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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
|
5 | 2.82 | +2.18 |
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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
|
5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
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Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
|
5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
|
5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
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It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
|
5 | 3.49 | +1.51 |
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Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
|
5 | 3.61 | +1.39 |
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Orbital 2
Orbital
|
4 | 2.7 | +1.3 |
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Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
|
4 | 2.73 | +1.27 |
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Basket of Light
Pentangle
|
4 | 2.76 | +1.24 |
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What's That Noise?
Coldcut
|
4 | 2.78 | +1.22 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
|
1 | 4.43 | -3.43 |
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
|
1 | 4.3 | -3.3 |
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OK Computer
Radiohead
|
1 | 4.1 | -3.1 |
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London Calling
The Clash
|
1 | 3.98 | -2.98 |
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
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1 | 3.96 | -2.96 |
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What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
|
1 | 3.94 | -2.94 |
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
|
1 | 3.93 | -2.93 |
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
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1 | 3.91 | -2.91 |
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In Rainbows
Radiohead
|
1 | 3.84 | -2.84 |
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Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
|
1 | 3.84 | -2.84 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| The Doors | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 7 | 1.43 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 5 | 1.4 |
| U2 | 4 | 1.25 |
| Sonic Youth | 3 | 1 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 4 | 1.5 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 1.33 |
| John Martyn | 2 | 1 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 2 | 1 |
| Common | 2 | 1 |
| Ice Cube | 2 | 1 |
| Nick Drake | 2 | 1 |
| Elvis Costello | 2 | 1 |
| Marvin Gaye | 2 | 1 |
| Rufus Wainwright | 2 | 1 |
| The Clash | 2 | 1 |
| Elton John | 2 | 1 |
| Emmylou Harris | 2 | 1 |
| Missy Elliott | 2 | 1 |
| Sepultura | 2 | 1 |
| Stephen Stills | 2 | 1 |
| Joni Mitchell | 2 | 1 |
| Radiohead | 5 | 1.8 |
| The Byrds | 5 | 1.8 |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 1.75 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 1.75 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 1.67 |
| Kate Bush | 3 | 1.67 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 1.67 |
| Beck | 3 | 1.67 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 1.5 |
| Wilco | 2 | 1.5 |
| Ryan Adams | 2 | 1.5 |
| Rush | 2 | 1.5 |
| Willie Nelson | 2 | 1.5 |
| T. Rex | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Stooges | 2 | 1.5 |
| Isaac Hayes | 2 | 1.5 |
| Morrissey | 2 | 1.5 |
| Sly & The Family Stone | 2 | 1.5 |
| Madonna | 2 | 1.5 |
| Can | 2 | 1.5 |
| Traffic | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Police | 2 | 1.5 |
| Doves | 2 | 1.5 |
| Mudhoney | 2 | 1.5 |
| Fatboy Slim | 2 | 1.5 |
| Billy Bragg | 2 | 1.5 |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 2 | 1.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine | 2 | 1.5 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 2 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 2 |
| Pixies | 3 | 2 |
| PJ Harvey | 3 | 2 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Oasis | 1, 4 |
| Frank Sinatra | 4, 1 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 5, 2 |
| Peter Gabriel | 4, 1 |
| Paul Simon | 4, 1 |
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Pink Floyd
1/5
Slow and ploddy Psychedelic Rock with iconic album cover featuring plenty of random filler and blase songs. With all the good reviews this feels Like a Case of the emperors new clothes.
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Sigur Rós
3/5
Sehr psychedelisch langsame Musik. Ein bisschen wie Weltraumklänge. Meist ohne Vokals, die als solche erkennbar sind, Ausnahme Agaetis Byrjun.
Soundgarden
3/5
Rockiger Soundteppich. Einige bekannte Songs (bspw. Fell in Black Days, Black Hole Sun, Spoonman).
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
Rap. Nichts für mich.
Motörhead
3/5
Rockiges Album. Heute Standard. Highlight ist der Song Orgasmatron.
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Mit dunkler Stimme in Singer-Song-Writer-Manier eingeladen in eine ruhige Folk Rock Ecke zum verweilen.
Prince
2/5
Singersongwriter Gedudel.
Killing Joke
1/5
Mediokrer Postpunk.
Tom Waits
3/5
Interessanter Singer Song-Writer Instrumental Rock.
Taylor Swift
4/5
Pop hooks and electronic accents make it exciting mainstream, Highlight "Bad Blood". Nice and easy listening.
George Harrison
1/5
Seichte Rockmusik, die selten mitreißt. Fahrstuhlmusik?
Bob Dylan
3/5
Wenig mitreißendes Singer-Song-Writer Gedudel.
Ice T
1/5
Klassischer Rap.
The Prodigy
3/5
Passables Elektroalbum
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Mittelmäßiger Alternative Rock. Klingt leider oft verwaschen.
2/5
20 Minuten Kakophones Saxophon, dann teils melodisch/rythmisch interessant.
Throwing Muses
2/5
Was am Anfang des Albums als vielversprechendes Rock Alternative Album beginnt, rutscht im weiteren in die Mittelmäßigkeit ab.
The Cars
3/5
Mediokres Rockalbum.
AC/DC
4/5
Großartiger Beginn, solider Rock. Höre ich wahrscheinlich noch Mal.
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
Netter Hintergrundjazz bei einem Abendessen.
The Doors
4/5
Genialer Beginn im weiteren guter Rock.
Nico
1/5
Seichtes denglisches Singer-Song-Writer Gedudel bis Geschrammel mit Flöte, Streicher, selten Gitarre.
The Dictators
1/5
Musikalisch seichtes Punk Rock Gedudel.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Folk rock classic, simply not exciting.
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
Schrammeliges Rockalbum
The Afghan Whigs
1/5
Dumpf klingender Alternative Rock.
2/5
Passables Rockalbum. Als Hintergrundmusik akzeptabel.
Talking Heads
2/5
Seichtes Rockalbum.
Radiohead
3/5
Seichter unaufgeregter Rock.
Stereolab
1/5
Teils schrammeliges Vocals bei wenig interessantem Rock.
Rocket From The Crypt
1/5
Schrammeliges Rockalbum.
The Doors
5/5
Nostalgisch klingender, fröhlich stimmender Psychelic-Rock.
The Pharcyde
1/5
American HipHop. Not hoping my way.
Dr. Octagon
3/5
Durch den Charakter Dr. Octagon, einen mörderischen, extraterrestrischen, Zeitreisenden Gynäkologen und Chirurgen mit sehr unterschiedlichen Tracks spannend und musikalisch verdaulich. Trotzdem noch Rap/HipHop.
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
Wundervoll entspannter Jazz von Wohnzimmer bis Empfang immer gut für zwischendurch.
Talvin Singh
2/5
Sphärisches Indie. Weder allein noch im Club wirklich gut.
Femi Kuti
4/5
Erfrischender, teils urwaldlich klingender Afrobeat
Big Star
1/5
Seichter Rock
Oasis
1/5
Blumig-dröger Rock
Rahul Dev Burman
1/5
Schlechte Bollywood Musik
John Martyn
1/5
Lahmer britisch Folk.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Passabel. Reaggie eben.
Linkin Park
4/5
Klassiker der Rock-Musikgeschichte "Crawling", "in the end".
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Ist progressive Rock immer so komisch?
SZA
1/5
Neo-soul und R&B Album, mit Elementen aus Hip-hop, Electronic, Pop, Indie und Soul ist eine ziemlich komplizierte Beschreibung für wenig interessante singende Erzählungen.
David Bowie
1/5
Blumiger Glam Rock.
Brian Eno
2/5
Seichter Rock. Hintergrundmusik.
Baaba Maal
3/5
Senegalesischer mäßig interessant klingender Singer-Song-Writer.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Melodischer Rock. Teils sehr geläufig wie "Under the Bridge".
The Lemonheads
2/5
Seichter Alternative Rock. Bekanntes Lied: Mrs. Robinson
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
Mäßiger Psychedelic Rock.
Public Enemy
2/5
Teils langsam, teils schnell gerappt, bleibt es am Ende Hiphop
Wilco
2/5
Psychedelic bis Indie Rock. Bleibt gleichförmig ereignislos. Erinnert teils wenig glaubhaft an die Melodie von Yellow von Coldplay.
Ryan Adams
1/5
Wehleidiges Rockalbum.
Hugh Masekela
2/5
Background Jazz.
Kate Bush
2/5
Seichter Rock, einzig interessante Ausnahme, da bekannter der erste Song.
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Passabler swinging Jazz. Wunderbar fürs Wohnzimmer.
Lucinda Williams
1/5
Wenig interessanter Country Rock
Mott The Hoople
1/5
Typisch eintöniger Glam Rock.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Passabler Root Rock. Sehr bekannt der Eröffnungssong "Sympathy for the Devils"!
Common
1/5
Üblich dröger Hiphop/Rap.
Steve Earle
4/5
Entspannter Country Rock.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Passabler Blues Rock.
UB40
1/5
Wenig innovativer Reggae.
Janet Jackson
1/5
Dröger swinging R&B.
Led Zeppelin
1/5
Seichter hard Rock.
Deep Purple
4/5
Mostly likeable Hard Rock, too mich screeching for me.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Leiernder gothic Rock.
Astor Piazzolla
1/5
Jazz mit klassischen Instrumenten. Keine gute Idee.
JAY Z
2/5
Passabler Rap.
Moby
4/5
Elektronische Ambientemusik. Im Wohnzimmer oder Fahrstuhl ideal. Ansonsten wenig innovativ.
Neil Young
1/5
Seichter Folk Rock.
The Velvet Underground
1/5
Pretentiöser Art Rock.
Pink Floyd
4/5
Moderately interesting Progressive Rock. Iconic known song "another brick in the wall gets two extra stars.
Ramones
2/5
Iconic opening "Blitzkrieg Bop", othereide uneventful Punk Rock.
Fats Domino
3/5
Mittelmäßig interessanter New Orleans Rythm and Blues.
Rush
1/5
Langweiliger progressive Rock
Manu Chao
3/5
Passabler, aber letztlich eintöniger Raggea Rock.
Johnny Cash
3/5
Entspannter, dadurch teils eintöniger, Outlaw Country.
Adam & The Ants
1/5
Originell daher kommender New Wave ohne mein Interesse in den Songs geschweige denn über das Album hinweg zu halten, eher war ich froh als es endlich zu Ende war.
Cat Stevens
2/5
Iconic Song "Father and Son" and "Of you want to sing Out, sing out". Apart from that the Singer Singer Writer Folk Rock is not remarkable.
Grizzly Bear
1/5
Uninspiring Indie Rock.
Boy band Pop Gewäsch.
The White Stripes
4/5
Good enough Pop Rock. Nothing exceltional but still entertaining.
Beatles
4/5
Good enough Rock'n Roll Nothing exceltional but still entertaining.
Magazine
3/5
Semi interesting Art Rock. Listen once and forget.
Pentangle
4/5
Folk Rock. Ok to listen to from time to time.
Miles Davis
2/5
Sehr langsamer Jazz, eventuell noch OK fürs Wohnzimmer oder zum Einschlafen.
Arcade Fire
2/5
Uneventful Indie Rock.
The Chemical Brothers
1/5
Unstrukturierter Psychedelic Rock.
The Killers
4/5
Good old alternative Rock. A few Evergreens "Mr. Brightside", "Somebody told me".
Dion
1/5
Blues, which puts you to sleep.
Guided By Voices
1/5
Lame Indie Rock
Buzzcocks
1/5
Uncordinated Punk Rock.
The Temptations
1/5
Langatmiger Soul.
David Bowie
1/5
Verkündtelter Art Rock.
Tom Waits
4/5
Wohnzimmer Experimental Rock. Gut genug.
Beck
3/5
Between alternative Hip Hop and Rock IT fails Go bei exceptional.
Bee Gees
2/5
Baroque Pop which leaves me unimpressed.
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Blumig klingender Synth-Pop.
Kid Rock
2/5
Passabler Rap Rock.
Willie Nelson
2/5
Seichter Outlaw Country.
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
Very Slow Rock. Fahrstuhlmusik?
The Pogues
4/5
Irish Folk Rock. Passt perfekt im Pub
Santana
2/5
Passabler Psychedelic Rock.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Wortwhile and easy to listen to alternative Pop.
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Deezer refers to this album as \"Peter Gabriel 3: Melt.\". Good enough progressive Rock.
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Seicht-weichgespülter Heartland Rock.
Ice Cube
1/5
Mediokrer Gangster Rap
Van Halen
2/5
Mediokrer Pop Rock.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Für Weinachten als Hintergrund gut genügen Blues Rock
Nick Drake
1/5
Wenig interessanter Folk Pop.
T. Rex
2/5
Typischer Glam Rock.
Bert Jansch
1/5
Einschläfernder Folk
Sonic Youth
1/5
Amelodischer Postpunk.
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Teils rythmischer Gangster Rap, teils klischhafter Glam Rap.
The Birthday Party
1/5
Schrammeliger Post-Punk.
Radiohead
1/5
Seichter Art Rock.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
1/5
Einschläfernder West Coast Jazz.
1/5
Halbgarer Rock.
Bon Jovi
3/5
Mostly Mediocre Pop Rock. Well known exceptions: "you give love a bad name" and "Livin' on a prayer".
The Louvin Brothers
1/5
Leiernder Country.
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
California Dreamin' is an all time classic. Apart from that mediocre Pop Folk.
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Merkwürdig sphärischer Instrumental Rock
Khaled
2/5
Algerische Folk Musik, die von Kitsch "Imagine" bis Bollywood-artiger Musik reicht "Trigue Lycee"
Kanye West
2/5
Uneventful Hiphop
Stevie Wonder
1/5
Seichter Soul
Dagmar Krause
3/5
Interesting Mix of Jazz and Cabaret. Not really my style but feels New every time.
Beth Orton
2/5
Mediokre Folktronic.
John Lennon
2/5
Unimaginative Rock.
The Hives
3/5
Passabler Punk Rock.
Air
3/5
Elektronika bis progressive Rock. Passabel.
Various Artists
2/5
Uninspiring Christmas collection.
Sex Pistols
1/5
Schlechter Punk Rock
Motörhead
2/5
Vor allem lauter heavy Metal. Wenig Genuss möglich.
The Kinks
4/5
OK enough baroque Pop.
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Mediocre Son Cubano
Living Colour
1/5
Konfuser Funk Rock.
David Bowie
1/5
Seichter Art Rock oder schlechtes Ambient.
Nirvana
5/5
Lots of all time classics of Alternative Rock.
Holger Czukay
1/5
Zielloser Experimental Rock.
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Bad Pop.
Scritti Politti
1/5
Lauere Elektro Funk
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Weder Fleisch noch Fisch dieser Blues Rock.
Wilco
1/5
Seichter alternative Country.
Jungle Brothers
1/5
Schlechter Hiphop.
Sonic Youth
1/5
Noisy Noise Rock.
Laura Nyro
3/5
Passabler Folk Jazz.
Steely Dan
3/5
Einförmiger Pop.
Stevie Wonder
1/5
Dröger progressive Soul. Mitreißend sieht anders aus.
The Who
3/5
Passabler Hard Rock.
Orange Juice
2/5
Seichter New Wave.
Pixies
3/5
Mäßiger alternative Rock.
Elvis Costello
1/5
Endloser, grottiger Punk Rock.
The Shamen
3/5
Passabler, aber nicht begeisternder Electronic
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Mäßiger bis schlechter Synth-Pop
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
Aufgeregt langweiliger Garage Rock.
The Stooges
1/5
Schlechter Punk Rock.
Al Green
1/5
Einschläfernder Soul.
Isaac Hayes
1/5
Vorwiegend eintöniger Instrumental progressive Soul.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Solider Swamp Rock. Highlight und wahrscheinlich am bekanntesten ist "Bad Moon Rising".
The Doors
4/5
Passabler Psychedelic Rock mit dem Highlight und wohl bekanntesten Song des Albums am Ende: "Riders in the Storm".
The Strokes
2/5
Mäßiger Post Punk.
David Bowie
1/5
Schwer erträglicher Deutsch Art Rock.
The Rolling Stones
1/5
Mäßig interessanter Pop Rock.
Q-Tip
1/5
Grottiger Progressive Hip Hop.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Seichter Jungle Rock
Steely Dan
2/5
Nicht begeisternder Jazz Rock.
Soft Cell
2/5
Allgemein wenig Begeisterung erzeugen der Synth-Pop. Eine Ausnahme auf dem Album ist der wohl bekannteste Song und Highlight "Tainted Love".
Bob Dylan
4/5
Solider Folk Rock mit dem Highlight und wohl bekanntesten Song "Mr. Tambourine Man".
The Saints
3/5
Aufgeregt schrammeiliger Punk Rock.
Blondie
3/5
Mäßig interessanter Pop Rock.
The Cramps
2/5
Wenig interessanter Garage Rock.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
Mäßiger Psychedelic Rock.
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Uninteressanter Pop Rock.
Primal Scream
2/5
Selten spannender oder guter Psychedelic Rock.
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Mäßiger Synth Pop.
Marvin Gaye
1/5
Seichter Soul.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Langsamer, mäßig interessanter Country Rock.
Love
1/5
Grausiger Jazz Rock.
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Mäßiger Folck Rock.
Tears For Fears
4/5
Die meiste Zeit solider Pop Rock. Highlight und wohl bekanntester Song ist "Shout".
Leftfield
1/5
Anstrengender Proggressive House.
Christine and the Queens
2/5
Konfuser Pop-Funk.
Youssou N'Dour
1/5
Bisher mir vollkommen unbekannte Musikrichtung Mblax, der ich nichts abgewinnen kann.
Ray Charles
3/5
Angestaubter Rythm and Blues
Minutemen
3/5
Post-Punk. Teils interessante instrumentale Anteile, teils Garage Rock. Verwirrend ohne richtig schlecht zu sein.
Prince
2/5
Lahmer Funk-Pop.
DJ Shadow
4/5
Interesting Trip Hop. More instrumental than anything yet interesting enough to revisit.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Lahmer Gothic Rock.
The Sonics
4/5
Passabler Rock'n Roll.
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Mäßig interessanter progressive Soul.
4/5
A Mix of Jazz and progressive Soul. Good enough to relisten.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Passabler, aber wenig mitreißender Rock'n Roll
Ryan Adams
2/5
Weinerlicher Alternative Country.
Kraftwerk
4/5
Moderat interessanter Elektro-pop. Ikonisch und wohl bekanntesten Lied ist "Model".
Stan Getz
2/5
Passabler Samba-Jazz für den Fahrstuhl.
Julian Cope
1/5
Wenig interessanter Art Rock.
Jamiroquai
2/5
Konfuser Avid Jazz.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Teils passabler Rock'n Roll. Bekanntestes, eingängistes Lied ist das für das Album titelgebende.
The Bees
1/5
Seichter, sphärischer Indie Rock.
Keith Jarrett
2/5
Passabler Klavier Jazz.
James Brown
1/5
Wenig interessanter R&B.
Morrissey
1/5
Seichtester alternative Rock.
Muddy Waters
4/5
Teils spannend und mitreißend, bspw. im Lied 'Got my Mojo working' (just don't work on You).
Jethro Tull
2/5
Uninteressanter Folk Rock.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
I didn't catch fire with this Reggae Rock.
Klaxons
4/5
Teils ganz hörbarer Pop Rock.
John Grant
4/5
Hat was, aber auch nicht übermäßig dieser Soft Rock.
Jack White
4/5
Noch einmal hörbarer Blues Rock.
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
Schwer aushaltbarer Psychedelic Funk.
New Order
4/5
Passabler Dance-Pop. Kurzweilig.
The Verve
4/5
Passabler Brot Pop. Sehr langes Album.
Simon & Garfunkel
1/5
Leiernder Folk Rock.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Als Hintergrund Musik erträglicher Contemporary Folk. Bekanntester Song ist wohl 'Talkin bout a revolution'.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Seichter progressive Soul. Highlight ist das Lied "Pasttime Paradies", which is the Basis for Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise".
Metallica
5/5
A lot of all time classics of heavy Metal.
Lana Del Rey
1/5
Not her best try at country folk. Sound soppy.
Beck
1/5
Seichter Chamber Pop.
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Passabler Folk Rock.
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Seichter Dreams Pop.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
One of the Albums I identify with good Alternative Rock.
Brian Eno
2/5
Als Hintergrundmusik ist dieser Ambient ok.
Iron Maiden
3/5
Passabler Heavy Metal.
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
Seichter Baroque Pop. Maximal noch als Fahrstuhlmusik.
Erykah Badu
2/5
Seichter Neo Soul.
Madonna
2/5
The opening song "Like a prayer" is also the highlight of the album. Unfortunately the rest is second class Pop.
Megadeth
3/5
Passabler Trash Metal.
Steely Dan
3/5
Mäßiger Jazz Rock.
Norah Jones
2/5
Leicht weinerlicher Acustic Pop.
Crowded House
1/5
Seichter Psychedelic Rock.
The Dandy Warhols
2/5
Abgefahren sphärischer Space Rock.
Janis Joplin
4/5
One of the classics of Blues Rock. Highlight and most known song ist probably "Mercedes Benz".
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Entspannter Jazz Funk fürs Wohnzimmer.
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
Wenig interessanter HipHop.
The La's
3/5
Passabler alternative Rock.
Otis Redding
3/5
Unterhaltsamer Rythm&Blues. Highlight und wohl bekanntester Song ist "(I can't get no) satisfaction".
Van Morrison
2/5
Seichter Folk Rock.
Suicide
2/5
Some interesting Synth Pop parts but Overall to depressingly slow.
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Passabler HipHop.
Sister Sledge
2/5
Gleichförmiger R&B. Bekannte Ausnahme und Highlight ist der Song "We are Family".
The Cure
2/5
From Art to alternative Rock it feels inconsistent at best.
Tortoise
2/5
Silent Post Rock.
Radiohead
1/5
Sonderbarer Art Rock.
PJ Harvey
2/5
Weinerlicher Folk Rock.
Ice Cube
1/5
Profaner Gangster Rap.
Eagles
1/5
Ambient Country Rock.
U2
2/5
Anstrengender Post-Punk.
Brian Eno
5/5
Actually really Ambient music for airports. Also useful as Ambient music with crying Kids.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Okaish Rock'n Roll.
Elliott Smith
3/5
Passabler Indie Rock.
Queen Latifah
1/5
Anstrengender Golden Age HipHop.
The Monks
4/5
Unterhaltsamer Garage Rock.
The Band
3/5
Okayish Country Rock. Would'nt listen a second time.
Adele
4/5
Mostly great Soul-pop. A lot of memories coming up with "someone like you".
Jane's Addiction
1/5
Dysphoner alternative HardRock.
The Pogues
4/5
Folk Punk, der in jeden Irish Pub passt. Gut genug.
ZZ Top
2/5
Nichtssagender Southern Rock.
Tom Waits
2/5
Moderately entertaining Jazz with spoken words.
Billie Holiday
4/5
Vocal Jazz fürs Wohnzimmer.
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Okaish paychedelic Rock.
David Bowie
1/5
Weinerlicher Experimental Rock. Like the album Cover suggests: 1 Star.
Genesis
2/5
Seichter Art Rock. Schwer durchs ganze Album zu hören.
Pixies
1/5
Grunge seems to feel like scratching a blackboard for me.
Willie Nelson
1/5
Slow, boring Folk.
KISS
1/5
Irritating Hard Rock, especially while navigating in traffic.
Queens of the Stone Age
2/5
Mostly noisy hard Rock. Most interesting spheric/ambient sounding instrumental is "Spiders and Vinegaroons".
Coldplay
4/5
Alternative Rock, which reminds me of my first close relationship as this album was offen playing in the background. Still makes me sad hearing it today.
Television
2/5
Okaish new wave. Wouldn' listen again.
The Clash
1/5
Trashiger Punk Rock.
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Trying symphonic Rock to Post Punk and failing both. Most well known song might be "The Killing Moon" (movie Donnie Darko").
Michael Jackson
3/5
Obviously "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" are some well known classics. Apart from that the album feels mediocre.
Roni Size
1/5
Anstrengend hektischer Drum and Bass on four CDs.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
Boring swamp Rock.
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
Okaish psychedelic Rock. Fine as background music.
Booker T. & The MG's
2/5
Entspannt jazziger R&B, der leider weder mitreißt noch zum Wiederhören wollen einlädt.
Eric Clapton
2/5
Belangloser Blues Rock.
Ministry
1/5
Schrammeiliger Industrial Metal.
Queen
2/5
Progressive Avant Pop. Most well known song is "Bohemian Rhapsody".
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Uninteressanter Art Rock.
The Beach Boys
2/5
Einschläfernder orchestral Rock.
Miriam Makeba
1/5
Sounds like a 1940s movie musical. African music seems not be something I will revisit.
The War On Drugs
2/5
Underwhelming Psychedelic Rock. At its best it sounds like Ambient.
Richard Hawley
1/5
Underwhelming Chamber Pop. Wouldn't listen again.
Metallica
3/5
Mediocre Progressive Metal.
Beastie Boys
2/5
Neither Rap nor Rock it looses in both ends.
Talk Talk
3/5
Experimental Pop, which apparently means excellent soundscape ruined through mediocre vocals.
Can
2/5
Confusing mixture of Sounds apparently attempting to create Psychedelic Rock.
Mylo
3/5
Electropop worth to listen once or twice.
Fugees
3/5
Mediocre alternative HipHop. I liked some tracks more Like "Ready or Not" but probably won't relisten.
Aimee Mann
2/5
Was kept waiting for the good parts of Pop so probably not everything is bad.
Elastica
3/5
Generic still not Bad Britpop. Relistend twice before being able to decide in this review.
Van Halen
3/5
Can't seem to decide if it wants to be Glam Rock or Hard Rock (Screamy parts and guitar aerobics).
Thundercat
1/5
HipHop R&B. Strange. Interesting enough combination to listen once.
John Coltrane
1/5
Mediocre modal Jazz. Didn't even like it as background music.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Weird sappy Folk.
The Rolling Stones
2/5
A lot of uninspired Country Blues.
Electric Light Orchestra
1/5
Long, Ornate, obnoxious orchestral flourishes and choral singers in Orchestral Pop
Joy Division
2/5
Good beat, unmotivated vocals. The last song "Decades" is better because the vocals are less prominent.
Queen
3/5
Passabler Rock. Werde ich dennoch nicht noch einmal hören
MGMT
5/5
A lot of old times Classics of psychedelic and eletronic Rock, e.g. "Time to pretend". I will relisten.
Buffalo Springfield
2/5
Slow to boring Country Folk.
GZA
3/5
Okaish East Coast HipHop.
Nina Simone
2/5
Annoying sappy Jazz.
3/5
Orchestral Pop sounding like a sound deep-pile carpet. Unfortunately Not available in Deezer.
Talking Heads
1/5
Art Pop featuring mostly repetitive bad lyrics and poor singing.
U2
1/5
Simply bad alternative Rock. Wanted to turn it off troughout the album.
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
Okaish psychedelic Rock I wouldn't relisten to.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1/5
World seems to sound discordant and a bit droning. Also: Not available at any streaming service.
Frank Ocean
1/5
Half raw Alternative R&B instead of yummy half-baked.
Elton John
1/5
Seichter progressive Rock.
Elvis Presley
2/5
Mäßig interessanter Country Blues.
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
Some parts feeling more like Samba music some like HipHop I just didn't get into it.
Screaming Trees
2/5
At best mediocre alternative Rock. Apparently that's called grunge.
Michael Jackson
1/5
Seichter Pop.
Tina Turner
1/5
Piercing vocals in a Pop, R&B Smoothie Maker. I won't relisten.
Anthrax
1/5
A lot of screaming apparently makes Trash Metal.
The Cure
3/5
Lonely, desolate, gloomy, depressing and dark. Like a Soundtrack to a monochrome movie. Okay to listen to once.
Emmylou Harris
1/5
Whiny Americana. Wanted the album to finally end.
Sugar
2/5
A guy on vocals & guitar with a hired rhythm section. It’s not a band. It's not really bad but neither good. Won't relisten to this Power Pop.
The Pretty Things
3/5
A mix of good psychedelia with mediocre proto punk/metal and Sometimes enjoyable soundscapes making this Experimental Rock.
Talking Heads
3/5
Okaish Art Rock. Most well known song is "Psycho Killer".
Radiohead
3/5
Okaish eletronica. Feels Like in between Organ music and instrumental.
Björk
3/5
A capella, instrumental, elektronica Mix. Okay to listen once.
3/5
Lots of Art Rock. Most well known song probably "Lucy in the Sky with diamonds".
Kate Bush
2/5
Sounds like a very scratchy experimental rock opera. It's difficult to listen for a long time. At the same time I Imagine it should feel better since it's opera.
Traffic
2/5
Okaish Folk Rock would Not relisten.
Gang Of Four
2/5
Droning, monotonous with a lot of enthusiasm on the artists Side but not mine apparently makes this post punk
Frank Zappa
1/5
Blues Rock apparently means loosing the part which makes Rock fun and the part which makes Blues heartfelt.
Faust
2/5
Faust's Krautkrock goes from okaish electronica to droning noises, distortions and cricket chirps. Unsettling enough to wanting to quit the album half way.
Robert Wyatt
1/5
The obnoxious equivalent to interpretive dance apparently is experimental Rock.
Parliament
2/5
Bland, repetitiv, trying futuristic synths. It appears as though it can't decide if it's Rock or Funk.
The Beta Band
2/5
British Beta electronic Rock.
Black Sabbath
2/5
Feels like simple, repetetive and moody Rock.
Devendra Banhart
2/5
Whiny Psychedelic Folk.
Sade
1/5
Uninspired, generic, canned smooth Soul.
Bill Callahan
1/5
Talky alternative Country.
Prefab Sprout
1/5
Synthesizer-Pop with whiny lead vocals, sappy backup vocals and piano rhythms.
Yes
2/5
Feels like generic Progress Rock, easy to forget.
The Police
2/5
Some okaish New Wave. Most well known song is "Message in a bottle".
Genesis
2/5
Progressive Rock I can't seem to place. While thinking of it being music played on a carousel ride while the horses go up and down as well as a Renaissance fair both doesn't entirely fit. Will not relisten.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Monotonous New Wave failing to hold my attention. Don't plan in listening again so probably "not next time around".
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Quiet Contemporary Folk. As described before a bit repetetive. Most well known song is probably "Suzanne".
Doves
1/5
Dull Indie Pop.
Garbage
3/5
Average alternative Rock. Okay to listen to.
4/5
Good enough Rock, some songs being already familiar.
The The
2/5
Alternative without the Rock, grooves grooveless, vocals occasionally amusing.
Tim Buckley
3/5
Easy to listen to and easy to forget alternative Rock. Like a greeting card. Nice to get unlikely to keep for a long time.
Elliott Smith
4/5
Okaish chamber Pop.
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Okaish progressive soul. Unlikely to listen again.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Okaish Blues Rock. Unlikely to listen again.
The Smiths
4/5
Enjoyable enough alternative Rock. Will relisten.
Dire Straits
1/5
Boring homophobic 80s Rock.
Hawkwind
1/5
Proto Punk, which seem to have the creative concept seems to "see how many weird synthesizer noises one can throw against the wall to See If maybe some of them will stick.”
Germs
1/5
Scratchy Hardcore Punk.
Depeche Mode
3/5
Worthwile to listen to Alternative Rock Album which apart from the most well known songs "Personal Jesus" and "Policy of Truth" sometimes just annoyed me woth whiny lyrics.
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Psychedelia Rock which sometimes a good start then gets blantly repetitive.
Pretenders
1/5
Monotonous and dreadful Punk Rock.
The Clash
1/5
Apart from "London calling", which is probably the album's most well known song I didn't like this kind of Punk Rock.
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
A lot of mumbling periodically broken up by unimpressive guitar solos and unnecessary saxophone solos apparently makes up Heartland Rock.
The Undertones
3/5
Okaish Pop Punk. No need to relisten.
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
Ambient Techno with weirdly interesting sounds which still kept me listening the whole album. Surely not what I am looking for in music.
Supergrass
3/5
Mediocre Britpop. Okay as background noice in a pub.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Nice R&B vocals!
Duke Ellington
3/5
Pleasent and overly long Jazz album with lots of talking in between.
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Art or Experimental Rock mostly letting you sort of swim in the sound (a haze of drone and jangly to screeching guitar line while the vocal wends its way around you).
Missy Elliott
1/5
Weak and jumbly HipHop.
Syd Barrett
1/5
Underwhelming, deteriorating Psychedeleic Rock.
Pearl Jam
2/5
Although "Even Flow" for me is one of the key songs I identify with Alternative Rock the album is at best okaish.
Deep Purple
3/5
Extra long live Heavy Metal album rock with crazy long drum and guitar solos being okaish
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Okaish alternative Rock. Didn't like the Metal parts.
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Chamber Folk being sweet, repetitive, modern easy listening trip. Okaish Background noice.
4/5
Britpop which for me is the Definition of alternative Rock, e.g. the well known song Wonderwall. Got stuck here for a week relistening a couple of times always omitting the rating.
American Music Club
2/5
Underwhelming Americana.
Nas
1/5
East Coast HipHop consisting of beats where every track seems to hone in on a 3-note sequence and samples repeating endlessly rather than opting for a longer, more interesting loop.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Garage Rock sounding like a few old guys trying to "jam like the old days in the basement with a beer.”
William Orbit
1/5
Ambient consisting of 30 Seconds of processed guitar creating an ethereal ambient soundscape, then forgetting about that guitar, some hard-panned arpeggiated synth out of nowhere going in repeat
The Libertines
2/5
Sloppy Indie Rock. Sometimes being repetetive.
Fleetwood Mac
2/5
Boring Soft Rock.
The Black Keys
4/5
Good enough alternative Rock.
Adele
3/5
Okaish Pop soul. Tremendous voice but after 21 the bar is high.
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
Background Jazz at a cafe, for listening with Attention it fades into boringness.
Nirvana
5/5
With this album Nirvana made my day and defined alternative Rock for me.
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
Generic R&B.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
1/5
Repetetive harmonies make this folk album dull.
David Bowie
2/5
Glam Rock reminding me vaguely of a rock opera, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show while missing the iconic pictures.
Fiona Apple
2/5
Art Pop imposing you shall like but missing a distinctive sound, storytelling or voice.
The Zutons
2/5
Garage Rock being messy throughout generes Feeling Like ITS falling apartt with some fun parts (alternative riffs like a spring sound, some lines being catchy).
Neil Young
2/5
Whiny Blues Rock.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Pretentious Punk Blues.
Sonic Youth
1/5
Experimental Rock which is exhausting to listen to because of being more noisy than music more often than not with bearable parts of alternative.
Lauryn Hill
1/5
Straining to listen to this amelodic Soul Hip Hop mix.
Wu-Tang Clan
1/5
Hardcore hiphop I had to struggle to listen to as it is filled with unimaginative basic swearing missing lyrical, descriptive or witty art, which I grew to like in hiphop, although it certainly is not my genre.
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Pleasant enough Indie Rock but ultimately relatively boring. There were a couple hints at interesting vocal lines early on. At least I've learned that string arrangements can't save any music for my ears.
Public Enemy
1/5
Hard core hiphop which felt quite repetitive in the sample/beat in each song marking it hard to listen to.
Stan Getz
2/5
Dull, waify hotel café jazz album which feels like the same cafe mocha served over and over. Might be ok in said café.
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Afro Blues Rock having a steady rythm with drums, guitar and Melodic singing.
Charles Mingus
1/5
Experimental Jazz. Experiment failed in an overbearing, dissonant, disturbing manner.
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
Baroque pop featuring sappy Songs with elongated vocals and suffocating softness.
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
Alternative Hip Hop, which combines drums, jazz bass line and vocals in a way working for me as background music for a few tracks. I found myself bored after 3-4 tracks though especially as Hip Hop mostly appears as more speech performance than music to me.
Mudhoney
2/5
Garage Punk being screamy, repitious and in deluxe version very long while song differentiation stays super fuzzy.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Indie Rock with blown out guitars which give a dry brightness, providing a fuzzy texture that swallows up most other contrasts in the middle while the songs themselves are simple, happy and poppy, almost 1950s bubblegum. Unfortunate combination for me.
The Avalanches
2/5
This album is my first being one of sampledelia. It is a meticulously crafted record that is apparently comprised of thousands of samples, being more an encyclopedia of modern recorded music (though I recognize mostly nothing) than music itself; it disassembles and more or less reconfigures known music to this which I simply dislike. Who likes an encyclopedia being read out aloud?
Orbital
4/5
Eletronica which sometimes felt normal mg for it's repetitiveness and sometimes exhiliarating (from atmospheric headphone music to meatier dance material). I couldn't make up my mind how to rate this album (3 or 4 stars). I guess I'll revisit so IT gets 4 stars!
Tim Buckley
2/5
Psychedelic-Folk crossed with Jazz Fusion trying to create a sappy mood.
Aerosmith
2/5
Generic hard Rock.
Madonna
1/5
Techno-Pop sounding like the soundtrack for a Disney movie that was way to sad and weird to make it to theaters.
Pink Floyd
1/5
Slow and ploddy Psychedelic Rock with iconic album cover featuring plenty of random filler and blase songs. With all the good reviews this feels Like a Case of the emperors new clothes.
Caetano Veloso
1/5
Tropicália which didn't appeal to me in the least, not even as background music.
Aerosmith
3/5
Apparently, I still understand English song lyrics when listening to music the same way I did as a child with a different native language—not at all. As a result, I barely notice the fixation on sex. The sound is decent but doesn’t inspire me to listen to the album again in the future. The best part of the album is probably the interesting instrumental interludes (which identify as Hard Rock).
Björk
3/5
Elektro Pop with quirky singing style, strange tempo, frequent langourous drift that fails to deepen mood and instead the longer it goes undermine the themes. Still very different to the 400 something albums on the list so far.
Beastie Boys
2/5
Another generic HipHop album.
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Etheral wave where the guitars echo and create a wave of noise that create space in this otherworldly reality her music is set in. Frazer speaks in a mixture of English, Latin, and Gaelic among others, using the beauty of language as the primary instrument itself.
Röyksopp
2/5
Ambient music I will not relisten.
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Glam Rock feeling between comfortably numb and art on acid. Okay as background music.
The Electric Prunes
4/5
Psychedelic and Garage Rock feeling all over the place with haunting, dreamy vocals to annoying stage shouting intertwined with swirling guitars and ethereal to country atmosphere. Some Tracks are good enough to revisit others annoy the hell out of me.
Siouxsie And The Banshees
1/5
Annoyingly noisy and screamy Post Punk with
dissonant, double-tracked vocals and weird chittering instrumentals.
a-ha
3/5
Mediocre synth-pop with the meme status song "Take one me". Okaish as background noise. Wouldn't relisten.
Scott Walker
2/5
Dull, melodic, smooth Art Pop.
Arcade Fire
1/5
Indie pop that’s cohesive, expansive sound to the record, but the songs don’t really accomplish anything, go anywhere or have any bite to them; it’s just a lot of sound that ends up being not very memorable. Like already buried and Standing randomly on a graveyard.
The Fall
3/5
Okaish Post Punk.
Cream
2/5
From okaish Psychedelic Rock to boring Blues.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Unremarkable and dull Pop Rock.
The United States Of America
3/5
From psychedelic rock to baroque pop and from being bored to thinking I might want to listen again. Result is I won't.
Ute Lemper
2/5
This Chanson sounds like the soundtrack of a musical straining my patience with all the drama in the music while almost nothing happens in stage.
Coldcut
4/5
Interesting enough, funky and messy Dancetronica one can only listen to in youtube apparently.
Neil Young
4/5
Left me relistening twice in Order to get a grasp of wether I like it or not. Apparently good enough Folk Rock.
AC/DC
3/5
Most well known song of this Hard Rock album is "Highway to Hell". Unfortunately the rst of the album basically sounds the same.
The Boo Radleys
2/5
Experimental Pop lost in the same "Whoops, too much water in my watercolours" vein.
Massive Attack
3/5
I had some difficulty grasping what's going in with this Trip Hop album. There's R&B, Soul, Hip-Hop, Electronica and even Reggae. Overall IT feels very weird and ambient while quietly seeping in when you are going about it.
2/5
Boring whiny Indie Rock.
Morrissey
2/5
Glam Rock being whiny ruined the album for me while the Rock part kept me hoping it might turn out differently listening to the whole album.
John Lennon
2/5
Half baked whiny Avant-Pop.
Venom
2/5
Black Metal with lots of noisy growling, the guitar is showy, fast and intricate at times.
Nitin Sawhney
1/5
Moody Downtempo for testing the limits of boredom.
The Crusaders
1/5
Bad toothless elevator Jazz.
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Orchestral Pop sounding like the sound track of a whiny musical.
Cornershop
3/5
British smothering things in borrowed Indian flavors marking this Indie Rock. Toneless guitar playing pentatonics, 2 chord songs, emotionless singing. Still I enjoyed having Something different in this 1001 album list. Would Not relisten though.
The Byrds
2/5
Straight up country music. Playing in a diner as background music would be appropriate.
2/5
MC5 has two cards to play: raw aggression and high energy. Marking this more Rock Fury than Hard Rock.
Goldie
1/5
Pointless, repetitive orchestra synth swooshes making up Drum and Bass.
Everything But The Girl
1/5
Electronica, chiefly interesting for its innovative and highly contrasting sound textures, but limited by the underwhelming melodies, with their restricted tonal range, a heavy emphasis on synthetic drums and bass lines and performed with an airy reverb-enhanced voice to match.
Fred Neil
1/5
Sleepy country-sounding folk with a creep, cover.
Beach House
2/5
Repetitive shallow Indie Rock apparently this is supposed to be called Dreams Pop.
Beatles
3/5
Pop Rock being very bubble gum-poppy. Good background music.
Brian Eno
2/5
Experimental, weird with electronica bells and whistles, arabic onomatopoeia making up some kind of world music.
Iggy Pop
4/5
Refreshing Garage Rock. Most well known is probably "Passenger" which I marked as one of my favourite song.
Haircut 100
2/5
Mediocre New Wave boring me enough not to think of what bored me.
The Monkees
4/5
Pleasant enough Pop Rock. Will relisten.
Violent Femmes
2/5
Folk Punk made of whiny, winchy and screamy vocals straining my patience while having some promising instrumental parts which the rest of the album just doesn't live up to.
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Obnoxiously repetitive. Halfway through, my ears were exhausted and I hoped it would end soon. Usually I like Electronica.
The Byrds
1/5
Mediocre Psychedelic Rock.
Gary Numan
4/5
Good enough original Electropop album.
Sam Cooke
3/5
Soul album which fails in a fundamental Level as it doesn't measure up to the manicured artificiality of studio production. While it provides a raw, free expression of live performance, it features all the considerable weaknesses of all live recordings. This makes it difficult rate it highly.
The Yardbirds
3/5
Okaish Psychedelic Rock.
10cc
2/5
Completely disjointed Avant Pop.not totally awful but couldn't get into it with the different things tried on the album.
Judas Priest
2/5
Pre-Metallica, mid-tempo heavy metal with low frequencies being cut and cliched vocals style.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Okaish a bit gloomy and to being what is expected of Country Rock.
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Too experimental to get into World music.
Marilyn Manson
2/5
So Gothic Rock consists mainly of shouting. No thanks.
Foo Fighters
1/5
Washed out, dragging, boring Garage Rock.
Django Django
4/5
Neo Psychedilia being excellently composed electronically while at the same time the falsetto harmonization can get repetitive.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
Somewhere between Indie, Rock and Punk. The unmotivated yprechgesang parts ruined the whole album for me though I like some other parts.
Pink Floyd
1/5
This experimental Rock reminds me mostly of Ambient while being too annoying for that. The tempo stays plodding and druggy with a somniferous vocal delivery to match while someone thought it would be a good idea to water it down with synthesizers.
Duran Duran
3/5
Interesting Pop Rock album, featuring the Most well known song of Duran Duran "Hungry Like a wolve". Still didn't convince me to relisten to the whole album.
Beatles
3/5
Okaish Psychedelic Rock, a bit too droney musically and too lovecrazy lyric wise to want to relisten though.
Missy Elliott
1/5
Simply annoying HipHop album.
1/5
Noise Rock straining my ears from the first minute on.
The Stooges
2/5
Proto-Punk apparently means repeating the same words over and over again, trying to sing over the same boring melody.
Burning Spear
2/5
No dynamice changes, the same two chord progression over an over again appears to make up Reagge. Not for me. Mabey okay as background music in some venue.
Sepultura
1/5
While rythmically interesting songs are in there as well, and others having some fun riffs, I get heavily turned of by the gutteral shrieks and howls, which probably can be considered typical for Metal.
Lambchop
2/5
Chambers Pop having gentlly arrangended and performed, making the music glide through one ear and out the other, leaving no trace.
k.d. lang
1/5
Unbearably smooth country flavored wallpaper.
Koffi Olomide
2/5
World music being lively, upbeat, infectious and dance-able. While musicianship isn't bad it soon ticks all the boxes of resort background music.
The Stone Roses
2/5
Whiny and incoherent Indie Rock.
Lenny Kravitz
1/5
Aggressively boring Psychedelic Rock.
David Ackles
1/5
Boring whiny Americana.
Tori Amos
4/5
Piano-driven emotional singer-songwriter.
Fugazi
1/5
Interesting start of the album though it turned into drunk pub karaoke rock pretty fast. Apparently post-hardcore.
808 State
2/5
Exhaustively polished Electronica.
Rush
2/5
Self indulgent prog rock.
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Almost okaish Indie Rock. Unfortunately drifting of in monotonous sludge of distorted guitars and Corgan's petulant whine.
Soft Machine
1/5
Pointless, annoying, way too long noise being called progressive Rock.
Jeru The Damaja
1/5
HipHop with a musician which spits slow and over articulates while still managing to mumble. The beats are mediocre and there’s not an identifiable flow.
Gorillaz
3/5
TripHop Feeling all over the place but Not condistently good or Bad. Most well known song for me "Clint Eastwood".
Eminem
4/5
Before listening: Excited as this is even known to me as part of HipHop history. Starting with a satiric disclaimer the album begins to tell Stories of Eminems Alter Ego Slim Shady. Typical HipHop only slightly better. After listening: Still not my thing but I will relisten and understand it's place on the album.
Shuggie Otis
2/5
Overpromising and underdelivering ('elevator music') psychedelic soul.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Okaish Synth Pop.
The Notorious B.I.G.
1/5
Uneventful HipHop.
King Crimson
1/5
Progressive Rock being mostly random boring noise.
Marty Robbins
4/5
Good storytelling, kind of texas swing, Country music. 3,5 Stars. Will relisten. Wasn't Sure entirely if I dislike its softness.
Beatles
3/5
Overly long Psychedelic Rock album with a few good songs ruined by bland fillers. Hoping it is over soon.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
Faux gangsters having a strange fusion of hip hop and blues rock.
Cee Lo Green
1/5
HipHop and Soul don't fuse well. Plain beats, vocals getting annoying very quickly especially when he tries sprechgesang.
Jacques Brel
3/5
Chanson. Lyric driven French music. It's hard to judge this without understanding the nuances of the language, since he's known for his wit and turn-of-phrase and it's hard to appreciate explicitly lyric-driven music in a language you don't understand.
Sabu
2/5
Repetitive Cuban Rumba featuring conga drums broken up by random yells and loud samba whistles.
Primal Scream
3/5
Not entirely sure about this psych-dance-gospel-dub smoothie.
MC Solaar
2/5
It's hard appreciate HipHop which is explicitly lyric-driven in a language you don't understand.
The Who
3/5
Iconic album cover. Easy to listen to (Psychedelic/Hard) Rock album. Most well known and my favourite song in this album ist "Behind Blue Eyes".
Sepultura
1/5
Uninspiring lead guitar, growled vocals makes this Me[h](tal) for me.
Eminem
3/5
Horror-core HipHop. Again with Slim Shady. First time around this had a kind of freshness to it.
Stephen Stills
1/5
Psychedelic Rock I wished would end a lot sooner than the album actually does.
The Fall
2/5
Post Punk is apparently made up of mumbled vocals and electronica. I'd be okay with the electronica
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
Good enough groove and funk and then there's the HipHop part ruining it.
Elvis Costello
1/5
Power Pop going uppy downy on every syllable in the vocals and in the harmonies. Glad this is over now.
Dire Straits
3/5
Interesting intro. Okaish pub Rock.
Roxy Music
2/5
Generic Glam Rock.
Moby Grape
2/5
Underwhelming nand forgettable psycheledic Pop, not necessarly all bad. (Almost?) Fully available in Deezer with bonus tracks.
John Martyn
1/5
Sleepy Jazz-Funk.
The Byrds
2/5
Psychedelic Folk Rock copying their style from the beatles, copying their lyrics from Bob Dylan.
The Byrds
2/5
Psychedelic Folk Rock copying their style from the beatles, copying their lyrics from Bob Dylan. That being Said the Synthesizer mentioned at the end of the album doesn't make it the best so far. I'd rather say not any better than the last one in my list
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Isicathamiya seems to be a soft a capella with rich harmonies which stays repetitive.
Dusty Springfield
2/5
Mixing R&B and Pop in a good Sense gives you "Son of a Preacher Man", which is probably the Most well known song of the album. The rest of the album stays in a mid-tempo soul sound that just isn't all that interesting.
Radiohead
1/5
Screamy pretentious (Experimental) Electronica. Relistening didn't change this view.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
The songs on this blues rock album strike me as neither particularly good nor bad. I discount the idea of rating it based on legal issues (as in 'Little Girl') or accusations of cultural appropriation, as my assessment is focused solely on the music itself. That said, I fully support and encourage political and legal action where effective.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Feels like good enough Country Rock. Vocals are on Point, the songs come together as a unit without being all the same.
Randy Newman
2/5
Weird, whiny orchestral Pop, which only might be bearably at a dive bar, or lounge, complete with spirits and smokes.
Pantera
1/5
Interesting riffs, a lot of annoyingly screamy vocals, the tempo of the whole album making it energetic. Metal.
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Weary of having xet another Psychedelic Pop Album to rate with the usual quiet jangly sound, the same shaky vocals, and the same ’60s Woodstock vibe.
Tricky
4/5
Layered, dark, dense and dreamy trip-hop. Sometimes it drops from chilled to boring.
Digital Underground
1/5
Clownish, directionless HipHop with overly long songs while flows and rhymes are instantly dated and. corny
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
Forgettable harmony-driven tracks make this Folk Rock album a bit tireing.
Minor Threat
2/5
It gets in shouts you in the face, hast some interesting harmonies and guitar solos and the gets out. If that's what you like about Hardcore Punk give it a try, for me too screamy.
R.E.M.
2/5
Slow pace, grindy voice, overly dramatic harmonies, obnoxious chorus, making it moderate Baroque Pop.
Taylor Swift
3/5
This Folk Pop album creates a wintry mood by uding slow-burning melodies, burbling, fingerpicked acoustic guitars, and somber pianos, which makes it unoffemsive. IT is supposed to feature nuanced lyrics, which seems to elude me even after relistening.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
Synth Pop album featuring Soviet synth sound, industrial instrumentals layered with noise and disparate sounds, bouncy Pop elements, and vocals with loads of reverb and echo.
Astrud Gilberto
1/5
Dull Bossa Nova. Pleasantly aimless showtunes with an occasional tropical flavor.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
The voice/vocals have a little pitch and dynamic range, but adequate control, which makes this album soulful. Can't decide if a few songs are misses (question is the album relistenable?) or the album features a lot of good songs (question should I only relisten thoses?). I'll give it four stars going with the first option for now.
Pink Floyd
1/5
Psychedelic und experimental Rock, which was a torturous listening experience. At times, I was checking my surroundings for Bad sounds because I found the experience to be that atrocious.
The Young Rascals
2/5
Unmemorable Psychedelic Rock. Unfortunately not meant to be listened to on headphones, because the complete switch between left and right ear for the guitar is super unpleasant.
Circle Jerks
1/5
Hardcore Punk which strained my ears for being very screamy.
Beck
1/5
Pretentious mess of experimentation with different generes, which doesn't work as an album for me.
Hookworms
2/5
Noisy, sometimes catchy, sometimes annoying, poppy, experimental Electronica.
The Undertones
2/5
It is a repetitive pop-punk fun with whiny vocals, catchy melodies and riffs while being far from a unique sound.
Nick Drake
1/5
Chambers Folk consisting of
a) A depressed man singing indifferentiable sounding melancholic, nostalgic songs
b) while strumming an acoustic guitar to a pretty but generic easy-listening background.
David Bowie
3/5
Some good verses, choruses, chords and theatrical piano parts, mabey the Art in Art Pop kills it, mabey Bowie's voice is just too whiny sometimes, mabey ch, ch, ch change the annoying parts. Unfortunately this is my review after relistening twice.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Dated, mediocre Britpop album. Inoffemsive Overall.
Kate Bush
1/5
Progressive Pop with a vocalists which wander aimlessly, rarely, if ever, approaching anything resembling a melody, let alone a legitimate hook while loosing me exhausted by trying to follow.
Leonard Cohen
1/5
Dreary, very slow contemporary folk. Not my cup of tea.
Bobby Womack
2/5
Very slow nondescript Soul. The guitar playing is jazzy, clean, melodic, subtly interesting. The keyboards are good, though veering only slightly into synth cheese here and there.
5/5
Typical Country theme of women fighting for their men, who, ruined with drink, treat them ill. Great voice.
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Inoffensive, dreamy, easy-listening Indie pop.
New York Dolls
2/5
Proto-Punk with fitting riffs and nasal vocals, which mostly tend to sound the same after a certain point making it ok as background music in a bar.
Britney Spears
1/5
Teen pop equaling the end credits of bad romance movies. The described reality of the songs is at best delusional. Most well known song is "Baby one more time".
Public Enemy
1/5
This political HipHop sounds trite, boastful, and limp from a distance of over thirty years.
The Thrills
1/5
Sugary sweet indie pop about America.
FKA twigs
2/5
Avant Pop having some dubstep elements, vocals being breathy and glitchy, often lingering there for the entire track while leaving the listener expecting more.
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Progressive Soul album starting with a great groove getting extensively boring with extended vocals, instrumental stretches and a whole, spoken-word story.
Muddy Waters
2/5
Chicago Blues consisting of a standard bass line, noodling guitar solo and a lot of harmonica. Unfortunately this becomes rather repetitive and does not draw me back for repeat listens.
Spiritualized
1/5
Repetitive, sometimes noisy annoying elaborate soundscapes with multiple countermelodies, in tightly controlled chord structures.making up Space Rock.
Fatboy Slim
1/5
Apparently Big Beat originated partly in Electronica. It seems to be characterized by repeating loops and samples that just feel like they're background music to some computer game.
XTC
2/5
Boring inoffensive New Wave,which seems to be "fooling around".
Method Man
1/5
East Coast HipHop with mumbled vocals, and repetitive beats. After the first song I was hoping it would end soon.
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Misguided boring Folk.
Maxwell
1/5
Smooth Neo-Soul offering up every R&B-trope I know.
Air
3/5
Lounge music which is okay as a background filler. Might be enjoyable to switch between the conversation you have, and the varied basslines (melody and tone) with some upright, some electric, and lots of synth bass everywhere.
Can
1/5
Space Rock with seamless, atmospheric flow and textural layering.
Elton John
1/5
Apart from a very interesting album intro which really got me excited the album ist typical Glam Rock, which is particularly slow and forgettable.
Billy Bragg
2/5
Aspiring to describe a mythical land some time past this feels laconic and dull. All of it making up Alternative Country.
Nightmares On Wax
1/5
Bad Chill-Out. While chilled at first it soon gets boring and repetitive more like being on hold to the customer service helpline for an hour and a quarter. It gets repetitive mostly cause it's loop based, sequenced, time stretched, processed (even the "solos") to the point of being predictable.
Metallica
2/5
Trash Metal with good guitar riffs, Lots of screamy vocals and dated production. For me this makes it exhausting to listen to and I realize I probably would like it more in doses rather than a whole hour straight. Apart from that it wasn't good to listen to while running.
Girls Against Boys
1/5
Noisy, edgy, heavy Sounds with atrocious, scratchy and monotone vocals making it Post-Hardcore.
The Specials
1/5
Reggea mixed with ska/Punk and other stuff. It feels like mixing milk with lemon making both go bad while Feeling sounding very much the same all the time.
The Beach Boys
2/5
Mediocre Chamber Pop. Most well known song is the first one.
Ozomatli
3/5
Random Rap motives mixed with Latin Music elements. While blending elements of different genres it never feels like more than the sum of its parts. This gives the songs a wiffliness, a lack of edge, a lack of bite, making them kind of boring and at the same time inoffensive.
Simply Red
3/5
Glossy, synthetic 80ths sound with cheesy organs, unnecessary saxophones, and an allegedly soulful singer making up my Sinthi-Pop album. Overall okay to listen to without feeling the need to relisten.
Alanis Morissette
2/5
Cheesy, seemingly passionate and overall tireing vocals, themed young woman angst making up one 90s Alternative Rock.
Steely Dan
2/5
Boring after dinner Pop Rock.
Ray Price
3/5
Okaish Country as background music in a bar.
Snoop Dogg
1/5
Bass-heavy beats and dense linguistic acrobatics that create a dense carpet of sound I can't get trough.
3/5
Good instrumentation, sloppy vocals making up moderately impressive Punk Rock.
Suede
3/5
Glam Rock being mid-tempo featuring distinctive, overly-emotive vocals.
The Vines
3/5
Mediocre Britpop. Sometimes likeable Alternative Rock parts sometimes annoying screamo vocals. Overall good guitar and drum work.
Carole King
3/5
Relaxed soft Rock with good vocals and an engaging bassline.
Harry Nilsson
2/5
Sometimes annoying, sometimes mediocre Pop, which follows along the lines of the album Cover, in which Nillson couldn't even be bothered to get dressed for the album or even name it properly.
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Dream Pop, which sometimes feels accessible (being melodic, having mixed in organic element, synth loops) being slow and whiny (dreamy or experimental part?) at other times. Interesting enough to listen trough once.
Madness
3/5
Upbeat (sometimes oh cool sometimes straining my patience), playful New Wave album.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Dated Rock album with nice slide guitar parts and memorable tunes. Good as background music at the local bar
The B-52's
3/5
Some parts of this Post Punk are as publicly recieved "infectious in rhythm and guitar riffs, featuring kitschy lyrics, and party atmosphere" while others we're simply annoying (screamy, stuttering vocals).
Thelonious Monk
1/5
Annoyingly experimental and slow Jazz, which feels like they are constantly warming.
R.E.M.
3/5
Major key, mid-tempo, pretentious, semi-folk-rock-balladish things making up some, mediocre Experimental Rock.
Aerosmith
3/5
Mediocre Hard Rock featuring raw energy, great guitar riffs, and some screamo vocals.
Traffic
1/5
Jazz-Rock mostly giving of a dull vibe while the vocals are annoyingly stretched.
Napalm Death
1/5
Grindcore apparently music bereft of melodies and vocals you can't understand.
Talking Heads
2/5
Art Rock, which in parts is funky, weird and uplifting. Mostly though the album falls apart. A lot of the melodies seem to be all over the place. It screams for more structure to reign in the fun and crazy rhythms.
Ravi Shankar
1/5
Hindustani classical music as a 50 minute solo in sitar.
Fleet Foxes
2/5
Using strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other components drawn from the orchestral and lounge pop of the 1960s, with an emphasis on melody and texture this Chambers Pop feels dull, folksy, lukewarm and inoffensive.
1/5
Mediocre quality recording with squeaky harmonica, uninnovative guitar and nasally mumbled vocals making up some leftover Folk Rock sandwich gone bad.
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Difficult to listen to and straining my ears with noise, blips, feedback, guitar distortion, fragments of conversations.making up an Industrial album.
The Associates
1/5
Annoying synth-pop with lots of beeps and boops like some old videogame music.
Little Simz
3/5
Well made HipHop with impressive lyrical deftness and flow while the instrumentation is funky and engaging. Too bad it's not my genre.
The Young Gods
1/5
French Industrial Rock basically bringing angry French with his angry buddies pounding on their synthesizers. Again an album of this list straining my patience (591 and I never skipped an album and always listen trough all of it).
Joan Armatrading
1/5
Folk Rock being folky and mellow. While nothing inherently wrong with this it bored to wishing it to end soon.
TLC
1/5
Urban bar Background music having a slow beat, and lyrics about fucking at night making this HipHop R&B.
Louis Prima
4/5
Swing album having energy, gibberish and craziness to the lyrics.
Joni Mitchell
1/5
Folk Jazz being slushy music with no real form. It's like she is rhythmically talking and there happens to be music playing on the background.
TV On The Radio
1/5
Started out as indie music and then devolved into Experimental nothingness.
Billy Bragg
1/5
Preaching, shallow Punk Folk.
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Excexptionally empty, monstrously boring and dated HipHop album.
Incubus
3/5
Good enough Alternative Rock background music.
Happy Mondays
2/5
PSychedelic Funk nade of cheesy keys, gated drums, a dreadful moaning vocalist, all saturated in reverb and thinned out.
Sheryl Crow
1/5
Slow, boring country tinged Pop Rock.
Bauhaus
1/5
Annoyingly incoherent, not very melodic Post Punk. I wanted to turn it of mostly during listening.
Carpenters
1/5
A syrupy contralto as vocals with lyrics as intravenous glucose made this Pop Album diabetic.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Great riffs, distorted guitar, harmonica and a lot of tempo changes made this Heavy Metal album enjoyable enough.
Neu!
2/5
The Experimental parts were disapoointing the straight about meditation music was ok I guess.
The Police
1/5
Painful Art Rock.
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
Most well known song is "Come on Eileen". The vocals are delivered overly dramatic, feature a constant falsetto and every line ends with a forced vibrato.apparently that's supposed to be New Wave.
Common
1/5
Repetitive instrumentals and looped samples with a constant and relaxed conversational flow, laid-back beats and elements of Soul making this HipHop Soul.
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
Simplistic political and social HipHop describing it's topics verbosely and being dated for obvious reasons.
The Auteurs
4/5
Good enough Alternative Rock.
Cypress Hill
1/5
West Coast HipHop providing a monotonous listening experience by lacking development in the backing beats, in melody and in (cohesive) harmony, which isn't even slightly improved by engaging vocal rhythm and attitude producing unrelatable lyrics. I simply couldn't latch onto something so I tuned out of the music.
Terence Trent D'Arby
1/5
Soul music having aged badly, sounding very 80s with lots of tinny synths, sometimes shrill vocals, a percussive guitar, a tight bass line and sharp horn stabs.
Megadeth
1/5
Too fast too loud, too many wild and Speedy guitar solos and too much growling. Basically everything making this Trash Metal I guess.
Thin Lizzy
1/5
Hard Rock album, whose most well known song probably is "The Boys Are Back In Town". Being a live recording it might give the fans something close to what they may remember from their own live experience. Since I fon't have that I'd rather listen to a studio version. Mabey I'd give a better rating then.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Minimalistic Electronica. The mechanistic repetition, the (subdued) pop melodies and sequenced electronic sounds and rhythms create the image of a trains mechanics as well as the movement and action limited passangers inside. Still feels a bit monotonous.
Paul Simon
4/5
Good enough Folk Pop. Interesting touch with the African choral sounds.
George Michael
2/5
Feels like a generic, boring old Pop album.
Supertramp
1/5
Nearly interesting Progressive Rock but stays a boring meandering mess.
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
East Coast HipHop with funky, repetitive beats and the very casual and sometimes very basic lyrics, which feels too long, and too repetitive.
Laibach
3/5
Martial Industrial made up of a relentless marching beat and campy synths overseen by what can only be described as the voice of a coalmine turned animate. Unfortunately this wears think after half of the album.
Fleetwood Mac
2/5
Edgeless, boring, cold Rock.
The Stranglers
2/5
Punk rock polka at it's best and Art Rock at its worst. Unfortunately only a few decent songs.
Deee-Lite
3/5
Background Electronica with good vibes and grooves. You just don't want to listen too closely because of its repetitiveness.
The Black Crowes
3/5
Okaish Southern Rock which perfectly goes to the Background of a bar there is not a lot of tempo variation.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Driving beat, ringing guitars, dark and moody themes make this Post Punk, which I enjoyed most of the time. Repeating the same line over and over again makes this a lot less enjoyable.
The Verve
2/5
Slow, dull Psychedelic Rock.
Small Faces
1/5
Wird Psychedelic Rock with lots of narration and some okaish instrumental parts.
Portishead
3/5
Unique, industrial, apocalyptic Krautrock, which expertly applies electronic instruments to create a feeling of uneasiness.
Simon & Garfunkel
1/5
Slow and sappy Folk Rock.
Doves
2/5
Moody midpace inoffensive Neo-Psychodelia being dull.
Orbital
2/5
Ambient Techno distressingky failing to be either.
1/5
Distressingly failing to be any of the attempted Genres (Electronic, Latin, Acid Jazz, Downtempo). Leaving me with dull being on hold in a contact line music.
Emmylou Harris
1/5
Mostly sappy Country. Unfortunately the exceptions to this rule on this album are rare.
Goldfrapp
1/5
Dreamy Folktronica which was promising in the first 15 seconds then drifting off in the repetitve dullness of the rest oft the album.
Lorde
4/5
An amalgan of hauntingly nostalgic vocals and Electro-Pop elements. The most well known song is "perfect places".
Paul Weller
1/5
Generic dull dreadful Rock. Wanted to quit long before the first CD was over, being very disappointed it's not even close to the end in the first third of the second CD.
Travis
1/5
Desperate sappy Post-Britpop.
2/5
Irritating talk-singing with surf rock riffs making this some Kind of Post Punk.
Eurythmics
1/5
Excited as I was from knowing this will feature one of the all time classic songs "Sweet Dreams" I got instantly and continuously disappointed by this Synth-Pop album.
Gil Scott-Heron
1/5
Dull aimless mixture of jazz, soul, and spoken word making something like Soft Jazz.
Marvin Gaye
1/5
From the viewpoint of a baffled vietnam veteran comes Soul, which features a series of relaxed grooves with a heavy bottom, filled by thick basslines along with bongos, conga, and other percussion. Although by popular opinion anmasterpiece I drowned in this dense soundscape.
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Annoying cacophony of noise mixed with screamed German words making this some kind of Experimental Industrial.
The Allman Brothers Band
1/5
Bloated Blues Rock often going into jams. Being a live album is devalueing the music.
Scott Walker
2/5
The listener is greeted by a not-too-deep baritone, which is backed by orchestra with soulful horns and seductive guitar, creating something pompous and theatrical making this some Baroque Pop.
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
Bland boring Country Pop
Joni Mitchell
1/5
Not a single interesting chord progression. Lacks atmospheric cohesion. Annoyingly uneben flow when syllables are forced into rhythms that feel unnatural. As if the lyrics and melody are at odds with one another, creating a jarring experience instead of something organically emotive. In short it's Folk Rock made in a way I dislike.
Weather Report
1/5
Smooth, unengaging dinner-party-background-music Jazz Fusion.
Aphex Twin
4/5
Good enough Ambient Techno.
Jazmine Sullivan
3/5
Okaish R&B. Meaning the music has a hazy, introspective tone through a combination of zooming synths, a finger-snapped beat, and Sullivan's distinctive, slightly slurred and emotive vocal delivery.
The Only Ones
4/5
Dreamy, melancholic, and slightly haunting New Wave. Good enough for background music, but sometimes something catchy draws you in, making you want to listen closely—only to turn back to the conversation almost immediately.
Rod Stewart
2/5
Root Rock which is partialy engaging and partialy mellowy boring. While sometimes there's a raw, ragged energy that pulls you in with jangling acoustic guitars, rough-hewn electric riffs, and Stewart’s gravelly voice, at other times I fehlt drowned by a warm sentimental touch.
Frank Black
2/5
Alternative Rock album, which leads by a good force of rock but only fragments of each song feel interesting.
Donovan
4/5
Psychedelic Folk being dreamy and playful (singing being in a light, intimate tone that feels conversational and inviting) leaning more toward mystical wonder (Strings and unusual timbres) than heavy experimentation. Good enough to relisten If I'm in the mood.
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Southern Rock epic mixing loud, (twin and triple) guitar-heavy rock with reflective, story-driven songs about Southern life and myth. Nice enough to listen to once or twice.
The Cult
3/5
A raw, stripped-down hard rock sound full of swagger and muscle, driven by blues-based riffs, pounding rhythms, and snarling, soaring vocals.
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Slow Country Folk being a sparse, haunting blend of country, blues, and folk, carried by slow tempos, spacious arrangements, and hushed, intimate vocals.
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
A slow, lush blend of folk-rock and grunge, built on distorted yet melodic guitars, sweeping rhythms, and impassioned, textured vocals, yet often slipping into something boring and forgettable.
The xx
4/5
An intimate, minimal blend of indie pop and electronic, built on sparse beats, muted guitars, and hushed, intertwining vocals that create a nocturnal atmosphere.
Jane Weaver
1/5
A dreamy, psychedelic blend of synth-pop and krautrock, built on motorik rhythms, swirling electronics, and ethereal, hypnotic vocals all of it simply annoying me to want to quit early.
Brian Eno
1/5
A quirky, experimental blend of glam rock and art pop, built on jagged guitars, eccentric arrangements, and playful, unpredictable vocals that create a chaotic atmosphere.
Stephen Stills
1/5
A warm, rootsy blend of rock and folk, with sappy vocals making this Folk Rock.
The Everly Brothers
1/5
Built on bright guitars, steady rhythms, and tender, close-knit harmonies this Rock'n Roll album creates something florid and boring.
Pere Ubu
1/5
Post Punk with fractured rhythms, angular guitars, and tense, eccentric vocals that create a disorienting, sometimes playful, sometimes claustrophobic atmosphere.
Mudhoney
1/5
Grunge driven by drums, guitar and shouty snarling repetitive vocals and purposefully mediocre production quality.
Ride
1/5
My first from the Shoegaze genre. Soft airy vocals are submerged in layers of noisy, swirling, reverb-drenched guitars, where bright, chiming tones crash into waves of distortion. Overall my ears were strained.
SAULT
1/5
This Soul album builds its grooves on deep basslines, steady funk-inflected drums, sparse guitars, gospel-tinged keys, and layered percussion. The vocals shift between intimate whispers, soaring gospel-like choruses, and urgent spoken word, while the lyrics focus on Black identity and empowerment, giving the record undeniable meaning. Musically I found it unappealing and it failedt to leave a lasting impression.
Frank Sinatra
1/5
The sparse instrumentation consisting of muted horns, brushed drums and gentle strings frames the warm, weary vocals in late night intimacy fitting the lyrics describing the hearbroken limerent longing. While the described instrumentation and vocals seem sappy, the lyrics show a total lack of understanding the interpersonal dynamics of limerence.
The Style Council
2/5
A Sophisti-Pop album that drifts between lounge-like instrumentals with jazzy piano, crisp drumming, smooth guitar, and brass, and vocal pieces that shift from soulful crooning to casual, conversational phrasing.
Peter Frampton
2/5
This rock album tries unsuccessfully to showcase melodic guitar work, smooth vocals, and the playful use of a talk box that makes the guitar seem to “talk,” while giving you the feeling of being there by annoying you with audience noises.
Tom Waits
3/5
This experimental rock album is hard to rate, with clattering percussion, distorted guitars, and gravelly vocals shaping unsettling songs about death, decay, and faith that are as abrasive as they are atmospheric.
Machito
3/5
This Afro-Cuban jazz album is challenging to rate, with a chaotic, frenetic energy stemming from vibrant brass, intricate Latin percussion, and driving bass woven into dense, celebratory arrangements. Perfect as a Soundtrack, for an evening out to dance, drink and watch people dancing to it.
Nirvana
2/5
This grunge album has a raw, abrasive energy stemming from slashing guitars, pounding drums, and anguished vocals that frame lyrics shifting between searing vulnerability and caustic irony.
Roxy Music
2/5
This art rock album has a sleek yet experimental energy stemming with annoyingly glamorous vocals, entertaining lush keyboards, and jagged guitars wrapped in stylish, atmospheric arrangements that blur pop allure with avant-garde edge.
Peter Gabriel
1/5
This art rock album is strikingly eclectic, with sharp guitar riffs, moody keyboards, and dynamic percussion shaping atmospheric arrangements that shift between angular intensity and brooding introspection, while the vocals deliver a theatrical mix of urgency, vulnerability, and sly detachment. Unfortunately this falls apart as an album for me although it has interesting parts.
Ian Dury
1/5
This new wave album is abominable, with stiff, jagged guitar lines, clattering rhythms, and intrusive bursts of piano and saxophone creating a cluttered, uneasy backdrop for vocals that lurch between sneering sarcasm and grating exaggeration. The lyrics, though vivid and character-driven, come across more as abrasive caricature than engaging storytelling, leaving the whole record feeling noisy, uncomfortable, and hard to sit through.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
2/5
This Art Rock album is gloomy and hard to engage with, built on sluggish, bass-heavy rhythms, muted guitars, and dim, overcast production that blurs its melodies into a murmur. The vocals, half-spoken and weary, match the somber tone but rarely rise above it, turning introspection into inertia. Though the lyrics reach for commentary on English decline and urban melancholy, the music’s heavy stillness makes it feel more numbing than profound.
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
This New Wave album is exhausting to endure, bursting with frantic horn lines, cluttered arrangements, and relentlessly shouted vocals. The energy is chaotic rather than invigorating, with every track competing for attention in a blur of brass and bluster. Though the lyrics aim for youthful rebellion and sincerity, the overblown delivery turns passion into noise, making the album feel more like an onslaught than a celebration.
Led Zeppelin
3/5
This Blues Rock album is a powerful but uneven debut, bursting with raw energy and instrumental fire yet held back by uneven production and moments of indulgent blues interptetations.
Joanna Newsom
3/5
This avant-folk album is lush and ornate in its sweeping harp arrangements and ornate orchestration. It unfolds like a grand, sappy Disney musical - beautifully detailed, emotionally towering and overly dramatic.
Fever Ray
4/5
This electronic album is darkly atmospheric yet deeply captivating, built on pulsing synths, icy textures, and hypnotic rhythms that create a strange, intimate world. The distorted vocals add both mystery and emotional weight, blurring human warmth with mechanical chill. While its pacing and moodiness can feel heavy at times, the production’s depth and the haunting sense of character make it a compelling, immersive listen that rewards patience.
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
This noise-pop album is murky and fatiguing, its layers of distortion and buried vocals smothering melody and emotion beneath a cluttered haze.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2/5
This jazz-rock album is like an impeccably set dinner table—gleaming, ornate, and perfectly arranged—but so focused on presentation that it forgets to serve anything truly satisfying.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
This ambient, elegiac album is heavy and airless, its slow synths and murmured vocals blurring into a weightless monotony as its mournful tone collapses into self-absorption, leaving the listener wandering through a fog that never lifts.
Jeff Beck
1/5
This blues rock album is like a muscle car revving endlessly in neutral—noisy, flashy, and full of power, but ultimately going nowhere.
Bonnie Raitt
1/5
This Americana album is like a painted fence around an empty yard—polished musicianship and expressive vocals shine, but the arrangements and lyrics (about love and heartbreak) lean on stereotypical tropes, feeling hollow, and unambitious.
The Cure
3/5
This gothic rock album builds from dense layers of drums, bass, and reverb-drenched guitars, with vocals aching in despair and urgency, shrouded in a fog of claustrophobic atmosphere and emotional collapse that feels both agonizing and strangely transcendent.
Fatboy Slim
2/5
This big beat album is grating and overblown, its repetitive hooks and blaring samples quickly wearing thin under a barrage of forced energy and empty swagger. Yet beneath the bombast, a few calmer, groove-driven moments hint at a more nuanced, hypnotic sound the record rarely explores, making it feel like a missed opportunity buried under its own noise.
Metallica
3/5
This symphonic metal album blends heavy, riff-driven power with a full orchestra to form a dense, theatrical wall of sound where strings and brass add grandeur and tension, while gruff vocals cut through or strain against it, echoing lyrical themes of struggle, control, and inner conflict.
Wire
3/5
This punk album is like a malfunctioning factory running on adrenaline—its jagged guitars, clipped vocals, and relentless rhythms clatter with raw urgency, echoing the alienation of modern life.
The Who
2/5
This psychedelic rock album is like a pirate radio station lost in its own brilliant cacophony—jangling guitars, soaring harmonies, and mock commercials collide in a mix of satire and sincerity that’s vibrant and clever but often too chaotic to stay interesting.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
This blues-rock album is like a roaring engine held together by passion rather than polish—its rough guitars, unrestrained vocals, and raw emotion surge with freedom and fire, even as the whole thing threatens to shake itself apart.
Van Morrison
2/5
This live soul-rock album flows like a river at sunset—warm and steady beneath shimmering brass and piano currents, with vocals that ripple between fervent cries and gentle reflections, yet as the sun wears off, a faint coldness settles beneath its fading glow.
Sleater-Kinney
2/5
This punk rock album is like a crowded room of sparring voices—its tangled guitars and pounding drums buzz with restless energy, the vocals flare with conviction and strain, and while its tension over identity and power crackles vividly, the constant clamor can grow tiring.
Sinead O'Connor
1/5
Built on gentle acoustic guitars, minimal percussion, and soft orchestral touches that frame fragile, expressive vocals and lyrics steeped in personal pain this feels like a sparse, restrained and sappy Folk album
Bebel Gilberto
1/5
Simply a boring Bossa Nova A
album.
New Order
4/5
This synth-pop album fuses shimmering electronics with pulsing house and Balearic beats, layering sequencers, crisp percussion, and bright guitars beneath understated, detached vocals and lyrics steeped in melancholy, emotional disconnection, and romantic uncertainty.
Baaba Maal
2/5
This album blends traditional West African instrumentation—talking drums, kora-like textures, and intricate percussion—with a soaring, ornamented tenor and group responses that feel vibrant, expressive and remains exotic, while at the same time the lyrics remain inaccessible to me due to the language barrier.
The Byrds
2/5
This psychedelic folk-rock album surrounds jangling guitars and tight bass lines with a hazy swirl of sound, while vocals drift between earnest clarity and laid-back detachment, creating a musical carpet that sometimes feels like it’s about to swallow me whole or suffocate me in my sleep.
T. Rex
1/5
This glam rock album is like a glitter-covered peacock preening under a spotlight—full of fuzzy riffs, swaggering grooves, and flirtatious vocals that shimmer with mystique semanticly while winking at their own over-the-top absurdity.
Depeche Mode
2/5
This album is a mixed bag, different genres (alternative Rock, Synth-Pop, New Wave, Electropop), which sometimes were enjoyable and at times let me wish the album would end sooner rather than later.
Raekwon
1/5
East Coast HipHop celebrating aggressive fronting, misogyny and racism in a street like atmospheric texture with gritty drum loops.
Ananda Shankar
5/5
This psychedelic fusion album blends sitar and tabla with electric guitars, bass, and drums, creating a vivid dialogue between East and West that feels both meditative and exuberantly experimental.
Paul Simon
1/5
This soft rock album drifts through delicate guitar work, subtle synths, and refined percussion, with gentle, conversational vocals conveying vulnerability and thoughtfulness, being immaculately melancholic and restrained so that I just wanted to turn it off.
Bob Dylan
2/5
Listening to this Folk Rock album felt like being trapped beside a street preacher with a megaphone who won’t stop talking. It clatters forward on twanging guitars, sharp harmonica blasts, and loose, rolling rhythms, with nasal, sneering vocals half-sung and half-spoken.
Underworld
3/5
Pulsing techno beats, fluid synth textures, and shifting rhythmic patterns build a hypnotic repetition that forms the album’s strongest core, while fragmented, stream-of-consciousness vocals drift through the mix, making this a mesmerizing yet detached Ambient downtempo. Unfortunately it is very long and didn't keep my interest troughout.
The Jam
2/5
This mod-influenced rock album feels like standing in a neatly painted city square—everything sharp, stylish, and full of movement, yet somehow too orderly to stir much beneath the surface.
PJ Harvey
2/5
This alternative rock album burns like a bare lightbulb—its jagged guitars, sparse drums, and searing vocals exposing every raw nerve with a stark intensity that’s both captivating and uncomfortable.
Gillian Welch
1/5
This folk album unfolds like an old quilt—hand-stitched from sparse guitars, steady harmonies, and weary reflections, for some its beauty might ly in the worn simplicity while others including me might find it numbingly
simple.
The Zombies
2/5
This baroque pop album blooms like a faded watercolor—its ornate harmonies, soft melodies, and wistful tone shimmer with fragile beauty even as their colors begin to blur.
Christina Aguilera
1/5
This pop-R&B album shifts between glossy, beat-heavy production and sparse piano ballads, balancing punchy rhythms with open space while Aguilera’s fiery, elastic voice drives lyrics of empowerment and self-reclamation; like a neon-lit mirror glittering under harsh lights, I want to avert my gaze.
David Gray
1/5
This folk-pop album is like rain on a city window blending acoustic warmth with electronic sheen, pairing looping rhythms and soft textures with earnest, weathered vocals. Like the rain its smoothness dulls the emotional Edge and blurs after a while.
Miles Davis
3/5
This Cool Jazz album flows like smoke in a dim club—measured, elegant, and effortlessly smooth, its restrained ensemble sound whispering revolution through quiet confidence.
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
Like stumbling into a packed club just as the lights flare and the floor starts to shake, this indie rock album hits with sharp, fast-paced guitar riffs, tight bass lines, and pounding drums bursting with nervous, garage-rock energy; the vocals, quick and sneering, half-sung and half-spat, ride over lyrics steeped in nightlife bravado and social awkwardness—then, just as suddenly, it’s over, leaving your pulse still racing in the afterglow.
De La Soul
1/5
This hip-hop album is like a patchwork quilt stitched from funk, jazz, and imagination. Unhelpful as I was already having difficulty with IT being a quilt.
Arcade Fire
4/5
This indie rock album feels like standing in a cathedral built from static and stained glass—majestic and immersive, but heavy with the echo of its own despair.
Tom Tom Club
3/5
This new wave funk album is like a kaleidoscopic beach party—sun-soaked, silly, and groovy, where every loop and chant spins in bright, carefree motion while at the same time exhausting you by being overly long
Grateful Dead
1/5
This psychedelic rock album is like watching a campfire almost going dark - loose, glowing, and constantly mutating, pulling you in with its crackles and threatening to leave you cold entirely.
Japan
3/5
This new wave album glides on sleek basslines, shimmering synths, and clean, carefully measured guitar work. Sylvian’s smooth, detached vocals hover above the mix, reinforcing themes of identity, distance, and emotional reserve. Like strolling through a neon-lit gallery at midnight, it’s elegant and beautifully composed, yet its polished surface keeps the listener at a deliberate distance.
Bad Company
2/5
This hard rock album strides forward with unfussy guitar crunch, solid rhythms, and a powerful vocal presence that aims for impact more than subtlety. Its songs move with a kind of barroom bravado—solid, familiar, and built for immediacy. Like a well-worn leather jacket, past its prime and no longer contemporary.
Pixies
2/5
This alternative rock album lurches between quiet, skeletal passages and chaos, its jagged riffs and sudden eruptions giving it a deliberately unstable charm. The vocals twist from hush to howl, matching lyrics that feel like overheard fragments from feverish dreams. It’s like flipping through a torn comic book soaked in salt water—distorted, vivid, strangely electrifying and beyond saving at the same time.
Cheap Trick
1/5
This Power Pop album feels cheap, all sharp riffs and high-spirited vocals drowned by the rush of performance and noise rather than musical refinement. Basically it's like binge drinking rather than enjoying the roch variety of alcoholic beverages.
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
This synth-pop album moves with a composed elegance, its refined arrangements and restrained vocals suggesting emotion held behind glass. It’s carefully shaped and quietly affecting, though its control can feel overly mannered. Like watching city lights through a taxi window on a drizzly evening, it’s smooth and reflective, even if it keeps you slightly removed from its core.
Tom Waits
3/5
This blues-inflected album staggers through dimly lit streets, its gritty instrumentation and ravaged vocals conjuring a world of cigarette-stained windows and worn-down souls. It’s vivid and visceral, though its rawness can feel abrasive. Like drinking whiskey poured from a chipped glass behind a flickering neon sign, it’s hauntingly authentic but far from comforting.
The xx
4/5
This indie pop album moves with quiet precision like tracing breath on cold glass with its minimalist instrumentation and whispered vocals suggesting intimacy held at arm’s length. The emotional nuance is delicately crafted, fragile and subtly affecting. At the same time it tips toward detachment. Like tracing breath on cold glass, the warmth of the mouth uttering its breath never breaking through.
N.E.R.D
1/5
Like someone frantically slapping mismatched paint onto a wall while the music blares in the background, this experimental pop-rock album lurches between funk, rock, and electronic elements without finding coherence, its inventive rhythms and crunchy guitars lost in the rush. The vocals posture with attitude rather than precision, and the lyrics gesture toward rebellion and individuality but rarely dig deeper than surface-level swagger. The resulting mess is energetic but unfocused, leaving more splatter than substance.
Miles Davis
4/5
Like watching ripples move across a still lake at dawn, this modal jazz album flows with serene precision, letting trumpet, saxophone, and rhythm section converse in soft, deliberate gestures. Its spaciousness gives every note room to breathe, creating an atmosphere of quiet contemplation. Unhurried yet profoundly resonant, it draws you in not through motion, but through the beauty of restraint.
James Taylor
1/5
Like the childhood cocoa that once felt sweet and comforting but now tastes cloying and sticks unpleasantly to your teeth, this soft folk-rock album blankets you in gentle acoustic warmth and soothing vocals, yet its persistent sweetness feels like tooth decay.
Kings of Leon
3/5
This rough-edged garage/Southern rock debut charges in with gritty guitars, pounding drums, and hoarse, barking vocals as if it were selling pure wildness, but it ends up feeling like an energy drink from your teenage years – once electrifying, now artificially sweetened and only another source of coffein.
Beatles
2/5
This polished rock album blends warm harmonies, meticulously layered instrumentation, and seamless transitions as if it were serving a rich dessert sampler of late-era creativity, yet to me it lands like a once-celebrated confection now overly glazed—impressive in craft but so self-satisfied it sticks to the palate.
The Psychedelic Furs
2/5
This post-punk/new wave album charges ahead on serrated guitars, punchy rhythm work, and dense sax flourishes, while the vocals deliver their angst with theatrical drawl and sneering cool. Yet for me it plays like being stuck at a loud after-party hosted in an echoing hallway—initially thrilling with attitude, but quickly grating as the clamor swallows nuance.
The Roots
1/5
Built on sharp live band instrumentation that shifts between *hip-hop*, rock-inflected riffs, neo-soul smoothness, and experimental detours, **Phrenology** reaches for innovation but frequently unravels into muddled ambition; the vocal delivery remains confident, yet the lyrical focus slips through uneven transitions. Experiencing this hip-hop album felt like tracing a cranial bump and being assured it reveals artistic genius—only to realize it’s merely the bruise of overextension rather than a true sign of brilliance, a misread impact dressed up as insight.
Black Sabbath
3/5
Listening to this Heavy Metal Album is like walking through a temple built of amplifiers: awe-inspiring in its sheer weight (thick, downtuned riffs, thudding drums, and smoky, overdriven textures paired with weary, spectral vocals), yet the floorboards shake just enough to remind you the structure might collapse at any moment.
Funkadelic
3/5
Like kneeling before a crumbling monolith of sound—with saturated, downtuned guitar riffs, plodding drum patterns, and a thick, almost narcotic mix—this heavy metal album still towers with power with vocals half chant, half sigh, yet showers you in dust as it decays, its foundation long weakened by repetition and excess.
Hole
3/5
Like admiring a perfectly airbrushed billboard that can’t hide the faint outline of rust beneath the paint this Alternative Rock album feels dated.
Dolly Parton
2/5
Like a trio of voices carried across an open field at dusk, this country-folk album feels like three lantern lights moving in the same direction—distinct in color yet softly merging into one steady glow. Don't like a torch in my face though.
The Slits
1/5
This post-punk album hits like stumbling into a makeshift jungle shack at midnight—everything rattling, buzzing, and defiantly handmade. Just not for me.
The Charlatans
1/5
This alt-rock album feels like riding a bus through drizzly suburbs—muted, reliable, a bit washed-out, steady boredom.
Jean-Michel Jarre
1/5
This electronic album drifts like a slow satellite arc—cool, luminous, and a little distant—gliding through space on glowing synth trails. Basically getting a glimpse is okay, listening trough the whole thing: boring.
Serge Gainsbourg
1/5
This Psychedelic Pop album drags you into a vintage cab gliding through dim Paris streets—lush, low-lit, and unsettlingly you don't understand the whispers of your captor but he keeps talking and you just want it to stop.
Kelela
2/5
This alternative R&B album, all sleek shimmering synths, elastic bass lines, airy electronic textures, and vocals drifting from intimate murmurs to agile runs, ends up feeling boring and repetitive—like walking endless loops in a beautifully lit hallway where every door leads back to the same room.
Sly & The Family Stone
1/5
This funk/soul album fires off punchy horns, rubbery bass lines, clipped guitars, and exuberant group vocals feeling like being dragged through a nonstop street parade—vibrant and overflowing with energy and fatiguing instantly.
Funkadelic
2/5
This funk album pumps out elastic bass lines, chattering guitars, bright keys, and loose, joy-drunk grooves, with vocals that bounce between playful chants and sly swagger, all of it swirling together like a wild block party that occasionally tips from liberation into unruly excess.
2/5
This pop album drapes its glossy synths, punchy bass lines, and lavish string flourishes around theatrical, hyper-stylized vocals, all of it sweeping past like a grand romantic gesture written in gilt ink—impressive at first glance, Overall feeling more like ornate packaging than genuine emotion
Peter Tosh
1/5
This reggae album leans on relaxed, repetitive grooves and roomy bass lines that settle into a comfortable sway much like smoking a joint, which makes everything feel profound and revelatory to the one inhaling while everyone else just sees the same slow, looping drift with nowhere new to go.
Barry Adamson
3/5
This cinematic noir-jazz collage—with brooding bass lines, tremulous strings, smoky horns, and theatrically deadpan vocal interjections—unfurls like wandering through a dim, neon-lit alley full of intriguing clues but also long stretches of stylish shadow where the mood matters far more than the destination.
Pulp
3/5
This Glam Rock album cloaks its sleek synths, pulsing bass, and dramatic string accents around dry, theatrical half-spoken, half-sung vocals, shifting between detached narration and wounded intimacy, dissecting desire, power, and disillusionment, unfolding like a velvet-curtained nightclub after closing time—seductive, self-aware, and faintly sordid, yet aware that the glamour has already begun to curdle.
The Magnetic Fields
1/5
This indie pop album uses sparse, lo-fi arrangements of drum machines, simple synths, acoustic guitars, and occasional orchestral touches, paired with monotone, near–spoken-word vocals used more as narrative tools than expressive instruments. Unfortunately 69 times.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Like a well-tailored suit lined with hidden needles, this new wave album looks sleek and controlled on the surface while constantly jabbing the listener with its sharp edges and clenched hostility.
Mariah Carey
1/5
This pop-R&B album drifts on silky programmed beats, muted bass pulses, and airy synth pads, with vocal ornamentation floating over a smooth mid-tempo flow that blurs songs into one softly glowing surface. It feels like watching colored lights drift under water—pretty and soothing and boring.
Pavement
1/5
This indie album drifts on slacker guitars wobbling between jangle and distortion, loose melodic bass, and unshowy drumming, with half-mumbled, half-sarcastic vocals that feel so washed out the music loses its color, leaving me quietly turning away in boredom.
The Youngbloods
2/5
Warm, lightly psychedelic grooves built from gently chiming guitars, relaxed bass lines, soft organ swells, and easy-flowing percussion that moves this Folck-Rock album like a sun-bleached road trip where the scenery is pleasant enough but so mild and hazy that it quietly drifts past without leaving much behind.
Milton Nascimento
1/5
Warm, lightly sun-dazed arrangements built from soft electric pianos, chiming guitars, airy percussion, and mellow horn and string flourishes carry this Música popular brasileira album like a leave falling slowly to the ground in a summer breeze. Interesting to look at for a short Moment in time and intensely boring listening for Long periods of time.
Turbonegro
3/5
Warm, lightly chaotic rock ’n’ roll excess built from blown-out guitars, swaggering bass lines, stomping drums, glam-punk flourishes, and sneering, theatrical vocals folded straight into the racket pushes this punk-rock album forward like a beer-soaked parade float barreling downhill—loud, trashy, and irresistibly gaudy, yet so over-the-top and jokey that much of its impact splashes by before it can really land.
Hot Chip
2/5
Warm, lightly playful electronic grooves built from rubbery synth lines, soft-focus keyboard chords, crisp programmed drums, and woven-in, lightly processed vocals that melt into the textures move this synth-pop/electro-pop album like a neon sign flickering in the evening heat—bright and inviting at first glance, but most likely broken and uninviting.
Sebadoh
1/5
Warm, lightly scrappy indie-folk/lo-fi grooves built from gently picked or fuzz-scuffed guitars, wobbling bass, uneven percussion, and muttered, homespun vocals, which feels charming in its handmade roughness but so meandering and faint that you’re fast to lose interest as it drifts out of focus.
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Warm, hazy shoegaze swells built from endlessly blooming guitars, submerged bass, soft electronic pulses, and murmured, vapor-thin vocals move this shoegaze album like standing inside a pastel-colored jet engine—beautiful in its swirling, enveloping blur, but so thick and indistinct that the longer it roars, the harder it becomes to tell one shape from another.
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Built on frantic, collage-like bursts of warped guitars, rubbery bass lines, cheap-sounding keyboards, abrupt tape edits, and nasal, theatrically sneering vocals, this experimental rock album spins like a funhouse mirror maze. It's so jagged, jumpy, and willfully chaotic that mostly I am irritated and annoyed.
Spacemen 3
2/5
Built from droning, overdriven guitars, mantra-like percussion, and keyboards that stretch into blurred, glowing tones, with vocals floating in a detached half-murmur, this neo-psych album moves like wandering through a dim corridor guided by a flickering candle drawing you in looking curiouspy around until blindingly a cacophony of sound (e.g. track suicide) is turned on and I want to turn of the album.
Pavement
3/5
Ragged, loosely tangled grooves built from wobbly, distortion-frayed guitars, slack but melodic bass lines, shuffling drum patterns, and offhand vocals folded directly into the instrumental haze move this indie rock album like a scribbled, half-finished zine. Full of personality and grit yet so casually assembled that it flips past your eyes quickly, leaving only the impression of its crooked charm.
Liz Phair
3/5
Raw, unvarnished grooves built from dry, slightly grimy guitars, unfussy bass lines, steady but unpolished drums, and vocals delivered with a plainspoken, cutting directness move this indie rock album like a late-night streetlight flickering over cracked pavement. Try not to trip while walking on.
Tangerine Dream
1/5
Shifting, slowly evolving electronic layers built from shimmering analog synths, drifting sequencer pulses, and vast, wordless atmospheres move this electronic album like watching frost form on a windowpane. At first the quietly shifting, hypnotic, and absorbing atmosphere is interesting then rapidely boring me enough to asking myself when the end of the album puts me out of my misery.