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1070

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3.18

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98%

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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Opus Dei Laibach	5	2.39	+2.61
Suicide Suicide	5	2.46	+2.54
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	5	2.77	+2.23
Faust IV Faust	5	2.78	+2.22
Ys Joanna Newsom	5	2.79	+2.21
Vulnicura Björk	5	2.79	+2.21
Scott 4 Scott Walker	5	2.8	+2.2
Tago Mago Can	5	2.81	+2.19
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.85	+2.15
Mask Bauhaus	5	2.85	+2.15

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
MTV Unplugged In New York Nirvana	1	4.2	-3.2
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	1	3.94	-2.94
Dookie Green Day	1	3.79	-2.79
Ramones Ramones	1	3.56	-2.56
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	1	3.56	-2.56
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.53	-2.53
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys	1	3.46	-2.46
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.45	-2.45
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	1	3.45	-2.45
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	1	3.4	-2.4

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	6	4.83
Beatles	7	4.71
Miles Davis	4	4.75
Nick Drake	3	5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	4.4
Tom Waits	5	4.4
Talking Heads	4	4.5
Björk	4	4.5
R.E.M.	4	4.5
The Smiths	3	4.67
The Velvet Underground	3	4.67
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	3	4.67
Jimi Hendrix	3	4.67
Kraftwerk	3	4.67
The Pogues	2	5
Kate Bush	2	5
Fela Kuti	2	5
Joy Division	2	5
Portishead	2	5
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
Can	2	5
Fleetwood Mac	2	5
Funkadelic	2	5
David Bowie	9	4
Led Zeppelin	5	4.2
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.33
Pet Shop Boys	3	4.33
Johnny Cash	3	4.33
The Cure	3	4.33
Marvin Gaye	3	4.33
Brian Eno	5	4

Least Favorites

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Artist	Albums	Average
Aerosmith	3	1
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	1.33
Van Morrison	3	1.33
Eminem	2	1
Bee Gees	2	1
Christina Aguilera	2	1
Rod Stewart	2	1
Beastie Boys	3	1.67
Kings of Leon	3	1.67
Barry Adamson	2	1.5
Slipknot	2	1.5
The Divine Comedy	2	1.5
Orbital	2	1.5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	2	1.5
Green Day	2	1.5
Tim Buckley	3	2
Frank Sinatra	3	2
The Kinks	4	2.25
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	4	2.25

Controversial

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Artist	Ratings
Pink Floyd	1, 4, 5, 5
Metallica	1, 4, 5, 4
Super Furry Animals	4, 1
Taylor Swift	1, 4
The Mothers Of Invention	4, 1

5-Star Albums (133)

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Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Popular Reviews

The Bee Gees were a lot more successfull at ripping off black artists than they were at ripping off white artists

It's a shame that so many "world music" (a stupid name to begin with) albums on this list are clearly watered down versions of the local music ready-made for a Western audience. Like with this album: all the edges are sanded off and replaced by this 90s as fuck production. Africa has so much interesting music and yet on this list we get the commercialised stuff because anything remotely authenticly African is scary for western people. I don't hate this album, I hate what it represents

I do not begrudge John Lee Hooker for selling out like this, he is a blues legend and I'm fine with him securing his retirement funds. However, I do not see the point of adding this album to the list in favour of some of his classic stuff.

Love how this site's users constantly complain about misogyny and violence in hip-hop albums but never about misogyny and violence in rock and metal. I wonder why...

Men with acoustic guitars has to be one of my favourite genders

1-Star Albums (95)

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

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

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

All Ratings (1070)

This is extremely 60s in the worst way possible to me

I wonder how much budget was spend on coke

Men with acoustic guitars has to be one of my favourite genders

Musically it's quite good but the lyrics are just gross

It's ska.

One of my favourite albums, just fantastic

Great but way too fucking long

Even worse than the rampant homophobia is how annoying some of the songs on this album actually sound

Northern Sky is one of the best songs ever made.

As I'm making my way through this list of albums I've come to the realisation that I don't really like new wave music. Come On Eileen is a banger tho

A pleasant listen, but nothing really stands out on this album

Did we really need another Beatles ripoff in 1967?

All of my 1-star reviews so far are albums that piss me off, while this is just so completely forgettable that I can't even remember any single hook or riff from the album. So no, The Hives won't be my new favourite band

The only thing bringing this album down is the ten minute monologue

My tolerance for medical sex jokes was running out by the end but an interesting album nontheless

Perfectly enjoyable but not particularly memorable

Huh

It's a masterpiece

I went into this album with low expectations because of my dislike of post punk music but was pleasantly surprised

A shame about the length, because there are some great songs on here

An extremely enjoyable album

You know that this is funk music because they keep telling you that you're listening to funk music

A shame that Morrissey is such a cunt because this album is actually pretty good

If you get the chance, try to see The War on Drugs live, they're fantastic

Surprisingly dull for a live album

Really fun and varied

I've been wanting to get into Nick Cave for a while now, and now I've finally got an excuse. This album is just fantastic, but I will concede that the second disc drags a little bit, although for a double album the pacing is surprisingly good. A great entry point into a fascinating artist

How many other albums end with an orgasm?

The casual homophobia ruins so much of 90s hiphop

Haha, imagine not connecting at all to one of the most beloved albums of all time

The production of this album is just immaculate

If you love the organ, this is the album for you!

Was it not necessary in the 80s to be able to sing?

If you cut 20-25 minutes from this album you'd end up with a fantastic album. As it is, it is a bit too bloated

Ya like jazz???

After three jazz albums in a row I'm feeling a little jazzed out

I pity the person whose first interaction with Tom Waits is Bone Machine. It is abrasive and challenging, and if you're not in the right mindset to process that it will bounce right off. But if you are receptive to this sound (and conditioned by some of Waits's other albums like Rain Dogs, Swordfishtrombones and Mule Variations) you'll find a harrowing beauty in it

Went into this album with kinda low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. You can really hear the punk sound in the vocals. I also love the production here, sounds really good. I also love that the album ends with a goodbye, love when that happens

Meh

Less ballads more bangers please

So unnecessarily overindulgent I can't help but respect it

Dull

I prefer it when Coldplay makes bangers so this album isn't much for me. Also 1 star less because of Yellow. Fuck Yellow

Arguably the best Radiohead album period, certainly the best Radiohead album of the 2000s

4 stars for the music 1 star for the album cover

Morrissey is a cunt

Maybe I just don't like reggae

The Bee Gees were a lot more successfull at ripping off black artists than they were at ripping off white artists

This album just makes me want to listen to the Smiths

Goes hard* * United and Red, White & Blue do not go hard

French electronic artists are the only people on earth who actually understand how music production works

I would enjoy most metal a lot more is the singers were actually able to sing

Some of it sounds great, some of it sounds horribly dated

Loses steam by the end but still great overall

I like Talking Heads too Peter

Enjoyable but a couple guitar jam sessions to long

I used to like The Prodigy quite a bit when I was younger bu I have to say that this album really doesn't hit me the way it used to. Maybe I just got old idk

This album is way too long, features way too much guitar slides and has a completely unnecessary instrumental section at the end. 5 stars

I really wouldn't recommend listening to this album while drunk in bed. The vibes are just clashing

Bland and boring

Why is this on the list? Who the fuck cares about Shack? Who even remembers Shack in 2023? Imagine the great album whose place on the list is kept occupied by fucking Shack

The Only Living Boy in New York made me cry

Album good

The vocals are the weirdest thing about the album. Starts of strong but I lost interest by the end

Kanye is a great producer but he is by far the weakest rapper and singer on the album

Like R.E.M.'s Document, only smothered in shitty production

Great instrumentals combined with some of the worst vocals you can imagine. I know post punk isn't know for great vocalists but come on

I can count on two hands the amount of double LP's that actually benefit from being that long. This is not one of them. Shame because there is some great material on here

Hip hop artists make a 40 minute album challenge (impossible)

Shame they didn't go for the full 17 minute cover of In A Gadda Da Vida

The jug just ruins what is a pretty good album

Great opening track, but the rest of the album is quite unremarkable

This album is the result of combining every acclaimed indie album of the 2000s

A boring version of Portishead

I really don't like this album enough to excuse Kanyes bullshit like I do with some of his other albums

Gets one star less just because of the girl is mine. Who decided that that wet fart of a song should be the lead single

This is so 90s in the best possible way

Folk Taylor is a lot more interesting than pop Taylor

Never manages to be anything other than background music

Sounds like a drunk David Bowie

It's fun to hear the Clash being so versatile even on their debut. Makes them far more enjoyable than most other punk bands that usually suffer from more monotonous albums

3.5

I wish that we as a society could pretend that nu-metal never happened

Whitest music ever made

A little bit too lofi for my tastes

David you're not Godspeed You Black Emperor, no one cares about your shitty street interviews

I don't particularly like LCD Soundsystem or this album, but All My Friends is one of the best songs ever made and I cannot ignore that.

Ruined by its shit production. The glitchy beats really ruin a couple of potentially decent songs

After sitting through 2 weeks of mediocrity I'm probably rating this higher than I would normally, but it is also some really interesting post punk

Hell yeah, finally a 60s album on this list that doesn't feel like it's ripping of one of the big B's: Beach Boys, Beatles and Bob Dylan

I expected to hate this album because of my hatred of the title track, but the rest of the album is surprisingly competent, if a bit forgettable

Please tell me this is the final Kinks album on the list I'm so fucking tired of them

I'm a sucker for prominent piano in rock songs so this album is right up my street

I'm sorry bu I need hooks in my music, this just borea me. Sometimes Van sings A LITTLE LOUDER, and sometimes he sings a little softer. That's about the only interesting thing here

White guy rapping

As with most hiphop albums it is too long. However this album is at least not filled with obnoxious skits

My dad would disown me if I rated this any lower

This is fantastic most of the people here are just stuck in their boring dad rock

This could only be considered cool in the early 2000s, because nowadays it sounds dated as shit. That said, I'll still scream along with In The End every time I hear it though

Girl just leave him he ain't worth it

One of those albums where the big hit really overshadows the rest of the songs. Sweet Dreams is great, but I don't really care about the rest

Great music if you want to be yelled at by a bunch of 12 year old kids for an hour. There are however a couple tracks where you are not being yelled at like Futtermans Rule and they are genuinely great.

George should have just called this album Songs About Fuckin' A very appropriate album to get on Valentine's Day

Rather annoyingly the first three tracks are the clear standouts, overshadowing the rest of the album. That said, these three tracks are all classics in their own roghts

It's more than 2 fucking hours long!!!

"I eat Kleenex for breakfast" A lyrical masterpiece

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There are a couple of good songs in here, but most of it veers into annoying weird instead of interesting weird

The Smiths, but boring

For a band that is well known as a singles artist as opposed to an albums artist, there sure are a lot of Rolling Stones albums in this list.

Typical hip hop album that's way too long and is mildly homophobic

No amount of Bob Marley on this list is ever gonna make me like reggea

Remove all the covers and the instrumentals and you'd have a great single album, instead of this bloated double album.

Right, so the reason this doesn't work for me as opposed to something like The Wall is that it feels insincere. It's like they constantly started adding whatever bullshit they could think of in order to justify the length. There are a couple good songs on this album (as usual with the Who, way more a singles band than an album band), but as a whole it's just a slog to get through.

The most 3/5 album ever made. Pleasant to listen to, short, completely forgettable, ugly as fuck album cover. Just a perfect example of mediocrity.

It's funny how Slint and Talk Talk are seen as foundational artists for the genre post rock, when the two bands couldn't be more different from each other. Talk Talk is intimate, vulnerable, and life affirming, while Slint is angsty, unsettling, and oppressive. Yet within later post rock releases you can find traces from both bands. While I prefer Talk Talk's Laughing Stock over Spiderland, I cannot deny the influence this album has had on so many later bands.

This is so 90s it hurts

Of course the worst song here is written by Mike Love

It's a good album, but also the weakest of REM's 80s output

Hippie bullshit

Commits the eternal sin of reminding you of far better albums you could be listening to

Bland and inoffensive. I'm tempted to bump this down to a 1 because of Angels but nothing else here is that awful

I'd rather listen to the Coltrane album

It's better than Astral Weeks but I still don't like Van's voice and songwriting. The fact that he is a xunt in real life doesn't help

Boring, dull, supports an apartheid state, uneventful, lethargic.

Way too poppy, way too long, way too much imagine

This is such psych rock bullshit I kinda love it

This album has a song named "Indifference" and that perfectly sums up my feelings towards this album

Wtf is this shit

Meh, Lana has way better albums

The introduction of CDs as the most popular album format has done disasterous things to album pacing

Transphobia in the very first song. Just fuck off

Gets an extra star for not being filled with pointless filler and skits like most rap albums.

I hate Justin's voice. I might be kinder to this album if it was sung by someone who could actually put some power but with Justin it just sounds like pathetic yelping

Sometimes an artist is called influential, not because they made good music, but because they had a good idea but were shit at executing it

Possibly fun in the club when you're shitfaced, but not when you're sober at home

First three tracks are absolute classics, the rest is pretty meh

Oh man that album cover has not aged well

Supergroups sound cool in theory, but most of them just end up as less than the sum of their parts

Would be a lot better if the bloke could shut the fuck up and let Björk sing. Anyway I've got no idea why this is on the list but Post and Homogenic are not. Post is a bit messy but contains one of the best songs of all time with Hyper ballad while Homogenic is one of the most influential albums of the 90s. There is plenty of mediocre slop (including this album tbh) on the list that I'd happily remove in favour of one of those two.

If it wasn't for I Can See For Miles I'd give this album a 1

Berlin Bowie is best Bowie

The Cult drop the post-punk/gothic rock influences of their previous album Love in favour of this sell-out, cock rock, derivative garbage.

The title track is good, the rest is typical Swedish pop garbage that only belongs at Eurovision

This album is the dictionary definition of white guy world music

The problem with Morrissey (aside from the fact that he is a twat) is that he is a great lyricist but he needs a musical genius like Johnny Marr beside him. That is what ultimately made the Smiths work. Some musicians need that collaborative friction to bring out the best in them, and the Smiths are a prime example (alongside the Beatles and Pink Floyd)

Music for annoying, edgy, misogynist, homophobic, 12 year olds

I'd agree with the reviews calling this a masterpiece if Billy Morgan wasn't such a shit singer

I hate early 2000s pop so much

The lyrics feel like they are the result of asking an AI to write Morrissey lyrics

It's funny to compare this to current black metal and how much heavier it has become. This album seems tame in comparison

I like Holiday, but don't care about the rest

This is exactly the kind boring music my dad would try to convince me is actually really good and interesting. I am genuinely surprised this album isn't in his LP collection.

I might like this in a studio setting where all the fat is trimmed and the vocals are cleaned up, but as a 2 hour live album? Nope

If you're a gen x'er who grew up with this album you'd might think it were good, but I didn't so I don't.

Yeah it's not Mezzanine but it does the job

It gets a bit sappy at times with all the strings and the background choir, but it's influence is undeniable

Yeah this album is pretty blatantly ripping off Neu! at times but honestly, who cares when the music is this good

Landfill indie, AKA dad rock for gen x'ers and millenials

Commits the cardinal sin of not being quite as good as the albums that came after that are somehow not on the list. There seriously wasn't any room for Homogenic, one of the most influential art pop albums of all time?

I 100% support what this album stands for, but sonically it just doesn't do it for me

LCD Soundsystem is, for me, a weird band. I love all their obvious influences (Talking Heads, New Order, etc.) but yet, outside of a few songs, I don't like LCD. The instrumentation is all there, but I can't connect with it. The problem with this album specifically is that all the songs are way too long and it is missing an obvious highlight like All My Friends. It is not bad per se, but it does feel like a waste of potential.

Maybe Paul's "granny songs" weren't that bad John

Elvis throws out the n-word so casually you start to wonder how often he actually uses it

TMI the album

This album made me realise that I would like Björk's music a lot less if it wasn't for her very powerful and distinct voice

Like listening to your British uncle, who nobody in your family likes to talk about, do karaoke

Really enjoyed In Da Club, but then the f-slur came up. Fuck off

Another day, another album everyone completely forgot 2 years after its release

I actually quite like this but just like most albums from the 90s it's way too long

If it wasn't for the typical 90s muddy production I'd actually like this album a lot more

Yesterday I got Abbey Road, arguably the best album of all time Today I get this

Love me some prog rock wankery

People complain about all the post punk on the list, but the real scourge are all the boring 70s hard rock live albums that basically serve as greatest hits albums because these bands weren't able to string together a proper album and instead relied on their half-decent singles.

This is what Neutral Milk Hotel sounds like to me

vile

Farquaad ass haircut

Annoying

Has this underlying feeling that it could go full Trout Mask at any moment where the songs threaten to fall apart, but they never do.

Like the other MIA album on this list, this is way more focussed on percussion rather than melody. Sadly, the percussion has a lot of bells and whistles to conceal some pretty basic 4/4 beats. If it were more ambitious in that regard I might like it more

Mediocre 2010s commercial music

They look like they're gonna call me a slur at any moment now

I don't care how creative the sampling is, the album still sounds like three annoying teenagers yelling at you for 45 minutes

Love how this site's users constantly complain about misogyny and violence in hip-hop albums but never about misogyny and violence in rock and metal. I wonder why...

I prefer Neil when he's properly rockin', so his collabs with Crazy Horse are usually right up my alley. This is no different

The album loses some steam in the second half, but Rolling in the Deep is so good that it can basically carry this album on its own

The important thing to remember about sampling vocals, is that you don't just loop them constantly for an entire track because then they get annoying. So why would you do that on your opening two tracks?

I'm being generous because at least this album is something different, but if you want to listen to experimental noise rock there is just way better stuff out there than this.

Textbook definition of white guy funk

I would've given this 5 stars if O'Malleys Bar wasn't so long

This is basically the textbook definition of cultural appropriation in music

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh boiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

It's not bad but it's not buttering my parsnips

It's allright but I ppprefer the grander instrumentation of Yoshimi.

Pretty decent music for a massive racist

The organ solo in Light My Fire could be 10 minutes long and still it wouldn't get boring. That alone merits 5 stars.

Sorry Rod, but I've still not forgiven you for your shitty cover of Downtown Train

As with all of Morrissey's solo work, I like his songwriting, but instrumentally it's missing the thing that made the Smiths so special (it's Johnny Marr)

Turns out I know every song on here despite never listening to this album as a whole before

Why did every woman in the 90s sing like this?

I don't mind this type of psychedelic noodling, but I miss some kind of hook to draw me in, not just noodling for noodling's sake.

I was complaining about psychedelic noodling yesterday and today I get Jimi. At least he knows how to do the noodling right.

Not Nick's best work, but Papa won't leave you Henry and Straight to you are obvious highlights

Second track is gonna kill at the karaoke

I prefer my metal to have some more melody than this

Pretty much every song on here would benefit from being minute or so shorter

Hippie dippie bullshit

This album is genuinely great when it goes into the unhinged showtune cabaret territory, but immediately becomes boring with every 'normal' song. I'll give it 4 stars purely because I do find it interesting, which cannot be said about many other albums on this list

Classis case of "just cause you can combine music genres, doesn't mean you should"

Genuinely one of the most overrated live albums of all time

This is some 90s alt rock all right

It's lesser Radiohead, but it's still radiohead

Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine

I'm not middle-aged enough yet to like this album

Nice to see that yuppies also get some representation on the list

We could've had the 2 hour long experimental fusion masterpiece Get Up With It by Miles Davis on the list, but instead we get this drudgery. I like this list overall but for too many artists and genres it values commercial succes over actual artistry

Sounds like musical blackface

Post-Condé-Nast-Pitchfork-core

Suffers from being not quite as good as its successor. I like the opening track but the rest of the album never reaches the heights of Sinister

Basic indie pop, not really remarkable

I might've just been in the wrong mood but I found this album really unbearable. The first song is this 5 minute dirge and it completely ruins the rest of the album for me