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Music
Madonna
5 2.7 +2.3
Orbital 2
Orbital
5 2.7 +2.3
BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
5 2.86 +2.14
Street Signs
Ozomatli
5 2.88 +2.12
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
5 2.92 +2.08
Very
Pet Shop Boys
5 2.94 +2.06
Vento De Maio
Elis Regina
5 3.03 +1.97
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
MC Solaar
5 3.09 +1.91
Pyromania
Def Leppard
5 3.12 +1.88
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco
5 3.13 +1.87

You Love Less Than Most

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Dummy
Portishead
1 3.71 -2.71
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1 3.5 -2.5
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
1 3.37 -2.37
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
1 3.25 -2.25
Closer
Joy Division
1 3.23 -2.23
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
1 3.2 -2.2
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
1 2.61 -1.61
Ramones
Ramones
2 3.56 -1.56
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
2 3.27 -1.27
Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
1 2.14 -1.14

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Pixies 2 5
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Michael Jackson 2 5

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Ys by Joanna Newsom

Ok so the background music was awesome, but I could not do her voice. Whenever she hit a high shift and squeaked it actually hurt.

Music by Madonna

It's hard not to see the influence this album held on the next 7 years of pop music. It feels like a quintessential pop album of the 2000s because it's the first of that kind.

Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós

Not a fan honestly. I don't see any elements that I see in future music really, at least not ones that are only done here. Plus the entire album felt very....empty

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All Ratings (162)

Music From Big Pink by The Band
Mar 02 2023

It's easy to hear the influences that would shape later music from bands like Stone Temple Pilots and Daughtry. While the music isn't something I would add to my own playlist, i can see the influence it had on later music.

NEU! 75 by Neu!
Mar 03 2023

It was alright. First half nearly put me to sleep while driving though.

Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow
Mar 06 2023

Goes very hard but it's also very 90s. It feels very much like 90s hip hop remixes, which isn't a bad thing, but definitely has that feeling, so if that's not your scene you won't like it.

Doolittle by Pixies
Mar 07 2023

It feels like all 90s rock kinda evolved from the music by Pixies

Mar 08 2023

I'm not sure why this album was so influential. It feels like every other album by simple minds. This doesn't mean it's bad, i like it a lot actually but it doesn't scream revolutionary to me.

Mar 10 2023

Fantastic album. Feels like they were simply a step or two better than the Beatles in terms of this type of rock. Hard to dislike it at all

Mar 16 2023

Holy crap what a good album. Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, and Free Bird on the same album??? Absolutely insane first album. Absolutely defines rock and roll

The Slider by T. Rex
Mar 17 2023

Very obvious influences on later music in this album, T. Rex shows a lot chaos in their music in a way that comes together nicely.

Arrival by ABBA
Mar 20 2023

A solid album with several songs that leave you tapping your foot by the end. Easy to see the many influences it left on pop music going forward

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy
Mar 21 2023

An overall weird album but not in a bad way. Definitely more chaotic than anything else. The music was good and there were definitely small moments that remind me of Future bands like The Black keys and Cage the elephant though I'm not 100% sure that the influence was actually that far reaching

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Mar 22 2023

A fun story to listen to in album form. It reminds me a bit of pink Floyd in terms of the layout of the music in order to tell a comprehensive story.

Diamond Life by Sade
Mar 23 2023

What a fantastic album. It is funky and smooth and it feels like I have to be doing some kind of physical activity while listening to it like dancing. Absolutely amazing to hear for the first time.

Cypress Hill by Cypress Hill
Mar 28 2023

This album was lit. It felt good listening to some classic hip hop again

All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Mar 29 2023

It's very easy to see how this album had a huge influence on music in the future, this music very much sounds like what would eventually become music by bands like Pink Floyd.

Very by Pet Shop Boys
Mar 30 2023

I loved this album it feels like a predecessor to all of the 90s and early 2000s techno music that I grew up on and it has a lot of elements that very much lead me to believe that it influenced them heavily.

Abraxas by Santana
Mar 31 2023

The album shows a lot how Latin American music has both changed and also stayed relatively consistent over the decades. There are a lot of elements in this album that you can hear going forward both in future Santana albums and future traditional Latin American music

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Apr 03 2023
Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós
Apr 04 2023

Not a fan honestly. I don't see any elements that I see in future music really, at least not ones that are only done here. Plus the entire album felt very....empty

E.V.O.L. by Sonic Youth
Apr 05 2023

I understand that this album has a lot of influences on the kind of bands that would become known as grunge but this kind of feels like a bunch of people f****** around in a garage it crawled that way bands later could run.

Apr 06 2023

Fantastic album, changed how acoustic sets were handled for the rest of MTV's tenure in music

Pyromania by Def Leppard
Apr 07 2023

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Honestly this album just helped guide rock music into a fantastic direction, also it slaps.

We Are Family by Sister Sledge
Apr 11 2023

Oh we love a good funky album here. mellow at certain points too, but full of soul and beautiful vocals.

The Poet by Bobby Womack
Apr 12 2023

This album shows a lot of soul that seems to get passed on in later slow albums in the same genre. Also first 3 songs are unavailable on Spotify.

Elephant by The White Stripes
Apr 13 2023

So this album is just odd. Jack and Meg White have very different talent levels within their instruments and it shows rather heavily. You can also tell who worked on which songs more, but Jack White's lyricism really helps the album come threw in a positive manner.

Live! by Fela Kuti
Apr 14 2023

Very fun album to listen to. I'm always a fan of a heavy drum element and it's nice to hear music from a wider variety of places than just the US and UK.

Apr 18 2023

Pretty easy to see how later bands, especially 90s and 2000s British punk bands, took influence from the music this group produced

Hysteria by Def Leppard
Apr 19 2023

Holy shit what an album. This album and Pyromania are generation defining rock albums. They basically decided what the late 80s were going to sound like for rock music.

Street Signs by Ozomatli
Apr 20 2023

Definitely shows a lot of the roots of Latin music to come, especially the prominence of Spanish rap in music from artists like El Cata and Bad Bunny.

Dummy by Portishead
Apr 21 2023

I don't know why this album was popular. I was bored with each song I'm different ways and was falling asleep for parts of it.

Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush
Apr 24 2023

This album is definitely a precursor to the theatrical pop so far we would get in later years, especially in the latter half.

Dub Housing by Pere Ubu
Apr 26 2023

Reminds me of Men at work. Thriller made me wanna throw a chair though.

Forever Changes by Love
Apr 28 2023

Decent, felt like American Beatles in terms of tone, very light sound

The College Dropout by Kanye West
May 02 2023

Shows a very distinct pivot in the more mainstream rap and brings forward another album that does a great job describing the experiences of people who could not really benefit from the things that others could by no fault if their own

Tanto Tempo by Bebel Gilberto
May 04 2023

Very soft airy album, unlike the general vibe i get from latin american music I've heard previously.

World Clique by Deee-Lite
May 05 2023

The most 90s techno album I've ever heard

Off The Wall by Michael Jackson
May 09 2023

Fantastic album, lots of super funky moments all along the way.

Closer by Joy Division
May 10 2023

Did anyone else feel this album sucked? Like i don't know what was supposed to be good hear, most of the music felt very disjointed with the vocals. I don't know what the fuss was

American Gothic by David Ackles
May 11 2023

I love a good story album, and this one was alright

Django Django by Django Django
May 12 2023

Fun album, not really much else to say, just really like the rhythm

May 15 2023

First time I've listened to Bob Dylan. I get it, he's definitely a core example of folk music in the US. Very much like listening to a campfire story told with a guitar

Guitar Town by Steve Earle
May 17 2023

Nice country album, seems to be a very early start to the "I got me my truck" era of country but it's a good listen

May 18 2023

Man the music from Korn is fantastic but the lead singer just kinda sounds like the youngest of the wild thornberries sometimes

Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
May 19 2023

The album is very funky and utilizes several vocalists very well in the music

Horses by Patti Smith
May 22 2023

First couple songs had me not liking the album at all, but the next 4 were fantastic

Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
May 23 2023

Good old post punk rock, always just as good

Music by Madonna
May 24 2023

It's hard not to see the influence this album held on the next 7 years of pop music. It feels like a quintessential pop album of the 2000s because it's the first of that kind.

The Slim Shady LP by Eminem
May 25 2023

I mean it's Eminem. For as vulgar and generally off-putting as his lyrics can be, he was a defining feature of 2000s rap

Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
May 26 2023

Not necessarily the birth of rock and roll, but certainly a great look into it's very early formative years

Amnesiac by Radiohead
May 29 2023

Solid album, very smooth to listen to

The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
May 30 2023

Fantastic album start to finish, felt almost like a video game OST at first and I really loved the sound

Let's Get Killed by David Holmes
May 31 2023

So this album feels very VERY much like all others of it's type, the more hip hop style techno beats of the late 90s. It's not bad, but it doesn't really inspire any awe like other similar albums for me.

Clube Da Esquina by Milton Nascimento
Jun 01 2023

What a great album. Lots of elements that we see get used by other bands in later decades, different types of songs all over, real fun to listen to

Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada
Jun 02 2023

Really easy to see the influence that this had on Techno going forward, especially in the less dance oriented material. Very smooth mellow album that's easy to listen to

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
Jun 05 2023

Decent album couple of really.good hits in there but the rest felt rather plain

Young Americans by David Bowie
Jun 06 2023

Only got through first half but I get why early Bowie is still considered iconic

Vento De Maio by Elis Regina
Jun 07 2023

Lovely jazz, lots of funky influences from earlier decades

Come Away With Me by Norah Jones
Jun 08 2023

Simple calm music with a beautiful voice, perfect for a cafe

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel
Jun 12 2023

This album felt like it belonged in a like, fantasy RPG tavern with two guys with lutes playing these songs. It's pretty good

Lazer Guided Melodies by Spiritualized
Jun 14 2023

Ok so the album flowed very nicely from song to song, and i get the feeling it would be better if I was on whatever drugs the band was on when they made it, but I didn't enjoy it. It was slow and soothing, bit in a sleepy way not a calming way.

Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix
Jun 15 2023

How can I say anything other than positive things here? This is the reason rock music sounds like it does.

Shadowland by k.d. lang
Jun 16 2023

Cute little country album, very twangy

Metallica by Metallica
Jun 19 2023

Well I have my own reasons for disliking the band, it's hard to deny that this album very much shaped the way that metal would be created in the early 2000s. This is especially true when you look at bands like Avenged Sevenfold

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Jun 20 2023

What a fantastic blues album. It shows a wonderful transition of how blues turns into rock very easily, and the influences that had previously made bands like Pink Floyd so good

Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
Jun 22 2023

As an album it seems to have found it's footings few songs in, but once it picks up it's fantastic.

Jun 23 2023

First of all, the latter half of the album talking about the civil rights movement is pretty great, but the whole album was just really really good jazzy rock.

Fragile by Yes
Jun 26 2023

Very long album for a short number of songs. The songs were good, or at least every song had a good part, but the length and changes in tone for every song left me feeling confused.

Rocks by Aerosmith
Jun 30 2023
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen
Jul 04 2023

Very somber album. It's great to have singers like Bruce Springsteen because he sings with very frank and direct lyrics usually and it's always obvious what the themes of his songs are.

2112 by Rush
Jul 05 2023

What a power move producing an album like this after a commercial failure the previous album. The title track being 20 minutes long barely felt like any time at all

Tical by Method Man
Jul 06 2023

Great album but I personally struggled to tell apart songs while not looking at the track list.

Suicide by Suicide
Jul 07 2023

This album just did not do it for me. I could see a lot of the influences it had on later music, but this just really sucked in my opinion

The Score by Fugees
Jul 11 2023

So this is a phenomenal album, but it really is one that you have to listen to all at once, at least until you get to the remixes at the end. The songs flow very coherently with each other and in a vacuum don't hold as much power as they do together.

Orbital 2 by Orbital
Jul 12 2023

Really great early techno album. Had a lot of elements that would absolutely be used in later techno music, especially in the 90s

Smash by The Offspring
Jul 13 2023

Really good punk album. The Offspring are one of those bands that get people into punk music, and this album has a few of the great songs that hooked us.

Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C.
Jul 14 2023

Easily one of my favorite rap albums to date. It's really easy to see how it advanced the popular rap game and how it got many people into the genre

A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Jul 17 2023

John Coltrane is a huge influence on the jazz scene, especially the more erratic jazz

The Atomic Mr Basie by Count Basie & His Orchestra
Jul 18 2023

This felt like living in a Hanna Barbera cartoon and I loved it. It's easy to see how more modern orchestral influences would come from this, as well as how jazz was already imbued in the music world

Walking Wounded by Everything But The Girl
Jul 19 2023

It's good to hear techno that isn't very EDM like. Lots of mellow but powerful songs.

Time Out Of Mind by Bob Dylan
Jul 20 2023

I'm just gonna be honest here I don't like Bob Dylan

Jul 21 2023

The lyricism on this album is fantastic but I just can't handle the talking over each other at the beginning of some of the songs, it makes my head hurt. Overall a great album to listen to all the way through.

Back At The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith
Jul 24 2023

Fun Album, lots of elements that would absolutely get used in later music, especially rock

Van Halen by Van Halen
Jul 25 2023

Ok so this album has a lot of elements that would go into later music. Atomic punk feels like an early metal song, ice cream man has a lot of funky elements, the bass comes through very well. It definitely feels like a lot more rock than I originally assumed sprang from this album

Paris 1919 by John Cale
Jul 27 2023

Very calm album, fun concept

The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett
Jul 28 2023

So you know how sometimes, band members get booted for having creative differences, and the person getting kicked out says "screw you guys, imma write the music I like and it's gonna be awesome!" And then they produce absolute swill? This feels exactly like that. They say Pink Floyd was never the same once he left, I can only assume that's true because they got better.

Dirt by Alice In Chains
Jul 31 2023

Do you like grunge? Good, cus here it is, in all it's glory, guiding future grunge to grungeville

Surfer Rosa by Pixies
Aug 01 2023

Pixies are metal lyricism in a old rock body. The generally vulgar themes they use are inspiration for much music down the line

Ramones by Ramones
Aug 03 2023

I get how this album is influential, but wow every song sounds almost exactly the same.

Low by David Bowie
Aug 07 2023
Teen Dream by Beach House
Aug 08 2023

Kinda meh album, didn't really see anything that bore influence on later music and wasn't really enthralled with it

Ys by Joanna Newsom
Aug 09 2023

Ok so the background music was awesome, but I could not do her voice. Whenever she hit a high shift and squeaked it actually hurt.

A Walk Across The Rooftops by The Blue Nile
Aug 10 2023

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this album. Real easy listening but still fun to listen to, and the singer has a great voice to, like a midway point between Bono, Sting, and Dave Matthews

1999 by Prince
Aug 14 2023

Decent pop album, definitely had a huge influence on pop music of the time and added a lot of...sexual bluntness to music

Disraeli Gears by Cream
Aug 15 2023

Fine album, sunshine of your love alone is a crazy influence on future rock

Aug 16 2023

I feel like this album kinda helped bring forth a lot of those techno alt duos we see more and more of

Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Aug 17 2023

Gotta love Black Sabbath, they never disappoint

Music in Exile by Songhoy Blues
Aug 22 2023

A really sold bluesy album with a lot of emotions behind the lyrics, even if I don't understand them

Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder
Aug 23 2023

This was his 17th studio album and it still sounds this good? Stevie Wonder was unstoppable

Aug 24 2023

Kinda meh, didn't really do much for me but it wasn't difficult to listen to by any means

Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3
Aug 25 2023

What is it with people who continuously uphold the drab melodic ramblings of British men when it comes to music? It's bothersome

American Idiot by Green Day
Aug 28 2023

Probably one of if not the best rock albums of the early 2000s, extremely political in a way that rock music needs to be

Green by R.E.M.
Aug 29 2023

A lot more political than I was expecting REM to be, though maybe that's because I know very little music of theirs. Great songs and a very solid sound

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
Aug 30 2023

The premier album of one of the most iconic voices in metal music, for the band that defined what we think of it today? Yes.

It's A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads
Aug 31 2023

I feel like the Lemonheads embody what the Beatles would sound like in the 90s, it's a refreshing type of older pop rock

Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal
Sep 01 2023

It's not a bad album, but all British rap sounds exactly the same to me. I know it's rude but it just doesn't feel any different to anything before or after it

D by White Denim
Sep 04 2023

This felt like one really long song

Joan Armatrading by Joan Armatrading
Sep 05 2023

Not really my style of music but she has a lovely voice and this feels very reminiscent of what little gospel I've heard

Morrison Hotel by The Doors
Sep 27 2023

Great album, very mellow while still being fun. Well Roadhouse Blues is anything but mellow, but the rest of the album felt very smooth

Close To You by Carpenters
Sep 29 2023

Fantastic album, slow and melodic without being boring

Bad by Michael Jackson
Oct 02 2023

This album is very easy to listen to, but feels very long despite its length. Some really good songs on here, but overall it feels like it can easily fall into the background

Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis
Oct 06 2023

This album puts the smooth in smooth jazz, my goodness this was easy listening

Zombie by Fela Kuti
Oct 09 2023

I love me a good political album, especially with heavy jazz elements. Good shit all around

Mask by Bauhaus
Oct 20 2023

Each song felt both hit and miss for me overall. It was interesting to have songs feel both enjoyable and boring in the same three minute span. Overall I'd say decent though

In Utero by Nirvana
Oct 23 2023

See, this album was highly influential and has some of Nirvana's best songs, and yet I forgot how much of the rest of the album is kinda...missing that love

Funeral by Arcade Fire
Oct 24 2023

Really fun debut album

Tank Battles by Dagmar Krause
Nov 08 2023

Unavailable on Spotify

Ill Communication by Beastie Boys
Dec 05 2023

It's very obvious from the getgo that Sabotage was written to be a radio song, something to get people to buy the album, because the rest of the album sounds almost nothing like it. That said, the album is a spectacle, boasting lyrics that are at the same time political and vulgar. I love it

Dec 06 2023

Ok so what a game changer album, even for Queen. People were giving Bohemian Rhapsody shit when the Prophet was right there? Insane

Talk Talk Talk by The Psychedelic Furs
Dec 07 2023

Very easy to see all of the influences later punk bands would take from them.

Mama's Gun by Erykah Badu
Dec 08 2023

The vibe of the album is immaculate. I personally don't like her voice, but I fully recognize that this is a me problem and not the singer's.

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