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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
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5 | 2.65 | +2.35 |
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Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices
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5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
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Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
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5 | 2.83 | +2.17 |
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The New Tango
Astor Piazzolla
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5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
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Shadowland
k.d. lang
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5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
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Out of Step
Minor Threat
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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O.G. Original Gangster
Ice T
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5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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The Dreaming
Kate Bush
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5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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Dog Man Star
Suede
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5 | 3.01 | +1.99 |
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Vento De Maio
Elis Regina
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5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
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1 | 4.45 | -3.45 |
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Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
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1 | 4.34 | -3.34 |
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
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1 | 4.1 | -3.1 |
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
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1 | 4.08 | -3.08 |
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Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
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1 | 3.9 | -2.9 |
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Off The Wall
Michael Jackson
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1 | 3.8 | -2.8 |
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Metallica
Metallica
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1 | 3.77 | -2.77 |
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Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
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1 | 3.73 | -2.73 |
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Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
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1 | 3.72 | -2.72 |
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Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
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1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Beck | 3 | 5 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 5 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 2 | 5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest | 2 | 5 |
| Public Enemy | 2 | 5 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.2 |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 4.25 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 1 |
| The Who | 3 | 1 |
| Steely Dan | 3 | 1 |
| Bob Dylan | 5 | 1.6 |
| Yes | 2 | 1 |
| Joni Mitchell | 2 | 1 |
| Bee Gees | 2 | 1 |
| Eagles | 2 | 1 |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 2 | 1 |
| The Doors | 2 | 1 |
| Fleetwood Mac | 2 | 1 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 2 | 1 |
| Doves | 2 | 1 |
| Belle & Sebastian | 2 | 1 |
| The Verve | 2 | 1 |
| My Bloody Valentine | 3 | 1.67 |
| Emmylou Harris | 2 | 1.5 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Metallica | 2, 2, 5, 1 |
| Suede | 2, 5 |
| Taylor Swift | 1, 4 |
| Stevie Wonder | 4, 4, 1 |
| The Rolling Stones | 5, 5, 2, 5 |
5-Star Albums (80)
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Led Zeppelin · 4 likes
1/5
This sucks man! Today is my birthday and I had to sit here and listen to the most overrated group of thieves.
Big Star · 2 likes
4/5
"And children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round
They sing, "I'm in love, what's that song?
Yeah, I'm in love with that song"
I hear so many of my favorite bands from the 80s and 90s on this album. That alone is worth 2 stars. A band that influenced bands I love deserves credit. I also really like this album. Darker than the other stuff by Big Star that i am familiar with. Which might make it even better. I'll have to listen to all 3 albums in a row to figure it out.
The Rolling Stones · 2 likes
5/5
Just good old fashioned bluesy rock n roll. I love it when it's good and timeless
Saint Etienne · 2 likes
2/5
It's fine.
I think it's time someone told Robert Dimery the definition of the word "need".
Bee Gees · 2 likes
1/5
The most interesting thing about this album is the picture on the cover.
This whole album makes me think of Jimmy Fallon. And that's not welcome either. At least HE had JT.
1-Star Albums (157)
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Pixies
5/5
One of the best alternative bands and albums. 5 stars 🌟
The Prodigy
2/5
Starts out strong. Then it falls off a cliff. Listening to this whole album is a chore. Also. It's better, IMO, to hear these songs in a dark, very loud club. Maybe on some drugs
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
This album is at least 1/3 of The Best of... Vol. 1. It's a good, solid album start to finish and has a great flow to it too. The fact that it was the middle of 3 albums released that year is amazing to me.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Tgis is a classic for a reason. A continuous album with a lot of history behind it (Pink Floyd's and my own). Not a lot I would do to this album, ie. work, drive, make love. But just sitting and listening to Dark Side of the Moon is like curling up and reading a favorite book.
Metallica
2/5
This is a tough album to sit through. I wish they had done this 10 years earlier, for several reasons. The first being that they would have had only the first 4 albums to choose songs from. Also, James sounds old and tired, and he wouldn't have in 1989. S&M is over-produced. Almost everything is buried under the vocals and drums. They say there's a symphony on this album, and you can hear it sometimes. But, Jason's bass is very quiet, no wonder he quit.
Metallica is a shell of the great, ass kicking band they once were. That's alright with some people, but it hasn't sat well with me for 30 years.
Beatles
5/5
It's The Beatles! What else is there to say? Their 3 album to date, first album from 1964 and it sounds like the first quarter of a best of album. This band stands the test of time. They truly were amazing.
1/5
Odd, very formal live album. I'm not huge on Dylan. The Dylan songs I like are the ones other artists cover. I wouldn't really seek thus out or leave it on if it was on the radio.
Neil Young
3/5
I reallyvlike this album. Starts out string and upbeat. Ends in a bit if a slower nite. Not any real singles, so maybe has passed some people's radar. Still a a great solid album.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
This album is OK. There is a good stretch of 5 very good songs (and great Bob Marley songs) in the middle of Exodus. But the songs on either side of thise 5 are too similar to each other. The version I listened to had 12 songs instead of 10. The last song, Punky Raggae Party, is a good song to leave you wanting more.
I would also give this album 2.5 stars, but that is not an option, so I rounded down
AC/DC
2/5
I don't understand albums like this. How are some songs popular, and others are not when they all sound the same?
That said, I was rather bored when the non-singles were playing. I guess I just like to hear an AC/DC song once in a while. Even on Double Shot Tuesdays I find myself wondering they've played both songs yet, or if we're still listening to the first.
Do you get what I'm saying? This review is as boring and repetitive an an AC/DC album!
Creedence Clearwater Revival
2/5
This album is 33 mins. But some of these songs seem like a half-hour on their own. I'm looking at you 3, 6 and 7)
Not CCR's best album of 1969. But it's there.
3/5
An album to screw to.
Depeche Mode
2/5
Of all the DM albums, you saying THIS one is what I should hear before I die? Huh?
Charles Mingus
3/5
I don't listen to a lot of Jazz. Maybe Big Band Jazz (Sintra and such), but this style is foreign to me. This was good music that created an atmosphere. I can see myself enjoying this album again. Sounded like it could be a soundtrack or a movie score.
This album generator finally has done what I was hoping it would do, turn my ears on to music that for whatever reason has passed me by.
3/5
Not the XTC album I would choose to tell someone that they absolutely HAD to listen to before they die. But. I like XTC and I like that this album is in their catalog, even if it has a lot of Paul McCartney similarities.
OutKast
4/5
Tgis is a great album. A bit long and filled with interludes is you play all 40 tracks. But still stands up. Not my favorite by them, but they have great albums all around
The Cult
2/5
Not their best. Not my favorite.
Sonic Youth
4/5
I LOVEEVOL!
4/5
Great album. I never rally listened to it and I thank this generator for opening my ears to it. A lot of bands clearly were influenced by The Kinks or influenced by bands that were influenced by The Kinks.
The Beach Boys
5/5
Classic. I would love to live in an alternate universe where the Beach Boys kept exploring this path.
Yes
1/5
Nope
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
So good. SO GOOD! I don't think there is a dud at all on this album. Classic!
Jethro Tull
3/5
I love this album when I was 15. And those songs I loved so much back then are still great today. But the few songs in between are quite tedious. I'm giving this album 3 stars based on how much I enjoyed it at one point in my life.
But if I was hearing it for the first time today, it might get 2 stars. The way this album sounds a lot like some music made in a shire with smurfs or Hobbits or the like; along with the repetitive themes that come up throughout the album (although the band says it's not a concept album?) just bore me somehow.
Britney Spears
2/5
This was a huge hit and there are some very, very good... even great... pop songs on this album. The album as a whole is a vit disjointed and all over the place. For 1999 when people were still making (and listening to) albums, it feels like a collection of singles. It does deserve a half star more than I'm giving it, but not a full star mor, so I rounded down
Arcade Fire
3/5
Meh. A lot of Arcade Fire songs sound alike
OutKast
5/5
This album is worth the listen. And then do it again and again. My favorite by OutKast and one of my favorites on this generator list so far.
Neil Young
5/5
Simply a classic! The songs are great! The order is perfect! Almost sounds like best of album! I like exclamation points.
Kate Bush
4/5
Good album. I was in the mood for it today. This isn't the type of music I ever think about or seek out.but very good. I'll round up the stars.
Bon Jovi
1/5
Very dated. Wanted Dead or Alive can't even save this record. Unlistenable.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
This album gave me exactly what I was looking for when I started this journey. I, of course knew about Amy Winehouse and also couldn't escape her songs (singles which I liked). But I never listened to the albums in their entirety.
This album is very good! The lesser songs are at a minimum good. And the better songs are great!
Rounded up for stars
Kanye West
4/5
Starts out harder, better, faster, stronger. Then the last third drops off. Rounded up on stars.
Joni Mitchell
1/5
I was looking forward to listening to this album. I only know 1 song by Joni Mitchell and I really can't stand it. But I know she's popular so maybe I'm missing something? Nope. And the first song is proof I wasn't gonna get a song that I like. The next 9 beat that point home over and over.
Seriously, ZERO FUCKIN' STARS!
The Specials
2/5
It has a few songs I liked. This link took me to a double album with more than a few repeats/remixes that were unnecessary. The Dylan cover was also unnecessary as it was very bad. This album was too long. Cut it down and there'd be a great EP here
The Allman Brothers Band
1/5
Oh. We're including live albums now? Are best ofs allowed too? I call BS.
Also this album? I know people love this band. I do not. I'm not into jam band/southern rock. But seriously what is this? It's just pointless and aimless. Ending in a 25 min Whipping Post?
The only thing I can say is it's expertly recorded and mastered. I can't imagine that an Allman Bros. fan wants to sit through these songs that should have been left on the cutting room floor, and then done live to boot. Gets one star for effort and 1 for the production value. MINUS one star because it's a live album and really shouldn't be included on this generator.
Prefab Sprout
1/5
I had never heard of this band before today. I would like it if I never hear of them after today.
I used to work at a gaudy woman's clothing store when I was a teenager in the 80's. Bands like this and Shakespeare's Sister and poor man's versions of Richard Marx and Howard Jones would play in the background. It drove me crazy day after day.
There was a lot of this background, one step away from MUZAK, easy listening garbage in the 80s. The world is better now that people don't make it anymore.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
These are the types of albums that get through when you set your number too damn high. Maybe 401 albums would have been better.
Seriously, mediocre bands, sub-par albums from great bands (or at least a band that has a much better album).
I'd like this generator to start honing it in
I'm being generous with my stars today
Michael Jackson
2/5
Yeah. This is one of the quintessential pop albums of the 90s. I feel at least 7 of these songs were singles or released somehow and very popular. And because of that, this whole album sounds dated and quite frankly bores me. Strangely Thriller doesn't bore me, although it sounds pretty dated too.
I didn't really care about this album in 1987. I care about it even less in 2024.
Peter Tosh
4/5
This is a good album. Better than I thought it would be. Doesn't bore me. Incorporates more than just Raggae, and the song order is good too.
Rounding up on stars, because it deserves it.
The Kinks
4/5
Good, solid album. Not really a bad song. Some songs are better than others though. I can clearly see how a lot of bands that came later were influenced by this album.
Fatboy Slim
4/5
For what this album is is great. I personally lost intrest after song 9 or 10. But that doesn't make the rest of the album bad. I was just bored.
Rounded up on stars
Green Day
2/5
Green Day has always made me want to shut Green Day off. If I'm gonna listen to poppy-punk, I'll choose a band that does it well (Operation Ivy, NOFX)
I wanted to shut this off several times too. I do commend them on stretching out a bit for this album. I'm sure if you like GD then this album works for you, it just doesn't for me. I almost long for the days off Kerplunk or Dookie. Almost
The Saints
4/5
This album is exactly what that first wave of punk was. It's fun, energetic and not boring at all. The songs are in a great order and it's perfectly produced. If this is what you're into it should be up your alley. I'd say they are sadly under appreciated (or even heard of)
New York Dolls
5/5
Pretty damn near perfect especially for the time.
Miles Davis
4/5
Beautiful, nice background dinner (or post-dinner cocktail) music
Donald Fagen
1/5
Yawn.
Dry & tight.
Morrissey
4/5
This is a good album
Randy Newman
4/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
This isn't as great as I expected it to be. It's the first from Elvis so that means something. Blue Suede Shoes is a fantastic cover and a great way to kick of the album. But it never reaches that height again in the next 25 minutes. Wonderfully produced and good order. There are just better Elvis albums out there
Liz Phair
4/5
I love this album. I love Liz Phair. I thought it would be hard for me to listen "objectively and with new ears". But it turns out I was able to do it.
The songs that always hit hard, did again. And there are more than s few of them. But some if the songs I now hear as filler songs. Not great, maybe even just good. I would just skip them if listening on my own. They make the album too long and then by the end, I got a bit bored. I think maybe this album could be in just a slightly different order, and the boredom would be alleviated
Still a wonderful album though
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
I haven't heard this whole album in decades. I don't know how I'd feel about it if I heard it for the first time just now. But because I loved it when I was young, and it was a big part of my growing up I still love it. No matter how dated it actually is.
Bob Dylan
2/5
Dylan has good songs, even great... when someone else is covering them.
The Jam
2/5
I don't know a lot about this band. But, this is one of those albums where you can just tell they have better albums. I'm gonna listen to their others. If this is their best, I'll be disappointed
Weather Report
1/5
This is one of those times when I wish that I could advance without rating the album. I do not like this album at all. It's not my thing. BUT, people I know whose thing it IS say this album is in their top 10. One friend said they thought of Hardcore or Speed Metal as sped up Jazz Fusion. I love Hardcore and Speed Metal, but I do not make the same connection.
Supergrass
5/5
FINALLY! This is one hell of a debut album from one of my top 10 favorite bands. They were so young when this came out that it's amazing how good it is. Also how smart and introspective some of the lyrics are.
Proper rock band, with proper influences. This is an amazing album (& amazing debut) and it's not even the best by Supergrass!
The Cure
3/5
Yes there are some good songs on this record. Even a couple more when they were billed as Cult Hero. But this is an album you listen to after you've already establishedthat you really like The Cure and you want to see where "they came from". Good solid record, not their best and a few years away from hitting their stride
PJ Harvey
4/5
Maybe because he passed last week and he's front of mind right now, but you can totallyhear the Steve Albini thumbprint on this album. And that's a good thing. I love the intensity and honesty and humor and emotion on this album. If I were choosingone PJ Harvey album to put on this list I dontvknow which I'd pick. Maybe it would be this one. Maybe not. But while I was listening to it, I thought it would be. I'm gonna listen to her next release now and I'm sure I'll feel it should be that one too
Traffic
1/5
This sounds like a compilation of 70s TV themes you've never heard because the shows didn't make it past the pilot.
Snoop Dogg
4/5
This album is great. There are a few too many interludes, even for the era. But he was obviouslytesting the waters to see if people would gravitatetoward how funny Snoop is. There are also too many repeated lyrics from The Chronic. But all the songs are good and it even leaves you wanting to hear more.
Faust
1/5
I'm starting to think this list and I have different definitions of the term "Must Hear".
Van Morrison
2/5
Eh. I don't like VM. And this album did nothing to change that opinion.
Cheap Trick
3/5
I'm not into Cheap Trick. Have friends who are. I know some songs, they're fine.
I don't think Best Ofs or live albums should be on this list (unless it's special like Sinatra Live at the Sands) but as someone not very into CT, this gave me a good insight.
They're good. I understand why people like them. I'm still not into them, but they do what they do very well.
Radiohead
3/5
Not my favoriteRadiohead album. But I like them for doing it.
Michael Jackson
4/5
Makes sense that this album would be on this list. That's a relief.
I've heard this album a million times. I've heard some of these songs even more than that. Amazingly, some of these songs still sound fresh.
It's a good pop album. Ends on a lower note than I'd appreciate, but that's just me.
I have no desire to ever hear this album again
Tom Waits
3/5
I understand
Todd Rundgren
1/5
This album felt like an eternity!
I know very little about this dude's music. So little so that the first song "I Saw the Light" I've always just assumed it was Carole King, or Carley Simon or Anne Murray.
All I knew was he did that 'I don't wanna work I just wanna bang on my drum all day' song. (Not for me) And that Liv Tyler thought he was her dad until she was 11.
I hope this is the only album of his on this list.
Blue Cheer
3/5
Really good album. Unfortunately I'm hearing it for the first time just now. It suffers from so many bands sounding like this in some way over the past 50+ years
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Good album. If this is what you're into, he does it maybe better than anyone else.
Arrested Development
4/5
This is a good album. I now wish I gave it more if a chance in 1992/3. I've seen them live at Lollapalooza, they did put on a great show. But at the time it's just not the hip hop was was interested in listening to. I bet if I did give it a chance I'd have a place in my heart for it.
Now I listen and I like it, and I wouldn't turn it off, but I don't see myself listening to the whole album again too many more times. Rounding up for the message of Love, respect and self-worth
Iron Maiden
3/5
One hell of a metal album!
Yes
1/5
COME ON!
You don't NEED to hear even one Yes Album. Why would you put 2 on the list? If there are 3, I'm forced to belive this whole list is just plain bullshit!
ZERO FUCKING STARS!
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Made me want to listen to Workbook by Bob Mould
Saint Etienne
2/5
It's fine.
I think it's time someone told Robert Dimery the definition of the word "need".
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Shot out to WBCN
If you took out all the repetition on this album, the playing time would be 46 seconds.
I danced once, reminisced twice. And got bored by the repetitive nature of it all.
You don't NEED to hear one Fatboy Slim album (maybe a few songs, but aside from that), let alone 2
Praise You is good though.
Pulp
3/5
Good. I mostly ignored Pulp in the 90s. I dint turn them off, just didn't seek them out. But listening now, there are some very good songs. And some good ones too. I'll listen again.
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
A couple good bookends. This album seems like it tries to be so many things, that it's nothing really at all
Bob Dylan
2/5
Hope you like harmonica.
There was actually a song I was unfamiliar with, and I actually liked it.
Most Dylan songs are better when covered by other people IMO. This being the third Dylan album on this list I'd say it seemed like the covers are better because of the lack of passion in Dylan's delivery. This album actually was performed with some feeling. So that was a welcome change.
Still, it's Dylan.
PS This album cover won best cover of 67 (I believe). The other covers must have been utter garbage.
Venom
3/5
This is the foundation of my youth. A lot of the bands I listened to growing up were directlyor indirectly influenced by Venom. While I hadn't been turned on to them until later, I love them for existing!
Living Colour
2/5
The music is better than the lyrics/melodies. Also, seems a but dated because it's almost 40 years old.
I really do love Cult of Personality. I also think it was a very important bridge between the hair metal era and the grunge era.
Rush
2/5
It's Rush. No more. No less. Not very exciting. You dont need to hear it. No songs about radio towers on this album.
At least it didn't give me yet ANOTHER fuckin' Yes album.
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
Wu-Tang for President 2024!
David Bowie
2/5
The Brian Eno David Bowie doesn't excite me withe way David Bowie without Brian Eno does.
I understand this album and why it's on this list. It just doesn't need to be if you take all other Bowie albums into account.
The Who
1/5
It's as good as the first time I heard it.
If you're at a party and The Who is on and you see someone really into it, stay away. That person is probably boring too.
This album thinks it's better than it actually is. Sadly, it's the best album The Who has to offer.
ABBA
4/5
This album is very, very good for what it is. Perfectly catchy. Perfectly produced. The songs that dancy are successful in getting you to move.
I don't listen to ABBA voluntarily but I don't turn them off either. I'd be happy to hear any of these songs at a club (or let's face it, it would really be at a wedding).
I was not familiar with Money, Money, Money and I really liked it
The Police
4/5
Tgis is an album that shows off alot of what the Police have to offer. Some hits, pop songs, reggae, jazz. Sometimes all in the same song. It might not be my favorite Police album, but I understand why it's on this list.
Rounded up for Bring on the Night and The Bed's Too Big Without You
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
It's good if you like avant guarde. It also still sounds fresh. Not what you might expect from PiL, but it's their second album, so they were telling you to abandon your expectations.
Paul Simon
1/5
Oh. I guess Graceland isn't the only Paul Simon solo album I hope to never hear again.
ZERO stars.
Pink Floyd
4/5
I didn't remember as much filler on this album as there is. I also didn't remember that almost half the album has become radio hits.
My opinion about this album has ebbed and flowed over the years. Regardless of my current opinion it's the first album I've gotten on this list (day 89) that I actually agree that you must hear.
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
This is a solid album. Well produced and Bonnie Raitt is a talented songwriter and artist. Amazingly, thus is my forst Country album from this list (day 89). This music isn't something I seek out,and sadly it reminds me of background music at the market. Because that's what it was for me for so long in the 90s.
But this deserves more than that.
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
It's an LCD Soundsystem album. Nothing more. Not much less
Ice T
5/5
Man this tape didn't leave my tape player for close to a year. I still think it's fantastic! Fantasticly produced. Fantastic order. Great beats, great songs, great rhymes. Great message on all the songs. I'd love to hang out with T.
OG aged well and I still enjoy listening/singing along to it. Sad that nothing has really changed in America. I was 16 when it came out and I'm 50 now and I see and hear the same problems.
I had been a fan of Ice since the Breakin' days and I always will be.
Television
4/5
This is solid. Still sounds fresh. Last year, I knew a 25 year old who had never heard Television before. A song from this album came on and he thought it was a new song from a new band.
I like this album. All songs are good if not great.
Beck
5/5
This album is so good. Beck is one of those artists who when I listen to an album like this I think "is this his best?".
Then I listen to another and I think the same thing. And then even another.and think I again.
The Only Ones
3/5
Tgis album bored me. And that is by no fault of the band. If I had discovered this when I was anywhere between 14 & 21 I would have loved it- I'm sure.
But now it sounds too similar to bands I love that were clearly influenced by The Only Ones. That is worth appreciation.
The last 4 songs of this 13 track album were exceptionally better than the rest, I must say.a couple could actually be released today and get a following.
Radiohead
5/5
Doesn't get much better than this!!
Skepta
2/5
I don't know what I was expecting. This is all new to me. I might have to give it another listen. Some songs are way too repetitive lyrically. Som beats are great. Some songs I like and others I don't think I like at all.
I'm interested in hearing what comes after this. See if he grew as much as I think he could.
Alanis Morissette
1/5
No. No. No. Nobody ever needed to hear this. I listened again and was just as annoyed as I was in the 90s. This is just bad. No redeeming qualities.
Ice Cube
4/5
So, so good. This album along with Ice T's OG and Dre Dre's The Chronic are the trifecta of early 90s rap. Paced the way for groups like Wu Tang and the like.
2/5
Metallica
2/5
There's no reason for THIS Metallica album to be on this list. Just like there's no reason for the S & M album to be on this list.
This isn't the worst Metallica album (that honor goes to any album that came after this one). I still listen to new Metallica albums, hoping they'll go back to the well. They came very close with Death Magnetic, but James ruined it with those lyrics and his melodies.
Also, this album would be better if the bass was audible.
Pulp
2/5
This is good. Just not sure I was in the mood. I dint care for how he tried to sound like, and sing like Elvis Costello on a few songs.
Also, a couple of songs got me wanting to listen to OK Computer.
I'll listen again, but I wasn't feeling my first go around.
Nirvana
5/5
Now we're talking! I was fearful that this album wouldn't hold up. I was afraid it would just make me nostalgic. It did make me nostalgic, but I also think these songs are still very good. I heard a message this time around, or maybe a bit of a theme? Maybe I'm just older and read into things nowadays
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
1/5
I totally understand why Mark Lanegan and Mudhoney are on the tribute album. I wouldn't put this in the class of "Must hear before you die" but that seems to be the case for 80% of what I've heard so far from this generator.
Some of these songs also sounded like demos and one sounded like it was recorded at the bottom of a swimming pool
Funkadelic
4/5
It's a good album. 2 songs take up 20 of tge 36 minutes. So if you like that sort of thing.
Music is good. Seemed like they had a good time making it.
Rounded up
Mercury Rev
1/5
Is it interesting? Yeah, sorta.
Do I want to hear it again? No!
Am I happy I heard it once? I'd be the same person if I never heard it.
I'm gonna say even for something a bit interesting, absolutely nothing stood out enough to make me think I'll remember it in an hour.
Supertramp
1/5
I've known Supertramp peripherally forever and never cared about them at all. I actually can't stand the radio songs. Looks like I don't like the rest either.
Ever notice how that Take a look at my girlfriend song has the same intro as Don't Speak by No Doubt?
Turbonegro
1/5
This album was released 10 years too late for it to be worth anything. Also these lyrics are very juvenile.
There are much better albums in this genre.
Rocket From The Crypt
1/5
Not for me. This album made me want to listen to other albums by bands I enjoy. Curiously, a couple of those bands are Rockabilly. Maybe RFTC should have gone that route. But, they would need to fire this post nasal drip lead singer for one with a real voice who can come up with pleasing melodies.
John Martyn
1/5
This sentence made me throw up in my mouth a bit... "Solid Air is the fourth studio album by Scottish folk singer-songwriter John Martyn, released in February 1973". Everything about that screams RUN! RUN NOW! PURE SHITE!
I was mostly right. Dreams by the Sea and the "Jelly Roll" part of The Easy Blues are good. As for the rest... well you know... RUN! RUN NOW! PURE SHITE!
Bee Gees
1/5
The most interesting thing about this album is the picture on the cover.
This whole album makes me think of Jimmy Fallon. And that's not welcome either. At least HE had JT.
LTJ Bukem
1/5
I have no use for albums like tgis. Especially if I'm listeningmidday and sober. It was a tad interesting at the beginning. But that faded quickly. I've also heard less repetitive, vis a vie, less boring albums from the same genre.
Not worth having to search out what platform to listen on as it isn't available on most. YouTube has ads in the middle of the what I can only call "songs"
Eagles
1/5
One of my least favorite American bands. And this album helps prove my point for me.
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
It never even once occurred to me to listen to the album that has Come On Eileen on it. Now I know that I should have kept it that way. I'll never listen again. There's no reason to listen in the first place. Also, I now don't care if I ever hear Come On Eileen ever again.
Coldplay
1/5
You know what album you "need to hear before you die"? The album that makes you want to listen to Radiohead!
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2/5
After 11 straight days of 0 to 1 star albums this was a change.
I've never heard of Alex Harvey before but I like a couple songs. Those were the ones that sounded as if Ween and Randy Newman made a record. The rest of the album was OK. But enough to make 2 stars.
Ananda Shankar
2/5
Sure. Whatever.
If an American in a 1960s film goes to India, at least one song from this album would be on the soundtrack.
Rounded up on stars
Steely Dan
1/5
No Thrills Here
I was listening to this album, and only listening to this album, literally doing nothing else, and I forgot that I was listening. That's how ignorable and background these songs are.
I almost gave it 1 star, but that last song ruined any good credit this album was holding on to. Zero stars
Yeah, I don't like Steely Dan and this did nothing to win me over.
When am I gonna get something actually interesting? Inxs? Beck? Kanye? Fugazi? Quicksand? Goldie? Faith No More? A Tribe Called Quest? Kylie?
The Rolling Stones
5/5
This is a great jump off record if you want to get into the Stones. It has a lot of their influences and sounds like their earlier work enough, all while showing you a glimpse of what's to come.
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
I don't play guitar so I don't really care about Hendrix as much as most. I mean seriously, people still cream their pants over this guy.
Technically this is a pretty sound album. Great production, the blending of genres the use of stereo and what might be early sampling are all pluses.
I just don't really like the songs. Most of the time it sounds like the rock n roll version of what you would hear in a spa. That just doesn't do it for me.
The Who
1/5
Stop with the Live albums. The only Live albums you should have are Throwing Copper and Mental Jewelry.
This is my 2nd The Who album on this generator. I guess I just don't like The Who. I've always just tolerated them. But now after having to hear a bunch of songs in a row I find them to be the least exciting of the Brittish Invasion bands.
5/5
Tgis is the beginning of when The Beatles get very, very interesting. They are really coming into their own here, while still letting their influences show, weather those influences be older or newer. Tgis is one of my favs
The Doors
1/5
Morrison Hotel perfectly encapsulates why I hate The Fucking Doors.
ZERO STARS
The Temptations
2/5
I'm glad I heard this album. Has some songs I have never heard before, some of them even funky. But the second part of the record was a bit boring for me.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
2/5
I hoped this would be better, memorable even. Man this should have been great. Maybe I have to give it another listen.
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
I'm very familiar with these songs and I guess this album. It's much, much more interesting than Bold as Love. I don't play guitar so I don't jizz my pants over the mere mention of Hendrix. All in all it's good, I just can't get myself to care.
MC Solaar
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
She's a great singer and she has a lot of great original songs.
I guess your first album used to be covers to show off how you could sing and then people wrote songs for you?
Some of these sound to me like she's trying to sound like an African American woman. But I guess if Elvis could get away with it.
This is good I guess, I'd just expect to have an album on this list that was an album of Dusty originals instead of all covers
Michael Jackson
1/5
Sure. I get why 3 Michael albums are on this list. But he is a pedo. I don't know if I can ever let that go. It will be the first thing I think of every time I hear his name or a song by him. Is that fair? Who The Fuck Cares?! What he did to little children wasn't fair
Eagles
1/5
Fuck! Really? I just had an Eagles album 2 weeks ago and I haven't been fully cleansed of all the shit still stuck in my ears.
I'm 127 days into this and I'm starting to believe that Robert Dimery just has shitty taste in music.
This albums sucks. No redeeming qualities AT ALL.
The Avalanches
1/5
This is a brand new Hell. A 10th Circle of Hell. Having to play a horrible experience on a loop forever!. That's what it's like to listen to this album.
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
I had only heard of Manic Street Preachers in the 90s, never listened to them.
But then i realized the music on this album is great! It's right up my alley. But those melodies are atrocious! By the 7th song I didn't want to listen anymore. By the 10th song his voice started to grate on me too. Too bad for me I guess. Their fans don't seem to care (or think I'm wrong) so good for them.
Jurassic 5
5/5
FINALLY!! I've had 3 weeks of shit to just OK albums. This one is fantastic. For some reason I stopped paying attention to J5 after Quality Controll. Wish I didn't.
5 STARS!
Iron Maiden
3/5
I get it. People love Iron Maiden. Maiden has never been my type of metal. And even then the Iron Maiden I DO like has Bruce singing.
For who they are and what they did (do) this album gets 3 stars, but more so because Maiden walked so future metal bands could run
CHIC
2/5
Good disco album. I was a tad disappointed that it lost energy in the middle but, happy that Funny Bone brought it back up.
Cocteau Twins
3/5
My first thought was 'this can't be true. I don't need to hear this'. Then I saw how popular every song on this album is on my streaming service. Now I'm excited to listen to this band I've largely ignored over the past 40 years.
And.... if this is the music you like it's a great album. I wasn't too into it, but I understand how people are. I found myself perking up at the songs I was familiar with, and then not really caring about the ones I wasn't.
Good album, just not for me. 3.5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Taking me out of my listening comfort zone here. I listened to the whole album and didn't have a problem with it. I personally was hoping for some grooves, but that's just not what his music has to offer it seems. I wouldn't normally seek anything like this out and Lam Toro didn't convert me, but I'm glad I listened
Jefferson Airplane
1/5
Started out strong then it just dragged on and on and on and kept dragging and kept going.
Just like a lot of these 5 star reviews
Heaven 17
1/5
If Spandau Ballet got worse and repetitive gospel-like. This album is pure trash.
Zero stars is generous.
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
FINALLY!! On day 138, this generator gave me my first perfect 10 album!
This is in my top 5 albums of the 90s. Probably top 3.
10 stars!
The Stooges
4/5
Yeah. It set the tone for what was to follow. Fantastic! Some songs are better than others, but still a solid album
10cc
1/5
Too much going on in every song. Some had good parts but then they threw in 12 other songs/genres and made them boring songs that kept going.
Some songs seemed to be directly pulled from Paul McCartney riffs (1985, Long and winding road)
Sometimes the Grateful Dead reared its ugly head into these songs too.
Maybe this album was interesting in its time, but exhausting to listen to today
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
I like a lot of CCR songs. And, they have so many singles that preformed well on the charts, songs that are still being played today. So, it's probably no surprise that most CCR albums sound like greatest hits albums.
Cosmo's Factory is no exception.
Ute Lemper
3/5
I listened. It's interesting. I'll never listen again.
I think German cabaret falls into one of those "Oh that was a fun thing I saw on a random Tuesday night" but I'm not going to actively seek it out.
M.I.A.
3/5
This is a good dance album. Listening the way I did for this project did do Arular any favors.
It's a solid 3.5 star album. But I'll save it for the dance floor
Deerhunter
1/5
I was sooooooo bored. Bands that take themselves this seriously and without any joy or whimsey really have no place in any musical lexicon. Let alone a list like "Must Hear".
Lou Reed
5/5
145 days in. And while some albums have been generated that I like more than this one, this is only the 2nd album on the list (so far) that I think fits the "Must Hear" moniker.
I personally like this album a LOT. But I LOVE some albums that it inspired. And for that I will always be grateful. Lou Reed is a National Treasure
The Band
1/5
This was a tough one. I had a hard time making it through this album, and I knew I would when I heard that first song.
I was familiar with The Weight, but that's it. I liked Chest Fever, but that's about it. I like This Wheel's on Fire better on AbFab.
I know people love this band/album but I just don't understand what they hear in them/it.
Tangerine Dream
2/5
Is this why Germans like Hasslehoff so much? Because their music sounds like the Night Rider theme?
This album is good I guess if you listen to it as an demo showcasing that you can do scores.
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Just good old fashioned bluesy rock n roll. I love it when it's good and timeless
Underworld
1/5
There are far, far too many English electronic albums on this list.
And much like 90% of all the other albums of the genre I've listened to from this generator, this album is far too long, far too repetitive and not worth mentioning, let alone listen to.
I invariably find myself thinking I'm almost done listening to the album and BAM! I'm only on the 2nd song!
Little Simz
2/5
The flow on these songs is quite repetitive, especially at the beginning. Music is good a diverse though. Good messages, lyrics.
Selfish is a shining star. The non-rapping parts of Wounds is good too
Ray Price
4/5
This is someone that I was unfamiliar with before today. I liked this album. Nothing knocked it out of the park for me, but it was soild.
At certain times it sounded like Elvis. Either with his voice or style of playing the song, or even the song in general. But that didn't take away or distract at all.
For only the 2nd rime in 150 days, I've been introduced to an artist that I will listen to again.
(Rounded up from 3.5)
Cream
1/5
Now I can say I have heard a whole Cream album. I never had before because I don't really like any of their singles that they've released. After listening to Disraeli Gears I can say for certain that I've haven't missed a thing.
Pluses - Great drummer. Loud for a 3 piece. Blue Condition
Roni Size
1/5
Oh great! An album full of 7 minute + long songs that have the same 6 seconds on a loop. There are almost none of these on this list. UGH.
How could this or any of the other electronic albums on this list ever be considered a must listen.
Yet another 2 hours 20 mins of bullshit.
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
This album starts out strong, just what you'd expect from and EW&F album. Then it quickly turns into a hot mess of styles and rhythms and tempos and I don't know what.
Yearnin' Learning and Aficano are mid album bright spots for me.
Because this is an EW&F album, I'm rounding up on stars
Marvin Gaye
4/5
This album is fantastic. It exactly fit the mood of what I wanted today.
I'm flabbergasted that this is his 13th!!! album!
Wilco
4/5
I've missed this album so much. I haven't listened to Being There in a long time. I recently thought I should go back and listen again and also to AM.
Being There still holds up for me a quarter century later. The order of the songs, the production, everything about it makes it as much of a welcome breath of fresh air today as it was 25 years ago.
Mekons
1/5
It's like listening someone doing karaoke of the worst Pogues songs
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
I didn't become aware with MBV until a decade after this album dropped. It must have been crazy for the time. I like some of the music in the heavier songs, but those vocals are hard to ignore and just plain get in the way.
I wish it all sounded like (When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream. Several Girls Galore is OK too.
Not too big on the rest of the album myself though.
Led Zeppelin
1/5
UGH!
I tried, I really tried to keep an open mind with this one. I even listened twice!
Led Zeppelin is the most OVERRATED rock band in the last 50 years. Zero stars
Dinosaur Jr.
5/5
Yes! I love this album. Probably in my top 10 of all time.
Finley Quaye
1/5
There is nothing about this that is for me at all
Beck
5/5
I love this album so much, I got married on the 20th anniversary of it's release.
That's Where it's At!
Beatles
3/5
It's hard tp listen to a Beatles album and not compare it to other Beatles albums. This album is low on the Beatles list. Too many covers (that was a big thing bands did back then, I get it) but if giving it a rating I'm just going to say it's meh.
2.5 I guess. Although I'm not thrilled. I'll round up because it's still the Beatles
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Beautiful. Sad. Not my favorite of NC&TBS or even in the dead son trilogy but still stands
Robbie Williams
1/5
This whole album is just meh at best. I'd probably turn every one of these songs off if I heard them on the radio. They all sound like someone trying to be a better band that exists. Even then that would be a mediocre band.
The most popular song on my streaming service is Angels. I liked that song least of all. My favorite song was Let Me Entertain You. Even though sounds like the first performance or opening theme song to a variety show or AGT or some such nonsense.
ZZ Top
3/5
I like this album. I like ZZ Top. But I almost never think of them.
Dirty Projectors
1/5
I've heard of this band but never heard them. I'm glad I haven't heard them before today. I never want to hear them again.
I know people like stuff like this. I used to have to suffer similar bands when I'd see live shows in NYC during the 00s.
Anti-Music I belive is an apt description.
Zero stars is too many
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
I really like this album. Because there are so many of my favorite bands that were influenced by it and them it holds an even more dear place in my heart.
I think the Scream is underrated, even among Souxie fans
Jerry Lee Lewis
4/5
What a piece of shit this man was. Fuck him.
This album is tight though
Jamiroquai
3/5
I don't know. I get it. It's good? I guess. I can listen to a song and then want to move on. Some songs are way better than the other on this album (for me it's the ones with a faster tempo)
3 stars. Maybe it deserves 4. Maybe 2
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
I like the energy of this album. I just really don't like the tone or repetition. I get it Maps is good. It would be better with a bass
The Mars Volta
3/5
Prog.
Gibberish.
At least 3.5 stars.
Fleet Foxes
2/5
Yeah. I remember this band. I didn't need to be reminded that they existed. I get it. It's not for me. Sounds a bit similar to itself.
G. Love & Special Sauce
1/5
I hated those singles in the 90s. I hate them today.
This album sounds like high school kids just learning their instruments and started a band. Then played at a party, someone recorded to and released it.
A joke
A mistake
Just plain awful
We should be able to do zero stars
Spacemen 3
1/5
Booooooorrrrrrring
Just like this list. Enough with the trite, repetitive electronic music.
Some of these songs started out with promise, just to disappoint.
I thought Suicide was going to be good. The it made me want to kill myself.
Spacemen 3 just suck and this album is no exception
Songhoy Blues
4/5
I don't know their language. But listening to this I could hear protest, heartbreak, confussion, happiness. Everything was genuine and compelling. I liked the music as well. This was worth the listen
The Hives
2/5
Best of albums should NOT be included on this list.
Because of the best of nature of this album, there is no cohesion and that is also a demerit.
This sounds like an advertising agency's house band version of what they think the "kids want". But it just makes me want to listen to bands that do it well.
Altgough its 4o seconds too long, I liked Automatic Schmuck. I didn't want to, it just happened.
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Sure. OK.
I found myself wishing this album was shorter. Toss the filler and he'd have a solid album.
Queen Latifah
4/5
Yes. This is an album of its time. But, this is a very, very solid debut. She's comfortable with several styles of flow and more than a few styles of beats.
With this one album she planted her flag and proved she belonged with all the other rappers that were already popular. Female or male
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Just round my background working music. I really like this album for not having to think about it.
The Notorious B.I.G.
5/5
What flow. What a debut. Too much Puffy.
One of the best to ever rap
Sufjan Stevens
1/5
Church Music
Chamber Music
Circus Music
Broadway Play (which it HAS turned into)
Something for everyone... except me.
That one song I heard a LOT in 2005-2007 is pretty good (Chicago) but the rest of this album is dismissible
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Good album. Well produced. Great order. A couple of clunkers in the middle, Porcelain and Emit Remmus.
I struggle with knowing if the RHCP suck, belong in their own corner of the sand box, or are really very good. My opinion changes daily. Today this album gets 4 stars. If it was a Dave Navarro album it would get zero.
IMO... this is their last good album
And it's not the best with the Fruschante/Smith addition.
Sonic Youth
5/5
Perfect. Fantastic follow-up to the also perfect Daydream Nation.
Drive-By Truckers
4/5
This is an album worthy of being on this list. Like it or hate it. Don't like country? It still makes sense that it's here.
It's coherent. It's interesting. The concept is easy to understand. Some songs are better than others of course but it all still works, and very well I might add.
Buck Owens
2/5
Not bad. Quite dated. For a C & W act he has mor diversity than most other acts at the time.
Must listen before you die? Like 99% of albums I've heard so far on this list the answer is ... No
David Bowie
4/5
This is a great album. Compared to Bowie albums. I like others better and I hope they are on this list too (this is the first one for me so far)
Still, Aladdin Sane is wonderfully executed
Blood, Sweat & Tears
1/5
This album is too many things all at once. I can't say I could ever get into it because it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be.
Full disclosure, I detest Spinning Wheel. Always have my whole life. So that took me out of any cohesion as well.
All in all, I don't really like any of these songs and I'm not convinced it's not just a collection of leftovers from various albums or sessions.
The Cardigans
3/5
I love her voice
Adele
3/5
This is what I think of when I think Adult Contemporary Radio or Lite Radio. Most of these songs were hits on this formats.
Some of these songs sound like they are 20, 30, 30 years older than they are and for that she loses a star. With a voice like that and to not have your own personal sound is a shame. Most are good, some are God awful (I'm looking at you Don't You Remember).
I'm glad I listened. I wouldn't seek this record out myself though
Astor Piazzolla
5/5
Albums like this are exactly why I'm doing this. Something not in my normal wheelhouse that I get turned on to and like.
I've never heard of Astor Piazzolla but you can bet your ass I'm gonna listen to this album again. Probably even seek out more.
I had no clue I would ever want to hear something like this and now I do.
Steely Dan
1/5
The nicest thing iI can say is i am just never in the mood to hear Steely Dan.
That being said, for about 45 seconds, the middle of that first song was interesting.
Lambchop
1/5
Seriously, What The Fuck is This Shit?
Sex Pistols, The Cure, Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, INXS, The Replacements, Operation Ivy, Sinatra, Pavement, Beck, The Clash, The Beach Boys, Alice in Chains, Bad Brains, Fugazi. All bands with perfect 10 albums. Give me one of them. Not this shit!
Jimmy Smith
2/5
The type of using you play around people who don't notice music.
I was bored for most of this album. Sometimes I was angry because it reminded me of the Grateful Dead. I don't like to be reminded of them.
His dog looks friendly, wonder what happened to the chickens?
Dr. Octagon
3/5
Yeah. This is fun
Pentangle
1/5
I don't go to Renaissance Fairs, I don't believe in fairies, I don't read Tolkien and I don't listen to this shit.
There is no way anyone could actually believe that you absolutely HAD TO hear this before you died.
Linkin Park
1/5
Over-over produced garbage.
The worst of the genre.
Absolutely no business being on this list.
Don McLean
1/5
There are a handful of songs I never want to hear again, the title track is near the top of that list.
Turns out i never want to hear the rest of this album again either.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
So you're saying, be for i die, I absolutely, MUST LISTEN to not 1 but TWO Yeah Yeah Yeah albums? That's what you're telling me? Do I have that right?
This is proof positive that this list is mostly filler. Or he should have done 1001 SONGS...
That being said, this is a much better album than their first. They spread their wings more, reigned themselves in and made an album that's entertaining, less boring and quite interesting to listen to
Dragon Queen did it.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
1/5
Talk all you want about how Clapton is God. I don't care.
Sceeam about how the blues laid the groundwork for rock n roll. I get it. I just don't like music that sounds like this. Clapton sucks to me. He makes me yawn. Everything he did seems to sound the same.
Whatever this is that I was just subjected to, is no different. Maybe all of these songs should have stayed dirty and with an acoustic guitar, then I'd like it more. All of this is way to polished, clean and without character, save Another Man.
Sade
4/5
They do what they do very, VERY well. It's not for me but this album deserves praise. Everyone is on their A game. The fusion of a few genres all come together to make a smooth, easy listening album that fits the mood you're looking for perfectly.
Beatles
4/5
This is a great album. Worthy of being on this list. It's where the Beatles start to grow up and become a bit less pop. Plus it influenced Brian Wilson to write Pet Sounds.
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
What a surprise. I love this album, probably because of the memories attached mostly. But hearing it again now I believe that it's a solid proper album that deserves to be recognized.
MGMT
4/5
It was good for the brief moment in time it was new and fresh. And good to listen to it again 17 years later.
Now I'll put it back on the shelf until 2034.
I liken it to 60s psychedelic rock in that way.
Rounded up.
The Rolling Stones
2/5
It's interesting if you want to hear how the Stones started out. They were a cover band that released an album. Like UB40
U2
5/5
U2 has reinvented themselves a few times in their career. Of all the first albums in each reinvention process, Achtung Baby is my favorite.
I'm well aware that U2 is absolutely not for everyone, I understand. But for me I like them a lot and this album ranks high on the list of my favorite albums by them.
Achtung Baby is worthy of being on this list. It's well produced and has a great order to the songs. The album is a departure of what they had been doing. In no way did this album break a musical mold, but it did break a U2 mold and opened them up for the electronic period they embraced soon after.
Basement Jaxx
3/5
If there is one thing I can say about this list it's that it's made it so I never want to hear electronic music anymore. All of the albums are boring because of the repetition and they also all start to sound the same.
Along came Remedy by Basement Jaxx! At first I was impressed about how it was unique, in that the songs were interesting and different than all of the other electronic albums I have been subjected to. Then around song ten, I was bored again.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, this music is only good for the clubs and drugs. It's no good for a sunny Thursday morning.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
My friend tells me this is a masterpiece. Maybe it is, I don't know. To me it's fine I guess. It sounds like it would be fun to walk into a bar and hear this band play.
I think I've only ever listened to Born in the USA. There are a few very popular bands I've never heard a whole album by (or did only recently) because so many of their songs I heard so oftem on the radio growing up. This is clearly one of those.
I like the title track. I like She's the One. All in all I'd say i like the 2nd half more than the first half.
Peter Gabriel
3/5
2/5
Don't look Back in Anger is a highlight.
The rest either bore me or are just plain bad.
2/5
All these songs sound the same. And they sound the same as the songs on their first album (the only other one I've heard), which is to say they sound like throwaway Radiohead songs. And that one that sounds like it wants to be a Queens of the Stone Age song.
The Isley Brothers
2/5
This is not a cohesive album at all. It sounds like 6 dudes got together to jam on some songs they liked. Then wrote a few themselves. Then put them all on an album and gave no thought to how they sounded as a collection, or even the order.
My rating of this album in no way reflects my overall opinion of The Isley Brothers.
Suede
2/5
When this album came out, I wasn't into the single that was released on my college radio station (The Drowners). I was also the only one in my real close group of friends who listened to alternative music so I never heard this whole album.
Putting it on today for the first time I heard the first 2 songs and I thought oh man I might have missed out on a album I might have really liked.
Then I kept listening. It lost me. Songs got similar and tired. Some songs were just too boring. Too much whining for my liking. Morrissey didn't even whine this much.
Weird turn of events, my 2 favorite songs on the album are The Drowners and Metal Mickey.
Cee Lo Green
4/5
I didn't expect to like tgis album as mush as I do. It's a bit long though. Rounded up
David Bowie
3/5
The The
4/5
Fantastic! My personal tastes would have chosen Mind Bomb. But this album is a great peek of what's to come. The The is really something special
The Zombies
3/5
Nice. Time of the Season is the absolute highlight though
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
I really expected this to be better. I guess the really good songs came when they took Neil Young into the band.
The 3 part harmony really is off the hook here though.
Beach House
1/5
Man, there has never been an album that fits the definition of 'not for me' more than this one
Goldfrapp
4/5
In th3 middle of this album i realized how beautiful it is. It's like Portishead meets Bond themes meets the opera singer from Fifth Element.
Then I got bored by the penultimate song.
As single I'm sure I like these songs. As an album it ends up being too much of the same thing
The Cars
5/5
Maybe it's because I grew up in New England, but all of these songs are radio singles to me. So when I listen to this album, it sounds like a Best of The Cars, Vol. 1.
Electric Light Orchestra
2/5
All these songs somehow sound like 70s TV theme songs
The Divine Comedy
1/5
I honestly have no idea what it is that I just listened to.
Gang Of Four
4/5
Stars of Four
Deep Purple
1/5
It's hard to belive that this album wasn't trite and boring even when it came out. Every song here seems formulaic and unexciting.
It's also hard to believe that 'Smoke on the Water' isn't about smoking from a bong.
"Deep like the purple smoke on the water song. Taking hits from the bong"
-State of Corruption (circa 1998)
Girls Against Boys
1/5
I didn't like this. Claims to have been influenced by Fugazi, so you can imagine my disappointment when i heard this.
Big Black
4/5
Now we're talking! Gives me hope that Bad Brains is on here.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Yeah. That's how it's done'
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Yes! Yes! YEEEEEESSSSSSSS!
Nick Drake
3/5
I can hear that Lou Barlow might have been influenced by Nick Drake. It's good. I have to be in the mood for it though.
Kate Bush
5/5
This album is beautiful, mysterious, weird, experimental, ahead of its time, and clearly an influence on several well-known musicians and bands that came later. And for all that it deserves 5 stars.
ZZ Top
4/5
I've always appreciated the fact that ZZ Top is allowed their own little corner of the sandbox to make some power blues that is genuine to them. I just happen to be a fan too
Arcade Fire
2/5
This album is interchangeable with Funeral. Some really good songs here, but after a while, I just get quite bored with their sound.
Because this album is so indistinguishable from that first one, I wonder why they chose this one and not Funeral? As that has the qualification of being first.
2.5
The Damned
4/5
What a wonderful foundation album. You can hear all the bands and genres that came after this album and yet it doents seem terribly old or dated. Still fun, still fresh and a great ride from start to finish.
And, oh, that bass!!
The Youngbloods
1/5
What is this? It's not something you absolutely "MUST Hear" before you die, I can tell you that.
I guarantee that as soon as I'm done with this review and rating I will never think about this album again in my life.
Led Zeppelin
1/5
This sucks man! Today is my birthday and I had to sit here and listen to the most overrated group of thieves.
The Vines
3/5
I feel that at a certain age and a certain time in my life I really would have liked this album. That time was just not in 2002. There's a lot here, a lot of songs remind me of... (fill in the blank)
I guess that's OK, it just limits tge band from having a sound and gaining fans who say I like The Vines! It's more of I like The Vines song that sound like (fill in the blank)
Lauryn Hill
2/5
For some reason there are only 3 songs with legit melodies.
Also, for some other reason, about 85% of the lyrics on this album are echoed.
This is not as good as I was hoping it was going to be.
Extra star for a popular music star making an album that is very different than what was commercial at that time.
Elton John
3/5
Too much filler. The good songs are very good. The filler songs got annoying in their abundance.
Alice In Chains
5/5
Justice
1/5
I'm so bored of this electronic music.
Bored
Bored
Bored
The Associates
2/5
I guess i applaud them for doing something different at the time. But a lot seemed like they combined a lot of sounds from the era to make something that wasn't necessarily great.
That 2nd song reminded me of Nick Cave and I thought we were gonna go somewhere special. But we didn't. We stayed home
Bob Dylan
2/5
Not really a huge Dylan fan. I prefer his songs when preformed by other people.
I feel this is a quintessential Dylan album, and I still wasn't feeling it.
The Thrills
1/5
If 90s Wilco, Pavement and Ben Folds Five merged and was lesser than the sum of its parts.
k.d. lang
5/5
245 days in, I've discovered 3 albums I've never heard before that get 5 stars. This is one of them. I wish someone would have made me listen back in 1988 or even 1992 after Constant Craving hit big.
I love this album for all it is. Stylized, well produced, thought out, blend of styles, familiar and original at the same time.
Cat Stevens
3/5
I really don't like this album. But I can tell it's good if this is what you're into, I'm just not
Hookworms
1/5
This is the newest album I've gotten, 245 days in.
All bands that sound like this, sound exactly like this! Can't tell the difference between any of them.
I'm bored
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Wants you to believe it's better than it is. Other albums by JSBE are better.. bit this is still fun at points
Prince
4/5
This is so over the top and so familiar.
Bookended by absolute bangers.
It's Purple F-ing Rain
The Doors
1/5
I'm a firm believer that there is no longer be a Doors fan once you turn 15. Because at 15 you become too mature for lyrics written by someone with a 14 year old's mentality.
The Doors may be a great band, I wouldn't know. It's impossible to get past Jim Morrison and his ego.
This album did nothing to change my mind from that opinion.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
This is good background music on a beach or at a pool. Maybe at a tiki bar.
Not for me. Never have been. But I listed to the whole thing
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
The album you put on or sing to your child to sleep. Works on adults too
New Order
2/5
Not the strongest New Order album. And unless the stronger ones make an appearance on this list, Technique has no real right to be here
Beck
5/5
I love this album. I love Beck and the fact that Sea Change is a Beck album is only part of the reason I love it so much. I would love this album if it was by a one and done I had never heard of before.
But because it's a Beck album also helps make it that much better. With the complete departure of his style came an incredible, raw emotion we are not used to getting from such a whimsical artist.
Dire Straits
3/5
This was one of thise albums I was hoping or sure I was going to LOVE because the songs I was already familiar with I really like.
But unfortunately the songs I was not familiar with didn't measure up to the radio singles. Some songs even reminded me of cheesey late 80s transition music from a show based in FLA on USA Network.
Frank Black
4/5
I do really like Frank Black. Because there is no filler I don't mind that this album is too long. But it is too long. Maybe he only needed 15 songs. 16.
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
I was hoping this was going to be the soundtrack to the Alexander Payne movie Nebraska. Then coupled with Philadelphia, Bruce would be the guy who does soundtracks for movies names after American places.
Then he'd be asked to do soundtracks for films like Chicago, Nashville, Fargo, Truth and Consequences, New Mexico
Chicago
2/5
12 songs 1 hour, 16 minutes.
I've never listened to an album by Chicago. That's probably because I can't stand any song I've ever heard on the radio by Chicago.
Chicago Transit Authority did little to change that. Most of this album comes across as pretentious and precious. I don't understand the popularity of this band at all.
BUT. BUT there are at least 2 very, very noisy jam sessions that I dug a LOT! I'm talking noise like Eruption by Van Halen. Or Noise like Sonic Youth.-
good stuff. I bet it was hated in 1968
2 stars for the noise and noise only
Common
4/5
Beatles
4/5
This album gets 3.5 stars for what it started. It's a good album, but not as good as what they do later.
Also, I can't get that "K-Mart ad fodder" review out of my head after listening a 2nd time.
Rounded up because I'm pretty sure the Beatles have proven themselves
1/5
Why? WHY?
So you can hear what crap sounds like? With this album/band this whole project lost the tiniest thread of credibility that it was holding on to for dear life.
I'm going to go as a far as to say Robert Dimery is a hack. That's what backing Limp Bizkit does. It ruins you.
Queen
3/5
I get it. I dont really care about it or buy into it so my 3 star review seems like a slight, but trust ne it's not.
It's just that I want to hear Queen as much as I want to hear Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
But unlike my last album (a Limp Bizkit effort) this album absolutely deserves to be on this list.
Carpenters
2/5
BEAUTIFUL voice
Shit songs
Probably one of the most boring albums on this list so far.
Various Artists
5/5
Random that the generator gave this to me... On Christmas Day!
What can I say? It's wonderful! Darlene Love is enough for the high rating.
Frank Ocean
1/5
It's so hard to not just shut this album off.
Fuck Autotune
Pyramids is the only thing even remotely enjoyable about this album. Different genre, but this album is about as bas as Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water.
Eminem
3/5
It's good. Not great. Extra points for honesty.
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
I like the Neil Young songs a lot. The others I could take or leave.
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
This is a pretty great album. It's rooted in funk, but takes you many other places. I understand why people put it near the top of his albums. It's a hard album to deny.
Metallica
5/5
Perfect! The band that made thrash popular, perfecting the sub-genre!
Made even better by the lesser than music they released starting with their self titled album.
The Human League
3/5
This was the first band who I liked more than one song by. And it was brought to my attention that I could like a "band". Or that songs were even done by the same people at all.
For that I will always be grateful. Although I never owned anything by Human League, I do keep a warm place in my hear for them.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Fantastic. A fully realized album with great, thought provoking songs. Laying the groundwork for an incredible body of work. Pound for pound Kendrick is still one of the best rappers working today
T. Rex
4/5
Elvis Costello
1/5
"Most rock critics love Elvis Costello because they look just like him."
-DLR
I don't hate Elvis Costello. I just don't care about him. I don't get how many people put him on a pedestal and love him so much. To me he is astoundingly mediocre. I like about 6 EC songs. To Elvis Costello fans that sounds like I hate him.
I'll tell you what I DO hate though. This album! It fucking sucks!
Koffi Olomide
1/5
Some of these songs sound like the songs that would play during closing credits of an 80s movie that took place in a place that might have been "exotic" to Americans back then. Think Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Weekend at Bernie's, Lion King, etc.
Nothing really exciting about this. No real passion in the songs. Inoffensive background music at an outside beach bar at an all inclusive resort.
Minus stars for his inexcusable behavior.
Minus more stars for wearing white after Labor Day.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
I have to imagine this was quite a departure for Curtis. I was not very entertained myself. But, I don't like it when established artists try to do something new. So for that I'll give it a 3 star rating.
Big Star
4/5
"And children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round
They sing, "I'm in love, what's that song?
Yeah, I'm in love with that song"
I hear so many of my favorite bands from the 80s and 90s on this album. That alone is worth 2 stars. A band that influenced bands I love deserves credit. I also really like this album. Darker than the other stuff by Big Star that i am familiar with. Which might make it even better. I'll have to listen to all 3 albums in a row to figure it out.
Simply Red
1/5
Before listening to this album (I was only familiar with Holding Back the Years) I would tell you that there wasn't much difference between Simply Red, Tears for Fears and Simple Minds. Now, I feel there is a big difference - one of them has at least one album that is not worth listening to.
Big Star
4/5
2 days ago, this list gave me Third/Sister Lovers. It's hard not to compare, but I'll try.
Solid debut record. I would be excited about what comes next if I was back in time when this came out. Some songs are better than others of course. But I stand by 80% of this album being very good
Stan Getz
3/5
If I were into Bossa Nova, I'd be into this album. It's beautiful, atmospheric and serene.
Quite lovely.
Sugar
4/5
YES! I love it when this generator gives me albums i already love. I celebrate almost all of Bob Mould's entire catalog.
Bob Mould also did The Daily Show theme
The Fall
2/5
There used to be a coffee shop in my neighborhood in Brooklyn called The Fall Cafe. The owner named it that because he liked this band. I was only familiar with the Fall by name, I had never really heard their music that I know of. I didn't really like the coffee shop so I never investigated the band.
I'm comfortable with my choice.
Mostly reminded me of The Stranglers or The Standalells. But, I'm aware that could be just me, as I'm not very familiar with those bands either outside of a handful of songs.
Mostly this album is OK. I'd probably have liked it more if I were around in the mid 70s.
PS. That Dresden Dolls song they have is dope
The White Stripes
4/5
The Nurse has always reminded me of the theme music from True Romance. Also takes place in Detroit.
David Holmes
1/5
I could review this album, but I would just be repeating myself, yet again, about how repetitive, uninteresting and directionless this type of music truly is. And then I would be no better than this album.
Fats Domino
3/5
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Yeah. OK. It's good. Typical of the time. Beautiful voice. Lots of covers.
Stevie Wonder
1/5
Except for Superstition, this album is forgettable.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
This is much better than I expected it to be.
I'd use it as background music playing softly at a party in my kitchen or bathroom.
King Crimson
1/5
I've been listening to this album all day and I'm only now starting song 5?
Also, this fantasy-type music that should be in a movie with fairies and nymphs has never been my thing.and I guess it still isn't.
Raekwon
4/5
Yeah. This is pretty freaking great!
Santana
3/5
Simple Minds
3/5
This is the most 80's thing EVER. This album might be more 80s than the actual 1980s
The Streets
2/5
Not really for me at all. BUT, another reviewer claims that Original Pirate Material is good though. Maybe I'll listen to that.
Empty Cans reminds me of Postal Service
Missy Elliott
4/5
Awwwww. So gooood. Think she'd go on a date with me?
Public Enemy
5/5
Aaaaaaawwwwwww! I fuckin' love this album.
Emmylou Harris
1/5
I've already forgotten about all of this album, and I'm still listening to it.
EmmyWHO Harris?
The Cure
4/5
Not anything I'd call a 'single' on here, but as a whole album it kills it.
Really a great job by all of the. Especially that bass! Soooo freaking good.
I like it when bands change up and get out of their comfort zone. Or go through phases even.
Talking Heads
3/5
Def Leppard
2/5
I haven't heard this since 1987 when my best friend Matt Ancone loved them. (He also loved the band Europe.)
Now that I understand more about music, this album is nothing but a bunch of songs to yell along with at concerts. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I never understood the popularity. Now that I do understand, I can say it's too late for me. Getting into Def Leppard as an adult islike getting into pro-wrestling after you’re 18. It’s not a thing.
Le Tigre
4/5
Bikini Kill, Slater Kinney, Liz Phair, Julianna Hatfield, Devo all rolled up into one band. At the same time sounding like themselves.
Wwll done
GZA
4/5
Yeah. This is top-notch
Marilyn Manson
4/5
Choosing this over Mechanical Animals seems wrong. I understand this put him on the map, but if you're choosing 1 you MUST hear, pick the one that is a richer, fuller album.
This one is great, although listening years later it got a tad monotonous 2/3 through. Still eid it's job well tgough
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
1/5
I didn't know you could show me an album I actually want to hear LESS than Graceland.
Marty Robbins
4/5
Oldies country pop. Some songs sound like an old TV theme song, and that's just fime by me
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Madonna
3/5
I have a memory of liking this album a LOT more in the 90s.
Still i love it went artists reinvent themselves. This is no exception.
Taylor Swift
1/5
I saw this and immediately hoped the album was better than the cover.
Nope. The music is just as generic dismissable.
That country song is alright I guess, but it make me want to listen to Carrie Underwood.
Willie Nelson
4/5
I'm hooked.
Honestly it had me at "Stardust... by Willie Nelson... Its ten songs consist entirely of pop standards that Nelson picked from among his favorites"
Saving it to my favorites
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
I struggle with RHCP. Are they a GOOD band? Are they a GREAT band? A novelty band? Silly, stupid, ridiculous?
Whatever they are iI can't deny how good THIS album is. The continuous nature of it makes me want to hear every song. My favorite song is The Greeting Song.
It was all I could do to sit through Under The Bridge. I legit never want to hear that song ever again. But there's a difference between never wanting to hear a song again, and never wanting to hear it in the first place.
The United States Of America
2/5
I really don't know what to make of this. People are saying it's groundbreaking and ahead of its time but this type of stuff was not that rare by 1968.
1. The stupidest name for a band
2. All over the place
3. Influences on their sleeve (Beatles, J. Airplane, Beefheart to name a few)
4. Those songs that sound like elves in the woods can go.
But I think I get why people would have liked it in 1968. I on the other hand am bored with this type of stuff in 2025.
Seriously though, who names themselves that?
There are some bad names for bands (Europe, Toto, Foreigner, The Music [seriously?], Kansas, America, The Band, Alabama, Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures) but this is just the stupidest I've ever heard!
Big Brother & The Holding Company
2/5
Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight! I (don't) love Cheap Thrills!
With just a few exceptions, the songs don't go anywhere. They start out one way. They middle the same way. And end the same way.
Roadblock was good though. R. Crumb cover boosts its rating.
X-Ray Spex
4/5
3.5
It's great. I hear how they influenced so many. Love the horns. Almost reminds me of Murphy"s Law at times
The Yardbirds
1/5
I really dont want to listen to this album. 2 theives on the same album, Yippie!
I listened. The first couple of songs were OK then it was just more of the same old trite bullshit. I'll never know why people go gaga over stuff like this.
Jeff Buckley
4/5
I'm surprised to hear that this album didn't sell well initially. It seemed that college radio/alternative radio were playing Grace and Last Goodbye all the time. Back when this was new I was over the singer/songwriter thing so i never gave it a chance. Until about 10 years later. It's very good. I don't know if I'd call it one of the best albums of all time, but maybe on a good day I would.
It would have been great to see what he would have done over the next 10-20 years
Afrika Bambaataa
4/5
It sounds exactly what it is, a collection of singles to make a full album. It's been done before, there are 2 on this list that I've already listened to. Doesn't make it bad, just less coherent.
For what it is and when it was recorded, I think it's wonderful. I like every song, even though some are straight up too long.
The Young Rascals
2/5
OK. Sure. At least it's not another 90 electronic album. Equally as unnecessary though.
AC/DC
3/5
The Lemonheads
4/5
If this is the only Lemonheads album on this list, you chose wrong. It should have been Lick.
But as far as It's a Shame About Ray is concerned it's a good solid album. I think it's diminished by the fact that after the record companies got a bunch of free money in the 90s for re-releasing albums on CD that fans rebought, they signed EVERYBODY. Unfortunately, that includes bands that were in The Lemonheads' wheel-house ... some better, most worse.
Tortoise
2/5
More than a few parts of this album seemed like good intros to songs. Some songs sounded like wimpy versions of songs I'd like by harder bands. But in the end this is an electronic jazz fusion album. Maybe it's good if that's what you're into. I'm not.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
1/5
Nothing special here.
Blur
3/5
I loved this album at the time. Now with the help of MP3 and later streaming I really only listen to about half the songs. It's been a while since I've listened to the whole thing. Happy I did, but I know why I don't anymore.
Peter Frampton
1/5
Aside from the fact that I don't think Live and Best Of albums should be included here, I also don't ever want to hear another song off this album ever again. I also never wanted to hear any song to begin with. When I was growing up, classic rock stations played Frampton way too much. Like at least once a day. Once a month is plenty. Once a year is optimal.
De La Soul
5/5
I'm almost a full year into this and I have to say there's not enough hip hop on here. So I was very excited today when 3 Feet High and Rising came up. Especially after yesterday's stinker.
I'd rate this album immediately if it let me. I rated it 35 years ago
Elliott Smith
4/5
Better than I thought it would be.
Gang Starr
5/5
Soooo Gooooood!
Holger Czukay
4/5
3.5. Rounded up for album actually being original and something worthy of being on this list. Give me more of things im unfamiliar with and grab my attention. Albums that fell through the cracks, so to speak
Fela Kuti
5/5
That's whatvim talking about! 2 days in a row! An artist I was completely unfamiliar, making interesting music (bonus that I liked it).
That's what I expected more of when I started this journey. Instead I listened to 20 Yes albums and 400 Euro Electronic Repetition bands.
1001 Albums... being lackluster notwithstanding, this album kicks ass. I'm going to listen to more bu Fela if available.
The Police
4/5
I love this album. Synchronicity II is my favorite Police song. This album has a great flow and order and lives up to its name
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Even though ive heard a lot of these songs are LOT in my life, I'm not sick of them. This band never fails to amaze me. Even if I'm listening to an album that's over 50 years old.
Meat Loaf
2/5
3 things I don't voluntarily listen to on my stereo.
1. Broadway Musical Soundtracks
2. Queen
3. Meat Loaf
Ever notice you never seen them all in the same room together? That's because they're all the same thing, and not for me.
Public Enemy
5/5
Sensational! Ahead of its time. Still holds up.i like Fear of a Black Planet More. But that takes nothing away from this being a great as it is. One of the best 1-2 punches in hip hop history
Sepultura
3/5
Aerosmith
1/5
FUCK! I've been dreading this day. The day I have to listen to a band I absolutely detest.
Why am I putting myself through this?
I listened to the whole album. My opinion hasn't changed one iota. Nor, could I find a single redeeming quality about this record. Maybe 'Walk This Way' makes me think of RUN DMC, and I like them. But it's not enough.
FUCKING ZERO STARS!
Mylo
1/5
Absolutely listen to this album before you die if you need to feel bored
Peter Gabriel
4/5
I have hot take on this album (that I don’t think is that hot):
Remove “Sledgehammer” and “Big Time” and it makes a lot more sense and is a much better album.
Oasis
2/5
I haven't heard this album since the 90s. I'm OK with that. I heard it a lot back then. I don't remember it being so terribly boring. All the melodies are too alike.
2 things though.
1. Shakermaker is just 'I've Been Working on the Railroad'
2. Don't slip Alka-Seltzer in your cocaine.
The Louvin Brothers
1/5
What is the meaning of this shit? Was this a joke another reviewer added? "You know what album you should include in your stupid little book? Tragic Songs of Life,
The Louvin Brothers. (Snicker, snicker, snicker)"
I can think of a few (real) artists who would not only make these songs better, but good even.
At least this isn't another shitty European electronic album (redundant, I know). But the songs are just as repetitive and difficult to distinguish from each other.
ZERO stars
David Bowie
1/5
I don't need to hear this again.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
At least 4 songs too long. Kudos to the originality of the time.
Stereo MC's
1/5
From time to time over the past 30 years I've had pieces of 'Connected' swimming around in my brain. It's a catchy song.
It's also the most popular song on this album (on Amazon at least). But that song along with about 2 more seem to be what this album is really made of. The rest all sound like each other. And those songs are no reason to have this album on this list.
Bad Company
1/5
I've heard this band my entire life. The classic rock stations where I grew up love this band, and I was never able to figure out why. They are just so bland.
This album does make sense though. Good order, good flow. Short is a bonus for me. But the songs just make me want to change the station.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2/5
I don't know. Seems disjointed to me. Some songs are good. Some classics. Some not good at all.
Paul Simon
3/5
I saw this and I sighed, because I really just don't care about solo Paul Simon. I have never heard of this album nor does the cover look familiar.
All that being said this album starts out strong. The first 2 songs were good and completely different from each other. After that the style of the songs continue to change, i just don't like the next 2 or last 2 as much.
But I'm amazed I liked it at all. 3
The Beau Brummels
1/5
I really didn't want to listen to this album. 1. I've never heard of them. 2. The album cover is stupid. 3. The Wikipedia description states that ther are a psychedelic band. 4. Some reviews compared the vocalist to Dylan. All reasons to stay away.
Well, as it turns out, my trepidation was completely warranted. This album is the quintessential definition of 'not for me'.
Fleetwood Mac
1/5
Ive never really liked Fleetwood Mack. BUT, I LOVE the last 30-seconds of The Chains. Friends of mine over the years who know this about me, and love FM themselves, have suggested that I listen to Tusk. I never have because that's how much I don't like the band.
So today I listened to Tusk. And what learn? While in some breif moments my friends might have a valid point. All the other stuff I don't like is still there and prominent.maybe they just meant the song Tusk? That's like the end of The Chanis
Hard Pass
Side Note: I've waited on Lindsey Buckingham and he is a good tipper.
Thin Lizzy
2/5
Live and Best Of albums really shouldn't be on this list unless they are more than sensational. This is a less than average album from a band that makes less than mediocre music. They also cheated and doctored it up in the studio. It seems this band really likes their music though and they play very well. I just don't want to hear any of their songs.
Everything But The Girl
1/5
And Entertainment. Everything but the Girl and Entertainment.
4/5
Nas
5/5
Culture Club
2/5
Never realized how much Culture Club and Wham sound alike.
2 stars for Boy George's bravery (to a lesser degree the rest of the band to for teaming up with him). But these are generic 80s synth pop songs
SAULT
1/5
It's like Solange Knowles was tasked to make aThe Go Team boring and succeeded
R.E.M.
4/5
I like this album a LOT. Not only does it immediately take me back to the place i was in when it came out but it's just a solid album with a good mix of songs in a great order.
It's also the album that started REMs rise to more mainstream over simply a big college radio band. I'm sure MTV had a role to play in that.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Tom Petty is the best thing to come out of the state of Florida.
This album has a couple of classic Petty songs that would become his signature sound. This album just isn't fully realized. Other songs sound like Springsteen or Jackson Browne, et al.
I was unfamiliar with Luna. I liked it.
This is an album you "must listen to" if you want to see how far TP&TH came. Interesting, but I probably won't revisit anytime soon.
Hüsker Dü
4/5
Not the album i would choose for this list, but I get it I guess. It's their most "mature" but that means least daring. Some good songs but too many just OK songs.
Rounding up the stars
N.E.R.D
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Happy Mondays
4/5
This is wahat college radio sounded like in the late 80s. Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Ned's Atomic Dust Bin, Jesus Jones - to a lesser degree The The.
But now, a couple of these instrumental intros sound like the music that would play on a live TV streaming sevice when they don't have a commercial to show.
This album is pretty solid though
3.75
Jane's Addiction
1/5
I don't, and never have, understood the popularity of this band. This album is really not anything I like. I will concede that there was no other alternative (or any other kind) band that sounded like this back in the 80s for that I give them a star
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Fantastic! Perfect sound. Perfect order. Great songs. If you like Neil Young, you can't really ask for much more.
Neil Young
4/5
2nd Neil Young album in a row. I'm not disappointed.
Minor Threat
5/5
What a wonderful perfect 10 album from my youth. Still holds up.
Iron Butterfly
1/5
Everything about this is unnecessary.
Unnecessary to include an "album" on this list on the basis on 1 song.
Unnecessary for that song to be 17 minutes long.
Unnecessary for any of the other songs to be recorded.
Unnecessary for the album to be released.
Unnecessary for me to endure any of it.
Ray Charles
5/5
Classic. Part of the Great American Songbook. These songs are quintessential Ray Charles.
Derek & The Dominos
1/5
Nope.
The Monkees
4/5
I like every song on this album. A bit all over the place as an album is concerned though. Some songs are quintessential Monkees songs. Some songs sound like Rubber Soul era Beatles. Some songs sound like Lovin' Spoonful and others are early psychedelic; and others still are reminiscent of Herman's Hermits.
I do have to say though, it appears that everyone who listened to this album on my streaming service listened to the whole album all the way through. Because each song is equally as popular as the others.
The Black Keys
2/5
The first 3 or 4 songs I was familiar with, but then I got bored. And getting bored so easily and so early in a 15 song album is not good.
This is the most solid 2.5 star I've ever given.
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
I get it. It must have been really far out there way back when. I never need to hear it again.
Prince
3/5
Some amazing music. Especially for 1982. Did I hear the world's first industrial song?
Too many songs are too damn long though. To the point where they are just plain masturbatory.
Also, way, way to much filler.
Janet Jackson
2/5
This is like going to a school dance in 1987. 60% of the music you would have heard sounds like this album.
I was not eager to go back there. I'm not eager to revisit it again anytime soon either.
The Pogues
3/5
I always knew I had a personal limit of how many Pogues songs I can hear in a row before they all start to blend together. Now I know that limit is 7.
I can listen to any 7 of these songs in any order and I'll have a good time. But I don't really want any more than that. After 10, I end up saying Enough!
Other than that this is a good album for what it is, even if it's 12 songs too long. Good song for a closer too.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
I don't hate Elvis Costello. I just don't care about him and don't get how many love him so much. I like about 6 songs in his entire catalog. To Elvis Costello fans that sounds like I hate him.
Reading the reviews, I'm happy to see that there are so, so very many people who share my opinion of him. I was pretty sure I was an outlier.
I still belive the best thing about Costello is the DLR dis...
"The reason that music critics love Elvis Costello so much is because music critics look like Elvis Costello"
Ministry
4/5
Classic album! Almost perfect!
So happy Ministry stopped trying to be Depeche Mode and leand head first into industrial.
Radiohead
4/5
I havent heard this album in a while. I think i like it more now than back then
Violent Femmes
5/5
Classic. It's a wonderful trip down memory lane. I've been listening to this album since I was in 7th grade and I love it. I never realized how much it was probably an influence on Stephen Malkmus until this listen.
Aphex Twin
4/5
I saw this album and I let our an audible groan. I'm so sick of all the electronic music this generator is pushing.
But I listened and it's pretty good for what it is. It's music to listen to softly in your office so you can concentrate and focus.
Billie Holiday
2/5
Background music for a (dinner) party when you don't want to offend anyone. Also you don't want anyone to pay attention to the music.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Wonderful solid album.
Mudhoney
4/5
So good. And very of a time right before grunge broke so it doesn't seem dated at all.
Beastie Boys
5/5
Because I can. I will. But I still won't stop ever listening to The Beastie Boys!
This is a fantastic album. Even by Beastie Boys standards
The Smiths
5/5
I like to think that this is the album that The Smiths were always working towards. When they recorded it they knew they had reached what they wanted and then called it a day.
Also, Fuck Morrissey.
Coldcut
2/5
Sounds for 1980s DJs and producers. With a few songs mixed in that you would hear at the 7th grade dance or roller rink.
Jorge Ben Jor
5/5
This is great. Albums like this are exactly why I started this journey. I'm a fan of this album for life now, and I've never heard of it or jorge Ben Jor before.
Wild Beasts
1/5
Bad. Just plain bad. Trying to figure out if it is more boring than Coldplay.
Led Zeppelin
1/5
Fuck Zeppelin. Overrated bunch of theives.
I used to say Misty Mountain Hop is the worst song ever recorded, but this whole album is filled with songs that are equally as bad.
If you're gonna rip off other bands, pick better songs.
Metallica
1/5
I havent listened to this album in its entirety since it came out. It will be another 34 years before I do it again.
What a MAJOR disappointment it still is.
Overproduced
Boring/Unexciting
Sell Out
Metallica going from pioneers of Thrash Metal to radio friendly hard rock has got to be one of the biggest betrayals of rock history.
What this listen did for me though was make me realize that even if this album came out by a different band, I still wouldn't like it.
Incubus
1/5
Start with the good things about this album.
1. I am finally rid of the expierence of having to listen to such garbage.
2. When the song came out, I briefly liked Drive
On to the bad things about this album
1. Privilege
2. Nowhere Fast
3. Concequence
4. The Warmth
5. When it Comes
6. Stellar
7. Make Yourself
8. Drive (I said "breifly" and "liked")
9. Clean
10. Battlestar Scralatchtica
11. I Miss You
12. Pardon Me
13. Out From Under
Beastie Boys
5/5
Perfect 10!
I imagine its the best album on this list. Definitely one of the best albums ever recorded.
100/100
The Byrds
5/5
Hard to belive this isn't a Best Of collection
Roxy Music
3/5
Most of this album is quite good. At least interesting. I like the noisy horns.
It's weird, I like the album but I think the songs are just OK
B.B. King
5/5
I have a rule, Best Of albums and Live albums should not be included on any favorite or best album list, unless, UNLESS, it's an amazing live album. And, there are very few of those. For example, Talking Heads Stop Making Sense and Sinatra Live at The Sands. And that's it!
And now I'm including B.B. King Live at The Regal. What an infectious album. Seriously great!
Louis Prima
4/5
Good solid classics. Swing/Jazz upbeat, sometimes funny.
Brian Wilson
4/5
Femi Kuti
2/5
Survival sounded like an OSU marching band version of Metallica's Disposable Heroes.
After that I heard a few more marching band-type songs and because of that I can't say I'd ever want to listen to this album again. Unless of course it's during a halftime show at a football game at some D1 American school.
Kraftwerk
2/5
Yeah. I get it. Ahead of its time. I'll never listen again.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1/5
Don't bother
The Coral
1/5
Squarely of a time. I'm leaving it there.
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
Not for me. Neither poppy enough nor country enough to work.
Talking Heads
5/5
So fantastic in scope and execution. Somehow Talking Heads were able to be so unique and true to themselves and seemingly be uncompromising and still draw large crowds not only because they were genuine, but because their messages hit home and they were pop enough to please.
A major pride of Rhode Island for sure.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Rolling Stone called it "probably one of the best albums ever released by a person over the age of 80". I'm inclined to agree.
Ozomatli
1/5
It sounds too much like it's trying to be something else and not quite succeeding.
High Point: Who's to Blame?
Low Point: Believe (was this a Linkin Park cover?)
Johnny Cash
5/5
My personal feelings aside for including a live (or best of) album this is great! You get a lot of JC's heart, charm and personality when you listen. When an album this good exists the rules of inclusion become obsolete.
Merle Haggard
2/5
Some songs are better than others but too few.
1.5-2/5
Scritti Politti
1/5
This is trash. TRASH!
At first I said, "Oh, UB40's closest competitor."
But, then, it turned into rejected songs for 80s films closing credits. I half expected to hear 'Who's Johnny?' from Short Circuit.
No reason to hear this ever. For any reason, at any time. Alive or dead.
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Maybe if you need to focus? But it's not really even good for that. It's totally misrepresented. I thought this was gonna be a hip hop album. But no such luck. Maybe DJs use it for samples? I thought I heard a J5 sample.
I don't need to hear this again.
The Zutons
2/5
I might have liked this album for about a month in 2004. But someone would have had to burn it for me. I wouldn't have spent money on it. There's no great, or even better than good, song on here to hook you. It also lacks cohesion.
Faith No More
5/5
Fantastic! Wonderful harbinger of what was to come from this amazingly talented and woefully underrated band. I look forward to listening to the next (at least) 2 FNM albums.
The White Stripes
5/5
Great album! Flow! Wonderful songs. The addition of the bass helps bring it over the top
Remember when the bass player for Redd Kross added bass lines to The Wite Stripes' White Blood Cells and called it Redd Blood Cells? That was a fantastic idea from start to finish!
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
I know people who love this album. I know people who love most things shoegaze. I'll leave the reviews to them. This just isn't for me.
For shoegaze I'll take Catherine Wheel, Stone Roses and Hum.
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Fun. Poppy. Better than the other fun, poppy rock that was coming out post-Strokes
Mudhoney
4/5
Aaaah. The band that put Sub Pop on the map. Not their best IMO, but still pretty great!
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
At first it was like if the 2001 movie soundtrack and the Clockwork Orange movie soundtrack merged to become one and was produced by Brian Eno.
But then they added in the Halloween soundtrack.
Then the Knight Rider theme. And some Steve Miller's Time Keeps on Ticking for good measure.
The Go-Betweens
1/5
I find it hard to believe that even if this is what you're into that it would be essential.
Tom Tom Club
4/5
Oddly the link took me to REM's Automatic for the People. But I won't review that here.
As for Tom Tom Club
This is a lovely, frenetic groovy album with very few peers.
I'm sold!
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Soundtrack to 2002-2008 Monday Happy Hour at any bar in Brooklyn.
From the looks of the cover it must have been the soundtrack to a Dustin Hoffman movie too.
Tricky
3/5
Never gave it a chance in the 90s. Now that I have, I have to say, it's pretty interesting. I fear I've moved on though from this style. Time will tell.
1/5
Live albums are cheating. Unless there is something special, amazing or unique about them, live albums have no place on a list like this.
That being said, this one is no exception. You can tell the band rocked live, but the mixing and production could be way better. Also, I don't like the songs at all.
More than one star, but barely.
The Chemical Brothers
1/5
Stop
Just Stop
STOP
Do you need me to be even more repetitive so you will actually pay attention?
The Replacements
5/5
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's a perftect 10 album IMO.
Happy to see it here.
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Happy it was only half an hour
Moby
3/5
Moby once told me that if your hands smell like garlic, wash them with dishsoap and a spoon. It works.
This is a mostly good album. At least 2-5 songs too long. But I guess if you are making an electronic album, something about it has to be too long
This review is too long
Pere Ubu
3/5
This is one of those albums where all of the songs on the album are all equally as played as each other. So when people listen, they listen to the whole album. That's a good sign IMO
This album is pretty amazing. I don't want to really hear it again, even in my more adventurous days I probably wouldn't have been very into it. But I'm happy it exists and someone gave them money to keep going.
808 State
1/5
This is NOT one of the 1001 albums you MUST hear before you die
It wasn't one of the 1001 albums you needed to hear in 1989
Ill go as far as to say it probably wasn't one of the 1001 albums you needed to hear in the month it was released
CHVRCHES
2/5
I understand the appeal.
It doesn't appeal to me
Cypress Hill
5/5
Still as lit as it was back in the day
The Beach Boys
3/5
I got this the day after Brian Wilson died
I knew nothing about this album before this morning. I see it as groundbreaking in 1971. It's good. Just not for me.
Led Zeppelin
1/5
A band of musical theives so far up their own assholes they somehow managed to convince the world that they need to join.
Seriously fucking awful. Zero stars.
Brian Eno
3/5
Yeah. Sure. OK.
Portishead
5/5
Way, WAY better than any other electronic album I've heard on this list. I know Portishead, but was unaware of this album. I really love this album.
Kate Bush
3/5
The Pharcyde
5/5
Soooooo Gooooo. Encapsulates early 90s hip hop. Probably in my top 10
Les Rythmes Digitales
1/5
As soon as I saw this album cover I thought, "Oh boy! This is gonna suck!"
I was right
This book is a fucking joke
Mott The Hoople
2/5
If I was driving down the street and any of these songs came on the radio, I would change the station partway through.
Tori Amos
4/5
Hits just as hard now as it did in 1992
Sisters Of Mercy
2/5
This is one of those albums id give 1 star to, but feel like I really shouldn't
Meat Puppets
3/5
For 1984 this is off the charts interesting. I never got into them in the late 80s when I was getting into hardcore and punk. But, if I listened I probably would have owned a record or 2
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Some songs are better than others. Like way better
Highlight Killing Moon
Suede
5/5
I don't think I'm going out on a limb here when I say this album probably sounds exactly how they wanted it to sound. Clearly wearing their influences on their sleeves, while at the same time not being imitators. It might be perfect if this is what you're into.
I don't really like the songs, but I do know a great album when I hear one!
Khaled
3/5
Probably good. I have no point of reference really. He seems like an Algerian Marc Anthony maybe? It started out as a good enough dance album. Then he did an awful cover of Imagine. And then some songs got crooner-y and sentimental.
I have some Indian friends who love him.
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
Is this what was called Industrial in the early days? This was after Kraftwerk too?
I don't know. I'm giving it 2 stars simply for being so daring, especially for 1978. But I can't agree with it being a must listen.
Fiona Apple
2/5
This is now one of the albums I've heard in my life. I'm no better or worse for it. It exists
George Jones
2/5
Shivkumar Sharma
2/5
According to other reviews, Spotify has the wrong album. My streaming service (amazon) doesn't offer it. So, I ended up listening on YouTube. I'm not sure if I got the correct one or not. The length of the first song did not line up with what Wikipedia has.
this album was OK, maybe I would like it more if i wasn't so concerned about the correctness of it all.
Pavement
5/5
One if my favorite albums from one of my favorite bands. I hope there are more Pavement albums coming up on this list. If you had asked me to choose one Pavement album for this list, you'd still be waiting for my answer.
I'm happy with this choice.
Magazine
4/5
I can hear so many bands this album must have 8nfluenced (Supergrass, Minor Threat, Fugazi) also some contemporaries that shared a similar mindset (Gang of Four, Specials, Buzzcocks)
An album like this is the whole reason I started this journey. (Almost) Makes sitting through all the shit European electronic albums worth it
Mj Cole
1/5
There are so many questions...
THIS is a professional musician?
As a professional he actually heard this "music" in his head?
He decided to record it?
He thinks it came out sounding good?
All the other people involved with recording this album are happy with their work too?
A record label actually heard this and thought it was worthy of release?
Someone designed this album cover?
That someone submitted it as a serious submission?
It actually got chosen?
Dimery included it in his book?
He expected to hold on to any of his credibility?
This album sucks
Nico
1/5
This album sucks. No two ways about it. It's like I'm walking with a fairy in a forest. But that fairy has a cold and is probably a smurf.
Milton Nascimento
3/5
This album is pretty tight. Way, way too long though
Little Richard
5/5
Classics. Original. Genuine. Also... Nineteen Fifty Fucking Seven. I have to agree with another reviewer that the recorded version can't hold a candle to his live energy. But still, it's great and it was 1957
The Cramps
4/5
Pretty great. Ahead of its time. Worth the listen
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
It's fine I guess. I really only need to hear reggae music when I'm on a beach or a small island nation. Even then I only need to hear 1 song every 90 mins: limit 5. And even still, I don't want to hear any of these songs. Gimme most of Legend or anything from Peter Tosh - Legalize It.
I guess I take it back. It's not fine. I'm not into this album at all
Destiny's Child
1/5
This album is pretty bad. All the best material is up front (never a good sign). Sexy Daddy might be the worst song I've ever heard from this genre.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2/5
Seems to be the blueprint for all the singer/songwriters of the early to mid aughts.
Billy Joel
3/5
I used to like Billy Joel when I was young. Now I find him utterly intolerable. It's hard to deny that these songs are classics regardless of how I feel about them. I never want to hear this album, or any song off it, ever again.
The Last Shadow Puppets
1/5
Never heard of this album/band
Never needed to hear this album
Never need to hear this album again
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1/5
This album (or at least the song Relax) was so wildly popular in the states in 1984. You could go into huge dept. stores and see giant Frankie Says Relax t-shirts for sale. I was 8 so I didn't understand what a fad was. I didn't think they could possibly have anything to do with a song.
Now im older and hearing this album for the first time. And I still don't get it. Maybe Relax is a OK song, but what is this album?
It's a disjointed collection if songs squarely of a time with a few covers (more than should be on a debut album after 1969) and their one hit (in the States). Pass
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
This album id great. A bit monger than it needs to be. Not my favorite Nick Cave album. But that doesn't mean anything for this. I'm giving this a 3.5... rounded up
Small Faces
1/5
I wasn't expecting to like this album when I saw that it was the selection for today. It seemed like I was going to be wrong once I heard that first song. Nope. I wasn't. Too many parts remind me of bands I don’t like. Too many annoying taliking intro/outros.
Elvis Presley
2/5
This is not the Elvis album anyone MUSt hear before they die. No matter how good In the Ghetto and Suspicious Minds are.
Mike Ladd
1/5
I'm not OK with this Gil Scott-Heron wannabe
Simon & Garfunkel
2/5
If you put your thumb on Paul Simon's face, it looks like Art Garfunkel has an epic mustache.
The Roots
1/5
Not enough changes within songs.its less than fine but not bad, per se
Dexys Midnight Runners
1/5
This is stupid
The Gun Club
3/5
I dig it enough
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
If I was 14 and just getting into experimental music, I'd see the value of this much more than I do now
I'd sample the hell outta this though
Talvin Singh
2/5
I understand how it can good of you're in mood for it. I'll probably never be in that mood
Black Sabbath
5/5
No matter what day your religion chooses as the Sabbath, may it be a Black one.
RIP Ozzy
The Sonics
3/5
He has a scream. And he wants you to hear it
4/5
Classic Bowie
Throwing Muses
4/5
For 1986. A band from RI. Too good to pass up
Bill Callahan
2/5
Sure. Whatever
Love
2/5
Yeah. Um. I'm not very familiar with Love. I knew Alone Again Or and that's it.
This album starts out with 2 songs I don't like, but are pretty good for their separate genres.
Que Vida is a children's song that mentions killing your brother
Seven and Seven Is could be a Murphy"s Law song if they came from SoCal and not NYC.
Revelation starts out like a Chris Issac Forever Blue era song and quickly deteriorates into a Doors song.
I'll probably never listen to this album again
Os Mutantes
4/5
Wow. It's albums like this that made me start this in the forst place. It's great and ive never heard (of) it before
Devendra Banhart
3/5
I forgot about this guy. Some good stuff here. Album is too long though
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Good stuff. Too much religion for my taste but not so much as to ruin it
Black Sabbath
4/5
This is a great album. Better than their first.
Ive never heard an album end so well! Those last 2 or 3 songs are wonderful!
But that first song. Oh boy! It starts in the middle of a guitar solo. And not just any guitar solo, one straight out of a cheesy (sexy) movie that aired on USA Network or Skinamax in the 1980s.
Lucinda Williams
3/5
Lucinda Williams just opened a Honkey Tonk in NYC this week.
Pretty solid album. I don't know if I should now listen to Steve Earle, Wilco, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crowe or Liz Phair.
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
FINALLY! I've been waiting for a classic rap album. I feel Paul's Boutique and Low End Theory were so long ago.
This is a five star album. Always has been. Always will be.
Fleetwood Mac
1/5
Ugh. Is there anything worse than Stevie Nicks?
Is there anything better than the last 30 seconds of The Chain? 1 full star for that alone.
Eels
3/5
I was lamenting that I should have given this band more of a chance back in 1996. I was thinking they were pretty good and I might have liked to see them live. I just didn't like Novocaine that much.
Just I was thinking all this, the album started to get a bit boring to me. All in all I still see the appeal. Appeal. Enough to say you must listen? Nope
Waylon Jennings
4/5
I miss this style if Country. I get it, all things must adapt and change in order to survive. But I still miss this
Scott Walker
1/5
If Neil Diamond met Johnny Mathis and that creation was soulless and even more boring.
Justin Timberlake
4/5
This is the album that started albums sounding like this. Pharrell is awesome and this put him on the mainstream map. I heard him say that he tried to make an MJ record, but Jackson didn't want to buy any of the songs. JT heard this and jumped at the chance and it was an über smart move.
Talking Heads
2/5
After listening to a few whole Talking Heads albums I've come to the conclusion that I THINK I like them more than I actually DO.
Stop Making Sense is all I really need. And it has a better version of Burning Down the House on it.
Doves
1/5
Exactly 10 years before this album was released, the LA Riots happened.
Bee Gees
1/5
So far ahead of it's time. It's bad enough to be released in the 80s.
Based on this album, the BeeGees could have their own meek and risk-adverse variety show
Belle & Sebastian
1/5
Halfway through i let out a big sigh. A sigh of discontent.
At this stage in my life, I have no use for this album. I have never had a use for this album in my life, and I don't think I ever will
Sabu
2/5
This is on here but not one single album by Desi Arnez?
Dimery! You got some 'splainin' to do!
+1 star for being a source of a Beastie Boys sample
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
I'll agree with J, it's not their best, but I don't think it's their worst effort either. And, it's way better than a lot if garbage that was circulating in 1988
Isaac Hayes
2/5
It has a couple of really long songs on it. Not *exactly* like Lysol by Melvins. Maybe the Melvins are the Isaac Hayes of sludge metal.
The last song he mentioned 'The Power of Love' but he didnt sing a Huey Lewis song. Curious thing.
Taylor Swift
4/5
I don't normally like TS. And I really only like a few songs on this album. But this is a very good album. It as a lot of variety and diversity. It has a great order to it and at least it's not totally about some relationship with some boy like almost 100% of TS songs that came before this.
Even the songs I don't really like have something about them that I like or can admire.
Can't deny it, this is a very good album.
But I have to emphasize, I belive the reason Shake it off was such a big hit is because it's true and personal and NOT about a guy. I wanna hear more of that. (But, that is NOT a "sick beat")
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
This album is pretty great! When im all done with this journey, I might start my mornings off with this. I like the whole style of it, especially the frenetic horns on Double-O
David Bowie
3/5
While it was good that Bowie came out with more music at the end. This album did not ever grab me. Black Star on the other hand. Boy oh boy. Wish I listened to that one today
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
Like most things Elvis Costello, I don't like this album.
Tokyo Storm Warning is one of the most grating songs I've ever heard.
What a chore
Death In Vegas
1/5
Less fun.
Less lovin'.
Still criminal.
Very criminal to be on this list
David Ackles
1/5
Oh. Um. Uh. ??
Gil Scott-Heron
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
To (loosely) quote Stephen Cobert, It's like I died and went to Brooklyn
This album hit better back then. I thought maybe it would immediately bring me back to 2007/8 because this album was inescapable. But maybe, BECAUSE it was so ubiquitous, going back in time couldn't happen. Maybe it hasn't been long enough. Maybe, I've just moved on.
Keeping the rating for the memories
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Velvet Underground ran, so you're favorite bands could walk.
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
Amazing. Wonderful, deep, thought provoking and beautiful. The statement "the album was a surprise hit that record executives felt had little chance at significant sales," is one that hurts my ear balls. How did they listen to the same album i just heard and think, naaah?!?
Great album to start the week with
M.I.A.
2/5
Some songs are good, probably the Timberland ones. The vocals though, are very grating.
Laibach
2/5
It was interesting at first. Completely took me out of my comfort zone and I appreciated that. But then it was just was too long.
Van Morrison
3/5
I don't like any of these songs.
But this has got to be one of the cleanest live albums I've ever heard. Also, Van's voice is indistinguishable from his studio voice. Those things combined are woth 2.5-3 stars
The Stranglers
5/5
I don't care what you say. This is not a jam band disguised as punk. It straight up awesome
Fela Kuti
4/5
This is not something I'm really into. But today I was and thought it was great
Abdullah Ibrahim
1/5
Nobody's reading your long ass reviews. But they exist. Just like this album does.
The KLF
2/5
I wish I wasn't so deep into this list. After yesterday's album, I started to think maybe I should rate these albums not on quality or appeal, but on legitimacy of if the albums deserve to be on the list.
I have a never-fading memory of KLF
Mostly stories of antics, audacity of their book and 3 A.M. Eternal
I'm not really into anything on this album except for 3 A.M., but I do feel that it absolutely deserves placement on this list. Like all those albums I don't really care for in the 90s on this list - I feel The White Room kicked it all off and for that it belongs.
I'm still gonna rate this the way I've been doing for the past 500+ albums
Belle & Sebastian
1/5
After the first song i thought - Scottish Jim Croce or Harry Chapin? Also parts of it sounds a lot like Tracy Ullman's They Don't Know About Us.
Me and the Major was a good tune. The rest was sleep inducing songs "sung" by a guy who probably can't sing. I say that because he never gose above a whiney drone
Joe Ely
1/5
Boxcars is good.
Most of these songs are so middle of the road country. A couple sound like big band jazz country. That must be why "he was considered a rebel of Texas music"
Not great. Not good
Guns N' Roses
5/5
I love this album. I think it starts out kicking our ass and drags you through the mud the whole time.
I have to disagree with a lot of reviews here. I would never classify this album as "Metal". It's Hard Rock. At the time this album came out Metallica, Megadeth, Obituary, Nuclear Assault - THEY were metal. G 'N' R had the hair (because LA) but not the metal.
Spiritualized
2/5
I've tried for decades to get into Spiritualized. And Spacemen 3.
Friends of mine with good musical taste love this band. I just don't get it.
Air
2/5
I hope the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange is on this list. At least that's a great album to listen to regardless of having seen the film. Right, right?
If you plan on seeing this movie, don't listen to the last song here.
Lorde
3/5
Remember when Randy Marsh was Lorde?
Doves
1/5
This is the second album by this band I've listened to because of this list. I really hope it's the last.
Missy Elliott
3/5
Travis
1/5
Im convinced that this album is on this list because he thought you needed to know what the middle of the road sounds like.
Like Radiohead if they had no guts. This probably had heavy rotation on Adult Contemporary Radio. (Station just above the Lite Radio station they play in dentists waiting rooms)
The fact that this is so inoffensive makes it so damn offensive.
Laura Nyro
1/5
This is an album that exists. It was released in 1968.
Adam & The Ants
3/5
In the early-mid 90s I saw Nine Inch Nails live. Adam Ant came out and did 3 songs. Most of these songs here could be covered by an industrial band easily.
This is a good catch fun pop album. Great bass player. More than capable drummer. It boarders on being too long though
Beastie Boys
5/5
When my wife and I got introduced at our wedding, we came out to No Sleep Til Brooklyn
This is where it all started. White guys rapping. Top 40 hip hop. (Run DMC might actually hold that crown). Gangsta Rap. One of the best albums of the 80s. One of the most innovative bands in hip hop/rap/rock.
RIP MCA
Happy Mondays
2/5
I liked the movie 24 Party People WAAAAAAY more than I liked this album.
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
This guy is Petey from Mo' Better Blues.
The Residents
3/5
Yeah. Im pretty OK with this album. Probably not gonna listen to it often, but I will listen again
Mike Oldfield
1/5
Extra star for being 19 when he made this. Extra star for The Exorcist.
Title song was on that Pure Moods compilation.
The Jam
4/5
It's good enough. But it's hard to be excited The Jam nowadays when there have been so many bads that followed clearly influenced by them.
Deserves at least 2 stars for influence
Duran Duran
2/5
Aside from a few of big singles. The rest of this album all kinda sounds alike in a way. It's like 2 albums. The part before New Religion is faster, radio friendly songs. New Religion and on sound like they could all be deep tracks from some 80s movie that is now widely mocked.
Andy Taylor can play bass!
Radiohead
4/5
We need bands like Radiohead. Not my favorite of theirs but a favorite album nonetheless.
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
I k ow people who love this album. Im not one of them but it's good enough. Better than i could so
Tears For Fears
3/5
Quintessential 80s right there
The Verve
1/5
Nothing could possibly fit the definition of 'Not for Me' more than this album.
What a chore to sit through. Especially after an alright (overplayed) opening track.
Hole
1/5
I hate Hole the way I hate Foo Fighters.
The difference is Courtney Love on her worst day as a million times better of a human being than Dave Grohl on his best.
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
This guy loves sex. To the point where he doesn't care about anything else. Thats what I get out of these lyrics.
The music itself is pretty awesome. But fuck man! Get someone else to write the lyrics.
Neu!
3/5
Love
2/5
Absolutely KILLER first track. Then it just devolved. I understand the talent and why people like it, I just don't.
Too many songs remind me of fantasy, elf or nymph flitting about in a forest, or so.e such shit. And I can't stand that shit.
There was another Love album I got a few months ago. I liked that one much more.
But what a killer first song! 2 stars for Alone Again Or alone
The Verve
1/5
This shit sucked in the 90s. It didn't age any better.
Probably one of the most overrated and over blown bands in the last 30 years. (I can think of a few more, but this is a Verve review).
If you love this band, you are lying to yourself
Genesis
1/5
I know this is a progressive rock album. But I really cant stand this fairy/fantasy/ pixie elf-pan flute shit.
I love Peter Gabriel, but I cant in good conscience give Supertramp and Yes zero stars and think this is any better.
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Fantastic! It a project that stands apart from his other work and very well can be his masterpiece.
Also very few featured guests. This is mostly a Kendrick album. Raw, exposed, alone. Kendrick
The Style Council
1/5
What a ride. It has a little bit of nothing for no one.
Bad 80s jazz? I think. Music from a bad 80s movie soundtrack. By that I mean the movie, soundtrack and music are all bad.
The Fall
3/5
Tgis isvwhat 1994 sounded like, but you just never heard these songs.
The Pogues
1/5
I just cant with this band. One song is enough
Blondie
4/5
This is solid. I've never listened with headphones before. All the new things I didn't pick up on in the past.
Straight up bridge from Punk to Modern Rock, which I guess is what New Wave was. But, Blondie did it really, really well.
The xx
1/5
I seriously had no idea the xx were still making music in 2017. Or really even had more than one album.
There is nothing risky about this album at all. If you call yourselves The XX, you should have to push at least 3 boundaries
Elis Regina
5/5
This is great! Exactly why im doing this whole thing. Find an album that I am unfamiliar with (in this case I was also unfamiliar with the artist) and enjoy the hell out of it.
This is the 3rd time that's happened for me and this is my 541st record.
Brian Eno
2/5
I get it. Probably pretty forward for 1977. I just don't wanna hear it again
Energy Fools the Magician sounds like score music from an 80s USA station movie based in FLA had a baby with the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack
Van Halen
5/5
Yeah. Damn near perfect.
With 1984, Van Halen prove they are everything you are not. They're fun. They're popular. They are the life of the party. They're no virgins. You can try, but you will never be Van Halen
The Cure
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
Otis Redding
5/5
This is a wonderful album. Wonderful fully realized tone. Fantastic order. And perfect length. Much better than what you'd expect from what is essentially a cover album
Brian Eno
3/5
Are we done with Brian Eno albums now? 3 seems a bit much
Easily ignorable background music. Perfect title for this album
Manu Chao
4/5
I think this album is a lot of fun. It's full and through and cohesive and realized. Other listening to in its entirety.
TV On The Radio
2/5
I've met a couple of these guys at Union Pool in Brooklyn a few times. Really nice guys.wush I liked their music. But I don't.
D'Angelo died today. I'm gonna listen to Brown Sugar now.
The Who
1/5
Ive always thought of The Who as boring. This listen didn't change my mind at all.
D'Angelo died yesterday. I'm gonna listen to Voodoo now.
Jane Weaver
4/5
Based on the reviewi thought this was gonna be jut terrible. But it wasn't bad I guess. I like a few songs and at least it's a tad different.
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
I've always liked this more than Spearhead. I would have liked to have seen where this could have gone. Maybe nowhere. Maybe somewhere very interesting.
But now that I've listened to the whole album in its entirety, it started to sound like I was being talked at, instead of being spoken to
The Triffids
1/5
I don't like this very much at all. It makes me want to listen to things that are way better. Like The Smithsz and The The and Inxs and Midnight Oil and Simply Red and that opening song done by the guy with the pony tail at the begining of Lost Boys and... you get the point
Sebadoh
5/5
Surprised to see Sebadoh on this list. This is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite album by them. I hope there are more.
Janelle Monáe
5/5
This is damn near a perfect album. I know shes popular, but how is she not more so?
Killing Joke
3/5
I have always know about Killig Joke, but never was introduced to them or thought about buying anything by them when I was a teenager. I probably would have liked them. Especially during any transition time shifting from hardcore to industrial.
Now though I can just see them as pioneers and tgink they are great, but not be very interested in listening to too much of them
Dizzee Rascal
3/5
Round We Go reminds me of The Going Gets Tough from the Get Go by Ween
This should be 8-10 songs long.
Elvis Presley
2/5
Maybe I would have liked this in 1960. But being armed with the knowledge of what Elvis does after this makes Elvis is Back seem boring. Its like a collection of B sides or C sides, D sides...
Soft Cell
3/5
More interesting and diverethan I ever gave them credit for. Strange they only had one US single from this album
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
Absolutely of a time but what a great time it was.
Joni Mitchell
1/5
I have a friend who owned a bar in Brooklyn called Court & Spark. I asked him about the name and he told me it was a Joni Mitchell album. I didn't know if that was cool or not because I was unfamiliar with this album.
Now I know. The answer is a resounding no. But at least this album is 10x better than The Hissing Of Summer Lawns. But I gave that zero stars. And 10 x 0...
(Raised on Robbery is aight though)
Nina Simone
5/5
Gorgeous is the word that comes to mind.
This is an album to make love to. An album to cry to. An album to reflect to. An album to feel alive to!
It's hard to believe this album was compiled from several recordings that were left over from sessions for previous albums. It sounds so thought out and unified.
The Modern Lovers
5/5
I have listened to this album at least a thousand times and it sounds just as fresh today as it did back then. Just as wonderful now as it was the first time I heard it.
So raw. So powerful. So honest.
Also, If you ever have a chance to see Jonathan Richman live, DO IT! It will be the best show you see all year.
Motörhead
4/5
Such a formative part of my youth. But, it hits different today. I don't know why.
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
Fantastic voice. Beautiful really.
This album just isn't for me.
Kanye West
4/5
This is a perfect album. But it hits different recently. Minus one star for all that shit
The Blue Nile
1/5
What is this broke-ass man's Peter Gabriel?*
*No disrespect to Peter Gabriel
SZA
3/5
Not really my thing. But she has a great voice and some songs are straight up solid. But not enough for 4 stars
Napalm Death
4/5
Sounds like ninth grade. Which on the surface is great. But when you dig deep into the bullying and all the beatings, it gets to be much darker. Good thing I have Napalm Death to get me through those lonely hours on the mend.
Paul Weller
1/5
I've never been so bored listening to an album. And I don't mean bored like"Oh I've heard this type of stuff before." No, I mean bored like "There isn't a single solitary nanosecond of anything interesting going on here."
ZERO STARS
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
5/5
There must have been something special about performing a genre of music during its early days. You could pretty much do anything you wanted, and if it works - it works. If not who cares? Even if it doesn't work, someone later might get inspired by it and create some fantastic music themselves.
This works. It's in the fabric of my soul.
Duke Ellington
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Every time I listen to another Talking Heads album, I realize how much all I need is Stop Making Sense. Except for Fear of Music. I really like that album.
I like 3-4 songs on this album. That's not enough to say I MUST hear it.
Tom Waits
4/5
I hope there are more Tom Waits albums on here. This isn't his best but its a really good one.
Steely Dan
1/5
Chevy Chase was Steely Dan's original drummer. And that's the beat thing I can say about them.
Guided By Voices
5/5
So freaking good. Hit is maybe the best 20-second song you'll ever hear. Followed by the ever sweet Valuable Hunting Knife. Fantastic 1-2 punch
Maxwell
1/5
This album is for someone. I don't know who, but it's not me. If I'm gonna listen to a 90s R&B album, it would probably have D'Angelo's name on it. Even if it was a Maxwell album I chose to listen to, it wouldn't be this one.
I was thinking, "I don't know if its fair for me to rate it". But the album started out with a Muzac song and that is just plain unforgivable.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Probably my least favorite Nick Cave album. Not my favorite Leonard Cohen album either
Sigur Rós
1/5
I started this journey specifically for music like this. I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and listen to music from a band maybe I don't know and hopefully like it.
Sadly I did not care for this at all. It's like concentration music.
Wikipedia says the drummer left right after this album was recorded. Is that because he had next to no work to do?
I did like Ágaetis byrjun though
Patti Smith
3/5
I don't own this album. I've never put it on myself, or played it in a jukebox. But, I don't mind when it comes on somewhere. When it's not on, I don't think about it.
White Denim
1/5
D indeed!
Prince
2/5
I never know what to do with Prince. One one hand he's mega talented and I guess I get why people like him. On the other hand, I really don't like very many of his songs
Japan
2/5
My new struggle with this journey is the 'why'? Why must I hear this album before I die? Because it's a great album? Because it influenced another, more successful act? Because if I want to be a music snob, I have to have the knowledge of Japan?
This album is fine. I could tell you it existed and play you a song or 2 that sound like Duran Duran. That's all I get out of today's expierence.
The Slits
2/5
Sure, I guess.
KISS
1/5
I need less of this in my life.
But at least this album DID give us this wonderful piece of art showcasing Beth calling Peter - he explains why he can't come home right now
https://youtu.be/_Q_VZ6PX7gc?si=c7GGDa4vhVEtzpmE
Deee-Lite
3/5
This is a great dance album. I don't know if I'll ever listen to it all the way through again, but I will for sure listen to more songs off it than before it popped up on my generator.
Bob Dylan
1/5
Yeah. OK. Never understood the popularity of Dylan among music fans. Most of these song, this guy is (poorly) kinda-singing songs with barely audible guitar
The Libertines
1/5
In the US this album wasn't on anyone's radar, so it couldn't possibly be overrated. But if I ever met someone who said they liked it, i'm sure I'd think differently of them now.
I've heard of Pete Doherty but never knew why he had any notoriety (aside from his Aimee Winehouse connection).
Of all the many, many bands from around the turn of the Century with the word "The" and then a single plural noun for a name, this is the worst I've one heard.
Ms. Dynamite
2/5
I'm pretty sure that while I'm on my deathbed I won't be saying, "I'm happy I heard that Ms. Dynamite album!"
The Icarus Line
1/5
Based on when this came out I'm sure I would have been *OK* with seeing this band open for someone I liked (At the Drive In maybe?) But, I wouldn't buy any merch or seek them out - unless they blew me away!! Even then that high of remembering how good they were live would only last about a dozen listens - MAX
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Eyeroll.
Now I have to go and thumbs-down all these songs so my streaming service doesn't play any of this shit again
Slade
1/5
Not even the album with Cum on Feel the Noize? You know, the (only) hit they have - that Quiet Riot made famous
What's the point of listening to this generic glam?