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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
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5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
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The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
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5 | 3.14 | +1.86 |
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Vespertine
Björk
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5 | 3.16 | +1.84 |
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Virgin Suicides
Air
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5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
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Entertainment
Gang Of Four
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5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
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Shuggie Otis
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5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
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Cross
Justice
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5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
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Since I Left You
The Avalanches
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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Melodrama
Lorde
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5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
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Horses
Patti Smith
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5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
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1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
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Back In Black
AC/DC
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2 | 3.86 | -1.86 |
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White Light
Gene Clark
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1 | 2.84 | -1.84 |
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Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
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2 | 3.82 | -1.82 |
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Master Of Puppets
Metallica
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2 | 3.73 | -1.73 |
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Follow The Leader
Korn
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1 | 2.65 | -1.65 |
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The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
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2 | 3.59 | -1.59 |
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Moss Side Story
Barry Adamson
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1 | 2.53 | -1.53 |
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Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
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1 | 2.48 | -1.48 |
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Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
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2 | 3.45 | -1.45 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Björk | 2 | 5 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Public Image Ltd. | 2 | 1 |
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Korn
1/5
if i could go back in time, i wouldn't stop any world wars or invest in bitcoin or meet my baby grandparents. i would eradicate everything that led to this album existing.
1 likes
Randy Newman
2/5
i don’t like songs about american patriotism, and i don’t like songs about god. fortunately for me, this album had both!
1 likes
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
difficult listen as someone who hates murder and hates ballads
1 likes
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Otis Redding
4/5
beautiful album! otis redding’s butter-smooth voice had me hanging on to every word.
Talking Heads
5/5
my favourite talking heads album <3 mind is a masterpiece
The Doors
3/5
Snoop Dogg
2/5
Stan Getz
4/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
The Monkees
3/5
it feels like i’m ignorant of some of the sins this record commits because i’m not well-versed in the beatles. it’s a decent pop record with a few catchy standouts.
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Erykah Badu
3/5
i was so ready to love this album but the second half of it dragged on and got samey
Robert Wyatt
2/5
Megadeth
3/5
Pulp
5/5
Weather Report
3/5
3/5
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Doves
3/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
3/5
CHIC
4/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
1/5
you could get any information you wanted out of me by using this album. i’d probably fold during the first track.
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Joan Baez
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
i was not expecting tom waits to sound like cookie monster
The Adverts
3/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Fugees
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
feels pretty apt to be reviewing this the day before the u.s. election….There’s No Place Like America Tomorrow
The Zombies
3/5
The Police
2/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
Cream
3/5
Pixies
4/5
Gang Of Four
5/5
edited april 17, 2025 to change the rating to five stars!! this is one of my favourite albums that this project has introduced to me. the tracklist is full of gritty, anthemic bangers. nicotine really goes to my head!!
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Funkadelic
5/5
Moby Grape
3/5
Hole
4/5
Fever Ray
4/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Lorde
5/5
this album came out a week after my seventeenth birthday, so it’s total nostalgia-bait for me. it soundtracked some of the best nights of my life, driving home at dawn to perfect places, and some of the worst ones too, pining in my bedroom to liability. easiest five stars i could ever give.
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
Eminem
1/5
men’s humour be like “rape 🤣🤣🤣”: The Album
Public Enemy
3/5
Eric Clapton
2/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Daft Punk
4/5
dr. dre is in the house, yeeeah
a hell of a debut album - probably closer to a 4.5 for me. some of the tracks are a bit too repetitive to justify their lengths, and musique should definitely be on here, but otherwise, homework ticks all of my boxes. fun, catchy, and makes me wanna move. i think it’s really tragic that daft punk’s true masterpiece (imo), discovery, didn’t make the cut for this list.
daft punk is dead. long live daft punk.
David Bowie
4/5
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Air
5/5
The Beau Brummels
3/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
ella fitzgerald has a gorgeous voice, but it’s not enough to justify the sheer length of this thing. 6 whole discs??
Talking Heads
4/5
love this one! i do prefer talking heads’ later albums, where their production choices get funkier, but the songs on here are so damn earnest that it’s impossible for me not to like.
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
John Coltrane
3/5
Laibach
3/5
i don’t really get it, but i wish i did, and that must be worth something
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Genesis
4/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Suede
3/5
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Scott Walker
2/5
2 scott 2 furious
Bob Dylan
4/5
Gary Numan
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
fucking awesome. warszawa is oddly captivating to me - it sounds like it wouldn’t be out of place on a dune soundtrack.
John Cale
3/5
what the hell sure
The Smiths
4/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
i think that part of the reason i enjoyed this album is because bob looks like fran lebowitz on the cover
Black Sabbath
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
2/5
help! i’m being held hostage by a jam band!
The Chemical Brothers
4/5
The Stooges
4/5
Al Green
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
taking some time out of my christmas to review my least favourite LCD soundsystem album. it’s what james murphy would have wanted.
this album really suffers from the lore surrounding it, i think. LCD soundsystem breaks up, films a documentary about their final show, and returns seven years later with an album that re-hashes the sound that made them blow up. i spent all 7 minutes of other voices thinking “this really sounds like pow pow…doesn’t it?”
fortunately (for me, at least), i will eat anything this band does up, and they can pose as old dogs re-learning old tricks forever and ever. i don’t care. i’ll be in the audience.
Various Artists
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
The Beach Boys
4/5
happy/embarrassed to report that wouldn’t it be nice still makes me teary
Love
3/5
The Clash
5/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
Big Star
3/5
The Slits
3/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
pop perfection! i can’t believe there’s an of montreal feature on this thing.
The Avalanches
5/5
The Coral
2/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
The Pogues
3/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
i was expecting to go easier on this than most because kings of leon was big when i first started really listening to music….but i just can’t! the singers’ voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me - pretty much an early iteration of the indie voice, with heavy emphasis on stretching the vowel O as far as possible. get it away from me!!!
2 stars for the mainstream bangers and i want you, which is a song i loved as a moody teenager.
Elton John
3/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Saint Etienne
4/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
2/5
Derek & The Dominos
2/5
i have nothing nice to say about eric clapton. rip ray liotta.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Deep Purple
2/5
i was so excited to hear the lead singer say “goodnight”…..and then it just kept going. i’m starting to think that live albums do not belong on this list. if you’re not a fan of the band they’re like being in purgatory.
Sex Pistols
4/5
The Smiths
4/5
it’s good and i’m sorry
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
fabulous album if you like the way that elmo sounds
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Slayer
2/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Def Leppard
2/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Pretenders
4/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Carpenters
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
in the past couple of weeks, two notable things have happened to me:
1. i had a leak in my apartment that lasted for 10 days
2. i had 2 public image ltd. albums generated for me
the public image ltd albums were worse! if there’s another one of these on the list i WILL [redacted].
Chicago
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Big Black
3/5
Ghostface Killah
4/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
i would’ve much rather talked with the poet man about taxes. probably would’ve made for a better album. extra star for the song about being a cuck.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
knew nothing about the band going in, so the brit reveal towards the end of the album was a jumpscare
Ravi Shankar
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
UB40
2/5
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Adele
4/5
i’m surprised at how much i liked the non-single songs on this album! i don’t think ballads will ever quite be My Thing, but adele’s voice is beautiful and i cannot believe she was twenty one when she released this.
Miles Davis
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
really, really enjoyed this. i gotta listen to more jazz!
David Bowie
4/5
what are you? some kind of lad insane?
The Police
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Bee Gees
2/5
Kanye West
2/5
Carole King
4/5
John Prine
2/5
i'm not a country gal, but we need songs like "your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore" instead of the country-pop slop that this genre is currently forcing down our throats
Def Leppard
2/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
The Crusaders
2/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
more like Seven by Pearl Jam. let me rate things with half stars!!!
Sonic Youth
4/5
Sleater-Kinney
5/5
The Offspring
3/5
Metallica
2/5
Germs
3/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Elliott Smith
5/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
LTJ Bukem
3/5
this album IS 3.5 hours long, but it’s 3.5 hours of drum and bass, which works for me. if you aren’t into drum and bass, this is probably torture.
R.E.M.
2/5
Turbonegro
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
The The
2/5
Madonna
2/5
love madge but some of the choices on this album…including and especially the american pie cover (as the closer!!!!)...phew
Meat Loaf
3/5
The Smiths
4/5
Culture Club
2/5
Nirvana
4/5
1001 Albums Generator aka I Learn What Nirvana Songs Are Actually Called
OutKast
5/5
perfect album to me!! andre 3000 is corny in a way that makes me want to get naked, which might push his side of the album above big boi’s. it’s an impressive feat.
The Incredible String Band
1/5
listening to this album felt like stepping into an alternate universe where i got perma-fried by a bad trip and could only listen to gentrified sitar music for the rest of my life
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
this album was huge when it came out, so i was expecting a little more from it, but i’m not a country fan to begin with. regardless, it’s a fun album and kacey’s personality really shines through! need to queen out with her.
The Roots
3/5
The Band
3/5
John Grant
4/5
Björk
5/5
Arcade Fire
5/5
i was 4 years old when funeral was released, and my canadian gen-x parents are responsible for the fact that some of my earliest memories include this album. wake up used to scare me to the point of tears, because it included the lyric “turn the summer into dust”, and my birthday is in the summertime...kids say the darndest things. it’s the first album i ever cried to (and maybe the only one i’ve ever cried to out of fear).
funeral has followed me around ever since - into adolescence and adulthood and bedrooms and hallways and first-love passenger seats. Can’t Be Normal About It/5.
Marilyn Manson
1/5
one unexpected perk of being a zoomer is that i only know about marilyn manson from self-sucking rib removal rumours and sex pest allegations. i’m happy to report, after listening to this album, that i don’t seem to have missed out on anything of value. also….hard r is crazy.
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Kate Bush
4/5
The Jam
3/5
John Lennon
3/5
after nearly 200 albums of digging, i finally hit a beatle. i’m shocked that it took me this long. sucks that it had to be this one.
or....does it suck? i liked the non-title tracks on this album a lot more than i thought i would. how do you sleep is shady boots, obviously, and i think oh yoko is a sweet, catchy tune. the cancellation of long-dead artists is so intriguing to me. i used to care a lot more than i do now, and i think i’ve settled on “maybe we should pay attention to the shitty people that are actually alive/the 26th most listened to artist on spotify is a self proclaimed nazi”. three stars!
Bert Jansch
3/5
Frank Black
3/5
it insists upon itself
Pavement
4/5
OutKast
4/5
the 1001 albums generator giveth, and the 1001 albums generator taketh away. getting both outkast albums in the span of a month felt pretty generous.
Buzzcocks
3/5
T. Rex
4/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
honestly? hot
4/5
reminds me of my little brother, who has this album cover as his instagram profile picture for some reason. maybe we should start a band.
David Bowie
4/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
bob sounds a lot like donald trump on i want you and it ruined the rest of the album for me
Stereo MC's
2/5
1 star for the music and 1 star for the sheer audacity of putting this album on a list of 1001 albums to listen to before you die
Korn
1/5
if i could go back in time, i wouldn't stop any world wars or invest in bitcoin or meet my baby grandparents. i would eradicate everything that led to this album existing.
Marty Robbins
2/5
i have yank fatigue
Neil Young
3/5
Beatles
3/5
yeah (yeah!) yeah (yeah!) yeah (yeah!)
The Hives
2/5
releasing a compilation album called Your New Favourite Band seems like a death knell
Frank Zappa
4/5
Prince
5/5
i had a prince phase at around this time last year (prompted by this album’s 40th birthday), which means that i watched all of his movies, too. i can’t believe that purple rain was introduced to the world as a fkn montage track. more shitty movies as vehicles for monumental albums PLEASE!!!!
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
N.E.R.D
3/5
The Young Gods
2/5
4/5
i’m so biased in favour of women that rock (literally and figuratively). this was my first time listening to a PJ harvey album and i can’t wait to dig in to the rest!
AC/DC
2/5
the last track on this album is a self-fulfilling prophecy. ac/dc is probably the first band i’d think of when i think of air pollution rock n roll.
Patti Smith
5/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
2/5
Green Day
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
hello from north ontario :)
Goldfrapp
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Sade
4/5
Randy Newman
2/5
i don’t like songs about american patriotism, and i don’t like songs about god. fortunately for me, this album had both!
3/5
The Verve
2/5
an album called urban hymns with a white guy in a bucket hat on the front cover….WHEW. bittersweet symphony really props up the rest of this thing. it feels like every single song, except for the one (1) that is under three minutes, overstays its welcome.
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Tricky
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Shack
2/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
my nostalgia goggles have led me to believe that this album is way better than it actually is. it’s cohesive to a fault AKA most tracks sound the same. that being said, they could never make me hate you red eyes!!
The Cure
4/5
Janet Jackson
3/5
The Lemonheads
2/5
Pentangle
2/5
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Badly Drawn Boy
2/5
Iron Maiden
2/5
The Pretty Things
3/5
not enough pinball :/
Kanye West
2/5
SZA
3/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
more like dire straights! #happypride
Morrissey
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
difficult listen as someone who hates murder and hates ballads
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
karen o i love you always forever!!!
PJ Harvey
4/5
50 Cent
2/5
happy belated father’s day 50 cent!
Elvis Presley
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Kelela
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Ozomatli
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Louis Prima
3/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Everything But The Will To Finish Listening To This Album
Common
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
a hidden gem of the GCMU (george clinton music universe). might have to tussle with spotify’s shitty local files mechanism so that this album can be accessible to me all of the time.
Grizzly Bear
3/5
ed DROSTE 💜
and i wish i could end it there! unfortunately, this journey has done a number on my nostalgia goggles. grizzly bear is peak entry level indie for me - i remember sitting on the school bus with my temple pressed against the glass window, listening to two weeks and envisioning my future hipster endeavours.
this album meanders a LOT. long, winding, same-y tracks. not necessarily bad, but not super engaging as a listener. i did the dishes while listening to this album. it felt apt.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
The Young Rascals
3/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
5/5
the first boy i ever kissed played me come on! feel the illinoise! the first time i found myself in the passenger seat of his beat up old car. i was totally enamoured (with both him and the music). horns! pianos! the softest voice you’ve ever heard! the full album feels both cohesive (in its instrumentation) and diverse (in its subject matter). instrumentals paint sweeping landscapes, and the tracks with vocals delve into feelings of joy and fear and wanting and sometimes murder. it’s a beautiful journey to go on.
it’s a total coincidence that this album was generated a few days after illinois turned twenty, but i have to bring it up, because i've been spinning it pretty often in the past week to celebrate. i’m predisposed to give this album five stars. the amazement and awe of first loves and first sufjan albums creeps up and makes my chest ache every time i listen. only 48 states to go!
Gene Clark
1/5
Country Music Is A Plague On This Earth
Björk
5/5
i didn’t come into this project as a bjork fan, but she’s the first artist so far that has two albums on my five star list. i tried to resist it, but i failed to consider big time sensuality. something about her music just really connects with me. i lack the vocab to describe it, but i feel it! idk!
IT TAKES COURAGE 🕺🕺🕺
TO ENJOY IT 💃💃💃
Basement Jaxx
4/5
i’m totally thrilled for myself and the five other people they put this album on the list for!
Brian Eno
4/5
invented ambient music…literally
The Stone Roses
4/5
The Residents
2/5
😐
Fats Domino
3/5
Blue Cheer
3/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
Shuggie Otis
5/5
The Temptations
3/5
Anthrax
2/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Portishead
4/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Solange
4/5
at certain points of this album, i really did believe i could go to sleep and wake up and be back in 2016. beautiful, and probably more of a time capsule to me than it deserves to be.
LL Cool J
2/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
accurate sonic depiction of coming of age in ontario. fuck yeah, alanis.
Van Morrison
3/5
David Holmes
3/5
let me set the scene: it’s 7am at the airport, and i have a webpage open with the text “Let’s Get Killed” on my phone. hope nobody’s looking over my shoulder!
anyway, this was fine. music to zone out and do tasks to. as i work through this project and look at the reviews i realize that the general sentiment surrounding electronic music is not nearly as positive as it is in my own head.
Beastie Boys
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
T. Rex
4/5
The Replacements
4/5
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Duke Ellington
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
i already waxed poetic about AF’s nostalgia factor (win butler notwithstanding) when funeral showed up on the list, so i can save it this time around. this album is pretty great. the band shoots high, and mostly succeeds. sometimes you have to squint and let the pretentiousness edge out of your peripherals (mtv what have you done to me???), but it’s worth the ride, for me, at least.
there are so many hard-hitting tracks on neon bible. i was going to go ahead and list them, but realized i’d be writing out the titles of half of the album. hearing the organ at the beginning of intervention made my stomach drop, like i’d reached the top of a rollercoaster and was mentally preparing for 4 minutes and 19 seconds of free fall. my body is a cage is explosive, cathartic, and a powerful closer. i’m glad that will butler will be raking in the residuals for that track for the rest of his life. however, i don’t know if i will ever be able to form a solid opinion on a regine-centric track other than sprawl ii. they’re….fine? but never the ones i come back to.
final tangent: this album makes me think of the church in baz luhrmann’s romeo & juliet.
Adele
3/5
i’m 25 right now and my album would be about going to the dispensary and spending too much money on cat toys
The Who
3/5
adding to the live album pile on!! enough!!
The United States Of America
2/5
this album sounds like the creators of the it’s a small world theme song dropped some acid and just fucking ran with it
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Ray Price
2/5
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Mylo
2/5
title track made me wish i was listening to losing my edge instead
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
David Crosby
2/5
Pixies
4/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
being a u2 apologist is so difficult. trying to defend their post-2000 output is even more difficult. all that you can’t leave behind’s singles are pretty strong, it’s a shame that most of the album’s deeper cuts can’t hold them up.
Robbie Williams
2/5
i’m an oscars junkie, on top of all of this music stuff, which means that i did watch the robbie-williams-as-a-chimp movie, better man, earlier this year. i remember thinking, the whole time, all of this for some run-of-the-mill britpop?
better man brought in $22.5 million worldwide against a budget of $110 million. it’s one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. that stat alone encapsulates how well robbie williams plays out in the year of our lord and saviour 2025.
Garbage
4/5
Syd Barrett
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
you know what else involves 2 grown ass men named brian occasionally making baby voices in my ear? the bald and the beautiful podcast.
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
Queen
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Barry Adamson
1/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Thin Lizzy
2/5
Tori Amos
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
my name is pink and i’m really glad to meet you
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Kings of Leon
2/5
the lead singer’s voice is genuinely infuriating. i was busy starting kindergarten in 2004. what the hell was going on.
“i can’t get off, soOoO sawwwft”
LCD Soundsystem
5/5
The Stranglers
3/5
Dr. John
2/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Soul II Soul
2/5
The Zutons
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
i guess i have penguin-related prejudices that i need to get over, because i was not expecting to like music from the penguin cafe nearly as much as i did. i wish i could physically swaddle myself in the beautiful, folky instrumentals on this album.
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
The Vines
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
Tortoise
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Air
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
want two (stars)
George Michael
4/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Green Day
3/5
Silver Jews
4/5
Japan
3/5
The Cars
3/5
Tears For Fears
4/5
Bad Brains
3/5
The xx
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
sounded so much like of montreal at certain points that it could have brought a happy tear to my eye
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
a neutered version of arctic monkeys, which is a tough sell if you share the opinion that arctic monkeys are pretty neutered to begin with.
Radiohead
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Portishead
4/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
Jungle Brothers
3/5
Can
2/5
The Damned
3/5
Justice
5/5
Lenny Kravitz
3/5
Holger Czukay
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Aerosmith
2/5
i’m too young to have witnessed aerosmith in real time so i mostly associate these songs with my lanky seven year old self getting thrown around at the aerosmith themed roller coaster at disney world
Alice Cooper
3/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
life ain’t shit but a fat vagina
The Associates
2/5
White Denim
4/5
seeing post-2010 indie-adjacent albums on this list always makes me nervous….but i actually really enjoyed this one!
Lou Reed
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Ice T
2/5
women are bitches amirite
a-ha
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Sisters Of Mercy
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Justin Timberlake
2/5
Skunk Anansie
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Tangerine Dream
3/5
The Doors
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
ANOTHER one? and there’s a third i’ll have to suffer through? i’m convinced that dexy and co. paid off some critics that contributed to this list.
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Tito Puente
4/5
The Human League
4/5
features the finest synth-pop song about the JFK assassination out there
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Love
2/5