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221
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You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Scum
Napalm Death
5 2.08 +2.92
Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
5 2.55 +2.45
KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry
5 2.7 +2.3
Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu
5 2.74 +2.26
Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
5 2.76 +2.24
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
5 2.82 +2.18
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
5 2.84 +2.16
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
5 2.84 +2.16
Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
5 2.88 +2.12
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
5 2.89 +2.11

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
1 3.38 -2.38
25
Adele
1 3.37 -2.37
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
1 3.24 -2.24
Close To The Edge
Yes
1 3.2 -2.2
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
1 3.1 -2.1
The Bends
Radiohead
2 4.02 -2.02
Who's Next
The Who
2 3.89 -1.89
Elephant
The White Stripes
2 3.84 -1.84
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
1 2.81 -1.81
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
1 2.73 -1.73

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
David Bowie 3 4.67
Massive Attack 2 5
The Cure 2 5
Fela Kuti 2 5
Beatles 3 4.33

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Yes 2 1.5

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Adele 4, 1

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Bug by Dinosaur Jr.

The peak of the mountain of "smoking weed out of an apple" music. I don't think there will ever be another record label as cool as early-mid 80s SST.

Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta

Just an absolutely insane album. The drumming is insane, the vocals are insane, the guitar shredding... also insane. Prog music for Fugazi fans

Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos

An album guaranteed to make me into an absolute emotional mess

My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello

I dunno man, sometimes shit just rocks

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Jazz Samba by Stan Getz
Mar 03 2024

Very good music to get stoned and lay in a beam of sunlight on the floor like a cat to

Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin
Mar 03 2024

Strangely, as a person into loud guitar music, this is my first time listening to Zep 3. Immigrant Song is such a hard opener, the riff that launched a thousand ice cold Coors Banquets. Drum tone is insane throughout, I hate that dirtbag classic rock jagoffs in high school made me not want to mess with Led Zeppelin until I was like... in my 30s

At Mister Kelly's by Sarah Vaughan
Mar 04 2024

Sarah Vaughan's voice is immaculate but this style of jazz kind of bores me to tears. I need cosmic exploration more than I need a rainy night in Chicago, nahmean? Also, imagine wanting to listen to any version of "Just A Gigolo" that ISN'T David Lee Roth?

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos
Mar 05 2024

Uggghhhh, starting my morning by rolling Clapton on this one is not how I want to enter the day. Let's try to stay unbiased, despite my long running opinion of "fuck that guy". Jesus, this album is over an hour long? Cocaine really does make folks think ALL of their ideas are great ones, doesn't it? OK OK, hitting play... I feel like there has to be a correlation between the popularity of this album and the amount of lead paint in homes in America at the time. What an absolutely boring turd of a record. If this is one of the 1001 records I need to hear before I die, now that I've slogged through this I welcome the cold embrace of death. (Fine, credit where due, the song "Layla" is a ripper, albeit one that could've been edited down by like a full two minutes)

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Mar 06 2024

God, what a breath of fresh air after having to listen to fucking Derek & The Dominos yesterday. Has there been a band with a more perfect career than CCR? Get in, get out, write only total jams. "Green River" is the most immaculate dive bar jukebox song in human history. No notes, flawless piece of art. Bonus note: the vocal production on "Sinister Purpose" sounds incredible (and Sinister Purpose would be an incredible name for a band)

1989 by Taylor Swift
Mar 07 2024

As an extremely casual T Swift fan, this feels like maybe her best front to back album? The production is very cool, the sequencing is strong, and the bops are bops. No smarm to post here, this is a very good album, and I'm having fun listening to it.

Real Life by Magazine
Mar 08 2024

Now we're cooking. A masterpiece of post-punk before there was a name for such a thing. Dark, artful, weird, and still catchy as hell. "Shot By Both Sides" will never not get me hyped up.

She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper
Mar 09 2024

When this popped up as today's album, I knew today was going to be a good day. "She's So Unusual" is an absolute masterpiece of pop. Artful, emotional, a wholly unique vocal, and hooks for days. Like, the A side of this record?? Come the fuck on. So many of Cyndi's vocal twists (see: the chorus on "When You Were Mine") just send dopamine rushing out of my brain like I just ate a pressy of really pure MDMA. Also, those backing vocals on "Time After Time"??? COME ON NOW. After humanity is long dead and gone, I hope this is the artifact of our existence that the aliens find amongst the rubble.

Future Days by Can
Mar 10 2024

Hypnotic, driving, and mystical in that very specific Can fashion

Teenager Of The Year by Frank Black
Mar 11 2024

OK full disclosure, I'm not a Pixies fan, but went into this with an open mind, and thought this was more enjoyable than I expected... and then the reggae song comes in and I am in actual hysterics. Fuck, there are still another ELEVEN songs after this? I curse the CD era

On The Beach by Neil Young
Mar 12 2024

Depending on the day, this is maybe my favorite Neil record. The run he was on from OTB to Tonight's The Night to Zuma is maybe the best three album run anyone has ever had? Perfect album, 5 stars, no notes

It's Too Late to Stop Now by Van Morrison
Mar 13 2024

I've never spent much time with Van Morrison's music beyond the hits, but after suffering through an hour and a half of this snooze fest of a live album: I think I hate Van Morrison

Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta
Mar 14 2024

Just an absolutely insane album. The drumming is insane, the vocals are insane, the guitar shredding... also insane. Prog music for Fugazi fans

90 by 808 State
Mar 15 2024

I drank beer all day and then put this on, lad vibes are rattling through my chest. Killer fucking album innit?

Toys In The Attic by Aerosmith
Mar 16 2024

I'd always heard 70s Aerosmith described as "a hornier, American version of the Rolling Stones". Imagine my shock when, opening cut "Toys In The Attic" aside, this album was extremely tepid and boring. It made for fine background, but I can't fathom listening to this outside of the hits for fun.

Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Mar 17 2024

Perfectly fine background music for a Hudson Valley coffee shop, but not something I'll be returning to on purpose

Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3
Mar 18 2024

Equal parts ethereal new age and ripping proto-punk, all my favorite bands' favorite band (and honestly, one of my favorite bands too)

Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
Mar 19 2024

Just a full hour of audial sunshine. This record is the logical conclusion of the "Wall of Sound" style production, just so much going on and not a single note of it could be edited out. This is as good as pop music can get.

The Fat Of The Land by The Prodigy
Mar 20 2024

Possibly the most stave dive-able dance music album ever?

Pearl by Janis Joplin
Mar 21 2024

I was kind of dreading this album and expected patchwork skirt style white lady bl00z, but this hit more like a mix between Aretha and Dolly. I can't imagine this is a record I come back to with much frequency or ever buy, but I had a much better time than i expected with it.

Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Mar 22 2024

Piercing noise, swooning melodies, and caveman drums performed by the coolest Scots to ever walk the Earth

Homework by Daft Punk
Mar 23 2024

This is my favorite flavor of Daft Punk, and is generally the album I go to when I'm in the mood for them

Vanishing Point by Primal Scream
Mar 24 2024

Primal Scream's weed record. This one sounds more Bristol than Glasgow, which fits the Scream much better their prior record's Black Crowes and rail whiskey energy

True freak music. Sounds like the inside of a schizophrenic's head. Grindcore for beatniks. A bartenders best friend for getting 4am stragglers to leave the building. Jazz as a weapon of mass destruction.

Blue Lines by Massive Attack
Mar 26 2024

A timeless masterpiece of an album. If "Unfinished Sympathy" isn't the high water mark of human accomplishment, I don't know what is

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Mar 27 2024

Has any album ever started off better than "Maggot Brain"? Eddie Hazel was really on one writing this album, a masterclass on being a guitar god

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Mar 28 2024

My big takeaways from this: • Leather pants need to make a comeback in hip-hop • It's absolutely insane that "Genius of Love" was basically getting sampled as soon as it came out • "Scorpio" is a stone cold heater • "Dreamin" is absolutely a deranged piece of music • Did a spit take when "You Are" came on

Who's Next by The Who
Mar 29 2024

The problem with starting an album with "Baba O'Reilly" is that every other song on the album is going to pale in comparison. Much like my experience with early Aerosmith a couple weeks back, I'm surprised by just how little rocking is going on here. At the same time this was happening, Black Sabbath were putting out "Master of Reality" and the Stooges had released "Funhouse" a year prior, so like... by comparison this just seems like nerd shit

Seventeen Seconds by The Cure
Mar 30 2024

The Cure at their most echoed out and skeletal. Absolute sewer dweller post-punk for sunglasses inside types (my 4th favorite Cure album if the mood is right)

Architecture And Morality by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Mar 31 2024

God tier synth pop from two of the best to ever do it (and one of Peter Saville finest album covers to boot)

Face to Face by The Kinks
Apr 01 2024

Perfectly fine very English sounding 60s pop with some great highs (Little Miss Queen of Darkness, Sunny Afternoon) and some dull but inoffensive bits of lava lamp music (You're Looking Fine). Not my favorite bit of the Kinks catalog, but an appropriate soundtrack for Sunday morning coffee

Back In Black by AC/DC
Apr 02 2024

Big dumb rock music at it's biggest and dumbest. Impossible to not crush a sixer of lager during this album's 45ish minutes of play time

Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada
Apr 03 2024

Bleeps and boops and clicks and whistles from the chill out tent. I feel like I like this album more in concept than in practice.

The Only Ones by The Only Ones
Apr 04 2024

"Another Girl Another Planet" is an absolute masterpiece of sad eyed junkie guitar pop, and while the rest of the album doesn't reach this high, it still scratches an inch somewhere in between the Buzzcocks and Johnny Thunders pretty nicely

Phrenology by The Roots
Apr 05 2024

If there is a venn diagram between "extremely talented band" and "extremely unmemorable music", the Roots live right smack dab in the center

A record who's songs are strong enough to match up with the band's lore. I haven't listened to this album in like 20 years, and it blew my mind how beautifully it's aged. These songs just blast out of the speaker, and had to have sounded completely mindblowing coming off a turnable for the first time in the late 70s

Apr 07 2024

I fully expected to shit on this album in my review, what with it being a late career XTC album that I'd never heard anything about, and here I am happily eating my shoe on this one. Well composed, well produced, clever and quirky Beatles-esque art pop that has me wanting to spend more time in the post 80s XTC catalog

S&M by Metallica
Apr 08 2024

First off, a big "get bent" to the author of this book for including a 2.25 hour long late career Metallica live album, that is absolutely cruel and unusual. This orchestra really amplifies everything about Metallica. On the positive side, these versions of "The Memory Remains", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", and "No Leaf Clover" all completely rock. On the other side, somehow they made that turd sandwich called "Hero For A Day" even worse, and the "Loosen up maaaaan" adlib during "Enter Sandman" made me almost crash my car from violent laughter

3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Apr 09 2024

Ripping guitars, flawless vocals, and a "Summer Breeze" cover? 5 stars all the way

The Real Thing by Faith No More
Apr 10 2024

If there's a better opening 1-2-3-4 than "From Out Of Nowhere" into "Epic" into "Falling To Pieces" into "Surprise You're dead" on an album, I've yet to come across it

Apr 11 2024

As much as I enjoy ambient Eno, I wish there were more fun art pop records like this one in his catalog. Listening to this, it's very obvious why the Talking Heads chose to work with him.

Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Apr 12 2024

Ideal music for having a little weed with your coffee while you make breakfast

Crime Of The Century by Supertramp
Apr 13 2024

70s studio pop that forgot to bring hooks to the studio

Axis: Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix
Apr 14 2024

Equally appropriate music for a holiday cookout with friends and family, and for macrodosing psychedelics and tearing apart the fabric of reality

Horses by Patti Smith
Apr 15 2024

Patti Smith as a NYC icon is much more interesting than Patti Smith as a recording artist

Superunknown by Soundgarden
Apr 16 2024

A perfectly fine album that's biggest fault is that it can't hold a candle to the masterpiece (Badmotorfinger) that preceded it

Cloud Nine by The Temptations
Apr 17 2024

The Temptations update their sound to stay current in the psychedelic era and wind up making the best album of their career

Berlin by Lou Reed
Apr 18 2024

I'm usually pretty ambivalent when it comes to Lou Reed, but this record was a very pleasant surprise. The orchestration here gave a very proto-Spiritualized vive, which I'm all in on. Immediately my favorite Lou Reed project I've heard.

Colour By Numbers by Culture Club
Apr 19 2024

Smart, sophisticated pop for heartsick yuppies. I fucking love it.

At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
Apr 20 2024

It's Johnny Cash playing in a prison, obviously this rocks

Ten by Pearl Jam
Apr 22 2024

As far as I'm concerned, the only Pearl Jam album with no skips. A little top heavy? Sure, but no skips

Different Class by Pulp
Apr 23 2024

Wish I could give this masterpiece 500 stars

Apr 24 2024

Music for folks who think Snow Patrol goes just a little too hard.

Permission to Land by The Darkness
Apr 26 2024

A record that both real rockers and theater kids can agree on

Apr 27 2024

It's wild that this was my first time actually listening to this album, considering it's reputation as "the best album of all time". I don't know if I'd go that far in a world where Hatebreed's "Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire" exists, but this was pretty fantastic front to back. Turns out I don't hate all whimsical music!

Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós
Apr 28 2024

Objectively beautiful music that is also objectively boring as fuck

Wild Gift by X
Apr 29 2024

"Conservatism is the real punk" starter band

The White Album by Beatles
Apr 30 2024

A good album by a great band that would be a great album by a great band if they had even a just alright editor

Doggystyle by Snoop Dogg
May 01 2024

Probably the coolest sounding rap record of all time

21 by Adele
May 02 2024

Expected to hate this, and was wrong, because this album kinda rules. Nothing but hits!

May 03 2024

I like Tom Waits, but an hour plus of piano noodling and beatnik rambling is too much to handle

Remain In Light by Talking Heads
May 04 2024

Party on the A-side, brooding on B, every single song brings it

Vespertine by Björk
May 05 2024

Stunning vocal performances that shine brightest when tethered to actual song structure

Catch A Fire by Bob Marley & The Wailers
May 07 2024

Even on a rainy day while in a terrible mood, Bob Marley still hits

My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello
May 08 2024

I dunno man, sometimes shit just rocks

Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian
May 09 2024

100% pure uncut music for people who read books at the bar

Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
May 10 2024

An album guaranteed to make me into an absolute emotional mess

Elephant by The White Stripes
May 11 2024

Mediocre music for mediocre people on a mediocre planet. Wearing a White Stripes t-shirt in public is a sure fire way to make me not want to strike up a conversation with you at a bar

Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
May 12 2024

I probably would've liked this album more if I didn't throw all of my bongs away when I moved in with my girlfriend

Hunky Dory by David Bowie
May 14 2024

Jam after jam after jam after jam. How good is your album when "Queen Bitch" is only like the 3rd best song on here?

Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
May 15 2024

Looking at my cats while I listened to this record absolutely made me cry

Brown Sugar by D'Angelo
May 16 2024

One of those rare trifectas of amazing vocals, savant musicians hip, and generally being cool as hell

Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis
May 18 2024

An absolutely fine 50s jazz album, but pales in comparison to the mind melting things Miles would wind up moving on to

May 19 2024

The sound of drunk driving in a 2000 Honda Civic. Would have scored this higher if it wasn't a peak CD era "make this exactly 74 minutes" overstuffed album

Two Dancers by Wild Beasts
May 20 2024

This era of bland ass big stage indie was 100% the reason I got back into punk and hardcore after a few years of doing cocaine and listening to Ed Banger Records. To quote the immortal Jay Sherman: "It Stinks!"

25 by Adele
May 21 2024

OK, the last Adele album I got on this thing surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. On the other hand: this album fucking honks. This selling a billion copies is all the proof you need that your average human being is boring beyond belief and has absolutely abysmal taste

Traffic by Traffic
May 22 2024

My first two albums this week totally sucked, and this album is fine but boring, which by comparison makes it a GD masterpiece

Scum by Napalm Death
May 23 2024

More grindcore and less boomer rock please and thank you. This album rules, and is only like... the 6th or 7th best Napalm Death record. The review section for this one is awesome, ya'll are a bunch of full on dweebs

We Are Family by Sister Sledge
May 25 2024

Nile Rogers at the peak of his powers + powerhouse vocals = the best full length of the Disco era and a total desert island record

Tommy by The Who
May 28 2024

The Who? More like The Snooze amiright?

Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout
May 29 2024

Some jangle pop gems, some sophisti-pop snoozers

Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices
May 30 2024

Sure, I'll drink 3 beers at 10am to "Alien Lanes"

Arc Of A Diver by Steve Winwood
May 31 2024

I can't fathom why anyone would ever choose this album over the front to back collection of bangers that is "Back In The High Life"

Mothership Connection by Parliament
Jun 01 2024

Shifted between dimensions at least 5 times while this album was playing

The Trinity Session by Cowboy Junkies
Jun 02 2024

I would listen to Margo Timmins sing delivery menus

Parachutes by Coldplay
Jun 03 2024

Weak ass barn wedding with twinkle lights in mason jars ass bullshit (but "Yellow" is kind of a jam)

Guero by Beck
Jun 04 2024

Bought three iPods and a cardigan from the GAP as a result of this boring ass record

Wild Wood by Paul Weller
Jun 05 2024

Paul Weller rocks. This album... ehhhhh... not so much

One World by John Martyn
Jun 06 2024

Man, wine dad music really had a moment in the 80s, didn't it?

Live / Dead by Grateful Dead
Jun 07 2024

I dig the Dead, but this era ain't it for me. Take me to Bobby in jean shorts ASAP

The Bends by Radiohead
Jun 08 2024

Fell asleep listening to this at 4:30 in the afternoon on a Friday

Soul Mining by The The
Jun 09 2024

This perfectly bridges the gap between English alternative/synth pop of the era and Downtown NYC club sounds. Not a stinker in the bunch here, five stars, wouldn't mind if this was the only CD I had in my car for a cross country road trip

Beautiful Freak by Eels
Jun 10 2024

There is a certain sub-sect of people my age who treat the dude from Eels like he's one of the great underrecognized musical geniuses of our time. I'm very proud to call none of them my close, personal friend.

Play by Moby
Jun 11 2024

Free the Gwen Stefani version of "South Side"!

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen
Jun 13 2024

It is unbelievably hard to not day drink when this album is on. I want to buy a house in the suburbs just to blast this on cassette in my garage while I work my way through a 12 pack of Modelos

Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes
Jun 14 2024

Rockers are 5 star, ballads are 2 star, raising this average up to a 4 star review because of how cool the Robinson bros always look

Stankonia by OutKast
Jun 15 2024

It's pretty wild that humanity has existed for thousands of years, and we're fortunate enough to exist at the same time as both Big Boi and Andre 3000

Casanova by The Divine Comedy
Jun 16 2024

Like a xerox of a xerox of a Scott Walker album. My friend Gerry's least favorite album of the 1001, for me... ehh, we'll call it a low 2

The Blueprint by JAY Z
Jun 17 2024

Jay-Z (and Kanye) are complete dweebs in 2024, so it's fun to time travel to a moment in history where they both made great music and didn't seem like totally unlikeable human beings

Moon Safari by Air
Jun 18 2024

You walk into a bar and this is on the speakers: you're not getting a cocktail for under $20

Jun 19 2024

I hated this so much that I might quit smoking weed just so no one ever accuses me of being a prog fan

Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti
Jun 20 2024

Pretty bottom of the bucket 80s pop. Made for TV movie quality, not Hughes film quality

Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies
Jun 21 2024

Absolute perfection start to finish. The Beatles never put out an album this good.

Blackstar by David Bowie
Jun 22 2024

There's something to be said for saving the best for last. A perfect sendoff to a brilliant career. Still gives me chills every time I listen

Private Dancer by Tina Turner
Jun 23 2024

Looking at all the 1 and 2 star reviews for this banger of an album leads me to ask the question: are any women doing the 1001 album challenge? Or is this site strictly just loser dudes in stupid hats? 5 star album, bite it you scum. Queen Tina forever

Figure 8 by Elliott Smith
Jun 24 2024

Peak "making a sad mistake for your high school crush" music

Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
Jun 25 2024

It's 90 degrees in NYC, obviously this is hitting real hard on the speakers

Kenza by Khaled
Jun 26 2024
The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Jun 27 2024

Sure, it's art school kid music, but at least it's the fun art school kids who like to party

Protection by Massive Attack
Jun 28 2024

Massive Attack shows up for round 2 and brings Tracy Thorn with them for this one. That's like playing with Game Genie, it just ain't fair how good this is

Revolver by Beatles
Jun 29 2024

Starting an album with Taxman into Eleanor Rigby is one hell of a flex

Broken English by Marianne Faithfull
Jun 30 2024

Mick Jagger never made a solo record this good... or really, a good solo record, period. Team Marianne all day every day

Sincere by Mj Cole
Jul 01 2024

One of the heads on the Mount Rushmore of UKG, but this is a singles genre not an album one

Stardust by Willie Nelson
Jul 02 2024

Willie showing us that the hits are the hits for a reason

Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins
Jul 03 2024

The Twins write a full on pop album and wind up with the best record of their career

The Undertones by The Undertones
Jul 04 2024

I mean, one listen to Teenage Kicks and you get why John Peel had it carved into his headstone, right? Rest of the album doesn't quite reach that height, but like, that seems like an unfair standard to hold any music to. Slot "Get Over You" in your punk night DJ set between The Buzzcocks and Cock Sparrer, the crowd will thank you for your service

Violator by Depeche Mode
Jul 05 2024

I got nothing clever to say on this one, I just fucking love this album a whole lot

Jul 06 2024

An important album that could've used some editing. Cut this down to a tight 30 minutes and it's a perfect 5. At an hour? 3 feels right

Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Jul 07 2024

Yeah I dunno man, like, I didn't hate this at all, but I retained nothing from it beyond "man, this Canadian sure does sound sad"

Jul 08 2024

I consumed approximately 17lbs of cocaine while clubbing to "Drop The Pressure" in the bloghaus era, and even as someone who looks back on this music incredibly fondly, having to listen to a whole ass Mylo album is a torture I wouldn't inflict on my worst enemy

The Chronic by Dr. Dre
Jul 09 2024

Just mind melting production from Dre on this one. Would it be better if it was 20 minutes shorter? Story of the 90s my friends

Reggatta De Blanc by The Police
Jul 10 2024

Sting's patois on "Walking on the Moon" = never not funny. Great record though!

Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned
Jul 11 2024

The Damned are a band that I think I just kinda like, until they're on, then boy howdy do I love The Damned. Actual vampire freak music

Jul 12 2024

What a bland fucking planet we live on where this is one of the most popular music groups of all time... but like, I'm not gonna deny that "Clocks" is an absolute banger

Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Jul 13 2024

Music for the mind, body, and third eye

Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub
Jul 14 2024

Absolutely deserved to beat out "Nevermind" in that Spin album of the year poll

Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis
Jul 15 2024

Still not my favorite Miles, but we're getting warmer

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Jul 16 2024

I generally can't stand Zappa, but I could imagine having a moment in my early 50s where I make being a "Hot Rats" guy my entire personality

Queens of the Stone Age by Queens Of The Stone Age
Jul 17 2024

Josh Homme figuring things out on his way to writing his masterpiece (Rated R) is still better than most of the hard rock coming out in 98. Like, when this album came out, Limp Bizkit and Coal Chamber were main stage acts at Ozzfest. By comparison this is subtle, tasteful, and as far as music that solely exists to do gravity bong hits to, pretty smart sounding

Ananda Shankar by Ananda Shankar
Jul 18 2024

This fucking rules. About to go rip some hash and travel the cosmos

Hysteria by Def Leppard
Jul 19 2024

What an a-side. Mutt Lange knows how to make big dumb music sound the biggest and dumbest

Can't Buy A Thrill by Steely Dan
Jul 20 2024

This came up as my album of the day on a ride to the beach, and man, I might not be able to buy a thrill, but I sure can buy every Dan record ever recorded

461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton
Jul 21 2024

Countpoint to my Steely Dan review yesterday: I was AT the beach when I got this album, and now I hate the beach and the sun and this stupid planet that produced Eric Clapton

Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys
Jul 22 2024

This is great! The Boos are a Brit band that I should know better than I do, but beyond the hits on "Wake Up" I never really spent too much time with them. This fits perfectly into that pre-Britpop moment where shoegaze and sample based stuff like EMF was happening. BRB, about to overspend on a vinyl reissue of this

The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
Jul 23 2024

The next few Maiden albums are really where they hit their stride, but make no mistake, Number Of The Beast still rocks

Dub Housing by Pere Ubu
Jul 24 2024

True freaks making post-punk before punk was even codified. This direct sonic lineage between this and like... Circus Lupus is undeniable

Songs For Swingin' Lovers! by Frank Sinatra
Jul 25 2024

I full on feel like season 2 Mr Big with this playing in my yuppie NYC high rise apartment

Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
Jul 26 2024

The peak of the mountain of "smoking weed out of an apple" music. I don't think there will ever be another record label as cool as early-mid 80s SST.

Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush
Jul 27 2024

One of those albums where the chills just don't stop

Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs
Jul 29 2024

Are The War On Drugs the defining dad rock band of the 2010s?

Off The Wall by Michael Jackson
Jul 30 2024

Sure, the b-side is a little iffy, but the first five songs on this album, back to back to back to back to back... lord almighty what a way to start a record

Yeezus by Kanye West
Jul 31 2024

Kanye West is a toilet of a person, but I can't deny that this is one of the wildest and most intense albums ever released by an artist at his level of popularity. Respect to the game, not the player

Done By The Forces Of Nature by Jungle Brothers
Aug 01 2024

Would be a 3 star just on the power of "I'll House You", but fortunately the rest of the album is dope as well

Black Monk Time by The Monks
Aug 02 2024

True freak music of the 13th Floor Elevators variety

Arrival by ABBA
Aug 04 2024

Pretty much just a nonstop dopamine release of an album

Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys
Aug 05 2024

It doesn't all hit, but some bits feel like a Scottish Westerberg so three stars feels right

Disintegration by The Cure
Aug 06 2024

Trippy and weird and beautiful, and even though it's not my favorite (that honor goes to "Pornography"), probably the front to back best piece of work of the Cure's career

From Elvis In Memphis by Elvis Presley
Aug 08 2024

Am I bugging out, or does Elvis' voice on "Wearin That Loved On Look" sound exactly like Cher?

Midnight Ride by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Aug 09 2024

Forever a sucker for psychy garage rock from the 60s, and this bad boy has got me reaching for the lava lamp

Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Aug 10 2024

I wanna hate on this album, but man, have you heard John Fruiscante sing backing vocals?

Suicide by Suicide
Aug 11 2024

My partner's review: "Could've done without all the moaning"

GI by Germs
Aug 12 2024

Multiple people in my life have told me that I have Darby Crash energy which is why I should probably start going to therapy again

Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
Aug 13 2024

You haven't lived until you've hit a bongload of DMT to "Pyramids"

Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
Aug 14 2024

Just totally insufferable fart sniffer music. I am 100% positive that I can beat every single Dirty Projectors fan on the planet in arm wrestling

Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
Aug 15 2024

Now we're cooking! This is a top like... 3 SST release, right?

Dookie by Green Day
Aug 17 2024

90s pop punk doesn't get much better than "She"

We're Only In It For The Money by The Mothers Of Invention
Aug 18 2024

Constant Craving is full on one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life. The rest of the album, solid wine bar songs sung by an S tier vocalist, but man, fucking Constant Craving will get ya every time

Aug 20 2024

If I would've been into this album in high school instead of Life of Agony maybe I would've actually had a girlfriend

Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne
Aug 21 2024

65 degrees in NYC with the windows open and a cold brew, this is album couldn't sound better than it does right now

Survivor by Destiny's Child
Aug 25 2024

The singles on this are undeniable, but holy shit was making my way through the rest of this album a chore

Ellington at Newport by Duke Ellington
Aug 26 2024

Live albums from this era are all a fascinating form of time travel, but this one also happens to contain fantastic music as well

Africa Brasil by Jorge Ben Jor
Aug 27 2024

Brazilian funk of the highest order. Only a deranged, criminal brain could give this less than a perfect score

Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Aug 28 2024

Yep, 40 years after the fact, this album is still pretty undeniable

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden
Aug 29 2024

Love the punkiness they still had with Paul D on vocals

Aug 31 2024

The Heads have some of the banging-est bangers of their era, but everything else just feels like tucked in music for folks who eternally think they're the smartest people in the room

The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan
Sep 01 2024

Works at the goth club, works at the punk club, works at the yuppie new wave club

Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan
Sep 03 2024

Welp, I guess it's about that once a decade point in time where I try out a Bob Dylan record to see if I finally get it. I don't.

Home Is Where The Music Is by Hugh Masekela
Sep 04 2024

Riding on the 7 train to the US Open with this in my earbuds, Queens NYC feels like heaven on earth

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sep 05 2024

Following up on my Little Richard sentiment from a few reviews back: this is 1000x more punk than the trash ass Germs record I had to listen to last month This legit might be the best live record I've ever heard. It's fast, it's hard, it's nasty, it's performed by an absolute derelict. If I was at this show I would've punched a minimum of two southern cops in the mouth. Five fucking stars, bravo to you, you depraved pervert

Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro
Sep 06 2024

The only actual rock-n-roll bands that've ever existed on Planet Earth are Poison Idea and Turbonegro

Sep 08 2024

Probably my favorite of the first wave UK punk crop. Smart, funny, fast as hell, and hooks for days. There will never be another Buzzcocks

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly
Sep 11 2024

Middle of the road burnout music, worth a doob in the garage to, but not much beyond

Music From Big Pink by The Band
Sep 12 2024

Bob Dylan's backing band > Bob Dylan. To borrow a Gram Parsons expression: this is true cosmic American music

Yank Crime by Drive Like Jehu
Sep 13 2024

Rick Froberg forever

Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
Sep 14 2024

One of those records where the hype is very real. The pinnacle of 21st century soul music (no disrespect to D'Angelo's "Black Messiah" which is also the pinnacle of 21st century soul music)

The Next Day by David Bowie
Sep 16 2024

A 3/5 album for Bowie is a 4/5 for everything else. Am I tripping, or is this the Bowie album that sounds most like Pulp?

Live! by Fela Kuti
Sep 17 2024

The sound of the littest party you could ever be invited to

Nilsson Schmilsson by Harry Nilsson
Sep 19 2024

Sad beautiful perfect weirdo outsider pop music (and one of my favorite albums/artists ever)

Rio by Duran Duran
Sep 21 2024

I live in a yuppie high rise apartment overlooking Manhattan and have a Nagel on the wall. Obviously this is my shit right here.

Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper
Sep 22 2024

There us just an unreal disconnect between how badass Alice Cooper looked in the 70s and how bad AND ass his music was

Kimono My House by Sparks
Sep 23 2024

The band that should've been as big as Bowie and Queen

The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett
Sep 26 2024

Beautifully damaged music from a beautifully damaged genius. "Golden Hair" is such a jam

Joan Armatrading by Joan Armatrading
Sep 27 2024

This would sound incredible on the jukebox of a bar with exactly one patron chain smoking reds and nursing a Bud bottle. In my apartment? Still pretty dece

Dire Straits by Dire Straits
Sep 28 2024

I can't figure out if this sounds like Bob Dylan, The Doors, or the Dead. All of the above all at once?

Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney
Sep 29 2024

Once upon a time this band fucking rocked

Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake
Oct 01 2024

What a perfect record to be assigned on October 1st. This is perfect autumnal melancholia

Step In The Arena by Gang Starr
Oct 03 2024

Impeccable sampling, great rapping, just wish there were two or three less songs on here and a bit of tempo variance

Suede by Suede
Oct 04 2024

I'd put the first 3 Suede records up against any other band's first 3 any day of the week

Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Oct 08 2024

God, the 70s were such a golden era for dirtbag jean jacket music, but this is like all of the nerd bits of Zeppelin without the parts that actually rock

Oct 09 2024

There is a sexist theory that people like to throw around that Kurt Cobain ghost wrote this album. My retort: Nirvana never made a record this good

What's That Noise? by Coldcut
Oct 10 2024

House music of the highest order. Lisa Stansfield has never phoned in a vocal take in her entire life.

Superfuzz Bigmuff by Mudhoney
Oct 11 2024

23 minutes of absolutely feral guitar music. Love the Dicks cover on the deluxe version!

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
Oct 12 2024

I love the Smashing Pumpkins, and most songs on here are good to great, but A: the guitar tone (and general production) feels like a drop-off from "Siamese Dream" and B: listening to 2 straight hours of Billy Corgan is kind of alot. If this set was edited down to two 45 minute LPS instead of one 2 hour double album, they'd both probably be 10/10. I'm giving this a 4 because 3 stars seems too low, but really this is like a 3.75

Viva Hate by Morrissey
Oct 13 2024

The comments section all agrees: Morrissey is a fucking dweeb. This batch of songs, however, are absolutely fantastic

Vulnicura by Björk
Oct 14 2024

The first two Björk albums are both hard 5/5s for me, and like... sure, glitch electronic drums and tons of strings and an Anhoni guest spot feels like it should be dope, but damn did this feel like a chore to listen to

Crosby, Stills & Nash by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Oct 16 2024

This album rocks harder than a folk rock album has any business rocking

Oct 17 2024

Like come on, this is just a jazzy funky punk masterpiece. The Chili Peppers owe their career to these dudes

Zombie by Fela Kuti
Oct 18 2024

Perfect for overthrowing dictatorships AND Saturday evenings at a cocktail bar

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