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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Arise
Sepultura
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5 | 2.72 | +2.28 |
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
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5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
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Scum
Napalm Death
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4 | 2.07 | +1.93 |
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Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
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5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
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Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
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5 | 3.2 | +1.8 |
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Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
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4 | 2.22 | +1.78 |
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Ace of Spades
Motörhead
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5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
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Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
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5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
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Pornography
The Cure
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5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
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Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
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5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
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1 | 3.85 | -2.85 |
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Hotel California
Eagles
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1 | 3.6 | -2.6 |
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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
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1 | 3.59 | -2.59 |
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Frank
Amy Winehouse
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1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
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Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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Eagles
Eagles
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1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
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American Pie
Don McLean
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1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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The Seldom Seen Kid
Elbow
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1 | 3.26 | -2.26 |
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Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
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1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
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Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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1 | 3.11 | -2.11 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 5 |
| Metallica | 3 | 4.67 |
| Van Halen | 2 | 5 |
| Iron Maiden | 2 | 5 |
| Johnny Cash | 2 | 5 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 5 |
| The Clash | 2 | 5 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 4 | 4.25 |
| Beatles | 7 | 4 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Morrissey | 4 | 1 |
| Eagles | 2 | 1 |
| The Doors | 3 | 1.67 |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 3 | 1.67 |
| Bee Gees | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Beta Band | 2 | 1.5 |
| Tim Buckley | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Smiths | 3 | 2 |
| Kraftwerk | 3 | 2 |
| Madonna | 3 | 2 |
| The Fall | 3 | 2 |
| Elvis Presley | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Kanye West | 2, 4, 5 |
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Amy Winehouse
1/5
It's always bugged me that Amy Winehouse received more plaudits than Sharon Jones. It stank of bigotry to me that the culture at large embraced Winehouse while they generally ignored Jones, even though the latter had a stronger voice and stronger songs. Because of this I ignored Back to Black for years. It is a good album, even though I think it's another attempt by the music industry to put a white face on music that had already been innovated by black faces. But that's really more on the industry that pushed Winehouse, not the singer herself. And she and her producers do good and interesting stuff on that album.
This bullshit, though? Weak mimicry. Winehouse doesn't have the control over her voice she exhibits in Black, sounding like a copy of the girl groups she idolized. The backing tracks sound like beats that were rejected from 90s R&B and Neo-Soul albums. In My Bed has a good beat, but too bad it had already been used for Made You Look by Nas. And naming the album after Frank Sinatra when it owes a larger debt to the black singers that came in between them? Get the fuck out of here. It's the Starbucks version of Jill Scott and Erykah Badu.
2 likes
The Style Council
1/5
I want to go back in time and tell the Beatles and Rolling Stones that one of the downsides of them covering Black American music is that it will lead to several of their countrymen releasing ridiculously neutered versions of Black American music.
1 likes
KISS
2/5
Take away the makeup, stage show, and merch and Kiss is really just a mediocre band. I get that it's all part of the package, but artists like Alice Cooper, Gwar, and Slipknot are similarly dependent on theatrics and have a lot of songs that stand on their own. Kiss really doesn't. On this album, Detroit Rock City is a banger, but the rest of the album could have been made by any old rock band (yes, even Beth).
1 likes
The Velvet Underground
4/5
It's wild to listen to this album and hear the 50+ years of alternative music it inspired.
1 likes
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Marvin Gaye
3/5
David Bowie
2/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
Listening to this album for the first time in a long time has turned me from a Pearl Jam agnostic into...someone who kinda likes them now. The first three songs are such an incredible opening and Eddie Vedder's caveman vocals lend every song an epic feel. But, the bubblegrunge sound they pioneered isn't totally my thing. Nobody did this sound better, but the bands it inspired were like Nickelback and Creed. Still my least favorite of the big 4 grunge bands, but at least I understand their appeal better.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
The Stranger Song, Sisters of Mercy, and So Long, Marianne were instant favorites. The rest of the album is good and every song has something that makes it worth a listen, but he keeps going back to this one cadence that irked me. I get the feeling I'm going to revisit this at some point and rate it higher.
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
This McCartney fella sure can write a song, huh?
Kanye West
2/5
Metallica
4/5
Really tough rating for me. This album was a gateway into metal for me, but I also think I've heard so many better albums since that introduction. Don't get me wrong, so many bangers on this. But listening to it again it feels like it's too long. Lop off a couple songs and this would be a "no skips" album.
Miles Davis
3/5
Dr. Octagon
4/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
I may have not been in the right mood, but I just couldn't vibe with this.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
This album not only has a bunch of my favorite Stevie songs, but some of my favorite songs period.
ZZ Top
3/5
Queen
3/5
If the entire album had been more like Side Black, this would have been a 4 or 5 for me.
Arcade Fire
3/5
I imagine this is what a barbecue in Tremont sounds like
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Faith No More
4/5
As a middle-aged metalhead with a beard, I am required to give this album a high rating, as decreed by the Council of Beard Metal Bros
Korn
2/5
My parents were super strict and wouldn't let me buy CDs with the Parental Advisory sticker. Right before 9th grade, they relented and this was one of the first albums I bought (come to think of it, 99 was a good year for dumb white teenagers with inchoate rage and some extra cash). This was one of my favorite albums in high school, but the next few years revealed to me that Korn was not a good band. So after tiring of their sound and moving on to better metal bands, I sold this CD to the Exchange and Korn went into my mental "do not listen" file. And there they stayed for several years.
Then one day, Got the Life popped up on my Spotify. I had started to recognize that there was good Nu-Metal and it was OK to listen to some of the dumb and cringey stuff I liked as a teen. Got the Life had the stuff I look for when I go for good Nu-Metal- cool use of guitar tone, heavy use of the bass, and interesting use of sounds from funk, rap, and electronic music. That song and Freak on a Leash made their way back onto my playlists and, yes, into my heart. So when this album popped up on the generator I was ready for it.
I was still a little skeptical, but I suspected this album could be a 3 for me. It's On started and, indeed, it was on. From that song through to Dead Bodies Everywhere, I was back to being that teenager, filled with a rage that I now recognized was caused in part by the sneaking realization that not everything was OK in America following the Reagan and Clinton years, despite what adults at the time believed. I had fully let Korn back into my heart!
Then the rest of the album happened.
And just...
Fucking yikes.
Meat Loaf
3/5
Love the pure and uncut bombast, but every song on this album needs to be cut back by a minute or two.
Napalm Death
4/5
Listened to this album and compulsively headbanged. Napalm Death is one of the greatest bands of all time. Want to see a sight? See them live and see their Pulp-looking vocalist lose absolutely every inch of chill he has screaming about every single bullshit thing about capitalism.
Also, check out that one review about the guy banging out a German goth in a pub bathroom while listening to Napalm Death. Makes more sense than anything in the world.
k.d. lang
3/5
Good listen for a chill Sunday. k.d. lang has one of the best "aching for love" voices in music.
Amy Winehouse
1/5
It's always bugged me that Amy Winehouse received more plaudits than Sharon Jones. It stank of bigotry to me that the culture at large embraced Winehouse while they generally ignored Jones, even though the latter had a stronger voice and stronger songs. Because of this I ignored Back to Black for years. It is a good album, even though I think it's another attempt by the music industry to put a white face on music that had already been innovated by black faces. But that's really more on the industry that pushed Winehouse, not the singer herself. And she and her producers do good and interesting stuff on that album.
This bullshit, though? Weak mimicry. Winehouse doesn't have the control over her voice she exhibits in Black, sounding like a copy of the girl groups she idolized. The backing tracks sound like beats that were rejected from 90s R&B and Neo-Soul albums. In My Bed has a good beat, but too bad it had already been used for Made You Look by Nas. And naming the album after Frank Sinatra when it owes a larger debt to the black singers that came in between them? Get the fuck out of here. It's the Starbucks version of Jill Scott and Erykah Badu.
The Velvet Underground
4/5
It's wild to listen to this album and hear the 50+ years of alternative music it inspired.
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
Simply Red
1/5
It's possible I just really dislike blue eyed soul
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Good album, but I couldn't shake the feeling that it sounds like Bruce Springsteen if he didn't fuck
Pixies
4/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
I dig Screaming Trees, but I don't think I've listened to this album before. The first half is pretty bland, but the back half saved the album for me. I wondered why this was on the list, then I saw that Kerrang selected it as the best album of the year. I've seen the criticism that the 1001 albums book is very British-centric and I think there's maybe some weight to that argument.
JAY Z
4/5
I was torn between a 3 and a 4 for this one. Jay-Z has always been more of a "greatest hits" guy for me, but this album might as well be a greatest hits album. I also think the production, particularly the Kanye West and Just Blaze tracks, is a big part of this album's success.
Turbonegro
3/5
Solid dumb Rock fun
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Surprisingly, I'm actually not a huge fan of extended distortion. Otherwise, this album is fucking amazing.
The Young Gods
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
2/5
I guess this album is supposed to be fun? But in an ironic and disaffected way? I don't know, I just felt kind of irritated.
3/5
The Doors
2/5
We all shat on Korn, but "buhm na na uhm, na na eema" is easily as smart as anything Jim Morrison sang
Big Black
4/5
Clean and crisp production with absolutely filthy lyrics and music. Love it.
Beatles
4/5
Minutemen
4/5
I am eternally thankful for my Gen X elder who told me the Jackass theme was a song from one of the best albums of all time
Bee Gees
1/5
I don't have much to say because I literally remember nothing about it except how bland and boring it was
Cocteau Twins
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
Not terrible, just kind of run of the mill. There are much better Reggae and Dancehall albums that are not in the book for some reason.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
I used to love this album, but now I think it's just aggressively mid. Anthony Keidis's voice really bugs the hell out of me. And why the hell is it over an hour long?! Under the Bridge and Give it Away are still good though.
Duran Duran
2/5
Rio and Hungry Like a Wolf are good, the rest of the album just kind of washed over me.
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
Years ago, I was in a play with a girl who used to strip and she said that Closer was one of her songs. I say that to underline what I love about this album and Nine Inch Nails in general- the music is dark, intense, and angry but also catchy and danceable. That is definitely a sweet spot for me and this album is one of the foundations of that taste.
John Cale
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Supergrass
2/5
Typically this is my thing and there are several Suoergrass songs I like, but I just couldn't vibe with the album. There are just some bands I can handle in small doses but no more than that.
Blur
3/5
Blur is more of a greatest hits band for me, but this is still a solid album.
David Holmes
2/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
I don't think there's a bad song on the album, but not as many bangers as there on Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
A good album and cool artifact, but I don't know if I'd use the word "essential" to describe it.
Pulp
3/5
I suspect this album is going to grow on me, so let's say it's a 3.5 for now.
Various Artists
4/5
Sade
3/5
Fela Kuti
5/5
I would give anything to go back in time and see this performance. Everybody in the band is so in sync and playing super tight. You can feel the energy even today.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Queen
4/5
The Band
3/5
4/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Otis Redding
4/5
The Mamas & The Papas
2/5
I thought I actually liked The Mamas & The Papas, but boy I did not. Just some real hippy dippy bullshit. Mama Cass has a good voice though.
Paul Simon
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
William Orbit
2/5
Better than I thought it was going to be, but really only works as background music for me.
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Keith Jarrett
2/5
Probably like a 2.5 for me. Some interesting stuff peppered throughout, but better off as background music for me.
Gene Clark
2/5
A couple of dope songs, but otherwise this album left my memory right after listening.
Giant Sand
2/5
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
An easy 5 for me. This has been in my rotation for well over half my life at this point. Kung Fu and comics references abound making for a fun record that is also incredibly dark and sad. Very much my kind of shit.
Patti Smith
3/5
The Smiths
2/5
Look, angry sad boy music is clearly my thing, but Morrissey has shown himself time and time again to be a preening narcissist. And, oh boy, I am tired of narcissists who think talking about how sad they are means they can turn around and shit on everyone else. I cannot separate art from the artist when it's just pathetic whining from someone who has very little introspection or desire to improve one's self for the better.
Johnny Marr's guitar is fucking awesome though
Marty Robbins
3/5
Some really great songs on here, though I feel like it sagged in the middle a little bit. Probably more like a 3.5.
U2
4/5
I've often said U2 is a greatest hits band for me, but after listening to this album for the first time in forever, I think its just that I prefer angry U2.
Tom Waits
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
John Lennon
2/5
When Paul and George went solo they made some of the greatest music of all time. When John went solo he showed the world what a whiny, self-important prick he was. That said, I am shocked how much I disliked this album.
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Santana
4/5
So good. We all know Santana is an all time great guitar player, but I think he's a great band leader and collaborator as well. The band sounds so tight and together that this album sounds like an amazing jam session without ever coming off the rails.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Elton John
5/5
Sharing a thing I wrote to our group chat:
I think this album is predominantly about three things- being famous, yearning for adolescence, and being gay. I also think those three things are wrapped up together.
The Oz imagery underlines these themes- Oz itself can be fame. Hollywood (used here as a blanket term for the world famous artists walk in) is famously a strange and wondrous place that hides danger and darkness within, particularly if you're a young boy coming from council housing in a suburb of London. Wizard of Oz, at this time, has also already become a symbol of nostalgia for a bygone era. Hollywood (the movie industry this time) is transitioning to the auteur driven "New Hollywood" and movies that are nowhere near as innocent as Oz are being released. Though with Candle in the Wind, Elton and Taupin are reminding us that all the wonder that came through on the screen was obtained at a terrible cost. At the same time, songs like Your Sister Can't Twist and Saturday Night's Alright are songs sung from a teenage perspective, talking about how great being young is, but barely masking the rot and danger of the world the youth run in.
Friend of Dorothy was a slang term for gay men and was a well known term among the LGBT crowd at this time. So just by using Oz imagery, Elton is giving a very obvious wink (also keeping in mind he was still publicly in the closet). And while a song about Judy Garland would have been the most obvious nod, a song about Marilyn Monroe and how the boy in the 22nd row admired her in an unsexual way is the next best thing. The song All the Young Girls Love Alice is also notable through this lens because it's a song about a young straight woman being prostituted (literally) out to lesbians sung by a young gay man being prostituted (metaphorically) out to straight people. So in a way, the songs about childhood reveal an absurdity about where Elton is at this time- he's allowed to sing outright about teenage violence and banging underage girls, but his true sexuality can only be nodded at.
Jamaican Jerk-Off is the only song I won't bother defending, shit is lame ass white people reggae. Would have been more at home on a Jimmy Buffett album
Bad reggae notwithstanding, this is still a 4.5 album for me, giving it a 5 here.
Khaled
2/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
Van Halen
5/5
I have to be careful listening to this album because it's gotten me pregnant a couple times
Pixies
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
I used to really love Hendrix and I still recognize how important he is to the development of rock, metal, and funk. But I think over listening to him as well as an overabundance of poor imitators has taken the shine off of him for me. Regardless, still a pretty damn good album.
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Scott Walker
1/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
This album has been in my rotation for over 20 years and it never gets old
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Sorry Geof
Donovan
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Beatles
4/5
David Ackles
2/5
Pretty bad, but it is kind of endearingly goofy at times.
T. Rex
3/5
Christina Aguilera
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
The Style Council
1/5
I want to go back in time and tell the Beatles and Rolling Stones that one of the downsides of them covering Black American music is that it will lead to several of their countrymen releasing ridiculously neutered versions of Black American music.
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Look, not every album can be Rumours
Prince
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
The Darkness
2/5
I go back and forth between kinda liking The Darkness and being annoyed with them. Definitely more in the annoyed camp at the moment. Really good guitars, but everything else feels like it's kind of a put on.
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
The Triffids
2/5
SZA
3/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Roxy Music
2/5
Manu Chao
2/5
Iron Maiden
5/5
Every song on here is an absolute classic. It's funny, I actually think Powerslave is the better album, but 80s Maiden just didn't miss.
Elton John
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
I dug half this album. The other half though...
Michael Jackson
3/5
A lot more filler than I remember, but the best songs hit hard.
Primal Scream
2/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
The Undertones
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Similar to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin was a band I loved (and still dig their music!) but the shine has come off of them because of decades of poor imitators.
Foo Fighters
3/5
Elastica
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Even as a lapsed Zeppelin fan, this album's greatness is undeniable.
Johnny Cash
5/5
The Doors
2/5
Cornershop
3/5
Kind of a mixed bag and a little too long, but I think the highlights outweigh the low.
Lorde
2/5
Blondie
4/5
Joan Baez
2/5
Portishead
3/5
Röyksopp
1/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Prince
5/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
The xx
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
Morrissey
1/5
Shut the fuck up Morrissey
The Birthday Party
2/5
Not bad, but Nick Cave's schtick wears on me sometimes
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
KISS
2/5
Take away the makeup, stage show, and merch and Kiss is really just a mediocre band. I get that it's all part of the package, but artists like Alice Cooper, Gwar, and Slipknot are similarly dependent on theatrics and have a lot of songs that stand on their own. Kiss really doesn't. On this album, Detroit Rock City is a banger, but the rest of the album could have been made by any old rock band (yes, even Beth).
Talk Talk
2/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Beatles
3/5
Jack White
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
5/5
One of the first albums I really fell in love with and I keep coming back to it. It's funny, Wonderwall was a huge hit and it's gotten to Free Bird/Stairway to Heaven levels of ubiquity, but Champagne Supernova was the big deal to younger me. I think the way the album is put together, this actually makes sense. In the flow of the album the latter feels like what the whole album has been building towards and it successfully pays off on that kinetic energy.
The Waterboys
2/5
The Prodigy
3/5
It hurts to give this album a 3 because I loved it so much back in the day. But it has the same problem other 90s electronic albums have- it was clearly made for a live experience so the music is repetitive and overlong. It was probably fine when you're vibing to it on ecstasy in a club, but listening to it while driving and sober? It can get old quick.
Steely Dan
3/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Sledgehammer and In Your Eyes are about all this album has going for it
The Thrills
2/5
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
More like a 3.5. Sittin' Here, I Luv U, Fix Up, Look Sharp, and Jezebel are all time favorite songs for me, but the entire album is a bit long and it feels like 2-4 songs could have been cut.
Van Morrison
3/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
I liked this enough while listening to it, but later realized I didn't remember a thing about it
The Prodigy
3/5
Ravi Shankar
2/5
Public Enemy
4/5
More like a 4.5 for me. Bring the Noise, Don't Believe the Hype, Terminator X to the Edge of Panic, She Watch Channel Zero?!, Rebel Without a Pause, and Prophets of Rage are all time great rap songs period.
Brian Eno
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Kashmir is the best song on the album, but overall disc 2 is stronger than disc 1
Duke Ellington
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
The Associates
3/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
a-ha
2/5
Take on Me- 5
Train of Thoughts and Hunting High and Low- 3
Rest of the album- 1
The Police
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Fever Ray
2/5
Throwing Muses
3/5
Adele
3/5
Violent Femmes
5/5
Why can't every album be 30 minutes of nothing but bangers???
LTJ Bukem
2/5
Beck
3/5
ABBA
2/5
Any of these songs would be fine pop songs taken on their own, but listening to them one of another and Abba's schtick gets old quick
Kraftwerk
2/5
Daft Punk
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
XTC
2/5
Am I in a Barnes & Noble?
Massive Attack
3/5
Sex Pistols
2/5
I love punk rock and I think it's a very punk thing to recognize that the Sex Pistols were overrated posers
Alice Cooper
4/5
Gang Starr
3/5
New Order
2/5
Why is every song so long
Carole King
3/5
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
I don't know why I never listened to this album, it's brooding, horny, and danceable. It's right up my alley.
Dr. John
3/5
I like the idea of Dr. John more than I actually like Dr. John, but still a fun listen
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Ozomatli
2/5
Soundgarden
4/5
Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil have to be one of the best singer/guitarist combos
Neil Young
4/5
Fugazi
4/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Ten years ago this would have been a no brainer 5 for me. I've cooled off of it a bit because Frank Ocean has since leaned into the weirder parts of this album, but there are some all time fave songs for me here.
Van Halen
5/5
One of a couple Van Halen albums that could also function as a greatest hits album
The Hives
3/5
I thought it was weird that they put what is basically a greatest hits album on here until I read that the intent was to introduce The Hives to the UK
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
Madonna
1/5
Thanks to this list I've listened to enough electronic albums to know that there's nothing special about this album other than Madonna released it
Roxy Music
3/5
Blur
3/5
Mike Oldfield
4/5
Judas Priest
4/5
I think Painkiller is actually Priest's best album (and I also might prefer Screaming for Vengeance and Stained Class, but I reserve the right to revise that opinion), but this album is still not only one of their best but one of the greatest Metal albums of all time.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Wire
3/5
The Cure
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Sometimes the opening to Watermelon Man randomly pops into my head
808 State
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
The Fall
2/5
The Modern Lovers
4/5
I'm not going to dislike an album that has the lines "Some people try to pick up girls and get called assholes/This never happened to Pablo Picasso"
Elvis Presley
2/5
In The Ghetto and Suspicious Minds are bangers. The rest of the album is pretty inessential
Massive Attack
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
The Smiths
2/5
I would love this if I didn't hate Morissey so much
Fela Kuti
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Kanye West
5/5
The perfect summation of Kanye West's career to this point. It really sucks that it all goes wildly downhill from here
David Bowie
3/5
Supertramp
2/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Björk
3/5
CHVRCHES
3/5
Suede
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
One of the best debut albums of all time and it doesn't even scratch the surface of how good they would get
Neu!
3/5
Sparks
3/5
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Common
4/5
The Charlatans
3/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Girls Against Boys
3/5
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
The Stranglers
3/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Iron Butterfly
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Culture Club
2/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
This is my favorite kind of background music, though I wouldn't ever just sit and listen to it without doing something else.
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
It's funny that this is the "inaccessible and abrasive" Nirvana album, but it's very accessible and mainstream compared to actual inaccessible and abrasive music
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Germs
3/5
Magazine
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Nina Simone
3/5
5/5
Prince
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
David Gray
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
Wild Beasts
2/5
Waylon Jennings
4/5
Rush
2/5
If you knew me, you'd probably assume I was one of those guys who won't shut the fuck up about how great Rush is. And I probably would be if I didn't hate Geddy Lee's voice.
The White Stripes
3/5
Tears For Fears
2/5
Beach House
2/5
Air
3/5
Caetano Veloso
2/5
Kraftwerk
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Calexico
3/5
Stereolab
2/5
Fairport Convention
2/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Underworld
1/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Beck
3/5
Pink Floyd
2/5
Coldplay
2/5
I mean, they have some good songs, but otherwise they're so boring
Boston
3/5
The twin guitar attack alone is like a 4.5 or 5. Everything else is very ok
Bill Callahan
1/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Metallica
5/5
Eagles
1/5
5 for the sick ass guitar solo in Hotel California. 0 for everything else.
Fishbone
4/5
Dire Straits
2/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Deep Purple
2/5
Pavement
3/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Billy Bragg
4/5
The Police
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
The Saints
3/5
10cc
2/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
The Clash
5/5
Rush
2/5
The La's
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
2/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Supergrass
4/5
Well where the hell was this Super grass on the other album we listened to?!?!
Don McLean
1/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
The Zombies
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Ice T
3/5
John Grant
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
The Smiths
2/5
The Undertones
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Peter Tosh
3/5
Yes
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Donald Fagen
1/5
The Beau Brummels
1/5
Eminem
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
Charles Mingus
3/5
Adele
3/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Doves
2/5
Pretenders
4/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Sabu
3/5
Ian Dury
2/5
Radiohead
4/5
White Denim
3/5
Small Faces
3/5
DJ Shadow
2/5
Norah Jones
1/5
Jacques Brel
2/5
Chicago
2/5
4/5
Cream
4/5
George Michael
4/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Tracy Chapman
3/5
The Band
3/5
Tom Waits
1/5
Look, I probably like Tom Waits more than anyone else in this group. But this is a bit much.
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
The Auteurs
2/5
Like Stone Temple Pilots but not as catchy
David Bowie
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Bad Brains
4/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
1/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Joy Division
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Red Snapper
3/5
Cee Lo Green
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Can
3/5
LL Cool J
3/5
The Who
4/5
The Fall
2/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Billy Joel
1/5
Billy Joel still annoys the piss outta me
Moby Grape
2/5
Sugar
4/5
The Who
2/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1/5
OutKast
4/5
Tough call because OutKast is a favorite and this is one of their best albums. But the back half loses steam and the flow gets broken up by the skits. More like a 4.5.
Frank Black
3/5
Joan Armatrading
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
Rocket From The Crypt
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Badly Drawn Boy
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
The Cardigans
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
That is the right amount of stupid
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Pentangle
1/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Elis Regina
2/5
Ministry
3/5
4/5
4/5
Spiritualized
3/5
4/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
Madonna
3/5
U2
2/5
2/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
James Taylor
2/5
Alanis Morissette
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
George Michael
2/5
OutKast
4/5
The Coral
3/5
Gary Numan
3/5
The Beta Band
2/5
The Beta Band
1/5
Motorhead only gets one album. Thin Lizzy only gets one album. No Mastodon. No Death Metal. No Black Metal.
But there are generic Britpop/Alt bands for days.
Fuckin nerds
Boards of Canada
3/5
This album might grow on me. It's too long, but I really dig the use of 70s/80s TV special type samples
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
Aphex Twin
3/5
4/5
There are so few voices like hers
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Simple Minds
2/5
50 Cent
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Motörhead
4/5
God, I wish I'd seen Motorhead live
Beastie Boys
4/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
Ash
2/5
B.B. King
4/5
T. Rex
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Tortoise
3/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
The Libertines
3/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Electric Light Orchestra
2/5
Killing Joke
4/5
Tina Turner
3/5
The Adverts
3/5
Minor Threat
4/5
Travis
2/5
Mekons
2/5
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Scritti Politti
1/5
Starting off with white boy reggae is not a good way for me to like your album
Missy Elliott
4/5
X-Ray Spex
4/5
ABBA
2/5
Look, there's a reason why Abba's best selling album is their Greatest Hits.
Crowded House
3/5
The Cure
5/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Not bad for bar vibes, but there's only a couple songs I really liked
Slint
4/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Anita Baker
3/5
The KLF
3/5
Gillian Welch
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
The Byrds
2/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Hole
3/5
Courtney Love did not deserve all the shit she caught
The Streets
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Disc 1 would be an automatic 5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
Deerhunter
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Eurythmics
3/5
Blue Cheer
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
The Shamen
2/5
Circle Jerks
3/5
Tim Buckley
1/5
Wilco
3/5
Not Wilco's best, but there is some damn good song craft here
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Carpenters
2/5
Janis Joplin
4/5
Aimee Mann
3/5
High 3 for me. I dig Aimee Mann's stuff, but there is some kind of barrier keeping her from being one of my faves.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
John Coltrane
4/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
Nick Drake
2/5
The Black Crowes
3/5
John Lennon
2/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
The one thing this project has taught me is that I'm into Pure Moods-core
Slayer
5/5
The perfect soundtrack to the apocalypse
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
CHIC
3/5
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
Animal Collective
2/5
I suspect I may have liked this album more had I not listened to Smile right before it.
Dr. Dre
5/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Sepultura
4/5
More like a 3.5, but I'm giving it the ol' Metal bump. This is album is still fairly disparaged by Metalheads and it's definitely not as good as their older stuff, but I think it's a good example of what could be done well with Groove and Nü-Metal.
The Youngbloods
2/5
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
Burning Spear
3/5
Fugees
5/5
The Clash
5/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Another band I used to love a lot that I've cooled off on over the years.
Brian Eno
2/5
Even though I've been getting into ambient music more and more, I do think there is some stuff that is entirely too chill for me
Talking Heads
3/5
Jeff Beck
4/5
Anthrax
4/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Heaven 17
1/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Her voice is incredible, but there is way too much filler on this album.
Brian Wilson
2/5
Genesis
2/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4/5
3/5
Beck
3/5
At first I thought I was really going to dig sadboy Beck, but it all just kinda sounded the same to me. It was pleasant to have on in the background, though.
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Soft Cell
2/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Dennis Wilson
2/5
Sepultura
5/5
Morrissey
1/5
The Pharcyde
4/5
I can see why some people would find this annoying, but I dug the laid back beats and the juvenile rhymes.
Dire Straits
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
MC Solaar
3/5
Even though I didn't understand what he was saying, I still dug the beats and his flow.
Janet Jackson
4/5
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
The Temptations
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
Orange Juice
2/5
Joy Division
2/5
Traffic
3/5
Oasis
4/5
Elbow
1/5
For people who think Coldplay is too hard
Portishead
3/5
TLC
3/5
Green Day
3/5
This used to be one of my favorite albums! But, now I just think there isn't enough substance to it. There's still some bomb ass bangers though.
The The
3/5
Ramones
5/5
The Doors
1/5
I need to be in the right mood to tolerate The Doors. Today was not that day.
Tangerine Dream
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
3/5
System Of A Down
4/5
Toxicity would have been my choice, but still a real good album
Little Richard
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Parliament
3/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
The only thing you can trust in life is the first four Black Sabbath albums
Def Leppard
4/5
Sebadoh
2/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
The political song lyrics are dopey as fuuuuck, but, otherwise, this album is pretty amazing.
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
1/5
Radiohead
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Digital Underground
1/5
Robbie Williams
4/5
More like a 3.5, but Angels is one of my all time faves, so it gets a bump up
The National
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Queen Latifah
2/5
The Cramps
4/5
Spacemen 3
2/5
Kraftwerk
2/5
Ryan Adams
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
21st Century Schizoid Man is a 5, the rest of the album is just ok
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
Bobby Womack
4/5
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
Yes
3/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
New Order
3/5
Shack
2/5
De La Soul
3/5
Look, it's highly influential and there are some great songs, but the skits really mess with the flow of the album. It's also too long, and can get kind of irritating.
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Björk
3/5
Television
4/5
The Cult
3/5
I feel like I should like The Cult more than I do
Jamiroquai
2/5
Very close to a 3, because there's a couple bangers. Revolution 1993 is so good. But I also found the album all together kind of annoying. I reserve the right to change this rating in the future.
Method Man
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Paul Weller
2/5
Saint Etienne
1/5
Leftfield
1/5
I wasn't really in the mood for this today, so I may come back and revisit it again later.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
The Residents
2/5
I mean, points for influencing Primus, I guess?
Ice Cube
4/5
Sam Cooke
4/5
AC/DC
4/5
I had to have been in the right mood, because this hit suuuuper hard
Al Green
3/5
Japan
2/5
The Mars Volta
5/5
More like a 4.5, feeling generous so I'm bumping it up.
There's a whole ass generation of Warped Tour kids who love prog because of these guys and Coheed
Queen
4/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Megadeth
4/5
Eagles
1/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
The Who
3/5
The popular songs are bangers, everything else is pretty mid
The Jam
3/5
The Sonics
4/5
The Sugarcubes
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Basement Jaxx
2/5
American Music Club
1/5
What in the blue Laurel Canyon hell is this
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Little Simz
4/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Cheap Trick
4/5
The Only Ones
3/5
Madness
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Tori Amos
4/5
Slipknot
2/5
Slipknot is kinda weird among my other "greatest hits" bands, because they've released several bangers over the years. They've also made a lot of songs that have rightfully earned them a very rude nickname.
Miles Davis
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Astor Piazzolla
1/5
Lou Reed
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
2/5
This sounds like the ur-text for Nine Inch Nails, but that makes it more "interesting" than "listenable"
Big Star
2/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
1/5
Why is there so much mid rap rock on this list
Orbital
2/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
The Soft Boys
3/5
Milton Nascimento
2/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Motörhead
5/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
The Fall
2/5
Talvin Singh
3/5
Christine and the Queens
2/5
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
I dig several Magnetic Fields songs, but listening to them for over two and a half hours is kind of a chore.
3/5
The B-52's
4/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Faust
2/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Metallica
5/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
UB40
2/5
Snoop Dogg
4/5
The only good Snoop Dogg album, and it's quite the banger
Lucinda Williams
3/5
Le Tigre
4/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Randy Newman
2/5
Love
2/5
The Pogues
4/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Thundercat
3/5
Primal Scream
2/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Laibach
2/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Kate Bush
2/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Shuggie Otis
2/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
Richard Hawley
2/5
Iron Maiden
5/5
I prefer the Dickinson albums, but this is good enough for a 4.5 plus the ol' metal bump
M.I.A.
4/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Death In Vegas
2/5
Billie Holiday
3/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Cypress Hill
4/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Hot Chip
3/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
4/5
Pavement
3/5
Devendra Banhart
1/5
Madonna
2/5
4/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
Feels like the missing link between Goblin and the synth wave bands of today
Bonnie Raitt
4/5
Orbital
2/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Erykah Badu
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
My mom and dad used to play this album all the time, so there's quite a bit of nostalgia here, so it's difficult to separate bias and objectivity. Call it a 3.5, round it down.
k.d. lang
3/5
k.d. lang has such an incredible voice, I really am unable to figure out why her music doesn't click with me. My current hypothesis is that I am not the intended audience, and it's ok that I'm not a big fan, even if it is masterfully made
Thin Lizzy
5/5
Air
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Maxwell
4/5
Fuck, that's a sexy ass album
Tim Buckley
2/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Raekwon
4/5
Eels
4/5
Very nearly a 5. Everything I love about 90s alt music on one album.
Jane's Addiction
3/5
N.W.A.
4/5
Too much filler to call this 5, but the best songs are absolute classics.
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Tito Puente
4/5
Lupe Fiasco
4/5
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
Solange
4/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
I went through a phase where I really dug Timberlake's stuff, now he just annoys the piss outta me
Jefferson Airplane
2/5
3/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Liz Phair
3/5
Elvis Costello
2/5
Radiohead
4/5
The Roots
4/5
Might be almost a 5? Just a baby bit too much filler for me to say that
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
The Damned
5/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
Love
3/5
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
More like a 3.5, they have a good sound here, but Evil Empire and Battle for Los Angeles are much more cohesive
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
2Pac
4/5