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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
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4 | 1.88 | +2.12 |
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Kollaps
Einstürzende Neubauten
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4 | 1.91 | +2.09 |
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Untitled (Black Is)
SAULT
|
5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
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Close To You
Carpenters
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5 | 3.11 | +1.89 |
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Pyromania
Def Leppard
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5 | 3.13 | +1.87 |
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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
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5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
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The Visitors
ABBA
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5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
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5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
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The Chronic
Dr. Dre
|
5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
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Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
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5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Harvest
Neil Young
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1 | 3.82 | -2.82 |
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Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
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1 | 3.76 | -2.76 |
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Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
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1 | 3.67 | -2.67 |
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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast
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1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
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Music From Big Pink
The Band
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1 | 3.36 | -2.36 |
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Melodrama
Lorde
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1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
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1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
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Entertainment
Gang Of Four
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1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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Tonight's The Night
Neil Young
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1 | 3.23 | -2.23 |
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Being There
Wilco
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1 | 3.22 | -2.22 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 5 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.4 |
| Prince | 3 | 4.67 |
| ABBA | 2 | 5 |
| Michael Jackson | 2 | 5 |
| Public Enemy | 3 | 4.33 |
| Queen | 3 | 4.33 |
| U2 | 3 | 4.33 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Neil Young | 3 | 1.33 |
| Bob Dylan | 7 | 1.86 |
| Wilco | 2 | 1 |
| Leonard Cohen | 2 | 1 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 1.67 |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 2 | 1.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 4 | 2.25 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Deep Purple | 5, 2, 3 |
5-Star Albums (49)
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The Gun Club · 2 likes
1/5
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.
Adele · 1 likes
5/5
Adele's incredible vocal talent makes for a great album, and her singing would not be out of place in an opera.
Beyoncé · 1 likes
1/5
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.
Parliament · 1 likes
5/5
This album got me
FUNKED
UP!
Mariah Carey · 1 likes
2/5
I can't believe I just listened to a Mariah Carey album and didn't even get to learn what she wants for Christmas.
1-Star Albums (34)
All Ratings
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Eminem
4/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
The Avalanches
4/5
Prince
5/5
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.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
4/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Laura Nyro
1/5
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.
Deee-Lite
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
The Killers
3/5
Public Enemy
5/5
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Killing Joke
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Queen
4/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
New Order
3/5
Linkin Park
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
Prince
5/5
Björk
3/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
The Black Keys
4/5
Prince
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
The United States Of America
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Eagles
5/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Cat Stevens
3/5
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
The Band
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Pulp
3/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Stan Getz
4/5
Mudhoney
3/5
George Harrison
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Hole
3/5
Mott The Hoople
4/5
Alice In Chains
3/5
Fishbone
3/5
TLC
3/5
Air
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
The Police
4/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Tortoise
3/5
Suede
4/5
Metallica
5/5
Carpenters
5/5
Lambchop
3/5
The Cure
3/5
GZA
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
5/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
George Michael
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
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.
Van Halen
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Goldie
3/5
Love
3/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Deep Purple
5/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
Meat Loaf
5/5
Motörhead
4/5
The Who
4/5
U2
4/5
Soundgarden
4/5
Ian Dury
1/5
CHVRCHES
4/5
Tears For Fears
5/5
The Who
4/5
Screaming Trees
4/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Scott Walker
2/5
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.
Talking Heads
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Mekons
3/5
Ghostface Killah
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Icarus Line
4/5
Hawkwind
3/5
The Isley Brothers
5/5
Beatles
5/5
Public Enemy
4/5
John Cale
4/5
The Go-Go's
4/5
ABBA
5/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
The Roots
4/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
The Doors
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Adele
5/5
Adele's incredible vocal talent makes for a great album, and her singing would not be out of place in an opera.
Bee Gees
4/5
System Of A Down
4/5
The Who
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Miriam Makeba
5/5
Radiohead
4/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
Christina Aguilera
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
King Crimson
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Moby
3/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Throwing Muses
3/5
Animal Collective
3/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Prefab Sprout
4/5
The Bees
3/5
Iron Maiden
5/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
The Cars
5/5
The Doors
3/5
Orbital
4/5
Britney Spears
3/5
Common
4/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
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).
Tom Waits
3/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Yes
4/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Napalm Death
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
The Replacements
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
The Adverts
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Bauhaus
3/5
Grizzly Bear
4/5
Boston
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The The
4/5
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Maxwell
4/5
k.d. lang
4/5
Portishead
3/5
Parliament
5/5
This album got me
FUNKED
UP!
Milton Nascimento
3/5
New York Dolls
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Method Man
3/5
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.
Funkadelic
4/5
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.
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
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)
The War On Drugs
2/5
Uninspired, uninteresting, bland, and boring. This album is very generic sounding rock music, and not much else.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Al Green
3/5
Good, but not incredible, R&B. This album is consistently pleasant sounding, but none of the songs on it really blow me away.
Tito Puente
4/5
Fantastic, quintessential mambo. I do wish that there were some longer songs on the album, but it is still very good.
Beach House
3/5
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.
Elliott Smith
2/5
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.
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
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.
The Doors
3/5
Tracy Chapman
3/5
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.
Kanye West
4/5
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.
Donovan
3/5
Rush
3/5
Cee Lo Green
2/5
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.
Django Django
3/5
Lou Reed
3/5
I really want to like this album, but I just can't get past Lou Reed's voice. Why does he sound like that?
Michael Jackson
5/5
Thriller is absolutely incredible. It blew me away the first time I heard it, and it remains one of the best albums ever.
Booker T. & The MG's
2/5
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.
Gotan Project
3/5
Queen
5/5
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.
Talking Heads
3/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
The Zombies
3/5
The Young Gods
3/5
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.
Led Zeppelin
3/5
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).
Elvis Presley
4/5
Eurythmics
4/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
The Human League
3/5
Snoop Dogg
4/5
The Black Crowes
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Motörhead
3/5
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.
The Boo Radleys
4/5
This is some pretty solid pop/rock, but progressive and experimental enough to keep it interesting.
Pavement
3/5
Eagles
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Beatles
4/5
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.
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
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.
Beck
3/5
Korn
3/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Lorde
1/5
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.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Dizzee Rascal
1/5
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.
Miles Davis
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Death In Vegas
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
The Everly Brothers
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
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.
The Smiths
3/5
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.
Kate Bush
3/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Neil Young
2/5
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.
Steely Dan
5/5
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.
The Saints
2/5
I don't think there's really much to say about this album. It's wholly unimpressive, just mediocre and uninteresting rock.
Pink Floyd
5/5
This album is iconic for a reason. It's really an exemplary prog-rock album, and a great concept album.
Rush
3/5
Jazmine Sullivan
4/5
This album has a super interesting concept, and while I didn't love all of the songs, they're pretty good overall.
5/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
4/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
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.
Pixies
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Nina Simone
4/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Nirvana
3/5
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.
Van Morrison
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Laibach
4/5
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.
Throbbing Gristle
4/5
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.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Little Richard
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
Paul Weller
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Pavement
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
2/5
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Kid Rock
1/5
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.
Slint
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Simply Red
4/5
Circle Jerks
4/5
DJ Shadow
4/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
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
1/5
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.
Liz Phair
3/5
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.
Ray Charles
4/5
Mudhoney
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Youngbloods
4/5
Bee Gees
4/5
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.
Fats Domino
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Anita Baker
4/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Bob Dylan
1/5
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.
Wilco
1/5
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.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
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.
Blur
3/5
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.
Randy Newman
2/5
Neil Young
1/5
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.
Destiny's Child
2/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
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 Monkees
3/5
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.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Various Artists
3/5
Duran Duran
5/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
The Thrills
2/5
This is, ironically, some of the least thrilling music I've ever heard. It doesn't sound awful, but it's far from good.
Venom
4/5
3/5
Duke Ellington
4/5
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.
Magazine
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Ray Charles
5/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
Pentangle
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Le Tigre
4/5
Klaxons
3/5
Dire Straits
5/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
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.
Kate Bush
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
4/5
3/5
De La Soul
4/5
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.
Nas
5/5
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
Dr. Dre
5/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Hot Chip
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Joy Division
3/5
AC/DC
5/5
4/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
Marty Robbins
5/5
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.
Oasis
3/5
B.B. King
4/5
David Gray
3/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
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.
Billy Joel
3/5
Def Leppard
5/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Carole King
4/5
SAULT
5/5
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.
The Band
1/5
This album has some perfectly mediocre songs, and plenty of awful singing. Dylan taught them well.
Elvis Costello
2/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
The Birthday Party
3/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
The Temptations
4/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Deep Purple
2/5
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.
John Lennon
2/5
This album seems like it starts strong, but really just opens with its only good song. It's downhill pretty fast after Imagine.
Jamiroquai
4/5
Doves
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Pixies
3/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Leonard Cohen
1/5
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!
The Cure
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Lana Del Rey
2/5
Bobby Womack
4/5
The Monks
3/5
Sheryl Crow
2/5
Ride
3/5
Marianne Faithfull
1/5
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
Dion
2/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
Ryan Adams
1/5
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.
Scritti Politti
4/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
808 State
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
2/5
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.
Sonic Youth
4/5
The Police
5/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Incubus
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
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.
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Merle Haggard
4/5
Sparks
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
ABBA
5/5
Robbie Williams
2/5
Perfectly mediocre Brit pop. I wish it was sung by a monkey, though.
Fever Ray
3/5
American Music Club
2/5
ZZ Top
4/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
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.
Dr. John
2/5
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.
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
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.
Dagmar Krause
2/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Syd Barrett
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Traffic
3/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Travis
2/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
The Who
2/5
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.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
Wilco
1/5
Boring and over long. Par for the course for Wilco.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
The Crusaders
3/5
Hookworms
3/5
The Who
3/5
Nick Drake
2/5
The Damned
2/5
5/5
MC Solaar
3/5
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.
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
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.
Kings of Leon
3/5
Machito
3/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
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
5/5
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.
Jungle Brothers
4/5
Calexico
4/5
The Auteurs
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
Orange Juice
2/5
Beck
4/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
The Only Ones
2/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
James Brown
3/5
The Slits
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Billie Holiday
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Barry Adamson
4/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
Talvin Singh
2/5
Don McLean
3/5
James Taylor
3/5
Good songs, meh singing. This could be a 4 star album with a different singer on it.
Brian Wilson
4/5
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.
Björk
2/5
It's Björk. It sounds like Björk. She's okay for a few songs at a time, but not really a whole album.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
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.
The Vines
3/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Absolutely incredible from start to finish. It's no surprise this album gets the praise it does.
Eels
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
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.
The Velvet Underground
1/5
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.
Gang Starr
4/5
Erykah Badu
2/5
Cyndi Lauper
2/5
Jack White
2/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Alanis Morissette
2/5
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.
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Sepultura
3/5
Japan
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Skepta
1/5
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.
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Very different than most of Willie's music, but really good, and very unique performances of some American classics.
Dolly Parton
4/5
The Undertones
3/5
The Darkness
2/5
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.
Neil Young
1/5
Blondie
4/5
Silver Jews
1/5
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.
Spacemen 3
2/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2/5
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
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.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
The Gun Club
1/5
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.
KISS
4/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
Suicide
1/5
I can understand why this album is on the list, but that doesn't change the fact that it sounds awful.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
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.
Suede
2/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
3/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
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.
Peter Tosh
3/5
CHIC
2/5
This album features some great 2 minute long songs that somehow got dragged out to 6 or 8 minutes without actually adding anything.
Garbage
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
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.
Madonna
3/5
Bob Dylan
1/5
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.
The Fall
2/5
John Coltrane
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
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.
Yes
3/5
Peter Frampton
3/5
Shack
3/5
Raekwon
3/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Burning Spear
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
The Shamen
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
The Waterboys
2/5
Elis Regina
3/5
Beatles
3/5
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.
The Jam
2/5
Kelela
3/5
Louis Prima
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Deerhunter
4/5
T. Rex
4/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
David Crosby
3/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
Orbital
2/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Sepultura
3/5
Beyoncé
1/5
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.
Little Simz
2/5
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.
Alice Cooper
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Minor Threat
2/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Queen
4/5
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.
The Associates
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
The Offspring
4/5
Minutemen
1/5
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.
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
William Orbit
3/5
I'm not sure I really "get" this album, but it sounds pretty good.
Devendra Banhart
2/5
Tom Waits
4/5
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.
Dennis Wilson
4/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
David Holmes
4/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Koffi Olomide
3/5
Bad Company
2/5
Sugar
2/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
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.
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
I probably just don't "get" post-punk, but absolutely nothing on this album sounds anything close to good.
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Beck
3/5
Fugees
3/5
Slade
4/5
Black Flag
4/5
M.I.A.
1/5
Morrissey
3/5
Like all Morrissey albums, this sounds like The Smiths lite, for better and for worse.
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Gillian Welch
3/5
Buck Owens
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
4/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
2/5
Leftfield
3/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
The Verve
2/5
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.
The Afghan Whigs
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Lou Reed
2/5
Like most of Lou Reed's music, there're plenty of mediocre songs, a few terrible songs, and no shortage or lousy singing. It' not his worst work, but I definitely doesn't excite me.
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Traffic
3/5
Leonard Cohen
1/5
Hate is certainly an apt descriptor. Love, not so much.
Can
3/5
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
1/5
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.
Bad Brains
3/5
Dr. Octagon
4/5
I'm not convinced this guy's even a real doctor. But his music's pretty good.
Gary Numan
3/5
The The
3/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Khaled
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Green Day
4/5
The Cure
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Arrested Development
4/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Decent start, but the whole second disk could easily be cut from this album.
Pere Ubu
2/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
I can't believe I just listened to a Mariah Carey album and didn't even get to learn what she wants for Christmas.
Pulp
2/5
In fact, it is not hardcore.
Solange
3/5
The Strokes
2/5
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.
Daft Punk
2/5
OutKast
1/5
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.
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Billy Bragg
1/5
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.
Ice Cube
3/5
Neneh Cherry
1/5
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.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Paul Simon
3/5
The Undertones
4/5
PJ Harvey
2/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Gang Of Four
1/5
Impressively bad. It's almost hard to believe that someone might have made this album thinking they were making legitimately good music.
Heaven 17
2/5
Slipknot
3/5
The KLF
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
4/5
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.
The Byrds
3/5
Justin Timberlake
3/5
Hole
3/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Cream
3/5
Chicago
2/5
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.
Rod Stewart
1/5
Wow, what a voice Rod Stewart has.
Not a good voice, but certainly a voice.
Kings of Leon
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
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.
New Order
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5