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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	5	2.04	+2.96
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	5	2.13	+2.87
Born To Be With You Dion	5	2.62	+2.38
Scott 2 Scott Walker	5	2.63	+2.37
Tago Mago Can	5	2.81	+2.19
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	5	2.83	+2.17
69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields	5	2.84	+2.16
White Light Gene Clark	5	2.85	+2.15
A Walk Across The Rooftops The Blue Nile	5	2.86	+2.14
Quiet Life Japan	5	2.86	+2.14

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Nevermind Nirvana	1	4.37	-3.37
The Wall Pink Floyd	1	4.13	-3.13
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	1	3.97	-2.97
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John	1	3.92	-2.92
In Utero Nirvana	1	3.82	-2.82
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	1	3.8	-2.8
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	1	3.78	-2.78
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.77	-2.77
Metallica Metallica	1	3.77	-2.77
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	1	3.76	-2.76

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Drake	3	5
David Bowie	8	4.25
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
Miles Davis	4	4.25
Beatles	7	4
The Cure	3	4.33
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Aerosmith	3	1
Yes	3	1
Beastie Boys	3	1
Missy Elliott	2	1
Bee Gees	2	1
Alice Cooper	2	1
OutKast	2	1
Dexys Midnight Runners	2	1
ABBA	2	1
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	1
Marvin Gaye	2	1
Funkadelic	2	1
Slipknot	2	1
George Michael	2	1
Todd Rundgren	2	1
Happy Mondays	2	1
Christina Aguilera	2	1
Metallica	4	1.75
Steely Dan	3	1.67
Nirvana	3	1.67
Prince	3	1.67
Rush	2	1.5
Eagles	2	1.5
Fiona Apple	2	1.5
Michael Jackson	2	1.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	1.5
Public Enemy	2	1.5
Deep Purple	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Taylor Swift	5, 1
Dusty Springfield	5, 1
Blur	3, 5, 1
The xx	4, 1
Fleetwood Mac	1, 4

5-Star Albums (85)

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

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Popular Reviews

Shitty degenerate ghetto culture. Nothing of any value on this album.

If music is meant to comfort, Kollaps shatters that notion with a sledgehammer wrapped in steel wool and rebar. Einstürzende Neubauten’s debut is not just an album — it’s an act of sonic revolution, a declaration that sound doesn’t need melody to be musical, or harmony to be holy. Released in 1981, Kollaps is an apocalyptic birth cry from the ruins of post-war Berlin, fusing scrap metal, broken glass, power tools, and anguished vocals into a symphony of collapse. From the first strike of percussion that sounds more like a demolition site than a drum kit, you're not listening — you're immersed. Blixa Bargeld doesn’t sing so much as prophesy, his voice echoing like a mad preacher inside an abandoned factory. Tracks like “Tanz Debil” and the title track “Kollaps” reject structure, reject polish, reject anything resembling musical civility — and in doing so, find something deeply human beneath the wreckage. Each piece feels like a confrontation: with society, with conformity, with sound itself. This is not industrial music in the Nine Inch Nails sense — it’s industry itself turned into music. Yet for all its abrasion, there’s a strange beauty in Kollaps. It’s the beauty of entropy, of cities falling and being reborn, of the aesthetic potential of destruction. Neubauten takes the broken pieces of civilization and holds them up like artifacts, sacred and terrible. Essential listening for anyone interested in the outermost limits of what music can be. This is the soundtrack to a world unraveling — and maybe rebuilding, too. Then again, I'm giving this album 5 stars just to be contrary.

Garbage Boomer nonsense. How can a group of technically talented musicians make something so boring

Live albums are pointless. Live albums with a symphony orchestra are cringe.

World needs more Morrissey, less Billy Bragg.

4-Star Albums (239)

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

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

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

1-Star Albums (196)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

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So grumpy. One or two memorable songs but otherwise it's too dour. Only for die hard Radiohead fans.

Pretty funky and groovy, I guess. Superstition is the stand out track, but overall I don't know if this genre/style is my cup of tea so outside of one or two songs there's no point in repeated listens.

Yeesh. I can see why people either love or hate progressive rock. It's long and boring and over the top. To be honest, apart from the title song I had never in my life heard any other Jethro Tull work until I listened to this album, while high of course. The flute is distracting. Instead of summoning Hobbits I felt like I wanted to join the Nazgûl and burn the Shire to the ground. On the plus side, Jethro Tull walked ... so that Spinal Tap, especially "Stonehenge" could run.

Old fashioned rock and roll. Drive around your shitty small town with no specific destination. Drink beer. Pick up chicks. Get rejected by chicks. Fight. Drive. Nostalgia. 🤘

Jazzy. Ok I guess I don't know, jazz all sounds the same to me

Solid. By coincidence this album was recommended on North American eclipse day 2024. Excellent soundtrack for an eclipse.

Like it, not love it. I think I was a little too old, too Gen X, when this album came out to fully appreciate it. All the bangers we know and love - "Mr Brightside", "All These Things I've Done" - interspersed with much forgettable filler. Throw a couple of these songs into a Spotify playlist and enjoy once in a while, but the album as a whole? Not so much.

Very forgettable.

Yeah it's okay

Yeah it's alright.

Cheese.

I don't get Swift haters. The songs on this album are impeccably produced, catchy as fuck, and on top of that Taylor is hot. This album is a banger and a hell of a lot better than some of the classic rock shit on this list.

Boring

Listenable

Okay. One or two catchy songs that jumped out at me. Otherwise just gimme the Pixies.

Mercy Street is ok. Same with that song from that John Cusack movie. Otherwise boring and forgettable Baby Boomer music.

It's hard to rate and rank rap/hip-hop albums because they all kind of sound the same.

Not even going to listen to this shit, but I will still give it the lowest rating possible.

Two starts but only for nostalgia for my high school years.

Reeks of hippy

Pretty good

I ended up finding this on YouTube and it's pretty rad. Spooky cabaret.

So boring I didn't even finish

Oof

Rockin' and rollin.

Maybe somewhere out there is a prog rock album that isn't utterly stupidly ridiculous. However, "The Yes Album" ain't it.

Holiday in Cambodia is catchy but the rest of the album just gives me a headache.

Not for me

How do you say "smooth" in Portuguese?

Nope.

So boring.

Smooth.

Live albums are pointless.

Meh. Fine songwriting here and there but such a long album.

Smooth

Garbage Boomer nonsense. How can a group of technically talented musicians make something so boring

Of all the boring bands Wilco is one of the boringest

Bored Californians make too much noise. American punk scene is and always was trash. Noise.

Pretty good for a disco album. I recognize some of the songs remixed in more modern pop songs e.g. he's the greatest dancer in Will Smith's "gettin jiggy with it", plus the influence on Daft Punk is unmistakeable. An album to get up and boogie to, not to listen while lounging in your favorite chair.

Live albums are pointless.

Forgettable

Meh

Mid

Boomers who _still_ don't like electric Dylan can go touch grass.

Seems like it doesn't belong in this list. Not because it's not good (or bad), but because it's an album of Tango music.

Awesome album. Forget all the "derp fUcK MorrISEy chuds.". More Morriseys, fewer Billy Braggs.

eww, no

Dude could bang out some rockers, sure. But live albums are pointless

Surprised. Never heard of this until now. I dig the Phil Spector sound. Solid vocals. Awesome.

Good songwriting, catchy with great vocals. Talent here, but ultimately kind of forgettable as it's sounds like so many other 90s rock bands.

You know that guy from your shitty home town? The one who everyone thought was cool because he banged chicks, knew where to get the best weed, an always bought beer for the kids? The one who grew up to amount to nothing? The guy who stills lives in the shitty home town, drinks copiously and complains about how today's music sucks? That same guy who's now 54 years old - and while everyone else grew up, started careers, made families, travelled, helped build society - he's on the dole, on his 20th girlfriend in as many years, probably has kids he never sees nor pays for? Rush is his favorite band and this is his favorite album. Zero stars out of five if possible.

I'm glad 1001 albums recommended this, otherwise this would have never been on my radar. Never heard of this band or album until now but it is great. Experimental noise rock, driving beats, some catchy songs in there. Refreshing after having to hear so much Boomer crap. You can only take so much Eagles, Bad Company, Aerosmith tripe. "They Were Wrong, So we Drowned" is a fucking fresh breath of air.

All the excess of 70s rock packed into a double album. Prog rock song that's 8 minutes to long? Check. Stompy call and response sing-a-longs? Check. Mostly forgettable filler songs? Check. Candle in the Wind? One of the most vapid pop songs ever recorded? Check. Fuck this album and everything about it.

Starts off with a catchy banger. Followed by more than an hour of forgettable pop twaddle.

I remember the 90s fondly. I don't remember the 90s being this BORRRRING

Jazzy.

Trash.

Magnificent. Sophisticated pop music that stands head and shoulders above a lot of the drivel that was released in the 1980s. Highly recommended.

Yikes, who actually listens to this? Are all the stupid stereotypes of soul patched fedora-wearing nerds skankin' on the dance floor true? Shit's unlistenable. Musically, there's nothing special about the Specials. They sound like countless high school bands around the world.

Meh. Not the worst thing to listen to.

Ok I guess. 🤔

Crappy disco album. Just because it's Michael Jackson doesn't mean it's good.

Bland. I skipped through this album trying to find one, ONE, song that I liked. Nothing. Its the soundtrack playing over the closing credits of many an 80s movie. Why is this album listed here? Why is it relevant?

Boring blues rock album

Sweet Emotion is okay but this is a bland album from one of rock's most mid bands. Its a perfectly average rock album which somehow makes it worse than merely being a "bad" album.

It's alright.

Not the best Sabbath album, but still pretty good .

Too fucking loud, but okay I guess. Would probably have loved this in high school, but it wasn't on my radar back then.

Odd selection for the list. Twee African music. Why not include Polka or some other regional ethnic shit as well. This album's lame.

Kate Bush with an American accent? I dunno, I'm a middle aged bloke so maybe it's not meant for me and it's not clicking. Might listen to it again later but right now it's mid.

5 bloody stars and I won't hear any different.

Metal? Proto industrial? Strange French-language cabaret / circus music? I have to give it three stars because I can't decide if I hate it, or haven't yet appreciated how brilliant this might be. Needs more listens for sure.

Don't get the big deal with the White Stripes. Mid level rock that any high school garage band plays. Meh.

Relax is a fun song but the rest of the album is ass. Synthpop twaddle, not in a good way.

Without a doubt one of the best albums of the 1990s in any genre.

Just awful

Rough old voice (in a good way). Haunting, enjoyable, but nowhere near Leonard Cohen's best work.

Big hit single when it came out, great for its time, but now sounds boring almost a decade later. Others do Asian influenced pop better (Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation etc). This is mid.

I dunno. Generic angry rock, with a voice that sounds like a pig in heat.

Just awful. Has the potential to be a fantastic and compelling trip hop album. Instead it's a cheesy soundtrack to a 90s British Airways commercial. At best, dentist office music.

Pretty cool

Forgettable 80s pap. Not worth a first listen let alone a second one.

Pleasant surprise. good rock songs Never heard this album before , nor Incubus generally, but I like it. Very much a product of its late 90s nu metal times, but this is head and shoulders above some of the other players in that genre.

Low quality "punk" for middle schoolers.

World needs more Morrissey, less Billy Bragg.

80s twaddle

Boring as shit. Could not tell when one song ended and another began.

How can an album be compelling and also really boring at the same time? 🤔

Hell yeah

Just a cringe, twangy country album. There's nothing special nor interesting about this at all.

Fine. Nothing remarkable.

Eh, It's just a soul album

Can't put my fingers on it but there's something very unpleasant sounding in this album.

Sounds very dated decades later. No good at all.

Uninteresting

One star because I couldn't find this album anywhere

The hell is this? Hip hop? Pop? New Jack Swing? Cross-over? Whatever it tried to be, it failed. This is, without hyberbole, one of the WORST albums I've been served on this 1001 list. Ive at least finished listening to all the 1 star albums - here I just found myself skipping every song. SH*T

Its okay

It's okay. Bloc Party does this style better though.

One of the best of the era, if not all time

It's okay

Holy heck, prog rock is such a shitty genre

Nirvana sucks. Stop mythologizing this overrated high school garage band.

Throbbing jungle ethnic music Not in a good way. This album is stupid, its lobby music while you're checking into a mid 3 star Cuban resort you grabbed through an Expedia Black Friday sale. If you're going to include shit like this on this list why not also include Polka or Yodelling albums, or some swarthy Med playing bouzouki.

Ghetto trash.

Garbage music from the most overrated musician in the history of pop and rock. Yes, you read that correctly. Weird little midget gets a few hits here and there but otherwise his output sucks. Fight me, IDGAF.

Boring hippy crap

Hippy crap, possibly one of the worst albums on this lost. The 60s were a shrill and pointless decade. Should have sent a lot more of these spoiled boomers off to die in Vietnam.

No fooling, this is one of the great of the 1990s of not all time. Love it to bits and not just because I'm a proud card carrying Gen x.

Not as good as Loveless by MBV, but still great.

This album is so ridiculous it's fantastic.

Without this album there'd be no Giorgio Moroder, no Daft Punk, and no countless other musical acts than make us get up and dance. Well done.

This is one of the worst things to come out of the 90s. Every song on this is terrible and they all sound the same. Soundtrack to sloppy looking middle aged men mowing their lawn every Saturday. RATM is Limp Bizkit with a Che Guevara flag hanging in the dorm room. All you Rage fans got swindled, hard.

King of the dad records.

I don't see what the big deal is. It's just an R and B record, nothing special.

Sounds like Europe in the 90s. Amazing.

Paul Simon and the other guy are good songwriters, there's no argument there. Unfortunately this album ain't it. The "feeling groovy" song is okay. Rest of it is like the Byrds on heavy sedatives. Pass.

Strong opening track, followed by repetition. Electropop is the disco of the 21st century, take that for what it's worth.

I do not like this. Surely Dad Rock can do better than this?

Not even the best Led Zed album

Oy bruv, bit dull, innit?

Straight ahead no nonsense balls to the walk rock music. Whats not to like?

Oy bruv, it's no Morning Glory, innit?

Kind of a meme at this point

So boring

This album just goes on and on with no reward.

Has aged very poorly. The kind of album some suburban Gen X mom would play at top volume on wine night with her girlfriends.

Ive tried to get into Prince, I really have. I dont understand the appeal and the value he brought to pop music.

In my youth I absolutely loved Radiohead. Looked forward to every new release, hung on their every word, saw them live. Now in my middle aged I'm re-evaluating their work and I can't help feeling I got swindled by the mopy neo-prog rock.

James Brown is fine, I just dislike live albums. They're pointless.

So angry. Unlistenable. I hated it in the 90s when I was a teenager and I still hate it today. "A Warm Place" is the only thing approaching a "good song". That includes Closer and Hurt. Dated worse than disco.

Sinatra had a great voice, but bossa Nova generally has aged poorly. Suitable for background music in a department store.

Absolute Eurotrash bangers. This, and not Nirvana or Nine Inch Nails, is what the 90s were all about.

This album doesn't hold up decades later. I think we were all swindled, I mean what on earth were the North American youth so angry about in the early 90s? We need to seriously rethink this album's spot in the Canon.

It's a dumb album.

It's like a Radiohead album but better, more accessible, more likeable, less grumpy , more listenable, and with fewer dick head fans.

A soundtrack to walk through the heather and dance around the Maypole at the Shropston-upon-Cringlecrumpet Cabbage festival. It's the scene in Mary Poppins where they jump into the chalk drawing but with sitars and distorted electric guitars. Fab

A soundtrack to doing lines of coke with Ryan O'Neal and David Carradine in a boat off the coast of Santa Barbara in 1979.

Pass. This, like most modern R&B, all sounds the same.

Best of its era, one of the best of all time. I stream it constantly plus have vinyl and CD versions of this album.

So boring.

Boomer blues and roots rock. Not unpleasant, but nothing special either.

Holy shit, no, what the fuck even is this?

At its best, it's an album from a band riding a creative high point. (A Day in the Life, Getting Better, When I'm 64) At its worst, over the top shitty hippy music with all the worst stereotypes of hippy music -- distortion, sitars, cheesy circus music. 3 stars because it's either the best Beatles album or the absolute worst. It can't be both. As for psychedelic music, others did it first AND did it better (Pet Sounds, 13th Floor Elevators, Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets, pretty much anything by the Byrds)

As others have mentioned, it's not a very important, essential, or good album if you can't find it anywhere. 👎

Nick Cave is one of my all time faves , but this isn't it. Also it's really hard to find this album through streaming services.

I love her debut "A Girl Called Dusty , had it pop up on this list a few days ago, but this album is boring in comparison.

The music grooves, great beats - could dance to the at a club as much today as in 1990. On the other hand, this album has some of the most asinine lyrics ever recorded. "Human energy overcome the enemy". Yikes. If this were an instrumental record I'd easily give it 5 starts.

This is fine example of "if you've heard one Soul album you've heard them all". 'Shining Star' is okay. 'Happy Feelin' is okay. The rest of the album likely won't get a second listen from me.

Some guitar. Some quiet/LOUD dynamics. Some screaming. Of its time, and influential I suppose just not for me.

I'm always in the mood for drunk-in-the-gutter Tom Waits. Maybe I should finally see a therapist.

Great melodies, fab production. Also this album got me through a transitional period in my life and will always be a sentimental favorite. 10/10 would recommend.

I don't know what to make of this. 2 stars.

First time hearing this. It's alright. Catchy. Nothing new or groundbreaking or breathtaking. 3 stars.

This album's awesome. Imagine 1950s small town America with ice cream shops and drive in movies and "Enchantment Under the Sea" high school dances except everyone is a zombie or vampire or werewolf

It's an album on this list, I guess. 2 stars

This IS it. Not too much, just some nepo babies who put together a bar band, used their connections to flash onto a scene that was a little boring at the time. Here we are.

5 minutes of the famous Exorcist bit followed by prog rock silliness. Ruined my Saturday morning coffee and newspaper reading. Pass.

The one song she's known for is right at the beginning, followed by 45 minutes of the most run of the mill R&B. Pass

Warbling folk songs. I don't care for her voice.

Yeah, it's an alright rock album. Will listen again in the future.

I just can't get into Reggae music. Caribbean Polka music is all it is.

Nope. Just some run of the mill soul / R&B record. Want a classic divorce album? Go for Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"

One star because I'm bored by this. This is Carribean resort hotel lobby music. I also don't understand what makes some "ethnic music" cool and relevant but not others. This list has Cuban and other Carribean music, music from South America , and from Africa, and reggae. But no J-Rock? No Polka? No Mongolian throat singing?

Yeah I dunno it's a jazz album - this shit all sounds the same to me.

Run of the mill R &B album. Boring as a beige wall.

It wasn't that bad, actually

Screamy, but okay. Enjoyed listening to it in the afternoon at work, in a job that's been driving me crazy. Not bad, but it's served its purpose and I doubt I'll ever listen to this again.

Gorgeous. Just chilling out on a Sunday night. Book in hand, this album playing.

Nope not for me

If this website has shown me anything it's that "classic" country music is an amazing genre. This album is great.

Trash metal for bored suburban teens. Does not belong on this list in any way, shape , or form.

Millennials really got stuck with the most boring music, didn't they?

Brand new listening, never heard this before but it's a hip, satisfying pop album. 4/5

There's nothing special about this album.

Nothing special

Doesn't do anything for me. Just an hour of noodling around on the guitar.

Swift's 1989 is a 5 star banger of an album that makes me want to dance. This is a teenage girls diary set to whispy piano and guitar, should be tossed in the bin and best forgotten.

3/5 run of the mill R and B

Both versions are boring. I hear this shit when I head down to the restaurant to pick up a chicken vindaloo. Hard pass.

Not bad, as far as ethnic albums go.

Hating on U2 is lame. Y'all dislike this album because it's cool to dislike this band. Tight playing, earnestness, soaring lyrics and themes. This is a fantastic album. And, dare I say it, to this is way better than Joshua Tree.

Pleasant, if a little sleepy. I doubt I'll ever listen to this album again.

Prog rock lite. It's okay I suppose but it lacks the inventiveness and theatricality of better prog rock bands. Hard to believe this and Pink Floyd's Animals are considered to be in the same genre.

Uninteresting

To be honest this is a pretty interesting sound collage. No different than you'd find on The Beatles Revolution 9 or Tom Waits Bone Machine or Radiohead's Kid A. People giving this album 1 star are just doing it to fit in. Give it an honest listen.

The 90s were peak popular culture and smooth, hypnotic drum & bass is proof of that. Fantastic collection.

I used to love this album , now it's not that interesting anymore.

Just as I thought I was starting to get into electronic music of all times I get this served up. Sounds amateurish. Soundtrack to some shitty 90s movie about computer hackers probably.

Schlock

Meh, just some R and B Album.

It bored me, it sounds dated, I didn't even finish it

There's maybe one okay song on here. Trying to hard to be late stage Queen. Pass.

As far as hip hop albums go, this one's okay. More remarkable that it's women. (Yes I said that out loud).

It's a jazz album.

Heck yes. There's a lot of lot of terrible people in showbusiness but this album is great.

Meh

Lovely

Absolute degenerate ghetto trash. Zero stars for these niggas. The decline of Western Civilization in one album.

So much hip hop looks and sounds alike.

This band sucks why do they have multiple albums on this list?

Swing and a miss. Trash.

Ugly noise rock.

Temu Stooges. When your mom says "We have Iggy Pop at home". In retrospect this whole early 2000s rock revival is corny.

Ugly noises

Every song sounded like the song preceding it and following it. Pass.

Soundtrack for a Mexican restaurant 👎

Shitty rock Album

It's pretty cool I guess. The kind of music you'd hear at Mango or H&M while trying on jumpers.

Dated silly hippy stiff. Not a good album.

Not crappy but still boring

Hiphop broadly, Outkast specifically do nothing for me. There are only like 5 good albums in the history of rap. This ain't one of them.

Not the best Doors album

They have more than that one song? I didn't get through the album. Schlock.

Holy shit this album makes me hate reggae more than I already do.

Somebody or some podcast or some blog post or some article told you this was a super amazing album. You wanted to fit in and be hip or whatever so you went along and pretended to like it. Boring. 1/5 stars.

What is this? Who even is this guy?

Once upon a Time Happy Mondays were raucous, wild, but still joyful. This album is none of that.

Who knew Arabic music could be so dynamite? I had a blast listening to it. The track "El Harba Wine" is the bomb. Ethnic music blah

Individually, each member of Steely Dan was and is a technically brilliant musician. But together, as a band, they somehow make the shittiest, most boring, most cringeworthy music. Negative 1 million stars.

Bit of a silly album innit? Most of the songs have a Benny Hill montage vibe. You known when Benny Hill is chasing bikini clad English girls at 1.5 speed? Yeah. Plus the title track isnt that good. 1/5 stars.

Takes me back to the early 90s but I don't want to go. 👎

Jump jive and wail is an okay song but as a whole this albums really corny

Holy shit I hate reggae. It all sounds the same, prove me wrong. Carribean Polka music.

Islam is pretty cringe overall, but this qawwal stuff is alright innit? First heard about Nusrat years ago through that warbly, yodeling fella what drowned. The Buckley kid.

Great voice but live albums are pointless

Holy crap I hate prog Rock.

Shitty degenerate ghetto culture. Nothing of any value on this album.

American punk is mostly abrasive noise. This is no exception. Dislike.

I thought disco Bee Gees already sucked, what the hell is this crap?

Sounds like German rock.

Too much guitar noodling.

Weird, but good weird. More Revolver or early Dr John than stupid Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa at their most annoying. It's crazy that this albums holds up well 60 years later.

One okay song followed by half an hour of generic soul songs. 👎 So many albums that could be on this list, but we have this instead.

Paris 1919 is the kind of record that shouldn’t work at all—an ornate, bookish, slightly unhinged chamber-pop fever dream from a man who sounds like he’s serenading a collapsing empire—yet it ends up being absurdly, almost annoyingly brilliant. John Cale croons like a polite aristocrat losing his mind in real time, draping his cracked elegance over arrangements so lush they practically faint from their own beauty. The whole album walks a tightrope between pretension and transcendence, and somehow Cale nails both: it’s fussy, overstuffed, maddeningly precious—and absolutely unforgettable.

Live albums are pointless. Live albums with a symphony orchestra are cringe.

Groovy sounds of 90s London, innit Bruv.

What is this retarded shit? DEI album selection?

Porcupine is the sound of Echo & The Bunnymen stepping fully into their role as one of the defining bands of post-punk Britain, while still keeping one foot in the shadows. Where Heaven Up Here was claustrophobic and stormy, Porcupine feels more expansive and deliberate, as if the band have learned how to shape atmosphere into songs that linger rather than simply brood. Will Sergeant’s guitar work is the album’s quiet hero: chiming, watery, and elastic, it gives tracks like “The Cutter” and “Back of Love” a sense of momentum without sacrificing mystery. Ian McCulloch’s vocals are at their most assured here—aloof, dramatic, and occasionally pretentious, but in a way that suits the band’s grand, Romantic vision. There’s a confidence to his delivery that makes even the more opaque lyrics feel purposeful. The album isn’t flawless. Some of the deeper cuts blur together in mood and tempo, and Porcupine lacks the raw danger of the band’s earlier work. But what it gains instead is cohesion and poise. This is Echo & The Bunnymen refining their aesthetic rather than reinventing it, laying the groundwork for the even more polished Ocean Rain. Not their most iconic album, but arguably their most balanced—Porcupine rewards patient listening and confirms the band’s place in the canon of essential early-’80s alternative music.

It's African music, I guess?

The Low End Theory is a timeless record that still sounds fresh decades later. The beats are warm and stripped-down, the bass does the heavy lifting, and every track feels effortless without being lazy. Q-Tip and Phife Dawg trade verses with humor, confidence, and heart, making the album feel both smart and fun. It’s hip-hop that doesn’t shout to prove itself—and that’s exactly why it lasts.

Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head is a masterclass in emotive, arena-ready alternative rock. From the delicate piano of “Clocks” to the soaring crescendos of “The Scientist” and the urgent, almost brittle energy of “Politik,” the album balances introspection with stadium-sized ambition. Chris Martin’s falsetto and the band’s restrained yet dramatic arrangements create moments of genuine emotional resonance. While some tracks lean a bit too heavily on Coldplay’s trademark earnestness, the album’s consistency and melodic inventiveness make it a standout of early-2000s rock. A richly textured, often stirring listen that solidifies Coldplay’s place in the post-Britpop era.

This is Dwight Yoakam at his most focused and quietly devastating. Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room strips away any lingering novelty around his Bakersfield revivalism and delivers a tight, nocturnal country record obsessed with heartbreak, pride, and emotional stalemates. It’s lean, reverb-soaked, and emotionally adult. The production is crisp but never glossy—twangy guitars snap, drums stay restrained, and Yoakam’s voice sits front and centre, equal parts ache and restraint. Songs don’t sprawl; they brood. Even the up-tempo tracks feel tense rather than celebratory, like motion used to outrun regret. Lyrically, this is classic Yoakam territory: dignity eroding in real time, relationships ending not with explosions but with resignation. There’s a cinematic quality to it—late-night kitchens, empty highways, motel-room clarity. You can hear the West Coast honky-tonk lineage, but it never feels like cosplay; it feels lived-in. Why not a 5? It’s emotionally consistent to the point of monochrome. If you’re not in the mood for melancholy with discipline, it can feel emotionally narrow. But judged on its own terms, it’s one of the strongest statements of late-’80s country—traditional without being backward-looking, polished without losing its soul. If you want proof that country can be cool, spare, and unsentimental, this is one of the records people point to for a reason.

★★★★☆ (4/5) Heroes is David Bowie at his most stark, experimental, and emotionally distant—and that’s largely its strength. Side one delivers some of his most enduring work, balancing icy European art-rock with flashes of raw humanity. The title track remains monumental: restrained, obsessive, and quietly defiant rather than triumphant in a conventional sense. The surrounding songs feel angular and anxious, perfectly capturing a sense of alienation and urban tension. Side two is more challenging. The instrumental pieces are atmospheric and conceptually interesting, but they can feel austere and emotionally remote, especially compared to Bowie’s more immediately rewarding albums. Still, they reinforce the album’s identity as a product of a specific place and moment. Heroes may not be Bowie’s most accessible record, but it’s one of his most coherent and influential—an album that rewards mood, patience, and context. Not flawless, but undeniably essential.

Electric is The Cult at their most stripped-down and muscle-bound, but also at their least interesting. The AC/DC-by-way-of-Rick-Rubin approach delivers blunt, crunchy riffs and plenty of swagger, yet the album rarely rises above competent hard rock pastiche. Ian Astbury’s charisma carries a lot of the weight, and there are moments where the raw energy hits just right, but too many tracks blur together into mid-tempo stompers that feel interchangeable. It’s not bad—just aggressively generic, especially when compared to the atmosphere and ambition of the band’s other work. Solid background rock, but far from essential.

ragged, soulful classic that captures Rod Stewart at his peak—raspy, swaggering, and emotionally direct. Every Picture Tells a Story blends folk, blues, rock, and roots music with a looseness that feels lived-in rather than sloppy. “Maggie May” and the title track are deservedly iconic, but the real strength of the album is its consistency and atmosphere: late nights, bad decisions, and hard-won self-knowledge. It’s not polished, and that’s the point. The band sounds like it could fall apart at any moment, yet never does. Honest, masculine, and timeless without trying to be.

A fiery, eccentric post-punk gem, Kilimanjaro bursts with jagged energy and infectious hooks, though its uneven production occasionally undercuts the brilliance. Still, it’s a thrilling listen that captures the Teardrop Explodes at their most adventurous.

A slick, instantly catchy debut that defined late-’90s teen pop, …Baby One More Time is packed with undeniable hits but feels more manufactured than emotionally deep. Still, has some bang her. Oops I mean bangers.

Fine but forgettable. Not seminal nor important nor "must hear before you die" in any way. Actually the more I think about it. The more lacklustre it is and I will never willingly listen to this ever again.

Not the best Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, not by a long shot. I know there's tragedy and sorrow behind this album but it sounds like the music Ross Gellar played on Friends. 3/5 only because it's one of my fave bands and one of the all time great bands.

Paul’s Boutique sounds like three guys permanently stuck on “my name is ___ and I’m here to say,” stretched across an entire album and buried under clever samples as camouflage. The beats do all the work while the rapping proudly refuses to evolve beyond shouty, first-draft playground rhymes. What fans call “irony” just feels like commitment to being obnoxious on purpose. If this is punk energy, it’s punk that never learned a second chord. Proof that knowing hip-hop history isn’t the same as making enjoyable hip-hop.

I'll probably never listen to this album ever again but having said that, it's not bad.

I don't care what Marilyn Manson the dude did or didn't do.... This album is gay and retarded and useless regardless.

I don't get Frank Zappa, never did. Was he supposed to be like the Weird Al Yankovic of the Baby Boomers? Still, not the worst album on this list.

Yeah it's okay

90s sound. I enjoyed it then, but moved on. Pleasant to revisit it but that's it.

★☆☆☆☆ Me Against the World is the kind of rap I absolutely hate: relentlessly self-serious, grievance-soaked, and convinced that brooding equals depth. Track after track leans into paranoia and self-mythologizing, mistaking intensity for insight and repetition for emotional weight, with little variation in mood or texture to give the listener any air. Yes, it’s influential and earnest, but that doesn’t make it engaging—its joylessness, monotony, and clenched-fist worldview turn what’s often praised as “raw” into something I find exhausting and deeply unenjoyable.

Underwhelming. Dare I say it, really boring. 60s British Blues isn't very interesting.

That's a nepo baby, innit?

Sounds like a thousand other rock albums. Leave it in the 90s and don't look back.

Absolute crap. Terrible lyrics mixed with overproduced stupid noises. This album is worse than the lowest rated albums on this list, and to be honest deserves the bottom spot.

Wow. Michael Jackson is a one album wonder. Everything outside of Thriller is a miss.

African music that I've never heard before and likely never will again

Not the worst album on this list. Wild.

It's fine Probably won't listen to it again Dissonant and raw, Venus Luxure bleeds and burns, Noisy punk rebirth.

Truly the most 3/5 album of all time

I didnt get past the first song, it was that ridiculous.

What even is this shit? I don't care that he may have been a Bad Seed, this is an utterly ridiculous album.

Sounds like music for a Caribbean vacation advert. Didn't finish the album. Hard pass.

I like it . The British Eminem? Nah this is head and shoulders above that Detroit poseur. Mike Skinner's a good bloke standing against a lamp post, gladly giving you an extra cigarette. Eminem is the sound of a closeted homosexual punching drywall.

Something about this album gives me a headache

What is this shit

It's an album on this list.

Britpop was just one big party with bands that sounded exactly the same

Retarded

One okay song and a bunch of filler.

So much noise 👎

So hip it hurts. It's okay I guess.

One okay semi famous song, and a whole bunch of guitar noodling.

Silly music

Awful album. Terrible band. Worst music genre.

Its okay. Can't rememeber anything about it but it was't bad.

Fine album but an hour and a half? Just because CD technology allowed such long albums, doesnt mean they should.

who listened to this in 1995? who listens to it now? I asked around and this album and band didnt register on anyones radar. Not now, not ever.

Not bad, as far as ethnic music goes.

Music for r*tards

Kinda dumb

Prog rock is bad enough, but a live album of prog rock? Come on bro

This album is stupid

Apache is alright, but the rest of it is silly

Fela Kuti for soccer moms

Mostly silly

meh

Boring

Trust fund kid LARPing as a hardscrabble honky tonk hero. No thanks.

run of the mill metal album

More proof that all hip hop albums sound exactly the same.

Silly