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This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
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5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
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5 | 3.68 | +1.32 |
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Back to Basics
Christina Aguilera
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4 | 2.76 | +1.24 |
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Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
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4 | 3 | +1 |
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Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
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5 | 4 | +1 |
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She's So Unusual
Cyndi Lauper
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1 | 3.48 | -2.48 |
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Homework
Daft Punk
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1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
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1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
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1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Porcupine
Echo And The Bunnymen
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1 | 3.08 | -2.08 |
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
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2 | 3.96 | -1.96 |
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Very
Pet Shop Boys
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1 | 2.93 | -1.93 |
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Who's Next
The Who
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2 | 3.91 | -1.91 |
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Headquarters
The Monkees
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1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
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Disintegration
The Cure
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2 | 3.85 | -1.85 |
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Took a lot of notes per song then closed the tab without saving. Basically a white band to bring black music to white people. Little richard sounding songs, heard it through the grapevine cover, bluegrass/blues standard sounding stuff.
First original sounding song on the album is the one that just started after I zoned out with the unnecessarily long ending of heard it through the grapevine and accidentally closed this tab, long as i can see the light. Pretty cool tune, brass section and piano.
travelin band remake, dont need to listen to it twice, this is the most obvious little richard one, the lack of woos is disturbing me.
live version of up around the bend.
born on the bayou. Cool tune i guess.
Deep Purple
3/5
Highway star. Good intro song, sweet bassline, cool keyboard/organ.
maybe im a leo. cool riff. Both songs have melodies and a sound that remind me of 8 bit video games.
pictures of home. cool mix of solos, guitar then organ then even bass for a second!
never before. funky intro.
smoke on the water. classic, not sure why its so iconic, every other song so far has been just as good if not better. maybe just because the main riff is catchy and the chorus?
lazy. sweet organ intro, trippy, cool. followed by guitar, cool instrumental through the first half.
space truckin. catchy chorus. Cool guitar strumming in later verses adds some 'texture' or something. dig. little drum solo action
when a blind man cries. ballad. pretty good
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
i aint the one. guitar jam, cool keys too. music and guitar tone reminiscent of aerosmith.
tuesdays gone. classic, ballady, meh.
gimme three steps. awesome bassline. fun jam
simple man. top shelf song, good music, melody, chorus.
things goin on. folky/bluegrass intro, cool riff then some bluesy/ragtime keys.
mississippi kid. tinny diddy with a little slide guitar and finger style.
poison whiskey. jam. guitar song, sweet riff. cool solos from guitar/keys.
free bird. iconic, song is alright, probably so iconic simply from the solo, which is kind of a bluesy face melter.
mr banker. classic blues sound. rhythm/lead guitar and vocals only.
down south jukin. similar to 3 steps, kind of cool.
demo versions.
R.E.M.
2/5
drive. ok, cool orchestral strings elements
try not the breathe. reminds me a bit of gaelic folk but with more production. meh.
sidewinder sleeps tonite. this is some 90s shit. not much going on, over a bed of organ.
everybody hurts. big hit. not a great song. used in every ham-fisted movie/commercial where the word 'hurt' can be applied.
new orleans instrumental no. 1. Um, ok. Boring, but fine enough.
sweetness follows. everything is just so boring, overproduced, like youre in a cloud of mediocre music. I guess people like this band for the lyrics.
monty got a raw deal. cool arpeggio i guess. More of the same, has a little of that gaelic folk.
ignoreland. more music cloud, vocals sound far off.
star me kitten. cosmic mediocre music cloud.
man on the moon. has an actual chorus and clear guitar. best song on the album so far.
nightswimming. nice clear piano. vocals with some echo for some reason but at least present and somewhat clear. music cloud comes in and out but piano remains consistent at least.
find the river. sounds like an actual song too, album ends strong, background vocal melodies instead of music cloud in other songs, its fine, not great.
The Cure
2/5
plainsong. big, flowy, echo. interesting choice for an intro.
pictures of you. the cure seems to love chorus/flanger pedals. and really long intros. background/elevator music.
closedown. 2 minutes in, song starts. jesus christ.
lovesong. a song that actually sounds like a song. a very overrated one at that.
last dance. bleh.
lullaby. well i do want to fall asleep.
fascination street. these are 2-3 minute songs with 2 minutes of fluff intros. what the hell. im already bored with the song before the lyrics start.
prayers for the rain. cool melody at least
the same deep water as you. intro was only 90 seconds this time. same dramatic montage shitty movie sound.
disintegration. 1:45 intro.
homesick. at least this one sounds like a proper intro, piano/guitar accompaniment, actually musical instead of ambient noise. nice harmony, drums come in with main riff only about a minute in. best intro so far, albeit still to long. strings come in 90 seconds in, then synth at 1:45. kind of ridiculous, now its absurdly long. lyrics start after 3 minutes. fuck this lol.
untitled.
David Bowie
3/5
speed of life. cool eclectic instrumental. sweet baseline, spacy synth intermixed.
breaking glass. nice baseline again, modern guitar comparison would be jack white maybe.
what in the world. odd. dissonant. not sure, definitely not very enjoyable.
sound and vision.
always crashing in the same car.
be my wife.
a new career in a new town.
warszawa. weird and interesting
art decade.
weeping wall.
subterraneans.
not impressed honestly.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Britney Spears
2/5
innocuous pop for the most part. the slow ballad songs are forgettable, the big singles are kind of catchy, hard to pinpoint why it caught on so much at the time, 1999 was a weird time in music.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
green onions. for some reason I thought this was a zz top song.
rinky dink. thinking music on a game show, or ambient fair music.
pretty cool instrumentals. organ and a little funky, pretty cool for early 60s.
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Alanis Morissette
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
its fine
Robbie Williams
2/5
not good.
90s uk music was weird. sounds like blur and oasis and austin powers and all of the rest of them. id give it a 3 but the more of these albums i come across i realize i have to get more drastic with ratings, this isn't a 2 as in the garbage that was the cure/REM but its not as good as some i've given 3s.
His voice is actually pretty good. The music is just formulaic and mostly uninteresting, and the songs themselves feel very time and place and trying to be what was popular at the time.
angels is the corniest fucking song. all of these songs are fucking corny.
The Young Rascals
2/5
very few interesting songs. sounds like what i imagine was on any beatles influenced radio station in the 60s.
David Bowie
3/5
meh. I wish you could rate these on a decimal system, all of these 'listenable' but wouldn't listen to again or purchase albums are getting kind of tiresome and rating them a 3 seems too high and too low at the same time.
Pet Shop Boys
1/5
this is ruining my night. I rage quit the relaxing game I was playing because I couldn't, and didn't even want to, focus on anything because this music is so fucking stupid. It's going to be a struggle to finish this, worse than REM and The Cure certainly. Dreaming of the queen is listenable. to speak is a sin is fine when the singer isnt singing.
Skimming through must because I just couldnt. 2 songs on the whole album that didn't make me want to run to the nearest living thing and kill it.
Cat Stevens
2/5
pretty bizarre vocals. first song is just weird. Creepy as fuck, terrible vocal choices (plaaaayyyyaaaaayyy heeeeyyyy ayyyyyy).
Talking about always remembering her as a child, girl. What the fuck. This guy is a creep.
The Pretty Things
2/5
sounds vaguely like lsd era beatles but not as good.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
cool album cover
moderately interesting pop. closer to 3 than a 2.
John Grant
3/5
weird. not bad though. ridiculous lyrics. closer to 3 than 2.
Pulp
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5/5
super cool, pretty punk rock. Interesting music, lots of variance song to song, really good bass lines.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
pretty cool. I wonder if this was new in 1959? Seems like pretty cool but not amazing jazz, but given the time maybe more profound? Pretty sweet regardless.
The Fall
2/5
kind of redundant songs, chanty lyrics.
SZA
3/5
its fine i guess.
Neil Young
3/5
its fine, don't love it.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2/5
not very good. Chanting and stuff just to be weird but not particularly interesting. 2.1
Queen
3/5
Solid. 3.6.
Metallica
3/5
It's Metallica. Never been a huge fan or anything, but this isn't one of their bad albums at least. Solid 3.5 at least.
David Bowie
4/5
Better than the last Bowie album, I like the flow of the songs, good continuity in the album as a whole, good composition and even some cool solos and stuff.
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Don't really care for electronic music in general, but its fine. Background noise.
Can
3/5
Only 4 songs on the album, seems experimental. Imagine it was kinda cool for 1973. A little jazzy, a little psychedelic/avante garde. It's fine.
The Go-Go's
2/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
2/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
pretty dope, 3.5 or higher but below 4.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Some really good tracks on this one. Jamming, waiting in vain, turn your lights down low, 3 little birds, one love/people get ready. 3.7.
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
flanger/chorus, whispy vocals, but kind of heavy. Interesting at least. Songs all sound the same, all the music is just washed out flangy/chorusy cloud. It's Ok. 2.9.
Slipknot
3/5
Wasn't into it when it came out, as I had been going to hardcore shows for a few years by this time, and it wasn't anything new, just a heavier version of mainstream hard rock/hardcore-lite like Korn or something. Pretty sweet drums though. Songs generally sound the same, everything detuned, repetitive, wait and bleed was the big single, probably because its one of the few with actual singing so more digestible for mass audience. Production/mixing a lot better then contemporary hardcore acts. 2.9.
Sidenote, the costume/mask stuff is fucking dumb.
Laibach
1/5
sounds like a shitty german version of stomp or some shit. I can only assume this is included because its an early version of what would become 'industrial' music or something. It sucks, and every song sounds like there are dudes banging metal trash cans. I bet Rammstein listened to a lot of this. 1.3.
Nirvana
4/5
Classic, not a whole lot to say.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Solid. 3.5.
The Band
4/5
pretty sweet. 3.8.
Beach House
3/5
Ambient mood album with some poppy elements. It's fine. 3.4.
Slint
3/5
Interesting at least. 3.1.
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
lmao. 80s goth kids act like this was some type of new music, or cooler than the rest of the '80s' music. It's literally just 80s pop with a deep voice guy talking a lot. It's not bad or anything. 2.8.
Beatles
4/5
Not a huge fan of the beatles in general. Solid album though. 3.5.
4/5
It's fine. Not my style but kind of cool and she has an interesting voice. Good mix of songs, doesn't all sound the same. 3.8.
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Look what I can do on my laptop. Sweet for the 90s.
Elliott Smith
3/5
Catchy and fine. 3.2
Yes
3/5
Surprisingly good. Turns out I don't hate Yes, I hate Yes' "hits". 3.6.
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
drivel. 2.1.
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Cool enough. Probably more impressive in '74 when it was released. 3.1.
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
pretty good, like proto-grunge/indie or something. Not too dated sounding honestly, probably because its mostly just good old guitar/drums/bass for the most part. I can dig it, don't love it or anything but it's good especially for 1988. 3.6.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Enjoyed it more than I thought. Some songs are annoying, but most are pretty good. 3.9.
Kings of Leon
3/5
meh. 3.1
Bebel Gilberto
4/5
Jazzy and awesome. Can't understand and still love it. 4.3
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Not my thing. 2.7.
Pink Floyd
3/5
It's just Ok. 3.0.
Mariah Carey
3/5
not great, a lot more choir-y r&b bullshit songs than I would have expected given her voice. Several songs where she shows it off though. 2.8.
The B-52's
3/5
Pretty cool I guess. 3.4.
The Stone Roses
2/5
meh, 2.4.
TLC
4/5
Perfect 90s sound, well made, a couple classics. Top shelf 90s r&b. 4 flat.
Billy Bragg
3/5
It's fine. 2.9.
Depeche Mode
3/5
It's listenable, unmistakably depeche mode, good background music. Don't love it though. 3 flat.
Ozomatli
3/5
2.9
Cheap Trick
3/5
pretty good, 3.1
Dr. Dre
4/5
Classic, exemplifies 90s west coast rap. 4.3
Daft Punk
1/5
Redundant annoying garbage. I don't care if they were the pioneers of making music on a laptop.
Stereolab
2/5
The Who
2/5
2.6
Various Artists
1/5
no
3/5
pretty good. nostalgia, mid 90s hits. 3.5.
Culture Club
3/5
Pretty solid pop, catchy, good voice. Not my thing but it's pretty good. 3.2
N.E.R.D
3/5
pretty cool, not great, kind of repetitive but interesting at least. 3.2.
Funkadelic
3/5
its fine, not great. Was probably better for its time. 3.1.
1/5
Can't find it anywhere
Aerosmith
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Beatles
2/5
Boy band level shit. 1.7.
Jerry Lee Lewis
1/5
Terrible.
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
Meh, pretty boring. 2.3.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Epic, even though it's short. 4.5.
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
pretty cool, interesting beats. 3.6.
Bert Jansch
4/5
pretty sweet, great guitar, country/bluegrass. 3.8.
Sonic Youth
2/5
Maybe it was cool for 1988, sounds pretty experimental and noisy, lots of effects for some reason. Not really enjoyable, no notable tracks.
Dagmar Krause
1/5
it's like ... part musical ... part ... what you get if you tell germans to make a david bowie album? Not feeling it, 1.3.
Elis Regina
3/5
Pretty cool. There's some interesting avante garde kind of songs, then some regular mellow jazz kind. I dig it. 3.4.
Ride
2/5
kind of innocuous. Not particularly good or interesting, background music for some sort of boring movie montage. 2.5.
R.E.M.
2/5
Better than the first album of theirs I got. Extremely boring, but distinct '90s' sound even though it came out in 1983, so probably pioneering in some ways. 2.6.
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Fucking. Garbage. Avante Garde my balls. Can't even give it a rating.
Prince
4/5
Some really good tracks, and some bad ones. The crappy 80s drum track sound doesn't hold up in my opinion, but isnt too annoying in most songs. Title track is my favorite. 3.7.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
I want to really like it, but I don't. The music is fantastic, the voice isn't. 3.1.
Scritti Politti
3/5
synth pop, trash can drum machine track. All of the bad things about the 80s, but decently melodic and a couple interesting tracks. Not bad. 2.8.
R.E.M.
3/5
I havent really like any REM album I've heard yet, but this is fine. I can at least appreciate the sound they are producing given the era it came out, much better than a lot of popular music in the mid to late 80s, I'm guessing they are so well regarded because they were early pioneers/influences for 90s alternative. 3.2.
Circle Jerks
2/5
its 15 minutes long
Michael Jackson
3/5
Slipknot
3/5
whatever
Cyndi Lauper
1/5
bad
Van Morrison
4/5
Pretty awesome. Good voice, music, lyrics, songwriting/composition. I dig it.
The Offspring
3/5
Classic of my childhood. Pretty good sound, decent variety, not exactly groundbreaking or anything but just good solid 90s alternative. 3.3.
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Surprisingly listenable. Pretty interesting, and recognizable songs. 3.0.
Fats Domino
3/5
Pretty cool for mid 50s. Early rock, heavy blues influence. Doesn't really hold up over time IMO, recording isn't great, but definitely holds its place in history, probably below Little Richard but still respectable. 3.1.
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
I think usually people consider Melancholy the SP magnum opus, but this album is absolutely fantastic. Everything I like about Melancholy I like about this album as well. Top shelf. 4.3.
John Coltrane
2/5
1.8. Not for me.
Dead Kennedys
3/5
iconic punk. 3.1.
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
It's ok. Cool soul style, but none of the authenticity or originality of old school soul. This is kind of a UK Mass Market version from 2019. 2.8.
Moby Grape
3/5
2.7
Pixies
3/5
Pretty good. Kind of a mix between punk and goth of the era. Where is my mind became pretty iconic and is a great tune. 3.4.
Klaxons
2/5
Not very good, but kind of interesting I guess. I bet Imagine Dragons listened to this and was like 'Hey, we can do that' but lacked any of the talent or imagination of this band. 2.5.
Ray Charles
4/5
pretty easy listening. 3.7.
Rod Stewart
2/5
Bad
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
Charmingly weird. Not great and probably wouldn't listen again, but you can hear a lot of different influences in the music, and for 1979 I think it's kind of cool and holds up pretty well. 3.3.
Lou Reed
3/5
meh, its fine. I don't care for it and it's not particularly interesting. 3.0.
Nico
2/5
Whimsical kinda boring folk music, with a terrible singer. No thanks. 1.8.
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Pretty bizarre. Seems like parody of the 60s music at the time, kinda scathing. Not great to listen to though, which I guess is kind of the point? 2.7.
Gram Parsons
2/5
not my thing, not terrible but not really notable in any way. 2.4.
The Temptations
3/5
the funky songs are great, the ballads or whatever not so much. 3.2
UB40
3/5
its alright, nothing mindblowing. 2.8.
The Monkees
1/5
garbage. 0.
Nick Drake
3/5
Good guitar. I like it, don't love it. 2.9.
Judas Priest
3/5
Pretty dope, especially for 84. 3.2
The Byrds
3/5
pretty basic 60s hippie shit. Its ok. 2.6.
Mercury Rev
2/5
Boring. Poser throwback to psychedelic rock I guess. 2.4.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Pretty good. Their version of proud mary is pretty iconic. Songs are listenable, I don't love CCR or anything but they're pretty good. 3.3.
Aerosmith
4/5
Even the none hits are great, and the hits are iconic. 3.9
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
I don't really like Pearl Jam, but this is a very well made album. 3.4.
Joni Mitchell
4/5
pretty dope. 3.7
Calexico
3/5
its alright, nothing special. 2.7.
The Doors
2/5
The Temptations
3/5
Not great, kind of forgettable. 2.8
Q-Tip
3/5
Pretty good, great beats, kind of an oldschool vibe even though it's from 2008. I dig it. 3.3.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
It's fine. Voice goes from interesting at the beginning then starts to wear on me. Overall pretty good.
Bobby Womack
3/5
Easy to listen to, not great but I'm not mad at it. 2.8.
ZZ Top
3/5
Dope riffs, 3.3
Pretenders
3/5
Meh, it's ok. Sounds like they tried to mix it up between some sort of pop-punk and straight pop to appeal to a wider audience, but it all kinda sounds the same. 2.8.
Joe Ely
1/5
Bad
The Young Gods
3/5
Kinda cool. I'm not huge into industrial rock, but given it's age it holds up, and I'm sure influenced a lot of later acts. pretty good. 3.4.
Ramones
3/5
Not bad, pretty rough recording and a lot of it sounds the same. A couple good tracks, cool style. 3.1.
Soft Cell
3/5
Not bad actually. Not my thing at all, but the songs are decently composed, interesting melodies and the synth is interesting on a lot of tracks instead of just solely the same redundant loops like so much pop at the time. 3.0.
Simple Minds
3/5
2.6
Waylon Jennings
3/5
whatever
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
typical hippie shit. 2.8
Anthrax
3/5
vocals are atrocious, but the rest is a pretty good fuck you to hair metal of the time. 3.1
Alice Cooper
3/5
pretty cool, interesting enough, good variety. 3.4.
Bob Dylan
3/5
its bob dylan alright.
Christina Aguilera
4/5
Pretty good. More soul/r&b than I remember from her popular more pop tunes. Not really my thing, but the music and her voice are infinitely better than someone like britney spears. Good mix of songs, well produced. 3.7.
Johnny Cash
3/5
3.4
Def Leppard
3/5
I would have hated the 80s. 2.7.
David Bowie
4/5
The Style Council
3/5
first half of the album is alright, 2nd half has a lot of stereotypically 80s garbage. 2.6
Peter Frampton
4/5
pretty good, 3.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
I remember loving RHCP as a kid. By the time I was a teenager, they were putting out what I consider garbage. This might be their last good album before the poppy mess started, as I haven't heard the one they released just after. Everything from Californication on is fucking garbage, but this album holds a special place. Lots of great tracks, mix of funk and rock, some iconic hits. 4.2.
Sheryl Crow
2/5
Way worse than I remember
Sonic Youth
2/5
So much fuzz. Not a fan. 2.3.
Haircut 100
3/5
Corny as fuck, but not that bad. Some interesting musical arrangements, even if it can't escape that ubiquitous shitty 80s sound at times. Horns give it big boost. 2.8.
Arcade Fire
2/5
Boring.
Donovan
2/5
Otis Redding
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
1/5
80s shit
Small Faces
2/5
2.5
Carole King
3/5
pretty good. I don't think it sounds particularly special, good melodies, good voice. Just good. But for '71 maybe it was boosted by originality or something.
Beastie Boys
4/5
unironically dope. I've only really heard their hits, but this album is in eclectic journey with some really sick beats/samples. 4.2.
Fairport Convention
2/5
Beck
3/5
Keith Jarrett
3/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
Bill Callahan
2/5
Boring. Not bad, but not my thing at all. 2.3.
Simon & Garfunkel
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
The Strokes
2/5
Not only does every song sound basically the same, but it sounds like a dozen other bands at the same time. I don't know who was copying who and I don't care, it's not interesting.
Sister Sledge
3/5
Pretty good. No fat on the album, so many strong basslines, good vocals. I can dig it. 3.5.
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Masterpiece.
Can
3/5
Not the worst experimental album I've heard. 2.9.
Kate Bush
3/5
It's not good, but kind of interesting. Maybe for the time it was pushing the envelope, I could see this influencing future artists. 2.6.
Funkadelic
3/5
Pretty cool, 3.5.
Hole
3/5
Pretty well composed and mix for a grunge album. 3.1.
Frank Zappa
4/5
Not my fav Zappa album, but peaches en regalia is an all time jam for my money. 3.8.
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Whatever, can't bring myself to care about it. Sounds like any country/folk album ever made.
Norah Jones
3/5
It's fine. 3.6.
Al Green
4/5