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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
|
5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
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Electric
The Cult
|
5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
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Dirty
Sonic Youth
|
5 | 3.11 | +1.89 |
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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
|
5 | 3.14 | +1.86 |
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Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
|
5 | 3.17 | +1.83 |
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Being There
Wilco
|
5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
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Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
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5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
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Pornography
The Cure
|
5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
|
5 | 3.36 | +1.64 |
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Blunderbuss
Jack White
|
5 | 3.39 | +1.61 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
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1 | 3.4 | -2.4 |
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Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
|
1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
|
1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
|
1 | 3.28 | -2.28 |
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Me Against The World
2Pac
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1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
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1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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GREY Area
Little Simz
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1 | 3.24 | -2.24 |
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Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
|
1 | 3.23 | -2.23 |
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Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde
|
1 | 3.13 | -2.13 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Bob Dylan | 3 | 5 |
| Beatles | 3 | 4.67 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 3 | 4.67 |
| Radiohead | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Cure | 3 | 4.67 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 4.67 |
| Billy Bragg | 2 | 5 |
| Nirvana | 2 | 5 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 |
| Sonic Youth | 3 | 4.33 |
| Echo And The Bunnymen | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| The Prodigy | 2 | 1 |
| Eminem | 2 | 1.5 |
| Orbital | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Mothers Of Invention | 2 | 1.5 |
| Brian Eno | 4 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| The Beach Boys | 5, 2, 3 |
5-Star Albums (42)
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Morrissey · 1 likes
3/5
Morrissey, an insufferable human being, his albums aren’t as good as The Smiths, too many albums on this list, blah blah blah, BUT as an American having to listen to Donald Trump blather incoherently about annexing Greenland the first song “America Is Not the World” hits just about right.
4-Star Albums (186)
1-Star Albums (56)
All Ratings
Coldplay
4/5
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
Beatles
4/5
New Order
3/5
Portishead
4/5
Otis Redding
2/5
King Crimson
4/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
Fats Domino
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Merle Haggard
3/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
1/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
1/5
Pantera
2/5
The Who
2/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Metallica
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Madonna
2/5
The Doors
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Ash
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
The Black Keys
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Jane Weaver
4/5
Linkin Park
1/5
Eminem
2/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Dr. Dre
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Culture Club
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
What a bloated, pretentious collection of average Indie rock. Maybe there are some good or very good of songs but they are lost within all the mediocrity.
Earth, Wind & Fire
2/5
Eminem
1/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
“Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics”
-Fitter Happier
When this album came out in 1997 it was largely a contemplation on the alienation throughout society caused by rampant technology, consumerism, and greed. The music and production perfectly combined with Thom Yorke’s lyrics and vocal delivery to echo the band’s disaffection with modern society.
Now, OK Computer sounds like what somebody in 1997 thought the future would be like. Unfortunately it also sounds like exactly what 2024 is like.
“Riot shields
Voodoo economics
It's life, it's life
It's just business
Cattle prods and the I.M.F.
I trust I can rely on your vote”
-Electioneering
Billy Bragg
5/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
The Pogues
3/5
4/5
Peter Tosh
2/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
3/5
ABBA
2/5
Mekons
3/5
M.I.A.
4/5
“You big dummy”
So throughout this project, of listening to 1001+ albums, I find myself still getting stuck in the same consistent patterns. Traveling down the same roads, staying in my Sad Dad Indie rock lane, I cheer when I get a Radiohead or Springsteen. Artist I rarely listen to, but will always give a 5/5. Then M.I.A. pops up and I’m wondering how I’m gonna get through this album. It turns out this album really good, significantly better than even my highest expectations (which were really low.)
The beats come fast, this record is really relentless. It comes at you hard and doesn’t let up until the end. I would’ve given it a 3, but it gets bumped up to 4/5 for the Sanford and Son sample. It doesn’t get any more elite than that!
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
There is a lot to unpack with this album. I was prepared to hate this record, but the first thing you notice is the music. It’s like a loungy, cool jazz, rock fusion. It’s got soaring strings coupled with crunchy guitars all coming together with an ambient, laid-back vibe. Could be a Post-rock masterpiece except for the fact that it’s a concept album and lyrics are necessary to convey the concept. The lyrics are not sung, but spoken over the music. Think about the cheesy, stereotypical beat poet with a cigarette and a beret in a jazz café, and that’s with the vibe of the lyrics.
Since the lyrics are in French, I am oblivious to the concept.
Which is a good thing, because the concept sucks. According to the Internet and other reviews, the narrator is perving on an underage girl he just hit with his Rolls-Royce. I could potentially rate this album a 4, if the lyrics were better integrated into the music and there was not all the pedophilia.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
I was 21 when this record came out. It was in constant rotation. Revisiting this album 30 years later it hasn’t really aged well. A little too bloated and a lot too cringey. they probably deserve a five but I’m gonna let my 21 year old self review it.
That kid thinks it’s a five.
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Adele
3/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Sugar
4/5
Suede
3/5
MGMT
3/5
Laura Nyro
2/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
3/5
Marty Robbins
2/5
Marilyn Manson
1/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
De La Soul
4/5
Orbital
2/5
Miriam Makeba
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Billy Bragg
5/5
The Doors
4/5
Incubus
1/5
George Jones
4/5
Blondie
4/5
Sepultura
1/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
Deep Purple
3/5
The Cure
5/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Aphex Twin
2/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Wilco
5/5
Hole
4/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
David Ackles
2/5
Joy Division
3/5
UB40
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
David Gray
2/5
Soft Machine
1/5
if a band is the first to try something new or experimental, that doesn’t mean it’s something that’s very good. If Jim Zorn was a 60s, jazz inspired Prog musician then this is what he would sound like a 1 out of 5.
The Who
3/5
Elastica
3/5
here we have another inconsequential British band riding the coat tails of bigger and better bands. sure, this is a fun and catchy album to listen to, but it’s absolutely inessential.
B.B. King
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
The Police
4/5
Calexico
4/5
Syd Barrett
3/5
Adele
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
The Avalanches
1/5
Patti Smith
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Slint
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
10cc
2/5
Giant Sand
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
NO MORE BRITPOP!
completely unessential!
The Police
3/5
The Darkness
2/5
Jack White
5/5
The Pharcyde
1/5
Carole King
5/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Shack
2/5
Boston
4/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Tears For Fears
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Maybe you had to be there to fully appreciate Elvis Costello, but he seems really overrated. The kind of artist to you really just need the greatest hits album. This particular album came after his greatest hits album and there’s nothing on it to indicate a great hit.
Throwing Muses
4/5
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Regardless of whether you like this album, just know that:
Wu-Tang is for the children.
Air
4/5
Moby Grape
2/5
Megadeth
3/5
U2
5/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Before this album, the only Dolly Parton song I’ve ever listened to was 9 to 5. I do listen to some contemporary Americana, while those artist create some high quality music most of it’s not even half as good as this album.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Dusty Springfield
2/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Pavement
4/5
So here we have Pavement. Music critics and aging Hipsters will tell you this is the pinnacle of alternative music in the 1990s. They are wrong. this is a solid album, an 8 out of 10, but they should’ve just tried a little bit harder. Nice Stone Temple Pilots and Smashing Pumpkins diss, though.
Queen
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Public Enemy
5/5
The Stooges
3/5
Moby
2/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
The Cramps
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Heaven 17
2/5
Queen
4/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Minutemen
4/5
“I'd never been so alone
Til I read that the Minutemen were dead”
-Matt Berninger
The Prodigy
1/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Sade
2/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
The Streets
1/5
Funkadelic
2/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Madonna
2/5
Van Halen
4/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Nico
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
The Kinks
3/5
Love
3/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Thundercat
3/5
The Undertones
3/5
The Vines
2/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Method Man
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Butthole Surfers
2/5
Pro tip: if you were listening on Spotify, the remastered version is one minute shorter.
The Young Gods
1/5
The Paris Olympic Committee really dodged a bullet by selecting Gojira to play the opening ceremony instead of these guys.
Fiona Apple
5/5
The Band
4/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Rush
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Gorillaz
3/5
The Who
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Björk
3/5
Dion
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
Ryan Adams
4/5
It ispretty perfect that when Ryan Adams, all around shitty person, recorded his first album that the first track would be a spoken word argument about another all-around shitty person, Morrissey.
The album is still pretty good though.
Janelle Monáe
2/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
This is just a hauntingly gorgeous collection of songs. Elliott Smith was probably the biggest influence on the sad indie genre that would emerge in the 2000s and beyond. No one really did it better, but we can think Elliot Smith, for inspiring a whole generation of bands.
“Elliott, man, you played a fine guitar
And some dirty basketball
The songs you wrote
Got me through a lot
Just want to tell you that”
Late by Ben Folds
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Duke Ellington
3/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Paul Weller
2/5
AC/DC
2/5
Talking Heads
4/5
The La's
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
The Sonics
2/5
Kanye West
2/5
OutKast
2/5
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
The United States Of America
1/5
CHIC
3/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Another mid 90s band from the British Isles, not strictly BRITPOP, but definitely riding the coatails of Oasis. Sounds like a garage rock revival with grungy guitars added to please the kids. Nothing really bad about it but nothing really good either, mostly just uninteresting and derivative.
Jeff Buckley
3/5
Hot Chip
2/5
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
The Cure
5/5
Neil Young
5/5
Richard Hawley
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
4/5
I’ve never heard this artist before, but I’m gonna give it a four because it’s so good it doesn’t deserve to be slumming down with some of the trash I gave 3.
Mariah Carey
2/5
Blur
3/5
I’ve been using an overly broad definition of Britpot for these reviews, there’s way too much of it and most of it pretty mid. It’s nice to get an actual OG of the Britpop scene from the 90’s. it’s still not for me though.
Iggy Pop
3/5
Maxwell
2/5
The Roots
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
The Crusaders
2/5
Radiohead
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Bert Jansch
3/5
Rush
4/5
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Eric Clapton
2/5
New York Dolls
2/5
Green Day
3/5
Genesis
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Def Leppard
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Massive Attack
2/5
David Bowie
4/5
Gene Clark
4/5
The Fall
2/5
George Michael
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
Little Simz
1/5
David Holmes
1/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
JAY Z
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Pink Floyd
2/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
The Cardigans
2/5
Listen to this album for the one hit wonder, stay for one of the worst cover songs ever!
Bon Jovi
4/5
James Brown
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Kraftwerk
1/5
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Public Image Ltd.
1/5
John Lydon trying to prove his relevance after the dissolution of The Sex Pistols, but just providing a noisy, incoherent footnote.
Joni Mitchell
4/5
The Associates
2/5
Death In Vegas
3/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Buck Owens
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
5/5
Ute Lemper
3/5
Morrissey
4/5
I really wanna give this a 2 or 3 because;
-Morrissey is an all-around miserable and insufferable human.
-Morrissey solo albums don’t have Johnny Marr playing guitar.
-there’s four Morrissey solo albums on here, in addition to the more deserving Smiths albums that made the list. That is way too many.
Despite all the reasons not to give this a 4, it’s just too good to rate anything lower.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Fugees
4/5
The The
3/5
Funkadelic
2/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Yes
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Drive Like Jehu
1/5
A lot of reviewers are hating on Sonic Youth for being nothing but noise, but when they hear this, they’re going to REALLY hate it.
BTW, Sonic Youth is awesome, this is not!
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
N.W.A.
4/5
Ray Charles
3/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
Lucinda Williams
4/5
John Lee Hooker
2/5
Gang Of Four
3/5
3/5
Stereolab
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
John Lennon
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Ministry
2/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Norah Jones
4/5
Hawkwind
2/5
The Gun Club
3/5
New Order
3/5
I listened to this wearing my New Order T-shirt, holding a cat and a glass of beer.
The album is OK though.
The Pogues
3/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
Foo Fighters
4/5
Jamiroquai
2/5
Various Artists
4/5
The KLF
2/5
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Santana
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
The Dictators
1/5
Television
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
2/5
The Jam
3/5
Röyksopp
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
2/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
The Smiths
4/5
The Cure
4/5
Manu Chao
2/5
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Ray Price
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
The Electric Prunes
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Prince
2/5
Megadeth
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Al Green
3/5
Lambchop
3/5
Anthrax
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
SAULT
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Chicago
3/5
Dizzee Rascal
1/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
Queen Latifah
2/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Turbonegro
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
2/5
Iron Butterfly
2/5
Kelela
2/5
The Doors
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
Slade
3/5
Tricky
2/5
The Modern Lovers
3/5
Iggy Pop
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
5/5
Eels
3/5
Elis Regina
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
The Prodigy
1/5
The Go-Go's
4/5
Cee Lo Green
1/5
Neneh Cherry
1/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Parliament
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Elton John
3/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Def Leppard
4/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Aimee Mann
4/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Bad Brains
4/5
Carpenters
4/5
Aerosmith
3/5
John Lennon
3/5
Lorde
3/5
Tom Tom Club
2/5
Scissor Sisters
1/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
The Who
3/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Mercury Rev
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Pere Ubu
1/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
XTC
3/5
Japan
3/5
The Thrills
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Billie Holiday
3/5
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
William Orbit
2/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
The Young Rascals
2/5
Pretenders
3/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
LL Cool J
2/5
Roni Size
1/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Ice Cube
4/5
White Denim
3/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Koffi Olomide
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
2Pac
1/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Gang Starr
3/5
3/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Dead Kennedys
4/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
I was expecting the jangle pop of The Byrds, which influenced early REM and Peter Buck. Instead, I got the country rock of The Byrds, which directly influenced Uncle Tupelo and Wilco. So it’s all good!
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
2/5
Supertramp
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
CHVRCHES
4/5
Mj Cole
1/5
Red Snapper
1/5
Venom
2/5
Beck
5/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
I have a backlog of albums, which I’m waiting for the best time to listen to. Today is the day I chose to listen to Pet Sounds. Not to critically listen to what is considered one of the best of albums of all time, but to just bask in the genius of Brian Wilson.
Rest in Peace
1942-2025
David Bowie
4/5
Can
1/5
The Residents
1/5
Emmylou Harris
4/5
Roxy Music
2/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
2/5
MC Solaar
3/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
Erykah Badu
1/5
Paul McCartney
4/5
T. Rex
3/5
Joan Baez
4/5
Björk
4/5
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
The Coral
2/5
Todd Rundgren
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Ice T
4/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
5/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
1/5
The Byrds
4/5
The Cult
5/5
If you were a pretentious teenager in the 80s listening to bands like R.E.M., The Cult were the band where you went to get your metal fix. Sufficiently outside the mainstream, but also a straight up loud and aggressive. Love should’ve gotten the spot, but this still hits almost as hard.
Tom Waits
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
Ozomatli
3/5
The Slits
1/5
Ms. Dynamite
1/5
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Spiritualized
3/5
1/5
Jethro Tull
4/5
The Dandy Warhols
4/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Wire
3/5
Tito Puente
4/5
Sebadoh
4/5
Teenage Fanclub
4/5
Orbital
1/5
Sabu
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Deee-Lite
3/5
Traffic
2/5
Raekwon
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Jacques Brel
3/5
Madness
4/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Leftfield
1/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
3/5
Dr. Octagon
2/5
Wild Beasts
3/5
Pulp
4/5
Fugazi
4/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Donovan
2/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Big Black
2/5
Haircut 100
2/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
The Style Council
2/5
Napalm Death
1/5
Magazine
2/5
The Go-Betweens
3/5
Soul II Soul
1/5
U2
4/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
Morrissey
3/5
Can
3/5
Madonna
3/5
Deerhunter
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Prince
4/5
The Zombies
3/5
Garbage
4/5
The Jam
3/5
Coldcut
1/5
Scott Walker
3/5
N.E.R.D
2/5
Steve Earle
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Black Flag
4/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
The Monkees
3/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Skepta
1/5
John Martyn
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Killing Joke
3/5
The Shamen
1/5
Gram Parsons
4/5
The Offspring
3/5
Boards of Canada
4/5
4/5
Metallica
3/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
The Strokes
3/5
The Undertones
3/5
3/5
Goldie
1/5
Björk
2/5
The B-52's
4/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Dirty Projectors
3/5
Motörhead
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Joe Ely
4/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Air
4/5
Queen
2/5
George Michael
3/5
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Stereo MC's
2/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Faith No More
3/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Doves
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Shuggie Otis
3/5
The Sugarcubes
4/5
The Specials
4/5
Q-Tip
4/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Kanye West
3/5
The Auteurs
2/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
FKA twigs
3/5
Fatboy Slim
1/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Anita Baker
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
ABBA
3/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Talk Talk
3/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Grateful Dead
4/5
Duran Duran
3/5
The Monks
3/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Holger Czukay
3/5
Green Day
3/5
Ian Dury
2/5
The Afghan Whigs
4/5
The Fall
2/5
Eurythmics
2/5
Mylo
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
KISS
4/5
The Cars
3/5
Metallica
3/5
David Bowie
2/5
Khaled
3/5
Neu!
3/5
The Verve
3/5
Björk
3/5
The The
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Bad Company
3/5
The Soft Boys
3/5
Deep Purple
2/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
4/5
The Human League
3/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Donald Fagen
3/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Julian Cope
2/5
John Cale
2/5
3/5
3/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Morrissey, an insufferable human being, his albums aren’t as good as The Smiths, too many albums on this list, blah blah blah, BUT as an American having to listen to Donald Trump blather incoherently about annexing Greenland the first song “America Is Not the World” hits just about right.
Nas
4/5
Bauhaus
4/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Beck
4/5
The Pretty Things
2/5
Eagles
3/5
Arrested Development
2/5
DJ Shadow
2/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Solange
1/5
The Adverts
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
2/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Missy Elliott
2/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Gary Numan
2/5
Nick Drake
4/5
The Icarus Line
1/5
Simply Red
1/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5