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You Love More Than Most
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Yeezus
Kanye West
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5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
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5 | 3.14 | +1.86 |
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Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
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5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
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5 | 3.2 | +1.8 |
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The Slider
T. Rex
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
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5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
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Figure 8
Elliott Smith
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5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus
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5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
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Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
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5 | 3.36 | +1.64 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
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1 | 3.86 | -2.86 |
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Hysteria
Def Leppard
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1 | 3.2 | -2.2 |
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La Revancha Del Tango
Gotan Project
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1 | 3.04 | -2.04 |
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The Rise & Fall
Madness
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1 | 3.04 | -2.04 |
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Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair
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1 | 3.03 | -2.03 |
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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
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1 | 3.02 | -2.02 |
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The Man Who
Travis
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1 | 3.01 | -2.01 |
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Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout
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1 | 2.99 | -1.99 |
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Vauxhall And I
Morrissey
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1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
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Very
Pet Shop Boys
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1 | 2.94 | -1.94 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Radiohead | 4 | 4.75 |
| Beatles | 4 | 4.75 |
| The Rolling Stones | 5 | 4.4 |
| Nirvana | 2 | 5 |
| T. Rex | 2 | 5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest | 2 | 5 |
| Bob Dylan | 2 | 5 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 |
| Beck | 3 | 4.33 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 4.33 |
| Neil Young | 3 | 4.33 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 4.33 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 4.33 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 4.33 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 4.33 |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Everything But The Girl | 2 | 1.5 |
| Pet Shop Boys | 2 | 1.5 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
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| Green Day | 5, 2 |
| Pink Floyd | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
5-Star Albums (57)
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this is something my fourth grade music teacher probably made us listen to while she loudly clapped along and attempted to sing in Pulaar
I sometimes wonder if this list of albums is just fucking with me
Peter Gabriel has always been one of those guys that I’ve felt like I’m supposed to like. I get why he’s good, his rhythm section is impressive, it’s prog royalty, I get it. but I’m never sold. Also he sounds a LOT like Dave Matthew’s.
my brain hurts a lot
1-Star Albums (16)
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Was not expecting absence of rapping until Clint Eastwood and have a renewed perspective of this song in context of the whole album. Very surprising how little Del there is outside the singles. I guess I knew the Gorillaz hits but hadn’t listened much outside of Plastic Beach. This album sounds more like trip hop Blur than what I expected. Standouts like “Double Bass” are more Dan the Automator focused than I knew the band got to.
The transitions on this album are sick. Great album to listen to walking around the city.
Iconic
the musical equivalent of clapping when a plane lands
I really like that west coast screechy synth sound he always uses that kind of sounds like a dentist’s drill.
🤘🏻🎸⚡️🍆🤘🏻
Think I’d rather go back to the day before.
A lil more antsy than I recall but loved it all the same.
Every time they blast into a song with a rippin harmonica, I recoil, but Bruce wins me back every time. Go, Bruce, go. You’ll bust outta that dusty old town one of these nights.
Felt like huffing nitrous in an airport security line - rad moments involved but largely tense, loud, disorienting, and in a foreign language.
Hadn’t listened to this album. Pretty good! Definitely like the hits more in the context of the album as a whole.
Energy
Personal classic. Two white horses in a line……
Smooth sailing, Carole. Side B kinda stalled the boat, though….
Yo. Wtf? Yes.
Cohesion. A masterpiece.
Change Partners is a pretty fucked up song. Relax Frankie. The rest of this is alright I suppose. Swanky stuff. Whatever
✨🤘🏻✨
Big album for me when it came out. Incredible marriage of songwriting and production.
Groovy
driving the ladies WILD
......they got better.
🌞
RIPS.
would’ve been fun in 1994 on ecstasy in Europe.
“If fashion is your trade, then when you’re naked I guess you must be unemployed” Some ups, some downs, some hanky panky
😭
frustrated by your apathy
I do like an occasional gong.
🙄
immaculate
HOT FUZZZZZ
Seminal. Love listening to the UK version w New York City Cops included.
Awwwww shit
One or two all timers but the rest is a fucking slog
yee haw?
🥴
Baby, baby, baby
I think you had to be there
lady, enough already
🫨
I think I’m officially not a KISS guy
my brain hurts a lot
uneven. when it’s good, it’s great.
Who knew!
ok boomer
wtf fam
Nice discovery. Always assumed this band was dogshit.
Okay!
yeeeeeee
Nope
‼️SEX DWARF‼️ half of this album is a 5 but the clunkers really clunk
Jah
that voice!
I saw Cheap Trick at a music festival in 2007. The guitar player was wearing a Cheap Trick hat AND a Cheap Trick shirt. Didn’t like that. Surrender is a good song.
(snarl)
If they had put up a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Musical” on Broadway in the early 90’s, it probably would’ve sounded just like this.
Ok I’m standing
🧿🧿 👄
stiiiiillllllllllll waiting
You sound like you’re from London
Not sure how this is as boring as it is but here we are
so fucking chill
not very chill
spooooooooky season
I sometimes wonder if this list of albums is just fucking with me
for shizzle
⛓️🤘🏻⛓️
Always heard about Roxy Music. Never listened to Roxy Music. I really like Roxy Music!
I owned this CD in 6th grade and it was my favorite album, haven’t listened to it since. Holds up!
Peter Gabriel has always been one of those guys that I’ve felt like I’m supposed to like. I get why he’s good, his rhythm section is impressive, it’s prog royalty, I get it. but I’m never sold. Also he sounds a LOT like Dave Matthew’s.
British rock critics will slurp up any sludge that Damon Albarn pisses out in front of them.
i really like the song without Michael Stipe
Wild Horses is in the running for best song of all time. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is in the running for best guitar riff of all time. Moonlight Mile - pretty sure it’s the best album closer of all time. I dunno if I’ve ever listened to this record front to back but it might be my favorite Stones album now that I have.
Repeatedly smashing the fifth star
wooaaahhKAY
🫨🪩🫨
Inspirations include 1980’s “acid house”, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and “a single Le Corbusier lamp”. I love this album.
fookin shite
yeezus looking inward
Another one that I owned on cd in middle school
“My presence is a present - kiss my ass” Monster is a baroque masterpiece.
25% music video nostalgia bliss 25% pump me the fuck up dance music 50% “hey, want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?”
One minute into this album, I thought the list had illuminated a new hidden gem….. Then came the vocals. Can’t I just mute the vocals? late 00’s freak folk indie rock, Animal Collective on one side of the spectrum and….whatever this is on the other - it had its moments. Not this one. Gets a bonus point for when I could imagine it without any of the vocals.
Trippy. Songs just aren’t nearly as strong as his other two albums, at least on first listen. Hall of fame cover art.
Reminded again that I don’t really like skits on albums.
Fun fact: the monster on the cover is named Eddie
bout damn time
I’d rather not hear another word about the whizz kids
the transition between root down and sabotage was a tectonic shift, the burning bush, my Rosetta Stone
couldn’t understand a word of this but at least everyone had a good time
Bonkers tone. Very psychedelic. Love old Santana.
I absolutely hate songwriting like this.
really oscillating between annoying chaos and incredibly chill vibes. reading that this is one of the main guys from CAN helped me understand this a bit more.....def prefer CAN tho.
I’ve never been a U2 fan, aside from a few months in like second grade when my sister and I became obsessed with the song Mysterious Ways (not on this album). U2 is serious in a way that I can’t be, or at least doesn’t align with the kind of seriousness I respect. Just look at this fucking cover art. U2 is leather pants serious. U2 is “we have our own signature iPod” serious. U2 is a guitar player earnestly referring to himself as “The Edge” and wearing a stupid fucking skull cap every day serious. I’ll give this album its due, even found myself singing along to I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For; but no, I do not like U2
hot take: Beatles are great
Bewilderingly good songwriting. I think Dana and I listened to this in it’s entirety 400 times in March/April 2020.
they sure did kick them out
I got more stories than JD’s got Salinger - Definitely the album where they changed the game in terms of sampling with almost collage-like backing instrumentals. they’re still one album away from refining their vocal rhythm out of the 80’s; these songs aren’t quite as cohesive and diverse as what’s to come but we’ve got some bangers here nonetheless.
….“too ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculous”…. I love some of these songs, clearly a work of mastered craft - but there are too many divergent attitudes and ideas going on here to love this as a whole. The back half really saved it for me.
😴
¡que rápido!
Didn’t grow up with this, has always been something I knew of but didn’t really know. Knew about the production, the sound, etc and put on good headphones and listened carefully; it definitely sounds great. They got the best session players and it’s immaculately arranged, produced, recorded. I just don’t really like the songs. Some great moments, have had Deacon Blues stuck in my head and love the song Peg. the most important element of any music that’s new to me, though, is how it hits me, viscerally - this just didn’t do shit.
Can’t believe it buuut…I liked this album a lot. I’ve always been a hater of the title track. Always. Was prepared w a Big Lebowski joke etc etc. But with good headphones on a plane with my eyes closed, the production sounds so dense and chill and inventive……I like the Eagles?
I like listening to this but 90 minutes is just too much devotion for one sitting.
I mean, pretty fun!
this album is all over the place
woah. really wish he’d left that last song on the cutting room floor.
Wow. I really did not like that. Lou Reed seems to speak to a subset of a generation that I am definitively not a part of and I find his smugness boring, annoying, and dated all at once. Giving it a courtesy point for the ripping guitar solo at the end of “How Do You Think It Feels”
so good, never gets old, will have this on repeat for the rest of my life
I have a couple of Duran Duran songs on my “Death Scene Music” playlist. I guess outside of that context I think this blows.
what a title.
well bleach my jeans and call me Dando
love that this list keeps surprising me with artists I’ve never come across before
I give it a foi outta foive
this is just one of those albums that hit me at the exact right time and place. the suburbs came out the day that i moved into a new house in austin and i listened to it on repeat while i painted the walls. aside from being the right age at the time for the album's themes to hit me like a freight train, it just feels like a texas record. there's so much melancholy, nostalgia, big open space within. aimlessly driving around a hot, texan august - this represents my time there in my memories. as a coda, the movie that ended up representing my time in Austin to me, Boyhood, which i briefly worked on, ends with Deep Blue. "here are my place and time, and here in my own skin i can finally begin"
EEEEOOOOOEEEAAAYYYYOOOO
v chill
no, I don’t think so. bonus point for some SLICK guitar
I’m a dirty boy I guess
I really hate listening to skits. the songs are by and large incredible,though.
holy shit that voice. I’m curious if he hadn’t died so young how his style would have evolved as time went on, this albums weakness to me really lies in its dated early 90’s pseudo-prog songs. I liked incubus a lot for a period of time, so I understand Jeff Buckley’s heavy influence on late 90’s rock vocals. glad I finally listened to him with more context than just “hallelujah”
track 1: undeniable classic all other tracks: boring knockoff oasis dreck
✌🏻
Dustin’ off ma fuck me pumps
really grew on me as it went on. tbh it sounds like mr dion is really phoning it in most of the time but you know what - i kinda respect that. deducting a point for being absolutely too fucking long.
Found the exception to my “no skits” crusade and it’s Andre 3000’s “I stank I can, I stank I can” bit
Fun but not my favorite funkadelic
definitely some highlights but nowhere near the best from Marvin Gaye
It’s really good for what it is; I just don’t understand what it is.
This is my favorite Beatles album, it lived in my car’s cd player for months in high school. To me the Beatles are simply the GOAT when it comes to recording in the studio and this one means the most to me.
“Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty, bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shit…damn near barbecuing on that motherfucker. Go down to 20…get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a fuck about 40.”
https://youtu.be/uzidMPMhYiA
while it displays one of the greatest album covers of all time, it contains one of the worst bob dylan covers of all time. I also guess I like pj Harvey in theory more than reality.
cool look they’re in an airport
my dad bought me this cd the day it came out when we were on a trip to chicago. i never turned it off. 1000 stars. 30 years in and still in awe every time I listen to this album.
more like very BAD (high fives, high fives)
More hit and miss than some of favorite TH albums but just an overall ripping experience laced with all time classics. Member of the cover art hall of fame.
i’d love to join the throngs of loud whistling fans of bb king
not sure how much room I have in my life for 90’s nü metal that is nü to me. That said, the percussion is excellent, the guitar tones are sick, and this generally holds up a whole lot better than say, Limp Bizkit.
😚
ONETWOTHREEFOUR
this is not spinal tap
Steely Dan meets David Bowie or Yes in all the wrong ways. Not for me.
pretty sick as far as hokey concept albums go
mehhh I guess Metallica and Megadeth on their own weren’t enough to sustain the genre. Anthrax is very clearly only for the heads.
big time college album for me. with some distance, realize it's a little uneven - the lows are almost parodies of themselves, not sure if this is because of time and a bigger catalogue or if they were reductive to begin with. that said, songs like windowsill, keep the car running, no cars go - bangers.
Foundational text
possibly the coolest album of all time.
as I’ve gotten older, i've begun to understand the desire that aging artists have to round up all their famous friends and make these cameo orgies - unfortunately they're almost always lame ass snoozefests like this fuckin thing
🫤
First time listening to Rush. I really appreciate the musical trio and their technical progginess - I just can’t help but hate the vocals. Kept thinking of this lyric from Pavement: What about the voice of Geddy Lee How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?
Some transcendent moments keep this at a 3 for me but I’m all Rush’d out
i suppose
knicks, pizza, illmatic
markedly better than their second album, which is markedly better than the next and so on and so forth. I still think Chris Martin is the reason people started using the word “cuck”
lovely
proto-arcade fire vibes. i prefer the crispy cold braggadocio of oasis when it comes to 90s britpop but this, though uneven and overdramatic - it doesn’t suck
🌒
having a hard time figuring out why I had to hear this album before I die. whole thing sounds like it could’ve been in goldeneye n64 if the game had a porno level
found myself focusing more on quincy jones’ incredible production than mj this time around. mostly in it for the hits here, which luckily make up 3/4 of the record.
Goddamn Running Up That Hill is such a good opener wtf this whole album fucking rips EDIT: wait wait wait I wrote that after 4 songs and the back half of this sucks
I’m insulted
very sweet of them to dedicate a whole album to their best friend who went insane
Cool name, cool band, cool album - always hits
a classic for some, and of them i am one.
Incredible. I think it might be a 5 but probably need to listen to it more to appreciate this record to its fullest.
I assumed I would hate this. First off, I always confuse Depeche Mode with Duran Duran. Depeche Mode is significantly better, but they definitely occupy a similar space. There are a slew of bangers on this album, all of which already live on my Death Scene Music playlist. There are definitely some clunkers, but it’s a pretty cohesive vision with some all time classics. Violator - good album!
can’t help but respect the forebears of many of my favorite 90’s bands
we have Daft Punk at home
Some fine songs, some pretty moments; largely felt like homework.
Their most popular album is clearly the best in Pink Floyd’s catalogue. The daily album project has given me more Pink Floyd to chew on than I’d ever been interested enough to previously get into - I don’t love all of it but there’s no question this album kicks ass front to back.
I feel like there’s an insurmountable amount of context necessary for this to have any impact on me.
not always the most enjoyable listen from head to toe but at the end of the day, put on any misc moment from this record and it’ll wash over you like a tidal wave.
At times Wilco. At times Pink Floyd. At times Panda Bear. At times Flaming Lips. I guess this is my issue w beta band - I like it just fine, but I can’t discern any cohesive identity to the music. It kind of just leaves me feeling like I just listened to a succession of trailers for music I’d rather listen to.
Definitely in the running for best opening track of all time.
beer drinkers and hell raisers is right
cover art hall of fame top 5 candidate
a perfect opening track - anthemic drums, incredible riff, transcendent first verse lyrics - hits me in a way that’s impossible to describe. the rest of the album basically repeats itself (like, literally in “sowing seeds”), but tjamc could’ve just recorded fart sounds after “just like honey” and I’d still like this record.
good music to listen to while working on the horror script I’m writing, bad music to listen to in literally any other environment
wow. can’t think of a swan song like this that both encapsulates an artists career while adding something entirely new to it. very impressed, but not surprised mister bowie
perfect soundtrack for a sunny Memorial Day in NYC
🤩
wuh oh
rock and rolllll
sags a bit in the middle but just the most chill
“the end” is mostly a pretty bad song. there, i said it.
This album has some good songs and melodies but the arrangements are so drably dated that it really dulled the effect it had on me. I’ve learned through listening to all these albums that while the 80’s sound and style helped cement the legacy of certain bands, it brutally shortened other artists’ shelf life.
beauty
ngl this is pretty good - definitely helping me understand where u2 came from. still a little overly serious for me but who am I kidding, I like Radiohead - this u2 album can stay.
incredible voice. not for me.
unruly and fun as hell
came to the realization today that maybe the who was its generation’s blink-182. half their songs are all timer ear worms while the other half are annoying and dated. their collective persona leans towards goofiness and their drummer is arguably the best musician in the band. really learning that I could go either way with this band.
RIPBW
Pretty good! Really well constructed, it flows between the hits thoughtfully and I didn’t feel like skipping much aside from the 6 minute saxophone solo in the second track.
with all due respect, cream has never really never done it for me. i can appreciate what it is and could imagine being obsessed with this if i were around in 1967, but today always feels like im in a museum, placing my finger on my chin and nodding to appear deferential. really more of a 3 for me but rounding up due to how influential it’s been on nearly every band I like.
this is one click away from an Ali G bit
More like yasss
🤷🏻♂️
oddly enough I think I prefer later Elvis when he’s real zonked out on pills, but the blend of country and soul with his voice here is so smooth.
patti the poet is a genius, patti live is electric, patti's albums...just don’t quite do it for me
the non-hits really did not hit
Might be my new favorite SY
epic squirming coil
while acknowledging this album is damn near perfect - impeccable production, quintessential 70s beachwood canyon vibes… I just don’t like Fleetwood Mac songs. the chain and dreams are the tunes that do it for me.
far out
my achey breaky heart
ngl didn’t see that arabic “imagine” cover coming
I want to tell her that I love her a lot but I gotta get a belly full of wine
i think i like this even more than pink moon
come on Eileen is a certified all time BANGER
half hour of power
a gem out of left field. never heard of these guys before and it’s extremely my shit. what this is all about!
Been a minute! All killer, no filler.
pretty one note but it’s a pretty one note
some stronger than others; goosebumps throughout
every black sabbath album I listen to in its entirety gets better and better. RIP ozzy
I have a growing suspicion that anyone under the age of 50 who says they like the velvet underground is lying.
“walking in the wild west end, walking with your wild best friend” beautiful stuff
when I was like 14, I had a sick Rage Against the Machine t-shirt. One day, I wore it to the dentist and he asked me “what machine are they raging against.” I think I responded with something along the lines of “uh you know like the political machine? Like the government and, uh, violence?” Anywho, 5 stars.
hate cops✅ love butts✅
i want so badly to like randy newman but i think the best i can say is that this is less annoying than billy joel.
the swagger
sense memories of college activated. tougher and tougher to rank these Kanye records in lieu of recent events but in all subjective objectivity- this still throws down.
every song is spectacular. aretha's voice is just so incredible - in the running for the best ever. teetering on a 5 but i think i like the songs as singles, or listening to one side at a time, as opposed to the entire collection at once. incredible songs - not necessarily a compelling album imo.
Nevermind holds its place as their best, but I probably listened to this more. RIP Kurt, RIP Albini, this record fucking bashes bricks.
I can’t exactly explain why but this album reminds me of what it feels like to waddle around the house after overeating on thanksgiving
a perfect album - it keeps growing and growing - sum exceeds its parts
millennial!
a huge album for me but nowhere near their best. wolf at the door still gives me the willies every time
❄️
mad fer it
solid lou
so much power, some real bangers too. just don’t see myself spinning this whole thing again.
ngl that last track really chilled me out. other than that this was a drugged out fart bomb.
first time listen for me. wow. i think this the first time im bumping an album to a 5 solely because its prestige is greater than the parts. the acoustic versions of many great blonde on blonde songs, the primitive live versions of studio bangers, the sheer weight of it all. very cool
always heard about dr octagon but never knew the music. kind of like hip hop weird al? or ween? or some sort of rick and morty thing? funny enough, as well as some slick dj shadow beats, but not reaching back for it.
i used to hate Metallica but started coming around a few years ago. this album has some real sledgehammers but i still hate songs like unforgiven and nothing else matters. at the end of the day, my growing appreciation mostly leans toward their earlier, faster metal.
some great tunes for sure but relatively mid as far as Neil goes
let’s just say that’s not what I was expecting
(continuous head bobbing to funky rhythms)
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I like that rhythm nation sounds like we’re in a wet basement bangin on pipes and trash cans
Can really hear the moment they enter their old man era during a song about getting indigestion from eating tv dinners
good god does The Band fucking rule. i do think 'music from big pink' is their only true 5 star album but how can you not love this.
I’d like to buy the world a coke
yeah it's long and twee and peak millenial self-seriousness...but that was what was up! all 74 minutes still hit so hard for me, bringing me back to so many different moments in my young adult life. i'm glad he didn't actually devote his career to 50 different state albums, but would have loved to hear his take on Torrington, Connecticut.
he was the king of the tuck-tuck sound!
Feel Flows is such an evocative song, one of my favorites. this album, like many brian wilson joints, is pretty uneven.
It hurt my brain trying to parse “Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy”
this is something my fourth grade music teacher probably made us listen to while she loudly clapped along and attempted to sing in Pulaar
this, to me, is the best album ever recorded. even how they released it changed the music industry as we knew it. this is like 2001: a space odyssey, like ulysses, like the wire - dense, brilliant, altering the form forever. energizing to realize at the time it was released, a miracle to revisit over and over through the years.
hell yeah dude
I wouldn’t hold out much hope for the tape deck, though. Or the Creedence.
it's not over til the tremulant sings
love B&S, this was nice, not gonna crack the repeat rotation though
finally an answer to the age old question: what if limp bizkit sounded more like dave matthew’s band?
like im always sayin - wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom
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really crazy to listen to this album with some distance. certain tracks are staggering - intensely wry lyrics spat out with that snide voice of his over earworm beat after earworm beat. 'stan', 'the real slim shady', 'drug ballad' - these and a few others have staying power I wouldn't have acknowledged without giving this a good relisten. that said, about half the album taps the well way past dry. the boy band bashing gets old, the self reflexive gay jokes annoyingly front and center, and holy fuck the song 'kim' should not have made it onto the release. jesus dude. all said though, a seminal album in which the quality sustains its influence.
love it but might be a lil TOO MUCH prog
🤘😈🤘
Busta Rhymes coming outta left field to just torch the end of the album
lotta hits. lotta skips.
as much as I want to love The Who, i still feel like you had to be there with most of their output.
heater! never heard this before - in fact really only know stephen stills by name and csny, not at all familiar with his solo work. the first few and then the last few songs hit the hardest, almost abbey road-esque in the sense that they are flowing sequences more than individual songs. definitely sags a bit in the middle but it’s a double album that shouldn’t be. manassas - yes!
maybe
rootin tootin
it’s 1998 and I fell asleep w the main menu of 1080 snowboarding on a loop
this is what I want all of these other 80’s post-punk bands on this list to be. some real moments on this album - “this is the day” is an all time classic and ending with “giant” - the whole thing is cool as fuck. also, clearly a top-5 in the band name hall of fame.
music for girls to put on makeup to
i guess I really hate Morrissey
Not just one hit! Im with this
some of these hit harder than others
at its best im all about it, i just had a hard time with the vocals, especially in the early tracks
height of their powers. I’m not a big enough fan of the cure to give it five stars but it’s close; this record is really evocative and a bolded, capital E Emo. gloomy stuff!
not my favorite in the capt beef catalogue
that one familiar song is good but i dunno, not too fond of echo or the bunnymen
🥁🪇🥁🥁🪇 WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH 🥴 😭 😫 🥁🥁 WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH WOAHHH OHHHH
the first album I remember liking - as in, i owned the cd and realized this was a collection of songs by one band with a purpose. Kinda sunk in my bones I guess. Hadn’t listened to it through in awhile. Maybe it’s just the deep tissue muscle memory but this album is nearly perfect.
still don’t get the artwork here. glad they got back together though, saw them again the other night - good band.
who listens to this?
one of those albums where there’s one smash hit and then 10 mediocre tracks treading similar water
the sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken
it’s good! it’s muddy waters! how do i rate the blues? i don’t know. i like this. is it great? yes. would i put this on again? the questions are endless. it’s good? it’s muddy waters.
My really intense roommate in Prague was obsessed with this album and got me hooked on it too. Oddly nostalgic. Krautrock is great.
Probably my fourth or fifth favorite Beatles album yet still obviously a 5.
wow this record contains some BAD songs
I definitely prefer their two earlier, nosier albums, but this one has a lot of staying power. A 3.5 that I’m rounding up bc of band loyalty.
Oh!
Oh wow haven’t listened in its entirety since the 90s I think. Damn.
a bit late for this realization but maybe 1001 albums is too many albums
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This album sucked when it came out and has aged like room temperature milk
Neil Pining
no thanks
😂
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a lot of these beats are pretty sick! unfortunately the end result is offensively stupid
I guess I’m a sick fuck but I found this kind of relaxing, soothing even.
wtf bonus point for being legitimately hilarious
robert altman’s cameron winter
Top tier Bowie; this one was never really in rotation for me but most of the songs are familiar and deeply felt classics.
some nice moments but generally a little too mom-jeans for me; also the album title and cover art are fucking awful.
horny in the worst possible way
wow, what an incredible backing band. Those horns! Those strings! Peak Van.
on a journey discovering how much like Stephen Stills’ solo output
PJ Harvey’s album art is always sick as hell. every album I’ve heard thus far is super underwhelming though.
metal with the energy of Celine Dion. objectively speaking, on a technical level, this is musical diarrhea.
tom waits tom waitsin’
At the end of the day, I like Daft Punk but listening to an entire record of theirs is punishing.
First time hearing this and I loved it. In different moments could hear many of my favorite bands, and it kind of reminds me of what I want Pink Floyd to sound like when I forget what Pink Floyd actually is.
Albini always throws down so hard, loved hearing this early record in its entirety. Really torn on how to rate this…it just sounds so good. Bonus point for absolutely grimy, menacing clarity.
This crosses the threshold into “incoherently British.” I liked the first few tracks fine enough, even though I couldn’t understand a single lyric - but the bubbles and squeak looney toons at the end completely lost me.
ngl loved the bongo song
This is one of the albums that makes “1001 Albums to Listen to Before You Die” sound like a threat.
woah. weird. cool.
as mid as it gets
really came out swinging with 2 bangers and then abruptly fell off a cliff
swoon
some bopping, some boring
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just like his white stripes albums, gotta take the good with a handful of clunky cringey crap. never really gave any of jack white’s solo records any attention though and clearly I was missing out.
“I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows“ -bart simpson
Mostly classic but just 🤏this much annoying boomer shit to keep it from my own personal top tier.
https://youtu.be/484A9Ju4F8g?si=P1SOs9x9PODTQ7te
bonus point for critical contributions to The Exorcist
i think this is my version of what Dana hears when i turn on Saves the Day
it’s easy to forget that before Kings of Leon decided to be dumb-U2, they tried to be dumb-Interpol, which was actually not half bad.
i wasn’t wherever this was
good god this thing nosedives after the first 3 hits are over. bonus point for a solid entry in the opening riff hall of fame.
as a precursor to a lot of the emo music I listened to in high school, this is cool to discover. i really like the songwriting, and the guitar is great, but this dude’s voice just stinks. what’s special about Billy Corgan, or even Brendan Boyd, is clear in what’s lacking here.
worse portishead
Woah. First albums can be different.
not a stretch to assume a sizable amount of my cohort was conceived to this
Ryan Adams always kind of sounded like something I would like but didn’t quite hit the right chord. This album confirms that for me.
huh. great title!
kind of like all the worst parts of jack white's musical personality.
for some reason this was a big album in my household summer of ‘97. i specifically remember it at the beach, even more specifically my baby brother singing his own version of “block rockin beats” over and over. good times. still rips!
yee haw
I’ll give this a respectful golf clap for the technical wizardry behind the vibraphone performance. At times kinda interesting Danny Elfmann-esque compositions, at others the kind of goofy stock music I used to lay underneath “funny” scenes in Vice docs.
klaxons fit in the center of a wide category for me: 00’s indie bands whose names all kind of look the same and I never listened to. the hold steady, wolfmother, foals, klaxons. Good shit though! I really liked this.
felt like this was a cosmic blessing for PTA’s Oscar fortune
it seems like it was much easier to make millions of dollars as a rock star in 1972
this made me feel like that dude on a skateboard drinking cranberry juice and singing fleetwood mac
blue jean babay
sure did
listened to half of this walking on a dock in a foggy oregon town and felt like I was in a jim jarmusch movie
kinda satisfied a background noise grunge atmosphere in my office, but generally mid as far as this sort of stuff goes. i gotta dive deeper on mark lanagan but i kind of feel like he gets by on his vibe most of the time, which doesn't do it for me.
mind if i do a j?
i guess most britpop is similar to like, korn for me - it's what i grew up with and would be an impossible thing to come around to as a newbie in 2026.
no, no, no, no, no
bonus point for queens named dana
I didn’t care for most of the guest vocals and as far as background music goes it’s pretty mid.
pretty pretty
this is the avalanches? i thought the avalanches were something different. this is ok.
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i slide
first ballot entry into the cover art hall of fame. i would love to hear a version of this album without vocals. some of these guitar riffs are just so sick and catchy as hell - the way the guitar interacts with the rhythm section has me movin an groovin. not really into the poor man's metallica vocals or most of the songwriting but i suppose they wouldn’t have sold many albums without a singer. as far as this era of heavy metal goes, though, dimebag darrell's guitar work is upper echelon.
the big bang of contemporary rock and roll
wowza
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I think the one other prodigy album was plenty of prodigy
hits! mixed bag! fun! I’d call some of the album a little problematic but at the time they went with “unusual”.
young Rufus really sounds like Julian Casablancas if he had a good voice.
i don't think i needed to hear more than one pulp album
i often think about how my life would have turned out if only we could fly limp bizkit style
sparks ain’t it for me
I didn’t quite have the patience for this when it came out but listening now, it’s really a beauty
Must have been a great show
Why were all of these British psych bands in the 60s so into Renaissance influences?
Wikipedia says that the two sides of this album are “very different” and that the only musician who plays on both is the drummer. Huh.
I once drove through what felt like an interstellar landscape in Iceland listening to this album and everything fell into place.
INDIE ROCK
Kinky
I dunno, I was boppin
sometimes lenny rocks, sometimes lenny rolls
anyone else think the mix on this record is awful? had a hard time getting past that.
I recently did a deep dive on Nebraska and fully opened the floodgates for me with Bruce. This album has never been my favorite but it was cool to hold it up to Nebraska, knowing how close they were, and appreciating this flip side of that coin. The context of these songs is so much darker than they sound, something I think I wasn’t paying enough attention to when I was younger. I still hate a couple of the kick-down-the-door “HOO HA!” songs if you know what I mean. The highs here are so high though. I’ll be returning.
Never knew about this, the backstory neither. What an amazing thing to be able to do at the end of one’s creative journey.
some chill, some annoying in almost exact equal measure. drums go hard. wouldn’t mind ignoring this late at night in a crowded cocktail bar with chaotic vibes. generally not for me.
teardrop seasoned budweiser
Attention and fame's a career, career, career, career, career, career…….
not a huge Alice In Chains fan but Layne’s voice really is from another world
so many bangers. this album just keeps getting better and better. I could nitpick Oasis all day long but goddamn this shit puts a smile on my face.
Ween but boring.
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🤠
quite silly. better than any solo bjork