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Billy Bragg • 3/5
Well, this marks my final album of the list. Always knew this day would come. All in all I must say that this project has made the past three years quite enjoyable, even if the list itself is moreso good than great. Way too much Elvis Costello, way too much Madchester shit, and not nearly enough global representation beyond the Anglosphere and their colonies. Still, the album a day process has really broadened my taste for weird shit. I grew to love post punk and whatever the fuck The Residents were doing, so shoutout to them. Also, Junkyard is a 10/10 album and I will die on that hill. Even though no one asked, I’m listing my personal top ten on the list as a point of record. Because after all isn’t that what this project is all about? 1. Fleetfoxes - Fleetfoxes 2. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire 3. LP1 - FKA Twigs 4. Dummy - Portishead 5. Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers 6. The Archandroid - Janelle Monae 7. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 8. The White Album - Beatles 9. Since I Left You - The Avalanches 10. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Some Nazi, idk Oh yeah, and this Billy Bragg album is okay I guess.
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2010s
Favorite Decade
Jazz
Favorite Genre
US
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192
5-Star Albums
29
1-Star Albums
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By Genre
By Decade
By Origin
Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Junkyard
The Birthday Party
|
5 | 2.16 | +2.84 |
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Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
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5 | 2.39 | +2.61 |
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Suicide
Suicide
|
5 | 2.46 | +2.54 |
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Scott 2
Scott Walker
|
5 | 2.64 | +2.36 |
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Atomizer
Big Black
|
5 | 2.72 | +2.28 |
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Group Sex
Circle Jerks
|
5 | 2.74 | +2.26 |
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Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
|
5 | 2.74 | +2.26 |
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Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
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5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
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Yeezus
Kanye West
|
5 | 2.77 | +2.23 |
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LP1
FKA twigs
|
5 | 2.8 | +2.2 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Made In Japan
Deep Purple
|
1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
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Permission to Land
The Darkness
|
1 | 3.14 | -2.14 |
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Something/Anything?
Todd Rundgren
|
1 | 3.03 | -2.03 |
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Fire Of Love
The Gun Club
|
1 | 2.99 | -1.99 |
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Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kings of Leon
|
1 | 2.97 | -1.97 |
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
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1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
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Viva Hate
Morrissey
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1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
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Street Signs
Ozomatli
|
1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
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Greetings From L.A.
Tim Buckley
|
1 | 2.86 | -1.86 |
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All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
|
2 | 3.82 | -1.82 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Miles Davis | 4 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.33 |
| Beatles | 7 | 4.43 |
| Radiohead | 6 | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 5 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 5 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Doors | 3 | 4.67 |
| Blur | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Cure | 3 | 4.67 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.67 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 5 |
| Fleetwood Mac | 2 | 5 |
| Aretha Franklin | 2 | 5 |
| Common | 2 | 5 |
| Iggy Pop | 2 | 5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2 | 5 |
| Lou Reed | 2 | 5 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 4.33 |
| Queen | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Beach Boys | 3 | 4.33 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.33 |
| Nick Drake | 3 | 4.33 |
| Beck | 3 | 4.33 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4 |
| Brian Eno | 5 | 4 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 5 | 4 |
| Tom Waits | 5 | 4 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Public Image Ltd. | 2 | 1 |
| Tim Buckley | 3 | 1.67 |
| Kings of Leon | 3 | 1.67 |
| Todd Rundgren | 2 | 1.5 |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 2 | 1.5 |
| Orbital | 2 | 1.5 |
| Morrissey | 4 | 2 |
| The Byrds | 5 | 2.2 |
| Echo And The Bunnymen | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2, 5 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 1, 4 |
| Deep Purple | 4, 4, 1 |
| The Rolling Stones | 4, 5, 5, 3, 2, 2 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3, 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (192)
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Popular Reviews
Suicide
5/5
Okay, so like, The Velvet Underground but more fucked up and with lots of screaming. I can vibe with that.
2 likes
Stereo MC's
2/5
Dated and lame as fuck. They sound like a rejected Gorillaz feature. Also, their album art makes me irrationally angry.
1 likes
1-Star Albums (29)
All Ratings
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Le Tigre
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Mekons
2/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Richard Hawley
3/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Mike Ladd
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
The National
2/5
George Michael
2/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Genesis
2/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Little Simz
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Lana Del Rey
4/5
John Coltrane
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
5/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
4/5
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Beth Orton
3/5
Janet Jackson
4/5
Dolly Parton
2/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Tito Puente
3/5
Koffi Olomide
2/5
The Monks
2/5
5/5
a-ha
4/5
AC/DC
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
The Adverts
4/5
Public Enemy
3/5
David Bowie
5/5
Leftfield
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Pavement
2/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Megadeth
2/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
The Smiths
4/5
Sepultura
2/5
2/5
2/5
Fugazi
3/5
Def Leppard
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
3/5
Silver Jews
3/5
Gorillaz
5/5
Syd Barrett
2/5
M.I.A.
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Gillian Welch
3/5
Pink Floyd
2/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Van Halen
4/5
Talk Talk
2/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
The Clash
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
2/5
Iron Butterfly
4/5
The Sonics
2/5
Otis Redding
4/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Love
2/5
Barry Adamson
4/5
Ash
2/5
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Venom
2/5
Neu!
2/5
Faith No More
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Traffic
3/5
The Darkness
1/5
Adele
4/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
Fugees
5/5
Wild Beasts
2/5
Germs
2/5
Pantera
3/5
Queen
5/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
ABBA
4/5
Isaac Hayes
5/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Korn
1/5
Bert Jansch
3/5
Charles Mingus
5/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Sade
2/5
Alice Cooper
4/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Devendra Banhart
4/5
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
X-Ray Spex
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
Kanye West
5/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
GZA
4/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
Ray Charles
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
Björk
3/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
4/5
George Jones
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
The Verve
4/5
Björk
2/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Norah Jones
3/5
JAY Z
5/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
R.E.M.
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Os Mutantes
2/5
XTC
2/5
Eminem
3/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
Suede
2/5
Bauhaus
4/5
The Who
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Bill Callahan
2/5
The Kinks
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
The Doors
5/5
Van Morrison
3/5
The Who
3/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Serge Gainsbourg
1/5
Wilco
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Brian Eno
4/5
John Lennon
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Arrested Development
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
MC Solaar
2/5
Goldfrapp
4/5
Air
3/5
The Band
2/5
David Holmes
2/5
U2
3/5
The Pogues
2/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
AC/DC
3/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Mylo
2/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
The Killers
5/5
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Duran Duran
3/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Moby
4/5
Ramones
2/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Ride
3/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
The Dandy Warhols
2/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
Motörhead
2/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Rush
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Lucinda Williams
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Supergrass
4/5
Ice Cube
2/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Jack White
3/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Simple Minds
2/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Blur
5/5
Elton John
3/5
U2
2/5
Rush
4/5
Garbage
4/5
Travis
2/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
Primal Scream
5/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Brian Eno
5/5
Digital Underground
2/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Doves
2/5
Napalm Death
2/5
Massive Attack
4/5
Culture Club
2/5
Pentangle
3/5
2/5
DJ Shadow
5/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
Steely Dan
5/5
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
CHIC
2/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
2/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
Mudhoney
2/5
Beck
4/5
Sabu
4/5
FKA twigs
5/5
Q-Tip
3/5
Adele
3/5
John Cale
3/5
John Lennon
2/5
MGMT
4/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Soft Machine
1/5
LL Cool J
2/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Doves
2/5
Mike Oldfield
4/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Laibach
3/5
Todd Rundgren
1/5
Elbow
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Tom Waits
3/5
White Denim
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
The Psychedelic Furs
2/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Living Colour
3/5
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Linkin Park
4/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Orange Juice
2/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
3/5
Adam & The Ants
2/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Little Richard
4/5
The Strokes
4/5
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Queen
4/5
Maxwell
3/5
Waylon Jennings
2/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Beatles
5/5
The Cure
4/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
The Band
3/5
Billie Holiday
4/5
Sparks
3/5
Oasis
2/5
2/5
John Martyn
3/5
Ian Dury
1/5
King Crimson
5/5
Crowded House
2/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Various Artists
2/5
Elis Regina
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Prince
3/5
Coldplay
2/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
2/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Nas
5/5
T. Rex
3/5
50 Cent
2/5
The Young Gods
2/5
OutKast
3/5
2Pac
3/5
Green Day
4/5
Harry Nilsson
5/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Ministry
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Pulp
5/5
Slayer
1/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
Bee Gees
2/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Love
4/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
4/5
The Smiths
2/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
Mott The Hoople
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
Simply Red
2/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Weather Report
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Beach House
4/5
Funkadelic
4/5
The xx
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Moby Grape
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Randy Newman
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
CHIC
2/5
Marilyn Manson
1/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
De La Soul
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Stan Getz
4/5
The Specials
5/5
The Shamen
2/5
Kings of Leon
1/5
Prefab Sprout
2/5
LTJ Bukem
2/5
Buzzcocks
2/5
Fever Ray
3/5
David Ackles
2/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
Japan
3/5
Eric Clapton
3/5
The Modern Lovers
2/5
Minor Threat
3/5
TLC
3/5
1/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Common
5/5
The Stooges
4/5
Nico
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Tricky
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Giant Sand
2/5
Metallica
4/5
10cc
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
The Avalanches
5/5
Boston
3/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
5/5
The Crusaders
2/5
Cheap Trick
2/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Joe Ely
2/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Shuggie Otis
4/5
Gene Clark
2/5
Gene Clark
2/5
The Clash
5/5
The Prodigy
4/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Dire Straits
2/5
The Doors
4/5
Black Flag
2/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
The Afghan Whigs
2/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The Slits
2/5
Jamiroquai
2/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
John Lee Hooker
4/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Pixies
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Sam Cooke
5/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
4/5
Big Star
3/5
Steve Winwood
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Red Snapper
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Pretenders
4/5
Tori Amos
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Easily the second worst thing Germany has ever done.
Solange
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2/5
The Verve
4/5
Klaxons
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Jimmy Smith
5/5
Hole
4/5
Lorde
4/5
Yes
3/5
Madonna
4/5
Buck Owens
2/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Calexico
4/5
Orbital
1/5
The Doors
5/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
Prince
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
The Temptations
5/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
Anita Baker
3/5
Justice
5/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
Queen
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Talvin Singh
2/5
Motörhead
2/5
Death In Vegas
4/5
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Def Leppard
2/5
Louis Prima
5/5
Goldie
2/5
Slipknot
2/5
The Associates
2/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Gotan Project
3/5
The Zutons
4/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Fela Kuti
5/5
The Jam
3/5
Don McLean
3/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
T. Rex
5/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Mudhoney
2/5
The Bees
4/5
The United States Of America
3/5
The Black Crowes
3/5
B.B. King
5/5
The Libertines
3/5
Carpenters
3/5
Stan Getz
5/5
The Byrds
2/5
Tears For Fears
5/5
Gary Numan
3/5
The Undertones
3/5
The Electric Prunes
3/5
Incubus
2/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Scott Walker
4/5
Lambchop
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Solomon Burke
5/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Killing Joke
3/5
Dusty Springfield
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Aretha Franklin
5/5
The Go-Go's
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
James Taylor
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
King Crimson
4/5
Suicide
5/5
Okay, so like, The Velvet Underground but more fucked up and with lots of screaming. I can vibe with that.
Throwing Muses
3/5
Liz Phair
3/5
Duke Ellington
5/5
The Kinks
3/5
Tortoise
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
The Offspring
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Raekwon
3/5
Thundercat
5/5
The Temptations
4/5
Beatles
5/5
The The
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
2/5
The zany name really got my hopes up. “The Gilded Palace of Sin?” Come on, I can practically feel the hardwood church pew against my backside as I listen to this snore-fest.
Janelle Monáe
5/5
Bad Company
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
The Beta Band
2/5
The Vines
3/5
Khaled
2/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
I consider myself a fan of the Rolling Stones. However, the sheer douchebaggery of this album was a little hard to stomach.
Paul Simon
3/5
Hookworms
4/5
The Only Ones
2/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Elastica
4/5
Minutemen
5/5
Lauryn Hill
5/5
The Saints
3/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
Ice Cube
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Dr. John
5/5
Marty Robbins
5/5
Santana
5/5
Big Black
5/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Randy Newman
2/5
David Crosby
2/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Soundgarden
4/5
Supergrass
3/5
Kanye West
5/5
Heaven 17
4/5
Finally, music for yuppie socialists.
The B-52's
4/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
The Charlatans
2/5
Cowboy Junkies
5/5
Spacemen 3
2/5
Underworld
3/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Ghostface Killah
4/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Grizzly Bear
5/5
Megadeth
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Hot Chip
4/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
The Streets
1/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Jeff Buckley
5/5
The Pharcyde
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Julian Cope
2/5
The Cramps
5/5
Animal Collective
5/5
Eagles
3/5
SZA
4/5
Hüsker Dü
2/5
This album hits like flat beer on a cloudy day.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Frank Ocean
5/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
The Monkees
3/5
The Human League
4/5
Method Man
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
The Replacements
4/5
Parliament
5/5
System Of A Down
5/5
Heavy metal for silly little goofballs (me)
Eels
5/5
Madonna
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Metallica
3/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Scissor Sisters
2/5
Was gonna give this three stars but that Pink Floyd cover was diabolical.
Slipknot
3/5
Robert Wyatt
3/5
Wire
4/5
Madness
4/5
Coldcut
2/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
Meh
Fleet Foxes
5/5
This is peak frolicking music. Hate on this album and I’ll harvest the copper wire from your walls.
Traffic
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Morrissey
2/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
Jazmine Sullivan
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
808 State
2/5
The Gun Club
1/5
Don’t care how “influential” this supposedly was. This is just edgy racist dogshit.
Listen to The Doors, The Cramps, or some Howlin’ Wolf instead. Hell, listen to literally anything else.
David Bowie
4/5
The KLF
3/5
James Brown
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
The Police
4/5
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5/5
The Fall
4/5
The Young Rascals
4/5
Ozomatli
1/5
Barry Adamson
4/5
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
New York Dolls
3/5
Machito
4/5
Scott Walker
5/5
OutKast
5/5
Joanna Newsom
4/5
Can’t tell if this is really good or really bad, but I’ve decided to be a glass half-full guy today.
The Who
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Eagles
2/5
This album smells like chlorine and piss.
Tom Waits
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Frank Black
4/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
“Yor twistin’ mah MELON-man!”
Kelela
4/5
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
UB40
3/5
Björk
5/5
Roni Size
3/5
The Soft Boys
3/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Neil Young
5/5
Beatles
3/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
.
Girls Against Boys
2/5
Lightning Bolt
4/5
The Who
2/5
Today I learned that Pinball Wizard was part of a really boring rock opera… and that the preceding song is about the kid getting fiddled by his uncle. Cool.
The Police
5/5
The Mars Volta
4/5
Tom Waits
5/5
Sipping coffee while listening to Waits yapping over a saxophone just hits different.
Suede
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
John Prine
3/5
Robert Wyatt
3/5
Nina Simone
5/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Patti Smith
5/5
Drive Like Jehu
4/5
Cornershop
3/5
Had some good moments. A little too 90’s for me though
John Martyn
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Deee-Lite
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
I bet this sounds really good to people who love loud-ass harmonica solos.
Lou Reed
5/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Elton John
5/5
Tina Turner
4/5
Ray Price
4/5
Fairport Convention
5/5
Sounds like I wandered into a Wes Anderson film. 9/10.
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Public Enemy
5/5
The Damned
4/5
Can
2/5
The xx
2/5
Music for shoe stores
Nirvana
5/5
The Stooges
4/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
The Triffids
3/5
Pere Ubu
4/5
I absolutely hated Pere Ubu’s first album when I listened to it last year. Now I find myself weirdly enjoying this. Even David Thomas’s god-awful voice has grown on me like blight on a tree… or perhaps some kind of malignant fungus.
7/10
ZZ Top
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Not Short Enough🥀
Meat Puppets
2/5
Pulp
3/5
The Style Council
4/5
Justin Timberlake
2/5
I dunno, listening to this didn’t feel very justified to me.
3/5
Joan Armatrading
5/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
KISS
2/5
The Icarus Line
1/5
This shit isn’t raw, just half baked.
David Bowie
5/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
American Music Club
2/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
This is the sixth Elvis Costello album I’ve had to wait out. Getting real tired of this guy’s ironic rockabilly-bubblegum-hipster shtick by now.
Elvis Presley
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Orbital
2/5
Stephen Stills
2/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Brian Wilson
4/5
Billy Joel
3/5
First two songs are absolute bangers. The rest is just Billy Joel.
New Order
5/5
Love the bisexual album art
The Byrds
2/5
Skunk Anansie
4/5
Neil Young
3/5
4/5
I have fond memories of seeing this album cover as a kid and assuming this must be the most boring shit ever. I take it back now — they somehow make prog rock catchy. If anything it could actually benefit from being a little more toned down.
3/5
Janis Joplin
4/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
2/5
Loved Dylan’s lyrics in this one. Hated just about everything else.
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
The Waterboys
2/5
This album sucks leprechaun balls.
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Television
4/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5/5
The Cardigans
4/5
The Roots
5/5
CHVRCHES
5/5
“Gun” immediately bumps this to a 10/10.
The Kinks
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Haircut 100
2/5
The Pogues
2/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Essential music for when you’ve got a really tall ice cream cone and one of the scoops falls off and starts melting on the ground
Slint
5/5
The Residents
4/5
Fascinatingly terrible. Fuck it, this is kinda awesome.
Slade
3/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
Paul Weller
2/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Utterly cringe-inducing. I can’t believe this clown gets two whole albums on the list when more significant artists are left off.
Dr. Octagon
1/5
If you’re an edgy twelve year old who loves rhymes about bodily fluids and sexual assault, boy have I got an album for you.
Ravi Shankar
4/5
M.I.A.
3/5
The Cars
5/5
The Jam
5/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
I have tremendous respect for Young as an artist, but this album honestly feels so dated that it’s almost naive. No issue is actually examined in depth (love will overcome hate; respect the earth; etc.) and neither the lyrics or instrumentals are interesting enough to salvage it.
The hippies failed, liberalism capitulated to tech oligarchs, and hatred won the arms race years ago. Gimme some Daft Punk to listen to.
The White Stripes
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Boring. Nauseating. Creepy. Pretentious. Calling this album shit is an insult to shit.
Also, whoever made the album art should probably be put on a registry.
Small Faces
2/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
k.d. lang
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Sugar
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Fishbone
4/5
Blur
5/5
Circle Jerks
5/5
5/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
Green Day
5/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
This reaches Owl City levels of twee at certain points, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it.
Miriam Makeba
5/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
Shack
2/5
Dirty Projectors
4/5
The Thrills
2/5
Tangerine Dream
5/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Stereolab
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
Not really sure why this is on here instead of Demon Days but it’s alright.
David Gray
3/5
Blondie
5/5
Björk
2/5
Well that was a slog. I legit thought Black Lake was about to end like eight times, but then it just kept on going.
Merle Haggard
3/5
Jeff Beck
4/5
Snoop Dogg
5/5
George Michael
2/5
Deerhunter
5/5
The The
4/5
Beck
4/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
Hole
5/5
Erykah Badu
5/5
Solid gold. Orange Moon is one of the beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Queen Latifah
4/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Nick Drake
5/5
Metallica
2/5
No offence, but if you enjoy this shit I’m just gonna assume you’re a twice-divorced deadbeat who thinks billionaires should pay less taxes.
Cream
2/5
Dis-really ain’t that good.
Gram Parsons
2/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Neil Young
5/5
Pavement
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
5/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Daft Punk
4/5
Peter Frampton
2/5
The Who
5/5
Common
5/5
This gets a very conflicted 5/5 from me. While Common’s album is a lush bouquet of poetry over old jazz and soul beats, the hatred of queer men (like myself) is truly cringe inducing, and one of the most glaring blind spots of older “conscious hip hop.” You can’t preach tolerance and hatred at the same time.
It’s definitely from a different era, kinda like its album art, but I can’t help but find it beautiful.
Jorge Ben Jor
2/5
The Black Keys
3/5
If gentrification had a soundtrack it would be this album.
George Harrison
2/5
What a fucking slog. Even the standouts aren’t that good. A waste of time and oxygen.
Jacques Brel
3/5
Portishead
4/5
Meat Loaf
5/5
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
The Stranglers
3/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
5/5
The Fall
5/5
Aphex Twin
3/5
Boards of Canada
5/5
3/5
The La's
3/5
Big Star
3/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Primal Scream
4/5
Aimee Mann
2/5
My thoughts exactly.
4/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
Eurythmics
3/5
John Grant
5/5
Ella Fitzgerald
2/5
Air
5/5
Dion
2/5
New Order
4/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
D'Angelo
5/5
Genesis
2/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Soft Cell
2/5
Wilco
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
The Hives
4/5
Derek & The Dominos
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Peter Tosh
4/5
5/5
Paul McCartney
5/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Billy Bragg
2/5
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Chicago
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Stereo MC's
2/5
Dated and lame as fuck. They sound like a rejected Gorillaz feature. Also, their album art makes me irrationally angry.
Hawkwind
2/5
Turbonegro
2/5
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
Damn, what a missed opportunity.
Anohni’s voice really shines in the slower, more melancholy portions of this album. It’s soulful, sad, and a little eerie like Nina Simone.
Unfortunately, she seems more drawn to a high-pitched, quivering warble that comes off as cloying in a way usually reserved for opera singers. The album’s tragic mood feels contrived as a result.
Maybe she had the wrong species of bird in mind when she wrote this?
Talking Heads
5/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
I’m sure those electric jugs sounded amazing when they were stoned off their asses making this album.
Beyoncé
4/5
Deep Purple
1/5
Kill it with fire.
Blue Cheer
2/5
Willie Nelson
5/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
British mediocrity strikes again.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Django Django
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Beck
5/5
SAULT
3/5
The spoken-interlude-industrial complex must be stopped.
Fiona Apple
5/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Cee Lo Green
3/5
Al Green
5/5
Guided By Voices
5/5
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Gang Starr
4/5
The Birthday Party
5/5
I wish more punk music sounded like this.
Morrissey
3/5
The Auteurs
3/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
The Byrds
2/5
This is the fifth (FIFTH!?) album I’ve gotten by The Byrds, and I can now say with confidence that they embody everything I hate about this era of pop-rock.
They don’t have the catchiness of their rock and roll predecessors nor the experimental curiosity of their contemporaries. Their psychedelic influences are surface level at best, suggesting that they themselves don’t know how to use them beyond trendy imitation.
Take, for example, this verse off Renaissance fair: “I smell cinnamon and spices / I hear music everywhere / All around kaleidoscope of colour / I think maybe I’m dreaming.” Geddit? He’s high. He’s SINGING about being high. Pretty groundbreaking for ‘67, right?
Mind Gardens is also unbelievably bad, with clumsy poetry and a reversed recording of a guitar that drills into your skull. It’s lobotomy without the bliss that follows.
When it isn’t riffing off far better bands, it just sounds goddamn boring. Maybe I’m being harsh because I’m in the last stretch of albums, or maybe —just maybe— these guys don’t deserved the amount of representation they got in the book.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
In this cheese wheel of a record, Cohen’s self-serious baritone is glazed over with layer after layer of eighties production. The resulting heartache feels more akin to acid reflux than romance.
‘Everybody Knows’ is a damn good song though.
Tim Buckley
1/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Not to be that guy, but I’m always a little thrown off by people complaining that shoegaze has too much reverb. Like, isn’t that the whole point? It’s like shitting on jazz for having too much improvisation.
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Burning Spear
4/5
3/5
Faust
4/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Butthole Surfers
5/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
Why is he in a microwave?
Britney Spears
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Dead Kennedys
5/5
Donovan
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
5/5
The Coral
2/5
Madonna
2/5
Yes
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
Lou Reed
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
4/5
Happiest marriage in 1960s Tennessee:
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
Prince
4/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Anthrax
2/5
Sepultura
3/5
There’s a song on here called “Dictatorshit” which is a powerful political statement if I’ve ever heard one. Could have hit a lot harder if they named it “Dicktatorshit” though.
The Dictators
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
This is the fourth (and hopefully final) Morrissey album I’ve got on this list. I’ve been patient, but I think now is the time to give this asshole the 1 star he deserves.
While I’ve made an effort to separate the art from the artist, “Bengali in Platforms” and its not-so-subtle racism was the last straw for me. Even ignoring that song leaves nothing but a mediocre, down-tempo Smiths album where he meanders verse to verse without a hook or memorable line in sight. He somehow makes a song about killing Margaret Thatcher boring.
Fuck this mopey, spinach eating prick.
Malcolm McLaren
1/5
Okay, so there’s a lot to unpack here and none of it’s good.
We’ve McLaren, a Brit, mixing South African melodies stolen from Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens with New York talk radio, then he throws in a dash of hiphop, square dancing (!?), and the odd pan flute to capture a vague sense of exotic “otherness.”
It’s so phoney and uncool that I’m baffled anybody could find this listenable, especially with McLaren’s saying words like “ebonettes” and “mambo” with his thick North London accent. I cringed so hard I may have given myself whiplash.
Hard pass.
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
The Fall
3/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
Carole King
5/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Portishead
5/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Röyksopp
4/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
William Orbit
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
The Undertones
2/5
Ute Lemper
3/5
This album has absolutely no reason to be on the list, but it’s so cheesy and over the top that I couldn’t help but enjoy it. I’m all for this cabaret of cringe.
Ice T
4/5
The Zombies
3/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
A very typical Y2K girlboss album. Wouldn’t normally have a problem with this, except it weirdly preaches love and empowerment while also engaging in slut shaming, then tops it with some “God loves me” BS. It comes off as shallow and socially conservative as a result — the kind of music you’d blast when your friend calls you out on your toxic bullshit.
N.W.A.
5/5
Magazine
4/5
ABBA
5/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Bebel Gilberto
4/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Supertramp
4/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Speaking from experience, this music is perfect for when you wake up and realize you’ve gotta mark 20 final essays by midnight to meet the academic deadline.
For just a little while I felt like a PI reading over case files in 1970’s Miami as opposed to a TA deducting grades for improper formatting styles.
Mercury Rev
4/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
1/5
Really?
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
The Specials
3/5
Eminem
4/5
Skepta
3/5
Dagmar Krause
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
Started out beautiful and got progressively more tedious as the songs went on (and on).
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
The Cult
2/5
Joan Baez
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Sebadoh
4/5
Can
4/5
Manu Chao
3/5
Nick Drake
5/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Massive Attack
4/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Well, this marks my final album of the list. Always knew this day would come.
All in all I must say that this project has made the past three years quite enjoyable, even if the list itself is moreso good than great. Way too much Elvis Costello, way too much Madchester shit, and not nearly enough global representation beyond the Anglosphere and their colonies.
Still, the album a day process has really broadened my taste for weird shit. I grew to love post punk and whatever the fuck The Residents were doing, so shoutout to them. Also, Junkyard is a 10/10 album and I will die on that hill.
Even though no one asked, I’m listing my personal top ten on the list as a point of record. Because after all isn’t that what this project is all about?
1. Fleetfoxes - Fleetfoxes
2. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
3. LP1 - FKA Twigs
4. Dummy - Portishead
5. Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers
6. The Archandroid - Janelle Monae
7. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
8. The White Album - Beatles
9. Since I Left You - The Avalanches
10. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Some Nazi, idk
Oh yeah, and this Billy Bragg album is okay I guess.