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Albums Rated
2.77
Average Rating
44%
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2010s
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5-Star Albums
39
1-Star Albums
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Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Wild Wood
Paul Weller
|
5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
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Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
|
5 | 3.11 | +1.89 |
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Dear Science
TV On The Radio
|
5 | 3.16 | +1.84 |
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Hysteria
Def Leppard
|
5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
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1989
Taylor Swift
|
5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
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Achtung Baby
U2
|
5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
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Figure 8
Elliott Smith
|
5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
|
5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
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Tidal
Fiona Apple
|
5 | 3.45 | +1.55 |
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The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
|
5 | 3.45 | +1.55 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
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1 | 3.62 | -2.62 |
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Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
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1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Fun House
The Stooges
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1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Teen Dream
Beach House
|
1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
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Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
|
1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
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Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
|
1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
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The Idiot
Iggy Pop
|
1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
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Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
|
1 | 3.16 | -2.16 |
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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
|
1 | 3.13 | -2.13 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 5 |
| Beatles | 4 | 4.25 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 6 | 2 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Stooges | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Velvet Underground | 2 | 1.5 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | 2, 5 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 4, 1 |
| Kings of Leon | 4, 1, 2 |
| The Rolling Stones | 4, 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (23)
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1-Star Albums (39)
All Ratings
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
8/10 really fun
Kings of Leon
4/5
8/10 versatile and interesting
Alice In Chains
4/5
Some great songs and some filler. 4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Over and Over not exactly a ripper of an opener.
The Ledge picks things up but not exactly something I’d want to listen to again. It’s at least musically interesting.
Think About Me is kind of just there. Not offensive, not great.
Save Me A Place tries to be ambitious. Kind of see this sound later with REM. More interesting than actually good to listen to.
Sara sounds like a more traditional Fleetwood Mac song, very pretty.
What Makes You Think You’re The One is a rowdy Buckingham number. Not bad.
Storms is pretty, another song that actually sounds like a FM track.
That’s All for Everyone is fun, kind of wacky. Sounds like it was more fun to make than listen to.
Not That Funny is not that good either. Abrasive.
Sisters of the Moon is atmospheric, good beat.
Angel has me convinced I’m Team Stevie not Team Lindsey
That’s Enough For Me is a rollicking Lindsey song. A little frantic and fun.
Brown Eyes is a pretty Christine song. Bit meandering.
Never Make Me Cry is another pretty Christine song. Not really memorable.
I Know I’m Not Wrong is another LB jam, a little more reserved and the better for it.
Honey Hi is another Christine song, pretty but slight
Beautiful Child is a longer Stevie song, not bad
Walk A Thin Line is pretty good, layered and solid. Maybe my favorite song on this weird album.
Tusk follows almost like a blend and it’s boisterous and fun
Album closer Never Forget has some nice playing on it. Pleasant enough way to end the sprawling album. Was this a double LP when it was released? It has 20 songs on it.
6/10
Fiona Apple
5/5
10/10 goes from strength to strength
The Band
3/5
Well crafted but not my thing. 7/10
Slade
1/5
Rough with every song sounding identical. 1/4
Bob Dylan
4/5
Never listened to Bob Dylan before. Really captivating. 4/5
Manu Chao
2/5
Not something I’d go back to again and again but it was pleasant enough
Taylor Swift
4/5
First ever listen to Taylor. Loved it! Such pretty singing and instrumentation
ABBA
3/5
Cheery and lush
Portishead
2/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Beth Orton
4/5
OutKast
5/5
Absolutely fantastic
Funkadelic
2/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Expected to like this a lot more than I did
Tears For Fears
4/5
Pulp
2/5
Paul Weller
5/5
Moby
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
2/5
Like elevator music
TV On The Radio
5/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Beach House
1/5
Completely unlistenable
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
Certainly a variety
Sabu
1/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Diverse and often beautiful
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Much better than I expected
Thin Lizzy
2/5
Louis Prima
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
David Bowie
2/5
Not bad but not memorable either
Incubus
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Lou Reed
1/5
David Bowie
2/5
Second David Bowie album I’ve heard this week, he’s just not my cuppa
Hüsker Dü
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Adele
5/5
Simple Minds
2/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Meat Puppets
1/5
The Stooges
2/5
Prince
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Patti Smith
2/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
I know this is supposed to be a masterpiece and I really tried but it just sounds so cloying and awful. If this site had 1/2 stars I’d go even lower.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Pink Floyd
2/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Slayer
2/5
Thought this would be unlistenable, and the vocals are, but the guitar playing is intricate and interesting.
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Portishead
3/5
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
PJ Harvey
5/5
3/5
Mott The Hoople
2/5
Charles Mingus
3/5
50 Cent
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Radiohead
2/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Otis Redding
2/5
The Doors
4/5
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Pixies
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
1/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Eagles
3/5
Throwing Muses
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
The Bees
2/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Genesis
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
The Clash
2/5
Yes
3/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
The Who
2/5
Aside from the hit singles a bit of a chore to get through
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Bauhaus
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
The Birthday Party
1/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Gotan Project
2/5
Kanye West
4/5
Sugar
2/5
Dion
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
De La Soul
2/5
James Brown
2/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
John Coltrane
3/5
Solange
1/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
The Who
2/5
Supergrass
3/5
Rush
4/5
Van Halen
4/5
Sex Pistols
2/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
Justice
2/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
ZZ Top
4/5
Cee Lo Green
2/5
The Youngbloods
2/5
Billy Joel
4/5
George Jones
3/5
The Verve
2/5
Not nearly as bad as some of the 1 star reviews will have you believe.
Ray Charles
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Billy Bragg
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
White Denim
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
The Cardigans
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Steve Earle
2/5
Pretenders
2/5
Linkin Park
3/5
Blur
2/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
The Mamas & The Papas
2/5
Underworld
2/5
Lorde
3/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4/5
Eminem
4/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
XTC
3/5
MGMT
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
1/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Daft Punk
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
The Strokes
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Gang Of Four
2/5
Morrissey
4/5
Norah Jones
3/5
4/5
Richard Hawley
2/5
Anita Baker
3/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
The Undertones
2/5
The Zutons
4/5
Duran Duran
5/5
Finley Quaye
1/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
The Saints
3/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Def Leppard
5/5
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
Eels
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Aphex Twin
1/5
Beatles
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Shack
3/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Blur
2/5
Joanna Newsom
2/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Steve Hogarth’s hero is mine too now. Wow.
Beck
3/5
Steve Hogarth’s hero is mine too now. Wow.
David Bowie
2/5
Metallica
4/5
David Bowie
2/5
Mj Cole
2/5
David Bowie
2/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Sepultura
1/5
Music was 3 stars but negative 4 stars for the “singing”
The Kinks
4/5
As I’m listening it goes from a 3 to a 4. Just endlessly inventive and fun
Marianne Faithfull
1/5
Taylor Swift
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Kings of Leon
1/5
Like other listeners have noted, the singing is pretty poor
Traffic
2/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Liz Phair
3/5
The Temptations
2/5
The Cramps
1/5
Beatles
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
The Fall
2/5
Koffi Olomide
2/5
Erykah Badu
3/5
Deep Purple
2/5
Richard Thompson
2/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Nirvana
5/5
Stereolab
2/5
Nico
2/5
Goldie
1/5
Elton John
4/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
The Band
3/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Cornershop
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
Remember this being a lot better in 1987
Depeche Mode
4/5
All the haters saying Depeche Droned or whatever corny pun can pound sand this shit slaps.
The White Stripes
4/5
Al Green
3/5
Beatles
4/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
B.B. King
2/5
Coldplay
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Dire Straits
2/5
The Velvet Underground
1/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
Rush
5/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Dr. Dre
2/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Fugazi
2/5
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
Ramones
2/5
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Dirty Projectors
4/5
The War On Drugs
1/5
2/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Oasis
2/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Donovan
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Gillian Welch
2/5
Yes
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
The Associates
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
Megadeth
2/5
The Roots
2/5
The Zombies
3/5
Slipknot
2/5
Crowded House
2/5
David Bowie
2/5
Jesus enough fucking Bowie
Mudhoney
3/5
Tom Waits
1/5
Iggy Pop
1/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Tom Tom Club
2/5
Almost offensively bland
George Michael
4/5
Massive Attack
3/5
CHVRCHES
3/5
New Order
3/5
Love
2/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
American Music Club
2/5
Not on Spotify can’t be too important, sorry nerds
Lightning Bolt
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Morrissey
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
John Lennon
2/5
Kind of dreary affair all around
The Killers
3/5
1/5
Brian Wilson
1/5
So abrasive I can’t even
The Beta Band
4/5
What a delightful surprise
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Madonna
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Cream
3/5
The The
2/5
Britney Spears
1/5
I get that it’s an important record but I found it unlistenable except for the title track. Don’t mind that it’s manufactured by music scientists it just doesn’t sound good at all.
TLC
3/5
Much better than I expected
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
The Undertones
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Such pretty singing. No one sings like them anymore.
The Cure
3/5
2/5
King Crimson
3/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
The Offspring
2/5
Röyksopp
2/5
Miriam Makeba
3/5
Nas
2/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Madonna
4/5
Remember when this came out, loved it then and love it now. Madonna has turned into something different these days but this is really bright and fun.
Prince
2/5
First side is really mediocre. No hooks.
Side two is marked improvement but not really enough to save the whole endeavor. I’d like to round up to three stars out of respect for Prince but the album really doesn’t deserve it.
Prince is an interesting artist in that he has SO MANY crazy-great songs but man alive so much more middling crap.
Brian Eno
3/5
It’s interesting rather than actually good
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Oh for the love
2 stars barely
Love
3/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
Two great songs and a lot of filler but those two songs are super great
Scritti Politti
2/5
King Crimson
2/5
The Doors
3/5
Has its strengths but the songs sound the same after a while
Billie Holiday
2/5
Really dull
Tangerine Dream
2/5
2 star cavalcade continues
Van Morrison
2/5
That voice, that’s why his supposedly marvelous songs aren’t on the radio. It’s like a dog whistle.
Carole King
4/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
The Icarus Line
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
The voice being the star-subtractor here
Wilco
3/5
Like Beck, minus the hooks or sense of humor
ZZ Top
3/5
The singles slap but the other songs are pretty pedestrian
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Fairport Convention
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Mostly boring but just quirky enough to be fun. Amazed at their popularity
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Various Artists
3/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
All you unoriginal reviewers squawking about how BC sound like The Rolling Stones pick up your Obviously But button on the way to the next Nick Cave record
Jerry Lee Lewis
1/5
Complete nonsense
Bob Dylan
2/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Not their best (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) but great nonetheless.
The Prodigy
2/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
Barely a two. Not surprised I’ve never heard of this
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Fugees
2/5
Kate Bush
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Queen
3/5
Boards of Canada
2/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
2/5
Girls Against Boys
2/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
OutKast
4/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Pixies
2/5
The Monkees
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
1/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Air
2/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2/5
The Modern Lovers
1/5
Queen Latifah
3/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Leftfield
2/5
CHIC
2/5
Taken individually the songs are more or less ok but a whole album of that is really repetitive.
Jamiroquai
1/5
The cultural appropriation posts about this were almost comical enough to make this album something but nope. Cute singer though
Tracy Chapman
4/5
The Psychedelic Furs
1/5
Had high expectations based on how much other artists that I like revere the Furs but it was kind of awful. The vocals I mean
Fairport Convention
3/5
Q-Tip
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Emmylou Harris
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
Orbital
1/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Lana Del Rey
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Gorillaz
3/5
U2
5/5
Machito
4/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
1/5
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Suede
1/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
The Verve
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
The Stooges
1/5
Hookworms
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
3/5
Aimee Mann
3/5
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
KISS
2/5
Can
2/5
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Heaven 17
2/5
Arrested Development
2/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Sleater-Kinney
1/5
The vocals took a full star away
Aerosmith
3/5
Ananda Shankar
2/5
David Crosby
2/5
Soul II Soul
1/5
Big Star
3/5
Klaxons
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Nitin Sawhney
1/5
Janelle Monáe
5/5
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
The Kinks
3/5
Wild Beasts
2/5
The Auteurs
2/5
Coldcut
2/5
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
1/5
The Doors
2/5
Khaled
2/5
Peter Tosh
2/5
N.W.A.
3/5
Judas Priest
4/5
Haircut 100
2/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Mudhoney
2/5
Shivkumar Sharma
2/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Frank Black
3/5