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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
| Giant Steps | 5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
| This Nation’s Saving Grace | 5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
| Ctrl | 5 | 2.91 | +2.09 |
| Rings Around The World | 5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
| Make Yourself | 5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
| 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... | 5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
| The Blueprint | 5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
| Mama's Gun | 5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
| The Message | 5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| Five Leaves Left | 1 | 3.47 | -2.47 |
| Solid Air | 1 | 3.16 | -2.16 |
| Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) | 1 | 3.15 | -2.15 |
| Murder Ballads | 1 | 3.08 | -2.08 |
| Seventh Tree | 1 | 3.08 | -2.08 |
| Live / Dead | 1 | 2.83 | -1.83 |
| A Wizard, A True Star | 1 | 2.83 | -1.83 |
| Basket of Light | 1 | 2.76 | -1.76 |
| Vol. 4 | 2 | 3.75 | -1.75 |
| Superfly | 2 | 3.7 | -1.7 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| The Smiths | 3 | 5 |
| R.E.M. | 3 | 5 |
| Talking Heads | 3 | 4.67 |
| Nirvana | 2 | 5 |
| Pixies | 2 | 5 |
| The Cure | 2 | 5 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 4.33 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Nick Drake | 2 | 1.5 |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 2 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| Iggy Pop | 5, 2 |
| David Bowie | 2, 2, 5 |
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Super Furry Animals
5/5
What a treat. I've never heard of these guys! Stylistically interesting with a dynamic range between songs. I was kept interested. Eventually the 4 hour Remastered album I was listening to devolved into remixes but I powered on.
Really great stuff. I'm going to seek out more stuff the Super Furry Animals.
1 likes
Syd Barrett
2/5
If this guy wrote better music, he could afford furniture for his bare apartment.
1 likes
Grateful Dead
1/5
Boy howdy I didn't like this. Saint Stephen was the only song I enjoyed at all.
1 likes
The Band
3/5
There's a groove here. Solid listen of some slow folksy rock.
Girl Talk used The Weight in Feed the Animals.
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Fela Kuti
2/5
I'm sure there were probably loaded Volkswagen vans full of people following around these guys in the 70s but it's not for me. It's repetitive and lowkey enough that it could find a home during the heist montage in an Ocean's 11 movie.
King Crimson
4/5
This is one of if not my dad's favorite band. I expected not to like it but found it enjoyable. 21st Century Schizoid Man was my favorite track. I laughed at the horns towards the end of In the Court of the Crimson King. Listening to this makes me want to give an honest try to their other givings as well as progressive rock in general.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Oh Black Sabbath. The band I've heard 1001 times and never gave a shit. Once Domino and I left Ozzfest early rather than listen to Ozzy perform. I think I blame this on my very narrow metalcore elitism I suffered from in my late teens and early twenties.
Listening to this album intentionally allowed me to enjoy those singles that would cause me to change the radio station. I found the songs I never heard before to be great. Planet Caravan is my favorite track perhaps because it stands out so far from the rest of the album, and gives you breathing room between Iron Man and Paranoid.
The last track is great too: "'Cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you doooooo".
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Let's get it on is a song that is impossible to listen to and not tap your foot, sway a little, and eventually start singing. It's also the only song I've heard on this album. After listening to it, I threw it on again and I think it transcends time. It was solid in 1973 and it could have been released by Bruno Mars last year (featuring Gucci Mane of course).
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Boy does this album sound like the start of the 80's. I hear new wave, I hear gothic rock, and in No Self Control I'm pretty sure I hear the apple ring tone. I need to read up on it, but I would guess this is the inspiration for a lot of music change that happened between the 70's and 80's.
I had only previously heard Games without Frontiers. I think Intruder and I Don't Remember will make it into my regular rotation.
Slipknot
4/5
Was there a single angsty teenager on the school bus in the late 90's not blowing their ears out with their discman set to the highest volume? Lots of trips down memory lanes with this one:
Belting out Wait and Bleed as loud as I could when no one was home? Check.
Putting the chorus from Surfacing in my AIM profile?
Check
Listening to it 25 years later (holy shit) the drums really stand out as drivers in the composition and Corey's vocals are still immense both clean and fried.
Black Sabbath
2/5
Overall I liked this a lot less than Paranoid. Less stand out tracks, a little muddier mixing. The ballad, Changes, probably led to a slew of Metal Ballad compilation discs. Under the Sun was my favorite track and I walked the ring to Mordor while listening to Laguna Sunrise.
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
These guys didn't sound Vietnamese or Finnish.
Songhoy Blues
3/5
This was completely new to me in terms of genre, language, and overall tone. It took me a few tracks to get into it, but then I found myself grooving with it. Maybe I'll put this on the backburner in case I need to prove to someone how deep my taste in music is.
The Cult
3/5
I would play Dungeons and Dragons with Eddie Munson with this on in the background.
Forgettable but not bad.
Public Enemy
3/5
The "instrumental tracks" and the ones making Flav are not for me. The rest is great.
The Bees
2/5
I didn't really like this and don't think it's old enough to be influential. Low fi beats to send emails to?
Radiohead
4/5
Ok, fine. I get it.
The Avalanches
3/5
This was a little all over the place. A little techno, a little funk, a lot of wishing they were one of the bigger sounds of the time. I thought it was fine. The music video for Since I Left You involves dancing miners.
Taylor Swift
3/5
Taylor Swift has poetic strengths of a highschool sophomore broken up with before the big dance mixed with the showmanship of an MLM spokesperson. You can't listen to the album without understanding why it resonates with young white women everywhere.
My favorite track was Wonderland and I loved the high pitched bendy synth in How You Get the Girl.
The Pogues
3/5
I blame The Pogues for Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly.
Yo ho. Yo ho.
Grateful Dead
1/5
Boy howdy I didn't like this. Saint Stephen was the only song I enjoyed at all.
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Listened to this while gardening and never went to change it once. It has a nice groove and felt better then yesterday's Grateful Dead album.
The Boo Radleys
5/5
This scratches my 90's itch in the best way. I'm surprised I've never heard of them. They fit right at home in a mix of Gin Blossoms, The Toadies and the like.
I'll listen to this again.
Adele
4/5
The top songs of 2011:
Party Rock Anthem - LMAFO
Gimme Everything - Pitbull/Neyo
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5/Christina Aguilera
Last Friday Night - Katie Perry
In the middle of all this garbage Adelle released this soulful album that charted 5 mega hits. It's banger after banger of well composed, deep songs about love and hurt. Maybe the best album of 2011.
I'll never listen to it again.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Light and airy classic "rock". Uptempo and poppy, breezed through the album with no complaints. Loved the keyboardist just kind of falling on chords.
Barry Adamson
2/5
It was designed to be a movie soundtrack and ends up being background music. Interesting in places but not for me. I don't think this should be in a list of important albums.
Koffi Olomide
3/5
Maybe this can direct Bernie to a sunken treasure.
Makes me want a dark and stormy with my feet up in the sunshine.
Sebadoh
2/5
The only thing consistent in this album is inconsistency. Sad acoustic, fast electric, this song needs a harmonica!!!
I thought I was really going to like this but ended up mediocre. Best points are like bad Weezer or Bad REM.
Beatles
3/5
I never really gave the Beatles a shot, it was the ultimate "Dad Rock" but this album is a winner.
Starting with the lows:
Yellow Submarine sounds like an awful children's song.
Love You To has a Indian feel to it that I didn't need. Jay Z perfected that, leave it alone.
Good stuff:
Everything else. Taxman and Elenor Rigby would go into a playlist if they didn't clash so hard with the rest of my music, but maybe that will expand.
Randy Newman
2/5
Soundtrack to a new Pixar film with an anthropomorphic spittoon.
Not for me.
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
I did not care for this. The syncopation in the first song tricked me each time into thinking there was going to a shift in tone and energy and I left disappointed. I made it 6 tracks in before putting on Mom Trapz II, a far superior listening experience.
The Clash
5/5
Posers were people who looked like punks but they did it for fashion. And they were fools, they'd say "anarchy in the UK." What the fuck's that? Anarchy in the UK. What good is that to those of us in Utah, America? It was a Sex Pistols thing. They were British, they were allowed to go on about Anarchy in the UK. You don't live your life by lyrics
Radiohead
4/5
Pretentious, overblown, awesome.
Lightning Bolt
2/5
This feels a lot like my headspace: overwhelming disorder and noise with brief moments of clarity. A really tough listen and I'm not sure it's worth it.
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Another weird messy album. Worse than yesterday.
Michael Jackson
5/5
Classic for a reason. Pop music at it's finest. Well produced catchy hit after hit.
Talking Heads
5/5
Really great. Can't wait for Stop Making Sense.
Todd Rundgren
1/5
This is weird and not good.
The "theremin?" in some of the songs sounds like the opera singing in FF6.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
5/5
Grandmaster Flash is one of those names that I know from being so important to hip hop, r&b, and electronic music; pioneering turntable techniques that allowed all of them to happen. Despite that I had never listened to his music. I find the 80's era hip hop charming and the samples recognizable and memorable. Scorpio was the only song that didn't land for me (too much disco?).
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
First two tracks slap then they were bragging about not getting their hair cut and I turned it off.
The xx
4/5
Nice light electronic music. Might be a little forgettable but a good listen none the less. I wonder if we'll see groups like The Knife, Sylvan Esso, or Marian Hill that I prefer to this.
Blur
4/5
This is the worst Gorillaz album ever.
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
I came close to turning this off until I heard Maria Lionza and needed to figure out who sampled it. I listened to it 4 times before figuring it out.
https://youtu.be/n4ZIPIwGkGk?si=6Z-n-5pbCqHo9GrQ
I didn't really care for the rest of the album.
The Band
3/5
There's a groove here. Solid listen of some slow folksy rock.
Girl Talk used The Weight in Feed the Animals.
Prince
3/5
Prince is undeniably great musician. There's a lot of genius in this and probably influenced a lot of artists. That said I don't think I've ever purposely played a Prince song and don't think I ever will.
Bob Dylan
2/5
I think his voice got better from his earlier music and I don't like that. Slow paced and boring.
Holger Czukay
4/5
I had a good time listening to this. I was giggling so much at the zany random sounds that Tatiania would yell at me from two rooms away telling me to stop.
The Kinks
3/5
Some of these songs really suck and the others make me want to watch Hot Fuzz.
Motörhead
4/5
Who would win in a fight: Lemmy or God?
This sounds real clean for a live album and acts as a greatest hits. Simple classic metal.
Air
3/5
This was a welcome relief after a 2-day beer festival hangover. I haven't seen this movie!
Chill, down tempo soundscapes. Not sure I'd ever listen to it again.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Who would win in a fight: Lemmy or God?
This sounds real clean for a live album and acts as a greatest hits. Simple classic metal.
Steve Earle
2/5
It's fine. I wouldn't say this has cultural relevance since I've never heard of him. I'll never listen to it again.
Erykah Badu
5/5
I loved this. Great voice, funky songs, an enjoyable listen all around. I will keep this on the back burner for the future.
Janet Jackson
2/5
Didn't care for this. I was surprised I didn't recognize any songs. I did laugh that this album thought it needed interludes between the songs.
INTERLUDE: NO ACID
The Beach Boys
3/5
One word: Infectious. These songs are simple enough for you to sing along with on a first listen and catchy enough to stay with you all day. I don't want to blast this while on the road, but it made a nice neighbor friendly listen while mulching this weekend.
The Smiths
5/5
Broody emotional 80's rock. I love it. I wish I could be half as cool as Morissey.
That Joke isn't Funny Anymore rules.
CHIC
3/5
It's a vibe.
Nick Drake
1/5
I knew I would hate this from looking at the album cover.
Curtis Mayfield
2/5
Feels more like music for the soundtrack to a movie set in the 70's than something I'd ever listen to purposefully.
Radiohead
5/5
This is my favorite of the 3 Radiohead albums we've had so far.
Parliament
4/5
Parliament is great. I've seen them live before and it was a groovy time. My one critique of the style is the guy explaining stuff at the beginning of songs. We get it, we know who you are, we made this selection on purpose. Don't Mike Jones me.
Incubus
5/5
My Walkman put an uncountable number of scratches into this disc. The high school poetry still tickles me 25 years later. The singles (given an ample amount of time away from Drive) are still bangers. The opening song Privilege still feels like a great way to start a road trip, Battlestar Scratchlactaca is a fun way to really let the DJ shine.
The album cover looks like a 2000's era mousepad.
David Bowie
2/5
Frank Black
3/5
Toe tapping indie. I might have hired someone with a better voice.
The Zombies
3/5
Soothing and forgettable. Nice to listen to outside.
The Birthday Party
2/5
Best cover art yet.
I don't enjoy the sound of this album. I kept hearing "Toxic Love" from Fern Gully.
John Martyn
1/5
This was poisoned before listening by sharing a name with one of my least favorite people.
I also hated it.
Frank Zappa
4/5
A vibe for sure. Great guitar work. Love the instrumentals.
Beastie Boys
5/5
I loved Paul's Boutique. I've never heard a track from this album, the majority of my Beastie Boys exposure is through Intergalactic PLANETARY.
The beats are infections, the rhymes are simple enough to help you catch on. I'm in the fan camp for sure.
Pink Floyd
5/5
I didn't listen to this today because I listened to it this weekend! I was watching this youtube documentary about a youtube channel making a parody of the Wall movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokAtlFGa7Y)
and ended up watching the movie and listening to the album.
The songs are haunting and poignant, they feel personal and universal. There is a reason this is considered one of the best albums of all time.
Django Django
3/5
I wouldn't change the station if WBER started playing this.
Boards of Canada
3/5
Music for a comedown from a mushroom trip. Chill and forgettable.
Germs
4/5
I can smell the smoke, whiskey and stale beer where this album was recorded. I can feel the crowded room and feel the bodies pushing me back into the circle pit.
Hardcore punk never tickled me in the way that hardcore did but there is an undeniable breath of fresh air and authenticity to these wacky kids from the 70's.
Daft Punk
5/5
Finish your Homework and then you can have some Discovery.
There's not much to be said here. The singles are bangers, most of the other songs are "filler" that you could put between monsters in a live set. For sure this revolutionized electronic music creating a new acceptance in popular music.
I'll stick with the singles rather than the album in entirety but Rollin' and Scratching is getting added to the playlist.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
A solid album front to back. I feel even the non-singles would have tore up the alternative radio in the early 90's. This catapulted the Chili Peppers to a superstardom that is still with us today.
On a side note, this is like, the 8th album on the list that was produced by Rick Rubin. What an enigmatic figure in music history he is. Check out his list on wikipedia, it's exhaustive: Every RHCP album starting with this one, Adele's 21, even every Slayer album. The guy started Def Jam records!
Anyways RHCP really ruled from 1991-2004ish and this is no exception.
Leftfield
2/5
Gave it an honest listen and it just faded into the background. I don't think there is anything of note here.
Not bad, not great, not going in the playlist.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
Boy howdy, I did not care for this. It felt noisy and unstructured to me. Could not get into it, did not finish the album.
MGMT
4/5
I wanted to like this. Kids is a classic, Electric Feel has one of my favorite uses of syncopation, and Time to Pretend could replace Teenage Wasteland in all future coming of age movies. The non-singles fell flat and left me wanting to go back to the first half of the album.
I'll give this another listen in a future time. Would give it 3.5 if possible.
Massive Attack
4/5
There is much in this album that I hear in later electronic music. The brass sounding in One Love left me expecting a trap drop. There's clear elements of dub, house and other ambient music that I didn't know existed in 1991. All in all I enjoyed the listen but think it would be helped entirely by removing the vocals. With the vocals, I'll give it a 4.
One Love, Unfinished Business, and Lately are going in the playlist.
Green Day
5/5
Every song could have been a single. Track one starts running and each after continues the trend. It's hit after hit and on this list for a reason.
I could listen to it again now.
Hot Chip
4/5
I saw Hot Chip the year this album was released. I was galivanting around with someone who was obsessed. The overall feel of the album is great, there are shifts between moods, bpms, and instruments. It's light and fun, a real easy listen.
I prefer the sappy love songs to the disco-y ones.
Sam Cooke
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1phCytJyg
Arcade Fire
4/5
Listening to this while on a constitutional made for a mellow accompaniment. It's interesting enough to hold your attention but not so much as to hold you to it. I think this group is a fine example of indie rock, maybe my favorite that we've heard yet.
Magazine
4/5
Firstly I do not like the cover. This looks like the women that appear during my sleep paralyses that stand at the end of my bed and reach for me with their long, inhumane fingers. I always wake up just before they reach my face but find myself with chapped lips in the morning.
After the first song I was worried Matt Noonan over here was going to ruin the album. I was pleasantly surprised after that. The new wave and punk songs stand out as the best with a few WTF moments during the carnival songs.
I rather like this but am hard pressed to think of a mood that would cause me to want to listen again.
Os Mutantes
3/5
Professor Snape in the background is giving me the heebie-jeebies.
These are weird songs. I never listened to any psychedelic rock let alone in Portuguese. It kept my interest enough to have me finish the album, but I will 100% never listen to this again unless I direct the Brazilian adaptation of Midsommer.
That said it's not bad.
Johnny Cash
4/5
I know 3 Johnny Cash songs and none of them are on this album. He's a talented dude and this doesn't sound like shit despite being recorded in prison cafeteria. Good job 1960's
Iggy Pop
5/5
I did not know that Lust for Life or The Passenger were Iggy Pop tracks.
Timeless songs, catchy and featured in Tons of media decades after release.
II hope there is more Iggy in the list.
Metallica
4/5
Today's album is Metal - Yay!
The artist is Metallica - Booo!
It's only 8 tracks long - Yay!
Each track is over 5 minutes long - Booo!
It was produced by Flemming Rasmussen - Can I go now?
I have never liked Metallica but I cannot refute the point that every band I might not be around if not for them. This is a seminal album that helped craft the 80's and 90's metalscape.
M.I.A.
4/5
I like MIA. Her music is weird and bouncy and full of energy. I don't remember any of these songs particularly affecting the music zeitgeist, that will change with the following album, Kala.
The production here is incredible. We see producer and writing credits for Wesley Pentz and A. Brucker who in the following album will be billed properly, as Diplo and Switch AKA Major Lazer.
This is one of the first albums I recall distinctly using electronic producers to create pop music that will come to the forefront in the 2010's with the likes of Daft Punk, Skrillex, and Diplo ruling the pop music world with the help of modern pop stars.
If Paper Planes was on this album I'd give it a 5.
Talking Heads
5/5
A scant year after the release of Fear of music and a full tour the Talking Heads put this together.
I like this even more than the previous entry. Crosseyed and Painless starts us off strong with the almost chaotic drum kit, The Overload is why we have Type O Negative, and Once in a Lifetime is a banger
The only miss is the first track. I just can't find the groove.
Talking Heads is so far my "big find" of this journey.
Jurassic 5
5/5
July 22, 2003 I went to the Blue Cross Arena to see Mudvayne, Linkin Park, and Jurassic 5.
One of these groups was not well received.
This album is great. Smooth and really easy to fall into. A different style of rap than I'm usually into. Added to playlist.
Arrested Development
5/5
Really good. Added to my cookout classics playlist.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Disney villain music. Not for me.
Elton John
5/5
Came into this only knowing Tiny Dancer but I left a fan.
Elton's got a great voice, works his piano, and writes some awesome stuff. Here's hoping for another album.
The Stooges
2/5
I get that they didn't hit their prime popularity yet but this album feels painfully underproduced. It sounds like Iggy is either yelling from down the hallway or that he's trying not to wake up his parents in the next room. I can't tell.
The songs are punchy early punk inspiration material, but I did not enjoy it.
The Kinks
2/5
Gary Numan
4/5
Very cool androgenous robot music.
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Good classic stuff.
The Band
5/5
Firstly, based on the album cover these guys could exist in current day. I think the guy second from the left while in suspenders and a non-ironic fedora served me a $27, ten-ingredient drink.
Secondly, I enjoyed this. The romp through 1960's Americana was smooth and soulful. Rag Mama Rag, The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, and Up on Cripple Creek were all standouts.
Maybe I'm waffling around genres and my daily mood dictate my scores more than the music. Shrug.
Sex Pistols
4/5
Anarchy in the UK!
Eurythmics
3/5
I was surprised how little the rest of the album sounds like the title track. The music belongs in an 80's fever dream. Maybe accompanied by a dwarf in a David Lynch vehicle.
This proto edm is fairly forgettable after listening but I can understand it's impact on the musical landscape.
Probably won't revisit this.
The Cars
5/5
Sister Sledge
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
What world are people living in that a 15 minute song is ok? Jimi was a pioneer of electric guitar, and there are too many influential things here, but I question his song writing and his judgement.
If he's so good, why is he dead?
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Album Cover: Stevey Wonder reading the ground.
There's a good mix of funk, love, and pop songs. Zero down tempo kill songs though.
I gawfawed at the backing vocals during You've Got It Bad Girl. The only miss is the anti government song.
Not for me.
Venom
2/5
Where's the pipe organs? Where are the Norwegians?
This wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but then I looked at the year. All in all this isn't bad, but is a product of it's time. It has some driving riffs and nice story telling lyrics, but all around is pretty forgettable.
Not for me.
The Fall
4/5
It is not, despite its title, a live album.
First few tracks kind of muddled together but gained steam in the middle tracks. Found my head bouncing and my feet tapping. Found it an enjoyable listen.
Might take a casual listener a second to get over the exaggerated pulling vocals.
5/5
I know the hits from the fuse.tv but this is my first experience with most of the album. It may be polarizing but I love the vocals. It has an interesting range and pull that makes me want to belt it out in my car. The songs all sound distinct enough that it doesn't bleed together.
I'll listen to this again and want to check out the rest of Muse's discography.
Thin Lizzy
3/5
I want to give this a try as a non live album. Pretty catchy classic rock. I wouldn't skip it on the radio.
Nirvana
5/5
Real classic here. I remember what a big deal this was when it happened. You have the softer more introspective sides of one of the most influential bands of the 90's.
Great stuff.
Kanye West
3/5
We've had a few hip hop albums in our adventure here and it made me realize that I almost never listen to hip hop/rap in album form. Notable exclusions: Killa Season, Dipomatic Immunity Vol 1, and all Lil Uzi Vert albums.
I don't know what I'm getting at, I just wanted to share.
Twisted Dark Fantasy is fine. There's some good stuff in here but this is 100% the start of Kanye's egomaniacal phase. I like that Old Kanye, dropped outta school Kanye. Most of the music here doesn't land for me.
That is other than All of the Lights. I fucking love that song. When it was new every DJ had a remix and they all slapped. It's a powerhouse that could end every super bowl show, every fireworks display, every one night stand. The only thing I would change with this otherwise perfect song is fix Kanye's singing or autotune him: "I'm heading home, I'm almost there". God he can't hit a note.
It's fine. Most likely influencial on a lot of modern rap but :shrug:
The Strokes
5/5
I had this album and don't remember the cover being so sexy.
I like the sound of this album. Nice easy early 2k indie rock. The muffled, perhaps untouched vocals are a hallmark of these guys sound and it works for me.
My teachers, they don't understand.
Steely Dan
3/5
I've never been happier to see an album is only 33 minutes long.
Ended up not hating it. Poppy and upbeat. Not like the Steely Dan my dad listened to.
Aimee Mann
3/5
Very nineties. Inoffensive light airy music. It's fine.
Screaming Trees
3/5
Another undeniably 90's band. This is almost "post grunge" and I don't really know how to classify it. I don't find it angsty enough to fit alongside the likes of Soundgarden and Nirvana but it has a catchy appeal to it none-the-less. I might check out earlier albums to see if they appeal more to my suburban upbringing.
AC/DC
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T_h43Ilppjk
Snoop Dogg
4/5
A classic for the reason. Huge names in the 90's that sound undeniably dated but have a lasting appeal that will continue well after we forget who 21 Savage was.
Big singles, big personalities, terrible skits.
Solomon Burke
3/5
Makes me want to put a dime in the juke box and dance with my baybee in the malt shop.
Marilyn Manson
2/5
During the Holy Wood era of Manson this was the unremovable album in my high school girlfriend's car. I had to listen to it more than I care to remember. Even back then I thought Manson was a self aggrandizing weirdo with no real talent.
Coming back to it I feel very much the same. The industrial sound is washed out and grimy, his lyrics are overwrought and self-important. There are little nuggets of synths and clips that you can tell were put in my Reznor.
All in all, not an enjoyable listen. Industrial was done better before and better after. If he debuted today people would argue about him being an industry plant.
Johnny Cash
4/5
A cool little album of covers. Always loved his rendition of Hurt. Lots of different stuff and fun features, John Frusciante and Fiona Apple. Also once again, another album by Rick Rubin.
Supergrass
4/5
Hey, it's the credits song from Hot Fuzz.
A little frenetic but I'm into it.
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
This is nice background music and has more to it than the Wii game select screen that I generally compare it to. I don't think there is anything influential or novel here, it's just subtlety enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IixgxFEx0AU
The Fall
5/5
This rules. Very 80's. Proto pop punk with a tinge of The Cure? Whatever it is, I want more of it.
The Who
3/5
This is fine, inoffensive classic rock. Growing up with the Who I know what they are capable of and I would rather have some of their later stuff that would be featured in the CSI shows rather than the story-time concept album.
The Smiths
5/5
If I had been born a little earlier this would have been my shit. The Pope of Mope keeps me swaying with the tunes and realizing that emo wasn't a phase.
R.E.M.
5/5
I always liked REM after being introduced to them through Independence Day. This album is poppier than Losing My Religion, more serious than Shiney Happy People, and lacks the energy of It's the End of the World.
I liked it. I equate REM with the early 90's but looking back at the discography there is a big hit of 80's new wave and goth rock here. I might have to throw on a best of REM.
Lauryn Hill
4/5
I remember how big of a deal this was when it came out. You couldn't go a day without hearing "Do Wop (That Thing)". Coming back to it 20 years later it's still a bop.
This album is dated but the talent and production are still there. It's an enjoyable listen with a deeper message I'm probably missing as a suburban white male.
Kings of Leon
3/5
This album is fine. If you compare it to Sex is on Fire or Use Somebody in their later discographies you will be disappointed. There are no real standouts on the album which is why (I'm assuming) I hadn't heard any singles before the two standout hits. All in all enjoyable with some strange vocal decisions with some easy guitar.
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Soulful, sweet, easy listening.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
One of the most influential bands of all time. Beloved by dads around the world. No one sounds quite like them even after all this time. That said, it's not really my thing. I'll give it points out of respect.
Jeff Buckley
5/5
I was ready to hate this and did a very quick heel turn. Singer songwriter definitely has some negative scores in our little group but wow, what a good listen.
The Chris Cornellness about him is great. The sad stuff lands. Hallelujah is pretty good, maybe not as iconic as John Cale's version.
Jeff Buckley died swimming in a river and getting hit by a tugboat while not on narcotics.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
I don't really have anything to add her. Darkness on the Edge of Town is a cool album title. I've never heard these songs and think they are slightly better than the few Springsteen singles I've heard in the past.
It's fine. I bet there are geriatrics at these concerts still dancing in their seats.
Blondie
4/5
I love it. I mean those. I mean her.
The disco/rock mashup works well. A toe tapping good time. The singles all survive the passage of time. I might throw on Autoamerican.
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Wow, this very 90's album came out in the 90's. This is the first time hearing most of this. Other than surprising me at work with the cover art nothing here really stood out. Jane Says was always an unzippable song on the radio but a little too much of the whiney singing made me a little relieved when the album was over.
The Police
2/5
I could skip everything on this other than the singles. I don't like the "world music" inspired stuff.
Adele
5/5
I'm a big singalong in the car kinda guy. I respect the hell out of this for being something I can't even try to sing along to.
I'm glad we got 21 before we got 25 because the difference is palpable. The music is richer, the album flow feels better, and the themes are slightly less high school.
Send My Love is such a great track.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Wild Wild West and Gansta's Paradise on the same album? Sign me up.
Bob Dylan
2/5
I can't get over his weird wheezy voice. The music itself seems well constructed and thoughtful, but I will never be a fan.
Sorry y'all.
The Black Crowes
3/5
For some reason I thought The Black Crows was an early 00's indie rock band. I was incorrect.
This is some nice poppy-early 90's rock. I even knew one song although I can only pretend to know the lyrics.
Hey little thing let me like your chemicals 'cause momma I'm showing the hammerman diss around.
Prince
2/5
I didn't expect a weird electronic album. I was getting a little bored listening to it and kept finding out there were more songs. This isn't for me.
Pixies
5/5
I was only familiar with songs from Rock Band and Fight Club credits. What a pleasant surprise this was. A big fan of the heavier songs, in them I hear the blueprints of grunge. In the lighter songs I hear inspiration for Weezer and their ilk.
Very 90's, tickles me just right.
Love, love, loved this.
Jean-Michel Jarre
3/5
This sounds like the background music when something weird happens in Are You Afraid of the Dark.
Pretty chill.
Janis Joplin
4/5
Listening to this makes me want to die of a heroin overdose 13 years ago.
This was a fun ride. It was almost simplistic for the reverence I hear her receive. All around good listen, love her voice, and the music is easy to follow.
Soft Cell
5/5
"Meanwhile my girl Ophelia is goth as hell
Keeps a razor by her wrist, rocks out to Soft Cell"
-MC Lars
It's so weird and dark and nerdy. I love it.
David Bowie
2/5
Are we going to get any Bowie albums from the golden days? These 2010's albums are not vibing.
Johnny Cash
3/5
Didn't we already listen to this?
It's Cash. It's great. It's still not my thing. Once again surprised by the acoustics in the prison cafeteria.
New Order
4/5
I'm really digging these moody 80's bands. I knew I liked The Cure and Joy Division but I'm finding more and more that are making me appreciate the whole scene of that time.
The pop rock feel of it is very approachable if not memorable. Kinda blends into the sound of the time, but I'll be back for more.
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
This was long and not my bag.
Her voice is amazing, the old timey music is a little dull. Let's call the whole thing off.
Dusty Springfield
3/5
British white woman vaguely soul music? I wouldn't have guessed. Simplistic in nature with great vocals and that signature 60's sound. Overall, a fine listen.
Don McLean
2/5
Ugh. No.
It's long and it's the same thing over and over.
+1 point for being parodied by Weird Al.
Jazmine Sullivan
4/5
This was barely not an EP and over too quickly. I found this enjoyable and after it's completion youtube began playing a Lauryn Hill playlist and it fit in just fine.
Our first rap video looking chick.
Jane Weaver
3/5
I didn't not like this but it's definitely in the realm of "Thinks it's better than it is."
Slow and methodical, beautiful at times, but definitely boring.
The Smiths
5/5
The best Smiths yet. There is a Light that Never Goes Out is fantastic.
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
At the start I was worried this was going to be world music. I was pleasantly surprised with a strange blend of rock and world that kept me interested.
Garbage
4/5
In before Dom mentions how hot Shirley Manson is.
I only know the single, but this was a fun romp through the 90's. The songs are catchy and quick, her vocals are smooth to contrast the grungy sound.
I would listen again.
The Cure
5/5
I'm very fucking depressed!
I've always loved The Cure. They are dark, introspective and whiney so they tick everything on my checklist.
Although I really like this album, it wouldn't be my top pick from the discography to include on this list. A Forest is a banger, but this is much more of the brooding Robert Smith than the arguably poppier and more popular version we get post Pornography.
Still, great stuff. I'm nostalgic for stuff I wasn't around for.
If you enjoyed this, check out the Greatest Hits Album.
Eminem
4/5
I'd only previous heard My Name is, Guilty Conscience and Role Model. I think you can see that he improved over time but there's genius and creativity in here. Background tracks are all simple and great allowing for the faming of his lyrics. Great stuff.
Lucinda Williams
3/5
I don't care about the content of her lyrics, but they feel authentic. Her straining voice loses its impact over the 51 minutes of the album. The songs are different enough to not lose interest, the production is great, instruments all sound clean.
I'm not scraping for more, but this wasn't bad. It's better than modern country for sure.
Moby
5/5
Really solid. 8 singles. I remember this being a huge release and got a copy of it from my local F.Y.E after hearing Natural Blues on the radio.
The first 8 tracks are back-to-back monsters that show a complete mastery of music production. They exist outside of genre and all vary from each other.
I easily listened to the 2 hour 34 song complete recording editions.
Madonna
3/5
Do kids still have 80's parties? I remember being able to play "Like a Prayer" in our grungy fraternity basement and the women losing their minds.
It's undeniably poppy, catchy, and encapsulates the feeling of the late 80's/early 90's (at least to my understanding, I was still pretty young.)
Madonna was an icon for a reason, the queen beside Michael's king. That being said, I'm hard pressed to find a time I would want to throw on the album for a listen.
Grungy fraternity basement sorority mixer non-withstanding.
Al Green
4/5
Excellent songs, killer voice, sounds like it was recorded live. I think I've been coddled by modern music production to consider that a detriment, but here we are.
Really great stuff. Where can I find that jacket?
Kraftwerk
3/5
Hey kid, I'm a computer. Stop all the downloading.
I get it, they were first. That doesn't mean they were the best. I found this hard to get into but it's funny to think of them with big synthesizers moving around cords in order to get the right beep bop bopes.
Nirvana
5/5
Nirvana's third album is great. While still having the formula that made them famous they seem to do all they can to make it less popular. It feels less produced and speaks less to the band being the front of teenage rebellion and more like they are old and wizened and jaded from their 2 years of fame. The singles are standouts as could probably be expected but the b sides are all solid.
I like Nevermind better.
Guns N' Roses
3/5
The guitars are great, the songs are interesting, and there are a lot of classics on this album. I cannot get over how much I hate Axle's voice.
I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate his voice.
Little Richard
4/5
I imagine every show he must have played in 1956 looked like when Otis Day and the Knights showed up at Delta House.
I don't know a lot about music during this time period, but it seems to be ahead of the other bands that I am familiar with.
I'm glad the song finally received the recognition it deserved when featured in hit film, The Brave Little Toaster.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
First popularized by hit film The Devil's Rejects, Free Bird has been overblown as one of the best classic rock songs.
This is a solid collection of songs that ate up some time at work. Tuesday's Gone, Simple Man, and Free Bird are all great jams.
Chill dad rock.
Patti Smith
4/5
This was an easy listen. Really interesting. Kinda punk, kinda classic rock, kinda folk. Someone should tell her songs don't need to be 9 minutes long but other than that enjoyable. Seems ahead of the times for what it is.
The Flaming Lips
5/5
When this album came out, I remember it being everywhere, but I never heard a song off of it. I'm glad I had the chance to now. This space opera indie rock concept album is weird and beautiful and was a pleasure to go through. Maybe I should listen to some more Flaming Lips.
Boston
4/5
Solid classic rock. Simple vocals, catchy tunes, not overindulgent in the solos.
Pentangle
1/5
Nope.
It's not good but it's not aggressively bad. It's department store music for the 2000's. Comparing this to earlier U2 work that has some heart and message to it, namely War, displays an aging rock band with nothing to sing about. The singles are catchy and I could sing along after 22 years.
If you go to the Wikipedia page for U2, Edge is always listed as "the Edge". I think it's adorable that he thinks he is both sharp and the only one.
The Afghan Whigs
2/5
90's grunge have been favorites our group but this one falls flat for me. I'd never heard of them or these songs before. Is it nostalgia alone that is propping up the others?
The songs didn't stick with me and I found the vocal quality pretty bad. I think they may have been trying to emulate the sound of the time rather than being a part of it.
Elvis Costello
4/5
Guys, I think I like Elvis Costello. Its upbeat and catchy. Fells like he beat the 80's by 3 years.
Solid.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
They are great (although dated) masters of rock. They set the bar for all the acts that would follow and imitate. There's some powerhouse tracks on here that I lack the musical knowledge to talk about in terms of composition. Everything comes together to make something that at the time was likely revolutionary and, in present time, revered.
JAY Z
5/5
I don't often listen to entire rap albums. I sat through the 3 hour collectors edition of this that was procured by YouTube music.
Lots of standouts, the B-sides are great. Good listen.
Ryan Adams
2/5
As far as country albums go this isn't bad. It's a quick listen, the guy's voice is interesting, and the music is fine enough. Does this deserve to be in the list of best/most important/whatever the criterion of this list is?
I would say no. I'd still instinctively switch radio stations if it were playing.
Korn
2/5
What a power house this was in 1998. On hit TV show, TRL, singles from this album held the #3 spot for months at a time (unable to top whatever Backstreet Boys and N'Sync videos were 1+2) and that spot became known as "The Korn Spot".
You could not avoid it. It was everywhere. And I think even then I knew this album was garbage. Got the Life is the really the only track on the album that hits outside of the nostalgia of saying BOOM NOP DA BOOM NAGA DAYDUM during Freak on a Leash.
So much trash. And an hour long. I would give it a 1 for enjoyment but I'm bumping it to a 2 for the insane social relevance this had when released.
The White Stripes
4/5
Catchy, punchy, and a shining example of what early 2k indie rock should have sounded like. I'm not the biggest fan of the "unproduced" sound of the band but I get what they are going for. Seven Nation Army (Glitch Mob remix) will still be the only White Stripes song I listen to after this but that's just a personal choice, the band is great, just not my vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1fSgSm4hryc&t=0s
ZZ Top
3/5
Old school cool. Solid classic rock with a touch of blues here and there. Nice guitar work and vocals. Very dated, but still holds up.
Talking Heads
4/5
This was my least favorite of our three Talking Heads albums. By no means was this bad, it just didn't land as well. Enjoyable listen.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Takes me back to reggae night at the Blue Room.
The Prodigy
4/5
OMG IT WAS A WOMAN THE WHOLE TIME?
This is the only Prodigy I knew, and the singles still knock. Breathe makes it way into my rotation every so often. This was groundbreaking stuff for the time and is still weird and good.
1/5
Never in my life have I needed a harmonica solo. I really do not like Bob Dylan.
Roxy Music
3/5
I thought the lady on the album art was going to be the musician. I don't know if that would have made this better or worse.
It's fine.
Dire Straits
3/5
This is fine classic rock. I was hoping for Money for Nothing so I could call Dom some choice words.
Beck
5/5
Not as good as the Scott Pilgrim vs the World soundtrack.
Just kidding. Very thoughtful great music that I wouldn't have guessed this guy made. I think I mostly think of him as a low produced grungy dude and this opened my eyes to what he is capable of.
Lovely.
3/5
This is the worst Gorillaz album yet.
It's a bunch of nice 90's rock tunes that didn't have the nostalgia needed to take it up some stars.
George Michael
3/5
Limp Bizkit didn't cover anything on this album.
I have not listened to George Michael before and only know the songs Freedom and Faith. I was not expecting a weird gospel/musical feel to the songs.
It's interesting but not my bag.
oh my bag.
Fleetwood Mac
2/5
Good dog on the cover.
Eh.
Arcade Fire
4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrxp9OOSbc
Maybe it's due to my underexposure with Indie/folk/whatever you call this, but the Arcade Fire seem fresh to me in terms of sound and I'm sure it was great in 2007.
I like it.
Prince
4/5
Classic.
Aerosmith
4/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Slow and sappy. Not in a good way.
Rush
3/5
Some big tunes on this guy. All the songs I think of when I think of Rush.
I'm not their biggest fan but I was happy to see this in rotation.
YYZ has a killer drum solo.
Pulp
2/5
This sounds like generic rock from the late 90's trying to be sexy. I was really hoping for a hardcore punk album so I'm extra let down.
The Beach Boys
4/5
This is better than the The Beach Boys Today. The songs feel larger and the themes are generally more adult.
There's less single potentials here but that's okay. Wouldn't it be Nice has been stuck in my head all weekeend.
John Lennon
2/5
I really didn't like this. Imagine is a "great" song that is beloved by millions but I do not get it.
There's also a tonal whiplash from last week's album "Pet Sounds" having a song against LSD and John Lennon took enough to marry Yoko.
Sabu
1/5
I found it very hard to get in a groove to as it is very unlike music I've ever heard before.
I would rather listen to the Chrono Trigger song Burn Bobonga!
Portishead
5/5
Love it.
Musically really hits me in the feels. The almost eerie backing to the leads haunting ghostly vocals creates an experience I want to linger in.
Glorybox is such a good song.
5 stars. I'm adding the other Portishead albums on the "to listen" pile and investigating Trip-Hop.
Elastica
4/5
Upbeat and fun. Sounds a decade earlier than it is but that doesn't detract from it.
Enjoyable listen that I won't get upset at youtubemusic for putting it in my algorithm.
3/5
I didn't hate this as much as I wanted to.
The front half of this is the "Greatest Hits" album minus Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Maybe revolutionary at the time?
Beck
4/5
This is more like the Beck I Remember. Lo-fi indie alternative fun. First track is a banger, not too many other memorable tracks here.
An easy listen.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Now when I hear Born on a Bayou in a movie I'll say, "Hey, that's Creedence Clearwater Revival."
The Lemonheads
3/5
A fine listen. Reminds me of what was on the radio growing up without having heard this on the radio. It's good enough but not good enough to make me revisit it.
The Youngbloods
2/5
This will be featured in the Rom-Com I'm writing set in the original Woodstock.
Not for me. I'll bet Evan has lots of good things to say.
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
A heavy nostalgia hit for me. Big time middle school vibes. I definitely favored the first disc, and after yesterday's 2 hour listen that opinion is still valid.
The variety of song styles is incredible and Corbin's whiney, nasally high-pitched voice that would be a detriment in any other situation fits the mood. Maybe he's the Bob Dylan of my generation.
This angsty walk down memory lane deserves a 5/5
Faith No More
3/5
Despite hearing Epic thousands of times in my life I've never listened to the album before yesterday. It is definitely of the time and not a bad experience. Maybe it's the lack of nostalgia but this doesn't feel as good or hit as hard as some of the other late 80's early 90's alt rock.
WHAT IS IT
Neil Young
2/5
Couldn't finish it. Couldn't distract me from data entry at work.
One of my dad's favorites but I do not get it.
The Psychedelic Furs
2/5
I've been enjoying our 1980's English bands for the most part, but this doesn't make the cut.
Even the wikipedia entry doesn't have much to go on it. Why is this significant?
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Pleasant but ultimately uninteresting.
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
I'm certain I've heard Stepping Stone in a movie or TV show and I can't find it and it is literally killing me.
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
It's not horrible but it doesn't have a single one of the Boss's bangers.
Next album will have hit Trump campaign song "Born in the USA"
Beatles
3/5
Heard this a lot in my youth, most of the songs came back to me. I always liked the boyband Beatles more than the acid laced Beatles.
Coming back to it's wild that all of these songs are only memorable for the lyrics and I couldn't remember any of the guitars/drums. They are mixed out so hard.
Massive at the time, kind of hokey looking back, it's fine.
ZZ Top
3/5
I can feel the wind blowing through my 5-foot-long beard as I tear up the road on my Harley never looking for, but somehow always running into trouble.
Super Furry Animals
5/5
What a treat. I've never heard of these guys! Stylistically interesting with a dynamic range between songs. I was kept interested. Eventually the 4 hour Remastered album I was listening to devolved into remixes but I powered on.
Really great stuff. I'm going to seek out more stuff the Super Furry Animals.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Kendrick delivers an introspective into how he became who he is. This is a demonstration of why he is considered one of the best rappers of all time.
Not enough bangers.
Van Halen
4/5
Despite this not being a retelling of a George Orwell novel I enjoyed my time with Van Halen. A few big hits on here with some self indulgent guitar solos that feel right at home.
Super 80's but not in a bad way.
ABBA
3/5
One of the things I will never understand about language is about how accents don't translate to music (Outside of country drawls). If I didn't know these guys were from Sweeden I wouldn't know it from the way they sound. Maybe their uncomplicated lyrics demonstrate a loose grasp of the language but you know if they spoke to you it would sound like the Swedish chef, all "Shmorking da borking, flerfing das kerfing".
Makes you think.
Gram Parsons
2/5
Sometimes you CAN judge an album by it's cover.
This was bad.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Great album cover.
I like this video game music.
Syd Barrett
2/5
If this guy wrote better music, he could afford furniture for his bare apartment.
Queen
5/5
An excellent group of songs that were all brand new to me. Really packs a punch despite not having any recognizable singles on it.
Fantastic.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
This was a welcome listen after the wannabe folk rock singer album we had last from Bruce. Born in the USA is a certified banger and the supporting tracks on here are foot-tappingly good.
I'll bump it up half a star because president orange face coming for Bruce, representing the working class, is an extremely poignant analogy that would go over the head of any red-hat cult members.
Marvin Gaye
4/5
This is a bad album cover.
Funky and smooth. He really dialed it in for his 14th album. It blends together but I think in a good way.
Also an appearance by Bootsy Collins!
The Blue Nile
2/5
They kept taunting me with songs that seemed like they had potential but then they just threw it away. Nothing caught my interest, and I was looking forward to the end.
These guys wish they were U2.
Thelonious Monk
2/5
I don't have an ear for jazz. I can't find the groove, each 8-minute song is a slog.
Maybe it's good. I'll never know.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
I had a lot of exposure to Hendrix as a kid and never really bit in. Dad was right, it's pretty good.
Jack White
3/5
But who was playing drums?!?!
Depeche Mode
3/5
I know these guys are "legends" but I wonder if Music for the Masses is a description as well as a title and in trying to be more accessible they created this otherwise forgettable album.
The Roots
3/5
To think quest love would be reduced to the drummer for Fallon.
The Who
4/5
Hey, it's that song that's in everything. I definitely thought it was named "Teenage Wasteland".
From The Girl Next Door to Family Guy, to CSI NY, from UFC to Need for Speed to the official song of Joey Chestnut, this song has legs.
The rest of the album is good too.
David Bowie
5/5
Changes is great. I remember hearing that on WBER as a kid and loving it. I learned it was a Bowie song today.
I've never dived into Bowie's catalogue other than Ziggy Stardust. But this is a masterful, weird pop-rock album, that seems to exist out of it's time.
The Doors
2/5
The Doors didn't release anything good until Sonny Moore came along in 2011 and helped them write "Breakin' a Sweat".
Prefab Sprout
4/5
I dig it. I can picture the remixes.
The Stooges
4/5
Quick and dirty. Good stuff.
Tom Tom Club
3/5
This is maybe the ugliest album cover we have had so far. It screams of going to a modern art museum and your friend explaining to you "It doesn't matter that you could do it, it matters that they did it first."
It's still shit.
The album is good.
George Harrison
5/5
Solid. A daydream of 60's/70's music. I would fault it for the theistic elements but eh, I'm feeling generous.
Beatles
4/5
I had to look up The Beatles' discography to see where this sits. It seems to be at the cusp between the Beatles my mom likes and The Beatles my dad likes.
It's a little less girls screaming in arenas and little more take drugs and act like our music means something.
Pretty good for the first step out of Hard Day's Night.
Little Simz
3/5
A little weird to be what I want from rap. Maybe it's technical, maybe it's influential? I don't know. I just know it's not for me.
Mekons
2/5
I don't know what they were thinking with this vocalist. The music isn't terribly interesting, maybe they thought a talking point would be how bad he is?
eh
The Beach Boys
3/5
Now here's an album cover.
This is the worst of the three Beach Boy's albums we've had so far. It lacks the catchy-ness of "Pet Sounds" and The "Beach Boys Today!".
I won't come back for seconds but it was an alright listen.
Fiona Apple
5/5
God she's great. What a voice.
A heavy nostalgia hit despite not owning the album. When Criminal aired on MTV... YOU WATCHED IT.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
This album is pretty good but there are no bangers.
This is for people who really appreciate rap and sadly that's not me.
Goldfrapp
1/5
I don't know if the second half of any of these songs are good because I didn't make it through any of them.
This sounds like music produced in the 60's/70's about what music would sound like in the future.
Found it thoroughly unenjoyable.
David Holmes
3/5
Great album name. I've 100% said that.
An interesting bunch of songs but nothing that wants me to revisit it.
Basement Jaxx
2/5
Where's "Where's your head at?" at?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Destiny's Child
2/5
Did this album have 4 singles because they released another album quickly enough to move onto new singles or because this album only has 4 songs worth listening to?
The hits land and were unavoidable at the time but the rest of this: yeesh.
I'd give it 2.5 but am rounding down.
Joy Division
4/5
It's been a while since I revisited this and I feel like the quality has diminished.
The talky vocals don't sit well with me, and the background music is very subdued.
Still all the post-punk 80's English stuff is up my alley.
I'm very fucking depressed.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
I groaned seeing another Neil Young album. I dare to say I liked this. Maybe I'm in a particularly good mood or maybe this is better than the previous offerings. It's not going into my rotation, but I'll tell my dad about this.
Living Colour
4/5
I'm disappointed this didn't have at least one Fire Marshall Bill" skit. No "Homie the Clown"? No "Handi-man"?!
WHERE ARE THE FLY GIRLS?
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Catchy and poppy.
Meat Loaf
3/5
Sick album cover.
It's fun and a little weird but doesn't live up to it. What 43 million people bought this?
R.E.M.
5/5
Get a Life was an American television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show stars Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson is a charmless, oblivious and irresponsible manchild who lived in an apartment above his parents' garage (Elliott's parents are played by Elinor Donahue and his real-life father, comedian Bob Elliott), and often wreaks havoc on their lives and the lives of people around them. The opening credits depict Chris Peterson delivering newspapers on his bike to the show's theme song, "Stand" by R.E.M.
Duran Duran
5/5
An Iconic album cover with songs to match. The singles slap and the rest of the album does not disappoint.
Unmistakably 80's in a good way. I'm going to add this to the playlist.
Iggy Pop
2/5
Weird album. It's very different from the Stooges/Iggy albums we've had. I think the music really outshines he vocals which I found laughable at some points. I laughed all the way through Tiny Girls.
Not for me.
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
There's some interesting (don't read as "good") production here. The beats are varied and contain a wealth of different instruments and samples.
I can't get behind the vocals. It's like a history lesson crossed with 70's/80's story-time rap. It feels dated, even for 1992.
Bob Dylan
3/5
How many Bob Dylan albums must a man listen to
before you can say OI BRUV THIS IS TOO MUCH BOB DYLAN
This was the least aggravating of the Bob Dylan we've had. Dare I stay listenable.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The rock band that influenced every rock band worth listening to thereafter.
It's very good.
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
On the opening song I was thoroughly enjoying myself. The production felt crips and clean. Then at 1:49 he singing began. Blegh.
Dion
2/5
I wouldn't listen to it again.
The Slits
3/5
Wonderful album cover. So-so music.
Nick Drake
2/5
"Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by the English musician Nick Drake"
DO YOU PROMISE?
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Our noir detective goes back to the bar where he first met the femme fatale singing, seated atop the grand piano. She was right, her husband was trying to kill her. And now he sits alone in a corner booth, listening to the unaccompanied band on stage having failed to save her.
He drowns in gin at the Village Vanguard.
Björk
4/5
I only know Bjork by reputation, and this is a lot less weird than I imagined. The layered ethereal sounds put this a little in left field but there is an orchestral, bigger than pop feel to this.
Can
3/5
Pretty good background music for some morning Excel work. Nothing really memorable. This could be used to illustrate that a movie or television series is set in the 70's.
The Teardrop Explodes
4/5
I'm finding more and more that this genre is for me. Does this deserve to be in a list of the best albums ever? I'd say no.
But I like it.
R.E.M.
5/5
Shit.
I think I really like REM.
5/5
I SAID MAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
YOU'RE GONNA BE THE ONE THAT RATES ME
AFTETR ALL THIS TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME
GONNA GIVE IT A FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
Morrissey
4/5
This is not bad, but the lyrics are pretty uninspired on the nose. I snorted during "America is Not the World" and people heard me 2 rows of cubicles away.
It's an interesting blend of old and new. It's somehow very early 2000's and very 80's. Maybe it's mid-90's.
Air
3/5
"Moon Safari was acclaimed by critics. It is credited with setting the stage for the budding downtempo music style."
They should have written some down tempo kill songs.
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
The song from The Worlds End is on here!
A fine album. Sort of Rolling Stones-y. Nothing groundbreaking.
The Gun Club
2/5
This wasn't as hard as I would have hoped from the name.
Killing Joke
4/5
My favorite album art so far.
I was expecting this to be British hardcore punk and although surprised by the synthy post punk, I was not disappointed.
It's weird and experimental and they sound British.
Dire Straits
3/5
I was sure these guys were American.
Easy classic rock. Nothing to write home about.
Frank Sinatra
3/5
I wonder in the 50s' this meant what I'm thinking it means now.
Every one of these songs sound the same but not in a bad way.
Coldcut
4/5
I can hear so much of what will be the 90's electric sound in here. I'm not well versed enough in the genre to know if this was a real forerunner, but it feels that way.
Would fit at home in any 90's movie that had a scene set in a club.
Jacques Brel
2/5
Worst N64 game ever.
Metallica
3/5
I hate Metallica.
The Specials
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYQznBD8oI&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
I thought this was pretty good but my appreciation for Ska was low. Several times in different songs I was waiting for someone to tell me about a guy with a black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yea.
Mylo
3/5
I knew Drop the Pressure!
Really this album is far to chill to have the word "destroy" in the title.
Bouncy and fun but is this really one of the best albums of all time?
Radiohead
3/5
More atmospheric and maybe even moodier than the other Radiohead albums we had, I think this ranks lower.
I love Idioteque. I listened to it 3 times in a row before moving on with the rest. I'll say this is my favorite Radiohead song yet.
Most of the other stuff I found kind of eh. This extra electronic they put in the music is pretty interesting though.
Laura Nyro
3/5
I can see putting this on during a dinner party to show that I'm cultured.
Love her voice, but it's not for me.
Deep Purple
3/5
This album's Machine Head. It's not better than the rest.
U2
3/5
U2 is catchy and easy to listen to. I think there is too much representation on this list.
I imagine we'll have a few more as we haven't heard Bloody Sunday yet.
George Jones
2/5
Nine Inch Nails
5/5
Classic, groundbreaking, and most importantly worthy of this list.
Organized noise that is much better than the sum of its parts.
Still heart thumping 30 years later.
Louis Prima
4/5
This guy's so good he covered the Brian Setzer Orchestra and made it listenable.
Silver Jews
2/5
During various points in the songs I kept thinking it was about pull a sharp left and turn into a parody song.
Guy's voice is cool but singing is bad.
I don't know what this is really, but it's not for me.
SZA
5/5
Wikipedia said she was known for her diaristic lyrics and I got excited. Then I found out that means "having the nature or style of a diary" and I was pretty let down.
Despite the lack of diarhea this album is a refreshing treat. Musically it's soothing and her voice is amazing. I was never bored and was left wanting more.
Pixies
5/5
This list is showing me that I dig the Pixies. Knew the hits, loved the b-sides.
I'm a Pixies fan now. It's a good thing I'm already insufferable.
T. Rex
4/5
Toe tappingly good.
Easy to digest and made the morning go quickly.
I knew the one song!
Anthrax
3/5
When it comes to metal, I don't really have any love for anything before the early 2000's, Thrash especially.
Giving this an honest listen let me appreciate it more than I thought I would, but this isn't going to enter the rotation.
The Sabres Of Paradise
1/5
The oversaturated electronic music of today may have desensitized my ears but this is boring as shit. There's not a single banger on the album, there's no rise, no fall; it just is.
I was hoping the Portishead remix would save me but alas you can't remix nothing.
Madonna
1/5
Madonna's 8th album changed the game and definitely deserves to be on this list.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Reggae is not my thing but if you were going to listen to it, I suppose this is the one to listen to.
I'll give this a 3 as to my enjoyment with an extra star for being Bob Marley. Check your toes for melanoma!
Amy Winehouse
4/5
She made a big splash while she was around but outside of my frame of reference. She sounds great, the music is solid. Grammy's well deserved.
Carpenters
3/5
Classic easy listening for a reason. The Carpenters have a sound that everyone can sit with.
Will I choose to listen to this again?
Is this one of the most important albums of all time?
I think not.
The Saints
3/5
A nice little punk band with horns. Not ska.
Bet they are fun live.
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
I needed to hear this before I died.
The Velvet Underground
2/5
I didn't care for this. Sounded a little too much like Bob Dylan.
Kanye West
4/5
Who hurt you Kanye? You could have just made a billion dollars doing this over and over again and you needed more so you ruined your sound and your legacy.
Rush
3/5
A Rush album other than Moving Pictures?
Rush is pretty good and as long as you never look at pictures of Geddy Lee you'll be ok.
Dolly Parton
3/5
What happened to country music?
Fairport Convention
2/5
Soundgarden
5/5
Heavily nostalgia tinted but Soundgarden was ALWAYS around. Blackhole sun is one of the first music video's I remember.
Chris Cornell has one of my favorite voices of all time, (rest in peace funky spiderman). And the album is hit after hit after hit.
In the early 90's battles between Pearl Jam and Nirvana, Sound Garden will always come out on top to me.
The Cure
5/5
Pornography is my second favorite The Cure album. Second only to Greatest Hits which coincidentally has no songs from Pornography on it.
I always liked that The Cure was two bands, the poppy one that rose to superstardom and the dark brooding goth dudes whining about whatever. Had I been of music listening age at this time I may have accused them of selling out but I love both versions.
Great stuff.
Britney Spears
3/5
It's not bad. It's just filler. Generic pop music that was right for the time that doesn't really have any staying power.
3/5
Ugh, after a long hiatus I'm met with a live album.
At least it was good. The recording sounds great and the music is palatable.
Yes
3/5
Dad rock at its finest? It's not for me but seems like an important album in progressive rock.