paul Weller
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Joni Mitchell
1/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Joni Mitchell
1/5
What have I done to deserve two Joni Mitchell albums in three days?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
Not just a good album. An important album.
Van Halen
4/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
Fats Domino
3/5
A problem with an album-centric methodology is that the popular music of the early R&B/rock eras was dominated by singles. Albums were the realm of jazz, classical, and Frank Sinatra.
Exposing generations to Fats Domino is a noble endeavor. However, this album is a flawed approach. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and say, "You know, when the album coverage is thin, lets just go with a Greatest Hits".
If you want to stroll with the Fat Man, just pull him up as an artist on Spotify and let 'er rip.
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
John Grant
4/5
Various Artists
5/5
The Roots
4/5
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Avalanches
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Sparks
3/5
This was such a hard album to rate. At one moment, I'm listening to great 70s rock that compares favorably with early glam rock, Queen, and other parallel influences. The next moment I want to punch a song in the face for its pretentious wankery.
I split the difference at 3 stars.
5/5
Gene Clark
5/5
If you don't like this album, you don't like music.
Peter Tosh
3/5
The first song is hot garbage, but the 420 crowd is going to see it as a 5-star anthem.
What followed? A surprisingly good reggae album. I guess that's why we keep listening.
Wild Beasts
2/5
T. Rex
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
4/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
Marty Robbins
2/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Pretenders
4/5
Wire
5/5
Miriam Makeba
3/5
Makeba's songs are better than the ones written by other folks.
I want to punch The Naughty Little Flea in the face. Not the flea, just the song. There are other songs that are equally cloying.
House of the Rising Sun and Mbube are important bits of cultural DNA, but Iya Guduza is the real banger.
Lana Del Rey
2/5
Digital Underground
5/5
A worthy debut from Digital Underground. If you didn't quite like this one, the true essential entry from them is Sons of the P.
RIP Shock G
Elbow
3/5
Deep Purple
5/5
Duran Duran
2/5
I like it better than I did in 1982, but that is damning it with faint praise
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
No explanation necessary.
The Mamas & The Papas
1/5
I've never liked The Mamas & The Papas. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt; but then I heard what they did to "Do You Wanna Dance". In some circles it's considered to be a war crime.
The Black Keys
5/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
Unquestionable brilliance ... with a lot of what we can charitably call "filler" thrown in to stretch it to album length.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
S&G are great, but this album is chock full of "I'm the next great poet" vibes. Leading to several songs that are era-appropriate wankery.
The Black Crowes
3/5
Bobby Womack
4/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
Just painful. It's sad that this is the point where Skip Spence is teetering into the abyss, but we don't need to listen to it.
Patti Smith
2/5
Germs
3/5
Sam Cooke
5/5
Is anyone else tempted to find people who give 1-star reviews for classic albums (for brilliant reasons like "nope", "live album", or "he was a jerk") and revoke their music privileges?
I'm sorry you can't handle a live album. Music is supposed to be listened to live. The sterile, overproduced, autotuned recording is a relatively recent development in human history and was primarily developed to make money for record companies. I can't listen to Sam Cooke live because he's mortality-challenged. So I'm going to treasure this live album.
If your response to a soul album is "nope", you don't have one. You've abdicated your humanity privileges.
If you are trying to retrospectively cancel an artist because they did ________ in the year ______, just chuck your entire music catalog. To quote Captain Malcom Reynolds, "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another". I look forward to the good people of 2083 finding every aspect of YOUR existence wanting.
That said, I'm now inspired to invent a time machine, if only because I can use it to go back to January 12, 1963 to go see this show.
Primal Scream
4/5
Rush
5/5
I imagine that folks who prefer other genres will still like this album. It's amazing how so few can do so much.
Beth Orton
2/5
Green Day
4/5
C+ philosophy and politics meets A+ rock.
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Yes
4/5
William Orbit
4/5
A pleasant surprise.
Ozomatli
1/5
Fela Kuti
2/5
John Coltrane
5/5
New Order
4/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
David Bowie
3/5
Tracy Chapman
2/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
When an album causes the Beatles to rethink their creative decisions and come up with Sgt. Pepper's, you've done something right.
Aphex Twin
3/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
I liked it better back then. With a few decades of hindsight, it's clear that Pet Shop Boys represents the worst of the 80s. Performance vs. Music, Style vs. Substance. It's auditory cynicism.
It turns out that there's not a lot of "there" there.
Björk
4/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Stunningly bad. This sentient mullet is an affront to humanity, music, and even the concept of sound.
The Prodigy
3/5
Ramones
5/5
Has a first album ever been a more effective mission statement, or a first song ever been a better opening thesis?
David Bowie
4/5
The Undertones
4/5
Faust
1/5
The worst thing I can say about an album is, "I think I could have done that".
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Moby
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
2/5
Don McLean
4/5
The Slits
1/5
Is it still cultural appropriation if you suck at it?
k.d. lang
5/5
Wu-Tang Clan
3/5
Little Simz
2/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Megadeth
3/5
Lorde
3/5
Cream
4/5
Carpenters
3/5
Ray Price
4/5
Django Django
4/5
Hugh Masekela
5/5
This was new to me, and I loved it. So many different styles were skillfully blended. Proof that jazz is more than just an American artform.
Stan Getz
4/5
Lucinda Williams
5/5
The Fall
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
The Clash
3/5
Traffic
2/5
The White Stripes
4/5
ZZ Top
5/5
This is the first album I ever bought on cassette, so it's going to get 5 from me. Man, it's a good thing the notes didn't include lyrics ...
Probably the tightest ZZ Top album.
Keith Jarrett
2/5
Richard Hawley
5/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Less is more with Siouxsie_Sioux. After the first wo tracks, I was thinking, "Hey, they're a lot better than I remember". Four songs later and I realized, "No, they aren't."
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
The Jam
5/5
The Teardrop Explodes
4/5
Machito
3/5
Little Richard
5/5
Daft Punk
5/5
The Who
4/5
Interesting time capsule of early Who, and a first-rate mission statement.
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Fatboy Slim
1/5
Supergrass
5/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Offspring
4/5
Sigur Rós
2/5
We had a vigorous debate about this album.
Some thought it was "hot garbage". I disagreed - I thought it was "steaming garbage".
Supergrass
5/5
An unexpected gem.
The Cure
4/5
Despite the wildly inaccurate title - both the song and album are far longer than 17 seconds - it was quite enjoyable.
I think I prefer when the Cure are merely glum, and not fully depressed.
Ryan Adams
4/5
Kings of Leon
4/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
2/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Beatles
5/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Sade
2/5
Talented singer whose music I thoroughly hate.
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Björk
2/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
A remarkable album. Possibly the best ever?
Baaba Maal
2/5
5/5
I was unaware of this terrific album. In my defense, we had two kids under three at the time.
Nick Drake
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Marvin Gaye
5/5
I'm not crying. YOU'RE crying!
Bob Dylan
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
The Rolling Stones always struck me as an elaborate practical joke on the Western world.
Hey, look Boomers! Blues music repackaged by some limey honkeys! Oh, how edgy - they're singing about sex and Satan! That'll stick it to your parents who won the war, built the economy, and gave you jerks a head start not experienced by any generation prior or since!
But Charlie Watts is pretty tight.
Adele
5/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
My first though was, "Oh, boy! Here comes an hour of sitar solos!". But it was actually lovely. If anything, it was TOO ambient.
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Prince
5/5
Carole King
5/5
The Mars Volta
2/5
Store brand Rush.
Laibach
3/5
Better than I expected, but let's not get carried away.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Nina Simone
3/5
3/5
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Slint
1/5
JAY Z
3/5
Mediocre
Radiohead
5/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Waylon Jennings
4/5
Not his best, but Waylon could sing product jingles and (even more) TV show theme songs, and it would be 4 stars.
Linkin Park
1/5
The Rolling Stones
1/5
Yes
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Joy Division
5/5
AC/DC
4/5
Proto butt-rock.
*throws up horns*
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
From 2017 but is Talking Heads meets Depeche Mode meets Tangerine Dream meets Bowie steals Bono
Steve Winwood
2/5
Duke Ellington
5/5
Garbage
2/5
The Cure
3/5
David Ackles
4/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
That was terrific. I always avoided her music, because I thought it was going to be as much of a train wreck as her personal life, but I was wrong. She really was promising.
David Bowie
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5/5
I didn't know you could grow a mullet in 76 minutes, but here we are.
Japan
2/5
Hookworms
1/5
Simple Minds
3/5
The xx
1/5
Wilco
4/5
The Temptations
4/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
50 Cent
2/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
A peak of the art form. No notes.
Suede
2/5
Most bands and artists have influences. This album is 120% influences.
If I wanted to listen to crappy U2, I'd go looking for Pop.
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Well, that S(io)ux
Eels
2/5
Blondie
5/5
Van Morrison
5/5
The Byrds
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Chicago
3/5
Prince
5/5
If Prince only sang on this album it would be a 5-star effort. In his spare time he wrote everything, played every instrument, and produced it. As a 23-year-old.
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Mylo
3/5
Rock & Roll can destroy itself just fine, thank you. It doesn't need help from middlebrow house music.
Still, the album is not without merit.
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Let's just say she grew a lot by Back to Black.
Common
2/5
Snoop Dogg
3/5
The Kinks
2/5
The Zombies
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Ian Dury
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
CCR could have decided to release one amazing album in 1969. Instead, they chose to release 3 OK albums. Mo' money, I suppose. But it's going to cost them a couple of stars.
I hope they can live with this while sleeping on their solid gold pillows.
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Hardly an essential album. If we must include one of her albums in a "must hear" list, it would be Solitude Standing.
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
The Monks
2/5
OutKast
4/5
Iron Maiden
1/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
Beck
4/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Neil Young
5/5
Lovely album. Too bad he's being a prat about Spotify.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
The Doors
4/5
Goldie
1/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
It's not my preferred genre, but it is an exemplary example of it.
Rage Against The Machine
2/5
So edgy! I'm mad about stuff! Down with stuff!
Posers
Pulp
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Pavement
2/5
The Doors
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
Girls Against Boys
2/5
This is not an essential album.
Alice In Chains
4/5
Soundgarden
4/5
Nas
5/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
This album definitely belongs on this list, and it is culturally significant, but I suspect there are limits to how much you can enjoy it if you aren't high.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
David Gray
2/5
So much whinging. That's what y'all call it, right?
Track 1 had the least inspired use of the Amen Break that I've ever heard.
Elvis Presley
4/5
A bold direction from Elvis that has both hits and misses. A worthy effort.
That said, any album containing "In the Ghetto" must be docked one star. This is non-negotiable.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Ice T
5/5
Ice T goes hard. Track for track I like Power better, but Ice and Islam get tighter and realer, while somehow keeping an undercurrent of irony.
James Brown
5/5
Talking Heads
5/5
Dire Straits
5/5
I like the ZZ Top song (Money for Nothing) and the Springsteen song (Walk of Life). Go get paid, boys!
But I LOVE the 2nd half of any Dire Straits album. It's like slipping into a warm bath.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
This Marley album is much better than the ones that have been wafting (along with smoke) out of college dorm rooms for the last 50 years.
Marilyn Manson
1/5
Excretable
The Pogues
5/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Awful. Just awful.
No extra credit for having a self-inflicted injury.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Magazine
4/5
Lambchop
2/5
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Dr. John
2/5
The The
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Living Colour
2/5
The idea of Living Colour is much better than the reality.
Drive-By Truckers
5/5
If you are pressed for time, just listen to Disc 2. It shifts gears from "typically good" to "sublime".
The Afghan Whigs
5/5
Ray Charles
5/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Venom
1/5
No
Adele
3/5
A letdown after 21. I was going to go 4 stars, but then Spotify gave me Amy Winehouse - Valerie after the album ended and I realized how much more personality her voice had.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
You can see that Petty is heading somewhere, but he's not fully developed yet.
Boston
5/5
A perfect album for its time and place.
Pulp
5/5
Loaded with a variety of bangers. Even songs that start innocuously have something up their sleeves.
Dagmar Krause
2/5
The xx
5/5
Kacey Musgraves
2/5
Must hear? Not really. It was basic and bland
Steely Dan
5/5
Radiohead
5/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Sinead O'Connor
1/5
8 unforgettable, and barely audible dirges. One halfway decent song. One limp cover of a Prince B-side.
Minutemen
5/5
5/5
This app should deactivate the account of anyone who rates Sgt. Pepper's anything below four stars. For their own benefit.
Peter Frampton
3/5
Method Man
3/5
One of the weaker links in the Clan.
Madonna
3/5
Takes a few singing lessons to expand her range to an entire octave. Gets (a quasi) religion. Has a kid. Becomes extremely boring.
The Pretty Things
2/5
Ghostface Killah
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Gotan Project
2/5
Why ....?
Fiona Apple
3/5
It's not a good sign when the Spotify algorithm follows an album with a song that a) trying to do accomplish the same things as the "1001 Albums" artist, b) as a relative unknown, and c) much better.
Sorry Fiona. The Magnetic Fields are now occupying your corner.
The Gun Club
4/5
UB40
1/5
SZA
3/5
Beyoncé
5/5
I see what all the hype is about.
Oasis
4/5
The Human League
3/5
Great Value Depeche Mode
Calexico
4/5
White Denim
5/5
This was a nice discovery. Thanks again, Alex, for the generator!
Iggy Pop
5/5
Small Faces
2/5
My rating kept dropping as the album progressed. Only the sheer audacity kept my floor at 2-stars.
N.E.R.D
5/5
Beck
4/5
Slipknot
1/5
The Verve
3/5
Anita Baker
2/5
Talvin Singh
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Eric Clapton
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Milton Nascimento
2/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
Underworld
3/5
Britney Spears
2/5
Silver Jews
3/5
George Harrison
5/5
This should be the soundtrack for The Great British Baking Show.
Just lovely.
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Animal Collective
3/5
The Band
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Khaled
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Reasonable people can disagree whether they 'like' or 'love' this album. But if you find yourself in the 'hate' camp, that is where we part company, my former friend.
Tim Buckley
2/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Scissor Sisters
5/5
Slipknot
1/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
The Hives
4/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Timeless
Ananda Shankar
4/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Travis
3/5
De La Soul
5/5
Cypress Hill
2/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
Def Leppard
5/5
Yeah, I gave 5 stars to a Butt Rock album. It's an exemplary one.
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Motörhead
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
If you know, you know.
The Specials
2/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Paul McCartney
4/5
Orbital
3/5
Time did, indeed, become a loop
The Damned
3/5
M.I.A.
1/5
Evidence that Robert Christgau lost his dang mind in the mid-2000s. Best album of the decade? Performative poseur nonsense.
Orange Juice
4/5
Suede
5/5
The Shamen
2/5
The KLF
2/5
Merle Haggard
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Kanye West
5/5
Kanye is a jackass, but this hits so hard.
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Incubus
2/5
Röyksopp
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
The Strokes
5/5
Radiohead
5/5
Otis Redding
5/5
Sufjan Stevens
2/5
Slade
5/5
Roxy Music
3/5
George Michael
3/5
System Of A Down
1/5
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Björk
3/5
The Saints
4/5
Tom Tom Club
1/5
Sucked then. Sucks now.
The Monkees
3/5
Fever Ray
1/5
Green Day
5/5
Spacemen 3
4/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
Queen Latifah
3/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Klaxons
3/5
D'Angelo
2/5
Spiritualized
2/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4/5
The Adverts
4/5
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
The Who
5/5
In the long-standing "Beatles or Stones?" debate, the correct answer remains "The Who".
End to end a brilliant album. Listen to it 4 times. You know the songwriting, guitar, and vocals. But take a listen for just the drums or just the bass lines, and you'll hear just how advanced this band was. Any of those instruments could be considered the "lead".
Louis Prima
5/5
King Louie!
Holger Czukay
4/5
The Birthday Party
1/5
Youssou N'Dour
1/5
I tried. Really, I tried.
Public Enemy
4/5
"East Coast" West Coast becomes neither. It didn't help that the more meticulous treatment was stolen, and this revision was rushed.
Bring Tha Noize was an ill-conceived collaboration with Anthrax, but I guess everyone had to do the Rap/Metal thing back then. Better than Aerosmith + Run DMC. Falls short of the Beastie Boys or Body Count.
On the other hand, it's still P.E.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
George Michael
3/5
"Look at my butt. It's a perfect circle. Scientists use my butt to calibrate their instruments!"
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
There's a reason that they aren't Two Hit Wonders
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
Happy Mondays
4/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The Stranglers
5/5
The Residents
2/5
Terrible, but with integrity.
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
U2
3/5
Julian Cope
3/5
Temu Jim Morrison
Taylor Swift
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Turbonegro
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Hawkwind
2/5
The Vines
4/5
Coldcut
2/5
Made me want to listen to other, better, artists who did all the heavy lifting.
SAULT
2/5
Randy Newman
2/5
A little Randy Newman goes a long way.
Billy Joel
4/5
I thought with so many hit songs, this would rate a 5. But each song has just a bit of cheese from overproduction.
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Surely there are more essential Pet Shop Boys albums.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
This was a struggle to listen to - by design. The album picks up momentum going from "Man, how can I get through this first song" to "Hey, I'm enjoying myself".
I think the worst rating I could give this, from Captain Beefhart's perspective, is 3 stars. He wants 1s and 5s. So that's what I'm going to give it. I think the Captain would appreciate a good trolling.
Joanna Newsom
2/5
This is music that is OK to date, but you'd never want to marry.
Throwing Muses
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
The Beau Brummels
4/5
4/5
Dusty Springfield
5/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
This album was much different from what I expected from a Frank Zappa album. Then Side 4 hit, and it was exactly what you would expect from a Frank Zappa album.
Eagles
4/5
Gorillaz
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Mekons
5/5
Fookin' brilliant.
The Specials
3/5
Sepultura
2/5
Emo Metal
Sabu
2/5
Björk
2/5
Bjarf
Elastica
4/5
4/5
The Kinks
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Sarah Vaughan
5/5
This was terrific, and previously unknown to me. Thanks!
The United States Of America
1/5
Why?
TLC
2/5
I like “Boom!”. I like “Bap!” I really like “Boom Bap!” But the mix on this album is awful.
Rush
4/5
Bauhaus
3/5
The Associates
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
OutKast
3/5
The Coral
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
2/5
Sex Pistols
4/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Scritti Politti
1/5
Suuuuuuuuuuuucks
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
4/5
Talking Heads
5/5
Heaven 17
3/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
Depeche Mode
5/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
808 State
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
OK, Haunted Dancehall. Until Rakim decides to drop some sick bars on top of you, I don’t want to hear from you again.
Todd Rundgren
2/5
If you ever need to explain 1973 to someone, play this.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
2/5
Why appropriate just one piece of Black culture (blues) poorly, when you can add a second (hip hop)?
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
4/5
2Pac
4/5
Love
4/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Nico
1/5
3/5
The Youngbloods
5/5
The Clash
4/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
As the kids say - this slaps.
The Smiths
4/5
Prefab Sprout
4/5
Aerosmith
1/5
Aerosmith are a pop band masquerading as a hard rock band. And not a very good one.
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
4/5
Black Flag
4/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
The Yardbirds
4/5
Pere Ubu
1/5
Jethro Tull
2/5
Maxwell
4/5
Mike Oldfield
4/5
By all rational thinking, I shouldn't like this.
John Martyn
4/5
Hole
3/5
The Darkness
3/5
Arrested Development
3/5
Air
3/5
The Who
5/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
The Cult
5/5
The Go-Betweens
4/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
Guided By Voices
4/5
Coldplay
5/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
Goes downhill fast ...