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2010s
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17
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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Calenture
The Triffids
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5 | 2.55 | +2.45 |
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The United States Of America
The United States Of America
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5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
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m b v
My Bloody Valentine
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5 | 2.72 | +2.28 |
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Histoire De Melody Nelson
Serge Gainsbourg
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5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
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Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine
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5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
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LP1
FKA twigs
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5 | 2.8 | +2.2 |
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Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
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5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
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Quiet Life
Japan
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5 | 2.85 | +2.15 |
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell
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5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
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Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
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5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
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1 | 3.63 | -2.63 |
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Illmatic
Nas
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1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
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1 | 3.51 | -2.51 |
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
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1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
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1 | 3.35 | -2.35 |
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The Chronic
Dr. Dre
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1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
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Me Against The World
2Pac
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1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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John Prine
John Prine
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1 | 3.22 | -2.22 |
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Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
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1 | 3.09 | -2.09 |
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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
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1 | 2.97 | -1.97 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 6 | 5 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.6 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 3 | 5 |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Cure | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Smiths | 3 | 4.67 |
| Radiohead | 3 | 4.67 |
| The The | 2 | 5 |
| Belle & Sebastian | 2 | 5 |
| Pulp | 2 | 5 |
| The Doors | 2 | 5 |
| Elliott Smith | 2 | 5 |
| Kate Bush | 2 | 5 |
| My Bloody Valentine | 2 | 5 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 2 | 5 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Willie Nelson | 2 | 1.5 |
| Frank Sinatra | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
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| Tom Waits | 5, 2 |
5-Star Albums (102)
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The Smiths
5/5
You can never be quite sure if it's overly serious, just regularly serious or actually making fun of everyone and everything. However, you can dance. It's about death, but it's catchy.
8 likes
Tom Waits
5/5
Simply brilliant. And the best proof of that brilliance is when you listen to the whole album on a loop around 5 times and it's still as exciting and bizzare. The range of sounds that fit in these songs is amazing: it's circus, it's blues, some random noise, it's all world's strangeness cramped together.
5 likes
Django Django
3/5
Repetitiveness in these songs definitely has a lot of charm and makes them super catchy and fun, but over 40 minutes of that somehow feels like too much. Tiring.
5 likes
The Birthday Party
4/5
I love Nick Cave but there is a reason to why I mostly listen to his later music
2 likes
1-Star Albums (17)
All Ratings
Bob Dylan
4/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
I was so glad when it was over
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Doves
4/5
Some tracks are quite brilliant, others rather boring and "Words" is the one to listen on repeat. I'll be coming back to Doves.
Neil Young
3/5
I suppose it's okay, but I'm really starting to lose my patience for American men with harmonica.
Ministry
3/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Little Richard
5/5
The Clash
4/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
D'Angelo
2/5
The only thing that I actually liked was the contrast of music and lyrics in 'Shit, Damn, Motherfucker'. Everything else was undisturbing at best.
Neneh Cherry
3/5
Sounds like all of he 80. pop trends mashed together. Which is great and horrible both at once.
R.E.M.
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Laura Nyro
4/5
XTC
5/5
Oh, this is fun
Justice
3/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Solange
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
William Orbit
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Travis
4/5
4/5 for the album, 6/5 for Why Does It Always Rain On Me. Nothing is quite as mesemrising as this one song, but I'm still happy to get to know the band a little.
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Kanye West
2/5
I don't know how I'm supposed to rate this. Overall the album was much better than I expected. I enjoyed some of the songs, but I also skipped several others because they were unbearable.
The B-52's
5/5
There're vibes of a low-budget horror movie, it's wonderfully kitchy, super catchy and every song is just pure fun. I'm in love.
Sigur Rós
5/5
I kind of regret listening to this at work instead of in the evening as a background for reading, so I think I'll need to come back to Sigur Ros to appreciate it even more. This is the good type of boring. And bonus points for not being in English. We need more non-english music to be noticed internationally.
Django Django
3/5
Repetitiveness in these songs definitely has a lot of charm and makes them super catchy and fun, but over 40 minutes of that somehow feels like too much. Tiring.
The Police
2/5
It's all fine until Sting starts singing
k.d. lang
3/5
Beach House
4/5
On one hand this exactly the type of music I like, but on the other vocals were rather unpleasant for the most of time. Not really fitting to this dreamy, mystical atmosphere.
Bob Dylan
2/5
The Modern Lovers
3/5
I was expecting a full album of Bowie's Modern Love so this was rather dissapointing
Brian Eno
2/5
The Fall
4/5
Pavement
4/5
I'm not saying that the vocalist can sing, but his bad singing fits nicely with guitars.
Also it's good to know who is the guy that beabadoobee wishes to be.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Listening to this album feels like an Event. It can't just be some background music. Sure, you can play it way too loud late at night at house party, but that'll make you conflicted if you really want to scream over the music to talk to other people or just listen. I consider that an Event too.
Rod Stewart
2/5
The The
5/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Maybe I picked a wrong strategy with this one. I have several double albums in my physical collection and I rarely listen to both cds at once. So why should I do that to Mellon Collie? Just because it was generated as my daily album on 1001 albums? While I genuinely enjoyed the music, at the beginning of the second part I already had quite enough. The division is there for a reason.
Also I love the cover. I've only ever seen it in miniature before and now I can see that it really looks great.
The Who
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Joy Division
4/5
At first I thought it's obvious that Joy Division is a 5-star band, but I'd never really listened to Closer as a whole. It turns out it's not really a 5-star album, even though it has Heart and Soul. Very good, but not quite as good as I expected.
Derek & The Dominos
4/5
Paul Simon
4/5
It's so much more interesting than Simon and Garfunkel, I did not expect that
Steely Dan
4/5
Sometimes I felt attacked by reggae. I liked the album as a whole, but I'm afraid what I'll remember best will be these moments of confusion
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Frank Ocean
3/5
Norah Jones
2/5
I'm pretty used to Norah Jones playing in the background thanks to my parents' Norah Jones phase, but I was unpleasantly surprised how dull this music is when I actually tried to listen to it.
Judas Priest
3/5
Lambchop
1/5
A song or two were quite nice, but all in all I was better off unaware that this kind of music exsists
Gary Numan
5/5
After absolutely amazing opening 'Airlane' everything else is bound to be a little disappointing - but what a beautiful disappointment it was! Dark, uneasy and totally captivating.
Maxwell
3/5
The Mamas & The Papas
5/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
5/5
Not my favourite from Belle & Sebastian, but I still can't give it any less than 5 stars. What other band sounds so upbeat and so melancholic at the same time?
Lenny Kravitz
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
I would have loved it in 2013
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
I love this variery of instruments, unobvious melodies and unreal atmosphere. Maybe one day I'll try to learn something about Illinois through this music too.
Elvis Presley
4/5
Björk
4/5
I came to appreciate Björk as an artist several times already, but I never quite got to embrace her music. Maybe now I'll actually start listening to her. I absolutely love these shimmering, jingling sounds, but sometimes songs get dull anyway. It's not enough for 5, but I really enjoyed the whole album.
Cat Stevens
3/5
Definitely not a fan of the voice. It isn't that big issue in more dynamic songs, but ballads with guitar and vocals only are hard to listen to.
The Cure
4/5
I like all these songs separately, but listening to them together is a bit too much. Or actually too little, because they're all similar and without much action - except for 'A Forest' which really stands out.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Somehow it's better than the best of Janis Joplin collection album I used to have as a teenager
The Divine Comedy
4/5
GZA
2/5
Were these songs any different from each other? I don't know much about hip-hop but this just sounds very generic.
The Clash
4/5
Moby
2/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Supergrass
5/5
This album is just banger after banger. Ending is maybe a little bit less crazy and energetic but still very fun.
Lauryn Hill
1/5
It wasn't really that bad, but it felt like it lasted forever and in the end I was just sooo tired. Every song was way too long and not even one of them managed to catch my interest.
Prince
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Can't believe I needed to wait 80 albums for some good, proper metal
N.E.R.D
3/5
I was expecting something really bad based on the cover, but it was actually listenable. Mostly. Funny how little you need when you're ready for the worst - just some actual instruments and a little bit of a melody.
Dusty Springfield
4/5
I've heard 'I only want to be with you' about thousand times, only with different instruments, different voice and in different language (quite flimsily translated as I realise now), so it was a nice surprise to come across this familiar melody. Beside that, the album is just a pleasant collection of love songs. Nothing too spectacular, but enjoyable.
Silver Jews
3/5
There were some nice moments, but overall it's just... not bad.
The War On Drugs
4/5
I really like the layered guitar sound and distant, dreamy vocals. Unfortunately, the album is uneven and sometimes it sounds like powered-up Dylan (that's not a compliment).
It's not the most important thing, but the cover is great. It's very fitting to the music and the title.
The Last Shadow Puppets
5/5
More of this, please. It has this complexity that doesn't appear too often in popular music, but it's still easy to listen.
The Cramps
5/5
Albums like this are the reason I listen to this list
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Sure, it can play in the background, I don't mind
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Her voice is impressive, the music not so much
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
I've never really heard anything like this before. Full on eclectic, fascinating and you can never know what comes next. It's a mix of everything, but somehow it still makes sense as a whole.
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Spacemen 3
4/5
IMPORTANT: do not listen during daytime. This is evening/late night music ONLY. I could probably rate it higher, but I did make that mistake and put it on at work. However 'Honey' is wonderful at all times.
Pulp
5/5
Instant obsession
Ray Charles
2/5
The Go-Go's
5/5
Serge Gainsbourg
5/5
Deeply unsettling
De La Soul
3/5
I don't know. I mostly liked the instrumental layer, but vocals and spoken intermissions were simply annoying. While in the beginning I could just concentrate on nicer parts, by the end the irritation definitely took over. 2,5/5
Eminem
2/5
The Doors
5/5
Is the rating even up to discussion?
Beastie Boys
3/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
I'd really like to rate it 5, because there are some 5 star songs, but inbetween them there are some others that are not quite so brilliant. I wouldn't say they're bad, but simply forgettable
The Icarus Line
4/5
Stan Getz
3/5
I listened to this on Friday, now it's Monday and I don't really remember anything about it
OutKast
3/5
The Waterboys
4/5
This album is so uneven, but now I think it's probably part of its charm. My obvious favourite is 'We will not be lovers', which is hypnotising and has been following me for a week
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
I suppose it's nice
Garbage
5/5
It's surprisingly dark and noisy and that's a compliment. It was supposed to be 4 but the more I listen the more I like it
The Jam
3/5
Nice to listen, but very forgettable
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
There was a time when I was listening to Manic Street Preachers - namely 2014, after they released Futurology. But this isn't how I remember my Manic Street Preachers phase - The Holy Bible feels pretty forgetable.
James Brown
2/5
The Birthday Party
4/5
I love Nick Cave but there is a reason to why I mostly listen to his later music
Portishead
4/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
I wanted to write something a little mean, but then I remembered that Back to Black is actually a lot more interesting
The Young Rascals
4/5
The Smiths
5/5
You can never be quite sure if it's overly serious, just regularly serious or actually making fun of everyone and everything. However, you can dance. It's about death, but it's catchy.
Morrissey
5/5
Nas
1/5
I regret every minute
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
The Electric Prunes
4/5
Minutemen
3/5
This is way too long for a band called Minutemen
Alanis Morissette
5/5
Santana
3/5
Björk
5/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
First couple songs were fantastic! But then - meh.
David Bowie
5/5
Green Day
5/5
This weirdness and otherness hits hard, even dressed up as clownery. Or maybe that's the reason why it is so good.
(Finally with album #130 I got to listen to a cd from my collection, yay!)
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
Not gonna lie, they got me with the cover art and band name already
The Notorious B.I.G.
1/5
I gather it's pretty meaningful music, but I just can't stand listening to it
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
I'd really like to like it, because there are some pretty interesting ideas (including the name "Haunted Dancehall"), but the truth is that it's mostly boring
Frank Sinatra
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
Tom Waits
5/5
Simply brilliant. And the best proof of that brilliance is when you listen to the whole album on a loop around 5 times and it's still as exciting and bizzare. The range of sounds that fit in these songs is amazing: it's circus, it's blues, some random noise, it's all world's strangeness cramped together.
Fats Domino
3/5
Nothing particularly exciting
The Roots
2/5
Some songs were listenable and some were not
Rage Against The Machine
3/5
Vocals are too agressive for my taste, but the guitars? Amazing!
Led Zeppelin
5/5
What's even the point of writing a comment here? It couldn't be more obvious how brilliant and impactful this album is.
Bee Gees
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Metallica
3/5
Enter Sandman might be one of the best album openings ever but apart from that - and maybe Unforgiven - this album is not very exciting.
Prince
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
So far every 49th album is Bruce Spingsteen. If this keeps up we'll get 20 Spingsteen albums on this list - which could be funny if it wasn't for the fact that he's already released even more than that
Ian Dury
2/5
I don't think I needed to hear it
3/5
The Offspring
4/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Beatles
5/5
It can only be 5, despite the fact that I'm still traumatised by that one time my English teacher decided to make the class listen to Yellow Submarine 20 times during 45 minutes.
Happy Mondays
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Yes, it's okay, I really don't see what the fuss is about
ABBA
5/5
This is witchcraft. I just can't sit still when this plays
David Bowie
5/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Belle & Sebastian
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
"riotous gospel rock" sounds about right
Dr. Dre
1/5
I might not have listened to the lyrics too closely, but it really seemed like every second word was 'motherfucker'.
Willie Nelson
1/5
Not a single interesting song and the voice is pretty irritating
Fiona Apple
3/5
I liked it, but ending was pretty boring. Pity that now I don't remember much beside the boring ending, but that says a lot too
Soft Machine
2/5
I'm so tired
Bob Dylan
2/5
4/5
MGMT
4/5
Time to Pretend is pretty annoying so the rest of the album was really pleasant surprise
Soft Cell
5/5
What can I say, synthpop is just very aesthetically pleasing
Pere Ubu
3/5
Not the finest thing punk has to offer
The Doors
5/5
Sex Pistols
5/5
When it comes to Sex Pistols it's so easy to get trapped in stereotypical thinking about punk, how it's simple, noisy, unsophistocated and there's no much skill and more shouting than singing really. A little time passes and you forget that Sex Pistols is just good music and in its own merit too, not only because it was so revolutionary and influencial. I'm glad I refreshed my memory.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
The Cars
4/5
Nina Simone
3/5
I liked it at first and then it didn't. "Wild is the Wind" in particular I REALLY didn't like, which is pretty ironic given that it's also one of my favourite songs in some other version. But it's fine, there wouldn't be a cover without the original, so thank you Nina Simone.
Queen
4/5
Traffic
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
I like guitars a lot, but vocals are just as irritating as I remembered
Beatles
5/5
Johnny Cash
2/5
The Pharcyde
2/5
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
I really liked AB/7A. I would probably be more understanding of everything else if I encountered it in an art gallery as sound art or something. Not that I would actually sit 40 minutes in a gallery to listen.
Nirvana
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Bill Callahan
4/5
I have to admit: the title, the horses, the script and name Bill made me expect another album with whiny vocals and much too much harmonica. Instead I got something atmospheric, a little dark and wonderful wonderful cellos.
The The
5/5
I couldn't grasp why this music is so appealing to me, but then I saw how some critic described it as "collision between Soft Cell and Tom Waits" and I suppose I just couldn't not be mesmerised
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Blondie
5/5
Energetic and fun
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Scott Walker
3/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Megadeth
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Yes
4/5
I don't see myself coming back to this, but I had a lot of fun listening
Moby Grape
3/5
I'm impressed how they left no impression whatsoever
Air
5/5
Pulp
5/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
I'm afraid I'm simply not the kind of person who can appreciate 16 minutes of a drum solo
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Nothing too special except for the voice
Radiohead
4/5
Dire Straits
2/5
It's not bad, but I'm slightly annoyed by how overrated it is.
John Coltrane
2/5
Big 'no' for this amount of trumpet
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Japan
5/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
I liked it most when he didn't sing
Queen Latifah
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Various Artists
3/5
So that's a Christmas music album. It's properly christmasy and doesn't make my ears bleed, so it's good. I can probably listen to it once a year.
Duke Ellington
3/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Ice Cube
3/5
It won't make me like rap, but it was the most interesting rap album so far. I even didn't feel like skipping every second song.
Steely Dan
2/5
Sarah Vaughan
2/5
The Incredible String Band
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
I don't understand why I ever stopped listening to Radiohead. This is brilliant. Peak melancholy.
Aerosmith
4/5
3/5
I definitely feel a bit nostalgic and happy to remind myself how powerful some of these songs are. But also they are all dragged out
Eagles
3/5
So it really is one hit wonder. Pity.
The Go-Betweens
4/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
It sounds just as it looks
Deerhunter
5/5
I'm not super impressed or enchanted but it's pleasant and easy to listen and I've already listened to it three times since yesterday and I'm going to listen to it more so 5 stars are probably fair
Elton John
5/5
Parliament
4/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Common
2/5
The United States Of America
5/5
Excellent and totally unpredictable. The array of sounds and inspirations from different musical traditions is insane and I'm here for it. I was just thinking all the time - what else can they to to surprise me?
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
That's an unusual surprise to discover that the two most famous songs from the album are actually the least interesting ones
Beatles
4/5
Not so great when compared to other albums by The Beatles, but still pretty great in the context of other 1000 albums.
The Police
2/5
There are some good moments but they have no interest in being on one album with the rest of it. Not stylistically, not esthetically, not in any way.
The Avalanches
3/5
I think nothing of it
Rush
4/5
Nick Drake
3/5
CHIC
3/5
FKA twigs
5/5
I don't like using word 'beautiful' in recs because what does it even mean? But I don't know how else describe this album, every single song was simply beautiful and I loved it from first to last second.
2/5
I usually love new wave weirdness but this was just annoying
John Prine
1/5
Just the cover had me going 'oh no', but the music was even worse than I expected. And it all sounds the same.
Iron Maiden
4/5
Is it cliche or just classic?
The Who
4/5
Goldfrapp
4/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Marty Robbins
2/5
Fugees
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
2/5
The Louvin Brothers
1/5
Tragic indeed
Ash
3/5
This rating is brought to you by me not remembering the album I listened to two week ago. What does it say about it?
Beastie Boys
2/5
Unsurprisingly, I could as well rate it based on the other two Beastie Boys albums I listened to before
Boston
4/5
The Beta Band
4/5
It is just. So nice.
Dolly Parton
2/5
Snoop Dogg
2/5
Joy Division
5/5
5/5
The Pretty Things
4/5
Jeff Buckley
4/5
very Radiohead
Aretha Franklin
4/5
The Who
4/5
Oasis
4/5
I could maybe be 5/5 if I didn't know that Oasis got better later
Stan Getz
4/5
nice
AC/DC
5/5
One album of average length is just how much of AC/DC I can take before I get bored. And this one is just a smash
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
The Triffids
5/5
I don't entirely understand how it made it to this list but I'm very happy about it. Every single song is so good.
Röyksopp
3/5
Tortoise
3/5
There are days when I really enjoy long instrumental post rock tracks. It wasn't today though. It was just okay with moments of great and moments of boring noise.
Willie Nelson
2/5
The Killers
5/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Kraftwerk
5/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Leftfield
2/5
Duran Duran
5/5
The Bees
3/5
The Boo Radleys
5/5
Perfect mix of noise and softness
Paul Weller
2/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Blur
4/5
2/5
They got me with the album cover. They got me with the album name. I was excited already but the music didn't get me.
Depeche Mode
5/5
So grim and dramatic but so catchy and so danceable. It shouldn't make sense but the result is the most captivating music.
4/5
I didn't know I missed PJ Harvey
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Cream
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
It's pretty great but my expectations for The White Stripes are bigger
Pere Ubu
3/5
Not exactly pleasant but it had me hooked
Billy Joel
3/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Miriam Makeba
3/5
I can't say I liked it very much, but it's still worth listening to
2/5
-1 for the title. I really don't need music to make me think about sausage boiling water. Disgusting.
Tom Waits
2/5
Digital Underground
2/5
Not terrible, I just really don't care
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
Sugar
3/5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
It's only the dreamiest music ever
Al Green
2/5
Metallica
4/5
Metallica should have kept the orchestra
The Cure
5/5
Pictures of You alone is worth 6 stars and other songs are almost as good too
The Fall
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
'Indie rock' can't quite describe grandiose of this music
Christina Aguilera
3/5
First CD was painful to listen and so awfully boring, just ooohs, yeeeahs, woooahs and other types of whining with some beat in the background. Second CD? - now, that sounds like an actual music. I don't understand why they are combined into one album.
Suicide
2/5
It's one sound for 32 minutes. It does not spark joy
The Stooges
3/5
N.W.A.
1/5
Why are all rap albums so long? Maybe my rate would be different if this lasted haft its time
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
One song that I knew before might've inflated my expectations
Dion
2/5
It's like Elton John but bad
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4/5
Foo Fighters
4/5
Queen
4/5
It's easy to be disappointed when you expect a full album as great as Bohemian Rhapsody. Some tracks here are... just not it.
Fishbone
3/5
The Beta Band
4/5
Dire Straits
2/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
I'm sorry, all the jazz sounds the same for me, how am I supposed to rate it?
Brian Eno
4/5
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
David Bowie
5/5
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
I didn't hate it, but still not enough for a 3
The Band
2/5
Boring with maybe two interesting moments (one of them being Siouxie and The Banshees' cover which is not actually part of this album)
Billy Bragg
3/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
Nice to listen to but pretty forgettable
Roxy Music
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Nick Drake
2/5
The Smiths
5/5
Once I made a mistake and took 'The Queen is Dead' CD to a car. Songs about dying in a crash make terrible driving sountrack, I do not recommend.
The xx
5/5
I forgot about this band. Rediscovering them now was truely lovely
Radiohead
5/5
Pixies
4/5
Public Enemy
2/5
Iron Butterfly
4/5
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
It felt like a nice background music at first, but then got boring
Sam Cooke
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
It's not bad, it's just too long
Buck Owens
1/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Far from my favourite kind of music, but actually listenable
Beck
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
The Strokes
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Kate Bush
5/5
Big Star
3/5
Cool. They sound like every other 70's band
Mercury Rev
5/5
Every song feels like some kind of disturbing fairytale
The Stooges
3/5
I really wanted it to be 4, but it just isn't, no matter now influential
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Only some parts really hurt my ears, so overall it's good for a hip hop album. And there are instruments!
1/5
I had enough after first 30 seconds. What the hell is this, why do people listen to it at all?
The Cure
5/5
Ride
5/5
Fred Neil
3/5
The Prodigy
2/5
Nah.
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
Pretty great, both music and the cover
Mike Oldfield
5/5
Tubular bells are one of my favourite instruments so of course I'm a little bit obsessed with album named after them
DJ Shadow
3/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
It's all fun and catchy but then Never Say Goodbye happens. It sounds like a schlager dressed as a rock ballad and it's so disastrously bad that I kinda want to lower the mark to 3/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Faith No More
4/5
Robert Wyatt
4/5
Mesmerising. I'm very impressed by all the little melodies that come together and somehow are both chaotic and harmonious
Heaven 17
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
I don't like it, but it doesn't bother me, so I suppose it's okay
Traffic
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
5/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
Beatles
4/5
Kelela
3/5
3/5
Destiny's Child
1/5
I thought that the first part wasn't great, because it felt like listening to some generic radio station with popular music, which was actually okay compared to what came next. The ballads. Atrocious.
George Michael
2/5
Freedom! is just so iconic but most of this album is too sentimental for my taste and... uh, boring.
Mylo
4/5
3/5
Syd Barrett
4/5
The first track made me expect another average, forgettable album but I turned out to love almost everything that came after. Almost.
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
5/5
Of course I knew some ELO songs earlier but listening to the whole album is a whole another experience. Every single song made me say 'wow, this one is great!' so in the end there's none that stands out, because all of them are so extra.
The Pogues
3/5
Yes, thank you for making celtic punk a thing but after listening to Flogging Molly and alike bands, this mostly feels frustratingly slow.
Television
3/5
Skunk Anansie
4/5
What a blast!
System Of A Down
4/5
The Hives
4/5
Love
4/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Living Colour
4/5
Nothing groundbreaking but I had a lot of fun listening
ABBA
3/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Astor Piazzolla
5/5
My main takeaway from this album is that I will love any genre if it has enough vibraphone or glockenspiel
Hot Chip
4/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
It's so unremarkable that I'm honestly a little angry that someone thought it's worth recommending, let alone putting on a list of 1001 important albums
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
The Kinks
4/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
5/5
Deep Purple
2/5
As a person that only knows Deep Purple's biggest hits, I don't enjoy a two hour long album full of dragged out songs. The solos are probably impressive, but I'm here to listen to the music, not to be impressed by technical skills
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Not sure if it's really that good or it's just the nostalgia talking
Donald Fagen
2/5
Love
5/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
The Adverts
5/5
Now that's some good punk. Energetic, making something out of nothing and somehow melodic
The Smiths
4/5
Common
2/5
5/5
Can I rate it 6/5, just this once?
My Bloody Valentine
5/5
I never actually listened to the whole album before. It's definitely easier to listen than Loveless but because of that, also way less intense. There are some absolutely brilliant tracks though, and just knowing where mbv went from there make me appreciate Isn't Anything A LOT.
Otis Redding
3/5
I dutifully listened to the whole album but I don't feel like I heard anything
Ray Charles
3/5
So the first song was a blast! The rest was... uh, just what I expected to hear from Ray Charles, which is not really my thing.
The Style Council
3/5
I don't understand. This album is so inconsistent that I don't know what to make of it. It has some truly painful songs that made me feel like I was stuck in a smooth jazz hell (You're The Best Thing was absolutely THE WORST), some okay instrumentals, Council Meetin' that I absolutely loved and two funk songs just thrown in the middle. The funk was refreshing but I'm very confused and not in fun 'wow, that was a wild ride!'-way.
Blue Cheer
4/5
Femi Kuti
4/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
The title sums it up well. Nothing shocking, nothing amazing, just perfectly fine. I liked it, I probably won't listen to it anymore.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
This is chocolate ice cream kind of album. I can't say I don't like chocolate ice cream - it's sweet and creamy, what's not to like - but I will never understand people for who chocolate ice cream is the basic, most obvious choice. Can't say anything bad about it, but still, it's not something I pick for myself
Tim Buckley
3/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
5/5
The Undertones
4/5
Don McLean
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
PJ Harvey
5/5
She's just one of a kind
Soundgarden
4/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
What's that, an album by some Bowie copycats?
Oh, wait...
Can't believe they turned down Suffragette City, but that's probably better for history of music
Pet Shop Boys
5/5
love
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
5/5
David Crosby
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Coral
4/5
Magazine
4/5
Janet Jackson
4/5
It was a lot of things I don't particularly like in music but somehow I loved every song. Except for ballads. This album could do without ballads.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
The Undertones
4/5
Björk
3/5
I think I would like each song individually but the album as a whole doesn't have enough melody for me to enjoy it
Britney Spears
1/5
I thought it would be somehow interesting, because, well, it's Britney Spears' debut, it has to be culturally significant or something. It turned out to be two very famous hits that sound pretty much the same and some unlistenable trash. '...Baby One More Time' is almost a masterpiece next to the rest of the tracklist, and I really wonder what would I think had I never heard it before. Is it any good or it only seems so, because I don't know the world where it's not iconic?
Meat Puppets
3/5
So, Kurt Cobain was a fan, huh?
The Shamen
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
The Who
4/5
50 Cent
2/5
Jethro Tull
4/5
American Music Club
4/5
Kate Bush
5/5
Now I understand why half of dark cabaret artists list Kate Bush as their inspiration
Coldplay
5/5
My relationship with Coldplay is a love-hate one. I'm sick of them. But this album? Love it. The singles I know from the radio are pretty great but the songs I didn't know before are even better. They have these shoegaze-y guitars that I'd never associate with Coldplay.
Jane Weaver
5/5
So lovely. I want all the songs on all my playlists
Tito Puente
4/5
Metallica
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
ZZ Top
4/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Julian Cope
3/5
The Charlatans
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
808 State
3/5
Goldfrapp
5/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Louis Prima
2/5
2/5
That's genius - make one half on the album so bad and monotonous, that next to it, anything that has a minimal amount of energy and more instruments than just guitar and harmonica feels like a masterpiece. Well, I'm *not* falling for it.
Baaba Maal
3/5
Ramones
5/5
The Vines
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
The Byrds
1/5
I've heard some music by The Byrds before. I thought it was nice. I feel cheated.
Neu!
4/5
I didn't think it's impressive until I realised that 75 stands for 1975.
Slayer
4/5
I never bothered to listen to Slayer, so I was surprised to actually like it
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The beginning was way too good. After Brown Sugar and Wild Horses the rest felt mediocre and kind of boring.
Muddy Waters
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Guided By Voices
2/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
2Pac
1/5
The Darkness
5/5
The Cardigans
5/5
Liz Phair
4/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Minor Threat
2/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Wow, not a single half-decent song!
Cypress Hill
2/5
Merle Haggard
2/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
4/5
Madness
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Lorde
5/5
Can't believe I thought Lorde is a Lana del Rey rip-off. My apologies.
Throwing Muses
4/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
It's mostly stuff I like in music, but something went wrong
The Flying Burrito Brothers
2/5
I take these guys are rivals to the flying spagetti monster church
Queen
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
King Crimson
5/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
I liked the other Kraftwerk album better