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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Logical Progression
LTJ Bukem
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5 | 2.52 | +2.48 |
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Moss Side Story
Barry Adamson
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5 | 2.53 | +2.47 |
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Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
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5 | 2.56 | +2.44 |
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Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Cee Lo Green
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5 | 2.66 | +2.34 |
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Histoire De Melody Nelson
Serge Gainsbourg
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5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
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Olympia 64
Jacques Brel
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5 | 2.77 | +2.23 |
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Ys
Joanna Newsom
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5 | 2.8 | +2.2 |
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Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
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5 | 2.83 | +2.17 |
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69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
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5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
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Bone Machine
Tom Waits
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5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs
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1 | 2.9 | -1.9 |
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Back In Black
AC/DC
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2 | 3.86 | -1.86 |
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Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
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2 | 3.72 | -1.72 |
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
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2 | 3.68 | -1.68 |
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1984
Van Halen
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2 | 3.51 | -1.51 |
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Imagine
John Lennon
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2 | 3.45 | -1.45 |
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Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
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2 | 3.45 | -1.45 |
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Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
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2 | 3.38 | -1.38 |
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Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
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2 | 3.38 | -1.38 |
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Live Through This
Hole
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2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Waits | 4 | 4.75 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 5 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 | 5 |
| Leonard Cohen | 5 | 4.4 |
| Radiohead | 5 | 4.4 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.4 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.67 |
| Prince | 3 | 4.67 |
| Marvin Gaye | 3 | 4.67 |
| Nick Drake | 3 | 4.67 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 4.67 |
| Björk | 3 | 4.67 |
| Muddy Waters | 2 | 5 |
| Aretha Franklin | 2 | 5 |
| Stan Getz | 2 | 5 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 5 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.2 |
| David Bowie | 8 | 4 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4.25 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 4.25 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 4 | 4.25 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 4 | 4.25 |
| Paul Simon | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 4.33 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 3 | 4.33 |
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Mudhoney
2/5
I tried to like it. I really did. And any one of those songs is fine. Good, even. But, man that album felt like a slog to me. There’s just so much of it. And every song is not as [adjective] as [contemporary reference band].
10 likes
The Afghan Whigs
1/5
I guess I was aware of the Afghan Whigs but never spent much time paying attention to them. Was surprised to find out this is an album about being sad about having a boner. This is Incel Rock. I didn’t care for it, and “Angst in My Pants” is my favorite Sparks song.
5 likes
The Birthday Party
4/5
I’ll be honest: I didn’t know what this was but my first thought was “this sounds like Grinderman.”
1 likes
Jane's Addiction
5/5
As much as I resent Jane’s Addiction for making Dave Navarro famous, this is a good album.
1 likes
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Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Good album but only hints at the great things that are to come from all the iterations of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. A lot of elements on this album are repeated to greater effect on later projects. I recognize this is not judging the work on its own terms, but I can’t forget the existence of the other works and I can’t I hear the things in their later, more refined and capable form.
Hole
2/5
Competent, by the numbers. You know, like Uptown jazz.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
I have spent a lot of time with this album in my life. Like others we’ve heard so far, this is good but only hints at how good his later work becomes.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Superstitious is one of my favorite songs.
The Youngbloods
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Wild Beasts
2/5
The shtick gets old and this one sags in the middle. “Underbelly” is great and refreshing near the end but not enough to make up for the previous 4 or 5 tunes straight with no perceptible shift in tone.
Wire
3/5
It struck me how meticulously clean the drums were.
Beatles
3/5
Dead serious. 3 stars. It’s competent and, as a Beatles fan, I love the shuffle-beat skiffle of their roots. But this s not why we love the Beatles. It isn’t why they’re iconic and it doesn’t merit being on the list of 1001 albums I need to hear.
Billy Bragg
3/5
There’s a weird association in my head between Bragg and Robyn Hitchcock, which is strange because I listened to Hitchcock in High School and I didn’t discover Bragg until my 20s. Now, though, when I hear either I think of the other.
Mudhoney
2/5
I tried to like it. I really did. And any one of those songs is fine. Good, even. But, man that album felt like a slog to me. There’s just so much of it. And every song is not as [adjective] as [contemporary reference band].
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Green Day
3/5
Like, it’s fine. This is probably the Apex of Green Day.
Beastie Boys
3/5
Almost called a 4.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
I don’t have Fatboy Slim nostalgia goggles?
The Last Shadow Puppets
4/5
Really liked what was going on here. Title track was fantastic. Might be gimmicky? I might not care.
The Clash
3/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
I think I didn’t understand what Janelle Monáe was, before.
Primal Scream
4/5
Probably guilty of things I’ve marked other albums down for. Don’t care, I’m real into this stuff.
John Prine
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
All one volume, screamed at the tippy-top of the singer’s range. All one energy, at one of two tempos. Awful. “Eileen” is s finger and deserved hit status. The whole album is a dog. Maybe they were important for Ireland or something.
R.E.M.
3/5
Not my favorite REM album. The REM lyrical formula where they string together some unrelated phrases to simulate depth of thought is pronounced on this one. It’s fine, though. Way better than Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
Pulp
4/5
Man, I totally forgot about Pulp.
Radiohead
5/5
My first five. I sang along with some songs I haven’t heard in 20 years. This might be too subjective a reason, but I’m going to choose to lean into it. People go on about Kid A, but OK Computer is my Kid A.
Paul Simon
4/5
The Boy in the Bubble seems weirdly prophetic. I could never hear Call Me Al again and be okay with it. A lot of gems on this album, though.
Bauhaus
3/5
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Incredible Bongo Band
2/5
The album for today is a novelty album called "Bongo Rock." A bunch of covers, most of them predictable. It's an hour twenty minutes long. Most of it, mildly entertaining at best. Then it stops me entirely in my tracks with a cool 70s slow funk arrangement of "Sing, Sing, Sing." Then immediately loses me again with a lazy instrumental "(I can't get no) Satisfaction."
The Afghan Whigs
1/5
I guess I was aware of the Afghan Whigs but never spent much time paying attention to them. Was surprised to find out this is an album about being sad about having a boner. This is Incel Rock. I didn’t care for it, and “Angst in My Pants” is my favorite Sparks song.
The The
3/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
5/5
Almost defies critique. I’ve docked other albums for sprawling of Lodi g focus, but it works here. It exists entirely within its own set of rules, so if isn’t fair to impose a set of rules onto it in order to review it. I’m going to default to five stars.
Iron Butterfly
2/5
Billy Bragg
5/5
I love this album so much.
Iggy Pop
4/5
I don’t know if this is the best Iggy Pop album, but The Passenger is for sure my favorite Iggy Pop song.
John Lennon
2/5
Starts and ends strong, but not even close to Lennon’s best post-Beatles work. “How?” shamelessly rehashes “Long and Winding Road.” It’s the most blatant example of how lazy this album is. Lennon, at his worst, is a sanctimonious fuck and he gets a bunch of it out of his system here.
Elvis Costello
5/5
Every tune a single.
The Who
3/5
Good album, but sags a little in the middle. “Going Mobile” is, generously, lazy.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
When it’s good, it’s great. But it isn’t good all the way through.
Bobby Womack
3/5
5/5
I was going to under-rate this to make sone sort of statement, but the break after “64” to the intro of “Lovely Rita” is one of my favorite sounds.
The Temptations
4/5
Man, I totally forgot about “Run Charley Run.”
Goldfrapp
3/5
It pulled me in and lost me several times, but “Monster Love” won me over.
Cheap Trick
3/5
Cypress Hill
4/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
I might have the nostalgia goggles on for this one a little bit.
The Cure
2/5
I’m not ashamed to say “I prefer their later stuff.”
Elastica
3/5
It’s fine.
Peter Frampton
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
I don’t know enough about this music to know if this is a good example, but I had a good time listening to it.
Rush
3/5
Garbage
4/5
I love Garbage.
Koffi Olomide
3/5
Machito
5/5
This is an excellent example of this sort of thing.
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Bee Gees
2/5
John Grant
5/5
Inventive, interesting. Disarmingly simple in execution. Novel without being overly quaint or precious. “Sogourney Weaver” is my new favorite song.
Turbonegro
4/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
Dr. Dre
3/5
KISS
2/5
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Pablum.
Weather Report
4/5
My favorite version of Birdland.
Meat Loaf
2/5
Supergrass
3/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Pretty sure there’s a better Sonic Youth album to be on this list.
The National
3/5
Caetano Veloso
4/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
5/5
Setting aside Biggie’s contribution to the nature of rap and what it was, this is an amazing album in terms of what makes an album interesting regardless of the specific content. It plays like a prog rock concept album in that regard. No one’s pulled it off as well since.
ZZ Top
3/5
Screaming Trees
4/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Pixies
4/5
Frank Sinatra
5/5
The Sugarcubes
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
The Waterboys
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
4/5
The production on the album doesn’t exactly hold up. I would have picked something more recent if there’s only one Afrika Bambaataa album listed. Putting that aside, there’s a lot here to enjoy.
Death In Vegas
4/5
Scott Walker
4/5
His first album is a 5, I think.
4/5
The Kinks
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Laura Nyro
4/5
Laura Nyro is hard to rate, I think. I think she’s great, but sometimes an individual tune just misses me.
This album is pretty great. It coalesces into something like an over-arching narrative by the end or feels like one to me.
Fugazi
5/5
Why wasn’t I into Fugazi in the 90s?
The Go-Go's
3/5
The Go-gos built a formula that works. Is it good? Maybe?
Fats Domino
5/5
Khaled
4/5
Klaxons
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
David Ackles
4/5
The Divine Comedy
4/5
This is my kind of weird. Not what it pretends to be. There’s something eldrich lurking in the lyrics that never reveals itself.
Aphex Twin
3/5
I mean, it’s fine.
Donovan
4/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
I’ve always been reluctant to admit that Jane’s Addiction is good.
But it is.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
The Who
3/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
Missy Elliott
4/5
Arrested Development
4/5
I might have had the nostalgia goggles on for this one. I can’t tell.
Spiritualized
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
King Crimson
4/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Joy Division
4/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Lauryn Hill has the goods, for sure. I’m not sure the narrative of the concept lands all the way through, but it’s a solid effort.
Parliament
5/5
Make my funk the P-Funk.
Snoop Dogg
2/5
Merle Haggard
3/5
Outlaw Country! Or starts out that way. Then it shifts to sad-sack country.
Talking Heads
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
I never liked this. This listen did not change my mind. My current standard for ratings is that if it is better than Bongo Rock it gets three stars. I concede here in the notes that this album is, but I’m rating it two stars anyway. They’re lucky they aren’t getting one star for not really being better than my only one star rating, Afghan Wigs.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
2/5
It just didn’t go anywhere.
Thundercat
4/5
Venom
3/5
This is another one that was such a big deal at the time but so much came after it that it now seems quaint by comparison.
Mudhoney
4/5
Metallica
3/5
Sam Cooke
5/5
Best live album I’ve heard on the list so far. Fewer of the sort of live mishaps that generally show up (I’m looking at you, Cheap Trick at Budokan).
Lambchop
4/5
Peter Tosh
4/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Fishbone
5/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Charles Mingus
5/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Not my kind of music, but I recognize this is a good album if I put my preference aside. It’s produced well and all the performances are sincere and proficient.
The Cure
3/5
Jack White
4/5
Nanci Griffith
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Pixies
4/5
TLC
4/5
The Doors
4/5
Fred Neil
4/5
Kanye West
2/5
He has some ideas and things to say, but there’s little follow-through. The beats are lazy. Even when the raps open with a strong thesis, the rhymes and construction fall flat. Overall, lazy compared to even his least-inspired previous work. He’s better than this.
ABBA
4/5
I don’t love ABBA, and I could go the rest of my life and never hear Dancing Queen again. I have to admit, though, that Bjorn can write a song. Not necessarily a song that I like, but an objective dinger nonetheless.
Brian Eno
4/5
Missy Elliott
4/5
The most profound thing I’ve learned doing this exercise is that I’m kind of into Missy Elliott.
Blondie
4/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
OutKast
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
I liked this more than I expected to. Still a 3.
Black Flag
4/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
I grieve for the artist Taylor Swift would have been if she didn’t get so successful so young and nail down such a focus group-formula so early. I don’t think this is Taylor Swift’s level best. I think she’s being artistically lazy. Maybe I’m wrong and this is the best she can do. Or maybe this is what she consciously aspires to.
Can’t argue with her success.
Jeff Beck
3/5
When it’s good it’s great. The rest of the time it’s okay.
Nirvana
3/5
This is a very good album. But Nirvana just never hits quite the same again.
Britney Spears
2/5
Good art is made of good choices and it’s become pretty clear that Brittney wasn’t making a lot of choices.
Not a personal slam on Brittney. I think she’s great. I just don’t think this album is.
Pink Floyd
4/5
The Doors
3/5
It got my mojo rising.
Aimee Mann
4/5
Aimee Mann really knows how to write a song.
The Stooges
3/5
Faith No More
3/5
Beck
4/5
Ghostface Killah
4/5
Kid Rock
3/5
Judas Priest
5/5
Tori Amos
4/5
Tom Waits
5/5
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Wilco
3/5
CHIC
4/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Beatles
5/5
3/5
Japan
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
Love
2/5
Ice Cube
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Don McLean
4/5
I’ve heard “American Pie” probably hundreds of times in the last decade or so, but so haven’t listened to it since I was a kid until this listen. It deserves to be every bit the American classic that it has become.
Barry Adamson
4/5
The Band
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
Stan Getz
5/5
The Who
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Pulp
3/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Prince
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Sparks
4/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
It’s… like, almost good.
Destiny's Child
4/5
The Avalanches
4/5
The Electric Prunes
3/5
2Pac
4/5
Oasis
3/5
The Cardigans
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Elvis Presley
5/5
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
Kanye West
3/5
When Kanye is good, he’s amazing. I wish it were a greater percentage of his stuff.
The Jam
3/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
New Order
3/5
They’re still coming together here.
Fairport Convention
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Supertramp
4/5
I kind of don’t like Supertramp, but accounting for taste, it’s a good album.
Roni Size
3/5
The xx
3/5
Clearly influenced by a lot of groups I like, but nothing particularly ventured. It’s okay?
George Michael
3/5
50 Cent
4/5
When 50’s good, he’s incredible. I want it to be more of the time on this album. If you’re going to have Eminem hype you, you have to outdo him on the next verse. That being said, “party like it’s your birthday” is fully ensconced in the culture, possibly worldwide. You can’t ignore a feat like that.
King Crimson
5/5
Sabu
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Culture Club
3/5
The singles are strong, along with a couple of the other numbers.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
David Bowie
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Emmylou Harris
4/5
Linkin Park
3/5
Marvin Gaye
5/5
U2
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
I remember hearing this album for the first time and I’ll never forget it. It’s one of those albums.
The Cure
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
The Temptations
4/5
The Blue Nile
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Jam
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
It’s really probably a 3 and I don’t like the arguing “but it’s so important to stuff that happened later,” but it’s so important to stuff that happened later.
Pavement
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4/5
I like this album except the arbitrary synth screaming. WEEEEooooWEEEEEEEEEEEOoooooWEEE-EE-EEEEEE!!
Daft Punk
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Queen
4/5
The Roots
5/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
The Soft Boys
4/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
5/5
George Michael
3/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Happy Mondays
4/5
I liked this more than I remember liking it.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Pixies
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Ride
3/5
Eels
3/5
Ray Charles
5/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
MGMT
4/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Baaba Maal
4/5
Lana Del Rey
4/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Red Snapper
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Bowie’s last album is challenging. But fuck it, it’s Bowie.
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Deserves all the adoration The Cure gets.
Tim Buckley
3/5
Megadeth
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
The Kinks
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
The Pogues
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Eagles
4/5
I can’t rate Elvis Costello’s first album up for being packed full of singles and then not do the same for this album just because I don’t particularly care for The Eagles.
Thelonious Monk
5/5
Prince
5/5
I almost rated this four stars because there are three or four better Prince albums. But it’s still better than more than at least 81% of everything else, so 5 stars it is.
Prince
5/5
Little Richard
5/5
Suicide
4/5
It’s a little sparse, but I like what’s going on.
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Sugar
5/5
I’ve panned a lot of albums on this list for being all one tone. I concede that Sugar is guilty of this, but I really like this album. I never pieced it together before, but I think the reason I don’t like Smashing Pumpkins is because they aren’t Sugar. Four stars +1 bonus star for the most aggressive tambourine playing ever recorded on a couple of those tracks.
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Wilco
4/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
The Smiths
3/5
Orbital
4/5
I like this sort of thing.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Max Weinberg is a very clean drummer.
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Ice T
3/5
I be like Ice-T, but I like 1992’s Body Count (I e-T’s hardcore band) album better than this one.
Napalm Death
3/5
Cream
4/5
Beck
4/5
Steve Earle
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
4/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Massive Attack
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Astrud Gilberto
4/5
The Band
4/5
The Damned
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
The Sonics
4/5
3/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Ozomatli
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
I was wrong to dismiss Fiona Apple in the 90s.
Brian Eno
3/5
Eagles
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Madonna
3/5
MC Solaar
4/5
Gil Scott-Heron
5/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
Not his best work.
GZA
4/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Skepta
3/5
The Go-Betweens
2/5
AC/DC
2/5
Tortoise
3/5
Solomon Burke
5/5
Joan Armatrading
5/5
The Police
3/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Funkadelic
5/5
Dennis Wilson
4/5
Leftfield
4/5
This is the soundtrack the next time I play Clank! In Space!
Radiohead
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
Television
3/5
The Adverts
3/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
The Young Gods
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
Lorde
4/5
Doves
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Neil Young
5/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
The B-52's
3/5
Carole King
4/5
Nitin Sawhney
4/5
Aerosmith
2/5
The Killers
4/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
The Monks
3/5
Baaba Maal
4/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Patti Smith
5/5
Yes
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Big Star
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
CHVRCHES
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Finley Quaye
4/5
Jimmy Smith
5/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
John Lee Hooker
4/5
3/5
The thing that drives me nuts about this album is that there are sone good songs. Wonderwall is fine. Champagne Supernova is good. Don’t Look Back in Anger is great. The filler songs, though are soooooo lazy. I expect more from a genius, especially if that’s how the artist describes themselves.
Elvis Presley
3/5
Carpenters
3/5
We’ve Only Just Begun is s banger.
Primal Scream
5/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Talking Heads
5/5
Neu!
4/5
Faust
3/5
Raekwon
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
The Cramps
4/5
Paul Weller
4/5
Pavement
3/5
The Clash
4/5
SZA
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
Jamiroquai
4/5
Robert Wyatt
3/5
The United States Of America
2/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
4/5
When it’s good it’s very good.
Iron Maiden
4/5
American Music Club
4/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
This album gets off to a slow start, but once it picks up it cooks all the way through.
Frank Black
4/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Le Tigre
5/5
The Zombies
5/5
The Zutons
4/5
Nas
4/5
Method Man
4/5
Common
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
4/5
I don’t think it’s great, but I dig it.
Possibly in spite of myself.
2/5
Eric Clapton
3/5
808 State
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Minor Threat
3/5
Big Black
3/5
Adele
4/5
Not sure you need both 21 and 25 on this list, but okay.
Coldcut
3/5
Cowboy Junkies
5/5
Al Green
4/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
Let Me Roll It is a great tune.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
John Coltrane
5/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
4/5
4/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Erykah Badu
5/5
Dirty Projectors
4/5
Rush
3/5
Bad Company
4/5
Probably more of a 3, but I have Rush’s 2112 a “3” and I want to know that at least old person rated Bad Company higher than they did 2112.
Astor Piazzolla
4/5
Silver Jews
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Throbbing Gristle
4/5
Ray Price
3/5
Soundgarden
5/5
David Gray
3/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Talk Talk
3/5
The Prodigy
4/5
Mekons
2/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Beyoncé
4/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Orbital
3/5
Tom Waits
5/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Miriam Makeba
4/5
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
The xx
3/5
T. Rex
4/5
Nina Simone
5/5
Sepultura
3/5
Justice
3/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
Spiritualized
4/5
Ash
3/5
It sounds like Elliot Smith goes electric.
Tom Waits
5/5
Janis Joplin
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Manu Chao
3/5
Jazmine Sullivan
4/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Calexico
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
The Cars
4/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
4/5
I don’t care for this sort of thing, but this is a good example of it. Dwight Yoakam is a very good singer who is skilled at the traditional country and western vocal affectations.
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Ms. Dynamite
4/5
Solange
4/5
B.B. King
4/5
The Offspring
3/5
There are no songs I like on this album, but it’s a pretty good album. It’s cohesive and it’s well-paced throughout. I just don’t like it very much.
PJ Harvey
4/5
The Specials
4/5
Mariah Carey
3/5
1. Mariah Carey is s gifted and skilled singer and absolutely deserves to be famous.
2. I will never listen to this album again.
Ute Lemper
4/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Ian Dury
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
Violent Femmes
5/5
I haven’t listened to this album in probably 30 years and I was surprised how good it was. Maybe because I wrote the Femmes off as haphazard. This isn’t strictly fair- this album is all very on-purpose. The lyrics are deft in a way I never previously gave credit for.
And don’t get me wrong, I loved this album and listened to it a bunch back in the day. I just didn’t take it as seriously as maybe I should have.
Spacemen 3
4/5
Sepultura
4/5
I don’t know that this list needed multiple Sepultura albums, but this one is my favorite.
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
D'Angelo
3/5
🌽
Lightning Bolt
3/5
I liked this more than I expected to.
The Beta Band
4/5
The Verve
4/5
Röyksopp
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Van Morrison
4/5
The Undertones
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
The Streets
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Lou Reed
5/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
Overproduced to a degree that it doesn’t show off Bonnie Raitt, which is a shame. I love Bonnie Raitt.
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
This one grew on me as I listened; I have the opposite experience with most electronica.
Elton John
3/5
The Young Rascals
4/5
Cat Stevens
5/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Borderline 2. I need someone to explain to me why this is better than King Julien.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
The Birthday Party
4/5
I’ll be honest: I didn’t know what this was but my first thought was “this sounds like Grinderman.”
Blue Cheer
4/5
4/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Liz Phair
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Anita Baker
3/5
Soft Machine
3/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Boston
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
New York Dolls
4/5
The Pharcyde
5/5
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Nick Drake
5/5
Jane's Addiction
5/5
As much as I resent Jane’s Addiction for making Dave Navarro famous, this is a good album.
Anthrax
3/5
4/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
10cc
4/5
Femi Kuti
5/5
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Beach House
3/5
Joe Ely
4/5
Orange Juice
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Interstellar Overdrive is a killer track but that stereo channel switching can fuck right off.
Dolly Parton
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Burning Spear
4/5
LTJ Bukem
5/5
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Holger Czukay
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Incubus
3/5
The Verve
4/5
The Crusaders
3/5
Stephen Stills
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Bad Brains
4/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Hot Chip
3/5
Julian Cope
3/5
Randy Newman
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Django Django
4/5
Fela Kuti
5/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Genesis
4/5
Chicago
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Serge Gainsbourg
5/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
Doves
4/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Magazine
5/5
Super Furry Animals
5/5
Massive Attack
5/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Stephen Stills
5/5
Green Day
4/5
Jungle Brothers
5/5
You could probably put together a cogent argument that the amount I like this means I’m old.
Beatles
5/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
JAY Z
5/5
The Doors
4/5
The best Doors album.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5/5
The Jesus and Mary Chain is what you get if you take everything I listened to in the 90s in the amount I listened to it and put it in a blender.
Digital Underground
4/5
James Brown
4/5
Björk
5/5
ABBA
3/5
Otis Redding
4/5
Heaven 17
3/5
SAULT
4/5
k.d. lang
4/5
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
Little Simz
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Nick Drake
5/5
Dion
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
XTC
4/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
The La's
5/5
Blur
4/5
The Undertones
3/5
Germs
4/5
Germs > Sex Pistols. There, I said it.
Depeche Mode
3/5
Stan Getz
5/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
4/5
Better than PiL
David Bowie
4/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
I’ve never cared for Pearl Jam much so I’m giving this album an extra star to offset my bias.
Killing Joke
5/5
William Orbit
4/5
Genesis
5/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Saint Etienne
5/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Stereo MC's
4/5
This is one of the ones I wish I liked less.
Mike Ladd
5/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
The Fall
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
Ella is peerless, but the Gershwin songbook as arranged presented here is syrupy and ponderous. This entry could have been Ella Sings Cole Porter.
Antony and the Johnsons
4/5
Fiona Apple
5/5
Eminem
4/5
Hard to rate- groundbreaking at the time but pales compared to what comes after.
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Morrissey
3/5
Teenage Fanclub
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
White Denim
4/5
The Who
3/5
The Gun Club
4/5
LL Cool J
4/5
Jacques Brel
5/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Pere Ubu
4/5
Moby
4/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
a-ha
3/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
5/5
Hawkwind
4/5
Living Colour
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
Dagmar Krause
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
Finland must be a wild place.
Suzanne Vega
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
The Beta Band
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Soft Cell
3/5
Kanye West
3/5
This album is full of shining moments, but I found it tedious by the end.
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
Laibach
3/5
Queen
3/5
Louis Prima
4/5
If you weren’t careful, you wrote Louie Prima off as a novelty act. He’s more than that, though. Also, Keely Smith is one of the forgotten gems of pre-rock and roll popular music. Her voice is the mathematical average of Ella and Doris Day.
Metallica
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Herbie Hancock
5/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Eminem
4/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Shack
3/5
Fever Ray
4/5
Pantera
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Yes
4/5
Brian Eno
4/5
The Prodigy
4/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
George Jones
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
Paul Simon
5/5
The Stooges
4/5
Elton John
3/5
The Triffids
4/5
If this is Christian Rock, it’s the best I’ve ever heard. If it isn’t, it’s competent and sounds like a lot of the bands I like from the time.
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
The Pogues
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
The Associates
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Hard to argue with those Quincy Jones arrangements.
The Libertines
3/5
Slint
4/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Slipknot
4/5
Dead Kennedys
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
4/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
The Specials
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
System Of A Down
5/5
Q-Tip
4/5
Throwing Muses
4/5
Dr. Octagon
3/5
k.d. lang
4/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Mott The Hoople
4/5
Dire Straits
4/5
3/5
4/5
M.I.A.
3/5
Brian Eno
5/5
It’s like Windows 95 is starting up for 48 minutes. Loved it.
Lucinda Williams
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
New Order
4/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
Duke Ellington
5/5
Def Leppard
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Kings of Leon
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
The Strokes
5/5
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
The Coral
5/5
Waylon Jennings
3/5
Syd Barrett
4/5
The Yardbirds
4/5
Mylo
4/5
Kelela
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Slayer
4/5
When it’s good it’s very good.
Crowded House
4/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
T. Rex
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Barry Adamson
5/5
Randy Newman
4/5
Deee-Lite
5/5
Christina Aguilera
4/5
Meat Puppets
4/5
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Traffic
4/5
Small Faces
4/5
Björk
5/5
Richard Hawley
5/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
The Dandy Warhols
5/5
The Residents
4/5
There are no good songs on this album. This is a pretty good album.
FKA twigs
4/5
Mike Oldfield
3/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Cee Lo Green
5/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Dr. John
5/5
Björk
4/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Pretenders
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4/5
Queen
4/5
Sheryl Crow
4/5
The Dictators
4/5
George Harrison
5/5
The Smiths
3/5
Like, it’s fine.
Van Morrison
5/5
Sade
4/5
The The
4/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4/5
3/5
Traffic
4/5
Gotan Project
5/5
Isaac Hayes
5/5
Tito Puente
5/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Todd Rundgren is a competent musician.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
5/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
CHIC
4/5
Hüsker Dü
5/5
Minutemen
4/5
Beck
4/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Joanna Newsom
5/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
Van Halen
2/5
Haircut 100
3/5
The Stranglers
4/5
The Charlatans
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Ministry
4/5
Didn’t hit like it did in ‘91
Ryan Adams
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
5/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Morrissey
3/5
The Style Council
4/5
The Saints
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5