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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Myths Of The Near Future
Klaxons
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5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
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The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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The College Dropout
Kanye West
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5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
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5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
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Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
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5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
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Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
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5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
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Crime Of The Century
Supertramp
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5 | 3.41 | +1.59 |
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Different Class
Pulp
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5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
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Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
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5 | 3.47 | +1.53 |
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Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
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4 | 2.48 | +1.52 |
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Master Of Puppets
Metallica
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1 | 3.73 | -2.73 |
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Queen II
Queen
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1 | 3.49 | -2.49 |
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Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
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1 | 3.47 | -2.47 |
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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
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1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
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1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
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Live At Leeds
The Who
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1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
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Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy
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1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
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Raw Power
The Stooges
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1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
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Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
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1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
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Teen Dream
Beach House
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1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 5 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Megadeth | 2 | 1 |
| Mudhoney | 2 | 1 |
| Fiona Apple | 2 | 1.5 |
| Fairport Convention | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Kinks | 2 | 1.5 |
| Joni Mitchell | 2 | 1.5 |
| Metallica | 3 | 2 |
| Queen | 3 | 2 |
| The Byrds | 4 | 2.25 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| Miles Davis | 5, 1 |
| Kanye West | 2, 5 |
| Nick Drake | 5, 2 |
| Leonard Cohen | 2, 2, 5, 3 |
5-Star Albums (21)
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Queen Latifah
2/5
19 years old when she released this, but 1989 hip hop doesn't age well.
5 likes
Björk
1/5
I like the versatility and vulnerability of her voice, but I don't understand her music.
1 likes
Klaxons
5/5
English Indie Rock that reminds me of Muse with driving rhythms and suspended chords and cool keyboards and heavy bass. Vocals is reminiscent of Brandon Flowers (The Killers).
The band only released three albums.
1 likes
Randy Newman
4/5
Vocals sound like Ray Charles at times.
Some piano ragtime influences.
Commentary on the deep south.
N word used repeat6in first song Redneck
1 likes
1-Star Albums (62)
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Adele
4/5
Madonna
2/5
Louis Prima
4/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Great musicians, soulful singing, but tracks are too long!
Spotify would not play the last track interview.
Drive Like Jehu
1/5
Hard, angry punk ain't my jam.
Depeche Mode
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
28 tracks; some big radio hits; some heavy hard rock, but a surprising number of quiet, thoughtful songs.
Elvis Presley
3/5
10cc
2/5
Art rock somewhat in the style of Queen. One listenable track: Baron Samedi.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
Scooby Snacks, sampling dialogue from 'Pulp Fiction' is the one recognizable song.
Joy Division
1/5
Poor Ian Curtis... 23 years old!
Deep Purple
4/5
Four big hits on an eight track album.
'Highway Star', 'Smoke On The Water' (cool story), and 'Space Truckin''.
'Lazy' is a cool 12 bar blues with an awesome Hammond Organ intro.
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Indifferent;
Cool drum sounds;
"In the Morning of the Magicians" sounds like Neil Young's vocals.
De La Soul
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Funk Soul Classics include:
"Pusherman", "Freddie's Dead", and "Superfly".
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Forgettable.
Shuggie Otis
2/5
Most recognizable song is 'Strawberry Letter 23', which was later made famous with the Brothers Johnson release; this later version was used in two different Tarantino movies.
Metallica
3/5
Three big radio hits: Enter Sandman and The Unforgiven and Nothing Else Matters.
Green Day
3/5
4 (3) radio hits:
American Idiot (hard punk rock);
Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams (did not realize that was a pair songs on one 8:13 track... 2 completely different vibes);
Wake Me Up When September Ends
Fiona Apple
2/5
Didn't give it a close listen, but some interesting, dark sounds.
Billy Joel
5/5
First 7 of the 9 tracks are all memorable radio hits. Such a wide variety of sounds and vibes from song to song.
Sex Pistols
1/5
Christine and the Queens
2/5
Too much French
Venom
1/5
Nope
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Fun walk down memory lane!
4/5
Classic!
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Psychedelic rock
The White Stripes
3/5
Seven Nation Army
Ball And Biscuit
The Hardest Button to Button
The Air Near My Fingers
Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
It's True That We Love One Another (Jack & Meg with guest singer Holly Golightly)
I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself is a remake of the Burt Bacharach / Dionne Warwick song
'Hypnotize' can't be played on Spotify!?
Hüsker Dü
1/5
Fleetwood Mac
2/5
Uninspired follow-up to 'Rumors'.
20 tracks is too much, especially with so many underdeveloped tracks.
They sound like a garage band at times!
Heaven 17
2/5
This is the band that was created from 'Human League'.
Funky bass lines for a synth band.
3 of the 9 tracks are not available on Spotify.
2 good tracks: Penthouse and Pavement
Play to Win (sounds like Devo)
ABBA
4/5
Big hits:
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Money, Money, Money
Fernando,
and lesser known 'That's Me'.
All very well crafted songs, with great instrumentation, vocal arrangements, and chord changes.
John Martyn
3/5
You'll need the lyrics to understand his slurred singing.
Good songs!
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
I love Elvis' voice!
He writes unconventional songs, and this album grew on me for the 2nd listen.
No big radio hits from this album, but some good songs are:
Beyond Belief
The Long Honeymoon
Man Out of Time
The Loved Ones
Human Hands
Kid About It
The Cars
4/5
Debut album recorded in 1978!
First 3 tracks were big radio hits:
Good Times Roll
My Best Friend's Girl
Just What I Needed (by far the most listened to according to Spotify, June 2023, over 200 million plays)
Another decent hit:
You're All I've Got Tonight
Metallica
2/5
Not sure if a live album should be included in a top 1001 albums.
Neat concept: Heavy Metal meets Classical Orchestra, but not a big enough Metalicca fan to appreciate their songs as an arrangement.
Eminem
4/5
Uncomfortable listen at times, but some really good raps.
One skit and the last track "The Kids" not available on Spotify, and Spotify does not publish Eminem's lyrics!
Big hits:
Kill You
Stan
Who Knew
The Way I Am
The Real Slim Shady
R.E.M.
2/5
2 radio hits;
Stand
Orange Crush
Other decent song is .Hairshirt
Mandolin is a nice added instrument.
Willie Nelson
3/5
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain is a wonderful song!
Happy Mondays
2/5
Nope... forgettable
Joe Ely
2/5
Nope to the honky tonk.
Radiohead
4/5
Headphones and getting high music
Fred Neil
2/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Inspired by Woody Guthrie, traditional folk country, good story telling. Simple music with just guitar and voice and the occasional harmonica.
Donovan
1/5
A 20 year old from Scotland, but only the title track is worthwhile. Trippy lyrics.
Miles Davis
5/5
Great balance; it wasn't all about Miles, which was refreshing. There were long sections where there was no trumpet at all, and other times when an instrument kicked in and you couldn't tell right away if it was Shorter on Soprano Sax or Davie on a high muted trumpet. Very cool effect.
Pearl Jam
4/5
Five big hits:
Once
Even Flow
Alive
Black
Jeremy.
This album came out after my first year of university.
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Favourite Tracks:
Doo Wop (That Thing)
I Used To Love Him (with Mary J. Blige)
Forgive Them Father
Everything Is Everything
Can't Take My Eyes of You (I Love You Baby)
Brian Eno
2/5
Effective studying music, and pretty cool that Eno coined the term 'ambient music'.
Skepta
2/5
British crime rap ain't my bag.
Don McLean
3/5
Seeing the album cover art, I started listening with a negative mindset, but I was pleasantly surprised by this album. It's pensive and thoughtful folk music for the most part. He dedicated the album to Buddy Holly, and the title track includes the line "the day the music died" which is how that 1959 tragedy is now known as.
Dusty Springfield
3/5
2/5
A Serbian playing Brazilian music!
Zzh zzh
Tom Waits
3/5
8th album from the prolific poet.
3/5
Big hits from 1995:
Wonderwall
Don't Look Back in Anger
Morning Glory
Champagne Supernova
Kanye West
2/5
Talented rapper, just not my jam.
Runaway is a hood song.
Megadeth
1/5
Hell no!
Queens of the Stone Age
2/5
Forgettable
3/5
Good vocal harmonies and excellent interplay of harmonica and saxophone in City, Country, City.
Throwing Muses
2/5
29 songs is too many for one album, but I wouldn't know because Spotify blocks 28 of those songs, leaving the listener to decide on a ranking based on one song "Hate My Way".
LL Cool J
3/5
Second half of this old school rap album is better than the first.
Good songs:
Farmers Blvd (outro "You don't stop" used in Beastie Boys' Sabotage)
Mama Said Knock You Out
Jingling Baby
To Da Break of Dawn
The Power of God
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Sleepy album for the most part, but good songs are:
Boogie On Reggae Woman,
You Haven't Done Nothing (pointing accusations at President Nixon), and
They Won't Go When I Go (sad gospel feel).
The Doors
3/5
Big hits:
Break On Through (to the other side);
Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) (circus feel);
Light My Fire;
The End (featured in the intro of Apocalypse Now)
Waylon Jennings
3/5
Great voice
Rod Stewart
3/5
That's All Right (Arthur Crudup 1946, then Elvis Presley 1954), but Rod Stewart's version is barely recognizable, but very good rocking blues version. The last 2 minutes of this 6 minute recording us a beautiful version of Amazing Grace featuring the slide guitar.
Tomorrow is a Long Time is a Bob Dylan song, but Rod Stewart's version brings it to life, especially by adding the fiddle. This is the second song on this album that was previously recorded by Elvis Presley.
The 32 second classical guitar intro at the start of Maggie May is called "Henry". Maggie May features the mandolin.
I Know I'm Losing You is the first rocking song on this mostly folk album, but it is a remake of the 1966 Motown hit by the Temptations, which was turned into a funk rock song by Rare Earth in 1970.
Reason To Believe is another cover song, so other than Maggie May, all of my favourite songs on this album are covers.
Yes
2/5
Roundabout inspired by the druve from Aberdeen to Glasgow.
'Cans and Brahms' is Wakeman's adaptation of an excerpt of the third movement of Symphony No. 4 in E minor by Johannes Brahms.
50 Cent
2/5
Gangster Rap with some singing
"Patiently Waiting" (with Eminem)
"In Da Club"
"P.I.M.P."
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Thoughtprovoking R&B Funk album
"Billy Jack" (black man being gunned down)
"Jesus"
"Hard Times"
"Love To The People"
Van Morrison
4/5
And It Stoned Me
Moondance
Crazy Love
Caravan
Into The Mystic
These Dreams of You
Glad Tidings.
Elvis Presley
3/5
Diverse genres, great musicians and Elvis' amazing voice
Long Black Limousine
I'm Moving On
In The Ghetto
Suspicious Minds
Erykah Badu
2/5
Very good musicians, but I get really tired quick of her vocal tone.
MGMT
3/5
Time To Pretend
Kids.
Worth a second listen
Suede
3/5
Still Life is a cool song.
The album probably deserves a second listen.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Everybody Knows
Take This Waltz (backup vocalist Jennifer Warnes).
Otherwise, synthesizer based album would sound better with real instruments.
AC/DC
2/5
All sounds the same after the title track.
Last album by Bon Scot
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Monk & Rollins 1957 - Hard Bop
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
Bemsha Swing.
Monk plays the celeste on Pannonica
Steve Earle
3/5
Guitar Town has a recognizeable guitar melody
My Old Friend The Blues is a lovely ballad.
Overall a regular country twang album.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Dreams;
Never Going Back Again (great acoustic guitar sound, vocals and guitar all by Lindsey Buckingham
Don't Stop (Christine McVie)
Go Your Own Way
The Chain (great guitar sounds, including a Dobro, and has a fretless bass solo )
Gold Dust Woman (another great guitar sound - Dobro, and is about Stevie Nicks' cocaine addiction)
6 of the 11 tracks are very famous
Pixies
2/5
Fairport Convention
1/5
Do NOT like her voice.
Folk
Beck
4/5
Dreary album (after a breakup with his long term girlfriend), but it deserves a couple of listens to let or sink in.
Wiki: "the album features themes of heartbreak and desolation, solitude, and loneliness. For the album, much of Beck's trademark cryptic and ironic lyrics were replaced by simpler, more sincere lyrical content."
"Little One" has a Nirvana feel
Bert Jansch
2/5
Scottish folk singer and gifted guitar picker.
Running From Home
Angie (guitar only)
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Scarborough Fair / Canticle
Homeward Bound
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy)
7 O'Clock News / Silent Night
Jack White
4/5
I didn't expect to like this album very much, but the whole album is keyboard heavy which adds a tone and texture I didn't know that Jack White used. Worth extra listenings.
Missing Pieces (cool keyboards)
Weep Themselves To Sleep
I'm Shakin'
Trash Tongue Talker
Hip Poor Boy
Guess I Should Go To Sleep
On and On and On
The Isley Brothers
2/5
Not fond of 18 track albums which includes alternate versions of the same songs, especially with the 3 biggest hits being covers!
That Lady (funk cover of their own 1964 song)
Listen To The Music (Doobie Brothers cover)
Summer Breeze (Seals & Crofts cover)
Def Leppard
2/5
Lots of radio hits, but other than "Pour Some Sugar On Me", I was never a fan of Def Leppard.
Dennis Wilson
4/5
Never heard of him, but quite a good album. Worth a 2nd listen
The Who
1/5
Ugh, why are live albums on this list?
Koffi Olomide
1/5
Nope
The Young Rascals
3/5
Sounds like happy go lucky band like the monkees, but with better musicians.
Groovin' is a classic.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Normally not a fan of live albums, but this one makes sense since they needed an actual concert hall organ for part of it. Three incredible musicians!!!
Elliott Smith
3/5
Interesting chord changes throughout.
The Byrds
2/5
"Wild Mountain Thyme"
"Eight Miles High"
ZZ Top
3/5
Four big songs:
Gimme All your Lovin'
Got Me Under Pressure
Sharp Dressed Man
Legs.
I was 11 years old when this album came out, and I remember drawing that car in my art book.
Duke Ellington
3/5
38 tracks over 2 hours is a big listen, but it's nice to hear old style jazz.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Amazing 1969 album!
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Bell Bottom Blues
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Key To The Highway
Layla
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Sappy love songs
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Harry Nilsson has such a dynamic and interesting voice.
Without You & Coconut are the most recognizable songs.
Beth Orton
2/5
Forgettable
Cypress Hill
3/5
Fun & angry. Reminds me of Eminem & Beastie Boys... goofy hip hop at times, but solid blues and funk samples throughout.
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Block Rockin' Beats
Dig Your Own Hole (workout music)
Setting Sun
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Don't normally approve of live albums, but the audience is virtually nonexistent other than intro and outro clapping. Nice laid back piano jazz.
Lou Reed
2/5
Perfect Day
Walk On The Wild Side
Radiohead
4/5
High and Dry
Fake Plastic Trees
Nice Dream
Just
Street Spirit
Little Simz
2/5
Excellent music (samples and loops), but I can't take British rappers seriously.
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Neat to listen to once, but not my kind of music.
Kate Bush
2/5
Artsy! Not radio friendly though.
The Strokes
2/5
Hard to listen to an entire album with the same processed vocals.
Last Night is the big hit.
Basic rock with a hint of punk.
The Kinks
1/5
Waterloo Sunset is decent.
Happy go lucky album.
UB40
3/5
Ska, i like the sax.
5/5
Take a Bow: cool chord progression, fast arpeggiated synths sounds futuristic with big power chords on the guitar;
Starlight: poppy happy synth melody, but gets grungier and angrier before quietly sings the album title in the lyrics;
Supermassive Black Hole: heavy sound at first, but with falsetto voice and some harmony, industrial sounds near end a la Nine Inch Nails;
Soldier's Poem: slow 6-8 in the style of Elvis' Can't Help Falling In Love With You; nice chords and interesting chromatic vocal harmonies in the style of the Beatles and Queen, but a dark story;
Invincible: starts with slow military marching drum with sad organ playing a pretty chord progression, but builds up with a synth sounding like a theramin, sounds inspired by U2 after two minutes mark, after 3:30 it gets grungier and angrier with histrionic fast arpeggiated chords on the lead guitar
Assassin: best (angry) song on the album, driving, thrashing, angry, cool rhythm guitar;
Exo-Politics: theramin synth again, vocal harmony;
City of Delusion: very dramatic song starts with acoustic guitar quick strumming then driving bass line, then a middle eastern synth feel before turning to harder rock followed by quick synth bass line that sounds like it's under water. Acoustic guitar followed by rumpet line in spanish feel starting at 3:30. Great song to pound along with on guitar, piano, or drums;
Knights of Cydonia: dramatic sound in the spaghetti western feel of Ennio Morricone's movie music, then surfer guitar with simple melody on distorted electric guitar with a bit of trumpet followed by a vocal harmony section.
Donald Fagen
1/5
Wow, not at all my style of music! I am stunned that this horrible album is on ANY list. How did this album warrant a spot?!?
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Scottish Psychedelic Folk.
The Temptations
3/5
Cloud Nine
I Heard It Through The Grapevine (cover, better known by Gladys Knight & Marvin Gaye)
Gonna Keep Tryin'
Love
1/5
Nope. 60s psychedelia.
Beatles
3/5
~ TaxMan
~ Yellow Sumarine
***** Eleanor Rigby *****, just 2:06
***** Tomorrow Never Knows
OutKast
2/5
Ms. Jackson
Bombs over Baghdad
Xplosion
Queen
1/5
Led Zeppelin knock-off.
The album probably tells a whole story that I'm not interested in.
Tina Turner
3/5
Famous tracks:
What's Love Got To Do With It (but not a great song);
Private Dancer (surprisingly long at 7:14, and includes some sultry sax, written by Mark Knopfler);
Better Be Good To Me (good song, with a ~ rock feel);
Interesting covers:
I Can't Stand The Rain
Let's Stay Together (Al Green)
Help! (Beatles, but in a motown / gospel feel, with Jeff Beck on guitar)
Primal Scream
3/5
Scottish band with a dreamier, gentler sound than you'd expect with 'Primal Scream' as the band name. Even some song titles imply that they'd be a hard rock angry band.
Movin' On Up is my favourite track.
Tricky
2/5
Hell is Round the Corner is a remake of a Potroishead remake.
Deep Purple
2/5
Only 2 songs available on Spotify
Jeff Buckley
4/5
This album shows off his vocal control and vulnerability, especially when accompanied by mostly stripped down arrangements.
Grace has cool chords and strumming.
Hallelujah is a great cover.
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Holy hell, that was awful!
Queen
3/5
You're My Best Friend
'39 (about going off to war)
Bohemian Rhapsody
God Save The Queen
The rest are very strange.
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Very good explanations and demonstrations before playing.
Kanye West
5/5
Chipmunk Soul & Hip Hop with lots of real instruments including violin and grreat bass lines.
"All Falls Down"
"Spaceship" (samples Marvin Gaye)
"Jesus Walks"
"Never Let Me Down"
"Get Em High"
"The New Workout Plan"
"Slow Jamz"
"School Spirit" (chipmunk sample of Aretha Franklin)
"Two Words"
"Family Business"
Elbow
4/5
Voice sounds like Sting, Seal and Peter Gabriel.
The Bones of You is my favourite.
Funkadelic
2/5
LSD inspired album.
Some songs sound like Jimi Hendrix Experience
Goldfrapp
3/5
Interesting vocal computer effects.
Reminds me of Portishead
Fatboy Slim
4/5
* Rockefeller Skank
Gangster Trippin
Kalifornia
Soul Surfing
You're Not From Brighton
* Praise You
Charles Mingus
4/5
Different kind of jazz
Milton Nascimento
2/5
Portuguese?
Reminds me of ELP
Eels
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Amazing double album and concept.
Love how "In the Flesh?" later becomes "In the Flesh".
Eagles
3/5
Three big hits are:
Take It Easy, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Witchy Woman (not a fan of this one), with one more decent track "Train Leaves Here This Morning". The rest is sub-par.
Alanis Morissette
4/5
1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 (9/8) chords, 10, 11
Soundgarden
3/5
Fell On Black Days (changing time signature)
Black Hole Sun
Spoonman
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
I can't believe this is their DEBUT album!
Tuesday's Gone
Gimme Three Steps
Simple Man
Things Goin' On (love the honky tonk piano)(political commentary)
Free Bird
Mister Banker (demo) great blues guitar sound
The Smiths
3/5
Reminds me of The Housemartins, lots of quick acoustic guitar strumming and skiffle drumming.
The Headmaster Ritual
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Barbarism Begins at Home
Meat Is Murder
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Drab and dreary.
Two decent songs:
Suzanne
So Long, Marianne
Radiohead
3/5
Knives Out
U2
3/5
Even Better Than the Real Thing
One
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Mysterious Ways
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking (first 2:40 is standard rock then the last five minutes has a very different groove a jazz jam featuring a gritty sax solo by Bobby Keys and Billy Preston on organ, and Keith's guitar solo sounds A LOT like Carlos Santana)
You Gotta Move (Southern black gospel song)
Bitch
I Got The Blues (slow 6/8) with an explosive Hammond organ solo by Billy Preston
Dead Flowers!!
Metallica
1/5
There is far too much Metallica on this 1001 album list!
Slayer
1/5
Ugh
Willie Nelson
2/5
Mostly forgettable covers, but a great version of Blue Skies
Beach House
1/5
Boring, forgettable, dreary.
Syd Barrett
1/5
Not sure why Syd Barrett is on this list.
"Long Gone" sounds like an early Rolling Stones song.
Gang Starr
4/5
Early rap with understandable lyrics and musical samples.
Rush
2/5
Prog rock before they made radio friendly music.
Nick Drake
5/5
1969 album by British solo artist. Amazing guitar picking and all acoustic instruments including upright bass. One song has an oboe.
Nine Inch Nails
3/5
Angry, dense industrial music with vocals hidden in the mix for most of it.
Mr. Self Destruct
Heresy
Closer
Hurt
Norah Jones
5/5
Amazingly quiet and controlled vocals and subtle piano accompaniment.
Don't Know Why
Seven Years
Cold Cold Heart
Come Away With Me
Turn Me On
Lonestar
I've Got To See You Again
One Flight Down
Mudhoney
1/5
Amusing musical reference album title, but garbage garage band calibre music.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
You Are The Sunshine of my Life
Maybe Your Baby (great clarinet & Moog bass combo)
Tuesday Heartbreak has sax by David Sanborn (very similar to the sax sound in David Bowie's Young Americans)
Superstition
Big Brother
Blame it on the Sun
I Believe (when I fall in love)
Mott The Hoople
3/5
70s dirty rock, some about muscle cars, but singer sounds like Bowie
Anita Baker
3/5
Lovely soul voice, but dated 1986 style of music.
John Lennon
3/5
Commentary on the Vietnam War
"Imagine"
"Jealous Guy"
"Oh My Love"
"How Do You Sleep" (Attack of Paul McCartney)
Black Sabbath
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Black Dog - unusual and changing time signature
Rock and Roll - simple I-IV-V song seems to refer to older rock songs
Stairway to Heaven - classic (features the recorder)
Misty Mountain Hop (about legalizing marijuana
Four Sticks- 5/4 and 6/8
Going to California- quiet folk song with mandolin (no drums)
When The Levee Breaks, 1927 blues song about the great Mississipi Flood of 1927 - my absolute favourite from this album, famously the drums were recorded in a tall stairwell with mics suspended from above.
Adele
3/5
Beautiful voice! Mostly sad songs about lost love
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Two very good songs:
Monday Monday
California Dreamin'
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Mrs. Robinson
A Hazy Shade of Winter (original)
Tom Waits
4/5
Tango Till They're Sore
Diamonds and Gold
Hang Down Your Head
Time
Gun Street Girl
Blind Love (with Keith Richards as guest artist)
Downtown Train (also recorded by Rod Stewart and Bob Seger)
man in artwork is NOT Tom Waits, but rather a man named 'Rose' and the woman is 'Lilly' by Swedish photographer Anders Petersen at Café Lehmitz in the late 1960s.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
Vocalist from Blur / Gorillaz
Bob Dylan
3/5
Very good music and musicians, but terrible voice.
Rainy Day Woman (Everybody Must Get Stoned)
I Want You
Stuck Inside of Mobile
Just Like a Woman
Talking Heads
3/5
Unusual
The Style Council
2/5
All over the place... soft jazz, instrumental, rap, synth pop!
The Thrills
3/5
California themed folk pop
Talk Talk
5/5
Incredible vocals by Mark Hollis.
Happiness is Easy
I Don't Believe (in) You
Life's What You Make It
Living In Another World (amazing harmonica solo)
Time It's Time
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Forgettable
Meat Loaf
4/5
Awesome album art!
Interesting mix of rock songs and sappy love songs. Great use of piano throughout.
Bat out of Hell (nearly 10 minutes)
Two out of Three Ain't Bad
Paradise by the Dashboard Light (8.5 minutes)
The Associates
1/5
Bizarre Scottish duo,
Sometimes sounding like Bowie's vocals, i.e. 'Gloomy Sunday'
David Crosby
3/5
1st track has a rick feel that doesn't jive with the rest of this laid back album. It's Savid Crosby, but Graham Nash, Neil Young, and Jerry Garcia are all on this album too.
Laughing (backing vocals by Joni Mitchell)
Traction in the Rain (featuring the autoharp)
Song With No Words
Paul Simon
3/5
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Congratulations
Paranoia Blues (I prefer thedemk version)
Slipknot
1/5
Impressive musicality, but too angry for me.
ZZ Top
3/5
Waitin' for the Bus
(which seamlessly blends into)
Jesus Just Left Chicago
La Grange
Everything But The Girl
1/5
Forgettable
Foo Fighters
3/5
Impressive that all music, singing, and instruments were all performed by Dave Grohl.
The one non-angry radio hit was 'Big Me'.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Faux live album with audience sounds added afterwards;
Incredible vocals by Janis Joplin.
Summertime (jazz standard in a blues style)
Piece of my Heart
Turtle Blues (traditional piano blues)
Bell and Chain (long electric blues vamp)
Pere Ubu
1/5
Like Talking Heads, but weirder
Thin Lizzy
1/5
Live albums simply shouldn't be on this list.
Funkadelic
3/5
Only one track available on Spotify.
Elliott Smith
3/5
Acoustic folk rock, acoustic guitar and subtle drums to reveal whisperry, quiet vocals with his own vocal harmonies.
Hints of Nirvana's unplugged session, and CSNY, and some Beatles vocal harmonies.
Between the Bars reminds me of Zombie by the Cranberries.
Queen Latifah
2/5
19 years old when she released this, but 1989 hip hop doesn't age well.
LCD Soundsystem
1/5
Forgettable electronica
Tracy Chapman
2/5
Fast Car was the radio single.
The rest doesn't appeal to me.
Pretenders
2/5
Chrissie Hynde has such a great voice, low pitched, but controlled tremolo. Not sure why 'Brass in Pocket' is the big radio hit from this album.
Wilco
3/5
American version of Blue Rodeo
(Or is Blue Rodeo the Canadian version of Wilco?!)
I've always heard about this group, but never really listened before.
A few songs that caught my ear:
Forget The Flowers
Red-Eyed and Blue
Why Would You Wanna Live.
Spiritualized
3/5
Voice reminds me of Gorillaz.
Some grungy chaotic rock with harmonica.
Some choir mixed in.
'Cool Waves' has a good vibe.
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Go West (cover of Village People 1979 song) uses Pachelbel Canon chord progression.
Björk
1/5
I like the versatility and vulnerability of her voice, but I don't understand her music.
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
Everyday People
See Machine
I Want To Take You Higher
Bob Dylan
3/5
Blowin' in the Wind
A Hard Rain's a-gonna Fall
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
George Harrison
2/5
My Sweet Lord
Isn't It a Pity
What Is Life
Turbonegro
1/5
Shite, boring immature angry teenage garage rock
Marty Robbins
2/5
Fun Cowboy ballads.
Smooth crooning voice like Roy Orbison or Elvis Presley.
The Strawberry Roan (horse song, but sounds like swearing each time he sings "buck")
El Paso
Holger Czukay
2/5
Eclectic.
"Hollywood Music" has some cool moments.
David Bowie
3/5
Let's Spend The Night Together (Rolling Stones cover)
Jean Genie
David Bowie
2/5
Golden Years
Aphex Twin
1/5
Ambient electronic. No thanks.
1/5
1969 Hard rock / punk. No thanks.
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Fun album!
Cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" has hints of Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive"
Filthy / Gorgeous
Music is the Victim
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Rocks Off
(Shake Your Hips is very close to ZZ Top's LA Grange)
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia (acoustic)
Sweet Black Angel (acoustic)
Happy
Let It Loose
Shine a Light (so good!)
Ray Charles
4/5
First half is big band; second half if string ballads.
Let The Good Times Roll
It Had To Be You
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
Am I Blue
Come Rain or Come Shine
Talvin Singh
3/5
Tabla mix of traditional Indian and east Asian music with modern trance drum beats.to be listened to loud or with headphones.
Traveller
Butterfly
Sutrix
Eclipse (very percussive)
Light (incredibly fast finger drumming on the tabla at 3:30 mark along beautiful flute playing)
Brian Eno
2/5
In Dark Trees has a cool undeveloped vibe in a soundtrack style.
He is transitioning toward ambient music
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Wow, such dark, religious, end of life introspection.
David Bowie
2/5
Changes
Life on Mars
The Monks
1/5
Easy review...
Spotify only lists one song on this album.
Amazon Music doesn't even show this album.
I do remember the album art for another Monks album: Bad Habits with a sexy nun.
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Trip Hop - forgettable
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (3 parts)
Nick Drake
2/5
Easy listening
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
Don't love his voice
Stan Getz
3/5
Sax and guitar samba
Steely Dan
2/5
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
The rest is forgettable
Blur
2/5
Girls & Boys
Park Life
The Cardigans
3/5
Lovefool
Stay With Me
Pulp
3/5
Low sing/talking sounds like Lou Reed / David Bowie
The Fear (Am - E - F - C) reminds me of Muse.
This is Hardcore reminds me of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'.
A Little Soul could be Tom Petty
Michael Jackson
5/5
Wanna Be Start Something
Thriller
Beat It
Billie Jean
Human Nature
PYT
6 huge tracks and 1 horrible duet
Le Tigre
1/5
Wow, this is awful, especially her vocals!
Solomon Burke
4/5
Great vocals.
Cry To Me
Goodbye Baby (6/8)
If You Need Me (Wilson Pickett)
Can't Nobody Love You (lyrics reference Sam Cooke and Ray Charles)
Won't You Give Him (One More Chance)
Megadeth
1/5
Why so angry?
And a double album, with the second half being live versions of crappy songs?
No thanks
The Stooges
1/5
Not a fan of punk rock
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Church like high male tight harmonies with folk feel, sounds like CSNY & Hozier
Sun it Rises
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Your Protector
Meadowlarks
Depeche Mode
5/5
Incredible album... first 9 tracks are all memorable.
The whole album is dark and sad except for Strangelove.
The most memorable tracks are:
Never Let Me Down Again
Strangelove
Little 15 (featuring timpani)(last track of side 1)
Behind The Wheel
Bonus tracks are mostly instrumental remixes, except for the last song, Pleasure, Little Treasure was released as the B single single to Never Let Me Down Again.
Chicago
3/5
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
Beginnings
I'm a Man
Liberation (first 2 and last 2 minutes)
Love the chord progression: Bb, Eb, C7, F7
Gm, Eb, C7, Eb with chromatic movement (later used in a James Bond theme)
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
Sloppy rock
Queen
2/5
Killer Queen
Stone Cold Crazy
The Doors
3/5
Love Her Madly
L.A. Woman
Riders On The Storm
Fiona Apple
1/5
Not my style
Janet Jackson
2/5
Rhythm Nation
Miss You Much.
Too political with her messaging. Sounds just like MJ.
Neil Young
4/5
Heart of Gold
Old Man
There's a World
Alabama
The Needle and The Damage Done
Words (Between the Lines of Age) (has an interesting subtractive time signature of 3+3+3+2 or 6+5)
Sparks
1/5
Not my style. Reminds me of Kate Bush
Violent Femmes
3/5
Lead singer has a Mick Jagger feel to his delivery.
Love the unplugged bass throughout.
Blister In the Sun
Add It Up
Confessions
Gone Daddy Gone (featuring xylophone)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Around The World
Parallel Universe
Scar Tissue
Otherside
Californication
Porcelain
Right On Time
Road Trippin'
Wilco
2/5
Jesus, etc.
Reservations
Otherwise forgettable album
R.E.M.
2/5
9-9 has a great sound.
The rest is forgettable.
Mekons
1/5
Not much more annoying than a fiddle played out of tune.
Aimee Mann
2/5
It's not that it's bad, but how is this part of the top 1001?!
Completely forgettable mainstream young woman country music, just like hundreds of others just like her.
2/5
Busy, too much going on. I prefer Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Randy Newman
4/5
Vocals sound like Ray Charles at times.
Some piano ragtime influences.
Commentary on the deep south.
N word used repeat6in first song Redneck
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Mellow, lots of harmonica
1/5
Noise Rock ain't my jam
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Wesley's Theory
King Kunta
Alright
How Much a Dollar Cost
The Blacker The Berry
I
Mortal Man
(Listen to the podcast 'Dissect' that analyzes this album)
Buck Owens
3/5
The Band Keeps Playin' On.
Streets of Laredo (deep voice)
Cryin' Time (written by B.O., but famously recorded by Ray Charles.
Act Naturally (live version)(not written by B.O., but recorded by The Beatles in 1965.)
Miles Davis
1/5
Noise
The Byrds
2/5
Not very interesting American late 60s pseudo psychedelia.
David Bowie
3/5
No radio hits.
Some instrumental tracks.
Pixies
3/5
90s punk / rock
Here Comes Your Man
Silver
Morrissey
3/5
Solo work by the singer from The Smiths. Reminds me of the Housemartins.
One memorable song is Suedehead.
The Byrds
3/5
Title track is most recognized, bit they all have the same overall sound with the vocal harmonies and the jangling guitar sound.
Judas Priest
2/5
Living After Midnight
Rapid Fire
Red, White, and Blue
Tito Puente
4/5
Fun Cuban Music
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Incredible album.
Red Rain
Sledge Hammer
Don't Give Up (Duet with Kate Bush)
That Voice Again
Big Time (featuring Tiny Levin's funk fingers (mini drum sticks to play bass guitar))
In Your Eyes
Sugar
2/5
Reminds me of Foo Fighters
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1/5
Experimental rock vamping on the Bo Diddley rhythm, pretty boring
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1/5
I disagree
Paul McCartney
2/5
Maybe I'm Amazed is the one radio hit.
The Coral
4/5
Rock with vocal harmonies and organ and some reggae rhythm.
I Remember When
Dreaming of You
Wildfire
The KLF
3/5
Album not available on Spotify, but a couple of radio hits:
Justified & Ancient (with Tammy Wynette)
3am Eternal
Sebadoh
1/5
Awful
Def Leppard
3/5
Photograph
Foolin'
Rock of Ages
are the big radio hits.
Well produced and polished sound, but not my genre.
Ice Cube
3/5
Album is part 'bitches & hoes' and partly racial commentary after the Rodney King beating where the 4 officers were acquitted.
It Was a Good Day
Check Yo Self (samples 1963 recording of "I'm Blue" by The Sweet Inspirations, (written by Ike Turner))(same sample as the following year's 'Shoop' by Salt 'n' Pepa)
Sisters Of Mercy
1/5
Terrible 80s synth goth pop
Bowie-ish false manly voice
Peter Frampton
4/5
I usually object to live albums on this list, but this is the only album I know by Peter Frampton.
Show Me The Way
Baby, I Love Your Way
Do You Feel Like We Do
Massive Attack
3/5
Mellow trip Hop.
My favorites are the ones with guest female singers.
Protection & Better Things with Tracey Thorn
Three & Sly with Nicolette
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Nothing special.
Prince
3/5
Sign of the Times (political commentary over a pop song)
House quake (dance song)
U Got the Look (very 80s)
If I was Your Girlfriend
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (80s pop)
Adore
Sam Cooke
3/5
I don't believe live albums should be on this list, but at least it was a collection of his biggest hits.
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
Beautiful instrumental album.
Particularly like the three way call and response between the flute, guitar, and santoor (dulcimer) in the opening track.
Meat Puppets
2/5
Don't like his voice.
Some instrumental tracks have a nice sound though.
Brian Eno
3/5
Cross between Talking Heads & Devo then his Mellow stuff.
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Tracy Thorn has a lovely voice. (She was q guest singer on the recently rated Massive Attack album)
I Don't Wanna Talk About It is a nice cover.
The Night I Heard Caruso Sing is a pretty duet.
Apron Strings is also pretty.
The Shamen
2/5
Forgettable early Dance / electronica
The National
3/5
Nice low voice.
Overall sad feeling songs.
Sonic Youth
2/5
Lazy, sloppy punk rock music
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
They shouldn't have used the Extended Edition, which might mislead a new listener to think this important historical album and song was released in 2010 instead of 1982.
Soft Machine
2/5
Experimental jazz fusion. Excellent musicians (except the occasional singing), but not my kind of music
Laibach
1/5
Growly German vocals over inconsistent genre music.
Jungle Brothers
4/5
Old school hip hop where you can understand the words that they are rapping
Jurassic 5
4/5
More excellent old school Hip Hop with understandable rapping.
David Bowie
3/5
I'm surprised that this album is on the list considering his other more prominent works.
Rush
4/5
4 big hits in a row...
Tom Sawyer
Red Barchetta
YYZ (love this instrumental)
Limelight
Cream
3/5
Sunshine of Your Love
Take It Back (Clapton blues)
John Coltrane
3/5
McCoy Tyner's piano is the best part of this album. Not as difficult to listen to as his other albums, but I don't understand the big deal about Coltrane.
PJ Harvey
2/5
Weird like Bjork
Frank Zappa
2/5
Mostly instrumental only. Tough on the ears; not an album you need to hear twice; great musicianship, but rock jazz fusion is not easy to enjoy.
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Unusual. No natural flow to the melodies or instrumentation. Sounds like a collection of musical snipets, which is quite tiring on the ears.
The Fall
2/5
Crappy punk
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
Surprisingly good.
Nice combination of fiddle and horns.
CHIC
2/5
Not much of interest other than the one radio hit.
Travis
4/5
Sounds remind me of Oasis and Crowded House and the vocalist reminds me of Thom York.
Some mellow radio hits from a Scottish Band...
Writing To Reach You
The Last of the Laughter
Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
Laura Nyro
2/5
Her voice is too high for my liking. Her vocal style is like Carole King.
Korn
3/5
1998 angry rock
Freak on a Leash
All in the Family (with Fred Durst)
Bauhaus
2/5
A little strange for me
The Last Shadow Puppets
4/5
Worth an extra listen
Morrissey
3/5
Not bad
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Completely forgettable pop rock
TLC
3/5
Creep
Waterfalls
If I Was Your Girlfriend (Prince cover)
Bee Gees
2/5
Terrible. Trying to sound like the Beatles
Weather Report
3/5
Jazz rock fusion with fretless bass fearured
Birdland is the big hit.
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
All acoustic Afro-Cuban music. Very relaxed.
Chan Chan (Dm, F, Gm, A7)
Veinte Anos
Amor de Loco juventud
Sister Sledge
3/5
He's the Greatest Dancer is sampled in Will Smith's Get Jiggy With It.
We Are Family is the big 1979 hit.
TV On The Radio
3/5
Unusual sound.
Dreams is a neat sound.
Gang Of Four
1/5
More forgettable punk rock
Beatles
5/5
Double album 1968 (last one by the Beatles)
Back in the USSR
Obladi oblada
Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blackbird
Rocky Raccoon
(6 of 17 tracks on disc 1)
Birthday
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
(3 of 13 tracks on disc 2)
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
Salsa music recorded in 1978 so with a bit of disco feel and a funky bass. Great brass.
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Crosstown Traffic
Let The Good Times Roll
All Along the Watchtower
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Mj Cole
2/5
Dance based electronica. Cool sounds, just not my thing.
Ryan Adams
4/5
Reminds me of Blue Rodeo
(Worth another listen)
To Be Young
My Winding Wheel
Oh My Sweet Carolina
Bartering Lines
Call Me In Your Way Back Home
Come Pick Me Up
Why Do They Leave?
Sweet Lil' Gal
Sleater-Kinney
2/5
Grunge alt rock with terrible female vocalist
k.d. lang
4/5
Incredible Canadian album. Not only does kd have a lovely voice, but her backup singers add some wonderful warm harmonies too.
Save Me
The Mind of Love
Miss Chatelaine
Still Thrives This Love
*** Season of Hollow Soul *** (cool sax line)
Constant Craving
Prefab Sprout
2/5
Adult pop with a bit of jazz influence
Common
3/5
The Questions
A Film Called (PIMP)
Geto Heaven Part Two (with Macy Gray)
Sounds like Common influenced Kendrick Lamar
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Interesting collection of songs, but none of it seems to be HIM!
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Lonesome Day
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
The Rising
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Not very interesting, even if they are Scottish.
Gotan Project
4/5
Tango (featuring accordion and violin) with some vocal tracks and some instrumental tracks, but with a trip-hop / electronica beat. Cool marriage of the genres.
Época
Chunga's Revenge
Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Basically one long, connected recording where each track bleeds into the next.
What's Going On
Mercy Mercy Me
Right On (a rare moment with a distinct change of feel from.the previous track)
Madonna
2/5
Terrible
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5
Electronic noise / forgettable music
The Specials
3/5
Ska
The Byrds
2/5
Not my jam.
Carole King
4/5
I Feel the Earth Move
So Far Away (with James Taylor on guitar)
It's Too Late
You've Got a Friend (recorded and released that same year by James Taylor)
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (originally released by The Shirelles in 1960)
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (music by Carole King, lyrics by Jerry Wexler, originally recorded by Aretha Franklin in 1967)
I really like her piano playing style.
The xx
2/5
Infinity sounds a lot like Wicked Games by Chris Isaac.
Otherwise just a relaxing groove background music album.
Klaxons
5/5
English Indie Rock that reminds me of Muse with driving rhythms and suspended chords and cool keyboards and heavy bass. Vocals is reminiscent of Brandon Flowers (The Killers).
The band only released three albums.
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Not my jam
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Radio hits:
Somebody to Love
White Rabbit
Pretty guitar instrumental track: Embryonic Journey
Christina Aguilera
4/5
Powerful vocals!
I thought a double album of her voice would be too much of the same thing, but she plays in many different styles throughout.
The Lemonheads
2/5
Like Blue Rodeo, but forgettable.
Fairport Convention
2/5
Mostly folksy music with mild electric guitars and a whispy female lead vocalist.
But some tracks are a bit more rocking.
The one that stands out to me is 'Autopsy' which is in 5/4 time.
Arrested Development
3/5
Religious tinged 90's hip hop (my favourite because I can understand the lyrics)
People Everyday
Mr. Wendal
Fishin' for Religion
The Dictators
1/5
Loud basic low brow punk rock
3/5
Moonage Dream
Starman
Lady Stardust
Ziggy Stardust
Suffragette City
Minor Threat
1/5
Hard-core punk
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Industrial noise / found sound.
Schieß Euch Ins Blut sounds like it might contain the Wilhelm Scream.
Hole
3/5
Radio hit is Celebrity Skin.
I also like Use Once And Destroy
and
Northern Star.
I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I like Courtney Love's voice, and some songs are alternative rock as you'd expect, but some songs were softer with acoustic guitar.
Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, contributed to five songs on the album.
Randy Newman
3/5
Mostly piano and voice with some orchestral backup and thought provoking lyrics.
Lonely at the Top
My favourite is God's Song (Why I Love Mankind) which is deviously dark
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Badlands
Adam Raised a Cain
Candy's Room
Racing In The Street (quiet piano piece)
The Promised Land
Darkness on.the Edge of Town
Ash
2/5
Forgettable alternative rock
Raekwon
1/5
Rap mixed with dialog as if he's acting in a play / movie
Grizzly Bear
2/5
Interesting sounds, but not memorable
Linkin Park
3/5
Angry
Machito
4/5
Fun Afro-Cuban big band instrumental music from 1957
Grateful Dead
3/5
Calm relaxing folk with mostly all acoustic instruments and pretty male harmony
Friend of the Devil
Ripple
Truckin' (radio hit) that sounds like The Beatles' The Ballad of John and Yoko
Duran Duran
4/5
Disco / New Wave Pop with very talented John Taylor on bass
Rio
Lonely in Your Nightmare
Hungry Like The Wolf
Save A Prayer
The Chauffeur
Jacques Brel
3/5
Understandable French chansons
Can
2/5
Instrumental ambient music
Pantera
1/5
Angry heavy metal
TV On The Radio
4/5
Unique sound and interesting vocals
MC Solaar
2/5
French rap / hip hop / popular music.
The Sonics
1/5
It makes no sense having a cover band on this list.
Girls Against Boys
2/5
Forgettable rock
The Smiths
3/5
Better than their depressing other music. Kinda upbeat, and played on acoustic instruments.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Excellent! Very listenable.
Beastie Boys
3/5
Good sampling
Gram Parsons
4/5
Nice, easy going country folk rock. Reminds me of Kris Kristofferson with Rita Coolidge.
Love Hurts is a nice version.
Steely Dan
2/5
Good musicians, but I just don't like this style of music
Kings of Leon
3/5
Interesting voice. Solid rock band.
3 stars
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Not a big fan if vocal jazz, but it was nice to hear all these Gershwin songs as sung by Ella.
Someone to Watch Over Me
They All Laughed
The Half of it Dearie Blues
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Embraceable You
I Got Rhythm
Orbital
2/5
Electronic dande beats
Traffic
3/5
Spencer Davis' band (before his solo career).
Good music, but his high voice sounds strained.
Glad is an instrumental track.
Title track is good.
Lana Del Rey
2/5
breathy thin voice, especially in upper register; harmony is mostly octave unison, and there isn't a lot of movement on her melodies; quiet contemplative brooding music
Madonna
3/5
Like a Prayer
Til Death Do US Part
Cherish
Fugazi
2/5
Hard rock, punk rock, mostly instrumental
Good musicians
Nirvana
4/5
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In.Bloom
Come As You Are
Lithium
~ Polly
Something In The Way
Os Mutantes
3/5
Gifted musicians.
Sounds like Psychedelic Beatles, but sung in Brazilian Portuguese
Screaming Trees
3/5
Decent rock band
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Pump It Up
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
Lipstick Vogue
Radio
Youssou N'Dour
2/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Forgettable (Scottish) rock
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Songs with male singer reminds me of B-52s and Talking Heads.
Bjork's voice is particularly strong in Birthday and F***ing in Rhythm and Sorrow.
Dr. John
2/5
Louisiana music
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Good rock band
Sounds like Wheezer meets Foo. FIghters; rock with classical strings
'Everything Must Go'
Further Away
Britney Spears
2/5
Title track is great, but not the rest of the album
Santana
3/5
Oye Como Va (Tito Puente cover)
Black Magic Woman
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Awful punk (post punk)
The Triffids
2/5
Forgettable
(Definitely didn't need to be a double disk album with rehearsal / demo recordings for each track)
Adele
4/5
Excellent album!
4 big hits:
Rolling In The Deep
Rumour Has It
Set Fire to the Rain
Someone Like You.
I also like:
He Won't Go
Take it All
I'll Be Waiting
Lovesong
The Prodigy
2/5
Break beats
Jeff Beck
3/5
Rod Stewart vocals are great, Jeff Beck's guitar sounds are innovative. Big musicians on this blues based record.
The Fall
2/5
Punk B52s
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
Reminds me of The Waterboys
Kings of Leon
4/5
Lead singer has a unique and powerful voice. The rock band is 3 brothers and a cousin.
Sex on Fire
Use Somebody
Manhattan
Notion
Lou Reed
2/5
I like his vocal delivery.
Tim Buckley
2/5
Not a fan. I don't understand the fascination with him, nor his son Jeff... because they died young?
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Synth pop
Aerosmith
3/5
Two big hits:
Walk.This Way
Sweet Emotion
Uncle Salty has elements that are found in Shania Twain's 'I Feel Like a Woman'
The Saints
2/5
Long album of Australian punk music.
One track I liked was 'No, Your Product'
Gillian Welch
3/5
Dear Someone
Red Clay Halo (this song has a country twang)
Elvis Presley Blues
She sings on the 'O Brother Where Art Thou' soundtrack (including the Sirens song 'Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby'
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1/5
So cringingly bad.
A very uncomfortable listen with the icky sexual references.
Bobby Womack
2/5
Schmaltzy soul
Barry Adamson
2/5
Industrial / sound track music with dirty sax, reminds me of Art of Noise, Twilight Zone, and Sin City sound tracks
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Blues based band from Timbuktu, Mali (Western Africa).
Some songs with French lyrics, but western music with touches of African influence
Deerhunter
2/5
dreamlike and forgettable
2 star
Circle Jerks
1/5
Hell no to even more hardcore punk rock.
Big Star
2/5
Forgettable
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Mr. Soul
Expecting to Fly
Broken Arrow (changing time signature + clarinet)
SZA
2/5
Not my style of music, but 'Pretty Little Birds' is worth a second listen.
Coldplay
4/5
Wonderful mellow vibe and voice
David Bowie
2/5
Very forgettable album. Even the radio hit 'Heroes' is one of the weaker songs in his collection.
3 of the tracks sound like movie ambient music.
Pentangle
1/5
Renaissance inspired hippie folk music
Fats Domino
2/5
Blueberry Hill
Good for 1957
The Mars Volta
4/5
Hard, fast rock
Van Morrison
4/5
I don't normally like live albums, but this us an excellent exception. His band is really tight and reminds me of the Blues Brothers band which came later (especially the talking trumpet and lead guitar conversations).
Van is channeling James Brown for some of his vocal deliveries.
I like the remake of Ray Charles' I Believe to my Soul.
William Orbit
2/5
Ambient with beats
Eric Clapton
3/5
I Shot The Sherrif
Let It Grow (similar chords to Stairway to Heaven)
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
Not my genre
Iggy Pop
2/5
China Girl was co-wtitten with David Bowie who also recorded this song in 1983. Otherwise low key punk.
M.I.A.
2/5
Interesting beats
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Danceable rock with female singer
Prince
3/5
First three songs are classic, but the rest is quite outdated.
1999
Little Red Corvette
Delirious,
and ~ Lady Cab Driver
Taylor Swift
3/5
Blank Space
Style
Shake It Off
Bad Blood
Sade
4/5
Smooth Operator
Your Love Is King
Hang On To Your Love
Why Can't We Live Together (cover of Timmy Thomas song from 1972)
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Driving angry hard rock, no vocals
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Inspired by 60s motown and pop, but with a beautiful soul voice. Lots of drug references.
Rehab
You Know I'm No Good
Back to Black (personal favourite)
Tears Dry On Their Own
4 star
The Kinks
2/5
forgettable early English rock
Peter Tosh
2/5
Forgettable reggae
Joni Mitchell
1/5
Maybe I should pay attention to the lyrics/stories for each song, but this is completely forgettable. The fretless electric bass was nice, but I don't need to ever listen to this album again.
Bob Dylan
2/5
Like a Rolling Stone is good, but i mostly don't get the fascination with Dylan
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
sound encompasses blues, hip hop, rock, and soul.
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
A few big radio hits and a Prince cover. Don't love her super high voice
4/5
Guilty Pleasures music.
Mostly angry music circa 2000.
Mix of Eminem, NIN, and Metallica.
Fred Durst's vocals are iconic for this Era, but also surprisingly good musicianship with noticeable guitars, bass, and drums.
My Generation
My Way
Rollin'
Take a Look Around beautifully quotes the James Bond theme
Hold On is a surprisingly sweet song with tender vocals including some vocal harmony.
Basement Jaxx
2/5
Dance beats
Black Sabbath
2/5
Early heavy metal
The Monkees
2/5
Sounds like the early Beatles
The Roots
3/5
Reminds me of Black Eyed Peas
Dolly Parton
3/5
Excellent singer / songwriter mostly about peace and love, but lots of country twang.
Baaba Maal
2/5
African with a slight Indian influence
k.d. lang
4/5
Excellent album. I especially like I'm Down To Mt Last Cigarette
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
Old school rap
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Title track is amazing.
Most of the album is bedroom soul.
Mudhoney
1/5
Angry screaming rock
Tom Tom Club
2/5
Genius of Love is the only keeper
Portishead
4/5
Trip hop
The Who
3/5
My Generation
Kids Are Alright
Blur
3/5
Song 2 is the big radio hit.
Merle Haggard
2/5
Old fashioned 'poor me' honky tonk country music
Sepultura
1/5
More Brazilian heavy metal... top 1001?
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Not my jam
Sonic Youth
2/5
Forgettable punk / rock
Supertramp
5/5
Excellent keyboards, all male vocal harmonies plus some saxophone and clarinet.
Overall reminds me of Pink Floyd.
Theramin on Hide in Your Shell?
Janis Joplin
2/5
Powerful, but screechy.
Great cover of Me and Bobby Magee
Dire Straits
3/5
Original release of Sultans of Swing
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
Old school hip hop
Neu!
1/5
Awful
Jane Weaver
2/5
Thin, high female voice, but decent music
Van Halen
3/5
3 big radio hits
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Theme song is awesome, but the restvis forgettable
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Sounds like Chalk Circle, typical 80s sound
Thundercat
4/5
All kinds of fusion: hip hop, jazz, soul and he has some cool bass sounds
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Little Wing and Castles in the Sand are the memorable tracks.
Brian Eno
3/5
Quite a collaboration between two strange guys. Mostly spoken word / speeches rather than singing.
Eagles
4/5
Pulp
5/5
Reminds me of Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and Leonard Cohen.
Interesting use of spoken word while singing.
Overall an amazing britpop album with my two favourite tracks being Commin People and I Spy
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
All beats
Alice Cooper
3/5
Blue Cheer
2/5
60s acid rock
The B-52's
2/5
Quirky album.
Rock Lobster is the one oddball radio hit
Michael Jackson
4/5
Big hits
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Angry but awesome
DJ Shadow
4/5
Very good background beats
AC/DC
4/5
Lots of hits
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
Decent rock
Nitin Sawhney
4/5
Interesting world album, marrying traditional Indian singing with some western musical ideas.
The tonguong speed for 'The Conference' is off the charts fast!
John Prine
3/5
Bob Dylan style folk singing
Illegal Smile
Spanish Pipedream
Sam Stone
Angel from Montgomery
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Very bad album.
Spacemen 3
2/5
Repetitive
Crowded House
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Bird on a wire
Black Sabbath
2/5
A couple of good songs, but not my style
James Taylor
3/5
Title track and Fire & Rain are the two biggest hits.
Soothing music and JT is an incredible acoustic guitarist.
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Absolutely terrible.
Late 60s Frank Zappa style LSD music
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Shingles Star
That's the way of the world
Excellent musicians
Richard Hawley
3/5
Easy listening. Old fashioned
Simply Red
2/5
Moneys Too Tight To Mention
Holding Back the Years
(I don't like when they include alternate versions)
David Holmes
4/5
New York stories/ monologs + great beats.
Music sounds like it should be on the Oceans 11 soundtrack.
Portishead
2/5
I like this band, but this is awful.
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Good song writer, but very weak high voice.
Talking Heads
3/5
Once In a Lifetime is the big radio hit.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Not generally a fan of BD, but this is a good album. His unusual vocal delivery and sometimes too-intense harmonica playing is mellowed out with some good songs.
The Jam
2/5
Forgettable
Talking Heads
3/5
Cities, Heaven, and Life During Wartime.
The Fall
3/5
Forgettable rock.
Singer sounds like Mick Jagger speaking.
Barry Adamson
3/5
Dark at times
Hole
3/5
Violet
Doll Parts
Snoop Dogg
3/5
Gin and Juice
Who Am I