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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Rejoicing In The Hands
Devendra Banhart
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5 | 2.82 | +2.18 |
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All Hail the Queen
Queen Latifah
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5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
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5 | 2.9 | +2.1 |
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Connected
Stereo MC's
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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Maxinquaye
Tricky
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5 | 3.04 | +1.96 |
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Tank Battles
Dagmar Krause
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4 | 2.13 | +1.87 |
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It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
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5 | 3.25 | +1.75 |
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You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
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5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
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C'est Chic
CHIC
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5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
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Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes
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5 | 3.43 | +1.57 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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OK Computer
Radiohead
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1 | 4.1 | -3.1 |
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London Calling
The Clash
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1 | 3.97 | -2.97 |
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The Doors
The Doors
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1 | 3.94 | -2.94 |
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Kid A
Radiohead
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1 | 3.71 | -2.71 |
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Hotel California
Eagles
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1 | 3.6 | -2.6 |
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Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
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1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
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1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
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Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
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1 | 3.47 | -2.47 |
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Tidal
Fiona Apple
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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 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 5 |
| Johnny Cash | 2 | 5 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Radiohead | 4 | 1.5 |
| Joy Division | 2 | 1 |
| Beck | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Clash | 2 | 1.5 |
| The Prodigy | 2 | 1.5 |
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 1.5 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 | 2 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| The Doors | 3, 4, 1 |
5-Star Albums (31)
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Johnny Cash · 3 likes
5/5
if this album is the result of the carceral state, maybe I'm not an abolitionist after all
(ACAB)
Fugees · 3 likes
5/5
How ya gonna say this sounds the same but the hundreds of brit-pop albums don't?????
Sufjan Stevens · 1 likes
1/5
Holy fuck he must hate Illinois
Madonna · 1 likes
1/5
Nobody's Perfect might be the worst song I've ever heard in my life. A loss for women.
James Brown · 1 likes
5/5
not me screaming "Ow!" back to JB in my office :')
1-Star Albums (35)
All Ratings
The xx
4/5
Okay I've never heard of this band before but I immediately recognize the intro. I like the chill vibe, it's great background music. Very airy and minimal. Worth giving it a second listen to find my fav songs and adding them to chill stoner playlists. Right up my alley. 4/5
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
Love one of your bucked-headed hoes? No way. Love this album? Yes way.
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
A classic, so much fun to revisit. One of my favorite Fleetwood Mac albums.
Sex Pistols
2/5
not my favorite. Loud, noise, scary. Mom can you come pick me up? Kids are drinking alcohol.
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
His voice carries me through my day. Instant classic, and well deserving of this recognition. Beautiful yet mournful. The interlude held my hands as I reminisced on the anxiety I felt in 2016 as I hid in the closet of a married mans house when his wife came home too soon. Dying phone in one hand, pants and phone charger in the other. "text Kate" Michael Kiwanuka whispers. I do. "I know I'm here and I don't belong" Kiwanuka reminds me, on his next track, Solid Ground. He's right. 5/5.
Queen Latifah
5/5
"Rhymes are smokin', concentration can't be broken. Queen Latifah's Outspoken." Groovy and soulful like I expected from Queen Latifah. She blends rap with reggae, jazz, and hip hop. QL sets the expectation early in Latifah's Law. The Queen of Royal Badness has a lot to say, and this f*ggot ain't got nothin' better to do than listen. Latifah doesn't shy away from addressing racial apartheid, pleasure politics, feminism, and mass-incarceration.
I wanted to take away a point for the chipmunk noises at the end of Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children, but after Evil That Men Do, I can't. 5/5.
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Not as sad as I thought it was gonna be. Jeff could hit it.
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
I’ll confidently say I didn’t listen thoroughly. I played this while gaming, while working, and while being a sloot and I never found peace with the noise. I became a boomer listening to this. Back in my day, we broke shit and smashed the system, man. Says the generation that caused the mess we’re in. 2/5, I didn’t hate it just didn’t like it.
Michael Jackson
3/5
It’s no Cheap Thrills by AI pop superstar SIA, but I dig it. 3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Alright. If I’m gonna play damn ass 80’s rock this is the album for me. 4/5, actually enjoyed. Would put out for Duran Duran.
The Byrds
2/5
Thought the album was called Sweetheart of the Radio at first. Made me lol. Very of the time, I can’t complain. Not my everyday music but certainly has its place on my speakers. Namely when I’m not in the room. 2/5 but would listen again.
Various Artists
4/5
Nostalgia, cunt, and wholesome. What else could I ask for for Christmas?
Saint Etienne
4/5
The kind of music I’d Shazam in a bar while I’m really stoned, but then Shazam another song afterwards and not know how to find my history to see this song again. I played this album while in a 110° steam-room shower in Chicago smoking herb and it was ethereal.
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Better than I thought it would be, definitely brought me to the 80’s. I will give them credit for being surprisingly candid though. Particularly talking about chasing the dragon on Mr. Brownstone, this band stood out among a sea of boomer cis/het white men that is 80’s rock. 4/5, I would play again surprisingly.
Cocteau Twins
2/5
So much white noise. Added one song to a playlist and banished the rest to hell. 2/5
Goldie
2/5
Ummm not my favorite. Too much to listen to at once lol
Steely Dan
4/5
Really enjoyed them!! Good music that I wouldn’t have picked out myself.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2/5
I was really excited to listen to this, but I think I should have simply been excited. It was chill, not dtf though.
Beck
1/5
I started writing my review and it turned into a suicide note so I’m gonna start again.
I was cooking when I listened to this album and fell asleep standing up like some fucking bitch ass horse and then woke up to this cis/het white boy singing to me saying that it’s all in my head??? Is what all in my head??? My depression ??? Is white boy gaslighting me?? Spit your fuckin words out and say them with your chest, pussy hoe.
The focaccia I’m making is more interesting than this album so here’s my recipe:
Focaccia
2-3 cups warm water
2 1/4 tsp yeast
1 heavy tsp honey
Allow to bloom ~10 minutes
Add 4 cups flour
1tsp salt
1tbs eeoo
Mix, cover, and let rise 30 minutes
Fold 4 sides in, add eeoo around edges of bowl, cover, and let rise 30 minutes. Repeat total of 4 times.
Transfer to 9x13 or two smaller baking sheets that’s covered in more eeoo that you think you need. About 1/4 cup. Flip dough over in oil so it’s completely covered and make dents with fingertips, cover and let rise 45-60 minutes.
Bake at 450° 22-25 minutes with bowl of water underneath
Incorporate herbs, Calabrian chilis, and hard cheese into folding process or when you make dimples at the end. If you add them at the end, consider chopping them up in advance and marinating them in olive oil while you do the rest of the baking to incorporate flavor into the oil you use.
Steely Dan
3/5
This is the first repeat album for me because I got about 10 albums in before I restarted with my current group. I’m glad I listened to second time I will say. It’s chill, I added a couple songs to playlists last time and added a couple more this time too. Really enjoyed East St. Louis Toodle-Oo! I always enjoy and appreciate Stanley Dean.
Joy Division
1/5
fuck The Wombats for making me believe you could dance to Joy Division. This was a hot pile of dookie spice and I know all these hoes walking around with Joy Division band tees have never heard a real song from this album bc if they did they’d never rep this trash band. They’re lucky to get 1 star from me.
The Jam
2/5
Having more than one moody British bands in a row might impact my rating, but like….go to therapy
Magazine
2/5
Listening to this brings me back to the time I went to an underground experimental film festival-it makes me want to relapse. I can tell the drummer is talented, the guitarist shreds, and the singer has showed up to rehearsal. That doesn’t mean I enjoyed it though.
Duke Ellington
4/5
Fun! I’m glad this came up because I was getting suicidal listening to so many British bands lately. Occasionally the sound was a little squeaky and kinda hurt my hear, but I’m guessing that’s either bc of when this was recorded or the instruments fault?? Idk but it was slightly bothersome at times.
The Verve
3/5
Every song feels like the background music for the scene in a movie when the protagonist is at their lowest point and walking away from a situation, in the rain, after missing a bus, with a paper bag that just broke and spilled their groceries all over the pavement. A homeless man just walked by and gave this protagonist his coffee mug with $.13 in it. Keon pity party monologue that ends with them on a couch with empty to go containers surrounding them, haven’t shaved in days, and dirty as I’ll get out.
Isaac Hayes
5/5
Isaac Hayes could lather my soul with hot butter after listening to this. Love a long song that keeps me entertained. These two-minute pump-and-dump Ariana grande songs today can’t make me nut like hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic can.
The Modern Lovers
1/5
I’m so tired of British trash like this being considered good. “I’m Straight” is a whole song about not smoking weed??? Maybe if you did you’d actually write good music. Fuck, I’m jealous of anyone who’s never listened to this trash.
Suede
2/5
I wanna know what the hoes rating this 5/5 think of actually decent music. It’s so damn whiny, bland, and poorly written.
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
I enjoyed that they included an album that wasn’t in english. Is it my favorite album? No. Did I really enjoy playing this in the background all weekend though? Yes.
Radiohead
3/5
Tbh this album felt like I was being edged by the intro of a Linkin Park Song. I wasn’t mad about it, until he started saying “cut the kids in half.” Not as much of a downer as I thought it would be though.
Coldcut
2/5
What's that noise? Turn it off.
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Who would knew there was more where Mr. Blue Sky came from?
David Bowie
4/5
I wanted to like this album so bad, but then I heard Aladdin Sane and realized it sounded like a deaf child performing the piano for some sort of make-a-wish deal where everyone pretends their doing so well, sweetie.
Bowie’s supposed to be a sex icon, but is he hot or is he just white and skinny? I’ve always wanted to like Bowie, but the sickly twink is just fine in my book.
By the end of the album, I did come around to it enough. It was a rough start, and it’s hard to forgive him after the namesake for the album was so hard to stomach, but I did I guess. Panic in Detroit, Drive-In Saturday, The Prettiest Star, and The Jean Genie were some of my favorites. A wonderful listening experience even after the rough start, but I like it rough so I can’t complain.
The Who
2/5
Baby boomers singing about their generation is so ick.
Jack White
3/5
It’s so hard not to compare this to the white stripes. It’s not bad, but like Harry Styles going solo after One Direction: sometimes you’re just better with the band.
Big Star
3/5
Never heard this album before, and of course, the only song I recognize is In The Street. I could see myself playing it again, though, it was enjoyable! Nothing special, but a good vibe.
Kendrick Lamar
5/5
I love everything about this. The vibes, the music, the lyrics. Is Kendrick eating puss in a Rockford baseball diamond outfield? Cause he’s in a league of his own.
Sepultura
3/5
do I like this album? No. Will I listen to this album ever again? No. But, I can see why someone would like it and listen to it. I’m not mad about it, but as soon as this album was done, I switched over to listening to Lofi. Maybe I just lack culture.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
I loved this album. I came into it only knowing one song, but left with multiple on my playlists. Would listen again, did listen again.
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Chill, I enjoyed this in the background. I'll add a couple songs to my folk/country/soft indie playlist, but that doesn't mean I love this album. I'm just not mad about it.
Pulp
4/5
This music wasn’t made for me but I do appreciate the lyrics “I’m not Jesus but I have the same initials…I’d like to turn this water into wine.” Perfect music for gay Christmas (Halloween).
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand.
Parliament
5/5
Such a banger. One of the best on this list. No complaints, all vibes.
Pixies
3/5
This album wasn't bad, it just did nothing for me.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
This was. fun. 4
The Saints
3/5
This album was pretty fun, but I also didn't get into it. a 1 and a 4 at the same time....a three>>>????
Johnny Cash
5/5
if this album is the result of the carceral state, maybe I'm not an abolitionist after all
(ACAB)
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Gay synth pop, can’t complain.
Sufjan Stevens
1/5
Holy fuck he must hate Illinois
4/5
This album made me believe in aliens
Moby
2/5
I really thought I was gonna like this…not only was it not great, I just don’t think this white man sampling all black music with very little credit to original artists was worth it
David Bowie
3/5
In the eloquent words of my beloved friend, Emma, this album was:
Ok
Elliott Smith
3/5
I feel like kids who I thought were cool in middle school would’ve loved this album. Reminds me of getting bullied, so plus one point for that.
The Doors
3/5
The 1001 albums don’t pass the bechtel test. Still enjoyed this album though
Rush
2/5
Great drums, beat, lyrics, etc. Not a great time though.
Cornershop
4/5
It was boring and enjoyable at the same time. I enjoy it as background music, but not sure I enjoy listening to the entire album through. I do love background music so I'm rounding it up.
Korn
1/5
I'm not a Korn addict :/
Slint
2/5
IDK man I'm just not sold on the juice, but I would display this album cover
4/5
Surprisingly enjoyed it
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
1001 albums taught me I love funk. The joy, pleasure, and soul motivate me in ways these British bands could never.
Cheap Trick
3/5
It kinda just sounds like grown ass men having fun. I’m not mad about it
Led Zeppelin
4/5
This album motivated me to do the fattest line of imaginary cocaine off my work-issued laptop and proceed to be productive as fuck. Once I sobered up, I realized I had just been creating a zine in Canva Pro.
David Holmes
3/5
I caught myself looking to see how many more songs were left on this album multiple times. That's not a good sign.
Honestly, a song or two wouldn't be bad. An entire album made up of this music made me say, "yeah, let's get killed."
Depeche Mode
4/5
I've never seen phantom of the opera but this is what I imagine their soundtrack to look like. Listening to this gave me mental illness. Maybe that's why I kinda liked it??? 3.5 rounded up
Radiohead
1/5
I'd rather wake up every morning hungover and naked in a ditch than finish listening to this album for my first and last time.
Killing Joke
2/5
Not for me lol
Jethro Tull
4/5
IIIIIIIIIIIIII kinda vibed with it. There are a lot of things I'd do with a flute before I'd consider playing one, let alone putting it in a rock band. I'm here for it. It's a psychedelic good time.
+1 point for the use of flute and, call me a hater, but -1 point for being British. Also, I love the cover art. Incredibly relatable.
The Clash
1/5
+1 point for the album cover accurately depicting what I wanted to do to my computer while listening to this album.
Kanye West
4/5
If you're protesting this album because the artist is a nazi - I see you, understand where you're coming from, but challenge you to listen to this through once and put in effort to understand the messages and influence of this album. If it makes you feel better, you playing it once isn't getting him rich. Whatever streaming platform you're listening to it on underpays their artists anyways. If it still bothers you, put your money where your mouth is and donate to a nonprofit. Actually, if you're not making a monthly reoccurring donation to a nonprofit that benefits some sort of marginalized community, particularly a local nonprofit to you, then your protest is likely performative.
This album is so damn good. Undeniably so. I have to admit, The New Workout Plan has been on my workout playlist for years. Through The Wire was literally recorded with his mouth wired shut from facial reconstructive surgery after a car accident two weeks prior to recording. And to sample a queen, Chaka Khan, is just iconic. Slow Jamz, Breathe In Breathe Out, All Falls Down, Family Business....So many great songs from this album. I would listen to this album more regularly if he weren't a nazi.
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Sledgehammer was really good, I loved hearing Kate Bush, but overall just a little boring for me. It’s good, just boring to me…like basketball.
Mike Ladd
3/5
I tried to like this. Some songs were a lot of fun, others were just too weird for me. Unfortunately, I lack taste.
Adele
3/5
I love her voice. I saw someone describe it as luscious and it’s the only word I will use. I, for whatever reason, never thought of her as a pop singer until I listened to this album today. I see it now and I wish she had more to say. I wish she were a little messier or gritty. I’ve seen clips from her interviews where she gets raunchy - she has personality. If she brought it to her music, she might feel more dynamic.
Her hyper fixation on nostalgia makes me look at her like a republican. I get it, you miss being young (as a 25 year old?), but let’s hear something new.
David Gray
3/5
This reminds me of music that would play dramatically in a bad alternative 2011 movie. Would listen again if I wanted to ruin my day.
Metallica
2/5
It does nothing for me, but I get it. It's like eating caprese. I get it, it's just never actually exciting or groundbreaking.
Air
3/5
C'mon 1001 Albums, gurl give me nothing!!! If someone took a spy movie's soundtrack and turned it into LoFi or/instrumental music this would be the result. I love boring music though.
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Amazing songwriter and poet. I love his voice, but understand why so many artists cover his music and put their own twists on it. I listen to Leonard Cohen often and can't complain.
Tricky
5/5
Really into this, but I had never heard of this band until today. Great lyrics, great beats, no complaints. Ponderosa made me want to pick up a bad habit, but in a good way. I can only describe Black Steel by highlighting the opening lyrics:
"I got a letter from the government the other day
Opened it and read it, it said they were suckers
They wanted me for their army or whatever
Picture me givin' a damn, I said, never"
Hell Is Round the Corner and Strugglin' were instantly added to my Halloween Playlist, Aftermath is a banger, Abbot Fat Tracks was juicy, and You Don't was funky yet delicious. Brand New You're Retro fucked my neighbor and made me listen. Suffocated Love doubled down on that. You ask why this is? Mind your business. I had fun.
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
This album reminds me of when you take too much acid and then finger blast your ex to try and get her back only to sober up and realize you've been fondling your switchboard for the past few hours. Unfortunately, he hit the g-spot here. Stacy, if you're reading this please come back.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
-1 point for using my vocals at the end of One of Us Cannot Be Wrong without my permission??? His rotting corpse can talk to my fuckin lawyer.
Joni Mitchell
3/5
I thoroughly enjoyed putting this on and forgetting to listen to it and then remembering just in time for it to be over. Three times.
The Adverts
1/5
The British colonized music like they colonized the global south. I'd rather drink warm fracking water than listen to another sub-par British rock band.
In lieu: I recommend listening to the album Thunderbitch by Thunderbitch. It's a Brittany Howard band that only put out this album in 2015. This is roughly during the end of her time with Alabama Shakes and before her time with Bermuda Triangle and then her solo career. Much better rock than these white boys singing about a murderer's preserved eye balls.
Judas Priest
3/5
It's not for me, but it was a lot better than I was expecting.
Blondie
5/5
I saw Blondie live once and it took my virginity. Also, my boss said he was a groupie for Blondie for a summer in college and followed them around the prairie states and got to go backstage and party with them the entire time. That was cool to learn.
Billy Joel
4/5
I can't argue Billy Joel. Such a good album that I've never listened through until now. One of those albums I'm recognizing more songs than I thought I would and I appreciate that.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Starting my Monday off with Simon and Garfunkel really set me up on my high horse and man do I already know I'm going to fall hard. Good album, I forget how short some albums are though.
Slipknot
3/5
I was not expecting to actually like this album. I'll never listen again, but I do appreciate it more than I thought I would.
Alice Cooper
3/5
This was a lot and certainly not my vibe. School's in for me, sorry Mr. Cooper. I understand why people like it, but I just will never listen to this again.
Dagmar Krause
4/5
Hear me out: This was a banger. I wish this were streamable so I could listen to these socialist anthems more.
Beatles
4/5
I used to say One Direction could do what the Beatles did but the Beatles couldn't do what One Direction did, but I see the error in my ways now. The Beatles aren't that bad.
David Bowie
2/5
Not to be homophobic, but maybe David Bowie just isn't for me.
The Cure
2/5
This didn't cure shit.
Randy Newman
1/5
Randall telling me that all Americans are happy and then about how lonely it is at the top feels politically insensitive right now.
Dirty Projectors
1/5
I'm starting to think this list is literally just rage bait.
George Harrison
4/5
Would.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Really enjoyed. Team Stevie!
Elton John
3/5
Why did I assume this was going to be a 5 star album? Good, but not 5 stars.
Dion
3/5
Not bad enough to make me want to shoot a woman in the mouth, but you never know.
Portishead
2/5
I love music that makes me feel like I'm waitin' at the bus stop late on a rainy night with a woman standing across the street under a flickering streetlight. Bitch, if you don't stop contortin’ your body like that
Meat Loaf
4/5
Hearing Meatloaf sing "for crying out loud, you know I love you" really hit in ways I didn't expect it to.
The Rolling Stones
2/5
Don't tell anyone I asked this, but....are The Rolling Stones bad?
Mariah Carey
1/5
Honestly, did not hit. She can sing, but what's the point of singing bad songs?
The Who
2/5
Twas fine I guess.
Madonna
1/5
Nobody's Perfect might be the worst song I've ever heard in my life. A loss for women.
The Police
3/5
ACAB except these police.
The White Stripes
3/5
No thoughts, but I enjoyed it enough!
The Offspring
2/5
the lyric "you stupid dumb shit motherfucker" brought a tear to my eye
U2
2/5
in the words of U2, "it's alright, it's alright, it's alright."
Brian Eno
4/5
I love background music. Go ahead give me sweet nothings, Brian!!!
Deep Purple
3/5
This reminds me, I'm late for my appointment to steal a convertible and drive way too fast outta town with nothing but a smokin' babe at my side and a bag of viagra and cocaine. Don't let me forget my beer.
Otis Redding
5/5
I'm lathering respect on the name Otis Redding like butter.
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
I don't have the knowledge to explain why this feels outdated and simple, but I understand how this album is considered so important. It feels like a playground rhyme compared to modern artists, especially when they do that thing where they take turns saying each word in a sentence. I can see how this is the prelude to, say, Cardi B, but man is it hard to go back in time. I wish I were able to experience this in its time.
James Brown
5/5
not me screaming "Ow!" back to JB in my office :')
The Blue Nile
2/5
This reminds me of other bad 80's albums except it was consumable.
Led Zeppelin
2/5
Something I appreciate about 70's white man rock is seeing how different concepts of masculinity were compared to today. It's good, but not for me. Like Vienna sausage and apple-cinnamon oatmeal.
Paul Simon
4/5
Pst "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" is a gay tragedy
Everything But The Girl
2/5
This felt like the soundtrack to Challengers if it wasn't horny.
Big Star
2/5
The title to the album MASSIVELY misled me. Little disappointed ngl
Peter Gabriel
2/5
Clown music at times tbh
Iggy Pop
3/5
Not my favorite pervert but rock on
R.E.M.
4/5
Makes me feel like I'm on an adventure that's not too crazy but just a little out there, ja feel?
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
I tried to care, but couldn't :/
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
This is super chill. I'm really into this! Also, love the cover art.
Röyksopp
4/5
This was such a party, and I was very surprised by it
Supergrass
2/5
The cover art excited me, but the sound of the music stabbed me in the back.
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
Loving this album! Gives me baseball vibes at some points, but I’m not complaining.
Nick Drake
3/5
I've been listening to sad music this week so it really hit the vibe for me. I had a great word in mind to describe this album and then forgot it so I spent over an hour looking at thesaurus.com to find it again. I never found it :/
Peter Gabriel
2/5
I listened to it....honestly who the hell is Peter and why should I care about him???? 3???
Radiohead
1/5
An album for people who truly deserve their government disability checks. Seek therapy immediately if you enjoyed this.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Not the greatest Stevie Wonder moment, but a great one definitely!!
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
I love a short king (re: album length)
Syd Barrett
1/5
Take your own advice, Syd. It's no Good Trying...
Beastie Boys
2/5
It was neat to put music to the name, Beastie Boys, but it got old fast. Hush little white boys, but I did like the sampling.
Brian Wilson
4/5
Brian suffered so you could listen to Good Vibrations in a Long John Silvers bathroom
Frank Zappa
4/5
Oh to be a fly on the dirty ass wall of whatever drug den this album was created in
Ramones
3/5
bring out the glue!!
Joni Mitchell
3/5
I think the significance of this album is to show that queens can flop too. Rounded up for the lyric “like a priest with a pornographic watch”
Lenny Kravitz
2/5
I was not surprised to hear him screaming about gardening and then I was even less surprised to hear the lyrics to his corny ass song “Does Anybody Out There Even Care.”
Giant Sand
1/5
I’m such a hater. Forgive me lord but chore is the word I too would use to describe my experience listening to this album.
Cat Stevens
2/5
What’s the tea? This album was not for me.
Pink Floyd
3/5
I'm just not a Pink Floyd fan, sue me
The Prodigy
1/5
I would rather be mauled by this clearly bisexual crab than listen again
The Smiths
3/5
Not as bad as I remember, actually kinda liked this album tbh
Happy Mondays
1/5
Sometimes I stare at the “Did Not Listen” button with lust. I long for a timeline in which I had decided not to listen to this one album. Who would know? Who would care? I imagine in that timeline we brought out the guillotine for lousy politicians, enacted universal healthcare and other socialist policies that truly benefit us, the people. But I just know in my heart of hearts that listening to “Happy Monday’s” is what took that future utopia from me. From us. Anyways, congrats Ariana on Sweetener.
The Isley Brothers
4/5
Such a good time. If You Were There flirted with me at the Applebees bar and then You Walk Your Way tossed my salad on a booth under an Applebees stained glass light fixture. I think we all know what happened during Sunshine (Go Away).
Fiona Apple
1/5
This [redacted] couldn't make listenable music if her [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] until [redacted] [redacted] and [redacted] [redacted]. Her [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] was simply too [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] for my personal taste and I've tasted [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] on a hot [redacted]. I wish her the [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]. And all y'all [redacted] [redacted] rating this anything more than one star are [redacted] liars who deserve [redacted] [redacted]. See y'all in [redacted].
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Political, chill, and sexy
Kraftwerk
2/5
Would've been better without any words.
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
I liked this album until I punched a barista for handing me a hot coffee. I asked for it hot, but G. Love told me I wanted a cold beverage and my barista wanted a knuckle sandwich. Not very chill white boy of me.
David Bowie
2/5
David Bowie: An Icon I can't get behind. Like Jane Lynch. I wouldn't stand behind that woman after all that yogurt.
Fatboy Slim
1/5
Fatboy Slim fucking in heaven is my personal Pearl Harbor. This album sounds like if a white dude took a great funk record, a few Viagra, too much acid, and then asked himself "how can I make this album suck?"
Talking Heads
4/5
wazzup losers, i bet u thot id h8 this
Led Zeppelin
3/5
There are a lot of reasons to hate boomers, but listening to this and thinking “yeah, Mr. LED can sing” is a top 20 reason.
Throbbing Gristle
1/5
This album made me pro-9/11. I hate the west for allowing this album to happen.
3/5
This is like if Fiona Apple was good
Funkadelic
5/5
I think about half of the albums on this list deserve to be on this list. This definitely deserves to be here.
2/5
Rubbish
Radiohead
1/5
Mental illness!!!!!
Taylor Swift
3/5
Listen...for an artist who's known for their lyrics and storytelling, this is fine at best. +1 point out of fear that some bitch in red lip stick and a cardigan will run me over with her call singing no body no crime if I leave too low of a review.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Today I learned Bob Dylan and Bob Marley are different people. I also learned I prefer Marley...but Dylan seems cool too tbh
Marvin Gaye
4/5
fuck them kids
Rahul Dev Burman
2/5
Refreshing change from British junk, but it does feel like the so-called music critics who created this list saw this film and decided to throw this album on as a token.
Black Sabbath
4/5
what those hands do
Tom Waits
3/5
If I ever start drag, I'll only perform to Tom Waits.
The Temptations
4/5
id' get nasty to this
Iron Maiden
2/5
not all 1001 can be good
Tracy Chapman
4/5
I know I should like Fast Car, but it makes me want to throw up. Everything else sops up that vomit tho!!!!
Van Morrison
5/5
I always assumed I wouldn't like them but I loved
The Killers
4/5
All bangers no mash
The Who
3/5
ive sucked ur dads dick to this album
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
proof american exceptionalism isnt real
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
this album reminds me of the time I was fired from my university job at the beginning of a shift and then asked to work the rest of my shift. I stuck around for a few hours until an average looking man offered to eat my ass, then I just got up and left early.
Kraftwerk
2/5
the kind of music your straight white friend puts on while you're smoking. He keeps promising you it gets better. Okay, Dan Savage.
The Birthday Party
1/5
We all have journeys, I’m glad Nick Cave’s journey departed from this stop long ago.
Yes
3/5
nerdz
Carole King
4/5
1001 albums finally named a woman for a dollar
Stereolab
2/5
I mean id rather listen to this than join the us army
Muddy Waters
5/5
anything's a 5 star compared to german electronic shart
Super Furry Animals
2/5
music like this is what happens when the unemployment rate is too high (it was around 8-9% in 1996, Wales). Keep people employed so we don't have to listen to this garbage.
Soundgarden
2/5
2 dark 4 me
Aretha Franklin
5/5
if u don't think about latrice royale vs lil kenya michaels when you make me feel like (a natural woman) comes on, ur 2 str8 4 me
works cited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t8M4nPxhfI
Beatles
3/5
one direction could've done the same thing but with a prettier album cover. someone left the band early? check. tragically dead band member? checkmate.
Sheryl Crow
3/5
ON A SATURDAY NIGHT
Ravi Shankar
3/5
I read the top review, about the guy doin drugs and fucking a frog or something like that, and knew I needed to invite friends over to get stoned and listen. Did not disappoint. Will never listen again though.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
I clicked on the profile of someone who rated this album 1 star to see if they were clearly mentally unwell. They seemed cool. I'm just judgmental.
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
lovely, gorg-iana, icon, straight up cunt, BE-YOU-tiful, Linda Evangelista, real eyes realize real lies, intel core processor, salty salty crocodile tears yum yum yum in my tum.
The Soft Boys
3/5
2 long and that's coming from someone who listened to Ella Fitzgerald's 3-hour album yesterday. I hav e soft spot for soft bois tho
The Zombies
3/5
This happened and I was there and I would return to this again
Fugees
5/5
How ya gonna say this sounds the same but the hundreds of brit-pop albums don't?????
3/5
Everytime I see a Bowie album, I think "fuck yes I love Bowie" then I listen to it and remember that I don't actually love Bowie
The Black Keys
4/5
I fully agree with all of the one star reviews. 4 stars though.
AC/DC
3/5
Kinda like getting finger blasted while watching the latest marvel movie. It means nothing to me, but I'm still having enough fun.
Rod Stewart
4/5
slay mama
Little Richard
5/5
this put me in heat
Michael Jackson
3/5
I think about all the teenage girls who waited for this album to drop and then listened to it for the first time with their best judies...... group listening parties are so missing from the culture rn
The Shamen
2/5
y'all really dug up their graves and shot their bones for fun with these reviews
Donovan
4/5
delightful and I'm glad I got to hear it
Justin Timberlake
1/5
murder-suicide was #justified by this album
The Doors
4/5
I actually enjoyed this, which tells me I should book an appointment with my therapist
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
he’s too cool for me tbh
Maxwell
5/5
this album cured my g.i. issues
Miles Davis
4/5
I played this a couple of notches too loud on a rainy Friday with the lights in my office dimmed and the part that brought me joy was students raising their voice to talk to me and then me whispering my nonsensical answers back to them while sipping my coffee. Jokes on them, I took an edible before work and my answer was always gonna be nonsense.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
maybe it's the ear infection talking, but I kinda liked this
Aretha Franklin
4/5
i love urethra
Santana
5/5
this guy does drugs
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
I outgrew this vibe and can't get myself to go back :/
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
I'm sipping that hatorade with this one
N.W.A.
4/5
I prefer my ACAB with less hate for women and other marginalized groups. Fuck all police and ice tho
The Doors
1/5
I'm so sick of these doors
Boston
3/5
it's like a cup of coffee from a diner, it's good enough.
Pavement
1/5
If you like chewing gravel, you'll love Pavement
fIREHOSE
3/5
im listenin
Thin Lizzy
3/5
This was more fun than I normally have with this genre of dirt
Willie Nelson
4/5
makes me wanna roll up in a blanket and smoke a fat doobie
The Cars
4/5
4/5 would listen in my car
Bebel Gilberto
3/5
Shout out to the reviewer who thought this was French music, I hope life treats you well but that you never vote.
Method Man
3/5
Beth Orton
2/5
I fell asleep at my desk :(
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
the ideal
Dusty Springfield
3/5
a bitch named dusty
Kate Bush
3/5
one strange bitch!!!!
Dead Kennedys
2/5
I love the politically charged messages, but don't love the sound :/ I'm just not punk ig
Nas
3/5
I like it for other people =)
CHIC
5/5
I listen to the song Le Freak when I vote
Joy Division
1/5
Every time I hear Joy Division, I wonder if they ever considered making good music
Cee Lo Green
2/5
Everything about this album was up my alley except the music ://
PJ Harvey
4/5
I feel like I was lured into this broad's basement where she handcuffed me to a radiator and made me listen to her band. By the end I was a little turned on
Johnny Cash
5/5
makes me wanna go to prison :/
Jurassic 5
4/5
F U N
1/5
:(
Eels
2/5
where's the freak?????
The Human League
4/5
makes me wanna dance in leg warmers
Gorillaz
3/5
I think I overpromised myself how much I was gonna like this album and it undersold my internal promise. Extra point for my prior expectations getting in the way of simply enjoy myself #TherapyWorks
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
where's my skin shoes
Ananda Shankar
2/5
I got a lil lost in hyperspace :/
The Rolling Stones
3/5
the kind of album that plays in the background at a white people bbq joint
Todd Rundgren
3/5
makes me wanna do drugs
Eagles
1/5
fuck the eagles
Stan Getz
5/5
I dated a few Brazilians in my day and by dated I mean I was a slut
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
1/5
when I was young I was mad at my brother for taking the last bowl of cereal after I claimed it so I took a chopstick, stuck it in fresh dog poop, and then put it in his bowl so he couldn't have any either. it was really fucked up of me. I would eat that bowl before listening to this again though.
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
bad album generator, naughty!!!!!!!
Pixies
1/5
minus one point to my personality for not liking this album :/
Deep Purple
2/5
I'm sorry to all my fan out there, but I don't like :(
Arcade Fire
3/5
inoffensive, but also unimpressive
Heaven 17
2/5
this album showed me first-hand how white boys appropriated the word groove for their shite music...I was expecting something actually groovy
The Prodigy
2/5
I need an album to speak to me again,..,,..it's been so long
Devendra Banhart
5/5
sounds like a sexy and illiterate working class man. would smash. Adding an extra point so Devendra notices me. If you see this Devendra, you can take my anal virginity please call me my phone is (608) 769-4621
Green Day
4/5
wasn't dookie, but was obviously dookie
Beck
2/5
tre ord. no thank u
Hole
3/5
Courtney love could kill me and frame it as an overdose any day
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
I respect knowing your place enough to make your album 20 minutes long
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
those herbs could use a lil lemon and salt but I don't really mind bland
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
I like my music like I like my chicken: bland & unseasoned
R.E.M.
3/5
I want to like his voice so bad but he reminds me too much of RuPaul :/
Brian Eno
3/5
I see why this album deserves 5 stars. 3 stars
Neu!
2/5
this inspired wii music
The Beach Boys
3/5
I always thought The Beach Boys were gonna be hotter tb h
David Bowie
2/5
learning bowie was alive and making music in 2016 feels as weird as learning Dali only died in '89...I'm sick to my stomach
De La Soul
4/5
some people just know how to have fun
Culture Club
4/5
feels like the soundtrack in a queer 80's film
David Crosby
2/5
The streaming service that I use that's definitely legal suggested Steely Dan after I finished this album and I much preferred that
Leonard Cohen
3/5
I have to be in the right mood for Cohen....I'm just not in that mood rn :/
Marvin Gaye
5/5
as a cis-man I cannot get pregnant, but this album makes me wanna try
Fela Kuti
5/5
protest art turns me on
Circle Jerks
3/5
not for me, but I respect the 15 minute album so much that I'm giving them an extra point, so punk
Elton John
4/5
if this were put at the beginning of the list, I would've given it a 5 hands down....after listening to so many great albums, I'm not sure it actually deserves all the 5's it gets though :/
Pulp
2/5
I just can't get behind this idk man
Talking Heads
3/5
Much like, a sexy conspiracy theorist, I would’ve liked it more if they would’ve kept their damn mouth shut.
The White Stripes
2/5
I went from unenthused to vomiting
Robert Wyatt
1/5
the dreams I had when I fell asleep listening to this were my rock bottom
Minutemen
2/5
The kind of album people pretend to like
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
Did I like this? I asked myself as I listened to it a third time.
The Clash
2/5
I wish I were more punk also I just noticed that I had an unnecessary comma in a review from a few weeks ago so in honor of this punk album im making this review a complex sentence without ANY commas to make up for my IDIOCY anyways im not punk enough for this kind of music but i fear the people who listen to this too much to give it a 1 star so 2 stars
Coldplay
3/5
Bland and corny but I had more fun than I thought I would :)
Franz Ferdinand
5/5
I'm editing my review to add this fun story: when I was a child I heard the song Take Me Out while I was sleeping at a cousin's house and woke up wanting to remember it so bad bc it was unlike anything I was allowed to listen to in my deeply catholic family. we used to get these lists of new songs, movies, books, etc that we were allowed or not allowed to listen to every week at church, so the media I consumed until about middle school was very limited. by the time we left the church and I started being allowed to listen to popular music, I had forgotten the lyrics and the beat of Take Me Out and was never able to find this song. I have a memory or two of turning on the radio and this song was ending but the dj must've announced the song before playing it bc they didn't announce it after, instead it went right into the next song. It's honestly haunted me for almost two decades trying to figure out what that song was. I finally figured it out listening to this album for 1001 albums and I've since been playing this song A LOT. It's not that I think it's the greatest song ever or anything, it's more just the feeling of solving a mystery that's lasted almost 20 years that I associated heavily with my religious upbringing. Thank you 1001 albums.
Fuck the Catholic Church, please donate to your nearest independent abortion clinic, the Midwest Access Coalition, or your nearest small LGBTQ+ resource center.
Robert Wyatt
2/5
this put me to shleep :/
Stereo MC's
5/5
This just feels like the earlier part of the 90's, which I don't remember because I wasn't alive yet you old fucks
The Go-Go's
4/5
I'll be brave and say what we're all thinking.....we got the beat reminds me of jimmy neutron
R.E.M.
2/5
The best part of this album is knowing both McCarthy and Reagan are rotting in the ground where they belong.
Daft Punk
1/5
I'd rather be one of the 22 victims at Ariana Grande's concert bombing than listen to this again
Bill Callahan
1/5
this made me wish I had decided to purchase ariana grande concert tickets on may 22nd, 2017 in manchester, england
Bert Jansch
4/5
when I was in middle school I took one guitar lesson and when I didn't sound like this I cried and quit