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Average Rating
48%
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96
5-Star Albums
20
1-Star Albums
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Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
|
5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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Sail Away
Randy Newman
|
5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
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The Who Sell Out
The Who
|
5 | 3 | +2 |
|
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
|
5 | 3 | +2 |
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Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
|
5 | 3 | +2 |
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Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
|
5 | 3.01 | +1.99 |
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Coles Corner
Richard Hawley
|
5 | 3.03 | +1.97 |
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Before And After Science
Brian Eno
|
5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
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Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
|
5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
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Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
|
5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
|
1 | 3.75 | -2.75 |
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Highway to Hell
AC/DC
|
1 | 3.66 | -2.66 |
|
Ill Communication
Beastie Boys
|
1 | 3.65 | -2.65 |
|
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
|
1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
|
1 | 3.44 | -2.44 |
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
|
1 | 3.38 | -2.38 |
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The College Dropout
Kanye West
|
1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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Homework
Daft Punk
|
1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
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Phrenology
The Roots
|
1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
|
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
|
1 | 3.24 | -2.24 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 8 | 4.88 |
| Beatles | 6 | 5 |
| Bob Dylan | 5 | 5 |
| The Rolling Stones | 5 | 4.8 |
| The Who | 5 | 4.8 |
| Radiohead | 5 | 4.8 |
| Brian Eno | 3 | 5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3 | 5 |
| Talking Heads | 3 | 5 |
| The Doors | 3 | 5 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 4 | 4.5 |
| The Kinks | 4 | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 4.5 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 3 | 4.67 |
| King Crimson | 2 | 5 |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4.25 |
| Neil Young | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Beach Boys | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Def Leppard | 2 | 1.5 |
| Queen | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 1, 4 |
| The Cure | 4, 2, 1 |
| The Byrds | 2, 3, 5 |
5-Star Albums (96)
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Popular Reviews
Merle Haggard
1/5
Never to be forgiven for the jingoism of Okie from Muskogee, for it persists in country music to this day. Reeks of resentment when not stinking of sentimentalism.
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
Bob Newhart
1 likes
The Rolling Stones
5/5
A double album comprising one spectacular album of 8-10 songs, deserving of five stars, and a mediocre album of 10-8 songs.
1 likes
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Kanye West
1/5
The vast majority of hiphop is boring and without vision. So is this.
Suede
5/5
Bad Company
4/5
Paul Rodgers? How can you miss?
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
De La Soul
2/5
Although the grooves are mostly borrowed, at least they're there. But to drown them out in all that busy-ness and buzziness empties the whole experience. Ultimately, it becomes mind numbing fluff.
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Goldie
2/5
Donovan
4/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
The Jam
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
Brian Eno
5/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
The xx
4/5
The other day I gave 5 stars to Rust Never Sleeps. Imagine my surprise when I played this for the first time in my life. I actually enjoyed it. I guess there's two kinds of passion in music: ragged and dirty (Neil) and precise and sweeping (xx).
Def Leppard
2/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Brian Eno
5/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Wild Beasts
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Spiritualized
4/5
The Kinks
5/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
MGMT
4/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Alice In Chains
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Dire Straits
3/5
James Taylor
3/5
Bobby Womack
4/5
Adele
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
The Temptations
3/5
5/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Eagles
4/5
Tori Amos
4/5
a-ha
2/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Throwing Muses
3/5
John Prine
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Haircut 100
2/5
Neu!
2/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
4.5 only because Sister Morphine, like most drug songs, is only good for titillating adolescent boys.
Coldplay
3/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
Yes
5/5
Beatles
5/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
No one like Neil Young. "After the Gold Rush," "Rust Never Sleeps" and some many other exceptional songs and albums. Great voice; original guitarist; decent lyricist. But jesus: Ralph Molina's drumming just continues to bore the hell outta me. Hence: 4.5/5
4/5
Gary Numan
2/5
Some of his later material, such as "Pure," is so much better.
PJ Harvey
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Brian Wilson
4/5
Beastie Boys
1/5
Forgettable. In every sense.
Beatles
5/5
The Band
5/5
Ask yourself why Eric Clapton wanted to join The Band after hearing this record. They re-wrote the recipe for serious rock. Theirs isn't the only recipe, but it's one of the best.
The Byrds
2/5
Yeah, sure. Okay. But country music is universal like my stubbed toe. So why should I dwell on it?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Bert Jansch
2/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Neil Young
4/5
The Clash
4/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Blur
4/5
The Cardigans
2/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
The Modern Lovers
3/5
Gene Clark
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
Metallica
3/5
David Bowie
5/5
XTC
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Soulless.
Jethro Tull
5/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Erykah Badu
3/5
Calexico
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
The Temptations
4/5
New Order
2/5
Caetano Veloso
2/5
3/5
Elbow
4/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Television
5/5
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
John Lennon
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Dr. Dre
2/5
Ramones
3/5
Elastica
4/5
Genesis
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Dire Straits
3/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Queen
2/5
Scott Walker
4/5
The Jam
4/5
Wilco
4/5
Big Star
4/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Should be a"5" but Dusty Springfield likely had no control over what record companies used as filler for an album. So, it's not as good as "Dusty in Memphis".
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Eminem
3/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
The Who
5/5
Björk
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
OutKast
2/5
Soundgarden
5/5
Duran Duran
2/5
Judas Priest
2/5
Fats Domino
3/5
Laibach
3/5
5/5
The Stooges
3/5
The Avalanches
2/5
Neil Young
5/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
Van Morrison
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
The Clash
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Elvis Costello
5/5
Beatles
5/5
Common
2/5
The principles of this so-called 'art' are rudimentary, at best. Simplistic rhythm section and unpolished, usually simplistic poetry. We're aware this type of "music" comes out of an impoverished environment. Impoverished and oppressed by predatory capitalism, of course, though its practitioners rarely , if ever, address that. It's regrettable that the billions of dollars made by the pretend moguls and their patsies can't be reinvested in the communities which spawned this style. Maybe then the reliance on jury-rigged technologies can be overcome and real musical instruments and instruction and real musical invention can come back.
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
David Bowie
5/5
AC/DC
1/5
There's wimp rock and then theirs dumb rock. This is dumb rock where screaming seems to matter. Don't ask me ... I've never had the luxury of shutting down my brain.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Happy Mondays
4/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Just more tedious Brit pop. If only these drummers understood the difference between 'drummer' and 'percussionist'.
The Band
4/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
White Denim
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
5/5
The Vines
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Tears For Fears
2/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
Otis Redding
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
4/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
The Mars Volta
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
The Electric Prunes
4/5
Killing Joke
4/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
Nirvana
3/5
Minutemen
3/5
The Cars
5/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
The Slits
3/5
U2
4/5
New Order
2/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Hawkwind
4/5
Stan Getz
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
If only for the lyrics of "Adam Raised a Cain"!
1/5
4/5
The Gun Club
3/5
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Harry Nilsson
5/5
David Bowie
5/5
George Harrison
4/5
Supergrass
3/5
Roxy Music
5/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Loe Reed's chanting is an acquired taste that I've never acquired. Nevertheless, Bob Ezrin's production and Steve Hunter's guitar make this record listenable.
Tom Waits
5/5
Tom Waits' music is strange. But, there is no shortage of strange people. Some also make music, which is often strange. But none of this strange music, other than Tom Waits', cultivates the strange. Impregnates the strange. Raises it to the sublime.
Deep Purple
3/5
Blur
2/5
So tedious.
Kate Bush
5/5
The Strokes
4/5
Btw, are we all getting a kick outta the listener who keeps plagiarizing - usually just wholesale stealing - reviews from all music.com?
Pink Floyd
5/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
There is no album by any artist in this musical genre that is more revolutionary than this one.
Radiohead
5/5
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Portishead
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Brian Eno
5/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
The xx
2/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Joy Division
4/5
Cream
5/5
Depeche Mode
2/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Al Green
5/5
The Everly Brothers
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Metallica
2/5
Merle Haggard
1/5
Never to be forgiven for the jingoism of Okie from Muskogee, for it persists in country music to this day. Reeks of resentment when not stinking of sentimentalism.
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
Bob Newhart
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Crowded House
2/5
The Psychedelic Furs
2/5
Morrissey
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
1/5
Sufjan Stevens
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
The Black Keys
5/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
The Who
5/5
Daft Punk
1/5
The Verve
4/5
Bad Brains
4/5
Gotan Project
2/5
Santana
3/5
Talking Heads
5/5
The Byrds
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
He's a Jewish bluesman, descended from Jeremiah and the boys. If you think he can't sing, you probably think Howlin' Wolf can't sing or that rabbis should have to take singing lessons from Barry Manilow.
Deep Purple
3/5
The Smiths
4/5
Japan
4/5
More interesting than most so-called "synth pop". And more than just "synth pop".
Todd Rundgren
4/5
The The
4/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Screaming Trees
5/5
Pleasantly surprised by this. Not "grungy" at all, thankfully.
Spacemen 3
4/5
Orbital
2/5
The Lemonheads
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
The Doors
5/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
If I want to listen to Scott Walker, why not just listen to Scott Walker?
Pink Floyd
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
Tangerine Dream
4/5
Meat Loaf
1/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Nicky Hopkins on "Monkey Man". It doesn't get any better.
The Rolling Stones
5/5
A double album comprising one spectacular album of 8-10 songs, deserving of five stars, and a mediocre album of 10-8 songs.
Beatles
5/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
The Cure
2/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
The Residents
2/5
The Adverts
2/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Ride
2/5
Small Faces
3/5
The Beta Band
3/5
This is not terrible, as some reviews suggest. At least most of the songs are different and the percussionist is not a zombie.
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Incredible Bongo Band
2/5
Skunk Anansie
2/5
The Byrds
5/5
Q-Tip
1/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Julian Cope
3/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Talking Heads
5/5
System Of A Down
2/5
Tiresome.
The Specials
2/5
Sisters Of Mercy
2/5
Sepultura
1/5
The Saints
2/5
Wire
2/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Janis Joplin
4/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Janelle Monáe
2/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Magazine
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Doors
5/5
Carole King
3/5
Prince
3/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
The Who
5/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
The Who
4/5
Jeff Beck
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
John Lennon
5/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Black Sabbath
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Scott Walker
4/5
Wilco
3/5
3/5
The Replacements
3/5
Patti Smith
5/5
Ian Dury
3/5
Hookworms
2/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
The Bees
3/5
Stereo MC's
2/5
Sleater-Kinney
5/5
The Fall
2/5
Incubus
2/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Pixies
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
Prince
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
The Monkees
3/5
No one does this kind of pop as well as The Turtles.
Todd Rundgren
4/5
Massive Attack
2/5
Doves
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Randy Newman
5/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Supertramp
3/5
Queen Latifah
1/5
Simply Red
1/5
Little Richard
3/5
Liz Phair
2/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
Def Leppard
1/5
Missy Elliott
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
King Crimson
5/5
Lupe Fiasco
1/5
Nick Drake
2/5
Beach House
2/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
Worth it just for "Sulky Girl".
Queen
2/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
The Smiths
5/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Alice Cooper
2/5
The Cure
1/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Air
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Talking Heads
5/5
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Weather Report
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Megadeth
2/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
Van Morrison
2/5
The Kinks
5/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
The Thrills
2/5
Funkadelic
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
Stereolab
1/5
Cowboy Junkies
4/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Method Man
2/5
The Hives
3/5
Dusty Springfield
5/5
Slade
2/5
Boston
2/5
Wimp rock.
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Steve Winwood
4/5
fIREHOSE
2/5
Faust
3/5
Lucinda Williams
5/5
Robert Wyatt
4/5
Norah Jones
3/5
T. Rex
4/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
The Police
3/5
Shuggie Otis
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Richard Hawley
5/5
The Who
5/5
Moby
4/5
The KLF
2/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Robert Wyatt
3/5
Fishbone
2/5
Fugazi
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
King Crimson
5/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Ute Lemper
3/5
The Sonics
3/5
Deee-Lite
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Violent Femmes
2/5
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
4/5
Love
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
The Police
3/5
George Michael
2/5
Paul Simon
5/5
Holger Czukay
3/5
Iron Maiden
2/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
That boring English 80's percussion.
Neil Young
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
This came 2 days after Sly passed away. Fitting.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Motörhead
2/5
James Brown
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
1/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
Blue Cheer
3/5
Portishead
2/5
Slint
3/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
The Doors
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Rod Stewart
5/5
Black Sabbath
2/5
Still so tedious.
Eels
3/5
Billie Holiday
4/5
Air
2/5
The Stranglers
2/5
Faith No More
2/5
Elton John
3/5
Buzzcocks
2/5
ABBA
3/5
5/5
The Young Rascals
4/5
Tortoise
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Green Day
2/5
The Go-Go's
2/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Aphex Twin
2/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Underworld
2/5
Jeff Buckley
3/5
Kelela
2/5
5/5
Björk
2/5
The Roots
1/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Rush
2/5
Morrissey
3/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
N.E.R.D
2/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Living Colour
3/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Queen
2/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
Talk Talk
3/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Thundercat
2/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
The Stooges
3/5
The Killers
2/5
Paul Weller
3/5
Dr. John
2/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Travis
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Herbie Hancock
2/5
Tina Turner
3/5
Silver Jews
2/5