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Albums
You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room | 5 | 2.6 | +2.4 |
| Duck Rock | 5 | 2.65 | +2.35 |
| Life Thru A Lens | 5 | 2.73 | +2.27 |
| Maverick A Strike | 5 | 2.75 | +2.25 |
| Guitar Town | 5 | 2.81 | +2.19 |
| Chris | 5 | 2.82 | +2.18 |
| I Am a Bird Now | 5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
| BEYONCÉ | 5 | 2.85 | +2.15 |
| Fly Or Die | 5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
| Destroy Rock & Roll | 5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevermind | 1 | 4.37 | -3.37 |
| In Utero | 1 | 3.83 | -2.83 |
| Master Of Puppets | 1 | 3.73 | -2.73 |
| Hounds Of Love | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| ...And Justice For All | 1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
| Wish You Were Here | 2 | 4.3 | -2.3 |
| S&M | 1 | 3.26 | -2.26 |
| D | 1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
| The Boatman's Call | 1 | 3.2 | -2.2 |
| Vespertine | 1 | 3.16 | -2.16 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 4 | 5 |
| The White Stripes | 3 | 5 |
| Oasis | 2 | 5 |
| Amy Winehouse | 2 | 5 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 2 | 5 |
| Michael Jackson | 2 | 5 |
| The Who | 4 | 4.25 |
| David Bowie | 7 | 4 |
| Kanye West | 3 | 4.33 |
| Stevie Wonder | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Metallica | 4 | 1.25 |
| Nirvana | 2 | 1 |
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1.5 |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 2 | 1.5 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| CHIC | 5, 2 |
| Led Zeppelin | 2, 2, 4, 5 |
5-Star Albums (95)
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David Bowie
5/5
I didn't know I like Bowie until this listening project.
I like Bowie.
This record was terrific.
4 likes
Cee Lo Green
1/5
We tell our children, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
By track 9 or 10 of mediocre, fake tough guy nonsense, someone should’ve stopped this man.
Someone put his recording equipment more than six inches away from him, so he can ever reach them again.
1 likes
Antony and the Johnsons
5/5
A masterpiece. Lush, layered, complex, introspective, and raw.
Is she a skilled vocalist? No, but if Leonard Cohen can growl and call it singing, she can warble. It’s what’s underneath - the full tapestry - that matters, and it’s incredible.
This album is a terrific litmus test. If you can’t enjoy this, maybe you just don’t like music. It makes being in this website a bit curious, but live the life you choose, I suppose.
1 likes
Sepultura
1/5
If a person pushed me down, shat in my ear, used their finger to push that shat further into my head, then flipped me over and repeated the act on the other side, it would still be preferable to ever hearing this record again.
1 likes
Barry Adamson
1/5
What is this? Why does it exist? It’s a curiosity, and not in a good way. The person who thought “a soundtrack, no, the score, to a movie I’m not clever enough to write, but without the movie,” should be jailed. Next to that person, whomever participated in placing this garbage on this list. It degrades the entire thing by its presence.
It’s the first record I couldn’t finish. You couldn’t pay me. A just world would delete all copies this and pretend it never existed.
1 likes
1-Star Albums (32)
All Ratings
Fela Kuti
3/5
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Cat Stevens
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Travis
4/5
Harry Nilsson
5/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
Def Leppard
5/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Tim Buckley
4/5
Neil Young
2/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Taylor Swift
4/5
The Kinks
3/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Sepultura
1/5
If a person pushed me down, shat in my ear, used their finger to push that shat further into my head, then flipped me over and repeated the act on the other side, it would still be preferable to ever hearing this record again.
LTJ Bukem
3/5
At three hours, this is an album to listen to until you die. Currently playing as the soundtrack at a casual clothing store in your local mall.
Fairport Convention
3/5
What if Jefferson Airplane went to a renaissance faire? And then an Irish jig was sometimes performed. Come find out!
Sufjan Stevens
5/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Listen to the Oceans 11 soundtrack. Then come listen to this. I think there is a glitch in the matrix.
But this record it brilliant fun.
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
5/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Crowded House
3/5
Jamiroquai
4/5
Linkin Park
2/5
James Brown
4/5
Ray Charles
4/5
2/5
CHIC
5/5
Queen Latifah
4/5
The down-votes of this record as “dated” are unhinged. Don’t trust these people to tell you the color of the sky. This record is an artifact of a time and sound, and it’s a brilliant one at that.
Pentangle
2/5
I like folk music. I like 60s/70s folk music. This, though, is just uninteresting. There is nothing different or distinct happening here.
Pink Floyd
3/5
Only meant to be heard while high.
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Suicide
3/5
This is the strangest thing I’ve ever heard. There were parts that were legitimately interesting, but by the end, I wanted Frankie to make a visit.
David Bowie
5/5
I didn't know I like Bowie until this listening project.
I like Bowie.
This record was terrific.
The Cure
3/5
Butthole Surfers
1/5
Blur
5/5
The Smiths
4/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
3/5
Billy Bragg
5/5
Brilliant doesn’t describe this. A lyricist with few peers, calling out from far beyond the grave, reminding us of what timeless means. Then, a then-modern twist, that somehow feels both of Guthrie’s time, and of our own, played exquisitely.
This is a masterpiece.
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Laura Nyro
4/5
Iron Butterfly
2/5
The Doors
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Derek & The Dominos
5/5
Ramones
2/5
The Prodigy
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Dion
4/5
MGMT
5/5
Barry Adamson
1/5
What is this? Why does it exist? It’s a curiosity, and not in a good way. The person who thought “a soundtrack, no, the score, to a movie I’m not clever enough to write, but without the movie,” should be jailed. Next to that person, whomever participated in placing this garbage on this list. It degrades the entire thing by its presence.
It’s the first record I couldn’t finish. You couldn’t pay me. A just world would delete all copies this and pretend it never existed.
Metallica
2/5
Adele
5/5
Lucinda Williams
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Astrud Gilberto
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
The Strokes
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Lou Reed
2/5
Minor Threat
4/5
The Verve
3/5
Pretenders
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Nitin Sawhney
4/5
The Cure
3/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
Ray Charles
5/5
Sade
5/5
Randy Newman
2/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Judas Priest
2/5
Moby Grape
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
The Who
5/5
Justin Timberlake
4/5
Shack
3/5
You walk into a college party in 1997, but it's a movie. They couldn't afford to get popular bands to fill the soundtrack, so they found a close recreation, and used that instead. That's Shack. This is a compliment. It sounds like 90s poppier college rock, but on a budget.
John Lennon
2/5
Yoko is a criminal.
Boston
3/5
If a space alien came to earth and asked hear one record demonstrating what 70s classic rock is, this would be a terrific choice.
AC/DC
3/5
Write a third song already.
Beatles
5/5
It’s Abby Road. In five hundred years, this will be one of the surviving artifacts, a masterpiece of our time. Three armed kids with lizard noses will learn these songs the way our kids learn Mozart.
The White Stripes
5/5
A masterpiece. That’s all. Just a masterpiece.
Pink Floyd
2/5
It’s a fine record. Take away the pretense and it’s perfectly fine. But it thinks it’s smart and that makes it annoying.
The Byrds
3/5
Burning Spear
4/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Stereolab
4/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Killing Joke
2/5
Portishead
2/5
Goldfrapp
2/5
3/5
Nina Simone
3/5
The National
3/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
George Michael
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
4/5
Public Enemy
5/5
Ute Lemper
1/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Dire Straits
5/5
The Everly Brothers
3/5
2/5
The weird thing about this record is there are some interesting musical things going on, but the lyrics were written by an untalented child.
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Metallica
1/5
Pointless noise.
Sleater-Kinney
2/5
The Specials
1/5
Remember Julia Stiles character in “10 Things I Hate About You?” She used guitar to start a band. It was terrible.
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Deee-Lite
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Common
4/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
Oasis
5/5
Coldplay
5/5
I’m a middle aged white guy. This is practically holy scripture.
Bon Jovi
2/5
Tori Amos
3/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Carole King
5/5
The Black Keys
4/5
Kanye West
5/5
Sheryl Crow
5/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
Pink Floyd
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
Nirvana
1/5
Iron Maiden
2/5
The Jam
4/5
The Zutons
4/5
Genesis
4/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Jacques Brel
2/5
LCD Soundsystem
5/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Norah Jones
5/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
King Crimson
2/5
Wilco
3/5
Led Zeppelin
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
The Police
4/5
Kacey Musgraves
5/5
Metallica
1/5
Black Flag
2/5
John Cale
3/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
Q-Tip
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4/5
This album contains actually important music. It’s a repository of music that mattered, and that should be retained.
It’s also a standing rebuke to “country” music made by bros who couldn’t even get into the least impressive SEC schools.
But it’s less than the sum of its parts because it is overly indulgent and massively bloated. Nothing is 2 hours good.
ZZ Top
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Beatles
5/5
The Cars
5/5
CHIC
2/5
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
Evidence for the prosecution in the case of “allowing mankind the ability to record sound was a mistake.”
Girls Against Boys
2/5
The Offspring
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Tom Waits
4/5
A jazz club, but it’s in hell, but hell is in Santa Monica, but Santa Monica is in Jersey.
Three glasses of scotch and two bad ideas. But one of the glasses is filled with stones.
Buster Poindexter was a major influence.
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Solo work by members of the Pet Shop Boys is under appreciated.
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Japan
3/5
The soundtrack to the 1979 video game of the same name, this album has become the official national anthem of a nation.
The Doors
3/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
I am a clove cigarette.
Finley Quaye
5/5
U2
3/5
Fever Ray
3/5
When they couldn't clear Teardrop as the theme song for House on streaming services, they wrote this record as a replacement.
Robbie Williams
5/5
Robbie Williams is the most criminally underrated artist of the 90s and early 00s.
White Denim
1/5
A great effort for five high school kids figuring out their tools and trying to be creative.
Will make you sit in a dark room and fight away the sadness when you realize that are adults.
Muddy Waters
4/5
Gotan Project
3/5
Cee Lo Green
1/5
We tell our children, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
By track 9 or 10 of mediocre, fake tough guy nonsense, someone should’ve stopped this man.
Someone put his recording equipment more than six inches away from him, so he can ever reach them again.
Talking Heads
5/5
There are two kinds of people. People who love the talking heads, and people you eventually realize have never said a single interesting thing.
Van Halen
3/5
There are two kinds of people. People who realize half this record sounds like a chain saw, and people who realize Jump + Panama + Hot for Teacher are all that matter.
Various Artists
4/5
There are two kinds of people. Phil Spector and people he wants to lock in his basement.
Randy Newman
3/5
There are two kinds of people; people who need a second Randy Newman record to get the point, and the rest of us.
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
There are kinds of people…. It’s the point of the record.
Kanye West
4/5
There are two kinds of people. Kanye, and Kanye’s other personality.
The Associates
3/5
Portishead
3/5
There are two kinds of people, but after this record, I’m too low-key to tell them apart.
Liz Phair
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
There are two kinds of people; people who have gazed across the Caribbean with rum in their glass, pretending to be one of them, and people who don't appreciate Bob Marley.
4/5
There are two kinds of people. People who are convinced U2 are multi-generational geniuses, and those who see this as a terrific record that shouldn’t be missed behind the hyperbole. But dammit this sounds like U2. It’s almost a caricature it’s so spot on.
Gorillaz
3/5
Justice
5/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Faust
3/5
Jimmy Smith
5/5
Stan Getz
4/5
T. Rex
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4/5
Sparks
4/5
The Go-Go's
5/5
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
5/5
A pocketful of drugs. A circus on mars. Three monkeys singing opera. This is insane. If you didn't love this, delete my contact, delete your phone, delete yourself. We can't be friends. We shouldn't even be on the same planet. A delight. A masterpiece. I need a nap.
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Mid-album, my wife walked into the room and said "that sounds like a high school jazz band. And not a good one."
Led Zeppelin
2/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
You wouldn’t pay much attention to this if you didn’t know who it was.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Meat Puppets
1/5
Massive Attack
5/5
Massively fantastic record.
Kate Bush
1/5
This is the worst record ever recorded.
I love 80s music. I love synth-pop. I love new wave.
This is utter trash.
Give Ross Gellar a pseudo-opera partner, and you’d get this.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Marvin Gaye
5/5
The Incredible String Band
1/5
I listened to this while sick with Influenza A. I know the strength of my soul.
The Clash
4/5
I don’t even like punk, but this rules.
Death In Vegas
4/5
Snoop Dogg
5/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Bob Dylan
2/5
Billie Holiday
4/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
N.E.R.D
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Grateful Dead
1/5
I am now anti-drug.
Johnny Cash
5/5
Happy Mondays
4/5
Peter Frampton
2/5
It's one song. Only one song. An inoffensive song, but it's the same song for an hour.
The War On Drugs
4/5
Wilco
3/5
Big Star
4/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
The Crusaders
4/5
Steve Earle
5/5
The The
4/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Antony and the Johnsons
5/5
A masterpiece. Lush, layered, complex, introspective, and raw.
Is she a skilled vocalist? No, but if Leonard Cohen can growl and call it singing, she can warble. It’s what’s underneath - the full tapestry - that matters, and it’s incredible.
This album is a terrific litmus test. If you can’t enjoy this, maybe you just don’t like music. It makes being in this website a bit curious, but live the life you choose, I suppose.
Skunk Anansie
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Garbage
4/5
Dagmar Krause
3/5
Joy Division
2/5
Meat Loaf
5/5
Aerosmith
4/5
The Police
4/5
The Police wrote two classic records. Then they wrote a just-fine record, freaked out, and decided to do the best possible version of a few genres, before they let Sting loose to turn the second side into a greatest hits package.
The second half of this record is a top-10 all time effort, so good, it saves the absolute mess that is the first half. Let’s do some reggae! Let’s make an incoherent mess of an art house track!
Isn’t the The Police in a shellnut? An excellent bad capable of so much, and yet also less than it could be, and much much less than what people think it is. But it’s unfair to downgrade them because a bad opinion has become an accepted truth.
If Sting doesn’t act like Sting and go to Goldeneye and belch out Every Breath You Take, the Police are remembered as a nice band, but he did, so they’re all rock gods.
Go do one good thing, people. That’s all it takes.
Queen
4/5
Talk Talk
3/5
Röyksopp
4/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Slint
2/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Yes
3/5
Beck
5/5
The Byrds
3/5
Jeff Beck
4/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Wire
2/5
Tracy Chapman
5/5
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
The Monks
3/5
The Temptations
4/5
Grizzly Bear
4/5
Elton John
5/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
50 Cent
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
XTC
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
1/5
This is the worst piece of shit in the history of recorded music. Don’t be friends with people who like this. Severance isn’t enough to redeem Ben Stiller for participating.
Spiritualized
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Eurythmics
3/5
5/5
This is the best record of the 1990s. The self-important dorks scoff at it, because it doesn’t permit them to feel superior and smart, but we don’t worry about them unless they mess up our coffee. This is a masterpiece.
Doves
4/5
Beck
4/5
The Clash
5/5
Spiritualized
4/5
Dr. Dre
5/5
Laibach
1/5
The Who
4/5
Cypress Hill
4/5
4/5
The Who
3/5
Lorde
4/5
FKA twigs
4/5
Destiny's Child
3/5
Neil Young
2/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Pere Ubu
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Paul Weller
4/5
Big Star
3/5
Emmylou Harris
2/5
OutKast
5/5
The Psychedelic Furs
4/5
Morrissey
4/5
Green Day
5/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Otis Redding
5/5
The Afghan Whigs
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
DJ Shadow
5/5
Little Simz
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
The Auteurs
3/5
Digital Underground
3/5
Klaxons
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Slipknot
1/5
Welcome to, “Will I Every Achieve Anything in Life,” the one question game where we determine, will you ever achieve anything in life.
Here’s your question:
Did you enjoy this record, and would you like to hear more from this band?
If you answered “yes,” you will never achieve anything in life!
Now please restock the candy aisle.
The Yardbirds
4/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Devendra Banhart
2/5
The Fall
2/5
Big Black
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Magazine
3/5
Soundgarden
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
5/5
Brian Wilson
4/5
New Order
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
George Michael
5/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Joan Baez
2/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Ghostface Killah
4/5
The United States Of America
3/5
Jack White
4/5
Fugees
4/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Merle Haggard
4/5
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Daft Punk
5/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Mott The Hoople
3/5
The Cure
3/5
The Beta Band
4/5
Prince
5/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Björk
1/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
John Martyn
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Stranglers
3/5
The Pogues
3/5
Le Tigre
4/5
Beatles
5/5
The Undertones
2/5
When WKRP originally aired, they used real rock songs. Popular stuff you’d hear on 70s AM rock radio. They didn’t get perpetual licenses, though, and when it came time for reruns and DVDs, they couldn’t afford any of those songs, so they replaced them with generic knock-offs and sound-alikes.
For your listening pleasure, an entire record that sounds like that.
Ash
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Nick Drake
4/5
The Human League
4/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
The White Stripes
5/5
Metallica
1/5
Amazing performance, if the shitty band got out of the way.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1/5
What if a bunch of guys who aren’t great players, and who have no musical ideas, crucified Bo Diddly, and then followed that up with pointless meandering for what felt like six hours. And then a drunk sang a version of Happy Trails so bad, you’ll be praying to fall off your horse and get trampled.
1/5
Nico
1/5
Raekwon
3/5
Marilyn Manson
1/5
My apologies to slipknot. They’re aren’t the *actual* worst act in the history of humans making sound.
Kings of Leon
4/5
2/5
The Pharcyde
4/5
Os Mutantes
3/5
Machito
4/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
TV On The Radio
4/5
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
There is a record-and-a-half of really great music here. There is also a record-and-a-half of nothing. This is a three star record cut down by its bloat and arrogance.
The Stone Roses
3/5
Madonna
4/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
Eminem
3/5
Simply Red
3/5
Genesis
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Bad Brains
2/5
Coldplay
3/5
Madness
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Erykah Badu
5/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
4/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
10cc
4/5
JAY Z
4/5
Eric Clapton
4/5
William Orbit
3/5
The Who
5/5
Ray Price
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The Beta Band
4/5
John Coltrane
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1/5
Temu Leonard Cohen*
*Talent and insight not included.
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
Soft Machine
2/5
Cowboy Junkies
5/5
Janet Jackson
4/5
Kanye West
4/5
Pavement
2/5
Fatboy Slim
5/5
Christine and the Queens
5/5
Boards of Canada
2/5
Van Morrison
5/5
A masterpiece, and I'm thoroughly convinced those who do not appreciate it are complete up their own ass.
Brian Eno
2/5
Influential? Significantly.
Important? Sure
Listenable? Not in the slightest.
Hole
3/5
Slade
2/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Ian Dury
2/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
1. This record is so "of its era" I can hardly stand it, but it's pretty good, for that era.
2. Ryan Adams is a pile of trash.
3. I saw Ryan Adams, accidentally, once. I was trying to see a Butch Walker show, but the suckatude of Ryan Adams was so complete, his buffoonery so massive, it made them both suck. And I'll never forgive him for that, so his "perfectly fine for the era" 3 stars is reduced to 2.
The Beau Brummels
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
Slayer
1/5
A thousand monkeys with a thousand instruments could top this inside of fifteen minutes.
Tom Tom Club
5/5
George Harrison
5/5
The Pogues
5/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Fairport Convention
2/5
The Mars Volta
2/5
The Thrills
3/5
Simple Minds
4/5
Ride
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Calexico
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
The Birthday Party
1/5
Frank Black
2/5
Nas
3/5
The B-52's
2/5
The gulf between “how clever we are” and “how clever we think we are” is widest for the B-52s. This is weird music for people who never met a weird person.
Mariah Carey
3/5
Nirvana
1/5
If he lives, this is remembered as the embarrassing slop of pointless noise it was.
Turbonegro
2/5
The Streets
1/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Mylo
5/5
Eels
3/5
Radiohead
2/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
The Sonics
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Joanna Newsom
2/5
Two stars, because one is reserved for acts with absolutely no musical talent. She has talent, but needs to be released into the woods.
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Solange
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Britney Spears
2/5
If they’d played this for the judge, she’d still be under than conservatorship, because no sane person could’ve done this.
Richard Thompson
3/5
James Taylor
3/5
Primal Scream
5/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Julian Cope
3/5
CHVRCHES
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
ABBA
3/5
Neu!
3/5
Everything But The Girl
4/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
5/5
Suede
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Django Django
5/5
SAULT
4/5
Manu Chao
3/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
Anita Baker
3/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Pulp
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
UB40
3/5
The white bread of reggae.
Peter Tosh
3/5
Culture Club
3/5
Venom
2/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2/5
Carpenters
3/5
The Young Rascals
4/5
The Band
3/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
The movie is great. The theme is epic. The rest is no more than accompaniment. Don’t listen to this, go watch the film.
Ministry
2/5
Intellectually, musically, and lyrically empty. I’m sorry your mom didn’t love you as much after your stepdad arrived, but if you find this interesting, music just isn’t for you.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
That man be singing black guy music to white girls! The scandal!
Elvis isn't an album artist except to the extent it's all Elvis doing Elvis shit, which he's great at.
The Slits
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
Alice In Chains
2/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
5/5
System Of A Down
2/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
The Coral
4/5
Bert Jansch
3/5
Beyoncé
5/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Entirely inessential.
Deep Purple
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
4/5