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Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locust Abortion Technician | 5 | 2.39 | +2.61 |
| Autobahn | 5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
| Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo | 5 | 3.13 | +1.87 |
| Murmur | 5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
| Blonde On Blonde | 5 | 3.5 | +1.5 |
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Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Low End Theory | 1 | 3.7 | -2.7 |
| good kid, m.A.A.d city | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| Straight Outta Compton | 1 | 3.51 | -2.51 |
| The Marshall Mathers LP | 1 | 3.49 | -2.49 |
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Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 7 | 4.29 | 3.9 |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.2 | 3.75 |
| Bob Dylan | 7 | 4 | 3.7 |
| Pixies | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Kraftwerk | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Walker | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Ice Cube | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Eminem | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Missy Elliott | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 1.67 | 2.33 |
| Happy Mondays | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| The Jesus And Mary Chain | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Public Image Ltd. | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| The The | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Common | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Tom Waits | 5 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Tim Buckley | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
| The Fall | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
Popular Reviews
Nick Drake
2/5
So layed back it sounded like he was singing in his sleep. It almost put me to sleep.
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1-Star Albums (58)
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A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Madonna
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Eagles
4/5
The Byrds
4/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Animal Collective
2/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Lana Del Rey
3/5
The Police
4/5
Green Day
3/5
Soft Cell
1/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Butthole Surfers
5/5
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Massive Attack
3/5
The Offspring
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Spiritualized
2/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Pretty blah. Not a single memorable song.
Jeff Buckley
2/5
I found it painfully boring.
Pixies
5/5
One of my favorites from the 80s. One of my favorite songs Monkey Gone to Heaven.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Stripped down. Good not great.
Gorillaz
2/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
This was actually quite good.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
A mix of good songs and filler.
Mudhoney
2/5
Generic grunge. Don’t recall a single song. Would not listen again.
Beastie Boys
3/5
Turbonegro
2/5
Nothing special. Would not listen again.
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
It was good but I didn’t think it was great. I don’t know if I would listen to it again.
Gary Numan
2/5
The only song I came close to liking was Cars. The rest were instantly forgettable. A very iffy 2.
Talking Heads
2/5
I don’t really like David Byrne’s voice. I can take it in small doses. There is one good song here and a bunch that are meh.
The Stranglers
2/5
Another forgettable album. Nothing on it memorable in any way.
The Who
5/5
A true classic. Not a dud on the whole album. And a few greats.
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Not a fan of shoegaze. The drum machine was annoying but the vocals were nice. The songs were mostly bland ear wash.
Badly Drawn Boy
2/5
The songs I liked were instrumentals. The rest was bland.
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Stereolab
3/5
A pleasant listen. Nothing bad on it. One of my favorite songs, The Noise of Carpet, is here.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Excellent.
Aerosmith
2/5
After the first two songs, the rest were filler. And I give those first two a C+.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Tina Turner
2/5
Gene Clark
2/5
Not really bad but there is nothing to catch my interest.
David Bowie
3/5
Just ok. There was nothing great about this , nothing bad either.
Orbital
3/5
Good background music.
The Kinks
3/5
Merely ok. Only Waterloo Sunset did anything for me.
2/5
Not a big fan of this kind of weapy moany country music. But it wasn’t terrible.
5/5
This is one of my favorites. Good from start to finish.
Death In Vegas
3/5
I had never heard this and I liked it.
Wire
2/5
A couple songs were ok but I wasn’t really into this style of punk.
Billy Bragg
2/5
Meh. I can’t stand that much of his singing. The sparse arrangements got tiring.
Parliament
3/5
Not a big funk fan but this is pretty good.
Living Colour
3/5
Good, not great. Hard rock.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
This was excellent.
Paul Simon
3/5
Overall good. Nothing bad.
Femi Kuti
3/5
The Smiths
2/5
The Magnetic Fields
1/5
Tedious. Way too long and dull.
Tortoise
4/5
Excellent instrumental album.
Alice Cooper
3/5
Madness
3/5
Röyksopp
3/5
Ray Price
1/5
I really hate weepy, moany county music.
Bad Company
3/5
A decent classic rock album.
Gene Clark
2/5
Forgettable.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
If you like avant garde music this is for you, for the the rest, no.
David Gray
3/5
Bland but pleasant.
Elis Regina
3/5
Pixies
4/5
This is a really good album.
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
The Jam
2/5
Frank Black
3/5
The Pogues
3/5
Def Leppard
2/5
Lame hair metal
The Byrds
3/5
Maxwell
2/5
So smooth I almost fell asleep.
Bob Dylan
5/5
A classic.
Hanoi Rocks
1/5
Not good at all.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
Standard 70s classic rock. A few good songs and the rest just ok.
Wilco
3/5
Can
4/5
Very good. Mostly instrumental.
Britney Spears
2/5
The Band
4/5
Some classic songs here. A few that were so so.
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Kraftwerk
5/5
Title song is brilliant. The others good.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Some good songs but a lot of filler.
Black Sabbath
3/5
Heaven 17
1/5
Boring, boring synth pop. I barely made it through.
The Only Ones
1/5
Bland and boring.
Nick Drake
2/5
Barely ok.
Can
4/5
Very good first half. The last 3 were a bit weird.
Gotan Project
2/5
The National
3/5
Brian Wilson
2/5
It mostly sounds half baked.
Arrested Development
2/5
XTC
2/5
Beatles
5/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
Van Morrison
3/5
It’s good but not great.
Oasis
2/5
Never liked the singer’s voice. Songs were meh.
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
Anita Baker
2/5
Pretty dull. Nothing memorable about it.
The Undertones
2/5
Neneh Cherry
2/5
Not my cup of tea.
The Temptations
2/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Happy Mondays
1/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Two great songs and a bunch of mediocre songs.
Portishead
2/5
The singer is good but didn’t like the music.
King Crimson
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Def Leppard
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Some good songs but Billy Corgan’s voice gets annoying after awhile.
Miles Davis
2/5
The Young Gods
2/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Goldie
1/5
The Adverts
2/5
Generic 70s punk.
Nick Drake
2/5
So layed back it sounded like he was singing in his sleep. It almost put me to sleep.
Rod Stewart
3/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Michael Jackson
2/5
If you like Michael Jackson it’s good. I don’t so it’s bad.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
A bit long. I hated the chatter between songs. Otherwise very good.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Beach House
3/5
Germs
1/5
Lousy punk rock
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Putrid.
Lou Reed
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Tim Buckley
1/5
Dull and dreary.
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Megadeth
2/5
Meh. Didn’t do anything for me.
The xx
3/5
The Sugarcubes
2/5
The only song I really liked was ‘Birthday’. The rest was forgettable.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Duran Duran
2/5
Thin Lizzy
1/5
I in general don’t like live albums and I hated this one. Boring.
The Cars
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Classic album with almost all great songs.
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Pleasant. But not memorable.
Scott Walker
1/5
Tuneless, pretentious drivel.
The Strokes
2/5
Tom Waits
1/5
I didn’t get this one at all.
Mike Oldfield
4/5
The The
2/5
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
R.E.M.
5/5
One of my favorites from the 80s.
Janelle Monáe
3/5
It was good but not really my style.
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
I liked two songs on the this. The rest meh.
Sebadoh
2/5
Lou Reed
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
2/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Cure
2/5
Sarah Vaughan
2/5
Deerhunter
2/5
Various Artists
2/5
Nirvana
5/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
A couple of very good songs. A lot of just ok songs.
Prince
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
U2
4/5
It’s very good. Several good songs with no filler.
Ray Charles
2/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
The Cardigans
3/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Aimee Mann
2/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
John Martyn
2/5
I couldn’t tell if there were any actual songs on this.
Baaba Maal
3/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Rage Against The Machine
3/5
Pretty good but all the songs sound exactly the same.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Jane Weaver
2/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Ozomatli
3/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Supergrass
2/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
The Electric Prunes
2/5
Faust
3/5
John Coltrane
4/5
I’m not a big jazz fan, but this is something I could listen to again.
1/5
I usually don’t like live albums. This was no exception. I hated this one. Terrible sound. Terrible songs.
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
3/5
The Human League
1/5
Crappy synth pop. Lousy singer. And a song that I loathe. Great combo.
Keith Jarrett
3/5
One hour of solo piano improvisation is not my cup of tea. It’s ok as background music.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Patti Smith
3/5
Ice Cube
1/5
The wall to wall profanity got old real quick. As did the misogyny and the utter sameness of every track.
Slipknot
2/5
Lauryn Hill
2/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
1/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Sabu
2/5
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Motörhead
2/5
Sufjan Stevens
2/5
It’s ok but too long.
Bon Jovi
2/5
Bland, generic 80s hair metal.
JAY Z
1/5
Blech.
Duke Ellington
3/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Beatles
3/5
Beck
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Don McLean
3/5
Common
2/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Digital Underground
2/5
Radiohead
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
2/5
The Fall
2/5
I couldn’t take the awful singing. If you could call it singing. The music was fine.
The Fall
1/5
Two Fall albums in a row. This one was not as good as the other one. Singing just as terrible.
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Motörhead
2/5
Prince
2/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
It’s not bad. But it’s dull and boring.
Faith No More
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
William Orbit
3/5
Madonna
2/5
Manu Chao
2/5
Suede
2/5
Sam Cooke
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
The Doors
3/5
Rush
3/5
ABBA
2/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
The Shamen
2/5
KISS
1/5
The Byrds
4/5
Massive Attack
2/5
Adele
2/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
The Crusaders
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
The Prodigy
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Bee Gees
2/5
George Harrison
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Eminem
1/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Beth Orton
3/5
Klaxons
2/5
The Damned
2/5
Hookworms
2/5
How did this make the list?
Stan Getz
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Television
2/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
2/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
2Pac
1/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Paul Simon
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
808 State
2/5
Lorde
2/5
Eric Clapton
3/5
David Crosby
2/5
Otis Redding
3/5
Soundgarden
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Anthrax
1/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Saint Etienne
2/5
Air
3/5
George Michael
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Kelela
2/5
Circle Jerks
2/5
Carole King
3/5
Fishbone
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Boston
4/5
New Order
3/5
Genesis
3/5
Cheap Trick
2/5
A sloppy sounding mess. It’s why I usually don’t like live albums.
Bob Dylan
5/5
One of my all time favorite songs ‘Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts’ is on this. And the other songs are top notch.
Björk
3/5
The Associates
1/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
A classic.
The Smiths
3/5
MC Solaar
2/5
Metallica
4/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Mj Cole
2/5
The The
1/5
Gang Starr
1/5
The Black Keys
3/5
The Band
4/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
1/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Metallica
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
1/5
Kacey Musgraves
2/5
Black Flag
2/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Bland and unmemorable.
Muddy Waters
3/5
Good songs. Sound quality good for a live album.
Kanye West
1/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Lightning Bolt
3/5
Miriam Makeba
3/5
Charles Mingus
3/5
Not a huge jazz fan, but this was ok.
Simple Minds
2/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Madonna
2/5
Prince
3/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Ramones
3/5
The Verve
2/5
TV On The Radio
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Moby
3/5
Alice In Chains
2/5
Van Morrison
4/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
A fairly weak Elvis Costello album.
Dr. John
2/5
Van Halen
3/5
a-ha
2/5
Talvin Singh
2/5
It was ok.
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
Dreadful.
Tim Buckley
2/5
Dull. Nothing special about this.
DJ Shadow
2/5
Sisters Of Mercy
2/5
James Brown
2/5
Ash
2/5
Cowboy Junkies
4/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
ABBA
2/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
The Monkees
3/5
Louis Prima
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Throwing Muses
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Not a single dud on this.
Linkin Park
2/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
Paul Weller
2/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Dull. Dull. Dull.
The Divine Comedy
2/5
The White Stripes
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Ghostface Killah
1/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Jurassic 5
2/5
Coldplay
3/5
The Doors
3/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Calexico
4/5
Queen Latifah
2/5
Little Richard
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
3/5
Eagles
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Eminem
1/5
Queen
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Missy Elliott
1/5
Beck
4/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
John Cale
2/5
Giant Sand
2/5
Fugazi
3/5
The Go-Betweens
3/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
The xx
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
A classic.
Brian Eno
4/5
ZZ Top
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
New Order
3/5
Small Faces
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
New York Dolls
3/5
Raekwon
1/5
Paul McCartney
2/5
Half baked ideas. Only one real song.
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Fugees
2/5
The Thrills
3/5
The Waterboys
4/5
The Cure
3/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Van Morrison
2/5
I don’t usually like live albums. This was no exception. First half was ok. The last half was boring.
The Youngbloods
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Public Enemy
2/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
Shack
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Beyoncé
2/5
Hole
3/5
Dagmar Krause
2/5
Joy Division
3/5
John Lee Hooker
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
The Style Council
3/5
Joan Baez
3/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
The Streets
2/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
A classic. Every song is good.
The Everly Brothers
3/5
The Cult
2/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Slipknot
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
King Crimson
5/5
Classic prog rock
Grateful Dead
1/5
Boring jam band noodling. What the purpose of this being on the list?
The Cramps
2/5
The Beta Band
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Erykah Badu
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
FKA twigs
2/5
Pretty dull.
David Bowie
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
The Who
3/5
Buzzcocks
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Aerosmith
2/5
SAULT
2/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Guns N' Roses
3/5
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
Method Man
1/5
Stereo MC's
2/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Gang Of Four
2/5
Slade
2/5
The United States Of America
3/5
Hawkwind
3/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Pixies
4/5
Johnny Cash
2/5
The Zombies
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Dr. Octagon
2/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
I don’t understand the appeal of this guy. It’s too weird for me.
PJ Harvey
3/5
Bauhaus
3/5
Big Star
3/5
Soul II Soul
3/5
Le Tigre
3/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
One of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs, “Staralfur”.
3/5
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
One of the all time best.
Fred Neil
3/5
Common
1/5
Another crappy rap album.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
The Modern Lovers
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
The Charlatans
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Total crap.
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
CHIC
2/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Mekons
3/5
Red Snapper
3/5
Minor Threat
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
2/5
The Kinks
3/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Queen
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Underworld
3/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Gillian Welch
4/5
Joe Ely
3/5
George Michael
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
OutKast
2/5
Dr. Dre
1/5
Putrid. I hate Gangsta rap and this is putrid by gangsta standards.
Minutemen
3/5
Johnny Cash
2/5
Nine Inch Nails
3/5
David Ackles
2/5
The Hives
3/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
Sister Sledge
2/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Nico
3/5
Doves
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
1/5
Everyone solo at the same time!
Missy Elliott
1/5
Fats Domino
3/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Iron Butterfly
2/5
This really didn’t age well. Plus it’s not very good.
The Undertones
3/5
The Roots
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
OK but dull.
10cc
2/5
Santana
4/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Tori Amos
4/5
Yes
4/5
Nas
2/5
Another rap album. It’s not as bad as some of the others.
N.E.R.D
3/5
The Sonics
3/5
Beck
3/5
OutKast
2/5
The Prodigy
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Morrissey
3/5
Blue Cheer
2/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Justice
2/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Nina Simone
3/5
The Gun Club
2/5
The Killers
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Groundbreaking but not quite a 5.
Neil Young
4/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
Soft Machine
2/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Ice Cube
1/5
Another crappy rap album. N bombs and f bombs galore.
Cee Lo Green
2/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
Kanye West
2/5
The words and rapping are dreadful but the music and production are interesting.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Carpenters
3/5
Not good. Not bad. Perfectly bland.
Caetano Veloso
3/5
The Slits
3/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Devendra Banhart
2/5
The Soft Boys
2/5
Randy Newman
3/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
The Clash
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
The Residents
3/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
Incubus
2/5
Venom
1/5
Sounds like a bad parody of metal. Crappy music and cringe lyrics.
Beatles
4/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Meh. Fairly boring.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
4/5
Very good
Iggy Pop
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Not a fan of synth pop and this dull album didn’t change that.
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Pulp
3/5
Neu!
3/5
Mercury Rev
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Aretha Franklin
2/5
Janet Jackson
2/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Slint
3/5
The Black Crowes
3/5
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Ok for a live album. The jams were too long and became tedious.
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Queen
3/5
This is a bit meh.
Traffic
3/5
CHVRCHES
3/5
The Who
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
This was boring. The songs were too long and became tedious. Not a big fan of electronica.
The Specials
3/5
The first song was good. The rest were meh. Not special.
Solange
2/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Good background music. Not something I would actively listen to.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
4/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Too odd for me to rate it higher.
Khaled
2/5
Elbow
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
The Darkness
3/5
Pretenders
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
Koffi Olomide
2/5
Q-Tip
2/5
Another lousy rap album. Why so many?
Alanis Morissette
3/5
Public Enemy
2/5
The Cure
3/5
This is supposed to be a classic of the 80s. I never was a big fan.
The Libertines
3/5
Jack White
3/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Robbie Williams
2/5
Bland pop. Didn’t like.
The Young Rascals
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Burning Spear
3/5
Sepultura
3/5
Elastica
3/5
Wild Beasts
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Girls Against Boys
3/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Little Simz
2/5
Another lousy rap album. The music was ok and it was short and not as obnoxious as some others.
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
This album got me out of musical doldrums. Very good from first song to last.
The Saints
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Björk
3/5
Lucinda Williams
4/5
The KLF
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
1/5
There may have been songs under that fuzz and distortion but I couldn’t tell. Painful dreck.
2/5
Ugh. It might have been better without the rap crap.
Serge Gainsbourg
3/5
B.B. King
3/5
Haircut 100
2/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Kanye West
2/5
Metallica
4/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Aphex Twin
3/5
Slayer
2/5
Every song sounds the same. Even at 28 minutes it got boring.
Suicide
1/5
Absolutely dreadful
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Putrid. Just a lot of noise.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
2/5
I don’t like most live albums. This was no different. Live Dylan is not for me.
5/5
One of the all time classics
Pere Ubu
2/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Blondie
4/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Meat Puppets
3/5
N.W.A.
1/5
I hate this putrid crap.
Donald Fagen
3/5
The Who
3/5
Eels
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
A nice album. Nothing special but a good listen.
Morrissey
3/5
The Zutons
2/5
Nirvana
4/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Public Enemy
2/5
There is too much rap on this list. Not as terrible as some of the others but not my thing.
Pink Floyd
5/5
One of the all time greats.
Björk
3/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
The Specials
3/5
John Grant
3/5
This was ok. Nothing special but it was listenable.
3/5
The songs were decent. This singers voice was not.
Love
3/5
3/5
Perfectly bland.
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Orange Juice
2/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
Roni Size
2/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
Leftfield
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Orbital
3/5
Mudhoney
2/5
Kind of annoying. Not very good.
The Byrds
4/5
Good but very 60s. Not timeless.
Peter Tosh
3/5
GZA
2/5
Another rap album. Blech. Same as all the others. Not quite as obnoxious.
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
Couldn’t handle the screaming vocals.
Ministry
4/5
American Music Club
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
I guess it’s ok for rap. But I hate rap.
Supertramp
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Simply Red
2/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
The Icarus Line
2/5
I don’t know why some of these albums are on this list. I didn’t need to listen to this noise.
Michael Jackson
3/5
Air
3/5
Hot Chip
2/5
This bored me. Definitely not my cup of tea.
Julian Cope
3/5
Pretty meh and too long.
Portishead
3/5
Pleasant but everything is at the same tempo.
Ian Dury
3/5
It’s just ok
Napalm Death
2/5
It’s crap but at least it’s short. Growling and screaming. Drums played at light speed. Terrible.
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Dull. It almost put me to shleep.
G. Love & Special Sauce
2/5
Blech
Richard Hawley
2/5
This is what a coma sounds like.
Weather Report
3/5
It was ok. Not a huge fan of this genre. But is was decent.
Daft Punk
3/5
Too long and repetitive. But not terrible.
Tears For Fears
3/5
Blur
3/5
It’s ok
Bert Jansch
2/5
A snooze fest
Miles Davis
4/5
Not a big jazz fan but this is a classic.
Christine and the Queens
3/5
This was decent pop music. Too long though. Should have been two albums. One in each language.
The Smiths
3/5
It’s an ok album. Never understood the love for them.
Jacques Brel
2/5
They were performed well but I didn’t like the songs.
De La Soul
3/5
Sigh, another hip hop album. This wasn’t terrible but I didn’t like it.
Skunk Anansie
4/5
I had never heard this before and I found it very good.
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
I don’t like rap but this is not terrible.
Sepultura
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
I don’t know what people see in Tom Waits. It’s not my thing.
Elliott Smith
3/5
It was pleasant, not great.
Scott Walker
1/5
The insipid lyrics and the pretentious delivery make this a horrible listen. Did we really need two Scott Walker albums?
Deee-Lite
3/5
Meh. Not my style.
Brian Eno
4/5
A very good listen.
Primal Scream
3/5
This was ok.
Judas Priest
3/5
Not my kind of music but it wasn’t bad.
The Notorious B.I.G.
1/5
I don’t like rap and I especially hate this kind of rap. N-bombs and F-bombs galore.
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Yes, this was very good.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
One of the all time classics.
Cornershop
3/5
Some good songs, some meh.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
I didn’t like this. Not terrible, just bad.
Fela Kuti
3/5
Not exactly my style but it was good.
Pantera
2/5
Meh. Not for me.
3/5
It was ok.
Sade
3/5
Too smooth for my taste.
Fever Ray
4/5
A new one for me. I liked it.
Ute Lemper
2/5
Good singer but I didn’t like any of the songs. Not my style of music.
Dion
2/5
Didn’t like any of these songs. But it’s not terrible.
Lambchop
4/5
Very mellow. Many good songs here.
Travis
3/5
Generic pop rock. Nothing bad but nothing great.
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Pleasant, not the type of music I listen to, but it’s ok.
Dead Kennedys
3/5
It was an ok punk album from someone who is not a huge punk fan.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Very good. 3 classic songs and the rest good.
Deep Purple
4/5
Several classic songs here.
George Jones
2/5
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Blech
4/5
This was pretty good. No bad songs here.
Antony and the Johnsons
3/5
It wasn’t bad but it really wasn’t for me.
Tito Puente
3/5
It’s fine if you like Latin dance music.
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
Laibach
3/5
Tricky
2/5
It started ok then got annoying by the end.
Joanna Newsom
3/5
I liked the music. The lyrics and vocals were pretty weird.
Suede
3/5
Perfectly average
Roxy Music
3/5
Average at best.
Jeff Beck
3/5
Rahul Dev Burman
2/5
I really don’t know why this was on the list. A lame soundtrack to a Bollywood film.
David Bowie
3/5
Not really a favorite Bowie album. It was just ok.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Never got into them. Too noisy for my taste.
SZA
2/5
Overproduced tripe. Not my thing.
Muddy Waters
3/5
If you like blues, you’ll like this. I’m not a fan. It all sounds the same to me.
Funkadelic
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Mellow Rancho Relaxo music.
Mylo
3/5
Meh. Generic electronica.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Average at best.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Django Django
3/5
Merely ok.
Iggy Pop
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
Nothing great. Nothing bad.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Very good. Some down moments. But overall good.
Fela Kuti
3/5
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Kid Rock
2/5
For the most part, terrible.
Nirvana
5/5
A true classic for me. The last song was a bit too grungy but the rest were great.
The Pogues
4/5
Pretty good
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
It’s very good but would have been better if they trimmed it down. Too much filler.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Meh
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Boring
John Lennon
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
Another hip hop album.
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Not good. Not bad.
Fiona Apple
3/5
Too quirky for my taste.
Merle Haggard
3/5
I’m not a big fan of country but this isn’t horrible. Most of it sounds the same.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
It’s pretty much one long jam.
Liz Phair
3/5
Meh
Steve Earle
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
It’s ok. Pretty good in some places.
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
It’s ok. But it’s overproduced and bombastic.
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Machito
3/5
It’s fine although I’m not really into jazz.
Pink Floyd
4/5
I really liked it even though it is very dated. Psychedelic music doesn’t really stand test of time.
Björk
3/5
Too weird for me to actually like it. But it’s pleasant and not bad.
Dizzee Rascal
1/5
Whatever this was I hated it.
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
I don’t like most live albums. This didn’t change my mind.
Culture Club
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
The Birthday Party
1/5
I hated every second of this noise bomb.
Brian Eno
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
I liked this. The singer was very good. The songs were mostly very good.
Joy Division
3/5
A meh album from an overrated band.
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Not my style of music but she can really sing.
Beatles
5/5
This is one of the classics. It may not be one of my all time favorites but it’s close.
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
It’s a nice mellow listen.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
This is very good. I played the heck out of it when it first came out. It does suffer from a bit of bloat but still is a good listen.
Mike Ladd
2/5
I didn’t have to listen to this. Definitely not my thing.
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
It was alright, but nothing special.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
LTJ Bukem
2/5
I didn’t have to listen to this one. Just drums and bass. It got tedious real quick.
Donovan
3/5
It’s ok. As with all psychedelic music, it feels dated.
MGMT
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
It was fine. A couple good songs.
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
David Holmes
3/5
Skepta
1/5
Why is there so much of this on the list? This was crap.
The Pharcyde
1/5
I know some people like this but not me. I just don’t like most hip hop.
The War On Drugs
3/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
Barely tolerable. Nothing memorable about it.
Cream
4/5
This is a very good classic album.
Destiny's Child
2/5
If you like this kind of music, it’s probably good. I don’t like this style of music.
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Ice T
2/5
Just too much of this on this list. Ugh.
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
U2
3/5
A couple of the songs were very good, the rest just ok.
The B-52's
4/5
This is a very good listen. Some of my favorites here.
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
I really liked this. There are the two big hits and the long instrumental that I liked. Nothing bad here.
The Doors
3/5
A couple of lesser hits and a bunch of meh.
Brian Eno
3/5
Peter Frampton
2/5
I never got why this album was such a big deal. A live album of mediocre songs just doesn’t do it for me.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
People who are not big jazz fans, like me, will like this. A classic.
Baaba Maal
3/5
It’s ok. Not my typical listening.
Garbage
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
The Stooges
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
Not terrible, but it’s boring.
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Not my cup of tea but it was fine.
Hole
4/5
This was pretty good although many of the songs sounded the same.
The Monks
3/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
It’s decent mood music. It does sound the same throughout though.
Yes
4/5
One of the better prog rock albums. Not perfect but very goo.
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Meh. It was blandly ok.
Holger Czukay
3/5
Killing Joke
3/5
Thundercat
3/5
This wasn’t bad. Not my usual kind of music. Nothing memorable though.
TLC
3/5
This wasn’t bad. Not my usual kind of music. Nothing memorable though.
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
It’s pretty good but it’s not my style of music.
The Stone Roses
4/5
This is very good. There are a couple filler songs but the rest are great.
Korn
3/5
Meh.
Green Day
4/5
This was pretty good. A lot of songs I like.
Syd Barrett
2/5
I wanted to like this, but it was a mess.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Nah. I didn’t have to listen to this. It’s not terrible but I didn’t like it.
Neil Young
4/5
This was excellent. Many great songs.
Sex Pistols
3/5
Pre-fab punk. It’s ok but not special.
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Some of it was good. Some was ok. The banter was annoying.
Sparks
3/5
It was ok.
Steely Dan
4/5
This is pretty good. Overproduced, but still excellent.
Marvin Gaye
2/5
The music was good. The lyrics were boring. I don’t care about his love life.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Some of it was pretty boring but overall just ok.
Waylon Jennings
3/5
I’m not a big fan of country, but this was ok.
Alice Cooper
3/5
It was ok. A couple really good songs and a bunch of ok songs. Nothing bad.
Snoop Dogg
1/5
I do not like this at all. There has been enough rap on this list.
Big Star
3/5
It was ok. Nothing special.
The Avalanches
3/5
Wilco
3/5
It’s just ok.
Basement Jaxx
3/5
It wasn’t bad. It was ok.
Suzanne Vega
3/5
It was fine. Nothing memorable.
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Excellent. A couple of meh moments but overall very good.
Morrissey
3/5
I think one Morrissey album is enough. They all sound the same.
Coldcut
3/5
It’s not bad though it’s not something I would seek out. A bit too long.
John Prine
4/5
This is very good. I really like this country folk style of music. The songs were excellent with great lyrics.
Ray Charles
3/5
It’s ok. The songs were not great. Didn’t live up to the title.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Excellent. Very good songwriting. The music is a bit the same. But overall very nice.
Crowded House
3/5
Generic pop rock. Meh.
The Bees
3/5
Nothing really internet about this. But not bad.
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
It was fine. Nothing stood out.
Magazine
3/5
Not bad. Not good. Just meh.
fIREHOSE
3/5
It was ok.
Kate Bush
3/5
It was fine. Nothing special.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Not a big fan of blues, but this was ok.
Jungle Brothers
2/5
I hate rap. But this wasn’t terrible. I just didn’t like it.
Elton John
4/5
This is very good. A lot of his best songs here. Might be overlong being a double album.
Elvis Presley
3/5
Pretty weak. Not bad just meh.
3/5
It was fine, nothing special.
The Vines
3/5
It was ok.
Mott The Hoople
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
LL Cool J
2/5
I didn’t like it but I didn’t hate it. Just another rap album. Too many on this list.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
This was fine. A couple very good songs and the rest good.
Dire Straits
4/5
Very good. Some great songs. Some good songs.
The Replacements
3/5
It was ok.
AC/DC
3/5
Just ok.
Kings of Leon
3/5
It’s ok
Silver Jews
3/5
Average at best
The Who
3/5
Live albums are usually not my thing. This one didn’t change that.
D'Angelo
2/5
Not terrible but dull.
The La's
3/5
It’s fine
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
It’s good
Jamiroquai
2/5
I didn’t like this. Musically it may be good but it’s not for me.
The Dictators
3/5
It’s ok.
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Talk Talk
2/5
Supergrass
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
1/5
Terrible
Buck Owens
2/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Norah Jones
3/5
The Verve
2/5
Boring.
James Taylor
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Not one of their best
Elliott Smith
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Not very good
Amy Winehouse
2/5
The longer it went the more bored I got.
Traffic
4/5
Blur
3/5
Rush
3/5
Genesis
3/5
White Denim
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
The Police
3/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
The Auteurs
2/5
I didn’t like this. Forgettable.
Radiohead
3/5
John Lennon
3/5
It’s mid. Nothing special about this.
Bill Callahan
3/5
Billie Holiday
2/5
Songs were boring. I didn’t really like her voice.
Moby Grape
3/5
Pentangle
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Nothing special folk songs
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
4/5
This was very good.
Peter Gabriel
3/5
50 Cent
1/5
I really hate this junk
Sonic Youth
3/5
It’s mid. Nothing bad. Nothing great.
John Martyn
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Several great songs here. But some are just ok.
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Japan
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
The Coral
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Grizzly Bear
2/5
The songs were not bad but they were boring.
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Al Green
3/5
Not normally my style of music. But this is pretty good.
Ride
3/5
Big Black
4/5
I liked this a lot. Sure it’s noisy and the production jarring but that’s what is required.
Eurythmics
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
M.I.A.
2/5
UB40
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Pavement
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Ok but too long.
Sonic Youth
3/5
I don’t know why we need 3 Sonic Youth albums. They all sound the same.
The Jam
3/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
It was fine. Nothing memorable.
The Triffids
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Adele
4/5
Nothing bad and a few very good songs here.
Adam & The Ants
3/5
Meh
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Chicago
3/5
It wasn’t bad. Just ok.
Jazmine Sullivan
2/5
Yuck.
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Overall I didn’t really like this.
Megadeth
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Doves
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
Love
3/5
One great song and the rest good.
Pavement
3/5
It was not bad.
M.I.A.
2/5
Two albums by MIA is too many.
Sugar
3/5
Elton John
4/5
Very good album from his best period.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Kind of weird but not as weird as his later stuff.
Pulp
3/5
It has the one great song and the rest were ok.
The Clash
3/5
If you like punk, this is a classic. I’m not a huge fan of the genre so it’s fine.