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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5 | 2.9 | +2.1 |
| All That You Can't Leave Behind | 5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
| evermore | 5 | 3.04 | +1.96 |
| The Trinity Session | 5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
| Shaka Zulu | 5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
| Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 | 5 | 3.17 | +1.83 |
| I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | 5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
| Beautiful Freak | 5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
| A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector | 5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
| First Band On The Moon | 5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thriller | 1 | 4.22 | -3.22 |
| What's Going On | 1 | 3.94 | -2.94 |
| Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols | 1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
| Doggystyle | 1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
| Hot Rats | 1 | 3.36 | -2.36 |
| System Of A Down | 1 | 3.26 | -2.26 |
| Me Against The World | 1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
| The Blueprint | 1 | 3.22 | -2.22 |
| Roxy Music | 1 | 3.11 | -2.11 |
| No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) | 1 | 3.06 | -2.06 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
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| Adele | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| U2 | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
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| Sepultura | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Marvin Gaye | 3 | 1.67 | 2.33 |
| Roxy Music | 3 | 1.67 | 2.33 |
| Public Image Ltd. | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Megadeth | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Tom Waits | 5 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
| The Fall | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
5-Star Albums (27)
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
How does this man hear recordings of himself, and think, "yes, singing is clearly something I'm good at and should continue doing"?
2 likes
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
I'm not a big fan of the Pumpkins, but "Disarm" is a great song
1 likes
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
I just do not enjoy being screamed at for an hour.
The instrumental song was nice, though
1 likes
1-Star Albums (44)
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Michael Jackson
1/5
Air
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Solomon Burke
4/5
Like a lot of music of this era, I love the sound of it, as long as I don't listen too closely to the lyrics
Dusty Springfield
3/5
On a scale of 1 to Dusty Springfield, how bad was your breakup?
Talking Heads
2/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
The first half is definitely better than the second. Her hits are amazing, though.
R.E.M.
3/5
Duran Duran
3/5
Exceptionally 80s
Guns N' Roses
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
2Pac
1/5
I'm really not a rap person
Tim Buckley
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Black Flag
1/5
Not a punk person, either
Blur
4/5
Eels
5/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Elevator music for a very fancy hotel. I thought tango music would be faster?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Peter Frampton
4/5
Charles Mingus
3/5
I was enjoying this album until the second half. Moog Raga sounded like background music from a Muppets alien sketch. Triad was about trying to convince someone to be a part of a trouple (with possibly more to join later). And I just didn't like the last three songs.
The Byrds
3/5
I was enjoying this album until the second half. Moog Raga sounded like background music from a Muppets alien sketch. Triad was about trying to convince someone to be a part of a trouple (with possibly more to join later). And I just didn't like the last three songs.
Dr. Octagon
2/5
Good beats, but the obsession with the word "rectum" got really old.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Korn
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Skepta
3/5
The Zombies
4/5
A love song to his girlfriend in prison
A song about Emily, who no one will ever love, and ever her flower garden will fade so it can't even be used on her grave
A song about how maybe his girl will love him again after the new guy is gone
A song about PTSD during WWI.
Truly, this album has everything.
U2
4/5
I hadn't heard "40" before, but I really liked it. A nice surprise on this album.
Fela Kuti
3/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Hookworms
3/5
One star off for being terrible people
Michael Jackson
2/5
Elbow
3/5
A mix of slow Sting songs and Cold Play. I really liked "Grounds for Divorce," but everything else was so generic and dull.
David Bowie
3/5
10cc
3/5
This album was ridiculous, and I kind of liked that.
Television
3/5
Not my jam, but fine. Sometimes the lead singer was a little too whiny, but on at least song, they reminded me strongly of The Cars.
2/5
The Waterboys
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Violent Femmes
2/5
I really liked the music, but the lyrics give me huge "angry incel" vibes. Disappointing, because I love the song Blister in the Sun.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Mind Garden was pretty terrible, but I enjoyed the rest of this album
The Beach Boys
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Alternative title: I Heart Misogyny and Toxic Masculinity
Rod Stewart
3/5
A lot more twangy/country than I expected from Rod Stewart.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Justice
3/5
The Who
4/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
My ten dubbed this "good background music"
Elton John
4/5
Wire
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Def Leppard
4/5
Pure nostalgia
Frank Zappa
1/5
Various Artists
5/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
The La's
4/5
The Strokes
3/5
Faust
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
B.B. King
3/5
A good sound, but I could have done with the casual domestic violence joke
Pixies
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Mylo
3/5
Marvin Gaye
2/5
U2
4/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
"Slit-eyed lady?" Really Rod? You couldn't, with all your song writing experience, find a better description?
Black Sabbath
3/5
Laguna Sunset was not a song I expected, bit I really enjoyed it
Lana Del Rey
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
Finley Quaye
3/5
The Killers
5/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Anthrax
2/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Prince
4/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
This was terrible. Why did I need to listen to it before I died??
Dire Straits
4/5
John Lennon
4/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Beach House
4/5
Very mellow- reminded me of The Killers
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Big Star
3/5
Good, classic rock. I was surprised to recognize the theme song to "That 70's Show!"
Yes
3/5
Hearing the theme song to "That 70s Show" was an pleasant surprise.
Queen
3/5
Silver Jews
2/5
A drunk-sounding man rambling "I'm 14 and this is deep" lyrics, and the whole thing sounds vaguely discordant.
The Tennessee/"ten I see" pun was physically painful to hear.
The War On Drugs
4/5
Dire Straits vibes. Except for "Burning," which is 100% a Bruce Springsteen song.
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Tortoise
3/5
Mellow electronica, which was mostly fine. I could have done without the bit that sounded like the "CD" was skipping/breaking/malfunctioning though.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Neil Young
3/5
His songs are probably good, but that voice... So, so nasal and whiny.
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Al Green
3/5
Little Simz
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Pretenders
3/5
I just don't like Chrissie Hynde's voice. Otherwise the music was fine.
Oasis
3/5
Joe Ely
4/5
This album made me smile- especially the last couple of songs
Judas Priest
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
The Temptations
3/5
I liked the earlier songs in this album, but I really dislike falsetto ballads, which appeared in the second half.
Sinead O'Connor
5/5
R.E.M.
3/5
White Denim
3/5
Disappointingly mediocre. I don't understand why this was a "must listen."
ZZ Top
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Most of the album was okay, bit that was a pretty terrible version of Strange By Me.
Parliament
3/5
I'm just not on enough drugs to appreciate this, I think
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Justin Timberlake
2/5
Two good songs, and a lot of really not good songs. Plus JT is a slime.
Missy Elliott
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Prince
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
The lead singer's voice reminded me of the guy from OMD. I enjoyed it!
Venom
1/5
Snoop Dogg
1/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
I was wary when I saw this was a "concept album," but I was pleasantly surprised. Still not my thing, but not bad.
Brian Eno
3/5
I consider it a great accomplishment that I did not fall asleep during this album.
Miles Davis
3/5
I'm not a fan of jazz, but this wasn't bad.
R.E.M.
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
4/5
Once I got over my disappointment that it wasn't Fats Domino (like I initially thought), it wasn't bad.
Kelela
2/5
Deeply uninteresting
Common
2/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Blue Cheer
3/5
SAULT
3/5
The Clash
3/5
The Monks
4/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
The Specials
4/5
New Order
3/5
Elegia was amazing, and I liked a few of the other songs, too. But on many of them, I was left unconvinced that the lead singer could actually sing.
Elvis Presley
4/5
Ozomatli
4/5
The xx
5/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
Hot Chip
4/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Napalm Death
2/5
CHIC
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Don McLean
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Paint It Black is so good, and Under My Thumb is so, so bad
The Pharcyde
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
4/5
Green Day
3/5
The Offspring
3/5
Solange
1/5
This album has the dubious distinction of being one of the very few I couldn't make myself finish. Aggressively boring.
David Bowie
3/5
Common
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Liz Phair
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
The first Bowie I've actually liked!
Van Halen
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Supertramp
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
N.W.A.
2/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Portishead
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
I really liked the first and last songs, bit other than that, this album was pretty meh
Led Zeppelin
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Meat Puppets
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
Elis Regina
3/5
John Grant
2/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
Madonna
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
OutKast
3/5
Robbie Williams
4/5
Pavement
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Eminem
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
I had no idea Gangster's Paradise was based on a Stevie Wonder song!
New York Dolls
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
The Cure
4/5
George Harrison
3/5
Syd Barrett
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Everything in my music history says I shouldn't have liked this album, but it was just so much fun!
Lorde
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
SZA
3/5
Billie Holiday
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Eagles
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Rush
3/5
Little Richard
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Boring, inoffensive
Bon Jovi
4/5
System Of A Down
1/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Turbonegro
3/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Joy Division
2/5
I'm really just not a fan of this guy's singing
Mudhoney
2/5
Death In Vegas
3/5
They remind me of Massive Attack, only not as good.
The lyrics of Aisha are incredibly cringey and impossible to take seriously.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
"Light My Fire" works as a sitar sing.. Who knew?
The National
4/5
Talking Heads
3/5
The Fall
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Metallica
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Incredible String Band
2/5
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
5/5
Wild Beasts
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Ray Price
4/5
Marvin Gaye
1/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Goldfrapp
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
4/5
Living Colour
3/5
Coldcut
3/5
Beck
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
Soul II Soul
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
2/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Pentangle
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
LTJ Bukem
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
The Go-Betweens
3/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Alice In Chains
3/5
Tom Waits
1/5
I'm choosing to believe this is satire.
Bill Callahan
3/5
John Cale
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Fishbone
3/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
I'm not a big fan of the Pumpkins, but "Disarm" is a great song
Culture Club
3/5
The Fall
1/5
My weekly reminder that I do not like punk rock
The Dictators
3/5
It took 299 albums, but I finally found a punk album I don't hate! I enjoyed the humor, and the Cats And Girls song (with the signature Beach Boys Whoo on the background) cracked me up.
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
I didn't mind 'Are you experienced,* bit this just felt like a confused, disorganized mess. But All Along the Watchtower is a great song.
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
The Saints
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
The Who
3/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Calexico
3/5
Sepultura
1/5
Neneh Cherry
2/5
Incredibly dated sounding
T. Rex
3/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
James Brown
2/5
The Residents
1/5
The Temptations
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
4/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Roxy Music
2/5
Django Django
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
Louis Prima
5/5
John Coltrane
3/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Skunk Anansie
4/5
An extra star, just for being featured on the Cruel Intentions soundtrack
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Beatles
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Donald Fagen
2/5
Adding lyrics to smooth jazz doesn't make it suck any less
D'Angelo
2/5
Otis Redding
3/5
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
I just do not enjoy being screamed at for an hour.
The instrumental song was nice, though
Gene Clark
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
I preferred the second half of the album, which was a lot quieter.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Nothing says "timeless classic" like name-checking Arsenio Hall a half dozen times, and an entire song dedicated to your beeper.
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
The Police
3/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
The Clash
3/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Jacques Brel
2/5
Not particularly interesting, but not actively offensive, either.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Beck
4/5
Sister Sledge
2/5
Incubus
3/5
The Damned
2/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Weather Report
2/5
Primal Scream
3/5
I expected a band called "primal scream" to be much less mellow.
Pink Floyd
4/5
Bee Gees
4/5
I had braced myself for an album of disco crap, and was pleasantly surprised by this mellow, pretty album!
Bob Dylan
3/5
Surprisingly boring. And the liner I listened, the more I couldn't shake the getting that Bob would be insufferable in person.
Hole
4/5
Tracy Chapman
5/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Kraftwerk loves the Trans-Europe Express
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Generic 70s soft rock interspersed occasionally with truly weird shit.
Ray Charles
4/5
AC/DC
2/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
The Charlatans
3/5
Oasis vibes. Not bad, but it was all pretty similar sounding.
Iron Maiden
3/5
Iron Maiden was my nearly as bad as I was expecting.
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Patti Smith
2/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Upbeat, mindless background music. Not bad for what it is.
Linkin Park
4/5
OutKast
2/5
Hey Ya and Caroline are still great songs, but the rest of this album was very much not
Cornershop
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Weird af, but never boring
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Sade
3/5
JAY Z
1/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
I just get such a skeevy vibe from these guys
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Faith No More
2/5
"Zombie Eaters" is a seriously weird song, and Edge of the World is even worse.
Sabu
2/5
The Cardigans
5/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Remarkably listenable for post-punk
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Crowded House
3/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
The Who
3/5
Remarkably boring
The xx
4/5
Aerosmith
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
Ian Dury
2/5
Wilco
3/5
I had high hopes for this one, but it was just kind of whiny and discordant.
Beastie Boys
3/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
This album was not at all what I was expecting. I don't really go for experimental serious, but this album wasn't bad. Some germs of good stuff. And also a lot of weird, discordant squawking.
Tito Puente
3/5
M.I.A.
3/5
A really interesting sound, and never boring.
Magazine
3/5
I did not expect this to end with a cover of Goldfinger. Sure, why not, I guess?
Suede
3/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Björk
3/5
I think I'd quite like Bjork's music, if it had a different vocalist.
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Marilyn Manson
1/5
Elton John
4/5
Eric Clapton
2/5
Minus 1 star for crappy remakes of Hand Jive and I Shot the Sheriff
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
How does this man hear recordings of himself, and think, "yes, singing is clearly something I'm good at and should continue doing"?
The United States Of America
2/5
Often weird, occasionally actually unpleasant to listen to.
The Stone Roses
4/5
The first song was my favorite
The Stranglers
2/5
So stereotypically "British punk" that it almost sounds like a parody.
Sonic Youth
2/5
Fever Ray
4/5
Mellow electronica - I'm here for it
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
King Crimson
2/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
John Martyn
3/5
Pantera
1/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Neil Young
2/5
Neil's not so bad when drowned or by electric guitar or backing vocals. But when he goes practically acoustic... I found myself physically cringing.
Raekwon
2/5
The Smiths
3/5
Deerhunter
3/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Love
2/5
New Order
4/5
Peter Tosh
3/5
k.d. lang
4/5
The Beta Band
3/5
TV On The Radio
4/5
Good music, terrible album name. Except for "You Could Be Love." That was bad.
Madness
3/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Ice Cube
2/5
Bert Jansch
4/5
Janet Jackson
4/5
Dr. John
2/5
Pulp
2/5
This guy was just creepy sounding
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Circle Jerks
1/5
This felt longer than 15 minutes. Not in a good way.
Tom Waits
2/5
The Boo Radleys
4/5
Eminem
3/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
Boston
4/5
Jeff Beck
3/5
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
I just can't separate art from the artist
CHIC
2/5
Upbeat disco songs are incredibly repetitive, and the slow ones are just unlistenable.
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
I'm apparently much more tolerant of weird music if the lead singer has a melodic voice
Taylor Swift
5/5
I'm not a swiftie, not I do enjoy Taylor's music
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Ash
2/5
The longer this album went on, the lower my estimation of the singer's ability went
Tim Buckley
2/5
Soporific.
"Gypsy woman" would have been too long at one-quarter the length.
Small Faces
3/5
Randy Newman
3/5
My husband dubbed this "Toy Story B Sides"
4/5
Such a great voice
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
I was surprised this came out in 79, not the mid-90s. Still, entirely forgettable music
Carole King
4/5
A perfect album for a rainy Sunday afternoon
Gillian Welch
3/5
Incredibly slow and quiet. "I Dream a Highway" would make an excellent lullaby.
Missy Elliott
3/5
I didn't mind Missy Elliott's music, except for the slow stuff where she sings high.
Genesis
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Brian Eno is such a weird dude
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Manu Chao
3/5
Megadeth
2/5
3/5
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
William Orbit
3/5
The Fall
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Fats Domino
4/5
The Style Council
3/5
This album started off with some mellow jazz, then suddenly a rap song happened, followed by some upbeat punk. An odd mix, but it wasn't actively bad.
Metallica
3/5
A symphony makes everything better, so this Metallica album got boosted to a 3.
Massive Attack
3/5
CHVRCHES
4/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Fiona Apple
5/5
Rush
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
The first and last songs were my favorite, but the whole album wasn't bad.
Traffic
3/5
Slipknot
1/5
Shack
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4/5
Steve Winwood
2/5
The worst yacht truck has to offer.
Beck
3/5
Jack White
3/5
Big Star
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
I don't understand sings that change into completely different songs partway through.
Steely Dan
3/5
The Only Ones
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Kate Bush
2/5
So, so weird.. Shades of Bjork. In some ways it felt like listening to the soundtrack to a musical I didn't understand the plot to.
Billy Bragg
3/5
"Christ for President" just different in 2025 than in sure it did when it was written and recorded. 😬
Mekons
2/5
Tricky
3/5
This album started off really promising, very Massive -Esque. Not then it just devolved into shitty, sexual lyrics with uninteresting backing music. Disappointing.
Massive Attack
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
I think I might actually like most of these songs with a different singer. But Cohen's voice is just monotone and droning.
The Cars
3/5
Arrested Development
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Jane Weaver
4/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Hugh Masekela
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
A Bowie album I actually liked!
The Triffids
4/5
I surprisingly liked this album. Noting Earth shattering, but a lovely 80s pop/rock album that I enjoyed listening to.
Randy Newman
2/5
Ray Charles
4/5
The Icarus Line
3/5
Not good, but not the worst thing I've listened to. Occasional moments of not bad.
Muddy Waters
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
Drive-By Truckers
1/5
I made it 4 songs in before I bailed. Shitty lyrics, boring music, and a lead singer who sounds like he can't actually sing.
MC Solaar
3/5
Yes
3/5
The Young Gods
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
The Jam
3/5
Prince
2/5
Nirvana
3/5
About half good songs and half screaming crap.
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Glorified hold music
Megadeth
1/5
Mega nope
Pink Floyd
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Weird, but at least it wasn't punk
TLC
3/5
The Slits
2/5
Weird and not good, but at least it wasn't all just off-key yelling, so it's an upgrade from most punk music
Doves
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
I did like the random sea shanty
The Vines
4/5
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Method Man
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
The Who
3/5
Minor Threat
1/5
Unrelentingly terrible.
The Doors
3/5
Influenced a lot more by the blues than I was expecting.
Tori Amos
3/5
The Replacements
3/5
One terrible punk song and a bunch of not horrible. The last couple of songs removed me of Nirvana (particularly the singing style), which I found interesting.
Grateful Dead
3/5
Usually I like the Dead, but this album didn't work for me. I prefer when what they play is more "actual songs," less "just jamming for extended periods "
UB40
3/5
Talvin Singh
3/5
Deep Purple
2/5
At least it's melodic screaming?
Exceedingly long guitar/drum solos are exceedingly dull.
David Ackles
2/5
I don't mind country, and I like musicals, but this was just a classic mess.
Mercury Rev
3/5
It reminded me of Death Cab For Cutie with a weaker lead singer and and way more sci-fi sound effects.
The Modern Lovers
2/5
I groaned as soon as the vocalist opened his mouth. I really hate the drunk/slurring/atonal/doesn't care affectation of punk singers. It doesn't matter what interesting things they might be doing instrumentally, or lyrically, I can't get past the "singing." (Of course, a whole song based around "Picasso" sort of rhyming with "asshole" doesn't say great things for their lyrics, either.)
Pink Floyd
5/5
I hadn't listened to the album in decades, so I want sure how I'd feel about it now.
Yeah, it holds up. Still amazing.
Motörhead
1/5
Unrelentingly loud and boring. Like the background music for the TV show "How It's Made," with lyrics.
Iggy Pop
3/5
I was worried when I saw the genre listed as punk, but this was surprisingly good.
John Lennon
4/5
Dire Straits
4/5
A lovely, mellow album. Dire Stairs always remind me breeze on a summer evening.
Favorite song: Walk Of Life
Least favorite: Your Latest Trick
Dennis Wilson
3/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Leftfield
3/5
Totally fine background music
The Hives
2/5
Shockingly, NOT my new favorite album.
Spiritualized
3/5
Some lovely music mixed in with some absolute cacophony of sound.
Hole
4/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
Not at all I was expecting when I read "Icelandic post-rock," but I'll happily take it!
Like Massive Attack without the bass.
Girls Against Boys
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Ice T
1/5
Sex Pistols
1/5
Sugar
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Least terrible Nick Cave album.
Buck Owens
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Running Up That Hill is a great song, but Kate Bush is just, in general, too weird for my taste.
Gil Scott-Heron
2/5
Not bad as background music, but if I actually focused on and listened to it, it was not great.
Erykah Badu
2/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Shuggie Otis
3/5
The Police
3/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Another day, another chance to wonder how in the heck this man ever became popular enough to have so many freaking albums.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
"I'm on fire" is such a beautiful, haunting sounding song.
Muddy Waters
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
This had so much potential- some of the songs are so lovely. But the insane amounts of reverb/distortion makes some of the songs basically unlistenable, and gives the whole album a same-y quality.
The Beach Boys
4/5
Sebadoh
2/5
A couple of good songs, and a bunch of screaming terribleness.
Sepultura
1/5
I can count on one hand the albums I've bailed out on (not fully listened to). Welcome to a very exclusive club, Sepultura!
Caetano Veloso
2/5
Just kind of boring
Tom Waits
3/5
Weird as hell, but never boring
Cowboy Junkies
5/5
A mellow, bluesy album with a lead singer with a voice like an angel. It's a cliche, bit I can't think of a better description.
Miles Davis
2/5
My opinion of jazz remains unchanged
Scott Walker
2/5
This guy has strong "insufferable at parties" vibes.
"Get Behind Me" wasn't bad though.
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
Slayer
1/5
Killing Joke
3/5
Slade
3/5
Not bad classic rock
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
Beyoncé
2/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Not good, but not disco!
Leonard Cohen
2/5
The Streets
3/5
The Verve
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
Mostly mellow background music, plus a few songs Gene Belcher would appreciate.
Pixies
2/5
Donovan
3/5
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Sleater-Kinney
2/5
Wilco
3/5
Mike Oldfield
3/5
Metallica
3/5
The best metal album (which is an incredibly low bar, but still- they cleared it!)
Deep Purple
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
The Gun Club
2/5
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
The Black Keys
4/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
Serge Gainsbourg
1/5
The subject matter combined with the guy's voice creeped me out so much that I couldn't even get through the first song.
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Soft Machine
1/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Scott Walker
2/5
4/5
I enjoyed this album of 80s pop
Adele
5/5
I own this album so, yeah, I kind of like it.
4/5
I was braced for more punk awfulness, but was pleasantly surprised by their Beatles-ness. I'm much happier to listen to an hour of social commentary of they're an actual melody involved.
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
All jazz sounds the same to me- boring.
Simple Minds
4/5
Heaven 17
3/5
The B-52's
2/5
Roxy Music
1/5
Sparks
1/5
The Undertones
2/5
Can
1/5
When even the book describes this as a "musical endurance test," it's not a good sign. Nor was the anecdote any their first gig with the lead singer causing people to flee the venue en masse.
The longer I listened, the lower my rating got.
The Monkees
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Adele
5/5
Blondie
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
Mj Cole
3/5
Not bad, but very dated sounding. Instantly recognizable as 90s (despite being released in 2000).
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
1/5
Travis
4/5
Julian Cope
3/5
This album has so many moments when it was almost good, but then kept ruining it.
Isaac Hayes
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
At times indistinguishable from a tape deck eating a cassette.
Elvis Costello
2/5
It was just so boring. And, once again, he apparently felt it was artistically important to use the n-word.
Santana
3/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Q-Tip
3/5
The Pogues
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Ice Cube
3/5
3/5
Roxy Music
2/5
Automatic one star deduction for the album cover.
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Ghostface Killah
1/5
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Dizzee Rascal
2/5
George Jones
3/5
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Predictably terrible, but this list has had me listen to worse. At least it wasn't a solid wall of screeching noise!
Germs
1/5
Nico
2/5
Guided By Voices
2/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Koffi Olomide
1/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
XTC
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
4/5
1/5
The Band
3/5
Björk
3/5
Minutemen
2/5
KISS
2/5
You would think that by their fifth album, they'd have made enough money to hire a decent song writer. Apparently not.
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Beatles
4/5
The Crusaders
2/5
The Human League
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Björk
3/5
David Crosby
3/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
1/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Genesis
2/5
Air
3/5
Röyksopp
3/5
Anita Baker
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Van Morrison
3/5
The Soft Boys
3/5
Richard Hawley
3/5
If I hadn't known better, I would have sworn this was an album from the 70s. Someone about the style. Not bad, just kind of boring and dated sounding.
Scritti Politti
2/5
This may be the most 80s album I have ever heard.
George Michael
5/5
Buena Vista Social Club
2/5
Morrissey
3/5
Laibach
3/5
It was certainly not boring.
Goldfrapp
3/5
A bit odd, but not unpleasant. It often reminded me of a James Bond theme song.
Alice Cooper
3/5
I know Alice Cooper is theatrical, but I want expecting him to break out into a full-on showtune.
Overall, not as bad as I was expecting.
Joan Baez
3/5
Moby
5/5
Coldplay
3/5
Music to be depressed to.
Dead Kennedys
2/5
Animal Collective
5/5
This one was a really pleasant surprise. I'd never heard of them before, but they have a fun, interesting sound that I really enjoyed.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Ministry
1/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
Machito
3/5
I much prefer this big-band-adjacent jazz to the elevator-music jazz and cacophony-of-noise varieties.
The Associates
3/5
Weird, and at times over the top, but not actively bad.
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
This was such an old school hip hop record- basic drum machine, synth, record scratches- that I kept expecting someone to come in saying "my name is Raymond and I'm here to say...."
It was probably important at the time of its release, but I'm 2025 it's just kind of boring.
Joanna Newsom
2/5
A squeakier Macy Gray does medieval ballads. No discernable melodies, and a voice that is not pleasant to listen to.
The one interesting bit was near the end of "Only Skin" where a deep bass voice joined in and their voices played together.
The Avalanches
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Beatles
4/5
The Zutons
4/5
Kanye West
1/5
I will not separate art from this artist, or give him my fractions of a penny for streaming his music.
The Bees
2/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
Queen
3/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
50 Cent
4/5
I'm not usually a hip hop person, but I found myself actually enjoying this album. Color me surprised!
Jamiroquai
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
After the first couple of songs, it want as bad or weird as I expected.
The Birthday Party
1/5
This project has definitely improved my music knowledge.
Today's another punk album? Damnit.
The lead singer is Nick Cave? Double damnit!
A year ago I wouldn't have had either of those reactions!
Blur
2/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5