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812
Albums Rated
3.38
Average Rating
75%
Complete
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1980s
Favorite Decade
Punk
Favorite Genre
UK
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131
5-Star Albums
64
1-Star Albums
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By Genre
By Decade
By Origin
Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Suicide
Suicide
|
5 | 2.46 | +2.54 |
|
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
|
5 | 2.69 | +2.31 |
|
Cut
The Slits
|
5 | 2.71 | +2.29 |
|
Da Capo
Love
|
5 | 2.81 | +2.19 |
|
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
|
5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
|
Damaged
Black Flag
|
5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
|
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
|
5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
|
E.V.O.L.
Sonic Youth
|
5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
|
This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall
|
5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
|
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
|
5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
|
1 | 3.72 | -2.72 |
|
Moondance
Van Morrison
|
1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
|
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
|
1 | 3.59 | -2.59 |
|
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
|
1 | 3.53 | -2.53 |
|
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
|
1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
|
Aja
Steely Dan
|
1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
|
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
|
1 | 3.44 | -2.44 |
|
Diamond Life
Sade
|
1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
|
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
|
1 | 3.4 | -2.4 |
|
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
|
1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Sonic Youth | 5 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.44 |
| Beatles | 7 | 4.43 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.6 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 5 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 5 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 4.5 |
| The Kinks | 4 | 4.5 |
| Prince | 3 | 4.67 |
| Marvin Gaye | 3 | 4.67 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 3 | 4.67 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 4.67 |
| Echo And The Bunnymen | 3 | 4.67 |
| Run-D.M.C. | 2 | 5 |
| Van Halen | 2 | 5 |
| The Clash | 2 | 5 |
| New Order | 2 | 5 |
| Pavement | 2 | 5 |
| Missy Elliott | 2 | 5 |
| Iron Maiden | 2 | 5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. | 2 | 5 |
| Rush | 2 | 5 |
| Radiohead | 6 | 4.17 |
| The Stooges | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Doors | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Cure | 3 | 4.33 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 4.33 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 3 | 4.33 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3 | 4.33 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.33 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 | 4.33 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 5 | 4 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Steely Dan | 4 | 1 |
| Morrissey | 4 | 1 |
| Kings of Leon | 3 | 1 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 1.67 |
| Ryan Adams | 2 | 1.5 |
| Slipknot | 2 | 1.5 |
| Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | 2 | 1.5 |
| Van Morrison | 2 | 1.5 |
| Grateful Dead | 2 | 1.5 |
| Blur | 2 | 1.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2 | 1.5 |
| Aerosmith | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Dolly Parton | 5, 2 |
5-Star Albums (131)
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Popular Reviews
Paul Simon
1/5
Am I the only one who finds Paul Simon insufferable? "Hearts and Bones"? Nope, "Farts and Drones."
2 likes
Laibach
1/5
What a bloated, heaping pile of gravel-filled horse excrement. The anti-fascist/fascist b.s. only masks the pointlessness of this soulless gurgle of acid. This may be the absolute worst album I've ever listened to... and I DID listen to it! The whole wretched thing! I earnestly wanted to discover why it was on this list. I mean, for the sake of it, the metalhead in me wanted to relate to the tone, the ambiance, the themes... but there's no way into this self-serving chamber echoing farts. Negative zero -- and that's being kind.
1 likes
Christine and the Queens
2/5
Not reflective of my taste... at all; so, of course, my rating is low... but I can also appreciate the artist and the importance of having Chris' voice in world music. Still, taste is taste... and this ain't mine.
1 likes
Les Rythmes Digitales
1/5
Holy Hell, this is my nightmare soundtrack. I think there's a circle of hell devoted to music like Les Rythmes Digitales'.
1 likes
The Psychedelic Furs
5/5
"Post punk," "new wave," whatever genre you want to fit the Furs into, the music defies. Strange, hypnotic, droning, aggressive, grating, melancholic,... better to attach adjectives than categories. A work of art.
1 likes
1-Star Albums (64)
All Ratings
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
Van Halen
5/5
The Stooges
5/5
The Isley Brothers
4/5
AC/DC
4/5
Bon, long gone.
"Highway to Hell,"
holding up well.
The Doors
4/5
George Michael
4/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
I guess this is a case of separating the art from the artist... and both kinda stink.
Les Rythmes Digitales
1/5
Holy Hell, this is my nightmare soundtrack. I think there's a circle of hell devoted to music like Les Rythmes Digitales'.
Richard Hawley
2/5
Meh. Leonard Cohen without the Leonard Cohen.
The Undertones
3/5
Little Simz
5/5
The Who
4/5
Billy Bragg
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Beach Boys in Bubble Gum mode.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
Pretenders
5/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Gorillaz
3/5
Prince
5/5
fIREHOSE
5/5
Motörhead
5/5
Magazine
3/5
Eagles
3/5
LL Cool J
4/5
Prince
4/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Supertramp
3/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Madonna
4/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Slayer
4/5
Louis Prima
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
The Clash
5/5
Germs
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
The Style Council
1/5
3/5
The Verve
3/5
Def Leppard
5/5
Q-Tip
4/5
Cornershop
3/5
Mike Oldfield
1/5
Björk
4/5
Keith Jarrett
2/5
Orange Juice
3/5
Air
2/5
Charles Mingus
3/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
Cheap Trick
4/5
CHIC
4/5
The Fall
5/5
Various Artists
3/5
The Clash
5/5
Jethro Tull
1/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
The Go-Betweens
3/5
Björk
4/5
Madness
3/5
Hole
4/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Television
5/5
OutKast
4/5
Love
5/5
U2
4/5
The Prodigy
3/5
PJ Harvey
5/5
The Cure
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Herbie Hancock
2/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Marvin Gaye
5/5
The Temptations
4/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Talking Heads
5/5
Beatles
5/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Al Green
5/5
The Who
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Miriam Makeba
4/5
AC/DC
5/5
Cyndi Lauper
5/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
B.B. King
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Mj Cole
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Miles Davis
4/5
John Grant
4/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
The Everly Brothers
3/5
Soft Cell
5/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Living Colour
4/5
John Coltrane
5/5
Steely Dan
1/5
The Boo Radleys
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Sugar
5/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Tom Waits
5/5
Eagles
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
David Bowie
5/5
The Smiths
3/5
Ian Dury
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Pearl Jam
5/5
Beatles
5/5
The Doors
5/5
Black Flag
5/5
New Order
5/5
Venom
4/5
The Kinks
5/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
The Cars
5/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Khaled
1/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
DJ Shadow
1/5
Ramones
5/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
ABBA
3/5
Neneh Cherry
4/5
Patti Smith
5/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Faust
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Chicago
1/5
Boston
3/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
John Martyn
4/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Aerosmith
1/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
Cream
4/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Douche. Bag.
Liz Phair
5/5
This is, without a doubt, one of the more realized, original, and expressively uninhibited debuts in rock history.
Parliament
4/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
Gary Numan
3/5
Air
3/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Burning Spear
3/5
Pavement
5/5
Daft Punk
2/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
1/5
N.W.A.
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
George Jones
1/5
The Human League
4/5
OutKast
3/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
4/5
Tears For Fears
5/5
Eric Clapton
1/5
Fuck this guy.
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Supergrass
4/5
Green Day
4/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Supergrass
3/5
Missy Elliott
5/5
John Lee Hooker
4/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
The Jam
4/5
Fiona Apple
5/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Buzzcocks
5/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Elvis Costello
5/5
The Streets
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Jane Weaver
4/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
The Pogues
4/5
Eurythmics
4/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
The Electric Prunes
3/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Dirty Projectors
5/5
Pixies
4/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Tortoise
3/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Stephen Stills
4/5
JAY Z
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Kanye West
1/5
Listen, it's a fine album and if I were rating this 10 or so years ago, I would've given it three, maybe four stars. But hindsight's a bitch and his recent antics and rhetoric and faux-gospel antics make listening to his weak linguistics (but jammi' beats) akin to someone directly vomiting in my ear. He's a dick (and a tiny one at that).
David Bowie
5/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Meat Puppets
4/5
Carpenters
1/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Manu Chao
2/5
2Pac
5/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
The Sugarcubes
4/5
Oasis
1/5
Thin Lizzy
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Monkees
4/5
The Byrds
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
Fugazi
4/5
Metallica
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Marvin Gaye
5/5
You know that longing, earnest saxophone that opens behind the chatty greetings of “What’s Going On?” You're hearing it in your mind now and your head is starting to nod like you’re saying “No!” to everything other than the riff, the song, and its ideas. Right? Eli Fontaine, a session sax player, was just warming his chops in the studio over the track when Gaye told him to go home. Gaye said, “We’ve already got what we need.” Somewhat incredulous and probably taking it as a dismissal, Fontaine insisted that he was only “goofing around.” Gaye responded with, “Well, you goof exquisitely.” Simply put, one of the greatest albums ever, ever made. 'Nuff said.
Taylor Swift
4/5
Little Richard
3/5
Dr. Dre
3/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
Anita Baker
1/5
Kanye West
3/5
Neil Young
5/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Wire
4/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Queen
4/5
The xx
3/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Morrissey
1/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Beatles
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Spiritualized
4/5
Jamiroquai
2/5
Nirvana
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Culture Club
3/5
Dolly Parton
5/5
4/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Funkadelic
3/5
The Doors
4/5
The Band
4/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Frank Zappa
1/5
Sex Pistols
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Duke Ellington
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Elton John
3/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Pixies
4/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Scissor Sisters
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Simple Minds
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Big Black
4/5
Eminem
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Björk
3/5
Jeff Beck
2/5
Public Enemy
5/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Kate Bush
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Avalanches
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Beatles
5/5
The Adverts
4/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
Laibach
1/5
What a bloated, heaping pile of gravel-filled horse excrement. The anti-fascist/fascist b.s. only masks the pointlessness of this soulless gurgle of acid. This may be the absolute worst album I've ever listened to... and I DID listen to it! The whole wretched thing! I earnestly wanted to discover why it was on this list. I mean, for the sake of it, the metalhead in me wanted to relate to the tone, the ambiance, the themes... but there's no way into this self-serving chamber echoing farts. Negative zero -- and that's being kind.
R.E.M.
4/5
Bee Gees
3/5
The Who
3/5
Metallica
3/5
The Go-Go's
4/5
A post-punk pop revolution in an album.
Miles Davis
4/5
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Throwing Muses
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Slade
3/5
Devendra Banhart
1/5
This is really the kind of self-absorbed garbage that makes me question the validity of 1001.
The Monks
5/5
Wait, wait, wait! This exists! Rhythmically sonic and playful -- a fun, unexpected moment in time.
I praise this album because it's both unexpected (how did I miss this?) and a joy to listen to repeatedly.
Lou Reed
4/5
Garbage
4/5
Silver Jews
3/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
The Who
4/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Ice T
4/5
Pantera
3/5
Kings of Leon
1/5
Not my bag.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Sepultura
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
Marr + Rourke + Joyce + songs + wit = 5
Whiny, self-centered, little Bee-yatch Morrissey = -0
Digital Underground
3/5
Gang Starr
3/5
Raekwon
3/5
Slint
3/5
Coldplay
2/5
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Donovan
3/5
Wilco
3/5
Julian Cope
2/5
Sam Cooke
4/5
The Police
4/5
Steely Dan
1/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Bad Brains
5/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Derek & The Dominos
1/5
Slipknot
2/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Big Star
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
The Stranglers
3/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
The Zombies
5/5
Which do you prefer: Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper's? Which band: Beatles or Stones? Your answers are representative of your tastes. Some of us shrug and defer to the Kinks or... the Zombies. Yup, the Zombies. It's hard to imagine that a band in the Rock and Roll HOF (albeit, decades after eligibility) are relatively unheralded... but Atkinson, Argent, and Grundy produced some of the more strange, beautiful, and sonically experimental songs of the 60s. Odessey [sic] and Oracle defines those of us with other kinds of taste. Brilliant.
Dire Straits
2/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Joan Armatrading
1/5
Ute Lemper
1/5
4/5
Snoop Dogg
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
The Police
4/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
U2
3/5
The Thrills
3/5
Judas Priest
5/5
Sebadoh
3/5
Iron Maiden
5/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Nine Inch Nails
3/5
Nas
4/5
a-ha
3/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
The Pharcyde
5/5
Jurassic 5
5/5
Talking Heads
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Don McLean
2/5
Lorde
3/5
Common
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
American Music Club
3/5
The The
3/5
Goldfrapp
2/5
Meh.
Portishead
4/5
The Zutons
2/5
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Willie Nelson
2/5
Guns N' Roses
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
Soft Machine
2/5
The Specials
3/5
Joan Baez
1/5
Pulp
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Klaxons
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
2/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Yes
3/5
Suicide
5/5
Bee Gees
1/5
Yo, this is a piece of excrement.
Weather Report
1/5
Mekons
2/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
2/5
It's aight. I mean, it is what it is -- the birth of the death of classic rock radio.
Spacemen 3
2/5
GZA
4/5
GZA may be devoted to the sub-genre he helped to create, to the music, to the fans... and to many of us, he's "faith."
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1/5
Norah Jones
1/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Minutemen
5/5
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
Peter Frampton
1/5
From the era of Corvettes and cold sores -- fad music for a fatuous time.
Beatles
3/5
The Damned
4/5
The Only Ones
4/5
The Psychedelic Furs
5/5
"Post punk," "new wave," whatever genre you want to fit the Furs into, the music defies. Strange, hypnotic, droning, aggressive, grating, melancholic,... better to attach adjectives than categories. A work of art.
The Vines
1/5
Like a lesser Stone Temple Pilots... which is like saying, "Worse than sucks."
MC Solaar
3/5
Old school French hip hop. I'm down. Native Tongues across the Atlantic -- De La is in the beats and TCQ is in some of the grooves... but the delivery is all Solaar. Good stuff.
Christine and the Queens
2/5
Not reflective of my taste... at all; so, of course, my rating is low... but I can also appreciate the artist and the importance of having Chris' voice in world music. Still, taste is taste... and this ain't mine.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
The Cure
4/5
Aphex Twin
1/5
"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is the worst album I've rated (so far) on this list... but, after over 300 reviews, it's the second worst album. A nightmare of baby powder, fluffy clouds, used diapers, and wretched hot boxing.
Beyoncé
1/5
Metallica
2/5
Aiight. Like, really aiight. But just aiight.
Paul Simon
1/5
Am I the only one who finds Paul Simon insufferable? "Hearts and Bones"? Nope, "Farts and Drones."
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Randy Newman
1/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Pillow music.
Tim Buckley
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Van Halen
5/5
Tangerine Dream
1/5
Pointless, pointless sythy, windy, oceany whispers -- the kind of music that would make heaven hell.
Holger Czukay
1/5
Oh, for fuck's sake, really?
Van Morrison
2/5
The Sonics
3/5
Minor Threat
4/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
Guided By Voices
2/5
Sade
1/5
80s music for suburban moms with bad perms.
Otis Redding
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Hüsker Dü
4/5
Everything But The Girl
1/5
There isn't another album out there to replace this one on this list?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Linkin Park
1/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Eminem
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Haircut 100
2/5
Traffic
3/5
Anthrax
3/5
Japan
3/5
CHVRCHES
4/5
Metallica
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Grateful Dead
1/5
I I were forced to listen to this again, I would be grateful if I were dead.
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Tina Turner
3/5
James Taylor
2/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Bad Company
4/5
Röyksopp
4/5
5/5
Suzanne Vega
4/5
Moby
3/5
Kings of Leon
1/5
Deee-Lite
2/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Tom Waits
4/5
The Fall
3/5
The United States Of America
3/5
Stephen Stills
4/5
ZZ Top
4/5
Steely Dan
1/5
According to every critical source, Steely Dan is that band than you're supposed to appreciate... and "Pretzel Logic" is 5/5, 10/10, A+, among the best albums ever recorded. But, alas, I really, really dislike their music. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" just makes me want to forget everything, EVERYTHING about the early/mid-70s. A kind of creepy vibe moves through me as soon as I hear their melodies and strained vocals. Ugh. Ick. Yuck.
Gillian Welch
4/5
Van Morrison
1/5
Billy Joel
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
The Verve
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
1/5
This is a joke, right?
The Cramps
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
2/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
Hole
3/5
David Crosby
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Ice Cube
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Megadeth
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
New Order
5/5
Adam & The Ants
4/5
2/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
The Offspring
3/5
ABBA
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Tracy Chapman
2/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
5/5
One of the most important albums... EVER!
"The Message" is the amalgamation of everything, EVERYTHING that came before it -- the music, the meanings, the emotions, and the ideals.
"The Message" is the turning -- when discovery became a science, and the science became the purpose, and the purpose fueled generations.
Bon Jovi
3/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
MGMT
4/5
James Brown
4/5
Beck
3/5
2/5
The B-52's
4/5
Kings of Leon
1/5
Soundgarden
4/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
The Replacements
5/5
Lana Del Rey
2/5
Blondie
4/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Steely Dan
1/5
I've had to defend my dislike of Steely Dan since the 80s. I just don't get their sound, their vibe, their mellow muck. It might as well be elevator music to me.
Joy Division
5/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
5/5
Donald Fagen
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
5/5
The The
4/5
The Lemonheads
4/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
Cee Lo Green
2/5
Alice In Chains
3/5
Fishbone
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
Beach House
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Circle Jerks
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
The Cult
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
4/5
Beck
2/5
T. Rex
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Faith No More
3/5
Green Day
4/5
X-Ray Spex
5/5
Damn near perfect album.
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1/5
Hell no.
Robbie Williams
2/5
Gang Of Four
5/5
k.d. lang
3/5
TLC
4/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Le Tigre
3/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Fine, fun, playful tracks that are sorely missing a rad MC.
Pink Floyd
4/5
Six words: Laser light show, Hayden Planetarium, baked.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1/5
I might be the only person ever to compare Steely Dan to RHCP, but here goes: They're two of my least favorite bands. Each reminds me of moments in music that feel slimy, dated, elevator-y, and... empty. This is not a knock on either band's supposed virtuosity. In re to RHCP, I can hear Flea's thumping explorations, Frusciante's playful experiments, and Smith's banging earnestness... but they become disparate parts of a discharged sum... and the sum intends to evoke fun but lands flat, farty, and, holistically, meaningless. "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" just sounds silly.
Thankfully, based on some of these other reviews, I'm not the only one whose skin crawls when Kiedis opens his babbling maw to atonally scream his greasy, trite lyrics.
Nightmares On Wax
1/5
Torturous elevator to hell music.
Just why?
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
The Waterboys
4/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
M.I.A.
3/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
M.I.A.
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
New York Dolls
4/5
Calexico
3/5
Carole King
4/5
Yes
4/5
UB40
4/5
Björk
4/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Talk Talk
5/5
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Scritti Politti
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
The Pogues
4/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Jack White
4/5
XTC
5/5
Everything works on this album.
Black Sabbath
5/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
I can appreciate the artistry and vibe... but not my thang.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Megadeth
3/5
Kanye West
1/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Justice
1/5
Why?
The Roots
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
5/5
Duh.
Black Sabbath
5/5
Janet Jackson
2/5
Meh. Not my thing.
Gil Scott-Heron
5/5
Bauhaus
4/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Ryan Adams
1/5
I just can't.
Nirvana
5/5
Dinosaur Jr.
5/5
Dolly Parton
2/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
The Byrds
3/5
50 Cent
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Adele
2/5
Talking Heads
4/5
4/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Simply Red
1/5
Rush
5/5
Traffic
4/5
Genesis
3/5
The Band
3/5
Queen
2/5
SZA
2/5
The Jam
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Foo Fighters
5/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
4/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
The Who
3/5
Slipknot
1/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Queen
2/5
Blur
1/5
Public Enemy
5/5
Def Leppard
4/5
The Slits
5/5
The Black Crowes
2/5
Billie Holiday
5/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Dr. John
2/5
Portishead
3/5
The Kinks
5/5
Dead Kennedys
5/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Big Star
5/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Lucinda Williams
3/5
Common
3/5
1/5
The Killers
2/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Missy Elliott
5/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
ZZ Top
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Napalm Death
4/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
Elastica
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
4/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
John Lennon
5/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Korn
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
The xx
3/5
The Cardigans
3/5
The Residents
3/5
Beatles
5/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Dinosaur Jr.
5/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
5/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
1/5
Kraftwerk
2/5
Iron Maiden
5/5
John Lennon
3/5
Aerosmith
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
4/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
The Dictators
4/5
George Harrison
4/5
Pavement
5/5
Fats Domino
3/5
Rush
5/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
The Strokes
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Neil Young
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
Motörhead
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Britney Spears
2/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Love
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Prince
5/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Adele
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
KISS
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Great band... maybe one of the greatest ever.
Worst lead singer... maybe one of the worst ever.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Queen Latifah
4/5
Duran Duran
3/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Fugees
3/5
De La Soul
4/5
The Stooges
4/5
George Michael
3/5
Genesis
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5