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You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts | 5 | 2.78 | +2.22 |
| Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor | 5 | 3.13 | +1.87 |
| Little Earthquakes | 5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
| S&M | 5 | 3.26 | +1.74 |
| Kenya | 5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
| Chirping Crickets | 5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
| You've Come a Long Way Baby | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
| At Fillmore East | 5 | 3.39 | +1.61 |
| Stand! | 5 | 3.43 | +1.57 |
| All Directions | 5 | 3.46 | +1.54 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blunderbuss | 1 | 3.4 | -2.4 |
| Murder Ballads | 1 | 3.08 | -2.08 |
| Imperial Bedroom | 1 | 3 | -2 |
| Peace Sells...But Who's Buying | 1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
| Apocalypse Dudes | 1 | 2.9 | -1.9 |
| Among The Living | 1 | 2.86 | -1.86 |
| All Hope Is Gone | 1 | 2.7 | -1.7 |
| Dr. Octagonecologyst | 1 | 2.69 | -1.69 |
| Slipknot | 1 | 2.68 | -1.68 |
| Beggars Banquet | 2 | 3.63 | -1.63 |
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Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 6 | 4.33 | 3.89 |
| Metallica | 4 | 4.5 | 3.86 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| U2 | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| David Bowie | 6 | 4 | 3.67 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and low weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slipknot | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 3 | 1.67 | 2.33 |
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1-Star Albums (12)
All Ratings
Queens of the Stone Age
2/5
Grungy
Aerosmith
4/5
Classic Aerosmith!
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Temptations
5/5
Classic Motown
Anthrax
1/5
Too heavy
Beastie Boys
5/5
Epic hip-hop album
Megadeth
1/5
Too heavy
Boston
3/5
Good 70s rock
Jack White
1/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Low key techno vibe
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Mellow, dreamy rock
Muddy Waters
4/5
Great blues
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Great reggae
Kid Rock
3/5
Good workout album
Duran Duran
4/5
Great album
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Good bluesy album
Beyoncé
2/5
Beatles
3/5
Short, poppy Beatles album
Kings of Leon
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
Great chili peppers
Suede
2/5
Coldplay
3/5
Fun album
The National
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Raekwon
2/5
Okay. Not as good as original wu-tang clan
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Classic album
Traffic
3/5
k.d. lang
4/5
Dreamy, country album
Radiohead
4/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Experimental rock. Some very dissonant sirens and horns throughout. Our dogs hated it.
Alice Cooper
2/5
School’s out is great but rest of album underwhelmed.
Eminem
2/5
Not as catchy as the 8 mile soundtrack nor his later work.
The Gun Club
2/5
Okay punk album
Björk
3/5
Experimental, poppy, trance-like
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Good reggae album
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Not his best album
U2
5/5
Phenomenal album. Early U2 classic.
The Undertones
2/5
Early 80’s British rock.
Tears For Fears
4/5
Great 80’s album
3/5
Very, very 80’s album
The Shamen
2/5
Early 90’s techno / trance album
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Did not enjoy the lyrics
DJ Shadow
4/5
Trance-like, jazzy techno
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Fun Swiftie album
TLC
3/5
Good R&B album
Gillian Welch
3/5
Country feel to this album
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Great 90’s rock
Kanye West
2/5
Not his best album
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Great bluesy album
The Stooges
4/5
Fun early iggy pop
3/5
Beatles feel to the album
Mj Cole
3/5
Techno / hip-hop
Simply Red
2/5
Van Halen
4/5
Great VH album
Eurythmics
4/5
Synthesized, poppy, classic Annie Lennox
OutKast
2/5
Outlandish lyrics. Has bombs over Baghdad which is catchy but rest of album was mediocre
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
Dissonant, hard techno sound
The Go-Go's
3/5
Poppy 80’s album
Sonic Youth
3/5
Duke Ellington
4/5
Great jazz album
TV On The Radio
3/5
Goldie
3/5
Ok light techno feel
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Classic album
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
1/5
John Coltrane
5/5
Classic jazz album
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Good hip-hop album
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Ok very 80’s
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Iconic album
Van Halen
5/5
Can Halen at their best
PJ Harvey
3/5
Angsty
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
2/5
Soothing 80s synthesizer music
Ray Charles
4/5
Great bluesy album
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Latin jazz
Nina Simone
4/5
Great voice / low key jazz feel
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Low key Springsteen
Foo Fighters
4/5
Great Foo Fighters album
Shuggie Otis
2/5
Experimental, smooth jazz
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Kate Bush
2/5
Fishbone
3/5
Rush
2/5
Heavy drums
The B-52's
4/5
Classic groovy B-52s
Radiohead
5/5
Ehterreal, haunting, classic Radiohead
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Early 80’s British rock
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
Cool, funky album
Slipknot
1/5
Heavy metal. Too heavy
Talvin Singh
4/5
Smooth, trance-like
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Bluest sorrowful
White Denim
2/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Phenomenal voice
Beck
3/5
Twangy, country feel. Atypical Beck
Elis Regina
4/5
Jazzy Latin feel
Bert Jansch
2/5
Folksy, country, old time feel
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Great Aretha
The Sugarcubes
2/5
Kind of poppy, kind of light punk
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
Not a great Biggie album
Prince
4/5
Classic prince album
Snoop Dogg
3/5
Classic snoop
The Cure
3/5
Early Cure before Cure grew into their signature sound
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Late 80’s rap
King Crimson
2/5
Progressive rock. Very experimental.
R.E.M.
4/5
Good mid-period R.E.M.
5/5
Classic
Linkin Park
3/5
Aphex Twin
3/5
Trance, low-key
Germs
2/5
Low quality punk
Solomon Burke
3/5
Motown feel
Beastie Boys
4/5
Great mid-90’s beastie boys
Aerosmith
4/5
Great Aerosmith
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Classic Marvin Gaye
De La Soul
4/5
Poppy Hip hop
Ryan Adams
3/5
Rock / country mix, americana
Mike Ladd
2/5
Tribal hip hop
Green Day
3/5
Good Green Day
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Light, funky
Everything But The Girl
4/5
Poppy, trance-like, low key
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Low key funky vibe
Songhoy Blues
2/5
African folk.
Hole
4/5
Great, grungy, angry album
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Sympathy for the devil and street-fighting man we’re good. Otherwise felt very bluesy and slower than classic Stones
Tom Waits
2/5
Sounds like he wants to be Louis Armstrong
N.E.R.D
2/5
10cc
2/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
Smooth, folksy
Sugar
2/5
Hard 90’s rock
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Smooth but no notable songs
The Smiths
3/5
Good 80’s Smiths
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Fun 80’s rap. Rage Against the Machine covered their music
Cornershop
3/5
Funky vibe
Calexico
4/5
Funky, latin
Pink Floyd
5/5
Amazing Pink Floyd albun
Klaxons
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Folk, soul feel
Tortoise
4/5
Dreamlike, smooth
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
Pulp
3/5
Light British pop-punk
Miles Davis
4/5
Smooth Miles
Janis Joplin
4/5
Good Janis album
Mariah Carey
2/5
Good voice but not my vibe
Eagles
4/5
Classic eagles
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
Instrumental, dreamy, sleep music
Butthole Surfers
2/5
Dissonant, punk
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Funky, fun album
David Bowie
4/5
Great Bowie album
Pavement
3/5
Turbonegro
1/5
Not sure how this made the list.
Wilco
3/5
Folksy, indie, shoegaze kinda feel
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Fun 80’s British
Mercury Rev
3/5
Flaming Lips sound
Stan Getz
4/5
Great, smooth jazz
Nirvana
4/5
Great album
The Beta Band
3/5
Poppy, low-key
The Sonics
4/5
Early punk sound plus covers of 60’s songs
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Instrumental, experimental
The Lemonheads
3/5
Poppy, 90’s British rock
Charles Mingus
4/5
Smooth jazzy feel with deep horns
Beck
4/5
Poppy, funky, eclectic Beck
AC/DC
4/5
Great rock album
Sonic Youth
4/5
Great early 90’s rock
The Black Keys
4/5
Retro rock
Ministry
2/5
Heavy industrial spund
Billie Holiday
3/5
Smoky vocals
Patti Smith
3/5
70’s rock
Elvis Costello
3/5
Recognizable songs. Has a honkytonk feel on some songs.
Girls Against Boys
2/5
Okay grungy feel
The Pretty Things
2/5
Psychedelic, rock opera feel
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Great VU album.
The Beach Boys
2/5
Recognizable Sing along music
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Hip hop focused on social justice
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Awesome stones album
Pearl Jam
5/5
Great grunge sound
Laibach
2/5
Not sure how this made the list
Santana
4/5
Classic 70’s guitar rock
Nirvana
4/5
Great, gritty Nirvana
David Bowie
3/5
Not the best Bowie album
OutKast
3/5
Familiar songs, sing along
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
Fun 80s album
The Kinks
3/5
Ok kinks album
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Bad Aussie rock. Not sure how this made the list
Underworld
4/5
Fun techno frel
The Cure
3/5
Classic, gloomy, Curr
Talking Heads
4/5
Fun, poppy, quirky
Massive Attack
3/5
Electronic/trip/hop, funky
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Fun early Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
3/5
Old school heavy metal
The Cardigans
4/5
Classic 90’s
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Early 60’s crooners
Soundgarden
5/5
Great grunge album
The Soft Boys
2/5
Long British rock album
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Memorable songs. Used in goodfellas and other movie soundtracks
Gene Clark
3/5
Folk / country feel
Elliott Smith
4/5
Great Elliott Smith
Joan Baez
2/5
Twangy, whiny voice
B.B. King
4/5
Great blues album
Depeche Mode
4/5
Familiar album from junior high
Tim Buckley
4/5
70’s rock
The Stooges
4/5
Late 60’s punk sound
David Bowie
5/5
Great Bowie album
Radiohead
3/5
Not my favorite Radiohead
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Soft rock / high-pitched vocals almost a cranberries sound
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Light punky sound
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Fun, familiar classic Sinatra songs
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Dreamy early 90’s rock
Lightning Bolt
2/5
Heavy, techno-industrial
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Poppy sounding Elvis Costello
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Houses of the holy and Kashmir
Incubus
2/5
Hard with industrial/synth sound
Steely Dan
3/5
Soft 70’s rock
T. Rex
3/5
Ok 70’s rock
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
U2
4/5
Good album, not their best
Nick Drake
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Okay Bruce
New Order
3/5
New wave. Not New Order’s best
Ozomatli
3/5
Funky Afro-Latin sound
Oasis
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Fun, light synth-pop
David Crosby
2/5
Slow, soft rock
Carole King
3/5
Folk rock
3/5
Pop/ punky vibe
Digital Underground
4/5
Funky funny hip hop
Jethro Tull
2/5
Rock opera type feel
Pixies
4/5
Fabulous album
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Classic, old-school hip-hop
Antony and the Johnsons
3/5
Bluesy smooth vibe
CHIC
3/5
Disco feel
Magazine
3/5
Kind of punky
Steve Earle
4/5
Fn country album
Bad Company
4/5
Old school rock album
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Smooth soft funky
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Funky
Gorillaz
3/5
Funky, British techno pop
Marty Robbins
3/5
Soft, very 50’s feel
Sigur Rós
4/5
Smooth, slow, ethereal
Neil Young
3/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Smooth jazz
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Classic Hendrix
Ice Cube
3/5
Old school gangster rap
Aerosmith
4/5
Great rock album
The Hives
3/5
Punk vibe
Neil Young
4/5
Solid Neil Young album with heart of gold
Willie Nelson
3/5
Old times country
Elliott Smith
4/5
Softer Elliott Smith
The Cramps
4/5
Rock-a-Billy / almost B-52s feel on some songs
John Cale
2/5
Slow very soft vocals.
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Fun, old timey
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Smooth R&B
ZZ Top
4/5
Great 80’s rock
Arcade Fire
4/5
Dreamy, poppy
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Great album with dazed and confused
Public Enemy
4/5
Solid 90’s hip hop
Bon Jovi
4/5
Great 80a rock.
The Psychedelic Furs
4/5
Good early 80’s album with pretty in pjnk
Massive Attack
3/5
Fun poppy / hip hip
Dr. Dre
4/5
Hard rap / classic Dr. Dre
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Slower Neil Young album
Sade
3/5
Smooth soul
Lupe Fiasco
5/5
Dreamy, smooth hip-hop
The United States Of America
2/5
Dr. Octagon
1/5
Childish lyrics / how is this in the top 1,001 albums
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Fun, slow, low key velvet underground
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Good vocals and good guitar
Parliament
3/5
Funk album
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Great bluesy, smoky vocals
Beatles
4/5
Fun early Beatles
Mudhoney
4/5
Fun grunge
Fela Kuti
4/5
Funky, experimental jazz
Björk
4/5
Good to re-listen to this album
Dr. John
2/5
Not a great album. Some weird, wannabe Cajun nonsense
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Dreamy rock with great vocals
Jerry Lee Lewis
4/5
Quick album. Not all originals but fun somgs
The The
3/5
Poppy 80’s / light punk vibe
Kings of Leon
3/5
Mediocre album
JAY Z
4/5
Great early Jay-Z
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Good vocals, soft / folk
Metallica
5/5
Classic Metallica album
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Offbeat quirky
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Fun folk rock
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Awful lyrics. Had to turn it off midway through second song. Not sure how this could be enjoyable.
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Fun low key album
Travis
3/5
Great vocals and fun album
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5/5
Fun, familiar songs
Scott Walker
2/5
Okay vocals, unusual lyrics
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Great Gabriel
Pink Floyd
5/5
Classic album
Brian Wilson
2/5
Some instrumental - not my fsvorite
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
Experimental / not my fav
Brian Eno
2/5
At first was soft Punk then ambient. Not the best
The Strokes
3/5
Familiar songs. Soft pink vibe
Prince
3/5
Classic album
Madness
3/5
Our house and two other songs. Very brief album
Dire Straits
3/5
Classic Dire Straits
Talking Heads
4/5
Fun talking heads album
Metallica
4/5
Classic Metallica album
M.I.A.
3/5
Poppy Indian - British hip-hop
Stan Getz
5/5
Great jazzy feel
Muddy Waters
4/5
Fun blues album
Arrested Development
4/5
Funky hip hop
The Doors
4/5
Classic doors album
Richard Thompson
3/5
Soft folk vibe
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
Very low-key slow techno feel
Killing Joke
3/5
Low key punk album
3/5
Recognizable 90’s rock album
The Who
4/5
Very long but good album
Weather Report
3/5
Fun jazz album
The Band
3/5
Fun folky rock
The Blue Nile
3/5
Very 80’s vibe
Sheryl Crow
4/5
Good vocals, fun album
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Good late stage RHCP album
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Good rhythm and beat but not my favorite lyrics
Sepultura
2/5
Brazilian heavy metal. Not my favorite
Baaba Maal
4/5
Fun Afro-pop
Willie Nelson
4/5
Fun cover songs by willie
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
Good 70’s rock
ZZ Top
4/5
Very fun zztop
Blondie
4/5
Fun, punky album
Violent Femmes
4/5
Great album with all the main songs
Cypress Hill
3/5
Early 90’s hip hop
Os Mutantes
4/5
Funky Brazilian psychedelic rock
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Fun, folky rock
Pink Floyd
2/5
Psychedelic, slow early floyd
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Old school tribe called quest
T. Rex
3/5
Fun rock album
David Bowie
4/5
Fun early Bowie
Carpenters
2/5
Good vocals but not my favorite
Holger Czukay
3/5
Funky electronic jazz vibe
Little Richard
4/5
50’s rock sound. Classic Little Richard
The Darkness
2/5
Various Artists
4/5
Fun holiday tunes
The Stone Roses
2/5
Bland sounding rock album
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Soft 90’s smumpkins
The Killers
4/5
Fun rock with recognizable songs
TV On The Radio
2/5
2/5
Very British 60’s rock album
The Bees
3/5
Fun rock / poppy sound
George Jones
2/5
Old timey country
Randy Newman
2/5
Old time folk. / country frel
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Great classic rock vibe
Beatles
4/5
Great early sounding Beatles album
Faith No More
4/5
Great Faith No More
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Great Faith No More
System Of A Down
2/5
One recognizable song
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Great Tribe album
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Fun 80’s bop
Doves
3/5
Low key, soothing
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Cinnamon girl and other Neil young great hits
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Soft Fleetwood Mac album with fewer recognizable songs
Machito
5/5
Fun, jazzy feel
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Soulful great album
Donovan
3/5
Groovy sixties
Fatboy Slim
5/5
Groovy sixties
Scott Walker
2/5
Horrible lyrics.
Sam Cooke
4/5
Old R&B feel. Great album
The Prodigy
4/5
Yes
3/5
Very 70’s
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
Fun early 80’s pop feel
The Coral
3/5
Fun poppy vibe
Radiohead
4/5
Great radiohead
Faces / Early Rod Stewart
4/5
Old times country
Beastie Boys
5/5
Amazing B-Boys
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Great Zeppelin with classic Moby Dick
Janet Jackson
3/5
Catchy poppy album
Joe Ely
3/5
Fun country rock
3/5
Dreamy psychedelic pop
The Triffids
2/5
Aussie rock
The Specials
3/5
Biriyse punk
The Police
4/5
Classic Police album
a-ha
3/5
Fun, very 80’s album
Primal Scream
3/5
Very low key early 90’s almost soft grunge
Funkadelic
3/5
Weird, outlandish lyrics
50 Cent
3/5
Fun 50 Cent
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
90’s feel
Gram Parsons
2/5
Country frel
David Bowie
4/5
Great Bowie
Sonic Youth
4/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Classic DM
Tom Waits
3/5
Raspy vocals
Dwight Yoakam
3/5
Country twang
Lenny Kravitz
4/5
Great Kravitz
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Classic soul vibe
Nick Drake
3/5
Soft rock feel
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
Ok album
Eric Clapton
4/5
Enjoyable Clapton
D'Angelo
4/5
R&B vibe
Tori Amos
5/5
Great vocals
Madonna
3/5
Great 80’s classic
Fugazi
3/5
ok punk
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Fun Afro-jazz vibe
The Fall
2/5
Ok
William Orbit
3/5
Soft techno vibe
The Cure
3/5
Early Cure
4/5
60’s rock
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Ok low-fi techno
John Martyn
2/5
Low key feel
The Smiths
3/5
Classic smiths
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Fun country feel
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Folk
The Thrills
3/5
Soft low-key rock
David Ackles
2/5
Lounge vibe
Roni Size
2/5
Techno beat with lowkey rap
Moby Grape
2/5
Folky album
George Michael
3/5
80’s classic
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Raspy, folky, bluesy
Van Morrison
4/5
Fun 70’s Van Morrison
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Spoken word vibe with southern twang
Johnny Cash
4/5
Fun tribute / cover album with Cash covering Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus
Nico
3/5
Dreamy vocals
Sex Pistols
4/5
Classic punk
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Ok 80’s vibe
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Great Fatboy Slim
Lorde
3/5
Low key Lorde with good vocals
Drive Like Jehu
3/5
Ok, grungy feel
Beach House
3/5
Dreamy lyrics. Low key rock
Stephen Stills
3/5
Good early 70’s rock from Stills of Crosby, Stills & Nash
Bob Dylan
3/5
Some good, recognizable Dylan
Mekons
2/5
80’s feel. Not great
Wilco
3/5
Country, twangy rock vibe
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Early 60’s rock feel
Björk
4/5
Good Bjork
Robbie Williams
3/5
Soft rock
The The
3/5
Early 80’s vibe
The Residents
2/5
Weird synthesizer, weird beats, weird vocals
David Bowie
4/5
Great Bowie album
Black Sabbath
3/5
Classic rock album
Burning Spear
3/5
Reggae feel
The War On Drugs
3/5
Low-key rock
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Great alt rock album
Spiritualized
3/5
Low-fi techno vibe
The Pogues
3/5
Irish rock / folk feel
Kanye West
2/5
Beats good, dislike the lyrics
The Yardbirds
3/5
Mid-60’s rock
Minor Threat
2/5
Early punk
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Poppy punk feel. Early 80’s
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
Classic Chemical Brothers techno album
Black Sabbath
3/5
Classic rock
Maxwell
2/5
Low-key R&B
Brian Eno
3/5
Experimental feel
Television
3/5
Late 70’s new wave feel
Public Enemy
3/5
Late stage PE
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Ok grunge
Kraftwerk
3/5
Pre-techno, synthesizer feel
Bob Dylan
4/5
Good Dylan album
Röyksopp
4/5
Low key techno
The Kinks
4/5
Good Kinks album
The Byrds
3/5
Early 60’s rock
The Jam
3/5
Early 80’s new wave feel
The Zutons
3/5
Rock-a-Billy vibe
Johnny Cash
4/5
Old school Cash
Tito Puente
4/5
Fun Latin jazz / dance feel
The Stranglers
4/5
Great 70’s punk from U.K.
Van Morrison
3/5
Ok Van Morrison
Tom Waits
3/5
Raspy voice. Not his best
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Classic rock with folk vibe
Death In Vegas
3/5
Alt with a techno rock vibe
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Great Latin sound
The Clash
4/5
Classic UK punk
Neu!
3/5
Euro-electronica
Kraftwerk
3/5
German pre-techno
Portishead
4/5
Dreamy, lowkey alt
Stereo MC's
3/5
British techno-pop
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Early 70’s soft rock. Maybe even yacht rock
Arcade Fire
3/5
Ok, low-key rock
The Temptations
3/5
Classic Temptations
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Pop rock feel
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Twangy old-timer country
ABBA
3/5
ABBA being an Abba
Orbital
2/5
Slow techno
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Unusual techno vibe
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Funky folk
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Funky folk
Elastica
3/5
Punky viby
Yes
3/5
70’s rock
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
Early 80’s punk vibe
The Undertones
3/5
Early British punk
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Classic Jefferson Airplane
The Avalanches
3/5
Hip hop techno feel
Def Leppard
3/5
Classic glam rock
Ute Lemper
2/5
Experimental rock opera vibe with nick cave in the mix
Isaac Hayes
3/5
70’s funk, more instrumental than expected
Silver Jews
2/5
Alt rock country mixup that shouldn’t have happened
Lucinda Williams
4/5
Rock country like Cheryl Crow
Bauhaus
3/5
Early 80’s gloom
Devendra Banhart
2/5
Freak folk
Blur
3/5
90’s rock classic
The Mars Volta
4/5
Experimental with guitar solos
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5/5
Great jazz album
Ian Dury
2/5
Rambling, almost spoken-word, not great
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
Old-timey country vibe
Ryan Adams
4/5
Fun, folk / rockabilly feel
Little Simz
4/5
Good vocals, fun British rap
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Great Stones album
The Beach Boys
3/5
Fun, recognizable beach boys
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Softer rock than expected
Britney Spears
2/5
Recognizable, poppy
The Beta Band
3/5
Electronica rock mix
Big Star
3/5
Soft vocals, rock vibe
The Monkees
3/5
60’s pop rock vibe
Tom Tom Club
4/5
New wave poo
Cowboy Junkies
4/5
Dreamy, great vocals
Meat Puppets
3/5
Punk / country / rock
Otis Redding
5/5
Great soul / blues from Otis
George Michael
3/5
Good George Michaels. Very 80’s
Slipknot
1/5
Death metal. Not a fan
The Divine Comedy
2/5
More spoken word. Weird lyrics
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Electronica feel
Finley Quaye
3/5
Soft vocals
Mike Oldfield
3/5
Instrumental. First song sounded like theme music from Halloween
Miles Davis
5/5
Classic Miles Davis + Coltrane
The Stooges
4/5
Early punk
Paul McCartney
4/5
Early 70’s McCartney with recognizable songs
Love
3/5
60’s rock
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Electronica vibe
Björk
4/5
Smooth Bjork sounds
Crowded House
2/5
Soft early 99’s
Elvis Presley
3/5
Early Elvis
SAULT
2/5
Slow rap / hip-hop
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Surprisingly fun jazzy Sinatra
Pere Ubu
3/5
80’s new wave
George Harrison
3/5
Early 70’s Harrison. Long album but some recognizable songs
Prince
4/5
Late 80’s Prince. Classic
Hawkwind
2/5
Early 70’s Art rock
Norah Jones
4/5
Bluesy good vocals
Rod Stewart
4/5
Great early 70’s Rod Stewart
Pixies
4/5
Great pixies
XTC
3/5
70’s / 80’s British pop rock
The Smiths
4/5
Classic Smiths
Pretenders
4/5
Classic Pretenders / Chrissie Hynde
Fats Domino
4/5
A 50’s Bop
The Style Council
3/5
80’s jazz vibe
Tom Waits
3/5
Lounge singer vibe; classic gravelly voice
Skepta
3/5
British rap
Justice
2/5
Electronic.
John Martyn
3/5
Smooth, jazzy
Fugees
4/5
Classic Fugees
Syd Barrett
3/5
Pre-Pink Floyd
Django Django
3/5
British art rock
Frank Black
4/5
Pixies-esque sound
Lana Del Rey
4/5
Great LDR vocals
Brian Eno
3/5
Modern / synthetic
Frank Ocean
4/5
New rap
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
Country feel. Good vocals
Aimee Mann
3/5
Soft vocals. Country rock like Sheryl Crow
The Prodigy
4/5
Old school techno
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
Synthetic, dissonant, weird spoken word
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Instrumental, poppy, light
Sonic Youth
4/5
Grungy punk sound
2/5
Mediocr
Anita Baker
4/5
Great vocals
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Classic Marley
CHIC
4/5
Great funk
Jeff Beck
3/5
Great classic rock
Destiny's Child
3/5
Great R&B with Beyoncé
The Icarus Line
1/5
Heavy metal vibe / bad lyrics. Not a fan
3/5
Funk feel
Sisters Of Mercy
2/5
Okay English rock
Portishead
4/5
Ethereal
Culture Club
3/5
Fun 80’s bop
Roxy Music
3/5
Funky rock
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Great blues album
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
African funk-pop
Blue Cheer
4/5
60’s rock
Brian Eno
5/5
Funky, experimental
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Folk rock, good vocals and recognizable songs
The Young Gods
3/5
French rock
Le Tigre
4/5
Girl punk / grungy vibe
New Order
4/5
Classic new order
Can
3/5
Rock / experimental
Metallica
5/5
Metallica with symphony orchestra
Metallica
4/5
Classic Metallica
Erykah Badu
4/5
Fun funk, good vocals
Jazmine Sullivan
2/5
Mediocre rap
The Charlatans
3/5
90’s British pop
Ray Charles
4/5
Great Ray Charles
Billy Bragg
2/5
Weird British rock
Bee Gees
3/5
Ok BeeGees
The Crusaders
3/5
Funky vibe
Hot Chip
3/5
Fun pop electronica feel
Peter Frampton
3/5
Classic rock
Donald Fagen
2/5
Alternative
Heaven 17
3/5
British pop / new wave vibe
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Dark, dreamy
Rush
3/5
Classic Rush
Arcade Fire
3/5
Poppy new wave
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Slow Leonard Cohen
Slint
4/5
Good alt-rock
Bob Dylan
4/5
Classic Dylan
Adele
4/5
Great vocals
The Jam
3/5
Fun rock / pubk
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Weird art rock
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Folk rock feel
Liz Phair
3/5
90’s light punk
Sonic Youth
4/5
Great early sonic youth
The Fall
2/5
Early punk
Julian Cope
3/5
Long album. Rockabilly and light punk feel
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Light alt rock 90’s
The Allman Brothers Band
5/5
Great all man brothers
Don McLean
4/5
Folk rock
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Great southern rock
Korn
3/5
90’s hard grungy / rock
Green Day
3/5
Great 90’s light punk
Steely Dan
3/5
70’s rock
Judas Priest
3/5
Classic early metal
UB40
3/5
Jazzy reggae feel
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Alt rock. Good album
Johnny Cash
4/5
Great Johnny Cash
Deerhunter
3/5
Alt rock, lo-fi vibe
The Replacements
3/5
Minnesota light punk
Big Black
2/5
Ok punk
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Ok light alt rock
Doves
3/5
Soft 90’s rock
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Classic Hendrix
Soul II Soul
3/5
Very 80’s feel
The Byrds
3/5
60’s rock from the Byrde
The Roots
4/5
Good hip-hop early 2000s
Joy Division
3/5
Early new wave
Air
4/5
Funky French vibe
Lambchop
3/5
Alt-rock. Okay
Meat Loaf
3/5
70’s yacht rock
Talking Heads
4/5
Classic 80’s rock
Peter Tosh
3/5
Weak Rasta
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Classic folk
Eminem
3/5
Dark Eminem apbum
The xx
3/5
Lite alt rock. Good vocals
Fela Kuti
3/5
Afro- jazz
Genesis
3/5
Old school new age rock
James Taylor
4/5
Good vocals, smooth folk sound
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
Good recognizable songs
4/5
Classic Dylan
Jamiroquai
4/5
Funky, poppy
Sparks
3/5
Funky light, early punk feel
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Smooth Simon & Garfunkel
The Byrds
3/5
60’s rock
Brian Eno
3/5
Instrumental and experimental
Circle Jerks
2/5
Early pubk
The xx
3/5
Fun techno-lite vibe
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Light punk feel
Beatles
5/5
Great beatles
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Slow, electric, good vocals, early 90s vibe
Morrissey
3/5
Early morrissey post-smiths
Guided By Voices
3/5
Lo-fi grunge
Deep Purple
3/5
Long classic rock guitar jam sess
MGMT
3/5
Poppy early 2000’s
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
Synth pop with country twang and punk lyrics
Milton Nascimento
4/5
Smooth latin jazz
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Great Stevie Wonder including Superstition
Steely Dan
3/5
70’s smooth rock
Roxy Music
3/5
Eclectic mix of country honky tonk, lounge, punk
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Crazy 60’s freak out
Michael Jackson
3/5
Classic early Michael Jackson
John Lennon
3/5
Slow, dreamy Lennon
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Weird, slower Nick Cave
Ice T
3/5
Old school 90’s rap
Goldfrapp
3/5
Slow, dreamy vocals
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Great jazz
Miles Davis
4/5
Free form jazz
Ghostface Killah
2/5
Stretched the Wu-tang connection too far
Sebadoh
3/5
80’s indie
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Folksy soft vocals
5/5
One of U2’s best albums