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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Sincere
Mj Cole
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5 | 2.38 | +2.62 |
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Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
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5 | 2.56 | +2.44 |
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Palo Congo
Sabu
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5 | 2.69 | +2.31 |
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Roots
Sepultura
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5 | 2.79 | +2.21 |
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When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
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5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
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Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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Reign In Blood
Slayer
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5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
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Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Residents
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4 | 2.02 | +1.98 |
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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
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5 | 3.06 | +1.94 |
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Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Thriller
Michael Jackson
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1 | 4.22 | -3.22 |
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Harvest
Neil Young
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1 | 3.82 | -2.82 |
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
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1 | 3.55 | -2.55 |
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On The Beach
Neil Young
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1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
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1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
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Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
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1 | 3.44 | -2.44 |
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Coat Of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
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1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
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If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
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1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
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1 | 3.41 | -2.41 |
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Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
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1 | 3.4 | -2.4 |
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Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Beatles | 5 | 4.4 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 2 | 5 |
| Black Sabbath | 2 | 5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 5 |
| The Beach Boys | 3 | 4.33 |
| R.E.M. | 3 | 4.33 |
| Stevie Wonder | 3 | 4.33 |
| Metallica | 3 | 4.33 |
| David Bowie | 3 | 4.33 |
| Joni Mitchell | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Elliott Smith | 2 | 1 |
| Neil Young | 2 | 1 |
| Leonard Cohen | 2 | 1 |
| Kanye West | 2 | 1 |
| Tim Buckley | 2 | 1.5 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
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| Björk | 1, 3, 5 |
| Elvis Presley | 1, 4 |
5-Star Albums (81)
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The Louvin Brothers · 22 likes
1/5
When are Americans going to realise that country music simply isn't as important as they think it is
Loretta Lynn · 9 likes
1/5
Domestic battery doo bee doo bee doo
Steve Earle · 3 likes
1/5
This is the kind of shit they play on loop in the part of heaven reserved for cousin fuckers.
Utter seppo dogshit. Every yank retard complaining about the amount of Brit pop here can go fuck themselves.
Elliott Smith · 2 likes
1/5
Repetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.
Pearl Jam · 1 likes
2/5
Tedious slog. Maybe you had to be there.
1-Star Albums (40)
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Talking Heads
2/5
It's alright. Probably the peak of post-punk, and not necessarily in a good way. Each track sounds like any other Talking Heads track, very little variety. The Gary Numan's Chameleon bass feels very out of place.
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Buttery smooth hiphop. Can still hear the hiss of the vinyl that they sampled the beats from. Creamy vocals, easy to digest. Not a huge amount of variety, but honestly how much can you do with a crumby old Akai and some battered records.
Dolly Parton
1/5
You have to really like Dolly's wobbly voice and steel guitars to get through this one with a smile on your face. Far too American, far too boring, and only trace amounts of musicality. Lovely bass though.
Elliott Smith
1/5
Repetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.
Paul Simon
4/5
World music-y, chill, fun, with some absolute slammers.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
This is a flawless psychedelic blues album that doesn't put a single note wrong. The mastering is fantastic and gives an extra-dimensional quality that you just don't find in the modern day.
Radiohead
4/5
Any album that starts with such a beautiful FM electric piano is worth its weight in gold to me. This album also has some of the best vocals mastering/mixing/recording I've ever heard, and the overall sound design is nothing short of genius. It's not an album for everyone, but it's right up my street, and the mastering quality cannot be denied. Aside from this, it's hugely musically varied. Not every track is a banger, but it's easy enough to leave playing and still enjoy it.
Wilco
3/5
Yeah it's alright. Gets boring after 5 or 6 tracks though, and by the end I was completely over it. Too long with too little variation, sounds like any cookie-cutter country/blues/rock album that many others before have done better. It's the McDonalds of rock albums.
Emmylou Harris
4/5
Luscious tones and lovely singing, this is how to do a folk album properly. Has plenty of variety, but it lacks a sense of excitement which could've rounded it off. Excellent dynamics though.
Fugees
4/5
Not the right album if you're introducing someone new to hip-hop. Several stone-cold classics, excellent (if uncharacteristic) mixing/mastering, and a great all-round album for connoisseurs, but let down by the too-laid-back beats that don't match the lyrics. I could've done with the aggression turned up a little bit. Unfortunately, this leaves it trailing its contemporaries. Still great, though.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Count Basie didn't invent big band, but this album is a flawless presentation of everything that makes it great. You'd have to be properly miserable to not enjoy this.
Thin Lizzy
2/5
I'm just not interested in live albums. Not sure why anyone would want to listen to a crumbier version of perfectly good studio music unless you were actually there. I'd prefer this song list as just a compilation of the album versions. The live music doesn't add anything, and strips off a lot of polish. Only giving this 2 because at least the songs are good.
Love
3/5
Nice tones, good recording quality, musically fascinating, good variety. Doesn't hold up very well in the modern day, and just feels like classic boomer rubbish now. Guitarist only knows one picking pattern, but the bassist is fun to listen to. The music this inspired is better.
OutKast
4/5
Opening with a ring modulator is a brave move. I love the use of African percussion and vocal effects in the intro, too. Outkast weave in a lot of heavy plosives into their recordings, which gives them quite a unique feel. The aggressive beats and overdiven guitar and synth puts across the same emotions of their lyrics. This album also has Ms Jackson, a massive international hit, which was a soft introduction for huge swathes of people into hip-hop. Their buttery smooth rapping is the icing on the cake.
Ray Price
2/5
I pressed play and thought it was a blues album. I've never been so disappointed so quickly.
Love the stereo effects; there's some decent mastering for 1963, but can't help feeling like the out-of-time, super quiet kick panned far left ruins things a little bit in Night Life. I liked the super chill, laid back blues of Night Life, but the country is bollocks. Started strong and rapidly dropped off musically, but Ray's voice is lovely at least. And how many songs need to start with violin chord stabs? Come on, lad, you've got a full band. Use them.
David Ackles
1/5
Utter dogshit.
4/5
Short, enjoyable bit of latin funk. As soon as it finished, I listened to Low Rider though.
Ramones
3/5
This is where the line blurs between best albums and most impactful albums. Yeah it's great, yeah it changed the world of music, but there's very few unique ideas and outside of nostalgia and studying popular music history, there's very little reason to listen to this in the modern day.
Holger Czukay
4/5
I enjoyed this a lot. Greatest album ever? Don't think so, but it's pretty special. I'm a fan of anything that uses unconventional instruments to build its sonic landscape in a unique way. Bass playing is top notch too.
The Fall
2/5
Goths in the 1980s had it rough.
Elton John
4/5
Camp fun, slides down the ears.
Animal Collective
2/5
Peak 2009. Not in a good way. There is nothing memorable about this wishy washy rubbish, but equally it wasn't offensive.
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Crikey that was a good album. Excellent jazzy blues all the way through. I'm a big Kenny Burrell fan already, so it was bound to resonate with me.
Neil Young
1/5
I've never listened to Neil Young before. I have now realised that was no true loss to me. Painfully dull.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Bob didn't invent reggae, but this album helped refine it. Excellent groove throughout, with luscious bass.
Fiona Apple
4/5
I'm not sure what I just listened to, but I thought it was excellent. Love to have that much variety in an album.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Placebo did it better.
Pearl Jam
2/5
Tedious slog. Maybe you had to be there.
2Pac
5/5
Such a fucking good album. A rare case of the original being the best.
Elvis Presley
1/5
The OG of stealing black music and giving nothing back
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Brits do it better.
But track 3... ~hits from the booooong~ is all I could think about.
Johnny Cash
2/5
Hey, Americans, country music isn't anywhere near as important as you think it is.
Earth, Wind & Fire
5/5
I think this is one of the sexiest albums that's ever been written. All About Love is a highlight, but it really exposes the struggles of 1970s recording technology with a lot of clipping on the drums and trumpets. That's kind of part of the charm though.
Nina Simone
5/5
Raw, pure. Essential listening for anyone with the simple gift of ears
Jefferson Airplane
2/5
Boogie Pimps did Somebody to Love better. White Rabbit is a total slammer, but the rest is easily forgettable. I wanted to like this album more than I did.
LL Cool J
2/5
Music has moved on, and it wasn't even that good when it was new.
Pentangle
2/5
Hippie bullshit.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Smooth, but the skits are irritating.
The Beach Boys
5/5
All the hope of the sixties wrapped up in one album. Sorry it never worked out like you wanted, boys.
SAULT
1/5
I'd rather pick the dried shit out of a dead sheep's fleece and use it as a toothpick than listen to this utter wank again.
PJ Harvey
3/5
Yeah it's alright.
Janis Joplin
3/5
A lotta screaming and not really getting anywhere. It's pretty powerful and fun though.
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Decent shoe-gazey rock album. Not much to it, but what it's got is fab.
Aphex Twin
1/5
Not ambient enough to be enjoyable
Sabu
5/5
Finally, some good fucking music
Neil Young
1/5
45 albums in and already a second Neil Young effort. Are there really so few artists out there that we have to have such a density of this whiney gobshite's music? It's just not that fucking good, is it? The mastering on this album is bad even for 1974. I'm so bored of this shit that I can't even be bothered to criticise it more. Catatonic.
R.E.M.
4/5
Michael Stipe's voice is fantastic. I forget how much I love R.E.M.'s melodic tones. Love this album. Love the instrumental experimentation.
That being said, it leaves a lot of excitement on the table.
Deep Purple
4/5
This is the boulder that Planet Rock has been leaning on for decades. Total slammer, I LOVE IT, AND I NEED IT
The The
2/5
Shit Mining
Mercury Rev
4/5
Trigger Happy TV! I can't listen to this without picturing Dom Jolly winding people up. It's also pretty good.
The Divine Comedy
4/5
I quite enjoyed this. Instrumentation kept me interested, and the tone seemed playful and joyful when it needed to, and morose at other times. Reminded me of Pulp in a lot of ways.
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
This is exactly the kind of thing I signed up for. I didn't really like it that much, but in a sea of country and Brit pop, this is a welcome break.
3/5
It's pretty cool for an American rock album. Enough variation to keep it interesting, but lacking in power.
Dizzee Rascal
5/5
Giving this 5 because I love it, but it's mainly fun to piss off boomers and yanks
Marvin Gaye
4/5
My last favourite track is the title track... The rest is great though.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
In a sea of mediocrity, Frankie Goes To Hollywood tried to do something special.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
1/5
I'm not miserable enough for this
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Starts strong and falls off a bit, but really enjoyable soft rock jaunt
The Louvin Brothers
1/5
When are Americans going to realise that country music simply isn't as important as they think it is
The Rolling Stones
2/5
White guys playing black music but worse.
Lou Reed
2/5
Boring album held up by a few legendary tracks. If it was released today, it would be considered loser indie trash; does this make it ahead of its time?
Culture Club
3/5
It's fun but what's it doing in this list?
Queen
5/5
It doesn't matter who you are, where you came from or what you think, this is without a shadow of a doubt up there in the top three most important albums ever been laid down
Slayer
5/5
Fuck yes, some proper music
Van Morrison
3/5
Yeah it's alright
Pixies
4/5
I few stinkers but I enjoyed this
The xx
2/5
Boring as fuck
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Not actually listened to this before but that was really good. High energy, fun, interesting, very listenable.
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
One of the better psychedelic blues albums I've heard. Very Doorsy
Justice
5/5
I've listened through this album hundreds of times by now. It is practically solely responsible for shaping my late teens. I can't not give it 5/5.
Booker T. & The MG's
1/5
I'd never been inclined to listen to the rest of this album, regardless of how often ~that~ song is pushed in classic rock playlists. This is some bottom-of-the-barrel Blackpool working-man's-club bullshit.
The Smiths
1/5
When I was younger, I heard Girlfriend In A Coma sung to the tune of Tiptoe Through The Tulips on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Kinda ruined the original for me, but the album is still great. 1 star because Morrissey is a racist lunatic.
Frank Black
4/5
Kinda loved this, but could've done with being about a third of the length
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
1/5
This album made me regret being born with ears.
The Go-Go's
4/5
Textbook how to have fun with writing an album
Adele
3/5
Way better than I expected, but that's not saying an awful lot
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Some of the best percussion recording of the 1970s. Proper fucking music, this.
Led Zeppelin
2/5
Of all the pedophile rapists in the world, Robert Plant is certainly one of them.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Biggest bangers, but the rest of the album could do with a little more fun
Kraftwerk
3/5
Kraftwerk changed the course of music for the rest of eternity. I just wish they could've done it with a bit more pizazz.
Paul McCartney
3/5
He ain't much without Lennon. Poor lad.
Tears For Fears
3/5
Yeah it's alright
Peter Frampton
4/5
The tube in his mouth was a fashion statement
Björk
1/5
"Where Is The Line" she asks.
It's outside Dignitas, full of people who listened to this.
Beatles
3/5
Took them a while to get good...
Metallica
5/5
Stunning thrash, redefining the whole genre.
New York Dolls
4/5
Never been a huge fan of New York punk, but this is pretty cool
PJ Harvey
3/5
Punky, cool... Too cool for me.
OutKast
5/5
Never heard an 808 work so hard. Sublime.
Astor Piazzolla
3/5
Lovely and well recorded, just boring and unintelligible.
The Cure
3/5
Yeah it's alright. Not the best Cure album, but not intolerable.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5/5
Delicious music. Yum yum.
The Cure
4/5
I hadn't properly sat down to listen to a Cure album before, and I'm glad I did. I loved the ambient feel of this.
David Crosby
2/5
Boring
The Allman Brothers Band
1/5
No
The Stooges
3/5
Number one on the list of bands I don't particularly like, but hugely respect/appreciate.
CHVRCHES
4/5
Better than I expected. I liked it more than my spellchecker did.
Prince
3/5
Masterful dynamics, gets a bit boring.
FKA twigs
3/5
I get it, but it could've done with a decent beat.
Miles Davis
4/5
Hard to give this anything other than 5 stars, but I can't recall a single track and it lacked standout moments...
David Holmes
1/5
Not sure about this one.
Wilco
1/5
Americans trying to sound like Brit rock.
Shit.
Björk
3/5
Very Björky
Pere Ubu
2/5
Reminded me of Mclusky, so I went and listened to Mclusky instead.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Instantly makes you 290% more horny for your sister
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1/5
Yesterday's was Creedence Clearwater Revival, then this today... I'm ready to be a conscientious objector.
Big Black
2/5
I thought this was going to be about Bugs Bunny.
I was wrong.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Funky shit
Pink Floyd
3/5
Meandering, pompous
Def Leppard
5/5
If you listen to Animal on its own, it's a good song. If you listen to it in the context of the whole album, it's an absolute banger. Didn't expect to love this as much as I did
Coldcut
4/5
Pretty cool. Amazing what you can do with an S1000 and an Amiga.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
5/5
Jazztacular
Le Tigre
1/5
It's just a bit shit, really.
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Underwhelming, but gets an extra point for sampling The Selecter.
Britney Spears
3/5
Iconic? Yes.
Important? Yes.
Good? No.
The Doors
4/5
All the best hits from The Doors but slightly different
1/5
Domestic battery doo bee doo bee doo
Beck
3/5
I thought "Beck" was just Jeff being lazy, but I guess not. It's not terrible but I'm not desperate to listen again.
Radiohead
3/5
Radiohead's like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get.
Gene Clark
3/5
Maybe if I was camping, deliriously drunk,I might've enjoyed this.
Stan Getz
4/5
Lovely, like full cream music.
The Divine Comedy
4/5
Finally, something fun. Not the best album ever, but cool, light, well put-together.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
If this was released today, nobody would batter an eyelid. But it wasn't, it wasn't even released in the 70s. Extremely futuristic.
The Fall
2/5
Difficult. Would've enjoyed this at 14, but I'm not 14 now.
Tim Buckley
2/5
Just a bit boring.
Stan Getz
5/5
Wasn't expecting to fall in love today
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Yeah it's alright
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Soft. Nice. I feel like the woman in an old Dove Soap advert.
Leonard Cohen
1/5
They sentenced me to 41 minutes of boredom.
Roxy Music
3/5
Thought this was going to be way sexier than it was. I love Bryan Ferry's voice though, so it gets points for that.
The xx
2/5
Bit shit
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Sound of my early teenage years, possibly one of the first albums I "listened" to. Still holds up as a classic example of naughties British rock.
Depeche Mode
3/5
Synth gods, but this one fell flat for me
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
Don't think I'd listen again, but it's cool as fuck
XTC
4/5
Cute, fun, enjoyable if a bit long and samey. Can see why people ate this up in the 80s.
Beatles
5/5
Music for gods, by gods.
The Verve
3/5
Just another Brit rock album, but kinda fun
The Mamas & The Papas
1/5
I was expecting more from such an established name in music history.
Regardless can't change my rule that all child-fuckers get 1 star.
The White Stripes
5/5
Meg White is my generation's Ringo Starr
10cc
4/5
Good fun, for sure. I'd never listened to 10cc before, and I regret that now.
Bob Dylan
2/5
Bob Dylan changed the world, but so did cholera
Miles Davis
5/5
Some call this musical masturbation.
Well, joke's on you because I like masturbation.
Thelonious Monk
4/5
I fear no jazz
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Smoother than a mercury milkshake
Bobby Womack
5/5
Absolutely superb.
Bob Dylan
3/5
I guess if you absolutely had to choose a Dylan album to listen to, you'd choose this one.
Kraftwerk
4/5
I can't be the only one who thinks this whole album would be better if it was performed with steel drums instead of synths.
Manu Chao
3/5
This sounds like I recorded it.
Gang Of Four
2/5
Empty, tinny... Maybe it's a lyrics thing.
Duran Duran
4/5
Legendary slammers carrying a good album.
Joe Ely
3/5
Is this where the trope of man-standing-with-guitar-with-one-leg-on-a-wall began? Either way, less offensive than most country albums, and even a little fun.
The Monks
2/5
Not worth the effort it took to find
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
I really wanted to like this more than I did
Arcade Fire
2/5
Like a curry that wasn't spicy
3/5
Liking PJ Harvey makes you cool. Shame the music isn't that good. Skip to We Float then turn it off.
The Charlatans
2/5
You had to be there to enjoy this. And if you were there, I'm sorry to hear that.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Felt like this album was all over the place, like a bunch of sketches thrown together with not a great deal of overarching narrative. Great music, but not enough consistency.
Morrissey
2/5
Great if you like Morrissey
Bee Gees
4/5
Really enjoyed this.
Green Day
3/5
This was a rock album that sold like a pop album. I listened to the CD on repeat back in the day, but I've grown up and it hasn't
Simply Red
3/5
It's alright, but I don't get the fuss. Mick Hucknall winds me up too.
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Perfect for hip-hop samples. Lovely to sit through.
Fairport Convention
4/5
This album gave me a boner.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
1/5
Liquid shit. You don't have to be a racist to steal black music.
The Strokes
3/5
Somebody get him a new microphone. Nice cover art tho
N.W.A.
5/5
Squeezing so many straight-up hip-hop bangers onto one album must've been exhausting.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Tonally gorgeous, great production, but the songs are just a bit shit.
John Prine
1/5
Americans complaining about the amount of Brit-pop here can shut the fuck up
Röyksopp
4/5
"ah, so that's where those tunes come from" the album
Jazmine Sullivan
2/5
Cheap and uninspired sampling tricks that were boring in 1995; this has been done a million times before and a million times better.
Adele
3/5
Yes, she can sing, it's just that it sounds like a distressed seal.
John Lennon
3/5
Took a break from domestic abuse to write the most iconic piano intro of all time. Spent the rest of the time recording mediocre blues and Beatles B-sides.
The Beach Boys
4/5
Whizzing along at 200 smiles-per-hour
Johnny Cash
3/5
Americans getting boners - live
The Byrds
3/5
Historically significant but there's not much to enjoy about it these days.
Nick Drake
2/5
He listened to The Beatles and thought they would be better if they sounded shitter
Erykah Badu
3/5
Yeah it's alright. Not much variety, but at least it sounds nice
The Kinks
4/5
They really worked out those kinks
The Cars
4/5
Every song sounds basically the same, but at least it's cool. Would've lapped this up if I was 30 years older than I am.
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
PJ Harvey if she was from South America
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Masterclass in songwriting, recorded almost completely without soul.
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Every teenager's songwriting notebook since 2002. Boring as fuck.
Joy Division
5/5
This is a great album to me, but I wonder what it'd be like going in blind... Oh well. A review isn't about what others think.
Radiohead
4/5
I get Radiohead. The textures of this album are gorgeous. That doesn't stop it from being depressing as hell though.
John Coltrane
3/5
I wanted to love this, mainly because I think it'd make me intelligent, but I just couldn't.
Derek & The Dominos
1/5
Stealing black music then he has the gall to go on a racist rant. Idiot.
"Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded, and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking … don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for fuck’s sake?"
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
Don't know how to review this masterpiece. It's tricky.
The Band
3/5
It's not offensive, but for the life of me I can't work out why they made this album. Doesn't feel tight in the slightest.
AC/DC
5/5
Take any song, put it in a classic rock playlist, and it will never be skipped. Does this mean they all sound the same? I guess so, but they all sound great.
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Impossible to have a bad word to say about this soul masterclass.
Leonard Cohen
1/5
Boring and depressing
The Black Crowes
3/5
Yeah it's alright, but not sure I'd say it's one of the top albums ever
Elliott Smith
1/5
This is the kind of utter shit listened to by 13-year-old girls after they've had an argument with their mum
Pink Floyd
5/5
This is one of them albums that everyone told me is great, so I never bothered to listen to verify as it seemed so unanimous. I guess I was missing out.
Method Man
4/5
The 37th chamber
The Saints
3/5
I thought I'd grown out of pink, but this felt fairly modern and mature.
The Rolling Stones
2/5
This isn't it
T. Rex
3/5
It was fine, but didn't excite me
George Jones
1/5
Drab dogshit, shut the fuck up you whiny bastard
Little Simz
3/5
Nice break from all the country. I enjoyed this, but not sure I'd listen to it again.
Soundgarden
5/5
Delicious timbre, my ears drank it like tawny port, yum yum yum.
My only question is: are you allowed to "enjoy" grunge?
Ice Cube
3/5
Good music but struggled to get over the misogyny
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Pretty raw recording, for better or worse...
Taylor Swift
1/5
Sorry, this is just dogshit.
MGMT
5/5
MGMT were the most formative band for me in my teenage years, not least because I covered a lot of their music in my old synth pop band. Easy to listen to, fun, straight forward bops.
Tim Buckley
1/5
Gather round kids and listen to daddy sing about his ebony fetish
The Band
3/5
Music for sad modern cowboys
Mj Cole
5/5
I don't know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't that. Phenomenal from start to finish. Took me right back to being a child and sitting down to play TOCA2 on PC.
Lauryn Hill
3/5
It was alright... Bit waily though.
Cee Lo Green
3/5
Some tunes were better than they had any right to be, but I found the rest of it slightly annoying.
Bonnie Raitt
1/5
Boring and shit
Solomon Burke
5/5
Fantastic, I can put this on at any time and just listen.
Small Faces
3/5
Droplets of fun scattered in the pond of tedium
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Doesn't do anything wrong, but does it do anything right?
Don McLean
3/5
Wow they turned it into an album
David Bowie
5/5
I make many excuses for albums on this list, like "sure... It's good for 1970", but this album is good for today. Timeless. Wild is the Wind has some of the finest drum recording on any album in history.
Santana
5/5
Absolutely sublime. He only plays about 5 notes across the whole album, but what 5 notes they are.
ABBA
5/5
Most fun you can have without taking your clothes off (optional)
Black Flag
3/5
I wouldn't put this album on my iPad, but I'd definitely invite them to my barbeque
Doves
2/5
Like Radiohead but shit
ZZ Top
3/5
Kinda boring, was expecting better. I guess they had a rocky start, just made me want to listen to Eliminator
Elastica
3/5
Yeah it's alright.
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Cilla Black if she was American.
Dire Straits
4/5
Yeah, sounds like Dire Straits. Great album, but not their best by a long shot. However, still excellent.
Tito Puente
5/5
This album sets out to do one thing, and does it very well. Very fun.
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Why is every track used on Trigger Happy TV on this list? I'll tell you why: the tracks are fucking good. Shame about the rest of the album in this case.
Metallica
5/5
Pastor of Muppets
The Who
2/5
I hope I die before I get old, and start believing in fundamentally racist and obvious dogma regarding international trade relationships
Living Colour
4/5
Straight-up fun, but not much else
Blur
5/5
Park loife
Lightning Bolt
4/5
Wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. It's like early Smashing Pumpkins crossed with Butthole Surfers.
Beatles
5/5
Godly
Drive-By Truckers
1/5
Absolute dogshit. Bland, regurtitated, tedious dog shit.
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Was expecting pop nonsense, got served with cool punk goodness.
50 Cent
5/5
Decade-defining, genre-defining.
Raekwon
4/5
Smooth and creamy masterclass in sampling and rapping
Elton John
5/5
I was once commandeered to be in a band with an Elton-obsessed maniac. Even though we didn't perform any Elton, it was enough to put me off him for life. I'm glad this has encouraged me to listen properly and give him a chance.
Morrissey
3/5
I like some Morrissey albums but this didn't do it for me. Dynamic, cool, different, just lacking a spark.
Daft Punk
5/5
They wrote the rulebook for funky dance music, as far as I'm concerned
Nas
4/5
Pretty cool, very typical of its era
Christina Aguilera
3/5
It's just singing. The singing is nice, but that's all it is. Got boring quickly.
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Kinda raw, but like raw carrots rather than raw cake batter
Garbage
4/5
Good fun, varied, emblematic of its time
Solange
2/5
Can't overcome the boredom
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
This is a bit shit. I've heard people talk about Nick Cave like he's some sort of mythical creature, so I expected more. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I don't care.
Dolly Parton
3/5
Yeah it's lovely but I'd never put it on my iPod
Joan Armatrading
5/5
Like Meat Loaf but even sexier
Herbie Hancock
1/5
Older people often bemoan the repetitive styles of modern dance music as if it's a sickness of the youth. What the fuck, then, do they think this is?
Sex Pistols
1/5
Legendary music, but can't get past the murder and right-wing bullshit from John.
The Clash
4/5
If I went and bought this in 1977 and played it on a crackly, cheap plastic record player in my bedroom at the family home, it would've changed my life.
The Clash
4/5
Undisputably legendary, but falls flat for me a lot of the time. When it slaps, it slaps, though
Black Sabbath
5/5
I got recommended this album the day after Ozzie died. The album is a legend from my childhood, but I suppose I never stopped to appreciate why I loved it so much. Each song is a journey, the whole album shows more dynamics than an entire symphony, it explores multiple genres whilst still feeling completely tight. It really is the perfect example of how to write ~an album~.
Germs
3/5
I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but I was expecting something more sophisticated
Kanye West
1/5
Nope
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
There's a few albums I love and think are great that I wasn't sure if they'd make it into this list. This is one of them, and honestly I'm glad it's here. Pet Shop Boys were so far ahead of their time and laid the groundwork for electronic music in pop, and this album is just a continuation of that legacy. Having said that, Very is very short of bangers.
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Doesn't get boring but it's all a bit shit.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
One of my first CDs, so of course it was on repeat all the way through my childhood.
But then my mum went to see them a few years ago, so they have automatically become uncool.
Sorry guys, I don't make the rules.
The Kinks
3/5
When did harpsichords become de rigeour for pop albums in the 60s?
The Icarus Line
3/5
It's alright, but just made me want to listen to Mclusky
Beastie Boys
3/5
I like Beastie Boys, but not like some people like Beastie Boys. This album feels all over the place. I get that it was revolutionary, but if you didn't love it back when it came out, it's hard to find a space for it today.
Blondie
4/5
Cool as fuck, and honestly stands tall just for its attitude, but not a strong album all the way through
Brian Eno
4/5
Sounds like the easiest album to make, and at the same time, the most difficult. Could anyone else put this out and get it on the top 1000 albums ever though?
Aerosmith
4/5
Yup, sounds like an Aerosmith album. Loses points for not having any of their bangers, but I still enjoyed it.
Joni Mitchell
5/5
It's this the only album on the list that features a dulcimer? Should get 5 stars just for that. Joni is phenomenal, and proof (maybe the only proof) that American singer/songwriters aren't all dogshit.
Boston
3/5
Really falls apart after the first track, but what a first track.
3/5
Kick Out the Jams was a staple of old skate rock CDs, and I tried listening to their other music even back when I thought it was cool, but just couldn't get into it. I think you had to be there.
The Coral
2/5
I saw a review here about how Brits are tone deaf for stealing music from colonies. It's good to remember that we did that with 2-tone music, whose bands were formed of a mix of Brits and Jamaicans, vocally anti-racist, and used their success to promote support for the Jamaican communities of Britain.
This isn't one of those cases, and is just shit.
Kanye West
1/5
Get fucked, Kanye
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Kinda like Kate Bush but not as good. Not terrible though.
Mike Oldfield
3/5
Nice but wanky
Funkadelic
5/5
5 stars just for Eddie Hazel's solo on Maggot Brain
Yes
5/5
I want to hate prog, but I just can't.
Tori Amos
3/5
Wasn't really sure where this was going. Nice, tho.
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Do I love this because I'm a guitarist, or am I a guitarist because I love this? Modern era Mozart.
3/5
Honestly just doesn't tickle me. Fair play to the lads, but I'd rather not have to sit through this again.
William Orbit
3/5
Strange Cargo III? No, strange cargo vroom vroom you idiot.
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Cigar Smoking Simulator
Cat Stevens
4/5
Not my cup of tea, but this album is mastered incredibly. The use of negative space is excellent.
Sigur Rós
5/5
OooooooOOOoooOoOoooooooooo x 400
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Kinda shit
Peter Tosh
3/5
Sounded exactly as I expected it to sound. Not bad, but reggae complaining weed laws is just boring.
Elvis Costello
3/5
Yeah it's alright, I see why people like it. Not my bag, though.
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
I fucking love funk and soul, but I just have no idea why Sly & The Family Stone are so popular. Maybe you had to be there. Poor mastering, even for 1960's 8-track novice recording, boring music, rescued only slightly by the progressive lyrics - the absence of which would've surely seen this album disappear into obscurity.
AC/DC
4/5
They had their formula, and it worked. Fair play. 15-year old me would've given this 5 stars, but they lose marks for the lack of musical bravery.
Did it change the world? Yes.
Is there better rock music out there? Also yes.
Iron Maiden
4/5
Really feels like a first album, put together before they'd properly found their feet. However, I must commend it for trying different things, using great dynamics, and making best use of the sonic materials they had to hand.
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Classic Joni loveliness
3/5
Kinda boring, not their best work IMO.
Faith No More
3/5
Epic is great but the rest sounds like Guitar Hero nonsense
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Super cool, good fun, enjoyable
Big Star
4/5
Not even heard of this band before, but the album was a bit of fun
Love
3/5
Opens strong but kinda boring after
David Bowie
3/5
Not a fan of this Bowie period, but not unlistenable.
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Nice
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Pure music
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Yeah it's fine
Bad Company
4/5
If the one trick pony's one trick is really good, then does it matter if it only knows that trick?
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Pretty cool, pretty fun
Depeche Mode
5/5
Revolutionary, absolute slammer
R.E.M.
5/5
One of my favourite albums. Michael Stipe is unstoppable
Supergrass
4/5
Forgot how much fun Supergrass are. Great album
Pixies
2/5
Not a fan
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Nice enough, but doesn't tickle my fancy bone like other Fleetwood Mac albums.
PJ Harvey
4/5
Really cool
Parliament
5/5
This album took me into space and refused to bring me home until I knew how to dance
Amy Winehouse
3/5
I grew up in the era that this was all over the radio. It wound me up then as much as it does now. I can sort-of understand the hype, but if this album was never made, the world would be exactly the same.
Lambchop
2/5
Kinda shit
Ministry
2/5
The album I had to listen to before this was by Parliament, now Ministry, what next? House of Lords? Foreign Office? Treasury?
Album is good if you like industrial thrash. I, however, don't.
3/5
I didn't hate this as much as I remembered back in the day.
Mylo
3/5
Within a few days I've listened to two albums that reference David Bowie, but they're Americans who pronounce it "boo-ie". The other was Mothership by Parliament, so they got away with it.
Joan Baez
2/5
Poundland Joni Mitchell
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Poundland Bryan Ferry
Black Sabbath
5/5
I liked listening to Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
Nice (but not really).
Simple Minds
2/5
More mind and less simple next time, please
Iggy Pop
5/5
Not my kind of style, but what a legendary album. Has to be a 5.
Beatles
5/5
There's a guy in the reviews here who claims to be named after one of the songs on the album.
I think their name is Wood.
Donovan
3/5
Boring
Public Enemy
5/5
Smooth as fuck funky beats
Portishead
4/5
Boring, but makes up for it by being cool. If I was in the right place, this is an easy 5; however, sitting in my office, this album doesn't cut it. It's not a "listen anywhere" type.
Madonna
3/5
I'm too young to appreciate this
Queens Of The Stone Age
4/5
Lacks the refinement of Songs for the Deaf, falls short in my books.
Oasis
3/5
If you were a teenager when this came out, it's the best thing you've ever heard. I was more of the Arctic Monkeys generation, but still think Brit indie is all a bit shit.
k.d. lang
2/5
Americans wouldn't know good music if it slapped them in the face.
The Cure
4/5
It's certainly The Cure.
Patti Smith
3/5
I feel like I should care about this album, but I just can't. Fair play to the lass, but it just doesn't tickle any of my bones
Elvis Presley
4/5
Gets an extra star for In the Ghetto
The Police
3/5
I don't like having a Police record
Dr. Octagon
2/5
Kinda shit
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
This album could've been an email
Suede
3/5
Sick riff in Animal Nitrate. The rest just sounded like my old band practice.
The Beach Boys
4/5
OoooooooOOOOoooOooooooh
Gil Scott-Heron
1/5
Shit
The Who
2/5
The band that invented the modern teenager, and then abandoned them in pursuit of their own benefit.
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
Nice to listen to something familiar, yet different
M.I.A.
4/5
Good fun, something a bit different, enjoyed this
Television
2/5
Bit shit
Little Richard
4/5
Brilliant
Steve Earle
1/5
This is the kind of shit they play on loop in the part of heaven reserved for cousin fuckers.
Utter seppo dogshit. Every yank retard complaining about the amount of Brit pop here can go fuck themselves.
TV On The Radio
3/5
Something a bit different, inoffensive but I couldn't get into it.
Beatles
4/5
It's The Beatles that my grandparents liked, before they were fun. As an album, it's not much, but it feels like blasphemy to give it less than 4 stars. I'm not a court, I'm allowed to judge based on outside factors.
Frank Sinatra
4/5
People used to be so horny
G. Love & Special Sauce
2/5
Didn't enjoy this at all
Michael Jackson
1/5
Child abusers get 1 star regardless of how good the music is
Mekons
3/5
Wasn't expecting much, didn't get much. This album totally washed over me, no idea why it's in this list...
Pink Floyd
4/5
Wishy washy arena rock silliness, but I like it
UB40
3/5
Where's the bangers???
Björk
5/5
I used to wonder if Björk was some kind of practical joke the universe was playing on me. As I've grown older, I appreciate her far more.
Moby
3/5
We've heard this everywhere, which makes it "good" in a sense, and I do appreciate it for what it is, and I love Moby for just doing what he likes, but it's just so... Lacking. I love a fun album, and this ain't it.
The Stranglers
5/5
I didn't understand The Stranglers when I was a child. The weird off-kilter organ and peculiar dynamics threw me off. Decades later, the thick bass and daring-to-be-different is just fabulous to me and I can't get enough.
Air
4/5
Bit weird, but I'm on my 350th album to review so, I suppose, so am I.
U2
3/5
Please, no more U2
Fatboy Slim
5/5
The sound of my childhood
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
What the fuck is this mess
John Cale
4/5
Giving this 4 stars because I feel bad for the top review calling him English
Fela Kuti
5/5
Finally some proper fucking music. Funky, jazzy, souly, I could listen all day
Finley Quaye
1/5
What a tosser. Shit album, too.
Ash
3/5
Middle of the road pop rock with a few bangers. Not as good as Free All Angels or Meltdown
Blur
4/5
Yeah it's alright
Funkadelic
4/5
Stellar, but loses a point for the fart noises
White Denim
3/5
I forgot this album as soon as it ended.
Cornershop
5/5
Absolute belter
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
This is my generation's White Album
The Replacements
2/5
Kinda shit
Fred Neil
2/5
Folky, mediocre
Metallica
3/5
Love Metallica, not interested in live albums
Johnny Cash
3/5
The only live album worth paying attention to. Still country tho, sorry Johnny.
3/5
It's a good album, but let's be honest, it's not one of the best in the world.
Maxwell
2/5
Porn music made by narcissists
The Doors
5/5
I went into a record shop and asked what have you got by the doors? The bloke said a bucket of sand and a mop.
David Bowie
5/5
Remember when David Bowie invented music? What a day.
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Unfiltered, cool, perfect.
The Birthday Party
2/5
Kinda shit
Tom Waits
4/5
Lovely
The Residents
4/5
If Magical Mystery Tour was written by a lunatic
Beastie Boys
5/5
Hip hop spectacular
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Drums sound like I recorded them
Kate Bush
5/5
King Crimson
5/5
Something a bit weird, a bit different. The track The Court of the Crimson King elevates this to a 5 though.
The Pretty Things
4/5
Very modern sounding for 1968. Obvious influences of the time, but what musicians didn't experience that.
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Clearly stellar, but just didn't enjoy it that much.
Supertramp
5/5
Criminally funky
The Lemonheads
3/5
Like a Rich Tea biscuit. Completely inoffensive.
The Zombies
4/5
Relatively modern sounding, kinda nice.
Steely Dan
3/5
You have to be a certain kind of person to enjoy Steely Dan.
De La Soul
4/5
Didn't enjoy as much as I expected to, but can see why it's on the list
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Nothing short of extraordinary.
DJ Shadow
3/5
It was fine... Not sure I understood it.
Prince
5/5
Prince wrote the book on dynamics.
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Pretty but shit
Kate Bush
4/5
It's my least favourite Kate Bush album, but that's like saying the Levante is my least favourite Maserati
Songhoy Blues
5/5
Love it when something different comes up. Super groovy. I really enjoyed this.
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
Goddamn, there's so much that can be said about this album musically, culturally, historically.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Pretty cool
R.E.M.
4/5
I remember when an old housemate found out that R.E.M. used to be "underground". He was amazed. They just sounded too well-put together for that, and that follows in this album. I think you had to be there. Still good though.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
This album sounds like I made it.
Tom Waits
4/5
I enjoyed this way more than I expected to. Gives hope to heavy smokers that their singing career isn't dead in the water.
Eagles
3/5
Exactly what I'd listen to if I was an American trucker.
I'm not an American, nor a trucker.
Sepultura
5/5
Epic heavy metal album
Shivkumar Sharma
5/5
Came to the reviews here to work out why this is on the list. Everyone is right about the albums on streaming services being wrong. I really enjoyed this.
Screaming Trees
2/5
Kinda shit
Rush
5/5
So good I don't even care that it's prog.
Billy Bragg
2/5
Boring yank bollocks