778
Albums Rated
2.73
Average Rating
71%
Complete
311 albums remaining
Rating Distribution
How you rate albums
Rating Timeline
Average rating over time
Ratings by Decade
Which era do you prefer?
Activity by Day
When do you listen?
Taste Profile
1970s
Favorite Decade
Metal
Favorite Genre
US
Top Origin
Perfectionist
Rater Style ?
35
5-Star Albums
31
1-Star Albums
Taste Analysis
Genre Preferences
Ratings by genre
Origin Preferences
Ratings by country
Rating Style
You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reign In Blood | 5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
| Vulgar Display Of Power | 5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
| Only By The Night | 5 | 3.23 | +1.77 |
| The Chronic | 5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
| The Downward Spiral | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
| ...And Justice For All | 5 | 3.43 | +1.57 |
| Foo Fighters | 5 | 3.5 | +1.5 |
| Gorillaz | 5 | 3.53 | +1.47 |
| Moving Pictures | 5 | 3.59 | +1.41 |
| Hard Again | 5 | 3.62 | +1.38 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Idiot | 1 | 3.77 | -2.77 |
| Frank | 1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
| A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector | 1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
| Rain Dogs | 1 | 3.2 | -2.2 |
| Fetch The Bolt Cutters | 1 | 3.19 | -2.19 |
| Blood, Sweat & Tears | 1 | 3.16 | -2.16 |
| The Trinity Session | 1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
| Heartattack And Vine | 1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
| Ambient 1/Music For Airports | 1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
| Kind Of Blue | 2 | 4.06 | -2.06 |
Artist Analysis
Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 5 |
| Radiohead | 5 | 4.4 |
| Black Sabbath | 2 | 5 |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Waits | 4 | 1.25 |
| Brian Eno | 4 | 1.75 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 1.67 |
| David Bowie | 7 | 2.14 |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 2 | 1.5 |
| Madonna | 2 | 1.5 |
| Talking Heads | 4 | 2 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 4 | 2 |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 2 |
| Miles Davis | 4 | 2 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 3 | 2 |
| Tim Buckley | 3 | 2 |
| Joni Mitchell | 4 | 2.25 |
Controversial Artists
Artists you rate inconsistently
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Green Day | 5, 1 |
| Metallica | 5, 5, 2, 3 |
5-Star Albums (35)
View Album Wall
Popular Reviews
Cocteau Twins
2/5
#112. While listening to this album you might find yourself wondering who or what is this for. Well let me paint a picture for you. You have begrudgingly agreed to go to a dinner party at one of your wife's coworker's house. You know the one. The one with the combover and the crooked moustache. The one that always touches your arm when he talks to you. With the crack skinny wife in the wispy dress that doesn't speak loud enough to understand what she's saying ever. Every wall in their house is the same shade of off-white and every room has like one or two pieces of furniture, and maybe some stabby brutalist "art." You keep looking over at your wife to see if you can leave yet, because every minute being here is a minute closer to your insanity. And... this is the music that's playing in the background the whole time. Oh, and the brisket they served was dry.
2/5: please don't make me listen anymore
5 likes
Spacemen 3
2/5
#310. I have no idea about anything about this band, and instead of looking it up, I'm just going to make something up instead. I have decided that Spacemen 3 is in fact three aliens from space, who come from a place where music has never existed, and have tried their hand at the concept themselves. This isn't very good, but they're trying their best, OK? If they keep trying, maybe they'll make something actually passable as human music.
2/5: zeep zorp
4 likes
Fleet Foxes
2/5
#360. Just more hipster folk drivel, that just sounds exactly like all the rest of the hipster folk on the list. The album cover is pretty cool. I really like that.
2/5: meh
3 likes
Taylor Swift
2/5
#25. I want to preface this with the statement that I have never once listened to more than a few seconds of a Taylor Swift song. I did watch a video when I was drunk the other whenever of her and Alison Krauss doing karaoke of a Keith Whitley song, but I don't know how even a single one of her actual songs go. Honestly, I probably couldn't pick Taylor Swift out of a lineup if it was just me and her in the lineup. That being said, I do know who she is. She is a force of fucking nature, and is surely the most famous pop star of the last decade or so. So reasonably, I think, I expected some form of greatness going into this. But maybe you'll be as shocked as I was to find that the guys over at Spotify fucked up and accidentally put something else by this album cover entirely. Because what I listened to was not greatness. Taylor Swift sells out arenas. I'd be suprised if this could sell out a dark stage at the back of a dive bar. People pay $3000 to go see Taylor Swift. You'd be hard pressed to get $30 out of me to listen to that. People wore adult diapers so they wouldn't have to miss a single second of Taylor Swift's show. Honestly I'd rather shit my pants as an excuse to not listen to this anymore. If this is the Taylor Swift album that made this list, then surely it is her best one, yeah? And if thats the case, then surely someone at Spotify fucked up and accidentally put some other crap in place of the expected greatness on the Taylor Swift page, yeah?
Sarcasm aside, I didn't expect that I would like this very much anyway, and I was still disappointed. Except the one song which seemed to be about Starbucks lovers or something, most of the songs seem to be about her complaining about other people complaining about her, and I can't figure out for the life of me why that is supposed to be interesting. All these songs seem like they were manufactured in a lab to get the most radio play with the least amount of effort and thought. At first I thought how could this get that popular? But that's stupid, it's pretty obvious how. The more important question is not how, but why? But we probably don't have enough time to answer that kind of question here.
Of the two modern pop albums I've listened to on this playlist so far, I think the Lorde one is way better.
2/5: meh
3 likes
The Zutons
2/5
#152. An exceptionally unexceptional entry into the genre
2/5: yawn
3 likes
4-Star Albums (85)
1-Star Albums (31)
All Ratings
Depeche Mode
3/5
While some bits were quite good, others were somewhat boring.
3/5: acceptable
Lorde
3/5
#2. My first thought is this would probably be best viewed through a nostalgic lens. I can imagine someone born in 2006 or so listening to this in like 2040 saying things like "Why isn't music like this anymore?" and "I wonder whatever happened to her?" or "Those were the days." I on the other hand, am a 30 or 40 year old man listening to it for the first time and all I can really think to say is "This isn't for me." It's decent as background music, but when you actually listen you realize it's just kinda ok at best.
It's giving mid, no cap. Or whatever it is the kids say these days.
3/5: acceptable
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
#3. I don't really understand reggae as a whole. At best I find it tedious, and at worst I find it annoying. While there may be an reggae album out there to change my mind, this one wasn't the one. At least twice while listening to this album I found myself zoning out and then thinking "damn, this isn't over yet?" when I realized it. There isn't really a single song on this album that caught my interest.
2/5: meh
Neil Young
3/5
Neil Young has a lot of good songs and a bunch of good albums as well, but I do not think this one rates among his best. I guess when you make something in the direction of 50 albums, they can't all be bangers. This one started out alright, but got less interesting as it went along. I felt
like it was about a 2.5, but thats not an option and I couldn't decide which one to go with so I flipped a coin and gave it a
3/5: acceptable
T. Rex
2/5
#5. This album was a little bit of everything. A little bit of Bowie, a little bit of Holly, a little bit of the Beatles... Their influences were obvious. A little of this, a little of that. The only thing I didn't notice was that little bit of whatever it is that makes music interesting. I know not every album has to be some genre defining masterpiece, sometimes they just gotta be a little bit fun. And personally I don't think that album is that, so it only gets a little bit of stars from me.
2/5: meh
The Sugarcubes
2/5
#6. To be honest, I had kinda assumed I would go my lifetime without hearing what Björk actually sounded like. And I'm not entirely sure that I'm better off for knowing. I listened to this in the car, and the woman at the drive thru window had an "oh, my" look on her face when Björk started doing her Yoko Ono shrieks on Birthday, and for the most part I agree even though I think that's the best song on the album. I know Europeans have weird taste in music, but even still I'm not sure who this is for.
2/5: meh
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
#7. This was the first one so far that I hadn't heard that I actually liked. I have no idea what exactly they were singing about, but they convinced me anyway. It has all the things you need in fun quirky music, and now I'm gonna go find a smoky cantina to drink some tasty rum drinks in and you can't stop me.
4/5: fantastic
Cowboy Junkies
1/5
#8. I had never heard of this before, and now I guess I know why. I honestly have no idea why this would possibly be on a list of 1001 albums that should be listened to, except for maybe to learn the lesson that you can't truly appreciate the good without experiencing the bad. I can imagine some Mumford and Son hipster twirling his mustache and telling his friends about this over a warm IPA, but for me it gets a nope out of ten. The girl's voice is good, but when the best part of your album is a handful of pretty weak covers, I simply cannot find a way to be even a little bit interested.
1/5: terrible
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
#9. This one was pretty generic British guitar pop. Fine, but ultimately forgettable.
3/5: acceptable
Bob Dylan
3/5
#10. Pretty good overall, but it suffers from entirely too many harmonica solos.
3/5: acceptable
Tracy Chapman
3/5
#11. I have heard of Tracy Chapman before, but never actually listened to her music. It started out slow, but picked up a bit in the middle. This Lilith Fair kinda music isn't my really my jam, but I thought it was decent overall.
3/5: acceptable
Talking Heads
2/5
12. It's exactly what you'd expect from a Talking Heads album. 1 or 2 good songs accompanied by a lot of weird.
2/5: meh
Alice Cooper
2/5
#13. With a walking cringe factory like Alice Cooper that is seemingly unaware that we're laughing at him and not with him, you'd think this album would be worse. I want to give it one star. I want to hate it. But this album isn't interesting enough to elicit any emotion anywhere near hate. The only thing it generates in me is disinterest. It's just generic boring 70s radio rock. If you cut the volume way down and pretend you don't speak English, it's almost good as background noise. Almost. This album is just... lame. And not offensively lame, just boringly lame. The best this album could hope for is to be quietly forgotten
2/5 meh
Ray Charles
3/5
#14. This one was pretty good, but not the kind of thing that I'd listen to regularly.
3/5: acceptable
The Darkness
3/5
#15. This is exactly the amount of cheesy over the top bullshit I had hoped for and expected going into this album. Did not disappoint. Not something I plan on listening to a lot, but decent overall.
3/5: acceptable
Dr. Octagon
4/5
#16. I liked this one quite a bit. Even though rap music is more popular now than its ever been, and is possibly the most popular form of pop music these days, this is just one more piece of evidence that 90s rap was the peak of rap music. This dude's joke/comedy side project rap album is better than 93.141592% of modern rap music.
4/5: fantastic
Lauryn Hill
2/5
#17. I never really listened to Lauryn Hill before. Honestly I thought she made poppy r&b type shit, but as it turns out she was a rapper this whole time. Who knew? All I know is that this album is boring. Some lyrics from one of the song say "Come on baby, light my fire/ Everything you drop is so tired/ Music is supposed to inspire" and I wonder was she talking about herself because this shit is very much so tired and uninspiring. Just one skippable track after another. No part of this album was even remotely interesting.
2/5: meh
Ray Charles
3/5
#18. I thought this one wasn't as good as the other Ray Charles one. Either that or the novelty of listening to old timey music wore off. Or maybe it was because I was sober when I listened to this one? Who knows. It was fine, I guess. The album title is a bit pretentious though, no?
3/5: acceptable
Oasis
3/5
#19. I'm glad we were getting Alice in Chains and Nirvana in the 90s while the Brits were stuck with Oasis and Suede and such. Because you could listen to grunge and 90s alternative on repeat until forever. And while this is fine or whatever, no one wants to listen to Oasis on repeat. This is grocery store music at its most inoffensive peak.
3/5: acceptable
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
#20. This album isn't it. I don't know what it is, but it isn't it. There isn't one song that's even a little bit good. Tokyo Storm Warning is probably the most annoying song I've listened to so far on this list. I can't imagine anyone enjoying this.
1/5: terrible
The Beach Boys
3/5
#21. This album is fun. It's very of its era, but I like it anyway.
3/5: acceptable
The Fall
3/5
#22. Despite that Spotify told me these guys were the longest lived and most prolific band from the 70s British punk scene, I had never heard of it. I had no real expectations going in, but I found this album to be a fairly enjoyable listen.
3/5: acceptable
The Who
3/5
#23. Not The Who's best album, but a pretty solid debut to be sure.
3/5: acceptable
The Rolling Stones
4/5
#24. Definitely one of the Rolling Stones best albums, and Wild Horses is probably my favorite song by them.
4/5: fantastic
Taylor Swift
2/5
#25. I want to preface this with the statement that I have never once listened to more than a few seconds of a Taylor Swift song. I did watch a video when I was drunk the other whenever of her and Alison Krauss doing karaoke of a Keith Whitley song, but I don't know how even a single one of her actual songs go. Honestly, I probably couldn't pick Taylor Swift out of a lineup if it was just me and her in the lineup. That being said, I do know who she is. She is a force of fucking nature, and is surely the most famous pop star of the last decade or so. So reasonably, I think, I expected some form of greatness going into this. But maybe you'll be as shocked as I was to find that the guys over at Spotify fucked up and accidentally put something else by this album cover entirely. Because what I listened to was not greatness. Taylor Swift sells out arenas. I'd be suprised if this could sell out a dark stage at the back of a dive bar. People pay $3000 to go see Taylor Swift. You'd be hard pressed to get $30 out of me to listen to that. People wore adult diapers so they wouldn't have to miss a single second of Taylor Swift's show. Honestly I'd rather shit my pants as an excuse to not listen to this anymore. If this is the Taylor Swift album that made this list, then surely it is her best one, yeah? And if thats the case, then surely someone at Spotify fucked up and accidentally put some other crap in place of the expected greatness on the Taylor Swift page, yeah?
Sarcasm aside, I didn't expect that I would like this very much anyway, and I was still disappointed. Except the one song which seemed to be about Starbucks lovers or something, most of the songs seem to be about her complaining about other people complaining about her, and I can't figure out for the life of me why that is supposed to be interesting. All these songs seem like they were manufactured in a lab to get the most radio play with the least amount of effort and thought. At first I thought how could this get that popular? But that's stupid, it's pretty obvious how. The more important question is not how, but why? But we probably don't have enough time to answer that kind of question here.
Of the two modern pop albums I've listened to on this playlist so far, I think the Lorde one is way better.
2/5: meh
Wire
3/5
#26. This is the second 70s British punk band that I've gotten this week that is supposedly pretty well known I have never heard of even once. I have decided though that I like Wire better than The Fall. Or at least I like this particular album better I liked the other anyway. It's definitely more punk-ish anyway. The songs are short, sweet, and to the fucking point. The songs are a little bit samey, but I guess that's true of the whole genre, and that's kinda the point, so it's hard to fault it for that. I would say that I liked it on the whole.
3/5: acceptable
Michael Jackson
3/5
#27. I wouldn't generally say that I'm a big fan of pop music or disco, but there aren't any bad songs on this album. I think its a solid 7/10 album, but at the end of the day I decided to round down instead of round up because there weren't any adults here to stop me.
3/5: acceptable.
The Cars
5/5
#28. I've been listening to this one fairly regularly since I was a kid. There's not really any part of this album I don't like.
5/5: perfection
Jethro Tull
3/5
#29. I think there's a reason nobody knows any more than two Jethro Tull songs. The flute solo shtick wears thin about one or two songs in. The music is alright I guess, but the vocals are less than ideal. This one slots in on the low end of 3 I think.
3/5: acceptable
Barry Adamson
1/5
#30. How did this make the cut? I wish some pretentious know-it-all had gatekept me away from this.
1/5: terrible
Wilco
2/5
#31. This one is pretty standard hipster rock fare. Decent enough I suppose if you're into that kind of thing. There isn't anything offensively bad about it, but I'm not on nearly enough drugs for you to convince me it's good either.
2/5: meh
Peter Gabriel
2/5
#32. Is this one of those things where you had to have been there to get it? Because I wasn't there, and I don't get it. I see all these four and five star reviews, but personally I don't see how this can be viewed as anything other than mediocre.
2/5: meh
Super Furry Animals
2/5
#31. Weird British 70s retroism from the 90s psychedelic pop type... something. Not bad enough to make you want to rage quit, but certainly not very compelling either. Yeah, I don't know.
2/5: meh
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
#34. I'll have to remember this band the next time I'm on a Tinder date with an LA girl with a wide brimmed hat and finger tattoos, because surely they all love this.
2/5: meh
Kraftwerk
4/5
#35. Dial-up modem music made by robots, for robots.
4/5: fantastic
Hawkwind
4/5
#36. I liked this quite a bit. 70s prog rock with some old school heavy metal influence. And it's definitely prog rock done right. A lot of times I feel like proggy jam bands often sound like they're trying to compete with each other rather than play together, but these songs are definitely consistently coherent and the songs are long without seeming unnecessarily drawn out.
4/5: fantastic
Patti Smith
2/5
#37. There's really only one good Patti Smith song, and this isn't the album it's on. This one could almost get a 3- almost, but there's a few songs that are actively annoying. I don't really have even a little bit of desire to listen to this one again.
2/5: meh
Bob Dylan
5/5
#38. Probably only Bob Dylan's third best album, but still better than most on this list.
5/5: perfection
Aerosmith
2/5
#39. There's a reason you've only heard Sweet Emotion and Walk This Way. Most songs would be better as an instrumental. Steven Tyler is cheesy in a way I find tiresome, except for when he's being outright creepy. Why are so many of his lyrics about banging children?
2/5: meh
Fiona Apple
3/5
#40. You know when you listen to an artist who was a one hit wonder and it blows your mind and you think "Oh shit, this is amazing! Why haven't I been listening to this the whole time?" Yeah, this wasn't one of those times. This is just Criminal, and nine other songs you wish were as good as Criminal. Because that song is so good that it is strong enough to singlehandedly drag an otherwise two star album into threedom.
3/5: acceptable
Ash
3/5
#41. I'd never heard the name of this band or any of their songs before. When I saw it was more britpop I thought "Ah shit, here we go again." I think a lot of these British guitar pop bands are so highly rated on here because of the nostalgia factor more so than actual quality because some dj forced them upon you dozens of times a day, but it's hard to be nostalgic for something you don't know. Anyway let's give it a listen anyway. Aaaaaaand... I was wrong. Immediately I already know the first song. I definitely did listen to this dozens of times a day, but not because of some radio asshole, no- but because of an even bigger asshole: me. Even though I was technically correct in saying that I didn't know the name of this band or any of their songs, Lose Control was on the first Gran Turismo, and I've surely heard this song thousands of times because of it. [Which reminds me, I was supposed to acquire a 618 hp mid engined Del Sol once I became an adult, let me go put that on the checklist] While I'm not entirely sure I would call this britpop (when I think britpop, I think Oasis. And no offense or whatever, but Oasis is bad, and you should feel bad for liking it), I'm not entirely sure what I would call it. I'm not sure they'd know either though to be honest. Every song on this album sounds quite a bit different, like they were trying to emulate other bands almost. Like Black Sabbath for example with the song I'd Give You Anything. Guy heard N.I.B. and was like "Yoink- that's OUR riff now, comerade." Dude must have went to the Dave Grohl School of Blatant Riff Thiefage or something. Anyway, despite the all-over-the-placeness of this album, I'd definitely say it's pretty decent.
3/5: acceptable
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
#42. It was alright, I guess. Her voice is a bit much at times. I suppose I never really got the hype about Janis Joplin.
3/5: acceptable
Tom Waits
1/5
#43. What is this? No, that wasn't a rhetorical question. Could someone please explain to me what in the actual fuck is this? This isn't real music, right? Nelson Mandela used some AI this morning to make this and subject me to it as a social experiment, right? I've heard some terrible music in my day, and I've listened to a few terrible albums on this playlist even [looking at you, Elvis Costello]. But I have never even imagined anything in the same realm of terribleness as whatever the fuck this was. It makes me think that maybe I judged a few previous albums too harshly, because this deserves a special place on its own special one star shelf of shame. I refuse to accept this is even real music and not some joke someone is playing on me.
0/5: absolutely fucking unacceptable
Gillian Welch
3/5
#44. My first thought was that this was better than the rest of the hipster-folk on this list. My second thought was no, it was just the first song. The first song is good, the rest of it was whatever.
3/5: acceptable
Nirvana
3/5
#45. Sounds like Kurt Cobain was intentionally trying to sound bad on parts of this [which he probably was] to appear more punk or something. Not my favorite, but there's definitely a few good songs in there.
3/5: acceptable
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
#46. I can't be bothered to scour the whole internet for wherever the fuck Niel Young keeps all his music these days, so I'm just going to wing it. Cinnamon Girl is good. Down by the River is good. The rest of its probably fine? Fuck it.
3/5: acceptable.
Butthole Surfers
1/5
#47. I know I said I was going to be less harsh in dealing out one stars after that Tom Waits album, but I guess I lied. Because I kinda hate this. I mean, it's nowhere near as bad as Tom Waits, but I still hate it. It's not really music so much as just noise.
1/5: terrible
The Fall
2/5
#48. This sounds like the last gasp of a dying has-been band. I had never heard of them before this list, so honestly I have no idea if they were an ever-been, let alone a has-been, but that what it seems like to me. Not outright terrible, but also not something I really have any desire to listen to again.
2/5: meh
Beatles
3/5
#49. Here comes that overrated band and their weird ass fans to talk them up like most of their music isn't weird or boring.
3/5: acceptable
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
#50. This album is all over the place. And not really in a good way? It sounds more like a compilation of assorted random shit than and kind of cohesive whole. None of it's terrible, but there is no standout great song either.
2/5: meh
Nirvana
5/5
#51. There's not really much to be said here that hasn't been said many times before. This album changed popular music and defined the sound of a generation
5/5: perfection
Violent Femmes
3/5
#52. I'm trying to think of something to say about this one, but I'm coming up with nothing. It was an album. I listened to it. It was OK.
3/5: acceptable.
Moby Grape
3/5
#53. Decent stuff, but reading about what happened with them turned out to be more interesting than the music
3/5: acceptable
Machito
2/5
#54. This kind of jazz [and I suppose most kinds of jazz in general] doesn't really do it for me. I can understand the quality of the music, but I still don't really want to listen to it.
2/5: meh
Scott Walker
3/5
#55. I don't think I'd normally like this kind of music, but for some reason this drew me in. Maybe it's because a lot of it is a bit humorous, but I definitely liked it more than I expected to.
3/5: acceptable
The Zombies
3/5
#56. 3.6 roetgen. Not great, not terrible.
3/5: acceptable
Scritti Politti
2/5
#57. A.I. prompt: What would it sound like if Boy George, George Michael, and Micheal Jackson were the same person, and the Boy George² Michael² Jackson abomination made the most boring album possible? Ooh, also give me some gibberishy rhyming name similar to Milli Vanilli or something. Oh man. Scritti Politti? Geez, thats worse than i could have imagined. Ok, perfect. Now send it out into the world and see if anyone notices its not real.
2/5: meh
Giant Sand
2/5
#58. I spent the whole time this album was on thinking Man, this guy sounds like the guy that sings that Lullaby song. So much so that I don't remember anything about this album. He sounds a lot like the guy that sings Lullaby. This isn't the guy that sings Lullaby, right?
Edit: this isn't the guy that sings Lullaby. That guy was Shawn Mullins, and this guy is Howard something.
2/5: meh
Beck
3/5
#59. Beck was still making music in 2005? This first two songs were quite good. The rest of the album was good too, but the first two were gooder.
3/5: acceptable
Hüsker Dü
2/5
#60. Me: Mom, can we get REM?
Mom: we have REM at home.
The REM at home: [this]
This album sounds a lot like REM. I fucking hate REM. I think its too bad this album was the one chosen for this list, because afterward, I listened to some of their earlier stuff and it's some pretty decent punk stuff. Why the chose to evolve from that into wish.com REM is beyond me. Shame, really.
2/5: meh
Rod Stewart
3/5
#61. Rod Stewart has always been, and always will be. When our forebears climbed from the primordial ooze, there was Rod Stewart. When our great grandchildren's great grandchildren are old and grey, there Rod Stewart will be, making inoffensive music flavored music until the end of existence as we know it.
3/5: acceptable
The Smiths
2/5
#62. When I woke up this morning, I had this urge to listen to 37 minutes and 11 seconds of a guy that sounds like Kermit the Frog doing an impression of Jordan Peterson for some reason. And Sheogorath bless, I was given The Smiths to listen to today! Perfect. I will have to deduct three stars though because even though they were right in saying the queen is dead, woke ass Britain made a MAN queen in some weird equal rights affirmative action type thing. I mean, I believe in equal rights and all, but I'm also a bit traditional sometimes, and I just think a woman should be queen.
2/5: meh
Radiohead
3/5
#63. I quite like Radiohead, but this particular album isn't their most interesting.
3/5: acceptable
The Damned
3/5
#64. I assumed all the British punk bands from the 70s were uninteresting because I've only really ever heard The Sex Pistols and The Clash, but it turns out the Brits were just hiding the good stuff from us, because all the punk I've listened to on this list are way better than those two.
3/5: acceptable
George Jones
4/5
#65. This one was pretty good. I thought I would hate it, but this shit fucks.
4/5: fantastic
Jimmy Smith
3/5
#66. Listening to this album it makes me wish I was sitting in the garage with the door open, a cigarette in one hand, and a beer or three in the other during a heavy rainstorm. I couldn't tell you why, but that's what's what.
3/5: acceptable
The xx
2/5
#67. This is movie credits music. The kind you don't mind leaving as soon as it comes on.
2/5: meh
The Crusaders
2/5
#68. Partway through I had to remind myself that no, I wasn't on hold to talk to the dentist, I was in fact listening to this album on purpose, for some reason.
2/5: meh
Sufjan Stevens
2/5
#69 (nice). This album sucks. I have never heard nor even heard of this guy beforehand. The album cover is pretty cool, I thought, but it misled me. There's nothing good inside. Just uninteresting hipster-folk trash start to finish. The song titles are more stupid than Fall Out Boy Songs. Nothing about any of this did I enjoy in the slightest bit. I seriously considered giving this one star, but then I went back and skimmed through some Tom Waits songs [the true bar of what is a one star album] and thought OK, maybe it's not that bad. But it's borderline almost one star though. Trash
2/5
Nick Drake
3/5
#70. Put this on the list with Rocky Horror Picture Show for cult classics that I really don't understand why. It's fine, I guess. Nothing special though.
3/5
3/5
#71. Decent
3/5
Suicide
1/5
#72. Well that certainly was uhhhh... something, now wasn't it? Like, you know, not something good, but something.
1/5
Keith Jarrett
3/5
#73. It's just some guy fiddlefucking around on a piano for an hour. He's not even playing any particular song, he's just noodling about for a bit. You know the phrase "this meeting could have been an email?" Well similarly this album could have a Youtube video. I don't care if Youtube didn't exist in 1975, that's your problem. Figure it out. Wikipedia said people only paid $1.72 to go watch this, and well, I suppose paying less than two dollars to listen to some improv isn't that bad. At least it wasn't terrible, I guess.
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
#74. That song from Guitar hero is pretty good. The rest of it not so much.
One hit wonder out of five.
Love
3/5
#75. I don't hate it. It's good enough overall, but also I'm not suprised it faded away into history and I'd never heard of it before.
3/5
Amy Winehouse
1/5
#76. I haven't cringed this hard in quite some time. This whole album is pretty yikes-tastic. Do people actually like this? No part of listening to this was enjoyable to me.
1/5: please stop.
David Bowie
3/5
#77. I guess I only know the hits when it comes to David Bowie, and I've never listened to one of his album all the way through before, but I think I expected more.
3/5: it was alright.
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
#78. This album wasn't any better than their other album on this list. Uninteresting mid-core.
2/5: lame
John Martyn
2/5
#79. This shit was boring as hell, which is sometimes worse than being bad when it comes to music.
2/5: yawn
Various Artists
1/5
#80. Was it a coincidence or a conspiracy that the algorithm tried to force me to listen to a Christmas album on Christmas day? You know what? I'm not going to anyway. I fucking hate Christmas music. Also Phil Spector is an absolute diarrhea person. Fuck that guy.
1/5: Fuck your Christmas music and your Christ, and fuck Phil Spector the most.
Foo Fighters
5/5
#81. Somehow this dude managed to capture lightning in a bottle twice and be in two of the most popular rock bands of all time. This is definitely-probably the best Food Finder album as well.
5/5: fingernails are good
Thelonious Monk
3/5
#82. Jazz is like wine for me. No matter how good people say that it is, it all tastes the same to me.
3/5: boxed wine
Holger Czukay
3/5
#83. Funky weird jazz rock something. I'm honestly not entirely sure.
3/5: What is happening?
2/5
#84. The first song was good, but then it faded fast. Like real fast. Honestly the rest of the album kinda sucks. But hey, at least they're being consistent with adding an album from a one hit wonder which that one hit isn't on.
2/5: pass
Dr. Dre
5/5
As I was reading some of the previous reviews, I saw a one star review that said
"Offensive, misogynistic, an album of nothing but the N word because he thinks he can and an uncountable amount of mother fuckers."
Yeah, pretty much that.
5/5: because fuck you, that's why
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
#86. Trashy music from a trashy skank. Hard pass. No stars for Gryffindor.
1/5: Half a star for the accurate album title. Another half a star for still being better than Tom Waits somehow.
Björk
4/5
#87. Björk as a person is weird in the best possible way. Her music is just weird in the regular way. Honestly it's really not that bad if you can get past all the shrieking, but it's definitely not in my regular rotation. This was definitely better though than that Sugarcubes album. Her weird style definitely seems to get more enjoyable [or at least less disagreeable] the more you hear. You know what, I'm going to round it up to four stars for no particular reason whatsoever.
4/5: fuck the cops
The Pogues
3/5
#88. On their own, any one of these songs are good enough, but 13 of them in a row? That's a bit much.
3/5: it's good enough, I suppose.
Madness
3/5
#89. Another one hit wonder band. But this one is different because I didn't even know that it was a one hit wonder, I thought that was a Talking Heads song the whole time. The album was pretty good though, I dig it.
3/5: yeah
Adele
3/5
#90. If you had asked me yesterday if I thought I would enjoy listening to 48 minutes of sad girl r&b, I probably would have guessed probably not, but this was actually a fairly enjoyable listen. She has an amazing voice, and while this is definitely not my go style of music, I did find that I liked it.
3/5: way better than similar stuff like Taylor Swift
Little Richard
3/5
#91. I can see why this was influential and popular back when rock and roll was a new cool thing, but it doesn't really have the same impact three quartes of a century later. Also it's kinda the same song 13 times in a row.
3/5: yeah.
David Crosby
3/5
#92. David Crosby is the Ringo of CSNY, isn't he. It's bit strange, and honestly I can't tell whether I like it or not.
3/5: Octopus's Garden out of ten.
Pantera
5/5
#93. Pantera- it's like thrash, but with anger management issues. This shit is literally just teenage angst in music form. My initial though was to award it 15 stars, but I had to subtract 5 stars for the album cover not being as good as Metal Magic, and then subtract 5 more stars for Phil Anselmo being the way that he is.
5/5: I dunno, but it's hard to give any less than 5 stars to an album I've surely listened to a hundred times or more.
Deep Purple
4/5
#94. You know you've made a good song when it's so popular it gets on the forbidden to play list at music stores, right? The whole album is cheesy as fuck, but in a way that you don't hate it, somehow.
4/5: Space truckin', son, ain't what it used to be
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
#95. This shit ain't it. If you're gonna put out an album that's some drawn out live jam band bullshittery, you should at least play your own songs and not some terrible cover of someone else's song, yeah? I think its pretty obvious why no one has heard of this before. What's less obvious is why/how it made it onto this list.
2/5: nah
Sam Cooke
3/5
#96. Those people there seemed to be having a gay old time, but it isn't really the kinda shit I want to be listening to, personally.
3/5: it's fine, for the most part.
Fela Kuti
2/5
#97. Hurray! Some improv jazzy bullshit with some guy yelling random noises over it occasionally. Exactly what I wanted to listen to this morning.
2/5: Who is this for? Do people really enjoy this?
ZZ Top
4/5
#98. I don't know why this works, but it does. Blues pop, as a concept, doesn't really make any sense. With the exception of TV Dinners, which stands out as being quite stupid, the album is a pretty fun listen.
4/5: it good
The Byrds
3/5
#99. This one seemed kind of generic. Not bad by any means, but not really much there that would make you want to listen to it again. Back Pages was pretty good and probably the most interesting song here.
3/5: acceptable
Magazine
3/5
#100. This is like off brand music. This for people who played with mega blocks instead of Legos and ate King Vitamin instead of Captain Crunch. Sounds like they listened to a lot of punk music and maybe Bowie growing up, but only through the wall from the neighbor's
2.5/5: this is the Dr. Perky of music
Jurassic 5
3/5
#101. I never listened to them before. I honestly thought it sounded like it was from like 5 or 10 years before then. Sounds like it came before the stuff like Jay Z and Kanye and such that was popular at the time.
3/5: pretty good
Ministry
4/5
#102 pretty classic industrial metal album, and probably Ministry's best
4/5:
The Rolling Stones
3/5
#103. This was alright, I guess, but if I had heard this back in the day I most certainly would not have been waiting around for their second album
3/5: it'll do, pig
Mylo
2/5
#104. This album might have been good if I were on lots of drugs. Or at least I might not have noticed it was shit if I were on lots of drugs. Unfortunately, while listening to this I was not on lots of drugs.
2/5: this gets a nope out of ten from me, dawg.
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
#105. This is peak 2000s hipster rock here. Fun fact: this album was almost called "Looking Good on the Dance Floor, and 12 Other Forgettable Songs to Twirl Your Moustache To," but they decided to change it last minute.
3/5: acceptable, but just barely
Heaven 17
1/5
#106. Big oof. This manages to be both terrible and full of pretentious twattery.
1/5: Surely no one likes this, right?
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
#107. I bet 90% of the people that like this say things like "You wouldn't have heard of them," "I liked them before they were cool" [they were never cool], and "I haven't listened to the radio since 2009"
2/5: I've already forgot what this album sounded like.
Marvin Gaye
3/5
#108. This album is pretty good. Great even. Probably even one of the best when it comes to soul music. But soul music in general is just kinda middle of the pack music, and my score for this album reflects that. Good as it may be, this kind of album is not the kind of thing you'd just pop on on a regular raggedy ass Tuesday when if you wanted to listen to something.
3/5: it has its place, but that place is not at the top of the list.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
#109. The first half of this album is pretty good. Some kinda bluesy psychedelic rock thing. The second half is some meandering Phishy jam band type nonsense that I don't particularly enjoy. Never heard of them before so I didn't know what to expect, and it turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag.
3/5: stick to side 1
Common
3/5
#110. Decent, but had Kanye West on several songs, and all for the worse. I thought Kanye was supposed to be some lyrical genius or something? "I did what I did, because I had a kid"- for real? That's it? Come on dude, be better.
3/5: I don't hate it I guess. He's a better actor than rapper it seems though.
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
#111. I suppose I can see why a thing like this would be on this list, but that doesn't mean I have to like it though.
2/5: too try hard
Cocteau Twins
2/5
#112. While listening to this album you might find yourself wondering who or what is this for. Well let me paint a picture for you. You have begrudgingly agreed to go to a dinner party at one of your wife's coworker's house. You know the one. The one with the combover and the crooked moustache. The one that always touches your arm when he talks to you. With the crack skinny wife in the wispy dress that doesn't speak loud enough to understand what she's saying ever. Every wall in their house is the same shade of off-white and every room has like one or two pieces of furniture, and maybe some stabby brutalist "art." You keep looking over at your wife to see if you can leave yet, because every minute being here is a minute closer to your insanity. And... this is the music that's playing in the background the whole time. Oh, and the brisket they served was dry.
2/5: please don't make me listen anymore
Super Furry Animals
2/5
#113. Nothing super interesting here. Ok radio rock but nothing that stands out.
2/5: meh
Mudhoney
3/5
#114. It was fuzzy. It was muffled. They delivered on all promises. What more can you want?
3/5: good job.
Dolly Parton
3/5
#115. I was never really into Dolly Parton. I just don't get it. It's not bad or whatever, I just don't want it.
3/5: acceptable
Nina Simone
2/5
#116. I'm finding that I just can't really get into this older pop and r&b stuff. I try to give it a fair listen, but this shit just bores me.
2/5: meh
Cyndi Lauper
2/5
#117. The hits were good, but the rest were... misses if we're being honest. The gap in quality of the songs on this album is wide. Those two songs were good, but the rest of it was pretty nopey for me.
2/5: nah
The Who
5/5
#118. This is a pretty classic album with several songs that people that don't even listen to this kind of music know.
5/5: excellent
John Lennon
2/5
#119. I really thought this was going to be better than that. I mean, this is the guy from the Beatles. And it's not like he was just some guy that just happened to be there, he wrote like half the fucking songs. So, what happened, the Beatles broke up and he just forgot how to write good songs or whatever? Mother and Well Well Well are terrible songs, and the rest aren't much better, to be honest.
2/5: listening to this almost makes one yearn for a snubnose .38
Ice Cube
4/5
#120. This shit slaps. It kinda faded at the end but pretty fucking good overall. The lyrics are still pretty relevant today too. Shit never changes.
4/5: excellent
Gram Parsons
3/5
#121 Decent enough country rock. I didn't really love it or hate it, I just acknowledged its existence and moved on.
3/5: that'll do, pig.
Pink Floyd
5/5
#122. Timeless classic. No downsides, really.
5/5: perfect
Kanye West
3/5
#122 Mid tier 2000s rap. Not terrible. Probably Kanye's best work.
3/5: aight
The Residents
3/5
#124. This album definitely gives off low budget horror movie vibes. Kinda reminds me of the movie Gummo actually in the way that while it's not that great and is slightly off-putting, I still can't look away. I'm drawn to it in some strange way.
I saw that this album is pretty poorly rated, which surely means that the people that rated it so poorly just haven't yet heard the Butthole Surfers of Suicide albums on this playlist yet. Because while this was strange, it's light-years ahead of those two albums, which were literally just noise not even pretending to be music. I was going to give this a 2, but now I'm going to give it a 3 just to spite all you fuckers.
3/5: and I'll do it again
Fela Kuti
2/5
#125. No matter how much meandering jazz nonsense you put in front of me, it'll never not be boring. I'm assuming there are actually people out there that thoroughly enjoy this kind of music, but I'm glad I haven't met them.
2/5: wack
Leonard Cohen
2/5
#126. God damn, but that was boring. The whole thing. Every song. Just sheer boredom. And why does the album cover look like a movie poster of a biopic where Adam Sandler is playing Al Pacino?
2/5: yawn
The Stranglers
3/5
#127. Pretty fun overall. I'd touch it with a ten foot pole.
3/5: acceptable
Slade
3/5
#128 band prompt: What if Ac/dc, but also The Who?
3/5: I'm not really sure what I think about this, honestly
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
#129. This album is so stereotypically boomer that it almost doesn't seem real. Like it almost doesn't sound like music made by some boomers in the 80s, but rather like some spoof music made recently to mock boomer music from the 80s. It can't really be this fucking cheesy, can it?
2/5: it's just too much.
New Order
2/5
#130. Nothing about this album really does anything for me. I feel like some bands get to a point where they just put out albums because they think it's expected of them because musician is their job title, and not for the actual art of it. And that's what this album sounds like. Just kinda half assed.
2/5: meh
The Dictators
2/5
#131. Some of it was okay, but some of it was pretty dumb. I don't know, I don't hate it but I couldn't really get into it.
2/5: meh
Doves
3/5
#132. Reminds me or Radiohead, but not as good.
3/5: whatever
The Rolling Stones
3/5
#134. I'm pretty sure I was under the impression that the Rolling Stones were one of the rock and roll greats, but actually listening to their albums has me questioning that opinion, because none of them seem to be particularly great.
3/5: it's OK at best
Arcade Fire
2/5
#134. More hipster folk. Hurray...
2/5: boo
Pink Floyd
3/5
#135 The description says this was only Pink Floyd album led by Syd Barrett, and I think that's probably for the best, because this is nowhere as good as their later stuff.
3/5: alright
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
#136. I found the high falsetto singing tiresome after about one song, but that one song was pretty good. This album wasn't able to hold my attention, really.
3/5: fine
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
#137. Most people: the world is round
Weirdos: the world is flat
Billy Corgan: the world is a vampire
4/5: excellent
The White Stripes
4/5
#138. I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. It's as weird as you'd think, but I dig it.
4/5: it good
Louis Prima
2/5
#139. Boomers will complain about "music these days," and then turn around and unironically listen to Mr. Loodle-doot-skibbidy-beep-bop Man.
2/5: get the fuck outta here
Fatboy Slim
2/5
#140. While one or two of these songs may be interesting enough on their own, I absolutely cannot handle 62 minutes in a row of this repetitive nonsense.
2/5: don't
k.d. lang
2/5
#141. Beautiful voice, boring as fuck music. Background noise out of ten.
2/5: meh
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
#142. When I was listening to that shitass John Lennon album, I wondered where all the talent that made the Bearles good went. Well apparently it was right here, with this guy. If I had heard this album first, I probably would have given it 3 stars, but now I'm gonna give it 4 as a general fuck you to John Lennon. Some of you reading this might not enjoy the fact that I've rated all the Beatles albums so far a 3 and this a 4, but uh, you know... fuck the cops or whatever, I'm doing it anyway 🤷♀️
3.8 snubnose/5: maybe that Chapman guy wasn't so wrong after all.
Portishead
5/5
#143. Portishead sounds like a type of venomous fish or something. Never heard of them before, I think. I do quite like this though, it'll probably end up in my regular rotation, for sure. I've heard the song Glory Box before, but I didn't remember from where, so I looked it up. Turns out it was in about 20 different movies, including one called B Monkey that was played on IFC every three and a half minutes or so when I was in high school and I've probably watched like 8 or 10 times, which is where I recognized it from. I'm pretty sure I thought it was a Spice Girls song or something at the time though. Whichever. I still dig it.
5/5: this probably realistically is not a 5 star album, but there's no adults here, so I can do what I want.
PJ Harvey
2/5
#144. This reminds me of that Patti Smith album. Angsty feminist punk-type... something. Definitely not for me.
2/5: garbage
Brian Eno
1/5
#145. Just like that Barry Adamson soundtrack album that isn't actually a soundtrack for anything, the main question I have for this is- Why? Why does this exist? Why would you intentionally make music for the sole purpose that no one will want to listen to it?
1/5: dumb
N.W.A.
4/5
#146. This album is pretty great, with with one glaring weakness, that being Eazy E. If he was missing from the album, surely no one would miss him. I find him kind of annoying and his rhymes kind of wack. The rest is good though.
4/5: yes.
Blur
3/5
#147. It's decent enough, I suppose. Song 2 and On Your Own are pretty good, but the rest is kinda forgettable, for the most part.
3/5: acceptable
Beatles
3/5
#148. Hey look, another mid ass Beatles album. That's the third one so far. Aren't the Beatles supposed to be great or something? Is that all just hype and not reality? Do they actually have any albums with more than one or maybe two good songs on it? I know there's about eleventeen Beatles albums on this list, so I guess I'll find out. Not betting on it though
3/5: acceptable
Richard Hawley
3/5
#149. This sounds like it was from 1955, not 2005. Good, I guess, if you're someone's grandpa. I'll probably forget this by the end of the week though.
3/5: it's fine?
Elton John
4/5
#150. I'm sorry, I can't concentrate. Rock stars have kidnapped my son!
4/5: lovely
Tom Tom Club
2/5
#151. I was cringing so hard listening to Wordy Rappinghood I nearly turned inside out. I nearly DNF'ed this album halfway through the first song, but I skipped to the next one and surprisingly it was pretty good. It was a one off though, as the rest of the album was uninteresting. Meh.
2/5: why.
Funkadelic
3/5
#152. They really drop you off in the deep end with this one, huh? The rest of the album is solid enough, but the song Maggot Brain fucks for sure.
3/5: decent
The Zutons
2/5
#152. An exceptionally unexceptional entry into the genre
2/5: yawn
The Verve
3/5
#153. Another one hit wonder? At least this album as a whole was pretty good, unlike some of the other one hit wonders.
3/5: acceptable
Christine and the Queens
3/5
#155. The name Christine and the Queens implies there's at least three people, but it seems it's only one person [that looks like 1997 Johnny Depp] whose name isn't even Christine. It's pretty good, I'd say, for dance pop, but that's not really a genre I know or care too much about.
3/5: decent
The Doors
4/5
#156. I thought I only knew a few Doors songs, but it turns out I already knew most of the songs on this album. I definitely dig it, this album is good shit.
4/5: I like
The Go-Go's
3/5
#157. I was worried this album was going to be annoying, but it wasn't that bad. Very upbeat poppy new wave kind of thing, pretty decent for the most part.
3/5: fun
Led Zeppelin
5/5
#158. Not a miss on here. This one's great start to finish.
5/5: fantastic
John Coltrane
2/5
#159. Jazz is still jazz.
2/5: jazz
The Isley Brothers
3/5
#160. Some pretty good stuff on here. I dig it. Some pretty solid covers too.
3/5: yah
Johnny Cash
4/5
#161. This is honestly way better than it has any right to be.
4/5: legitness
George Michael
2/5
#162. There's that song Freedom, and then there's a bunch of boring adult alternative nonsense following it.
2/5: pretty bad
Robert Wyatt
1/5
#163. This album kinda just sucks, doesn't it?
1/5: thankfully short
Guns N' Roses
2/5
#164. What is there to say here, but oof? Hair metal is up there on the list of the worst musical genres for sure. Also, I didn't know this was their debut album. I assumed it took a few albums to devolve into this absurd caricature of themselves, but no, they jumped straight out of the gate sounding like this. Why? They're definitely the Ac/DC or Nickleback of their era. Straight garbage.
2/5: people like to shit on nü metal, but hair metal is really the biggest blight on the metal genre as a whole. I fucking hate this shit.
Elastica
2/5
#165. Super forgettable 90s alternative. Nothing interesting going on here. It's like off brand Garbage or something.
2/5: yawn
Pulp
2/5
#166. This was painfully British. Yikes, dude. The only good part of it is the knowing that since I've never once heard or even heard of this is the past 29 years, it's unlikely I'll ever have to hear it again.
2/5: terrible
Saint Etienne
2/5
#167. I kept getting bored listening to this. I ended up skipping the end of a lot of the songs. I feel like drugs might make this more tolerable?
2/5: two
2/5
#168. I've spent years trying to get Spotify to stop playing Muse at me, and surely all that progress will be lost after listening to this album. I've never listened to a whole ass Muse album before, and now that I have, I realize that I had made the correct decision before. They seem way too try hard. I don't know what exactly it is they are trying to do, but I'm pretty sure they never actually achieved it. Seems like music for people that unironically wear New Balances and cargo shorts.
2/5: wack
Gorillaz
5/5
#169. I remember listening in high school on the bus on my yellow Sony Sports Discman with 30 second Electronic Shock Protection®️ on a daily basis for at least months. And it's not any less good now than it was then. This album fucks
5/5: Yes.
Tori Amos
2/5
#170. These songs are all basically the same. And not particularly interesting.
2/5: yawn
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
#171. It's pretty good. I like it overall, but at the same time it's not really anything special.
3/5: decent
Sade
2/5
#172. Spotify says there are 13 million people listening to this character every month. 13 million. Monthly. What the fuck? Who is purposefully listening to this shit?
2/5: not great
The Roots
3/5
#173. Some good stuff on here, but there's definitely a few tracks that could have been removed to make it better. Some of them seem like placeholders to make the album longer or something? I don't know.
3/5: decent.
Arcade Fire
2/5
#174. I listened to this yesterday, and as I'm trying to think about it now, I realize I already don't really remember what it sounds like. Arcade fire is just that memorable I guess. I'm pretty sure I remember thinking the girl kinda sounds like Björk on the last song. Not sure if that's a positive or a negative, but that's what I got.
2/5: hipster folk
David Bowie
2/5
#175. I thought Fame was good, but that was really the only one. The rest is just filler
2/5: nope
Amy Winehouse
3/5
#176. Her album Frank was so shockingly terrible that I wondered how did she ever become popular in the first place. This album is significantly better, and more like what I had expected from her music. I mean, it's not great or anything, but it's at least good.
3/5: maybe you should have gone to rehab?
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
#177. I think this guy being considered one of the best must just be the death hype. Ain't no way. This is middling at best. And one of the lines is "you look so good, I'd suck your daddy's dick." Bruh.... what the fuck is that shit?
2/5: the fuck outta here with that shit.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
#178. This is fine. That's about all I've got to say about it though. Not bad, but also kinda background-musicky
3/5: decent
Suede
2/5
#179. I kept waiting for the good part, but it just kinda never happened.
2/5: unfulfilling.
Gary Numan
4/5
#180. This album reminds me of those "what the future will look like" pictures. And, for a time at least, he wasn't wrong. Most 80s synth pop owes a lot to albums like this.
4/5: yes, please.
Everything But The Girl
3/5
#181. Maybe I'm way off here, but this seems like music for a hangover after a three day bender 🤷♀️
3/5: decent
Frank Sinatra
3/5
#182. I'm sure some boomers or other such oldies might tell you that this album is the bee's whole-ass knee, but I am neither an orthopedic physician nor an apiarist, so I could not confirm nor deny such rumors.
3/5: perfect for a Fallout soundtrack, but perhaps too outdated for anything else these days.
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
#183. This album is completely uninteresting to me. It manages to be boring and mildly annoying, but not really much else.
2/5: dumb
X-Ray Spex
2/5
#184. On the one hand, I suppose shitty punk music is more punk than more well executed punk music, but on the other hand, I still fucking hate this.
2/5: Yeah, I realize the problem may lie with me, but I'm gonna give it a two anyway
R.E.M.
2/5
#185. It's REM. No need to listen to it to give it a proper rating, but I guess I'll do it anyway. And... yep. Just as I suspected, it sucks. REM is certainly nothing someone needs to hear before they die, or ever really.
2/5: dumb.
James Taylor
2/5
#186. REM, and then James Taylor back to back? Fuck me, right? Al Gore's rhythm seems to be out to get me. I've heard some of his songs before, but for obvious reasons never listened to a whole album before. It's exactly as I assumed it would be though. About as good as any one of his singles, just more.
2/5: James Taylor just seems to me like a less pretentious, but also less good Neil Young or something.
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
#187. Didn't do anything for me. He struggled to hit the notes on his own songs several times too. If you're going to put out a live album, maybe try picking a show where you sound better
2/5: meh
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
#188. I've never heard anything from this guy apart from the Peaky Blinders theme before and assumed it would just all be like that, but not really so much. The first half was pretty good, I like it, but the second half was honestly just mostly boring.
3/5: it's fine.
The Temptations
2/5
#189. The songs that were more funk were good. The songs that were not really funk were not really good.
2/5: meh
The White Stripes
3/5
#190. Tolerable, but nothing really there that draws you in and makes you want to listen to it a second time
3/5: acceptable
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
#191. Music for bored hippies?
3/5: fine
Radiohead
4/5
#192. This is probably the Radiohead album that I listen to the least, but it's still worth a listen every now and again.
4/5: yarp
Steely Dan
3/5
#193. This is beige music for middle aged moms. Like, it's not bad, but it's not anything really.
3/5: milquetoast.
Morrissey
3/5
#194. Not the worst thing I've ever heard. Which, when talking about Morrissey, is a hell of a compliment.
3/5: weirdly not terrible
SZA
1/5
#195. Is all modern pop music trashy skank music, or just the stuff on this list?
1/5: God awful
Jeff Buckley
5/5
#196. I've listened to this album many times before, and this time it was just as brilliant as every other time. It's great start to finish. I have no complaints, really.
5/5: perfect.
Stereo MC's
3/5
#197. This isn't terrible or anything, but the thing of the thing is that I'm just not as nostalgic for weird obscure British nonsense as the maker of this list obviously is. To say that you need to listen to this before you die is a bit hyperbolic if you ask me.
3/5: fine
Norah Jones
3/5
#198. Inoffensive piano pop. Decent, I suppose, if you're already into that kind of thing, perhaps a bit boring if you're not.
3/5: acceptable
The Rolling Stones
3/5
#199. The Rolling Stones' hits are undeniable, but on the whole, listening to an entire album leaves you wanting. None of them seem to be a particularly great listen start to finish.
3/5: ok
The Undertones
3/5
#200. Standard British punk rock fare.
3/5: fine
Duran Duran
3/5
#201. Decent, almost stereotypical new wave album. A few great hits on there that I really liked.
3/5: good shit
The Velvet Underground
2/5
#202. This very much does not do it for me. They seem to be trying real extra hard to be artsy or whatever. I don't know if they accomplished that, but I certainly don't like it. A few of the songs sounded almost intentionally bad. Don't want, please.
2/5: nope
Green Day
5/5
#203. I mean, I tried to give it less than five stars, it just wouldn't let me.
5/5: I suppose that'll do.
King Crimson
4/5
#204. Albums like this are why I started doing this. To find albums that I have never heard [and would probably otherwise never listen to] that are good and that I like. But unfortunately this list is pretty weak. Out of the probably like 150ish so far I've never listened to previously, this is only like maybe the fifth one I want to listen to a second time. I don't know why I never listened to this before, it's fairly similar to shit that I do like, but here we are. Definitely adding this one to the list.
4/5: yarp
Suede
2/5
#205. I don't know why there's a greater than zero amount of Suede albums on this list. They're both a bit shit, aren't they?
2/5: narp
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
#206. I think this is the first live album I've listened to on this list so far that is actually good.
4/5: great.
Willie Nelson
2/5
#207. I don't think I've ever listened to Willie Nelson's music before, but it turns out it was just about exactly what I had expected, unfortunately. Just uninteresting old timey country that never really builds to anything, really.
2/5: meh
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
#208. Pretty decent overall. I particularly liked Scenario.
3/5: I'd touch it with a ten foot pole.
Van Halen
3/5
#209. Eddie Van Halen is a fantastic guitarist but Van Halen as a band is annoying, and D̶r̶. R̶o̶c̶k̶z̶o̶, t̶h̶e̶ r̶o̶c̶k̶ a̶n̶d̶ r̶o̶l̶l̶ c̶l̶o̶w̶n̶ David Lee Roth is just terrible. I've always had a dislike for this band, and a disdain for their popularity, and listening to it one more time didn't really sway me. I'm going to give this a three instead of a two for at least not being the album that Jump and Hot for Teacher are on.
3/5: really, Eruption saves this otherwise intolerable album.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
#210. This list is making me like the Rolling Stones less and less with every album I listen to one here. Yet again, an album with about 1½ bangers, and a bunch of slop.
3/5: come on guys, I feel like you should be better than this...
Goldfrapp
3/5
#211. The only thing I can think to say about this album is fine. It's fine. Not really much else there. Also, the cover looks like the cover to 'Mary Kate and Ashley Solve the Mystery of the Pirate Treasure' or something
3/5: fine
The Lemonheads
3/5
#212. It's kinda the same as every other 90s alternative rock album, but I dig it.
3/5: yarp
David Bowie
2/5
#213. This album just kind of sucks. The dude that made this list must have had a crush on Bowie or something. That's the only way this many of his shit albums could have made it on this list.
2/5: I'd rather not.
The Cramps
4/5
#214. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. One of the reviews said they were like the B52s meets the Addams Family, and I think that sounds about right. This was weirdly fantastic.
4/5: yes
Mike Ladd
3/5
#215. This album starts out strong, but then kinda drags for a while. It seriously could have benefited from being like 20 minutes shorter.
3/5: it's alright
Jane's Addiction
4/5
#216. Why, when stuff like this existed in the 80s, did shit like Guns n Roses and Poison and Ratt get popular instead? This is way better in every way.
4/5: would recommend.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
#217. The hits are undoubtedly fantastic, but honestly someone should have kept his noodling in check. There's a lot of meandering nonsense in the middle that honestly made the album less, not more.
4/5: almost
Ryan Adams
3/5
#218. You see, when you said Ryan Adams, I thought you said Bryan Adams, and I was expecting something completely different. This was fine though. Very Dylan-esque folk but without as many ear raping harmonica solos.
3/5: acceptable.
The Monks
2/5
#219. Like with Neil Young, I'm not going to go scouring the internet looking for somewhere I can listen to this. There was only one song on Spotify, I listened to it, it was terrible. Moving on.
2/5: shit
Radiohead
5/5
#220. It's a perfect transitional album from their grungey radio rock sound of their first album moving into the truly weird that they become. Great songs start to finish. No misses here.
5/5: fantastic
Wu-Tang Clan
3/5
#221. There was nothing here that I thought was particularly great. It was alright I guess, but certainly no better than alright.
3/5: not spectacular
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
2/5
#222. Jazz. Jazzy jazz. Jazz that has jazzed in the same way that every other jazz has ever jazzed.
2/5: jazz
Randy Newman
2/5
#223. This shit was goofy as hell. You'd have to be a very specific type of individual to enjoy this kind of thing, but unfortunately for Randy, I'm just a regular person and there's no way I could get into this.
2/5: wacky
Janis Joplin
3/5
#224. I said in my review of the Big Brother and the Holding Company album that the hype is unwarranted and that her voice is bad. And well, her voice hasn't changed from that album to this one, so I suppose my opinion hasn't either. The songs themselves are... fine, I guess.
3/5: death hype
The Undertones
3/5
#225. It was OK. I tried to get into it, there just wasn't a whole lot there. It reminds me of like PG-13 Dead Kennedys or something. Maybe that's not the best description, UT it'd the first one that came to mind.
3/5: tolerable
David Gray
2/5
#226: minivan music for soccer moms who accidentally left their Coldplay cassette at home.
2/5: meh
Solomon Burke
3/5
#227. A quality album that, as the title suggests, bridges the gap between rick and soul. A pretty good voice too that plays well with the style of music.
3/5: pretty good.
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
#228. This is rave music. Probably something better to be experienced rather than listened to with a critical ear.
3/5: fairly pleasant, if monotonous
Adam & The Ants
3/5
#229. I'm not going to lie to you, this is kinda terrible. But also I kinda like it. Yeah, I don't know.
3/5: oxymoron
Screaming Trees
3/5
#230. Keeping with the tradition of putting one hit wonder bands, but putting and album that the one hitbis not on I see. Not that this is terrible or anything, but why was this the album chosen to be on here?
3/5: acceptable
Yes
2/5
#231. A few bops in there, but a lot of pretty skippable tracks too though. Not one that I'd ever really put on on purpose to listen to the whole ass album.
2/5: too much meh
Tom Waits
1/5
#232. Tom Waits. Again? The last album of his I listened to was literally the worst album I have ever listened to in my entire life. That is not hyperbole or exaggeration. Seriously it filled me with rage that it even exists. Like fuck man, I'm still pissed off and that was months ago. Thankfully, this album is not nearly as bad. It's still not good or anything, but you know, compared to Heartattack and Vine, this is lightyears ahead. It's fucking weird, it seems like he was going for some kind of Halloween kid's movie soundtrack vibe or something, but there were a few songs that were almost listenable. This album is borderline between one and two, but because of the simmering rage that remains from my last experience with this asshole, I'm going to have to round down and go with just one.
1/5: terrible.
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
#233. I'd never heard Frank Zappa's music before and didn't know what to expect, and yet somehow it was exactly what I expected anyway.
2/5: something
Calexico
3/5
#234. Never heard of this band and have no idea what you would even call this genre of music. It was certainly interesting though. It definitely has a cool vibe.
3/5: decent
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
#235. This rating is probably kind of obvious. Hendrix is often considered one of the best guitarist out there, at least from this time frame, and this album is often on lists of greatest rock albums. And we'll, who the fuck am I to disagree?
4/5: fantastic.
DJ Shadow
2/5
#236. I don't care
2/5: meh
Buzzcocks
3/5
#237. There's a lot of edginess here that doesn't seem to lead to any kind of point. There's nothing that makes me care or want to listen to them again. Like it's fine, but that's about it.
3/5: it's fine
Daft Punk
2/5
#238. Another one probably better experienced at a show than listened to straight through.
2/5: around the world
Tina Turner
2/5
#239. Well, I mean, her voice is great, but these songs just aren't. This is one that probably should have been left alone, because it's simply just not as good as you remember, I promise.
2/5: meh.
Grateful Dead
3/5
#240. Most Grateful Dead fans are insufferable, but the music itself is pretty solid it seems.
3/5: decent
Radiohead
5/5
#241. I know most people like Kid A, but I think this is Radiohead's best album. I could listen to this everyday, probably.
5/5: excellent
Dead Kennedys
4/5
#242. This is way better than any of those 'classic' British punk bands could ever hope to be. The Clash and The Sex Pisols and all that were a bit trash, on the whole, but Dead Kennedys and Bad Brains and such helped turned punk into something actually worth listening to. This album isn't just 15 exactly the same songs like so much punk before it.
4/5: fresh
Jeff Beck
3/5
#243. Woah, you gotta warn me beforehand if you're gonna be doing that. You can't just be slinging around unsolicited Rod Stewart at someone like that and expect them not to react in a certain kind of way.
3/5: the music is pretty good though.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
#244. I know this dude is held in high esteem as far as modern rap music goes, but this was my fist time listening to his music and there was nothing in particular that stood out to me as being particularly impressive. Maybe it's just that a lot of other rap these days isn't really all that good, so this stands out in comparison? Who knows. I thought it was alright I guess.
3/5: acceptable
Depeche Mode
3/5
#245. In theory I could just copy/paste my review for Violator here. There's some highlights, but most of it is a bit uninteresting. If you like sad boy new wave, then this is surely the one for you. If not, we'll maybe tomorrow will be better?
3/5: it'll do, I guess.
AC/DC
2/5
#246. I knew this day was coming, and yet I was hoping anyway that it wouldn't. I listened to this album to keep with the spirit of this whole thing, but I already knew it was going to be terrible, and as I suspected, it was terrible.
2/5: garbage
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
#247. 39 minutes of music that is tolerable, but not really much else.
3/5: ok...ish
Rush
3/5
#248. As a concept album, the actual concept is hard to grasp. There's definitely some good bits, to be sure, but on the whole it's just a bit weird.
3/5: good, but I couldn't tell you why
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
#249. Neil Young is back on Spotify? Seems money was more important than his morals after all. Typical. I might have given this a 3 previously, but I think I'll give it one less now just because the man can't even stick to his own principles.
2/5: pretentious twat.
Guided By Voices
3/5
#250. This might could've won a middle school talent show.
3/5: A for effort, I guess
Beastie Boys
3/5
#251. Like Saul Trujillo said; the Beastie Boys are like Taco Bell, everyone knows it's not authentic, but there's no denying talent.
3/5: silly
Fats Domino
3/5
#252. I've found I don't really like most of the ol timey rock and roll stuff in this book, but for some reason I thought this one was pretty good. Maybe because it was a bit bluesy as well? I don't know.
3/5: pretty good
White Denim
3/5
#253. This is, at least so far, the most enjoyable hipster nonsense I've listened to on this list to date.
3/5: it's fine.
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
#254. Uninspiring British synth pop. Seemed pretty soulless and commercial to me. A bit of a force your way through it kind of album, honestly.
2/5: meh
Pixies
4/5
#255. Honestly, this reminds me of my review of In Utero. There's definitely some standout really good songs, but there's also a few that seem almost intentionally bad. It all averages out in the end I guess. Plus one star because there's boobies on the cover.
4/5: boobies.
The Waterboys
3/5
#256. Fiddlesy country folk. Not my most favorite, but I didn't hate it I guess.
3/5: ok
Beck
2/5
#257. This album sucks. It's just boring, with nothing going for it. It's hard to pick a favorite song from this album because none of them are any good. But hey, at least this book is sticking with theme of finding an artist that has some good songs, and then picking an album that none of those songs are on. Why is there so much of that?
2/5: stupid
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
#258. This album might have been just about forgotten if not for those two big hits. The rest of it's kind of just... there, not doing much. Also, they should've let her be the only singer, the other guy was less interesting. Worth it just for Somebody to Love and White Rabbit though.
4/5: yarp
Stan Getz
3/5
#259. Decent, I suppose, but at the end of the day I'd rather not be listening to more jazz.
3/5: why...
Slint
2/5
#260. Bizarre, and in my opinion not in a good way.
2/5: meh
Tom Waits
2/5
#261. Again with this guy? You know what, maybe i'm just coming at it from the wrong direction. Maybe it's not that it's accidentally bad, but it's intentionally bad as a troll just to see how many people he can trick into saying they think it's good. Maybe it's just rage bait so he could have a laugh, and I fell for it. Maybe he did it as a bit, to prove how bullshit the recording industry is but now he's been doing it so long he doesn't know how to stop. You know what, I'm going to give it an extra star just so I can pretend this guy doesn't get to me.
2/5: this isn't terrible. No really. No, that's not a forced smile, I promise I really didn't think it was as terrible as people say.
OutKast
4/5
#262. This shit's a classic. Take out the skits and one or two songs and could be about perfect.
4/5: banger
James Brown
2/5
#263. Hey look, it's the number 1 R&B star of 1962!
2/5: I don't care.
Bert Jansch
3/5
#264. When I was listening to this I didn't realize this was 60 years old, it sounds just like every hipster folk album coming out these days. I don't know if its that this guy was ahead of his time, or that those guys these days are trying so very desperately to be behind their times, but I guess that's irrelevant. It was decent though, I guess.
3/5: acceptable.
Miles Davis
2/5
#265. I mostly just skipped through. I simply cannot be bothered to spend any more actual time listening to jazz for this playlist.
2/5: jazz
Metallica
5/5
#266. Metallica really came out swinging with four of the best metal albums out there in a row. All killer, no filler. They didn't really put a foot wrong in the 80s. It's a shame what happened after that, but hey, we can't have it all, right?
5/5: excellent.
The Cure
3/5
#267. Kind of a mixed bag here. Some pretty good songs, some not so much. Decent, I guess.
3/5: acceptable.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
2/5
#268. This is going to be a weird comparison, but hear me out. This sounds like if The President's of the United States of America wrote a Bob Dylan album, but it wasn't as good as either of those artists.
2/5: meh
Bob Dylan
3/5
#269. Dylan made some unquestionably fantastic music in the 60s, but this was truly the tail end of any of that. For reasons unknown to man, he's still out there making music to this day, but it's terrible, and has been terrible since the late 70s. Albums like this one may still have a song or two to enjoy still, but it's clear that he's run out of whatever magic he had a decade before.
3/5: still ok, I guess
Frank Zappa
3/5
#270. He's clearly a good musician, but the question is: do we care? And I suppose I can only speak for my self, but no, not really. There doesn't seem to be anything there to draw you in despite the clear level of talent.
3/5: it's fine, I guess.
Jamiroquai
3/5
#271. I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan of disco or whatever it is this is, but this isn't bad by any means. Overall, I'd say my thoughts on this album are pretty neutral. It's fine.
3/5: acceptable
The Velvet Underground
1/5
#272. This started out bad, and only got worse.
1/5: terrible, take a lap.
Blur
2/5
#273. Another run of the mill britpop album. Nothing to write home to mum about.
2/5: meh.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
#274. Following the trend of all the other Stones albums I've listened to for this. A few truly great songs, accompanied by some truly forgettable filler.
3/5: acceptable.
TV On The Radio
2/5
#275. Unremarkable may not be the right word, but it is the first one that comes to mind. There's not even one song really that really stands out as being slightly better than the rest. There all just kinda there.
2/5: somewhat boring.
Linkin Park
3/5
#276. Man, this did not age well, huh? I remember really liking this when I was 13, but like other things I liked as a child like the Power Rangers, or the movie Ferngully, somethings should just be left in the past and not revisited. Because it simply doesn't hold up. If you want to revisit that middle school teenage angst, go listen to Pantera or something, because this'll just make you cringe.
3/5: for nostalgia sake alone, not because it's any good.
The Smiths
2/5
#277. This is almost tolerable. Seriously, it's the best Smiths album I've listened to so far. Still not good, but you know, less painful to hear. The lyrics are pretty cringe, especially on the title track, but if you don't pay attention to them very much, it's almost halfway decent.
2/5: almost.
Korn
3/5
#278. Bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit are the reason why nü metal went the way of disco. Because like the dwarves in Moria, they delved too fast and too greedily into the cringe, and the public backlash was like the Balrog that came and killed them all. This is where a half star rating would come in handy though. Because 2 stars seems a bit harsh, bit 3 stars seems entirely too generous. Fuck it, I guess, I've given a bunch of mid ass albums 3 stars already, so I guess this isn't worse than those.
3/5: ok-ish
Nick Drake
3/5
#279. There's no reason why I should like this dingy jazz club music, but it's giving a whole ass vibe, or whatever it is the kids say. I dunno, maybe it's because I'm hungover while listening to it, but it seems pretty alright to me.
3/5: pretty alright.
Al Green
3/5
#280. A few pretty good songs, decent enough on the whole.
3/5: good
Public Enemy
2/5
#281. Don't worry, I don't believe the hype. This shit is terrible. Flavor Flav is just as annoying as you'd expect, and almost all of the songs have some annoying high pitched squal as part of the beat. No fucking thanks all round.
2/5: noon, boi
Genesis
4/5
#282. I mean, Peter Gabriel isn't very good at singing, but the rest of it slaps.
4/5: good
Aretha Franklin
4/5
#283. It's Aretha Franklin.
4/5: great.
Julian Cope
2/5
#284. This is in no way, shape, or form something that anyone needs to hear before they die. Every track on this album is skipable.
2/5: uninteresting.
David Bowie
2/5
#285. Yet another weak ass Bowie album. This one doesn't even have any of the hits to balance out the drivel
2/5: weaksauce
Beatles
3/5
#286. I'm now convinced that the Beatles only sold so many records because that was literally the only way to listen to music back then. In today's age of streaming, I bet they'd struggle pretty hard. This is the fourth mid ass album of theirs I've had to listen to on this list so far, and I still haven't seen whatever it is the boomers saw in this band.
3/5: meh
Muddy Waters
5/5
#287. I've never listened to Muddy Waters before, and apparently that was a mistake. Every bit of this is nothing less than fantastic.
5/5: perfection
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
#288. This album sucks. Start to finish. Look, I get it he made it about his dead sin and all that, and that's fine if that helped him cope, but maybe he should have just had one copy made, and put it on his own shelf at home, and then carried on.
2/5: an extra star because I really quite like the album cover
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
#289. This is bad. Real bad. Borderline unlistenable. We are once again blessed with a one hit wonder's album that wasn't the one with said hit, and this time the results are atrocious. Please stop.
1/5: terrible.
Prince
3/5
#290. It's right.
3/5: decent
Brian Eno
2/5
#291. This whole album is a bit "is this over yet?" This is the kind of shit you find for less than a dollar at used record stores in a desperate attempt to get rid of it.
2/5: yawn
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
#292. There's not really much I need to say. I thought it would be good, it was good.
4/5: yes
Dire Straits
3/5
#293. This album starts off strong, but the B side is significantly less interesting. Good enough overall though.
3/5: acceptable
The Band
3/5
#294. The Weight is one of the best songs from the 60s, but the rest of the album isn't nearly as good.
3/5: fine
Steely Dan
3/5
#295. I liked this slightly more than I liked Aja, but still kinda mid overall.
3/5: meh
David Bowie
2/5
#296. I don't know why there's so much Bowie on here when so much of it is trash. I've learned though that Bowie, like Dylan, should have quit while they were ahead in the early 70s, because there's not really anything particularly good going on after that. It's hard to pick a favorite song here, because none of them were even a little bit interesting.
2/5: please stop.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
#297. I didn't expect that I would like this at all, but it turns out I thought it was pretty good. Better than their other album I listened to anyway.
3/5: egg
The National
2/5
#298. I literally don't remember what this sounded like. I listened to this less than 24 hours ago and I've already forgotten it. I know it was hipster folk, which explains the forgettableness, but I don't remember hating any particular part of it either, so I guess it gets a meh out of ten.
2/5: meh
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
#299. Souther swamp rock from a band from... the Bay area. Makes sense if you don't look at it. It fucks either way, imposters or not.
4/5: chooglin'
T. Rex
2/5
#300. That's two albums in a row that have mentioned the word choogle. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
2/5: mediocre
Nirvana
4/5
#301. No where near as good as Alice in Chains Unplugged, but it'll do in a pinch, I suppose.
4/5: four
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
#302. This album can't really decide if it wants to be hippie music, or pop music. It's not really bad, technically, but it's very of its time, and is somewhat hard to get into if you're not already o diehard of the genre. A bit uninteresting to the casual passerby.
3/5: acceptable
Slayer
5/5
#303. While I wouldn't pick this as their best album, I suppose I can see why it would be picked for this as training Blood is probably their most iconic song. But there are plenty of albums on here that are neither iconic nor good, so I dont know man.
5/5: it's Slayer
Pink Floyd
5/5
#304. This album is pretty long, but I wouldn't mind if were longer, if anything. Seems it's one of those things where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts, as no one piece stands out individually as being something you'd call amazing, but together they make something special.
5/5: perfect
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
#305. While most of the music on this list is from the US or Europe, it probably goes without saying that there's surely good and even great music from other parts of the world that are not being represented despite being as good or better than a lot of the stuff that did make the list. That being said, who the fuck am I to judge something when I have no idea the relevance or context of it. I'm sure someone else could tell you why this is or isn't great, but I cannot.
3/5: acceptable
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
#306. Not the best Creedence album for sure, but it's not bad.
3/5: decent
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
#307. This one is some generic middle of the road formulaic punk music. Like dictionary definition type stuff. Not really interesting to listen to though.
2/5: high school talent show type shit
Led Zeppelin
5/5
#308. I could probably just say the same thing for all the Zeppelin albums on here. They're all fantastic, and there's not really any part of any of them that is bad or boring. Also, Tangerine is one of my favorite songs of theirs. That bass line usually get stuck in my head for a while after I listen to it. You know you're doing it right when you've got a guitarist like Page, and the bass is the part that sticks out.
5/5: perfect
The Byrds
3/5
#309. Pleasant enough, easy to listen to hippie music.
3/5: acceptable
Spacemen 3
2/5
#310. I have no idea about anything about this band, and instead of looking it up, I'm just going to make something up instead. I have decided that Spacemen 3 is in fact three aliens from space, who come from a place where music has never existed, and have tried their hand at the concept themselves. This isn't very good, but they're trying their best, OK? If they keep trying, maybe they'll make something actually passable as human music.
2/5: zeep zorp
Sigur Rós
3/5
#311. I remember one of my friends recommended I should listen to Sigur Ros one time when I was in high school. I don't remember which album it was, but it very well may have been this one. The time frame is right anyway. And I thought it was terrible. Hated it. [I think the only band he recommended that I liked was Coheed and Cambria] It's probably because I was only really interested in fairly aggressive music at the time. If it wasn't death metal or similar I had little interest. Perhaps it's because I'm a nearly 40 year old man now and the teenage angst has worn down a bit, but I quite liked this silly mellow bullshit this time. It's not my favorite or anything, but I don't hate it.
3/5: fine.
Weather Report
2/5
#312. Meh
2/5: nah
Cat Stevens
3/5
#313. Makes you wish all those songs were as good as Wild World.
3/5: acceptable.
Def Leppard
2/5
#314. What has nine arms and sucks? Yeah, you guessed it- Def Leppard.
Def Leppard sucks. This whole shitass genre of music sucks. All that glam band hair metal shit was a blight on the metal genre as a whole, and I for one am glad that annoying shit is long gone. They used to play almost all of these songs incessantly on the radio when i was a kid, but I'm pretty sure I haven't heard any of them since probably 2009. Maybe with any luck, it'll be 15 more years before I have to hear any one of them again.
2/5: shit
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
#315. When I saw this, my first thought was Ah, here we go again with some obscure, likely strange ass British shit no one's ever heard of. And as it seems, none of his songs popular on Spotify are even from this album. Is this yet another time when the characters making this list picked a one hit wonder, and then put a different one of their albums on this list instead? Yeah, I have no idea about the answer to that question because I've literally never heard this dude's name even once before, but what I can say is that this shit slaps. It doesn't seem to slot into any one genre neatly, but if anything that's for the better. I wish all the music on this list I've never heard of was as good as this, but the list creators would rather ear-rape me with Scritti Politti and the like instead.
4/5: fantastic
Kings of Leon
5/5
#316. This album is way better than it has any right to be. I couldn't tell you why it's so good, because in reality no part of it is particularly any better than any thing else out there, but it somehow manages to be greater than the sum of its parts. All of the rest of their albums are more or less exactly what you'd expect from them, but somehow this one manages to be something more.
5/5: fantastic.
Paul Simon
3/5
#317. This album is fine, but kind of forgettable. Nothing at all really stood out as particularly interesting to me while I was listening to it.
3/5: acceptable
Stevie Wonder
2/5
#318. Superstition is good, but the rest of it not so much
2/5: meh
Black Sabbath
5/5
#319. I agree with what everyone else said.
5/5: amazing.
Metallica
5/5
#320. Some say Metallica sold out when they made a video for One, and some argue that they didn't, but it became very much clear that they did when the next album came out. Oh well, we can't have everything, I guess. At least we did have 4 great albums from them, each new one that came out better than the last, culminating with this masterpiece of thrash.
5/5: perfect.
Blue Cheer
3/5
#321. I've never heard of them before, but I thought it was decent. I can see why it wasn't as popular as other similar stuff, but there's nothing too bad here.
3/5: acceptable.
Jack White
3/5
#322. If you look through all the albums I've rated three stars, probably about 83% of the time I just said some variation of "It's not bad, but it's not my favorite." Well, this wasn't bad, but it's certainly not my favorite.
3/5: fine
Sinead O'Connor
2/5
#323. I think its a bit obvious why she was a one hit wonder. All the rest of the songs here are honestly just kind of boring. The one song draws your attention as soon as it comes on, and the rest are just kind of... there.
2/5: meh
John Lennon
2/5
#324. Imagine if this guy remembered how to make good music after he left the Beatles.
2/5: unfortunate
Metallica
2/5
#325. Gimme foo, gimme fie, gimme zabbadabbadie, ooh reaheah! Ok, ok, I'm sorry, but I couldn't help myself from mocking Jemes Hetfield's weird bullshit. He and Lars Ulrich are peak fucking cringe. And this weird ass shit was right at the height of it. I was like 13 when this came out, and even then I was like what the fuck is this. From the top floor of Cringe Tower, Metallica vomited this nonsense upon the world. And then about 5 minutes later they started suing their own fans, so they definitely can get fucked as far as I'm concerned. I honestly don't know how these are the same dudes that made all that good music in the 80s, were they always this retarded, and they just used to be good at hiding it or something? Who knows. All I do know is this shit is shit.
2/5: Good initiative, bad judgement.
Liz Phair
2/5
#326. While playing the game Street Sk8er on the PS1 entirely too much back in middle school, I heard the Weston song 'Liz Phair' probably a hundred times and there's a line where he says "you look real pretty in your video/ and you write better songs than anyone I know," and while I can't speak to the first half, the second half has proven to be a lie. None of these songs are better than... anything. Now there was that one song she wrote that you couldn't get away from all year, but I know that's not the one he was singing about, because that song wasn't out yet. And about that, while we're on the topic, this is YET ANOTHER one hit wonder that they put on this list but they didn't choose the album that the one hit is on. Nah dog, just pick an album at random and throw it on there, itll be fine. Why has that happened so much so far on this list? Why do we treat the customers the way we do? Because fuck 'em, that's why.
2/5: mid af
The Thrills
3/5
#327. These songs all sound like songs from every 2000s teen movie soundtrack.
3/5: all that
Grizzly Bear
2/5
#328. This gets lost amongst all the other generic hipster folk on this list.
2/5: minus one star for that atrocious album title. Do better.
The War On Drugs
4/5
#329. I don't know if this was intentionally made to sound like if Tom Petty made new wave, but that's what I'm getting from it. I know I should hate this, but for some reason I don't.
4/5: weird
The B-52's
3/5
#330. This is exactly as weird as you'd expect. No more, no less.
3/5: strange
The Offspring
3/5
#331. The Offspring is one of those bands I found it hard to get into with any seriousness. The singles are fine, but it's a bit much to want to listen to for a whole album's worth of time. Falls into the same category as Linkin Park and Rage Against the Machine and stuff like that, that I will never really have a desire to listen to, but I probably wouldn't put in the effort to change the station if it came on the radio.
3/5: fine
Michael Jackson
3/5
#332. There's three quite good songs on here, but the rest of it is pretty meh, honestly. Just generic 'we have to make enough to fill a whole album' kind of stuff.
3/5: acceptable
Hugh Masekela
2/5
#333. Thank you for your patience. An associate will be with you shortly.
2/5: jazz
Manu Chao
3/5
#334. Is this bad? It is not. Do I want to listen to it? I do not.
3/5: fine
Tortoise
3/5
#335. Decent enough, kinda background musicky. I didn't really like the first song all that much, and unfortunately that's about half of the fucking thing. I did think the rest of it was pretty good though.
3/5: decent
Isaac Hayes
3/5
#336. This album is good, but damn these songs drag on too long. I think all of them could have been better if they were half length or shorter.
3/5: acceptable
Elton John
4/5
#337. Aside from Jamaican Jerk, which is a terribly annoying song, the rest of it is pretty fucking good.
4/5: yes
Lambchop
2/5
#338. Who is this for? And also who decided this made the cut? There is no way anyone needs to hear this. Certainly no way anyone want to hear it either.
2/5: shit
Yes
3/5
#339. I don't quite know how they did it, seems impossible, but these guy managed to make something both progressive and samey.
3/5: fine
The Boo Radleys
2/5
#340. Before listening to this album, the only thing I had heard from the Boo Radleys was a mediocre cover of an already mid song. Now that I have listened to more of their work, I want to listen to less of their work. It's pretty terrible, if we're being honest.
2/5: please don't.
Hole
3/5
#341. I'm not saying Hole is bad, I quite like some of it, but I am her to say they're overrated. Without her connection to Cobain, this middle if the pack band never would have been that popular and surely would have been one of the thousands forgotten. It's fine, but that's about it.
3/5: if I wanted to listen to a band that's more popular because of who the members were married to instead of on the merit of their music, I'd probably go listen to The Distillers anyway.
Bee Gees
2/5
#342. What the fuck even is this? I was expecting disco, but what I got was like Laurel Canyon's worst secular gospel band. This shit is not for me.
2/5: yikes
Marvin Gaye
3/5
#343. I feel like I should like this more than I do. Maybe I should have drank more yesterday, this seems like it would be nice hangover music.
3/5: acceptable
The Electric Prunes
3/5
#344. Unsurprisingly the two songs listed on the album cover were the best ones. I quite like Get Me to the World on Time. The rest of it was alright, if a bit out there, but Toonerville Trolley I could have done without, if we're being honest
3/5: fine?
Animal Collective
3/5
#345. It's fine?
3/5: ok
Elvis Presley
3/5
#346. I didn't hate this quite as much as I expected. I mean, I didn't really hate it at all, weirdly enough. Maybe just because I hate Elvis fans, I had assumed his music would be as cringe as they are, but it seems alright for the most part. And luckily, all the Elvis fans are dying off, so at least I have that going for me.
3/5: decent
2Pac
4/5
#347. I was honestly this to be overhyped nonsense because he was dead like the Notorious BIG album, but nah this one's actually pretty good.
4/5: solid.
Frank Sinatra
2/5
#348. I got about half a song in before I realized I couldn't do it anymore. Look, his voice is great right, he's a fantastic singer, but man this kind of music just ain't it.
2/5: don't want
Fever Ray
3/5
#349. The music itself is peasant enough, if a little weird, but please tell me why does she look like Dr. Satan from House of 1000 Corpses?
3/5: wat
Soundgarden
4/5
#350. I've never listened to an entire Soundgarden album before, and I didn't realize I already had heard that much of it before. I guess that just goes to show how much power and influence radio djs have over your musical knowledge and experience. I dig it, but not so much that I'd want to buy the album.
4/5: great
Little Simz
2/5
#351. I guess I never really thought about what British rap might sound like, but somehow this is exactly like what I probably would have guessed. 😂 Thanks guys, I really enjoyed this laugh on this early Monday morning. 🤣 Cheers, bruv, or whatever it is you say.
2/5: goofy ass shit 😂🤣😂
Paul Simon
2/5
#352. Like all of Paul Simon's work, this is just bland.
2/5: meh
Talking Heads
2/5
#353. It's exactly what you'd expect from a Talking Heads album. 1 or 2 good songs accompanied by a lot of weird.
2/5: meh
Peter Gabriel
3/5
#354. A few good songs, but nor super impressive overall. It's OK.
3/5: fine
Todd Rundgren
3/5
#355. It tricks you into thinking it's fine at first, but it failed to keep my interest for long.
3/5: acceptable?
Hot Chip
2/5
#356. This one is tiresome and a bit difficult to get through.
2/5: no
Green Day
1/5
#357. Jesus fuck, this is awful. This is just cheesy middle school teenage angst, as written by a weird dude in his mid 30s. Billie Joe Armstrong truly is cringe personified. Green Day should have just stopped after Dookie, that shit was a masterpiece. Or maybe after Nimrod at the absolute latest. The Warning/American Idiot/21st Century Breakdown era of Green Day was truly some of the worst music being played on the radio in the 00's [and that's saying a lot considering the Nickleback/Breaking Benjamin/Staind/Puddle of Mud butt-rock genre was topping the rock charts then]. Luckily the DJs picked up on that fact 10 years too late, and stopped really playing any of the music they made after that, but we were ear raped on a regular basis with those three shit heaps. There is really no redeeming quality to any of this album. I was fully ready to give this album 2 stars, but the more I type, the more I realize it doesn't deserve that much. Fuck em.
1/5: trash
The Flaming Lips
2/5
#358. If ,like me, "She Don't Use Jelly" is the only Flaming Lips song you've heard, and you were wondering if maybe the rest of their songs were better... well, the short answer is: no. Sorry.
2/5: umm...
Donovan
3/5
#359. Most of it was just alright, but a few pretty good songs in the mix.
3/5: good.
Fleet Foxes
2/5
#360. Just more hipster folk drivel, that just sounds exactly like all the rest of the hipster folk on the list. The album cover is pretty cool. I really like that.
2/5: meh
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
#361. What country used to sound like before beer-flag-and-truck bro country took over.
4/5: more, please
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
#362. This was the first album I ever bought, and it seems I still like it just as much.
5/5: I dig it.
Dolly Parton
3/5
#363. Reminds me of The Traveling Wilburys or The Highwaymen. There's a good song in there every now and then, but you can tell they're having a lot more fun than we are.
3/5: decent.
ABBA
3/5
#364. Pop music is pop music. It's always been the same. The music itself may sound slightly outdated, but add some synth sounds and some autotune and any of these could easily be a modern William Eyelash or Cathedral Moan song. Some things never change.
3/5: alright.
Van Halen
2/5
#365. I gave the other Van Halen album an extra star for not being the album Jump and Hot for Teacher are on, but unfortunately I can't do that for this one, and will give it the two stars it deserves. Also, side note: I listened to ABBA yesterday, and if I had a nickel for every time I had to hear a song about children wanting to bang their teacher, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened two days in a row.
2/5: trash
Meat Puppets
2/5
#366. So we're going to listen to the Meat Puppets. It's not the album with Backwater on it, which is the only song by them anyone likes, but it is the one with that Lake of Fire song that Nirvana covered at their MTV Unplugged concert. I always thought that cover sounded bad, but let me tell you what, the original sounded way worse somehow. Geez, wtf? I get the feeling when listening to a lot of Nirvana's music that Kirk O'Bane is trying to sound intentionally bad sometimes, and now I see that he's just trying to sound like his favorite band, the Meat Puppets, who were just accidentally bad.
2/5: shit
The Stone Roses
3/5
#367. This kinda reminds me of The Smiths a little, in a what if The Smiths weren't intolerable kind of way. Except Fools Gold, which doesn't sound anything like the Smiths, and is [coincidence or conspiracy?] the best song on the album.
3/5: tolerable
New York Dolls
2/5
#368. This sounds a bit like a bastard love child of Kiss and The Ramones or something, and not in a good way [if there ever could be a good way]
2/5: pass
Big Black
3/5
#369. It's weird, but I can dig it.
3/5: decent.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
1/5
#370. This one definitely doesn't do it for me. It could be fine otherwise if not for the trumpet. That trumpet, or whatever it is, is terrible. It's more annoying than Bob Dylan's harmonicas. I really hate that bit. I would be willing to listen to a remastered version without the trumpet to see if I change my mind, but for now I hate it.
1/5: painful.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
#371. Hey guys, did you know they were from California?
2/5: Road Trippin was good. The rest you can have
Iggy Pop
4/5
#372. Man, Iggy Pop is an ugly son of a bitch, and every time I look at a picture of him I regret having done so. That doesn't really have anything to do with my review, I just thought I'd put it out there. I did quite like this album though. I've never really listened to any of his music intentionally before, but it's liked it for the most part
4/5: fun
Dagmar Krause
1/5
#373. This wasn't on Spotify, so I had to go find it on YouTube, which is terrible because I had YouTube and all their incessant ads. Anyway I skimmed through a bit on the first few songs, and then just noped on out of there. I don't know what this is, but you can miss me with that shit.
1/5: nah, dog
The Clash
2/5
#374. Boring. It's like some kind of pseudo edgy surf rock or something. So this is what the Boomers called punk, huh?
2/5: yawn
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
#375. Pretty solid album. It's good, but I'm not sure that I'd pick it up to listen to a second time.
3/5: it is what it is.
Fugees
4/5
#376. When I listened to Lauryn Hill's album, I shit on it pretty hard, and I think rightly so. Pretty shit, to be honest. But listening to this here shows me that wasn't always the case. This right here is pretty fucking good. Seems she took the John Lennon approach and decided to go off on her own and just make trash afterwards, but there did, at some point, seem to be some pretty good stuff going on.
4/5: great
Joanna Newsom
1/5
#377. Yo, what the fuck is that?
1/5: no
The Doors
4/5
#378. I always seem to expect The Doors music to be much worse than it is. It's definitely strange, but it also always seems to be better than I remember The Doors being.
4/5: great?
Ute Lemper
1/5
#379. What is happening with Al Gore's rhythm? I've been given Dagmar Krause, Joanna Newsom, and now this all to listen to in only a week's span. What is happening? Am I being punished, Mr. Gore? This album is awful. It certainly makes me feel like I'm being punished. This is CIA black site torture type music. It's says right there on the cover Songs by: Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Scott Walker. Aka "The Worst Artists from this List Crew," and boy did they live up to their terrible reputation here.
1/5: yikes
The Stooges
3/5
#380. OK. Fine. Alright. Acceptable.
3/5: satisfactory
Led Zeppelin
5/5
#381. There's nothing I can say here that hasn't already been said, or that would add to the conversation in any meaningful kind of way. So instead I'll just say that while I have no real desire to be a guitarist or play the guitar in a serious fashion, I do want to learn how to play Stairway to Heaven just well enough to be recognizable, just to see how many guitar stores I can get kicked out of for playing it.
5/5: obviously.
Dirty Projectors
2/5
#382. Okayish, I guess?
2/5: uninspiring
a-ha
3/5
#383. The Sun Always Shines on TV was good. Take on Me is obviously one of the greats. But the rest though is not as good as one might hope.
3/5: decent
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
#384. Not as good as Pretty Hate Machine, but fuck it, I'm in a generous mood today.
5/5: delicious.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
#385. This sounds like something from a Tom & Jerry cartoon. Or maybe something that would be playing in the vaults in Fallout.
3/5: silly
Stevie Wonder
3/5
#386. This album hits in spots, but it doesn't maintain it through the whole album. Definitely a few skippable tracks.
3/5: decent
The Jam
2/5
#387. Generic British radio rock. Nothing spectacular here.
2/5: That's not entertainment, unfortunately
Charles Mingus
2/5
#388. More annoying jazz.
2/5: jazz
Wild Beasts
2/5
#389. Am I going to get in trouble for listening to this without a man bun and a warm IPA?
2/5: dumb
Todd Rundgren
4/5
#390. Four stars. No explanation.
4/5: I said I was not going to explain myself, Why are you still reading this?
D'Angelo
3/5
#391. I think this album is decent. If you want to pop on some 90s R&B, then this is a solid choice. But is it a great album? Something thar one needs to listen to? Not really. It's just one of the choices to pick from that isn't terrible, but that's about it.
3/5: alright.
Elvis Presley
3/5
#392. Not the best Elvis album. I don't know which one is, because I don't know shit about Elvis's music, but I think its probably a safe bet that it isn't this one.
3/5: there are some decent songs here, though.
Don McLean
2/5
#393. Everyone knows this song. No one likes it, but we all know it. And also there were 9 other songs or something. I don't know, it was boring I think.
2/5: There wasn't even any Eugene Levy.
The Clash
2/5
#394. I just don't get what people see in The Clash. It's alternately annoying or boring.
2/5: tiresome
Meat Loaf
4/5
#395. This shits silly as hell, but I suppose that's the point, so you can't really fault it for that.
4/5: I don't know why, that just feels right.
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
#396. Many high quality rappings to be found here.
3/5: quite
Buffalo Springfield
2/5
#397. What, more Neil Young for no apparent reason whatsoever? What is it, my birthday? This 1001 Neil Young albums you should listen to before you die playlist is really paying off!
2/5: Everybody doesn't want less Neil Young!
Dizzee Rascal
1/5
#398. This is the second British rap album I've listened to on this list [and the second British rap album I've listened to in my life] and they've both been shit. At least the Little Simz one made me laugh, this one just makes me wish I was deaf.
1/5: leave the rap to the Americans, the British just don't know how to do it.
Pretenders
2/5
#399. The only one I had ever heard before was Brass in my Pocket from when I heard it two or three times a day while working at the grocery store. Thought that song was annoying then, and it apparently hasn't grown on me since. The rest of the album isn't any better either, so yeah I don't know.
2/5: What does "gonna use my sidestep" even mean?
Sugar
2/5
#400. Never heard of them before. Now I know why. A bit bland and generic. Nothing stands out.
2/5: meh
U2
2/5
#401. U2 is one of the two most overrated popular bands that I don't understand the most [along with Bon Jovi]. Why is it that people seem to like this? And then, separate from their mediocre hair salon music, they're all insufferable twats too. What is it that I'm not seeing here, surely I'm just missing something that everyone else sees.
2/5: dumb
The Doors
3/5
#402. I think I remember saying on a different review that I didn't listen to The Doors much before, but it wasn't as strange as I remember them being. I think this one though must the one that I remember being strange, because there are a few good songs here, but most of it leaves you wondering what the hell is going on.
3/5: acceptable
The Modern Lovers
2/5
#403. This one is a bit shit. Quite difficult to actually get through the whole thing.
2/5: I want to forget about this.
Lupe Fiasco
2/5
#404. This just sounds like he's trying real hard to be like Kanye West. And also he said several times You already know, and something about a fool and liquor. Well you know what sir, I don't already know. The fuck are you talking about? Are you the fool with the liquor? Is this a cautionary tail against fools and liquor? What are you actually talking about? You know what.. I don't care.
2/5: I'm going home
Minutemen
3/5
#405. A strange assortment of fun little songs. Supposedly this is punk. I'm not so sure, but at least it's not The Clash, I guess.
3/5: pretty cool.
Fairport Convention
3/5
#406. I usually dread listening to album on here described as folk, but this was actually pleasant to listen to. I'm not entirely sure if I like it, but I surely don't hate it.
3/5: decent
Wilco
2/5
#407. Not outright terrible. But certainly uninteresting in the same way every other modern hipster folk album is. Also as a double album, it does drag on for quite a while. The second half was better I thought, though.
2/5: boring
Steve Earle
3/5
#408. While not outright terrible or anything, its pretty cheesy in the way that you can tell that this stuff is the beginnings of the modern beer, flag, and truck country we're plagued with today. And also- yet again with the one hit wonders, but the wrong album though. I should go back and count how many times that's happened so far, this list is dopey as fuck.
3/5: fine
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
#409. Not as bad as Born in the USA as far as cheesiness goes, but it does remind me of Meat Loaf way more often than I would have expected.
3/5: okay
The Stooges
3/5
#410. I might have liked this album more if not for We Will Fall. What the fuck even was that? The rest of the album was pretty cool, but then they slapped that silly shit right in the middle of it for no readily apparent reason.
3/5: I don't know
Gang Starr
3/5
#411. Pretty good old school hip hop. Some of his rhymes were kind of cheesy, but it works though. I do like the kind of spoken word kind or rapping like that, but it does sound positively old-timey these days.
3/5: nothing wrong here really
Iron Maiden
3/5
#412. Honestly Iron Maiden without Bruce Dickenson is a pass for me. The music is good, but it's just not enough to do it for me.
3/5: fine
The Specials
2/5
#413. I would personally like to request less Specials, actually.
2/5: not it.
Rahul Dev Burman
2/5
#414. Why is a movie soundtrack on here? And one from some random fucking Bollywood movie at that? I feel like there probably shouldn't be soundtracks on this list, but if there is, why not something good like the soundtrack from that shitass 90s Godzilla movie. That shit was fantastic. This one not so much.
2/5: one, two stars, cha cha cha
The Icarus Line
2/5
#415. This blends in with everything going on around it, but does manage to be a little bit more annoying than all that.
2/5: derivative
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
#416. This is about as subtle as a homeless man screaming at you from the street corner. He may be right, but the delivery makes me not care about what he's saying.
2/5: pretentious
Simply Red
2/5
#417. Hard to get through the whole thing, if we're being honest. Never heard any of this before, and luckily I'm not likely to ever hear it again.
2/5: bad.
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
#418. Bruh... every song on the album can't be about some girl cheating on you. Where are you even finding all these girls that are looking to cheat on you at the drop of a hat anyway? At some point you've got to take a step back and wonder if you're the common denominator here. And all this stuff about I'll just shoot her then... no you won't. That's some act tough keyboard warrior [microphone warrior?] pseudo tough guy shit there. You've clearly had plenty of opportunity and you haven't done it yet. This shit is some sad boy simp country. It's too bad, because the music is pretty good, but the lyrics are... not that.
2/5: maybe you'll get the girl next time, bud.
Lou Reed
3/5
#419. I'm sure this seemed edgy and cool when it came out, but it didn't really age well. If you're listening to it for the first time decades later, it's unlikely to leave a lasting impression.
3/5: decent
Deerhunter
2/5
#420. All these songs are basically just slightly different variations of the same boring song. Mustaches and plaid hipster indie that girls with wide brim hats inexplicably love.
2/5: pretty boring.
The Beau Brummels
2/5
#421. This is a few guys that want to be Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, and the Beatles all at once. Unfortunately for us all, they're not as good as any of them. This album is just eminently forgettable 60s hippie rock.
2/5: meh
Supertramp
3/5
#422. If you're only going to put one Supertramp album on this list, I'm not sure this is the one I'd pick, but it's uh... fine. It's ok. It's not terrible, but I definitely don't find myself getting all that interested while listening to it.
3/5: yeah.
Happy Mondays
3/5
#423. I didn't hate it, but I surely didn't care enough to like it. It really leaves no impression.
3/5: mid
Fiona Apple
1/5
#424. Oof. This shit sounds like some shit your little cousin would try to get you to listen to on Thanksgiving from her SoundCloud or something. And you humor her because honestly it's just easier than being honest, but you honestly just can't wait until it's over.
Has anyone ever wondered what those one hit wonders were doing 30 years later? Because it's this shit. Either they got a real job, or they're doing terrible shit like this trying to catch that high again.
1/5: yikes
The Who
4/5
#425. This is definitely the kind of thing where you could only like it if you already like it. I doubt anyone could be convinced into liking The Who or the concept of a rock opera by listening to this album, probably the opposite would occur. That being said, I already liked it, so I like it.
4/5: silly, but it somehow works.
Emmylou Harris
3/5
#426. This is pretty good, but honestly it's just not for me. The talent is there, but it's just not something I desire to listen to. It definitely sounds like she's trying real hard to sound like Dolly Parton, and I don't know if that's intentional, but I suspect it is since there's a Parton cover on the album.
3/5: decent
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
#427. These Nick Cave albums on this list seem to be pretty hit or miss, and for me this one is a hit. Even though it's a bit of a novelty thing, I liked it much more than I would have thought.
4/5: I dig it
Joni Mitchell
2/5
#428. Yikes. The voice, the music, the song style. Just all of it, it gets a no from me. Listening to this was an exercise in dedication to doing this because the whole time I was just begging myself to make it stop.
2/5: why
Cypress Hill
4/5
#429. I mean, this one's a classic and it's fairly easy to see why. You'd have to really dislike the genre in general to not enjoy yourself here.
4/5: banger
The Flaming Lips
3/5
#430. This album is kind of depressing to me. I don't mean that in a bad way, I swear, but listening to this gives me the big sad. Maybe that's just me, but that's what I got from it. Also, this album was way better in every way than Soft Bulletin.
3/5: acceptable
Beatles
4/5
#431. This is the fith album of theirs I've done so far, and the first one that even tries to live up to the Beatles hype. There's definitely some real good shit here, but a lot of unnecessary fluff as well. If this album was trimmed to like 45-50 minutes instead of an hour and a half, with nothing but the excellent songs and dropped a few of the less interesting songs, I feel like it could actually be the masterpiece that people act like it already is.
4/5: too long
Queen
4/5
#432. A classic album, even if it does get a bit weird at points.
4/5: fantastic.
Kraftwerk
2/5
#433. The first part of the first song is pretty interesting, but the album drags after that. Not really much going on for most of it. Too bad, really. I loved The Man-Machine, but this one doesn't really do it for me.
2/5: boring
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
#434. Like The Smiths, but boring. I mean, the Smiths are boring, but you know what I mean. This is also boring.
2/5: meh.
Bob Dylan
2/5
#435. What are we doing guys? Are we really listening to 90s Dylan? You know we don't have to, right? Now the Spotify algorithm is going to think I want to hear this, and it's all your fault.
2/5: why?
LL Cool J
2/5
#436. This is what I call not very good. A bit cheesy, a bit cringey, and a bit annoying.
2/5: this didn't hold up well
Haircut 100
2/5
#437. This is not an album you need to hear before you die. This is trash. This album would end up in the dollar or less bin at any record store, and then probably still fail to sell.
2/5: garbage
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
#438. Overrated edge lord shit.
2/5: dumb
John Prine
3/5
#439. This is just country Dylan.
3/5: acceptable
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
#440. Skip Spence's story is much more interesting than his music. This acid casualty droning folk blues kinda thing is likely only interesting if you are also another acid casualty.
2/5: boring
Common
2/5
#441. Not particularly interesting.
2/5: meh
Paul Weller
3/5
#442. This reminds me a lot of Joe Bonamassa, just with a lot less going on. It isn't bad though, I don't think.
3/5: decent.
The KLF
2/5
#443. I did what I usually do when they're not on Spotify, I found it on YouTube and just skimmed around a little. Didn't seem very interesting to me.
2/5: meh
Isaac Hayes
2/5
#444. I'm sure this was fine as background music in the film, but it doesn't really stand up as something interesting on its own. It's not bad, it's just boring out of context.
2/5: meh
Joan Baez
1/5
#445. The combination of folk music and opera wannabe vocals is damn near torturous to listen to.
1/5: fuck me, man
Sonic Youth
4/5
#446. I've never really listened to Sonic Youth before, but is not too dissimilar from stuff I do listen to, so I'm not sure why. Maybe I should've been, because I do think this album is pretty good
4/5: decent
Pixies
5/5
#447. This is an album I've always loved, but I couldn't really tell you why. It's just a haphazard collection of silly little songs thrown together with seemingly no sense of order or purpose, but somehow is something damn near a masterpiece despite itself.
5/5: perfect
Pixies
3/5
#448. I can see Surfer Rosa and Doolittle being on this list, but compared to those two, this is a step down as far as one's desire to listen to it goes.
3/5: it's alright.
Girls Against Boys
2/5
#449. The last three days, this app has generated Sonic Youth and Pixies albums for me to listen to. So while this is in the same category as those two bands and the genre is fresh in my mind, it's easy to see its certainly no where near as good.
2/5: meh
Snoop Dogg
4/5
#450. Fantastic, I award this 6 stars. Minus one star for the stupid ass album cover, and minus another star for the song where they're talking about licking balls or whatever.
4/5: yes
Miles Davis
2/5
#451. More jazz
2/5: I cannot
Nas
3/5
#452. All these songs are basically the same. This album just kinda fades into the background for me.
3/5: meh
Prefab Sprout
3/5
#453. While there's nothing technically wrong with this, but I think it's safe to assume that if you're not British and born in the 60s, then you probably don't give a fuck about whatever is happening on this record.
3/5: mid
The Who
3/5
#454. Not the best outing from The Who. The radio commercial skits are not really as funny as they thought it was going to be, and there's really only a couple of good songs on there anyway.
3/5: not terrible though.
Anthrax
3/5
#455. Can I hire Anthtrax's PR guy? Dude's a genius. How this guy got this mid tier band to be called a part of a "big four" is an idea that's always mystified me. It's not like you've ever met any Anthrax fans either, everyone else seems to think they're pretty mid too. How they got to be so highly regarded by critics or whoever is a topic that should be studied.
3/5: mid
Brian Eno
2/5
#456. Whose dick did Brian Eno suck to get this many albums on this list?
2/5: it's fucking shit, man
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
#457. It's decent, but early hip hop sounds super cheesy now.
3/5: acceptable
Elvis Costello
2/5
#458. This is about as mediocre as it gets, which talking about this guy, that's about as good of praise as it gets.
2/5: meh
Bad Company
4/5
#459. Quintessential dad rock.
4/5: hell yeah
Faust
3/5
#460. Weird, but good.
3/5: decent
Aretha Franklin
3/5
#461. An amazing, powerful voice singing pretty generic love songs. Respect is great, but the rest is kind of average.
3/5: fairly good overall
Silver Jews
2/5
#462. About as interesting as an underseasoned and overcooked steak.
2/5: gray
Bobby Womack
3/5
#463. Is this a good album? Sure it is. Is this an album that one *needs* to hear? Not really. Like so many others on this list, it's good enough, but not necessarily anything special.
3/5: decent
Burning Spear
2/5
#464. I mean, it's reggae, it's all basically the same, and not very good.
2/5: meh
#465. So we've had one of Rod Stewart's solo albums, Rod Stewart singing for Jeff Beck, and now one more with his band Faces [and not even the one with ooh la la on it]. So can we all collectively agree that this has been enough Rod Stewart and move on?
3/5: also that album title is stupid as fuck.
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
#466. A pleasing noise
4/5: brilliant
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
#467. Decent, but nothing that seems to stand out from the crowd I think.
3/5: acceptable
Tricky
4/5
#468. So you're telling there's weird obscure British shit on this list that is actually good and not just stupid and annoying? Interesting.
4/5: good
The Cult
3/5
#469. Add another tally to the list of one hit wonders' wrong albums from this book.
3/5: okay at best
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
#470. One good some and a bunch of not good songs.
2/5: no.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
#471. Not great, not terrible, not much.
3/5: fine
David Bowie
2/5
#472. At this point, I expect very little from Bowie, that way I'm not disappointed.
2/5: shit
Living Colour
3/5
#473. Starts out very strong, but isn't able to maintain that throughout.
3/5: acceptable.
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
#474. This band doesn't seem to know whether it wants to be a punk band or a new wave band. While they're trying to figure that out, I'm just going to leave these stars over here.
3/5: decent.
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
#475. Nothing painfully bad, but nothing I'd be interested in hearing again either.
2/5: meh
Carole King
4/5
#476. There's some pretty good stuff going on over here.
4/5: good, good.
Garbage
4/5
#477. A couple of big hits, surrounded by the rest of the album which is just as good.
Also, As Heaven is Wide is the second song from the same video game I've heard on this list that I previously had no idea who performed it.
4/5: fantastic
Culture Club
3/5
#478. This is one where you'd definitely need the associated nostalgia to really like it. No one really needs to hear this one because if you're listening to it for the first time now, it's too late, you're not going to like it.
3/5: ok?
#479. There is probably nothing you could say or do that could convince me that U2 is worth listening to. I just found this annoying.
2/5: dumb
Rod Stewart
3/5
#480. It's fine, I guess.
3/5: music
The Pretty Things
4/5
#481. What if, a band that is actually as good as people pretend the Beatles are, but as a consequence, no one has ever heard of them. Because that's what this is, it seems.
4/5: better than the Beatles, therefore better than Jesus.
Circle Jerks
3/5
#482. Short, sweet, and to the fucking point.
3/5: hell yeah
The Style Council
1/5
#483. This was some mediocre jazzy nonsense that I was fully ready to give two stars, but then he started rapping.
1/5: no thanks, buckaroo
Steely Dan
3/5
#484. After the first it gets a bit uninteresting.
3/5: grandma rock
Motörhead
3/5
#485. Not terrible, but also every song is just about exactly the same.
3/5: fine
Tim Buckley
2/5
#486. This had a lot of potential, but the execution is lacking. Mostly all the songs just go on for entirely too long.
2/5: Hard to get in to.
Turbonegro
2/5
#487. I wish this was instrumental, because the music is good, but damn all those lyrics are dumb as hell, and they're not particularly well sung anyway.
2/5: meh.
Q-Tip
3/5
#488. Pretty decent, but nothing stands out as being particularly interesting.
3/5: acceptable
New Order
3/5
#489. Seems like something that would be used for the soundtrack of a modern 80s period piece, but probably wouldn't have been good enough to be in actual movies from the time.
3/5: fine
Tears For Fears
4/5
#490. Three great songs, no terrible songs. What more could you want? Oh yeah, I want every album on this obviously incorrectly named book to be like this.
4/5: fantastic
fIREHOSE
2/5
#491. This album is boring, from start to finish. Probably shouldn't have expected much, as everything from Ohio is awful.
2/5: yawn
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
#492. This album and this whole genre, whatever it may be, gets a nope from me. This shit is like nails on a chalkboard. Like if you bought a 3 year old a toy xylophone and then had to listen to them play it for an hour. Just so much noise for no reason.
2/5: fuck
Devendra Banhart
2/5
#493. Generic hipster folk
2/5: uninteresting
Bob Dylan
3/5
#494. The first song and last song were pretty good, and the rest of the stuff sandwiched between are probably just there because no one knows how to reign him in.
3/5: acceptable
The Jam
3/5
#495. None of this really caught my attention. I kept listening, waiting for the good part, but then it just kinda ended.
3/5: fine, sorta
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
#496. This shits fucking weird, bro. Just another filler album to get to that magic number, it seems.
2/5: not
Kate Bush
3/5
#497. This album nose dives hard in the second half. Waking the Witch is terrible, and it just gets weird after that. It's too bad really, because the first half was pretty good. I guess that's the way it goes sometimes, what are you gonna do?
3/5: just listen to side a and then find something better to do with your time.
Madonna
2/5
#498. This was worse than I anticipated.
2/5: cringe
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
#499. This is elevator music. And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if it's the greatest elevator music album on the world, it's still just elevator music.
2/5: yawn
Fairport Convention
2/5
#500. A dull slog that I had to force myself to get through. I liked one of their other albums that I listened to from this playlist, but this one didn't have that same something, whatever it was.
2/5: just kinda boring, really.
Raekwon
3/5
#501. This is an album that exists. That's about it really. It's not something I would recommend as there's hundreds that are better, but I also wouldn't recommend against it as there's nothing wrong with it.
3/5: acceptable
Germs
3/5
#502. The very definition of Live fast, die young.
3/5: violent
Adele
3/5
#503. Solid.
3/5: acceptable
The Incredible String Band
1/5
#504. What the fuck?
1/5: atrocious
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
#505. Is this good? It is not. Do I like it anyway? Yes, I do.
3/5: like pop punk, but better.
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
#506. One of the albums of all time.
2/5: not one of the good ones, mind you.
Janelle Monáe
3/5
#507. I've never been the target audience for this type of music, and I can only bring myself to enjoy it but so much, but I can't say I really found any flaws with this one.
3/5: solid
Sarah Vaughan
2/5
#508. If she was singing at a bar I already happened to be at, I wouldn't necessarily be upset about it, but I can't say I'd specifically seek her out to go listen to though.
2/5: bar background music
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
#509. This is exactly what I've come to expect from Mr. Costello. Which is to say- it isn't very good, and I don't like it very much.
2/5: nah
Leftfield
2/5
#510. Not my favorite.
2/5: meh
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
#511. Definitely not as good as their previous stuff. Good on them for trying, I guess, but this one doesn't quite do it like the earlier albums.
3/5: acceptable
The Monkees
2/5
#512. Are there any Spinal Tap or 2ge+her albums on here too?
2/5: exactly as you'd expect
Justice
3/5
#513. Dance music outside of a club meeting is equal parts annoying and depressing.
3/5: fine
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
#514. Jazz
2/5: jazz
Drive-By Truckers
2/5
#515. Viewed as satire, this comes off a bit amusing, but unfortunately I don't think that was the point. It'd just truly mediocre music coupled with middle school poetry competion quality lyrics and Lynyrd Skynyrd references.
2/5: bad
Mudhoney
3/5
#516. I mean, it's pretty decent, but it's unlikely it'll be one I remember in a few month's time.
3/5: solid
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
#517. Sounds exactly like what you'd expect Albarn's even further to the side side project would sound like.
3/5: fine
Travis
2/5
#518. Intentionally uneventful background radio rock.
2/5: meh
The Velvet Underground
2/5
#519. With this third Velvet Underground album I've listened to on here, I've come to discover they're honestly not very good, and are overrated for some reason. This album does at least have 1½ good songs, which is more than their other albums, but those are just surrounded by mush.
2/5: don't.
Van Morrison
3/5
#520. This is the kind of guy I'd expect to be playing in the back of a bar somewhere. It's not too bad, but I probably won't be paying too much attention to it while he's playing though.
3/5: fine
King Crimson
2/5
#521. After listening to The Court of the Crimson King, I was expecting big things from this, but no, this was boring as shit.
2/5: meh
The Byrds
2/5
#522. All the other music from the Byrds I've heard has been pseudo-Beatles stuff, so I was expecting more of that. I was a bit suprised and very much not amused to learn this was all ol timey country music though, which I was less inclined to enjoy.
2/5: no
Roxy Music
3/5
#523. Fine, but not particularly exciting.
3/5: acceptable.
Christina Aguilera
2/5
#524. Pop music that is past it's expiration date.
2/5: meh
Tom Waits
1/5
#525. Halfwayish through, and I've come to realize that list is not as good as it wants everyone to believe, and Tom Waits is one of the reasons why. At this point I'm kinda torn about quitting or pushing through when I know full well there's still a lot of trash of this caliber coming, there's no getting around that.
1/5: terrible
Orbital
2/5
#526. Tedious and boring to the layman.
2/5: meh
The Fall
3/5
#527. This album is not long and still it seems entirely too long.
3/5: whatever
OutKast
3/5
#528.Speakerboxx is a solid 4, but The Love Below is a weak 3. I guess that averages to 3.5, but I'm going to round down because fuck it.
3/5: half good
Pere Ubu
2/5
#529. The vocals are really off putting here. This could be fine otherwise, but I just can't get past that.
2/5: nah
Elbow
3/5
#530. Music for middle aged divorced wine-moms.
3/5: fine, I guess
Joy Division
3/5
#531. I should really go back and count how many one hit wonder's wrong albums are on this list. This strategy is confounding to me.
3/5: fine.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5/5
#532. Only eight songs, and four of them are inescapably huge hits. I don't see any other option than to give it the highest rating.
5/5: nothing wrong here
The Prodigy
4/5
#533. As long as it doesn't have that song where they scream 'give me a ride' that they used for MotoGP for years, I'm down.
4/5: crab
System Of A Down
3/5
#534. I want to like this more, but Serj Tankian's voice and vocal style is almost painful to me, so I could never really get into it.
3/5: acceptable
Boards of Canada
2/5
#535. Dumb.
2/5: no
Thundercat
2/5
#537. I wouldn't have guessed muzak-rap would be something to come into existence, but here we are.
2/5: meh
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
#536. I wonder how the guy that made this list even found this weird ass shit, let alone decided that anyone else should ever have to listen to it as well.
2/5: pretty bad
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
#538. It may be mid at best, but it's certainly the best Echo and the Bunnymen album I've heard on here so far.
3/5: acceptable
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
#539. Any one of these songs sound like they could have been used in a 'preparing for the heist' montage scene from Ocean's 11 or something.
2/5: it's something.
N.E.R.D
3/5
#540. I couldn't really find much on this album I really think is all that interesting, but at the same time it's not bad or anything.
3/5: acceptable.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
#541. I haven't liked the other movie soundtracks I've heard on this list, but this one's not too bad.
3/5: decent
Britney Spears
2/5
#542. Like the Christina Aguilera one, this album is very of its time, which is well past its expiration date.
2/5: not for me
Talking Heads
2/5
#543 It's exactly what you'd expect from a Talking Heads album. 1 or 2 good songs accompanied by a lot of weird.
2/5: meh
R.E.M.
2/5
#544. It's REM. It's exactly what you expect. If you expect to like it, maybe you will, but there is nothing you can say to convince me REM is good.
2/5: a bit shit
The Black Crowes
4/5
#545. It very much seems like they're trying to be something and somewhen they are not. The cultural appropriation vibes aren't lessened by the fact that the biggest hit on this album is an Otis Redding cover. I know it sounds like I think it's very good, but I'm not done yet, hear me out. Just like the Beastie Boys and Taco Bell, just because it's inauthentic doesn't mean it isn't good.
4/5: quesarito
Erykah Badu
2/5
#546. Kind of a whiney voice. I don't really like the songs either. This one's not for me.
2/5: meh
Coldplay
3/5
#547. Look, there's nothing wrong with this. It's not bad or anything, I'm just not the target demographic. This is for middle aged wine moms, not me.
3/5: fine.
Roxy Music
2/5
#548. A bit bland and uninteresting, mostly.
2/5: meh
10cc
3/5
#549. I've never listened to 10cc before, but for some reason I thought they were like some kind of new wave or electronica or something. Turns out they were just making regular radio rock the whole time. This album is a bit goofy at times, but it's pretty decent overall.
3/5: acceptable
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
#550. Jazz
2/5: jazz
Death In Vegas
2/5
#551. This album was a bit hit or miss for me. Some of the songs were pretty good, if a bit background musicky, but others were kind of annoying.
2/5: forgettable
Digital Underground
2/5
#552. This isn't terrible by any means, but this kind of thing is past it's prime and sometimes hard to get into if you didn't listen to this kind of thing at the time.
2/5: meh
Spiritualized
3/5
#553. Never heard of it before, but looking at the description I see this is the guy from Spaceman 3. This right here is Spaceman Prime! And he did it! After all those years of studying Earthman music, he finally managed to make some himself. Shame he had to leave his two Spaceman pals and do it himself, but maybe they were dragging him down or something. It's still not the best music you've ever heard by a long shot, but it's better than the zeep zorp noises he was making as one of the Spacemen 3.
3: good job, bud
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
#554. I didn't expect much seeing as how every reggae song/album is basically the same, and it was more or less exactly what thought it would be. This one does have three big hits that I've heard before, so I'll give an extra star for not absolutely boring me to death like most reggae albums do.
3/5: fine
Metallica
3/5
#555. Metallica made four of the best metal albums out there in a row, so it's kinda disappointing that they so abruptly changed direction like this. They've made some truly awful music over the years, but this first foray into radio rock is certainly the least terrible. One could argue that this could be a four star album, but I'm going to subtract one because I hate Lars Ulrich so much.
3/5: sellouts
Eminem
4/5
#556. Some of it may not have aged well, but Eminem was so iconic at the time it's easy to overlook it. The songs themselves are pretty fucking good.
4/5: great.
Christina Aguilera
2/5
#557. I can't say that I liked this one. It's a pop star past her prime trying desperately to cling on to relevance, and honestly I don't think she's succeeding. All of it was uninteresting, and the album is way to long.
2/5: meh. No, double meh.
Elliott Smith
3/5
#558. Perfectly acceptable guitar pop. Nothing more, nothing less. A bit Beatles-ey at points.
3/5: fine
William Orbit
2/5
#559. This sounds like something for a movie score, not something you'd actually want to sit down and listen to. Not that it's bad, this would be great movie background music, I just don't really need to sit down and listen to a whole ass album about it.
2/5: yes?
Elliott Smith
3/5
#560. Slightly better than the other Elliott Smith album on here, but still nothing particularly amazing.
3/5: fine
Def Leppard
2/5
#561. I find Def Leppard's music to be grating and don't really understand why people find it to be interesting.
2/5: not it
The Youngbloods
3/5
#562. This guy sounds like Herbert the Pervert from Family guy.
3/5: acceptable
Van Morrison
2/5
#563. Low budget Rolling Stones.
2/5: weak.
Alice Cooper
2/5
#564. He's not any less cheesy here than any of his other albums. There's the one song everybody knows here, but it starts with that and gets less interesting as it goes on.
2/5: meh
Neu!
3/5
#565. This seems like a very short double album. The first three songs are very distinctly different than the last three. I do believe I like the second half better.
3/5: decent.
Hookworms
2/5
#566. This seems like the type of copyright free music people would use for YouTube videos.
2/5: meh
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
#567. Not terrible by any means, but very much not the type of music I desire to listen to.
3/5: not for me.
Kanye West
3/5
#568. I liked this quite a bit more than I expected to. Dude was already fucking weird as shit at this point, hence the fishsticks joke [which i found hilarious that he mentioned that here] but it seems he was still capable of making some pretty decent music.
3/5: decent
Carpenters
2/5
#569. Mildly interesting poppy hippie music.
2/5: meh.
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
#570. If I was 22, at a club, high, drunk, or high and drunk then I might like this. But I am a 30 or 40 year old man listening to this in the car on the way to work. And its super repetitive without being interesting in any way. Kinda reminds me of the Prodigy or Orgy, but less interesting.
2/5: pass
Sonic Youth
4/5
#571. This album is pretty great overall, ut there's a few toward the end that kinda drag it down from a 5 star rating.
4/5: fantastic
The Byrds
3/5
#572. Another solid pseudo-Beatles album from the Byrds. Pretty solid all round.
3/5: acceptable
Morrissey
2/5
#573. It's good that he doesn't mind if I forget him, because I surely will have done by the end of the week.
2/5: meh
TLC
3/5
#574. I remember TLC being a force to be fucking reckoned with back in the 90s, but listening to it now it just doesn't seem to be as powerful for whatever reason. I suppose all pop music expires after the time period it existed in, and there's no getting around that.
3/5: still not terrible by any means
Japan
3/5
#575. It sounded promising at first, but honestly I found my interest waning as the album progressed.
3/5: not too bad.
Brian Wilson
2/5
#576. I don't really want to listen to this whole thing.
2/5: please stop.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
#577. This is pretty annoying from start to finish. I'm pretty sure I can see what he was trying do do, but fuck man, the execution is lacking
2/5: no
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
#578. This isn't bad, but I really struggle to get into shit like this. Maybe you just had to be there to get it. I kinda wonder had I lived through this era of music would this be like Creed, where I hated it at the time but now I kind of enjoy some of it, or like Nickleback where I hated it at the time and now I hate it more. I suspect probably the latter, but who can say.
3/5: mid
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
#579. There's two great hits here, but the rest of the album is kinda weak.
3/5: acceptable
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
#580. This is perfect mom rock. Well, I guess grandma rock at this point, but you know what I mean.
3/5: decent
Led Zeppelin
5/5
#581. Led Zeppelin made some great records, and this is one of them.
5/5: fantastic
Ryan Adams
3/5
#582. This sounds like the kind of music your mom would put on after she's had two and a half Michelob Ultras and is feeling kinda spicy and she brings some candles and her back massager with her to the bath. Yeah, that's who this music is for, I'm sure.
3/5: mom rock
Throwing Muses
2/5
#583. This wasn't on Spotify, so i skimmed through a little bit of it on YouTube. I didn't listen to much, but what I did listen to sounded like shit.
2/5: no thanks.
Sparks
4/5
#584. Delightfully strange. I liked it, but at the same time it's probably not something that I'll listen to again.
4/5: neat
Led Zeppelin
5/5
#585. I don't know if this is exactly a 5 star album as the second half is less good than the first half, but honestly I think Kashmir alone is worth rounding it up to a 5.
5/5: yeah.
The Auteurs
3/5
#586. Mid-tier indie rock
3/5: it's fine
David Ackles
1/5
#587. Weird. Boring. Where do you people even find half the shit on this list?
1/5: shit
Massive Attack
3/5
#588. Perfectly acceptable music flavored music. Let's be honest though, this was not so much a massive attack as it was a minor skirmish.
3/5: ok
2/5
#589. Mildly annoying noise rock. The first song isn't too bad, but it only gets worse from there.
2/5: nah.
Iggy Pop
2/5
#590. Certainly not his best work.
2/5: boring
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
#591. What is the context in which people heard and/or liked this? It wasn't played on the radio. I've certainly never heard anyone mention this band even a single time in my life. How did they get to be on a list like this in the first place? It's not like the music itself is super mind blowing or anything, it's just... there.
3/5: I guess
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
#592. I usually don't find this oldies type of rock and roll to be super interesting, but for some reason Buddy Holly is different, and I do like this quite a bit.
4/5: great
Sex Pistols
3/5
#593. The Sex Pistols have always been popular and influential, but they existed never been good. I suppose that's a bit of the point though.
3/5: even this score is overinflated.
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
#594. Bongo
3/5: bongo
Johnny Cash
3/5
#595. Was that it? Even with one song played twice and a lot of banter in between, this was super short. For some reason I was expecting more.
3/5: still pretty good, but surely you've got more
The Human League
2/5
#596. It's not techno, it's new wave! And you're listening to Wave 103!
Ok, ok, the Human League song that was in that game was not from this album, but it was the first thing I thought of.
Anyway, this album would be ok, but 'The Thing That Dreams are Made Of' and 'I am The Law' are fucking bad, and they really drag the rest down.
2/5: not great overall
The Replacements
2/5
#597. Pretty unimpressive British punk.
2/5: meh.
Television
3/5
#598. I saw this one was highly rated, and there were a lot of 5 star ratings on here, but I guess I just don't get it. It just sounds like someone trying to make a prog-punk version of the Rolling Stones or something.
3/5: fine
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
#599. There's so many examples of a one hit wonders wrong album on here that it's surely intentional at this point. This is just repetitive and kinda boring, honestly.
2/5: meh.
Talking Heads
2/5
#600. It's exactly what you'd expect from a Talking Heads album. 1 or 2 good songs accompanied by a lot of weird.
2/5: meh
[I wonder if anyone will notice i just copied and pasted this review four times?]
3/5
#601. This is U2's best album by a very wide margin and it's still just mid on a good day.
3/5: average
Frank Ocean
2/5
#602. What do you get when you mix a bad rapper, a bad singer, and a bad musician? Frank Ocean, apparently.
2/5: alternately bad and boring.
Gil Scott-Heron
2/5
#603. Jazz
2/5: jazz
Cee Lo Green
2/5
#604. I was kinda just waiting for it to be over the whole time.
2/5: less than exceptional
Laibach
3/5
#605. This is absolutely weird as fuck, but you know what? I don't hate it.
3/5: strange
ZZ Top
3/5
#606. Other than La Grange, the rest of the album is just kind of alright.
3/5: fine
The Young Rascals
3/5
#607. Pretty standard hippie music. Terrible album cover though.
3/5: acceptable
Frank Black
2/5
#608. Well, it's not the Pixies, it it?
2/5: meh
Jacques Brel
2/5
#609. Not gonna lie, I only listened to the first song. I'm sure someone that cares that I'm mispronouncing the word croissant could explain why this is important, but honestly I probably wouldn't listen anyway.
2/5: not my jam
The Beach Boys
2/5
#610. Beach Boy dies, next day "random" generator tells me to listen to Beach Boys. Coincidence or conspiracy? Whatever. Still cheesy as hell either way.
2/5: meh
Joe Ely
3/5
#611. It's alright, but nothing more. I dont hate it, but i wouldn't recommend it.
3/5: fine
Destiny's Child
2/5
#612. So many of these 90's pop albums are so hard to get through. This shit is so cheesy, how is this stuff what everyone thought was good back then?
2/5: I think I wasn't ready for the jelly.
John Cale
2/5
#613. Honestly just sounds super generic. What and/or who is it for? Did they play this, or anything like it, on the radio? What is the scenario in which an album like this would be played, outside of observing it like this for inspection?
2/5: why?
Joni Mitchell
3/5
#614. Blue, the other album of hers you made me listen to, was like nails on a chalkboard, so I was expecting more of that here. But this is actually tolerable. It's nothing special or anything, but it's miles and miles ahead of the expectations going in. You could actually listen to it without wishing you were deaf. And honestly thats all I've come to wish for with half the shit on this list.
3/5: acceptable.
Buck Owens
3/5
#615. Pretty standard old timey country music it seems.
3/5: acceptable
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
#616. I didn't hate this album necessarily, but i certainly didn't love it. Neil Young is entirely too pretentious and self important, and everything he does is too "look at me." A lot of these songs and the album in general would have benefited from being significantly shorter.
3/5: and I think thats being really generous, honestly
Duke Ellington
2/5
#617. I just really dont like jazz music. I just can't get into this.
2/5: jazz
The Triffids
2/5
#618. Spotify says there's 46k monthly listeners for this band. Surely there's not 46 thousand people at any one time listening to them for this list, so it makes you wonder who are these people out there listening to this intentionally?
2/5: not great
Willie Nelson
2/5
#619. This is, at this point, and old timey country sing singing covers of very old timey pop tunes. The catch is, he's actually fairly terrible at singing, so all of these are the worse version of each song. Not sure that anyone would be honestly interested in this for any reason.
2/5: no, thanks.
The Black Keys
3/5
#620. Some of this is catchy enough, but you find yourself asking who cares? This is blues rock for people who hate blues and rock.
3/5: by hipsters, for hipsters.
The Hives
3/5
#621. If you guys were allowed to pick greatest hits albums all along, they why have we been listening to so many with only maybe one good song on it for so many other artists?
3/5: acceptable
Joy Division
2/5
#622. So... when people say Joy Division is good, they literally just mean that song Love Will Tear Us Apart, don't they? Because there's certainly nothing on this album that's any good.
2/5: not
Sabu
2/5
#623. There's possibly some context in which you could convince me this is good, but I dont know what it is at this moment.
2/5: it's probably drugs, I'd guess
Donald Fagen
2/5
#624. It's Steely Dan without the steel. Aluminum Dan, if you will.
2/5: pontoon boat rock.
R.E.M.
2/5
#625. REM sucked yesterday. REM will suck tomorrow. And for 48 minutes this morning, REM sucked today.
2/5: shit
Can
2/5
#626. I usually dont really like jam bands, but for some reason today I also dont like jam bands.
2/5: meh
Shuggie Otis
3/5
#627. Acceptable-tier easy listening guitar r&b.
3/5: fine
Coldplay
3/5
#628. Music for stay at home moms to listen to while their kids are off at school.
3/5: mid
50 Cent
3/5
#629. This shit's all cheesy as fuck, but somehow it's still good.
3/5: alright
Soft Machine
2/5
#630. I can't say that I'm a fan of this at all. Just some fuckers noodling about for a bit.
2/5: no
Fred Neil
2/5
#631. He is a good singer, but these songs are not really compelling. How do you make a song about cocaine boring?
2/5: meh
Roxy Music
2/5
#632. It's clear to me by now that Roxy Music was one of the author's favorite bands growing up due to how much of their stuff [and some of their solo stuff] is on this list. But let's be honest though, it's just not very good. The music is boring and the singing is truly awful on some songs. I could definitely go without listening to this group before I die.
2/5: yawn
3/5
#633. This is what you get if you put Talking Heads and David Bowie in a blender.
3/5: acceptable
LTJ Bukem
2/5
#634. This is probably good as background music while studying or some thing.
2/5: fine
PJ Harvey
3/5
#635. The only other experience I have with PJ Harvey is the album Rid of Me from this list, and that was truly awful. So this one, being not awful, exceeded all expectations I had going into it.
3/5: decent.
Sonic Youth
3/5
#636. There are several Sonic Youth albums on this list, and some of them are quite good. This one, while fine, is nothing spectacular and is very questionably deserving to be here.
3/5: fine
KISS
2/5
#637. Genesis Simmons is an annoying twat and his music is terrible.
2/5: shit.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
#638. This was quite boring.
2/5: yawn
The Verve
2/5
#639. Look, we already had the album that has their one song that anyone gives a shit about, we don't need another Verve album on here. It's not any good, it's literally just there.
2/5: meh
Ice Cube
2/5
#640. I think i expected more? This disnt really do anything for me.
2/5: meh
Simple Minds
2/5
#641. At this point I'm convinced it's intentional and done directly to spite me that there's so many one hit wonder's non-hit albums on this list.
2/5: nah
Joni Mitchell
2/5
#642. Nope
2/5: stop
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
#643. Hey, uh, that sure was, um... something.
2/5: something
Primal Scream
2/5
#644. It started off pretty decent, honestly, but it quickly devolved into background noise.
2/5: meh
Neneh Cherry
1/5
#645. This sucks. I don't know how anyone could like this.
1/5: no
Johnny Cash
4/5
#646. This is way better than the San Quentin one.
4/5: yes
Mike Oldfield
2/5
#647. This sounds like movie soundtrack music.
2/5: not something that you need to listen to before you die. Feel free to die before you've heard this.
Mariah Carey
3/5
#648. I've complained before that all the 90s pop music on here is tired and dated and doesn't stand up anymore, but Mariah does still sound good all these years later. I mean, it still sounds of it's time, but it's not so painful to listen to like a lot of the other 90s pop.
3/5: still fine
Deep Purple
3/5
#649. I mean, this isn't something I'd listen to all the time, but it does fuck.
3/5: he'll yeah
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
#650. I cannot explain to you why I liked this, but I did.
4/5: yes
Black Sabbath
5/5
#651. A pretty fantastic debut album. And not just a beginning for them, but also for a genre that I still spend the bulk of my time listening to. This album isn't particularly short, but it ends with you wanting more. It could easily have been 2 or 3 times longer without any complaints from me.
5/5: perfect.
David Bowie
2/5
#652. Jesus, more Bowie? When will it end? This is the fucking seventh album of his already. Why? This shit is not good.
2/5: shit
Neil Young
3/5
#653. Neil Young is a pretentious twat, but there's no denying he knows how to make a good song or two. Unfortunately that's about it though, none of his albums seem to have more than one or two good songs, and this one isn't different.
3/5: fine
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
#654.
Step 1: Find an artist that people know one [or more] of their songs.
Step 2: Pick one of their albums that have none of these songs on it [and surely do not need to be heard before you die] and put it in the book.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit.
3/5: fine
American Music Club
2/5
#655. Nope
2/5: don't want
The Temptations
3/5
#656. I think maybe this is one of those things you would have had to be there to get it. It's probably better in context. Because I can see that it's good, but I just don't really care, if that makes any sense.
3/5: solid
The Killers
4/5
#657. The second half kinda drags, but there is no denying the first half
4/5: fantastic
Thin Lizzy
3/5
#658. I probably would have only gone to see Thin Lizzy if the tickets were pretty cheap. That being said, they played all three of their songs, so I wouldn't've been disappointed I guess.
3/5: fine
Richard Thompson
2/5
#659. This doesn't really do it for me. It started off fine, but the longer it went on, the more I just wanted it to be over faster.
2/5: meh
Stephen Stills
3/5
#660. This all seems like filler. There's nothing wrong with it I guess, but it's not super interesting.
3/5: three
Santana
4/5
#661. A proggy jam band kind of album that is less than 40 minutes? Perfect
4/5: yarp
Caetano Veloso
2/5
#662. I probably wouldn't have liked this even if I knew what he was talking about. Shit's just a bit weird. Sounds like something you'd hear on an Austin Powers soundtrack.
2/5: meh
The Blue Nile
2/5
#663. This probably shouldn't even be on the list of best 1001 albums from 1984, let alone of all time.
2/5: meh
Elvis Costello
2/5
#664. I looked, and it seems there are 6 of his albums on this list. So now that I've listened to this sixth and last of his albums here, I can go back to never listening to Elvis Costello ever again. Which I am thankful for.
2/5: nope
Public Enemy
3/5
#665. Everything with Flavor Flav can be improved by having less Flavor Flav
3/5: fine
The Beach Boys
2/5
#666. <insert Steve Buscemi "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme here>
What is happening with this album? This shit is fucking weird, and not in a good way.
2/5: yikes
Sonic Youth
3/5
#667. This album starts really strong, but doesn't quite maintain it throughout the entire thing.
3/5: decent
Miles Davis
2/5
#668. Not just jazz, but annoying jazz. Great.
2/5: how much jazz will I have to endure on this list?
Jane Weaver
2/5
#669. Now I've never been in an iPhone store, so I'll never know for sure, but this has the vibes of something I'd guess would be playing in an iPhone store.
2/5: a bit shit
The Mars Volta
4/5
#670. I started listening to this list to possibly find some music that I'd never heard that I really liked and would want to listen to more going into the future. And for probably the fifth or sixth time out of almost 700, it has happened again.
4/5: about time
Megadeth
2/5
#671. Metallica was made better by the lack of Dave Mustaine, and I'd be willing to bet money Megadeth would be better without Dave Mustaine as well.
2/5: nah
Maxwell
3/5
#672. This is the kind of music that's in the ads on Pornhub.
3/5: fine
The Cure
5/5
#673. This album is pretty close to what you'd call a masterpiece. If you don't like this, than we probably can't be friends.
5/5: more, please
TV On The Radio
2/5
#674. This is just a bit pretentious and uninteresting.
2/5: yawn
The Band
3/5
#675. Pretty standard southern rock fare. Nothing really standout, but it gets the job done, I suppose.
3/5: acceptable
Big Star
2/5
#676. A handful of painfully average hippy songs.
2/5: meh
Madonna
1/5
#677. Man, do you guys remember when Madonna saw Britney and Christina in the 90s and delusionally thought "I'm still relevant and as hot as these girls even though I'm literally middle aged" and then we all had to endure this cringe personified try to reinvent herself for a generation that didn't want or ask for any of that? Pepperidge Farm Remembers. And shit man, she's trying to do it again, but now she's these kid's grandma's age and she looks like an alien.
All Madonna albums are on the lower end of the scale as far as quality goes, but this one seems to be particularly trash. If you have the opportunity to check out this album, just don't.
1/5: terrible.
Radiohead
5/5
#678. Well, i mean, obviously.
5/5: as you'd expect
Joni Mitchell
2/5
#679. Whiny hippie music. Joni Mitchell just isn't as important as the guy who wrote this seems to think she is.
2/5: meh
Fatboy Slim
2/5
#680. It's noisy. That's about it.
2/5: yeah
Van Morrison
4/5
#682. It's good.
4/5: I like.
Pavement
3/5
#681. Decent shoegazey alternative rock.
3/5: acceptable
Coldcut
2/5
#683. What's that noise? I'm not sure, but there sure is a lot of it.
2/5: meh
Minor Threat
3/5
#684. Why listen to The Clash or The Sex Pistols when this exists?
3/5: it's just better
Kid Rock
3/5
#685. I feel like the fact that this song is one of the lowest rated on here is funny. It's just virtue signaling by internet dorks who think their political opinion matters. Even in a vacuum where you didn't know anything about the guy or his politics, there is just so much fucking unlistenable trash on this list that this album just slots somewhere in the middle by default. I mean, there are six huge hits on this album. I had to get to the fifth song before I heard one I hadn't heard before. There's so many on here that have zero hits in their entire musical career, let alone on one album. And you know if you're about fourteen business beers deep at about 1:37 am and Only God Knows Why came on you know you're going to be singing along to that auto tuned monstrosity, and if you say otherwise, we know you're a liar.
3/5: fun enough, if dumb as hell
Elis Regina
2/5
#686. I honestly didn't even give this a fair shake. I skimmed through it a bit, but it's really not for me. So if you planned on calling me biased an stupid, know this: you're right and I don't care.
2/5: meh
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
#687. I dig it. It's a bit pretentious, and a bit too noisy for It's own good in some spots, but I do like it though.
3/5: fine
3/5
#688. I liked a few of the songs well enough, I suppose, but I didn't really find much of it really compelling to be honest. It's tolerable is the best compliment I can think of for it.
3/5: I tolerated it.
Mj Cole
2/5
#689. Boring UK pop electronica.
2/5: meh
Rage Against The Machine
2/5
#670. This is the second time I've had to unblock a song on Spotify to listen to an album for this list. The other time was Muse. Not that there aren't artists I hate more than this [there definitely are], it's just that Spotify doesn't recommend those ones to me. Now don't get me wrong, I *love* the political violence message that all of Rage Against the Machine's albums preach, I just think all of their music is annoying as shit.
2/5: dumb
Rush
5/5
#691. Fantastic.
5/5 yarp
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
#692. Neat, I guess, but I'm not listening to this whole thing.
3/5: fine
Traffic
3/5
#693. Pretty standard hippie folk rock, but with the occasional flute or saxophone solos thrown in..
3/5: fine
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
#694. Not the most interesting all the way through, but there was some cool stuff in there.
3/5: acceptable
Tim Buckley
2/5
#695. I bet people that listen to show tunes would be big into this.
2/5: meh
The Byrds
4/5
#696. Starting an album off with a song about doing meth and killing the queen is a wild strategy. In fact, I'm going to give it an extra star just for that.
4/5: why not.
MGMT
4/5
#697. This album fucks way harder than you would expect it to.
4/5: grand
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
#698. Very British. Not very good though.
2/5: bland
Björk
3/5
#699. As weird as you like. Maybe even a bit weirder. I don't think anyone could pull off the witchy forest nymph vibes better than her.
3/5: good
Sepultura
3/5
#700. This one starts out with a fucking banger, but the rest of the album isn't as good.
3/5: decent
Aerosmith
2/5
#701. Super cringey cock rock, and also Steven Tyler's voice is terrible. This album has i think 4 top 40 hits, which should get it at least 3 stars, but I'm going to round down because I'm a hater.
2/5: boo! Your album is bad and you should feel bad.
Hole
2/5
#702. She just switches from whiny moaning to yelling, and she's not really good at either.
2/5: meh
Roni Size
2/5
#703. I'm going to be honest, I didn't listen to this whole thing, because honestly I just couldn't be bothered. I skimmed through a bit, and they're all the same so if you listened to one, you basically know how the all are.
2/5: nah
Beastie Boys
3/5
#704. I find most 80s rap music to be cheesy as all hell, and this is really no different. Probably even more so because they're all white dudes.
3/5: acceptable.
The Divine Comedy
2/5
#705. I feel like I need more context, because it seems like this is an inside joke that I just don't get. Seems like a Scott Walker tribute band, but 30 years too late for anyone to give a shit.
2/5: entirely too British
Tim Buckley
2/5
#706. I absolutely love the Jeff Buckley album that is in this book, so I was quite interested in hearing the music his father made. After listening to three of his albums now, I think I can say with a fair amount of certainty that I do not like Tim Buckley's music.
2/5: not great.
Lou Reed
2/5
#707. Honestly I found this to be kinda generic and somewhat boring.
2/5: meh
Underworld
2/5
#708. I suppose this kind of music has its place, but on a list of essential albums to listen to is not that place.
2/5: meh
The Stooges
3/5
#709. Nothing here stood out as being particularly interesting. It's not bad or anything, its just not my favorite.
3/5: acceptable
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
#710. Fairly cookie-cutter early glam rock. Not great, not terrible, but kind of exactly as you'd expect.
3/5: fine
David Holmes
2/5
#711. These repetitive club dj albums are simply not great to listen to in their entirety out of the context of a club
2/5: meh
Ananda Shankar
3/5
#712. This is the kind of thing you listen to and go "huh, neat" and then never think about ever again.
3/5: fine?
R.E.M.
2/5
#713. Do we really need four REM albums on this list? The answer is no. Unsurprisingly, I think this one sucks just as much as the other three.
2/5: shit.
Cornershop
2/5
#714. I'm pretty sure I had an opinion of this, but I forgot what it was.
2/5: something
Eric Clapton
3/5
#715. This is fine. There doesn't seem to be much to it, but its not terrible.
3/5: acceptable.
Peter Frampton
4/5
#716. I am pretty sure I've never heard the studio versions of any of these songs. I know a lot of these songs from just hearing them on the radio over the years, but its always been this live version of all of them, I'm pretty sure.
4/5: great
The Charlatans
3/5
#717. A somewhat generic Britpop band thats sounds like they really want to sound like Bob Dylan
3/5: acceptable.
Goldie
2/5
#718. There is entirely too much of this kind of electronica from this book. Honestly this is one of the better ones, but still I have very little desire to sit through this entire thing.
2/5: meh
The Adverts
3/5
#719. How many albums are left on this list? Because I'm running out of ways to say something is average.
3/5: acceptable
The United States Of America
2/5
#720. They're so focused on just how psychedelic they can make it, they forgot to make it good.
2/5: it isn't
Bee Gees
3/5
#721. I could just copy my review of their albums Trafalgar, because I have basically the same thing to say. When you're looking for the Bee Gees, you're really only looking for their disco stuff, not this.
3/5: tolerable, but only just
Fugazi
3/5
#722. Reading a few other reviews, it seems that I'm the odd man out in thinking this isn't super impressive. I mean, I don't hate it by any means, but I really don't see why this would be held in such high esteem.
3/5: acceptable
ABBA
3/5
#723. I've heard more than one person describe Ghost as a "goth ABBA," and now that I've actually listened to an ABBA album, I can say that I don't disagree. Some of these songs have a quite weird juxtaposition of depressing lyrics and happy sounding poppy music.
3/5: decent
Black Flag
4/5
#724. There's a lot of shitass British punk albums on this list, but they're all basically the same and pretty mid at best if we're being honest. This is what punk should sound like.
4/5: great
Janet Jackson
3/5
#725. Like all old pop music, its a bit outdated, but its fine.
3/5: acceptable
2/5
#726. About 2 hours of uninteresting moaning.
2/5: meh
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
#727. It's fine?
3/5: acceptable
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
#728. If I could specifically get less of this, that would be grand.
2/5: nah
Missy Elliott
3/5
#729. Keeping with tradition here with an album from an artist we know that has none of the songs we've ever heard.
3/5: fine
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
#730. Mid-tier hipster rock
2/5: meh
Megadeth
4/5
#731. Much better than Peace Sells, but still could be improved with anyone else on the microphone. I'm going to give this a generous 4 for reasons I don't quite understand myself either.
4/5: yes
Kelela
2/5
#732. Nothing particularly interesting here. Not terrible, just not interesting.
2/5: meh
Waylon Jennings
4/5
#733. Why is it that old country music seems to be the only category in this book that isn't populated by assorted trash seemingly picked at random?
4/5: pretty good.
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
#734. The description of this says country, but it surely isn't that. This is pop music in the same category as Natasha Bedingfield or Norah Jones. It's fine as far as easy listening pop music goes, I guess.
3/5: acceptable
Dion
2/5
#735. Really grasping at straws with this one trying to hit that 1001 number, weren't we?
2/5: eh
Gene Clark
3/5
#736. Not the worst post-fame solo album I've ever heard.
3/5: acceptable
Peter Gabriel
3/5
#737. There sure is a lot of Peter Gabriel on this list, isn't there?
3/5: fine.
Deep Purple
3/5
#738. Why is every single song so long? This might have been great for those people there, but I'm not there, so the dragging out of every song just gets quite tedious.
3/5: could've been better
Billy Bragg
2/5
#739. Shitty sounding pretentious twattery.
2/5: not great
Solange
1/5
#740. Damn. This is way worse than I expected. And I didn't really expect much.
1/5: yikes
Method Man
4/5
#741. Good shit.
4/5: decent
Small Faces
3/5
#742. There is entirely too much exposition happening on this album.
3/5: fine.
Django Django
3/5
#743. This sounds like one part Beach Boys, and one part hipster rock.
3/5: acceptable.
Aimee Mann
2/5
#744. Pretty forgettable. This is like an opening act for Lilith Fair.
2/5: meh
Jungle Brothers
3/5
#745. I did with this album what I do with all of them I have to look up on YouTube, I half assed it. I skimmed through a few songs, it seemed fine to me I guess.
3/5: acceptable
Derek & The Dominos
4/5
#746. That Little Wing cover is not great, but other than that I quite liked it.
4/5: it works
Harry Nilsson
4/5
#747. I accidentally fucked up and put the coconut in the lime.
4/5: I hope I'll be ok.
UB40
2/5
#748. Reggae? No. Reggae made by white people? Double no. Reggae made by British people? Triple no. Yet another artist on here that's a one hit wonder, but we're listening to a different album for unknown reasons? Quadruple no.
2/5: just no
Killing Joke
3/5
#749. Second day in a row of an artist with popular songs, but on a different album. I'm sure it's 100% intentional at this point and they're fucking trolling me. How else could you explain sooooo many instances of this happening?
3/5: fine
Napalm Death
2/5
#750. This could be vastly improved by the vocalist just kind of yelling instead of doing vocal fry screams. Because he is not good at it, it sounds like shit, and drags the whole thing down. Or alternatively he could just get better at it, I guess. But as it is, it's not a good look.
2/5: meh
The Cure
4/5
#751. This album is a whole ass vibe, as the kids would say. Not that they'd say it about this, mind you, because this is oldies meant for people from the 1900s, but you know what I mean. It's good, go listen to it.
4/5: fantastic.
k.d. lang
3/5
#752. This is now the second album of country covers I've listened to. This is obviously significantly better than the Willie Nelson one, but honestly I still can't be bothered.
3/5: fine?
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
#753. Man, when this album opened with a song called Being Boring, I should have guessed what was coming.
2/5: boring
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
#754. I know there's some good old country music out there, but I'm not entirely sure this one has a place on that list.
2/5: meh
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
#755. I wouldn't have expected to like lesbian punk, but I actually thought it was pretty decent.
3/5: acceptable
Miles Davis
2/5
#765. Jazz
2/5: jazz
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
4/5
#757. Even though most of the ratings for this one are threes and fours, all of the most liked comments are the one star ratings, which leads me to believe that one guy with an incognito tab was just liking all these shitty reviews over and over in order to make it look like people don't really like this. I'm going to add one star to what I actually thought just out of spite for that guy.
4/5: whatever
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
#758. This doesn't really hold up very well. Was it popular or influential at the time? No idea, but it's not for me right now.
2/5: meh
Dire Straits
4/5
#759. It's always interesting to me when you see somebody do something so well that it seems easy enough that I could do it.
4/5: great
Nico
2/5
#760. I first listened to the Velvet Underground album with Nico on it. I thought it sucked. Not the end of the world, I guess, maybe just a pairing that doesn't really work. But then I listened to two more Velvet Underground albums, and nope they both sucked too. And now I'm here listening to this and it sucks as well. It's just a trifecta of suck that I personally could do without.
2/5: have I said the word sucks enough yet?
PJ Harvey
3/5
#761. I don't hate it, but i don't like it, if that makes any sense.
3/5: fine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
#762. Look, I know this probably deserves at least a three, but I've had a rough night, and I hate the fucking E̶a̶g̶l̶e̶s̶ Red Hot Chili Beppers, man.
2/5: please, spare me from this
2/5
#763. What's worse than jazz? Insane jazz.
2/5: jazz
Emmylou Harris
3/5
#764. Fine, if you're into that kind of thing.
3/5: acceptable
The White Stripes
3/5
#765. Blue Orchid is great, and the rest of it is fine too, I guess.
3/5: acceptable
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
#766. I don't know what this is, and I am not interested in learning.
2/5: nah
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
#767. This is not the greatest Trout Mask in the world, this is just a replica.
2/5: wtf
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
#768. Weird mostly, but still impressive in a way. Probably not something I'd listen to a second time though.
3/5: acceptable.
The Streets
2/5
#769. If I learn nothing from this experience, at least I will have learned British rap is quite possibly the stupidest genre of music to ever exist.
2/5: dumb
Marvin Gaye
2/5
#770. He had the option to not do this, and he did it anyway.
2/5: don't
The The
2/5
#771. This one is just boring, mostly. The only even mildly interesting thing about it is it's kind of weird. Not weird enough for anyone to care, but just weird enough where thats the only thing I can think of to say about it.
2/5: boring.
Milton Nascimento
3/5
#772. Fun enough, east to listen to poppy kind of music.
3/5: not bad
The Yardbirds
3/5
#773. Aside from the terrible album cover, its pretty fine otherwise. Its decent overall, but not particularly interesting to me in particular.
3/5: acceptable
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
#774. Is this really one of the thousand best albums you could come up with? Does this really deserve to be here over the many glaring omissions that could be on the list instead? Not really.
2/5: meh
Beatles
3/5
#775. There is entirely too much Beatles in this book.
3/5: fine
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
#776. Pretty awesome record.
5/5: fantastic
Brian Eno
2/5
#777. More Brian Eno, great...
2/5: stop
Big Star
4/5
#778. Wasn't expecting much, but i got a lot more than I expected.
4/5: pretty good