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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vivid | 5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
| The Köln Concert | 5 | 3.39 | +1.61 |
| Murmur | 5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
| Parachutes | 5 | 3.46 | +1.54 |
| Dusty In Memphis | 5 | 3.47 | +1.53 |
| Rust Never Sleeps | 5 | 3.53 | +1.47 |
| Hotel California | 5 | 3.6 | +1.4 |
| The Genius Of Ray Charles | 5 | 3.63 | +1.37 |
| Pink Moon | 5 | 3.65 | +1.35 |
| Superunknown | 5 | 3.66 | +1.34 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| You've Come a Long Way Baby | 1 | 3.35 | -2.35 |
| Homework | 1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
| Ambient 1/Music For Airports | 1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
| Crocodiles | 1 | 3.05 | -2.05 |
| Larks' Tongues In Aspic | 1 | 2.99 | -1.99 |
| Spiderland | 1 | 2.97 | -1.97 |
| Reign In Blood | 1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
| Music Has The Right To Children | 1 | 2.91 | -1.91 |
| White Light / White Heat | 1 | 2.88 | -1.88 |
| World Clique | 1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
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| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| Nirvana | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Metallica | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
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| Pere Ubu | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Can | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Brian Eno | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| My Bloody Valentine | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
| Björk | 4 | 2.25 | 2.57 |
5-Star Albums (32)
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Michael Jackson
4/5
The groove on this one is so immense that I wanna put on platform shoes, flared skinny-fit jeans and a silk shirt, and boogie all night. Coming from a white, Scandinavian middle school teacher in his early forties, that is quite an achievement.
9 likes
Living Colour
5/5
One of the coolest records in this project that Ive never heard before, so far. Eclectic songwriting, cool instrumentations, and a rock record that still sounds quite fresh in 2024.
5 likes
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Jazz instrumentals is not my usual cuppa, but some of the playing on this one made me stomp my feet and bang my fingers on the office furniture. Not sure how much of this is down to the fact of age or the sheer musicianship on play. The guy improvises hooks that a team of songwriters would spend weeks in a studio to create.
4 likes
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
One of the best debut records ever, if not the best. Captured a time, anger, and created their own genre.
1 likes
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
Its fresh is a really cool opener, love the bass and the horns. Scorpio is plain irritating. The rest of the album is ahead of its time production wise, but the songs seem to never end.
1 likes
1-Star Albums (36)
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Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Undoubtely amongst the best albums ever written. I Listended by chance to "Tusk" earlier today, and whilst the musicianship and production might be even better on that record, there is a nerve and consistency on Rumour that speaks much stronger to me.
The Who
4/5
Garage rock meets James Brown. More polished than Rolling Stones, more fun than Beatles. There are guitar licks here that 2000s Indiebands have copied in dozens, just listen to the chiming chords in "A legal matter".
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Jazz instrumentals is not my usual cuppa, but some of the playing on this one made me stomp my feet and bang my fingers on the office furniture. Not sure how much of this is down to the fact of age or the sheer musicianship on play. The guy improvises hooks that a team of songwriters would spend weeks in a studio to create.
Depeche Mode
4/5
Some of the synthy stuff here are quite dark, especially towards the end. Dark and a bit boring. But, any record with Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence is strong enough to be considerered good.
Snoop Dogg
3/5
I have to say that I find the gangsta braggadoccio and some of the misogyni in the lyrics stupid and bordering towards irritating. With that said Snoops laidback flow is a style of rap i do like, and the production is excellent. Most tunes are catchy like good popmusic, and listening to the record in Dolby Atmos on Tidal with a good headset is a sonic treat.
Iron Maiden
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
My favourite Chilipeppers record, and to me the sound of the summer I was 17, which is the sound of going to the beach and on boat trips with good friends. One of the few records were every song could be a single( and many of them were!). Yes, the lyrics are more than a tad stupid, yes the production lacks depth, but this one gets an extra star based on pure nostalgia.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Air
2/5
As comforting and boring as a grey woollen blanket.
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
1/5
This is Wayne too much country for me.
The Doors
4/5
The word swagger was invented to describe the music on this record. Jim Morrisons vocals is so extremely cool and self-assured. The Spy is a song I didn't know, that I really liked.
Caetano Veloso
2/5
Some cool percussion and it sounds silky smooth. But it is too close to muzak, and I was kinda bored while listening.
Michael Jackson
4/5
The groove on this one is so immense that I wanna put on platform shoes, flared skinny-fit jeans and a silk shirt, and boogie all night. Coming from a white, Scandinavian middle school teacher in his early forties, that is quite an achievement.
Janis Joplin
4/5
Sade
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Come on Eileen is a brilliant song. Besides that, this is not my pint of Guiness.
The Black Keys
3/5
ZZ Top
4/5
THE record to put on for a road trip across the midwest. ZZ Tops gritty blues and the overpolished eighties production shouldnt really work out, but it does.
Nirvana
5/5
The grunge era, Nirvana as a band, and this record where really important to me in my early youth. Th shift in tone from Nevermind to this took me some time to like then, but as an adult I find this record as an album a lot more interesting. Gone are the multitracked vocals an super catchy song structures stolen from power pop. Instead there are angsty whispers and angry screams, and a piece of art that on one hand has mellow and calm songs like Dumb and All Apologies, and on the other hardcore blowouts like Tourettes. And still this is the most cohesive record, and one that I can play from start to finish without skippping, and then want to hear it again.
The Soft Boys
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Jazzy and cool samples. Leans a little towards "okay as background music but not really exciting" to me.
Joe Ely
2/5
Good voice, well produced, but I rally cant remember any of the songs after listening through it. Not my cup of tea.
Hole
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Queen
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
I have a feeling that this record is a grower, so I have put it on my "will-listen-again-list". There are some seriously cool guitar riffs here, Kool Thing and Disappearer springs first to mind, but most of the songs are dense and not super accessible. Three stars for now, but with expectations to become a four-star record somewhere later in 2024.
Pixies
2/5
Cyndi Lauper
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
I love the production. Crystal clear guitar sounds and excellent use of stereo gives it a really organic, and liveish sound. The songs are uneven in quality, i dont really fancy the more acid influenced stuff. But Everybody's been burned is an utterly brilliant song, and shows off a darker side than their biggest hits.
4/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
"The power of love" is one of the best power ballads from the eighties, and the only song on this record i wouldnt mind hearing again.
Linkin Park
4/5
I can understand some of the hate this record gets. It is quite juvenile, some of the lyrics have a high school "the world sucks" vibe, and some of the interplay between rap and singing feels forced. But what it lacks in brains it has in heart. The energy and hearts on the sleeve in the vocals draws me in, and takes me back to beeing 18 and angry. "In the end" alone is worth an extra star, it is a brilliant song.
Cream
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
I agree with one of the other reviews who writes that this is music for people who doesnt like music. It is not horrible or badly composed, its just there - without any demands, or, to me at least, without reaching beyond a shallow surface. It sounds cool on the stereo, but it is just that, sounds.
David Bowie
5/5
Would sound just as new and fresh if it were released today. David Bowie is without doubt the greatest rock star of my age. No one of his peers have reinvented themselves again and again, and done it with quality and ease(and quite a few kilos of cocaine) like Bowie.
Gil Scott-Heron
2/5
I find this excruciatingly boring. I hear the musicianship, but it doesnt connect to me, at all. I would give it 1,5 stars, but since i cant i'll give it 2, just because I have to reserve 1 star to stuff that are REALLY crap.
Britney Spears
1/5
Listening to this from start to finish made me feel sorry for everyone else who is going to do the same in the future.
Eminem
2/5
I like Eminems rapping, and some of the rhymes are funny when in a high school-juvenile mindset way. But the homophobia and violence is to much for me, I mean Kim, that is a white-trash murder ballad i never need to hear again. Two stars because Stan is great story telling, and shows Eminems lyricism can be great with less anger and me against the world attitude.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Ryan Adams
4/5
OutKast
4/5
Speakerboxx is excellent, maybe the best hip hop of the 2000s. The way you move is an all time favourite song. The Love Below is... something different. The singles are cool pop music, but there is too much falsetto and lounge music over all.
The Stranglers
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
1/5
This is too jammy for me, and sounds like several afterparties I went to as a kid. I dont remember one single melody after hearing through, and I am probably even more bored than what the musicians performing on the record sounds.
Happy Mondays
1/5
Sister Sledge
4/5
A fresh breath of slick and extremely funky music after a couple of albums I hope I never have to listen to ever again. This record is fun to listen to, with some really cool guitar parts.
System Of A Down
4/5
Chaotic, messy and quirky lyrics, and a guitar sound that is a bit murky aside; this is so much fun! One singer that manages to sound like three, and songs that twists and turns not to be artsy, but because it suits them, and its fun to throw in stuff like a double guitar solo in a song like Soil, just before it turns into a full on hardcore screaming session. On the other hand Spiders is a clear pointer towards the next three records, who I rate as three of the best metal albums of the 2000s. I was lucky enough to get to see them live in this period, probably on my top 5 list of concerts.
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Well played, and well sung. Smooth as silk, and sounds like a million dollars on my headset. But, the lack of resistance also means it leans towards being good background music, more than it is exciting and engaging music to listen to.
Elvis Presley
2/5
A record that has to be on this list, because of how important it is, but as a record isnt especially good. The singles are fun, but the rest is weak material, especially compare to what came later in Elvis career.
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Ray Price
2/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
GZA
4/5
I enjoyed this one, to mye own surprise. The production is dark and dense, and the songs have a continous flow that reminds me somewhat of more consept oriented records. I like that the lyrics are a lot smarter than the average 90s hiphop full of bitches and hoes( I am looking at you Grandpa Snoop). Guest lines from fellow Wu Tang-members ensures a nice variety in voices and styles that keeps the record from becoming monotonous. I'll stick this one to my "will listen again"-list.
2/5
God damn, this is one angry woman. Why don't you leave the bastard, Loretta? At least it takes two to tango, and as Loretta said herself about her own marriage: "he never hit me one time that I didn't hit him back twice." I'd guess that songs like "The Shoe goes on the other foot tonight", and "I got caught", about a woman being unfaithful, and not being sorry about it at all, made quite some waves in USA in the late sixties. Great lyrics, not my kind of music at all.
Beatles
4/5
The Smiths
2/5
Booooooring.
Johnny Cash
2/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Would give 2,5, but there is a positive vibe to it, so i'll give it the benefit of my doubt. Probably best enjoyed while stoned, not when cleaning windows.
Deep Purple
4/5
Dusty Springfield
5/5
Love the arrangements, perfectly matches Dustys smoky, soulful voice. A record I definitely will listen more to in the near future, and an example of why I love a project like this.
Suicide
1/5
Ok, I acknowledge that it sounds quite timeless and obviously was something very different in 1977. But, seriously, this is more sounds with feverish barking and wailing on top of it, than it is music, and it is definitely not for me.
XTC
3/5
A decent pop record when they dont try to be Genesis.
Beastie Boys
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
I like the album Born in the U.S.A. a lot better than the song Born in the U.S.A.
Mudhoney
2/5
Too much fuzz for me. Sounds a bit like some of my friends rehearsel room jams in the middle to late nineties.
Joy Division
3/5
Beatles
4/5
One of the most important records in the history of music, no doubt. Would also be a sure Five star record with ten songs less. Why anyone would think it was a good idea to put Revolution 9 on the same record as While my guitar gently weeps and Blackbird, two of the most beautiful songs ever written, is beyond me.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
As opposed to Rumours who is a cohesive masterclass in popmusic, this record sounds a bit all over the place. Some of the songs sounds like not quite finished demoes, whilst others are really great, Sisters of the Moon is a great example. I really dont feel this record, even though most of the music is well crafted.
Eminem
3/5
Yes the lyrics are at times misogynistic and at times quite violent. But, I find that whilst the Marshall Mathers LP was angry, bleak and almost uncomfortable to listen to, The Slim Shady LP has a more cartoonish tongue in cheekness to its lyrics. I also like the production better on this one, I fint that it leans more towards classic 90's rap, which to my ears are a good thing.
New Order
2/5
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
Norah Jones
3/5
Björk
2/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
Ravi Shankar
1/5
Too much sitar
Tim Buckley
2/5
Fugees
3/5
The White Stripes
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
This was the first cd I bought with my own money, along with the Soundgarden single Pretty Noose. Yes, there are to many tracks, Corgan overindulged in his own talent on this one, but still, the talent is doubtless. The variation sometimes makes the record less coherent, but on the other hand it kind of wakes you up as a listener. Even if its not the record that has aged best from this decade it still is a 90s classic.
Nick Drake
4/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Muddy Waters
2/5
Jazmine Sullivan
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
4/5
Doves
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Fatboy Slim
1/5
The Cars
4/5
Public Enemy
2/5
Motörhead
2/5
3/5
Carole King
4/5
The Gun Club
2/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
David Bowie
3/5
Not my favorite Bowie record, as it probably is one of his least accessible. But still, as a last word , literally from the grave as he died before it was released, it still has a haunting presence. What it does to a great extent, is show how Bowie even til his last breath was evolving and changing his style.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
The Doors
3/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
Really middle of the road all inn all, would give 2,5, if it werent for Angels, which I have to admit is a really great pop song.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
The Temptations
2/5
Hot Chip
3/5
Soundgarden
5/5
This record could never be anything else than five stars to me. It is not flawless, but it takes me back to a sweet spot in life where MTV actually played music with guitars, and my biggest worries was how to get someone to by me beer in the weekends. Would probably put half the record on the playlist if I had to pick 200 favourite songs, and most definitely put it in the suitcase as a desert island album.
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
Derek & The Dominos
4/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
Pretenders
4/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
N.E.R.D
2/5
Can
1/5
Metallica
5/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Wire
4/5
Muddy Waters
2/5
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Saint Etienne
2/5
The musical equivalent to a Coffee table book. Its just there.
The Band
4/5
Doves
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Paul Weller
4/5
4/5
Hugh Masekela
2/5
D'Angelo
2/5
Smooth like velvet, and it sounds great in headphones, but it is so extremely boring. There is literally now dynamics in his vocals, it just flows along like tap water. Give me some waves and rougher waters!
Pearl Jam
5/5
Have to give Five stars, one of the most important records of my formative years. Its not as diverse as Superunknown, as catchy as Nevermind, or as mysterious as Dirt, but its still a damn good rock n roll record.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
Its fresh is a really cool opener, love the bass and the horns. Scorpio is plain irritating. The rest of the album is ahead of its time production wise, but the songs seem to never end.
Pavement
3/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
One of the best debut records ever, if not the best. Captured a time, anger, and created their own genre.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Funkadelic
2/5
If I ever considered rating this higher, the screaming cats on the final track killed that thought.
Prince
4/5
Gram Parsons
4/5
Added to the list of records I'll listen to again. Like the voice, the sound and the duets with Emmylou Harris. The ultimate version of Love Hurts makes this a four. Would give three and a half if possible.
Eurythmics
3/5
The Cure
3/5
Funkadelic
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
2/5
Would never be on this list if it was recorded by someone less famous. Not crap, utterly boring, and not important in any way.
Bob Dylan
3/5
The United States Of America
2/5
Bordering on irritating, which is what I reserve one star ratings for. Some jangly guitar parts and sweet harmonies makes it a one-and-a-half, and thus the weakest two stars of the first 150 records on this project.
Sonic Youth
2/5
The Who
3/5
The Pogues
2/5
Frank Black
2/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
I dont get this, but the musicianship and production values are too good to be one star.
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Slade
2/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
TV On The Radio
4/5
One of the best records I didnt know before this project. Would sound new and fresh if releasen in 2024, and listening to it on Tidal is a sonic fast to the ears. The production on this is just as brilliant as the musicianship.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Yes
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Os Mutantes
2/5
To strange for me, but the musicianship is to good to warrant only one star.
Nico
3/5
Santana
4/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
This is fun, as music should be. Not perfect, but tons of charm.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
It doesn' t much whiter than this.
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Guitar play and production is excellent, but the songs doesnt do anything for me
Kacey Musgraves
4/5
I dont know if this is one of a thousand records you must hear before you die, but I really liked this.
Tom Waits
4/5
Ramones
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Miles Davis
2/5
I am having a hard with music that has no focal points, no riff or anything that repeats itself. I might too be stupid, or not musical enough to catch this, but I dont.
Thelonious Monk
2/5
Still dont get this kind of improjazz.
Nick Drake
5/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
The ballads are ace, the rest is mehhh.
N.W.A.
3/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
This record reminded me of the Nirvana song Moist Vagina.
The Kinks
3/5
Grandfathers of britpop, jangly and eclectic, and one with Sunny Afternoon, one of the best pop songs ever. Damon Albarn took notes while listening.
Deee-Lite
1/5
MGMT
2/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2/5
The Clash
3/5
The Libertines
2/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Little Richard
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
There is something extremely british in the way Neil Tennant expresses feelings in a subdued nuanced way, instead of belching them out like a white man version of Mary J Blige. God forbid. Somehow this resonates in my cold Scandinavian heart, and makes Pet Shop Boys a sort of camp, guilty, left wing pleasure to me.
Booker T. & The MG's
2/5
Look up "Background Music" in the dictionary.
The Velvet Underground
1/5
Sounds like someone pressed record in the rehearsal room full of drunks. I really dont get the greatness of this.
Motörhead
3/5
The National
3/5
Coldplay
5/5
If you ignore the fact that Chris Martin married a woman who sold scented candles with the smell of her own vagina, and betale the second coming of Bono, this record consist of excellent pop songs. Probably one of the best debuts in the early 2000s.
Fairport Convention
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
She is such an excellent story teller.
Death In Vegas
2/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Common
4/5
The Cramps
2/5
Jethro Tull
2/5
John Lennon
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Television
4/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Killing Joke
2/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Pentangle
2/5
David Gray
3/5
Björk
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
SAULT
2/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Leftfield
3/5
Sounds like a million dollars, and some of the guest performances are great. My biggest issues are the length of most of the tracks, which seems to drag on beyond the date of expiry. Prodigy took notes, and manage to create radio friendly rave music with similar sounds, but more oooomph.
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Kanye West
4/5
The person Kanye wouldnt get a single star, he seems like a first class douchebag. The rapper Kanye is quite alright, with a little help from his friends it works. The producer Kanye is what makes this record. The soul and Motownsamples hits a sweet spot for me, that gangstarap never will.
fIREHOSE
3/5
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
Some very cool instrumental parts in several songs, but as a whole it lacks good songs, and the vocals annoys me more than it pleases me. At the Drive-In took this formula and sound, and added what lacks here, which makes this record important in an evolutionary sense, but this is not a record id want to listen to again.
John Coltrane
2/5
Still dont get jazz.
The Who
2/5
Beach House
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
3/5
Suede
2/5
The Cardigans
3/5
Charles Mingus
2/5
Still dont get jazz, but this one is dark and unhinged enough to earn an extra star.
David Bowie
4/5
Probably the least pretentious and folkiest Bowierecord. Contains two of the best songs ever written in Life on Mars? and Changes.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Tears For Fears
4/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
The Cure
2/5
To dark and gloomy for me.
Brian Eno
2/5
To artsy and jangly for me.
Adam & The Ants
2/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
Good record, great live band judging by the concert at the back end of the deluxe edition. Tight band, great classic rock vocals.
Christina Aguilera
3/5
This is a good pop record, and would be a great record if it was 20 minutes. Aguileras voice is so powerful, and shines on the ballads, particularly on Soar and The Voice Within. I really wish she would make a gospel record, that would suit her voice like a glove.
David Bowie
3/5
Lorde
3/5
Little Simz
2/5
The Youngbloods
2/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
I dont like Sex Pistols, but their songs at least doesnt go on and on, and on with no real purpose. Bookending your record with two of the most annoying tracks in this whole project so far doesnt help either.
Slayer
1/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
The musical equivalent of conditioner. Bright, shiny and soft.
De La Soul
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
Parliament
4/5
Funky, indeed! Impossible not to get a little hippier listening to this.
The Fall
2/5
Like a punkier version of Velvet Underground, albeit with decipherable lyrics. To chaotic for me.
Rush
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
X-Ray Spex
4/5
This was enjoyable. Fun, great guitar parts, and the use of horns makes it stand out in the crowd. Sounds like a cross between Blondie and The Clash to me
Ian Dury
3/5
As british as it gets
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Björk
2/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Extremely important as a work of art. As a piece of music it is bloated, and would be a much better listening experience without half of the tracks. But the other half contains some really brilliant songwriting, and one of the best songs ever written in Comfortably Numb.
Animal Collective
2/5
This one kind of annoys me, as I find it is more sounds and production, than actual songs. Would give 1,5 star, but since it clearly has qualities far beyond records I actually have given 1 star, it gets 2. But I hope I never have to listen to any of these "songs" again.
Kate Bush
3/5
I really like the first half of this records. Brilliant popsongs, with an otherworldly quality. The second half is too artsy for me, even if her voice still keeps me interested.
Arrested Development
2/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Sounds like Bee Gees if they were bored and depressed.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Minutemen
2/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Slipknot
2/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
2/5
They are probably great at what they do, but this is not for me.
Skunk Anansie
4/5
Skin is a brilliant singer. By coincidence I had a little revival of Skunk Anansies music a couple of weeks ago when I discovered an acoustic record on Spotify. An underrated 90s band in my opinion.
Megadeth
3/5
I like Dave Mustaine the guitarist, I dont like Dave Mustaine the vocalist.
Pixies
2/5
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
If I were an old school DJ i'd definitely used this record. Too scattered to be a really good listening experience, but some of these guitar licks would still sound good on a Vampire Weekend record in 2024.
Soft Cell
1/5
First track: Frustration. That kind of sums it up. Tainted Cell is a banger, apart from that I hope I never have to hear any other song from this record again.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Public Enemy
2/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Frank Ocean
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Who
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
2/5
Pere Ubu
1/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The Clash
5/5
The Dandy Warhols
2/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
The xx
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Fela Kuti
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Neil Young
5/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Production has a distinkt nineties sound to it, songwriting and drumming is stellar.
ABBA
4/5
Living Colour
5/5
One of the coolest records in this project that Ive never heard before, so far. Eclectic songwriting, cool instrumentations, and a rock record that still sounds quite fresh in 2024.
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
It sounds nice, but I still dont quite get jazz.
4/5
Traffic
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
The Who
2/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Tortoise
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Peter Tosh
2/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Ghostface Killah
4/5
2Pac
3/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
Miles Davis
2/5
Otis Redding
4/5
808 State
1/5
Borderline annoying, and absolutely no songs I ever need to hear again.
Supergrass
3/5
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Jesus H Christ these guys can play, I just wished they bothered to play songs instead of sounds. This might be the shit in this genre, but to me this is the punk/trash equivalent to free jazz. There was a point during the second song I thought I might be able to find a second star, but in total this annoys me, which is my criteria for giving one star.
Tina Turner
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Blur
4/5
CHVRCHES
3/5
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
2/5
There must be 1001 better albums released in 2004 alone. Avoids one star because a couple of songs at least sounds like they are having fun.
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
AC/DC
5/5
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
R.e.m. is one of my favourite bands, but being born in the early eighties, it is the nineties version of the band i fell in love with. I have listened to some of the older stuff, but I think this is the first time in ages i listen to this record from start to finish, and I think it is a brilliant piece of poprock. R.e.m. is in some ways the indierock version of Madonna, in the sense that they seemed to always incorporate the sound of the age the records were release, and at the same time sound like themselves. One of few bands that kept going for decades, without ever releasing a weak record.
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
Sugar
2/5
Elton John
5/5
DJ Shadow
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
Dr. John
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Blur
4/5
Le Tigre
2/5
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Randy Newman
2/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
It's a good thing they didn't tune the instruments, so it matches the vocals. I've never done mushrooms, and if I would want to I kind of guess I'd have to find another part of the woods than where these guys recorded this record, cause it cant be anything left there.
Beck
3/5
The Pretty Things
2/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Adele
3/5
Daft Punk
1/5
This annoys me more than i want to admit, especially as i quite like other records by Daft Punk.
Van Morrison
2/5
David Holmes
1/5
The Doors
4/5
James Brown
3/5
Prefab Sprout
4/5
Beck
4/5
Beck goes Nick Drake, and he does it quite well.
Public Enemy
2/5
Lou Reed
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Red Snapper
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Heaven 17
1/5
Eagles
5/5
I dont care how dadrock and uncool Eagles and this record is. There only good songs on it, and both the riffing and vocal harmonizing are pure gold. Love it!
Tito Puente
2/5
The Adverts
2/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Take away half the songs, and this would be a great record.
10cc
2/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
Thin Lizzy
4/5
The Killers
3/5
Spiritualized
2/5
Turbonegro
4/5
It might be because I am norwegian, and understand the kind of layers of irony in the lyrics, and that my lack of english understanding makes the lyric a little less cringeworthy(because they are, and you might say that it is a kind of double standard that I have trouble listening to gangstarap with the same ethos). Anyways: this album is first and foremost fun, and 90 percent of this is because the guitarist is a fucking genius.
Joan Baez
2/5
Raekwon
2/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Portishead
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Maxwell
3/5
If you could turn a Womanizer into a record, this is what it would sound like.
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Pavement
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Brian Eno
1/5
Minor Threat
2/5
Gene Clark
2/5
Dirty Projectors
1/5
Billie Holiday
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Radiohead
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
Pere Ubu
1/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Harry Nilsson
4/5
ABBA
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Suede
2/5
Girls Against Boys
1/5
My hometown, Larvik in Norway had about 45000 inhabitants in 1993. Im not exaggerating when I say there must have been at least 25 bands who where better than this whining bunch there, in 1993. This record is neither important, og great in any way, and should never have been included in a list like this.
Talking Heads
2/5
Beyoncé
3/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Björk
2/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Madness
2/5
Underworld
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
2/5
This must be the least intelligent record on this list. 1,5 stars for the catchyness of some singles
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
The Undertones
2/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Metallica
3/5
None of these versions are better than the original. The instrumentals and slower songs like No Leaf Clover and Bleeding Me works, because there are spaces to fill for the orchestra.
Can
2/5
Silver Jews
2/5
Booooooooring
Magazine
2/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Liked this more than I thought I would. The two last songs was a bit of a drag, an I think the record could do with remaster to give it a little beefier sound.
5/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Pop music that swaggers and smiles.
Talvin Singh
1/5
More muzak than music, and a record that no one needs to hear, not even the guy who made it.
Calexico
4/5
Neneh Cherry
2/5
Primal Scream
2/5
2/5
Supergrass
4/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Megadeth
2/5
Skepta
3/5
Carpenters
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
To much noodling, but one of the best cover songs in the history of music, Voodoo Child and Crosstown Traffic is worth a star on its own.
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
Coldplay
4/5
Always liked Coldplay the guitar band better than Coldplay the worldmusicpopU2-light band. Saw them touring this record at the 1300 capacity venue Rockefeller in Oslo, and thought they were a treat.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Nina Simone
4/5
Oasis
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Grizzly Bear
2/5
Big Black
1/5
Queen
3/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Fairport Convention
2/5
Klaxons
3/5
Eels
4/5
If Beck and Rivers Cuomo had a love child it would sound like this. Very nineties. I like it.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
2/5
Slint
1/5
UB40
2/5
The Smiths
3/5
Some really great guitar parts, a good rhythm section, but I dont particularly like Morrisseys voice, and the songs dont stick for me.
David Bowie
3/5
No one really likes David Bowie the jazzy ambient artist, dont they? Probably decades before his time, though, and Heroes is one of the greatest songs ever written.
Giant Sand
3/5
Two of these startes Calexico, kept the good americana and got rid of the mostly annoying psych-rock Flaming Lipsy quirkiness. Id rather listen to Calexico
Blondie
4/5
The Sonics
3/5
The Roots
3/5
I like The Roots, but this record really is all over the place. The best tracks are excellent, attempting to be The Prodigy, not so much.
Radiohead
5/5
One of the best records ever made. Stands the test of time as well.
Beastie Boys
2/5
Sabotage is a five star track, one of the coolest guitar songs of the nineties. The rest of this is mehh to me.
Julian Cope
1/5
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Happy Mondays
4/5
Ray Charles
5/5
There is something about the soul in his voice and the orchestration of these songs that gets. A record i would like to own on vinyl.
Echo And The Bunnymen
1/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Todd Rundgren
1/5
Now, kids, this is what happens when you spend youre entire record budget on acid.
The Allman Brothers Band
2/5
New Order
2/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
The Everly Brothers
2/5
King Crimson
1/5
I dont get this.
Morrissey
3/5
Ministry
1/5
How much drugs do you need to take to genuinely enjoy this record? I dont want to find out.
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
Talk Talk
4/5
The Specials
2/5
T. Rex
4/5
Gene Clark
4/5
Cornershop
2/5
Yes
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Marilyn Manson
2/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Kid Rock
1/5
This is so stupid it makes Limp Bizkit look smarter than Stephen Hawking. Nobody needs to listen to this crap.
Metallica
5/5
Koffi Olomide
2/5
Dead Kennedys
3/5
Judas Priest
4/5
Beck
3/5
The Undertones
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Al Green
4/5
The Cult
4/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Such a well produced album.
The Sabres Of Paradise
1/5
David Ackles
3/5
The Prodigy
4/5
Liking this record is partly down to nostalgia, as this were one of the first records i owned on CD. But, it does stand the test of time much better than most other early nineties music, the production still sounds massive to me.
Bee Gees
2/5
Boards of Canada
1/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Milton Nascimento
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
2/5
Paul Simon
3/5
King Crimson
3/5
The Thrills
2/5
Booooring
Roxy Music
3/5