My User Albums Journey

User Albums Journey

Exploring beyond the book, one album at a time

168

Albums Rated

2.92

Average Rating

Rating Distribution

Rating Timeline

Taste Profile

2020s

Favorite Decade

Metal

Favorite Genre

Top Origin

Perfectionist

Rater Style ?

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

Breakdown

By Genre

By Decade

By Origin

Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Chocolate & Cheese Ween	5	3.09	+1.91
Things We Lost In The Fire Low	5	3.14	+1.86
Once Nightwish	4	2.79	+1.21
Out Of Time R.E.M.	5	3.91	+1.09
Animals Pink Floyd	5	3.93	+1.07
Fear Inoculum TOOL	4	2.98	+1.02
Funeral Dress Wussy	4	3	+1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Piñata Freddie Gibbs	1	2.87	-1.87
Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) Jai Paul	1	2.73	-1.73
Madvillainy Madvillain	2	3.4	-1.4
Paid In Full Eric B. & Rakim	2	3.3	-1.3
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown King Tubby	2	3.24	-1.24
Rip It Off Times New Viking	1	2.2	-1.2
Come On Over Shania Twain	2	3.11	-1.11
Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 Bruce Springsteen	2	3.1	-1.1
Mad Dogs & Englishmen Joe Cocker	2	3.05	-1.05

5-Star Albums (4)

View Album Wall

Popular Reviews

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

3/5

It was ok even though it’s not really my thing.

2 likes

Metallic K.O.

The Stooges

2/5

Not a very good live album.

1 likes

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

5/5

One of my favorite bands. Love the dreamy feeling.

1 likes

People

The Burning Hell

4/5

I had never heard of them. This was very good.

1 likes

Modal Soul

Nujabes

3/5

I didn’t like the rap but the rest was ok.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings

Rip It Off

Times New Viking

1/5

I listened to all 1089 albums from the books. Now I’m on the listener suggested. This one is not even lo-fi it’s no-fi. I couldn’t discern a song here.

Goat

The Jesus Lizard

2/5

A massive slab of noise.

Ultra Blue

Hikaru Utada

3/5

F♯ A♯ ∞

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

4/5

Very good. I love the atmospheric sounds. Their later albums are better but this is still good.

Nail

Scraping Foetus off the Wheel

3/5

This is pretty good. Not my favorite by him.

Home Sweet Home

Kano

2/5

Not horrible, just not my thing.

Moffou

Salif Keita

3/5

Somewhere In The Between

Streetlight Manifesto

3/5

The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess

Chappell Roan

3/5

HELLYEAH

3/5

Contra

Vampire Weekend

3/5

Nothing special, just ok

What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

The Vaccines

3/5

This was pretty good. Nothing memorable but nothing bad.

Look Sharp!

Joe Jackson

3/5

Metallic K.O.

The Stooges

2/5

Not a very good live album.

Spanish Train And Other Stories

Chris de Burgh

2/5

Didn’t like this one.

City Of Evil

Avenged Sevenfold

3/5

It was ok.

The Great Outdoors Jam

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

2/5

You'd Prefer an Astronaut

Hum

3/5

Nonagon Infinity

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

3/5

It’s fine although it’s essentially one long song.

Millennium

Backstreet Boys

2/5

Boy bands are not my vibe.

Come On Over

Shania Twain

2/5

Lame country pop.

Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)

Jai Paul

1/5

A bunch of half finished demos of uninteresting songs.

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

SOPHIE

2/5

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

Roger Waters

3/5

No.1 In Heaven

Sparks

3/5

John Dawson Winter III

Johnny Winter

3/5

Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay

3/5

Piledriver

Status Quo

3/5

Pretty good straight ahead rock.

The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit

3/5

It was fine. Nothing bad on this.

People

The Burning Hell

4/5

I had never heard of them. This was very good.

Hammersmith Odeon, London '75

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

I’m not a normally a fan of live albums and this didn’t move the needle.

Kick

INXS

3/5

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

3/5

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

3/5

Emotional Mugger

Ty Segall

3/5

Souvlaki

Slowdive

3/5

Zuckerzeit

Cluster

3/5

Currents

Tame Impala

3/5

Bon Iver

3/5

It was ok, nothing special.

Sing To God

Cardiacs

2/5

Didn’t care for this. Plus it’s too long.

Out Of Time

R.E.M.

5/5

Excellent. The songs are good to great.

WORRY

Jeff Rosenstock

3/5

This was pretty good. None of the songs stuck with me but a good listen nonetheless.

Before These Crowded Streets

Dave Matthews Band

3/5

It was fine. Nothing bad. Nothing special.

Chocolate & Cheese

Ween

5/5

One of my favorite bands with one of their best albums. Excellent beginning to end.

Not Animal

Margot & The Nuclear So And So's

3/5

McDonald and Giles

Ian McDonald

3/5

Ok prog rock

Yeti

Amon Düül II

3/5

Frosting On The Beater

The Posies

3/5

A Salty Dog

Procol Harum

4/5

Mostly very good.

Damien Rice

3/5

Stop Making Sense

Talking Heads

3/5

I don’t usually like live albums. But this wasn’t too bad.

Rose Mountain

Screaming Females

3/5

This was pretty good. Nothing fantastic but good for a listen.

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

3/5

It was ok even though it’s not really my thing.

People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World

AJJ

3/5

It’s different but it’s ok.

Operation Ivy

3/5

It was ok.

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Ornette Coleman

3/5

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Pleasant but dull. Just ok.

Recipe for Hate

Bad Religion

3/5

An ok punk album

Don't Throw Stones

THE SPORTS

3/5

Oceanic

ISIS

3/5

It was pretty good except for the harsh vocals.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

Joe Cocker

2/5

I don’t care for live albums. This didn’t move the needle.

Blade Runner

Vangelis

3/5

It was ok.

L'autre...

Mylène Farmer

3/5

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tally Hall

3/5

Repetition

Unwound

3/5

This was pretty good. Nothing great but ok to listen to once.

Things We Lost In The Fire

Low

5/5

One of my favorite bands. Love the dreamy feeling.

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

3/5

Meh. Kind of dull.

Portishead

3/5

Sublime

3/5

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

The Caretaker

2/5

Old time music with scratches and pops. Not exactly the type of music I would listen to.

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang of Youths

3/5

Thank Christ for the Bomb

The Groundhogs

3/5

Loss

Mull Historical Society

3/5

Piñata

Freddie Gibbs

1/5

I hate this kind of rap. And I in general hate rap.

Script Of The Bridge

The Chameleons

3/5

It was ok.

Once

Nightwish

4/5

Very good symphonic metal.

Djarimirri

Gurrumul

3/5

Very different. OK but unremarkable.

Silent Alarm

Bloc Party

3/5

Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!

Gotcha!

2/5

Didn’t really like this. It wasn’t terrible.

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

3/5

It’s fine. Very mellow.

Boys And Girls in America

The Hold Steady

3/5

Fear Inoculum

TOOL

4/5

Very good. The songs were very long but good.

Shack-man

Medeski, Martin & Wood

4/5

Not normally a fan of jazz. But this style I do like and this was very good.

Animals

Pink Floyd

5/5

This is excellent. They had a streak of brilliant albums.

Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers

Mew

3/5

This was good. One excellent song, the last one. The rest were ok.

Please Don't Take Me Back

Martha

3/5

Slip

Quicksand

3/5

Boxer

The National

3/5

It was ok. Nothing special stood out.

Get Rich Or Die Ryan

Spose

3/5

I usually hate rap but this wasn’t terrible. It had actual music and it was fine.

I Am

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

It was good. It’s not the type of music I usually listen to but I liked it.

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief

3/5

There were some nice moments here but not many memorable.

Modal Soul

Nujabes

3/5

I didn’t like the rap but the rest was ok.

St. Louis To Liverpool

Chuck Berry

3/5

It was ok. Old fashioned rock and roll.

Old No. 1

Guy Clark

3/5

Once Upon a Rhyme

David Allan Coe

3/5

Discovery

Daft Punk

3/5

It was ok. Electronica is not my favorite genre. But it was listenable.

Don't Say No

Billy Squier

3/5

Pretty standard early 80s rock. Not bad. Not great.

Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

3/5

Fairly good.

News at 11

Cat System Corp.

2/5

Not my thing.

Alopecia

WHY?

3/5

Get Fucked

The Chats

3/5

Standard punk. Just ok.

Black Devil Disco Club

3/5

Exile On Coldharbour Lane

Alabama 3

3/5

First Utterance

Comus

3/5

Pretty good. Prog folk is interesting.

Korn

2/5

Bleh. Not my thing.

A City Dressed In Dynamite

That Handsome Devil

3/5

A Live One

Phish

2/5

A live album from a jam band. Double ugh.

Yellow & Green

Baroness

3/5

O Monstro Precisa De Amigos

Ornatos Violeta

3/5

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Primus

3/5

A little too quirky for me but it was ok for one listen.

Katamari Damacy

Various Artists

3/5

Music from a video game I’ve never heard of. It’s fine.

Great Big Sea

3/5

Ænima

TOOL

3/5

Odyssey Number Five

Powderfinger

3/5

Bob Mould

3/5

Meh. It was ok.

Is Ellipsis

Psyche Origami

2/5

I don’t like most hip hop. This was no exception.

Afrociberdelia

Chico Science

3/5

It was ok.

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

M83

3/5

Watch Out!

Alexisonfire

3/5

It’s not terrible. But I don’t like screamed vocals.

Alive 2007

Daft Punk

3/5

It’s ok. Not really my style of music.

Angel Dust

Faith No More

3/5

It wasn’t all bad. There were only a couple songs I liked.

Madvillainy

Madvillain

2/5

I don’t like hip hop but this wasn’t horrible hip hop.

Toxicity

System Of A Down

4/5

Several great songs but not perfect.

Squeezing Out Sparks

Graham Parker

3/5

Symbolic

Death

3/5

Not usually a genre I listen to but it was ok.

Control

Pedro The Lion

3/5

Only God Was Above Us

Vampire Weekend

3/5

Grace And Danger

John Martyn

2/5

Blander than bland

Apostrophe(')

Frank Zappa

4/5

This is very good. A bit off kilter. But that makes it interesting.

Tomorrow Belongs To Me

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Just did not like this. Bad and boring songs.

Ram

Paul McCartney

3/5

It was good a couple of really good songs and some filler.

Englabörn

Jóhann Jóhannsson

3/5

This was nice background music.

After Hours

The Weeknd

3/5

Not my favorite style of music but it was ok.

Foxes in the Snow

Jason Isbell

3/5

Meh. Kind of boring but not terrible.

Beautiful Midnight

Matthew Good Band

3/5

Ruin

The Amazing Devil

3/5

Up To Here

The Tragically Hip

3/5

Out of the Blue

Debbie Gibson

3/5

It’s fine for 80s pop.

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

3/5

Blues songs kind of sound the same to me but this was fine.

Brand New Eyes

Paramore

3/5

Funeral Dress

Wussy

4/5

I like this kind of music and I like this.

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

3/5

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

The Dear Hunter

3/5

Ocean Avenue

Yellowcard

3/5

Standard emo punk. Nothing special.

Dogrel

Fontaines D.C.

3/5

The Animal Years

Josh Ritter

3/5

It’s ok.

Take It From The Man

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

3/5

The Monitor

Titus Andronicus

3/5

GLOW ON

Turnstile

3/5

Revolution

Q65

3/5

It was pretty good.

Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

3/5

This was pretty good.

Nuyorican Soul

3/5

Crystal Castles

2/5

This was mostly annoying with few good spots.

TRON: Legacy

Daft Punk

3/5

It was pretty good. Nothing special but nothing bad.

Wildflowers

Tom Petty

4/5

He doesn’t have any bad songs. This was very good.

Puzzle

Biffy Clyro

3/5

Young, Loud And Snotty

Dead Boys

3/5

Pop Art

Transvision Vamp

3/5

Triage

David Baerwald

2/5

This was blah for me. Nothing clicked.

Sound Awake

Karnivool

3/5

It’s pretty good. Sounds a lot like Tool. And that’s not bad.

King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

King Tubby

2/5

With no melody at all everything sounds the same. Boring.

Paid In Full

Eric B. & Rakim

2/5

Bleh. I don’t like hip hop and this didn’t move the needle.

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

The Alan Parsons Project

3/5

It was ok.

Year of the Cat

Al Stewart

3/5

Geography

Tom Misch

2/5

Smooth as a bowling ball. It’s not terrible but it’s not my style.

From The Lions Mouth

The Sound

3/5

AmarElo

Emicida

2/5

Rap is slightly better when you don’t understand what they are saying but I still don’t care for it.

Harbor Lights

Bruce Hornsby

3/5

Meh. It wasn’t bad but it did nothing for me.