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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons
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5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
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Like Water For Chocolate
Common
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5 | 2.95 | +2.05 |
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Actually
Pet Shop Boys
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5 | 3.18 | +1.82 |
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Shaft
Isaac Hayes
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5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
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Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis
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5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
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American Pie
Don McLean
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
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The Chronic
Dr. Dre
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5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
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Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
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5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
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There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
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5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
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At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
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5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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In Rainbows
Radiohead
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1 | 3.85 | -2.85 |
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In Utero
Nirvana
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1 | 3.82 | -2.82 |
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Kid A
Radiohead
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1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
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The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths
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1 | 3.67 | -2.67 |
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A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
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1 | 3.63 | -2.63 |
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Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
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1 | 3.62 | -2.62 |
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In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
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1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
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1 | 3.57 | -2.57 |
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Funeral
Arcade Fire
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1 | 3.56 | -2.56 |
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The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
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1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Bob Dylan | 4 | 4.5 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Arcade Fire | 3 | 1 |
| Radiohead | 4 | 1.5 |
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1 |
| The Flaming Lips | 2 | 1 |
| The Smiths | 2 | 1 |
| The Jesus And Mary Chain | 2 | 1.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2 | 1.5 |
| Primal Scream | 2 | 1.5 |
| Echo And The Bunnymen | 2 | 1.5 |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | 3 | 2 |
| Kings of Leon | 3 | 2 |
| Steely Dan | 4 | 2.25 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| Portishead | 4, 1 |
| Nirvana | 1, 4, 4 |
5-Star Albums (36)
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Lightning Bolt · 10 likes
1/5
No melodies, no message, no heart, just soulless noise.
The Clash · 3 likes
3/5
Guess you had to be there
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 2 likes
1/5
What happens if you have no rhythm or talet.
The Jesus And Mary Chain · 2 likes
1/5
Probably great. Definitely boring.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · 1 likes
4/5
Blues Cave is better than Lyre Cave, still a good double album.
1-Star Albums (68)
All Ratings
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Classic jazz album between big band and bebop.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Great lyrics, but all the songs sound the same.
Arcade Fire
1/5
One album you mustn't listen to. Absolute crap.
OutKast
3/5
Two solo albums as a double album. The second disc is the better one.
Deep Purple
4/5
Good psychedelic rock, heavy on the Hammond.
Queen
4/5
Great album without any of the over-rotated hits.
Linkin Park
2/5
Meh, if you're not angry.
Sam Cooke
5/5
Some live albums are legendary. This is one of them.
Randy Newman
4/5
Jazzy folk or folksy jazz, doesn't matter. Great tunes.
Christina Aguilera
3/5
She shines in the uptempo songs, of which there are too few
Jefferson Airplane
5/5
Summer of Love Blues. Can't imagine any album being more 1967.
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
Sounds like a bongo overloaded sample collection in a good way.
Metallica
4/5
Master indeed.
Jorge Ben Jor
2/5
Probably classic, but just ok.
fIREHOSE
2/5
I'm sure it's fine, just not my kind of fine.
Beastie Boys
3/5
Some screaming bangers, some screaming fillers.
Hawkwind
3/5
Overindulgent, but in a good way.
Steely Dan
2/5
Some Steely Dan songs are good, but none of them are on this album.
Steely Dan
2/5
Two hitless, yachty Steely Dan albums in a row.
Bob Dylan
5/5
An absolute masterpiece.
Snoop Dogg
5/5
The music of the album makes it a masterpiece. The skits, not so much.
Lightning Bolt
1/5
No melodies, no message, no heart, just soulless noise.
Common
5/5
Banging beats and truthful lyrics. One of the last (?) hip hop masterpieces.
Nick Drake
2/5
Meh...
Booker T. & The MG's
5/5
From the best rhythm section comes an instrumental masterpiece.
Faust
1/5
"What's that noise?" the 11yo asked, and that is a review as good as any.
Tom Waits
3/5
A bit too experimental, but you can still hear the Waits.
Fleet Foxes
2/5
Vague.
The Police
3/5
Various Artists
3/5
Christmas is perfect for the Wall of Sound
Fugazi
1/5
Nope
Bob Dylan
5/5
Partly electrical, partly traditional, all masterful.
Soul II Soul
4/5
Great hits, better fillers than I remembered.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Just ok, for Stevie Wonder.
Beck
2/5
Apart from a couple of good songs, the album is mostly bland noise.
Country Joe & The Fish
4/5
Summer of Love on an album.
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Anonymous songs, but consistent.
The Who
2/5
Ok live album.
Gorillaz
3/5
Too conceptual, but some great songs.
Frank Black
2/5
Meh.
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Classic Cubano.
R.E.M.
3/5
Even the happy songs are gloomy.
Talking Heads
2/5
You hear the greatness, but it doesn't do anything for me.
Beatles
3/5
Sounds like sophomore Beatles. Oh, look, it is!
The B-52's
4/5
Before Love Shack they were better.
Prince
5/5
Purple perfection
Television
3/5
Did NOT sound like 1977, sounded a lot more modern, in a good way.
Isaac Hayes
5/5
Too brief, too good.
The Zombies
2/5
A one-hit-album is not an album.
Barry Adamson
2/5
Organized noise. Groovy at times, but mostly unpleasant.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Great songs, but a bit too 80s sleek.
Robert Wyatt
1/5
No songs. No voice. No good.
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Surprisingly good as albums go.
David Bowie
4/5
Soul-Bowie is better than the other ones.
Faith No More
3/5
Good late-80s-pre-grunge.
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
The best songs, the best artist, the best cover, the best album.
Milton Nascimento
2/5
Difficult for me, probably great for others.
Tina Turner
3/5
The original songs are good 80s. The covers are bad 80s.
The Libertines
4/5
If this was my kind of music, this would be one of best albums.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
Blues Cave is better than Lyre Cave, still a good double album.
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Born 50 years too late, died 50 years too early.
David Bowie
2/5
Good songs when he sings. The instrumentals are more demanding.
Sigur Rós
2/5
Icelandic folksy Enigma is not my kind of groove.
4/5
Solid.
Kanye West
2/5
A few good songs, but not much more.
Madonna
2/5
Meh.
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
More soul than disco, not bad, but not for dancing.
Tom Waits
2/5
Between the noise and maracas there are some good songs.
Sister Sledge
4/5
A good mix between dancefloor fillers and album fillers.
Kanye West
2/5
Difficult to listen to someone who has become a Nazi.
M.I.A.
3/5
Great at the time, did not age well.
Raekwon
3/5
Wu Tang Monotonous with an occasional banger.
Circle Jerks
2/5
14 songs of American West Coast Hardcore Punk in 15 minutes is just about enough.
Ella Fitzgerald
5/5
Three hours of great songs by a great singer.
Pink Floyd
2/5
A bit boring.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
2/5
One great song does not make a great album.
Cream
3/5
The greatness is there, but only for the first half.
Venom
2/5
The black metal songs are bad, and the melodious songs are too few.
Kid Rock
1/5
Cultural appropriation at its worst.
Supertramp
3/5
Not bad. Not bad, at all.
Moby
4/5
Really good electronic album.
M.I.A.
2/5
One good song, a couple of decent fillers, that's it.
Brian Eno
1/5
Noisy
3/5
Ok, but not more than that.
Frank Ocean
2/5
There might be greatness here, but apart from a couple of songs, I can't hear it.
Neil Young
4/5
Felt too brief.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Blusey Stones is good Stones.
Nick Drake
3/5
Good folksy, almost medieval, album.
Pentangle
2/5
A bit too medieval on my ears.
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
Searching for a sound recquires quite a bit of noise.
Al Green
3/5
Solid.
Genesis
2/5
Are all British progressive rock bands required to make a medieval album? Barely bearable.
Dirty Projectors
1/5
Musically accomplished, I'm sure, but without melodies and rhythm there are no real songs.
Dusty Springfield
4/5
A collection of songs does not make an album, but who cares.
David Bowie
1/5
Nothing left of good Bowie here.
Joanna Newsom
1/5
Wish-Björk.
Terence Trent D'Arby
3/5
Ok 80s album.
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
The lyrics are great, the beats are ok.
Rush
3/5
Progressive soprano rock, but average.
Goldfrapp
2/5
The best songs are not ballads, but the album is mostly ballads.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
1/5
More like Blues Implosion, amirite?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Average Costello.
Marvin Gaye
5/5
One of the best albums ever.
Nina Simone
5/5
Heartbreakingly good.
Paul Simon
4/5
A great controversy.
Queens Of The Stone Age
1/5
Wish Green Day, but without any melodies.
Gene Clark
4/5
Good folksy folk music.
Billie Holiday
4/5
Frail, but still the greatest.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Vintage Beastie Boys with some of their best beats.
The Streets
2/5
Two hits doesn't make an album.
Robert Wyatt
1/5
Two drummers making crap without drums.
Depeche Mode
3/5
Good album, not great.
The Beach Boys
3/5
Doowop medium.
Talk Talk
3/5
Acoustic synth? Sure! Could've lost a couple of songs toward the end, though.
Nirvana
1/5
Noise with occasional greatness.
Fats Domino
3/5
Not groundbreaking, but not bad.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
I wish that great voice could hit the right notes more often.
Duke Ellington
4/5
The Big Band Great.
Lorde
1/5
Sad pop does nothing for me.
Grateful Dead
2/5
Groovy, but get to the fucking point already.
Adam & The Ants
2/5
It says absolutely nothing.
Jane Weaver
1/5
Cheap Psychedelic Electronica from bargain Joni Mitchell.
Ray Charles
5/5
Genius, indeed.
Willie Nelson
4/5
Willie's voice on these jazz standards is perfect, although his own songs usually are better.
The Byrds
4/5
Dylan is better when Dylan is not being sung by Dylan. A 60s classic.
Herbie Hancock
4/5
A jazz giant playing with synthesizers, sure! Early jazz-funk-fusion at its best.
Yes
2/5
Meh 70s pop from a band that would blossom in the 80s.
Tortoise
1/5
Pink Jehovah's Floyd Witnesses accidentally programs a Commodore 64
Mekons
1/5
The sound of bawling drunks in a studio with out of tune instruments they cannot play.
Frank Sinatra
5/5
Swingin' Sinatra is the best Sinatra.
Lou Reed
2/5
Sad Reed is bad Reed.
Buzzcocks
2/5
Medium punk.
Bob Dylan
4/5
He can't sing. His songs are too long. But it still clicks.
The Charlatans
1/5
Generic, whining and boring. In other words: BritPop.
Ray Price
3/5
Great songs, but most of them are better with other artists, especially those who wrote them.
Dire Straits
3/5
The first CD in any Boomer's collection has an occasional underrated gem.
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Muscle Shoals was good for the Stones. A masterpiece.
Boston
3/5
80s in the most 80s way of the 80s.
The Incredible String Band
1/5
A hundred monkeys with a hundred instruments worked for about 5 minutes on this.
Charles Mingus
1/5
The 60s was not a good decade for jazz or ballet and this is a 60s jazz ballet.
Iggy Pop
3/5
Punk, but not too much, not too little.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
An ok 70s album from 1990.
David Ackles
1/5
If I hear another medieval troubadour wannabe, I'll get ready for a joust and a melee.
Portishead
4/5
Classic trip hop album.
1/5
Nope. These folksy medieval albums by British progressive bands are awful.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
The missing link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan makes a decent album.
The Who
3/5
Not my generation, but ok.
Mj Cole
3/5
When it's good it's great. But those are a lot of fillers and not the dancefloor kind.
The Coral
2/5
Britpop after the fact.
Garbage
3/5
Not garbage, but not not garbage either.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Good jams on a classic album.
The Clash
3/5
Guess you had to be there
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Classic, but not always my kind of jam.
Nirvana
4/5
Still good, but still a bit uneven.
The Psychedelic Furs
1/5
Incomprehensible album, just like the band name.
Little Richard
5/5
Great classics and other greats.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Sad, bordering on suicidal. Possibly great, but boring.
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Cheap Casio B52:s.
Carole King
3/5
Mid folksinger in the era of great folksingers.
Elbow
3/5
Weirdly accessible and off-putting at the same time.
Patti Smith
2/5
I hear the greatness, but it does nothing for me.
Tim Buckley
4/5
Unique voice that died too early.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Their distinct sound sounds awful.
Hugh Masekela
1/5
Jazz at its worst.
Miles Davis
2/5
Still not a fan of this kind of jazz.
Don McLean
5/5
All classics.
John Grant
2/5
Nope.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
One of his best, says this man in his 50s.
Crowded House
1/5
Eyerollingly bland.
Nirvana
4/5
Nirvana was better unplugged.
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Stuck between SkaPunk and BritPop in a bland way.
The Prodigy
3/5
Great club anthems, but with a few low points.
Arcade Fire
1/5
Bland in every way music, albums or songs can be bland.
Elliott Smith
1/5
Sad crap
Elton John
4/5
Great album from start to finish.
Pet Shop Boys
5/5
80s synth masterpiece with surprises (Morricone!) and monster hits.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1/5
Costello is not my jam. There is no jam whatsoever.
The Cure
2/5
Tired of singing? Just let the gloomy instrumentals drone on.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1/5
More no no nos, amirite?
50 Cent
2/5
Can't rap. Can't sing. Good beats.
1/5
Now That's What I Call Crap!
Otis Redding
5/5
Lovely covers, lovely voice.
The Cramps
2/5
Should've taught you better.
Dwight Yoakam
4/5
Not Hillbilly Deluxe, but it's still Dwight Yoakam.
The Byrds
2/5
Experimental, but not in a good way.
Radiohead
1/5
Whiny, boring and ZZZzzz...
Def Leppard
3/5
You don't get more 80s than Def Leppard 80s.
Big Star
3/5
Never heard of this, surprisingly good.
The Black Keys
2/5
Meh
Mariah Carey
2/5
Unlike Carey herself, this did not age well.
CHVRCHES
3/5
Good, but not great.
Massive Attack
4/5
Classic Electronica masterpiece.
David Bowie
3/5
Surprisingly funky at times. Ok songs that haven't been played to death.
Kate Bush
2/5
The first song is masterful, but it's downhill from there.
Shuggie Otis
5/5
Original, funky, soulful masterpiece.
Franz Ferdinand
2/5
Not a fan of Scottish Cardigans.
David Bowie
3/5
Ordinary Bowie
Tom Tom Club
3/5
Does the Tom Tom Club have tom toms? Indeed they do. Also a couple of good hits.
The Beach Boys
4/5
To make something original from the Beach Boys sound takes a genius.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4/5
An album full of greatness, but then one day, music died.
Arcade Fire
1/5
It has nothing that makes music great.
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Ok, for a live album
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Successful, perhaps, but not a very good album.
Baaba Maal
4/5
Great music from Senegal.
Steely Dan
2/5
Bland, anonymous and says nothing.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
1/5
Probably great. Definitely boring.
MGMT
1/5
Whiny crap
Primal Scream
1/5
The point did indeed vanish.
Beatles
4/5
Because it's Beatles it's good, but it's not great Beatles.
King Crimson
1/5
Crimson Crap.
The Afghan Whigs
1/5
The singing makes the music worse. Boring.
Morrissey
1/5
Another whiny and pretentious man.
Donald Fagen
2/5
Sounds like Steely Dan, but with more elevator.
Louis Prima
4/5
Prima, indeed!
The Temptations
4/5
Great reinvention of the band.
Elastica
2/5
Not punk enough, not pop enough, not rock enough.
The Stooges
3/5
Angry and, well, raw.
Radiohead
1/5
Great? No. Good? No. So, so? No. Bad? Yes.
The Jam
2/5
Not a lot of jam on this one. The sound doesn't affect either.
Sarah Vaughan
5/5
Class act all the way.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
A real comeback/revival of the best Stones, the blues Stones.
Arrested Development
3/5
This album has aged a bit, but it's still good.
Echo And The Bunnymen
1/5
Absolutely not.
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Great album, but I like their first and third a lot better.
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Easy listening, in a good way.
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Has not aged a second, for some weird reason.
Air
3/5
Adequate electronic music.
Dr. Dre
5/5
A true masterpiece.
The Who
4/5
Who's that? Good Who, that's Who.
Rod Stewart
4/5
The Motown sound is strong with this one.
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Medium Fleetwood
Bad Brains
1/5
Bad music, too.
Jack White
3/5
Not bad, not good.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1/5
What happens if you have no rhythm or talet.
Johnny Cash
5/5
Adele
3/5
An amazing voice. Too slow, at times.
Tricky
3/5
Some classic triphop songs, some not so classic.
Derek & The Dominos
4/5
Really good blues rock.
The Doors
3/5
Some good blues songs, but a singer he ain't
Black Sabbath
4/5
Apart from a couple of songs, the album is close to perfect.
Pearl Jam
3/5
Mid-Grunge
ABBA
3/5
Good ABBA, but still not great ABBA.
Khaled
3/5
Good 70s Middle Eastern music, but with some unnecessary covers.
Elvis Presley
4/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
Just like its cover, the album has its ups and downs.
Doves
2/5
Mid
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Slow and sleepy, even when it tries to be upbeat.
Solomon Burke
4/5
Atlantic's rawer sound is my kind of soul.
David Crosby
3/5
Well, if he can't remember, how can we?
David Gray
2/5
Folk singer on speed.
Bill Evans Trio
3/5
Very much a Sunday album.
DJ Shadow
3/5
I'm all for a good beat, but then what?
The Byrds
3/5
One good hit, several average songs.
Ian Dury
3/5
Disco punk at its best.
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
Ok operatic 70s rock.
Chicago
3/5
Part groovy, part noisy.
The La's
2/5
Lower average among the whiny British bands.
The Flaming Lips
1/5
What flaming pile of garbage is this?
Cheap Trick
3/5
As always with live albums, I guess you had to be there.
Liz Phair
2/5
Nah...
2/5
Not a good album. Not even a decent X-Mas album.
Iron Maiden
4/5
Amazing for a debut
Laura Nyro
2/5
Not enough pop, not enough folk.
The Band
2/5
A very bland Band.
David Bowie
2/5
Not one of his good albums.
Fela Kuti
3/5
Good zombie.
Steve Earle
3/5
Good 50s country from the 80s.
Ozomatli
3/5
Ok latin grooves.
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Never heard before. Ok.
Prince
3/5
A couple of good songs, but not one of his best albums.
Beatles
4/5
They never made a bad album.
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
Punk, but with someone who can sing. Not angry enough.
Weather Report
2/5
Sophisticated elevator music to be used in an 80s erotic thriller.
Aimee Mann
2/5
Probably speaks to someone, but not to me.
Cowboy Junkies
2/5
Take perfectly good country songs, and make them slower and all sound the same.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The classic album of all classic albums.
Gene Clark
3/5
Quite ok
Paul McCartney
2/5
Not the best, not even good
Lauryn Hill
5/5
Masterpiece
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Bob's best album.
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Original in a good way
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
Good EDM at times.
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
The best of the best
X-Ray Spex
2/5
Just like its name, wtf
LL Cool J
4/5
One of my first albums. Still good.
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
A few good songs does not make a good album
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
Certified F.R.E.S.H
Marianne Faithfull
4/5
One of the greatest comeback albums ever.
The Specials
4/5
Good ska
Elvis Presley
5/5
Not a bad debut
Cat Stevens
3/5
Some good, some bad.
The Smiths
1/5
"Hello, is this the suicidal hotline?"
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Concept albums are not always weird. Not always great either.
Digital Underground
4/5
Good at worst, great as best.
Pixies
2/5
You bleed? My ears bleed.
Ride
1/5
Shoegazing is literally just as fun as gazing at your shoes.
Beatles
4/5
Not that hard.
The Mothers Of Invention
1/5
The 60s, I know, but wtf.
Duran Duran
3/5
Ok 80s
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
Good elevator music
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Bland Joni
Beastie Boys
4/5
Mostly banger classics.
John Coltrane
1/5
Bebop noise
Devendra Banhart
1/5
No, not rejoicing at all.
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
East Coast at its best
The Strokes
2/5
Iconic cover on crap music
William Orbit
2/5
Mid Buddha Bar music
Bee Gees
2/5
The pre-disco BeeGees are not very good.
Soft Machine
1/5
Is this album broken?
Neil Young
4/5
Classic
The Stranglers
2/5
Not punk enough.
Love
2/5
Folksy skåpmat
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Great, but not his greatest.
Beth Orton
2/5
Nah.
Big Black
1/5
Not atomized, more like a solid turd.
CHIC
3/5
Good disco, but the slow songs are drags
Eagles
4/5
A few great songs does not make a great album, but at least it's good.
Kings of Leon
2/5
The Ark, but from Temu and with more cowbell
Blondie
4/5
Varied, but consistent. Really good.
U2
3/5
Good for U2
The Sugarcubes
2/5
Expected Sugarbabes, got Sugarcubes.
The Pogues
4/5
Some of their best work.
The Doors
4/5
So good.
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
East Coast Surf Rock, the good kind.
Peter Tosh
4/5
Isn't it legal yet?
Bob Dylan
4/5
Great old Bob.
The Pretty Things
2/5
The first try at a rock opera, is more of an error.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Groundbreaking, but not great.
The Zutons
2/5
Who cares?
Emmylou Harris
2/5
Surprisingly bland
Steely Dan
3/5
Average yacht rock.
Ali Farka Touré
4/5
Mali blues at its best.
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Quite good.
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Sounds like a demo tape, and whaddaya know, it is a demo tape. A fairly good one.
Miles Davis
4/5
Greatness.
The Human League
2/5
One good song does not make an album..
2/5
I confess, it's not good.
Alice In Chains
1/5
As uplifting as two wrists, slit to the bone.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Creedence sounding like Creedence.
Nas
4/5
Ill as hell.
Silver Jews
1/5
Absolute crap.
De La Soul
4/5
Why skits?
The Stooges
3/5
Some of it is really good. Some of it is crap.
Bill Callahan
1/5
Not speaking, not singing, not good.
The Band
3/5
Average band name. Average Band album.
Saint Etienne
2/5
Starts good, but then, no.
The Flaming Lips
1/5
A flaming hot pile of...
Joan Baez
3/5
Groundbreaking, but not breathtaking
Beck
3/5
Ok.
The National
2/5
Trying not to gaze at my shoes
Sabu
3/5
Lots of drama.
Supergrass
2/5
BritBros
Billy Joel
3/5
Some good songs, but not really my cup of tea.
Billy Bragg
3/5
Great fighting songs.
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Recognizable songs, still average.
The Smiths
1/5
Quite happy before listening to this. Now, no.
The The
2/5
The What?
Quicksilver Messenger Service
1/5
Too much drugs, too little talent.
Muddy Waters
4/5
Great comeback
Gram Parsons
5/5
Sad because of what could have been. Happy because of what we have.
Slade
3/5
Rock, but not hard.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Bland and average
Yes
2/5
No.
Jimi Hendrix
2/5
A couple of good songs. The rest a drugfuelled search for a melody.
Black Flag
1/5
My ears are Damaged.
Michael Jackson
5/5
Perfect.
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
Ok
Primal Scream
2/5
Has not aged well.
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Highly sampleable.
Thelonious Monk
2/5
Not brilliant at all
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Crap
R.E.M.
2/5
Not quite the end of the world.
The Velvet Underground
2/5
The cover is better than the music.
Klaxons
2/5
Does nothing for me specifically or for music generally.
Boards of Canada
2/5
Like coming down from a bad shrooms trip in the late 90s. Probably a true story.
Radiohead
2/5
Bland
Iron Maiden
4/5
Gets better and better
Mudhoney
1/5
Supercrap Bigshit.
Hole
2/5
Meh
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Some classics, some not.
The Go-Betweens
2/5
Average indie
Roxy Music
3/5
Not too much country, is it?
Wire
1/5
Crap punk
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Strong debut
Aerosmith
3/5
A couple of great songs does not make a great album.
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
Suicidal
Michael Jackson
4/5
Not bad.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Averageication.
Queen
3/5
Mid Queen
Heaven 17
1/5
Temu Depeche with a Casio knockoff.
Stan Getz
5/5
Fantastic Collaboration!
Scritti Politti
2/5
Never heard, never will again.
Radiohead
2/5
Never heard a good album by Radiohead before. Still haven't.
Mercury Rev
2/5
Nope.
The White Stripes
3/5
Good Elephant.
Erykah Badu
3/5
Not as classic as Baduizm, but ok.
Carpenters
2/5
Everything sounds like theme songs for 70s sitcoms.
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
Great Latin album.
Gang Of Four
2/5
Nope
The Darkness
4/5
Good operatic metal
Roni Size
2/5
A couple of groundbreaking songs does not make for a bloated album.
Calexico
2/5
Nah
The Fall
1/5
Failed gimmick
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Apart from a couple of duds, this is a masterpiece.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
1/5
Wristslittingly depressive.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Respect
Bauhaus
1/5
Why does "experimental" always mean "crap"?
Pulp
2/5
Pulp, indeed.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
2/5
Dated. So very dated.
Björk
2/5
An album of its time, which is not now.
Steve Winwood
2/5
Elevator yacht pop
Malcolm McLaren
2/5
Duck Rock, indeed.
Lambchop
2/5
Nix
Alanis Morissette
3/5
Not so jagged
Portishead
1/5
Not trip hop, but experimental. That explains it.
Fiona Apple
2/5
I thought she could sing
Violent Femmes
3/5
Some classic songs, some not.
David Holmes
2/5
Aged terribly.
Funkadelic
5/5
Can't get around it, it's a masterpiece.
Korn
1/5
Krap
Eminem
4/5
Great debut album.
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Ok.
Metallica
4/5
Really good live album.
Kings of Leon
2/5
Kings of nothing
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2/5
No, no, no
Kings of Leon
2/5
Cannot see the greatness of this
Throwing Muses
2/5
Too many crap punk albums right now
The Go-Go's
3/5
Good 80s New Wave Punk.
Flamin' Groovies
3/5
Ok rock.
Paul Simon
3/5
Sometimes Simon is better solo. This is not the time. Still good, though.
Suede
3/5
One good song, the others ok
Happy Mondays
1/5
Man, MDMA-fuelled Madchester is manure.
T. Rex
2/5
One great song. Not a good album.