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Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
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5 | 2.39 | +2.61 |
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Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Residents
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4 | 2.03 | +1.97 |
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Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
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4 | 2.35 | +1.65 |
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Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers
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4 | 2.38 | +1.62 |
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Aqualung
Jethro Tull
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5 | 3.44 | +1.56 |
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Shleep
Robert Wyatt
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4 | 2.5 | +1.5 |
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Shalimar
Rahul Dev Burman
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4 | 2.65 | +1.35 |
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Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
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5 | 3.66 | +1.34 |
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Remain In Light
Talking Heads
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5 | 3.67 | +1.33 |
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Space Ritual
Hawkwind
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4 | 2.68 | +1.32 |
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Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
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1 | 3.72 | -2.72 |
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Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
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1 | 3.64 | -2.64 |
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Arrival
ABBA
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1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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Nevermind
Nirvana
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2 | 4.37 | -2.37 |
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Melodrama
Lorde
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1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
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1 | 3.24 | -2.24 |
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Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
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1 | 3.02 | -2.02 |
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Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
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1 | 2.97 | -1.97 |
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Headquarters
The Monkees
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1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
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The Stranger
Billy Joel
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2 | 3.86 | -1.86 |
5-Star Albums (8)
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The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
Starts and ends boring with a strong middle. This album's greatest weakness is its length. Whether a song is good or bad it goes on too long. This is background IDM music with some Dub flair. The drumming and dub are well done at points. The electronic parts I find boring, but the songs Wilmot and Tow Truck are dynamic and fun. I would have given it 3 stars if it were half its length.
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Peter Gabriel
2/5
80s Pop, not my speed, ok for what it is
Led Zeppelin
3/5
On one hand Led Zeppelin is a competent blues rock band singing about sex with crunchy guitar riffs. On the other hand, they're myth and fantasy lyrics with English folk. When the latter is mixed with the former the band has originality, without it they are quite overrated. This album is Led Zeppelin still firmly entrenched in their blues side. For the white audience of the time, and probably much of the audience now, such a competent rendition of the former probably blew away many. As someone who loves the blues, I find the band good but a little too smug and lacking heart. If you want deeper expression the likes of Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bukka White, and many other classic blues artists are better choices. This band follows in the footsteps of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, where a masculine posturing and attitude is front and center, throwing other emotions away in the process. Their music is higher production than Wolf, but when he goes long and indulgent he is genuine. For an example listen to Wolf's Tell Me What I've Done live at Cambridge Ma. 1966. It's on YouTube at the time of this post.
What separates Zeppelin from the blues classics is their rough rock sound that crunches along thickly and the band's flashiness mixed with their solidly structured music. It is sure to attract people more attuned to rock due to the 'heavy' sound of its time, but it isn't as mind-blowing to blues lovers because while musically competent, it lacks a certain emotional oomph next to the greats of the genre they take from. The small peeks into their fantasy side in the track Ramble On is therefore the highlight for me.
Earth, Wind & Fire
2/5
Not too into this style but the album isn't bad. Enjoyed the funk bits like in the songs Shining Star and Happy Feelin'. Would never listen on my own time but fine with leaving it on.
Alanis Morissette
1/5
3/5
Little Simz
2/5
Eurythmics
1/5
Unappealing mix of thin 80s Pop instrumentation, detached robotic sound, and corny emotional content.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Paul Simon
1/5
Bobby Womack
4/5
Both a good album of you like cheesy sex funk and if you want something to laugh at. The music is so cheesy, but so much passion is put into it you can't help but both laugh at it and like it. Secrets is a song about a woman's mysterious sexual techniques, yet with it's food metaphors it sounds like its also a song about Colonel Sander's secret chicken recipe. Stand Up is straight sex funk number of the album, but the rest of the songs are romantic in nature. The final song is a dud, combining religious music with usual romance and comes off like a smarmy preacher trying to make money.
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
Starts and ends boring with a strong middle. This album's greatest weakness is its length. Whether a song is good or bad it goes on too long. This is background IDM music with some Dub flair. The drumming and dub are well done at points. The electronic parts I find boring, but the songs Wilmot and Tow Truck are dynamic and fun. I would have given it 3 stars if it were half its length.
Roxy Music
2/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
The Stooges
2/5
Kelela
2/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Calexico
4/5
k.d. lang
2/5
The Zombies
3/5
Tears For Fears
2/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Billy Bragg
1/5
Radiohead
4/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
ABBA
1/5
The Cure
3/5
The Smiths
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Nirvana
2/5
CHVRCHES
2/5
Queens of the Stone Age
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Christine and the Queens
2/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
3/5
Throwing Muses
2/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Skunk Anansie
2/5
Talking Heads
3/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Boston
2/5
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
2/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
Small Faces
2/5
Elton John
2/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
The La's
3/5
The Undertones
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
The Electric Prunes
2/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Residents
4/5
Girls Against Boys
2/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4/5
The Coral
2/5
The Police
3/5
4/5
Django Django
3/5
Billy Joel
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
The Kinks
3/5
Moby Grape
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Minutemen
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Band
2/5
Queen
3/5
The Icarus Line
2/5
Big Black
4/5
Pixies
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Prefab Sprout
2/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Traffic
3/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Television
3/5
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
The Doors
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Love
2/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Butthole Surfers
4/5
1/5
Buzzcocks
2/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Hawkwind
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Beatles
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
Queen
2/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
Mekons
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
The Stranglers
3/5
Yes
3/5
Stereolab
4/5
Teenage Fanclub
2/5
4/5
System Of A Down
3/5
XTC
2/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Blur
2/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Van Halen
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Robert Wyatt
4/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Minor Threat
3/5
The Sugarcubes
4/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
The Cars
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Jethro Tull
5/5
Radiohead
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
The Black Crowes
2/5
The Charlatans
2/5
Suede
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
Adele
2/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Silver Jews
1/5
The Smiths
3/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Lorde
1/5
Norah Jones
2/5
Tortoise
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Goldie
3/5
James Brown
3/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
Beatles
3/5
Prince
3/5
The Black Keys
2/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Wilco
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
a-ha
3/5
The Cure
3/5
Eagles
3/5
John Cale
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Deerhunter
3/5
Pavement
3/5
The Who
4/5
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
10cc
2/5
Metallica
4/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Nirvana
2/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Various Artists
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Khaled
3/5
Ramones
4/5
The Hives
3/5
Donovan
4/5
Talking Heads
5/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
2/5
The Libertines
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Dagmar Krause
3/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
Otis Redding
3/5
Duke Ellington
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
New Order
4/5
The Monks
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Queen
3/5
The Kinks
2/5
John Lennon
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Adele
2/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Sparks
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Air
4/5
Röyksopp
2/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Prince
2/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Baaba Maal
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Le Tigre
2/5
Steely Dan
2/5
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
David Crosby
4/5
Ash
2/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
2/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
Ray Price
2/5
Bebel Gilberto
2/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Germs
1/5
Metallica
4/5
B.B. King
3/5
The Dictators
2/5
Solomon Burke
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Green Day
2/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Jacques Brel
2/5
Sugar
2/5
Radiohead
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Suicide
2/5
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
Elton John
3/5
Goldfrapp
4/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
The Yardbirds
4/5
U2
2/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Parliament
4/5
Crowded House
2/5
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Lana Del Rey
4/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Def Leppard
4/5
Grizzly Bear
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
The Offspring
3/5
Donald Fagen
2/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
1/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
The White Stripes
2/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Turbonegro
3/5
The Monkees
1/5
AC/DC
3/5
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Hugh Masekela
2/5
Lightning Bolt
2/5
Genesis
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Slipknot
1/5
William Orbit
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Simply Red
3/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The Pogues
3/5
Don McLean
3/5
Gene Clark
4/5
Bad Company
3/5
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
The Temptations
4/5
Pentangle
3/5
Blondie
4/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Basement Jaxx
1/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Soft Boys
2/5
Prince
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
Alice Cooper
4/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
Can
2/5
The Darkness
2/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
The Pogues
4/5
Metallica
4/5
The Birthday Party
2/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
The Stooges
4/5
Supergrass
3/5
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Bad Brains
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
The Go-Go's
2/5
Slade
2/5
Richard Hawley
2/5
Rush
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
The Band
2/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Madonna
4/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Megadeth
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Rahul Dev Burman
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Frank Black
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Aphex Twin
4/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Slint
2/5
The Jam
3/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Al Green
3/5
Jack White
4/5
Doves
2/5
The Stooges
4/5
FKA twigs
3/5
Japan
2/5
The National
2/5
4/5
4/5
The Modern Lovers
3/5
Os Mutantes
2/5
Beck
3/5
The Doors
3/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
CHIC
3/5
Pavement
2/5
Gotan Project
3/5
The Temptations
4/5
Screaming Trees
3/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
King Crimson
4/5
The Adverts
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
Caetano Veloso
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Devendra Banhart
4/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Orange Juice
2/5
The Doors
3/5
The Incredible String Band
3/5
Judas Priest
3/5
The B-52's
4/5
KISS
3/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Pulp
4/5
Brian Eno
3/5
The Zutons
2/5
SAULT
3/5
Heaven 17
3/5
Pere Ubu
4/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Deee-Lite
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
3/5
Elis Regina
3/5
Billie Holiday
3/5
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
The Who
4/5
Motörhead
4/5
The Crusaders
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Napalm Death
1/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Guns N' Roses
3/5
The War On Drugs
2/5
James Taylor
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
White Denim
4/5
The Killers
3/5
Pretenders
2/5
Black Flag
3/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Syd Barrett
3/5
Mercury Rev
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Nico
2/5
Peter Tosh
3/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
Alice Cooper
2/5
Tim Buckley
4/5
1/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Def Leppard
2/5
The Stone Roses
3/5
Beth Orton
2/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
The Damned
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
2/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Jane's Addiction
3/5
Beck
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
4/5
Robert Wyatt
5/5
Marilyn Manson
1/5
The Everly Brothers
3/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
2/5
Fishbone
4/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Johnny Cash
2/5
Little Richard
4/5
Britney Spears
2/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Hole
2/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
The Sonics
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
Pulp
3/5
Talking Heads
2/5
Big Star
2/5