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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
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5 | 2.29 | +2.71 |
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Paris 1919
John Cale
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5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
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Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
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5 | 2.98 | +2.02 |
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Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
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5 | 3 | +2 |
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Heartattack And Vine
Tom Waits
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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Berlin
Lou Reed
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5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
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Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
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4 | 2.13 | +1.87 |
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Pink Flag
Wire
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5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
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Achtung Baby
U2
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5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
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Raw Power
The Stooges
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5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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1 | 3.74 | -2.74 |
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Kid A
Radiohead
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1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
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Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
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1 | 3.62 | -2.62 |
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Hotel California
Eagles
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1 | 3.59 | -2.59 |
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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
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1 | 3.58 | -2.58 |
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Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
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1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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Parachutes
Coldplay
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1 | 3.47 | -2.47 |
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Diamond Life
Sade
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1 | 3.46 | -2.46 |
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The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
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1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
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Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
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1 | 3.45 | -2.45 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Beatles | 5 | 4.6 |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 5 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 4.67 |
| Beastie Boys | 3 | 4.67 |
| Tom Waits | 3 | 4.67 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.67 |
| King Crimson | 2 | 5 |
| Pixies | 3 | 4.33 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Coldplay | 2 | 1 |
| Barry Adamson | 2 | 1 |
| Ryan Adams | 2 | 1 |
| Rufus Wainwright | 2 | 1 |
| Scott Walker | 2 | 1 |
| Orbital | 2 | 1 |
| Happy Mondays | 2 | 1 |
| Yes | 2 | 1 |
| Björk | 4 | 1.75 |
| Radiohead | 4 | 1.75 |
| Eagles | 2 | 1.5 |
| Gene Clark | 2 | 1.5 |
| Brian Eno | 4 | 2 |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 2 |
Controversial
| Artist | Ratings |
|---|---|
| Peter Gabriel | 2, 5 |
| Van Halen | 5, 2 |
| Stevie Wonder | 2, 3, 5 |
| Paul Simon | 3, 2, 5 |
| Bob Dylan | 5, 3, 4, 5, 2 |
5-Star Albums (48)
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Mott The Hoople · 4 likes
2/5
Iggy Sunbeam and the Mosquitos from Venus
Sufjan Stevens · 4 likes
1/5
This is bad, just unashamedly bad. It's boring, redundant, and self indulgent crap
I could not finish this mess
Ryan Adams · 2 likes
1/5
I remember when this came out to a decent amount of fanfare and critical acclaim. It was boring and crappy then and nothing about it has changed in 25 years
The Associates · 1 likes
1/5
Weird vocals over sometimes minimalist other times overdone keyboards and sequencers can work when done right. This is not done right.
Sounds like two theater kids trying way too hard to be weird and popular at the same time
Stan Getz · 1 likes
3/5
Fun album, wonderful to tune out or have in while reading.
1-Star Albums (96)
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Pixies
5/5
One of my favorite albums of all time, don't need to go listen to it as I've listened to it countless times
Otis Redding
4/5
Elton John
2/5
Funeral for a Friend/Loves Lies Bleeding is a great opening song, probably my favorite Elton John song(s)
After that it quickly dissolves into the overproduced, saccharine shlock that he's known for.
Thelonious Monk
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
Coldplay
1/5
Over produced, pretentious and boring. The fact that this album is 7x platinum says more about the lack of musical taste of of 7 million people than anything else.
If I could give this a negative rating it would still be too high
Michael Jackson
4/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Madonna
2/5
The title track and Frozen are solid songs, the rest of the album is filler of varying quality. Maybe pared down to a 40 minute album this would be better.
Pearl Jam
5/5
I won this CD from a radio call in show two weeks before it was released and loved it from the first listen. It's a brilliant debut and honestly the only Pearl Jam album I like in its entirety
Sugar
3/5
While I prefer Mould's work with Husker Du Copper Blue is a solid album that brings things full circle, you can hear the influence of bands that he influenced.
Television
3/5
I have tried repeatedly to enjoy this album. The title track is really good. It's not bad in any way but as an album it is more important for being influential than it is good
Stan Getz
3/5
Fun album, wonderful to tune out or have in while reading.
Fela Kuti
3/5
Talk Talk
3/5
OutKast
4/5
The Offspring
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Radio Free Europe is one of my favorite REM songs but the rest of the album kind of blurs together. Not a bad album by any stretch but I prefer Document and Fables of the Reconstruction to Murmur
Björk
2/5
I remember when this came out and I hated it. I figured 30 years of expanding my musical tastes might change that. Nope! This is unlistenable, I like some of Bjork's music, she has an incredible vocal range but this is the vocal equivalent of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, just layers of sound for the sake of it.
Honestly this sounds like something an artist makes to fulfill a contract with a label and not something that should be taken seriously
Beastie Boys
4/5
New Order
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Peter Gabriel clearly hasn't found his post Genesis musical direction on this album. Solsbury Hill is a nice pop rock song, everyone knows it for a reason, but the rest of the album is him trying desperately not to make the same music he made with Genesis and the result is kind of bland
The Associates
1/5
Weird vocals over sometimes minimalist other times overdone keyboards and sequencers can work when done right. This is not done right.
Sounds like two theater kids trying way too hard to be weird and popular at the same time
System Of A Down
2/5
It's amazing how something so full of energy and musical talent turns into something repetitive and dull so quickly
Fela Kuti
4/5
Fun and upbeat. I have listened to Fela Kuti but wasn't familiar with this album
The Who
3/5
The Damned
4/5
T. Rex
3/5
Sex Pistols
4/5
Björk
2/5
Barry Adamson
1/5
First album and artist I was 100% unfamiliar with. The entire album sounds like it's half finished or they laid down the backing tracks and forgot to include the leads.
Weird but not in an interesting way
Johnny Cash
4/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
XTC
4/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Starts off great with Cherub Rock followed by a few songs that try to capture the same energy and the goddawful Today. Then we get to Disarm which is another wonderful song then some more mediocrity.
Overall the music is overall good, lyrics and vocals are meh
Adele
2/5
Proof that a beautiful singing voice is not enough.
Uninspired and uninspiring but at least she's courteous enough to pause after the first "hello" so we can change to another album
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Lyrically? brilliant
Musically? Borderline elevator music
Write up says this is jazzy and experimental but it's Muzak with good lyrics
Ride
3/5
Jethro Tull
5/5
Slade
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
I'm not a big hip hop listener but A Tribe Called Quest never disappointed and this album is brilliant. From the lyrics to the instrumentas and samples the flow and feel of this album is amazing.
Metallica
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Tina Turner
3/5
Tina's voice is timeless and the lyrics are solid and work with her vocals but the music and production are incredibly dated.
As a teenage metal head/punk rock kid I hated this album. As an adult I can appreciate it for what it is but it is so incredibly dated.
5 for Tina and 1 for the rest equals a generous 3
Beatles
5/5
3/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Beck
2/5
I generally like morose music and Beck is talented but this is boring disguised as depressing. Too long, too monotonous and really nothing to delineate one song from another.
If I am suffering from insomnia I will remember this album though
Living Colour
3/5
Always enjoyed parts of this album and skipped others
Cult of Personality, Open Letter to a Landlord and Funny Vibe are great Glamour Boys is a weird but fun song. The rest is fair to middling at best
The La's
2/5
It's not that there's anything bad about each song it's that aside from "There She Goes" nothing stands out and honestly they just blue together
Pavement
2/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Genesis
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
ABBA
3/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Dr. John
4/5
Queens Of The Stone Age
2/5
Dad rock meets Stone Temple Pilots and it makes for a nondescript, generic 90s but album
David Bowie
3/5
Not my favorite Bowie album but still a solid effort, more important than good
1/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
2/5
The Forever 21 of bands and albums. Not bad but not meant to last. By the time I reached the end of the album I had forgotten what the first half sounded like
Tom Waits
4/5
I'm huge Tim Wait's fan and like this album a lot. It's like someone unleashed a crazy person in a cabaret.
There are other Waits albums I like more so it gets a 4
Jane's Addiction
4/5
There's days when I love this album and there's days where I'm less than enthusiastic about it and it's all about Perry Farrell's vocals. Some days his voice just grates on my brain.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Van Halen
5/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
MGMT
1/5
I'd heard of MGMT but don't remember listening to them before. Now that I have I hope to never have to again.
There are no redeeming qualities to this album. Boring and uniquely grating
Beatles
5/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
This album is polarizing, few people think "it's okay" most either love it or hate it.
I love it
From the cacophonous music mixed with the calm, cold Eurotrash vocals to the minimalism. John Cale and Lou Reed were incredible compliments in song writing
George Michael
2/5
The War On Drugs
2/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Moody, feels like the score to a surrealist film noir.
Gorillaz
2/5
Nas
5/5
Moby Grape
2/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Pentangle
2/5
Not bad but only listenable for a couple songs before it started to grate on my nerves
Sade
1/5
Hated this in the 80s, upon relistening to it I hate it now. Safe has a wonderful voice but beautiful vocals over Muzak is still Muzak
Someone wasted this woman's talent
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
I preface this by saying I don't dislike prog as a genre but I get why some people do. This album is the perfect example of everything that's wrong with late 60s and early 70s prog rock. It's over blown, pretentious, self indulgent music that borders on masturbation by the band.
John Martyn
1/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Amy Winehouse made some wonderful music, this album is not an example of it
Grant Lee Buffalo
2/5
Various Artists
2/5
Aimee Mann
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Strokes
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
Britney Spears
2/5
Garbage
2/5
Never been a fan of Garbage. I like "Only Happy When It Rains" but the album is dated at best and generic pop rock even in its time at the worst.
The Byrds
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
If I could give this partial stars it would be a 2.5
The good songs are really good but the rest is just filler. It gets a bump up because of the memories I have of sitting up late at night listening to this with friends when Eliminator came out and we discovered ZZTop wasn't a new band
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
I prefer Elvis's early work but Suspicious Minds and I'm the Ghetto pulls this up to a 3
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Madness
2/5
While I love TuTone ska in general I've never been able to get into Madness, the well known songs (Our House, One Step Beyond, It Must Be Love etc) are solid as are a few other songs on this album but honestly? Madness basically makes the same song over and over again. They aren't as "ska" as bands like the Selector or the Specials. They have always felt like the sterilized "safe" version of ska. This album is no different, not bad but not all that good either.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
1/5
I wish I could give this horrid proto bro country garbage a zero and erase it from history
Oasis
2/5
Jack White
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
George Jones
3/5
Parliament
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Massive Attack
4/5
I didn't like this album or band in 1990, I'm happy to have had the opportunity to relisten to it 35 years later with a greatly expanded music taste
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
Genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this album
Saint Etienne
2/5
Boring when it was released now it's dated and bieing
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
King Crimson
5/5
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
Bad, I mean really really bad. I'm guessing her agent snuck this on this list so it would get some listens on Spotify.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
This album is hit or miss. The opening and closing songs, Powderfinger, and Pocahontas are classic Neil Young but the rest of the album wanders between mediocre and bad
Soft Machine
1/5
Unlistenable but at least there's a lot of it
Patti Smith
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Ray Charles
3/5
John Lee Hooker
2/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Deep Purple
2/5
The good songs (Smoke in the Water, Highway Star, Space Trucking) are really good. The rest of the album is meh at best.
Deep Purple is one of those bands that had one or two good songs per album but we're never an album band. Their greatest hits collection is great tho
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Neil Young
3/5
The Boo Radleys
2/5
This is a perfect example of what's wrong with shoegaze. The music is pretty, sometimes very good then there's distorted, whispered vocals that are buried under the music somewhere. If this was just an alternative pop/rock album with traditional production it might be good but it isn't so it isn't
And it just keeps going like that
Sufjan Stevens
1/5
This is bad, just unashamedly bad. It's boring, redundant, and self indulgent crap
I could not finish this mess
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
The Avalanches
1/5
It's like someone perpetually changing radio stations and calling it music
Electric Light Orchestra
2/5
Prog disco, dated but Mr Blue Sky is a great song
Madonna
2/5
If wet white bread were an album it would be Music
Not necessarily bad but certainly not good and no flavor at all.
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
Boring music, bad lyrics.
Virtually unlistenable
Little Richard
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Discovering this album is like waking up to find your cat had diarrhea by stepping in it
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
Miles Davis
5/5
3/5
I know this is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time but it's never done it for me.
It's a weird mish mash of non rock elements and given it was created at a time of innovation is a strange longing for a time that considered "The Music Man" to be cutting edge. It's an odd lament for the times of carousel music and Sousa Marches
Neil Young
2/5
The Who
1/5
I like The Who but I do not like this album
Elton John
2/5
The Doors
1/5
Not a big fan of the Doors and this album is my least favorite of their work.
The lyrics are ludicrous,Jim Morrison was not some guru genius poet and as a singer he is far better singing softer, more psychedelic songs than the horrible attempt at blues singing he does on most of this
Boring, uninspired and uninspiring
Ryan Adams
1/5
TLC
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Santana
4/5
John Lennon
2/5
Boring yet pretentious
Orange Juice
1/5
I was in high school when this came out and don't remember it but maybe I blocked it out because it's not good. There's some positive elements but it is extremely dated
Sounds like a couple guys who want to be New Order playing The Beat's music poorly
Johnny Cash
4/5
It's not live at Folsom Prison but it's good
David Bowie
4/5
Skepta
2/5
B.B. King
4/5
The Temptations
3/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
U2
5/5
Beck
3/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
If wet Wonder Bread were music this is what if would sound like
The Killers
4/5
Adele
2/5
Better than the other Adele album I already listened to for this because the first 2 songs are pretty good.
Overall it's the musical equivalent of "white people think mayonnaise is spicy"
The Beach Boys
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Beck
2/5
Beck makes another musical run on sentence
While there's some good things going on it just blurs together with nothing about the album to make anything stand out in any way
Giant Sand
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Prefer his later albums but this is fine
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Supertramp
2/5
Hit and mostly miss yacht rock
Lupe Fiasco
2/5
Doing this I have found, to my surprise, that I enjoyed most of the rap and hip-hop on the list. This album not so much
The production is weird, his rapping is monotonous and lacks variety and his lyrics are generic.
It sounds like everything else from this era.
Paul Simon
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
1/5
I forgot Badly Drawn Boy existed and that may be for the best
I always thought this was boring and pretentiously unoriginal and now you can add dated and aged like milk
Donovan
4/5
James Brown
5/5
Ice Cube
2/5
Megadeth
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
1/5
Bruce's albums have always been hit or miss for me. This one is huge miss
It's over produced, mixed and arranged like a pop album while Bruce does his usual yell sing vocals over music that does not work with those vocals
R.E.M.
4/5
U2
4/5
U2's first three albums (this being the third of those) are much simpler than the albums that followed. Of the three this is by far the best and after Achtung Baby my second favorite U2 album.
The Edge's simple guitar complements the bass and drums rather than the opposite being true for most rock albums. U2's strength has always been their rhythm section of Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr and this album shows that wonderfully
Black Sabbath
5/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Everyone knows "Come in Eileen" for a reason. After that it's the same thing, occasionally slower. Not bad but not memorable either
Emmylou Harris
1/5
Horrible horrible album
Boring is an understatement
Scott Walker
1/5
Scott Walker is considered "avant garde" but this was dated when it was released. Crooner vocals with mediocre non nondescript music but at least it's over produced
Thin Lizzy
2/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Eagles
2/5
Soulless
Black Sabbath
5/5
You can only trust yourself and the first four Sabbath albums
Half an hour that changed music
Fugees
4/5
Really like the vocals and lyrics but this loses a point for over reliance on samples
The Specials
2/5
I like the Specials and I like Two Tine ska. This album is not a great example of either. There's some highlights but there's too much other genres thrown in and it becomes dull and lacking continuity
Orbital
1/5
Techno is not my thing and this a perfect example of why. Making disco with a Casio keyboard, a drum machine, and a few samples is not interesting
This album goes beyond not interesting to flat out boring
Nina Simone
5/5
Pet Shop Boys
2/5
The Human League
2/5
Neil Young
4/5
Lambchop
1/5
Never heard of Lambchop and I'm perfectly content to never hear them or of them ever again.
This is boring, unlistenable crap.
PJ Harvey
3/5
Tom Waits
5/5
Green Day
4/5
Thundercat
1/5
Sound like Frank Zappa made a disco album while singing in a falsetto but somehow still made it uninteresting to the point that none of the songs were distinguishable from each other only worse
Gene Clark
1/5
Portishead
3/5
1/5
Faust
3/5
Doves
1/5
Ugh, generic Coldplay like sound. I don't like Coldplay and I like cheap imitations of Coldplay even less
David Bowie
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
I'm a big Nick Cave fan but this is far from his best work. While he's none for darker, morbid themes. This album lacks the energy and cleverness of his better albums
Julian Cope
2/5
This album is like a huge box filled with packing peanuts and somewhere in there are some really nice pieces of jewelry. It's too big with too much filler to have to root through to find the few good songs
Check out St Julian or his singles collection
Bob Marley & The Wailers
2/5
Paul McCartney
3/5
Alice Cooper
2/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Jumps back and forth between jangly alt pop rock and crunchy, sort of grunge sound, while occasionally mixing the two.
It's not bad but there's nothing that stands out or it memorable either
The xx
1/5
Boring
The Stooges
4/5
Leftfield
1/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Merle Haggard
1/5
Slayer
4/5
Lenny Kravitz
1/5
Prince
5/5
The Style Council
2/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
Happy Mondays
1/5
A musical run on sentence. This is bad and redundant
Cat Stevens
3/5
Bill Callahan
1/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
This is an album I really want to like and have tried many times to enjoy, the title track is really good, the production and feel of the album are great but the songs themselves leave me flat.
The Specials
4/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
This is the second album in the past week that I've really tried to like and just cannot get into. The music is dull, his voice is grating and lyrically he is not the genius he's painted to be.
Proof that going back is rare, if ever, a good thing. U2 tries to recapture the glory days of Joshua Tree and end up with an overproduced mess.
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Cee Lo Green
1/5
Garbage music by a garbage human being
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Silver Jews
1/5
Dull, lifeless, soulless music. Sounds like the singer bored himself.
The Charlatans
1/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Dion
1/5
3/5
Suede
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
Solange
1/5
Why is this an album I must listen to?
Having listened to it I couldn't identify one of these songs as a Solange song if you put a gun to a puppy's head
Anita Baker
1/5
I was a senior in high school when this came out and even after listening to it I don't remember it. Utterly forgettable
Miles Davis
5/5
Dirty Projectors
1/5
Steve Earle
2/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
Well, it's not their usual glorified barbershop quartet stuff but still not great. I give them credit for trying to stay relevant moving into the 70s but this is incredibly dated, honestly feels like they were just screwing with fans
The White Stripes
4/5
AC/DC
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Nico
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Green Day
5/5
Metallica
3/5
The good songs are really good but the slow songs are bad
Meat Puppets
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
Primal Scream
2/5
The Byrds
2/5
Certainly not their best effort and the change in song writing shows
The Byrds always emulated Dylan, it's especially true and less successful on this album.
Certainly not bad as there's some good songs, including and especially Mr Spaceman but their first two albums were far better
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Rush
2/5
Genesis
2/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Queen
2/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Rush
3/5
Kings of Leon
1/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Stephen Stills
2/5
Carpenters
2/5
Nirvana
4/5
The Go-Go's
4/5
Pulp
2/5
Pixies
4/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
2/5
Don't think Jah Wobble knew what he was trying to accomplish with this album. There's too much going on with none of it focused enough to make sense
The Roots
4/5
Coldplay
1/5
Music for people who think JoJo Siwa is too edgy and mayonnaise is too spicy
The Replacements
4/5
Beatles
5/5
50 Cent
2/5
I was expecting an hour of songs that sound like "In da Club" a song so annoying it stopped me from listening to this album for over 20 years. Instead I found an album full of inconsistent music, a few of the songs are solid but others are just more mediocre nonsense
Kraftwerk
3/5
Primal Scream
2/5
Björk
2/5
The Who
3/5
I really like The Who, they were a predecessor to what would become hard rock but aside from the title track you'd never know it from this album.
A lot of this is a band still finding itself, a cover or two and a lot of generic early British Invasion pop. My Generation and The Kids Are Alright are the absolute highlights of this album but much of the rest is more an insight to the development of The Who than necessary listening
Mott The Hoople
2/5
Iggy Sunbeam and the Mosquitos from Venus
Black Sabbath
4/5
Talvin Singh
1/5
Van Halen
2/5
Most people will tell you that David Lee Roth leaving and Sammy Hagar replacing him is when Van Halen "lost it." That's not entirely true, 1984 is a huge drop off from VH's previous work. It's a mishmash of pop and rock with very little of the harder music they had been known for.
I was in high school came out so nostalgia wants to score it higher but in actually listening to it again, it's just not that good.
Mariah Carey
1/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
Paul Simon
2/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Kanye West
2/5
Kanye West-My Dark Twisted Fantasy
Incredibly underwhelming album. Wonderful production and technical aspects but the lyrics are trite and often insipid and Kanye is an incredibly monotonous rapper.
CHIC
2/5
Ian Dury
2/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
Second Elliott Smith album I've gotten and same reaction. I want to like his music, he's clearly talented but it's so f'ing boring. Every song is the same thing. By about the fifth or sixth song even he seems bored of it.
Belle & Sebastian
3/5
Scissor Sisters
2/5
Louis Prima
4/5
Throbbing Gristle
2/5
The Darkness
1/5
In the 1700s the king of Sweden had a lion and when it died he sent the pelt to a taxidermist who had never seen a lion so the taxidermied animal was comically bad. This is the best analogy I have for this album.
I would have happily gone the rest of my life not being reminded that this existed
Anthrax
4/5
My favorite Anthrax album and probably my favorite non Metallica album from the Big 4 although Reign in Blood may be ahead of it.
Anthrax makes thrash fun
Leonard Cohen
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
The Cure
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Not their best but still solid
Taylor Swift
3/5
Radiohead
2/5
The music is good. The vocals and lyrics are bad. I've never been a fan of Radiohead. I always thought it was just their pretentiousness but after suffering through 53 minutes of whiny vocals singing lyrics that sound like a 12 year old with his first crush wrote them I understand why I dislike them
The Kinks
4/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Not my thing but it's fun
Talking Heads
4/5
Eagles
1/5
Aerosmith
2/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
The bass line and guitar squeal get a bit redundant but that's early post punk. This is good album, I hadn't listened to Gang of Four in probably 15 years and after listening to this album again I don't know why
Depeche Mode
4/5
Willie Nelson
1/5
Willie Nelson has so many great albums and so many great songs why do we get an embarrassing collection of soft jazz covers?
Nanci Griffith
1/5
Sparks
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
This album is good but has received iconic status because of the timing of its release. It is often sloppy and overproduced but still enjoyable because even mid tier Bowie is still solid
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2/5
A couple classics and a bunch of meh
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Fugazi
4/5
Soundgarden
2/5
Of the big Seattle bands Soundgarden is the least interesting. By the time they were known they were .asking .id tier, generic hard rock. They are only considered "grunge" because they're from Seattle and this album is the epitome of their mid tier hard rock.
It owes more to Boston or Journey than to the punk and metal that inspired grunge.
The Prodigy
2/5
Dizzee Rascal
1/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Supergrass
2/5
Gotan Project
2/5
Supergrass
2/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Fun
4/5
The Everly Brothers
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
Ramones
4/5
Roxy Music
2/5
Mekons
1/5
This is horrible
Radiohead
1/5
This is the third Radiohead album I've gotten and I will say the same thing as I did with the first two. They're talented but I don't like their music and this is borderline white noise
LTJ Bukem
1/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
Pulp
3/5
Travis
1/5
If the guy who always drags his acoustic guitar to a party made an album where he combined the worst elements of Oasis with Mazzy Star it would be more interesting than this
The Dictators
2/5
falls into the more important than good category
It's always called "one of the first punk albums" but it's really a mix of 60s garage with glam rock sound. Definitely a big influence on what came later. The music is good but a lot of the lyrics are sophomoric and haven't aged all that well.
Simply Red
1/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
1/5
Music for people who think Jack Ass is high arr
Deep Purple
4/5
Deep Purple is one of those bands where the albums tend to be up and down, a classic or two and then several duds. This album is the exception, Speed King and Child in Time are definitely classics but there's no real duds on this album.
The Stone Roses
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Some absolutely incredible songs mixed with some really bad songs.
Bon Jovi
3/5
Hair metal meets arena rock. I was about to start college when this album was released. I was into heavier metal and punk but also liked some of the hair metal but never liked bands like Journey so this album was meh for me at the time.
When I got to college I realized that the girls liked Bon Jovi way more than Iron Maiden, Metallica or Discharge so I had this on heavy rotation.
Listening to it again now there are some fun songs and there is some trash. Too much arena rock at times, especially with the over the top production.
Tom Waits
5/5
Violent Femmes
5/5
Mj Cole
1/5
This is awful, the same drum track for every song. This is the epitome of culturally irrelevant disposable music. No idea why this is even on the list.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
The Stooges
5/5
The Byrds
2/5
A perfectly okay album
Janelle Monáe
1/5
Overproduced, generic pop that sounds like it was made by AI
Maxwell
1/5
Sounds like a parody of Barry White's music. I'd rather hear Don "No Soul" Simmons
Not good and not to be taken seriously
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
John Cale
5/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
For over 30 years I've tried to appreciate this album or at least understand why so many people love. Still don't see it, it's boring
Todd Rundgren
2/5
It's 1973 and your mom orders the new Zappa album for you through TEMU and you get the next Todd Rungren instead. His last album was pop rock this is not quite pop rock but not Zappa either.
There's points in this album where Rungren really seems out of his element but he seems to be enjoying making music. It has some high points
Eric Clapton
2/5
Soulless album with the best songs being basic Clapton covering more skilled song writers. The guy was a great technical guitarist but he lacks depth and emotion.
Dr. Dre
2/5
Very dated, I get the importance of this album but didn't find it particularly enjoyable
1/5
This album is everything thing that's wrong with early 70s prog rock. Technically brilliant musicianship but all head and no heart.
The Beau Brummels
2/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Rod Stewart
4/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
This is fun
Paul McCartney and Wings
2/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Probably the only Springsteen album I like. Instead of his normal overly dramatic yell singing he just sings. It allows his lyrics to be the focus.
The Residents
2/5
Not as bad as the other albums I've heard from them
Deep Purple
2/5
The Doors
3/5
Ryan Adams
1/5
I remember when this came out to a decent amount of fanfare and critical acclaim. It was boring and crappy then and nothing about it has changed in 25 years
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
1/5
According to the Wikipedia article Spence wanted this to be mixed, mastered. Perhaps if that happened this would be a good album. It just feels like a very rough first draft
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Not a fan of shoegaze and this album is no different
If it were mixed and produced like a regular rock song where the vocals are not washed out this would probably be a good album
The Prodigy
2/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Solid, weird psychedelic blues, folk. More accessible than Trout Mask Replica.
Other bands did similar better but this is still pretty good
Girls Against Boys
2/5
Not bad, not good, not sure why it's on the list
The Velvet Underground
3/5
VU really missed John Cale
The Fall
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
Dolly Parton
2/5
Bauhaus
3/5
Not the best Bauhaus album but pretty good
Stereolab
2/5
It's okay, but not memorable in any way
Amy Winehouse
3/5
M.I.A.
2/5
Pretty good wrapping over some incredibly dated and amateurish "music" it sounds like a demo made with a 1980s Casio keyboard
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
GZA
4/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Brian Eno
2/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Missy Elliott
2/5
Dagmar Krause
4/5
For those looking for this. While album is on YouTube
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Kid Rock
1/5
Garbage when it was released, dated garbage now. I can't fathom why this would be among the 1001 albums anyone would need to hear
Neu!
2/5
A couple good songs but most of it sounds incomplete
Marilyn Manson
1/5
Blue Cheer
2/5
Another case of more important than good
CHVRCHES
1/5
Generic girl pop playing bad New Order covers on a cheap keyboard.
The Monks
2/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Barry Adamson
1/5
Interesting concept, not interesting music
Aphex Twin
2/5
I understand why this is important and I understand why someone who likes this kind of music would like this a lot but by the time the next note or the next beat is audible I've already forgotten the previous one. It's not tedious to listen to, it's tedious to remember.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Throwing Muses
4/5
Korn
1/5
Yuck
John Coltrane
4/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
The Monkees
1/5
Listening to this it's easy to see why the first couple albums used session musicians and ghost writers
Bob Dylan
4/5
King Crimson
5/5
3/5
Butthole Surfers
4/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Not my favorite but certainly the Mud Honey album that everyone should hear.
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
I had honestly forgotten that this album ever existed. I remember when this came out to a lot of fanfare. He was going to be the next big thing but that never happened and the general underwhelming music on this album is why.
Wishing Well is a nice song and Dance Little Sister is good but the rest of it is just kind of there.
Underwhelming in the mid 80s and now it's just a faded memory
Eurythmics
2/5
Other than the title track this isn't anything special.
The Sonics
3/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Fun but not my favorite
fIREHOSE
2/5
Given that this 2/3 of the Minutemen this felt like a letdown when it was released and I'm still not a fan of it
The Chemical Brothers
1/5
I couldn't remember which boring electro mid 90s electro act Chemical Brothers were but once I heard the first song I said "oh that one" the local alternative station played the crap out of that song one summer but I only remember it because I was running a kitchen in 97 and one of my employees use to yell "block rockin beat" randomly throughout service. Ultimately forgettable, there's a song in here called "lost in the k hole" which I'm assuming is where you'd need to be to like this.
Love
2/5
Mike Oldfield
2/5
The National
2/5
Nothing special, unique, important or ground breaking. It's not bad not worthy of "must hear" statues
Bob Dylan
5/5
Elvis Presley
1/5
Elvis came back with a soulless effort.
The Incredible String Band
2/5
The Incredible Stringband The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 2*
I have a friend who loves these guys, he grew up listened to it as his mom was a hippie in her youth, everyone yelled at him when he'd out it one because it just brought everything to a stop
If I still played D&D I would use this as background music and I can see hints of good in it but it's not something I will ever listen to again
Jerry Lee Lewis
4/5
Joy Division
4/5
Tortoise
1/5
Swings from sounding like parody of Muzak to sounding like incomplete tracks to someone learning how to use their Casio keyboard.
Brian Eno
1/5
Intentionally made as background music. Boring by design is still boring
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
I grew up in New Jersey and have had Springsteen's music shoved down my throat since the 70s. He's a very talented song writer but I've never liked his yell sing vocals. Musically this album is more pop rock than his earlier work and the 80s overdone production does it no favors
Deerhunter
1/5
Even the band seems to hate this music
Happy Mondays
1/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
Starts off okay but quickly becomes redundant. With the exception of "Dancing Choose" there wasn't much that the music sounded different than the rest and all the lyrics are nonsensical ramblings. It just feels like a theater kids trying to be cool and failing miserably
Laura Nyro
1/5
If Elton John wrote his most saccharine lyrics and put them to a bunch of poorly composed show tunes and then tried to make them sound soulful it would be much the same as this drech.
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Not the best Husker Du album but still good
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Much more than just Fast Car
Ray Price
1/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
This is an album that gets more love than it should because it was released soon before his death.
There are a few highlights but most of it is fair to middling. I've never loved his version of Hurt and honestly the first three American Recording albums are better
Morrissey
2/5
Every Morrissey album has a couple good songs and a lot of meh, this is no exception. Lots of warbling
Ghostface Killah
3/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
2/5
I'm scoring this low not because of Dylan's music but because the sound quality is shit, yes I understand it's from a bootleg etc but there's parts where all you hear is Bob's nasalness or screeching harmonica. This concert is also apparently a big deal because of the crowd reaction to him "going electric" but the crowd reaction seems edited out
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive and so forth and so on
Muddy Waters
5/5
Beautiful example of Chicago Blues
Ozomatli
2/5
Justin Timberlake
1/5
Blech
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
Sounds like a whiny Radiohead cover band
Björk
1/5
More cat torture recordings from Bjork
The Slits
2/5
More important than good
I am a big fan of punk rock and even for the DIY scene where "anyone who can pick up a guitar can make an album" this is lacking, mostly lacking in actual music and is just random drum taps and the occasional strum of the guitar
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Bjork before she got into recording cat torture. Better than any of her solo albums but honestly it's generic 80s "College radio" fare. According to several write ups this wasn't meant to be taken all that seriously and if listened to with that mindset it's perfectly okay.
Pixies
4/5
DJ Shadow
2/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Frank Black
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Japan
3/5
Another in the more important than great category
Yes
1/5
More technically good music that has no heart or soul. Overly long musical masturbation, this time with an acoustic noodle thrown in
Scott Walker
1/5
Pantera
3/5
Good for what it is, great musicianship brought down by generic tough guy vocals
Lou Reed
5/5
Beautiful album. One of my favorites
It will not cheer you up though
William Orbit
2/5
Boring computer generated crap and people worry about AI
Buck Owens
2/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
N.E.R.D
1/5
Half way through this project and this may be the worst album so far.
If it was parody I would get it a little, it would still be bad but at least it would make sense who it's bad.
Morrissey
3/5
Every Morrissey album has one or two good songs with a mix of ok and bad songs. This album has more ok songs than bad but still basic Morrissey fare
Radiohead
1/5
I don't like Radiohead but I acknowledge their talent but this album doesn't show off their talent and is not interesting
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
Another more important than good album that has not aged well. It's not nearly the quality that their next two albums would be
Slipknot
1/5
If your biggest problem as a kid was soccer practice went too long you'll think this is heavy and edgy
Klaxons
2/5
Suede
2/5
More brit pop
This isn't as bad as some but no idea why it's among the 1001 albums I must hear
George Michael
3/5
There are some all time classics and then there's the rest of it
Screaming Trees
2/5
Why this Screaming Trees album?
They put out some really good music but this is not their best, not even close. This sounds like every mid 90s alternative rock album and really sounds more like Collective Soul than Screaming Trees
White Denim
2/5
Apparently this is considered psychedelic but it's really sort of rehashed 60s pop rock. It's not bad per se but certainly not memorable in any way. Another why is this on the list album
Judas Priest
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
5/5
Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica. I've listened to this numerous times over the years and find that it really depends on my mood and mindset how I feel about it. Some days it's a 1, some it's a 5.
Fairport Convention
4/5
The Verve
1/5
I hope they were going for irony with the title. This is soulless generic mid 90s brit pop garbage
Talking Heads
3/5
Frank Sinatra
2/5
Music for people with clear vinyl covers in their living room furniture or for Italian restaurants that haven't upgraded their decor since 1974.
Not bad but not good and definitely not worthy of having to be listened to.
Dire Straits
3/5
Megadeth
4/5
Metallica
1/5
I like Metallica a lot, I like the original versions of most of the songs but this is horrendous
Pink Floyd
5/5
Goldfrapp
1/5
Tedious and boring
Elastica
2/5
Not bad but nothing special.
Another "it doesn't need to be in the list" album
OutKast
3/5
OutKast Speaker Boxxx/the Love 3* much prefer Stankonia. This is apparently two albums in one and it feels that way. I really like Speaker Boxxx would give that a 4 on its own The Love is less consistent and would probably rank 2 to 2.5 on its own.
I could do with fewer interludes
Slint
2/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
3/5
Gene Clark
2/5
From reading other reviews I expected an abhorrent mess of an album. It's not THAT bad, don't get me wrong it's not good, it's generic early 70s country rock and there's certainly nothing about it that anyone needs to hear it
The Jam
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
1/5
I remember these guys were indie darlings in the early 90s and this was THE album, some people compared it to DooLittle in its potential impact. I got it expecting something life changing and got the most mediocre music imaginable and felt insulted that it was ever mentioned in the same breath as DooLittle.
Listening to it again it has aged poorly with incelish lyrics
Janis Joplin
4/5
I've never been a fan of Janis Joplin, can't stand the caterwauling vocals but I only ever listened to the better known songs. Imagine my surprise to find that most of this album is full of soulful songs, Me and Bobby McGee and the god awful Mercedes Benz may be the best known songs on this album but they are far and away the worst and drag it from 5 to a 4
Bad Company
2/5
Never got the appeal
This "super group" fails to equal much less surpass the sum of it parts
Napalm Death
2/5
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
I prefer This is what you want as a PiL album but I get why this one was on the list..if you can force your way through the first two tracks it evens out and is a solid example of post punk.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Red Snapper
1/5
I knew absolutely nothing about this artist or album and now that I've heard I feel my life is none the better for having listened to it
The first 30 seconds got my interest, dark ambient jazz like something from a neo noir film then the most generic drum track kicks in and it's all downhill to boredom town from there
Paul Simon
5/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
Fuzzy music over barely audible vocals. I get this is considered one of the best of the shoegaze genre but being the best of the worst doesn't mean it's good.
David Holmes
1/5
Wire
5/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Love
3/5
The Triffids
1/5
Pavement
3/5
Al Green
3/5
CHIC
2/5
2/5
John Lennon
2/5
Christina Aguilera
1/5
In the intro we're told "this how music should sound" then we get lifeless, over production, caterwauling and the choice of two backing tracks, mid tempo with fake vinyl crackle and computer generated "scratching" or down tempo and lacking emotion.
Not sure if this project is an ego out of control, a blatant cash grab, or both but it's embarrassing to have to listen to this as an album that must be heard
Brian Eno
2/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Good, fun album
Mylo
1/5
There's some bad albums on this list but this the first one I couldn't finish listening to
It's just bad, embarrassingly so.
The Kinks
3/5
a-ha
3/5
Method Man
2/5
The Fall
3/5
The Fall is one of those bands that I should really like. I am a big fan of punk and post punk but I've never been able to really get into The Fall still a solid album
Arcade Fire
2/5
Sounds like it was inspired by late 80s and early 90s college radio and managed to take all the worst elements from it.
Tears For Fears
3/5
The good songs are really good, the rest sound like poor imitation of the good songs
Norah Jones
2/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Music is solid but the lyrics and vocals are so cliche they almost feel like parody
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Some absolutely brilliant songs in this album.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Ice Cube
3/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
I was apparently in college when this came out and I have zero recollection of its existence.
There's some slick productions, nice beats and some good vocals but it doesn't blend together well and lacks anything beyond the technical aspects
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
2/5
Don McLean
4/5
My parents played this constantly in the 70s when I was growing up. The title track was never my favorite and then when I went to college in the 80s and it was played constantly at parties I started to dislike it now I can take or leave that song but really enjoy the rest of the album
Le Tigre
3/5
Never heard of Le Tigre before. It's interesting, fun would be the word that describes this album.
The spiritual successors of Poly Styrene and XRay Spex put to pop music.
Orbital
1/5
Soulless and boring
Spiritualized
3/5
Tori Amos
3/5
Richard Thompson
4/5
Lou Reed
4/5