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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Metal Venom	5	2.47	+2.53
90 808 State	5	2.69	+2.31
Group Sex Circle Jerks	5	2.75	+2.25
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.75	+2.25
Strange Cargo III William Orbit	5	2.77	+2.23
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	5	2.8	+2.2
São Paulo Confessions Suba	5	2.85	+2.15
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.86	+2.14
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.86	+2.14
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard	5	2.87	+2.13

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie	1	4.26	-3.26
OK Computer Radiohead	1	4.12	-3.12
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	1	4.04	-3.04
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	1	4.02	-3.02
Hunky Dory David Bowie	1	3.99	-2.99
Metallica Metallica	1	3.77	-2.77
Pearl Janis Joplin	1	3.71	-2.71
Station To Station David Bowie	1	3.69	-2.69
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	1	3.69	-2.69
Band On The Run Paul McCartney and Wings	1	3.67	-2.67

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	5	4.8
Pink Floyd	4	4.75
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	5
Nirvana	3	5
The White Stripes	3	5
Jimi Hendrix	3	5
Nick Drake	3	4.67
Beck	3	4.67
Bob Dylan	7	4.14
ZZ Top	2	5
The Police	2	5
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5
Wilco	2	5
Megadeth	2	5
Dire Straits	2	5
The Prodigy	2	5
Iron Maiden	2	5
Cocteau Twins	2	5
Kings of Leon	2	5
AC/DC	2	5
Motörhead	2	5
Willie Nelson	2	5
The Stooges	3	4.33
Talking Heads	3	4.33
Arcade Fire	3	4.33
Black Sabbath	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	1.2
David Bowie	9	1.56
Tom Waits	5	1.4
Björk	4	1.5
Morrissey	3	1.33
Amy Winehouse	2	1
Baaba Maal	2	1
Taylor Swift	2	1
Bee Gees	2	1
Coldplay	2	1
The Mothers Of Invention	2	1
Kanye West	2	1
Christina Aguilera	2	1
Kate Bush	3	1.67
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	3	1.67
The Velvet Underground	3	1.67
Dexys Midnight Runners	3	1.67
PJ Harvey	2	1.5
Lou Reed	2	1.5
Scott Walker	2	1.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	1.5
The Beach Boys	2	1.5
Barry Adamson	2	1.5
Robert Wyatt	2	1.5
M.I.A.	2	1.5
The Pogues	2	1.5
Manic Street Preachers	2	1.5
Leonard Cohen	4	2
Miles Davis	4	2
Frank Sinatra	3	2
Tim Buckley	3	2
Simon & Garfunkel	3	2
Stevie Wonder	4	2.25
The Kinks	4	2.25

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Aerosmith	1, 5, 5
Metallica	1, 1, 5, 4
Pet Shop Boys	5, 1, 3
Madonna	3, 5, 1
Bruce Springsteen	1, 4, 4, 1

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Popular Reviews

Bowie sucks

This is a foundational album that lead to much of the great music of the 90s.

Jazz...all the notes played at the same time

Outlaw country

Excellent alt rock album

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All Ratings (925)

Some great songs with some very bad ones

Middle of the road, modern

Old school punk

Trash pop

One song album. Sorta punky

Art record. Industrial flow along with captured conversations.

A classic, many hits, pretty dark lyrics on a bed of jangly hippie tunes

Classic 90s alt rock

Just not very interesting rock album

Brilliant psychedelic rock album featuring the poetry of Jim Morrison

One song record. Waste of time

Excellent, innovative album shifting the genres of the 80s.

Brilliant guitar album that feels like a beautiful road trip

Unusual album reminding me of at the Drive in if they were from the 70s

Trash.

Classic, funk

Excellent early rock album

Jazz...all the notes played at the same time

80s rap that Fresh Prince probably listened to

Unlistenable warbler. Winehouse cannot sing and I suspect her popularity was solely due to the pornographic nature of her song titles. This is trash

Good, hard rock album. Unique sound

Unique sound of early alt rock. Gets a little tedious

Classic 80s sounds

Fine 90s alt rock album

Very good modern rock album

Ambient and ethereal modern rock

Nice 60s era samba with some corny tunes

Cheesy early rap music

Slide guitar

Standard fare.

Excellent punk album

Beautiful 80s album

Covers

Nothing amazing about this airy album

Weird concept album reminds me of

Weird album

Run of the mill

Classic old jazz record

Presley.

Boring African guitar music with whiny voice

Warbler, boring

Brilliant alt rick

Excellent early wave, goth album

Masterwork of heavy rock fueled by political neliefs

Excellent early hard rock album

Excellent island music

Sort of Yeah, yeah, yeahs stuff

Great political punk

Psychobilly punk rock

I don't get why some think her music is good. It's really dull and pedestrian

Early grunge influence. Punk

Brilliant album of the cures unique layered songs

Sorta stone roses

Gold standard of 80s pop rock

Pop, synth, Scandinavian, she can't sing

Funk

Awful

Classic guitar album

Trash. Boring, unoriginal,

meh

Elvis is boring

Solid old indie rock. Reminded me of Minutemen

Meh

Sorta punk but dull

The very definition of a classic

Rap done well

Classic rock album

trash. unoriginal and talentless

Crappy Londoner rap.

Great old punk album

Boring

Not their best effort

Great rock album

Sorta like Zappa

UnInteresting

Very different at the time. A new genre

Old 80s rap

Lots of covers but delicious soul

Good early British goth

Hippie music

Meh

Trash, the sorta music you hear in a NYC cab

Elvis is best in small bites

Great, catchy and timeless

Excellent chill out album

Trash

Old 60s euro rock

Great alternative albu

Brilliant new sound

Country Old

good heavy metal

Not his best in the series of jailhouse concerts

Great guitar folk

80s

Trash, interesting and self indulgent

Jazz sucks

Boring

Bowie sucks

Old, psychedelic rock

Classic

Meh

Good, strange album

Interesting rockish album

Funk

Better than I expected early era 90s rock

Brilliant rock album

A masterpiece

Better than I thought weird music

Nice concept, just boring and repetative

This is how you make a mellow album

Jazz

Good album for its historical value

Meh

Beetles, whatever

Classic abba

Bluesy Stones

Great thrash

Classi

This band is crap

Excellent rave music

Barf

Same ol dull Springsteen

Classic, original

Crap rap

Awesome hardcore punk

One of the greatest all time albums

Crooner crap

Bluesy

Same thing, over and over

I just don't like their songs

Excellent old rock album

Gangster crap

Cool 80s

Beegees are terrible

Brilliant, unique, ethereal

More groovy.

great rock album

Sounds like the Monkees

Old rotty punk

Sinatra. Dull

Morrison

weirdos being weirdos

Not my favorite

standard Janis. Gravelly and dull.

Its ok. Its soul. Its a classic.

Weird, leonard Cohen sort of crap.

a bit repetitive

Not bad

rockabilly

Excellent alt rock album

Unusual bongo rock

Classic

so dumb

high energy James Brown

Enjoyable electronic

Jazz sucks. Not music, its noise

Afrobeats music

Solid old rock/blusey album

enjoyable dance music, not pop

Stupid. Built for accountants to get money

She's not very good

Boring

He's boring

Rap, blah

Old timey bluegrass

Dull

Pure rock and roll

groovy electronic instrumental

classic metal, uplifting message for the punks

wants to be Wilco. Not wilco

Amazing thrash

Brilliant, angry lashing out

Rap

Pretty good, rap like J5

Dull

she can sing, but this music is boring

Not their best but certainly good

her music sucks

Same Africa music

80s trash. She can't sing

He can write songs

Not into this divisive music

Dull

Classic 80s alt rock

Great 90s alt rock

So boring

Interesting music

Half ass album

Crap

Low quality live.

Classically bizzare

Weird Gary

Cream sucks, boring

Dumb, boring

Bowie sucks

Very 80s

Pretty good punk album

Cool lofi

Classic

Trash

Bowie sucks

Meh

Gold standard

Bluesy sort of thing.

This music sucks

sucks

An album so bad it proves his fans are morons

Boring and repetitive. Cave endeavors to be more boring than Leonard Cohen

Boring old big band jazz. Muffled trumpet

classic rock album

Dull

Crappy pop

Classic

Old funky inner city blah

Not bad. Like the experimental, plugged in version of Miles

Surprisingly good beat driven funk

Meh. Pop

goth. awesome

God so boring

meh

Boring

dumb

mccartney same ol dullness

She can sing

Blues

Classic dance album

80s classic, but very repetitive

Different, interesting

Same boring crap. He made way too many albums

Pop

Its ok

Fun, true funk

Electric

Covers. Dull

An all time great album that changed music

Kiss is rock's version of Taylor Swift

Disco

Emo Country

Seems unfinished. This is the sort if album id expect from a kid with a 4 track in his bedroom.

Meh.

One song

Background music, at best

Classic

Electronic

Good album

Dull

Live blues album. Just not very good. Not very interesting

60s psycho rock

Cool Arctic Monkeys

This band sucks

Dull, slow singer

Boring, psycho 60s music

Decent old hippie rock

Classic punk record that provided the foundation for a genre

Good early Ska

Tom Waits music sucks

Top to bottom, this is classic White Stripes. A blend of blues, folk, punk, country and rock with a minimalist structure. Loud and raucous

I dont get the Big Star love. Pretty dull stuff

Sort of cocteau twins in a lower octive

Classic

Morrissey is not very good at music

Ive never understood the attention this album gets.

Beck is not the great guitarist of legend. His pretty average

weird avant guarde music song by a warbling dude. This is really bad

A tweener. Not bluegrass

Groovy, hangout music

Casual music, but very nice

Music for the dullard

Classic, old school punk.

Classic sound of organ and backing fender guitar

This is dumb

A near perfect pop punk album

Janis Joplin's screeching voice... annoying.

A fine example of trash sold as music to the deaf.

Live album from a 60s era French crooner....not something anyone living needs to hear.

Trailblazing rock that did not age well. Not classic

meh

Classic early electronic city music

An alt pop tryst. Fairly enjoyable

Sounds like a mashup of U2 and Bauhaus, but not good.

Not bad

Sort of 1st Wave rock

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole

Tedious

Boring

Groovy soul. Easy to listen to

Background music

This is 80s euro pop trash. I suspect there was a corporate interest behind their success

Brit pop.

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.

A gem of Dylans brilliant songwriting

Incredible musicianship on this classic. Stripped down, raw energy

Hard to know. Album not available on Spotify

meh

Whatever.

Psychedelic rock

One or two songs is fine. The repetitive beat of this album grated my nerves

Pop

Funk

This is shit

The kind of album one hears in a restaurant that forces you to ask the waiter, 'who is this playing?'

Rasta

This remains a seminal album of new wave, punk pop of the 80s. It smells like Coppertone

Psycho rock

Bowie sucks

Decent alt rock album

good classical, dulcimer based music. Better than the Mall

decent alt rock album

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.

trash pop. Corporate swill. music for the deaf.

One of the greats.

The lyricist should return to elementary school and finish up. So dumb

Average old psychedelic rock

Jazz

Horn music

Meh

The most boring band of the 90s

It's illegitimate to confess a liking to this drivel

texas blues. unique sound

Live albums should not be on this list

There should not be live albums on this list.

This is shit.

A complete rock album that ushered in the end of hair metal. Every song a classic.

Meh

Excellent album

Classic, alt country that broke open the trail

Meh

One Elvis Costello song is all a person needs. After that, he drones on and on

Trash

Interesting album

The beach boys make heartless, dull, boring music.

Back half of album is ok. This band is dull, corporate nonsense.

Putting a sitar on the record doesn't make a record good. It's unlistenable

Outlaw country

Electronic

This is pop rap trash

Background music

Nails in a chalkboard warbling. Just terrible

Interesting retro rock album but nothing amazing here

He shouldn't be recording

Very good dance music that makes your subconscious move your hips

Solid acoustic rock

This is stupid.

So dull

Decent

Big band sorta music

Aged like milk. Dumb, 70s pop

Live albums suck

Excellent but they have better

This is not music but the mumblings of some base creature obsessing over their crotch. So stupid

Pretty boring

Good album that gets a little tiresome

Boring

Great alt rock album.

Solid alt rock album

This is a perfect album. Unique, genre defining sound, tempo.

Surprisingly great, booty shaking record. Had me moving all day

Not good.

Surprised how good this was. Deviation from Pop Stupidity works when you're an artist.

Noise

Still great, 50 plus years on. How many albums can do that?

Solid 80s album.

Solid

Live albums suck

This is bad

Decent alt rock

Meh

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

This is corporate swill.

I just don't like their voices and find them grating

Different. Aggressive. Not for everyone.

One song.

Rock album before they went pop

Pop

Boring

Masterpiece of punk moving into metal

Unusual and creative

Classic

Interesting deep south blues. Voodoo rock?

Very good. Alt rock/punk

Pretty good

It's an old album, only important as an artifact. The music doesn't hold up today. Sorry Beatles lovers

Zappa is not my thing. Its just noise to my ears.

Bowie is the most boring artist. The world is fooled and only I can see the truth...this music sucks

If you don't love this album, I'm sure that we can't be friendly.

Exactly the same as every one of these sort of albums.

grating, annoying irish music with very poor singing

Sad cowboy songs

Tried listening many times over the years. I don't get it.

Bluegrass

Emmylou is about her voice. The music is uninspiring but her voice is nice.

Odd

While this is a classic album, its music is meh, corporate swill

meh

Same ol same ol

I wanted to like this but it sorta bored me

Very bluesy

Interesting, weird album

Ethereal weirdness that is wholly unique

Undeniably good, soulful electronic music that feels analog

Can't stand his voice, whining lyrics and boohoo songs.

One song

Courtney is derivative of Kurt. I found this album to be a corporate money grab. the music is dull, uninteresting.

Crap

Nails on a chalkboard. This band would do well to sell their songs to others for recording. Like Morrissey, unlistenable, pathetic voice.

Kinda averag

More weirdness that I'm not compelled to understand.

An example of the perfection achieved when the accountants have no say in the art. A brilliant record.

Sounds like depeche mode

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.

Old, original punk

predictable

Old punk

Pop folk. Dude is a billionaire now.

I don't understand hip hop.

Talentless dribble.

Shit

I don't get it

Classic, high quality country.

Kinda repetitive dance music

Punk.

Boring

Absolute shit.

Talentless hack. Unlistenable boo hoo emo music.

Jam band, Live album. Hard to like unless you're a fan from prior releases.

Cool electronic music.

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.

Albums don't get better than this

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

Groovy music. Background sorta thing

Old country

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.

Dude's voice becomes a tiresome bore after a few songs.

Stipe's lyrics are so exhausting

Great album of curious new sounds.

tedious, lounge singer

meh. Base hip hop is dull. The gunshot nonsense was really stupid.

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.

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

This is a foundational album that lead to much of the great music of the 90s.

Slide guitar pop. Much better than I expected. Double album proved long though

drugged centric, club dance album of the early 90s

Straight forward Jazz ensemble. Not all that impressed with great skills in playing. Show me something creative.

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.

Very average, English rock album. Expected more

This is shit. Skank songs. Corporate swill.

Layers synth almost industrial music that backs off enough to be radio friendly

Wants to be Carole King, fails.

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.

The sort of thing you'd expect a teenager to make if they had some time with a synth.

Great songs, great voice. Too bad dude's reputation for being a nasty cur darkens his legacy.

Not interesting. Run of the mill alt rock

This is what Nashville chick song writing sounds like. Doesn't make you feel anything.

This is the sort of music one makes when all they can think of is their crotch. Grade-A trash.

What are you doing? Dead is a live band. Recording their concerts like this is dumb.

Boring.

Like all of Bowie's music, this album is tedious. I don't see what people who like him see.

Sounds like dudes hallucinating that they are the Doors.

This dude's warbling voice grates the nerves. I don't care what is on this album.

Now we are talking. This album is about annoyance. For me, the percussion is stupid. I like that this album exists

An album defining the sound of The 80s Teen American Male. Great songs overplayed.

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.

meh

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.

Collab

nothing to say. perfect grunge

An English twat vomiting syncopated grunts onto vinyl is not music.

Solid old grunge/punk

This music sucks. While it is referenced by many great artists of the era, it's just plain bad, uninteresting and dull.

Hidden tracks aren't cute anymore. Decent album though.

Live music....should be heard live. A jam band playing someone else's tune. It's fine, just not as an album.

This music drops to new levels of lame.

This album is stupid

Unless you are drunk on a dance floor, this music grates the nerves.

Americana cowboy ballads

Can music be too heavy? Nope.

Solid

It's unlikely that fans of this music are in any way friendly.

Jazz

Early hair band entrant. I still haven't forgiven Vince Neal for essentially killing Razzle

There's no arguing with this one.

Stupid

Organ jazz

Can't stand their sound.

It'd be better if Morrisey didn't sing or write the lyrics

Very old school punk. Sort of Agnostic Front if they were from England and 10 years older.

Not good.

Unique mixes of sound. Party vibe

Unlistenable trash. Maybe you might like this record if you prefer women who sound as if they've been ruffied. Ctrl Alt Delete

An album good enough to overcome The Boss's political nonsense.

Irish music outside of blind drunk St Patty's grates the tips of nerve endings.

Trippy, like Hot Chip or French Kicks.

Live albums suck as they never convey what it's like to be there.

If the Taliban ever capture me, this is what they play to torture me in my cell. This is absolute trash

I like punk but never really liked this album. Wild that Pat Smear and Belinda Carlisle were in the same band.

Scitar. Does not age well and is silly.

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.

Reminds me of Zappa. People like this sort of thing in the same way they like jazz.

Kinda dull

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.

Try hard music.

Boring music

Groovy, old fuzzy blues music. Lots of slide guitar and harmonicas and the like.

Not good.

Neil's songs would benefit from compression. Consistently too long. The interludes are not that interesting, especially in context of the era he put this out.

Weird music

Famous songs

I do not like this album

Nobody likes this boring crap. As I recall, Bluto smashed their guitar on the wall

Solid. I love thrash and heavy music. The heavy rhythms in this album are outstanding and a great example of Brazilian influence on metal. Nonetheless, it is not my favorite example of heavy music.

Willie is an intense talent

She sounds like she's singing Disney show tunes

Crotch music.

80s era corporate pop crap. A Dominican Tiffany with low rent backbeats.

One of those dumb 60s folk type albums. Like the Birds, it's just boring

dull

One of the all time classics. Proof that music is visceral rather than mathematic.

Anti viet nam war blather

Another overdubbed live album

Singing ruins this. The post punk structure combined with a melancholic voice blows.

An incredibly disappointment. The prior three albums were all much better than this money grab. Pop.

This is an album that will make everyone dance

Meh

Dull

I do not understand the appeal of this guy. He sounds like a drunk. I have no idea but it's uninteresting

Lenny, as every, plays music that resides in the soul of America. Just listening to his music makes you cooler.

Easy alt rock sort of vibe.

Sweet old school, dark goth from 80s

Terrible. Stupid.

Killer

tedious.

solid

Not my favorite

Its like a Leonard Cohen thing. Not for me. Not interesting to me at all.

Boring

Beautifully captures the feeling of early 90s american youth. Much like Rush’s Signals in did in 83. I shall be freeeeeeeeeeeeee

Not that interesting

I struggle with this album as it represents the first storm clouds that destroyed what was a great band. Their next was the end. Gone is the spitting mad anger, the speed, the agro of thrash. In comes the radio ready unit shifter.

If the Fresh Prince had two X chromosomes. Pass

NYC kind of jazz

Country crooner

Crap

Old, crinkly voice. Noir movies

Just not engaging.

Classic

Boring

Synth music

Not bad. Fun music

Bjork had a beautiful voice but her music is so far out that only a small number of people can understand it. I'm not one of them

like a warmer version of Cream/The Birds....not for me

Just great rock music. 60s ethos, unique sound, thoughtful lyrics. Often wonder how creatives can work together and create great music....these guys couldn't.

blaaaaaaaaahnd

Classic Dolly

terrible.

Almost 60 years in, still relevant. In your highschool days, did you listen to any music that was 60 years old? Hardly think so.

Meh

I don't know what this is

Pretty sure Jack Black had it right in Hi Fidelity. This is some 'old sad' music.

tedius

This is the kind of music only enjoyed by music dorks that think they know more than you do

Classic 80s New Wave

Fun up tempo rock

Synthesizer, like the seventh grade

It's classic, genre changing rap

One of the great albums of all time.

This feels like a movie soundtrack

If she skipped the warbling, her music would be 10x better. As it is, she's a yodeling hippie.

Some sort of weird jazz and rock fusion thing. At times it's good and then devolves into weird saxophone cacophony.

I've never been a Ramones fan. Their music lacks any depth beyond preschool potbanging.

boring

This is an album of caterwauling. Tedious.

techno

Pretty dull. Lacks the florish and interesting exploration that an album should have. This is basically one song on repeat

One of the all-time great albums

Sounds like early Foo Fighters.

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