My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Scum	5	2.08	+2.92
Locust Abortion Technician	5	2.38	+2.62
Bummed	5	2.64	+2.36
Bubble And Scrape	5	2.65	+2.35
90	5	2.69	+2.31
KEAH** (Psalm 69)	5	2.69	+2.31
Atomizer	5	2.72	+2.28
Among The Living	5	2.85	+2.15
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury	5	2.88	+2.12
Kick Out The Jams (Live)	5	2.91	+2.09

Album	You	Global	Diff
Butterfly	1	2.48	-1.48
25	2	3.36	-1.36
Bongo Rock	2	3.26	-1.26
Shaft	2	3.24	-1.24
Thriller	3	4.22	-1.22
Golden Hour	2	3.09	-1.09
Lady Soul	3	4.05	-1.05

Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	5
Nirvana	3	5
The Smiths	3	5
David Bowie	3	5
The Stooges	3	5
The Cure	3	5
Bob Dylan	2	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	5
Beck	2	5
The Clash	2	5
Beatles	2	5
R.E.M.	2	5
The White Stripes	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Coldplay	2	5
Joni Mitchell	4	4.25
Peter Gabriel	3	4.33
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	4.33

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Roxy Music

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

4/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Future Days

Can

4/5

1977

Ash

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

One World

John Martyn

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

4/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

4/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

4/5

Bert Jansch

4/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

5/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

The Specials

5/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

5/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Like the South Side of the Sky track, struggle with synth prog rock with rambling instrumental epochs, solid 3 on balance.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

In my all time top 10 albums, absolutely my frequency, love the gravely blues vocals on The Changeling & Been Down So Long, the epic classic rock of LA Women and the psychedelic rock trip of Riders on the Storm, Hyacinth House is a personal favourite that is maybe overlooked along with L'America, no doubt this album is the best Doors album in my opinion and a solid 5 always

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Suicide

3/5

Weird electronic surf rock type music thing, grows on you after the twentieth listen (not new to Suicide or this album), always been perplexed as to why it is so renowned, often hit skip on Suicide tracks that pop in a playlists, probably wouldn't shell out for a physical copy any time soon, it's a 'meh' 3 and that's only because, sometimes (when planets align), I like the first few tracks on the album, past half time it's just ambient drivel.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

A classic Christmas album of its time, if you have to endure Christmas music you can do much much worse.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

Still relevant social commentary cleverly woven together in an album length lyrical story of poor decisions, misfortune and small triumphs.

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

It's a great album, melancholy with country undertones and guitar work on par with the likes of Nick Drake ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

Good lo-fi tunes, I actually don't hate it ⭐⭐⭐

Le Tigre

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Bad Company

3/5

Not really my 'go to' kind of rock (bit too balladry with a sprinkling of lyrical cheese) but solid for what it is ⭐⭐⭐

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Horrendous elevator music (first track Birland), the kind easy listening jazz fusion type stuf that brings me out in a rash. Not for me really, might be the first one star, let's see. Okay it got slightly more tolerable further along, still not really my thing though ⭐⭐ to ⭐⭐⭐

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Queens of the Stone Age

5/5

High Violet

The National

4/5

The Clash

5/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

4/5

A new discovery for me, interesting stuff, being a Zappa fan this hit the mark for me ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

5/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

I didn't know I liked this album this much but ended up playing through it three times, wasn't totally unfamiliar with it just not really properly listened to it, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

For the childhood memories ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Country music (especially this type classic country music, for want of better description) really isn't my thing, but I didn't entirely hate spending time listening to this album, seemed an interesting mixed of soul and pop influences on some of tracks, with not too much of the typical cringe worthy country lyrics,⭐⭐⭐

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2

4/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Not terribly exciting, surprised I found this album a lot more 'meh' then I thought I would, it's good and I appreciate Eric Clapton's guitar work it was just not entirely the kind of blues rock I get overly excited about ⭐⭐⭐

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Not properly listened to this box-set before, it really is very good (listened through the whole set twice), giving George five stars on this one (wish you could do half stars on this website, probably better as 4.5 star), love so many of the songs and the feel/vibe of the album, will be working on acquiring a physical copy, a classic piece of work ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

It's a slow burner, but I like it, prefer Richards' rockery albums (like Standing at the Sky's Edge) but there are some nice tracks on this album (not heard it before) such as Coles Corner and The Ocean, probably a 3.5 star ⭐⭐⭐

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

5/5

The Stooges

5/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

4/5

Not heard this album before, took me a couple of run throughs to get it, always struggle a bit to get into the classic Paul Simon 'jingle jangle' sounds, on the surface the lyrical content seems a bit random but a closer inspection reveals clever use of words and poignant analogies. It went from a two, to three and ended up landing at a "I need a physical copy" four ⭐⭐⭐⭐

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

Yay country... 🫤 Yeah nah, this might be the first 1⭐, I'm sure it's very clever but two songs in it's bringing me out in a rash, really hate this type of country music soz. Landed at ⭐⭐ = don't like, wouldn't buy, recommend or listen to willingly again 😆

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Always a mixed bag with dear old Brucey, love his more melancholy darker tunes and themes, the more upbeat stuff not so much (especially the songs with the 'rock sax' which instantly starts up 'Santa's Coming to Town' my head and is an instant turnoff). Landed at ⭐⭐⭐⭐, would seek a physical copy.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Blur

5/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

The kind of pop music really isn't my jam, I thought it was going to be my first one star but horn and windwood arrangements dragged it to a ⭐⭐, generally though the warbling vocals (although a tremendous set of lungs) are a bit grating, some good feminist lyrical content but mostly more puerile pop culture themes persist. Would not listen to willingly again.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Okay dokey, French language show tunes today, not sure how to rate this😆, an indifferent ⭐⭐⭐ I think...

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

The Message song is a classic (but leads my mind to GTA Miami 😆), the album hasn't aged well though and goes pretty R&B cheesy in places

90

808 State

5/5

Metallica

5/5

EPIC!

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Okay apart from a couple of very well known tracks, as an album I found it to be a bit of an electronic yawn-fest, surprisingly boring unfortunately ⭐⭐⭐

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

4/5

Never heard the album, was only familiar with the Brimful of Asha song (which had personal significance), really enjoyed as an album, solid ⭐⭐⭐⭐, would seek physical copy 😁

2112

Rush

3/5

Never really got much into Rush, that has not changed a great deal listening to this (twice), not really the kind of progressive rock I can get into too much (a bit too cheesy for my liking), although being force to listen to a Rush album from start to finish I definitely appreciate the guitar work, it definitely rocks hard, find the vocals and lyrical content somewhat off putting, ⭐⭐⭐ (3.5 really)

Electric

The Cult

5/5

First time listening to this album, really enjoyed, would seek physical copy, probably a 4.5 so rounding up ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Lost Souls

Doves

5/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

5/5

F*CK YES! Ah the patchy memories of youth... young, dumb and full of internalised anger😆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Coral

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

Okay never heard this album or artist before (I don't think), really nice sound (country rock-ish), enjoyed listening, interesting back story, would seek physical copy, 3.5 so rounding up to ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

The Only Ones

4/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Ah the age old struggle to like RUSH, intensely irritated by the Tom Sawyer opener (have always disliked that track, a hard skip if it pops up in a playlist), I just can't vibe with RUSH very well, not my kind of jam, I like progressive rock but not the borderline cheesy stuff like this, Witch Hunt is probably the best track, ⭐⭐⭐

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Yeah a new one on me, looked at the date (1993) and wondered how I had not heard of this artist but then had a listen and can understand why, 90's pop rock was not my favourite in the 90's and that hasn't changed, not my thing, I find it to be very boring, really don't like this album much ⭐⭐

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

Never heard of artist or album before, really enjoyed, very good, acoustic Alt-j, would definitely seek physical copy and add to favourites ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

As an album, fairly average outside the 2-3 hit songs, probably a ⭐⭐⭐ to be fair

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

First time actually listening to the whole album, actually not too bad as an album, would seek physical copy for sure, can hear why it's a classic ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hms Fable

Shack

4/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Heard Tusk all the way through several times now, not sure I understand why it's so revered, I find it to be a pretty average collection of songs (couple of classics in there), don't really hear any sort of "but as an album" cohesion, honestly I find it kind of bland, ⭐⭐⭐

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

So

Peter Gabriel

5/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

I appreciate the artistic licence but really struggling to appreciate this one, the first half dozen 'arrangements' could use a bit of foreplay & lube, but gets mildly interesting in the middle, don't mind the albums name sake Kollaps (I think being a Swans fan helps), I'll give it a 2.5⭐⭐ (as an album) for the experience, a lot of it (for all it's wild artistic enthusias) is rather boring or painful, probably wouldn't willingly listen to again or seek physical copies, but you never know, sometimes these things grow on you

Mott

Mott The Hoople

5/5

Probably a 4.5 really, so rounding up in this case, vibe hard with the sound 👍

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

4/5

Never heard this band or album, first song is sounding like my jam! Second song is lyrically dubious! Interesting album, AC/DC but make it Glam, would seek a physical copy, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Scum

Napalm Death

5/5

Ah the memories, haven't listened to this in a while, forgotten how much I loved this album and scene, thanks ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

I like EBTG but this album is a bit of a yawn fest...

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

I was actually once really into hair metal for five minutes, and specifically this Bon Jovi album, then somebody gave me a mix tape with the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Pixies and Stiff Little Fingers, and that was the end of that😆 Still an enjoyable nostalgic listen for me ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

Really interesting album, like this early 70's Krautrock sound a lot, 3.5 rounding up to ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Never been much of an Elvis Costello fan, it's pleasant enough but not really my thing, and this album is not terribly exciting (except the very end of 'Man Out of Time', more of that please), didn't mine 'Shabby Doll' either, or 'Pidgin English' ⭐⭐⭐ (probably a 3.5)

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Not heard this album before, like their more recent stuff, but this was also a really enjoyable listen, will definitely be seeking a physical copy, probably a 4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

4/5

Not heard this Coldcut album before, really enjoyable listen, would definitely seek a physical copy, ⭐⭐⭐⭐, note only available currently to stream via YouTube https://youtu.be/tgYhZ5Ennig?si=Npzb0XtEM3Vi-LxK

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

5/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

A heavy and stodgy funk stew, if there was a path through this funky quagmire I lost it right about the second track in. There are far superior funk albums then this rambling funk monologue, a low ⭐⭐⭐

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

4/5

Not the biggest fan of live albums but this one's a smoker, 4.5, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

⭐⭐⭐

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

I bet this is great if love country pop music, all the feels ⭐⭐

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Doesn't seem very underground lol😆 I hated non-political 90's hip hop/rap in the day, although I did have a soft spot for jazz rap, but 'A Tribe Called Quest' this is not, 'Rhymin on the Funk' was not bad and to be fair I liked a lot of the scratching and sampling. Inspite of really wanting to flat out hate this album there was some head bobbing going on I have to admit.😆 Trying to ignore the misogyny and at times flat out stupid/dumb lyrical content there are some catchy beats, a borderline 3 but probably 2.5⭐⭐⭐

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Wild Gift

X

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

I can find no redeeming features to this album, nothing nice to say about it, please don't make me listen to this album or artist again, ⭐

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Peak Black Keys album I think, very enjoyable, 4.5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Some interesting beats and I don't hate it, not sure I would listen to it again but maybe, probably a indifferent 3

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Very enjoyable listen, 3.5, probably would seek physical copy👍

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

4/5

Funny reading the reviews, not sure many read the concept of the album being a pseudo soundtrack, a really interesting mix, many great tracks and perfect for film, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Not seriously listened to B.I.G. before and know only really the commercially successful hits from his second album. This first album I really liked (surprisingly) and would add to my collection of good solid rap/hip hop 'go to' albums, take out the interlude shite and it would be very good, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

5/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

2/5

Not offensive to my ears or anything, but really not my thing, the "Introduction" song was promising (bit 'trip-hoppy') but was fairly 'meh' following on the rest of the album, on the deluxe version but I don't think I'll be listening to the second disc (it'll put me in a bad mood the rest of the day), not real fussed on grime style vocals, probably a 2.5 but will give a ⭐⭐

Disraeli Gears

Cream

5/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

5/5

Melodrama

Lorde

3/5

Really interesting pop music, both musically and lyrically, 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Mostly very bland rock that unfortunately feels like it's always about to launch into "Santa Clause is coming to town", always struggle to love 70's Springsteen ⭐⭐⭐

So Much For The City

The Thrills

3/5

Surprisingly unthrilling ⭐⭐⭐

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

4/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

4/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

5/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Interestingly bland ⭐⭐⭐

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Top 10 all time (personally) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐+++++🖤

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

5/5

Another top 10 (personally)🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

4/5

Never heard before, very good, would seek physical copy ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (but probably a 5 really given more listening)

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

5/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Some classic tracks and seeds on here, if anything needed remastering it's this album (audio engineer's ears must have been painted on), maybe it's just Spotify and better quality audio versions exist out there, probably a 3.5 but going with ⭐⭐⭐

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Yeah these Burritos give me a bit of reflux 🤤

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Never heard this before, it's not offensive to the ears but really not very exciting (almost feels like it could have gone somewhere more interesting on some tracks but never quite makes it), on balance white people R&B slash 6Os pop gets a ⭐⭐⭐

System Of A Down

5/5

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

Skylarking

XTC

3/5

Not as interesting as I thought it was going to be, boarderline jangly annoying in places (weak start), pretty average for me in general but suspect it might grow on me, would probably seek a physical copy ⭐⭐⭐

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

Probably a 3.5 really⭐⭐⭐

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Bit of a yawn-fest, the kind of live music I just want to end, snippets of interesting guitar distortion here & there, looking like a 3 ⭐⭐⭐

Achtung Baby

U2

4/5

John Prine

3/5

Not much of a country fan but the are a few interesting tunes on here, Hello in There, Pretty Good and Angel of Montgomery stand out, probably a 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

Yeah I don't hate it, not normaly the kind of think I gravitate towards, but it was an interesting kind of anti-pop pop music , Cold War is kinda catchy, 'Come Alive' is really good actually, Mushrooms & Rose's is pretty wild also, I think it might grow on me, 3.5 but I'll go for a ⭐⭐⭐⭐

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

4/5

New level unlocked! There is some interesting tunes on here, never heard before, would probably seek a physical copy, probably could have been a great album if it had been worked over, as an album a three star, but the first 2/3rds has some really interesting sounds (last 3rd is mostly brain farts), so on balance ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

5/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Not as interesting as I hoped, but perfectly fine and enjoyable, would seek physical filler vinyl copy ⭐⭐⭐

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

A ⭐⭐⭐ only because I loved it as a kid

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

This was surprisingly gritty, actually really enjoyed this album, quite a raw blues feel, would definitely seek a physical copy, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

Interesting album, did not mind at all, did get a bit tedious on the bonus track but don't hate for a mellow melancholy country-ish feel⭐⭐⭐

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

4/5

Interesting album, loved when younger and into break-dancing😆, would seek physical copy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Cypress Hill

3/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

5/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

4/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Atomizer

Big Black

5/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

🥱, it's fine elevator/shopping mall music, seriously unexciting but I don't dislike or hate it, so gets a ⭐⭐⭐, and my Mum loves it👍

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

Yep okay, soundtracky musical-like, ⭐⭐⭐

California

American Music Club

4/5

Never heard, really liked, rocky punky kinda country ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

A bit cringe in places, the Springsteen rock sax is a definite turn off, almost a 2 but suitably punky-rock-glam in places to achieve a ⭐⭐⭐, not sure I would seek out to listen to again but maybe...

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Stephen Stills

4/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

4/5

xx

The xx

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Yeah nah, not for me, a bit flaccid👎 "No Name Bar" & "Do Your Thing" were sufficiently interesting enough to save it from a ⭐, the rest is either a funky cringe-fest or elevator drivel 🤮

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Probably a 4.5 so it gets bumped to 5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

Back when Coldplay wrote music I (personally) could connect with, great album, all the feels ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Really rate 'Court and Spark' as one of Joni Mitchell's best albums, 4.5 so gets a bump to 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Golden oldies, not really the sort of Ray Charles time I like overly much but fine in the background 2.5 ⭐⭐⭐

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

5/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

5/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

4/5

25

Adele

2/5

There is shiter pop music that I'd rather listen to less, ⭐⭐

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

MEDIOCRE!

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

4/5

The cover and album named always put me off this one, but in fairness it's a good album, gritty-pop-indie-rock, Pavement-ing the way indie giants to follow (pun intended) and akin the other Aussie contemporaries like The Church, would seek a physical copy, solid 3.8 so bumped to ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Sulk

The Associates

4/5

Never heard or 'heard of' before, very interesting dark New Wave pop, would list to again, save to streaming library and probably seek physical copy, 3.5, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

5/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

4/5

This was pretty nuts, I like it, a mixture of frantic freeform and more constructed jazz, maybe not for everyone but I would seek a physical copy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Was genuinely struggling to like this much on the first listen, but it grew on me second time round, appreciate the political and social commentary, probably a 3.5 to ⭐⭐⭐⭐, the last two songs "Hard Times" and "Love to the People" stood out to me, and the cover art is great👍

1999

Prince

3/5

Never really understood the Prince mania, nope that hasn't changed, I mean it's okay for what it is ⭐⭐⭐

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

I hate that I really enjoy this album ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Some mildly interesting tracks around the beginning, but it quickly descended into the 70's singer/songwriter nightmare fuel of my childhood, wholey unremarkable, I'm sure it warrants further perseverance but if I have to listen to this again I may smash up my hi-fi gear, up there with "tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree", ⭐⭐

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

If I had to listen to modern country I would play this, ⭐⭐⭐

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Throwing Muses

4/5

One those artists I'm vaguely aware of but never really investigated, well I'm glad to finally have a listen, very good, grity-folky-punky, not a 5 star for me but still very good, would explore further and seek a physical copy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Golden oldies your Nanna will love⭐⭐⭐

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Nice pop psych ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

5/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Interesting from a samples point of view, a bit torturous as a whole album listen, 2.5 ⭐⭐

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Shuggie Otis

3/5

Easy listening funk ⭐⭐⭐

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

A classic, not a massive Billy Joel fan but good for what it is, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Yeah a mixed bag this one, was expecting great things but to be honest a lot of it is pretty forgettable, couple of good tracks in the middle with "Once I Was" and "I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain" but mixed in with the kind 60s folksy psych I find fairly cringe, ⭐⭐⭐

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

Liking the more traditional sounding songs, the covers are God awful, and the more poppy stuff is gobb shite, probably a 2.5 to 3⭐⭐

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