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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
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5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
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Beautiful Freak
Eels
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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Tommy
The Who
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5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
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Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
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5 | 3.36 | +1.64 |
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
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5 | 3.51 | +1.49 |
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A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
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5 | 3.63 | +1.37 |
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Van Halen
Van Halen
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5 | 3.63 | +1.37 |
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Graceland
Paul Simon
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5 | 3.74 | +1.26 |
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Doolittle
Pixies
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5 | 3.75 | +1.25 |
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Oedipus Schmoedipus
Barry Adamson
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4 | 2.79 | +1.21 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
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1 | 2.89 | -1.89 |
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In Rainbows
Radiohead
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2 | 3.84 | -1.84 |
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Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
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2 | 3.78 | -1.78 |
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
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2 | 3.73 | -1.73 |
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Orbital 2
Orbital
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1 | 2.7 | -1.7 |
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Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
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1 | 2.68 | -1.68 |
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Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
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2 | 3.64 | -1.64 |
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
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2 | 3.63 | -1.63 |
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
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2 | 3.62 | -1.62 |
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Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Pixies | 3 | 4.67 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.2 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Radiohead | 4 | 2.25 |
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Beastie Boys
3/5
Never a huge Beasties guy, this didn't change that. Sure Shot and Sabotage are great songs though.
1 likes
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
This may have been conceived as the soundtrack for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I hated the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
1 likes
1-Star Albums (6)
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Bob Dylan
3/5
Never a huge Dylan fan, but was more enjoyable than I'd expected. Might give it another listen, but don't expect to be in my normal rotation.
Solomon Burke
2/5
U2
2/5
The hits are the hits for the reason. Early U2 was never my jam, and this is no exception. The non-hits are imminently skippable. I made it through, but probably wouldn't listen again, so 2 stars.
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Definitely listenable start to finish.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Never realized BBtHC had a singer other than Janis. But even when he did sing one, she overpowered him from the background. Enjoyed this one more than I expected to.
Shivkumar Sharma
2/5
You can say this is timeless in the sense that, to my ear, this could just have easily have been produced today as 1967. But I probably wouldn't listen to it today either. It's not bad for focus music, though. I could put it in the "put my head down and grind this work out" playlist.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Could've shortened it up a bit, Jimi. But the only song I really wanted to skip through was the 10 min. Voodoo Chile.
Burning of the Midnight Lamp is on this one. Always loved that song, but forgot about it. Glad to rediscover it.
Jane Weaver
4/5
Did not expect to like this one but for the most part I did.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
This isn't available in its entirety on Spotify. Fortunately, I was able to find it through other means.
Excellent. Oddly enough, the songs Neil Young sang are my least favorite.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
It was....okay, I guess. The songs that everyone knows are the best ones. Nothing else jumped out at me. I still don't really get why people love RHCP so much.
Kraftwerk
2/5
Oof. I'm glad that's over. Safe to say that this wasn't my jam.
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Gorillaz
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Still Dylan. See my previous review…
The Zombies
3/5
Is this the first concept album?
3/5
Machito
3/5
Animal Collective
2/5
Singer had a voice that reminded me a bit of Brian Wilson. Alas, this was not my Pet Sounds. Gets two starts because I was able to get all the way through it, but unlikely to get a place in my rotation.
Arcade Fire
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Some great songs on here, wish there was a 3.5 stars option. Alas, as a whole, this isn't an album I'd put into my rotation so she only gets three. Most of the pieces that I've enjoyed I already knew from Neil Young - Decade.
The Bees
2/5
Sunshine Hit Me Cold.
Khaled
1/5
Spotify only has one song from this album available in the US, but based on that...yeah, no.
Radiohead
2/5
Didn't like them then, still don't like them now. IDGAF how acclaimed they are.
Taylor Swift
3/5
I guess there's a reason she's so popular. Cringed when this came up, but found myself tapping my toes and bobbing my head. Wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it, but won't dive for the knob if Shake It Off comes on either.
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Not generally a fan of classical style music, but this was very listenable and easy to understand why it's on this list. Will add to my focus music list. Could've done without hearing so many enthusiastic "ohhhhh"'s from the artist, but whatcha gonna do?
The Hives
2/5
Too overproduced and polished to be punk. There's a reason that one song is the only one anybody knows.
Sarah Vaughan
2/5
Great voice, but she literally did not know the words to the song TWICE. How do you record covers without knowing the words?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
I think this is the first one that I've already listened to multple times. 4/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Everything But The Girl
1/5
Yawn. Couldn't get through this. Expected to enjoy it going in, but I was very very wrong.
Saint Etienne
2/5
4/5
The Who
5/5
It's freakin', Tommy. You already know.
The Birthday Party
3/5
Singer has a voice somewhat reminiscent of Pete Steele from Type O Negative. Though I guess these guys were before Type O, so I guess it's not really reminiscent. I digress.
This is punk, though. Not like The Hives from earlier this week. Punk, my ass.
Genesis
3/5
More listenable than I'd expected. In my mind's eye (ear?), prog-era Genesis was going to be a group of dudes dressed up in Baroque outfits, making Baroque music. This was only maybe 30% of that.
Ghostface Killah
3/5
Did not expect to enjoy this at all, but yet I found it listenable.
Michael Jackson
3/5
King Crimson
2/5
All of those things I may have said about prog not being so bad during the Genesis listen....I take back. I made it through the record though, so I guess that means it gets a two.
Robbie Williams
2/5
Unremarkable if unoffensive album. Took me a few minutes to realize it was even over after it ended. 2/5
The La's
3/5
Donovan
2/5
The hits (first song on each side) are decent enough, but the filler is too Kum-ba-yah folky for me.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Another solid album from Stevie. I think I like this one better than Songs in the Key of Life, personally.
Common
3/5
I really have no basis to critique hip-hop. It's the genre I understand and appreciate the least. Having said that, I didn't hate listening to this. It's just incredibly foreign to me.
Badly Drawn Boy
2/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
Definitely a product of the times. Don't hate, but probably will never listen again.
Television
3/5
Very Talking Heads-ish sound of the same period. Guess America didn't need two bands with that sound?
MGMT
2/5
Time to Pretend is a great song. Wanted to skip over the rest.
Just a good old-school rocker. Faces were as good as the Stones, should've had a bigger following.
Linkin Park
1/5
This is awful and have no idea why people like this band. It made me want to break shit. Maybe that's the point.
Caetano Veloso
2/5
Seems good as far as Samba (is that what this is?) goes. It could be phenomenal in that genre, for all I know.
The Prodigy
3/5
Deep Purple
4/5
Adele
4/5
Now I kind of get it. Great voice and some all-around excellent songs.
Queen Latifah
2/5
Just not my jam.
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
It's old blue eyes. My Italian-American roommate in college listened the hell out of these records.
Willie Nelson
4/5
It sounds and feel like one long song and that's not a bad thing. First listen and instantly recognized it as a classic. Won't be for everybody, but it's a beautiful piece of work.
Rod Stewart
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
What have I done to deserve this? No matter how much they try, I can't enjoy the 80's.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Not my favorite YYYs album, but serviceable and doesn't make me want to shut it off. Good enough for 3.
Eagles
3/5
At least this isn’t the one Hotel California is on. Doesn’t quite make me hate the f’n Eagles.
3/5
Louis Prima
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Gary Numan
2/5
Apparently, this is a great synth album. It's lost on me though.
The Streets
2/5
Really starting to question some of these choices. At first, I almost thought it was a parody album. Maybe it's just not being immersed in UK rap culture.
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
I just could not.
Depeche Mode
2/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
I'm a little surprised I haven't listened to this fully in the past. Quite good.
Metallica
2/5
I'll grant you that this was an unusual concept record at the time, but that doesn't make me like live records or Metallica anymore than I did going in.
Grateful Dead
3/5
Easy to listen to, but not interesting enough to make me a fan.
Fugees
4/5
Portishead
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Classic Neil.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Previous comments about young English white guys doing blues still apply. (Short version: please don't)
Metallica
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Couple of filler level tracks, but generally a solid album all the way through.
James Brown
3/5
Fun little listen. Can't see me putting into the regular rotation, but enjoyable all the same.
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
The singles are pure 80s nostalgia, but the other tracks realllly do not hold up very well.
Beatles
4/5
The album where the Beatles grew up.
R.E.M.
3/5
I'm the weirdo who prefers REM's 'Monster' album.
Pixies
5/5
Great record. Perfect bridge between the 80's and the grunge boom in the 90's. Black Francis is a dick, but he's our dick; Kim Deal is the pride of Dayton, Ohio. I want to grow up to be a debaser.
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
More folksy overall than I'd expected. No real standouts other than the two hits we all already know by heart.
OutKast
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
3/5
Didn't hit me in the same way that "Dry" did.
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Not primal nor was there any screaming. Pass.
Beach House
2/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Portishead
3/5
This is an album that requires you to be (whether temporarily or perennially) in a gloomy mood to fully appreciate. If you are, it's a 4. If you're not, it's a 2. I'll split the difference.
David Bowie
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Green Day
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Eurythmics
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
The Clash
3/5
Liz Phair
5/5
I do love me some 90s chick rock. Everyone likes to say how Liz Phair peaked at her first album but when you’re first album is a masterpiece, how could you not.
Paul Simon
5/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
The Stooges
3/5
The Zutons
3/5
4/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Oasis
3/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
2/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Had to listen on YouTube and kept getting interrupted at odd times for ads. Probably should be a four, but I didn’t get to really experience it properly.
Fishbone
2/5
Clearly an influential sound, but not my bag.
Moby
3/5
Dr. Octagon
3/5
Not being an aficionado of this genre, it's for me to say precisely why this is worthy of inclusion on this list. But it does have a good rhythm and some witty lyrics. Not safe for the children, for sure.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Alanis Morissette
3/5
the songs you know still get played to death (except You Oughta Know, ironically – I don’t seem to hear that one as much anymore) and the non-singles are utterly forgettable. I haven’t heard this record in full since 1996, and I think I’m set for another 28 years.
Tom Tom Club
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Mylo
1/5
Dance dance dance. Not me, brother.
Kings of Leon
3/5
More punkish sounding than I'd expected from the KoL radio songs I've heard.
Bobby Womack
3/5
Soul meets yacht rock.
Ray Charles
3/5
Minutemen
3/5
The Thrills
2/5
Remarkably unremarkable
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Yep, it's a Bob Marley record. Sounds like all the other Bob Marley records.
Soundgarden
4/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Now I know where every Mexican restaurant I've ever been in gets their music from.
Michael Jackson
3/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Elton John
4/5
Tighten it up to 40 minutes and this would be a 5.
The Saints
3/5
Perfectly serviceable 70s punk.
Miles Davis
3/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Better than I was expecting. Was braced for screeching guitars and little else, found that these are actually well crafted songs...with screeching guitars. Kinda get it now.
John Coltrane
5/5
The jazz album to play for all of those people who make the blanket statement of "I hate jazz music"; damn close to perfect.
The Everly Brothers
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Thought that I never liked RHCP, but turns out I never liked RHCP's overexposure. Probably should have listened to this 30 years ago before I talked all that trash about them.
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Grunge starts here.
Megadeth
3/5
Another album that I've been writing off for decades. Still not and likely never will be a full fledged metal fan, but damn it if this isn't better than I expected it to be.
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Eels
5/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Goldfrapp
2/5
Sounds a bit like late 90s Tori Amos, but less interesting. Yawn.
The Smiths
2/5
I don't get why The Smiths are legendary. Born too late, I guess.
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
4/5
The Band
3/5
Van Halen
5/5
Hell yes.
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
Kept hearing elements of Rush, Styx, and Queen while listening to this.
Queen
2/5
Pixies
4/5
My least favorite of the three big Pixies albums, but still a good listen.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Inconsistent in my mind, alternating between excellent pop songs and snoooooooze.
Duran Duran
3/5
They all sound the same, but at least it's not an awful sound.
Emmylou Harris
3/5
I can absolutely appreciate her talent, but not something I'd listen to unprompted.
Slint
3/5
As a 90's teen, kinda can't believe I didn't know this record already.
Norah Jones
3/5
She has an amazing voice, but I never felt compelled to listen to this album. After listening, that instinct was correct. The source material is all derivative and frankly a bit boring. This did inspire me to go back and relisten to Little Broken Hearts, a Jones album about ten years newer and much more interesting.
Pavement
4/5
If every song on this album was "Conduit for Sale!", this would be five starts. Regardless, essential listening for any 90's kid.
Nas
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Prefer some of Dan's other work, but nothing wrong with this one.
Björk
2/5
Well I finally got through that one. The third attempt at listening was the charm. The key is that you have to be sufficiently distracted and not give it your full attention.
Small Faces
3/5
What in the actual f*ck did I just listen to? I kept waiting for Austin Powers to do a cameo. Certainly amusing. 3 stars just for the cheekiness.
System Of A Down
3/5
Not a bad place to start, but the next few records are better.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Classic.
Harry Nilsson
4/5
A few cases of filler but the good songs here are great.
Sam Cooke
4/5
N.W.A.
3/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
SZA
2/5
A perfect encapsulation of why I don’t listen to new music.
Every time you hear “pussy” take a drink!
Sade
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Non-descript, Non-offensive 60s pop songs. Lead singer sounds vaguely familiar...
Erykah Badu
3/5
Went in skeptical, appreciate it more than I expected to.
Peter Tosh
2/5
All reggae sounds the same and it's not a good sound. Fight me.
Pink Floyd
5/5
"Money" feels a little out of place (an opinion originally offered by a friend, but she's right so I'm stealing this) but this album is a top notch otherwise.
Radiohead
3/5
Went down easier than it did when current, but still don't see what the fuss is about with this one.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
Peter Frampton
4/5
Tito Puente
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
OutKast
2/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Honestly expected this to be better. Not a huge JLL fan, but I expected him to be at his best on a live album. That just didn't come through.
Beck
4/5
The quintessential Xennial breakup album, but admittedly not for everyone.
Gang Starr
4/5
Enjoyable old school rap.
The Kinks
2/5
While I like some of the Kinks work, this one just didn't appeal to me at all.
Prince
3/5
Beatles
5/5
The Waterboys
4/5
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would
Pink Floyd
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Steve Earle
3/5
John Grant
4/5
The older you get, the less open you become to discovering new artists. Generally, when discovered...I'm okay with that. A lot of new artists just don't appeal to me.
While his voice sometimes sounds like Beck to me, the songs are angry in a smooth folksy way. Going to be exploring more of his catalog.
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Soft Machine
3/5
Definitely something you'd need to be in a certain mood to be into. Not bad as focus music, could be useful if trying to recreate a 70s NYC cop movie in your head, or even if you're just tripping balls.
The National
2/5
The National is a band that I really feel like I should like and I really want to like. But I just don't. I can't put my finger on why. I think all of their songs sound basically the same, and the one word I'd use to describe that sound is "plodding", which is not an adjective I generally would use in a positive sense.
ZZ Top
4/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Green Day
3/5
Better than the sum of it's parts. I could go my life without hearing "Wake Me Up When September Ends" or "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" again, but the rest of the album fits together well.
The Undertones
2/5
Madonna
2/5
Holy autotune. Found nothing redeeming about this album.
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Buck Owens
4/5
You either like classic country or you don't, and it doesn't get more classic country than this.
Common
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
2/5
I wouldn't call myself a folk music hater, and in fact like some (I gladly listened to the Spotify suggestions that followed this album for quite a while); but this album left me cold. Wasn't very inspiring. Much prefer Bookends.
Van Morrison
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
No such thing as a bad CCR album, but not their best.
The Temptations
3/5
George Harrison
3/5
'What Is Life' is one of the great rock songs of all time. The rest of this (including 'My Sweet Lord') is lackluster in comparison.
Björk
3/5
Paul Weller
3/5
The Strokes
3/5
The Roots
2/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Pearl Jam
5/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Dire Straits
3/5
DJ Shadow
5/5
I enjoy this album far more than the me before I ever heard it would expect me to. Can't even explain why, it's just eminently listenable.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The Fall
2/5
The singers strange affect got on my nerves by the end of the second song. At first, I thought it was some sort of ironic joke that I wasn't in on, but evidently that's just how he sings.
Not a fan.
The White Stripes
4/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
Not a huge fan of live albums, the 70s in general, or Cheap Trick in particular, but this wasn't a bad listen. I wouldn't seek it out, nor would I race for the knob if this were to come on in my presence.
Method Man
3/5
Barry Adamson
4/5
MC Shadow and Tom Waits had a love child and begat this album.
Lou Reed
4/5
Frank Ocean
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Jeff Buckley
3/5
I’ve known this was an acclaimed album since the early 2000s and remember listening to it then. It didn’t get under my skin then and it still doesn’t. It’s fine, but eh.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Never a huge Beasties guy, this didn't change that. Sure Shot and Sabotage are great songs though.
Alice In Chains
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
The Police
4/5
The Gun Club
2/5
10cc
2/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
This may have been conceived as the soundtrack for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I hated the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Eminem
4/5
Meat Puppets
4/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
How many Bob Dylan albums are on this list anyway?
Morrissey
3/5
Seeing the word "Morrissey" on the screen, usually strikes me with fear, but this one wasn't so bad. Maybe I'm finally warming up to him?
3/5
The Cure
2/5
The best the Cure ever did. And that's a shame.
The Band
3/5
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Ok as focus music, but I'd rather listen to DJ Shadow.
2/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
I read recently a theory about how the Black Crowes (particularly after this album) got overlooked because they didn't fit in with the grunge movement. I suspect that's pretty accurate. Solid album and band.
The Verve
3/5
Oasis-lite.
B.B. King
3/5
As good as blues gets.
The Undertones
2/5
Lana Del Rey
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
Can't make me like reggae, no matter how many times you make me listen to it.
Black Sabbath
3/5
Jack White
4/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Culture Club
2/5
Solange
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Fats Domino
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Inoffensive though not especially compelling.
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
Aerosmith
4/5
Mudhoney
2/5
Pre-grunge that clearly influenced a lot of great bands and that I just couldn't get into.
Big Star
3/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
Living Colour
2/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Ute Lemper
2/5
The Pogues
4/5
Enjoyed this more than I expected. Curious whether it just landed in my feed because it was St. Patricks day week.
Janet Jackson
3/5
Some of these songs were so completely unavoidable (read: massively overplayed) in 1989, and yet they've seemingly disappeared altogether. I'd completely forgotten them.
All in all, a better listen than I would have expected going in. Holds up better than a lot of pop from that era.
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Didn't find it particularly interesting, but I suppose if you're actively humping it might fit the mood.
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Enjoyed more than the last Arctic Monkeys record I listened to.
Joy Division
3/5
Ok. Not loving it. Now of the opinion that Interpol shamlessly stole their sound from them.
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Not something I'd actually listen to unprompted, but wasn't eagerly waiting for it to be over. Way more interesting version of soul than that Marvin Gaye album I had to sit through earlier this week.
Joanna Newsom
2/5
Hoo boy, that was a tough one.
Holger Czukay
2/5
Odd but inoffensive instrumentalism.
Lambchop
2/5
It's like early 2000s Nick Lowe made an uninteresting album of ballads. Stick with Nick.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Listenable, but not nearly as solid or engaging start-to-finish as Back to Black.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Enjoyed the sparse, stripped down sounds. Ironic this was what we got right before Born In The USA.
Marty Robbins
3/5
Slade
3/5
Early 70s heavy glam metal ain't my bag, but fine for what it was.
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Inoffensive modern folk, good background music.
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
I feel like I need a shower. My playlist recommendations are FUBAR'd now.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Spiritualized
2/5
Yawn. Though the noise jam ten minutes into the closing song did make this album from simply boring to annoying enough to shut it off.
Willie Nelson
2/5
I like Willie, but this one was a snoozer.
Coldplay
3/5
Well produced and easy to listen to, but not especially compelling.
LL Cool J
3/5
Radiohead
2/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Wilco
4/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Fugazi
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Beatles
4/5
FKA twigs
2/5
Pixies
5/5
God damn it, this is a great album. The Pixies time on this earth was too short.
Traffic
4/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Bob just ain't my jam, and it feels like 10% of the albums on this list are his.
Boston
4/5
I don't really love any of these songs, but damned if I didn't know every single one of them from having them crammed into my ears anytime I was near a radio over the last 45 years.
As a collection, it's classic rock in every sense.
John Prine
4/5
Pretty Good and Illegal Smile are two of my favorite old folk/country songs. Much rather listen to Prine than Dylan.
Santana
3/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
4/5
The issues being sung about here seem quaint in hindsight, but this is a thoroughly enjoyable early 90s hip-hop record. Should have had more attention.
Spacemen 3
2/5
The second listen wasn't as painful as the first (while driving, I had to shut it off ten minutes in for fear of falling asleep), but I still would never ever ever choose to play this.
Maybe if I were tripping balls. But that's it.
ZZ Top
4/5
Wish I could give 3.5 stars. Since I can't, I guess I'll give it 4.
Bon Jovi
2/5
A suppose as a cultural touchpoint for the late Reagan era, this album is essential listening. But it's really not very good. It wasn't then, and it hasn't gotten better with age.
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Better than the other EBTG albums I've been subjected to here.
The Beach Boys
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
David Gray
4/5
AC/DC
5/5
The best hard rock album of all time
Def Leppard
2/5
The Specials
2/5
UB40
2/5
I couldn't tell if this was an album of songs or just one song for 60 minutes.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Doves
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Eagles
2/5
I'm on record as sharing the opinion of The Dude when it comes to the Eagles. It's hard for me to give an unbiased opinion of this album when all of the hits have been jammed into my ears endlessly for the last 50 years. This is the first I've heard some of the non-single tracks, and it becomes obvious why these were not singles. At least they let Joe Walsh sing one.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Fun little record.
David Crosby
3/5
The Dandy Warhols
4/5
Orbital
1/5
I just couldn't get through more than one track on this one. Each attempt to do more was met with a skip button or my headphones coming off in frustration.
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
3/5
Richard Hawley
2/5
Sounded like early 2000s Nick Lowe albums, but less interesting.
Wu-Tang Clan
3/5
Dolla-dolla bills, y'all.
Radiohead
2/5
Another day, another Radiohead record