My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	5	3	+2
Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev	5	3.02	+1.98
Traffic Traffic	5	3.08	+1.92
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	4	2.11	+1.89
New York Dolls New York Dolls	5	3.12	+1.88
Repeater Fugazi	5	3.12	+1.88
Soul Mining The The	5	3.17	+1.83
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	5	3.19	+1.81
Close To The Edge Yes	5	3.19	+1.81
Elastica Elastica	5	3.21	+1.79

Album	You	Global	Diff
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.61	-2.61
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.41	-2.41
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Vespertine Björk	1	3.16	-2.16
Kala M.I.A.	1	2.91	-1.91
Destroy Rock & Roll Mylo	1	2.89	-1.89
In Utero Nirvana	2	3.83	-1.83
Yeezus Kanye West	1	2.77	-1.77
Medúlla Björk	1	2.72	-1.72
Grace Jeff Buckley	2	3.71	-1.71

Artist	Albums	Average
Talking Heads	4	5
R.E.M.	4	5
Led Zeppelin	3	5
Yes	3	4.67
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	4.67
Beatles	3	4.67
Steely Dan	3	4.67
Pink Floyd	3	4.67
King Crimson	2	5
Queen	2	5
Elton John	2	5
The Who	4	4.25
David Bowie	6	4
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	3	4.33
The White Stripes	3	4.33
The Rolling Stones	5	4

Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	3	1
Björk	2	1
PJ Harvey	3	2

Artist	Ratings
Funkadelic	2, 5
Fleetwood Mac	5, 2
The Velvet Underground	5, 2, 2
Paul Simon	2, 4, 5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3, 2, 5, 4

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Meh. Welcome to the jungle is obviously a banger. It's so easy is bad. I feel like there are four good songs on this album. The rest get by on Axel's unique voice.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Achtung Baby

U2

4/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

2/5

I guess if I ever need to study again this is good music for it. The first 3/4ths, the last bit got annoying.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

Edit- I can't believe I gave this a 3! I listen to this album all the time now. Elbow has a great, unique sound.

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Mostly repetitive.

Kala

M.I.A.

1/5

I couldn't finish a single song. I tried, I really did.

Boston

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

It's like King Crimson was forced to play a very fancy wedding.

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

I might listen again if I feel like being sad for no reason

Goo

Sonic Youth

2/5

I half liked it. The talk singing is not my favorite

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

3/5

So weird Circus? Piano bar? Spoken word hipster night at the library? Cough a lung up for me, Tom.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

I won't listen to it again, but I see why it's here. Not my music for the most part, but I did save Roses to my everyday playlist.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

I don't care for the general theme of a few songs, but it's a solid album.

Faith

George Michael

3/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Would have loved to listen to this on vinyl while a stoned teenager

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

God this album is boring. It's so boring I didn't notice when it ended.

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

It's fun, but no idea why it's here

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

...I think I like Megadeth now.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

3/5

I didn't hate this, but I was confused when I read the genres. It's definitely not punk. I don't know what it is.

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Good but I can't see myself listening to a lot of this. Can really tell it's about a breakup

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

I wish I knew more about funk so I could tell if this was groundbreaking or how different it was from the norm. It totally tells a story, I enjoyed it.

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Not my thing, but listenable

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

Ugh. I'm almost the exact same age as Britney. I remember being icked by her treatment by the media, and how she was presented as a teen. I can't get over that when listening. I guess this is a great example of 90s pop, but most of the songs remind me of the end credits of bad romance movies. I actually said "wtf" at Soda Pop, and cracked up at "Email My Heart" Why is this my longest review?

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Bring back old country

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

This would almost be a 4 but there was too much country influence. I do realize I just said I like old country, but not in Rolling Stone form.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

It's just a bunch of dudes posturing. Except for the one woman. I'm gonna say 2.5 though, cause if I didn't understand English I would have almost enjoyed it.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

The originals deserve to be here. The covers, meh. This album is mostly covers. The song "Strychnine" is an obvious early punk influence.

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

I really liked this album. I don't think I've ever heard or the band before. It's like soft-psychedelica. Casual psych? I don't know. The lyrics in a few songs were a bit weird and the rhymes pretty simple, but I like weird, and the music was good so whatever.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Just the other day I told my project buddy that I'd rather kiss Steve Harvey on the mouth than listen to Kate Bush. The universe was listening, so I got this album. Musically and lyrically, she's great. Her voice, however, is like watching interpretive dancers being strangled. I will admit, I take back what I said about Steve. But that's not because I changed my mind about Kate Bush, ! just really hate Steve Harvey.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Solid 90s alt-ish rock

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Eeeeeh, I don't know

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

My friend says I'm stingy, so I'm rounding up this time. The Murder Mystery is too weird, but I liked it more on my second listen.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

Jesus left Chicago is the only good ZZ Top song

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

I liked this. It was layered without being messy, good lyrics, occasionally good messages. I was surprised from a dude calling himself Q-Tip

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

I might need to add this to my list of favorite bands. I have no idea why I never came across them before.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

In the immortal words of Marcus Brody, "I'd rather spit in your face."

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

I still don't know if I can say I like jazz. I'll start to like a song, then they play the same 4 notes 18 times in a row. Oh well.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

Doodoodoodoodoo DOOT doo doodoodoodoo

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

As if I needed another reason to never go to Nebraska. Jesus Christ, who likes this sad sack bullshit music?

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

The bad outweighs the good here. I wish I could edit the songs, cause there's some good stuff. But Jesus. Stop saying the same things, you idiot. And quit with the screeching noises.

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

I get that the VU is very influential, and I like a ton of stuff that smarter listeners say were influenced by them, but calling this album good is like calling a bucket of cum a doctor.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Not my thing but not painful.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

I guess I'm not ready for this jelly.

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Tommy Walker - Malicious compliance champion, 1921

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Oh Leonard. You were better than this. This album is SO disjointed. Waltzes, and synth and crazy high background singers... I'm gonna start making people listen to Jazz Police when the say they like Leonard Cohen but can only name one song. (And you know what song I mean)

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Sometimes familiar, sometimes unique, sometimes a bit cheesy. An all around fun album.

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

3/5

It's like Bond-esque funk, met a spaghetti western in India and decided to stay.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Le Tigre

4/5

Telling Giuliani to fuck off before it was cool.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

I hate to say this, but other than Sweet Dreams the song, this album was not good. A few of the songs were alright, most were just too weird for me.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

I'm not super familiar with Joni Mitchell and I thought this album would be full of slow sad stuff. It was pretty upbeat and enjoyable.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

My grandma always had the radio in her bedroom playing super low, just barely perceptible. This brought me back to looking through grandma's jewelry box and napping on her big bed. I put the album on as I fell asleep and slept better than I have in weeks. Obviously, this has nothing to do with how good the album is. Deal with it.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

Good music, bad vocals

The Doors

4/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

It was alright until "Battlestar Scralatchtica" Actually, I can't even say that now, cause when I went back to double check the spelling of "Scralatchtica," I noticed I accidentally shuffled the album. So the hope I had from thinking I was almost done is gone. I'm not finishing, cause this is just like listening to any rock station in the 90s.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

The Beach Boys are consummate boomers, singing about a mean guy who hurt their little sister in one song, then singing about hurting their girlfriend to make themselves feel better in another. Good times. I know I'm not a fan because of overexposure.

Fragile

Yes

5/5

Full disclosure, Yes is my favorite band. I have a tattoo to prove it. I get why people don't like prog. It's long, it's weird, it's pretentious. But Fragile is a great argument against all that. It's fun, it's catchy, it's a little deep. And there is a song for each member to show off their instrumental chops. And, in case you didn't know, every single member on this album is an actual rock god. Even Jon Anderson, the little weirdo.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

I dug the fuck out of this.

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

I'm not a big fan of Electronica, but this wasn't terrible. It wasn't great either. Kind of boring, but still pleasant enough. Good background music. The lyrics were pretty whiny "why don't you love me" stuff.

The Specials

2/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

1/5

I will never be high enough to enjoy this.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

4/5

There might not be any diamonds in the mine, but I got a few stars for ya.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

This man is a treasure

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Future Days

Can

3/5

Not as great as Tago Mago. It was more ambient, less vocals. Still enjoyed it. Love that I discovered CAN.

Elvis Presley

3/5

Alright. Everyone already knows Elvis, so it's impossible to write a first impression review. I grew up listening to the oldies station at home, so by age 13 I already hated him purely from overexposure. I get Elvis. I get that he brought a new and exciting genre to the white folks. I probably would have been just as nuts for him as most teens in the 50s. But I'm a 40 something in the 20s now, and it's a no from me. I just don't like his voice. I hate the typical Elvis uh-huh thing, and I hate when he's not doing it too. It's seriously lackluster and sometimes just whiney. So thanks for all you did, Elvis, but we've got it from here.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

I enjoyed this, but not enough for them to be my new favorite band.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

This was... okay? Pretty forgettable. Kind of trying to be Tom Petty. Generic indie.

Femi Kuti

3/5

I'd clean the house to this.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

I liked this much more than The Queen is Dead. Depressing lyrics disguised by upbeat music is my jam.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

It's good background music, but hard to pay attention to

Metallica

5/5

You don't have to love metal to know that this is a perfect album.

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Just all over the place. Country pop, orchestra, 60s psychedelic, in a supposed rock concept album about a ship? Yeah okay. A weird ass album.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Sorry, Kimberly. Noel might be a cunt, but this is a damn good album.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

I listened to some of this album then forgot to listen to the rest. It's my birthday though, so I can do what I want. Most of the songs sounded too similar, except for Sickman, which I honestly thought was White Zombie, so that was weird. Actually, that was as far as I got. My friends got me drunk on my birthday, and I just want to see what my next album is.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

It's interesting, in the way that if Phish were born and raised in Argentina would be interesting.

21

Adele

5/5

Adele is one of the only truly unique talents to come out of the last 20 years and I'll fight you about it.

The Modern Lovers

4/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Super boring for the first hard-core rap album but rap isn't my thing anyway.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

There's a man, screaming at you in French. You offer him a lozenge. He accepts, then hops on his carousel and rides off, cackling with the calliope. You shrug, and decide to try a trip through the fun house you suddenly notice. The man is there. The lozenge didn't help. Shit's about to get weird. And that's just the first song.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

This was a lovely album.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

I was surprised at how much I liked this. Courtney Love doesn't the greatest voice, but with this genre it doesn't matter.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

I'm just not a huge fan of Willie's voice.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Definitely weird, but totally enjoyable. Sort of reminded me of the soundtrack for a dystopian action film, which might be what they were actually going for.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Uuuh, Mother was pretty jarring. The rest was the Police. I like the Police.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Lol, no

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

1/5

\"That's not music. That's EDM.\"

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Music for people who regret their Nightmare Before Christmas tattoo.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

Very 80s

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Chaotic ska punk? It was alright

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

White Light

Gene Clark

3/5

Eh. It was good.

Bert Jansch

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

At first I was wondering how they went from what seemed to be a more enjoyable and coherent album to the cum bucket that is White Light/White Heat, but then I hit the halfway point. Andy Warhol just found a bunch of stoned beat poets and threw some guitars and trash can lids at them and said play, didn't he?

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Enjoyable enough. Not amazing.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

Pleasant but disappointing. Didn't really go anywhere. I do like Paul Simon, but this fell flat.

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Eh. Mellow, forgettable.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Pleasant but largely forgettable. Okay voice, good lyrics, a few catchy songs, mostly kind of downers.

The Stone Roses

4/5

Listened twice in a day. Really liked them.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

I wish I was the type of floaty cottagecore girl who likes Fiona Apple, but I'm just not. There were a couple of good songs, but most of the album was just too random for me.

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Good, but not my thing

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

If you rhyme violent, misogynistic abs homopobic bullshit, I guess that's art. Sorry bout your childhood, Slim. Get therapy. Oh, but at least this album introduced more people to Dido.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Enjoyed more than I thought I would

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Thank God she's not another Beyonce

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Not my style but not horrible

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

4/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

I was very pleased at the lack of screaming. I was worried. Very much enjoyed this album

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

If PJ Harvey grabbed a guitar at a house party I would definitely leave.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Loved this

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

2/5

I almost started to like this, then it started to repeat and got annoying. It was kind of chill, but again, when a song repeats the same thing over and over, I start to hate it.

Queen II

Queen

5/5

Queen: Weirder than you thought. And that's a good thing.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Mostly too country for me, but hell yes on the Woody Guthrie lyrics

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Good punk album

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Soul Mining

The The

5/5

Great album.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

How do we love Bob Dylan so much? It makes no sense.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

25

Adele

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

2/5

The stars are cause they can play their instruments. The vocals make me want to wrap my own throat in a warm cocoon made of melted ricolas and never speak again.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Pretty chill, but annoying and repetitive enough for me to not want to listen more.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Somewhere between genius and really high in the sixties. Moog Raga is the sound my sleep paralysis demon makes.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Other than the songs we all k ow it was pretty standard pop rock

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

I mostly enjoyed this, but these shoegaze/jam/whatever bands need to know that some of us can't take more than 6 bars of the same thing.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

I just really don't want to listen to this.

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

I appreciate TS being able to make fun of herself in Shake It Off, and sort of in Blank Space. There are a few good songs, but mostly just kind of boilerplate narcissistic pop.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

4/5

A little bit of a lot of genres

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Girl, leave him.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

I can appreciate Elvis Costello, but I just can't get into him. I've tried. I give up.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Moribund the Burgermeister sounds very much like old Genesis. Excuse Me sounds like it was written with Randy Newman in mind. An interesting but sort of disjointed mix of styles, but nothing I didn't enjoy.

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Yeah, okay It was. Fine? Honestly, it was several hours ago. I remember liking it, then just not even noticing it. Towards the end (well, after the end) I thought, oh hey, I like this! Then realized the album had ended and Spotify just picked something it thought I'd like.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Another double album with too much filler. Good, meaningful lyrics, but a lot of the songs were just boring. I'm a little ashamed to say cause Stevie is a legend and all that, but whatever. No mercy. This is an okay album.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

4/5

I was expecting to hate this, but I did not.

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Yeah, pleasant enough. It's always weird to hear a song that was popular growing up, but that I completely forgot about (Babylon)

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

I dated a guy who made music like this on his Nintendo.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

4/5

Really enjoyed this. Kind of hard pop punk definitely from the 80s

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

It was nice, and if I was a 20 year old looking to get laid I'd put this album on.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

It's weird, listening to an album you've never listened to, but still know all the songs from. I definitely enjoyed this.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

5/5

King Crimson is one of my favorite bands. Top 3. Easy Money is one of my favorite songs. Bill Bruford is one of the most brilliant drummers ever, and Robert Fripp is a strange little genius. Lark's Tongue in Aspic Part II is insane live.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

This album is wild, if you know when it was made. You can hear the 60s pop, and you can see the punk coming.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

2/5

When a song says "We can bump uglies if you ain't got your monthly" I'm out.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

I enjoyed maybe 3 out of 10 songs. I'm just not into the droning storyteller vibe. If this was a book of poetry it'd be fine, but no, he had to pick up a guitar.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Yeah okay. So, I admire Janelle Monae as an interesting, artistic person, but wasn't expecting to really like this. And there was some I didn't like. But it was pretty alright. Avant-garde, jazzy, and a mostly cohesive album.

The Cars

4/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

3/5

This album is kind of all over, but I get that he was influenced by basically everything so... I enjoyed it well enough, and found myself dancing a bit, but who doesn't dance to the Merengue?

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

I was recommended The Jesus and Mary Chain several years ago and never followed up. After I listened to Darklands I kicked myself over having missed years of listening to this band. Having listened to their second album first, I was glad to see that their first was just as good, with them having fully fledged out their sound and not needing to go through a growing pain period.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

The United States Of America

3/5

This album vacillates wildy between, "yeah, I can dig this" and "Oh no, what are you doing. Often in the same song. If you know anything about music in the late 60s, you already know what this album sounds like.

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

I'm just gonna say that I probably agree with everything these guys are saying, but I don't really need it rapped at me for an hour.

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

I can handle this in small doses, and only if it can skip past the repetitive bits.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

I was kind of disappointed. Didn't rock as hard as I thought it would.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

I did not expect to like this, was pleasantly surprised. I even listened twice.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

I wonder how I'd feel about this if I had never heard them before. And also if my workplace didn't play a disco-heavy 70s station all the time. Were they groundbreaking? No idea. Are they fun? Sure. Will I ever choose to listen to them again? Nope.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

If this was recorded in 1963 it'd be great. Instead, it was made 15 years later and just sounds kind of sad and tired.

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

When I listen to rap lyrics I usually have three thoughts. 1) yeah, I guess I agree, the system sucks. 2) gross, no one needs to hear about this. And 3) why are you writing a song about this? This album was way more 1 that 2 and 3, and had the bonus of being musically competent.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

1999

Prince

3/5

The "1" on the on the cover art is totally a dick tip. I've just never been able to get into Prince. He's enjoyable enough. He has his own sound, which I always appreciate, but there's just something that turns me off. That said, I don't hate it, and I get why it's on the list.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

So, yesterday I had 1999 by Prince. I don't really care for Prince. I do love David Bowie, however, and upon listening to Young Americans, I felt that 1999 took a lot of influence from Bowie. I don't know how to feel about this. Good album, but not my favorite of his.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

4 stars, then minus one because Eric Clapton's a racist piece of shit who raped his wife.

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Eh. It's Dylan, you know what you're getting. His voice ain't great, some of the songs are. This album is rather bluesy. Highlands is 16 minutes of boring storytelling and the same guitar over and over

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Good, inoffensive, background music. But not groundbreaking or anything.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

I really did not enjoy this, with the exception of Eternal Life. I would have liked Hallelujah, but at this point in time, everyone has done Hallelujah. I mean I do like it, but this dude didn't even write it.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

I started each song. I did not finish each song.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

I had no idea what to expect with these guys. I've heard of them, but had no clue what genre they are. I was pleasantly surprised! I like them. Modern, but soulful Good stuff

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

It's like... They're almost good. The elements are there. There's egg, sugar, and flour, but it's not a cake. Close, but no cake.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

I wonder why The Verve never made it further.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

4/5

I hope everyone knows these are mostly just notes for the future me. I liked this. Listen again.

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

All good stuff, except for Suicide. Too long, too repetitive.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Sigur Rós is one of those bands where I need to take a deep breath and sigh before explaining my feelings. I tried to get into them a long time ago, but as that was pre-streaming, and I was a poor student, I only ever bought one album. I don't know man. They're not really a band you can just have in a playlist with the other normal bands. They're a sit down, shut up, and listen band. They're a purebred show dog watching the shelter mutts from the shade. (I get that dogs are dogs, I just couldn't think of anything else) This album was 30 minutes of me wondering how to say \"God, I'm depressed\" in Icelandic, and 30 minutes of me thinking maybe the world is beautiful after all, and knowing better than to look up the translations (having learned my lesson from the first few I looked up). The music is very beautiful, the vocals are high and breathy, which is off-putting to me. Some songs felt like a dude who was talking too close to my face. I told my listening buddy that I almost feel bad for not liking non-English music, but at the same time, English might ruin this. My favorite song from the album, Starálfur, is about an elf. I can't take that seriously. I really don't know if I'm going to listen more. I might owe it to whomever originally suggested them to 19 year old me to try again. Maybe they were right.

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

For whatever reason, I'm not able to listen to this album. Which is great, cause I didn't want to. How does she have 4 albums on this list?

System Of A Down

2/5

SoaD gives me bad memories

In Utero

Nirvana

2/5

Two good songs and some screaming.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

I honestly don't even know what to say about this. Is it serious? I guess it doesn't matter, cause obviously music can be fun. I think it should be fun. But what even is this album? It's very weird.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Every single song on this album is a five.

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

I like her voice, kind of basic beats, pretty chill though.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

I remember seeing Jenna Elfman on a late night show once. The host mentioned that she used to be a backup dancer for ZZ Top and asked if she'd do a little dance. The band leader asked what song they should play, and she replied that it doesn't matter, the dance is basically the same for all of them.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

Yeah okay. I guess I can't claim Primus and Ween among my favorites if I can't listen to this. It's not terrible, don't get scared away by other reviews.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

I used to really like Bob Dylan, but I also used to smoke a lot of pot.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

I don't dislike it, I just don't see the point of it

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

Needs to be longer

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Hard pass. Fuck this guy.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

Pretty good. Only knew him from Wishing Well previously. Beautiful voice.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Fire and Rain is a classic. The rest is just nice.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Way more county than rock. Its okay.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

2/5

War

U2

4/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

3 stars for being a decent rock album, plus 1 having the best song for DJs to play when they needed to have a shit.

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Before we knew the sex of our first baby I suggested naming it Deacon, if it was a boy, cause I heard Deacon Blues on the radio. We ended up with a girl, and named her Josie. But not after the Steely Dan song, cause I'm pretty sure that's about a hooker. It's fun to tell her she's named after a song about a hooker though. Anyway, love Steely Dan. Even though Steely Dan is named after a dildo.

xx

The xx

3/5

Unremarkable but pleasant

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

I hate to admit that I don't like many female singers. But I liked Liz. She's not a great singer, but her lyrics are dirty and raw and not lovely dovey shit.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

I'm on some medications that are messing with my brain right now. I don't know if this was a bad time to listen to this album, or the perfect time. I have actually listened to this album many times before though. Astronomy Domine is one of the best prog compositions of all time.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

Another one I couldn't finish. It gets a 2, cause I've heard worse.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Pleasant background music

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Kind of all over the place, but I enjoyed

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

The Stooges

3/5

"We Will Fall" kind of ruined the vibe, but solid

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Not a single bad song

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

I did not appreciate this enough at 13, but damn if it isn't a solid album.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Dirty Hippie Breakdown: The Musical I could pick out a song or two, or fragment that's listenable, but this is just a mess. I feel bad saying that, cause dude had some shit going on, but we all have our moments, that doesn't mean they should be recorded.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

This isn't my thing, but I didn't hate it. Upbeat, good mood music, but kind of too much to listen to all at once.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

I did not enjoy this, but I could have enjoyed it less

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

I get why people like this type of music, and I liked some of the songs, but it's just not in my personality to like pretty, sad, slightly whiny, songs.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

As soon as I say I don't like pretty, sad, slightly whiny songs I find some pretty, sad, slightly whiny songs to like. But they weren't all that way, which helps! I really liked this, I'll definitely listen again and listen to more of his work. Also, I totally called it when I thought spotify would pick Nick Drake to play after this album finished.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Eh. I guess I don't get Radiohead. I probably would have loved them 20 years ago. Wait, when did this come out? Anyway, I don't hate them. But whatever.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

If we came upon a drunk Londoner singing in the gutter outside a pub at midnight and you told me that was Billy Bragg, I would not question you.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

I don't want to know a world without CCR.

Fever Ray

2/5

Not as bad as most things labeled as electronic, but almost engineered to annoy me. Weird vocals, but pleasant music. I only skipped two songs!

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

The second half is way better

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Gives me hope for new music. Very chill and enjoyable

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Crazy how these white English boys made a record that's 70 percent rhythym and blues covers and they're somehow the visionaries.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

4/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Life on Mars? is one of my top 5 Bowie songs. Filll Your Heart was real weird.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

Musically, it was great. Lyrically and vocally? Wtaf. The first third of the album I spent wondering why the dude didn't just sing, then I found out that he can sing, just not well. Then the rest of the album I was nostalgic for the one song that was sung. Great instrumentals with random, mushmouth, stream-of-consciousness ramblings laid over.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Dolly has a lovely voice, and clever, occasionally funny lyrics. She's a great storyteller. I don't really care for country music, except when it's done well, like this.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

I'm not going to deny her talent, but she's too much like a slightly normal Kate Bush. And we all know how I feel about Kate Bush. I'm giving her a 3 just because she's not Kate Bush.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

Cross

Justice

2/5

Starting at \"This Party\" I listened for a minute or two and ended up skipping the rest. The first half is tolerable. But I hate electronica.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Why are there so many talented terrible people?

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

This band is entirely new to me. Pleasantly surprised.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Oh my god, this album is boring. 19 boring songs, and Tusk. Wtf. Boring, boring, less boring, boring, MARCHING BAND. Before today, if you asked me if I liked Fleetwood Mac, I would have said a resounding yes. Now I'd have to say "Mostly"

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Not an album I'd pick, but interesting

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Eh. Just doesn't do it for me. I don't like it, but I don't hate it.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

I could hear how influential this group was. I kept getting snippets of stuff that reminded me of other stuff. It kind of delved into religious bullshit at one point, so that's a negative, but it was generally okay and I can see why it's on the list.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Frank Zappa was the master of whatever the hell it was he was doing.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

I forgot how good this album is. I first listened to it when I was about 19, and it was almost too weird. A few years later I could appreciate it more. Now I'm just shaking my head at my younger self for not loving it immediately.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

I guess once you're famous they let you do anything. Like a boring vanity project.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

Loud and angry and a bit silly. It's punk for sure.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

I feel like I would enjoy this live, but at 10 am, by myself, drinking coffee, I didn't really appreciate listening to that girl simulate an orgasm so much.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Electronica is in my bottom 5 genres, but this was palatable. I won't listen to it again, but I did manage to listen to it. Some of it was pretty.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

Eh

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Can a band be *too* mellow?

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

This album did not need to as long as it is. Over half of the songs could have been cut and this would have basically been a greatest hits. I put off listening to this album because I rarely have 2 hours together to dedicate to one album. I chose the day I drove two hours to the airport. It was early morning, dark, and very foggy. Most of the songs made my drive worse. Usually I like driving music that keeps me on the road, not songs that make me want to drive off of it. I'm conflicted about what my rating should be. I'm going to round up from a 3.5. It's mostly good. I did get sick of a few tracks before they were over, and a lot of them sound very similar. And Billy Corgan's voice... But the hits are the hits. They're good.

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Not nearly as good as Dookie. Unnecessary in this list.

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

I almost gave this a 3, but then got to the end and yeah, no. This album had no idea what it was, or what direction it wanted to go.

John Prine

5/5

Folk country that is funny, sad, and political so at once. Someone needs to remind new country that their flag decals won't get them into heaven anymore.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

I usually only give 4s to albums I'll listen to again. I don't particularly like this, but I cannot deny its cultural impact and the influence it had at the time of release, so there you go.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

2/5

I enjoyed maybe 40 percent of this. But the 60 percent I did not enjoy I *really* did not enjoy. So like... 0--no like---------|--like----------10

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

No

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Like pleasant hotel lobby music, or a Subaru commercial. Unoffensive and very not groundbreaking. I will immediately forget this. 2.5 but rounding up cause I didn't hate it.

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Elvis Costello kind of gets on my nerves, but not today I guess.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

I enjoyed the hell out of this album!

Third

Portishead

2/5

The singer's voice is even more grating than the music.

Paul Simon

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

I honestly still don't know if I like jazz. It's fine. Enjoyable enough, but it becomes a bit of a slog if I listen to too much.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Mostly not terrible

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

3/5

I listened to this twice. The first time I didn't like it at first, then it grew on me. The second time, I liked it less as I listened more. I don't know what to take away from that.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

If I randomly saw this band at a local bar I'd probably see them again, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Yeah okay. Despite having heard the two singles on this album more than my own mother's voice it's decent.

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Every song belongs in a different bad 80s movie.

The Joshua Tree

U2

4/5

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Elastica

5/5

Every song was great, but after reading the other reviews, I guess I need to go listen to Wire.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Good vocalist, engaging music.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

I totally get why people like Reggae. I never was into it, but it's petty enjoyable. I could see myself listening to this again.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

Very much like a ton of music from this Era.

I See You

The xx

2/5

Booooooooring

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

I've heard worse. No idea how this band got 2 albums on the list. Looking at the entry in the book, this album is only 21 minutes and six songs long. Don't make the same mistake as me and listen to the 2 hour deluxe edition.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Pretty slow and sad. Not my thing, but that being said, Ray Charles was a truly unique talent

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

Started okay, and weird, ended just sad.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

So weird, like dude just watched a bunch of b-rate soaps and westerns and decided to write their theme songs

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Pretenders

4/5

Private Life could have been 4 minutes shorter

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Phrenology

The Roots

2/5

The only song I liked was The Seed 2.0, and that was mostly because the music reminded me of the intro to Flight of the Conchords. Most of this was an unpleasant chore to listen to.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

Oooooh my god, I hated every second I could handle. Did not finish.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

Mostly great, except for the weird alien skit and Mind Gardens. My Back Pages is one of my favorite songs

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Eeeeh

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Amazing to see how many artists found huge success with her work. She must have been a captivating performer.

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Fucking terrible

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Short and to the point, like group sex should be. Wait, no...

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

5/5

This is that late 90s/2000s sort of pop prog that I remember, but never got super into, probably because I lived in a small town and this stuff wasn't on the radio. I wish I had, but now I get to, so it's all good. This type of music feels kind running through a field with all your friends.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

After reading the description, I wasn't too thrilled about this. Then the first half wasn't what I was expecting. Way more rock, less Celtic folk. The second half, however, was what I was expecting. I wasn't a fan of the second half.

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Picked up towards the end, but mostly pretty boring country rock. Didn't hate it, won't remember it.

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

Excellent music, angsty 6th grade lyrics

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

3 great songs, 6 kind of boring nothing songs.

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

*fart noises*

The Coral

3/5

An interesting mix of shanties and 60s style rock.

Garbage

4/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

2/5

Wow, apparently electronica can be boring *and* terrible

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

Like shopping at a fancy department store

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

More pretty sad music. Not my thing.

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

Equate brand rock

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Perfect

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

You Ain't Going Nowhere is a great song, the rest is too country for me. But not bad country, so that's something.

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Kind of lackluster

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

This was really hit or miss for me. Half I enjoyed, half was too county.

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

Man, I would have loved the 60s

So

Peter Gabriel

4/5

In my head it's only 3.5 because I had to listen to Kate Bush

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

A 45 minute jam session capped off by a country classic. Overall I enjoyed it.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Great album, I loved hearing Johnny's banter.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Jurassic 5 is the band I mention when I tell people I don't hate all rap.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

This is the most aptly named album ever. If I ever host an orgy this is the only playlist I need.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Respect, but not for me

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

Is this considered a rock opera or concept album? I was pretty surprised by how good it was, and how much I enjoyed it.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

4/5

I must be in a weird mood, cause I actually enjoyed this.

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Overall, I didn't enjoy this. I did get into the last track, but I outright hated 2 & 3. I'd give it a 2.5 if I could, so I'm rounding up today

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

4/5

New York Dolls

5/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

3/5

This was... weird

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

A fun album, I can see why it was included.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

I liked this for the most part, but I don't like spoken word stuff, and it was about a third of it.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

At first I wondered how this band made it out of the garage. It got better, except for Elixir is Zog, which I skipped due to the screaming. The rest were all good enough songs, but it seemed like they never figured out what kind of band they were.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

Jesus Christ, this was boring. So boring. My brain is so sluggish I can't even think of a better word for boring.

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

There is nothing you can say that will convince me that this is good music. Even Björk herself sings in a way that sounds like she's forcing it out, like she also doesn't want to hear herself sing.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Not nearly as good as their next album "Forever Changes" but pretty okay.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

This is a solid album, but not my genre. And a little too horny. I'm not a fan of listening to people describe how they like their sexual encounters, unless I'm going to be an active participant. Even then I probably giggle too much.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

I really enjoyed this, way more than I thought I would. (Even though my daughter said it sounded like a middle school band tuning up) Anyway, you should read this dude's Wikipedia entry, it's wild.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

I was going to say that I didn't get the hate or the love this album (or the band in general) gets, but then I hit the cover of Just Like Heaven that gets CUT OFF BEFORE THE END. But really, it's just a pretty average indie rock band with some experimentation.

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

I did not enjoy this but I couldn't stop listening. It was manic and weird and unpredictable.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

4/5

This was fun. Would probably be more fun to watch. He sounded like he was a good watch.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Honestly, boring and preachy.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

At least this one is listenable.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

All of these songs sounded the same.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

I got a sweet tooth, but this was too sweet for me

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

I'm glad jazz exists. It's how I can tell which bookstores are too good for me.

High Violet

The National

4/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

What a weird mixed bag. I liked the first 3 songs, then it veered into skit territory, straight Indian music, and some droning bullshit, then a woman took over, thank God for that, and then they started rapping. Wrap it up with a cover of Norwegian Wood. 4/10

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

I can handle jazz, but this was a lot of jazz. Still, good album, good listening.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

I guess I got the abridged version at 45 minutes. I probably could have handled 3 hours. Ella Fitzgerald was a treasure.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Will listen again

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Imagine having this voice, and range choosing to do this with it.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

5/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

It's giving depressed James Bond lounge singer.

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Not for me

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

I was intrigued, as (like most people) I only know Karma Chameleon. I'm not going to say I really enjoyed this album, but I certainly didn't hate it, and never felt like skipping any songs. It was quintessential 80s, but never hyper.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

I like it, but I feel like a solo album shouldn't sound so much like the original band.

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Meh. Boring mood music

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Did not enjoy

Killing Joke

4/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

Boring. Christ.

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

An earlier review was right. This is hold music.

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

I enjoyed this but it isn't groundbreaking. It's chill

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Triiiiiiiite

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

I should pay attention to lyrics now, but I ain't a literary critic

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Mix of styles, but good.

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

More songs about how much landlords fucking suck, please.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

The very mixed reviews scared me, but I liked this overall. I did skip the first song halfway through, and that was because of my biggest complaint , the vocalist. Just not a great voice. But I do realize that this is an extremely personal album and no one else could have sang it. So I forgive them.

Suicide

2/5

I didn't get it

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

What a weird guy Jim Morrison was. We share a birthday.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

It gets pretty weird on the second disc, but that's what prog is about.

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Just because it's weird doesn't mean it's good

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

3/5

Eeh

GI

Germs

3/5

One long yell

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

There were brief flashes where I thought this might redeem itself but they were all killed off pretty quick.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Could use less of Hayes talking about himself

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

My angrier friends loved this when we were in middle school, even if they didn't yet understand why.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

This album has its moments, and I enjoyed it more than their first, but not for long.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

If you ignore the weird musical redface of Indian Sunset....

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

5/5

The Earth is doomed and Jamiroquai is here to help you dance about it.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

The La's

3/5

Eh

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

It wears on you a bit. But

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Oh my god, I did it. I finished this album on the very day it was assigned. Okay. So it's not terrible, but I heard 69 songs and zero reasons for it to be on this list. It's a gimmick album. If a painter said "I'm gonna do 69 paintings in two days" and they were all just two or three swipes with a roller brush, would it be celebrated? Probably, actually, the art world is weird. Some of the songs were good, but never fleshed out enough. And none of them were particularly catchy. One or two might've made it on a playlist of mine, but I'll never go back and try to figure out which ones. Anyway, good for us all, for slogging through. I really wish I had liked it more.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

If I could pick one album to erase from my memory just so I could experience it again for the first time, it would be Close to the Edge.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

We get it, you have a scary voice, you play fast, you hate god.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

This album smacks of the 60s. So it's not super groundbreaking anymore in the 80s. Still good though.

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

So yeah. It was hip hop plus.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

Oh man, this is hard. I love David Byrne and the Talking Heads. I am historically... intolerant of Brian Eno's solo work. (Break for listening) So I actually liked this, mostly. It really smacked of Remain in Light, which is my least favorite TH album, but I still like it. I guess Brian Eno needs other people as much as they need him.

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

I always feel like I *should* like Sonic Youth, but I just can't. I liked Sugar Kane well enough, but the rest of the songs were either just okay, or just bad.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

This band had no idea what they wanted to sound like and just figured they'd try it all. No necessarily bad songs, but I kept thinking it was other bands.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Upbeat songs about nothing deep are my jam

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Van Halen

4/5

It's hard for me to not think of this as the cheesy rock playing on the jukebox during my mom's bowling league in the 80s, but it's a solid, fun album.

Black Sabbath

3/5

I know it's the first metal album. But I'm still going with "rudimentary, with laughably simple lyrics"

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

I usually like post-punk, but this was hard. It had some redeeming points, but... 2.5/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

If bland corporate coffee shops were a thing in the 70s this it what they'd be playing

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

4/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

4/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

Experience shapes our tastes, and this was not about the world I know. I'm trying to be understanding. But I don't like rap. I just don't. But I understand this is culturally significant, so my rating isn't going to reflect my actual taste.

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Quiet Life

Japan

4/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

It's the misogyny for me

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

This album sounds like the soundtrack to a movie named "Rock Band." Every song would go great with a montage. Kiss is an excellent parody band.

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

I wish most of these songs were longer

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

3/5

It was good, but not in an enjoyable way

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

2/5

I'm sure if Kate Bush had become a corporate accountant or something, she would have regretted it, but I sure wouldn't.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

This was enjoyable but not my thing

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Should've just released "Maybe I'm Amazed" and left it at that

Dust

Screaming Trees

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

So. Incredibly. Boring. Do insomniacs know about this album?

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

This was fun and manic and weird.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

I have such mixed feelings about Sonic Youth.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

3/5

Okay enough but I've already forgotten it

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

This was fun enough to be enjoyable, but ridiculous enough to never listen again

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

I could hear a lot of other bands in this album. Not super innovative or anything, but I wouldn't turn them off.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Solid punk, not too hard.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

I'm not sure I've ever said something was beautiful and sad, but this was beautiful and sad.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

Sounded like the soundtrack to a Sega game

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

The good, the bad, and the weird.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

This is indeed jazz

Moby Grape

4/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

40 percent listenable. Unremarkable pockmarked by unexplainable.

Doolittle

Pixies

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

If I wanted creepy teenage boys to whisper in my ear I'd build a time machine and go a jr. high dance.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

If you played a clip of Bob singing the words "Idiot Wind" and asked me to tell you what he was saying I would never in a million years guess correctly.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Made me sleepy

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

I didn't hate it.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

Gorillaz

5/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Reviews were not encouraging, but I liked this.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

Enjoyable and chill, until they started repeating themselves. No song should repeat any line more than 3 times in a row, with the exception of I've Seen All Good People by Yes.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

There's better Bowie

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

I went into this album only knowing "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." I was disappointed. This is pretty generic psychedelica.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

If only we had all *really* listened to AD in 1992

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

I suffer from overexposure to Aerosmith but I can acknowledge that they are a good band, if you like that sort of thing.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

This is an album you have to listen to all at once. It's an excellent piece of satire, but horrible for casual listening. I suppose I'm just in the right mood for it today, but I didn't hate it. It's chaos, but it's funny.

Traffic

5/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

Never heard of them, which is insane, cause this is up my alley. Not serious, even though they're from Derry in the middle of the Troubles. Post punk, happy dumb shit. Loved it.

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

Repeater

Fugazi

5/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

It's nice. It's pretty. The vocals make no sense. The lyrics do, but the cadence (might not be the right word) is just too random, up and down and high and low she's just all over the place. It's kind of annoying. But I get why people like her.

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

Four, I think, but just barely.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

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