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You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Hope Is Gone | 5 | 2.7 | +2.3 |
| Arise | 5 | 2.72 | +2.28 |
| Roots | 5 | 2.78 | +2.22 |
| Kings Of The Wild Frontier | 5 | 2.83 | +2.17 |
| Among The Living | 5 | 2.85 | +2.15 |
| When I Was Born For The 7th Time | 5 | 2.91 | +2.09 |
| I Against I | 5 | 2.93 | +2.07 |
| Superfuzz Bigmuff | 5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
| Ogden's Nut Gone Flake | 5 | 2.95 | +2.05 |
| The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators | 5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | 1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
| good kid, m.A.A.d city | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| Tusk | 1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
| The Dark Side Of The Moon | 2 | 4.43 | -2.43 |
| Diamond Life | 1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
| Aftermath | 1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
| Ready To Die | 1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
| Endtroducing..... | 1 | 3.36 | -2.36 |
| The Chronic | 1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
| Channel Orange | 1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| R.E.M. | 4 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 9 | 4.33 |
| Pixies | 3 | 5 |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 5 |
| The Cure | 3 | 5 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 5 |
| Queen | 3 | 4.67 |
| Belle & Sebastian | 2 | 5 |
| Alice Cooper | 2 | 5 |
| OutKast | 2 | 5 |
| The Undertones | 2 | 5 |
| Sepultura | 2 | 5 |
| Radiohead | 6 | 4.17 |
| Metallica | 4 | 4.25 |
| PJ Harvey | 4 | 4.25 |
| Beck | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Kinks | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Van Morrison | 3 | 1.33 |
| Tim Buckley | 3 | 1.33 |
| Motörhead | 2 | 1 |
| Can | 2 | 1 |
| Bob Dylan | 7 | 2 |
| The Rolling Stones | 6 | 2 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 5 | 2 |
| Taylor Swift | 2 | 1.5 |
| Gene Clark | 2 | 1.5 |
| Ryan Adams | 2 | 1.5 |
| Orbital | 2 | 1.5 |
| Common | 2 | 1.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 1.5 |
| The xx | 2 | 1.5 |
| Ice Cube | 2 | 1.5 |
| Scott Walker | 2 | 1.5 |
| Steely Dan | 4 | 2 |
| The Byrds | 4 | 2 |
| Morrissey | 4 | 2 |
| Neil Young | 3 | 2 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 2 |
| Elvis Presley | 3 | 2 |
| My Bloody Valentine | 3 | 2 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 2.25 |
Controversial Artists
Artists you rate inconsistently
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Slipknot | 1, 5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 5, 2 |
| Mudhoney | 5, 2 |
| Fiona Apple | 2, 5 |
| Dusty Springfield | 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (92)
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Todd Rundgren
2/5
Listening to this, I got the feeling he could have made a better album but chose not to
7 likes
The Hives
2/5
Compilation albums on here giving Alan Partridge vibes. "What's your favourite Beatles album then?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
2 likes
Barry Adamson
3/5
From the other reviews on here, I was expecting some sort of hellishly unlistenable soundscape, but that wasn't too bad. At least it was trying something. It would have scored higher but one of my least favourite things in music is a horny Jarvis Cocker
2 likes
Kraftwerk
3/5
I don't drive, but I might put this on next time I'm playing Euro Truck Sim 2, see if it enhances the experience
1 likes
1-Star Albums (92)
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David Bowie
5/5
Al Green
5/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Crowded House
3/5
Motörhead
1/5
Love
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Pixies
5/5
Manu Chao
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
5/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Taylor Swift
1/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
The Clash
4/5
The B-52's
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Beyoncé
1/5
John Grant
5/5
The Rolling Stones
1/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Funkadelic
2/5
808 State
1/5
Sounds like half a dozen budgies in a tumble dryer
Nick Drake
4/5
Hole
4/5
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
The Youngbloods
4/5
Heaven 17
2/5
Sister Sledge
4/5
Keith Jarrett
2/5
Neneh Cherry
1/5
Suicide
1/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Roni Size
1/5
The trouble with drum & bass albums is you listen to them for an hour but the Powerpuff Girls episode never starts.
Jacques Brel
2/5
3/5
The Auteurs
2/5
I got Oasis before this, so that's the pound shop Beatles followed by cut price Donovan
Arcade Fire
2/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
System Of A Down
5/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Blue Cheer
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Madonna
2/5
Soul II Soul
1/5
Ray Charles
3/5
The Adverts
3/5
King Crimson
2/5
Green Day
3/5
It's fine.
Tortoise
3/5
Hugh Masekela
2/5
Aretha Franklin
2/5
Billy Bragg
2/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5
Can
1/5
Belle & Sebastian
5/5
The Blue Nile
1/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
5/5
Jorge Ben Jor
2/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The Electric Prunes
2/5
John Coltrane
2/5
Jeff Beck
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Sade
1/5
New Order
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
The Yardbirds
1/5
Eminem
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Yes
2/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Pink Floyd
2/5
Frank Ocean
1/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Björk
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
Beck
3/5
De La Soul
3/5
The White Stripes
5/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
The Band
2/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Duke Ellington
4/5
The Strokes
3/5
The Stooges
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Derek & The Dominos
2/5
U2
4/5
Marvin Gaye
2/5
2/5
The Doors
2/5
The Young Gods
2/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
When an album is an hour long, has only 5 tracks, and one of those tracks is literally called "drum solo," you know you're in for a treat.
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Daft Punk
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
1/5
Slayer
1/5
Björk
4/5
Devendra Banhart
4/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
The La's
4/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
2/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2/5
Mudhoney
5/5
Buffalo Springfield
2/5
T. Rex
4/5
Television
3/5
Japan
3/5
Lorde
2/5
The Jam
4/5
Saint Etienne
2/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Yes
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Spiritualized
2/5
4/5
Fugazi
4/5
Supertramp
2/5
Roxy Music
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Parliament
5/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Neil Young
2/5
I was feeling good so I was going to give this a charitable 3, then that harmonica came in on Ambulance Blues like a stoned K K Slider giving it MEEEE MEEEE OHHHH MEEEE and it soured the whole thing
Pulp
3/5
Iron Maiden
5/5
The Killers
3/5
So these are the lads who did "I've got ham but I'm not a hamster"?
Kelela
2/5
Nas
3/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Mylo
1/5
Nina Simone
5/5
Incubus
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
John Lennon
2/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
a-ha
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
I often get the chili peppers mixed up with rocky horror - you know, RHCP/RHPS - which is daft, cos one is a load of silly, over-sexualised nonsense with good tunes and a faint undertone of cringe, while the other...
Also, I don't care what anyone says, I still enjoy this album. NING NANG NING NONG NING NANG NING NONG NING NANG
Soundgarden
3/5
Eurythmics
3/5
Hookworms
1/5
More like 1,001 wrong'uns you must hear before you die.
Like you, I'd never heard of this band before, but if you'd like to make your own Hookworms song, it's easy enough to program:
if (vocalsound == vowel) {
pitch.change;
}
Steely Dan
2/5
William Orbit
1/5
Metallica
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
The Police
2/5
Syd Barrett
3/5
The Sugarcubes
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Louis Prima
3/5
Kanye West
2/5
Aimee Mann
2/5
This sounds like the kind of music the women in Friends would listen to
Queen
4/5
Gene Clark
2/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Joan Baez
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Liz Phair
2/5
Steve Earle
1/5
This is the first time I've rated one of these albums midway through the first track but fuck me, that's dire. What did we do to the author of 1001 albums to make him hurt us like this?
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
I was just listening to this album this morning and wondering when it might show up on the list! Not a huge coincidence as I listen to this one a lot. If everyone was told they could only have one album, this would be my pick. It's not the best-written album in the world ("in the eyes of the jackal I say kaboom"?) but it is my favourite. I first heard it when I was in my early 20s, reading through the early Anne Rice vampire novels - an excellent pairing, by the way - so it'll always take me back to those days. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em...
Kate Bush
4/5
Ryan Adams
1/5
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Nirvana
5/5
Radiohead
3/5
Neu!
4/5
I really enjoyed that, even though it was a bit bipolar, with the first few tracks being all floaty, ambient tunes, almost hypnotically peaceful, followed by - surprise! - we're a punk band now
Super Furry Animals
3/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
How did a band with maybe two good songs end up with about seven albums on here?
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Kanye West
2/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
The Gun Club
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Orbital
2/5
It's not the worst album on here, but it's hardly essential. I forgot it was on a couple of times
Michael Jackson
2/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Mudhoney
2/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Tito Puente
2/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
I'm sure it's very good, but I just can't stand his *heyeeeaaahdiot wind* voice
Einstürzende Neubauten
2/5
Is it safe?
Holger Czukay
2/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Marty Robbins
2/5
Cowboy cosplay music. When you think about it, this is kind of like a band nowadays writing songs about the second world war.
Oasis
4/5
Skepta
2/5
Man put me off my morning bowl of PussyOs, fam
Snoop Dogg
2/5
Travis
2/5
Situated firmly on the border between Blandly Inoffensive and Offensively Bland.
Ash
5/5
Radiohead
3/5
I like hearing a band experiment musically, but none of the resulting songs really did anything for me, good or bad
Common
2/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
I thought that was okay.
I thought that was okay.
I thought that was okay okay okay okay okay kay kay kay kay kay kay kay k k k k k k k kkkkkkkkkkk
Emmylou Harris
3/5
I gave more than one star to a country album. The world's gone topsy-turvy
5/5
Throwing Muses
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Willie Nelson
2/5
What is it with all the cowboy cosplay?
Destiny's Child
2/5
The National
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
Guy sounds like Tina Turner. Tempted to give it an extra star for this line: "she had the body of Venus with arms"
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
This album gave me anaemia
Brian Eno
1/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Hawkwind
2/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
David Holmes
2/5
The Pogues
3/5
The Black Keys
2/5
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Pentangle
3/5
I liked that. Gentle, Wicker Man vibe
Fiona Apple
2/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Little Simz
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
I blame the Dude
Miles Davis
4/5
One for the "I don't usually like [insert genre] but I liked this" pile.
Arcade Fire
3/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
Two AF albums in a row! I'm in danger of becoming bored AF
Public Enemy
3/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
The Modern Lovers
1/5
Muddy Waters
2/5
Minor Threat
1/5
I might have liked this if I'd heard it when I was younger, but now it just made me say "stop shouting at me, ya wee prick" as I turned down the volume. Old age, man.
At least the album was short. Under 22 minutes. If I were a fan I'd feel short-changed.
Mariah Carey
1/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Alanis Morissette
5/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
Stephen Stills
2/5
Green Day
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Stephen Stills
2/5
One Stephen Stills album in a week is tolerable; two feels like malice.
The Smiths
4/5
Considered a protest vote based on Mozza's ugly politics, but I can't betray the soundtrack to my soft and mopey teenage years
Air
3/5
Air's music seems perfectly pitched to trigger no emotions at all. It's like lounge music for cybermen.
Julian Cope
3/5
Violent Femmes
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Richard Hawley
2/5
Wholly unnecessary album
Moby
3/5
Pink Floyd
2/5
The Temptations
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
N.W.A.
2/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
The Specials
4/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Led Zeppelin
2/5
I'm nearly 50 and this is too middle-aged-man rock for me. I guess I could give it an extra star for making me feel younger, relatively speaking.
Wild Beasts
1/5
Funkadelic
3/5
DJ Shadow
1/5
This reminds me of that time my little brother got an electric piano for his birthday, which had a setting that made each key sound like a different shitty drum sample, and that's all he did the whole day
Prince
3/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
The Zutons
4/5
Prince
2/5
Big Black
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Various Artists
3/5
The Who
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Ride
2/5
The band for people who feel that the Smiths were "a bit rowdy"
Black Sabbath
3/5
1/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Blur
4/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Damn. I saw that album cover and for a moment I thought Tom Baker had made a record. But no, it's Dylan again, the man with the most irritating voice in music. That long, piercing harmonica on Pledging My Time all but guaranteed a one-star review before I'd even heard the rest.
Having said that, I'd like this album a lot more if you could cut out Dylan's vocals and that flipping mouth organ of his. Let's pretend any of this matters at all and add an extra star to the review, for the band.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
The Shamen
2/5
You know, that irritated me a little less than I thought it was going to. I could just leave it on in the background and pretend I was on hold to the motivational poster factory.
The Cardigans
3/5
Beatles
2/5
Nothing to scream about.
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Billy Joel
2/5
The Police
2/5
ACAB includes this lot
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Cornershop
5/5
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
Aretha Franklin
2/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Fred Neil
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Merle Haggard
1/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
Elbow
3/5
Chicago
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
I used to really like this album, and there are some great tunes on it, but it sounds so dated now, its electronic drums plastic and hollow. Some albums I wish could get a remake, like they do with video games these days
The Only Ones
3/5
Pixies
5/5
Orange Juice
3/5
The Icarus Line
3/5
U2
2/5
Randy Newman
5/5
I didn't expect to like this album. I thought it would be twee and corny but it has depth. I mean, wade through a few 80s/90s electronica records and you'll give extra points to any album just for using actual instruments, but I wasn't expecting to shed a little tear on the bus to work
Bobby Womack
1/5
Another day, another selection from the 990 Albums You Can Happily Go To Your Grave Having Never Heard.
Nirvana
5/5
The Zombies
4/5
I can imagine the guy from Belle and Sebastian listening to this album and thinking, "aw yeah, I'm having that" to almost every song
Meat Loaf
4/5
David Gray
1/5
The Prodigy
4/5
One of those albums that contains almost everything I usually dislike in music and yet I love it
Sam Cooke
2/5
Christine and the Queens
1/5
Alice Cooper
5/5
I thought I'd enjoy that. Did not expect it to be a 5-star though
Rush
3/5
The Dandy Warhols
4/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Pulp
4/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
Megadeth
3/5
Deee-Lite
2/5
The Who
2/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Solange
2/5
Carole King
2/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
I'll say this for all the old hair metal bands that come up on this list, at least their lead singers gave it some. This guy's voice goes up to a seven on a good day. That's not to say it can't be good, like on You Would Know, where the dialled-back guitar works with the vocal rather than against. Some of the guitar noodling and electronic bleepery seems almost wilfully irritating at times, but there's still some stuff to enjoy here.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Venom
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
"Time fell wanking to the floor"? What does that mean?
It's a quotation.
A quotation? What from? It isn't Milton and I'm pretty sure it can't be Wordsworth.
It's Bowie.
Oh. And is this David Bowie too: "My body disgusts, damp grease wafts sweat balls from sweat balls and thigh fungus"?
Fleetwood Mac
1/5
Dagmar Krause
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
Lana Del Rey
3/5
At times it was like listening to Tori Amos having an asthma attack but I didn't hate it like I thought I was going to. Could have done with fewer 'downside of fame' moans though.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Ice T
2/5
John Lennon
2/5
The thing that surprised me was how weak a singer he was
Eels
5/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
Boston
4/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Was nearly a generous 3, then he started banging on about birds
Beatles
3/5
Tim Buckley
1/5
Some albums would benefit from an instrumental version
Björk
4/5
I fully support opportunities for women in the traditionally male-dominated space of being an unsettling little weirdo in the name of art
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
Jazz is okay, but I prefer music. Top Tip: if listening with ear buds, take the left one out to enjoy the piano and drums without the bass rattling away at random like a fly trying to find a path through a pane of glass.
Robert Wyatt
3/5
Sugar
3/5
The Streets
4/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
Calexico
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Small Faces
5/5
Doves
2/5
Deerhunter
2/5
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Janis Joplin
4/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
The Cars
2/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Listening to this, I got the feeling he could have made a better album but chose not to
Steely Dan
2/5
XTC
3/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
3 + 3 = 3 (stars)
Van Halen
2/5
Not my kind of metal - bit too synthy in places - but I'll give it an extra star because I've just binge watched the first ten seasons of Supernatural which had raised my tolerance for all things classic rock
Anthrax
5/5
Beatles
5/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Motörhead
1/5
Hey Motorhead, play that one that goes *hums the riff to Ace of Spades*
Motorhead: yeah, you're gonna have to narrow it down
Dire Straits
3/5
Suede
5/5
Nico
2/5
k.d. lang
2/5
She's very good at singing a style of music I really don't enjoy
Kraftwerk
3/5
I don't drive, but I might put this on next time I'm playing Euro Truck Sim 2, see if it enhances the experience
R.E.M.
5/5
Eagles
2/5
I'm with the Dude on this one
2/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Gene Clark
1/5
I don't like Bob Dylan, why would I like someone doing Dylan karaoke?
PJ Harvey
4/5
Supergrass
4/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Cure
5/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Klaxons
2/5
The Thrills
2/5
10cc
1/5
Django Django
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
AC/DC
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
Little Richard
2/5
Korn
2/5
The Mars Volta
1/5
I knew nothing about this band. Reading the album name and track listing, I thought it would be, I don't know... smarter?
Dolly Parton
2/5
This was the Marvel Avengers team-up of its day
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
I usually hate Dylan, but that wasn't terrible. He kept his warbling to a minimum at least
Kraftwerk
2/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Elton John
4/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Peter Frampton
2/5
This reminds me of the hamster I had for a week when I was a kid, in that I did not care for it
Tangerine Dream
2/5
New Order
2/5
It feels mean to mark a band down because the lead singer can't carry a tune, when I'm such a fan of Belle and Sebastian, but here we are
The xx
1/5
John Lee Hooker
2/5
The Bees
3/5
The Beta Band
4/5
2/5
Considering it mostly sounded like a stoner playing bongos over a ZX Spectrum loading noise, I didn't entirely hate that
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Genesis
2/5
Jeff Buckley
1/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
MC Solaar
2/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
From the other reviews on here, I was expecting some sort of hellishly unlistenable soundscape, but that wasn't too bad. At least it was trying something. It would have scored higher but one of my least favourite things in music is a horny Jarvis Cocker
The Jam
4/5
KISS
3/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Gillian Welch
2/5
Kanye West
2/5
Shuggie Otis
4/5
Tom Tom Club
2/5
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
Reminds me of the time a skinhead walked into my shop - full gear, bovver boots and bomber jacket, and I thought uh-oh, then I saw a badge at his lapel saying, skinheads against racism. That made me relax, but imagine picking a look that needed a disclaimer.
It's like a southern rock parody of System of a Down. Rock for a bit, then read out screeds of political history. The South will rise again! But, but, not in a racist way, you understand. Anyway, this next song is about a racist politician - which we're against, by the way, just to be clear. Yeehaw. In conclusion, Skynyrd, Alabama, and Skynyrd again. Thanks for coming to our TED talk y'all
Otis Redding
3/5
The Who
4/5
Bill Callahan
5/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
5/5
ABBA
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
A good album to put on while reading a book, as it's too barely-there to ever be an intrusion on your concentration. Not unpleasant background sound
The Beach Boys
1/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Richard Thompson
2/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
2/5
Waylon Jennings
2/5
Not my kind of music at all, but I'll give it an extra star for "the devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own"
John Prine
3/5
Was not expecting to rate a country album this high, but good lyrics are good lyrics
1/5
Talking Heads
2/5
How many Talking Heads albums are on this list?? So far, at least four too many
Kate Bush
2/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
1/5
Simply Red
1/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Fun tunes, good sense of humour in the lyrics, this did keep veering into 2 star territory at times, sounding like Carter USM produced by Stock, Aitken, and Waterman, but my previous album was Simply Red so this one gets an extra point just for not being that.
The Coral
3/5
Stereolab
2/5
Animal Collective
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Metallica
5/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1/5
Would have been one hour long without all the tedious chat between the tunes. Some of these albums really test my decision to listen to every record on the list. I mean, how do you even make a miserable version of Keep on the Sunny Side?
M.I.A.
2/5
Fleet Foxes
2/5
OutKast
5/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Fun fact: Wainwright's Agnus Dei is just Bridge Over Troubled Water played backwards
The Residents
2/5
I liked what they were trying to achieve, but can't say I liked listening to it.
Beck
5/5
Milton Nascimento
2/5
Lambchop
2/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Wire
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Gary Numan
3/5
The Who
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Got through this one by singing Simultaneous by Chef over the first eight and half minutes of By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Coldcut
2/5
Beth Orton
3/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
"My name's Nicholas Nada and I just want to say, Christina, that track you made with all those clips of your fans kissing your ass made me cringe so hard it gave me osteoporosis."
Elvis Presley
2/5
George Harrison
3/5
The Prodigy
2/5
The Allman Brothers Band
2/5
In the time it takes for him to say You Don't Love Me Anymore, she's moved out, met someone else, married, and had a kid.
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
At first, I wondered why he hadn't practiced the songs before the recording rather than during, then I read about how it was made after he'd had a stay in a mental hospital, was intended as a demo but released as an album, and it all feels grubby and exploitative
Don McLean
3/5
I once sang American Pie at karaoke and got three rounds of applause. Not because I was any good, but because they kept thinking I was finished. That song really knows how to outstay its welcome. In the end, I just handed back the mic and shuffled awkwardly offstage. Bye bye, miss American Pie
OutKast
5/5
Britney Spears
2/5
Pixies
5/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Fever Ray
2/5
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
The Triffids
2/5
I only knew this band from a reference in a Courtney Barnett song ("and in the taxi home, I'll sing you a Triffids song"). Having heard them now, I think I'll wait and take the next cab instead.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Van Morrison
1/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Dr. John
3/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1/5
Slipknot
1/5
Like a wind turbine, I'm a huge metal fan, but I didn't enjoy this at all
Pantera
4/5
I've somehow never heard any Pantera before (I didn't even know any of the Thundercats had solo careers) but I quite enjoyed that.
Missy Elliott
3/5
American Music Club
2/5
Culture Club
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Music Bland & Vague
PJ Harvey
4/5
Dire Straits
2/5
Manic Street Preachers
5/5
The Pretty Things
4/5
Alice Cooper
5/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Jazz is one of those things where fans get so into it that I'm left feeling I'm missing something. It must be me, right, if people can be so obsessed they could reel off every band member for each recording of every song while I'm sat there going, meh?
I did wonder how I knew the tune for Bemsha Swing, then I remembered it was used for F.U. by the chili peppers - so that's an embarrassing admission of my own cultural touchstones, I suppose
Laura Nyro
1/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Digital Underground
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
2/5
I'd say a live album wasn't the best intro to a band, but that's the debut they put out.
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Wilco
2/5
Metallica
5/5
Big Star
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
The Monkees
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Not my kind of music, but I'll give it an extra point for the lyrics being a stealthy bit of social commentary dressed up as good-old-boy patriotism.
"This next song is called, 'I am an American! (and it's a bit shit, to be honest)"
Girls Against Boys
4/5
MGMT
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Ute Lemper
1/5
A Punishing Listen
The Associates
2/5
Napalm Death
2/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
I enjoyed the music but there was too much talking. You didn't enjoy the talking bits? They just didn't add anything to the songs. You felt they were only talking for the sake of talking? Yeah, like it was all a bit of a gimmick - you know what I mean?
The Smiths
3/5
Ian Dury
3/5
Pretenders
5/5
John Cale
3/5
Mercury Rev
4/5
2/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
3/5
This band gets an extra point for having the best licensed game on the ZX Spectrum.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Can
1/5
Ice Cube
1/5
Ozomatli
2/5
LTJ Bukem
1/5
Logical Progression: 1) press play 2) roll eyes 3) press stop
Slipknot
5/5
Welcome to my Controversial Artists list, Slipknot! One star for their self-titled album and now this.
Maybe it's because the previous album from this site was hours of generic drum & bass that sounded like a space dolphin giving a drum machine diarrhoea that's making me more predisposed towards any actual humans playing actual instruments.
The Libertines
2/5
Carpenters
2/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Willie Nelson
2/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Birthday Party
1/5
Nick Drake
4/5
The Crusaders
1/5
For star rating, press "one"
Dolly Parton
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Shack
2/5
The Dictators
3/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
Van Morrison
1/5
Steve Winwood
1/5
50 Cent
2/5
Fela Kuti
2/5
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
Donald Fagen
1/5
The Slits
4/5
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Big Star
3/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
The Pogues
4/5
I had to skip Fairytale of New York. I used to really like it until one Christmas it got stuck in my head so badly I wasn't rid of it until - I kid you not - March the next year. I would wake up with it playing in my brain; it was absolute torture.
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Turbonegro
3/5
Started off sounding fun but got old really quickly
Missy Elliott
4/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Thin Lizzy
2/5
Method Man
3/5
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
Joanna Newsom
4/5
Neil Young
2/5
Beats me how this guy seems to occupy half the list in some form or another
The Roots
3/5
The Verve
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Miriam Makeba
4/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Death In Vegas
3/5
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Garage Rock as heard from three garages away. So rough, it's jarring when one of the tracks ends on something as studio-based as a fadeout. Each song should only end when the drummer drops a stick again or when their mom tells them to pack it in because she needs to phone her sister
The xx
2/5
Just do a cover of Wicked Game, you cowards
Sonic Youth
2/5
The Boo Radleys
2/5
Astor Piazzolla
3/5
Has a cosy, Sunday afternoon TV theme kind of vibe. "Next on ITV7, it's another dangerous case for Detective Milonga in It Takes Two... To Murder"
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Tim Buckley
1/5
FKA twigs
2/5
Mj Cole
1/5
Would have got my two-star "not my kind of thing but I see why others might like it" rating, but no one needs two full hours of this
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2/5
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Le Tigre
5/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
Giant Sand
3/5
3/5
LL Cool J
2/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
It's fun, too long, witty, unevenly sung, heartfelt, and too damn long. It's the weirdest thing, a three-star five-star album
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Dion
1/5
Gang Starr
2/5
The KLF
2/5
The Doors
2/5
Raekwon
1/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Nick Drake
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Arrested Development
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
Tricky
5/5
The Hives
2/5
Compilation albums on here giving Alan Partridge vibes. "What's your favourite Beatles album then?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
Burning Spear
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
1/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
One to listen to with headphones if you want to hear it at all, but worth the effort
Pavement
3/5
Tina Turner
2/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Ffs, this guy again?
The Verve
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
The Cramps
2/5
Some of the albums on here make me a little sad as I think I would have loved them if I'd heard them when I was 15. Now this just sounds like yer basic rock & roll with a Halloween accent :(
The Temptations
3/5
Lightning Bolt
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
Wilco
3/5
The Stranglers
3/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Jack White
5/5
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
Another album which would have scored higher if it was an instrumental
Beatles
3/5
Prefab Sprout
2/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Sheryl Crow
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Soft Machine
2/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
Faith No More
3/5
Faust
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Ice Cube
2/5
Santana
4/5
The Incredible String Band
3/5
This is a terrible/brilliant album and I'm really glad I listened to it. I'd love to hear it sung by someone who can hit and hold the right notes though
CHVRCHES
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Joe Ely
1/5
Even in a set of over a thousand albums, there's no excuse for more than one with "honky tonk" in the title, so I went into this with low expectations and even those were dashed.
Rahul Dev Burman
4/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
5/5
The Undertones
5/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Silver Jews
1/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Veered dangerously close to Pan Pipe Moods territory at times but I do enjoy a sitar
Guided By Voices
2/5
Some interesting ideas for songs. Looking forward to hearing when it's finished
Ramones
3/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Koffi Olomide
4/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Orbital
1/5
The Charlatans
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Linkin Park
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Massive Attack
3/5
3/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
The United States Of America
4/5
Almost aggressively trippy in places, but I dig it, man.
Solomon Burke
2/5
The Beau Brummels
1/5
The The
3/5
Before listening: I only knew this one as "the album I kept seeing while looking for They Might be Giants records in the 90s" so it's quite fun to actually get to listen to it.
After: I might have really liked this if I'd heard it when it was out, as it reminds me of the early, more-political Beautiful South songs I used to enjoy back then. Music hasn't aged well, though, and never managed to escape the 80s' gravitational pull.
Two and a half stars, rounded up because I'm in a good mood.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
I'm such a hypocrite. I'm always complaining about country albums being like cowboy cosplay and yet I still have a soft spot for this sort of twiddly-diddly ren faire bullshit
The Everly Brothers
2/5
They're not getting a second date, that's for sure
Adam & The Ants
5/5
Joy Division
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Air
2/5
Gorillaz
4/5
The Monks
3/5
The Specials
4/5
Elis Regina
3/5
Minutemen
3/5
Femi Kuti
2/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Sepultura
5/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Concrete and borbdwarr
White Denim
3/5
David Crosby
3/5
Adele
3/5
Justice
3/5
The Undertones
5/5
5/5
The War On Drugs
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Ghostface Killah
2/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Laibach
4/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Gram Parsons
1/5
Soft Cell
3/5
Elton John
2/5
The Kinks
4/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
New York Dolls
3/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Bad Company
3/5
Functional rock. The musical equivalent of a midlife crisis where you buy a magazine about motorbikes, spend a Sunday afternoon comparing the gas mileage of each model, then sigh, shake your head, and place the magazine into the appropriate recycling bin
Weather Report
2/5
Feels like I've been on hold so long I've forgotten why I was phoning
Sonic Youth
3/5
Dr. Dre
1/5
Metallica
4/5
Morrissey
1/5
How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel (When it's All I've Been Banging On About Since 1982)?
Mekons
3/5
T. Rex
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Morrissey
2/5
Magazine
4/5
Garbage
4/5
Traffic
3/5
The Kinks
5/5
Talk Talk
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
1/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Cee Lo Green
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Blur
4/5
The Fall
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
The Doors
4/5
The Avalanches
2/5
Meat Puppets
3/5
Stan Getz
2/5
Madonna
2/5
Whose idea was it to take the voice of one of the most famous pop stars of all time and put it through the Electrogargle 2000?
Sparks
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Röyksopp
2/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
This album made me feel like I was being groomed
4/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Def Leppard
3/5
Yeah, it's shallow and cheesy, but if I'd had a skinful in the Solid and walked into the Cathouse while they were playing something off this I'd be well into it. Five star party music, but I'm listening on my way to work so it gets three. Tough break, DL, bad timing
Norah Jones
2/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Simple Minds
2/5
Genesis
2/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Feels like I've just nipped out of the student union for a cigarette
Peter Tosh
2/5
Tom Waits
4/5
2/5
FRED: its time to find out who this so-called "muse" really is!
(Everyone gasped as the mask is removed, to reveal...)
SHAGGY: U2?!
Maxwell
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Common
1/5
Scott Walker
1/5
Red Snapper
2/5
Dusty Springfield
2/5
UB40
3/5
Slint
4/5
The Saints
5/5
D'Angelo
2/5
Drive Like Jehu
3/5
Mike Ladd
3/5
Adele
2/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Haircut 100
4/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
B.B. King
3/5
George Jones
2/5
Boards of Canada
2/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Moby Grape
3/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Kacey Musgraves
2/5
Eminem
1/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Bert Jansch
3/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
James Taylor
2/5
Black Flag
2/5
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Blondie
4/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Os Mutantes
5/5
Love
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Dusty Springfield
5/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
The The
4/5
Spacemen 3
2/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
I feel like this is a treasured family heirloom someone has brought into a pawn shop, and I'm the surly guy behind the counter, shrugging and saying, "three stars, that's as high as I can go."
The Band
3/5
Tom Waits
5/5
The Smiths
4/5
Traffic
3/5
Sebadoh
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Fiona Apple
5/5
Supergrass
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Beck
5/5
An easy five star. I bought this one when it came out, then the remix album, then tracked down all the weird chiptune mixes and b-sides
CHIC
3/5
Sepultura
5/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1/5
Goldie
1/5
Two hours?! Why are D&B albums always so flipping long? It's not some operatic concept album, it's a drum machine having a frantic wank
The Clash
3/5
Q-Tip
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
3/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Nirvana
5/5
Super Furry Animals
1/5
Cream
3/5
Machito
4/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
John Martyn
2/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Queen
5/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
The Sonics
2/5
Ministry
4/5
Fugees
5/5
Hot Chip
1/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Fishbone
3/5
Talvin Singh
1/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
The Byrds
1/5
Aphex Twin
1/5
Paul Weller
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
Tori Amos
5/5
Madonna
4/5
Eagles
2/5
1/5
Queen Latifah
3/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Surprisingly maudlin
George Michael
3/5
SZA
1/5
Neil Young
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
5/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Sabu
2/5
Deep Purple
2/5
Points off for excessive soloing
James Brown
3/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Even guest vocals from the Tasmanian Devil couldn't save this one
Anita Baker
2/5
ABBA
4/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
Megadeth
4/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Hole
5/5
Janet Jackson
2/5
3/5
Beatles
2/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Thundercat
2/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
The Vines
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
Queen
5/5
Grizzly Bear
2/5
JAY Z
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Killing Joke
4/5
Jethro Tull
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
King Crimson
3/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
The Darkness
3/5
Dead Kennedys
3/5
Portishead
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Of all the midnight runners on this list, Dexy's is one of them. I enjoyed this album, but it loses a star for that one song that begins with a load of squelchy mouth-sound whispering, like ASMR employed as an emetic.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
5/5
Eric Clapton
2/5
The Damned
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
Portishead
4/5
Bauhaus
4/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
The Offspring
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
M.I.A.
3/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
The Black Crowes
2/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Patti Smith
5/5
Ray Price
2/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Bad Brains
5/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5