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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Timeless
Goldie
|
5 | 2.53 | +2.47 |
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Roots
Sepultura
|
5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
|
5 | 2.9 | +2.1 |
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Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
|
5 | 3.12 | +1.88 |
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Hysteria
Def Leppard
|
5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
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Live Through This
Hole
|
5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
|
5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
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British Steel
Judas Priest
|
5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
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L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
|
4 | 2.32 | +1.68 |
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You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
|
5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
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1 | 3.76 | -2.76 |
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
|
1 | 3.55 | -2.55 |
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Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
|
1 | 3.51 | -2.51 |
|
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
|
1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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Guero
Beck
|
1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
|
1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
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Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
|
1 | 3.44 | -2.44 |
|
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
|
1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
|
One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
|
1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
|
1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Metallica | 4 | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.67 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2 | 5 |
| Oasis | 2 | 5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Waits | 5 | 1.2 |
| Can | 2 | 1 |
| Pere Ubu | 2 | 1 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 1.75 |
| Brian Eno | 4 | 1.75 |
| The Byrds | 4 | 1.75 |
| Morrissey | 3 | 1.67 |
| The Fall | 3 | 1.67 |
| Madonna | 3 | 1.67 |
| Big Star | 2 | 1.5 |
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1.5 |
| Wilco | 2 | 1.5 |
| Tim Buckley | 2 | 1.5 |
| Nick Drake | 2 | 1.5 |
| Christina Aguilera | 2 | 1.5 |
| Barry Adamson | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 1.5 |
| Kate Bush | 2 | 1.5 |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 2 | 1.5 |
| Leonard Cohen | 4 | 2 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 2 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 | 2 |
| My Bloody Valentine | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | 5, 3, 1 |
| ZZ Top | 5, 2 |
| Funkadelic | 1, 4 |
| Beck | 4, 2, 1 |
| Sonic Youth | 3, 2, 4, 1 |
5-Star Albums (40)
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Tom Waits
1/5
No just not for me, sounds like the local drunk in the pub on Friday night karaoke
1 likes
4-Star Albums (151)
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Public Enemy
2/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Jamiroquai
4/5
Elton John
3/5
Björk
3/5
Solange
1/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Country is what country is….old!
Neil Young
4/5
Not his greatest album but “old man” absolutely slaps
Radiohead
5/5
Fantastic album.
a-ha
4/5
Solid 80s synth pop album!
Cypress Hill
3/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
If you smoke a lot of weed this the album for you
The Hives
5/5
The Smiths
3/5
How ironic
The Crusaders
3/5
Jazz…………….nice
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Not his best work, but a prelude to bigger things
Gorillaz
5/5
Great album
Slipknot
4/5
Good album but not the best
Black Sabbath
4/5
It’s Ozzy man, where’s fucking Sharon!!
The Zombies
2/5
Public Enemy
3/5
The Band
2/5
One of those albums that made me grateful I wasn’t alive in the 60s
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Motown classic
Dire Straits
4/5
Great guitar work on this bad boy!!
Gene Clark
2/5
Not really my thing
Serge Gainsbourg
1/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Great induction the man Willie
Radiohead
3/5
No bad, prefer Ok computer by knives out is a great track
Beatles
5/5
The bona dose classic on this list, am essential listen for an introduction to the Beatles.
Frank Sinatra
2/5
MEH
The Stooges
4/5
Great bit of punk from Izzy and the boys
The Kinks
2/5
2Pac
4/5
Great album by a great artist
The Rolling Stones
5/5
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Average
Joan Armatrading
1/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
If only the artic monkeys had done this album we might have been better off!
Linkin Park
5/5
Amazing album, amazing band
Rod Stewart
4/5
Love a bit of Rod
Little Simz
3/5
Not bad but not really my thing I’m afraid
Adam & The Ants
2/5
Hmmmmm
Parliament
2/5
Funk, on whole new level.
Queen
4/5
Love a bit of queen, it’s a good starter album, bohemian rhapsody is a stunning song that wouldn’t work unless Freddie sings it.
Taylor Swift
2/5
I’ve given it 2 because otherwise Scott will cry
Kanye West
3/5
Black Skinhead, genre defining
Hole
4/5
One of my favourite grunge albums.
Courtney love is a anaimal.
ZZ Top
5/5
My favourite ZZ album, great rock/blues 80s vibe, sharp dressed man is a jukebox killer.
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
71, what a great year for music and this is a good bluesy starter.
Hole
5/5
My favourite Hole album, grunge rock at its finest!!
Paul Weller
2/5
Sugar
4/5
Heavy grunge
Queen
3/5
The Pogues
2/5
Coldplay
3/5
Alternative classic
Sonic Youth
3/5
Not THE sonic album but still a blast from the past
Joy Division
3/5
Julian Cope
2/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Suzanne Vega
2/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
Classic 80’s
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
New Order
3/5
Air
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Supertramp
2/5
Sade
2/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Great starter album for the legend biggie smalls.
Brian Eno
2/5
All prog
Milton Nascimento
1/5
Eels
3/5
The start of indie being cool.
Blur
4/5
Fatboy Slim
5/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Our first true classic
The Cars
4/5
Great 80s stuff
Meat Loaf
2/5
Never really liked meat loaf, it always turns out dry
Peter Frampton
3/5
Khaled
2/5
DJ KHALED!!!! Another one!
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5
Space the final frontier
Marilyn Manson
4/5
Space the final frontier
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
Hair metal
The Stooges
3/5
Motörhead
4/5
Various Artists
2/5
Gunshot from Phil spector
Bob Dylan
2/5
OutKast
2/5
It’s a lot of hip hop for one man
Fats Domino
3/5
Blueberry hill!
Laibach
3/5
Rammstein meets Duran Duran
Boston
4/5
One of my guilty pleasures
The Pogues
2/5
Big Star
1/5
Sounds like they can’t be bothered
David Bowie
3/5
Brian Eno
1/5
Rush
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
Fever Ray
2/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
Moody indie fare
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
Great band, good introduction.
The Byrds
2/5
The Who
2/5
Blondie
4/5
Great album
Sonic Youth
2/5
Great album
Kraftwerk
1/5
Das Autobahn!
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
The Who
2/5
Goldie
5/5
One of my favourite teenage albums
John Cale
1/5
The xx
4/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
You put the lime in the coconut
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
The Youngbloods
1/5
Meh….
Donald Fagen
1/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Solid alternative album
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Bells bells and more bells
Green Day
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
4/5
I2 before Bono went up his own ass
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
If an album was a sixth form common room
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Funk driving album
Don McLean
2/5
If an album was a sixth form common room
Kanye West
4/5
Arrested Development
3/5
King Crimson
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
SAULT
3/5
BLM
Bob Dylan
3/5
The Black Keys
3/5
The Band
3/5
Common
3/5
Heaven 17
2/5
Justice
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Sixth form common room memories from this
Jungle Brothers
2/5
Cos I’m a jungle brother
Björk
4/5
90s classic
Iggy Pop
3/5
The Fall
1/5
All filler no killer
Sam Cooke
1/5
Nanci Griffith
1/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Def Leppard
5/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Morrissey
1/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Vietnam war album
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Vietnam war album
Bobby Womack
3/5
Spiritualized
2/5
The Avalanches
3/5
Tori Amos
2/5
The Byrds
1/5
Beatles
2/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
2/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Love
1/5
Wank
The Cramps
3/5
Billie Holiday
2/5
Prince
4/5
Röyksopp
2/5
Liz Phair
1/5
Wank
Van Morrison
2/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Soundgarden
4/5
Stephen Stills
4/5
Hot Chip
1/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Wilco
1/5
The Replacements
2/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Madonna
1/5
The Isley Brothers
2/5
Funk soul brother
Prince
3/5
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Tim Buckley
1/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Better than I though
Nick Drake
2/5
Otis Redding
2/5
Cream
2/5
Korn
4/5
Finally an actual decent album!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Pretenders
2/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
It’s pop, power pop!
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
2/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
1/5
Billy Bragg
1/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Funkadelic
1/5
Janelle Monáe
1/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
2/5
Sparks
4/5
The Police
3/5
Fiona Apple
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Hits after hits.
1/5
David Bowie
2/5
Metallica
3/5
Elis Regina
1/5
Machito
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
The Go-Go's
2/5
The Cure
4/5
Classic emo/goth
Garbage
4/5
Kings of Leon
4/5
Hugh Masekela
1/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
It’s better when the funk hits
Venom
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
One of my favourite indie albums
Amazing then as they are now, great live as well.
Janis Joplin
3/5
Very blues oriented, can see why she was massive in the late 60s early 70s.
Germs
2/5
Raw punk, bit to raw for record but I imagine live these guys tear it up!
Portishead
3/5
Very sixth form vibes from this album
The Lemonheads
2/5
Not bad, really only about that cover though
Pearl Jam
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Classic 80s new wave
Dire Straits
4/5
Fantastic guitar, fantastic album
Merle Haggard
1/5
Donovan
1/5
The Smiths
1/5
Hate morrisey
Tears For Fears
4/5
Absolute classic 80s
Peter Tosh
2/5
Let me neva tell you bout raga muffin business and ting
50 Cent
3/5
Ah a classic from my youth!! 😂
Abdullah Ibrahim
1/5
Porn jazz
Massive Attack
4/5
One of the great chill dance albums
Van Halen
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
George Michael
3/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Motörhead
4/5
Barry Adamson
1/5
I
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
Daft Punk
4/5
U2
3/5
Fleet Foxes
1/5
Gary Numan
2/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Kanye West
3/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Jethro Tull
2/5
Stereolab
1/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Metallica
5/5
Probably my second fav M album
Iron Maiden
5/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Calexico
2/5
Very much a Sunday morning album
Beck
4/5
Lovely indie album, memories of festivals past
N.W.A.
4/5
Raw and un-flinching rap album, nothing sums up 80s America more than this
Arcade Fire
2/5
Gang Starr
2/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
Neil Young
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
Classic 70s Bowie
Grateful Dead
2/5
Small Faces
2/5
808 State
2/5
The Clash
5/5
One of my favourite albums ever, just proves that Joe strummer should be talked about more often when we discuss musical legacies, it’s how to bridges styles and ideas without letting go of what you believe in.
Sister Sledge
3/5
Shuggie Otis
1/5
John Grant
3/5
Dr. Octagon
1/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Van Morrison
3/5
The Cardigans
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Megadeth
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
The Killers
4/5
Classic from my travelling days….
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Peter Gabriel
1/5
Tito Puente
2/5
Nick Drake
1/5
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
fIREHOSE
1/5
2/5
Can
1/5
The Strokes
5/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Laura Nyro
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Green Day
4/5
Radiohead
2/5
Cocteau Twins
1/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Baaba Maal
1/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Beck
2/5
Madonna
2/5
The Sonics
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
3/5
Stan Getz
2/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
Youssou N'Dour
2/5
Ramones
4/5
DJ Shadow
3/5
Grizzly Bear
2/5
The Prodigy
5/5
Neil Young
2/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Christina Aguilera
1/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Leftfield
4/5
Metallica
5/5
MGMT
2/5
Tortoise
1/5
The Stranglers
2/5
Beck
1/5
ZZ Top
2/5
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Al Green
2/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
The Pharcyde
1/5
Wire
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Foo Fighters
4/5
Sleater-Kinney
1/5
Madonna
2/5
The Fall
2/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Spacemen 3
1/5
Hawkwind
2/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Herbie Hancock
1/5
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
Ian Dury
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
The Who
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Fugazi
2/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Talking Heads
1/5
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
Pavement
1/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Circle Jerks
1/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
The Slits
2/5
Ozomatli
1/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Adele
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
Marty Robbins
4/5
Elbow
3/5
George Jones
4/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Justin Timberlake
2/5
k.d. lang
2/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
White Denim
2/5
Violent Femmes
1/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
John Lennon
3/5
John going full trash vocal in some parts
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Saint Etienne
2/5
Public Enemy
2/5
Ice T
1/5
Minutemen
2/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
1/5
Jeru The Damaja
1/5
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
1/5
Bad hobo vibes
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Screaming Trees
2/5
Kate Bush
1/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Alanis Morissette
5/5
Sepultura
5/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Mudhoney
2/5
Grunge
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
The The
2/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Supergrass
4/5
Great 90’d Brit pop/rock
Beatles
3/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
70s emo
Raekwon
1/5
Talk Talk
3/5
Bert Jansch
1/5
Dead Kennedys
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Simple Minds
2/5
Bill Callahan
2/5
Bad Company
3/5
Louis Prima
2/5
Tina Turner
4/5
CHVRCHES
2/5
There are better synth pop albums out there
Aimee Mann
1/5
The soundtrack to every bad hallmark film
Destiny's Child
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Wild Beasts
3/5
The Only Ones
2/5
UB40
2/5
2 hours of reggae is enough for anyone
Black Sabbath
5/5
Absolute metal classic
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Tom Waits
1/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
The Boo Radleys
2/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
2/5
The Velvet Underground
1/5
The Cure
3/5
Portishead
2/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Red Snapper
1/5
Awful electronic shit, god knows why this was in this list so many better albums of this genre from around this time
Mike Ladd
1/5
This is an album that you don’t need to listen to
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
Bauhaus
2/5
Orange Juice
3/5
Standard 80’s album
Animal Collective
2/5
Rahul Dev Burman
1/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Gotan Project
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Definitely Bruce’s best album by far
Beth Orton
2/5
Sounds like a teen movie soundtrack in parts
Guided By Voices
2/5
Tom Waits
1/5
The Coral
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Butthole Surfers
1/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Orbital
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
My new fallout soundtrack
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
The Jam
4/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
Pere Ubu
1/5
Soul II Soul
3/5
1/5
M.I.A.
2/5
Mylo
2/5
Nice ambient hold music
Incubus
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Paul McCartney
2/5
Miles Davis
1/5
I hate jazz
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
The Clash
4/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
The Specials
2/5
Fela Kuti
2/5
Wilco
2/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Ok album spoiled by overly long songs
Big Black
1/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Carpenters
3/5
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Songhoy Blues
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Kacey Musgraves
2/5
The Mamas & The Papas
2/5
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Two plain naan, chicken tikka and coconut rice please.
Elliott Smith
3/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Patti Smith
4/5
Coldcut
3/5
Fishbone
3/5
Beyoncé
1/5
Tricky
2/5
Can
1/5
Robbie Williams
2/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Hanoi Rocks
4/5
N.E.R.D
1/5
Wasn’t on apple or Spotify so 1 star from me
Ride
2/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
Adele
2/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Blue Cheer
3/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
The Byrds
2/5
Elastica
3/5
5/5
The Psychedelic Furs
2/5
Eagles
3/5
Django Django
3/5
Underworld
2/5
B.B. King
4/5
Travis
3/5
Nina Simone
4/5
Buck Owens
3/5
Air
2/5
Waylon Jennings
3/5
Moby Grape
3/5
Mudhoney
2/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
The best one of the Davi’s albums
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Sonic Youth
1/5
Sex Pistols
4/5
David Crosby
2/5
David Gray
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Like if vic reeves club singer smoked two packs a day
D'Angelo
2/5
Shagging music that now feels old dated
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
The Black Crowes
3/5
KISS
4/5
Turbonegro
5/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
TLC
3/5
Judas Priest
5/5
Missy Elliott
2/5
Soft Cell
2/5
It’s ok, just not really my cup of tea 🍵
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Space, time, the final frontier
The Rolling Stones
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Roxy Music
3/5
3/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
The Temptations
3/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
The Triffids
2/5
Imagine every 80’s movie you’ve ever watched + simple minds album = this
Hüsker Dü
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Oasis
5/5
William Orbit
2/5
Ice Cube
2/5
Duke Ellington
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
The problem with this is once you allow Gilmore and co more than 5 min to make a song it all goes a bit wrong
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
A good intro to this band but the next two albums are the best of them
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
This album is dipped in double denim, ten gallon hats and a 20pk of Marlboro
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Not bad
Eminem
3/5
Some of this has aged well (stan, way I am & the real slim shady) but some of this hasn’t (Kim especially!). This was on everywhere back in the day so it was nice to refresh with it.
Scott Walker
2/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
The Verve
2/5
Not a patch on their debut
Fairport Convention
2/5
Supergrass
3/5
Queen Latifah
1/5
The Dandy Warhols
4/5
Forgot about these guys until now, has held up well, really enjoyed it.
The Roots
2/5
Solomon Burke
2/5
Björk
3/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
2/5
One song and one song only
The xx
2/5
Pretty bland Tbh
TV On The Radio
2/5
Dion
2/5
Pretty bland Tbh
Rush
4/5
Beach House
2/5
The KLF
2/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
Kelela
1/5
Bland mid 2000’s r&b
Crowded House
2/5
Dr. John
2/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
The Who
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
It’s prog Jim but not as we know it
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Classic 80’s vibes
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
It’s not Rumours but what is??
Still a good experimental album
Klaxons
2/5
Fred Neil
2/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
Mood music
Morrissey
2/5
Good music shame morrissey is such a insufferable prick
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
I mean it’s alright…
Richard Thompson
3/5
Quite surprised by this, better than I thought it would be
The Stone Roses
5/5
The Fall
2/5
If you’ve always wanted to know what Lou Reed would sound like singing lost in music well now’s your chance
Hookworms
2/5
Mid….
T. Rex
4/5
Classic glam rock
Brian Eno
2/5
Pentangle
2/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Just why?!?
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Very cool, chilled and beautifully sung
Faust
2/5
The Offspring
5/5
You stupid dumb shit god damn motherfucker!
Maxwell
3/5
Roni Size
4/5
King Crimson
2/5
Drug prog
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
R.E.M.
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Plus 5 for Johnny marr minus 2 for morrisey
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
The Cult
4/5
The Doors
4/5
Lounge lizard
System Of A Down
4/5
A good introduction to a great metal band
The Dictators
4/5
A undiscovered gem of the pre punk era
Norah Jones
2/5
LTJ Bukem
3/5
Pure liquid
Beatles
3/5
A nice introduction to the fab 4
The Libertines
3/5
An old indie blast from the past
Pulp
4/5
Frank Ocean
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Chilled
Boards of Canada
2/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Definitely apple tango if I had to pick one.
Eminem
2/5
Do you think he looks back on this and thinks yeah this wasn’t great was it…
New Order
3/5
Common
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
We’re all here for Dolly right??
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Badass!!
Richard Hawley
2/5
Buffalo Springfield
2/5
John Prine
2/5
It’s country isn’t it
Finley Quaye
3/5
Kate Bush
2/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Thundercat
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Better than I though tbf
The Beta Band
2/5
Joanna Newsom
1/5
Oh dear god why!!
Randy Newman
2/5
Happy Mondays
1/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Queen
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Classic Sunday morning vibes with this album but my god is it longggggggggggggggg
Doves
3/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
The Zutons
2/5
Yes
2/5
George Michael
3/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Devendra Banhart
2/5
Slint
1/5
Like 2 girls 1 cup for your ears
Moby
4/5
Car adverts rejoice!!
Pink Floyd
1/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Elvis Costello, the king of the average album!
Steely Dan
3/5
It’s dad rock ain’t it, gets an extra star for reeling in the years excellent guitar work,
American Music Club
2/5
The Incredible String Band
2/5
Skyrim soundtrack unlocked
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
It’s spoken word rap pretty chill but not really inspiring
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Finally 701 albums in we finally get to Rumours. Is it a perfect album, yes.
Does it contain some of the best songs on record, yes
Does it contain stevie nicks, yes
Is it a 5, yes.
The Human League
3/5
Cheesy 80s synth, just the way I like it
The Soft Boys
3/5
Liked this more than I thought I would
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
A whole lot of funk brother
Doves
2/5
This is either a hungover or post club album, listening to it any other time just doesn’t feel right
The Associates
2/5
1.5/5 not great 80s synth
Fairport Convention
2/5
I’m now wearing grass skirts and sleeping with my cousins after this….
The Modern Lovers
2/5
Low grade doors tribute band
Drive Like Jehu
3/5
Very early post hardcore stuff, definitely inspired future bands in the the early 2000s
The Icarus Line
3/5
Sub optimal strokes
Pixies
2/5
There’s a couple of great songs on here in gigantic and where’s my mind but the rest just feels a bit sloppy
Femi Kuti
3/5
Funky Afro beats
Billy Bragg
3/5
Some decent songs in which is essentially a covers album
Primal Scream
2/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Great background music
The Byrds
2/5
Yeah psychedelic rock had to start somewhere I guess
Aphex Twin
3/5
Classic ambient house which I have a soft spot for tbf
Iggy Pop
3/5
3.5 for me, Bowie saving this with his songwriting and production
Lambchop
2/5
Bang average rock
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Yeah I mean it’s gotta start somewhere right??
Sigur Rós
3/5
Nice chilled album for a Sunday morning
4/5
And now you wanna hate me because hate is all the world has ever seen lately!! 🖕🏻
Elton John
4/5
Ow off to ask the wife for a Jamaican jerk off, wish me luck!
Bee Gees
2/5
I laugh in your face, I know you did with this album!
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
Like a lynard skynard tribute band playing lynard skynard rejected songs badly
2/5
The Kinks
3/5
Love big of ray davis
Ministry
4/5
In the lord we trust!!!
Thelonious Monk
2/5
I do indeed fear the jazz!
Bad Brains
4/5
Big classic 80s punk
The Monkees
3/5
Mason kid 60s pop 2.5/5 for me
Brian Wilson
3/5
Nice summer time vibe with some classics thrown in
Paul Simon
2/5
Hearts and bones is great, the rest is average at best
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
It’s a sin!
XTC
2/5
This is another example of why some bands on this list don’t need more than one album on here frankly
Britney Spears
1/5
Britney ran so Beiber could walk……
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Nothings shocking… and thats the problem.
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
If ADHD was an album
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Average 60’s pop
Metallica
5/5
4.5 for me, feels a little polished compared to Ride the Lighting which is the magnum opus in my opinion
Genesis
2/5
2/5
I will never understand the hype of Dylan….
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
A handful of great tunes but overall too long to really enjoy for me
Gil Scott-Heron
2/5
I still fear the jazz
Johnny Cash
4/5
Love a bit of Johnny cash these days, part country, part comedy show with the songs to match
CHIC
4/5
Now you know why Nile Rogers is the goat
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
There is some really good songs on here, if only they didn’t persist with the distortion on some songs…
The The
2/5
Sounds like a load of rejected simple minds songs.
Steely Dan
3/5
Dads of the world unite!!
Fela Kuti
3/5
2.5 for me, some great music on here but doesn’t half drag on…
Minor Threat
4/5
Classic bit of punk from Ian and the gang
The La's
2/5
One song does not make an album
Sabu
3/5
Hey let’s all do the conga! 2.5 for me
3/5
Classic New Romantic 80s
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Pioneers of rock rap
Burning Spear
3/5
Liked this more than I thought I would. Good songs.
Prince
4/5
Ah Prince my little purple sex goblin
Frank Black
2/5
Another ‘why is this on here album’ I guess
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
All inclusive holiday jazz vibes
The Jam
4/5
Probably their best album and that’s entertainment is a all time classic
Black Sabbath
5/5
RIP Ozzy, this is where it all started for many a rock/metal band. Absolutely epic
X-Ray Spex
4/5
I really liked this, a real surprise for me.
Slade
3/5
My respect for Noddy Holder has increased
Steve Earle
2/5
Generic country
Mekons
1/5
Hey did you want to know what country and punk sounded like together?? No neither did I but let me warn you it’s shit.
Roxy Music
3/5
The most 80s sounding 70s album you’ll hear on this list
Q-Tip
3/5
Really chilled lo fi hip hop
Aerosmith
3/5
70s Aerosmith>90s Aerosmith
John Martyn
2/5
Right about now the funk soul brother, check it out now the funk soul brother!
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Not bad for aged psychedelic rock, the 17min magnum opus is a journey though
The White Stripes
5/5
Brought this when it came out and loved it then and still love it now
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Once you realise Kevin Rowland sounds like Vic Reeves club singer you’ll never go back!
Magazine
3/5
3.5 for me, another album I’ll go back to after this is all over.
David Bowie
4/5
Kinda liked this, classic Bowie at the start then into the Eno synth mode by the end.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Good introduction to Miss Winehouse, beautiful voice, just a shame it’s a massive album as it does become a bit much for an hour.
Van Halen
4/5
4.5. Prefer the debut but this has some absolute classics on although some of the lyrics haven’t aged so well! 😂
Depeche Mode
3/5
Moody synths with some catchy tunes throughout.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
2/5
Generic country 2.0
Bob Dylan
3/5
Ah Dylan.
The song writing is first class but the performance is like nails on a black board. I’ve never got the Dylan hype and so still don’t, maybe I’m not old enough, sure the classics are there but if the songs are more then 3 minutes it becomes like listening to white noise due to his grating nasal tones.
Big Star
2/5
Like all your favourite 70s rock bands rejected songs in one disc
The Beta Band
2/5
This backs made two albums and they are both in this list? FML
Chicago
3/5
Different to what I expected from Chicago as I just remember the soft rock 80s songs. Lots of horns and a crazy 7 min guitar solo track stand out for me
Joan Baez
3/5
If only she had songs some Dylan songs…
The Bees
2/5
Welcome back to issue 147 of why is this album on the list
Jeff Beck
3/5
Definitely hear some Zepplin esq stuff here, think Beck as a guitarist is very under rated
Thin Lizzy
4/5
This is what live albums are all about
Meat Puppets
2/5
Music good, vocals bad
The Beach Boys
4/5
Just a great pop album with ground breaking production.
Lauryn Hill
3/5
AC/DC
5/5
I love AC/DC like a fat kid loves cake
Prefab Sprout
2/5
Bland
The Undertones
4/5
The British version of the Ramones
Leonard Cohen
2/5
This is like bob dylan but with somehow worse singing
Bee Gees
2/5
The Bee Gees needed disco….
Haircut 100
3/5
Like a budget Duran Duran
Caetano Veloso
2/5
Interesting album, although had to listen to a compilation as album wasn’t on Apple Music which is disappointing
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Someone must love this, but that someone is not me!
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Standard Brit pop stuff.
Neu!
3/5
Like an album of two half’s that I’m still not sure on
Silver Jews
2/5
Imagine to series indie with RHCP lyrics……
Billy Joel
3/5
Decent set of songs
Iron Maiden
4/5
Classic early maiden, setting things up nicely for the greater stuff that was to come
Anthrax
4/5
Caution, speed kills!
Mariah Carey
1/5
The WKD blue of music albums
Steve Winwood
2/5
Standard 80s TV series soundtrack here
Emmylou Harris
2/5
It’s 2.5 for me. Meanders along nicely, almost day dream like but ultimately forgettable
Traffic
3/5
Standard late 60s rock 2.5
Pixies
3/5
Not their best
Jurassic 5
3/5
So smooth you can spread it
Cornershop
3/5
Nice fusion of styles both musically and culturally.
Ute Lemper
3/5
Got an extra star for the lyrics being some of the most wild if heard in a longtime
John Coltrane
2/5
813 albums in and I still fear the Jazz….
John Lennon
3/5
Well this is a difficult, musically he is a legend, but an asshole of a person, there is some good in here but a lot of what feels like rejected Beatles songs
Sebadoh
2/5
White noise for art students
4/5
Classic early punk sound from one of the legends, this is what a live album should be all about, loud, chaotic and full of energy
Tom Waits
1/5
No just not for me, sounds like the local drunk in the pub on Friday night karaoke
The Adverts
3/5
Good introduction to British punk
FKA twigs
3/5
There’s a great voice in there somewhere it’s just ruined by bad production
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Standards 60s pyschrock album. No notes
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Nice little introduction to Indian music
Wu-Tang Clan
3/5
This is a pioneering hip hop album for sure, like some didn’t like others but can see why it helps revitalise east coast hip hop
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
3.5 for me. Killing moon is a classic but the rest is a bit hit and miss. Does sound like a mash up of all those 80s goth/moody bands though
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Like Ravi Shankar previously, I can see why this is on this list. It’s an interesting listen, can clearly hear the passion in the voice and why he is so revered in this genre of music
Super Furry Animals
2/5
It’s an album you have on in the background at a dinner party. Someone might ask you who is it by you tell who it’s by and everyone kinda strikes their shoulders and goes back talking.
The Police
3/5
Some good, some ok
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Early 200s dad rock at its finest
Tom Waits
1/5
Just fuck off Tom Waits
The Shamen
2/5
Very bland 90s dance/techno I’m afraid
Ice Cube
2/5
Some songs are still relevant today as they were in the early nineties but the ones about women are awful and misogynistic I’m afraid
Pavement
3/5
Liked more songs then I thought, always an underrated band in the grunge scene
Anita Baker
2/5
A great voice stuck behind generic 80s r&b unfortunately
Kid Rock
1/5
I got 4 songs in, yeah I tried but no, no thank you
Janet Jackson
3/5
Liked this more than I initially thought
The Young Gods
4/5
Really enjoyed this like if Nine Inch Nails and Rammstein had a French baby
Os Mutantes
3/5
Yeah it’s way out and different, liked some songs, found others a little too strange
Pere Ubu
1/5
Yeah well no.
Method Man
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
“How Long, not long, cos what you reap is what you sow”
A true masterpiece of a debut album, one of my favourite bands ever and stills sends a message that’s as relevant then as it is today.
The Vines
3/5
I remember this album being everywhere when it came out, has some great songs on it, shame they kept making the cobain comparison.
Talvin Singh
2/5
Ok chilled electronic songs but largely forgettable
Koffi Olomide
2/5
Poussee!!!
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Glad I listened to this but I doubt I’ll listen again
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
What are those albums where the memory of it being great outweighs? The actual reality of it being any good? Three or four? Really good songs the rest of it a little bit chaotic. Did some much better stuff in the early 2000s which is probably their pinical
JAY Z
4/5
Kayne’s production on this is what really elevates this above most other hip hop albums, even makes Jay-z sound good.
Tails off at the end but the rest is great.
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
Every single one of these sounds like a soundtrack to all those rom coms in the 80s
Fugees
4/5
A classic hip hop album, ready or not is probably a peak 90s sample. Lauren hill’s voice takes these songs to a new level.
2/5
Lift music for lifts
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Despressed shit for depressed people
Simply Red
2/5
This is the stuff your mum and aunties all danced to in the eighties
The Cure
3/5
Nice haunting music but definitely prefer their later stuff
James Brown
4/5
It’s James Brown mother fucker!
Little Richard
4/5
Little Richard wales so elvis could run
Kraftwerk
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
A classic hip hop debut
John Martyn
3/5
Liked this a lot more than I thought I would. Really chilled
Nirvana
3/5
It’s good, but it’s not great. They were better albums by Alice In Chains and Soundgarden in this era. Still don’t get the hype around Cobain and this band they never change the face of music just media hype.
Gene Clark
3/5
This is what Dylan songs would sound like if he could sing…
Gillian Welch
2/5
Welcome to background coffee shop music vol 19
Soft Machine
1/5
Terrible prog
Mercury Rev
3/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Nice little post punk album
Alice Cooper
4/5
Big, loud and fun, exactly what I’d expect from Mr Cooper
Santana
3/5
Guitar sex
Leonard Cohen
2/5
This is music for people who like watching paint dry
Guns N' Roses
5/5
One, if not the greatest debuts of all time
Madness
2/5
Standard ska stuff
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Musically significant but does sound dated now