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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea Girl | 5 | 2.63 | +2.37 |
| Alien Lanes | 5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
| Vulnicura | 5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
| Third/Sister Lovers | 5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
| Sweetheart Of The Rodeo | 5 | 2.83 | +2.17 |
| Go Girl Crazy | 5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
| Red Dirt Girl | 5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
| When I Was Born For The 7th Time | 5 | 2.91 | +2.09 |
| Walking Wounded | 5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
| Talking With the Taxman About Poetry | 5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Purple In Rock | 1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
| In It For The Money | 1 | 3.23 | -2.23 |
| Close To The Edge | 1 | 3.19 | -2.19 |
| Selling England By The Pound | 1 | 3.18 | -2.18 |
| The La's | 1 | 3.14 | -2.14 |
| Hunting High And Low | 1 | 3.12 | -2.12 |
| Oxygène | 1 | 3.08 | -2.08 |
| Make Yourself | 1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
| Post Orgasmic Chill | 1 | 2.99 | -1.99 |
| Peace Sells...But Who's Buying | 1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Beatles | 4 | 4.75 |
| The Kinks | 4 | 4.75 |
| Bob Dylan | 3 | 5 |
| Björk | 3 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 5 | 4.4 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey | 3 | 4.67 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 2 | 5 |
| OutKast | 2 | 5 |
| Johnny Cash | 2 | 5 |
| Beastie Boys | 2 | 5 |
| Prince | 2 | 5 |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 5 |
| Ray Charles | 2 | 5 |
| The Rolling Stones | 5 | 4.2 |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 4.33 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 2 | 1 |
| Yes | 2 | 1.5 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| The Band | 2, 5 |
| Kanye West | 4, 1 |
5-Star Albums (117)
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N.W.A.
5/5
i think you can successfully argue that without this album, Snoop wouldn’t be commentating at the Olympics right now
18 likes
Tom Waits
4/5
our friend says there are only two kinds of tom waits songs: (1) it’s raining and i’m sad or (2) we’ve got to stop these monkeys and their fashioning of tin cups!
18 likes
U2
4/5
i remember listening to this on broken headphones, plugged into my walkman, in the garage, when i was 16, trying to cut weight for a high school wrestling meet weigh-in the next morning. it’s amazing how particular music instantly bonds to memories like that.
15 likes
Herbie Hancock
4/5
had a great time listening / weird-dancing to Watermelon Man with the girls before school. It starts out so goofy and strange, they were mesmerized… but then the bass and drums kick in and all of a sudden it’s a jam. i can absolutely hear HHs influence on modern hip-hop.
7 likes
The Band
2/5
i couldn’t shake the feeling that this album was inspired and was recorded by the Muppets Electric Mayhem band. i can really hear it when the second vocalist comes in—sounds just like Floyd!
3 likes
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Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
More experimental than I thought it would be. I kinda assumed Simon and Garfunkel only wrote only mellow, folky stuff (....maybe because that's the most popular stuff?). Enjoyed
Jimmy Smith
3/5
I really liked that version of Sunnyside of the Street
Air
3/5
heavy influence from 70s but so iconically late 90s it felt like college. not my favorite tho… i feel like it’s roughly Sterolab but a bit sleepier. i wonder who came first?
took me until Ce Matin-la before i remembered hearing this album before
Ramones
5/5
that’s gotta be the best trio of songs to open an album with ever. so much energy and so much fun. 9th grade carpool friend demanded that i “turn it up” on the drive in to school
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
i don’t love every song on this album but the ones i love, i really love. and it’s such a landmark 90s album. i liked their “melancholy and the infinite sadness” double album better
Amy Winehouse
3/5
i don’t know if i’ve ever listened to this straight through before. fun music. sad she’s gone—i bet she’d be doing interesting things.
Violent Femmes
5/5
solid from start to finish—there’s not a bad song on the album. love
The Zombies
3/5
oh! it’s the Time of the Season band. i missed it because everything about that track feels very different from the others—lyrically, musically, everything. when it came on i thought spotify had fininshed the album and was generating other artists for me
Cyndi Lauper
5/5
pop music standard. the prince cover is one of my all time favs
R.E.M.
4/5
this is probably the album that convinced christina to go to school in athens. thanks REM!
The Band
2/5
i couldn’t shake the feeling that this album was inspired and was recorded by the Muppets Electric Mayhem band. i can really hear it when the second vocalist comes in—sounds just like Floyd!
Oasis
2/5
oh man this band is going to be bigger than the beatles!
Coldplay
3/5
good not great? when i saw U2 popping up i immediately assumed it would be a different album… this one doesn’t feel landmark-y enough to me
Coldplay
2/5
this album is like eating a bunch of candy corn. in the moment it’s great, but you regret it and kind of feel sick after you’re done. also, 2 coldplay albums this week??!
Arcade Fire
3/5
arcade Fire has some amazing songs, but this is not my favorite album of theirs
Joan Baez
4/5
I don’t think I have ever listened to a whole Joan Baez album before. But I really enjoyed this one.
1/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
starts bad but gets great in the second 2/3
Metallica
2/5
i was intrigued by the idea, but the symphony seems artificially added on top of the music and i’m not sure adds to the experience. if i want to totally thrash out to Master of Puppets, i’m going to go to the og recording, not this version
Steely Dan
3/5
of all the bands that kinda sounded like this from this era, steely dan is pretty decent. yacht rock is not my fav genre tho
The Only Ones
4/5
never heard of this band but i like!
Janis Joplin
4/5
i’m predicting 5 stars from Dad :)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
5/5
love it. didn’t know this was 1976!
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Supergrass
1/5
Gorillaz
4/5
2nd album out of… 20? that features non-white people. this list needs to do better
Pere Ubu
1/5
sounds like local bands trying to make it. i appreciate these bands exist, but meh
Led Zeppelin
4/5
solid album. it is fun to listen straight through it and see how it flows. Lots of different styles, but they all sort of molded together.
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Suzanne Vega
4/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
wow i would have thought this was Winehouse. i haven’t really listened to Springfield before and didn’t realize how much Winehouse channeled her.
(edit: i officially claim that i wrote that before getting to the song on the album that Winehouse covered!)
Pavement
5/5
Brighten the Corners is one of my favorite albums and i wore it out on my cd player. this album is not that one, but i love it
Radiohead
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Slayer
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
Sparks
2/5
Joy Division
4/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
there was a different arcade fire album in this list and i remember thinking why that one and not Funeral. glad to see it here
Elbow
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
Yasssssssss so good :)
Jethro Tull
2/5
was never a big fan, but Dan Judy LOVES them so i’ve had quite the earfull over the years…
Kate Bush
4/5
Iron Maiden
2/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
1/5
This is the day that Shane MacGowan died, so i have to admit i only made it through 3 of these Oxygene tracks before needing to bail out and listen to the Pogues for the rest of the day at full volume.
4/5
nice and funky—good gettin ready for school music
Stevie Wonder
4/5
i could have sworn it was Cee-Lo on back up vocals on Heaven is 10 Zillion…
Don’t know how I wasn’t familiar with this album but I loved it.
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
5/5 one of my favorite albums
The Cure
3/5
christina is going to fight me on not eating this higher
The Avalanches
4/5
i love anyone who mixes a hundred samples into a single track in a nice sounding way, and the avalanches do a great job at it. their other album has the bangers on it tho!
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5/5
classic. first time i heard consciously heard non standard time signatures when i was a teen. great stuff
Van Morrison
3/5
good Van is really good Van. this seems more jazzy than what i know him for, but i enjoyed it
Ravi Shankar
4/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Motörhead
3/5
always thought these guys were hard rock in the style of metallica or something and never listened to them. pleasantly surprised to discover that theyre much more grounded in punk and they did the “Ace of Spaee-ds” song. consider me educated on motörhead
5/5
Tom Waits
4/5
our friend says there are only two kinds of tom waits songs: (1) it’s raining and i’m sad or (2) we’ve got to stop these monkeys and their fashioning of tin cups!
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
this album reminds me that all PSB albums are basically the same. some good stuff, for sure, but is one any more stand-out than any other?
Goldfrapp
2/5
meh
Lorde
4/5
much more engaging than i thought it would be!
Various Artists
3/5
murders notwithstanding, i liked this collection. we alternated between this and the sufjan stevens xmas playlist on youtube for our family get-together
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
they sound like they’re really happy to be playing. it’s interesting how that can come through in a recording
Jeff Beck
2/5
kinda fun to listen to early Rod Stewart, but I got pretty bored of this album
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
this is another one that i wore out my speakers on when it came out. complex layering of sounds, vocals… and so different from their earlier albums (i’m pretty sure on purpose). love it
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Queen
3/5
The La's
1/5
that one hit song sounds entirely different than the rest of the album… and is also their only hit. what’s up with that?
Cee Lo Green
4/5
haha YES!! not only do I love the dirty south and particularly an Atlanta artist who put southern rap on the map—but this is *also* the album that my father-in-law bought when CeeLo’s “fuck you“ song was really big. Father-in-law liked CeeLo‘s pop sound, and decided to research him, discovering that he had some earlier solo records (not Goode mob). This was the album that he bought—imagine his surprise to hear what CeeLo really sounds like. It is so NOT like his pop stuff that he hated it and gave me the album after one listen. It still cracks me up to this day. Props for wanting to explore music he doesn’t know about tho! (…he also did this with Aphex Twin so i have 2 copies of the Richard James album)
The Kinks
5/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
had a great time listening / weird-dancing to Watermelon Man with the girls before school. It starts out so goofy and strange, they were mesmerized… but then the bass and drums kick in and all of a sudden it’s a jam. i can absolutely hear HHs influence on modern hip-hop.
Beatles
5/5
christina sang every word
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Laibach
1/5
lol wut
Derek & The Dominos
5/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
2/5
The Fall
2/5
it was playing and i kept forgetting it was on. not very engaging to me
Sepultura
2/5
this one did not pass the “getting ready in the morning with the family” test lol
then evie accused me of failing to expand my musical horizons (“isn’t that what the project is for??”) so i made them listen to it on the way into school. +1 bonus star for the drama
Metallica
4/5
this was my first metallica. still remember hearing it on Hal Frediani’s floor in middle school (closely followed by Hal’s other new purchase, Parents Just Don’t Understand)
Michael Jackson
4/5
poppy goodness
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
when gen z asks what music in the 80s sounded like, i’ll play them this album
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
wait—this is the most recent one we’ve seen yet. book was out in 2005 but this album dropped in 2019? does the list of 1001 albums change over time or are there more than 1001 now?
i like the album
Duke Ellington
4/5
Billy Joel
4/5
Megadeth
1/5
when kids wear megadeath tees (still), i wonder if they listen to the band…
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
kindof like if Elliot Smith and The Shins had a baby. but a good baby
Kate Bush
4/5
so i don’t love this album, but Running Up That Hill is top 10, all-time best songs ever written. it’s perfect.
The White Stripes
3/5
get a bass player, white stripes! jk they’re all right
Fiona Apple
3/5
Skunk Anansie
1/5
not for us
Traffic
4/5
Blur
4/5
OutKast
5/5
John Prine
5/5
loved it. witty and thought provoking. need to listen to more of him
Michael Jackson
3/5
1/5
prog rock meh
U2
4/5
i remember listening to this on broken headphones, plugged into my walkman, in the garage, when i was 16, trying to cut weight for a high school wrestling meet weigh-in the next morning. it’s amazing how particular music instantly bonds to memories like that.
AC/DC
3/5
Duran Duran
2/5
the songs are so similar to me, i actually thought the song Rio was being played a second time when was actually Hungry Like the Wolf
Eric Clapton
4/5
The Crusaders
2/5
too schmaltzy—it tied in well with my dentist office visit today. although street life is definitely a sample on a hip hop album somewhere. it was driving me crazy trying to figure it out where i knew it, and i never figured it out :(
Cat Stevens
5/5
Metallica
2/5
i feel like this is the 4th metallica album we’ve been given. it’s most likely an album to hear before you die but not my fav genre
Sonic Youth
4/5
‘twas the perfect vibe to be in the zone, writing a geometry test on circle relationships
Arrested Development
5/5
“Tennessee” still slaps!
Neil Young
3/5
man isnt this like the 4th neil young album? …and because he isnt on spotify, i had to listen on youtube… and ever since the last time i did that, the algorithm keeps thinking im a huge neil young fan and keeps serving me up neil young news every time i search ANYTHING. im not going to listen to this one, lest google thinks im a super fan
Sigur Rós
5/5
T. Rex
2/5
had a hard time getting into this one
Metallica
2/5
ok now they’re just trolling us. this is the 4th metallica album. are 5% of the songs you have to hear before you die from one band?
Roxy Music
4/5
Doves
4/5
one of the best bands i've never heard of so far
James Brown
5/5
100% yeeeeeaaaah-uh
ABBA
3/5
ugh i couldn’t get Money, Money, Mon-ay out of my head after it came on yesterday. driving to work: “…Money, Money, Mon-ay.” teaching 3rd period: “…Money, Money, Mon-ay.” grading papers before going to sleep: “…Money, Money, Mon-ay.”
The Slits
1/5
hmm what if we combined punk yelling with some reggae beats? yeah we could make that happen! guys, IT WOULDNT EVEN HAVE TO BE LISTENABLE!! omg people would love it!!
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
this album is when i first started appreciating kendrick and his storytelling albums.
Johnny Cash
5/5
The War On Drugs
4/5
good stuff. they sure do love that don henley “boys of summer” drum beat
Bert Jansch
3/5
giving nick drake
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1/5
“ain’t nothing like a gang bang,” indeed
4/5
i know they’re a ridiculous band, but f-it, i’m going 4 stars
Bob Dylan
5/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Paul Simon
5/5
hands down one of best albums ever recorded.
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
it’s funny when you can HEAR the year in a record. idk if it’s the particular style at the time or the production quality at the time, but this particular sound zeros me right onto a particular range of years
Nick Drake
4/5
Van Halen
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
was expecting something harder given the armadillo tank on the cover
Genesis
1/5
i can’t wait to stop getting these prog-rock, soundtrack-to-the-Hobbit, 10min flute solo albums randomly assigned to us. most interesting thing about this album is that i had no idea genesis was around in the early 70s, and this was already their 5th album!!?!
The Clash
5/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
interesting to hear how different the Folsom Prison performance was from this one. Need to look up the year difference—is it popularity and confidence or just a different kind of jail? Also, contemporary artists are missing out on this. More live jail performances!!
LL Cool J
4/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Not always super listenable (looking at you albums from 2020s), but I love a lot of her stuff (stories from the city) and am very glad she makes music.
The Monkees
3/5
One time growing up in Roswell, I was watching an episode of the monkeys on TV in an empty house, and all the windows are open. They were playing some kind of musical number that involved a lot of electronic beeps at some point, I looked out the window and there were suddenly probably 50 little birds on the porch, all looking at me in the window. it was weird. my brain settled on the idea that the music of the Monkeys called them to me
Beatles
4/5
5/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
solid pop album
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
this was my gateway dylan album. mom and dad had it on vinyl and i played it about a billion times
Miriam Makeba
4/5
50 Cent
3/5
Heaven 17
1/5
answering the question “what if thomas dolby was 11 years old and got a keyboard for christmas”
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
i only really knew a couple of ELO songs before, but this was a delightful listen
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Scott Walker
2/5
he had me with Jackie” but kinda devolved into martinis con queso
Ghostface Killah
4/5
it’s about time wu-tang showed up in this list…
Wilco
5/5
would rate it 6 if i could!
Muddy Waters
4/5
would rate it 6 if i could!
Khaled
2/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Carole King
5/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Morrissey
4/5
Faust
2/5
read this at first as Feist and was like “oh i didn’t know she had an album with this name!”
Björk
5/5
i’ll give anything she makes 5 stars; yes even the super weird stuff ❤️
Beastie Boys
5/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
Nico
5/5
Sex Pistols
5/5
Nina Simone
5/5
David Bowie
5/5
The Smiths
4/5
i always love singing along in an exaggerated style of morrisey so my family looks at me weird
Willie Nelson
3/5
i just read a story today about how a romance scammer got $200k out of a woman by pretending to be Willie Nelson and claiming they were going to live happily everafter together. Decent album but i like some of his others better.
Jungle Brothers
5/5
i miss hip hop like this
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
such an interesting juxtaposition between funk and elevator music. funk parts are soooo good
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
GZA
5/5
100% best hop hop album of the 90s. fight me.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
always makes me think of The Dude and how his creedence tapes were stolen lol
The Who
3/5
Jacques Brel
4/5
good music to make a brunch with
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Aphex Twin
5/5
set the bar for electronic music
Bee Gees
2/5
Norah Jones
4/5
beautiful
Daft Punk
4/5
Crowded House
2/5
Paul Weller
2/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Deep Purple
1/5
meh
The Everly Brothers
4/5
King Crimson
2/5
a bit too “soundtrack to the hobbit” for me, but i know people who love this album
Prince
5/5
Eagles
2/5
this was my first cassette tape!
Pixies
5/5
love this album
N.E.R.D
2/5
it’s like some reasonably talented high schoolers and an 808 machine
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
haha every time i hear steely dan specifically, im like “oh no here comes some prog-rock nonsense.” but then i kinda enjoy some of it. i cannot say that about other bands like this.
N.W.A.
5/5
i think you can successfully argue that without this album, Snoop wouldn’t be commentating at the Olympics right now
Mylo
3/5
Kraftwerk
2/5
Supertramp
2/5
Sade
3/5
Big Black
2/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Funkadelic
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
The Lemonheads
5/5
soundtrack to the 90s and introduced me to julianna hatfield. 5/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
CHIC
2/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
wait—either this has been reviewed by the group already or I’m in the San Andreas movie
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Marty Robbins
4/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
Everything But The Girl
5/5
best make-out album in the list so far!
Japan
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Miles Davis
3/5
De La Soul
5/5
#OtisReddingWhistle
Janet Jackson
3/5
Air
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
5/5
this album is why I keep listening to other PJ Harvey albums and get excited when she releases new stuff… but it’s never this album
Aimee Mann
4/5
The Vines
2/5
I lol’ed at the youtube video of the crowd moshing around and crowd surfing while the band passionately flopped down on the stage with their guitars for extreme, hardcore, guitar shredding… for a song that was definitely NOT that vibe.
Antony and the Johnsons
4/5
Jack White
3/5
Linkin Park
2/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
Judas Priest
2/5
Koffi Olomide
2/5
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
how do you give this anything but 5 stars
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
Jazmine Sullivan
4/5
Green Day
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
The Cult
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
liked, but a whole album of them is a bit much
The White Stripes
4/5
Garbage
3/5
this was the first album i ever ripped onto a computer and copied for a friend
#limewire
Nas
5/5
landmark
Talking Heads
4/5
Elastica
4/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
ok but instantly made me want to listen to Fela.
The Prodigy
2/5
Guns N' Roses
3/5
the hits are hits, but the rest of the album feels pretty much like the same song
Le Tigre
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
what a standard
Talvin Singh
2/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Public Enemy
5/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Green Day
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
Kanye West
4/5
too bad kanye is such a terrible person. reluctant 4 stars
Björk
5/5
5/5 and it’s not even her best album
Hole
5/5
Yes
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
X-Ray Spex
4/5
Culture Club
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
good album, but the title track? 🔥
The Beach Boys
4/5
very different sound for them. i wasn’t familiar with this album and was trying to guess whether it different bc it was super early in their career or super later
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
The Roots
5/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
Pretenders
4/5
The Byrds
5/5
i was confused bc this is not the sound that i thought The Byrds had, but wikipedia explained it for me. interesting to think that the “long-haired hippies attempting to subvert country music” might have launched the genre of alt-country/americana
Lauryn Hill
5/5
The Saints
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
i need to look up the hip hop artists who have all sampled this album
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
not my fave album of theirs but i always appreciate the effort
Bobby Womack
3/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
1. i like willie nelson
2. i didn’t know he had an album of covers.
3. sounds like the muppets a little bit
Dusty Springfield
4/5
son of a preacher man 5/5
rest of the album 3/5
Circle Jerks
3/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
“Hmmm, well, Stereolab made a lot of good music. Let’s do that!”
The Black Keys
4/5
haven’t listened to much of these guys. enjoyed it
The Velvet Underground
5/5
no notes. so good
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
i always think i’m excited about The Smiths, but three songs in and it was already way too much Smiths for the day.
Anthrax
2/5
Beck
3/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
instantly flashes back to a movie where a bunch of cool teens are synchronized line dancing to Funk Soul Brother at a prom or something?
The Associates
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
opening track is a banger (… except Christina says it’s the same six note over and over the entire song)
The Kinks
4/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Nirvana
5/5
i bet the baby who grew up and sued Nirvana for the cover pic is super mad that this album made the list lol
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
Guided By Voices
5/5
they’re like that weather joke that people tell no matter where they live: if you don’t like the song, just wait 100 seconds
Deerhunter
4/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
Eminem
3/5
important album but hasn’t aged very well. guilty conscience is still pretty funny tho
Billy Bragg
5/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
held up better than i was expecting
Jeff Buckley
3/5
Lou Reed
5/5
Dead Kennedys
4/5
Venom
1/5
pfffft
Madonna
2/5
Thin Lizzy
2/5
Blur
4/5
Massive Attack
5/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
The xx
5/5
this album preceded by massive attack—it’s sexy album week!
The Police
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Soft Cell
2/5
things heard in my house this morning:
“no wonder they’re a 1-hit-wonder”
“how is this so bad?”
“did he just say sex dwarf?”
“…i guess tainted love brings it up to a 2”
Otis Redding
5/5
no notes. may be a perfect album
Ryan Adams
5/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
shout out to Daniel L, who played this album for me in a walkman at a cross country meet in high school. This was my gateway album to hip-hop as a 14-year-old, who only listened to commercial radio at the time.
The Who
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
4/5
not what i’d usually queue up, but i enjoyed it. makes me realize tho, where has the country been on this list? I think we got some Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson… But that’s it?
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Holger Czukay
1/5
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
The Temptations
4/5
The Triffids
2/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Television
3/5
Sam Cooke
5/5
to be in that audience 🔥
Steve Winwood
2/5
it was a synthesizer time
Fats Domino
4/5
David Gray
2/5
while playing this album, christina was quietly singing along to one of the songs. i was surprised that she knew the lyrics to more than just the Babylon song and commented on it. she said, “oh, no, i was still singing the words to Babylon.”
i think that’s a pretty good review of this album.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Dire Straits
4/5
a-ha
1/5
Björk
5/5
Michael Jackson
2/5
C tells me this album was seared into her brain because it’s what Coach Cortez used to teach her PE class the Square Dancing unit in 6th grade
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Weather Report
2/5
somewhere between 80s sitcom opening credits and Mario Kart
The Pogues
5/5
what a wonderful album
Soundgarden
2/5
Funkadelic
5/5
ooh this was great!
Solange
4/5
Kelela
3/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
The Doors
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
MC Solaar
4/5
Incubus
1/5
Syd Barrett
2/5
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
Keith Jarrett
5/5
i adore this album. it inspired me to listen to other Jarrett albums, but nothing is quite as passionate or emotional as this one; it’s the best live album i’ve ever heard
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
I know I should like this album more than I do, but I don’t.
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
even less-good tom waits albums aren’t that bad.
Napalm Death
1/5
this sounds like something you would play as a joke when you pull up to a stop light
LTJ Bukem
2/5
OutKast
5/5
when this album dropped, i saw the video for Bombs Over Baghdad and it was the coolest thing i’d ever seen
New Order
3/5
The Pharcyde
4/5
this era of hip hop had to have been the maximum amount of fun a group could have: the Pharcyde, Tribe, de la Soul, etc. you can hear how much fun everyone is having in the music
Elvis Costello
4/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
John Martyn
2/5
The Youngbloods
2/5
needs more siren whistle
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Kacey Musgraves
4/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
giving Thom Yorke
The Fall
3/5
Ray Charles
5/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
Killing Joke
4/5
this was a new band for me. enjoyed it
Girls Against Boys
1/5
maybe 2 stars, but c couldn’t take any much more than the first two tracks and turned it off
Shuggie Otis
3/5
The Band
5/5
The Dictators
5/5
loved the covers
Skepta
3/5
the skit with every other word punctuated with “fam” zeros in precisely to the year 2016. sounds like my classroom that year. especially Liam in 2nd period. i don’t know whether he said “fam” or “on god” more, but i overdosed on those words within a week
Scott Walker
3/5
not for me, but i get the appeal
Elvis Costello
3/5
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
i also can record myself getting ready in the morning and put it out as a record.
The Louvin Brothers
4/5
enjoyed this much more than i thought i would!
The The
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
rounding down bc it’s really hard to listen to a 63 yo man when you know they’re dating a 19 yo. bleck.
Sebadoh
4/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
no way we got randomly assigned this album the day that Brian Wilson died
Louis Prima
5/5
love it
Hot Chip
3/5
I really like one of their other albums, so I’m surprised that I didn’t love this one as much
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Ash
2/5
this is so whiny, even taking into consideration this came out in the mid 90s.
The Residents
1/5
unlistenable
Fiona Apple
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
wasn’t familiar with this one; enjoyed it
The Isley Brothers
4/5
5/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
i don’t think i’ve ever listened to rod stewart on purpose, but i have to say i was more impressed with this than i thought i’d be. i liked the dylan cover the best.
Happy Mondays
3/5
Shack
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
Prince
5/5
hard to argue against 5 stars
Klaxons
3/5
eh, not super memorable
Jurassic 5
5/5
so funky, so catchy. outstanding album
Moby Grape
3/5
Lana Del Rey
4/5
Fred Neil
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
solid work with a few standout tracks
The Stranglers
3/5
Ray Charles
5/5
soul + country —> great stuff
k.d. lang
3/5
Cornershop
5/5
love
Black Sabbath
4/5
this album was generated for us on 7/23/25. that’s not a coincidence, right? rip Ozzy
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
i love the energy, the anger, the social consciousness. impossible to not play loud
Beastie Boys
5/5
hard not to give this 5/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
The National
5/5
2/5
Missy Elliott
4/5
I love her and what she did for women rappers and the entire genre, but i have to admit I’ve never been able to really get into her music
Alice In Chains
2/5
i appreciate what they did for the genre, but i’ve never been a big fan
Adele
4/5
i find this one more musically interesting and mature than her others.
Soul II Soul
2/5
Kanye West
1/5
it’s fascinating how i can view Dark Twisted Fantasy as one of the best albums of all time, and then there’s this. I was going to go with two stars, but minus one for being a terrible human being. I can’t separate this guy from his music, even his better stuff.
The Specials
4/5
such a fun and influential album
Carpenters
3/5
it’s just so sleepy
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Suede
2/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
4/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5/5
Miles Davis
5/5
cool, indeed
R.E.M.
5/5
this album is basically the reason my wife moved to athens where we met, so 5/5. thanks REM! (…the album is also sooooo goooood)
Ice T
1/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
2/5
but C knew all the words to one of the tracks!
Dire Straits
3/5
lol was not expecting that saxophone solo
The Zutons
2/5
The Gun Club
3/5
Giant Sand
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Merle Haggard
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
i forget how bluesy this band can be.
FKA twigs
3/5
i like her poppy, dancy tracks much better but this album isn’t too much of that
The Stooges
4/5
The Stooges
4/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
sooo gooood
The Libertines
4/5
didn’t know this band. enjoyed it!
Gotan Project
3/5
Madness
2/5
wow “our house” is soooo different from the rest of the album. in terms of production quality, sure; but also lyrics and musicality. it’s like a totally different band for one track
Machito
3/5
Pentangle
2/5
answers the question: what if stereolab lived in medieval times?
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Patti Smith
5/5
never connected that pj harvey exists because of this album
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
TIL these guys are more of a ska band. i never thought of Come On Eileen as a ska song (although every ska band has covered it), but i also don’t remember horns. now it all kinda makes sense.
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
loved this
The Verve
2/5
2 only because c likes that one song bc it was in the ending of Cruel Intentions
David Bowie
5/5
Soft Machine
1/5
Django Django
2/5
Spacemen 3
2/5
Justice
2/5
Slade
1/5
Goldfrapp
2/5
XTC
3/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
The Mars Volta
2/5
rounded up to 2 because of former students who LOVED this album and tried to get me into it
Orange Juice
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
shout out to my cousin Kelly, who used to put this on every morning when she woke up and would challenge herself to be completely ready for school by the time it ended.
not a great song, but I agree it is something you have to listen to before you die.
Moby
3/5
was expecting this to sound better. had remembered it as better. but i guess it’s true now like it was in 2002—“it’s over, nobody listens to techno.”
Love
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
The Who
4/5
i generally don’t care much for The Who, but Baba O’Riley slaps
Beck
5/5
Doves
4/5
sounds exactly like that era of music
The The
4/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
I googled it: “marrying his 12-yr-old cousin almost ended his career.” and i don’t know whether the marriage or the word “almost” is grosser in that sentence.
Peter Frampton
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Emmylou Harris
5/5
gorgeous album. I find it fascinating that ever since Wrecking Ball when she worked with Daniel Laois, she has absorbed his sound into her work. And it’s such a good sound.
Wire
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
splitting the difference of scores from the household
Donald Fagen
2/5
maybe an album you need to hear before you die if you’ve never heard yacht rock?
Pearl Jam
5/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
not bad, rolling stones rip off, excellent band name
The Darkness
2/5
that one song is alright
2Pac
3/5
an important person in the evolution of music, for sure, but i was never a huge fan. EAST COAST!!
1/5
haha, woah
The Beau Brummels
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
didn’t hold up as well as i had hoped, but still brought me right back to the era
Def Leppard
2/5
What has 7 arms and sucks?
Def Leppard!!
(an oldie but a goodie)
The Kinks
5/5
The Adverts
4/5
Marilyn Manson
1/5
terrible music, terrible person
PJ Harvey
5/5
love how experimental this is. feels like you can hear her songwriting process
Beatles
5/5
i like hearing how the 4 of them are clearly diverging into their own musical preferences—mccartney’s songs are so different from harrison’s are so different from lennon’s now (and yellow submarine is in there too for what it’s worth)
Big Star
5/5
The Hives
3/5
felt like a whole album of the same song. the sound is alright but i want a bigger standard deviation
Tom Waits
4/5
the side eye from our 13-yr-old when we started playing this before school is unrivaled and will go down in history as one of the loudest non-verbal comments ever made
Prefab Sprout
2/5
it’s the next morning and i can’t even remember what this music sounded like. i didn’t not like it—it was just unremarkable
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
enjoyed this more than i thought i would
Fela Kuti
5/5
Nick Drake
5/5