My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	5	2.38	+2.62
Shleep Robert Wyatt	5	2.51	+2.49
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	5	2.64	+2.36
Shalimar Rahul Dev Burman	5	2.65	+2.35
Medúlla Björk	5	2.73	+2.27
Scream, Dracula, Scream Rocket From The Crypt	5	2.76	+2.24
Vulnicura Björk	5	2.79	+2.21
Roots Sepultura	5	2.79	+2.21
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.85	+2.15
Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro	5	2.89	+2.11

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	1	3.8	-2.8
Graceland Paul Simon	1	3.73	-2.73
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.69	-2.69
Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz	1	3.66	-2.66
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	1	3.64	-2.64
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.63	-2.63
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	1	3.6	-2.6
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	1	3.52	-2.52

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	6	5
Radiohead	5	5
Neil Young	4	5
Pink Floyd	4	4.75
Pixies	3	5
Björk	3	5
The Who	3	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	5
Kraftwerk	3	5
Beastie Boys	3	5
Nirvana	3	5
Tom Waits	3	5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3	5
Led Zeppelin	3	5
Queen	3	5
Yes	3	5
Black Sabbath	3	5
PJ Harvey	4	4.5
Deep Purple	3	4.67
Genesis	2	5
Robert Wyatt	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Oasis	2	5
Supergrass	2	5
The Clash	2	5
The Doors	2	5
King Crimson	2	5
Rush	2	5
Air	2	5
The Prodigy	2	5
Kate Bush	2	5
R.E.M.	3	4.33
Peter Gabriel	3	4.33
Prince	3	4.33

Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	3	1
Tim Buckley	3	1
Elvis Presley	3	1.33
Morrissey	3	1.33
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	1
Cocteau Twins	2	1
Rufus Wainwright	2	1
Frank Sinatra	2	1
Kendrick Lamar	2	1
Ryan Adams	2	1
Kings of Leon	2	1
Michael Jackson	3	1.67
Stan Getz	2	1.5
Nick Drake	2	1.5
The Verve	2	1.5
Dexys Midnight Runners	2	1.5
Everything But The Girl	2	1.5
Paul Simon	2	1.5
Happy Mondays	2	1.5
Barry Adamson	2	1.5
Adele	2	1.5
The Byrds	5	2.2
The Fall	3	2
Steely Dan	3	2
The Smiths	3	2
Arcade Fire	3	2
Joni Mitchell	3	2
Van Morrison	3	2

Artist	Ratings
Metallica	2, 5
Elliott Smith	4, 1
Beck	5, 4, 2
Marvin Gaye	5, 2, 3

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Such a powerful, fun and obviously very influential record! I could do without "Sex machine", which hasn't aged that well, but other than that it is a tight and beautiful record with surprisingly many fragments you know already if you like Hip Hop and Electronic records.

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

This is a hit record despite being noisy and strange, because at the same time it has great melodies and power. It almost invented 90s Grunge and Alternative Rock, neither Nirvana nor Radiohead would have sounded like they did without this. But most importantly it is just an awesome listen.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Nice and pretty easy listening versions of some classics. Good for relaxing or as a smooth background for some light conversation. This is hardly real country music, I believe, but Willie's voice is familiar and comfortable. I find it a bit baffling, that this is one of his most successful records and considered a classic.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

What a great record, all killer, no filler! It invented Southern Rock the way we know it today, but is definitely one of the best Rock albums ever, Southern or not. Free Bird, Simple Man and Tuesdays Gone alone are classics, but the rest is complete up to par.

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

California

American Music Club

2/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Plain and simple: One of the great classics of Rock History - and you can hear why. Everyone should now "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Mercedes Benz", but the rest is just as great. Sweaty, heartfelt blues rock with one of the best and most legendary singers ever.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

Vulnicura

Björk

5/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Interesting stuff, doesn't really fit any genre I knew until then. Strange at first, but it grows with every Listen.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

2/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Some of the music is really good, but lyrics from a sexist, horny preteen inside a grownups body are so damn cringy and on top of that is Kiedis just a really mediocre singer, so this has definitely not aged well.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

5/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

1/5

Not just boring music, but almost painful because of the singer's voice and pronounciation. Not my cup of tea, obviously, but this time I have a really hard time getting how anyone else could stand this let alone consider it a classic.

Palo Congo

Sabu

1/5

Tommy

The Who

5/5

Masterpiece and classic. Prototype rock opera, amazing musicianship, great songs, gripping story. What more could you want?

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

Technically impressive, but just too extreme to be enjoyable

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

First of all, I love Metallica ever since I was a teenager. This was actually the second Metallica release I bought on the first day, after I had discovered to them through "ReLoad" (of all their records, I know) and quickly inhaled the back catalog. I did not like it then and I still cannot bear it now. I do appreciate the experiment and of course there are some really beautiful moments, "Ecstasy of Gold" being played live is one of them. But most of the time it is just too much for me. There is not much "room" left in Metallica's sound, but the orchestra just keeps pushing its way into the songs partly smothering the band. The worst thing for me is that it kills pretty much all of the quieter parts by filling them in instead of letting the songs breathe. This takes away most of the dynamic especially songs like "Master of Puppets" and "Thing that should not be" are supposed to have. I would have liked to see this live, but under my headphones I will always prefer just about any other Metallica live record.

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

1/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

I get that the bad recording quality and unfinished songs are the artistic concept and they are probably done well in that regard. It just doesn't do much for me.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

5/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

This sounds all perfect and very tasteful, the musicians are obviously the cream of the crop. Even the songs themselves seem very well-written. And yet the only way this makes me feel is bored and underwhelmed. There is just no passion, no human element and (to me) most important: No real dynamics in terms of speed, loudness and yes, emotion. I never thought that 40 minutes could feel this long... I couldn't help but think of Steven Wilson, who definitely learned from Fagen and Becker's production perfection, but luckily he also learned from Pink Floyd and others how wo write interesting songs and those are mostly missing here.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

2/5

Nice and completely boring

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Pretenders

4/5

Boston

4/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Gorillaz

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

1/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Iron Maiden

5/5

Just epic, one of the best debuts ever. This has everything Maiden's career has been built one maybe aside from Dickinson's air raid siren voice. DiAnno is completely different, but maybe even better. This mixture of a rough, punky sound and proggy epics is unlike anything else and the fact that many of the songs are bona fide classics speaks for itself.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

5/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

5/5

Ramones

4/5

Simple, loud and fun.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

I find it hard to see how this record or even artist should be exceptional in any way. She sounds pleasant enough, but also exactly like a thousand other singers in this genre. Lyrics are okay and seem honest, but it also doesn't seem like she has anything important to say. Guitar work sounds good, but doesn't stand out in any way. This is okay background music, but how anyone could sit down and enjoy this as a favorite record beats me.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Be

Common

3/5

Common sure is a really good rapper. But his preachy religious lyrics and Kanyes pompous production with lots of R&B just aren't for me.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

Survivor

Destiny's Child

1/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Elvis Presley

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

5/5

Peak Neil Young, plain and simple

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

What an incredible amount of hits you know from the radio, parties, disco or whatever. The sound is almost too big and perfect. Lyrics are mostly stupid and cheesy, but here nobody cares. The record is way too long and the songs are hard to keep apart, so it all blurs into an overproduced mess of sweet pop trying to sound like hard rock. One or two songs are really fun, but the album as a whole is just too much to be enjoyable.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

1977

Ash

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Absolute classic and I agree that this should be on here. Doesn't mean it's a great record in my book. Aside from the title track and maybe "Life in the fast lane" there is a lot of boring filler tracks and while the musicianship is impressive it is definitely missing some sort of edge to make it interesting instead of just smooth and bland.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

The Stooges

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Generic and kind of awkward

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Van Halen

5/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

5/5

Albums like this is what I come here for. Never heard of the artist or the album and at first I found it simply strange, but intriguing. And with every run this keeps getting better and more clear and beautiful. I love music like this, because it can grow on me and I will definitely revisit this.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Mott

Mott The Hoople

3/5

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

2/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Not just a classic, but a true masterpiece. I've known and loved this record ever since I was fascinated with the "Paranoid Android" music video as a teenager when it came out. I keep coming back over the years and with pretty much every run I feel like I am discovering more aspects, sinking in deeper and understanding it more. Great art.

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

1/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Suzanne Vega

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Pompous and boring

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

Beautifully weird masterpiece

The Stone Roses

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

1/5

I'm usually not a Reggae person, but this one annoyed me even more than Bob Marley.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

One of my favorite Nick Cave albums, and I love all of them.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

5/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

2/5

This could be a real fun speed rock album, and the title track is bona fide classic. Sadly, the utterly disgusting "Jailbait" ruins it. Different times, sure, but I'm really glad those are over...

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

The Doors

5/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Garbage

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

This is the first Led Zeppelin album with some filler and quite a few tracks that could have been better by keeping them shorter, but it's still a great record that sounds awesome and inspiring even today.

Play

Moby

4/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

5/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Radiohead manages again and again to not only be experimental and progressive, but to produce real beauty that reaches the listener on a deeply emotional level. This is one of their best efforts.

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

GI

Germs

2/5

Queen II

Queen

5/5

An early masterpiece. Queen have not completely evolved yet, but with the BoRap prototype "March of the Black Queen", the glorious "White Queen" and the kind of crazy "Fairy Feller's Master Stroke", which is the soundtrack to a painting, it's all there and with "Seven Seas of Rhye" there's even a first little hit single. One of my favorite records since my childhood!

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

One of the classics of the "Nu metal" era. This has a lot of pop appeal which probably is most obvious in the classics "Crawling" and "In the end", but there's a whole lot more and a really consistent album here, that has aged really well. Especially the lyrics seem pretty ahead of their time, back then it was not very cool and normal to talk about your psyche like this. But I guess that is one of the reasons why this record is still so relevant and revered even today. RIP Chester!

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

2/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Arular

M.I.A.

1/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

5/5

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

The title track is fantastic, of course. The rest of the Bowie tracks is okay, but doesn't really stand out very much. Most of side B is a kind of interesting Eno/Fripp ambient project, not at all what you would expect from a Bowie record. Really strange decision to include this here, reminds me of George Martin's B side to the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine", that I don't ever listen to.

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

3/5

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Blur

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

1/5

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

5/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

"Tales of brave Ulysses" is genius and there are some other classics here, but also some filler.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

So many awesome classics here, such creativity and diversity. For me it's all a bit much, though, and two hours of this tend to get long. Could have been a perfect single album, this way it is still great.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

2/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

4/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

Cross

Justice

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

3/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

5/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

5/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

1/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

1/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Electric

The Cult

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

2/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

1/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

5/5

One of the first concept albums and it's so much fun, it's creative and it simply rocks.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

1/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

A perfect album with no bad songs and one of the great classics of the grunge era

The Cars

4/5

Surprisingly good! I only knew "Drive", but this is different and much more up my alley. Will definitely revisit this!

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Overlong, overblown and for the most part underwhelming

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

1/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Not one of his best records and certainly not one that can't be missed. Some good stuff here, but it's too long and sometimes boring to be truly great.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

1/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

1/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Perfect album.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

1/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

1/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Faith

George Michael

3/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

1/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Promising debut, but not as great as "Damn the torpedoes" or "Wildflowers"

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Really good album, but not up there with his classics, so not really one for this list.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

2/5

Future Days

Can

4/5

Black Metal

Venom

4/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

1/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

2/5

Drunk

Thundercat

1/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

1/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Achtung Baby

U2

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Some good songs, even some great. But also some really mediocre and many that are just too long without keeping it interesting lyrically or musically. Like so many double albums this would have benefited from someone who isn't afraid to tell the artist to focus and make an awesome single album instead of keeping everything.

Tical

Method Man

2/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

2/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

1/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Fragile

Yes

5/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

The United States Of America

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

War

U2

4/5

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

The Velvet Underground

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

1/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Atomizer

Big Black

2/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

Wild Gift

X

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

5/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

1/5

The Joshua Tree

U2

4/5

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Some really great classics here, but also a lot of filler. Many songs and the whole album could have been shorter and tighter to make it less tedious and more enjoyable. That's always been a problem with GNR for me.

Slipknot

2/5

2112

Rush

5/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The La's

1/5

A one hit wonder with a completely generic album? Not an essential listen in any way.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

1/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

1999

Prince

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Great voice, nice songs. But definitely not essential.

Django Django

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

1/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

1/5

Dire Straits

3/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

2/5

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

5/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

1/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

3/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

1/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

Some great stuff, but overall to repetitive and sometimes really boring.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

5/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

1/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

1/5

The music seems interesting for a few minutes, but then gets boring and repetitive pretty soon. Lyrics are just awful.

Caetano Veloso

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

John Prine

2/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

2/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

Third

Portishead

5/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

5/5

Never heard of this, but it's right up my alley. Very creative, sometimes even kind of progressive and one of those records that keeps getting better with every run. Love it!

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Some good stuff here, but it all sounds the same and gets pretty boring. Also, WAY too many Byrds albums on this list!

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

2/5

High Violet

The National

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

5/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

5/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

A handful of good songs (one great) and some apparently unfinished ideas padded with some filler ambience do not make a great album in my book.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

OK

Talvin Singh

1/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

5/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

1/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

1/5

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

The Visitors

ABBA

5/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

2/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

The Specials

3/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

4/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

5/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

5/5

Fred Neil

2/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Eagles

2/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

Not even my favorite FNM album, but still a masterpiece with Patton's budding genius and one of 90s alternative rock's best rhythm sections.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

3/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Music

Madonna

2/5

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

Hms Fable

Shack

2/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

5/5

Elastica

2/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

1/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

1/5

Even separating art and artist - they both suck.

Roots

Sepultura

5/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

90

808 State

1/5

So

Peter Gabriel

4/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

A rather curious debut album considering what Pink Floyd would become in later years. Some great stuff here, but also a few duds. All in all it's a decent psychedelic record, but not up there with the greats like the Zombies' "Odyssey and Oracle", the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" or the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper".

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

1/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

1/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

2/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

2/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

1/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

2/5

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Metallica

5/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

2/5

Singles are okay, the rest is boring middle of the road folk pop and sounds like everything else from the valley, which this list has way too much of.

Black Sabbath

5/5

The first metal album, and still one of the best. A perfect masterpiece. RIP Ozzy!

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

D

White Denim

3/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

5/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

New York Dolls

3/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Not sure if this is really essential. But it's a lot of fun! Strange choice, of course, including a compilation instead of e.g. "Veni, Vedi, Vicious"

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

1/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

5/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

Bad Company

2/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

2/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

2/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

Killing Joke

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

1/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

1/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

1/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

1/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

1/5

Stephen Stills

2/5

Infected

The The

3/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

1/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

4/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

2/5

Le Tigre

4/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

Strange one. Some really great dance tracks and some really lame and repetitive pop songs. Has been done much better, especially around its time.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Absolute masterpiece

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Absolute masterpiece

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

Absolute masterpiece

Cypress Hill

3/5

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Boring songs, awful sound. Beats me how this could ever be a hit or considered an essential classic.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Technique

New Order

2/5

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Throwing Muses

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

1/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

Perfectly fine, but I fail to see how this would be essential in any way or why I should listen to this again instead of something really interesting

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

3/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Solid Atlantic soul record with all the usual strengths and flaws like uneven songwriting and lyrics full of cliché. It's a fun listen, even if it doesn't surpass its peers in my book.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Lost Souls

Doves

1/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

2/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Coldplay's last good album with at least some edge and diversity and a few really great tracks. It is also too long and gets tedious pretty soon. All in all a seriously overrated band.

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

5/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

1/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

1/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

The title track is great, but most of the rest falls short and is pretty generic, even though the musicianship and voices are top notch.

Joan Baez

2/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

2/5

Tom Tom Club

2/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

1/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

2/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

4/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

1/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

1/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Title track is pretty good, the rest is very uneven. Not all bad, but surely not a classic.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Title track is pretty good, the rest is very uneven. Not all bad, but surely not a classic.

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

2/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

This is a special record, of course, with some really great covers that improve on the originals. It's also too long and monotonous with very little variation, so I was kind of glad when it was over.

Rocks

Aerosmith

4/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

What a borefest. Self indulgent and overlong with hardly any real song ideas. I'm not a big fan of Rumours, but this is just way worse. I can see why the band kind of needed this record, of course. Why the public and especially us should have to endure it, I have no idea.

Risque

CHIC

2/5

Great sound and a few real classics. I'm sure it works really well on the dance floor. As an album it gets tedious being very repetitive and pretty much every song is much too long.

Solid Air

John Martyn

2/5

Moderately interesting music, awful singer

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

The Man Who

Travis

1/5

Painfully inoffensive. This can only be on this list as an example of the worst aspects of the brit pop hype.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Good sounds, but very repetitive and very little dynamics. Feels tedious to me.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

1/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

2/5

The raps and lyrics are okay, I guess. But the lightweight production and the Will Smith Choruses are really not my style, I don't get the hype.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

Surprisingly diverse. Not everything is great, but I appreciate what they're trying to do and all in all it turned out really entertaining. Next year's Billion Dollar Babies got even better, but this is lots of fun.

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Pleasant enough, but very much of its time and hardly very original. Also sounds a lot like the collection of sketches it is rather than a cohesive album.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

She has a good voice and the production seems competently done, but it's still full of Country cliché, lyrically and musically. Not my cup of tea at all.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Perfect album, one of my all time favourites. Jazzy, experimental and yet full of hits.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

2/5

Interesting sound, but it gets old pretty fast and the positive mood doesn't convince me. Too plastic fake for this list.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

5/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

Avantgarde stuff that gets more enjoyable with every spin, but it really demands attention. I'm glad to have heard it, but I'm not sure how often I'll return to it.

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Their first perfect album with several more to come.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

1/5

Just awful. Boasting lyrics delivered with that monotonous voice over pompous pop beats - no thank you.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Really good stuff between Kraftwerk and Punk with powerful drum grooves that sometimes remind me of Can. Never heard this before, but I will definitely return to it!

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

5/5

What an absolute joy to listen to this! Experimental pop that never loses sight of the song and ends up sounding like some sort of happy Radiohead. I will definitely return to this and maybe dive deeper into their discography.

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

Listenable, but completely unoriginal

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Who would have thought that Beck could be this conventional and boring?

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Impressive amount of hits, but also a lot of filler. All in all this is a fun little lightweight pop record, but I fail to see how this would be essential in any way being a very mediocre example of a mostly mediocre era of British pop.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

1/5

Generic, repetitive and boring. More British mediocrity.

Headquarters

The Monkees

1/5

The only justification for having this in the list is a reminder that empty and generic casting bands aren't such a recent invention.

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Not bad, actually. But the noise gets old after a while. I've had two of their albums and kind of liked them, but it's starting to get old. And five albums on this list are way too much. I get that they're Important, but so many other classics are missing...

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

These guys seem to be a lot more fun than they promise on the cover. In the end they just seem to be an okay, but pretty amateurish cover band with very few songs of their own, though.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

The sound may be influential and new for the time. The songs are mostly boring, though. Not one of the better examples of brit pop.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Some really great stuff like the title track, the Boxer and Song for the Asking. But it's a bit uneven with "stinkers" like Bye Bye Love and the truly awful El Condor Pasa. This remains a duo I'd rather listen to on compilations than their albums.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

Am interesting historical document, sure. Doesn't make it a very enjoyable listen. The sound quality varies, the music is monotonous, even in the band section.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Very enjoyable and of course very much of its time. I like the tongue in cheek darkness, the beautiful melodies and the heavy beats. This Corrosion is an epic classic, I hadn't heard that in far too long.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Beautiful poetry, quiet music, classic Cohen. Maybe not as perfect as other albums of that period, still very enjoyable.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Great energy, great and very varied music for such a punk adjacent band. I knew of them, but hadn't actually heard their music and I like it a lot!

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

This is only mildly interesting, because it was supposed to be another album with Garfunkel. You can see why he left the project, if not for personal reasons. The songs are uninspired and boring, Simon's lyrics are awkward and sometimes even ridiculously bad. Inoffensive background music, hardly good enough so anyone should have heard it.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Good voice, well produced music and you can tell how influential this was, not just for Tracy Chapman. Doesn't really compell me to listen again, though.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

1/5

Just awful. Every track sounds the same and goes on way too long. This might work on the dancefloor or as background music in some kind of party or lounge context. As an album it just doesn't capture interest or provides any kind of development.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Apache is great, of course, and the overall sound is good fun. Some cool grooves, many of which you recognize from hip hop and break beat classics.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

Musically an interesting mix of punk rock, funk and jazz, that's nice. Lyrics are good, but the vocal delivery is very tiring to me. Also this sounds like a bunch of very short demo snippets rather than finished songs.

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

I'm not a fan of musicals in general, but this one sucks even more than most.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Pretty middle of the road power pop folk rock whatever with a really weak singer and songs that often sound unfinished.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Beautiful melodies and a pretty organic sound for synths. A bit monotonous, though, and not really for me.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

Probably the perfect blues rock album and definitely a career highlight for the three beards.

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

This makes me kind of philosophical. At what point do you call random noises "music"? I don't have the answer, but I suspect this doesn't always reach that point. It may have been influential, but I'm not sure I want to hear the results.

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Boring and repetitive, even if it does have some interesting sounds, that probably were innovative at the time.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

Never heard of this band, but it's a lot of fun! The wild mix of styles feels organic and never forced and the songs are catchy without feeling cheap. I will probably return to this.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Typical 70s rock with a little sexism and racism that seems to have been necessary for a real guy in those years. Musically inoffensive, if you can stand his raspy voice over a whole album.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

"Groove is in the Heart" is truly awesome and nothing on this record comes close to it, sadly. There is a lot of good stuff, though. Much of it sounds pretty dated, but some still hold up.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

More perfect boredom. Ridiculous to have four albums by these guys on here...

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

Musically these guys are competent, if not very original. The lyrics are juvenile, but sometimes fun.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Masterpiece including the greatest song in the world

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

I'm happy for Brian that he got to finish his Magnum Opus. It isn't the next Pet Sounds or maybe even better, though. A handful of songs show that it might have been, but all in all there are too many sketches instead of polished songs and the whole thing just flows by impressing the listener more with its lavish production than with songs for eternity. Happy to have heard this, but I will stick with the singles in the band version.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Great album full of very diverse songs, that can be funny, angry, loving, aggressive or sad. Not one song seems unnecessary and although the production is pretty dated in part I still like the album as much as when I heard it first as a teen. Maybe even more, because now I get most of the lyrics.

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Interesting album because of the African elements, of course. Miriam has a great voice and certainly charisma. Most songs seem to be tailored to a Western, especially American taste, though. The "naughty little flea" reminds me of the similarly silly "how much is that doggy in the window" for example. All in all it's not for me, although I certainly appreciate the opportunity to have listened to it.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

I like the sound of this electronic jam rock, especially the drums. There are some really good melodies and grooves, but most of the songs kind of flow by without leaving much of an impression.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

Just as great as Hounds of Love, feels maybe a bit more human to me.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Very smooth, very perfect, very catchy - and a bit boring

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

A real modern rock opera going far beyond the boundaries of their earlier punk rock stuff. Masterfully composed and played with lots of sixties pop influences it is also great fun to listen to. Their Magnum Opus in my opinion.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Really good album, but sandwiched in between Blue Lines and Mezzanine (which should be on this list instead) it's very obvious that in comparison this has far weaker songs and often drags on a bit.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Great classic combining technical excellency with a relaxed and positive mood that's just a joy to listen to

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

2/5

Title track is good and I know it from Pulp Fiction. The band seems competent enough, but the singing seems kind of whiny to me and the monothematic lyrics actually made me angrier with every song. May have just been that day, but I have no desire to listen to this again.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

The comparison with Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party is not totally off. The difference is that those bands are able to write absolutely compelling songs while they experiment with futuristic sounds. This record sure has its moments, but it often feels like they are trying too hard to be enjoyable.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

He sounds very enthusiastic and the music seems pretty good for the chanson era. I don't understand a word, though, and it's just not for me, I guess.

The Libertines

2/5

Another average overhyped brit rock band. Has a few good moments that show what AM would do later and much better, but other than that it is very forgettable.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Great rapper, no doubt. The lyrical content is explicit and usually violent and sexist and you might excuse that with the genre and a realistic image of the times and the scene he describes. What I really can't abide is "Just playing (Dreams)". That's absolutely disgusting misogyny and in no way excusable as being just a joke or whatever. F* this toxic sh*!

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

Yeah, it's a classic. Simple, repetitive music and cliché lyrics about god, america and women, that's country music for ya. It's probably a great representative of its genre, but pretty boring to me.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Sounds like NYC 1977, alright. Reminds me a lot of Patti Smith without the lyrical urgency. Good guitar and drum work, really enjoyable.

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

I only knew them for "Deadlock holiday" and never really liked that. This is completely different and more like a Dad joke rock musical. Too many interesting ideas crammed into the songs for any of them to catch me. I felt like on a roller-coaster, and not in a good way. I love good prog rock and also Queen and the Sparks, so I don't mind funny lyrics, a certain pomp or complex song structures. This just seems to want too much and in the end achieve hardly anything.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Even after several plays I mainly like the singles and find the rest pretty forgettable, and I am not a mainstream radio guy. The music is alright and so are the lyrics, but it all seems a bit cold and sterile lacking the emotional depth of Depeche Mode, for example.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

1/5

Overproduced and boring, his voice doesn't do anything for me.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Awful, it's the same whiny song over and over again. Couldn't stand to finish this.

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

As much as I appreciate the offer of some music with a less western background this is way too poppy and shallow for my taste. Also way too long.

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

1/5

Cultural exploitation - the album. Didn't even like it, too confusing for my taste. And the way this guy just puts his name on other people's work is disgusting.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

When this came out I thought Radiohead was over, because I didn't get it. They were actually just beginning! Absolute masterpiece.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Fascinating album, especially considering it's from 1966. This is funny, original, intelligent and pretty ahead of its time - but also pretty demanding at times.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Fun little pop album, that doesn't excite me very much

Blue

Joni Mitchell

2/5

She's a legend, but I can't stand her voice. Also, I have heard way too much folk from the Laurel Canyon on this list and it's just not for me.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

4/5

Great sound, a major influence on many of my favorite bands. A bit lacking in substantial songs, though.

Born To Be With You

Dion

1/5

Remarkably unremarkable.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Very tight band, great rhythm section, awesome brass and good vocals. Many hits, sometimes a little over indulgent.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

I was skeptical, but it really is that good

Rapture

Anita Baker

1/5

That awful glossy production drowns any hint of an interesting sound or song regardless of how good her voice or any of the musicians are. At least I learned about the quiet storm, but I will stay far away from it.

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

Really nice, didn't know any of this, but I really enjoyed it. Chilled and groovy, Wall of Sound really had a lot of great stuff back in the day.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Classic REM with a lot of good songs, maybe a little bit repetitive. The mandoline is a nice touch and gives a very folky feeling to their sound.

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

The constant mumbling seems completely uninterested and doesn't catch me in any way. I don't get its significance, but maybe it's just not for me.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

1/5

I'm not a country guy, but this is especially awful. Whiny heartbreak stuff and everything sounds the same. At least it's not long...

21

Adele

2/5

Music for people with no interest in music. Yes, her voice is impressive, but I find it very intense and lacking variation. The songs touch a lot of genres musically, but always stay kind of vague and never demand too much of the listener. And the lyrics? Wow, finally someone does an album about heartbreak, that's what the world was waiting for! I recommend Amy Winehouse or Lola Young if you want something in a similar vein, but WAY better and more interesting.

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Fun album with a surprisingly elaborated sound for a debut. A little lacking in variety, maybe.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Very high energy big band album, that swings well enough to make me tap my feet or sometimes even dance a little.

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

I like the way she explores and blends several genres of music, but her voice gets annoying over the long running time and the songs don't really click with me.

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Great voice and rap style, mostly mellow and petty organic beats and no autotune party anthems, but she really has something to say. This is modern rap I can get into!

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

Ry Cooder is the master of pretty boredom. As nice as it is to have some African elements here, this just makes me feel sleepy. Too much repetition, too little dynamics, it just lulls you in and...

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

A handful of great singles (Afterglow, Lazy Sunday, Rolling over) with some filler and a pretty much failed attempt at turning this into a concept album. I like the fact that they use humor and don't seem to take themselves too seriously.

1989

Taylor Swift

1/5

A constructed "perfect pop record" that sounds completely dead, cold and hollow to me. Lyrics may be based on personal experience, but they still sound generic and repetitive to me. The music is pseudo retro 80s, which sure fits the title. It still feels cheap, generic, and simplistic without any kind of edge that could make it interesting. Just awful.

25

Adele

1/5

I know this is well executed for what it tries to be, but I can't stand this kind of whiny, bombastic pop that wants to be so heartfelt and emotional, but feels as deep as a puddle to me while sounding like the calculated chart success it logically had to become.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

1/5

Why make generic 80s synthpop without any interesting new twist in the modern age? Why listen to it? Why include it in a list of essential albums? So many questions...

The Clash

5/5

One of the great classics of the punk rock era with a surprising variability and musicality. All killer, no filler.

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

Most of the record feels like swaying bubble gum pop with fuzz guitars instead of real rock. Not actually bad, but not very exciting either.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1/5

Two hours of bad covers and studio improvisation? It almost doesn't matter that this is country which I'm not a big fan of, it's just not a great album, it's debatable if you should even call it an album.

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