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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| Logical Progression | 5 | 2.52 | +2.48 |
| OK | 5 | 2.57 | +2.43 |
| Slipknot | 5 | 2.68 | +2.32 |
| Orbital 2 | 5 | 2.7 | +2.3 |
| Two Dancers | 5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
| The White Room | 5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
| Da Capo | 5 | 2.82 | +2.18 |
| Caetano Veloso | 5 | 2.85 | +2.15 |
| Greetings From L.A. | 5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
| World Clique | 5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| Purple Rain | 1 | 4.02 | -3.02 |
| Licensed To Ill | 1 | 3.56 | -2.56 |
| The Marshall Mathers LP | 1 | 3.49 | -2.49 |
| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
| Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 1 | 3.38 | -2.38 |
| My Aim Is True | 1 | 3.35 | -2.35 |
| Blur | 1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
| This Year's Model | 1 | 3.33 | -2.33 |
| Raw Power | 1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
| Melodrama | 1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.6 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| Queen | 2 | 5 |
| Love | 2 | 5 |
| Massive Attack | 2 | 5 |
| Nick Drake | 3 | 4.33 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 3 | 4.33 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.33 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 4.33 |
| Deep Purple | 3 | 4.33 |
| Stevie Wonder | 3 | 4.33 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| PJ Harvey | 4 | 1 |
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1 |
| Kanye West | 2 | 1 |
| M.I.A. | 2 | 1 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 3 | 1.67 |
| Elvis Costello | 2 | 1.5 |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 2 |
| Blur | 3 | 2 |
| Björk | 3 | 2 |
| The Stooges | 3 | 2 |
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| Slipknot | 5, 2 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 1, 4 |
| Fleetwood Mac | 2, 5 |
| Peter Gabriel | 1, 4, 4 |
| Prince | 1, 2, 4 |
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Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Wow this is bad. Generic crap. Sucks that whenever I see an album made after 2010 there’s a huge chance is going to be this shit. It’s like this music is made in a factory where the workers plug in a couple random things and poop out an album. Super overused backing beats, a style of singing that gets annoying 10 seconds in and then proceeds to not alter the rest of the album, disgusting description of sexual activities like a horny 14 year old wrote the lyrics and the list of mediocrity goes on. Then they input these messages about women being abused in between the songs that seem to only focus on sex, like what the fuck is that about? Sexualizing and demoralizing yourself, then immediately crying about being sexualized and demoralized? What a joke 1/10
8 likes
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Honestly what the fuck is this doing on here. One of the ear grating, annoying albums I have ever had to listen to. The instrumentals would have been O.K. at best if they didn’t just loop for over 5 minutes at a time. Don’t even get me started about the little man drunkenly yelling into a megaphone on the lowest volume possible. What. the. FUCK! 1/10
6 likes
B.B. King
2/5
Great voice, great backing band. Every song sounded exactly the same. I had to check to make sure it wasn’t accidentally playing the same song on repeat. Also would have rather just listened to a studio version without the crowd interrupting between every line and clapping over the songs. Kind of just annoyed me for the entirety. 4/10
6 likes
LL Cool J
5/5
I don’t know what I thought LL Cool J sounded like but it was not this. Pleasantly surprised by the banger beats and his flow. “Around The Way Girl”s’ chorus was so smooth and weaved perfectly into the song at the right times. His lyrics are witty and full of finesse. This is possibly one of the biggest surprises so far with just how much I enjoyed this. “Milky Cereal” is probably my favorite song on the album. It was basically banger after banger. I found myself nodding along to every song and will probably relisten to this album a couple more times. 10/10
4 likes
Wild Beasts
5/5
At first the vocals shocked me and then I loved them. The two singers(?) different takes on songs on how they went about the their styles was great. Fantastic instrumentals with some just fantastic drumming on certain songs. I fancied every song on here as they kept to their own style but varied the music enough that each new song was unique. 10/10
3 likes
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John Lennon
3/5
Its like listening to the Beatles but not as good. Imagine is great if it wasnt tainted by fucking celebrities and covid. There were a few decent songs and some that i wished ended. Nothing from this album is going on any playlist of mine.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
My mom used to listen to this band and I hated it. The singers voice sounds like if a leather jacket could speak. Leather Jacket Vocal Fry. The first song is bad. The off with yer head song that is popular is on here. The rest of the album is alright.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Paint it black is the best song on the album, its like not even close. Under my thumb is a fucking meme. There is a song on here that is 11 minutes long. A lot of the songs just repeat the same chorus over and over. Its not bad but its just kind of forgettable. Dirty Beatles. 4/10
ZZ Top
2/5
Is this butt rock? Singer sounds like he is having his balls squeezed. I’ve heard Sharp Dressed Man but I think it was just the intro guitar lick. Music by Duck Dynasty. Kidney Stone Vocals. I need you tonight is BAD and tone deaf, did it really need two three minute long guitar solos? I Got The Six was ok, little too generic still. I literally thought the same song was replaying every time a new song started. Thug had slappa da bass solos. Were they in the Blues Brothers? “I like the enchiladas and the terriyaki too and even the chicken if its not too blue” - Z Top on the subject of Tv Diners. This music tastes like Nascar. What a boring repetitive album. 3/10
Jorge Ben Jor
5/5
COME
TO
BRAZIL!!!
Brazilian Funk, hell yeah. The ‘record scatching Animal Crossing noise’ (Cuíca Monkey Drum) stressed Mochi out. O Plebeu was a fuckin jam. Taj Mahal is a certified banger 🔥. His voice is great, the instrumentals are great, the back up singers are great, album is great. A História De Jorge was the weakest song and still pretty damn good. Super solid album from start to finish. This will make its way into my playlist. I have already relistened to this album 3 times. 9/10
Nirvana
4/5
Did you know that Kurt Cobain killed Dave Grohl and has been disguised as Dave Grohl for nearly 30 years? Scentless Apprentice - Mic peeking the song. Meat Eating Orchids is such a grunge phrase. Heart Shaped Box is the best song on the album easily. The songs where he is more soft sung and not angry yelling are much better. Very Ape is a certified banger. DOLL STEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh cool a song about Milk, oh god…. I’m anemic royalty. l think I could taste the heroine from listening to Radio-Friendly unit shifter. The tonal whiplash from going from melancholic bangers to deranged bestial roaring is immense. This was a stressful album to listen to. 8/10
Blur
1/5
The best part about Blur is that they died to give us the Gorillaz. One song would end and I had already completely forgotten it. If you look up the definition of ‘generic’ it just says Blur. Once again these songs are way too damn long. I waited for a hidden banger but alas, said banger never came. I don’t like Song 2. I don’t like this album. If held at gunpoint and told to pick my favorite song from this album, I would die. 2/10
4/5
Ooooo its the Violent Females. Adult Books was a jam even it was a little repetitive and went on a bit too long. They really could have used better mics and it would have made these songs 100% better. I like punk because they get to point, they scream at you for a minute n a half and leave abruptly. In this house that i call home has a smooth bassline. Female singer sounds like one of the chicks from the B52s. I enjoyed the dueting punk style of the two lead singers, their vocal styles complemented each other. A few of these songs sounded a bit similar and could have used something to set them apart from each other. The songs themselves were a bit repetitive but don’t overstay their welcome, so it works out. Still a pretty solid album that makes me want to listen to The Violent Femmes. 7/10
Roxy Music
2/5
The woman in the album art looks like she gives teethy blowjobs. At first I thought it sounded like the rolling stones. Then he started singing and it was like Devo was fucking David Byrne. He sounds like he is being viciously shaken while singing. This guy definitely did acid in the sixties. The drummer on 2.H.B was fuckin jammin. Chance Meeting sounded like he was making up the lyrics on the fly. There were no lyrics on the youtube videos and I don’t think I understood one word. Most of the songs sounded like a mish mash of instruments interrupting each other while a man has a violent stroke into a microphone. 3/10
Fela Kuti
3/5
Got scared when I saw how long the songs were. There are three different saxophones on this album. The vocals came in so late on Zombie that it actually startled me. Mister Follow Follow is the epitome of night time driving through the city with the windows down music. After two really long songs, I did find myself tuning out. A body can only take so much sweet saxophone and this pushed me to my limit. I thought perhaps this would be the album that I made an exception to long songs, but no, it was not. 6/10
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Robert Plant sings from his balls. Whole lotta love goes from a nice rock song to acid trip real fast and back to rock song just as fast. The second song on the album that has a title that is too long to type out but by the point I have written this have written more words than the song title because I am just rambling on is a banger. The juxtaposition of the guitar solos being at a much faster tempo than the rest of the song on The Lemon Song was fantastic. Thank You is a fucking ballad banger. Ramble On is the best Lord of The Rings song ever created. Moby Dick has a drum solo that will edge you to completion. Bring It on Home brings it on home with a bluesy intro into a hard rock jam. I was hit with melancholic emotion every time a song ended because I wanted more. 10/10
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
This is what I imagine clowns listen to. Am I being pranked, this is joke music right?…. Right? Elvis Costello is my sleep paralysis demon, freezing me and singing goofily into my terrified face. This album is presented as Elvis Costello & The Attractions, I would have preferred it just be The Attractions. What an awful day to have ears. Possibly one of the most annoying voices I have ever heard. All around terrible experience that I wish I didn’t take part in. 1/10
The Zombies
4/5
Peace, love and white boys singing in harmony. Each song has a different tone all while screaming this was made in the 60s. Not really too much to say about this one. A bunch of pleasant songs finished off with an absolute banger. 7/10
Bob Dylan
2/5
The Bob Dylan song structure:
Bob sing talks two sentences at a time. They always rhyme.
Background music that really doesn’t matter. You are distracted by his chitter chatter.
The lyrics do not repeat. He is telling a story, very neat.
Sometimes he yells out. Sometimes it’s a shout.
Harmonica solo to end the song. Thanks for listening along.
Next song starts. Bob Dylan farts.
3/10
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
It’s crazy that an album put out in 81 sounds sooo incredibly 80s. This album must have been extremely influential as it seemingly defines 80s synth pop. Souvenir is one of my favorite 80s songs that is still in my 80s bangers playlist. With that said no other songs on this album will be going on the 80s bangers playlist. A bunch of these songs would fit perfectly into a psychological horror movie or a video game. Upon relistening to the album with the mindset of: the other songs are not going to be as good as Souvenir; I did enjoy it a lot more. Each song has a uniqueness to it while staying within the Synth Pop genre. 7/10
Leonard Cohen
5/5
This is Cowboy music. Delightfully simplistic in its approach. A voice, a guitar, and a stringed instrument. In the same vein as Bob Dylan in that it is a story told through song, but this is better. I am pretty sure he is one of the bears from the Country Bear Jamboree at Disney. The stringed instruments add an emotional presence that at times is overwhelming in how it affects the songs tone. This album would be best listened to sitting around a campfire gazing up at the stars. 9/10
4/5
These mothafuckas are funky, God damn. City Country City was an absolute jam, 13 minutes flew by. Also the title of the song was exactly the vibes the two very distinct parts of the song gave off. One second your wandering through the frontier of wild America and the next your in the hustle bustle of a big city. I was not ready for how instrumental this album was going to be. It was kind of like the vocals were interrupting the background music which really took the spotlight. Freight Train Jam was a fucking jam. Really solid bluesy soulful funkin album. 8/10
Paul Simon
3/5
Leave it to Paul Simon to make a song about allergies that makes you feel good, the opposite of what allergies actually do. The titular song of the album is just delightful. A wide range of sounds on this album all complemented by Simon’s pleasing vocals. I really enjoyed the first three songs then didn’t really enjoy the remaining songs. Cars are cars is one of the dumbest songs I have ever heard. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. 5/10
The Smiths
5/5
I grew up listening to the Smiths. I have listened to this album thousands of times. The smiths live rent free in my head. If only Morrissey wasn’t such a huge fucking twat. My favorite part of this album is how playfully aggressive the lyrics are on bordering between being a massive edge lord and a depressed boy whose just been dumped. If the Five Night at Freddys bus crashes into us, to die by your side what a heavenly way to die. The odds of getting a Smiths album after discussing a meme about the smiths is absolutely insane, let alone the song that said meme is about being on the album. The universe is looking out for us. The last song is about fat girls lol 10/10
Iron Maiden
4/5
I’m probably going to upset someone but the lead singer sounds just like Jack Black. Bruce Dickinson can fucking sing, dude is giving it his all every note. The background music is so clean its upsetting. The bass, the guitar and drums are so in sync on every song. My foot did not stop moving the entire album. Run to the hills brings back great memories of playing guitar hero/rock band and is such a fucking banger. My only issues are that the songs do start to sound very similar and I cannot understand half what is being sung. 7/10
Peter Gabriel
1/5
This is the music they play in Insane Asylums in movies. Why is ‘Start’ not the first song on the album? By the time it got to ‘I don’t remember’ I was wishing I didn’t remember having listened to this album. Peter Gabriel sings like a deaf person. These songs have no right being as long as they are. I would have preferred sitting in a padded room for the duration of the album, then I could justify how repetitive these pretentious ass songs were. 2/10
The Byrds
2/5
I suddenly have the urge to play Red Dead Redemption. What’s worse than Country music? Christian Country music. There were parts I enjoyed, banjo pickin has a great novelty sound to it. Not sure if there were two singers but whoever was singing on ‘The Christian Life’, I did not like his voice or any songs he sung. There are two tempos on this album: square dance & slightly faster square dance. Really generic country music all said and done, felt like I had heard all these songs walking around bass pro shop. 4/10
Mike Ladd
1/5
The background beats were too repetitive and not interesting. His flow was almost exactly the same on every song, just changed up the lyrics. You could take one verse from one song and put in into another and it would be unnoticeable. I did like Bladerunners since there were other people rapping other than Mike Ladd. To the Moon’s Contractor had a great section of instrumental beats and a nice break from having to listen to Mike Ladd. He used Skywalker to rhyme with Streetwalker multiple times in different songs. These are truly the drunk almost incoherent ramblings of a homeless man that happens to rhyme sometimes. The last song he evolved into an end of the world street preacher. Overall pretty unpleasant experience that I struggled to keep focused on due to wanting it to just end. 2/10
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
This is the music they play when the main character has to walk through a gay vampire nightclub in a tv show. Nickelodeon gross out humor but music. Closer is about cumming, nice. This album borders on being too industrial to actually enjoy and being just industrial enough to be bearable. Trent Reznor is a horny freak. Every song is about fucking something or someone, nice. In conclusion, I would listen to horny angry man scream at me with aggressively industrial beats in the background again. 9/10
Suzanne Vega
2/5
Just a girl and her Taylor guitar. Teeters between music that would be featured in School House Rock and an emotional scene in an 80s movie where the teenage main character walks through a wooded road thinking about their mistakes and it is kind of a montage but not really. Suzanne Vegaina. Ok, it could also be a scene in a teenage drama movie where the main character is a misunderstood bullied girl and she has reached her last straw and turns to cutting, with a Taylor guitar perfectly placed in the background, it’s a montage. ‘Straight lines’ are the cuts from the montage girl. Hear me out, it’s a teenage drama movie based in a small town of Washington State and the main character is a quiet girl who hasn’t found her voice, there is a big school talent show and her single dad who is played by some generic B list white actor with a mustache, thinks that she really should sing a song for the show, so she builds up the courage throughout the 85 min run time and after a big fight with her dad she sings on the stage ‘Undertow’ by Suzanne Veganus, as she finishes the song she peers out into the audience to see the crowd crying with amazement and her dad is in the back smiling and does the head nod of approval with arms crossed thing, in the final scene she sets her guitar down on its stand as her mustached father calls her down for dinner, as the camera pans out it reveals the logo of the guitar, Taylor, credits role over a montage of pictures of Taylor guitars. 4/10
Traffic
2/5
I would describe this as safe sex jazz rock. I could hear the influence that rubbed off on other bands/artists who then did more interesting things with it. The instruments were clean but almost predictable on what was to come next. Got Stevie Wonder vibes from the vocals but just nowhere near as good. There were a few times where the singer tried to hit some notes that I just don’t think he was able to hit. The audio mixing was also off, some of the instruments were too quiet and the vocals would sometimes too quiet as well. There wasn’t anything majorly wrong with the album but there wasn’t anything that really stood out either. 4/10
50 Cent
2/5
I like the song where he calls me a pussy and then a gay man tells me he is going to kick 50’s ass cus he ain’t no pussy. My favorite song is ‘21 Questions’. Trigger Warning. I can’t take this music serious. The beats and lyrics are borderline comical. I just don’t believe rap ages well. This is meant to be taken seriously but it just sounds like a joke. I appreciate that he carved his name in the industry and created a sound that is indistinguishably 50 cent, even if he has to tell you who he is every song like you have brain damage and forgot who you were listening to. The musical aspect is like 3 sounds per song so its really just rapping which he does have great flow and catchy choruses but its just not enough to win me over to genre. If I can’t relate to lyrics and the instrumentals don’t do anything for me theres not much left for me to enjoy. 4/10
Black Sabbath
4/5
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? - Ozzy Osborne
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus. - Ozzy Osborne
I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister. - Ozzy Osborne
I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff. - Ozzy Osborne
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world. - Ozzy Osborne
I’m not a musician – I’m a ham. - Ozzy Osborne
System of a down’s cover of Snowblind is better. - Ozzy Osborne
7/10
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Holy shit what is this? Out of tune singing coupled with out of tune instruments. ‘Sea Song’ has a piano solo that just sounds like someone slamming their dick on the keys. Then it has a vocalization solo that sounds like he is getting slammed in his dick. This guy sings like he is making up the lyrics on the spot. This album is like a make a wish foundation child with no musical talent wished to make an album but the kid is a grown British man. The best part of the album is when Robert Wyatt is quiet which he rarely is. Alifib or Anus Licking is for interesting bitches is just a dude sounding like he’s getting pegged with noises in the background. This album made me wish I was deaf. 1/10
This is the worst album I have reviewed so far.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
‘Green Onions’ is such an iconic song and I would never have been able to tell you the name or artist that made it. This is the music that plays during a montage in a kids coming of age movie where the kids have to work together to make money to buy some pointless object that in the end just shows them that it was actually the friends they made along the way that matters. The instrumentals are very clean and Booker does indeed kill it on organ but the sound can get a bit tiresome. I believe this is great intermission music, where listening to one song in between other songs of other artists/genres is great but listening to the album front to back detracts from the experience. 6/10
Queen
5/5
YAS QUEEN SLAY! What a diverse set of songs with so many unique sounds spread throughout. Its insane how different every song sounds while still maintaining the Queen vibe. They did some genres better in one song than we have heard from full albums of other artists. There were multiple songs that left me with a big smile. Fuck AIDs for taking such an angelic voice away from us. A fantastic album from one of the greatest bands of all time. 10/10 I would give this higher than a 10 if possible.
Donald Fagen
3/5
I had to look at the wiki to find out what genre of music this is considered, jazz pop. This music sounds like what would play at the end of an 80s young adult comedy movie to get people out of the theatre but like happily. ‘Green Flower Street’ was almost a banger, at times Fagen tried to hit notes that were a little above his pay grade. Ruby Baby went on way to long and I was waiting for it to end after the first couple minutes. I enjoyed the instrumentals a lot more than the singing. It’s not that his singing is bad in anyway, I just can imagine a different singer really elevating the sound. Why isn’t ‘The Goodbye Look’ the last song on the album?! It’s not that I didn’t like it, it’s that I didn’t like it that much. 5/10
The Pogues
3/5
Really makes you feel like your in an Irish Pub. The lead singer has teeth like a piranha. Pub Punk. This is the music that plays in the shire during Bilbo’s birthday but like a really drunk angry hobbit is singing. The album cover looks like one of my thumbnails. If your in the mood for Celtic punk its great. If you hate accordions ‘you’ won’t like this. 5/10
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1/5
Vadhā'ī'āṁ, tusīṁ isa vāka dā anuvāda kītā hai. Iha uha sagīta hai jō sōnika aiḍavain̄cara vica madara padhara'tē caladā hai. Ādamī, jē maiṁ madha pūrabī hudā tāṁ maiṁ isa samēṁ jaimina hudā para maiṁ nahīṁ hāṁ. 2/10
Elliott Smith
2/5
Young kid version of myself would call this music ‘gay’. His voice is just kind of annoying. The instrumentals were fine just kind of boring. 16 songs is too many fucking songs for an album. His wiki page is way more interesting than his music. 3/10
Super Furry Animals
3/5
More brit pop rock that doesn’t exactly wow but is at least listenable. A Blurrlike band where songs were basically deleted from my memory as soon as they ended. Some of the noises this singer made were making me chuckle because they were soo strange. It was strange, I felt like I had heard every song before but this was caused by the songs almost being predictable in how unoriginal they were. I would still rather listen to this than Blurr. 5/10
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
This album is the reason I wish there were more modern albums on this platform. It’s so refreshing to hear something this good that is a fairly recent release and not some 70s band that has been cultivating a cult following for 50 years. What a satisfyingly smooth sound this album carries. Combining so many different genres of music to make a Michael Medley Masterpiece. Michael has a fantastic voice that carries so much with his lyrics. The instrumentals are not just background noise but actually meld insanely well with Michael’s singing creating a truly unique and interesting sound. There is not one bad song on this album, even the intermission songs are interesting and kept me listening. I putting this as the best front to back listen album on this platform. This album fucking slaps! 10/10
Curtis Mayfield
2/5
This guy sings like when you’re a kid and you want to scream inside but you have to use your inside voice. It’s funky, it’s soulful, but it’s also just not different enough from other albums in the genre. The lyrics are meaningful so if that is something your into there’s that but the rest of it is just kind of boring and generic. At first I thought his voice was alright maybe even kind of nice. After a few songs I just found it annoying and it made my throat itchy listening to him sound like he was letting out a death rattle for 5 minutes. If I wanna listen to love makin’ music I’d rather listen to Marvin Gaye. 4/10
The Young Rascals
4/5
Feel good music to feel good to. Nothing overly exciting or unique but it really does a good job at the genre its sticking too. It is pleasant to listen to, the instrumentals are clean and the singing is nice. The titular song ‘Groovin’ is a banger. Didn’t expect to be blown away and I wasn’t, nevertheless I enjoyed it. 7/10
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
Excuse me while I blow my fucking brains out instead of listening to this. People always shit on teenage girl music and you know what they are right, this sucks. The lyrics sound like they were written by a child and I find out that three grown adults co-wrote this garbage. The background music is so overproduced and still somehow sounds like the most basic shit imaginable. She sounds like every other white girl with a guitar artist like they are made in some kind of white girl singer factory. She sings like one of those Nation wide insurance commercials that plays in between music you actually want to listen to. I would honestly rather listen to diarrhea slosh around in this woman’s acoustic guitar than have to listen to this album ever again. 1/10
Turbonegro
3/5
Skateboard music to thrash to. I’m pretty sure this entire album is in Tony Hawk Pro Skater. With a band name like Turbonegro and an album name with the word apocalypse in it, I thought this would have been darker and heavier. Combining synchronized vocals and standard heavy rock sounds this album doesn’t do much to blow you away but is still enjoyable enough. It’s not the worst I have heard in this genre and not the best. You could have replayed the same song over and over and told me they were different songs and it would have been no different from listening to this album normally. The whole time I felt like I had heard them before then realized they sound just like The Hives but heavier. 5/10
Thelonious Monk
3/5
You like jazz? 5/10
The Prodigy
4/5
I can’t believe they made an album of the ‘You wouldn’t download a car commercial’. There are three massive hits on this album that are absolute bangers in the sense that you end up chanting along to the simple lyrics of smacking of bitches and starting fires. I enjoyed Narayan and Fuel My Fire quite a bit but the other songs were a little too similar to really shine. In the same electronica vein, The Chemical Brothers I believe provide a more distinct and diverse sound and this really just made me want to listen to them. Still a pretty solid heavy electronica album. 7/10
Gary Numan
5/5
How can an album sound so 80s but not be from the 80s? Gary Numan is the father of synth pop and paved the way for the sounds of the 80s. His influence is undeniable. There is a sense of nostalgia in every song that leaves you longing for more. Albeit simplistic in rhythm and lyrics, the songs form little masterpieces sprinkled throughout the album. ‘Cars’ is a song that I have listened to thousands of times starting at a very early age. That song helped me appreciate this type of music on a new level and seek it out to further my musical tastes. An extremely enjoyable experience from start to finish. 9/10
Otis Redding
5/5
What a voice. Otis was a staple in my household growing up. Listening to this album today is like listening to a part of my childhood. Booker T. & the MGs provide a fantastic background sound that elevates Otis’ voice to maximum soulfulness. Half of the songs are covers and it is difficult to even tell as he completely envelopes each performance with his style creating versions that are completely his own. Covering absolutely fantastic songs for half and creating some of the most well known soul songs with the other half, this album is a soulful masterpiece. 10/10
New Order
4/5
New Order is definitely in my top 10 most listened to bands of all time. With that said I have listened to this album only a couple times as I really enjoy their earlier works a lot more. Some songs capture the synth dance rock sound that I love from New Order like ‘Round & Round’ while others start to move away to a different sound entirely. My favorite bits were the sections when the singing stopped and instrumentals took center stage. Although I don’t believe this album stands up to their other albums, I still fancied it quite a bit. A few of these songs might find there way into my playlist. 8/10
Nick Drake
5/5
Smooth. Clean. Relaxing. Nick might have one of the most serine voices I have ever heard. The backing music helps bring his voice out sharing the stage with his immensely melancholic tone and creating some truly wonderful sounding music. If you ever need to unwind and clear some stress, this is the album to listen to. 9/10
Beastie Boys
1/5
Judging this as music, it’s not. Judging this as a really long meme, it’s a masterpiece. If I wanted to be yelled at by white boys, I would just hop into The Chunts discord. This awakened memories of my mother listening to this album and child me instantly leaving the room to not have to endure it anymore. I guess I forgot that I absolutely hate the Beastiality Boys. If you want to give yourself a headache this is probably the best and fastest way to do so. 2/10 Music (One point for Brass Monkey) 10/10 Joke
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Im stricketh, sometimes I think her voice sounds nice and then sometimes it borderline goofy & annoying. The hand against ear rising and falling pitch type of singing gets really old really fast. Some of the lyrics are… explicitly cringe, like the female comedian trope of just talking about vaginas. But then some lyrics are rather nice and you wouldn’t ever guess that the previous song was about mentally cheating on someone by imagining their partner is someone else. The songs I enjoyed the most were the slower jazz/soul backing tracks while the more pop/r&b tracks sounded a lot more generic. With all that said the background music was pretty much chef’s kiss for the entire album. I actually ended up enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. 7.5/10
The xx
1/5
This is the music that plays in Department store make-up sections. My experience with The XX is every time they come on my Spotify Indie playlist I skip their songs. The instrumentals sound like what plays in a perfume/cologne commercial while the vocals give off people who try too hard at karaoke. I know this is labeled as indie pop but it just gives off a soulless soul vibe. I can imagine someone listening to this thinking it’s deep and they relate on a spiritual level all while sitting staring out of their parents mansion, misunderstood to the world, painfully generic. Also the entire album is just incredibly boring and safe. Of course it did well, this is what people who have no musical taste think emotional music sounds like but it’s just a vapid shell that checks off points to make a successful pop album on the stage of modern music. 1/10
Genesis
4/5
The first song was so confusing and felt like three different songs mashed into one. I didn’t mind the background music as it is pretty interesting, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit but the vocals take me out of it. As the album went on I guess I grew more accustomed to the vocals as they started making more sense with the instrumentals. The sections with no singing were still my favorite as they felt like musical adventures telling a story without words. Going into this album not liking Peter Gabriel’s solo stuff very much at all, I was pleasantly surprised how much liked this. The songs are very long and could have been cut into individual songs. I believe this would have made the album flow a lot better. Did I enjoy this album? Kindof. Will I seek out more genesis or relisten to these songs again? Probably not. A very strange album in general that brings some interesting sounds while being held back by weird vocals. 7/10
Snoop Dogg
3/5
Snoop’s flow is addictive. The beats are great, especially when compared to the other rap artists we have gotten on this platform. They are simple and repetitive but they do such a fantastic job elevating Snoop’s verses. In terms of lyrics, can’t relate to anything and a lot of it comes across jokey. I guess I am just not a fat G dawg bow bow mother fucka biatch. This isn’t a huge issue as the beats and Snoop’s flow carry this album for the majority of its runtime. I enjoyed it but I did get fatigued during the second half. 6/10
Elton John
4/5
The beginning of this album is quite literally banger after banger. I have never really sought out Elton John’s music but just through sheer popularity I have heard the majority of his songs. Even if you don’t like this type of music you have to admit the widespread success of the songs of this album is extremely impressive. The middle of the album starts to teeter totter from great song to forgettable song. The latter half of the album is borderline country which really confused me. This is a LONG album. At one point I thought we might be getting close to finishing and we still had ten songs left. The album is banger filled, the album is too long, the album is diverse in its sound, the album has a few songs that sound really similar, the album is probably the best way to listen to Elton John, the album is kind of too much Elton John. Great album. 7/10
Merle Haggard
2/5
This is granpa music. This is country music. This is not really my kind of music. It’s not that I don’t like country music, it’s more that I don’t really enjoy it very much. The composition of the songs are just fine, slide guitar (if it is actually a slide guitar) is nice, if not a bit repetitive and overused. Merle’s voice is nice but once again pretty repetitive. Each song tells a story about working class, women, and such but they really all sound the same. Just not for me. 3/10
Santana
5/5
Banger followed by absolute jam followed by banger followed by absolute jam. What a solid sound this album has. Everything aspect of this album is clean. I did actually prefer the bits with no singing which was most of the album as instrumentals were just so good. Fantastic listen. 9/10
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
The first group to combine jazz and hip-hop and damn does it sound good. Great verses paired with smooth instrumentals. I don’t often listen to hip-hop but when I do most of the time it’s A Tribe Called Quest. Q-tip has such a fantastic flow and voice. A paramount album of the genre. 9/10
Elvis Costello
1/5
God fucking damn it. Elvis Costello sounds like he is passing kidney stones every time he opens his mouth. The background music is fine if that is your cup of tea, it’s basically diner music to drink a milkshake and eat a burger to with a goofy ass motherfucker yelling over it. His voice really is extremely annoying and has no redeeming qualities. Now I want a milkshake but instead I just have this aggravating fucker making a fuss. 1/10
Marvin Gaye
3/5
This is not quite what I remember Marvin sounding like. I like this but I don’t LOVE this. The lyrics to every song are basically the same exact thing repeated through this very very long album. The fatigue hit hard on this one. Marvin Gaye is another childhood household name but I somehow have never heard anything off of this. Middle of the road Marvin Gaye album. 5/10
The Flaming Lips
3/5
This is one of those bands that I have heard the name and actually heard a couple songs but I could never tell you what they sound like. I still am not sure what their sound is. The lead singer sometimes has a nice voice and sometimes he pronounces word very strangely. I preferred the bits of instrumental over the more structured vocal sections. I wasn’t sure I was going to like this going in and I am unsure if I liked it going out. They killed a cat on the songs. 5/10
Radiohead
2/5
Never really listened to Radiohead. I know what they sound like and know people really dig em. They just never really clicked for me. I think it has been a combination of not liking some of the vocals and mixed feelings on the instrumentals. There were a couple songs I did enjoy on this album like “2+2=5” and “Sit down stand up”. I really did not like “Backdrifts” at all. Then there were songs like “We Suck Young Blood” that I hated. I feel like the singer to Radiohead jacks it to his own voice. He doesn’t really have the greatest voice, I mean it’s ok, but the way he isolates himself and puts the spotlight on his vocals is pretentious and annoying, especially when it all kind of sounds the same (not just this album but any Radiohead song I have heard). 3/10
Billy Bragg
1/5
This guy sings like he is doing a fake British accent. Theres really just not much to it. I feel like there is only one dude in this band because the lack of other instruments is telling. He’s telling stories but 1. i could barely understand him 2. They are boring stories. “Honey, I’m a Big Boy Now” was utter shite. Why did it randomly become country? Deportees was hilarious and so completely out of place. Man the longer it went on the more annoying it got. Waste of an hour honestly. 2/10
Silver Jews
1/5
This fucking sucks. Why is this on here? There is nothing redeemable about this. It is actually tiring listening to this garbage. Kayla missed the review but said “it’s shit. You know when you eat corn and it goes right through you? This is the corn.” 1/10
Boston
5/5
The most classic hard rock band putting out the most classic hard rock album I have ever heard. Pretty much banger after banger. These songs are so well known that they have entered into the overplayed status. The production on this album is insane. Every sound is deliberate, every scream is intentional, every thing is as it should be. If you needed to show someone who has never heard hard rock a hard rock album this would be the one to show them. 9/10
Neneh Cherry
2/5
This album has parts that on their own might sound good, catchy choruses, decent 80s background beats and somewhat interesting composition. When put together it is confusing, annoying and overwhelming. I like the guy in “Inna City Mama” who comes in and says the title in a voice that sounds like he is shitting his insides out. Each song is obnoxiously overcrowded with noises. My ears are raw like sushi after listening to this. 3/10
Bill Callahan
2/5
Serene slow music with a tone deaf man sing talking nonsense. 4/10
R.E.M.
3/5
I like R.E.M. It sounds like R.E.M. I really wanted to like this more than I did. It’s not that it’s not good, it’s kind of just ok. Some songs like “The Wrong Child” felt unorganized and crowded. “Orange Crush” is the best song on the album. The others are not even really close, no not “Stand” STFU. The majority of the songs really are just cluttered with overlapping singing and unnecessary extra sounds. Not the worst but there are better R.E.M. albums that could have been picked. 5/10
Rahul Dev Burman
2/5
One two cha cha cha doo doooo. 4/10
4/5
Much too fat and a little too long. A bit unfocused on what the sound of the album was but maybe that was what they were going for. Every song was pretty unique and did not sound similar to last. I did really enjoy the weird jammy jazzy sounds like “Space Child”. Sometimes I heard Zepplin, sometimes I heard Yes, I liked pretty much all I heard. 8/10
Lou Reed
4/5
He sing talks and it works most of the time. The background music was nice at times and then really forgettable some other times. “Walk on the wild side” is great, didn’t realize that it was the sample for “Can I Kick it?”. “Make up” made me uncomfortable, the clown music, saying little girl, and describing what turns him on, ew. I can hear a bunch of different singers in the songs so I guess he was pretty influential. Heavy Violent femmes vibes but less unhinged. Minus the clown songs I rather enjoyed it. 7/10
4/5
Never really listened to The Kinks, I know of them and have heard some songs. On the outside they sound Beatlesy but like more psychedelic rockish. “Australia” is a fucking delightful banger, what a weird masterpiece. We have heard some albums that sound kind of similar to this but there was just more in this one than the others. A strange mix of a bunch of different genres and sounds from the 60/70s that make up a fairly satisfying album. 8/10
LL Cool J
5/5
I don’t know what I thought LL Cool J sounded like but it was not this. Pleasantly surprised by the banger beats and his flow. “Around The Way Girl”s’ chorus was so smooth and weaved perfectly into the song at the right times. His lyrics are witty and full of finesse. This is possibly one of the biggest surprises so far with just how much I enjoyed this. “Milky Cereal” is probably my favorite song on the album. It was basically banger after banger. I found myself nodding along to every song and will probably relisten to this album a couple more times. 10/10
Björk
2/5
A dream-like album in which it’s a nightmare that I cannot wake up from. Bjork graduated from the School of Mispronounced words with Honors. English is Bjork’s fifth language. This album is a fever dream of technobeats and a clinically insane person singing, often times layered with her own voice like five times. Each and every song is waaaaaaaay too long and drags as she mispronounces the same lyrics for up to 6 minutes. Bjork created the genre of breathy women singing, where the vocalist exhales on every word without ever inhaling (many have died trying this technique, Bjork claims their souls for her pagan god). If anyone rates this over 3 out of 10 they are insane and Bjork’s witchcraft has already taken hold. 3/10
Prince
1/5
This is the music I wish was left in the 80s. Prince goes from sounding like a women to a cat dying to a man in an outfit that is tight around the crotch. I’ve never listened to Prince and have only ever heard one song of this album: I would die 4 u. The sounds are cheesy and loud for no reason. I thought he was known for being this amazing guitarist so I was pretty surprised when there really wasn’t that much guitar and it was not even close to amazing. I actually found his singing and guitar playing more annoying than anything. 2/10
Jungle Brothers
4/5
A group that created the hip-hop jazz fusion sound that paved the way for De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest. I can hear so much of those two groups in these songs. I did feel that I wanted a bit more. The flow was a bit repetitive and made a few songs blend together. Even with that said they are great songs. There are few stand out songs that are bangers “Acknowledge your own history” “Tribe Vibes” & “Doin our own dang”. Solid album. 7/10
ABBA
4/5
A pop album that really stretches the genres sound. Melancholic ballads to upbeat sad happy songs. Really nice singing backed by solid instrumentals. It’s pretty weird. It’s really weird. It’s borderline bizarre a few times. I only have ever heard “Dancing Queen” so this was quite shocking to hear how different their music is from their mega hit. There were a few songs I really enjoyed and a few I didn’t really care for. 7/10
Antony and the Johnsons
4/5
Some needs to stop shaking this man so he can sing. Music to get depressed to the album. I can’t decide if I like his voice or if it bothers me. The songs are nice, slow, and emotional but a bit repetitive and kind of overstay their welcome. There are parts that I really really liked but then there were parts that I could have gone without.
Fugees
4/5
Spectacular flow, perfect beats, delightful singing, bits at the end of songs that weren’t needed and went on too long. 7/10
Calexico
5/5
Serene indie folk rock with heavy acoustic guitar and sometimes Mexican classic guitar riffs. The songs that did have singing, complemented the tasteful instrumentals. A unique album that showed a great amount of range stretching from genre to genre. 9/10
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
Anthony Keidis says words funny. Probably the most popular RHCP album with the most well known tracks. As a teen this was on HARD repeat, so I know every song on this album basically mispronounced word for mispronounced word. As an adult I kind of dropped off of RHCP and really don’t listen to them very much anymore. Nevertheless it’s impossible to deny the fantastic sound and flow of this album. 9/10
Various Artists
5/5
Merry Chuntmussy! 9/10
Louis Prima
4/5
One of the most recognizable voices that I didn’t recognize. 50s music to fine dine to. I like the gigalo song. 8/10
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Sad Christmas music to be heartbroken to. I realized I haven’t listened to very much Frank Sinatra but it doesn’t really matter because this album is like one extremely long song. There were a few “songs” where I literally thought I just listened to the same one back to back with how similar they were. He has an amazing voice but the way he sings and the actual lyrics of the songs started to actually drive me crazy. Some of the lyrics were so bad that I had to turn my ears off. This sounded like someone just writing down whatever comes to mind and then singing it the same way over and over. 3/10
The Specials
5/5
This is an album that I have been listening to since I was a wee shit ska kicker. I wore this album out when I was heavy into Ska and Reggae. I have stopped listening to this type of music in the past couple years but I still always return to The Specials. A unique voice that could either make you love the song or turn you away instantly. There are a few of the biggest songs in Ska on this album. There are also a few songs that don’t quite hit the mark but I still appreciate them. My view of this album might be skewed by nostalgia but I still believe this album deserves credit for being genre defining. 9/10 R.I.P. Terry Hall
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Man I really love the three biggest hits on this album: Turn to stone, Sweet Talkin’ Woman, Mr. bluesky but the rest just don’t do it for me. Songs began blending together and at the same time sounding like amalgamations of other bands of the time like Queen, Floyd, Boston, Beegees and the Beatles. I dig the Sci-Fi themed instrumentals but the vocals were just too repetitive and the harmonized effect was overdone like 4 songs in. An interesting album with a couple bangers, that in the end overstayed its welcome. 7/10
Orange Juice
4/5
A guilty pleasure of mine. Discovered this band through the youtube algorithm like 7 or 8 years ago. I really wanted to see what they sounded like after hearing “Rip it up” and was pretty surprised how different all the songs on this album were. Another singer with a really strange voice that probably makes or breaks peoples first impressions. I do prefer their more upbeat funky stuff to the slower songs but in the end I really enjoy this album front to back. Tenterhook is not a good song and should have been cut from the album. There are songs on this album that I still listen to and find myself humming from time to time. 8/10
Ravi Shankar
1/5
Please fucking kill me. 1/10
Soundgarden
3/5
Another one of those bands that I know of, have heard one mega hit song and didn’t know what they actually sounded like. I would describe them as Trent Reznor (NIN) and Foo Fighters’ friend who was almost in their respective bands but ended up doing their own thing. Also Soundgarden came way before Foo Fighters so I guess Foo fighters would be like the friend in this situation but Dave Grohl was too busy murdering Kurt Cobain at the time so he probably would’ve been like the friend of a friend in this situation. Black Hole Sun is the best song on this album and not just because of it’s super mega hit status, it’s just a great song composition wise. The only other song that kind of comes close but not really is Spoonman, fuck yeah Spoonman. I enjoy Chris Cornell’s vocals on pretty much every song but the background music is just kind of boring on most tracks. There are some outliers for this but even then I wasn’t blown away or anything. 6/10
Pink Floyd
4/5
Space, no one can hear you synthesize in space. This is a heavy sci-fi blues jam album. It’s very atmospheric and keeps a very solid theme throughout. It also does a great job of leading each song into the next making it a nice front to back album which Floyd is known for. It is a bit slow at times and some songs drag a bit with all the solos. I got really confused when the first song played at the end of the album again only to find out that it is a 9 part song spread through the entire album. Kind of took me out of it as I wanted to hear more varied tracks and instead just listened to the second half of a nearly thirty minute song (the album is 45min…) 7/10.
Nirvana
5/5
This is my favorite version of Nirvana. It’s live but sounds so crisp. It’s acoustic but really elevates all the songs they play. It’s mainly covers but they are my favorite versions of these songs. I have watched this front to back at least a hundred times. Dave Grohl looking like a midwife weasel in a turtle neck. Kurt bantering with the audience. Krist’s bass stank face. Pat’s feet and happy demeanor. This album is best consumed by actually watching it. It really is a great experience that even people who don’t like Nirvana I think would enjoy. 10/10
Joan Baez
4/5
Prairie music to settle down and make a farm family to. Shes got a very pleasant voice. I feel like I have heard her in the intro to an old animated film or something. The audio mixing wasn’t great. The background music and her voice would be very quiet then she would hit me with the full yell and make me go deaf. Songs didn’t vary enough for me and kind of started to sounded the same. SPANISH SONG. There were two songs back to back where she was just talking about people named Mary. Lot’s of storytelling in the writing which was very nice and helped create a scene for the songs. Pretty decent country folk album 7/10
Gorillaz
5/5
This guy sounds like the singer from Blur. A unique almost genre defining album which I cannot even tell you what genre this is. I was obsessed with Gorillaz growing up after watching the music video for Feel Good Inc. on TV. The idea of an animated band was so fucking cool and continues to be an extremely unique idea 20 years on. There are some absolute bangers on this album. There are some really weird songs on this album. There are some skippable songs on this album. I’ve always thought of Gorillaz as a singles band where there albums are good but the hits are top tier. The intro to M1A1 genuinely creeped me out as a kid. When we saw them in concert they opened with M1A1 and it was the perfect song to start a concert to. The nostalgia rating is heavy on this one and its basically impossible for me to rate this with without rose tinted glasses. 10/10 Why the fuck is Demon Dayz not on this list?!
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Great vocals, great musicians, sounds like every other older Hispanic group I have ever heard. It’s pleasant to listen to but man does it get a bit repetitive. There are some very nice songs sprinkled in but for the most part it’s comes across pretty generic and unoriginal. 5/10
Mott The Hoople
3/5
This sounds like they listened to a bunch of different 70s rock and decided we can do that. The balloon squeal solo on the first song was horrific. Singer sounds like Bob Dylan on cocaine. Pretty run of the mill 70s rock with a few strange sounds that in the end kind of just left me thinking ehh it’s not bad it’s not good. 5/10
Alice In Chains
4/5
Arguably the hard rock kings. Bordering between hard rock, traditional metal and grunge they are ones of those instantly recognizable groups. This and Nirvana were on heavy rotation in my teens and similarly to Nirvana I don’t really listen to this kind of music anymore. Even though my musical tastes changed they are still an iconic group that sounds just as good as when I listened to them almost twenty years ago. 8/10
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
The best religious album ever created. The icon himself, the face of reggae, the inspiration to the hundreds of white reggae bands that try to emulate his greatness. It’s reggae but it doesn’t fall into the trope of stoner music, it’s just so satisfying and smooth to listen to. This album has most of Marley’s biggest hits as well as some other not as well known songs. Another album that I have listened to hundreds of times and it’s still as good as it’s ever been. 10/10
Serge Gainsbourg
3/5
I like the part where he spoke moist French into my ears. 6/10
FKA twigs
1/5
This is some of the worst shit I have ever heard in my life. Every single song was overproduced, over sexualized garbage. The beats are generic crap that play on a cheap drum machine from Walmart and even then they can’t keep a beat. Half of the sounds that aren’t electronic noise are out of tune. Her breathy voice is so fucking annoying, her tempo is dog shit, and her lyrics are horrible, like they were written by a confident teenager who thinks they have talent. I actually struggled to make it through this repetitive STD of an album. 1/10
The Stone Roses
5/5
An album that was on repeat for me about 15 years ago. The bass is stanky, the guitar is crunchy, the drums are marchin, the vocals fit perfectly. There are a couple songs that I would usually skip but with a full listen this album flows pretty fantastically until the last two songs which would have been fine if they weren’t nearly 10 minutes each. Other than that there are some really fantastic songs. 9/10
Radiohead
4/5
Slow, electronic, experimental, emotional. The vocals wallow in the heavy dramatic instrumentals. This is once again not what I thought Radiohead sounded like. Much better than the last Radiohead album we got. I feel like you have to be in a very specific mood to listen to this album by choice. It seemingly sucks the energy out of you and makes everything heavy. A tonally haunting album. The latter half of the album dragged a bit and became a bit repetitive. I still can’t understand anything he is saying. 7/10
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2/5
Like Elvis Castello, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison had a threesom and out popped Tom Petty. Rather annoying vocals backed by some very unimpressive instrumentals. Not the worst thing we have listened to but pretty low down on the list. 3/10
Beck
3/5
Beck Beck Beck, Beck is weird. Beck has always been one of those names that I know pretty much all his big hits but have never sought out full albums. I don’t even know what genre you would put this in, rock? Folk? Country Punk? Some of the songs are pretty experimental in their sound, almost to much so. The hits are bangers and are very apparent when compared to the rest of the album. Over all an interesting listen but not something I will seek out again. 5/10
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
This guy wants to be Michael Jackson soooo bad. If Michael went down the road of R&B/Soul instead of pop. He’s got a great voice but it gets a bit tiresom hearing the same vocal progressions on pretty much every song. The instrumentals were kind of just there and didn’t really elevate his singing, not that it needed to be but left me wanting more from each song. Not my genre of music generally but I can appreciate the talent. 6/10
Earth, Wind & Fire
5/5
This is the funk I crave. Inject this directly into my veins. I must become the funk. Banger album filled with bangers. I loved every song and find no faults in this masterpiece. Actually sad when it ended and I wanted more. 10/10
Finley Quaye
1/5
This is like if someone listened to one Bob Marley album and said I can do that. Not quite reggae not quite R&B not quite rock not quite good. Very strange voice that just didn’t go with the instrumentals at all. Not a good sign when the most popular song is a remake of a Bob Marley song. I love reggae but this is not it. 2/10
Kanye West
1/5
I have never liked Kanye, this album did not change that. He is an obnoxious artist with obnoxious lyrics and an obnoxious fan base and this has always been the case. Every song follows the same format: he raps about how great he is and why everyone should bow down kiss his ass/balls. He is the epitome of a crybaby. None of these songs were enjoyable and he parrots the same shitty lyrical style in every song. Each generation that he is still idolized he’s dumbing down each generation. This is one of the only artists that I simply cannot separate the person from their music, mainly because he refuses to shut up about himself and how amazing he is, then is a fucking lunatic sociopath in real life. Could not wait for this selfsuckfest to be over. 1/10
Bobby Womack
3/5
He has a sultry voice but the music was a bit overplayed and didn’t really do anything for me. This is love makin music but Im not makin no love. 5/10
Oasis
2/5
The definitive one hit wonder band. I know I say this a lot but man so many of these songs all sound the same. At one point I thought we were listening to Wonderwall but it was a song that sounded almost exactly like the lead up to chorus of Wonderwall. It’s not terrible but it’s not great kind of just repetitive and forgettable. 4/10
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
It’s good. 10/10
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Realized I have always liked a couple Artic Monkeys songs but never sought out more from them. I should have? Really enjoyed this front to back. 9/10
Marvin Gaye
3/5
I have come to realize that I find the love making music genre just ok. It doesn’t do anything for me. The music is fine and the vocals are great but overall I am just whelmed by it. 6/10
Elvis Presley
4/5
I have never listened to an Elvis album front to back, only singles. Had a decent amount of variety while keeping a tonally equal sound. I thought it was funny when he kept making them restart the song on “Such a night”, also my favorite song off the album. The songs were short and sweet which I really appreciated. Really solid album with no songs I have ever heard from The King. 8/10
Queen
5/5
A very interesting album that borders on sounding like a day at the carnival, opera house, and rock stadium all at once. A few songs I wasn’t too keen on but handful of great ones. Then, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, what I believe to be possibly the greatest song ever created. It alone deserves a 10/10 but the album in full is more like an 8. So 9/10
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The first quarter of the album is very classic hard rock sounding. I prefer the more whimsical rock sounds of Zepplin II over this more generic sound. With that said I would still rather listen to Zep over most other Hard Rock artists. Then you get to the masterpiece that is Kashmir and man it feels like this album is just centered around it. It keeps the classic zep sound and deserves all the recognition that it gets because it really is perfect. The rest of the album is sprinkled with heavy serene songs like “In the light”, “Ten Years Gone” and then some more folk rock songs. I enjoyed the later half much more than the first quarter. Although I still prefer Zep II this is still a fantastic album was some really unique bangers. 9/10
Anita Baker
3/5
Very nice voice with music that’s trapped in the 80s. This is a dated album that sounds of its time. Doesn’t mean it’s not good just kind of left in the past. This is the 80s music that just didn’t make it to the modern age. 5/10
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Very relaxing, very harmonizing, very acoustic. Their sound is pretty similar throughout but it’s iconic and enjoyable to listen to it doesn’t matter. I did think every song was going to be “The Sound of Silence”. 8/10
Ray Charles
3/5
Ray Charles is a legendary status household name and yet I have never heard any of these songs before. Seemingly two distinct tones in this album: love & sadness. Some of the songs started to meld together and could have possibly just been combined. He had a great voice but It wasn’t amazing or anything. At times I also felt that his voice was sort of jarring against the accompanying instrumentals. Couple pretty good songs with a handful of more forgettable ones. 5/10
King Crimson
4/5
Strange, aggressive, moist. This is music to trip on acid to in the desert. A musical adventure. 8/10
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
Incoherent, repetitive, piano man. I shouldn’t have looked this guy up. Why is every famous musician fucked up. I mean I wasn’t really enjoying it before looking him up anyway. 3/10
Led Zeppelin
4/5
“Stairway to Heaven” & “Going to California” are masterpieces. The rest are more classic rock styled and I don’t feel have the same impact. Still great songs. Still doesn’t compare to Zep II. Still would rather listen to Zep over most classic hard rock bands. 8/10
Dead Kennedys
3/5
Dirty, loud, terrible audio quality, PUNK. 5/10
3/5
Taylor Swift of the sixties. The entire album is basically a dis track. 6/10
Green Day
4/5
Instantly recognizable. The band that brought punk into the mainstream and made it accessible to wider audiences, even if die hard punks don’t consider it punk. Some of their best and most notable songs on this album including my favorite song of theirs “Longview”. The later half of the album is a bit weak after “Basket Case” and is a bit forgettable. Still a fantastic album. 8/10
Tim Buckley
5/5
What a strangely unique voice. Some questionable lyrics but man was this jammin. Reminded me a bit of Talking Heads which Im all for. Pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this album front to back. 9/10
Joy Division
5/5
This is one of my definitive childhood albums. As a baby my dad played this for me and I have heard stories of how I always would giggle at Ian’s vocals. I blame this album for my cynical views and gloomy outlook of the world. This album heavily shaped my interpretation of music and how I view it. This is the best musical documentation of depression and how it alters your state of being. Ian was a troubled man who did not win the battle of his troubles. You can hear this in his music. Did not need to listen to this one as I know each song but did so anyway. Whoever runs the Joy Division Youtube account and created those Reimagined music videos for this album should be shot. What disgraceful, unimaginative, garbage those videos are, holy shit. Those videos are made by people who bought Joy Division shirts thinking they are cool not knowing anything about the band or the context of their music. 10/10
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
This might be the most American album I have ever listened to. It’s got country lyrics with not country music. I’m about half and half on the songs. The songs I liked were pretty good “Cover Me” “I’m on fire” “Glory Days” & “My Hometown”. “Dancing In The Dark” is a banger and the best song on the album, its not even close. The rest of the songs bordered on forgettable to I straight up didn’t like them. Hard to rate this one honestly. 6/10
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Another great album from Jimi. This one doesn’t have any huge hits and most likely isn’t an album that non-jimi fans would know. But thematically I feel this album does a great job of having a consistent sound while mixing things up throughout. 8/10
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
“Tuesday’s Gone” & “Free Bird” are iconic bangers. The rest range from good to forgettable. 6/10
The Waterboys
4/5
This is simply fantastic. Great musicians making great tunes. I had to get used to the singers style but after I did I felt it complimented the music very well. The mandolin is such an underutilized instrument. The later half of the album slows down a bit and leans much more into the English Folk sound, lingering just a tad. Very solid album. 8/10
Stan Getz
3/5
What lovely hotel lobby music we have here. 6/10
Giant Sand
2/5
There is a version of this album with 30 songs on it, fuck that. Weird, tone def sometimes, slightly annoying. Simply did not vibe with it. 3/10
Coldcut
1/5
*Record Scratch* You might be wondering why this album is on this list, well so am I. Its a bunch of DJ samples, the same funk beat, and record scratching for an hour. Each song is just too long and overstays its welcome. This would have been much more enjoyable if it was 3 times shorter. 2/10
SAULT
3/5
I think they might be black. At times soulful, at times repetitive, at times motivational speech. When it was music it was ok and when it wasn’t I didn’t really get why this was on this list. A bit too long, 20 tracks that pretty much do the same thing over and over is just not needed. 5/10
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Two absolute bangers that defined the 60s and a bunch of wholesome tunes. 7/10
4/5
David Bowie is weird. This album is weird as it sounds like its sometimes trying to be classic rock and then some weird shit happens and then Bowie sings a line like an alien. It also sounds like Bowie is recording his audio from a different room. “Starman” and “Suffragette City” are great, the rest are good but nothing that lives up to his other massive singles. 7/10
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
This is not music. Why the fuck is this on here? 1/10
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Got a singer for a vegas casino vibes at first but then his voice grew on me. I like how he pronounces words funny. Pretty solid background instrumentals that really elevate his singing that on its own I don’t think it would have as much of an impact. Really dig the songs with the backup singers creating gospel ballads. Songs are a bit long and I wonder if the album would be more accessible if it wasn’t a double album. “Breathless” is a fantastic banger. Overall a pretty surprising album that I really enjoyed. 9/10
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
I wanted to like it but I kind of just didn’t. There were bits where I thought this is almost good and it would be turn into some of the worst singing and music playing I’ve heard. 4/10
B.B. King
2/5
Great voice, great backing band. Every song sounded exactly the same. I had to check to make sure it wasn’t accidentally playing the same song on repeat. Also would have rather just listened to a studio version without the crowd interrupting between every line and clapping over the songs. Kind of just annoyed me for the entirety. 4/10
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Skater music to skate to. I really enjoyed the music when the singer wasn’t purposefully singing badly. He has an interesting voice, kind of in the same vein as Smashing Pumpkins but sometimes hit a note so badly it made me cringe. Don’t listen to “Don’t”. Overall there were bits a liked a lot and bits I didn’t like a lot. 6/10
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
There are some great songs on here and there are a lot of filler funk songs that all kind of sound the same. The album is pretty long and the songs are really long on top of that. I would have really enjoyed it if it was just the great songs and not filled with so many forgettable ones. Once again an album I loved as a teenager that I now don’t feel as fondly for. 7/10
Iron Maiden
4/5
A very solid, clean, heavy metal album. Pretty great for the bands first album although there are no huge hits. 7/10
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Hippie folk rock to shoot a woman down the river to. Pretty good, songs were a bit long. Wasn’t the best thing I’ve but definitely not the worst. 6/10
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
You know after 3 albums I think I am starting to like Elvis Castello… just fucking kidding I hate this shit. The musicians are talented and some of the background music is good but man does this fuckin guys tongue hanging out of his mouth borderline saying racist words and derogatory descriptions piss me off. 1/10
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
I pretty much forgot what everything sounded like after finishing it. It was fine while listening but I don’t think it should be on this list. 5/10
New Order
5/5
God I love New Order. 10/10
The Undertones
3/5
Punkyish, Ramonesish, Buzzcockish. It’s not bad but not sure it should be on this list. 5/10
Keith Jarrett
3/5
What a mighty fine penist we have here. It really is just a dude playing piano for 1 hour though. He’s great but I feel you have to really like piano to fully enjoy this. Didn’t realize this was live until I heard the faint sound of people coughing in the background. 6/10
The B-52's
4/5
Their energy is cosmic and addictive. T 8/10 K 7/10
The White Stripes
3/5
The music is simplistic but that seems to be what rose them to such fame. They are really are an aesthetic choice. Never really sought them out but have always known of them. I have more of an appreciation for the band than a likeness for the music. 6/10
Little Richard
3/5
Great voice, great music. Every song sounds almost exactly the same. 6/10
LTJ Bukem
5/5
I got lost in the jungle. 10/10
Cornershop
3/5
Indian Beck 6/10
Björk
2/5
More Björk mispronouncing words in a poetically nonsensical way. The background music is really just noise and she keeps the same vocal tones as well as rhythm through every song. Don’t really know why this is on here. Her other album we had was better. 3/10
R.E.M.
2/5
I like “Man on the moon”, the rest eh not so much. Coming to the realization that I like a few songs from R.E.M but not their whole albums. 4/10
Saint Etienne
3/5
90s dance music with 80s vocals. At times it bangs at other times it drags. 6/10
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Two women yelling jibberish over each other with some of the most generic 80s background music. T 3/10 K 2/10
Charles Mingus
5/5
This is the rainy days jazz that I love. He did some things with that trumpet I have never heard before. 9/10
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
Love me some Dexys. “Geno” is a regular on my 80s playlist. I’ve heard this album before and I feel the same, I enjoy the faster paced songs a lot more then the slower ones. 7/10
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
Smooth, nice beats. Mix of r&b, reggae and hip hop. There were a few songs I enjoyed and a bunch that kind of just played. The album is a bit long and there is some variety but the majority are pretty similar which makes a front to back listen less than ideal. 6/10
Leonard Cohen
3/5
I feel like I am inside his throat. He’s got a great old person voice. Good backing music. Lyrical style was very repetitive to the point I thought I was listening to a duplicate song. Not as good as the first album we had of his. Definitely have to be in a certain mood for this kind of music. 6/10
ZZ Top
3/5
La Grange is a classic. Not a huge fan of the rest. A bit too generic. The singer has an interesting voice and does some unique stuff but the background music is pretty forgettable. 5/10
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
5/5
If you told me this was Genesis I would believe you without a doubt. A bit funkier than Genesis which I think does help differentiate it. Couple absolutely huge songs like “Relax” and “War” sprinkled with a bunch of perfectly serviceable songs. “San Jose” was completely random compared to the rest of the album and I loved it. Pretty great album. 9/10
Iron Butterfly
3/5
My uncles bio dad is the bassist. 5/10
Taylor Swift
2/5
This music is like recent Disney Pixar movies. It checks all the boxes that are needed to make a huge profit but lacks any kind if soul or meaning. These songs are shallow pop anthems to be chanted by braindead followers of the Swift Cult. They lack any kind of substance and while they all sound vaguely different, they follow the same basic outline making them repetitive within their own lifespan. I will never understand this music but I understand why it’s popular. 3/10
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Why does he sing like the colon frog from South Park? 5/10
The Gun Club
2/5
Punkabilly, countrypunk, cowpokepunk, slideguitarpunk, trailerpunk, outontherangepunk punk 4/10
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Two slapping bangers and an array of decent hippie rock. 7/10
Pretenders
4/5
Solid vocals, solid instrumentals. 7/10
Sigur Rós
2/5
Bjork + Radiohead = Bjorkhead 4/10
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Dolly Fartin’. 4/10
Kate Bush
3/5
I liked every other song on this album. Felt like this wasn’t on this list then Stranger Things happened so they put it on this list. 6/10
Love
5/5
Delightful. 60s music is so serene and wholesome even if the lyrics don’t always match that tone. I knew what a lot of the lyrics were going to be as he sang them as they just worked and flowed very well. This is definitely a stand out among the other 60s albums we have had. 9/10
Holger Czukay
4/5
This shit is weird, but it kind of works. You somewhat get lost in the strangeness and forget your listening to an album and becomes something different. I also like the European guy shouting random things throughout. 7/10
The Stooges
3/5
Another “not sure why this is on this list.” It’s not bad but it’s not good. 5/10
1/5
Some of the most generic shit I have ever heard. I had to fight the instinct to skip every single song. My finger would hover over the skip button and I would have to pull myself back. I think a Muse song snuck its way in the middle. Excuse me while I go stick chopsticks into my ear canals. 2/10
Peter Gabriel
4/5
In your ass, I complete. Your ass, skeet skeet skeet. OH I can’t wait to be back inside your ass! 7/10
MC Solaar
3/5
Fresh Frunky French Frbeats. 6/10
The War On Drugs
4/5
A great mesh of modern and 80s rock/pop. Singer is like Bob Dylan if Bob Dylan was good. Enjoyed the faster paced songs a lot more than the slower ones. Overall super solid album that flowed very nicely. 8/10
The Replacements
3/5
Makes you really feel like an angsty punk. 5/10
Wild Beasts
5/5
At first the vocals shocked me and then I loved them. The two singers(?) different takes on songs on how they went about the their styles was great. Fantastic instrumentals with some just fantastic drumming on certain songs. I fancied every song on here as they kept to their own style but varied the music enough that each new song was unique. 10/10
2/5
It’s like Eminem mixed with Korn. 4/10
Dire Straits
4/5
Solid blues rock album that utilizes a bunch of instruments that are typically associated with specific genres yet makes them work together perfectly. 8/10
Tears For Fears
5/5
TfT makes me teary eyed with fantastic they are. It has their three biggest songs, it’s short and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. Absolute masterpiece. 10/10
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Not sure if this is punk rock. Not sure if I really enjoyed it. 5/10
Funkadelic
4/5
What a jam. 8/10
The Temptations
5/5
Love, great voices, and love. 9/10
N.W.A.
3/5
There are two things you will learn from the album: 1. N.W.A. hates the police. 2. N.W.A. hates women. Front loaded album with the first two tracks being the most well know, the middle being not great to straight up bad, with the end being ok. It was strange hearing so many Beastie Boys samples in this album to the point where it made me think they produced it but after a google search found N.W.A. was heavily influenced by them. 6/10
GZA
5/5
Dude’s will listen to this a go “Hell Yeah”. Now give me Wu-Tang. 10/10
R.E.M.
3/5
Another R.E.M. album. Another album where two of the songs are bangers and the rest are forgettable. 5/10
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Very dark and depressing album. Great story telling, great instrumentals, a bit repetitive at times with the longer songs (14 mins) where the story takes a while to tell. I enjoyed the double album a little bit more but this was still an interesting listen. The last two songs were not very good. 7/10
Hole
3/5
Gurlvana. 6/10
Fats Domino
3/5
Short, blues, fat. 6/10
Roni Size
3/5
I love this genre but man this was waaaaay to long and not varied enough. Felt like one really long song that just kept repeating. For someone who doesn’t like this music I am sure this is pure hell. 6/10
Mj Cole
3/5
Nice beats you got there, be a shame if they were repetitive and had some lady singing the same line over them for the entire duration. Still enjoyable. 6/10
Nas
4/5
Solid album from front to back. Wasn’t the greatest but was not bad at all. 7/10
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Not my favorite Marley album. There are a few decent songs but even the hits are lesser known on this one. Even the topics are more serious and not the usual joyous tone of the big Marley hits. 7/10
Goldfrapp
4/5
James Bond ass music. At times I swore this was the Alien Opera song from Fifth Element. Super weird but I enjoyed it. 8/10
Nirvana
5/5
The definitive Vana album. 10/10
Green Day
3/5
The big hits bring me back to 2004. The rest of the album reminds me why I no longer listen to Green Day. This album is long and when the song isn’t one of the hits it’s just super repetitive. Cut out the extra songs and this would have been a much better album. 6/10
Nina Simone
4/5
I honestly couldn’t tell if this was a man or a woman until they identified themselves as a woman. Great voice though. Very lounge jazz soul rainy day music. 7/10
Radiohead
3/5
OK Radiohead. He sings like his tongue is numb. There were parts that I liked (instrumental bits) and parts I didn’t like (when he gets a bit too whiney with the vocals). I actually enjoyed the more experimental album we had last from them more than this and this is their biggest album. Karma Police is their best song. 6/10
Slipknot
5/5
Never really listened to Slipknot, wish I did because damn this was a fantastic album. At times reminded me of SoaD but angrier. It is a long but the time flew by and found myself wanting more when it was done. This is going on the metal playlist for sure. 10/10
Michael Jackson
4/5
Prime Shamona Te-He! Michael Jackson. I haven’t heard over half this album before but the songs I have heard are some of the most well known Jackson songs. The songs I hadn’t heard didn’t really do anything for me but the hits absolutely bang. 8/10
Britney Spears
1/5
Just because something is a national phenomenon doesn’t mean it’s good. 1/10
Marianne Faithfull
1/5
Someone take the mic away from this old smoker lady. 1/10
Beck
4/5
The definitive Beck album. A great country folk punk pop funk techno album that has a wide variety of music with Beck’s distinctly monotone voice bringing it all together. 8/10
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Concentrationcampcore. This is not music, just an angry German yelling and bashing pans for an hour. 1/10
The Chemical Brothers
5/5
The first two Chemical Brothers albums were my introduction to electronic music and I still to this day have not found another group that I think sounds similar to this. Their sound is defined and unique. Partly nostalgia speaking but these two albums are easily in my top 10 most listened to albums of all time. 10/10
TLC
3/5
Horniest album on this platform. Man there are some bangers on here, “Diggin on you” & “Waterfalls” but when over half of the songs are about fuckin and being a slut it really drags the listening down. Theres also 5 “songs” that are bits and just people saying Crazy Sexy Cool. Andre 3000 in the last song just shows how he can steal the spotlight instantaneously. I started to feel like some of the singing and rapping was almost a parody of itself as the voices began sounding humorous instead of serious. A bit dated and waaaay to horny. 5/10
The Pogues
3/5
This was better than the last Pogues album we got but it’s really kind of just the same some over and over for an hour. Another Christmas song for some reason. I liked the part where the lead singer got too drunk to sing anymore so for half the album so other guy comes in and sings and then theres like 5 songs with no singing so I guess that guy got too drunk to sing too and the band was like well I guess we will just jam for a bit. 6/10
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Run of the mill 60s music. 5/10
Morrissey
3/5
It’s The Smiths but missing the best part, the instrumentals. It’s decent but I don’t think it really does anything special of note. 6/10
Nick Drake
4/5
A delightfully melancholic listen. 8/10
Missy Elliott
3/5
Missy does what popular artists like Meghan and Minaj do now but with more fines and less brain rot. Still not my cup of tea. This is a long album and after a while I became desensitized to it and it just became background noise. 5/10
Beastie Boys
3/5
Better than the last Beastie Boys album since half of it is just beats and jams. It’s also got Sabotage which is the best song they have made. 6/10
Kraftwerk
4/5
One of the first introductions into electronic music. My first introduction to electronic music. It’s just as weird and oddly satisfying as the first time I listened to it as a kid. 8/10
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Better than the last Rolling Stones album. Tonally every song sounded the same. Pretty long and towards the middle It all melded into one long song. This is one of those albums that made it on the list because it is a big band but the album is mediocre at best. 5/10
T. Rex
2/5
Pretty generic. Songs were very repetitive and just generally kind of boring. 3/10
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Marvin’s best album. Smooth, funky, short and sweet. 8/10
The Temptations
4/5
Funky, expressive, very nice. I was not a huge fan the slower songs. Songs did start to meld together a bit towards the end. 7/10
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
Messy, chaotic, blues punkabilly rock. I liked small bits but mostly was unphased by the majority. More than half of the songs I listened to about 30 seconds then skipped. I don’t think this a very accessible album to most and not sure it really deserves to be on this list. 4/10
Everything But The Girl
4/5
This is a band that my mum would put on constantly and I loathed it as a child. Her throaty frog voice pissed me and the instrumentals dug into my wrinkly little brain. Now as an adult I actually rather enjoyed this listen. This is also not the album my mum overplayed the shit out of so that helped. The more 80s vibe to the instrumentals changed the song dynamics quite a bit from the album I remember listening to which I believe was more 90s themed. Pretty great vocals and lovely instrumentals. “Apron Strings” is definitely a song that has been played a child’s funeral. 8/10
Ice Cube
3/5
Really funny how he went from rappin about gangbangin and bangin hoes with his very descript dick to being a nazi and doing kids movies. The best song on the album is also about not doing any of the above listed things and it’s great. Rest of the album is extremely repetitive but kind of crazy how he could say the same things over and over in different ways. 5/10
De La Soul
5/5
My introduction to hip hop. The only group that has come close to this vibe is Tribe and Q-tip is in this album. Could be nostalgia but I think this album just slaps from front to back 10/10
Sonic Youth
2/5
I think I wanted to like it but kind of just didn’t. Every song felt like it should have ended but then there was like 2 minutes of guitar noise or some bullshit. 4/10
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Very similar to the first album we had from them. Less chaotic, more generic. Still can’t understand anything she be yodeling. 4/10
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
The best modern rap I have heard but still just not my cup of tea. The biggest difference I noticed was that of the instrumental production. Other modern rap artists simply do not have enjoyable background instrumentals and this album did. Take that away and I don’t think it would be much different from the other artists. He raps about pretty much the same stuff others do and his style does differ slightly but not enough to be that notable. The Kat Williams voice consistently made me chuckle, I was just waiting for a pimp named slick back reference. Overall decent listen and I can now see why people like him so much. 6/10
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
Pretty generic psych rock. Feel like there have been 10 other albums that sounded just like this. As the album went on, the singer seemingly kept getting farther and farther away from the mic until it sounded like he was in a different room entirely. Bathroomcorepschyrock. 4/10
The Zutons
4/5
Started out like a early 2000s rock band trying to imitate classic rock from the 70s/80s then morphed into something entirely different. Half way through I really noticed the sax began to shine. Suprisingly around the half way mark I think the album really hit its stride. The folky blues rock of the latter songs really fit their vibe and if they had stuck to that theme for the entirety I think it would’ve been a much better album as a whole. Still enjoyed it. 7/10
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Honestly what the fuck is this doing on here. One of the ear grating, annoying albums I have ever had to listen to. The instrumentals would have been O.K. at best if they didn’t just loop for over 5 minutes at a time. Don’t even get me started about the little man drunkenly yelling into a megaphone on the lowest volume possible. What. the. FUCK! 1/10
The Go-Go's
5/5
What a fun album. God I love the basslines in throughout the whole runtime. Awesome vocals that really fit the tone and backing instruments. I still prefer the Fun Boy Three version of “Our Lips are Sealed” but I think is the more successful version. Bunch of great songs on here. 9/10
Joy Division
3/5
My second favorite Joy Division album. 6/10
Tangerine Dream
1/5
Science center ambiance sounds. 1/10
Judas Priest
3/5
Background classic metal which to background music to. 5/10
Fishbone
3/5
Background classic metal which to background music to. 5/10
David Bowie
5/5
First half: A handful of very unique Bowie songs that were definitely before their time and inspired an entire era of music that followed.
Second half: A masterpiece of instrumentals that take you on a wordless journey. Honestly could have taken an entire album of just this and a separate album with the first half.
9/10
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
I like beats. I didn’t really like the beats with singing. Songs were a bit long and repetitive. Don’t know if this really deserves to be on here as it didn’t do anything to stand out. Another album that came and went and I will have forgotten about it by tomorrow. 5/10
Miles Davis
4/5
Moody, mellow, rainy day jazz. Just delightful. Great album to start the day with. 8/10
Faust
2/5
German Jam Background noise barely any singing and when there is the audio for the vocals is way too low. 3/10
Mariah Carey
1/5
Man I have always despised this type of singing. This album did not change that. 2/10
Blur
2/5
I’m not listening to this god damned album again and getting.. Parklife! Ahhh fuck me now I am going to be yelling Parklife randomly the rest of the week. 4/10
Morrissey
4/5
The best Morrissey album yet. Even without the band mates of the Smiths this still has some reminiscent vibes but also does a good job standing away from The Smiths sound at the same time. A few songs that were a bit forgettable but overall a much better listen than the last one we had. 8/10
Duran Duran
5/5
Honestly, I could have listened to “Rio” over and over and been satisfied. But the album proceeds to bring banger after banger. What an icon band and album that defined the 80s. 10/10
Kings of Leon
4/5
The singer has a way with words and by that I mean I don’t know if he knows how words are pronounced. Jokes aside they have an addictive sound that borders on folk rock with a bit heavy rock. I’ve never heard this album and only know them from their super popular album but I see that they had fame even before that. Funny though that I enjoyed basically every song that was in the million view range on this album and didn’t really like the popular ones. 8/10
Prince
2/5
80s fetish music. Each song sounded basically the same. Loud overproduced 80s crap that has not aged well. Microplastics in the balls right here. 3/10
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Mellow, serene, absolute disaster of a last song. 5/10
The White Stripes
4/5
Little bit folk little bit blues little bit rock. An interesting album with my favorite song of their’s “My doorbell”. 7/10
Supergrass
4/5
The buzzcocks but faster and a bit more modern. “Alright” is a great song even it has become know through commercials. 7/10
Deep Purple
5/5
Possibly one of the best live albums I’ve ever heard. Everything is so crisp and the solos are phenomenal. All around a fantastic listen that just flew by due to how much I was enjoying it. 10/10
Joni Mitchell
3/5
School house rock voice. 6/10
Michael Jackson
5/5
Some albums are front loaded, some are back loaded, this one is middle loaded with the biggest songs of all time. These songs are iconic and if the album was just the middle it would be a 10/10 masterpiece because of the magnitude of the hits. Unfortunately the songs surrounding these are just no where near as good and bog down the beginning and end. 9/10
MGMT
4/5
Three of the biggest songs from my middleschool/highschool time. These songs were everywhere. They still hold up and are absolute bangers but the rest of the album is pretty mediocre to not great. I also have not heard anything else from MGMT since so no idea if they are still making music. I guess technically not one hit wonders but more like 3 hit wonders. 7/10
Neu!
1/5
Another noise in the background album. When there was “singing” I wished there wasn’t. Very forgettable, very questionable why it’s on this list. 2/10
Black Flag
4/5
This is the punk I was raised on. Henry Rollins went from being one of the angriest violient dudes ever to an absolutely amazing intellectual human being. I have sense moved away from punk in general but I will always appreciate Black Flag and this album in particular. 8/10
Talking Heads
4/5
Some really unique stuff here. Talking Heads is one of my favorite bands so any album by them will be ranked highly, even if David Byrne does go on nonsensical tangents pretty often in this one. The biggest song “Take me to the river” is not my favorite off the album and I actually enjoy pretty much every other song more. 8/10
Kraftwerk
3/5
Another album that I appreciate more than I like. They are the godfadders of techno and electronica but when it comes down to it, most of the album is just a collection of sci-fi noises played repeatedly for far too long. 6/10
Gram Parsons
3/5
Mellow duet country classic rock. 5/10
Tori Amos
2/5
I want to crucify myself after having to listen to this. Sad piano girl music. Every song is basically the same song. They are all too long with not enough changing throughout the songs. 3/10
Eminem
1/5
I made it half way through the first song. 1/10
Bee Gees
3/5
Not the Bee Gees I was expecting. Really mellow relaxing music. 5/10
Mekons
1/5
Bottom of the barrel or whiskey. British gibberish. 2/10
David Bowie
4/5
Short sweet Bowie, delightful. 8/10
Stephen Stills
2/5
Bar music, bluesy blues bar music, bar music where they do the square dance every Saturday night. Too long bar music. 4/10
The Cult
4/5
I’m sure this band has some unique genre attached to them but it’s just classic rock to me. It’s good classic rock but that’s what it sounds like. Some pretty big hit on here even though Born to be wild doesn’t sound like it was made by them and I’m too lazy to fact check that. Perfectly serviceable classic rock. 7/10
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Love wakin up to some nice smooth jazz. Great composition and some really amazing sections throughout. Some parts got a bit repetitive and could have gone with a few minutes less but still fantastic all around. 8/10
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Best Frank Sinatra album I’ve heard. A little bit on the long side with 15 songs, especially when the second half of the album starts to get repetitive. Would have been great if the album was cut in half. 7/10
Kanye West
1/5
I won’t put myself through any more of this narcissistic losers music. 1/10
2/5
Listened to 5 of the 25 songs and decided I had heard enough. 3/10
Marty Robbins
5/5
Slight nostalgia rating from the first song being sung by my grandpa growing up but man this album slaps if you are into this kind of music. Fantastic storytelling with intertwining lyrics and background music that really highlight the singing. 10/10
The Charlatans
2/5
I think I charted my pants. 4/10
Faith No More
3/5
Did Faith No More copy Red Hot Chili Peppers or did Red Hot Chili Peppers copy Faith No More? The world will never know… 6/10
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Background music that was grounded to to the back. 4/10
Le Tigre
1/5
Indie girl screams in one tone for an hour with random noises playing. 2/10
Ryan Adams
4/5
I don’t hate it - My wife 7/10
Coldplay
4/5
I remember not liking Coldplay and thinking his voice was annoying and kind of fake. Now with a relisten and 10ish years since I last tried, they are way more enjoyable. Nice mellow backing music mixed with his soft voice makes a delightful listen. 8/10
David Ackles
3/5
Storytellin’ blue collar tales spoken word with religious undertones. 6/10
Magazine
3/5
Reminds me a bit of The Buzzcocks. Some pretty interesting musical sections that on their own are fantastic. Vocals at times fit and other times don’t. Pretty mixed about this one as there were bits that I really enjoyed and bits that just fell flat. 5/10
The Kinks
2/5
4/10
Al Green
4/5
What a voice. Starts with a banger then a bunch if love songs. 7/10
U2
3/5
Bano is a terd. 5/10
David Bowie
5/5
Damn near a masterpiece. The songs that I hadn’t heard were bangers and the songs I have heard are ultra bangers. “life on mars” is Bowie’s greatest creation. Insane to me that this album is from 71’ and his fourth album. Bowie is eternal. 10/10
Massive Attack
5/5
This is in my top 3 childhood albums. I have listened to this album hundreds of times and it holds a special place in my heart. Nearly a perfect album in my eyes except that I have always skipped “One Love” as I feel it interrupts the vibe the rest of the album lays out. It just fuckin slaps. The beats, the raps, the singing is just phenomenal. I still to this day say “Massive” when I wanna describe something that’s awesome. I wish more people knew about Massive and I know they have had success and a following but they are definitely overshadowed in how great some of these earlier albums were. Nostalgia rating 10/10 , nonstalgia rating 9/10
Sleater-Kinney
2/5
Girl punk. Sounds like music made for a tv show or a movie about girl punks. Borderline video game music made to be a big moment in a video game for the female protagonist. The instrumentals are fine to good throughout but the singing is just one tone yelling. Can’t understand anything she is yelling and there is zero vocal range. The vocals really just drag the whole thing down. 4/10
Joni Mitchell
2/5
All this lady’s music sounds the same. Honestly if you took away the gaps this could have been one long song since each song follows the same exact format without fail. Her voice is fine but she really is just rambling and describing things she “sees”. 4/10
Frank Ocean
3/5
I’ve heard of him but thought it was rap. Pretty surprised to find out its more R&B. Not my cup of tea. Long album where most of the songs were repetitive and sounded similar. 5/10
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
You like jaaaazz? 7/10
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Pretty in pink is the big hit while the others kind of just become background noise. The lead singer has one tone/sound that is so consistent throughout that it makes the album sound repetitive. 5/10
The Black Crowes
1/5
This sucks. Super generic crap. This is the shit they play at sports bars while you mindlessly shovel wings down your gullet. 2/10
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Wow! This is awful stuff. Unorganized, cluttered, messy. Every song has really weird tempo issues with the singing and the music. The album is mixed terribly so the levels are all over the place. Really just annoying. 1/10
Nitin Sawhney
4/5
Culturally, political beats to impend doom to. 8/10
Bob Dylan
2/5
Wasn’t a fan of Bob Dylan’s early works, still not a fan of his later works either. Raspy old man voice sing talks to some bluesy backings. 3/10
Billy Joel
5/5
Me: “It’s all bangers”
“It always has been” :Billy Joel in a astronaut suit holding a gun to the back of my head
10/10
The Stranglers
2/5
British noises taking place in the background. 4/10
Kings of Leon
3/5
Not as good as the last album. Even harder to understand what he is saying. Background music was meh. 5/10
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
My favorite rap album of all time. Every song is a banger. The lines, the beats, the various artists that come together to bring solid song after solid song. The fact that this is a debut album still blows my mind. Masterpiece. 10/10
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Favorite Stones album that I have gotten on this list so far. Can you hear me knockin is probably my favorite Stones song. The album lingers a bit and is a lot slower/bluesy? than the others I have heard. Solid listen even if it overstays its welcome a bit. 7/10
XTC
3/5
Maybe the most 80s album I have ever heard. Parts are catchy while some parts are cluttered and chaotic. I didn't hate it but I didn’t love it. 6/10
Stephen Stills
4/5
Best Christian album I have ever heard. 7/10
Beck
3/5
Sad sad Beck. A bit boring with it being so slow and each song sounding very similar. 4/10
T. Rex
2/5
Add this to the “one big song so the album should be on the list” list. 3/10
Steve Winwood
2/5
Add this to the “one big song so the album should be on the list” list. 3/10
Ramones
3/5
Started with their most recognizable song. A generational banger that has continued to be a huge hit for decades. Then I realized after half way through the album that all the songs sound incredibly similar which made me wonder why Blitz was the one that was the most popular. It’s slightly more catchy than the rest but honestly they all sound so similar that any other songs could have also been mega hits. Over all a bit too long and not varied enough to discern song from song. 6/10
Aerosmith
3/5
The most classic of classic rock. They have a rollercoaster at Didney. I liked the song about big fat 10 inch cock. 5/10
Carole King
5/5
Wow. I was worried it would be another 1st song is the big hit followed by a bunch of ehh songs but this had 4 of the biggest hits of the 70s that are still extremely recognizable today. Amazing voice, amazing instrumentals throughout. Truly a fantastic listen from start to finish. 10/10
Culture Club
4/5
Only knew the first absolutely huge hit on this album but there were a couple bangers throughout. I enjoyed the more upbeat songs to the slower paced ones. 7/10
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Another album slightly ruined by childhood experience. My mum would play this album on repeat while driving around so these songs are ingrained into my memory and as a kid, I fucking hated this band and this album. With a wildly different perspective as an adult now I still hate most of the songs on this album. The first half is borderline cringe with songs that are just too loud and fast with most of lyrics being either guttural noises or unintelligible. I counted 4 out of the 12 songs that I actually enjoyed and they were all in the slower paced second half. Not as bad as it was when I was a kid but still not my thing. 5/10
Fela Kuti
4/5
Great jam live album that feels like one song. Compared to the other album I have heard this one falls a bit short with the other have much more variety and song variation. Still a fun listen. 7/10
Christina Aguilera
1/5
No
Radiohead
3/5
The perfect example of Radiohead’s “Im unsure if I love it or hate it”. The ambiance, theming and some of musical aspects are great but then his mindless unintelligible babbling is at points honestly horrendous. No song stuck out as being very great and even the songs that had good parts also had parts I really didn’t enjoy. Actually kind of disappointed as I hear Kid-A mentioned as one of if not the best Radiohead album, but after having listened to like 4 albums it might be one of my least favorites. 4/10
Morrissey
3/5
Another Morrissey album that just reminds me why I love The Smiths, the instrumentals. Every Morrissey album has been fine but just missing the specialness of The Smiths music. I don’t listen to The Smiths for Morrissey’s singing and each solo album just cements this in even more. 5/10
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Serene, melancholic, genre bending. An interesting voice bolstered by unique instrumentals. Pretty solid listen throughout. 8/10
Violent Femmes
5/5
Acoustic punk masterpiece. This is an album that I grew up listening to basically on repeat. Every song is a banger. It’s structured so incredibly well in the sense of how you listen to it. This is easily is my top five favorite albums of all time. It’s a rollercoaster of stress, hate, late, envy and melancholy wrapped into what I think to be a almost perfect experience. 10/10
Johnny Cash
4/5
The best country comedy prison themed live from a prison album I have heard. 7/10
Ash
1/5
The best Jackie Chan themed song I have ever heard. The entire album sounds ad libbed. The singer uses the word “you” so much that you would die if you did a drinking game everytime he says it. Aggressively mediocre. Add this to the list of “albums not to listen to before you die”. 2/10
Public Enemy
3/5
This paved the way for Flavor Flav to make trash reality television. 5/10
The Cars
3/5
Two commercially known songs and 7 songs that were the definition of ok. 5/10
Genesis
4/5
The best Genesis album I have heard yet (what is this like the 4th or 5th?). More of a jam album where each song leads into the next with multiple songs that were just noises. Really long, maybe the longest album I have listened to on here but it does somewhat go by pretty fast. At times kind of becomes muddled with being very similar throughout. Reminded me of Yes a lot throughout with some of the music and singing sounding like them. 7/10
Supergrass
3/5
Very strange. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad. The last song was awful clown music. Its like if you took a bunch of genres and artists and mashed them together like potatoes. 5/10
Todd Rundgren
4/5
It took me almost the entire double album to figure it out but I hear so much Hall & Oates in this album. I can’t say that double album helped this one as there were a handful of clownlike songs that really werent great. There was a few fantastic songs, the album opens with “Saw the light” the most recognizable and best song on the album. It definitely struggles to keep up the momentum after the first song but is still a pretty solid albeit long album. 7/10
Janis Joplin
3/5
This is not what I thought Janis Joplin sounded like. The voice of a heavy smoking angel. The a cape lo song was awful. Why do these 70s albums go country halfway through, so strange. Not really my kind of music but I can appreciate the talent that is there. The biggest song has been ruined for me by an extremely cringey perfume commercial featuring Natalie Portman, bleh. 6/10
SZA
2/5
Conflicted. Lyrically a mess and the first half to middle of the album is trash. Even with the instrumentals on some of the early songs be pretty great it is ultimately destroyed by the awful lyrics. The latter portion of the album is much better and man if it would have just been those songs this would probably have been a much more enjoyable experience. 4/10
PJ Harvey
1/5
Girl grunge. Every song sounded the same. For grunge being the edgy 90s genre this was so tame and boring. Found myself skimming through each song and eventually just skipping the last few. 2/10
4/5
If My Chemical Romance and Radio Head had a baby. 8/10
Wilco
2/5
Maybe I need to be a certain mood to enjoy this but I was not in that mood today. Monotone man sing talks over very basic music that sometimes looses all structure and turns into nonsense. 4/10
Lucinda Williams
1/5
Is this real? I feel like this is one of those skits where some comedians make country songs and the bit just goes on a little too long and enters into not funny territory. They literally pick on sentence pronounce all the words incorrectly and then repeat that sentence for like 5 mins per song. Throw this on the list of “Why is this on here?” 2/10
The Beta Band
3/5
A very strange album. Has some unique techno/pop aspects to it while still sticking with a early 2000s indie vibe. The monotone sing talking and repetitiveness of the lyrics does not work for me and kind of takes away from the album. Either without vocals or a different direction this could have been great. 5/10
The Smiths
4/5
Not my favorite Smiths album but there are some great songs on here. “Unhappy Birthday” is fantastic and I hum the lyrics all the time. There are couple skips on this album just because they are too long and slow for my taste. If I would have grown up listening to this one more I maybe would have a better view of it but this was not one The Smiths albums of my childhood. Solid album which some great variation of songs but just not on the same level as their other albums. 7/10
Peter Frampton
2/5
I know this is from the 70s but the audio quality/mixing is just terrible. Still don’t think live albums should be on this list except for a few exceptions. 3/10
Bob Dylan
2/5
I know the joke about Bob Dylan is that all his songs sound the same but hear me out, they all sound the same. 3/10
Jimmy Smith
3/5
I will continue to love listening to jazz in the morning. There was nothing that stood out on this one as being really worthy of the list other than just being solid jazz. I appreciate that it is shorter as it does not overstay its welcome. 6/10
Adam & The Ants
2/5
Possibly the most 80s sounding album ever created and not in a good way. 3/10
Blue Cheer
1/5
Wow, this was bad. 2/10
The Crusaders
4/5
The most jazzy jazz jazz could jazz. If you want to feel like you are in the lobby of a fancy hotel, this is the album for you. Jokes aside it’s solid if not a bit repetitive. 7/10
The Band
2/5
Strong confederate soldier loosing the war vibes. I’ve have heard The Band mentioned a lot in various musical discussions but never actually listened to them. Also never have I heard any of the songs on the album so I am still unsure what their big hits are. A bit too trailer trash core for me. Sure they are talented musicians but this just isn’t my style. 4/10
Deee-Lite
5/5
A forgotten gem from my childhood. I had this album on CD and would use it to fall asleep at night. The songs can be a bit repetitive in nature but they are such bangers that it just doesn’t matter. “Groove is in the heart” is the best and most 90s song in creation. Absolutely adore this album. 10/10
American Music Club
3/5
I could hear a bunch of different bands in this. For example: The Smits, Nicolas Cavern & the Okay Seeds, and David Mathias Group. The latter half when it became much slower and melancholic was the best part. 6/10
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Rainy day jazz with three guys absolutely destroying their respective instruments. The bass player was a tier above the other two. Another live album that I feel is ruined by the constant chatter of people in the audience. 7/10
Talking Heads
4/5
This album has three of my favorite Talking Heads songs: Cities, Life During Wartime, & Air. The rest of the album can be a bit experimental and chaotic. I don’t dislike the other songs, they just don’t scratch that Talking Heads itch like the three I listed do. Might be a bit biased based off have three of my favs but this is still a great listen. 8/10
Fiona Apple
3/5
School House Rock for adults. The name was familiar so I looked her up and was surprised to find out that this is not some new upcoming singer that made a debut during covid but someone who has been around since the 90s. She has an interesting voice that feels unrefined and after reading the wiki maybe that was what she was going for? Made with garage band and you can tell, there is a heavy amateur sense throughout. I didn’t dislike any of the songs but I didn’t really like them either. A nice luke warm 5/10
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Wow this is bad. Generic crap. Sucks that whenever I see an album made after 2010 there’s a huge chance is going to be this shit. It’s like this music is made in a factory where the workers plug in a couple random things and poop out an album. Super overused backing beats, a style of singing that gets annoying 10 seconds in and then proceeds to not alter the rest of the album, disgusting description of sexual activities like a horny 14 year old wrote the lyrics and the list of mediocrity goes on. Then they input these messages about women being abused in between the songs that seem to only focus on sex, like what the fuck is that about? Sexualizing and demoralizing yourself, then immediately crying about being sexualized and demoralized? What a joke 1/10
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Amazing voice. Kind of dull lyrics. Almost every song is about falling in love with a man. That’s great but when the backing music and her voice barely change, it’s like listening to the same song over and over. My favorites were the songs not about falling in love with a man. 6/10 *I guess I only listened to part one of the box set? I couldn’t make it through three hours of this…*
Roxy Music
2/5
Unhinged Dracula core. 4/10
808 State
4/5
This is video game music. I have heard so many games BGMs try to mimic this style over the past 10 years of playin indie games and this is it. If you like this kind of house jungle music this is great. I could see how this would not do it for most people though. 8/10
Fiona Apple
4/5
I went from never having heard of Fionna Apple to having listened to two albums within a week. This album was definitely better than the last one which was her most recent from 2020. Feels 90s but in a good way? I do think this is the kind of album that teenage girls based their entire identity around and I would love for someone to confirm that. She has a nice voice which touches into a darker deeper side of singing that most female singers never seem to really go into. The background music fits the bill but is pretty shallow as to let her vocals really shine. Overall pretty good album even if its not my preferred style/genre of music. 7/10
Madonna
3/5
I somehow have avoided listening to Madonna other than mega hits that I probably didn’t even know was Madonna. The super 80s style songs weren’t great, pretty dated and just kind of annoying. The songs that didn’t push the 80s theme in your face as much were better. Till death do us part was my favorite on the album. I enjoyed Dear Jessie and its innocent nature. I could just feel that something sinister was to follow and it did with Oh Father, a song about child abuse. Overall some hits, mostly misses for me at least. 6/10
Joanna Newsom
3/5
Its like Amy Winehouse baby talking through medieval music. If Bjork was an American teenager who could play the harp. I will never understand this singing/style of making it sound like you have shoved a bunch of nuts in your cheeks and then sucked all the helium out of a balloon. Was that a smoke detector? The instrumentals in the first song not only didn’t match the singing style, they didn’t even match the tempo of the singing. At points I actually thought I was hearing one of my dogs squeaky toys but no it was her hitting notes that were to say, unhuman. Each song was waaaay too long, I know she is telling nonsensical stories but sheesh. If she is playing the harp and singing that’s impressive but that’s just about the only compliment I can give. This would have been great as an instrumental album. It does remind me a bit of bands like Alt-J and Bombay Bicycle Club but I would just rather listen to them over this. 5/10
New York Dolls
2/5
Always start an album with a guttural scream. More unhinged Rolling Stones. The first three songs were pretty generic classic rock. I enjoyed the softer 4th song Lonely Planet Boy. The perfect album to listen to 30 seconds of each song and move on to the next. 4/10
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
Bit of a front loaded album. The first few tracks are fantastic. Band on the run is obviously the stand out and they bring it back in different from throughout the rest of the album. The slower songs were a bit of a miss and I found myself wishing they kept the upbeat tempo from the beginning of the album. Overall still a solid album just could have been even better. 6/10
Killing Joke
2/5
Theres good and bad here. First the good: the drummer is amazing, at times it reminded me of SoD which is always nice, theres not a lot of heavy metal on this platform so its always nice to see it pop up. Second the bad: the singer is not great, sounds like he is going to hawk a loogie through the speakers, the british versions where he is not doing flemo is ok but doesn’t really match the tone. His tempo was kind of off throughout the whole album. The other instrumentals other than drums were super mediocre. The songs were too long and I got sick of each one after like a minute. Overall mostly negative with a couple positives. 4/10
Miriam Makeba
4/5
Very strong voice. Super fun album. Pretty sure that was the lion king song. The song about the flea was great. The song with the guy laughing was also great. I’ve said it before, I would love more world music on this list as it really changes it up and makes you listen to something you would otherwise never have heard before. 7/10
Metallica
4/5
Never been a huge Metallica listener. I figured this might be their biggest album, especially since Master of Puppets was brought to the global plane recently with Stranger Things using it. I had never heard any of the other songs on here. They are great muscians all around and definitely deserve all the credit they get. There were some points where I lost track of the song and couldn’t tell if a new song had started or if I was still listening to the same one, I guess this comes with the style of their music/singing. Overall still a great album. 7/10
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
China Crisis meets Flight of the Concords. 5/10
Kid Rock
1/5
With no due respect, fuck no. 1/10
The Cardigans
4/5
Blondie meets the soundtrack of a Katamari game. Very 90s, very weird at times but some really great songs on here. Could be considered a one hit wonder album with Lovefool being such a massive hit but there are some other fantastic songs on here. Her breathy airy voice really works with the genre of music they produce, which I dont even know what to call it other than 90s rock pop? 8/10
Beatles
3/5
Is this the acid India trip album? A couple pretty big hits but overall didn’t really do anything for me. The songs in-between the hits were instantly forgettable and even a couple I debated skipping because they were simply unenjoyable to listen to. Makes me wonder if this album came out before they were global phenomenons would it have been as popular? A somewhat overhyped album that radiates with fart smeller aura. 6/10
Randy Newman
3/5
Why the Disney man say the n word? A lot more politically charged than what I thought Randy Newman’s music would sound like. 5/10
The Modern Lovers
4/5
The doors, the stones, violent femmes and a man who either is super drunk, congested or both. 7/10
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Brilliant poetical songwriting. Everytime I get a Leonard Cohen album I always think, “He’s just better Bob Dylan”. 7/10
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
There were two songs I thought were okay, the one where he kept saying next and the last song. Partly because they were so different than the other generic crap on the album and partly because the last song was the end of a not great album. 3/10
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Painfully generic country garbage. I don’t even really like old Springsteen so 12 albums in definitely not going to do it. I guess once you’ve done everything in your previous genre you have to do the country voice and talk about God. Why is this on this list? 2/10
Stevie Wonder
5/5
A masterpiece of perfection. Every song flows deliciously. The perfect length of an album where its not too short or too long. Each song is unique in its sound while all staying grounded to a specific style. Stevie Wonder is one of the greatest musicians of all time. So glad I grew up listening to this album as it still is an absolute banger to this day. Eternal perfection. 10/10
The Kinks
4/5
Perfectly 60s. Very clean sounding album with some great tunes. Nothing extremely memorable and I most likely won’t seek it out again but it was a nice listen. 7/10
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Almost two Stevie albums back to back, blessed. This one is a bit longer and more drawn out than the previous. Couple bangers with a bunch of pretty good songs but I feel the last album was more tight and a masterpiece. 8/10
The Jam
4/5
Love The Jam, never listened to one of their albums from front to back so this was a treat. Some pretty tasty British pop punk jams in here and some interesting compositions. I do still like Style Council more but this is still some great music. 8/10
Ray Charles
3/5
Great singer, great musicians, the same song sung the same the over different backing instrumentals for the whole album. 6/10
Radiohead
2/5
I think I have heard more Radiohead on this platform than I have in my entire life. I now have a love hate relationship with them. Some songs I enjoy some I really don’t. This album didn’t really do anything for me. None of the songs really stood out as great or bad. His voice was a bit more whiney in this one than previous and that annoyed me somewhat. Hopefully this is the last Radiohead album I get on here because anytime they pop up now I get PTSD. 4/10
R.E.M.
5/5
Probably my favorite R.E.M. album. This is what I listened to as a kid on vacation in a shitty cd player. The last song on the album “West of fields” is my favorite song by them and a few others on this album are pretty close. There are a few songs that I kind of tune out or would skip but overall love this album. 9/10
Brian Eno
4/5
Dave Bowy. If you like David Bowie you’ll probably like this. Super surprised to see this is one of the members of Roxy Music as I have not liked any of the Roxy Music I have listened to. This was pretty good except for a song or two where I either just didn’t enjoy it or thought it went on too long. Still would rather listen to Bowie from this era but this is still good. 7/10
OutKast
3/5
Love Outkast. There are some bangers on here. Some bangers I have never heard before. There are also a handful of I would say skippable songs, including the skits/bits in between songs that just don’t do anything for me. Not sure they were trying to tell some kind of short story or just messing around but they just don’t add anything of substance to the album. It’s also a really long album that towards the end you really start to feel the run time as I found myself checking how many songs were left. Overall a solid album with a few caveats. 6/10
The Who
3/5
Fine for what it is. Kind of like a more edgy beatles? A band that used to be a household name but has perhaps faded into the past a bit. Does sound a bit like a lot of other music from the time but that could mean they were that influential. Not my cup of tea but I can see how people would love this. 5/10
Digital Underground
3/5
Like a mix of Will Smith and De La Soul. 6/10
John Coltrane
4/5
“It’s just one song” me
“It always has been” John Coltrane, standing behind me wearing an astronaut suit holding a saxophone like a gun.
7/10
Iggy Pop
2/5
Borders on drunken rambling and annoying off tempo noise. Not a great combo. 3/10
Sabu
2/5
Spanish chanting intensifies. It would be a lot better if each song wasn’t the same 10 seconds of music repeated for 5 minutes. 3/10
Chicago
4/5
Two absolute banger hits that I have heard before. A bunch of tasty jams. One song that was someone just rubbing a pick against guitar strings for 5 minutes. And a lot of soul jazz funk deliciousness that reminds me of Hendrix. 8/10
George Harrison
3/5
Great album by a solo Beatle. Never heard any of these songs but there is a wide variety for such a long album. The latter half of the album does become a long jame session which I honestly could have gone without to cut some time on the full runtime. 6/10
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Pretty standard 90s rap with very repetitive beats. 4/10
The Stooges
1/5
Aggressively obnoxious, loud, and annoying. 2/10
Depeche Mode
3/5
Depressed Mode. Moody gothic techno christian music from the 80s. Not the best Depeche album but its got some good songs and a somewhat short runtime makes it more palatable. 6/10
Butthole Surfers
1/5
Wow, theres maybe one whole song that is intelligible in this entire album. 2/10
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
I only know two QoTSA songs and neither of them were on this album. Starts off pretty good with some great alt rock/90s style rock songs but then they just decided to stop singing and repeat the same sound/riff/noise for like 5 minutes until a random song would come in. Very strange pacing on this album. I liked what I heard in the first half but they lost me halfway through. 5/10
Pink Floyd
3/5
I wrote a whole review and it deleted it after I submitted it. Oh well, the album was alright. 6/10
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Lovely songs that all are about the same thing and sound the same. 6/10
Jamiroquai
5/5
Jamiroquai makes music for PS2 era SEGA games and I need it injected into my blood. 10/10
Doves
2/5
It became background noise. Ameturitistic but a very clean sound. Generic. Seems like they liked to jam a bit more than have a structured song as there was not a lot of lyrics/vocals throughout. 4/10
Neil Young
3/5
He sings like he is trying to use his inside voice while being shaken. I’ve heard two of these songs while shopping for groceries. Perfectly suitable country/rock 70s music that I really don’t have a big opinion on. 5/10
Rush
5/5
Masterpiece. Possibly the greatest musicians of all time. Everything is so clean and technically insane. 10/10
The Darkness
2/5
If you thought Glam rock died in the 80s, it didn’t, it had one last spurt of life in 2003 before fading away. I believe in a thing called love was a massive song when it came out and I think people still know about it. The rest of the album, I can’t attest to the fame but they are no where near as catchy. Not my thing in the first place so still not my thing with the attempted revival. 4/10
The Who
2/5
Why isnt it called teenage wasteland? 4/10
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Possibly the most modern sounding 90s album I have ever heard. Before checking I could not peg when this was made. At first I thought 80s but then thought the production value was to high and sounded more like something from the early 2000/10s. Really nailed the sound of a lot of rock bands from 2000 a whole decade before. An album that possibly is made even better knowing the backstory to why there isn’t more music from them. 7/10
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
He has a nice rasp to his voice but the music is a little generic. Songs go on too long with nothing changing them up so they become repetitive. 5/10
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
This is like my 9th jazz album on here. I like jazz but some of these albums just become background fodder noise and don’t really stand out as to why they are deserved of being on this list. 5/10
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Great jazz album with one of if not the most recognizable jazz songs of all time, “Take Five”. The rest of the album is solid if not a bit overshadowed by the legacy of the biggest song. 7/10
2/5
Early 2000s British children show music core. To a normal persons ear, it’s off key, strangely composed with the singing style, but to a little British child from early 2000s this is like a lullaby. Too bad I am not an early 2000s British child. 4/10
Gang Starr
3/5
From the same era as Tribe and De La Soul but doesn’t quite reach the same highs. Some nice beats and lyrical prowess throughout but brought down by a long runtime. I enjoyed it but did start to check times and how many songs were left a little over halfway through. 6/10
Prefab Sprout
4/5
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque. 8/10
Public Enemy
3/5
Chuck’s style, lyrics and commentary is great. Flavors’s style, lyrics and commentary is not great. While Chuck forms coherent sentences that speak on social issues of the time, Flavor can be heard just saying random things that are completely irrelevant. Almost all the songs featured an ear grating noise that continued throughout the whole song and almost drove me crazy. Its the equivalent of having a smoke alarm going off while someone is rapping to it. Could have been an amazing album if Flavor shut up and they replaced the batteries in their smoke alarm. 5/10
Paul Weller
3/5
I love The Jam and Style Council but have never listened to any of Weller’s solo stuff. I enjoy his voice but the backing music just doesnt do it for me. A lot of it just comes over super bland and generic. Still a solid album but I would rather listen to songs about how hot summer is while Weller touches himself in a john boat half naked. 6/10
Pixies
3/5
Never heard any of these songs from the Pixies. Could be because they are very ok. They are not bad by any means but not great either. Kind of one of those play in the background kind of albums. 5/10
Motörhead
3/5
If Ace of Spades was the entire album I would have been satisfied. Its not that the other songs are bad but that Ace of Spades is soo good it makes the others just sound like lesser versions of it. Since the vocal style and musical themes are so similar throughout it makes this even more apparent. 10/10 Single. 6/10 Album
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
Sly & the squeezing of the family stones. 90% of this album is someone peeking a microphone while making noises that I can only describe as guttural. The backing music instruments while nice but are a bit generic and kind of forgettable. All I could hear from the drums was that they were using drum machines which is kind of crazy for 71’. Another background album to background music too. 4/10
Dr. Octagon
2/5
He raps like he is reading a chemistry textbook. Lots and lots of metaphors. Very 90s beats with so many record scratches. I got to the skit where a “man” (don’t know if that was supposed to be Dr. Octagon) impersonates a gynecologist and proceeds to sexually assault a woman and I just had to tap out. It was very ok for what I listened to but once again not something I think I needed to listen to before I die. 3/10
Teenage Fanclub
1/5
The safest 90s album I have ever heard. Every song is very simple in that they are formatted the same way, guitar riff with like 3 progressions, the same tempo for vocals, very basic drumline, the bassist does his job and then the song is done. Just really not for me. 2/10
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4/5
Modestest Mouse. It almost lulls you to sleep in like a siren song kind of way. Very simple yet pretty effective. 7/10
The Saints
2/5
The Ramonots, The Buzzcants, Sex Pisdonts. 3/10
Arcade Fire
4/5
I have heard this album once or twice before. Two of the songs on here were absolutely massive when this album came out. You heard both of them everywhere and certainly started to get that played out feeling when they would come on. Even with that it is hard to deny that this group is extremely talented and their music is very emotional and gripping. I think they might be the pioneers of yelling with a bit of reverb indie music. 8/10
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
I’ve heard this album at least 50 times. Basically the entire Marley discography is all I listened to like 15 years ago. Great stuff with a couple absolute bangers on here. This is one of the albums that has a more melancholic sound while talking about political topics that were very heavy for music that is normally associated with weed and happiness. 8/10
The Bees
5/5
What a unique genre bending experience. Starts out funk, melts into reggae, slows down to mellow indie all while keeping a thematic sound that is complete throughout. Feel like this one will need a couple relistens to fully appreciate it. 9/10
Dion
1/5
Didn’t
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Man, I just wasnt feelin this one
2/10
Rod Stewart
3/5
As soon as I saw Rod I heard it. A quite raspy screeching in the back of my mind. An insidious countryish backing and a man intent on destroying his vocal cords. I will admit I have never heard anything of Stewarts past his ultra megahit which shall not be named. This was a pleasant surprise except for that first song, that song was pretty awful. I didn’t mind his raspy voice as much as I thought and actually ended up liking at least one of the songs (the hobo one). Still not my typical genre but it was perfectly serviceable. 6/10
The Undertones
2/5
I simultaneously have heard every one of these song and none of these songs before. If you played the first song and last song and last song and told me they were the same song, I would believe you. 99% of this album is songs about chasing girls, 1% is an ad for Mars Bars. 3/10
George Jones
4/5
Man, what a depressing first song. Essentially every song is about women and activities surrounding women. The second half is almost entirely about cheating and being cheated on. With that said are the songs short and bitter sweet, which is nice because it makes the entire album go by like a flash. Great country voice and vibe coupled with slightly upsetting lyrics make a pretty great album. Plus the slide guitar go waahhoo. 7/10
Peter Tosh
3/5
Ah a throwback to my reggae pothead days. There’s two songs on here that are notable and the rest kind of become background music. Most of it sounds pretty similar. His best work was with Bob but is still decent as a stand alone artist. 6/10
Isaac Hayes
2/5
I’ve seen Shaft but after listening to this I assume the story is he is a cop that plays by his owns rules while fucking every piece of tail he comes across. The music also sounds like music that plays when your on the home menu of a hotels tv guide. 4/10
Kate Bush
4/5
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeesh. She simultaniously sounds like she is singing in baby talk, talking through her teeth and like she is being shaken. If Bjork was British and made more 80s sounding music. Borderline experimental at times. The songs with videos were much more structured and almost felt like they were made to be the big while songs while the rest of the album slips into fever dream territory. 7/10
Primal Scream
4/5
Gorillaz meets Stone Roses meets Massive Attack. 7/10
Sinead O'Connor
2/5
The only thing I know Sinead from is that picture of some big artist comforting her after being booed at some concert or something. I did recognize one of the songs on here. This however is just not my kind of music. She sings like that annoying sister in kids movies that is super full of herself and is trying to hard to sound like a good singer. I also felt like her style didn’t match the style of backing music on multiple songs. Just a big miss for me. 4/10
Bon Jovi
2/5
Never liked Bon Jovi. Never will like Bon Jovi. 3/10
Skunk Anansie
3/5
The first song was really interesting. Like a mix of tool, SoaD, and Evanescence. If the rest of the album would have followed similar to the first song this would easily have been a 8/9 but it couldn’t make up its mind on what the sound was supposed to be. The latter half slowed down a lot and ended up sounding like a different band. Most of the album really felt like a way for the lead singer to show their vocal prowess and the rest of the band kind of just played random stuff trying to keep up. 6/10
The Damned
2/5
I really didn’t realize how bloated this genre was. There are so many albums on this list with music that sounds pretty much identical to this. 3/10
The Pharcyde
5/5
Consistent flow, style and raps throughout. Slightly longer album even with a few skits/instrumentals thrown in but the runtime does feel justified. Every song has a unique beat that stays within the same style. Genuinely a great rap album that makes you nostalgic for years gone by and a style of rap that is extinct. 9/10
Hüsker Dü
2/5
It’s like a cover band of R.E.M songs but they don’t know any R.E.M songs. Also it’s way to fucking long. 4/10
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Soooo 90s. I’ve heard the band name but never listened to them. Never heard any of these songs before. Every song is very airy and does carry a similar sound throughout. I was able to make out maybe 3 words in the whole album due to the style sounding like they were strung out on heroine (maybe they were?). Not really my style and I did start to feel the runtime a little over half way through. It’s not bad by any means but not great. 5/10
Deerhunter
3/5
Arcade Firian. Band of Horsian. Almost low fi beats to chill to with the use of slower sounds and some electronic noise. I’ve had this band pop up on recommended playlists but never fully gave them a listen. It’s enjoyable but somewhat lost in a genre of music where this sound is abundant. 6/10
Megadeth
4/5
If you had me listen to Megadeath and Metallica back to back and mixed the songs all up I don’t know if I could tell which is which. Great album. Short sweet and heavy as fuck. Comparing them Metallica isn’t a bad thing as they are know as possibly the greatest heavy metal band of all time. Just enters into the “can I copy your homework” territory a bit. 7/10
Billie Holiday
2/5
It’s the same song repeated 12 times. If you start at the beginning, listen to 10 seconds, skip to the middle, listen to 10 seconds, and then skip to the end, listen to 10 seconds, it sounds exactly the same. She has an interesting voice, I guess, kind of like a frog that has been smoking it’s entire life. If you are nostalgic for this era of music there has got to be a better fix. 3/10
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
I was excited for this as I really enjoy some of their bigger hits. Said hits were not on this album. The style and performance were consistent but no songs stood out to me particularly. I did find myself looking to the end and seeing how long songs had left before they were over. Perhaps I got myself too excited and set this album up to fail. 5/10
Beatles
3/5
Two pretty big Beatles songs and a bunch of others I have never heard that all talk about love. Even the songs that are not hits are clean and show how talented they were as a group. Not my favorite Beatles album and probably not the most renowned one either but still a good listen. 6/10
The Velvet Underground
4/5
A melancholic ride that rides the border of experimental while also showing how influential this sound was. I can hear a lot of different genres and inspirations in this album. Pretty astounding that this was their debut album. 8/10
Tina Turner
4/5
Household name that never was big in my household. Great strong voice that sounds like it would destroy anyone else’s throat to sing like that. At least two of the songs were covers, which were probably my favorite two songs, not sure if that is good or bad. The biggest hit on the album, Tiny Stripper Dancer, was ok, just repeated the same line over and over for like 5 minutes. I liked the funky upbeat stuff a bit more than the slow synth pop stuff. Pretty solid album that sounds a bit dated due to being in the middle of the 80s. 7/10
Soft Cell
4/5
Sex Dwarf. 7/10
Talk Talk
2/5
Really British Pee wee herman mumbles over a piano for 45 minutes. Love the big hit from Talk Talk, you know the one, but this album just didn’t do it for me. Really wanted to like it but most of the songs were really boring and his accent/style is so strong that I couldn’t even understand half of what he was saying. Really wish I enjoyed this more than I did. 4/10
Sebadoh
3/5
Dinosaur Jr. x Violent Femmes x The Pixies x Nirvana x Red Vox = Sebadoh. I was ready to give up after the fourth song.. man that song was bad. Theres a lot of stuff I like that is combined with stuff I am not a fan of. Someone needs to check on this singer cus man he fits the clinically depressed description perfectly. Looked at the wiki after, pretty funny that I referenced Dinosaur Jr. as one of the vocalists is the founder. Also similar to Dinosaur Jr. I am very mixed on this one. 6/10
Rod Stewart
2/5
His voice annoys me. I know he is a household name to some and renowned but a lot but I can’t get over his scratchy, strained voice. 3/10
Elliott Smith
3/5
Please use your inside voice when singing about depression. 5/10
The National
2/5
Bill Callahan but in a 2010 indies band. I thought it might grow on me over the 16 songs but sadly it did not. It’s perfectly serviceable in itself but just not quite my genre of music. The songs did start the meld together and at one point I could have sworn I had already heard the song before. Bit too long as well. This is definitely for someone just not me. 4/10
Boards of Canada
3/5
Man, the guys at the Canadian Science Center must love this. 6/10
The Black Keys
4/5
I don’t know why but they always remind me of Flight of The Concords but like if they made blues rock. This album was everywhere in the early 2010s. There was a love hate relationship going on with people loving the album but also hating it because of the popularity. I was indifferent and never really sought them out but also never disliked their music. Theres a couple bangers on her that will be stuck in my head. Did think the album was a bit long but other than that its a very enjoyable listen. 8/10
The Triffids
4/5
It’s giving Nick Cage and the bad seeds but more 80s even though Nick Cage started in the 80s. Weird that they are both Australian, coincidence? I think not! Nick Cage got the lead singer of The Triffids addicted to alcohol and heroine so that he could inevitably take over his sound. Long but enjoyable album. 8/10
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
I only could find a version with 4 very long songs on it, not sure if that is the full album. The music is great, very talented musicians coming together to make a medley of satisfying rhythms. I can’t understand the language but the vocals do help push the music through and I felt that I could understand the songs even though I couldn’t, if that makes sense. Main complaint is that the songs are extremely repetative in that the same vocals and instrumentals are basically played on a loop for nearly 7 minutes per song where they could have been 2 minute songs. Overall solid world music album that I always love to have pop up on this list. 7/10
UB40
5/5
I did not know the bands name was an unemployment tax form. This was parents reggae while preferred Marley more. I have much larger appreciation for them as an adult and can hear their influence in a bunch of other groups. They do sound more Dub than traditional reggae. 9/10
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Immediately recognizable to the point I have started comparing similar bands to the Nick Cage. This album didn’t really do it for me. A bit too dark, edgy and angry. My favorite is still the double album. 5/10
Baaba Maal
4/5
He kind of sounds like Spongebob from Africa. I always love hearing world music on this list since its such a drastic change the general albums. Great instrumentals on this one with the inclusions of more traditional instruments really elevating some of the songs. Some of the songs were a bit repetitive and long for my liking but overall very solid listen. 7/10
Björk
2/5
Ahh yes, time to feel like an insane person. Theres not much left for me to say that I haven’t already said about Bjork in my other reviews. I still don’t like it. I still feel like the songs would be better without her constantly trying to speak English. This album in particular featured a full ensemble of mouth musicians, so that’s something. I’m convinced she is a witch that has taken her studio hostage under her crafts and forces them to do her bidding. 4/10
Tom Waits
1/5
So nice that we let the senile and elderly express themselves. I think I could make an album of this tier. Basically just make a bunch of noise with random objects and scream nonsense in the a microphone from across the room. 1/10
Ananda Shankar
4/5
Baby, can you light my sitar. 7/10
Aphex Twin
4/5
Tasty beats. 7/10
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Jimi 8/10
Cee Lo Green
3/5
Very unique voice with a pretty unique style that just doesn’t really do it for me. 5/10
Lambchop
3/5
Guy with a buttery sing/speaking voice tries to convince you he can hit those high notes. He sounds like the He-Man meme song when he attempts the high notes. Really kind of rips you out of the songs when he is singing/speaking normally and randomly cuts to high notes. Amazing instrumentals.. HIGH NOTES! 6/10
G. Love & Special Sauce
4/5
Its like Sublime and Amy Winehouse smashed together but with extra blues. I wasn’t in college in 90s but I can only imagine this was everywhere. If in the mood for 90s this 100% has a place in the playlist. 7/10
The Rolling Stones
4/5
This has three of their biggest songs and bunch of countryish songs that made me think I kept listening to a different band/album. 7/10
Miles Davis
5/5
This was the jazz album I grew up with. Its a journey through experimental jam jazz. If you like jazz this is great but I can see how if you don’t like jazz this would be a slog. This album is very long and although the songs go through multiple evolutions, it can get very repetitive, especially when the songs are nearly 20 minutes each. However this to me is the definitive Miles Davis album. 9/10
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Very experimental, very satirical, very annoying. The most obnoxious part is that right when actual music would start to seep through the nonsense, the nonsense would take over full force and whiplash you back into the fever dream this album was. I can get being annoyed by popular music/culture to the point of making fun of it but this is done so poorly and with no sense of taste that it comes across extremely childish and aggravating. 2/10
The Jam
3/5
That’s Entertainment! 6/10
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
It’s just one long song played over a single jam session. 5/10
David Bowie
3/5
We all get old and it sucks but it really sucks for singers. Something happens to our voices the older we get and at some point we all get the old people voice. This album has the old people voice a lot. If he was in his prime there would have been no issue and this album would probably considered his dark horse. But this is an album by a 66 year old trying to sing and make music like he’s still young. I love Bowie and a lot of his work but some of these songs were hard to get through without thinking about his age constantly. Crazy to think this isn’t even his last album. 6/10
Aerosmith
3/5
Not my kind of music but it is hard to deny how clean their music is. Well clean in the sense of musical talent, not so much the lyrics and topics. I haven’t actually heard any of the songs on here and the ones with videos didn’t really stand out from the rest so I’m not sure which are the big hits. The latter half of the album I did start to tune out and get a bit sick of the style and vocals. Overall a pretty ok album for someone who doesn’t enjoy this genre of rock. 5/10
Solomon Burke
4/5
Impressive that he was able to make 12 songs that all were about the same thing but sounded slightly different from each other. This guy can’t catch a break, he is in love with girl he sees, be it they are dead, cheating, or just not interested. I actually thought this was older after listening and was slightly surprised that it was from the 60s. Its not the most groundbreaking album or interesting but its enjoyable. 7/10
LCD Soundsystem
5/5
Perfection. It’s all bangers. Its the perfect length for an album. Every song is unique but stays within the themes of the album. Multiple of the songs are massive hits and rightfully so. This is easily in the top 10 maybe even top 5 albums I have heard on this platform. 10/10
Minutemen
5/5
When I first saw the song number I let out a big sigh and what the fuck. To my surprise this was extremely enjoyable. Each song is fairly short with a few outliers which makes the album fly by. It also helps that most of the songs are bangers supported by absolute mental musicians. Its like if you combined Black Flag and Dinosaur Jr. which absolutely works. I’d say this might be the most easily accessible punk rock album as its not too heavy and leans into other genres throughout. Jackass theme song! It’s also funny that I only know one song by Minutemen and it’s not even on here. 10/10
Ryan Adams
3/5
Sir, a second New Yorker talking about New York has hit the playlist. In 2001 I would have called this music gay. In 2025 I would called this music gay not in a gay way. 6/10
Fever Ray
2/5
It’s giving Bjork but more traditional electronic and less experimental. 4/10
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Amazing vocals, great backing beats, interesting takes on classic hits, 40 syllable two letter words. The big hits are noticeable and the filler songs start to sound very similar. Great album but a bit long. 7/10
Barry Adamson
3/5
An interesting concept for an album being made for a fake movie. There are some crunchy beats, cerebral voice recordings and sex noises? Extremely experimental at times so much that it moved a bit out of music and became a art passion project. Great one and done album in that I have heard it and will never listen to it again. 6/10
Simple Minds
3/5
If your in the mood for 80s as a genre this is it. This is an 80s album. Did you know 80s? The nineteeneightes. 5/10
X-Ray Spex
4/5
Punk, grimey, stick it to them, saxophone. Great punk album with some interesting vocals and sax usage. My only real complaint is that most of the songs go on a verse too long. 7/10
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Bit of a meandering album. The songs are long even though there are few. I think some casual Scottish conversations were caught between the lead singer and himself that were just left in. The violin is nice. Based off of this album they might be a one hit wonder band. 4/10
King Crimson
3/5
Unhinged Beatles psychedelic rock 5/10
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
I don’t even know what the hell this was. World music with a raspy quiet British man speaking in the background? 3/10
Eagles
3/5
Starts off solid with a couple pretty big hits then slowly dies down until its almost a country album. Or was it a country album all along?… 5/10
Tim Buckley
2/5
A man, a guitar and 10 minute songs. I can appreciate his singing talent and instrumental talent but when a song goes on that long It needs to evolve into something new throughout. These songs are just the same chords played with the same vocal styles for 10 minutes straight. It also doesn’t help that if he is telling stories I can’t understand half of what he is saying due to how he sings. 4/10
The Who
2/5
I still don’t approve of live albums being on her since they can be combinations of other albums. This one is no different. Honestly The Who growing up was a household name and they are very talented muscians but this live album just sounded the same and very similar to a bunch of other artists of the time. Now the other artists most likely were mimicing The Who but doesn’t matter in the grand scope of music of the age sounding alike. 4/10
Anthrax
4/5
Its like Metallica mixed with SoaD. A lot harder than Metallica and much closer to more modern metal at times. 7/10
Metallica
3/5
6/10
Van Halen
2/5
Pananahthankman 3/10
Funkadelic
2/5
The album should have been the first song. It’s such a banger that it makes the rest of the songs incomparable. 4/10
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
It’s just another bomb track 10/10
Solange
2/5
I’m going to tell my kids that this Beyonce’s sister…. wait she is Beyonce’s sister?! Feels a bit nepo babyish, are you a nepo baby if you use a siblings fame? Sipo baby? Sibo baby? Anyway, the messages in the album are great messages that have been repeated a thousand times by the time this album came out actually making it less impactful as it feels like a cash grab of cultural reference. The actual songs aren’t doing it any favors either. She has a fine voice but she also only has one type of singing throughout the 21 tracks. You could pick two random songs skip half way through each then combine them and you would probably think its the same song. Very very ok overall. 4/10
Sepultura
2/5
I like metal but I guess I need to be in a certain mood for this kind of metal. The instrumentals are good and I did enjoy the Brazilian twist that was intertwined throughout. However the vocals fell flat, this is the type of metal vocals that just doesn’t do anything for me as I cannot understand anything that is being sung and it just comes across as guttural screaming. It’s especially grating when the album is a long as it is. I had to tap out on the last song when it was crickets and experimental bongoing for 13 minutes. 3/10
Daft Punk
4/5
This is a childhood album. We would play this on repeat while playing WoW and other various games. As an adult I still enjoy some of the songs but about half the album is kind of just random noises. It was a groundbreaking album and they led a massive career off of it but my taste has moved on past this style music and I don’t quite get the same feelings from it as I used to. 7/10
Pixies
2/5
Theres like 3 good songs on here and one of them is a banger. Unfortunately, that does not make up for the chaotic nonsense that the rest of the album is. 4/10
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Two of the biggest 80s hits that are surprisingly timeless for coming for an 80s album. The other songs are still very good but unsurprisingly not timeless and sound completely of their time. This is great if you like 80s and all the assortments of music troupes that come with it but not great if you don’t enjoy wobbly bass and synths. 8/10
Heaven 17
2/5
Political 80s techno pop that gets really repetitive. I think every song had one sentence of lyrics and repeated for over 5 minutes. The 80s beats were pretty simple and not very tasty. Had potential to be something good but kind of just flopped. 3/10
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
A funk/soul album that kind of becomes background music after a few songs. This I guess works well since it was created for a film which you wouldn’t want the music to be super overwhelming. Still undecided if I enjoy the singing style or not since having listened to his first album on this list. Overall, its fine. 5/10
Laibach
1/5
I somehow missed the album and had to go back and listen, I wish I hadn’t. It’s too industrial, it’s too German/Austrian, his voice is really distracting, there are three songs and some instrumentals and then they repeat said songs for different versions? 2/10
Carpenters
5/5
A time capsule of love. Still lingering in the 60s this album is entirely about love and cherished feelings it brings. A wholesome album that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. Strange that the two biggest hits were in the middle and latter half of the album. I wonder if they even knew the acclaim the two songs would bring the group. Although its a 70s album I feel it captures the sounds and ideas of the 60s perfectly. 9/10
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Starts with one of, if not my favorite Rolling Stones song and then proceeds to bring forth strange bluesy country songs that make me question if they really are British. Starts to drag a bit in the latter half but keeps a consistent tone and might be my favorite album of theirs I have heard as of yet. 7/10
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Decent background music and a guy with a slightly annoying voice. Very 90s and reminded me a few other bands that I cannot name of the top of head. 5/10
KISS
3/5
Do you love me? I mean no not really. Do you love me? I said no not really. But do you love me? No. 6/10
CHIC
3/5
Good times, followed by ok times. They really knew how to take a song and extend it twice as long as it needed to be. 6/10
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Rolling out the door for their first album. They started with their sound already defined. Less bluesy than the other albums I have heard but you can hear pieces of it seeping through. No huge hits on her but still a solid album. 6/10
The Monks
2/5
Oldies but baddies. It’s like if you took normal sixties toons and kept giving them acid till they went insane. Unhinged at times. It’s kind of a bad trip. 3/10
Scott Walker
4/5
Big personality singer with backing instrumentals that highlight the highs and lows of the performance. Some of the lyrics just don’t match the vocal style and almost give a “I’m make this up while I sing it” feel. Other than that it’s great and at time a sincerely great experience. 7/10
Fred Neil
3/5
Moody, almost cowpokey, frontieresque music with a man who can’t finish a sentence without it turning into mumbles. 6/10
Coldplay
3/5
This album was everywhere when I growing up, especially the popular songs which actually made me loathe them a bit. As an adult they are like sound to me like Radiohead but Christian. Excellent production quality to music that kind of bores me a bit. His voice sounds like he is chewing every word and whining. I don’t loathe them anymore but they still aren’t my favorite. 6/10
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Never ending guitar solos and a couple dudes harmonizing vocals. 5/10
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
5/10
The Doors
5/5
Insane album for a debut. There a multiple massive hits on here that still hold up nearly 60 years later. Even the songs that are not hugely recognized still bring something new and are borderline experimental at times. 9/10
Ian Dury
1/5
Yea… this is trash. 1/10
Sepultura
3/5
I have come to realize that with these heavy metal bands it comes down to the vocals for me. I will pretty much always be banging my head when the instruments kick in but the vocals can make or break the album. This one the vocals were not groundbreaking but they were not detrimental to either. A cross between Metallica and unintelligible yelling. Overall solid metal album. 6/10
Orbital
5/5
Simple noises combined to make complex beats. Tasty complex beats. This is the kind of music I could get lost to in the middle of the night in a 12 hour gaming sesh as a kid. 90s techno was on another level and I feel we have moved away from this style and it’s such a shame. Crunchy beats. 9/10
The Dictators
2/5
Its like kiss meats the beastie boys and kiss. 4/10
Van Halen
3/5
The pterodactyl is strong in this one. 6/10
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Its like New Order meet Echo and the Bunnymen. 6/10
PJ Harvey
1/5
Let PJ Harvey Shake more like. Possibly the shakeist voice I have ever heard. Also possibly one of the most annoying voices I have ever heard. Doesn’t help adding random sound bits from more popular old songs that just do not fit with the song she plays over them. Overall, ass. 1/10
Milton Nascimento
4/5
Proof that a language barrier does not prevent you from enjoying music. I did prefer the more upbeat songs to the slower guitar vocal duo songs but overall the hour long runtime flew by. 8/10
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
Angsty screeching has never sounded more mediocre. When it leans more into alt rock than punk, its ok but when its more punk it just comes across very amateurish and chaotic. About halfway through every song started to meld together and I could not really differentiate them. 4/10
Mercury Rev
4/5
Someone got a theremin for Christmas. 7/10
Bebel Gilberto
5/5
Delightful rhythmic music to start to the day to. 9/10
Julian Cope
3/5
It’s perfectly fine for what it sets out to be. A dramatic Brit Pop album with a side of darkness. Do i want to listen to 18 five minute plus songs with this in mind? No… no not really. 5/10
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
80s country pop. I tended to like the more 80s ballad pop songs more than the honkie tonkie but over still enjoyable enough. 6/10
Syd Barrett
1/5
British rambling at its worst. A bit sloppy and undefended. 2/10
The KLF
5/5
This taps into something that activates my brain to tell me: it’s time to bob your head to euro acid beats. This is the kind of music I can remember sitting around listening to while gaming on my retro consoles in the early morning when I should be going to sleep because I have school in a couple hours. Love this type of music and this album really hightens the theme to the maximum. Got an Eek-a-mouse jumpscare and I am pretty sure he is a pedophile and crazy person, so that’s not great. I also listened to the director’s cut album which a lot of people are complaining about so I guess I would have really really enjoyed the original. 9/10
Massive Attack
5/5
My second favorite Massive attack album. 10/10
Method Man
5/5
Love Wu Tang and I’d say this is Method in his prime. The theming/consistency of the albums sound is great and even though each song is similar, Method simply delivers fantastic beats and bars. 9/10 would bob head to again.
Astrud Gilberto
4/5
I knew what the music was going to sound like before listening to it. It’s a short sweet and relaxing album with the only issue being its a bit repetitive. 7/10
1/5
I could not make it halfway through this hot garbage. Repetitive vocals that just say the same thing over and over agin through each song. Noise that sounds like outtakes of studio noise while recording an actual album. I could feel a migraine rising if I would have kept listening to this. 1/10
Waylon Jennings
4/5
Just a cowpoke singing about traveling and lost love. 7/10
Johnny Cash
4/5
Mainly covers, mainly old man voice, mainly pretty good for what it is, mainly no surprise since it’s Cash, mainly I cummed myself today. 7/10
Nick Drake
4/5
Sad, moody, melancholic man and his guitar. 8/10
The Isley Brothers
5/5
Banger after banger. With covers that made me question if they were covers. Amazing vocals backed up by magnificent instrumentals. 9/10
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
A seemingly fun album at first. Then it drags on the phrases which if you don’t speak the language turns into insanity as he just keeps repeating himself in songs that last about 8 times longer than they should. Great guitarmenship but really brought down by repetitiveness and length of songs. 4/10
Buzzcocks
4/5
Love cocks. Nothing better than an angsty cocks. Some people say cocks are to loud and rambunctious but to hell with them. We call those people cocksblockers. Always willing to ingest some cocks. 8/10
Brian Eno
3/5
70s background music. 5/10
Muddy Waters
3/5
Great live performance. I did realize that he would say a catch phrase and that pretty much was every song on repeat. Even the tempo and sounds of most the songs were very similar with the catch phrase being the only thing that changed. 5/10
Slipknot
2/5
Didn’t vibe with this one the same way as the last slipknot album. 4/10
Steve Earle
3/5
Perfect music to drive through the desert to, which I was. 6/10
Pearl Jam
5/5
Cum sauce. 9/10
Laura Nyro
2/5
This lady sang to a different rhythm than the band the entire album. 3/10
Justin Timberlake
1/5
No thanks. 1/10
Japan
4/5
Dark 80s pop that mixes a bunch of other bands into a pretty great album. 7/10
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Every song sounded like it was sung by a different person. 5/10
Fugazi
1/5
I’ve heard of Fugazi but I wish I never heard Fugazi. 2/10
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Your a wizard, Toddy. 4/10
Screaming Trees
3/5
Surprised this isn’t more popular and that I have never heard of them. Has all the tidings of a successful 90s band. Not quite my style but I can still appreciate it. 6/10
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
Kraftworkian in nature but perhaps a bit too simple and repetitive. 3/10
Pulp
2/5
David bowieesque with preteen angsty sexual lyrics. 4/10
Goldie
3/5
Listened to this for about 40 minutes and thought, “man this album really sounds like one song”. It was in fact 2 songs… 5/10
Shack
3/5
British, poppyesque, British, serviceable, British, wiped from my memory immediately after listening, British. 5/10
Tom Waits
4/5
I appreciate Tom Waits more than I like to listen to Tom Waits. I did enjoy this a bit more than the last album. 7/10
Garbage
3/5
Not Garbage but not my style. Does tend to be one liners that get repeated in a song that should be 2 minutes but get stretched out to like five minutes. 5/10
David Holmes
3/5
The sounds of New York City and crack heads off the street. 6/10
Television
4/5
It’s like Violent Femmes meets The Pixies. Songs go on a bit too long with no evolution to warrant such a long song time. It’s crazy how much this lead singer sounds like the lead of Violent Femmes. If you asked me when this was recorded I would not have thought late 70s. Actually a really solid album. 8/10
Elastica
3/5
Girl punk. These bands always have the same issue. The backing music is so much louder than the vocals and you can’t understand/hear what they are saying. 6/10
Dexys Midnight Runners
5/5
Incredibly unique vocals paired with outstanding backing musicians makes a fantastic listen. 10/10
Deep Purple
4/5
Solid jam album. Short and sweet. 8/10
The Auteurs
2/5
He sounds like the singers for the British band at England in the Britain section of Epcot. Nothing against those guys but its not quite best albums of all time calibre. 3/10
Joni Mitchell
3/5
I think I said this on my last Joni Mitchell album but it really sounds like she just sing/talks words and then they add music in afterward. Some of it works fine but some of it comes across jarring in the difference of tempo, theme and general sound. 5/10
Kraftwerk
3/5
We are the robots. Great synths and a look at earliest techno. Very basic sounds nowadays. The songs go on a bit too long for not introducing much more after the first minute. 6/10
k.d. lang
4/5
Fantastic voice with a lot of presence. Some really interest backing instrumentals that shape the songs into genre bending ballads. 8/10
Lana Del Rey
1/5
A popstar cosplaying as a blue collar woman sings sad songs during the pandemic, locked away in her estate. Vain, dull, redundant, trash. 1/10
The Byrds
3/5
Psychedelic rock that sounds like psychedelic rock. 5/10
Ozomatli
3/5
Nice of them to put all the english songs in the first half and the spanish songs in the second half. Not my kind of music english or spanish but still can appreciate the craft. 5/10
Beatles
3/5
Definitely sounds like The Beatles. For such an iconic album cover, it’s mainly all covers and songs I have never heard that sound very similar. 6/10
The Band
3/5
Band. 5/10
Richard Thompson
2/5
Not quite my tempo. 3/10
Astor Piazzolla
4/5
Accordion and Xylophone, what a terrific combo. 8/10
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
“I’m a motherfuckindragonfly”, Dick n balls bursts from skin tight leather pants. 6/10
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Dolly Fartin, Big fart gurl. 3/10
Dizzee Rascal
4/5
Reminiscent of early 2000s day browsing my computer or playing bideo games. 7/10
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
Ooops all bangers. Two massive hits supported by an array of fantastic songs that could have easily been massive hits as well. 10/10
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
A perfect combination of whimsy meloncholic melodies and angsty grunge riffs. Its honestly crazy how many of their hits are on this album and how many of those hits are mega hits and not just one off hits. Only caveat is that its super fucking long. Like 28 songs with some of them being nearly 10 minutes long. 9/10
Fleet Foxes
5/5
Have had this album on repeat since its release. My go to “people who may or may not wear shoes that live in the mountains while making angelic music” band. 10/10
Tom Waits
3/5
It’s crazy that I have gotten at least 3 Tom Waits albums in the last couple months. I appreciate his music more than I enjoy listening to it. 5/10
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Hauntingly great vocals. Bit long but very enjoyable. 8/10
Itunes sounding ass music. 5/10
Grateful Dead
3/5
I didn’t realize that Grateful Dead had such countryesque vibes. I remember them being more a psychedelic jam band but this albums vibe was completely different. 5/10
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
I think this would have been better as an instrumental album. It’s not that I don’t like the vocals, its that I don’t think they add much to the fantastic instrumentals. 6/10
Patti Smith
4/5
The Violent Femmales. 7/10
Depeche Mode
3/5
Your own.. personal.. Depeche Mode. The three big hits are great but the other songs are a bit forgettable. 6/10
Fleetwood Mac
2/5
I kept waiting for the good Fleetwood mac songs that I have heard so much about. I guess they arn't on this album. 4/10
Linkin Park
3/5
Great musicians. Not quite my tempo. 5/10
ABBA
4/5
Probably one of the biggest names of the 70s/80s and dancing queens legacy has lived on 50 years strong. The other songs on the album were not really my jam but I can appreciate them nonetheless. 7/10
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
The commentary was good and probably more topical than it has ever been but it was extremely repetitive. Some of the songs would have a catch phrase/line and would just say it over and over for like 5 minutes. 5/10
Foo Fighters
2/5
Right off the cusp of Kurt murdering Dave Grohl and wearing his skin so that he could leave the spotlight of Nirvana to pursue other ventures. This is the other venture. You can hear the early forms of the Poo Attackers greatest hits that didn’t quite turn out to be a greatest hit. There were multiple times where a line delivery made me think Kurt was going to burst from the Grohl seams and start destroying a guitar in the sound booth. But he kept his cool and produced some really mediocre songs that I almost instantly forgot and then went home to cheat on his wife with someone half his age. 4/10
Paul Simon
4/5
Me and Julio did blow down by the school yard. Super pleasing voice. Consistent theme that does not get repetitive. Kind of a joy to listen to even if I have heard he is a little asshole. 7/10
Dennis Wilson
3/5
I knew the name was familiar and after listening realized this was one of those Beach Boys. Pretty good listen, nothing outstanding but still good. 6/10
2/5
So anyways here wonderwa. 3/10
The Only Ones
4/5
The buzzcocks meet the violent femmes. I really enjoy the backing instruments even if at times they can be a bit generic. The lead voice kind of grew on me a bit after being pretty jarring at first. Overall solid 70s jam/pop/punk? Album. 8/10
Don McLean
4/5
One hit wonder with some genuinely nice lullabyesque songs that follow it. 7/10
Gene Clark
2/5
Background harmonica. 3/10
JAY Z
2/5
He has a unique voice where he sounds like he is on the verge of laughing constantly. If you think that’s cool then you might like this. Otherwise it’s gets annoying about 30 seconds in. It also doesn’t help that 90% of his lyrics are grunts, uhs, and just repeated filler words. The backing tracks are very generic and spotlight that he is supposed to be the main attraction not the instrumentals. Once again, if you like his sound/flow then thats good otherwise it comes across pompous and annoying. 4/10
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Im split on this one. Half is the funky pleasure that I am used to with Stevie while the other half leans into religion a bit much for me. If it was all funk I would be on board but half the album is just not for me. 7/10
The The
3/5
The The The The The The The The The The. 5/10
Portishead
2/5
I have always liked the instrumentals of Portishead but the half crying shaky voice singing of the lead has just ruined their music for me. Her voice comes close to nails on chalkboard and borders of infuriating to listen to. 4/10
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
It’s like the love child of Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill but it grew up in jail. 5/10
The Verve
2/5
If you listen to the first song then you basically listened to the whole album as it all sounds the same. Like one big song that goes on and on and on. 3/10
DJ Shadow
4/5
Tasty background beats. 7/10
Neil Young
2/5
His voice kind of annoying. 4/10
Adele
3/5
Copied Amy Whinehouse’s homework but left out the hardcore drugs and addiction parts. Leans more into pop but man do the piano and singing songs all sound the same. Its no wonder the songs with more than one instrument are the popular ones that are big hits. Not my type of music but I can appreciate it and it’s not shit. 6/10
Kings of Leon
2/5
The album with the hits. Teenage me enjoyed them enough to go see them in concert. Adult me thinks that their sound is a bit repetitive and shallow. His raspy yell cry voice gets on my nerves and the backing music was very generic. 4/10
The Birthday Party
1/5
Might win the award for one of the worst albums I have ever not listened to completely because it’s just straight ass. 1/10
Roxy Music
3/5
The best Roxy Music album I have listened to yet. Still was a bit weird but not as bad as the others. 6/10
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Listen to the first song and you have heard the entire album. It’s not bad but it’s extremely repetitive throughout. 3/10
The White Stripes
4/5
The definitive White Stripes album. 8/10
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Great vocalist with some nice backing instrumentals. 7/10
U2
3/5
Big montage in early 2000s television music here. 5/10
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Public access tv dj set list. 5/10
Missy Elliott
4/5
Kind of a collaboration album with a bunch of big names coming in to do a song. Pretty good beats and her flow is some of the best for a female rapper I have heard. 7/10
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Pretty generic singing for the most part. I felt like it was an early 2000s album instead of early 90s so I guess she was ahead of her time? I enjoyed a few of the backing instruments on a handful of songs. Not quite my type of music but it’s fine for what it is. 6/10
John Lee Hooker
1/5
A man who mumbles words while playing the same guitar lick for 40 minutes. 1/10
The Who
2/5
Huh? The Who? The What? The Where? The Why? 3/10
Manic Street Preachers
1/5
This singer has one way of singing and does it on everysong. It gets old really fast and I got bored after the second song. Generic, noisy, waste of time. 2/10
Maxwell
2/5
Genre: Shopping at TJ Max, sexually oooo
Artist: At TJ Max, sexually yeaaaaa
Rating: TJ MaXXX mmmmmm
Pink Floyd
5/5
You can’t have any pudding! I thought I already had The Wall but I think I just listened to it because I never had before. Great album to listen to start to finish. Covers a lot of different styles while sticking to a thematic journey. Couple songs I could do without but it also has arguably the best Floyd songs as well. Some call it a masterpiece, I call it a masterpuddin. 9/10
Big Black
3/5
Thought it was Black Flag at first. Enjoyed the first half and then got a bit sick of the sound after that. 5/10
Sam Cooke
3/5
6/10
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
The voice does not match the music. 5/10
Shuggie Otis
4/5
7/10
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Thematically sound if you like the sound of Simon & Garfunkel. Only have heard one song it is arguably their biggest and best song. 6/10
Haircut 100
5/5
One of my favorite albums of all time that I listen to at least once every couple months. 10/10
The Beach Boys
4/5
One or two big hits. A couple lesser hits and and a handful of songs I have never heard. Now help me Ronda is stuck in my head, help. 8/10
Korn
2/5
Super front loaded album where the biggest best songs are the first couple then Fred Durst shows up and it all goes to shit. 4/10
Tim Buckley
3/5
Every song sounded like a different version of depressing 60s psych rock. 6/10
Jurassic 5
4/5
Never heard of the group but I am pretty sure I have heard these guys individually. Solid flow and great instrumentals. 8/10
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
This album went by so fast. Just a bunch of guitar and some guys singing quietly. 4/10
M.I.A.
1/5
Wow! This is shit. Baby rattle noises mixed with an annoying voice repeating lines of text over and over. Truly headache inducing crap. This album actively fights its way in to the top worst albums I have heard on this platform. 1/10
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
I kept expecting West End Girls but none ever showed up. 5/10
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Someone take the mic away from this geriatric man. Once again Mr. Wyatt has cursed my ears with his awful vocals which harness power from the depths of British Hell that is his recording booth. At least this time he has somewhat composed instrumentals and when his mouth is shut it halfway passes as music. As soon as his toothless sounding babbling begins its over, pack it up, the score is plummeting. There must have been no other records this year for this to he given the title of album of the year. God fuck my ears. 2/10
Slade
2/5
A mix mash of songs that sound like other bands. Pretty forgettable. 4/10
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
The shins meats modest mouse. 7/10
Dr. John
3/5
Tom Waits goes to South America. 6/10
Pantera
3/5
My throat hurts listening to this. Slightly heavier Metallica. Got kind of bored of the singing snd similar guitar riffs after about 3 or 4 songs. 5/10
Radiohead
4/5
Best head yet. It took thing I liked from the other 5 head albums I have heard on here and put it all together. His voice is still a bit annoying to me but other than that it was a great album. 8/10
Adele
4/5
Someone should teach Adele how to say “Hello”. Adele is the kind of artist that I could see all of her songs having alternate stage performed interpret dancing routines music videos for. The first half of the album is all the huge hits which is weird because I feel like all her songs are structured exactly the same. Honestly maybe it came down to Adele fans not having the attention span to make it to the second half because they are same as the first half. Similar to the other Adele album the background music takes a backseat to her singing which works as she does have a very strong voice. I don’t know if I said this before but she is like Amy Whinehouse without the overdosing and a bit less raspy crying. 8/10
Air
3/5
Never seen this film. Love Air (required to breath). Still stand by that motion picture albums should not be on this platform. Although I found the music very enjoyable, it doesn't stand out as an album. It’s hard to score this due to the contradicting nature of how I feel on this album and its inclusion on this platform. 6/10
Caetano Veloso
5/5
It’s like Belle & Sebastian but Brazilian. This is such an enjoyable album. From the smooth vocal in English and what I think is Portuguese to the excellent instrumentals from a wide range of instruments. This is one of those album that I 100% agree deserves a spot on this list. 10/10
The Clash
4/5
I guess I forget how many hits The Clash have and how many of them are on this album. This doesn’t even have the Casbah on it and I still recognized and enjoyed over half this album without ever having listened to it before. 8/10
The Killers
3/5
The Killers have three songs. They are all on this album. They are the three songs I played on repeat when I bought this CD in 2004. The rest of the songs border between forgettable and bad. 6/10
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Not sure if I have said this about Neil Young but he sounds like he is singing at his max volume while also using his inside voice. Not my kind of music but I can appreciate that it is well orchestrated. 5/10
The Vines
3/5
A lot of 2000s angst here. 5/10
Sonic Youth
3/5
I bet at the time this was great. Now it is a bit forgettable. 5/10
Wire
4/5
I thought this said Pink Floyd and I was so confused. Great early punk sound that from the wiki sounds like they were super influential but not well know, shame. 7/10
Alice Cooper
4/5
Not what I thought Alice Cooper sounded like. Genuinely enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. 7/10
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
7/10
Common
3/5
Why it sounds like gay sex then he call me a f****t? I like the beats but they have so many people and other noises at times it gets muddled. Commons flow is ok and it does get a bit tired by the end of this really long album. The messages are mostly good except the one about pimpin that just did not age well. He said the big c word. 6/10
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
Any Damon Albarn project is going to be a fun listen. This was such. 7/10
George Michael
4/5
Crazy how an album can sound the same but have such distinct differences between each song. If you like Michael at all you’ll probably enjoy this. 7/10
The Doors
4/5
Solid album with a lot of range for a guy who sounds like he might keel over from alcoholism at any moment. 8/10
John Martyn
4/5
A nice voice with some pretty good backing music. Some of the songs got a bit repetitive and could have been cut shorter. 7/10
M.I.A.
1/5
Her voice: annoying
Her beats: annoying
Her music: annoying
I hated her first album, this album doesn’t change anything. She might be the most annoying artist that I have gotten on this list. Her voice is like nails digging into my ear canals trying to reach my eardrums. It’s repetitive in the worst way possible. I think to find this music entertaining you might need to have a brain deficiency prerequisite. You might say “ohh but paper planes is a banger”… no, I hated that fucking song when it was popular and thought it was garbage music then too. God fuck this album and fuck M.I.A. and her trash ass music. 1/10
Pet Shop Boys
1/5
The pet shop boys should have stayed in the 80s. 2/10
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
An interesting album with some nice instrumental tracks and some absolute chaotic ones as well. 7/10
Air
5/5
One of my favorite almost instrumental technoish albums. An extremely soothing album that has a serene lullaby quality to it. This was in fact my sleep album as a child and I would put it on every night. I would only make it to track 4 before passing out. It really holds a special place in my heart. Fucking French people. 10/10
The Dandy Warhols
2/5
They are trying so hard to be The Pixies that they don’t really establish their own identity and so the album becomes a bit muddled in what it wants to be. 4/10
Rod Stuart’s unmistakable raspy voice is at the forefront of this ensemble. I thought that maybe I put on the wrong album and somehow got a Rod album as I am not knowledgable in my Big Rod lore. Not really my thing but it’s very clean and everyone is doing their part very well. 6/10
Cypress Hill
4/5
Weed, murder, speaking Spanish, being Cypress Hill: these are the topics of Cypress Hill songs. Be it the nasally lead to the strange pitched guy who repeats things other people say most of the album slaps. The backing beats are great and add a ton of character to each song. The biggest downfall of Cypress Hill is that the songs do tend to sound very similar on all fronts. I thought this was an album that I had listened to fully but I guess I only ever made it through like halfway as there was some stuff I had never heard on here although I thought I had heard it because of how similar and they repeat lyrics from earlier songs man thats insane makes you feel like you are going crazy insane in the membrane is not on this album. 7/10
Love
5/5
Can we bring back flutes? The first album I heard from them on here has stayed one of my favorite new bands I have never heard of and this album continues that. Very interesting sounds coming from a band and genre that feels oversaturated with similar sounds. What I find interesting is that they take tropes that are used by other psych rock bands and either slightly change them or turn them up to 100 which creates a unique quality that I have not heard in other bands of the genre. Everything was great until we got to the 18 minute song where the singer proceeds to scream in the microphone for a solid 5 minutes, didn’t much enjoy that. 9/10
Leftfield
4/5
Jungle 7/10
Steely Dan
4/5
Two big hits and a handful of solid songs. 7/10
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Instrumental versions of semi popular songs but with bongos. 5/10
Klaxons
4/5
If I had my hands on this album in 2007, oh boy would this have been on repeat. I recognized one song possibly from some music platform playlist. It reminds me a lot of Bloc Party. Pretty wide range of the genre (whatever genre this is) with a decent diversity of sound on this album. Even though my musical taste has changed over nearly 20 years this still is pretty damn good. 8/10
Black Sabbath
4/5
My third favorite Black Sabbath albums of the three I have heard. Still a solid album just a bit below the bar set by the other two. Also getting this the day after Ozzy’s passing, the game is rigged. 7/10
Tom Waits
2/5
I don’t want it. Why did this man make so many albums and why are they all on here? It’s fine music if its your jib, it’s not my jib. His voice is so wet and irritated, I started instinctively clearing my throat. Why does he sound like Pete from Mickey Mouse fame? I’m serious, it’s a bunch of ballads sung by Pete, it’s uncanny how much he sounds like him. 4/10
Aimee Mann
1/5
I feel like someone told this lady that she has a nice voice at a bar once and she decided to make an entire album. The melody she uses is borderline childish. Her tone is ok at best and the quiet backing instrumentals to highlight her voice are laughable. What a boring entry to this list. After looking at the wiki no wonder I disliked it, Elivs Costello was mentioned. Ok her voice has gotten worse as the album has gone on, it’s like she is making up the lyrics on the spot, oh it’s bad. 2/10
Yes
4/5
Yes yes yes! 8/10
Incubus
4/5
311 walked so that these guys could.. jog. A household name that never made it to my household. One massive hit that transcends the band any of their other music which is kind of a shame because Drive is iconic but doesn’t really seem to reflect the rest of their music. It’s kind of an anomaly among this album as it comes across as a radio hit while the rest of the songs are more interesting and maybe not so much radio friendly. 8/10
John Lennon
2/5
Really pretentious. His lyrics speak on topics that he honestly had no right to speak on given his world standing. Comes across fake and leaves a bad taste. All I can think about is that picture of him and Yoko watching a maid clean their hotel room while on strike. 3/10
Public Enemy
3/5
Flavor Flav is barely in this album which I am kind of ok with as I find him a bit annoying. The messages within the lyrics are better than the actual music. The main guy who is prominent throughout has an interesting style but it is very similar in every song. This makes every song sound like a continuation of the last. It’s just too long to have such a similar sound for every song. 5/10
Moby
5/5
Another one of my bed time albums I used to fall asleep to as a kid. An amazing meld of modern music, samples mixed in a way that brings new life to older blues genre songs, and melancholic electronica. I listened to the base album and immediately went back and listened to the deluxe version that doubles the amount of tracks on the album. This easily makes its way in to my top 10 albums of all time. 10/10
Van Morrison
2/5
I was not dancing in the moonlight. He sounds like he’s drunk the entire time. I can’t understand a single thing he says. Not a very enjoyable listen. 3/10
Can
1/5
Started out promising then divulged into random notes being smashed on every instrument and the singer turning into Donnie from the Wild Thronberrys which did you fucking know that was Flea?! These psychedelic acid experimental rock groups from the 60/70s are always the same. It starts off kind of nice and then the drugs kick in and it all goes to shit while you know they thought they were creating the next gospel. 2/10
Willie Nelson
4/5
A relaxing album with my Willie out. My Willie might not be the most impressive but he does know how to put on a show. 7/10
Deep Purple
4/5
It has probably one of the most recognizable riffs that you will hear in a Guitar Center every-time you’re in a Guitar Center. Also the other songs on the album are bangers. 8/10
Dr. Dre
3/5
The flow is great, the backing beats are great. Snoops presence is strong in this one to the point that it’s essentially a Snoop Dog and Dr. Dre album. The only thing that I really have to complain about is that every song is about the same shit. A very one track minded album where every song has to be about being hard, their nuts, or how hard their nuts are in some other dudes mouth or something I don’t know. I wasn’t ready for the skit where Snoop turned into sexually aggressive Michael Jackson. 6/10
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
What can I say that millions of others haven’t already said? It’s a near masterpiece with 9/11 songs being global phenomenon hits, two of which I would argue are in the running for greatest songs of all time. The album is so well known that it has it’s own lore of how the lyrics came to be through drug fueled tangled relationships between the members. Maybe we should go back to the days when we would pump artists full of drugs and make them have sex with each other to create magnum opuses. I guess this still happens just without the magnum opus part. Also half of this album played at my first job and it gives me ptsd to listen to them again. 10/10
Led Zeppelin
4/5
No huge hits on this one but a handful of decent songs. Not my favorite Zeppelin but still better than a lot of the other stuff on here. 7/10
The United States Of America
4/5
One of the worst names a band could have. Surprisingly a great album despite their lack of imagination in creating a band name. There’s some really innovative 60s sounds in here that consistently had me bobbing my head. The lead singers voice is angelic and a time capsule of that 60s era vocalization. My only negative, other than the band name, was that the second half of the album had a bunch of repeats? I phrase that as a question because I am unsure if they were different takes of the same song or not and I am too lazy to do a complete analysis. 7/10
The Go-Betweens
5/5
They are like if you combined The Pixies with Violent Femmes which really works. The unique tone and vocalization style of the singer really ties the instruments together to make every song a new yet familiar sound. I started listening to this without looking at the release year and honestly I would have pegged this as a late 90s early 2000s album so I guess they might have been a bit ahead of their time. I really enjoyed this from start to end. 9/10
Bob Dylan
2/5
I’ve learned to hate the harmonica. 3/10
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
I listened to half of this album before realizing that it wasn’t a single song. 3/10
Liz Phair
1/5
How is this so high on The Rolling Stones list?! I mean it’s not the worst thing I have ever heard but it is no where near the best either. It’s like if The Breeders were bored and ignored. The constant guitar riff that is consistently in like every song go annoying after like 3 songs. Her voice started to become like nails on chalk the longer it went on with how bored she sounds. I don’t know if it’s because she can’t sing or just genuinely didn’t want to make this album. I liked the song where she talks about being a blowjob queen and fucking dogs or some shit idk. 2/10
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
So your telling me a grandmaster flashed these five? I didn’t realize that Mr. flash was the DJ to five other dudes who did all the singing/rapping but then went on to be way more famous than any of them. My favorite song was the one where they wanted to fuck the eyesight back into Stevie Wonder. 7/10
The Avalanches
4/5
The Chemical Brothers meets Neon Indian. 8/10
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
There are 42 songs on the album. Around song 20 it became instrumentals only. This is the music that plays at Frontier town reenactments. They really love singing about dying and going to heaven and loved ones dying and going to heaven. So much so that I am starting to wonder if they are the ones sending them to heaven. Lots of Southern banter in between songs if you are into that kind of thing. Very talented musicians playing music that I just don’t really have any interest in. The best Christian country album I have heard. 6/10
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Holy shit this is a long album. The first half combined funk, jazz, 80s/90s hip hop influences with a modern flow lyrically. It is the more commercially know part of the album just off a first listen and the fact that almost every song has a music video with high production value. The latter half seems to be a more self centered segment where he talks more on social strifes, his own standing and political views from his perspective. It’s also much more grounded in the sense of having a concurrent theme in style and topics vs the first half. This album feels like two albums split down the middle where they took all the tracks that would be singles or chart toppers and put them in the first half while the second half is more for Lamar himself. This especially rings true where the last song is 6minutes of a song and 6minutes of an interview that talks focuses on the topic of self. I could go without the near constant degradation of women that is prevalent throughout the entire album. He speaks on revenge, grudges and vendettas consistently but at some point you would think he would realize that the people he surrounds himself with cause these problems and that not everyone in the world is like what he describes. In the end, still not my genre of music and I simply cannot fully enjoy his work. I do see that it’s production value is higher than most other rap even 10 years out from it’s release and he does speak on more complicated topics than just sex, drugs, and violence. It’s just not for me. 5/10
PJ Harvey
1/5
I think I said this the last time I had PJ Harvey but the singing and music sound like they are for two different songs. She clashes against the music constantly to the point where it annoying. 2/10
The Shamen
3/5
It was pretty much to same song on repeat. 5/10
Elton John
2/5
Tiny Dancer is the most memorable song of this album where all the songs sound the same. 4/10
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
They mashed a bunch of other popular beats together and then talked over them. 3/10
Morrissey
2/5
Another Morrissey album, another disappointment. I keep hoping that one will be somewhat reminiscent of The Smiths but they are always self indulgent shit talking sessions. His singing style just doesn’t match the instrumentals ever and in some songs its pretty awful. Maybe next time it’ll be a good Morrissey album but this one is just more of the same. 4/10
Supertramp
4/5
Pretty enjoyable album that doesn’t stand out too much when compared to other artists of the time. The best song/most notable song was the shortest. 7/10
Sugar
2/5
He sings with his inside voice. Kind of unremarkable and the lyrics are really repetitive each song. Backing music is nothing to write home about either. 4/10
4/5
They are Devo. 7/10
Def Leppard
3/5
Another album of ball screaming. Another album where I clocked out half way through. 5/10
Hole
3/5
One massive song that was everywhere and a bunch of songs I have never heard. Not quite one hit wonder but almost as the other songs on the album are not bad just a bit forgettable. 6/10
Burning Spear
4/5
One of the first reggae albums other than Bob Marley that I ever listened to. Still some bangers on here. Nice little hit of nostalgia from this one. 8/10
Beth Orton
2/5
She sounds like she laughs in the middle of singing her lyrics. Example: the second song has a line “sweetest decline”, her version is pronounced “sweetest declihihahine”. This persistent throughout the whole album. 4/10
CHIC
3/5
One commercially massive hit, one sleeper hit, and a handful of slightly repetitive forgettable songs. 6/10
Bauhaus
4/5
The original goth band. One of the first darker sounded albums I ever listened to as a kid which led to me seeing them live in a bar when I was probably way to young to be seeing them in a bar. A nice kick of nostalgia. 8/10
Elvis Presley
4/5
Didn’t even sound live. 8/10
Arcade Fire
4/5
These guys were all over during my middleschool years. Two of the songs on her were pretty big but still not even their biggest hit. Solid consistent album that gives 80s Bowie vibes at times while still sounding modern. 8/10
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Big swelling emotional songs with no substance. Radiodead. He sings the same way almost completely unchanged in every song. Sounds like he is drunk stringing words together. The Stroked. I think the composition and instrumentals are very well done and then he comes in and kind of just fucks everything up. 4/10
Soul II Soul
2/5
Same issue I have had with all these techno dance albums: repetition. The songs are too long with not enough variety in each individual songs and for this one between each different song as well. 4/10
The Divine Comedy
4/5
A very unique version of a love ballad album. 7/10
Ghostface Killah
2/5
Download this song for free at Youtubepromo.com 4/10
The Human League
3/5
Pretty amateurish until the last two songs that were big hits but I don’t believe they were actually on the album. 5/10
The Slits
2/5
Would have enjoyed it a lot more if they weren’t sing/talking over each other constantly. Felt like I was in an insane asylum. 4/10
The Who
3/5
We drank the blood of some pinball people and now I am wizaaard! They really wanted to sing about pinball and schoolyard days. 6/10
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Two massive hits and a handful of songs that sound like the massive hits. 7/10
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Was not ready for sultry voice Cohen with 80s backing tracks. 6/10
Jane's Addiction
4/5
I have somehow never heard and heard all these songs before. If you like one song you’ll probably like them all as they are very similar, at least vocally. Instrumentally they do differ and I appreciate that the rest of the band was trying to have some varying sounds to the lead singers very distinct singing. Crazy that they found their sound on their debut album. 7/10
John Grant
2/5
4/10 I waited a day to rate this and already forgot what it sounded like.
Pink Floyd
2/5
Background noise jam session. 3/10
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Nick cage and the bad album. 3/10
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
3/10
Common
4/5
This is the Common album. Has his biggest songs and is the most solid all around. 7/10
Richard Hawley
4/5
Swelling, dramatic, melancholic, and well produced. 8/10
Miles Davis
4/5
If you have heard Miles you have heard this album. Great artist, great music, a bit repetitive at this point with this being my third or fourth Davis album that sounds pretty much the same as the others. 7/10
Steely Dan
4/5
Funky yet not defined by the funk. A solid album of songs I have never heard before and probably won’t ever hear again. 8/10
Prince
4/5
After really hating Purple Rain or whatever the album that that is on is called, I was expecting to hate this too. Well I didn’t hate it or love it. Some songs were great while others were a bit rapey and kind of just gross. Also this shit is long, not the longest album but it’s up there. Doesn’t help that every song is 4 plus minutes long. The songs didn’t need to be that long as there is no evolution during the runtime of each song that changes them. At the 2 minute mark the same shit is happening at the 4 minute mark. Kind of a mixed bag. No Prince I will not fuck you even if you were my girlfriend, please stop pretending to be a woman, you’re freaking me out. 7/10
Ute Lemper
3/5
It tries to be this big spectacle and kind of ends up being a big testicle. 5/10
Pere Ubu
3/5
Insane asylum music. Someone needs to give the singer his meds and stop shaking him. I think this is awful while at the same time think its great. Is it loud, obnoxious and too experimental? Yes. Is it also kind of catchy, interesting and experimental? Also Yes. I would take this over some generic 70s rock band or the 8th album by a mega hit artist anyday. 6/10
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Everything but the girl and the drum n bass. 6/10
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Not as good as the other LCD album but still a solid listen. Bit long and some of the songs lingered a bit too long. 6/10
Aerosmith
2/5
Aeroshit. 3/10
Lorde
1/5
Wow she finds a way to combine all the problems I have with modern music into this hot shit album. Mouth full of marbles, check. Bullshit lyrics that talk about nothing, check. Over produced garbage with no use of real instruments, check. Painfully generic to the point that I would not be able to tell you this Lorde as opposed to the other hundred artists who sound like this crap, check. It’s times like these that I wouldn’t mind being deaf. 2/10
The Soft Boys
3/5
Psychedelic Beatles meets Buzzcocks. 6/10
Guns N' Roses
3/5
The Guns N Roses album. It has their biggest hits and is the most recognizable of all their albums. Still not my cup of tea. 6/10
The Style Council
4/5
Love Style Council. This is not what I was expecting from one of their albums. Almost felt random the mish mash of songs put together on here. One minute its barroom jazz then its hip hop? Did really like the piano and vocal version of Ever Changing Moods a log. 7/10
The Teardrop Explodes
4/5
Kind of a sleeper banger. Banger sleeper? Sleep bang. Banging Sleeping. 7/10
The Associates
3/5
Offensively 80s. There are some great 80s beats in here but the singing often yoinks it back to being trapped in the 80s. Its also long as shit with every other song being decent. Could have cut half the album and it would have been good. 6/10
Buck Owens
3/5
Goofy Country Man sings goofily. 5/10
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
At least he didn’t say the n word with a hard R this time. 5/10
Jack White
5/5
Jack White continually puts out solid composed modern rock where others just fall flat. 9/10
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
A name that I have seen pop up in so many indie playlist but just never could get into. This album felt mostly instrumental and when the singing came in it wasn’t super memorable. It wasn’t bad but again not very memorable. 6/10
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
It is essentially one long song withe same beat and rap style. So cute that they finish each other’s sentences. As an isolated song it is dated 80s rap. As an album it is insanity. 4/10
Bad Brains
4/5
My second favorite Bad Brains album. I tend to like their shift towards reggae more than just straight punk. Still a really unique album that doesn’t get trapped in the 80s. 8/10
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Amazing Zeppelin. Has a handful of their biggest hits and the other songs are really solid even if they didn’t get the same recognition as the others. Probably my second favorite Zep album. 9/10
Megadeth
4/5
I once again think this sounds almost identical to Metallica. I actually like the instrumentals more from Megadeth but as soon as the singer comes in its like ah fuk its Metallica. 7/10
The Verve
3/5
Starts with their biggest hit. The rest sound like they could have also been their biggest hit. What I am trying to say is that all of their music sounds the same. 5/10
Blondie
5/5
Timeless banger alert. 10/10
Tracy Chapman
3/5
One car. One fast. One fast car. One vocal style. One acoustic guitar. One singer. One song that will be stuck in your head for a week. One rating 6/10
The Monkees
4/5
Not to be confused with The Beetles. Actually really enjoyed this one. Every song was unique and I think the constant switching of lead vocals brought an interesting twist to their dynamic. 7/10
Koffi Olomide
4/5
I don’t know what he is saying but I’m jammin. 7/10
Machito
4/5
Jazzy bongo beats. 8/10
Napalm Death
1/5
Twenty eight short songs featuring Brian from family guy barking at things. 2/10
Scritti Politti
2/5
This guy wants to be Corey Fieldman wanting to be Michael Jackson so bad. 4/10
Little Simz
4/5
Fantastic beats and nearly perfect flow. 8/10
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
5/10
Soft Machine
2/5
The Third song some is one of the worst things I have ever heard. Chaotic jazz with some genuinely annoying effects. Only 4 songs.. 20 minutes each. 3/10
Tom Tom Club
4/5
The Talking Headless. Members of the Talking Heads make a new band minus one David Byrne. Enjoyable side project but I still prefer the original band of heads talking. One of the songs does get stuck in my head constantly though, the one about boyfriends. 8/10
Elvis Costello
2/5
Does this guy have a fucking album for every year of the Earth’s existence?! 4/10
Primal Scream
4/5
The two songs with videos were the most generic and boring on the album. Everything else was like a combination of The Stone Roses and jungle music which was pretty great. 7/10
Mudhoney
2/5
4/10
Metallica
3/5
Wow these guys really sound like Megadeath. It’s always fun trying to guess which words he going to put the olde euuhhya ending on. After One I think the album starts to get a bit stale and sounds really similar. Don’t know if the latter songs really needed to be 9 minutes long. 6/10
Alice Cooper
5/5
This is tonally different from the other Alice Cooper albums I have heard and I actually really enjoyed this. The songs all sounded varied while keeping a similar theme which I find a lot of bands, especially from this timeframe pick one and go 100% in that direction. The vocals complimented the instrumentals and really brought the whole thing together. 9/10
The Beta Band
3/5
Scottish Beck meets Scottish Grizzly Bear. Who knew that this combo would not really work. Its really just ok. Kind of reminds of toddler television music. Like its strangely positive/wholesome but kind of tame. 5/10
Stan Getz
3/5
The girl from one big hit on this album and the rest is pretty good if not a bit forgettable. 6/10
Justice
4/5
Gen Z think this is Daft Punk. Two French guys who hide their faces and make techno music? Maybe I think this is Daft Punk. Is this Daft Punk? You would be a daft punk to not think this is not is Daft Punk. The one song with the child speaking/talking/“singing” about going to the club and getting drunk needs to be put in time out and their parent put on a list. 7/10
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Almost every song sounded like a cover of a better more famous song. The throat sultry singing got old real quick. Her vocals make every song sound the same. Just not my vibe. 3/10
Spacemen 3
1/5
I made it 9 out 22 songs into this album before calling it quits. This guy sings with his inside voice on every song and it’s honestly mind numbing. I started to actually loose touch with reality and couldn’t tell if I was inside or outside. I was ripped back to my elementary school days when I was told by my teachers that my voice was too loud and I needed to use my INSIDE VOICE. Maybe if his school teachers didn’t hold him back this album wouldn’t have been such dog shit. 1/10
The Blue Nile
3/5
Started out strong. Really liked style of singing and instrumentals. About halfway through got a bit sick of it. At the end I had clocked out. I don’t think it was necessary for the songs to be 5 minutes plus when the latter half was really repetitive. 5/10
Gang Of Four
4/5
It’s like listening to The Clash but without all the super heavily played songs. It’s rough around the edges but isn’t that part of being punk? Overall super solid punk album. 7/10
Cheap Trick
2/5
Stop with the live albums. I already have heard most of these songs off their actual album. 3/10
The Everly Brothers
4/5
A date with various named girls who all seem to not like the Everly Brothers. Great love songs to do-wop to. Varied sounds throughout while still staying tonally similar which I love to hear. Overall thought it was going to be a slog but it was pretty good. 8/10
White Denim
5/5
Yes meets Tame Impala. A well constructed masterpiece. A lot of what I was thinking is better said in the Wikipedia section on for this album. This might be the best album I have listened to from the 2010s on this list. There are not many contenders and most of the albums from the 2010s onward have been hot shit but this is the kind of album that gives hope. Nearly 15 years later and I am still hoping that we can get back to making this kind of music. 10/10
The Thrills
4/5
Another singer that uses his inside voice. I think it’s really funny that they have this folk southern twang thing going but are Irish. So like they speak with Irish accents but song with Texan accents? Very well produced and for the most part there is a wide array of unique songs that all stay within the same genre. The Sea and Cake did this style of singing/music better but this isn’t bad either. 7/10
The Beach Boys
4/5
Is this the one where Brian Wilson went crazy and had an orchestra of goats to form the perfect album? 7/10
David Bowie
2/5
Sometimes its best to not let senior citizens create music. There was some very talented musicians on this album that Bowie apparently couldn’t hear or just decided to do his own thing. It felt like two separate recording sessions for the music and then the vocals. He was so constantly off beat from the music that it was just jarring to hear. 4/10
Jeff Beck
2/5
Rod Stuartesque raspy throat singing about rock n rolling till he don’t got no back no more. 4/10
Slint
2/5
Background punk music that I have already forgotten what it sounded like. 4/10
Eagles
3/5
It’s got all the Eagles’ hits which makes me wonder if there are other Eagles’ hits that are not on this album if they are all on this album does that make them a one album wonder? 6/10
Arrested Development
2/5
3 Years 5 Months And 2 Days / 10
Elbow
4/5
Very British but interesting British. Like Gorillaz meets.. I don’t know… Radiohead maybe? It’s good but I will admit as of writing this I am struggling to remember a single song. 7/10
The Last Shadow Puppets
5/5
Man this sounds like Arctic Monkeys oh shit wait it pretty much is Arctic Monkeys. It’s got orchestral cowboy vibe to it that is super unique and just works so well with Alex Turner’s vocals. This is definitely going on my playlists. 10/10
Beach House
3/5
It was like one long 45 minute song that just had little breaks in between. 5/10
3/5
This album by in a blur. 5/10
Talking Heads
4/5
Oh those Wacky Talking heads and their funky style. 7/10
2Pac
3/5
Someone should check on Tupac, I think he’s suicidal and wants an early death. I don’t know though, the lyrics are so subtle. 6/10
D'Angelo
3/5
He’s got a kind of nice voice but just every song sounded the same. 5/10
Talvin Singh
5/5
Indian drum and bass, fucking Sihk! 9/10
Suede
2/5
I thought this was Weird Al before he got weird but it was kind weird so I guess it would have been Kind Of Weird Al but then it wasn’t him so I guess it was Not Kind Of Weird Al. 4/10
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Today Billy Corgan is not bald but tomorrow will be much too bald. 8/10
Big Star
3/5
Just a guy with a hair metal voice and an acoustic guitar. 5/10
Donovan
3/5
One hit then the most generic 60s music that could have possibly been produced during the 60s. 5/10
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Peter’s assortment of songs that all sound different but still like Peter Gabriel. 7/10
5/5
Like half of the songs are just Poison Arrow. I mean I am not complaining, love that song, but it does start to repeat a bit. Look of Love is also great. I’ve never heard the other songs but they kept the same energy and theme as the big hits. 9/10
Duke Ellington
3/5
Duke Ellington from the hit show Big Head. 6/10
Randy Newman
3/5
This goofy soulful man was singing Disney songs before singing Disney songs. 6/10
The Sugarcubes
3/5
It’s Bjork but with other people making semi Bjork music. 5/10
Lou Reed
3/5
Let’s take a walk on the drugs and prostitution side. 6/10
The Stooges
2/5
I liked the cultist worshiping of Ron Jon Surfshop. 3/10
The Police
5/5
If you listen to this album after midnight, your son will turn out gay. 9/10
Happy Mondays
2/5
Aggressively English. This album was like hangover music. Not music that would be good to listen to during a hangover but more it was created while having a hangover. 4/10
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Oh Urethra Franklin, I wonder if she ever got that resp. 7/10