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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Black Metal
Venom
|
5 | 2.47 | +2.53 |
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90
808 State
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5 | 2.7 | +2.3 |
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Atomizer
Big Black
|
5 | 2.73 | +2.27 |
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Group Sex
Circle Jerks
|
5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
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Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
|
5 | 2.77 | +2.23 |
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I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
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5 | 2.81 | +2.19 |
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São Paulo Confessions
Suba
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5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
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Among The Living
Anthrax
|
5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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Damaged
Black Flag
|
5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
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5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
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1 | 4.26 | -3.26 |
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OK Computer
Radiohead
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1 | 4.11 | -3.11 |
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Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
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1 | 4.05 | -3.05 |
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Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
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1 | 4.02 | -3.02 |
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Hunky Dory
David Bowie
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1 | 3.99 | -2.99 |
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Metallica
Metallica
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1 | 3.77 | -2.77 |
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Pearl
Janis Joplin
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1 | 3.72 | -2.72 |
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Station To Station
David Bowie
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1 | 3.69 | -2.69 |
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The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
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1 | 3.67 | -2.67 |
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Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
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1 | 3.66 | -2.66 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.8 |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4.75 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 5 |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 5 |
| Nick Drake | 3 | 4.67 |
| Beck | 3 | 4.67 |
| ZZ Top | 2 | 5 |
| The Police | 2 | 5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | 2 | 5 |
| Wilco | 2 | 5 |
| Megadeth | 2 | 5 |
| Dire Straits | 2 | 5 |
| The Prodigy | 2 | 5 |
| Iron Maiden | 2 | 5 |
| Cocteau Twins | 2 | 5 |
| AC/DC | 2 | 5 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 2 | 5 |
| Motörhead | 2 | 5 |
| Bob Dylan | 6 | 4.17 |
| The Stooges | 3 | 4.33 |
| Talking Heads | 3 | 4.33 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 9 | 1.56 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 4 | 1.25 |
| Tom Waits | 4 | 1.5 |
| Morrissey | 3 | 1.33 |
| Amy Winehouse | 2 | 1 |
| Baaba Maal | 2 | 1 |
| Bee Gees | 2 | 1 |
| Coldplay | 2 | 1 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 2 | 1 |
| Kanye West | 2 | 1 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 3 | 1.67 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 1.67 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 1.67 |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 3 | 1.67 |
| Kate Bush | 2 | 1.5 |
| PJ Harvey | 2 | 1.5 |
| Lou Reed | 2 | 1.5 |
| Scott Walker | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Beach Boys | 2 | 1.5 |
| Barry Adamson | 2 | 1.5 |
| M.I.A. | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Pogues | 2 | 1.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers | 2 | 1.5 |
| Leonard Cohen | 4 | 2 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4 | 2.25 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Aerosmith | 1, 5, 5 |
| Metallica | 1, 1, 5 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 5, 1, 3 |
| Madonna | 3, 5, 1 |
| Fleetwood Mac | 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (147)
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David Bowie · 5 likes
1/5
Bowie sucks
Meat Puppets · 3 likes
5/5
This is a foundational album that lead to much of the great music of the 90s.
Waylon Jennings · 2 likes
5/5
Outlaw country
Hugh Masekela · 2 likes
1/5
Jazz...all the notes played at the same time
Kings of Leon · 1 likes
5/5
Excellent alt rock album
1-Star Albums (140)
All Ratings
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Pretenders
3/5
Some great songs with some very bad ones
ZZ Top
5/5
Rush
5/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Middle of the road, modern
The Stooges
4/5
Old school punk
Iggy Pop
4/5
Aerosmith
1/5
Trash pop
Frank Black
3/5
One song album. Sorta punky
Throbbing Gristle
3/5
Art record. Industrial flow along with captured conversations.
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
A classic, many hits, pretty dark lyrics on a bed of jangly hippie tunes
Garbage
4/5
Classic 90s alt rock
Jeff Buckley
2/5
Just not very interesting rock album
The Doors
5/5
Brilliant psychedelic rock album featuring the poetry of Jim Morrison
Paul McCartney
1/5
One song record. Waste of time
R.E.M.
5/5
Excellent, innovative album shifting the genres of the 80s.
Nick Drake
5/5
Brilliant guitar album that feels like a beautiful road trip
Can
2/5
Unusual album reminding me of at the Drive in if they were from the 70s
GZA
1/5
Trash.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Classic, funk
Big Star
4/5
Excellent early rock album
Hugh Masekela
1/5
Jazz...all the notes played at the same time
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
80s rap that Fresh Prince probably listened to
Amy Winehouse
1/5
Unlistenable warbler. Winehouse cannot sing and I suspect her popularity was solely due to the pornographic nature of her song titles. This is trash
Slipknot
3/5
Good, hard rock album. Unique sound
Supertramp
3/5
Unique sound of early alt rock. Gets a little tedious
Tears For Fears
4/5
Classic 80s sounds
Brian Eno
3/5
Elastica
4/5
Fine 90s alt rock album
White Denim
5/5
Very good modern rock album
Doves
4/5
Ambient and ethereal modern rock
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Nice 60s era samba with some corny tunes
Jethro Tull
5/5
LL Cool J
4/5
Cheesy early rap music
The Strokes
4/5
Eric Clapton
3/5
Slide guitar
Talking Heads
3/5
Standard fare.
Killing Joke
4/5
Excellent punk album
Pet Shop Boys
5/5
Beautiful 80s album
Johnny Cash
4/5
Covers
Deerhunter
2/5
Nothing amazing about this airy album
Mike Ladd
3/5
Weird concept album reminds me of
Pere Ubu
2/5
Weird album
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Run of the mill
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Classic old jazz record
Elvis Presley
2/5
Presley.
Baaba Maal
1/5
Boring African guitar music with whiny voice
Kate Bush
2/5
Warbler, boring
Queens Of The Stone Age
5/5
Brilliant alt rick
Joy Division
4/5
Excellent early wave, goth album
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
Masterwork of heavy rock fueled by political neliefs
T. Rex
4/5
Excellent early hard rock album
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Excellent island music
Klaxons
3/5
Sort of Yeah, yeah, yeahs stuff
Gang Of Four
5/5
Great political punk
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4/5
Psychobilly punk rock
2/5
I don't get why some think her music is good. It's really dull and pedestrian
Mudhoney
4/5
Early grunge influence. Punk
John Lennon
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Brilliant album of the cures unique layered songs
The Charlatans
4/5
Sorta stone roses
5/5
Gold standard of 80s pop rock
CHVRCHES
3/5
Pop, synth, Scandinavian, she can't sing
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Funk
Pet Shop Boys
1/5
Awful
Joy Division
3/5
Yes
4/5
Classic guitar album
John Grant
1/5
Trash. Boring, unoriginal,
The Coral
1/5
meh
Elvis Costello
2/5
Elvis is boring
Television
4/5
Solid old indie rock. Reminded me of Minutemen
David Bowie
3/5
Meh
Elis Regina
1/5
The Police
5/5
The Cars
5/5
Wire
2/5
Sorta punk but dull
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
The very definition of a classic
Nas
5/5
Rap done well
Miriam Makeba
1/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Classic rock album
Taylor Swift
1/5
trash. unoriginal and talentless
The Streets
1/5
Crappy Londoner rap.
Minutemen
5/5
Great old punk album
Soul II Soul
2/5
Boring
Fleetwood Mac
2/5
Not their best effort
The Cult
5/5
Great rock album
Tom Waits
1/5
Sorta like Zappa
Elliott Smith
2/5
UnInteresting
Beck
5/5
Very different at the time. A new genre
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
Old 80s rap
The Birthday Party
3/5
The Isley Brothers
5/5
Lots of covers but delicious soul
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Good early British goth
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Hippie music
King Crimson
2/5
Meh
Bert Jansch
1/5
Khaled
1/5
Trash, the sorta music you hear in a NYC cab
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Elvis is best in small bites
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Billy Joel
5/5
Great, catchy and timeless
Moby
5/5
Excellent chill out album
Paul Simon
3/5
The Velvet Underground
1/5
Trash
The Velvet Underground
2/5
The Yardbirds
2/5
Old 60s euro rock
Lou Reed
2/5
Me
Arcade Fire
4/5
Great alternative albu
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Brilliant new sound
Beastie Boys
2/5
Snoop Dogg
2/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Country Old
Venom
5/5
good heavy metal
Johnny Cash
3/5
Not his best in the series of jailhouse concerts
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Great guitar folk
Christine and the Queens
3/5
80s
Wilco
5/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
Neu!
3/5
80s
Scott Walker
1/5
Trash, interesting and self indulgent
Thelonious Monk
1/5
Jazz sucks
Eels
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Bobby Womack
2/5
Boring
David Bowie
1/5
Bowie sucks
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
Old, psychedelic rock
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Megadeth
5/5
Classic
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Orange Juice
3/5
Meh
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Good, strange album
Spiritualized
4/5
Interesting rockish album
The Beta Band
3/5
Funk
Nirvana
5/5
Liz Phair
3/5
Better than I expected early era 90s rock
Queen
5/5
Brilliant rock album
The Smiths
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
A masterpiece
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Better than I thought weird music
Cat Stevens
3/5
The Who
2/5
Nice concept, just boring and repetative
The Pharcyde
1/5
Dire Straits
5/5
This is how you make a mellow album
Steely Dan
2/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Linkin Park
5/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Jazz
Johnny Cash
4/5
Good album for its historical value
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Meh
Beatles
3/5
Beetles, whatever
Peter Gabriel
4/5
ABBA
4/5
Classic abba
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Bluesy Stones
Anthrax
5/5
Great thrash
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Classi
The Velvet Underground
2/5
This band is crap
The Prodigy
5/5
Excellent rave music
Fairport Convention
1/5
Barf
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Same ol dull Springsteen
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Classic, original
Dizzee Rascal
1/5
Crap rap
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Stan Getz
4/5
The xx
4/5
Red Snapper
3/5
Circle Jerks
5/5
Awesome hardcore punk
Iron Maiden
5/5
One of the greatest all time albums
Simply Red
2/5
Crooner crap
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Bluesy
The xx
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Eminem
3/5
Same thing, over and over
The Offspring
3/5
I just don't like their songs
Alice Cooper
5/5
Excellent old rock album
2Pac
2/5
Gangster crap
The The
3/5
Cool 80s
Bee Gees
1/5
Beegees are terrible
Steve Earle
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
Brilliant, unique, ethereal
TV On The Radio
2/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
More groovy.
The Who
5/5
great rock album
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Sounds like the Monkees
The Fall
3/5
Old rotty punk
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Sinatra. Dull
The Doors
4/5
Morrison
Björk
2/5
weirdos being weirdos
The Who
3/5
Not my favorite
Janis Joplin
1/5
standard Janis. Gravelly and dull.
Air
4/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Its ok. Its soul. Its a classic.
The Fall
3/5
Giant Sand
2/5
Weird, leonard Cohen sort of crap.
Portishead
3/5
a bit repetitive
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Not bad
Daft Punk
5/5
The Cramps
3/5
rockabilly
5/5
Kings of Leon
5/5
Excellent alt rock album
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Unusual bongo rock
Bob Dylan
5/5
Radiohead
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
System Of A Down
4/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Cypress Hill
5/5
Classic
Metallica
1/5
so dumb
Brian Wilson
2/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Richard Hawley
2/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
James Brown
4/5
high energy James Brown
Doves
3/5
Röyksopp
5/5
Enjoyable electronic
Blur
4/5
Miles Davis
1/5
Jazz sucks. Not music, its noise
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
Afrobeats music
Flamin' Groovies
4/5
Solid old rock/blusey album
Mylo
5/5
enjoyable dance music, not pop
Arcade Fire
5/5
Madness
4/5
The National
4/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Ice T
1/5
Stupid. Built for accountants to get money
G. Love & Special Sauce
4/5
Patti Smith
3/5
Lorde
2/5
She's not very good
Coldplay
1/5
Boring
Stevie Wonder
2/5
He's boring
Fugees
2/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
Rap, blah
Jurassic 5
5/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Old timey bluegrass
Caetano Veloso
1/5
Dull
AC/DC
5/5
Pure rock and roll
808 State
5/5
groovy electronic instrumental
Judas Priest
5/5
classic metal, uplifting message for the punks
Silver Jews
3/5
wants to be Wilco. Not wilco
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Milton Nascimento
2/5
B.B. King
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Megadeth
5/5
Amazing thrash
The Hives
5/5
Black Flag
5/5
Brilliant, angry lashing out
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Raekwon
2/5
Rap
Norah Jones
5/5
N.W.A.
5/5
Leonard Cohen
1/5
Stereo MC's
5/5
Pretty good, rap like J5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2/5
Dull
John Martyn
4/5
Mj Cole
4/5
Adele
3/5
she can sing, but this music is boring
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Not their best but certainly good
PJ Harvey
1/5
her music sucks
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Same Africa music
Elvis Presley
2/5
Tina Turner
1/5
80s trash. She can't sing
John Lennon
4/5
He can write songs
The Temptations
1/5
Not into this divisive music
George Michael
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Dull
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Pulp
2/5
The Psychedelic Furs
5/5
Classic 80s alt rock
Sonic Youth
4/5
Great 90s alt rock
Aimee Mann
1/5
So boring
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The Lemonheads
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Interesting music
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Slade
2/5
Half ass album
Scott Walker
2/5
Crap
Sarah Vaughan
1/5
Low quality live.
Beatles
5/5
10cc
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Classically bizzare
David Bowie
3/5
Gary Numan
3/5
Weird Gary
The Black Keys
5/5
Cream
1/5
Cream sucks, boring
Bill Callahan
1/5
Dumb, boring
David Bowie
1/5
Bowie sucks
2/5
Very 80s
MGMT
5/5
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
John Coltrane
3/5
The Saints
4/5
Pretty good punk album
LTJ Bukem
4/5
Cool lofi
Alice In Chains
5/5
AC/DC
5/5
Classic
Method Man
1/5
Trash
David Bowie
2/5
Bowie sucks
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Meh
Brian Eno
4/5
Van Halen
5/5
Gold standard
Dr. Dre
3/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Bluesy sort of thing.
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
This music sucks
Frank Sinatra
3/5
U2
5/5
Frank Ocean
1/5
sucks
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
An album so bad it proves his fans are morons
Ray Charles
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Boring and repetitive. Cave endeavors to be more boring than Leonard Cohen
Charles Mingus
2/5
Boring old big band jazz. Muffled trumpet
Aerosmith
5/5
classic rock album
k.d. lang
1/5
Dull
Green Day
2/5
Crappy pop
Soundgarden
5/5
Classic
The Crusaders
2/5
Old funky inner city blah
Miles Davis
3/5
Not bad. Like the experimental, plugged in version of Miles
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
Surprisingly good beat driven funk
Elton John
2/5
Meh. Pop
Bauhaus
4/5
goth. awesome
David Bowie
1/5
God so boring
Motörhead
5/5
Various Artists
3/5
meh
The Young Rascals
2/5
Boring
The Zombies
1/5
dumb
The Byrds
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
1/5
mccartney same ol dullness
Adele
2/5
She can sing
John Lee Hooker
2/5
Blues
Prince
4/5
Classic dance album
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
80s classic, but very repetitive
New Order
5/5
Eminem
4/5
Different, interesting
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Same boring crap. He made way too many albums
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Pop
Depeche Mode
3/5
Its ok
Joan Armatrading
5/5
Cyndi Lauper
5/5
Parliament
4/5
Fun, true funk
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Electric
Otis Redding
3/5
Covers. Dull
Pantera
5/5
An all time great album that changed music
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
KISS
1/5
Kiss is rock's version of Taylor Swift
Sister Sledge
3/5
Disco
Gillian Welch
2/5
Emo Country
John Prine
5/5
The Bees
1/5
Seems unfinished. This is the sort if album id expect from a kid with a 4 track in his bedroom.
Ray Charles
3/5
Meh.
The Cardigans
2/5
One song
Maxwell
2/5
Background music, at best
Sade
3/5
Classic
Tortoise
3/5
Electronic
Queen
3/5
Good album
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Dull
Nina Simone
2/5
3/5
Tom Waits
2/5
Beck
4/5
Muddy Waters
1/5
Live blues album. Just not very good. Not very interesting
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Small Faces
3/5
60s psycho rock
Yes
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Cool Arctic Monkeys
Hookworms
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
This band sucks
Van Halen
4/5
Beth Orton
2/5
Dull, slow singer
The Electric Prunes
2/5
Boring, psycho 60s music
Neil Young
4/5
Decent old hippie rock
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
The Stooges
5/5
Classic punk record that provided the foundation for a genre
The Specials
4/5
Good early Ska
Tom Waits
2/5
Tom Waits music sucks
The White Stripes
5/5
Top to bottom, this is classic White Stripes. A blend of blues, folk, punk, country and rock with a minimalist structure. Loud and raucous
Big Star
2/5
I dont get the Big Star love. Pretty dull stuff
Al Green
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Sort of cocteau twins in a lower octive
The B-52's
4/5
Classic
Morrissey
1/5
Morrissey is not very good at music
The Beach Boys
2/5
Ive never understood the attention this album gets.
Neil Young
3/5
Goldie
3/5
Jeff Beck
1/5
Beck is not the great guitarist of legend. His pretty average
Antony and the Johnsons
1/5
weird avant guarde music song by a warbling dude. This is really bad
The Waterboys
2/5
A tweener. Not bluegrass
Nirvana
5/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Groovy, hangout music
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Casual music, but very nice
Skepta
1/5
Music for the dullard
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Big Black
5/5
Classic, old school punk.
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Classic sound of organ and backing fender guitar
The Zutons
2/5
This is dumb
Alanis Morissette
5/5
A near perfect pop punk album
Big Brother & The Holding Company
1/5
Janis Joplin's screeching voice... annoying.
TLC
1/5
A fine example of trash sold as music to the deaf.
Jacques Brel
1/5
Live album from a 60s era French crooner....not something anyone living needs to hear.
Living Colour
3/5
Trailblazing rock that did not age well. Not classic
Peter Frampton
2/5
N.E.R.D
2/5
meh
Kraftwerk
3/5
Classic early electronic city music
Django Django
4/5
An alt pop tryst. Fairly enjoyable
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Sounds like a mashup of U2 and Bauhaus, but not good.
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Not bad
Suede
3/5
Sort of 1st Wave rock
The Modern Lovers
3/5
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Tori Amos
2/5
Tedious
Coldplay
1/5
Boring
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Groovy soul. Easy to listen to
Goldfrapp
2/5
Portishead
3/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
Background music
Eurythmics
1/5
This is 80s euro pop trash. I suspect there was a corporate interest behind their success
Culture Club
3/5
Brit pop.
Suede
2/5
Keith Jarrett
3/5
Metallica
1/5
The final straw. This album marked the complete metamorphosis of a metal band into a pop band. Time proved me correct...this album is soulless trash, not even music.
Bob Dylan
5/5
A gem of Dylans brilliant songwriting
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Incredible musicianship on this classic. Stripped down, raw energy
Coldcut
3/5
Hard to know. Album not available on Spotify
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
meh
Ice Cube
2/5
Whatever.
Pentangle
2/5
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
DJ Shadow
3/5
Ghostface Killah
2/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Suicide
3/5
Psychedelic rock
Dire Straits
5/5
Genesis
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Barry Adamson
1/5
M.I.A.
2/5
One or two songs is fine. The repetitive beat of this album grated my nerves
Kate Bush
1/5
Pop
Os Mutantes
1/5
Duran Duran
5/5
Cee Lo Green
3/5
Funk
Prefab Sprout
1/5
This is shit
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
Bebel Gilberto
4/5
The kind of album one hears in a restaurant that forces you to ask the waiter, 'who is this playing?'
Finley Quaye
3/5
Rasta
The Go-Go's
5/5
This remains a seminal album of new wave, punk pop of the 80s. It smells like Coppertone
The Pretty Things
3/5
Psycho rock
David Bowie
1/5
Bowie sucks
Sugar
4/5
Decent alt rock album
MC Solaar
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
good classical, dulcimer based music. Better than the Mall
TV On The Radio
4/5
decent alt rock album
Black Sabbath
5/5
An album so good, so perfect, you quickly learn all the words and sing along....50 years after its release. Genre defining. I doubt there are any criticisms by people with ears.
Solomon Burke
2/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
trash pop. Corporate swill. music for the deaf.
Jane's Addiction
5/5
One of the greats.
Can
3/5
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
The lyricist should return to elementary school and finish up. So dumb
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Average old psychedelic rock
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Jazz
Bad Company
5/5
Chicago
3/5
Horn music
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
The Associates
2/5
Meh
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
The most boring band of the 90s
Leonard Cohen
1/5
It's illegitimate to confess a liking to this drivel
ZZ Top
5/5
texas blues. unique sound
2/5
Live albums should not be on this list
The Who
1/5
There should not be live albums on this list.
Mariah Carey
1/5
This is shit.
Guns N' Roses
5/5
A complete rock album that ushered in the end of hair metal. Every song a classic.
Happy Mondays
2/5
Steely Dan
4/5
The Band
2/5
Meh
Black Sabbath
4/5
Excellent album
Wilco
5/5
Classic, alt country that broke open the trail
Radiohead
3/5
Meh
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
One Elvis Costello song is all a person needs. After that, he drones on and on
Nick Drake
5/5
Screaming Trees
5/5
Solange
1/5
Trash
Animal Collective
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
OutKast
4/5
Interesting album
The Beach Boys
1/5
The beach boys make heartless, dull, boring music.
Cheap Trick
3/5
Back half of album is ok. This band is dull, corporate nonsense.
Merle Haggard
5/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Putting a sitar on the record doesn't make a record good. It's unlistenable
Waylon Jennings
5/5
Outlaw country
Stereolab
2/5
CHIC
3/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Talk Talk
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
Electronic
Lupe Fiasco
1/5
This is pop rap trash
Tricky
3/5
Background music
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
Nails in a chalkboard warbling. Just terrible
The Darkness
3/5
Interesting retro rock album but nothing amazing here
Electric Light Orchestra
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Tom Waits
1/5
He shouldn't be recording
Gene Clark
2/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
Tito Puente
4/5
Very good dance music that makes your subconscious move your hips
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Jack White
5/5
John Martyn
5/5
Solid acoustic rock
New Order
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
This is stupid.
The War On Drugs
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
So dull
Mekons
3/5
Decent
Machito
3/5
Big band sorta music
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
The Sugarcubes
5/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Carpenters
1/5
Aged like milk. Dumb, 70s pop
Talking Heads
5/5
Magazine
3/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Live albums suck
Radiohead
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Excellent but they have better
SZA
1/5
This is not music but the mumblings of some base creature obsessing over their crotch. So stupid
The Kinks
2/5
Pretty boring
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Good album that gets a little tiresome
Digital Underground
1/5
Boring
Beck
5/5
Great alt rock album.
FKA twigs
3/5
D'Angelo
1/5
a-ha
1/5
Pavement
4/5
Incubus
4/5
Solid alt rock album
Metallica
5/5
This is a perfect album. Unique, genre defining sound, tempo.
5/5
Surprisingly great, booty shaking record. Had me moving all day
Bee Gees
1/5
Not good.
Madonna
5/5
Surprised how good this was. Deviation from Pop Stupidity works when you're an artist.
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Noise
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Still great, 50 plus years on. How many albums can do that?
The Human League
4/5
Solid 80s album.
The Jam
3/5
Solid
2/5
Live albums suck
Genesis
1/5
This is bad
Sebadoh
4/5
Decent alt rock
Blondie
4/5
Neil Young
2/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Gang Starr
3/5
Meh
Grateful Dead
3/5
The Dead. Jam Band. not my thing. also, they are a live band so studio albums land as ponderous, possibly required by their corporate overlords
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Amy Winehouse
1/5
This is corporate swill.
Sleater-Kinney
1/5
I just don't like their voices and find them grating
Butthole Surfers
4/5
Different. Aggressive. Not for everyone.
Soft Cell
1/5
One song.
The Verve
4/5
Aerosmith
5/5
Rock album before they went pop
Elton John
2/5
Pop
Dead Kennedys
5/5
The Band
3/5
Mike Oldfield
1/5
Boring
Eagles
5/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
Iron Maiden
5/5
Masterpiece of punk moving into metal
XTC
4/5
Billy Bragg
5/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Fiona Apple
5/5
Unusual and creative
5/5
Classic
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Dr. John
4/5
Interesting deep south blues. Voodoo rock?
Pixies
4/5
Very good. Alt rock/punk
Sparks
4/5
Pretty good
Beatles
2/5
It's an old album, only important as an artifact. The music doesn't hold up today. Sorry Beatles lovers
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Zappa is not my thing. Its just noise to my ears.
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Orbital
4/5
Youssou N'Dour
1/5
Primal Scream
4/5
1/5
Bowie is the most boring artist. The world is fooled and only I can see the truth...this music sucks
The Undertones
4/5
Kanye West
1/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5/5
If you don't love this album, I'm sure that we can't be friendly.
The Police
5/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1/5
Exactly the same as every one of these sort of albums.
The Pogues
1/5
grating, annoying irish music with very poor singing
Pink Floyd
5/5
George Jones
2/5
Sad cowboy songs
Miles Davis
1/5
Tried listening many times over the years. I don't get it.
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Baaba Maal
1/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Bluegrass
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Emmylou is about her voice. The music is uninspiring but her voice is nice.
The Residents
3/5
Odd
Boards of Canada
3/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
While this is a classic album, its music is meh, corporate swill
Jungle Brothers
1/5
meh
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2/5
The Roots
3/5
Same ol same ol
Tom Tom Club
3/5
I wanted to like this but it sorta bored me
Super Furry Animals
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Very bluesy
Spacemen 3
3/5
Interesting, weird album
Sigur Rós
4/5
Ethereal weirdness that is wholly unique
Leftfield
5/5
Undeniably good, soulful electronic music that feels analog
John Cale
2/5
The Smiths
1/5
Can't stand his voice, whining lyrics and boohoo songs.
The Adverts
3/5
One song
Hole
2/5
Courtney is derivative of Kurt. I found this album to be a corporate money grab. the music is dull, uninteresting.
Weather Report
1/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Serge Gainsbourg
1/5
Crap
Fugazi
2/5
Travis
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Joe Ely
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Radiohead
1/5
The Kinks
2/5
The La's
3/5
Radiohead
1/5
Nails on a chalkboard. This band would do well to sell their songs to others for recording. Like Morrissey, unlistenable, pathetic voice.
Beach House
3/5
Kinda averag
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Elbow
3/5
Erykah Badu
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Lou Reed
1/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Björk
2/5
More weirdness that I'm not compelled to understand.
Violent Femmes
5/5
An example of the perfection achieved when the accountants have no say in the art. A brilliant record.
Japan
3/5
Sounds like depeche mode
Death In Vegas
3/5
Decent, trippy music. I listened to the entire album - sort of - and only noticed it was over when some other sort of music started playing. Nothing all that memorable here, but also nothing terrible or irritating on this disc.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
The Undertones
4/5
Old, original punk
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
2/5
predictable
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Old punk
The Who
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Pop folk. Dude is a billionaire now.
Q-Tip
1/5
I don't understand hip hop.
ABBA
3/5
Air
5/5
Roni Size
3/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
M.I.A.
1/5
Talentless dribble.
Common
1/5
Shit
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
I don't get it
Motörhead
5/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Buck Owens
5/5
Classic, high quality country.
Deee-Lite
3/5
Kinda repetitive dance music
Girls Against Boys
4/5
Punk.
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
Boring
Christina Aguilera
1/5
Absolute shit.
Green Day
3/5
Morrissey
1/5
Talentless hack. Unlistenable boo hoo emo music.
The Allman Brothers Band
2/5
Jam band, Live album. Hard to like unless you're a fan from prior releases.
William Orbit
5/5
Cool electronic music.
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
Another rapping album. It's hard to relate to this genre when your life and perspective and experience differs as greatly as mine. Lacking the draw and hook of music I like, it fails to draw my interest. Certainly the creativity of multiple rappers proves interesting, but the subject matter - the same base subject as all of this genre - appeals to the school yard basketball court rather than the suburban angst of my youth.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Albums don't get better than this
Korn
1/5
Lacks authenticity....I don't believe them and sense the lyrics and music were designed by an industry VP intended in to catch sales from Linkin Park
Duke Ellington
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Groovy music. Background sorta thing
Ozomatli
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
1/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Ray Price
4/5
Old country
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
This band feels like a 'try hard' sort of sound. They want to be heavy prog metal and end up being what Taylor Swift is to pop....just a stupid shadow.
Oasis
3/5
Dude's voice becomes a tiresome bore after a few songs.
R.E.M.
3/5
Stipe's lyrics are so exhausting
The Prodigy
5/5
Great album of curious new sounds.
Meat Loaf
2/5
tedious, lounge singer
50 Cent
1/5
meh. Base hip hop is dull. The gunshot nonsense was really stupid.
Ride
4/5
Debut album by band called Ride. Ride delivered this album in 1990, a time when hair metal gave way to grunge. Who knew another new genre, "shoegaze" birthed itself too. This album strikes me as easy to listen to and ethereal. Unusual guitar sounds surrounding a moving beat and bassline with an earnest, though quiet voice buried in the sound. A genre I like.
Considered a debut after three EPs seems silly to this reviewer. They knew what they were doing by this point and the song show it. Musically enjoyable.
The album cover features an ocean wave in the early stages of rising out of the sea. Apropos of the tunes on this album and its overall sound, lending a completeness to the artistry Ride was shooting for.
The music throughout feels intentional and heartfelt, maybe even an evolution of the sound Robert Smith got going in The Cure's heyday.
The big tune that turn on the kids are Vapour Trail (spelling accepted as us tolerating the King's English). Looking at this specific tune shows the band's musical competence and their ability to blend rock instruments with some strings. Too bad the lyrics bordered on kindergarten-esk.
Throughout the album, its lyrics present the weakness of this album. Writing words like, "And all my time is yours as much is mine" on Vapour Trail strikes me as just stupid, a juvenile attempt at poetry. This goes on throughout the album creating my appreciation for the genre's desire to hide the vocals behind its instruments.
Nowhere fits nicely when you need to get some work done. Throw this on the headphones and let the music float you through that spreadsheet. The vocals backed into the instruments proves the key element for listening as a way to give the distracted part of your mind something to do. This is thinking music. This doesn't work for work outs, and probably would be distracting at a dinner party as the musicianship is compelling.
Faust
3/5
Wikipedia tells us that 'Faust IV' is the fourth studio album by the German krautrock group Faust, released in 1973'. Nobody knows what krautrock sounds like, giving the sense that some dork made the name up to sound smart. Lets figure this out by listening rather than dropping into the Wikipedia entry for krautrock.
Listening to the opening tracks of any album gives the listener a sense of the musical style. In the case of Faust IV, the first song titled 'krautrock' feels like a sort of easy going, electronic back beat with some jazzy, synth ramblings in multiple directions then 7 minutes in you get a drumbeat. This song is 11+ minutes long. Great.
But this is one song, an instrumental, serving as prologue rather than a complete picture. Prepare yourself listener for entry into the unknown and confusing.
Digging into the tracks of the complete album teaches the listener that krautrock is a melding of psychedelic industrial rock. I don't think I learned anything else. No great lyrical philosophy....Maynard spoiled us all.
Checking the timeline, this album landed in the music scene in the early 70s when psychedelic and hard rock raged into its screaming toddler years. Faust IV fits in there, but electronic mostly. Trent Reznor was eight when it came out so its not his, though the first tune could be.
The remastered version presents clean, psychedelic songs the likes of which you might find on a Henry Rollins radio show or maybe something played on KXLU. The songs all present a clean, driving baseline with a variety of instruments pursuing their interrelated musical lines. No doubt music theorists gush over the mixodyxolidophonic scales....whatever.
Lyrically, and vocally, you wont find much. Its sparse. As something called krautrock, I expect something more of a call to arms, a socialist or well ordered, tight and clean lyrics. Instead, the listener doesn't get much. The songs have minimal lyrics, mostly repeated lines. Walt Whitman doesn't play krautrock.
As I end my first listen, it occurs to me that all of the songs on the album could be one long tune. Though song to song the 'melodies' and temperaments change, including 'Giggly Smile' which could fit on a Zappa album, especially due to its lyrical homage to blowjobs.
This album drops a lot of elements on the listener...maybe this is jazz structure with rock instruments? This unique sound clearly lives in its own world.
Its flaw maybe its strength: its uncategorizable. Its provides a base of music for some of the greatest artists to come: Reznor, Zappa and their ilk. If you like weird music, off the mainstream, you may like this. If you like to know what you are getting, you will hate this.
3 of 5 stars
Meat Puppets
5/5
This is a foundational album that lead to much of the great music of the 90s.
George Harrison
5/5
Slide guitar pop. Much better than I expected. Double album proved long though
Primal Scream
3/5
drugged centric, club dance album of the early 90s
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
Straight forward Jazz ensemble. Not all that impressed with great skills in playing. Show me something creative.
Tim Buckley
2/5
Buckley was a druggie that abandoned his family and obligations. Like Michael Jackson, its impossible for me to separate dude's music from his abhorrent lifestyle. You will like this album if you like psychedelic, jazz inspired riffing and are able to ignore Buckley's douchy lyrics. You will hate this album if Buckley's behavior pisses you off.
The Libertines
3/5
Very average, English rock album. Expected more
Destiny's Child
1/5
This is shit. Skank songs. Corporate swill.
Depeche Mode
4/5
Layers synth almost industrial music that backs off enough to be radio friendly
Laura Nyro
1/5
Wants to be Carole King, fails.
Alice Cooper
3/5
Alice Cooper is a spectacle show more than an album. The music is inconsequential and is the equivalent of putting Cirque du Soleil on here.
Fats Domino
4/5
Holger Czukay
3/5
The sort of thing you'd expect a teenager to make if they had some time with a synth.
Van Morrison
5/5
Great songs, great voice. Too bad dude's reputation for being a nasty cur darkens his legacy.
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Not interesting. Run of the mill alt rock
Lucinda Williams
2/5
This is what Nashville chick song writing sounds like. Doesn't make you feel anything.
Kanye West
1/5
This is the sort of music one makes when all they can think of is their crotch. Grade-A trash.
Grateful Dead
1/5
What are you doing? Dead is a live band. Recording their concerts like this is dumb.
The Vines
3/5
David Gray
1/5
Boring.
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
David Bowie
1/5
Like all of Bowie's music, this album is tedious. I don't see what people who like him see.
Love
3/5
Sounds like dudes hallucinating that they are the Doors.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Arrested Development
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Roxy Music
1/5
This dude's warbling voice grates the nerves. I don't care what is on this album.
Napalm Death
3/5
Now we are talking. This album is about annoyance. For me, the percussion is stupid. I like that this album exists
JAY Z
3/5
Def Leppard
5/5
An album defining the sound of The 80s Teen American Male. Great songs overplayed.
Buzzcocks
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Anyone reading the 1001 albums book has heard this album many times. This one is in the top few greatest, most important albums of all time.
Not even close to their most important album. This is more a commercial crap.
Rod Stewart
2/5
meh
Janet Jackson
1/5
A pedophile's sister, corporate shill. Janet's lyrics are awfully preachy, telling us all what to do and how to think. This is trash with evil intent.
Dolly Parton
2/5
Collab
Pearl Jam
5/5
nothing to say. perfect grunge
Little Simz
1/5
An English twat vomiting syncopated grunts onto vinyl is not music.
Mudhoney
4/5
Solid old grunge/punk
Mott The Hoople
2/5
This music sucks. While it is referenced by many great artists of the era, it's just plain bad, uninteresting and dull.
The Verve
4/5
Hidden tracks aren't cute anymore. Decent album though.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
Live music....should be heard live. A jam band playing someone else's tune. It's fine, just not as an album.
Richard Thompson
2/5
Crowded House
1/5
This music drops to new levels of lame.
fIREHOSE
4/5
De La Soul
1/5
This album is stupid
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Sabu
1/5
Unless you are drunk on a dance floor, this music grates the nerves.
Brian Eno
3/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
Americana cowboy ballads
Slayer
4/5
Can music be too heavy? Nope.
James Taylor
4/5
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Solid
Laibach
1/5
It's unlikely that fans of this music are in any way friendly.
Fairport Convention
3/5
Astor Piazzolla
3/5
Jazz
Hanoi Rocks
4/5
Early hair band entrant. I still haven't forgiven Vince Neal for essentially killing Razzle
Carole King
5/5
There's no arguing with this one.
Queen
4/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
1/5
Stupid
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Organ jazz
The Thrills
3/5
The Byrds
1/5
Can't stand their sound.
Morrissey
2/5
It'd be better if Morrisey didn't sing or write the lyrics
Marvin Gaye
2/5
The Stranglers
4/5
Very old school punk. Sort of Agnostic Front if they were from England and 10 years older.
Billy Bragg
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
The United States Of America
3/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Not good.
Kid Rock
4/5
Unique mixes of sound. Party vibe
Gorillaz
2/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Ms. Dynamite
1/5
Unlistenable trash. Maybe you might like this record if you prefer women who sound as if they've been ruffied. Ctrl Alt Delete
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
An album good enough to overcome The Boss's political nonsense.
4/5
The Pogues
2/5
Irish music outside of blind drunk St Patty's grates the tips of nerve endings.
Hole
4/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
The Beta Band
4/5
Trippy, like Hot Chip or French Kicks.
The Dandy Warhols
4/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Live albums suck as they never convey what it's like to be there.
Beyoncé
1/5
If the Taliban ever capture me, this is what they play to torture me in my cell. This is absolute trash
The Cure
4/5
Germs
3/5
I like punk but never really liked this album. Wild that Pat Smear and Belinda Carlisle were in the same band.
Ananda Shankar
1/5
Scitar. Does not age well and is silly.
The Icarus Line
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
Not for me. I can appreciate what these guys are doing, how they moved music along. I just don't like listening to music like this.
Public Enemy
3/5
King Crimson
3/5
Reminds me of Zappa. People like this sort of thing in the same way they like jazz.
Steely Dan
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
Kinda dull
Lauryn Hill
1/5
Like World Music, this is unlistenable. Not that the people can't sing, it's that the subject matter is so boring, so over trod, so base, so stupid. If prefer the stupid fantasy metal about knights and unicorns to this drivel.
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Try hard music.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
Talking Heads
5/5
Randy Newman
1/5
Boring music
Stephen Stills
5/5
Groovy, old fuzzy blues music. Lots of slide guitar and harmonicas and the like.
Iggy Pop
3/5
Madonna
1/5
Not good.