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Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers
|
5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
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Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
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5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
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Rust In Peace
Megadeth
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5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
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Music From Big Pink
The Band
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5 | 3.36 | +1.64 |
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The Band
The Band
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5 | 3.36 | +1.64 |
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Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
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5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
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Bossanova
Pixies
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5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
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5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
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The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu
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4 | 2.48 | +1.52 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
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1 | 3.15 | -2.15 |
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Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
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2 | 3.43 | -1.43 |
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Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
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2 | 3.42 | -1.42 |
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Amnesiac
Radiohead
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2 | 3.41 | -1.41 |
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Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
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1 | 2.39 | -1.39 |
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Homework
Daft Punk
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2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
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The Message
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
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2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
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Fun House
The Stooges
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2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
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The Stooges
The Stooges
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2 | 3.26 | -1.26 |
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Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
|
2 | 3.25 | -1.25 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Bob Dylan | 5 | 4.6 |
| Pixies | 3 | 5 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Clash | 2 | 5 |
| The Band | 2 | 5 |
| Nirvana | 2 | 5 |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1.5 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| The Who | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
5-Star Albums (30)
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Janis Joplin
4/5
New Order
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
The xx
4/5
Oasis
4/5
Adele
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Sex Pistols
4/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Björk
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Tricky
3/5
The Pogues
4/5
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
N.W.A.
4/5
The Cult
4/5
The Pharcyde
2/5
Goldie
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
2/5
How often are we going to allow influence to carry the day? This album is embarrassing to listen to most of the time, the lyrics are the same level of the first year teacher who wants to teach his 8th grade students Algebra through the magic of hip-hop. If this album is indeed a foundational text in the genre, then what a shaky foundation it is.
P.S. the group is called Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five but the album has seven guys on the cover? The f$%&?
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Green Day
4/5
William Orbit
3/5
Most of this album sounds like the soundtrack for a 90s JRPG with a beat underneath. Nothing wrong with it, but not very interesting unless i'm min/maxing my emo loner teen protagonist at the same time.
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5
An album that's well on its way to 3 star forgettability and then boom, Killing Moon forces the adjustment.
Elis Regina
3/5
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
4/5
Japan
2/5
This is what people who don't like new wave think new wave sounds like. Repetitive, unadventurous, and uninteresting.
Dolly Parton
4/5
I sure do wish contemporary country stars would ask themselves, "are you sure Dolly done it this way"?
Johnny Cash
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
The Kinks
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
The Damned
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
George Harrison
4/5
The Undertones
3/5
Gillian Welch
3/5
The Black Crowes
3/5
Killing Joke
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
This is your God?!?
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Gorillaz
4/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Stephen Stills
4/5
No songs here that I would describe as unimpeachable bangers, but still, a double album that avoids anything resembling an obvious skip is worthy of some admiration.
Jethro Tull
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Paul McCartney
4/5
Stan Getz
4/5
Radiohead
2/5
There's 1001 albums here, right? So there's a limited amount of space. Did we really need to carve out a place for the Kid A outtakes?
Traffic
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Eminem
4/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Black Flag
2/5
Metallica
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
The Clash
5/5
Probably the only double album i've ever heard that I wish was longer. Just outrageously good.
Meat Puppets
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
I've heard this album categorized as alternative hip-hop several times. No chance, it's positively retro. And pining for an era much better left in the 80s.
LL Cool J
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
4/5
The The
3/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
This album really does slap, but let's just not tell Gen Z I said so
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Zombies
2/5
The Cure
4/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
I'm sure "talk about ROCK BOTTOM" jokes have been made so thoroughly that I'm ashamed to mention them, but sometimes cliches are razor apt.
The Band
5/5
This is the stuff that raised me. Hard to disentangle critical appreciation from sentimentality but I don't even care to try. Banger
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Spiritualized
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Queen
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
If I was on molly, walking the streets of Ibiza past midnight, this would probably slap.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Sister Sledge
4/5
Giant Sand
4/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
808 State
3/5
Pere Ubu
4/5
The Residents
1/5
"You're just too stupid to get it, it's supposed to sound awful, that's what makes it good."
Yeah...pass
Common
4/5
CHVRCHES
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Sugar
3/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Solomon Burke
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Joan Baez
3/5
Kraftwerk
2/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
OutKast
3/5
Ash
3/5
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Björk
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Eagles
4/5
Big Star
3/5
k.d. lang
4/5
Supergrass
3/5
Green Day
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Manu Chao
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Al Green
4/5
SZA
3/5
Santana
4/5
Jack White
3/5
This is an absolutely absurd inclusion. There's nothing wrong with this album, in fact it is pretty decent, but by no means do you have to hear it "before you die". The White Stripes is the only thing from White's career that merits inclusion in this list. Don't put more recent stuff on the list just for the sake of its recency.
De La Soul
4/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
M.I.A.
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Dead Kennedys
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Yes
3/5
Beatles
3/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
Nico
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
James Brown
4/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Doves
3/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
Supertramp
3/5
Supertramp is the English equivalent of the Steve Miller Band. Forgettable, paint by numbers, 70s rock. Yet another bizarre inclusion on this list.
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Radiohead
5/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Aimee Mann
3/5
Mariah Carey
2/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Laibach
2/5
Christine and the Queens
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
Slayer
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Not a huge fan of RHCP, but this record is solid as a rock, if a little long.
Deep Purple
3/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
3/5
Pentangle
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
The Blue Nile
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Klaxons
3/5
Coldplay
4/5
Mj Cole
2/5
Gen X British music critics are going to be flabbergasted when they find out that nobody but them cares anything about English house and jungle. Have fun in that perpetual Ibiza of the mind though, must be nice.
ABBA
3/5
A good example of music that I don't particularly enjoy, but merits an inclusion on a list like this because you can't tell the history of Western popular music without mentioning them.
Neil Young
4/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Astor Piazzolla
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
3/5
Weather Report
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The War On Drugs
4/5
The Strokes
5/5
One of the indispensable rock albums. If you were to remove this record from history of popular music than nothing that came after it would have been the same.
Sonic Youth
3/5
Eurythmics
3/5
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
2/5
Metallica
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Neil Young
4/5
The Associates
2/5
Boston
4/5
Prince
3/5
Duran Duran
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Supergrass
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Suede
3/5
Carpenters
3/5
Surprised by how much I was enjoying this until the last three songs. It's like they padded out the album with dreck because they just had to be near 40 minutes. Last track is actually called "another song"... Example #3847 of solid curation being the most important element to making a quality record.
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Morrissey
4/5
Ministry
3/5
4/5
Lorde
4/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Neu!
3/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Sebadoh
3/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
Love
3/5
Various Artists
3/5
John Martyn
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
The La's
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
The compilers of 1001 albums have real issues with hip hop, clearly. There are actually a lot of good hip hop albums out there, but to follow along with this book you would think it's all heinously unfunny alternative hip-hop(The Pharcyde, Dr. Octagon, etc...) or chicken soup pablum for wannabe radicals like this one
The Verve
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Arrested Development
1/5
This album sounds like a teacher trying to teach his 7th grade students about politics through the magic of hip hop.
Frank Zappa
4/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
Took me a while to get on this one's vibe, but I got there eventually, and found myself engaged and relaxed at the same time. Ultimately, not my thing and a little overlong but I have never heard anything quite like it, and it's inclusion here feels justified.
Scritti Politti
2/5
Like if you gave AI a prompt for forgettable, generic 80s pop rock
Iggy Pop
4/5
The Killers
4/5
Starts about as well as any rock album from the 2000s, but is unable to maintain that level, how could it? Nonetheless, the album does lose steam in the back half and the experience is a little uneven. Still, the bangers absolutely bang.
The Doors
4/5
3/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
I'm going to give this album 2 stars instead of its deserved 1 because I admire Idlewild's, almost tyrannical, commitment to being as boring as humanly possible.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
Steeped in old-timey material!
The Specials
3/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
The Streets
3/5
Röyksopp
3/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Sam Cooke
4/5
Anthrax
3/5
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Dr. Octagon
2/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Jazmine Sullivan
3/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Obligatory 3 star for a live album that I refuse to listen too. Live albums and studio albums should always be treated as wholly separate things.
Michael Jackson
3/5
An album that is dragged down by its duds as much as it is uplifted by its hits. Smooth Criminal is an elite pop song, undone by Liberian Girl, Speed Demon, etc...
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Can you imagine how bad the groupies for this band smelled? 3 stars
Blur
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
UB40
3/5
XTC
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
David Gray
2/5
The Offspring
4/5
Sade
3/5
Ride
3/5
Moby
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Queen
3/5
The United States Of America
2/5
GZA
4/5
The Smiths
5/5
One of the defining albums of the 80s, the peak of jangle pop, and one of the great pairings between singer/lyricist and guitarist/songwriter that we've ever seen. Obviously a 5 star record, and I appreciate that most of the negative reviews on here are acknowledging that their that their ratings have everything to do with Morrissey as a person and very little to do with the music represented here. Honest, at least.
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Snoop Dogg
5/5
The apex of G-Funk. Revisiting this one was an experience of saying, 'oh yeah, this song rules!', 6-7 times. The five track run from the intro through to Murder Was The Case is about as good as any hip hop album has ever done. Also, nice to see mainstream hip hop getting some shine on this list. So far, i've gotten nothing but alternative silly hop like Octagon and the Pharcyde, or even worse, political hip hop which somehow manages to disgrace hip hop and politics at the same time. More of this in future iterations of this list, I hope.
The Divine Comedy
3/5
The Band
5/5
The generator is on a heater at the moment. Three elite albums in a week! With this release, the Band make their case for the best debut and sophomore album combination of all time.
One of the more bizarre things about this group is that the guy who sings lead on most of their songs, Richard Manuel, isn't as often discussed as Robertson, Danko, or Helm. I've wondered if getting relatively little screen time in the Last Waltz is to blame for that. Anyway, he has one of the great voices, and this record is his masterpiece.
Femi Kuti
2/5
Beatles
4/5
Rush
4/5
Burning Spear
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Anita Baker
3/5
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Pixies
5/5
Not sure why this album isn't as respected as the first two Pixies records. A parade of bangers, Velouria and Dig for Fire maybe top 5 Pixies tracks ever for me.
The Style Council
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
Elton John
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Ray Price
4/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
The Who
2/5
The only Who record that is aggressively bad
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Ice Cube
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Van Halen
3/5
Gram Parsons
4/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Prince
3/5
Minutemen
3/5
Linkin Park
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Pixies
5/5
This is why we music
Little Richard
4/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Maxwell
3/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
4/5
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Eric Clapton
4/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Animal Collective
3/5
Aphex Twin
4/5
The Temptations
3/5
Air
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Magazine
3/5
Björk
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Daft Punk
2/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
The Charlatans
2/5
Baffling inclusion. Run of the mill brit-pop is very much something that people can die without encountering.
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
Beach House
3/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
This sounds like a parody of late 60s music. If it's not, then it's the greatest argument for a renewed criminalization of drugs.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Tom Waits
5/5
The Police
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
The Who
3/5
obligatory 3 star rating for all live albums
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
The Who
4/5
Liz Phair
4/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Julian Cope
4/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Patti Smith
4/5
Lou Reed
5/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Stereo MC's
2/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
Suicide
3/5
The Who
5/5
It is not The Who's fault that We Won't Get Fooled Again was used in the cold opening of CSI:Miami, or their fault that "meet the new boss..." has become a pop cultural cliche and a vulgar political phrase for morons to overuse. It's not The Who's fault that Baba O'Riley is used at seemingly every sporting event. It's not The Who's fault that Limp Bizkit thought it was a good idea to cover Behind Blue Eyes.
But a lot of people seem to hold it against this album that it has had such a far reaching presence in our pop culture. Nonsense. It's a testament to the outstanding quality of these songs. We all just have to live with some of the unfortunate bycatch.
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Can
2/5
Tortoise
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
Culture Club
3/5
The Undertones
4/5
Wilco
4/5
Simple Minds
3/5
MC Solaar
3/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
The insane over-representation of Gen X British music strikes again!
Madonna
3/5
Def Leppard
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
5 star album, or top 5 album ever?
The Fall
3/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Wild Beasts
2/5
Does improve a bit in the back half. But of all the 00s indie rock that could have been included on the list, this choice is pretty uninspired.
Tom Waits
4/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Brian Eno
4/5
The Jam
3/5
Paul Simon
5/5
Jacques Brel
3/5
Obligatory 3 star rating for live albums, which of course, shouldn't be included on this list.
Frank Black
4/5
No songs that I would consider certified bangers. But the album holds a solid quality for an hour+. That's something to be commended, even if I won't be carrying any of these songs through life with me.
Billy Bragg
4/5
Probably a hot take to say this is better than any Billy Bragg or Wilco album, but F it, we cookin
Shivkumar Sharma
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
David Holmes
2/5
Look, I'm already pot committed to completing this project, but goodness, some of the curation is absolutely baffling.
Q-Tip
3/5
Tina Turner
3/5
3/5
Stereolab
2/5
Pixies
5/5
DJ Shadow
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
Strong correlation between shitty album covers, and the quality of the music therein.
Black Sabbath
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Bowie is probably over represented on this list, but one can have no complaints about Hunky Dory's inclusion. This album is Bowie's best and, conveniently for recommendation purposes, his most accessible. And is probably the single greatest piano rock album of all time. I wish the chameleon had spent a little more time operating in this shade.
Beck
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
The Cardigans
3/5
Faust
3/5
The Vines
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
The Stranglers
4/5
2/5
Alice In Chains
3/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
Death In Vegas
3/5
Elbow
3/5
Leftfield
3/5
Dirty Projectors
2/5
Scott Walker
2/5
CHIC
3/5
Bee Gees
3/5
a-ha
4/5
KISS
3/5
Madonna
3/5
New Order
4/5
The Monkees
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Koffi Olomide
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
The Gun Club
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Gang Of Four
3/5
Destiny's Child
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Paul Weller
2/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
2/5
Erykah Badu
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Dylan on the cutting edge
Deee-Lite
2/5
Judging an album by its cover remains undefeated.
John Martyn
3/5
The Go-Go's
4/5
American Music Club
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Peter Tosh
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Waylon Jennings
4/5
The Bees
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
David Ackles
2/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
The Cramps
3/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Wilco
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Nas
4/5
Buzzcocks
3/5
Simply Red
3/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Kanye West
3/5
Grizzly Bear
3/5
AC/DC
4/5
Peter Frampton
3/5
Obligatory 3 star rating for live albums which, of course, have no business being on this list.
Skepta
3/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Megadeth
5/5
Coldcut
2/5
More useless dross from they youth of the British Gen Xers who compiled this list.
Jungle Brothers
3/5
Morrissey
4/5
LTJ Bukem
3/5
CHIC
4/5
Digital Underground
2/5
Cornershop
3/5
Bert Jansch
3/5
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
White Denim
2/5
When was it that Indie Rock died? After this, surely. 2009, maybe?
Bobby Womack
3/5
Rush
3/5
The Jam
3/5
Megadeth
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Big Black
3/5
Fairport Convention
3/5
Massive Attack
3/5
OutKast
3/5
Common
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
The Icarus Line
2/5
The Waterboys
4/5
Solange
3/5
Small Faces
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
The National
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Gotan Project
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
John Prine
4/5
The Modern Lovers
5/5
As good a one and done as the album era ever produced
Red Snapper
3/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
2/5
The Clash
5/5
If The Clash had wanted to, they could have stayed in this lane, and gone down comfortably as the greatest punk rock band of all time. They ultimately branched out, of course, and became one of the greatest ever bands. Nonetheless, this particular pit stop on the way to London Calling is about as good as punk ever got.
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Drive-By Truckers
4/5
Don McLean
3/5
John Lennon
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
John Cale
4/5
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
Slipknot
3/5
The Libertines
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Kelela
3/5
The Stooges
2/5
k.d. lang
3/5
The Beau Brummels
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
Lambchop
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
U2
4/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Madness
3/5
Parliament
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Skunk Anansie
2/5
Hookworms
3/5
Lana Del Rey
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Moby Grape
3/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Raekwon
3/5
3/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Morrissey
4/5