437
Albums Rated
3.39
Average Rating
40%
Complete
652 albums remaining
Rating Distribution
How you rate albums
Rating Timeline
Average rating over time
Ratings by Decade
Which era do you prefer?
Activity by Day
When do you listen?
Taste Profile
1970s
Favorite Decade
New-wave
Favorite Genre
UK
Top Origin
Curator
Rater Style ?
77
5-Star Albums
23
1-Star Albums
Taste Analysis
Genre Preferences
Ratings by genre
Origin Preferences
Ratings by country
Rating Style
You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sulk | 5 | 2.36 | +2.64 |
| Beyond Skin | 5 | 2.77 | +2.23 |
| All Hail the Queen | 5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
| Shadowland | 5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
| Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
| Paris 1919 | 5 | 2.95 | +2.05 |
| More Specials | 5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
| Searching For The Young Soul Rebels | 5 | 3 | +2 |
| Floodland | 5 | 3.04 | +1.96 |
| Untitled (Black Is) | 5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bad | 1 | 3.8 | -2.8 |
| Master Of Puppets | 1 | 3.73 | -2.73 |
| Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 1 | 3.68 | -2.68 |
| Imagine | 1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
| ...And Justice For All | 1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
| Smash | 1 | 3.38 | -2.38 |
| Daydream Nation | 1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
| Fever To Tell | 1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
| Made In Japan | 1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
| McCartney | 1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
Artist Analysis
Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 6 | 4.83 |
| Radiohead | 5 | 4.4 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Smiths | 3 | 4.67 |
| Prince | 2 | 5 |
| The Specials | 2 | 5 |
| The Cure | 2 | 5 |
| Nick Drake | 2 | 5 |
| Amy Winehouse | 2 | 5 |
| Stevie Wonder | 2 | 5 |
| Joni Mitchell | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Metallica | 3 | 1.67 |
| John Lennon | 2 | 1.5 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 2 |
| Deep Purple | 3 | 2 |
Controversial Artists
Artists you rate inconsistently
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 5, 2 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 2, 5, 4 |
| Peter Gabriel | 5, 4, 2 |
| Miles Davis | 2, 3, 5 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5, 2, 3, 4 |
5-Star Albums (77)
View Album Wall
Popular Reviews
Eels
3/5
First track Novocaine for the soul took me straight back to the mid 90s. the rest of the album would benefit from a few more listens as it rather washed over me
3 likes
The Specials
5/5
Brilliant. So proud to be from Coventry and to have grown up in this era
2 likes
Beastie Boys
2/5
I can’t help my foot tapping along and I know this is ground-breaking and technically v clever in an analogue 80s world…but it’s hard to take a whole album of this. Just sounds so samey.
1 likes
1-Star Albums (23)
All Ratings
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Broken hearts and civil rights. Track to listen to again - Save Me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4/5
I own the vinyl cos it was my brother’s. But I’ve never listened to it all the way through. I suspended my disbelief and enjoyed it.
Fave track - In God’s Country
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Listened to this a lot aged 16/17 (c1985)
I can confirm that I still cannot listen to the Stairway guitar solo without being on my feet air guitarist like a badass.
I didn’t know what a levee was when I originally listened to this album. Bit more meaningful post Katrina
Fave track - Misty Mountain Hop
David Bowie
4/5
Appropriately, I listened to this on the train. I never know what to say about Bowie. Words aren’t really enough. It's not an album I've listened to as much as others, hence 4 stars
Fave track - Golden Years probably still edges it as it’s so reminiscent of my younger years but Word on a Wing is sad and beautiful.
Eels
3/5
First track Novocaine for the soul took me straight back to the mid 90s. the rest of the album would benefit from a few more listens as it rather washed over me
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Walked around listening to this like I was one of those 60s films with women in pixie hair cuts, white knee high boots and geometric print dresses.
The actual music was nice for background but I wasn’t really concentrating. Sorry, Count
Kate Bush
5/5
Running up that Hill reaching a new audience recently shows how an album that’s nearly 40 years old is utterly current. Kate is a bit of a no words are enough artist for me, like David. Fave track: The Big Sky still makes me cry.
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Country music has pretty much passed me by - apart from the times I've been doing road trips in the US midwest when it's been the only genre available on the radio. I do love this game for making me listen to things that I wouldn't otherwise.
Track to listen to again - For No One is beautiful.
George Jones
1/5
Suffered a bit from being the day after EmmyLou.
“If she’s not with the one she loves, she’ll love the one she’s with.”
Painful.
Track to listen to again - Nope.
Sex Pistols
3/5
A much-needed ear cleanse after two days of country lovelorn angst which I guess in some small way replicates what this album would have sounded like at the time. Ripping everything up and starting again. All these years later, it sounds like straightforward noisy rock n roll to me. Not so shocking any more.
Fave track - Pretty Vacant
Yes
3/5
I confess to only really knowing Yes from Owner of a Lonely Heart in the 80s. This is more interesting but then I have always enjoyed a bit of prog rock.
Listen to again - Starship Trooper A. Life Seeker B. Disillusion C. Würm because actually what on earth *was* that?!
The War On Drugs
3/5
Had never heard of this band so was excited to listen to music that was completely new to me. On New Year’s Day too! A new discovery that I’ll come back to, I reckon. Swirly ambient guitar sounds. I hesitate to be that old timer who says how reminiscent new music is of past music but it does
Listen to again - Suffering
Weather Report
2/5
Give me the jazz. Give me the electricity. Give me the international influences. Didn’t think I’d know any tracks but straight away was grooving around to Birdland.
Listen to again - A remark you made
Morrissey
3/5
Ugh it’s so hard listening to Morrissey these days. I was 19 and in my 2nd year at Manchester when this came out so I had a happy reminisce about that era of my life. Queuing in the rain outside the Hacienda. Cheap vodka in the Poly union. Mooching round Affleck’s Palace looking for distressed denim that didn’t make me look like a heifer. Oh was I supposed to be listening to an album? 2.5 stars rounds up to 3
Favourite track - Suedehead
Simply Red
3/5
Oh this was such a fresh sound when it came out, that fusion of soul and pop. I didn’t own it myself but it’s so familiar, I think one of my uni mates must have had it. It was so good to hear pop music that was overtly political. “Did the earth move for you, Nancy?” Hucknall’s voice is so distinctive that I suppose it’s inevitable it sounds a bit samey now. Entertained to learn from Wikipedia that “Hucknall was among the people present at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester in June 1976 where the Sex Pistols were playing”
Favourite track - Holding Back the Years
Led Zeppelin
2/5
Apart from Immigrant Song, I don’t know this one. Gloomy and didn’t really grab me although I feel disloyal saying this. Whats going on in the weird last track?
Listen to again (not sure I really will tbh) - Friends
Stan Getz
4/5
Years ago, a Brazilian colleague of my partner’s gave me every CD released by Tom Jobim. His music has been the sound track to many a London commute ever since. I can report that rainy January streets are much-improved by the sounds of sunny bossa nova. He really was a genius. I went to see Astrud Gilberto at the Jazz Cafe in the early 90s. I drank too much red wine to remember what my ears thought but at least I was there.
The Blue Nile
3/5
I hadn’t heard of this at all but it was an enjoyable listen of its era. Loved the bass.
Listen to again - Automobile Noise
Paul McCartney
1/5
I wish I could choose the Did Not Listen button. I wish I could wait and listen to it after I’ve died. Appalling. Less than zero stars.
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
John Lennon
1/5
Apart from the big hits which I don’t particularly need to listen to again, I found this dull. If someone wrote me a song called Oh Lucy along the lines of Oh Yoko, I’d dump them
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
I can’t have listened to this since the mid-80s. A friend from back then had this album and it was good to hear it again. But sad to think he was singing lyrics “never to grow old”. Most of the tracks aren’t that memorable tho. EXP reminds me of The Carpenters’ “Calling Occupants”
Favourite track - Little Wing
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
Cornershop
4/5
Only knew them from Brimful of Asha so was really interested to listen to this. Really enjoyed it!
Listen to again - Good ship
FKA twigs
1/5
An artist I knew of but don’t know. I found it quite difficult to listen to. I doubt I’ll be listening again
The Avalanches
2/5
Nice to listen to this again
Sonic Youth
1/5
A name I knew but had never listened to. Famous for having a woman, Kim Gordon, in the band. Albums that I listen to while I’m working suffer if they’re noisy and distracting like this as I wanted to get it over with so I could concentrate. Is that fair? Possibly not. Do I care? No.
Listen to again (possibly) - The Sprawl
Paul Simon
2/5
Enjoyed listening to this again. There are other Paul Simon albums I like more though.
Elton John
3/5
My friend Rachel had this album and we listened to it a lot c 1982. Sad that Candle in the Wind got so over-played after Diana’s death. I had to hold my skippy finger back.
Favourite track- I’ve seen that movie too
Tom Waits
4/5
Another album introduced to me by a friend. Fab to listen to it again.
Favourite track - Clap Hands
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Definitely dark
Alice In Chains
2/5
The problem I’ve realised with this game is that I’d never choose noisy guitar rock to listen to as a whole album so the music suffers as a result.
Youssou N'Dour
2/5
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
I love Astrud but I didn't love Parade and the whole album didn't feel like her best work.
The Beach Boys
2/5
One of those albums I’ve always heard of as being on the lists of albums you must listen to so wasn’t surprised to have it pop up on here. I’d never heard it though. Apart from the obvious hits. Not sure I’ll listen to it again but I did like “Let’s go away for a while”. Then it finished and some Stevie Wonder came on my iTunes and that was much better. Sorry, Boys.
Metallica
1/5
Well, this was relaxing. I got the giggles during Leper Messiah which I don’t think was the effect they were after. I thought I was on the home stretch but then Orion went on for over 8 minutes. I can’t imagine a time when I’d choose to listen to this again.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
Supergrass
3/5
Not doing very well at keeping up with my reviews. Perky was just what I needed on a rainy grey commute to work.
Björk
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Knew the name but hadn't really listened to them before. I'm sure I'll listen again
Talking Heads
3/5
enjoyed this so much I listened to it twice back to back and will listen again
Metallica
1/5
I wouldn’t mind some of this if it wasn’t for the vocal and the sheer blurgh of the second guitar. Why do the tracks have to last so long? ”The Frayed Ends of Sanity’ sums it up really.
The Crusaders
4/5
Really enjoyed this as I navigated the West Midlands conurbation in the February drizzle. Street life!
Elvis Presley
2/5
I think, for me, Elvis has always suffered from being so popular with the generation before mine. Therefore very much not cool. By the time I was even aware of music, he was seeing out his time in Vegas and then dead. I tried to be receptive but it just feels very samey. At least it’s brief. Much prefer the Ray Charles version of I Got a Woman.
Beastie Boys
2/5
I can’t help my foot tapping along and I know this is ground-breaking and technically v clever in an analogue 80s world…but it’s hard to take a whole album of this. Just sounds so samey.
Oasis
3/5
I thought I was going to know this whole album but I confess I only really knew the hits. "Live Forever" always makes me feel really sad. Never understood the Blur/Oasis South/North rivalry - both great in their own very different ways
The Doors
5/5
Wonderful to hear this again! It seems funny now that I knew the Amii Stewart version of Light My Fire first before this one. Hello Metallica, THIS is how to record a 7 minute album track that people want to listen to all the way through. I’ll give it five.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
I was a bit daunted going into this but Clare said “it’s sublime”. It is. It’s also very, very moving and I’ll listen to it again.
OutKast
3/5
Found myself bopping along round the kitchen to this. I only knew Ms Jackson before (24 years old, what?!) but I enjoyed listening to the whole album.
Track to listen to again: So Fresh, So Clean
Little Richard
3/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Not sure what I was expecting. A lot of banging and thumping. Really enjoyed it. Might even listen to it again 😀
The Birthday Party
2/5
I wonder how many of the people on the train would have looked at this middle-aged woman and guessed that she was listening to tracks called Hamlet (pow pow pow) and Big Jesus Trashcan. I appreciate this for what it is and the undoubted genius of Nick Cave but in 1982 I was following a different path. And I still am tbh
Love
3/5
enjoyed this!
CHVRCHES
3/5
Wasn’t at all sure what to expect and it’s a real mix. Some poppy, some more alternative. Liked it and might even listen to it again.
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Listened to half of this in the car driving up a rainy motorway and the second half walking through a park in the sunshine. Surprisingly enough my impression of the album shifted dramatically to the positive. I was finding it a bit boring but it perked up. Or maybe I did.
Guns N' Roses
3/5
Good old-fashioned rock. Memories of whole pub singalong karaoke
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
It’s not perfect but I love this album
Def Leppard
2/5
Felt exhausted before I’d started listening. The first 20 seconds of the first track was promising but then it all felt quite leaden. But then it is heavy metal. Man.
Hole
4/5
Loved this. Just what I needed.
Thelonious Monk
2/5
Parp. Not sure what to say about this. It made me smile but I don’t think I’ll be listening again.
Fats Domino
3/5
Blueberry Hill reminds me of happy days watching Happy Days as a kid. Enjoyed the whole album.
Donald Fagen
4/5
It’s albums like this that remind me I’m nowhere near as cool as I think I am. Give me blancmange-soft rock any day of the week. Those twiddly Wurlitzer keyboards. Those swing beats. Loved it when I first heard it and, yep, still love it now. “Walk between raindrops” indeed
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Enjoyed this
The Young Gods
1/5
Listened once. Won’t make that mistake again. Noise in French is still noise.
Deep Purple
3/5
It was ok, not great, but ok. Smoke on the water is a track I remember with fondness from my youth so I’ve rounded up to a three
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Good to listen to again. Can’t help chuckling about Duran Duran’s cover of Thank You (and the whole of that covers album tbh) whenever I hear that track though
Slayer
1/5
I was walking through a park listening to it on my headphones and actually felt guilty to be listening to something so ugly in a pretty place. Fortunately it’s not long so I did listen all the way thought but why is it on the list? If I could score zero, I would
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
I remember this coming out so I was a bit surprised that I didn't know any of the tracks. It was OK. A welcome relief from the heavy, hair, thrash and other kinds of metal we've been exploring in recent days.
XTC
4/5
Hooray! An album that I didn't know before, that I really enjoyed, and will listen to again. Thank you, 1001 heavy rock-leaning gods.
4/5
Really enjoyed this. Now I know why loads of my friends rave about them
Depeche Mode
5/5
I’ve only properly “discovered” Depeche Mode relatively recently and I don’t know what took me so long. Dance music in my late teens, probably. This is excellent. Five stars
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Michael Jackson
1/5
I bought this on tape cassette at the time. No idea why because it’s not very good.
Barry Adamson
3/5
I found this really interesting and creative. Reminded me of Paris in 1969 where I was not, rather than Manchester in 1989 where I was. But I will listen again, I reckon
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Very relaxing. Enjoyed it
Michael Jackson
3/5
I've never liked Billie Jean and I've heard Thriller far too many times but it was ok to listen to this again. I suppose.
Laibach
2/5
Quite strange and I can’t think of a circumstance when I’d want to listen to it again but I didn’t mind the chance to giggle along to the weirdery.
The Modern Lovers
3/5
All new to me but enjoyed it
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Enjoyed a trip back to late 60s California. I will listen to this again
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
enjoyed being whisked back to my youth.
Johnny Cash
3/5
Really enjoyed this journey into another time, another place.
Prince
5/5
Loved this album then and I love it now.
Very happy to give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Straightforward rock and roll. Enjoyable
The Smiths
4/5
Oh blimey listening to this. Manchester was so bleak in the 80s. It's hard to realise it now. A fellow uni student I knew was thrown out of the window from the top deck of a bus. Another mate had all his top front teeth punched out for him because he'd dared to stray away from student nights and had gone up to town on a Saturday night.
I love that Johnny Marr still plays these tracks and Morrissey is surplus to requirements these days. "Girlfriend in a Coma" has always irritated me but I love "Stop me" which is brilliant live.
The Strokes
3/5
Coldplay
2/5
Coldplay have annoyed me for a long time. I didn’t mind listening to this though. But I doubt I’ll listen again
Solange
4/5
Really loved this and will be listening again
The Incredible String Band
1/5
All I can say about this is that it sounded like a Monty Python spoof album and I wish it had been.
Frank Sinatra
3/5
One of the most wonderful singing voices. A relaxing listen .
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
I’ve loved every second of this album since I first heard it nearly 40 years ago. Never gets old and nor do I.
The Beach Boys
3/5
UB40
4/5
Didn’t know this at all apart from Food for Thought. Loved it
The Offspring
1/5
Not sure the point of this really. I listened to it and was none the wiser
Sister Sledge
4/5
Gary Numan
5/5
Wonderful
Air
5/5
Steve Earle
1/5
Mekons
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Most enjoyable
Talking Heads
4/5
Love this album. Don’t know it very well but looking forward to getting to know it better
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Blondie
5/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
Green Day
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Some country music I actually like. And Dolly is a tremendous person. Early Morning Breeze is a song I’ll come back to
The Sonics
2/5
D'Angelo
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Was a joy to listen to this. Perfect
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
My foot tapped along but nothing really stood out
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Shining Star is a wonderful track and I enjoyed the rest of the album
The Black Keys
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1/5
Won’t be bothering with this again.
No no no
Pink Floyd
4/5
Sad and beautiful.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Sheryl Crow
1/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
I’ll listen to the last track again but I’ve always liked a few more tunes in my dance music
Frank Sinatra
2/5
It didn’t offend me but it didn’t excite me either. Disappointing when I know Frank was capable of better
Peter Gabriel
5/5
An absolute classic that I owned on tape cassette. 18 again.
Adele
2/5
I just don’t get it. It’s ok, not terrible, but why so massively popular?
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
I enjoyed the unexpected creativity of this
OutKast
3/5
A bit long so I didn’t listen to all of it but I liked most of what I heard and enjoyed the sense of fun
The Temptations
3/5
The Clash
3/5
X-Ray Spex
3/5
I could listen to the title track for ever and it’s a good reminder to floss. The rest was a bit samey but I’m giving her a three because, icon. Also, why on earth wasn’t I in a band in my teens?
Hole
4/5
Fantastic! Love angry women
Radiohead
5/5
Wonderful! Air guitar round the kitchen to Just reminds me of younger days dancing on the platform at Popstarz
Funkadelic
3/5
Liked the album. Didn’t like the title.
Foo Fighters
3/5
Sang along to the first track and the rest of the album was ok. Giving it a 3 cos Dave Grohl seems like a nice bloke
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
I liked this, particularly Daydreamin’
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
5/5
This was tremendous. I’d never listened to it before. Loved how Welcome to the Pleasuredome was followed by Relax. 16 whole minutes of dance perfection. And ballads and covers and Liverpool. Brilliant.
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Beautiful to listen to again
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Deserves its place in the 1001, maybe even the 101, for its influence on popular culture and its creativity. Not an easy listen tho
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
I understand the significance of it but I can’t get beyond the plodding thumping drum beat in Born in the USA.
4/5
This was new to me and I liked listening to it all the way through - while on a train, as it happens. I’ll listen to it again.
PJ Harvey
2/5
She’s an artist other people would say I should like. And I rarely do what other people tell me to do
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Fabulously bleak.
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Enjoyed what I listened to of this
Iron Maiden
3/5
Surprisingly good!
The White Stripes
3/5
AC/DC
4/5
Bong! Love it
Deep Purple
2/5
Ok but I’ve heard it before even though I haven’t heard it before
King Crimson
3/5
This face was in many a record collection when I was younger but I’d never listened to the album. I really loved some of it and some of it was a bit skippable.
M.I.A.
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Deep Purple
1/5
CBA
Anita Baker
3/5
Red Snapper
4/5
New one on me. Really enjoyed it
David Bowie
5/5
Perfect
Arcade Fire
2/5
Arcade Fire - another of those bands people rave about but I don't get and couldn’t even name a track. Still don’t get.
Meat Loaf
5/5
Five stars for the opening bars alone
Black Sabbath
3/5
Was ok
Beatles
4/5
Having grown up taking the Beatles completely for granted it was good to listen to an album I’d never heard before. My dad had many of their albums but not this one. Enjoyed the tracks I already knew and good to discover some new ones.
MGMT
4/5
Really enjoyed hearing this again
The Jam
5/5
Listening to this all the way through which I hadn’t done for 40 years affected me more than I expected it to. Took me right back and also so appropriate all these decades later. Brilliant
New Order
4/5
I can’t help viewing New Order through a Blue Monday shaped prism - the least appropriate way to spend 12 minutes on a dance floor. But, of course, I was in Manchester when this album came out and, of course, it’s really very good.
Miles Davis
2/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Melancholy, yet soothing. I like it
Django Django
5/5
This is one of my go-to albums for a mood lift. Love it. DD are also one of many bands I love whose name is a repeated word. So there we are
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
I had heard the name but never listened to an album. Enjoyed it
Aerosmith
2/5
Why’s it called Pump? That irritated me from the get go. The tunes are ok but the lyrics are not.
Gorillaz
4/5
I was generally more Blur than Oasis because by then I’d left Manchester for London although I think Noel Gallagher might be more fun to have a beer with. I liked this at the time and still do
Elvis Presley
3/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
David Bowie
5/5
Rage Against The Machine
3/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Beck
4/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Listened to this on a misty early morning walk through a park on my own. It was perfectly melancholy although the occasional cough was a bit disconcerting. Wish I’d actually been there
The Specials
5/5
Brilliant. So proud to be from Coventry and to have grown up in this era
Roxy Music
5/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
The Who
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Jazmine Sullivan
3/5
Can
3/5
Rush
3/5
Daft Punk
3/5
Van Morrison
4/5
The Prodigy
3/5
The Cure
5/5
The xx
3/5
Nick Drake
5/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Santana
4/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
John Coltrane
3/5
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
5/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
The Clash
5/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
5/5
The Temptations
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Portishead
4/5
The B-52's
3/5
James Brown
3/5
The Band
2/5
Snooze
Jacques Brel
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Buck Owens
1/5
Listened to one track and that was more than enough
Marvin Gaye
5/5
B.B. King
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Donovan
3/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
The Smiths
5/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
The Associates
5/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Duran Duran
5/5
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Radiohead
4/5
Thin Lizzy
4/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Nick Drake
5/5
Supertramp
2/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Living Colour
3/5
Beatles
3/5
Beatles
3/5
John Lennon
2/5
T. Rex
4/5
Minor Threat
1/5
Violent Femmes
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Minutemen
3/5
Mj Cole
4/5
The Verve
4/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
The Who
3/5
New York Dolls
4/5
Mylo
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
The Police
4/5
ABBA
3/5
k.d. lang
5/5
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Queen
3/5
Wild Beasts
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
Metallica
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Grizzly Bear
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Sisters Of Mercy
5/5
Eagles
4/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
Ice Cube
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Neu!
4/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
Queen Latifah
5/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Tracy Chapman
5/5
The Zutons
4/5
The Shamen
3/5
Dennis Wilson
2/5
Ramones
4/5
Electric Light Orchestra
5/5
Slint
3/5
Billy Bragg
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Fairport Convention
5/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Neneh Cherry
4/5
De La Soul
4/5
Beck
5/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
The xx
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
Pusherman alone would give this five stars but love this album
The Stone Roses
5/5
Joy Division
5/5
Love
2/5
The Mamas & The Papas
5/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Billy Joel
4/5
Pere Ubu
1/5
Neil Young
4/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Pixies
2/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
Dirty Projectors
3/5
ABBA
4/5
There are some brilliant tracks on this album and I own it from when it came out in 1977 so I’ve listened to it many many times. If it wasn’t for Dancing Queen which I never want to hear again after it loomed too large during the 70s revival in the early 90s, this would earn a solid five stars
Beatles
3/5
My dad owned it and then I stole it from him when I was a teenager and then someone stole it from me a long time ago. I’ve still got the lyric sheet from inside. Anyway, Piggies has always terrified me because of the link with Charles Manson. I used to be able to play Michelle on the piano and now I’m wondering if I still can. Some amazing tracks: While my guitar gently weeps and Back in the USSR and some are just unlistenable to: Ob La Di 😳
So…it’s complicated. Hence, three stars.
The Cure
5/5
Can’t knock a single second of this. Just sad that Love Cats put me off them for so long 🤦♀️
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
Once I’d got through the shouting on track one I did like a bit of the guitar on track two and then I gave up.
The Beach Boys
4/5
Really enjoyable and will be listening again
The Prodigy
5/5
So good to listen to this again. I can recommend it for zapping through your to-do list at 140BPM!
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Tori Amos
2/5
Very little earthquakes indeed.
Joan Armatrading
5/5
Just wonderful to hear this again
Funkadelic
4/5
The Smiths
5/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
The Thrills
2/5
Yeah, so you went on holiday.
The Roots
3/5
Not terrible but I didn’t listen to all of it.
Prince
5/5
Astonishing to remember a time when 1999 was far off into the future instead of even further off into the past. It doesn’t matter how much times passes, this album is as fresh as it ever was
T. Rex
5/5
As fresh as ever. Some of the albums don’t deserve their place in this list but this one really does
George Harrison
3/5
Some good tracks and some truly terrible ones. I think if he’d cut the rubbish he’d have had a good album that wasn’t too long to endure
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
I found this complex and intriguing. think I need to listen to it a few more times
David Bowie
5/5
Never tire of listening to this
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Fugees
4/5
Soft Cell
5/5
Wonderful to listen to this again. And astonishing that the first time I heard it was over 40 years ago.
Big Black
2/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Very soothing and comforting
Steely Dan
5/5
Cee Lo Green
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
1/5
Bad pun, dull music
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
The Specials
5/5
One of the many things that make me a proud Cov kid. I was slightly too young to see them live at the time but I saw them at Brixton Academy in 2008 and it was amazing. All the Fred Perry shirts in London in one room for the night!
RIP Terry Hall 💔
5/5
Seeing as my kaleidoscope eyes and I were born the year after this came out, I’d better give this a 5 🤩
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Some of the songs were twice as long as they needed to be and I got a bit bored.
Suede
4/5
Good but their first album’s better
The Doors
4/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
The backbeat in Superstition alone deserves five stars
TV On The Radio
4/5
Tortoise
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
James Taylor
3/5
2Pac
3/5
Ministry
2/5
The Cars
5/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Pulp
4/5
Lou Reed
5/5
M.I.A.
3/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Boards of Canada
4/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
CHIC
5/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Destiny's Child
4/5
Sebadoh
4/5
The Libertines
2/5
Radiohead
4/5
Julian Cope
1/5
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
The Streets
4/5
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
This would have got four stars had it not included a track called Feedback which lasts for seven minutes.
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Paul Simon
4/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Cypress Hill
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Eric Clapton
2/5
Garbage
4/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
5/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Patti Smith
5/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
White Denim
4/5
The Only Ones
3/5
Genesis
2/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
The Divine Comedy
4/5
Songhoy Blues
5/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Pixies
3/5
John Cale
5/5
Spiritualized
4/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
5/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
The Triffids
3/5
Common
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Pentangle
4/5
Musically I liked it. But too much of the lost love anguish but extra star for giving me a laugh.
Moby
5/5
Brian Eno
4/5
The Fall
3/5
The Residents
3/5
The Slits
3/5
Nirvana
2/5
Suzanne Vega
4/5
Skepta
2/5
Digital Underground
2/5
SAULT
5/5
Loved this. Not sure how I missed it when it came out but there was a LOT going on
Cocteau Twins
5/5
Before there was shoegaze there were the Cocteau Twins.
Todd Rundgren
4/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
Serge Gainsbourg
1/5
There are some tinkly tunes in the background that are quite cute but everything else is deeply irritating.
Bill Callahan
4/5
New to me. Really liked it