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Album	You	Global	Diff
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle	4	1.89	+2.11
Kollaps Einstürzende Neubauten	4	1.94	+2.06
Untitled (Black Is) SAULT	5	3.05	+1.95
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	5	3.07	+1.93
Close To You Carpenters	5	3.13	+1.87
Pyromania Def Leppard	5	3.13	+1.87
Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba	5	3.18	+1.82
The Visitors ABBA	5	3.22	+1.78
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.3	+1.7
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Harvest Neil Young	1	3.8	-2.8
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan	1	3.75	-2.75
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	1	3.66	-2.66
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	1	3.45	-2.45
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38
xx The xx	1	3.35	-2.35
Music From Big Pink The Band	1	3.34	-2.34
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.32	-2.32
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	1	3.32	-2.32
Made In Japan Deep Purple	1	3.28	-2.28

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	3	5
Beatles	5	4.4
Prince	3	4.67
Steely Dan	3	4.67
Michael Jackson	3	4.67
ABBA	2	5
Public Enemy	3	4.33
Queen	3	4.33
Black Sabbath	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Leonard Cohen	3	1
Neil Young	4	1.5
Bob Dylan	7	1.86
Wilco	2	1
Björk	4	1.75
The Velvet Underground	3	1.67
The Fall	3	1.67
Dexys Midnight Runners	2	1.5
M.I.A.	2	1.5
Bruce Springsteen	4	2.25

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Deep Purple	5, 1, 3

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I can't believe I just listened to a Mariah Carey album and didn't even get to learn what she wants for Christmas.

Maybe I was just in a bad mood listening to this album, but it sounds terrible and absolutely does not need to be on this list at all.

I like a lot of Beyoncé's music, but this album just isn't it. Frankly, it just doesn't sound very good. In a world with Lemonade, Renaissance, and Cowboy Carter, it's ridiculous that this album is on the list instead of better Queen B albums.

This album got me FUNKED UP!

Adele's incredible vocal talent makes for a great album, and her singing would not be out of place in an opera.

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This album is absolutely great, and perfectly captures Prince's talent. It doesn't end as well as it starts, but it still ends better than 95% of albums out there.

Nyro manages to demonstrate an impressive lack of musical talent on this uninteresting, inartistic, inoffensive, and technically unimpressive album. It is certainly music, but Nyro does not have the actual musical abilities to make anything on the album sound good. I probably wouldn't be jumping to turn the music off if I heard this album again, but I definitely won't be listening to it again any time soon.

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Dylan is an great song writer, but sadly an awful singer. This album would easily be 4 or 5 stars if only someone else was singing.

This album would be a fantastic example of baroque pop, if only it was as good as it's trying to be. Every song in this album has good bones, but Walker's voice and singing abilities are plainly lacking.

Adele's incredible vocal talent makes for a great album, and her singing would not be out of place in an opera.

The intro to the first song on this album legitimately made me think my stereo was broken. The rest of the album was okay, though (but just okay).

This album got me FUNKED UP!

Method Man has some really solid beats in this album, and his lyrics are very good. Unfortunately, his actual rapping abilities fall behind his writing. This is still a pretty good (but not great) hip-hop album, just not as good as others by Wu-Tang members.

Like most of P-Funk's portfolio, this is some fantastic funk. It's honestly kind of hard to even call this a funk album, though (in a good way). The band's prog and rock influences really shine through on several songs. An easy 4/5, just not as quite good as other P-Funk offerings.

This is definitely Buckley's best album, but I just don't think it's all that good. It is perfectly fine, but I don't find him to be a particularly good singer. (I do think that part of this is that he's overshadowed by his son in my mind, though)

Uninspired, uninteresting, bland, and boring. This album is very generic sounding rock music, and not much else.

Good, but not incredible, R&B. This album is consistently pleasant sounding, but none of the songs on it really blow me away.

Fantastic, quintessential mambo. I do wish that there were some longer songs on the album, but it is still very good.

This album really just wasn't all that memorable or impressive to me. It's perfectly fine, but not something I see myself choosing to play again.

Soft and boring. I'm not sure if I don't like Elliot Smith, or if I don't like lo-fi/indie folk. Either way, not a great album.

Now THIS is Baroque Pop. Not usually my favorite genre, but I think Wainwright has the musical abilities to actually make it sound great. This album was a very good showcase of his singing and song writing capabilities, and was solid from start to finish.

This album has a very strong start, but falls off after the first two songs. I really expected this to be 4 stars based on the Tracy Chapman music I've heard before, but it was really just okay.

There are some really great songs on this album, but the first few songs, the last track, and the skits hold it back from greatness. Still a very good album, though.

This album is okay, but not much more than that. Disappointingly, it seems that Cee-Lo Green's best songs are hardly even his, being collaborations and/or written by other artists.

I really want to like this album, but I just can't get past Lou Reed's voice. Why does he sound like that?

Thriller is absolutely incredible. It blew me away the first time I heard it, and it remains one of the best albums ever.

This album was fine. Just fine. There are no memorable tracks on it, and nothing that made me think "wow! this sounds pretty good!". It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think it's an album that everyone needs to listen to, by any means.

Absolutely fantastic, by far some of Queen's best work (and they have some good work). There were no songs that I disliked on this album, and many that I loved.

This album certainly isn't bad, but it just seems like it could be better. The accordion (?) in a few songs is especially odd, and totally throws the whole album off.

I'm kind of disappointed by this album. Led Zeppelin III and Led Zeppelin IV are fantastic, and I expected this to be the same. But it's just okay. It isn't a bad album by any means, but there are plenty of better rock albums out there (and a few much better Zeppelin albums).

Like most Motörhead albums, this provides decent (if a little same-y) thrash. Unfortunately, like most live albums, it provides mediocre recordings of songs that already have better studio versions.

This is some pretty solid pop/rock, but progressive and experimental enough to keep it interesting.

This is probably the best start to an album I've heard yet. Disc one is nearly non-stop incredible, iconic tracks. Then disc two hits. It isn't bad, just weird, and not necessarily in a good way. If this was only disc one, it would be five stars, without a doubt.

I'm not really sure what this album is doing on this list - Shaft seems better suited to 1001 movies to watch before you die - but I'm certainly not upset about it.

This album is painfully bland, and incredibly uninteresting. I hate to say it, but it's just lame, pathetic almost. I know from her other work that Lorde can make good music, but this just isn't. It doesn't feel in any way engaging or novel. Perfect Places was okay, but not nearly good enough to make up for the incredibly milquetoast work of mediocrity that made up the rest of the album.

Maybe I've just watched too much of Da Ali G show, but I cannot take this album seriously. Dizzee's name, voice, and lyrics all sound absolutely ridiculous, but it seems that he takes himself entirely seriously. Several times while listening to this album I started wondering if it's some kind of comedy or parody album, because surely no one would actually put this into the world thinking it's good. I think I might just have a major issue with a British accent in hip-hop, but I really just cannot get into this album at all.

This album just really doesn't do it for me. It's so bland and unoriginal, yet it also manages to be dissonant and unmelodic. There are so many much better 70s rock albums out in the world, and even on this list, and there is absolutely no reason that this album should be in the book.

Very "The Smiths" sounding. They aren't bad, but one of those bands that just seems to have one sound that makes up every song. Meat is Murder (the song) was very interesting, and an album of songs like that would easily be 4 or 5 stars.

Setting aside the fact that there really don't need to be 9 Neil Young albums on this list, this definitely is not one of his best. I think this album only serves to highlight Young's mediocre singing voice, and the songwriting is pretty lackluster.

I think this may actually be the greatest album ever made. Absolutely perfect for every second (all 2396 of them). I truly think that the list can only go down from here, and I sincerely wish I could give this a sixth star. I'm not much for writing, and I really can't do this album justice in this review. It is really, honestly and truly, a thing of beauty.

I don't think there's really much to say about this album. It's wholly unimpressive, just mediocre and uninteresting rock.

This album is iconic for a reason. It's really an exemplary prog-rock album, and a great concept album.

This album has a super interesting concept, and while I didn't love all of the songs, they're pretty good overall.

This album is certainly interesting, and it's nice to see how far hip-hop has come. Unfortunately, hip-hop has come a long way, and the album is clearly pretty old fashioned and basic.

There are some seriously good songs on this album, but most of them come straight from Nevermind and In Utero. I liked listening to this album, but there's absolutely no reason for it to be included on this list instead of some other album.

I think this album is kind of on the soft side for Industrial, but it still sounds very good. If there were more unique songs on it, it would be an easy stars.

This album is definitely better than The Second Annual Report, but it seems a bit less adventurous and avant garde at the same time. All in all, it is a pretty good album, and an excellent example of Industrial music. It is absolutely worth a listen, and I'll probably be listening to it again in the near future.

This album is way better than I anticipated, but still impressively bad. Kid Rock cannot rap to save his life, but the beats are sometimes okay-ish. The (terribly short) Eminem feature was the highlight of the album by a long shot, if only for a break from Kid Rock.

This album just isn't all the interesting, and it doesn't seem to do much to set itself apart (but I also know nothing about world and Punjabi music). It wouldn't be bad if it was half as long, but an unremarkable 90 minute album is a bit rough.

The Libertines seem to have mastered mediocre recreation of a sound made by thousands of better bands 10 or 20 years earlier than them. If this album came out in the 70s, then it might actually be kind of good in comparison. As it stands, it is truly unimpressive and absolutely does not deserve a spot on this list.

I think this album and the writing are good, but I just don't love Liz Phair's singing. If I was bigger on Indie and Lo-Fi music, I'm sure this would be a 4 or 5 star album.

This album is really good, but I just can't help being disappointment that this and Trafalgar are on the list, and somehow Spirits Having Flow isn't. On its own, though, Odessa is a very good album.

I generally think that Dylan is a good songwriter and a subpar singer. In Blood on the Tracks, he demonstrates his incredible ability to be a subpar songwriter, and godawful singer. I think I would rather bleed out than listen to any of these tracks again.

I went into this album knowing nothing about Wilco, and expecting noise music or experimental rock. There was almost some hint of that, but not nearly enough to overcome the whiny, boring, indie rock sound.

I think there are probably more Tom Waits albums on this list than there need to be, but this one is definitely the best I've heard so far. Tom's voice is its own thing, but I think it lends itself well to this album, and there are some seriously good songs on here.

This album was okay, only barely a 3, though. The first third or half of the album could easily be cut with no negative effects.

This album really reveals how much Neil Young needs Crosby, Stills, and Nash for his music to actually sound good. There are some decent songs on this album, but Neil Young's singing just cannot do any of them justice.

I'm not usually a huge Fiona Apple fan, but this album is absolutely great. There were a couple of songs early on that I didn't love, but the last half of the album is fantastic (especially the last track, Carrion).

The start of this album is so-so, but the last few songs are very good. I'm only giving it three stars, but it's a very strong three.

This is, ironically, some of the least thrilling music I've ever heard. It doesn't sound awful, but it's far from good.

To preface this review, I do not like live albums. I think they tend to have poor recording quality, and often far too much filler. The original, 1956 version of this album, however, is very much an exception. It's a fantastic showcase of some of the best big band jazz music. The update 1999 version that the generator links to, however, is a different story. Many of the tracks sound only okay, and all of the talking really breaks up the album to me.

I don't love Johnny Cash's singing, but this album is absolutely incredible, and the covers really feel like they become Cash's songs. I can't completely explain why, but this is one of the most beautiful, emotional albums I know.

Like a lot of hip hop from the '80s, the beats sound a little old fashioned, and the flow is not all that technically impressive by modern standards. Even so, 3 Feet High and Rising just has some kind of special charm to it. It feels and sounds very relaxed, and the skits are fun without disrupting the album too much.

This is truly one of the greatest albums of all time. This is the sort of thing that makes me wish I could give 6 stars. Incredible from end-to-end.

I get that the Velvet Underground had a huge impact on the music industry, but they just don't sound very good. Still without a doubt The Velvet Underground's best album. Unfortunately, that's mostly because Nico is a much, much better singer than Lou Reed.

Absolutely fantastic. I had never heard of Sault before today, but I had to listen to another couple of their albums right after this, it was so good. This album has such great execution, it sounds absolutely incredible, and the lyrics are hard hitting and well written.

This album has some perfectly mediocre songs, and plenty of awful singing. Dylan taught them well.

This album, like a lot of long and live albums, really fails to make itself worthwhile. All of the best songs on this album are just worse recordings of songs on Deep Purple studio albums, and the worst songs are uninteresting, discordant, and overly drawn out. I'm sure that the concerts these were recorded at were great, but the album falls pretty flat.

This album seems like it starts strong, but really just opens with its only good song. It's downhill pretty fast after Imagine.

Leonard Cohen has truly managed a hat trick with this one - bad songwriting, bad singing, and bad instrumentals. Usually, at least one of those has to be okay to even get a record deal!

I get that Marianne Faithfull went through some shit, and this album is probably historically important, but this belongs more in 1001 Album Wikipedia Pages to Read Before You Die. It doesn't sound horrible, but it sure doesn't sound great either

This album manages to sound like all the mediocre radio stations that I never really want to listen to, but might stop on for a minute while tuning the radio. For a song or two, it's perfectly tolerable. For a double LP, it's a major waste of time.

This album isn't awful, but it definitely isn't something anyone needs to listen to. I certainly wouldn't be unhappy listening to this concert live, or if someone else played this album, but it just doesn't need to be on this list.

I liked this album more than I expected, but it still very much has an early 2000s Indie sound, and uses the whole CD when it really doesn't have to.

Perfectly mediocre Brit pop. I wish it was sung by a monkey, though.

I think this album gets off to a rough, boring start, but really picks up in the middle of the album. If the first four tracks were dropped, this could be a flawless EP. As an LP, it's good, but not super incredible.

I think this is a very interesting album, and could be good, but the backup singers are just so terribly mediocre that they manage to really bring the whole thing down.

I enjoy the Pet Shop boys in small doses, and an LP is much too large a dose for me. There are definitely some good, interesting songs on this album, but I really just can't get into it.

I am a certified The Who fan. I loved The Who Sell Out. I think Tommy is one of the greatest musical innovations in the last century. However, I'm also a certified live album hater. Live at Leeds is certainly better than other live albums, but I still don't think it needs to be on this list.

Boring and over long. Par for the course for Wilco.

This album sounds pretty old fashioned and basic, even for '91. The beats are slow and simple, and not particularly interesting. The last third or so of the album really picks up, it's unfortunate the whole album wasn't more like that.

This albums sounds good, but it just doesn't really grab me. I don't think this is nearly interesting enough to make it on this list.

A really, really good album. However, I think it's longer than it needs to be and could have been cut down to a double LP and been much better.

Eminem is truly a master of his craft. His rhymes are incredible, his beats are great, and his lyrics are creative. Yes, some of these songs are very much a product of the time and culture when they came out and haven't aged too well, but they still showcase Eminems skills.

Good songs, meh singing. This could be a 4 star album with a different singer on it.

Maybe not the best album from Brian Wilson or the Beach Boys, but still very, very good. Rest in peace to a legend and a musical genius.

It's Björk. It sounds like Björk. She's okay for a few songs at a time, but not really a whole album.

This album sort of sounds like if Bruce Springsteen made an album about 9/11, and it's half an hour too long. I don't know who asked for this, but it certainly wasn't me.

Absolutely incredible from start to finish. It's no surprise this album gets the praise it does.

One of the greatest ever debut albums in hip hop. Wu-Tang Clan has incredibly impressive talent and technical expertise that they showcase excellently in this album.

I don't know who thought it was okay to give Lou Reed a microphone, but if he says "sucking on a ding-dong" one more time, I'm gonna blow my goddamn brains out. I can't imagine taking The Velvet Underground and Nico off this list, or Transformer, but this album absolutely doesn't need to be here.

Alanis Morisset very much has her own sound, and it is really not my thing. For a couple of songs, she's pretty good. For an hour? Not as good.

Absolutely awful, I can barely stand to listen to this. That being said, I really don't get any Grime, or any British hip-hop, for that matter, so maybe it's exemplary within it's genre. I don't want to seem like I'm "gatekeeping" or something like that, but emcee-ing in a British accent just doesn't sound right, and I cannot take Skepta seriously at all. He sounds utterly ridiculous and like he takes himself far more seriously than he should. I would consider this album to be a strong contender for worst on the entire list.

Very different than most of Willie's music, but really good, and very unique performances of some American classics.

Not a bad sounding album (not great either, though), but a solid 30 years late to the British glam rock scene. I didn't hate this, but I don't think anyone needs to listen to it before they die.

Absolutely awful, it's a stretch to call some of this music. I can see the artistry behind it, but I think this is better suited to poetry I would never read than music I should listen to.

A bad album from a one hit wonder that doesn't even include their one hit. It's a stretch to include Too-Rye-Ay on this list, but two additional Dexy's Midnight Runners albums is just ridiculous.

Maybe I was just in a bad mood listening to this album, but it sounds terrible and absolutely does not need to be on this list at all.

I can understand why this album is on the list, but that doesn't change the fact that it sounds awful.

This album's fine, but not much more. It's also far too long for something as mediocre as it is. If the first half were dropped, I think this could be 3, maybe 4 stars.

Good, but not great. I'm not upset that I listened to this, but I don't think it's something I needed to listen to.

This album features some great 2 minute long songs that somehow got dragged out to 6 or 8 minutes without actually adding anything.

Technically, this album shows it's age. It's clear that the samplers and editors used aren't nearly as capable as what's available now. But it still sounds great and there's really no better example of Big Beat.

Sometimes, I lay awake at night wondering if there's a god, and if he's kind and loving. Usually, I wake up in the morning and I've forgotten all about that, and go ahead and start listing to my album of the day. Sometimes, though, I get a Bob Dylan album, and it really makes me think again. Right now, I think if there is a god, he certainly isn't benevolent. If he was, he wouldn't make me listen to Dylan and his hellish harmonica.

Setting aside Morrissey as a person, his music is fine, and nothing more. I can't protest about including one of his solo albums on this list, but it just isn't nearly as good as anything by The Smiths.

This album isn't bad, but it's not terribly impressive as far as the Beatles go. I think the band really hadn't found their mojo yet, and a Hard Day's Night just doesn't stand up to their later work at all. The music doesn't sound bad, but I think it's hard to justify having this on the list next to so many other better albums from them.

I debated with myself for a while about what to rate this album. Some of the beats are great, should I give it 5 stars? A lot of the lyrics are clunky and awkward, is this only a 1 star album? But the background vocals are really good, maybe 4 stars? At the end, (and I know this is ridiculous, feel free to hate on me) I just can't enjoy an emcee with a British accent, something about it just always sounds off to me, and so I think 2 stars feels right to me.

I don't think Queen is a particularly album oriented band, it seems to me that they did a better job of writing singles. This album is no exception, there isn't one clear theme or tone - but there are some damn good songs. Bohemian Rhapsody alone easily makes this album a 4. I don't think the rest of the album is strong enough to be a 5, but it is very good.

First off: I'm not a big fan of punk rock, and I usually don't like double LPs (most aren't worth their time, in my opinion). Well, this album definitely doesn't change my mind at all. The singing is terrible, the music is middling at best, and at 80 minutes long, this may be the longest punk rock album I've ever listened too.

I'm not sure I really "get" this album, but it sounds pretty good.

This album really manages to capture the jazz club vibe extraordinarily well. It's certainly one of the more unique and interesting albums on the list, and Tom Waits always delivers good music.

I enjoyed this album, but I don't think it's really something that everyone needs to hear. It's good, don't get me wrong, but it certainly isn't life-changing or a major part of pop-culture history. And I really don't think it needs to be a whole CD - an LP would have been long enough for the album to get its point across.

I probably just don't "get" post-punk, but absolutely nothing on this album sounds anything close to good.

Like all Morrissey albums, this sounds like The Smiths lite, for better and for worse.

This album opens with one good song, and then manages to die out pretty quickly. It's too long, and mediocre, forgettable rock music. Nothing to write home about, and certainly not something everyone must hear before they die.

Like most of Lou Reed's music, there're plenty of mediocre songs, a few terrible songs, and no shortage or lousy singing. It's not his worst work, but it I definitely doesn't excite me. With all of the VU albums on this list and Transformer, this album has a hard time justifying its place here.

Hate is certainly an apt descriptor. Love, not so much.

This album is a real hat trick of things I hate in albums: Bob Dylan (perhaps the worst singer to be famous for singing), Live Album (terrible sound quality songs that are already in other albums), and a double LP (way too long, this does not need to be an hour and a half long). Astonishingly, this album is significantly worse than Dylan's 6(!) other albums on the list, and I really see no reason for it to be on this list at all. I honestly think this may be the worst album on the list, and I really, truly wish I could give it 0 stars.

I'm not convinced this guy's even a real doctor. But his music's pretty good.

Decent start, but the whole second disk could easily be cut from this album.

I can't believe I just listened to a Mariah Carey album and didn't even get to learn what she wants for Christmas.

In fact, it is not hardcore.

I feel like this album gets a ton of hype, but it's just bland same-y early 2000s rock. It's not terrible, but certainly not great either.

First off, the elephant in the room: this is two albums. It's not even one long album, it's just two separate albums mashed together. As a whole, it has its ups and downs. Speakerboxx is overall a perfectly okay hip hop album. The Love Below isn't great, full of just plain weird lyrics. That said, Hey Ya! and 35 minutes of filler would be a three star album. I think much like how there's a beautiful statue trapped in a block of marble, there's a good album in here somewhere, if only 90 minutes of meh music were cut out. Overall, this was a poor listening experience and a very unrefined album. It could have been so much better, which in a way makes it so much worse.

I hope this doesn't come across as bigoted, but people from Essex should not be allowed to sing in public. It's frankly unreasonable to expect us normal people to be exposed to such sounds.

Absolutely terrible, pseudo hip-hop pop. This sounds like something that would be whipped up in an afternoon for a low-budget 80s high school comedy. It's practically a satire of itself.

Impressively bad. It's almost hard to believe that someone might have made this album thinking they were making legitimately good music.

I don't think this is EN's best album (I would have to give that honor to Hais der Lüge), but there's no doubt that it's their most influential. This is so unabashedly, purely industrial, it really is a genre defining album. While I understand why a lot of folks don't like the album, it's hard to image the list without it.

I like Chicago, they're really a great band. But they just hadn't really found their sound yet with CTA. It has some very interesting tracks, and it feels much more boundary-pushing than their later work, but it just isn't a great album. If it were shorter, cutting down some of the longer songs, I think this could be a solid album, but as it stands it's rather disappointing.

Wow, what a voice Rod Stewart has. Not a good voice, but certainly a voice.

It's Big Beat, and it sounds like Big Beat. Not really any more to it than that. There are plenty of other, better Big Beat albums out there that sound better and were more influential. If this album was 30 minutes shorter, it would be forgettable. At its current length, it's a bit of a slog. Not a great listen, and I can't see a justification for having it on this list.

I want to like this album, but it just doesn't sound good. I don't mean that it's bad musically, or the lyrics are bad, but the mixing and sound quality is just atrocious. The poor recording and lo-fi sound just makes it difficult to enjoy this album or listen to it critically.

There are some glimmers of greatness in this album, but it just doesn't sound nearly as good as Kanye's earlier work. I think this is the album where he really starts to sound like he's going off his rocker, and that doesn't sound great.

Sounds like Leonard Cohen. Not really anything else to be said, love him or hate him, he's one of a kind.

Really cool album conceptually, similar to the iconic Soundtracks For The Blind. However, it just doesn't really sound incredible. It's not bad, but I'm not loving it. Overall, a solid album that does it's thing well, but not perfectly.

Truly criminal to include evermore, but not Fearless on the list. Not a bad album overall, but kinda meh and longer than it needs to be. There are some decent songs on here, but they struggle to make up for the lackluster tracks that fill the album.

Some good songs, but ultimately held back by Neil Young's atrocious singing.

Hot take: Paul Simon is a middling artist, and we should have more Art Garfunkel music in the world. I know that's not actually relevant to this album, but it's just so stunningly mediocre it makes me sad to think to think about how much Art is than Paul.

Overall decent metal, but "decent" does not justify a full 72 minute CD. If half and hour was cut off of this, it would be an easy 3 star, but I feel like it just isn't all that great.

Not bad, but I'm not sure how I feel about soundtracks on the list. It feels out of place, and it's probably not a great use of a spot on the list. Overall, an okay album, and only barely a 3.

I really just can't get behind this. There's nothing inspiring and interesting going on and (maybe I'm just a xenophobic hater) I really struggle to enjoy singing with such a clear English accent.

Far from Bowie's best, and like many have said this probably wouldn't have made the list or really be notable at all if it weren't released so close to Bowie's passing.

Kacey Musgraves has some good songs, but it seems none of them managed to make an appearance on this album. Her voice is so-so to my ears for the most part, and a full album of it doesn't sound great. The lyrics don't ever wow me, and a lot are just plain lame.

Another boring soft rock britpop album. There are at least a dozen other albums on this list that do the same thing better, and most of them earlier, as well. This album has absolutely no reason to be here.

I really don't have much to say. I have no idea why this album would possibly be on this list.

In contrast with the top review for this album (at least at time of writing): I do like country music, probably more than most users of this site. I think there's a whole lot of great country out there, and also a decent bit of good country on this list. To me, John Prine does not fit into that at all. He sounds to me like if Bob Dylan was from Nashville. Some of the songs and lyrics on this album are very good, but the atrocious singing seriously holds the music back. I can see why someone would like this album, and why it should be on the list, but I'm glad that I'll likely never have to listen to it again in my life.

I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it until the day I die: Britons should not be making hip-hop or anything hip-hop adjacent. It just never actually sounds good at all, and this album is no exception.

I like the idea behind this album, but I'm not so fond of the sound. Decent, but far from great.

I pray to god that I never have to go to Mystery City if this is what it sounds like.

I can see the artistry in this album, but it just doesn't sound great. I feel that way about pretty much all cabaret, to be fair, so this particular album isn't necessarily a poor example of the genre.

I went into this album expecting a lot after hearing so much love for it, and I just don't really get it. It's not bad, but the whole album is really just covers, and there are better versions of so many of these songs - often the originals are much better, so I think a lot of this album just feels somewhat disappointing.

I like the concept here, but an hour and a half of singing about Lynyrd Skynyrd just doesn't hit for me.

Not Radiohead's best. It's not bad, but falls short of their other albums, and it feels hard to say that it deserves a spot on this list.

Pretty good, definitely Nirvana's best. I can't wait to see what they do next!

It remains unclear to me why someone would choose to listen to this.

Some good songs, and plenty of mediocre songs. I think The Prodigy could make a 4 star album, but they seem more focused on making any album here.

I like the idea of this album, but it just doesn't sound all that great.

It is what it says on the tin. It's got rock. It's got bongos. I think I've heard and enjoyed better rock and better bongos, though. I give this album 3 bongos out of 5.

Very, very good. This album starts to lag near the end, and I think it could very easily be trimmed into a 5-star album. Honestly, I'm astonished that there were so many incredible songs I'm super familiar with after hearing what I had figured were all of Def Leppard's hits on Pyromania.

After listening to the weird, wrong version of this album on Spotify, I was not impressed. That would make for any rash 1 star. The actual album was definitely better, but maybe only because it's half as long. That said, it's still far too long, and the sound is meh overall. I think this album is seriously borderline, and I could go either way between a 1 and a 2.

Great album, as most of Tom Waits' are. I think Heart Attack and Vine really does a great job of capturing Tom's unique singing voice and song writing. If I had to pick just one Waits album to have on this list, I think Heartattack and Vine would get serious consideration.

Man, this doesn't sound anything like Prince!

I have no idea what's going on here, but I'm liking it.

This album was terribly disappointing, and way softer than I expected and hoped. This sounds like the music that would be made by a fake metal/rock/punk band in a children's movie. Also, very bold move to use the SLA cobra on the album art, especially in an album that doesn't really seem to make any other political statements at all.

I feel like the 12 minute thank-you speech outro didn't have to be on this album, like maybe save it for a stage or just print it on the liner notes. Also, dope-ass "I just learned how to use Photoshop" album cover. Music's not great, though.

Bland and boring, par for the course for early 2010s indie rock.

I really want to complain about how awful this album is, and how it should be on this list, but I'm not really sure I even know how. Like, I want to say "how did this album get made?", or "why is this album on this list?". But I know the answer to both of those: Nico banged Andy Warhol, and then Andy Warhol gave Lou Reed a bunch of money for heroin. Anyway, this album sucks, and I hate that I had to listen to it.

This isn't bad, but I fail to see why I need to hear it before I die. I've heard plenty of other, far better jazz that better suits the list.

If I hadn't heard of Janis Joplin before, I would be astounded to hear that she died at 27, at the peak of her musical career and being recognized as a generational talent in singing. Mostly because she sounds like an 80 year old smoker and it's almost unbelievable that people actually like this album.

The Yardbirds had better fire Roger, because the mastering and stereo on this album is practically a crime against humanity. Seriously, why would anyone want to listen to a track with only vocals in the left channel, and only drums and guitar in the right? Outside of that, all of these songs are only mediocre to begin with, no standouts and nothing incredible.

This kinda really blows, which I guess is what happens when you let Gram Parsons provide lead vocals for your album.

In what world does this list need 4 Bjork albums? (And that's only counting her solo work). For a song or two, she's not bad, but for an hour? This ain't it.

I guess maybe she just isn't for me, but I feel like once you've heard one Björk album you've heard them all. Seriously, does this list need 4 Björk albums? I think not.

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