My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic	5	3.17	+1.83
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello	5	3.35	+1.65
Pretenders Pretenders	5	3.35	+1.65
Hot Rats Frank Zappa	5	3.36	+1.64
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	5	3.39	+1.61
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Power In Numbers Jurassic 5	5	3.48	+1.52
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	4	2.49	+1.51
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	5	3.49	+1.51
Paul Simon Paul Simon	5	3.51	+1.49

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	1	3.39	-2.39
Tommy The Who	1	3.33	-2.33
A Girl Called Dusty Dusty Springfield	1	3.33	-2.33
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	1	3.32	-2.32
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.28	-2.28
Bad Company Bad Company	1	3.25	-2.25
Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta	1	3.19	-2.19
Vespertine Björk	1	3.16	-2.16
The Wall Pink Floyd	2	4.14	-2.14

Artist	Albums	Average
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Stevie Wonder	4	4.25

Artist	Albums	Average
Björk	5	1.6
The Who	3	1.67
Bad Company	2	1.5
Pet Shop Boys	2	1.5
Pink Floyd	2	1.5
The Byrds	3	2
Arcade Fire	4	2.25

Artist	Ratings
Elvis Costello	5, 2
Simon & Garfunkel	2, 5, 2
Led Zeppelin	4, 5, 2, 2
Madonna	1, 3, 4

The Clash

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Ok, not my personal taste.

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Honestly a bit disappointing. Francis farmer is great tho

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

2/5

Ok, some good songs, not sure Iggy pop is for me.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

So old school, I loved it

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

Mojo Jazz

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

I need to listen again.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

A bit too jazz

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

About as good as pop gets for me

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

The songs I like, I love.

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Good dark breakbeat

Bad Company

1/5

Really thought I'd like this more

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

Better than I expected

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

I already know and love, but had forgotten just HOW good it is.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

3/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

A classic

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

Fine

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Bit cold for me

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

V jazzy, preferred their first earlier stuff.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

V 90s funk rock

21

Adele

2/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

Hectic

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Smooth techno edged soul

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Toploaded, but great songs

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Bit too 60s for me

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Really amazing soul. A little too stretched in places.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Very nostalgic but not my era of beatles

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Vocals a bit grating

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

It's so good. I'm surprised how good it is.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Wonderful

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

A weird dreamy scratch album

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

This was surprisingly good. The weird stuff was too weird but the song quality was great

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

1/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

I hate Mark E Smith. Album was fine

Boston

4/5

This was what I hoped Bad Company would be.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

1/5

Not for me.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

Not as good as later James Brown

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Last 2 tracks were great, but the turgid folk/prog from the rest of the album was not for me.

Vespertine

Björk

2/5

Id probably like it more once I knew it, but I can't get there.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Such smooth style with real messages

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Wonderful. The songs with the female vocal were better.

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

1/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

Smooth, soulful, never boring.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

I think I'd need to listen again to truly appreciate.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

Lovefool is still ruined by overplay for me but this album is great.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

Too messy

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Some good punky tracks.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Good punky rock, a little unfocussed as the album unfolded

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Metallica

4/5

I prefer their earlier stuff but there are some great songs here.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Enjoyed more than I thought

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Really hippy

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

This was wild. Really very good. 4.5.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

Unlistenable to my ear

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Ok

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Some good, most not for me

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

Too jazzy

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Yeah, great

Very

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

It just reminds me too much of the pwl style production at the time.

Queens of the Stone Age

4/5

Great

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

So funky

Killing Joke

2/5

Bit muddy

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

4/5

Bangin

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Some good, some bad

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Really good

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

Three good songs, the rest I hated.

Tago Mago

Can

3/5

Either very strange or a bit interesting in equal parts

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

Meh, don't love the stooges

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Smooth and lyrical

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

I like early jamiroquai

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

What I expected

1999

Prince

4/5

I love prince

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

Actually beautiful

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Fun

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Like a bit weedy

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

1/5

Not for me

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Beautiful but too sad for me

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

I enjoyed

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

The songs are good, but the 60s production gets in their way a bit.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

V dylan

Queen II

Queen

4/5

I love queen

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Surprisingly jazzy and soulful. Could do without the drum solo

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Bit too melancholy for me

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Great, I liked this

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

2/5

I do like frown land

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Infected

The The

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

3/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

4/5

Really good. Light punky folk

Dire Straits

5/5

One of my favourite albums

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

3.5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Banger

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

I like van

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

I like this album. -1 star for being a dick ryan

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

Bit too west coast

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I love the stones but the 60s production curse strikes again.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

I expect I will enjoy other Ray Charles albums more.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Some good, bit toff

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

Ugh

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

Some good

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Fine easy listen. Very 1994

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

4/5

You know what, it was good. Fred Durst really beloved he was the voice of the generation recording this.

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

The good is great

Vulnicura

Björk

1/5

I think I hate Solo Bjork. I wish I was a bit cooler.

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

Lovely jazz country

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

I find them so bland and pompous

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Half great, half shit

1999

Prince

4/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

2/5

Don't love kraftwerk

Timeless

Goldie

2/5

Good bits but too cold for me

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

I like, but not love. Voice not my favourite.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

I feel there is better Ray Charles to come.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Love it

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

3.5, good pop

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

I liked it less than expected

The Joshua Tree

U2

4/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

3.5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

2/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

A favourite

The Clash

3/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

2/5

I like madness, this was a bit conventional

Debut

Björk

3/5

3 stars for the 3 songs I liked. Hated the rest

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Clichè, but I loved it.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

4/5

Jangly post punk, good

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Some great, some meh

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

3.5, more pop than I expected

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

There are better queen albums

Copper Blue

Sugar

4/5

I thought I was in for a long listen after first track, the rest I loved.

Bad Company

2/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

It's great

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

4.5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Very nice Cuban chill

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

This would have been 5* when I was 15. It just doesn't have it for me anymore.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Early beatles

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Quite liked. Didn't realise Julian Cope

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

2/5

Fine, not keen on vocals

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

4/5

Production is poor, songs are strong.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

2/5

I'm not keen on folk it appears

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

Lovely french jazz

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

3.5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Fine

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

3/5

Cute

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Bit overrated

Happy Sad

Tim Buckley

2/5

Bit sad

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Alright. Not keen on vocals

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

2/5

I don't love t. Rex

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Singles were good

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Some good songs but a bit busy overall

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

3.7, great texture

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

Good bits are good, sad bits are sad.

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

2 because drive, 1 for the rest. It feels like everyone is uncomfortable with the sound they make.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

1/5

There comes a pont where I feel I just want to hear a song. And I love pink Floyd!

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Loved this

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

The good is good

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Its the best zep album I've heard I reckon.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Loads of songs I knew, all bad

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

I mean, it's fine for what it is. But not for me.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

I am not sold on 'challenging' jazz

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Great songs first half, great moods second half

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Very solid

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

There is some generic 80s producer with blood their hands.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Good songs but too much unaccompanied guitar wankery

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

I don't mind the fall, not keen on mark e smith

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

4 for the songs. -2 John Lennon -2 Phil Spector +2 Jealous Guy

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

I was dreading this a bit. But this is more ambient than I expected. It's before the dentist drills and chaos drums phase that followed.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

I mean, it's what it is

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

First third 4 stars. Last quarter 4 stars. Got lost there in the middle forgetting to make songs.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

This music is so ubiquitous to me. I feel like it's the soundtrack to a million scenes in a million shows. It's just music for the background to me. Harmless.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Great singles, the rest felt a bit unfocussed.

Blur

4/5

Revolver

Beatles

3/5

Started strong and then fell off for me. This feels like the transition album where they were learning how to fuse psychedelic sounds with pop songs and not quite getting there.

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

I enjoyed it as background

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

I love 70s Stevie

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Some good, some a bit harsh for me

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Fabulous

The Doors

2/5

I don't think I care too much for the doors

Manassas

Stephen Stills

4/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Kevin Rowland's voice.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Thought the first three tracks were 5stars.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

It's such a cliche to like Elvis Costello, I hate it.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

3/5

Music

Madonna

1/5

Just terrible

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Got a bit lost in the middle but such strong songs

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Meh, I found his shtick a bit annoying on this one

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Obvs some good songs, but too much pretentious twaddle.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

I remember this from yore

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Some of their finest work.

My Generation

The Who

2/5

It was ok. 2.5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

It's dated in many places, but it's still a jam

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Just excellent

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

I have a new appreciation for gangsta rap as I get older

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Couple of fun moments but deeply bland

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Bit backgroundy

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Too sad for me

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

2/5

Too self indulgent to ever be good

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

2/5

Proto jazz punk too far for me

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Good songs, so long

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

I bought this when it came out.nits pretty good. A lot of covers

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Bland

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Great vibes later in the album but awful 80s production dude...

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Not for me

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

A gentle beautiful tjing

Third

Portishead

2/5

I loved the first 2 portishead albums. This one is poor by comparison.

Bert Jansch

2/5

I think I might not be keen on folk music

2112

Rush

4/5

I find geddy's voice grating, but this is titanic regardless

Cross

Justice

2/5

Some great grooves let down my lots of atonal interjections

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Just so self indulgent. I feel he wanted a Jeff Lynn thing, but he ain't him.

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

2/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

A lot of chaff but some good stuff here

Abbey Road

Beatles

3/5

Here comes the sun and come together are 5 stars. The rest... Overrated

Metallica

4/5

I expected to give this 2 stars but it was pretty good actually

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Great sound, needed a few more songs

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

The funk tracks massively overshadow all the rest

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

2/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Poor for prince

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Like, a bit disappointed

The Velvet Underground

4/5

It really is a template for so much modern indie

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Very tasteful jazz

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

I like it

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

Tricky one, his talent is truly exceptional. He hasn't hurt anyone in real life. His career was driven as an antithesis to the manufactured boy/girl groups. However, the misogynistic and homophobic language feels from another era entirely and I find I don't vibe with it the way I once did.

Suzanne Vega

4/5

There was a familiarity to a lot of the songs here. I didn't expect to like it so much.

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Such a disappointment after Young Americans

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Lots of great grooves but lacking some hooks to really bring me in.

Guero

Beck

3/5

Some great tracks but a bit inconsistent. 2.8

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

4/5

I like jazzy punk it seems

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Still a bit stale but the best stooges album I've had

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Bland

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Expected more

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Nice, gentle samba

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

I like electro but a bit samey

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

It sounds so cliché

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Such a lot of fun

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

I like dolly

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

Fucking dreadful

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

This album feels like the apex of their beat era

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Really good again. 4.5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

Started as a 1, finished a 3

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Obvs some great songs but inconsistent.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

I hate morrisey

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

Awful

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

4/5

Nice smooth gangsta rap

Paul Simon

5/5

Something about his melodies

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

1.7

Gorillaz

2/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Love some dreampop

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

I think a lot of folk might not be for me

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

A total shock to me. I find Zappa a bit incoherent occasionally and this was a jam from start to finish.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

4/5

Cool psych blues

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

A bit anonymous

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

4/5

A bit inconsistent but smash it up is 6 stars

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

A touch pretentious?

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

2/5

The hits are mega, a LOT of questionable lyrics.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

Bit too 60s for me

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Very good.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Pretty good 3.4

Elvis Presley

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Good pop

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

Bit jazzy

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Great voice, couple good songs. Lot of airy filler

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Quality modern pop

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Loads of great songs intercut with a lot some weird cheesy nonsense

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

5/5

Every song was good

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Gentle and lovely but a lot of covers that aren't great

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

I'd give zero if poss

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

I can hear that it's good, but I'm also aware how overplayed all the singles were.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Pretty good

Future Days

Can

3/5

As far as Avant Gard music goes, it was pretty good

2/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Good songs, never need a drum solo

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Some good songs but her voice grates me a lot

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

Sounded fine, I don't know enough to know

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Cliche in a good way

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Ramones

3/5

The bastardisation of this form has bluntened the power this must have had back yore

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

Banger

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Bit ott

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Great, Drum solo -1 star

War

U2

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

2/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Not his best

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

V screechey

Wild Gift

X

3/5

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

Be

Common

4/5

Smooth, jazzy, political. V nice

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

I like his stuff. -1 for content

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

It's a no

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

2/5

Not for me

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

Some great songs but trying a bit hard sometimes

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Fucking great.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Lot of covers

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

I wanted to hate this

Suede

2/5

I find Brett's voice and Bernard's guitar tone equally enjoyable.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

I want to like it more

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

It's fucking magic

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

I've always quite enjoyed this era of 90s dance when it went full "Whale-Kissing Moon-Maiden"

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Angular and musical

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

It has good songs

The Libertines

2/5

Not quite good enough to be as grubby as it is

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

Standard pop punk

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

I get it but it's not for my ear. All feels very produced and processed.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Samey in a good way

Garbage

3/5

Dated

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Good album, no bad tracks, couple of bangers OBvS... Just doesn't quite stick to my soul

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Some good songs but a bit dreary

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Bangers all

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

Bland

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

3.4

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

1/5

I hate this guys schtick

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Not my kind of hip hop

evermore

Taylor Swift

2/5

I was hoping for a deeper look at folk from a pop perspective. What I got was lilting pop with some acoustic guitar. Fine, just a bit disappointing.

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

I prefer their next album. Same energy but better songs

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Pretty but a bit sad

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

Love rise, the rest is too Avant guard for me

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

Noisy in a good way

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

I can't believe I got this today. Ozzy RIP on this day.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Really great. Even better on a second listen. 4.5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Classic

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Jazzy

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Atomizer

Big Black

2/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Potential there but I'd need more time with it I think

Close To The Edge

Yes

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Boston

4/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Absolutely fab

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Extra star cos the full version of common people is epic

Tical

Method Man

2/5

Pretty anonymous

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

V good. Somehow missed them first time around.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Vocals not for me

Black Sabbath

3/5

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

V nice country blues

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

I mean, I get it, but not for me

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Yeah it's good

GREY Area

Little Simz

2/5

Couldn't get in to this

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

Such a textural banger

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

The guitar is so poor I couldn't take it. Enjoyed Joplin tho, felt she deserved a better sideman

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Some epic tracks, and some that are more of a miss

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

I got this album as a teenager and I didnt care for it, back then I had no idea what dub was. It's fine now.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

2/5

A bit anonymous

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Tommy

The Who

1/5

Too close to musical theatre for me

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

1/5

His voice

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

+1 Annie Lennox

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

2/5

I mean...

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

2/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

It's just... Not for me

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Enjoyed this more than some of his other stuff

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Very good. Not far off a 5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

The Specials

4/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Surprisingly great. Close to 5*

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

2/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

Too messy

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

4/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

1977

Ash

3/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

I prefer first album a bit. This feels transitional

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Le Tigre

3/5

One World

John Martyn

4/5

Nice

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

4/5

Gentle and beautiful

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Bits have aged poorly, but most of it sounds so fresh still.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Good, not his best

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Prefer his later stuff

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Technique

New Order

2/5

Like 2 quite good completely different albums squished together

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Dreamy

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

1/5

This was awful, I know they can do better

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Os Mutantes

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Prefer their later, weirder stuff

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

V nice

90

808 State

2/5

Some good songs but the rest too samey

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

Not my favourite of theirs

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Fine, but I miss real drums

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

The Coral

2/5

Meh

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

Fine. But a little lacking in personality

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

More manufactured sounding than I remember

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Really good

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Too noisy

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

I liked

Funeral

Arcade Fire

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Too old skool, feels v synthetic.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

She's so unusual

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

2/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Django Django

4/5

V good

A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

Fine. A little non descript

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

4/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Pretenders

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

1/5

Nice voice. Terrible songs

Fever Ray

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

GOAT

Live Through This

Hole

3/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

1/5

Too cold

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Not my favourite of theirs

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

-1 morrisey

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

21

Adele

2/5

No Other

Gene Clark

2/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

2/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

4/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

2/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

A better album than her others

GI

Germs

4/5

Banger

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

Masterpiece every song amazing

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Gentle. Sweet but lacking drums for me

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

His best I think

Parklife

Blur

2/5

Couple good songs bit weird

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Bit too stark in places

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

2/5

I wish I was cool enough...

Black Monk Time

The Monks

2/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

2/5

The Stooges

2/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

The La's

2/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Vespertine

Björk

1/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

So

Peter Gabriel

4/5

The United States Of America

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

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