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83%
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1970
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5-Star Albums
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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Shleep
Robert Wyatt
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5 | 2.5 | +2.5 |
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Basket of Light
Pentangle
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5 | 2.76 | +2.24 |
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Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
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5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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Spiderland
Slint
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5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
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Killing Joke
Killing Joke
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5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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Future Days
Can
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5 | 3 | +2 |
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S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
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5 | 3.01 | +1.99 |
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The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
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5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
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1 | 3.7 | -2.7 |
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The Score
Fugees
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1 | 3.69 | -2.69 |
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good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
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1 | 3.62 | -2.62 |
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To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
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1 | 3.62 | -2.62 |
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Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan
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1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
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1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
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1 | 3.55 | -2.55 |
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Stankonia
OutKast
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1 | 3.55 | -2.55 |
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Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C.
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1 | 3.51 | -2.51 |
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Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
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1 | 3.51 | -2.51 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 7 | 4.43 |
| Bob Dylan | 7 | 4.29 |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 4.67 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 4.67 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 2 | 5 |
| Black Sabbath | 2 | 5 |
| Joni Mitchell | 3 | 4.33 |
| The Kinks | 3 | 4.33 |
| Kate Bush | 3 | 4.33 |
| Yes | 3 | 4.33 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 5 | 4 |
| The Who | 5 | 4 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Kanye West | 3 | 1 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 1 |
| Missy Elliott | 2 | 1 |
| A Tribe Called Quest | 2 | 1 |
| Common | 2 | 1 |
| Ice Cube | 2 | 1 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 1 |
| Eminem | 2 | 1 |
| OutKast | 2 | 1 |
| Slipknot | 2 | 1 |
| M.I.A. | 2 | 1 |
| Sonic Youth | 5 | 2 |
| Beastie Boys | 2 | 1.5 |
| Baaba Maal | 2 | 1.5 |
| Run-D.M.C. | 2 | 1.5 |
| Fiona Apple | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Prodigy | 2 | 1.5 |
| Megadeth | 2 | 1.5 |
| Björk | 4 | 2 |
| Metallica | 4 | 2 |
| Tim Buckley | 3 | 2 |
| Pixies | 3 | 2 |
| Frank Sinatra | 3 | 2 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Fleetwood Mac | 5, 2 |
| Can | 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (63)
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Venom · 2 likes
1/5
Sounds like me doing bad screamy karaoke. Awful. I understand it is a genre, but nothing here for me.
Fleetwood Mac · 1 likes
2/5
Not enough quality for a single album put into a double album. Not my favourite you may guess.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse · 1 likes
5/5
Great anarchic album. Neil expressing his true self.
The Temptations · 1 likes
4/5
Nicely understated and surprisingly enjoyable. Of it's time great vocals and musicianship.
Radiohead · 1 likes
3/5
Can’t hear the music for the whining voice of Thom Yorke. Not nice.
1-Star Albums (108)
All Ratings
Violent Femmes
3/5
Of its time but a good listen and will give it another go.
Neil Young
3/5
Neil evolving and good to hear an album from the period between the early CSNY years and the later sound.
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Some good old time music with a great proper band behind him
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Green Day
2/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
2/5
Not enough quality for a single album put into a double album. Not my favourite you may guess.
The Temptations
4/5
Nicely understated and surprisingly enjoyable. Of it's time great vocals and musicianship.
Femi Kuti
3/5
Primal Scream
4/5
Kanye West
1/5
Sorry not my cup of tea
Mekons
3/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
3/5
Curate's egg. But production's good.
Billy Joel
3/5
Doesn't do much for me, but nevertheless a half decent attempt at being a singer- songwriter. It lacks much in the way of edge and grit which you get with others you may want to compare against.
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Nope. Not for me. I'll leave it to others to provide the plaudits. I guess this one is a matter of taste so not fair to review. I can sort of appreciate some of the later stuff but not this.
Wu-Tang Clan
1/5
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
Sleepy jazz club stuff.
Big Black
2/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
These days it’s refreshingly simple with good ol’ boy vocals and unadulterated honest guitar work. Some nice tunes and musical compared to most of the tripe produced today.
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Beastie Boys
1/5
One good track, twelve not my type of stuff.
Björk
2/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Wouldn’t be my choice but for a 1971 album this contains a surprising blend of influences and musicianship. Probably a good band to have seen live.
Otis Redding
5/5
I wonder how many modern day soulless streaming stars will compare against this in another 58 years? Great voice, great songs and musicality to match. This is what music is about - songs you can sing and that stay with you. Just brilliant.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Some great tracks - makes you wonder what could have been. What hasn't been said. Ed Sheeran eat your heart out.
Brian Wilson
3/5
The Smiths
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
A couple of great tracks but for me the rest is struggling to meet Bruce’s high standards - better before and better to come.
Led Zeppelin
3/5
A band in transition but some great tracks for 1970 and not what everyone expected.
Neneh Cherry
1/5
If I keep getting albums like this I’ll give up.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Venom
1/5
Sounds like me doing bad screamy karaoke. Awful. I understand it is a genre, but nothing here for me.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
Richard Hawley
4/5
Pantera
1/5
Really? Can’t think even the band would think this was what they were put on this earth to do.
Roxy Music
3/5
A difficult third album. I like Roxy Music but this recording is not them at their creative best.
Kraftwerk
2/5
Innovative but really everything leads up to the model and then goes downhill.
Cheap Trick
2/5
Dead Kennedys
1/5
Awful. As my son would say - just awful.
TV On The Radio
3/5
Odd one. Not enough musicality in it for me.
Tim Buckley
2/5
Got to accept this is 1972 but it all feels like a jam session with little direction. Mediocrity defined - I guess they are all accomplished musicians but the total is less than the sum of the parts.
Radiohead
5/5
Great album that really works as a whole. Not listened to Radiohead much before as often put off by the vocals. But this is good stuff.
Cypress Hill
1/5
Awful
Pet Shop Boys
5/5
Excellent pop album with some great songs throughout. Of it’s type rarely beaten.
Snoop Dogg
1/5
Offensive from the start. Plain terrible pretentious rubbish. -5
Syd Barrett
2/5
Not a great album but interesting to see a number of the tracks produced by Dave Gilmour. You can hear early PF but this has regressed rather than progressed. But nonetheless part of rock history.
John Lennon
3/5
Always wondered why I'd not listened to this all the way through before. Same this time. Sort of lacking.
William Orbit
2/5
I prefer Enigma who were similarly experimental. This was tedious but then again it’s not for serious listening - mainly wallpaper.
Nine Inch Nails
1/5
Headache stuff.
Michael Jackson
2/5
Great name for the album
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Some great stuff and then some other stuff
Willie Nelson
4/5
Willie Nelson’s voice is distinctive and engaging. Love the pace of the album and the pared back nature.
Kanye West
1/5
Can ye be bothered - no!!!
Ray Charles
3/5
Three or four well known great songs but for me the rest is a bloke singing and a choir in the background.
Aerosmith
2/5
This all seems a bit limited and expressionless.
Little Richard
4/5
Maybe without Little Richard there wouldn’t have been the Beatles.
Elton John
3/5
A bit ponderous but still great song writing and playing.
Miles Davis
3/5
Not fair to rate in any objective way as it’s not a form of music I take to.
3/5
My sort of era and DB has produced some great stuff. Band is good but mostly it’s not something I would add to any playlist.
Sleater-Kinney
1/5
Utter tripe - how does this ever get into anyone’s top 1001. Shows how subjective this whole exercise is. Scraping the barrel.
Wild Beasts
3/5
Music sort of fine but the vocals annoy throughout. Sounds like a bunch of lads trying to be a bit indie different.
DJ Shadow
1/5
Sorry, this sounds like someone who got decks for Christmas and was working out how to annoy everyone. Not my thing - maybe I’m missing something, though whatever it is I can live without, thank you.
Deep Purple
3/5
I like some DP but this too repetitive for me. Good in its day
4/5
Never an oasis fan but this is surprisingly good throughout with a few stand out tracks. Shame sibling rivalry caused it to end as the sum of the parts is definitely (maybe) greater than the individual components.
The Jam
3/5
Not an album I would listen to. More a collection of short punky songs. Still learning their trade.
Tina Turner
3/5
Great performer but tedious album.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Nice background.
Baaba Maal
2/5
The Cure
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Great opener but for me downhill from there.
The Offspring
2/5
Not for me
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
5/5
Just a great album. Clapton found his voice and musicianship is superb.
The Band
3/5
Some decent songs but a fair bit of filler for my taste
Electric Light Orchestra
5/5
Excellent album. What’s not to like about the writing, the melodies. Strong stuff and just compare it with the tripe produced today with no quality whatsoever.
Janet Jackson
1/5
Manufactured, repetitive and over-produced. These are the sorts of tracks that make me turn off the radio. Sadly fits in well with most current artificial producer pop.
Devendra Banhart
2/5
The Who
3/5
Not great, no Boris the Spider, but signs of what they could produce and shows they were in a state of transition
The Yardbirds
3/5
Seeds of things to come. Of its time.
The La's
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
His Bobness. You either like him or you don’t. I do. Rating the albums serves little purpose as they all form part of a journey.
Les Rythmes Digitales
1/5
Give someone a keyboard for Christmas and this is what you get
Kraftwerk
3/5
Missy Elliott
1/5
Oh, for goodness sake.
Blur
3/5
Maybe I’m just getting old but this is when mediocrity became mainstream.
Bee Gees
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
1/5
Mike Ladd
1/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Easy listening
JAY Z
1/5
No thank you. Awful, but then again I’m a fifties child.
Alanis Morissette
3/5
Bit whiny for my liking but production is good
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Germs
1/5
Awful
Madonna
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
The Who
5/5
Gave it another listen just to be sure. At that time I seem to remember Pete Townsend was one of the first to use the newly invented synthesiser and it wasn’t easy like with all the digital wizardry the producers have today and who are creating music soup.
Grant Lee Buffalo
1/5
Grim
Linkin Park
3/5
Too much screamy stuff for my liking. But some decent playing hidden in between. My son likes it.
Pixies
2/5
Maybe one for the teenagers amongst us
GZA
1/5
Ugh
Bob Dylan
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Pretty awful - tedious monotonous voice. No saving graces that I can hear.
3/5
Gotan Project
4/5
Great background - and that’s in a positive way
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Lovely album with great production, brilliant songs, great voices. One of my favourites
Ryan Adams
3/5
A bit formulaic for my liking. Generic light country rock stuff.
Spiritualized
3/5
The Clash
4/5
Waylon Jennings
3/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
The Doors
3/5
Of it’s time with a couple of great tracks, but then …
Ice T
1/5
Awful.
Motörhead
2/5
I like something quiet and melodic. 5 stars compared to the average rap album but overall best left to the perpetual teenagers.
Earth, Wind & Fire
2/5
The Streets
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Great anarchic album. Neil expressing his true self.
Cat Stevens
5/5
Excellent melancholic album. Some really lovely tuneful and melodic with great acoustic playing.
Dire Straits
3/5
Well, sultans of swing is a great tune with outstanding lyrics. The rest sort of doesn’t measure up to that. But the boys had to start somewhere as a band.
Tortoise
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
1/5
Solomon Burke
2/5
Of it’s time and a cover of a Jim Reeves song says it all. My parents may have liked because there wasn’t’t much else around prior to the Beatles explosion.
50 Cent
1/5
No
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
The Electric Prunes
2/5
You can hear how this was at the start of a bigger movement and whether they led or followed is probably irrelevant. Overall not my cup tea and glad similarly sounding bands moved on, some to become great. But not this lot.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
Just limp for my liking and all one tempo. But given when it was ….
Beatles
4/5
Difficult to rate as some very good songs and a few duds.
Mike Oldfield
4/5
Classic album
David Bowie
3/5
Never a fan apart from odd bits - same here
Elbow
5/5
Thoughtful, well produced, good musicianship and in their own way sticking to their guns and doing what they do best - avoiding the pitfalls of pop. Guy Garvey’s voice is full of real northern (UK) soul.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Just such an average album that seems to lack any real spark.
Elvis Presley
2/5
Sounds a bit like Jim Reeves doing Elvis impersonations.
Never quite understood why he morphed into this sugary soppy ballad singer - the rest of the world moved on.
Judas Priest
2/5
Oh dear. Nothing original here. A follow on band.
Minutemen
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
1/5
Utter tripe. Best bit is start to sergeant pepper then all downhill.
The B-52's
2/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
UB40
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Great voice and musicianship. Thoughtful songs and a bit of a classic.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Great background
Black Sabbath
5/5
Excellent first groundbreaking album. One of the best beginnings to an album I know. And Ossie’s voice is great for someone of such tender years.
Duran Duran
4/5
Great pop album with occasionally a bit more to it. Favourite tracks Hungry Like The Wolf and Hold Back The Rain. Great production.
Joni Mitchell
4/5
D'Angelo
1/5
Oh dear, really, rather not.
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
Not that smashing. Best track is the opener before any vocals. A generous 2.
Common
1/5
Not my cup of tea I’m afraid.
Youssou N'Dour
2/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
2/5
Not sure what to make of this. It is what it is and sort of nothing special. Why is it even here?
Pentangle
5/5
Took me back a few years to a time before crude and non-musical music took over the world. A joy to behold.
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Not his finest hour. Tedious to the extreme. Why did he think anyone would want to listen to this.
The Doors
4/5
Not really a doors fan but love the bluesy feel of this album.
Killing Joke
5/5
Excellent album that I’d not heard before. Got me listening to more of their work. Don’t know how I missed them.
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Er no.
Merle Haggard
3/5
Of it’s time, not my cup of tea and repetitive. But ok if you like that sort of thing.
Björk
2/5
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Er no.
Queen
3/5
Not a great album and too many short poppy songs and a lack of rock credentials.
Giant Sand
3/5
4/5
For it’s time this was an excellent album. A much underrated band
Alice Cooper
3/5
Erykah Badu
1/5
A difficult listen. Not interested I’m sorry to say. Sort of thing that makes me turn off the radio.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
The Fall
2/5
A bit dismal for my liking and all trying to sound like Lou Reed while being a bit punky.
5/5
Classic album with some great songs, good tunes and some fine playing.
KISS
1/5
Nope. No depth to it and the generic vocalisations drive me bonkers. Bit embarrassing really for grown men.
The Stooges
2/5
The Strokes
3/5
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Stereolab
2/5
French avant-garde. Too avant-garde for me though.
Beck
2/5
Can’t think of anything interesting to say about this mess of noise. Jumps around into all sorts, none of which I like. School kids will like it because it’s dares to be different - but that’s it.
Orbital
2/5
Dr. John
4/5
Saw Dr John not long before he passed and what an excellent show. The groundwork is here in this album which at times is just great.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
2/5
Ramones
4/5
One of a kind and a bit of a laugh
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
Surprisingly entertaining. Not a particular country fan but this live feel album was a great listen.
Frank Sinatra
2/5
I think I’d turn the lights out before the end of the second track. Not my cup of cocoa.
Beatles
5/5
Never properly listened to this album all the way through before. It is really a complete pleasure to listen to. Some great stuff.
New Order
3/5
Always waiting for another True Faith but it never happened.
Fiona Apple
2/5
Her fans like it.
Miles Davis
3/5
Alice In Chains
2/5
Moby Grape
3/5
Nirvana
2/5
Nope. Just screaming nonsense mostly. Given 2 as it’s slightly better than most rap.
Bob Dylan
5/5
Excellent thoughtful and intelligently entertaining. One of my all time favourites. Tangled up in blue and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts are great in every respect.
The Verve
3/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Cee Lo Green
2/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Some nice stuff but dire straits do get a bit samey after a while. Always think they should do better.
The Prodigy
1/5
Something my son would like.
Kings of Leon
3/5
One long track with gaps. Couple of songs rise above the rest but overall, for me, just missing spark.
Sigur Rós
4/5
Great music for an art gallery or son et lumiere experience. Meditative.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Slade
4/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Baaba Maal
1/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
The Hives
1/5
Pitched at 13 year olds who like jumping up and down. Really awful.
Bad Company
4/5
I preferred the early original bands and surprised at the change of direction. But listenable back in the 70s and still ok today. Strangely they seem to lack energy and excitement.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Ice Cube
1/5
Ugh.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Excellent album that holds together throughout. A proper listening experience compared to modern day pop rubbish. One of the best albums ever.
Peter Frampton
3/5
I did buy this album when it came out going a bit on Mr Frampton’s previous life with Humble Pie. Unfortunately he had gone all US soft rock and overall the album is something of a let down. I still have the album and truth to say it hasn’t been played much.
Tricky
1/5
Oh God please help me …
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
Oh dear …
Arcade Fire
4/5
Give them their due, at least they try to make music and introduce some melody - and it’s all sweary like so much tripe around.
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
Of it’s time. Maybe a reason they were new to me.
Madonna
2/5
For such a global megastar I found this album really weak. Not much beyond the singles and not much more than a cobbled together collection of songs.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
N.E.R.D
2/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Too indie for my taste.
Air
2/5
Wallpaper music in my view. Not objectionable like a lot of stuff on here but not memorable on any way. The music just doesn’t engage.
Def Leppard
2/5
Teenage rock - not for me.
The Stooges
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
De La Soul
1/5
Can
2/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
Great album to have on in the background - good to hum along to. Different end of the spectrum to some stuff that pops up too often on here.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Passes the time
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
The Incredible String Band
2/5
Not great. Should be much better
Eminem
1/5
Awful. When did music die.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
It’s better if you play it twice the speed. But it’s Leonard Cohen, and he does what he does.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Tedious drivel - never did get it and still don’t.
Sonic Youth
2/5
Genesis
2/5
Eels
2/5
Al Green
3/5
Let’s stay together and 8 fillers. Not my cuppa I’m afraid. At least he wrote his own stuff.
Neil Young
4/5
Kate Bush
3/5
The Who
4/5
Of it’s time. Great to hear Keith Moon giving it his best. I think you have to have been there. I think the digital versions lose a bit of the magic.
Iron Butterfly
3/5
In its time this would have been good darkened room stuff and a way to get down with your friends who knew the world was changing. It must have led somewhere in an age before the music industry went off the rails with an ever increasing range of genres and unlistenable or mediocre noise.
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Couple of nice songs and a bit of jamming to fill the time. Like Proud Mary though but wouldn’t have bought an album just for that even in 1969.
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Just one of the great albums. Coherent and tells some wonderful stories. One of my all time favourites.
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
A collection of songs, a couple of which I know . I like more from an album.
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Not a fan. Never understood the plaudits.
Adele
2/5
The Temptations
2/5
Jeff Beck
3/5
Solange
2/5
Dismal
Television
2/5
Better if they edited out the vocals - personally can’t understand the overall high scoring for this. Really tedious in my books. 📚
The Thrills
2/5
The Kinks
5/5
Great album and Ray Davies shows himself to be a writer of some excellent enduring songs.
Tom Waits
4/5
Classy artist
A Tribe Called Quest
1/5
John Martyn
4/5
John Martin takes some adjustment to appreciate his work but overall he’s fine by me. This album rewards concentration.
Iron Maiden
3/5
Dr. Octagon
1/5
No thank you.
Slint
5/5
Not heard of them before but a great album. Kept getting ‘Red’ phase King Crimson. Drumming was excellent and controlled.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Would have been a 3 but any album with a track as good as Bad Moon gets an extra point straight away
R.E.M.
5/5
Great album. Right for any time of day. I listened while eating my cornflakes.
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Metallica
1/5
Prince
3/5
Mudhoney
2/5
Hole
2/5
Beck
2/5
Klaxons
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Big Star
2/5
OutKast
1/5
Ugh!!
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Great album. Particularly like Mary’s Place.
Herbie Hancock
2/5
I guess the musicianship is good but I find it tedious.
Sufjan Stevens
2/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Sabu
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
SAULT
2/5
The Police
4/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Garbage
2/5
Oh dear. What makes people think this is good. Just a grungy noise.
Talking Heads
3/5
Turbonegro
2/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Sepultura
2/5
AC/DC
4/5
Yes
5/5
Super album. Just love it.
Janis Joplin
4/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
R.E.M.
3/5
The Avalanches
2/5
Repetitive awfulness, but at least no foul language. So an extra 0.5 for that. This album demonstrates how art and creativity is missing from music so maybe they were ahead of the game on that.
Boston
3/5
Hard going is what Mrs P said and I have to agree.
Tim Buckley
2/5
I realise the list is only one person’s view, but really this is rather off the mark for me. Ultimately nobody could have listened to every album produced and as a result there are many out there that could replace this one. Mediocrity at best.
PJ Harvey
3/5
Gorillaz
3/5
FKA twigs
1/5
808 State
2/5
Or really music in my view but I guess it is an album which years ago you could have melted and made into a flower pot.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Jeff Buckley
2/5
Ravi Shankar
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Why have I not heard this before. Great album and the matured voice is a revelation.
Drive-By Truckers
4/5
Authentic sounds. Started really well but for me tailed off a bit.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Verve
3/5
Bad Brains
1/5
The Associates
2/5
Headache stuff - but better than rap.
The Go-Go's
3/5
SZA
1/5
Nirvana
2/5
At least it’s not rap. 1.5 in that case, rounded up.
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
Surprisingly sort of ok.
David Bowie
3/5
Tori Amos
2/5
Billie Holiday
3/5
The Killers
3/5
The Pretty Things
5/5
Weird and wonderful. You can hear the Norman Smith influence. Really enjoyed the journey.
Richard Thompson
5/5
Keep going back to this lovely understated album. Quintessentially English and a breath of fresh air.
Kid Rock
2/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
The Mars Volta
2/5
Mmmm.
Radiohead
3/5
Can’t hear the music for the whining voice of Thom Yorke. Not nice.
T. Rex
3/5
Minor Threat
2/5
Lacks irony for me and I don’t like screamy kid vocals. Prefer the melody of UK punk - much more digestible.
Iggy Pop
4/5
A disembodied David Bowie - who influenced who, that is the question? Enjoyable from that perspective alone.
Fiona Apple
1/5
Kate Bush
5/5
Excellent album that is much more than just a collection of songs. The songs and soundscape are written to be part of a whole without the too obvious need to produce them for single release. Dua Lippa eat your heart out.
Prince
2/5
Couldn’t be bothered with that I’m afraid
Robert Wyatt
5/5
Love the eccentricity and it will surely annoy a lot people. But great work.
Sonic Youth
2/5
The Pogues
3/5
Common
1/5
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
1/5
Songhoy Blues
2/5
The The
3/5
Suede
4/5
Pulp
3/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
The Smiths
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
I do prefer other Pink Floyd albums but then again they are all worthy of a 5. Brilliant at the time and still is.
Small Faces
5/5
The album that made Stanley Unwin a star
Sister Sledge
3/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
Proper bluesmen must hold their heads in their hands when they hear this. At least the British blues explosion of the 60s was true to the soul of the art.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Seems rather hollow to me. I think Roxy Music demonstrate the power of collaboration as a unit which Eno lacks even though some of the collaborators are common.
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
Willie Nelson
5/5
Lovely
Public Enemy
1/5
1/5
Don’t need to hear this sort of stuff in my own home thank you.
Brian Eno
3/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Skepta
1/5
1/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
I feel I should try harder to get something from this band as they are From just down the road. But ultimately I find it homogenous.
Sade
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1/5
Wondered why I’ve always avoided Captain Beefheart and now I know.
Lana Del Rey
3/5
There’s nothing wrong with it but also nothing right about it. Completely lacks any real feel. I think I fell asleep and then woke up to find the same track still playing. Sad indictment of modern day stuff that purports to be music. And Lana is one of the better ones.
Fugees
1/5
F this f that. Don’t need this in my living room than you.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
Queen Latifah
1/5
Please no.
10cc
3/5
The Cult
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
1/5
Couldn’t get access to it
The Stooges
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
You gotta start somewhere
The Residents
1/5
The Who
5/5
Funny thing that the Who were better before and then peaked with Who’s Next. So this for me, though epic and led to some great covers is in between. But no, I’ll give it a “foive” as Pete was so young and deserves nothing less.
The Beach Boys
3/5
Great album for its time - it’s just not quite for me.
Sepultura
2/5
Well, it’s better than rap so must be a 2.
Neu!
3/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Unfortunately my music system seemed to play this backwards. Tea of cup my not. Or maybe the band forgot to turn up. But still better than rap and hip hop so a 2 for that as there is no foul language invading my living space.
Saint Etienne
3/5
A little to bland for my liking.
Liz Phair
3/5
Donovan
3/5
3/5
I wanted to like this, but not quite up there with the best if I’m being honest.
Fleet Foxes
3/5
The Zombies
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Maxwell
2/5
Robbie Williams
2/5
No thank you
The Byrds
3/5
Laibach
1/5
Not my wife’s favourite album. She thought it was awful. Oddly I have to agree.
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Well, if this is often voted one of the best albums of the 90s this perhaps shows that by this time music was on its last legs. I’ve probably heard better. A lot of nothingness. Sad really. 🤔
3/5
ABBA
4/5
Lovely beautifully produced album and shows what they can do beyond singles.
The Dictators
2/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
System Of A Down
2/5
Roni Size
1/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
American Music Club
1/5
Napalm Death
1/5
My wife says it’s not even worth commenting on. I think she’s right.
Robert Wyatt
3/5
Janelle Monáe
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Spacemen 3
2/5
Fever Ray
2/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
The Sugarcubes
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
MGMT
2/5
The Crusaders
3/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Rather like Pink Floyd fill in bits. The Rothko of modern music, so maybe great as a backdrop for a modernist art exhibition. Annoying after a while when it penetrates the consciousness.
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Of it’s time
Green Day
3/5
King Crimson
4/5
King Crimson do Easy listening
Jamiroquai
1/5
Can’t stand this stuff …
Coldplay
4/5
Tito Puente
2/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
Would prefer him to be a little more raw. Too polished for my liking.
Dr. Dre
1/5
Er, no.
The Cramps
2/5
Nirvana
2/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Dirty Projectors
3/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
1/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Van Morrison
4/5
Doesn't seem available on Spotify. But must be at least a 4
Digital Underground
1/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Coral
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Prince
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
5/5
I’m not a natural 80s fan but I love this album. A guilty pleasure.
Jethro Tull
4/5
Dolly Parton
5/5
Loved this album and I’m no big country fan but this was something else on a Sunday morning.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
A 3.5 from me but I’ll round up.Quite entertaining as a background sort of thing
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Sad really but can’t be bothered to listen to this - the album cover doesn’t make the top 1000 in terms of artwork. Maybe that’s the intention but it sums up the whole feel of the thing.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
A troubled soul. You’d have to see them live to appreciate all the theatricality that went with it.
Sparks
3/5
Manic
Deee-Lite
2/5
Incubus
2/5
Fugazi
2/5
Just a bit too shouty for my liking.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Style Council
2/5
The Libertines
2/5
George Michael
2/5
Utter tripe …
Ms. Dynamite
1/5
James Taylor
4/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
First album I bought and still a jolly good listen
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Some modern day singers couldn’t hold a candle to this voice and no tricks to help out with the sound. Super.
Genesis
3/5
I think it must be a production thing but earlier Genesis always seems to lack a depth and quality in the sound
Eurythmics
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Fishbone
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Buzzcocks
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
The Flaming Lips
2/5
David Holmes
2/5
The Human League
5/5
Needs to be listened to at volume, but a great album of its time.
Patti Smith
3/5
Don McLean
4/5
Pixies
2/5
The Clash
4/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
The Vines
2/5
John Lennon
3/5
Yes
4/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Afrika Bambaataa
1/5
Beatles
4/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
Hole
3/5
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Morrissey
2/5
Caetano Veloso
2/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Britney Spears
3/5
5/5
Orbital
2/5
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
George Michael
3/5
Animal Collective
2/5
Django Django
4/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Wilco
3/5
Sex Pistols
5/5
Peculiarly British and contains a couple of the best tracks of their type. Instantly recognisable and the start of a movement. Difficult to rate but as no one had heard such a compilation before, I’ll give it a five.
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Khaled
2/5
4/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Anita Baker
3/5
Aphex Twin
2/5
Julian Cope
3/5
Hookworms
2/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Beatles
5/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Ian Dury
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Beyoncé
2/5
Not for me I'm afraid - very afraid!!
Van Morrison
3/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Ute Lemper
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Metallica
2/5
No.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5/5
Just so good for its time. I was brought up with these songs and they still have that magic.
Joe Ely
4/5
New to me and some excellent stuff. Will listen to this again and his later stuff.
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
I can imagine it as background at a trendy art exhibition as you spend time looking at reimagined rubbish, drink some bubbly, and then go home to find out you've bought a milk carton with ribbons attached.
The Young Gods
2/5
Slipknot
1/5
Perfect for Christmas with loads of hidden melodies and glad tidings. Or did I put the wrong album on.
Van Morrison
3/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Scott Walker
3/5
Goldie
1/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
The Zutons
2/5
Eagles
3/5
Japan
3/5
The xx
3/5
Os Mutantes
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
The Kinks
4/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Soft Cell
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Deep Purple
5/5
Probably Deep Purple at their best in my view. But it was the second album I ever bought and set a standard.
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Paul Simon
5/5
2/5
The Damned
3/5
TLC
2/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
Can
5/5
New to me and great long form music
The Shamen
2/5
Traffic
4/5
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Soul II Soul
1/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
Carole King
4/5
Weather Report
3/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Point off for Comfortably Numb. Travesty.
Soft Machine
3/5
Ministry
2/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Miriam Makeba
2/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
Doves
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
The Black Keys
3/5
LL Cool J
1/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
Method Man
1/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Doves
3/5
The The
3/5
Rather unexciting. Spotify followed it up with some Roxy Music which was much more accomplished.
Beatles
4/5
Goldfrapp
4/5
Mylo
2/5
Rahul Dev Burman
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
David Ackles
2/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Er no.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Lauryn Hill
2/5
Kelela
2/5
Ghostface Killah
1/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Orange Juice
3/5
The Icarus Line
2/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
a-ha
3/5
Def Leppard
3/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
Morrissey
2/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
XTC
3/5
Suede
3/5
U2
4/5
The Stranglers
4/5
Kacey Musgraves
2/5
Eric Clapton
3/5
Metallica
2/5
Ella Fitzgerald
2/5
Too much for me I'm afraid.
M.I.A.
1/5
Awful
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2/5
Sadder than Sad Cafe
David Bowie
4/5
One for the fans but commendable nonetheless
Joan Armatrading
5/5
Exceptional album for such a quiet and reflective person. One of the all time greats. Class trumps all else.
3/5
Music sort of ok but the whining voice gets on my wick.
Cornershop
3/5
Curate’s egg
Public Enemy
1/5
No
Love
4/5
When you have no shoulders to stand on you’ve got to start somewhere. This lot and the Doors. The start of the long form tracks. Not great but good for its time.
Mudhoney
2/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
We’re talking 1967 here and a while before the development of modern day digital devices and no synthesisers. When seen in that context it is a great album, albeit with a few aberrations along the way.
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Good God, please no.
Love
3/5
Jack White
2/5
Ozomatli
2/5
George Jones
2/5
Emmylou Harris
5/5
Super artist, super voice, songs with depth - compare with today’s manufactured tripe. Just a lovely album.
New Order
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Gang Of Four
2/5
David Crosby
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Soundgarden
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
Dennis Wilson
2/5
Roxy Music
5/5
Just a great first album. Some great lyrics and a proper style setter.
Aerosmith
2/5
Supertramp
4/5
The Go-Betweens
2/5
ZZ Top
4/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
1/5
No thank you.
Bauhaus
3/5
The Pharcyde
1/5
The Doors
4/5
Anthrax
1/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Lambchop
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
The Specials
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
Santana
3/5
Arrested Development
1/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
Hot Chip
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Butthole Surfers
2/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
John Lee Hooker
5/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Queen
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
I’ve tried hard over the years. It’s fine but not mine.
Blue Cheer
3/5
Not quite Led Zeppellin and not a lot of cheer.
Talking Heads
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Really
Gillian Welch
3/5
Carpenters
3/5
Deerhunter
2/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
White Denim
2/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Paul Weller
3/5
Talvin Singh
2/5
The Prodigy
2/5
Stereo MC's
1/5
Ray Price
2/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Throwing Muses
3/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
Just a little generic for my liking and lacking that creative extra. But at least it's real music unlike most of today's pop garbage.
Funkadelic
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Slayer
1/5
What a waste of time.
John Coltrane
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Living Colour
3/5
Guns N' Roses
3/5
Buck Owens
2/5
Stan Getz
2/5
The Only Ones
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
LTJ Bukem
1/5
Pixies
2/5
Can’t even pretend to like this. Just tedious.
The Darkness
2/5
Meat Puppets
2/5
Eagles
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Marty Robbins
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
My heart sinks when I hear stuff like this
Joy Division
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
OutKast
1/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Cream
5/5
John Martyn
4/5
Joan Baez
3/5
Of its time.
Kanye West
1/5
MC Solaar
1/5
Vraiment
Black Flag
1/5
I think my copy must be damaged as it only has one track of horribleness repeated over and over. But each to their own.
The Slits
2/5
Norah Jones
3/5
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Jane Weaver
2/5
The Jam
3/5
Nina Simone
2/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Pearl Jam
2/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Heaven 17
2/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Nico
2/5
Little Simz
1/5
Death of music as we knew it.
4/5
Jeru The Damaja
1/5
Nooooo!!!!!!!!
Marianne Faithfull
4/5
Travis
2/5
Missy Elliott
1/5
Really … do me a favour!
Koffi Olomide
2/5
3/5
Lightning Bolt
1/5
No accounting for taste - dreadful.
Silver Jews
2/5
The KLF
2/5
2Pac
1/5
Not even worth reviewing.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
New York Dolls
3/5
Louis Prima
2/5
Motörhead
3/5
Charles Mingus
2/5
Madonna
2/5
Boards of Canada
2/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Slipknot
1/5
Emmylou Harris
4/5
Daft Punk
2/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Air
3/5
The Undertones
4/5
The Replacements
3/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
For some reason Frank Sinatra just leaves me cold.
The Undertones
4/5
Bobby Womack
2/5
N.W.A.
1/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Maybe it's a fine album, but not for me.
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Wire
4/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Simply Red
2/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Lorde
2/5
The Pogues
3/5
Röyksopp
3/5
Madness
3/5
Dizzee Rascal
1/5
Ice Cube
1/5
I think I exist in a parallel universe to those who like this stuff.
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Eminem
1/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
King Crimson
5/5
Had the privilege to see KC back in 1970. Just brilliant and this album is a triumph from start to finish. Who doesn’t like a bit of noodling about but the great tracks are great.
Rage Against The Machine
2/5
Astor Piazzolla
4/5
Really enjoyed this in the background
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
5/5
Great atmospheric album with some excellent tunes a good vocals.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Underworld
2/5
Headache stuff
The Charlatans
3/5
Björk
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Oasis
5/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
M.I.A.
1/5
Björk
2/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
The Bees
3/5
Marilyn Manson
1/5
The Specials
3/5
Fairport Convention
5/5
Pretenders
4/5
Blur
3/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
George Harrison
4/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Van Halen
3/5
Elis Regina
2/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Dion
2/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Kate Bush
5/5
Super album. Intelligent and immersive.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Neil Young is always authentic, original and a great songwriter. Love this album.
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
Blondie
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Portishead
3/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
ZZ Top
4/5
Justice
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Metallica
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Machito
2/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Grizzly Bear
2/5
Public Enemy
1/5
Just no. So awful in so many ways.
Miles Davis
2/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
The Triffids
2/5
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
The United States Of America
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
John Cale
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Gang Starr
1/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Girls Against Boys
2/5
Rush
4/5
Thundercat
2/5
Circle Jerks
2/5
James Brown
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Big Star
3/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
John Prine
3/5
Ride
2/5
Adele
2/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Traffic
3/5
The Who
3/5
Faith No More
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
Culture Club
2/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Jurassic 5
1/5
Raekwon
1/5
Megadeth
2/5
Tom Tom Club
2/5
Coldcut
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
5/5
Megadeth
1/5
Mega death of what we used to call music. This is horrible. The album lives up to its name.
Neil Young
4/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
Queen
3/5
The Saints
3/5
The Monks
3/5
The Beta Band
2/5