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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sulk The Associates	5	2.36	+2.64
Movies Holger Czukay	5	2.71	+2.29
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	5	2.83	+2.17
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.86	+2.14
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	5	2.9	+2.1
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.95	+2.05
Joan Baez Joan Baez	5	2.96	+2.04
Larks' Tongues In Aspic King Crimson	5	3	+2
White Ladder David Gray	5	3.07	+1.93
Permission to Land The Darkness	5	3.14	+1.86

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
London Calling The Clash	1	3.98	-2.98
21 Adele	1	3.69	-2.69
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	1	3.61	-2.61
The Clash The Clash	1	3.54	-2.54
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	1	3.53	-2.53
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	1	3.41	-2.41
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.37	-2.37
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	1	3.29	-2.29
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	1	3.29	-2.29

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	4.5
Black Sabbath	3	4.67
Tom Waits	2	5
Iron Maiden	2	5
The Flaming Lips	2	5
Elton John	2	5
Depeche Mode	2	5
Bob Dylan	4	4.25
Kate Bush	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Clash	2	1
Eminem	2	1.5
Bruce Springsteen	2	1.5
The Who	3	2

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Pink Floyd	5, 1
ABBA	1, 5
Madonna	1, 3, 4

5-Star Albums (62)

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Popular Reviews

Tracy Chapman

5/5

The guy who left the Secretary Rock review is absolutely unhinged. Beautiful music, strong themes that are sadly still very relevant today. Gotta be a 5.

13 likes

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

2/5

God the 50s are fucking dreadful.

4 likes

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Lyrical masterpiece and far more influential than the Beatles

3 likes

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

Where did they find that MC? The job centre?

1 likes

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Some of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, til the second half

1 likes

4-Star Albums (85)

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

1-Star Albums (47)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

All Ratings

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

The first half of the album, the annoying piano is so intense that nothing else can really breathe in the mix. Second half was brilliant. 3 seems fair.

Tracy Chapman

5/5

The guy who left the Secretary Rock review is absolutely unhinged. Beautiful music, strong themes that are sadly still very relevant today. Gotta be a 5.

Blur

4/5

They lost me a bit in the middle, and the fact they wanted to release Essex Dogs as a single is insane to me, but if you are looking for experimental indie at its finest, Blur really achieved this with this album. I feel like 4 is too high, I would give it a 3.5, but such id our flawed voting system that I have to round up.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

I just wish the vocals were a little louder on some of the tracks.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

This album started off AMAZINGLY strongly until the title track presented itself like a blood-sucking vampire and killed the energy. Following that, it was like being upset in a nightclub, the party still takes place around you, you sober up a bit and try to get back into the groove, occasionally getting another drink, and giving it your best dance even though you keep being pulled back to being upset. It just doesn't feel the same after track 5.

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Mellow, beautiful, somehow left wanting a bit more whilst also not knowing how.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

If this scale was /10 ot would be 8.5 Then you remember it doesn't allow decimals so you round to 9 Then you divide it by 2 because this is out of 5 so it is 4.5 But then you remember again you cannot have decimals so you round it up to 5 That's the formula for working out this rating, but the formula for an amazing Pixies album is Black Francis plus Kim Deal plus distortion equals a really really good time.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Whyyyyyy?

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

Great performance but -1 for being a cover album and -1 for choosing songs that go on about death all the time.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

This review might be a bit biased because I have fond memories of listening to this in my favourite bar back when I was in college. The only bad thing was when some magician guy tried to hit on me, not realising I was a dude with long hair. This used to amuse the bartender who otherwise seemed to be having a very frustrating shift each time.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

If you like lyrics about sexual and animal abuse, this is the album for you. But also get help.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

John Lennon has a really nice voice. Paul is so annoying.

Triangle

The Beau Brummels

2/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

1/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Lyrical masterpiece

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

1/5

I cannot get past the annoying squeak in his voice to get through the album I am sorry.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

1/5

This was absolute shite. Please never make my ears hear this again. I would rather roll around in battery acid.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

Lmao wtf is this, nevertheless he had a song about dogs and ending up charming me with his strange music.

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

I was torn between 3 and 4 but the peaks of this album definitely send it to the 4 territory.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Influential but got very samey

Spiderland

Slint

3/5

I enjoyed it whilst also simultaneously waiting for something to happen in every song.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

4/5

I wanted to dislike this because of Bono, but Kite is beautiful.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Very pleasant

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

Instrumentals were fun but the vocals were too over the top.

Joanna Newsom

3/5

I hated this the first time I listened to it, but honestly the optimal time to listen to it is when cleaning your flat like mad before visitors come and you need something to both calm you down and make you feel chaotic at the same time to keep up the pace. That is this EP.

Music

Madonna

1/5

Going from Ray of Light to this in two years should be a chargeable offence. It is no wonder that the word music is in quotation marks on the cover. Dull, uninspired, ticking boxes for a record. I hated this for how much I couldn't enjoy it - at least give me a reason to listen to it again even if it's so bad I have to laugh. This had nothing. And yet I will probably give Ray of Light four or five stars when I get it.

Pretenders

2/5

The singer's voice annoyed me and the band just felt like an accompanying act to her. Still, far more authentic than Madonna's "Music" so this isn't a 1.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

I wasn't sure what to rate this. I won't give it a 5 as its mostly covers but... Imagine if an alien came to Earth and said "We have been studying the instrument known as bongos from afar. Bring me your best bongo album or I will vaporize you. The fate of your entire planet rests on my opinion of this album." It would be this album. It has to be the best album to have bongos in every track. It's a 4. Fuck it actually let's go 5.

Elvis Presley

2/5

I get he inspired a generation but this was just dull apart from Blue Suede Shoes.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

This album tells me that I might like PJ Harvey on albums of hers that have less repetitive chords and wailing. I hear that. I just don't fully like this one.

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

This would be a 2 but two albums of THIS? It's a 1.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

5 stars. No notes.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

Captivating

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

This album was the musical equivalent of eating a scone. I don't really like scones.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Really nice and with such a short length did not stay its welcome, but it is the same reason I took a star off as this is basically EP length. I know things have changed since those days but yeah!

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Lyrical masterpiece and far more influential than the Beatles

Dog Man Star

Suede

4/5

Some of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, til the second half

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

I didn't listen because his last album has not aged well lyrically with lyrics of sexual volence and misogyny but I know this has Stan on it so gave it 2 instead of 1.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Nice voice but very boring

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

I should have tired of this with it being a double album. I did a little during Disc 2 but not enough to downgrade it. Amazing.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

1/5

Boring as fuck

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Sea Change is far better

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

2/5

God the 50s are fucking dreadful.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

This would be a 1 if not for California Dreamin'

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

Where did they find that MC? The job centre?

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1/5

If I spent all of this time explaining what my review was going to be like before actually writing my review, you'll hsve an idea what this album is like.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

A poeerful voice yet also a relaxing one, beautiful instrumentation, I loved this album.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

The easiest 5 I will give on here.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

1/5

I normally reserve my 1s for music that is uninspired The Who were inspired by a concept here, it was just a reslly shit execution. Utterly annoying with cheeky chappy vocals. I Can See For Miles almost bumped it to a 2. Almost.

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Beautiful.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

I hate what Kanye has become, but unlike Eminem's lyrics I could listen to this in isolation and be okay with it (apart from.The New Workout Plan, -1). I was going to give this a 4 but I think with the lyrics to that song, a 3 feels right.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

"You're a vegetable, ow!"

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

I was debating between 4 and 5 for this but then I realised that if the lyrics were English I would be rating it 5 because the instrumentation moved me and I really like the singer's voice. I don't want to rate something down just because I don't understand the language of the music, so it's a 5.

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

It was great when he wasn't singing. Although the last track SLAPPED.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

I hate the blues but I liked his voice.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

I was so close to giving this a 1 AND calling it my least favourite album so far. Honestly, just listening to a chav be irritated about things, getting into arguments and fights, it is highly awful. Honestly I would rather have the "rare parrot" in the Stephen Fry clip shag me in the ear than listen to this again. I am only giving it 2 because the ending song makes it come full circle and at least gives a point to the journey, but what a shit journey that was. Edit: Actually, not many albums since have been as bad as this. It's a 1.

Sister

Sonic Youth

2/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

Bolan likes to talk about himself like this a lot. Bolan also likes to rock. Bolan is a knob.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

The singles are amazing but I have never heard so much filler on one album before.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

1/5

I love nu-metal But I fucking despise Korn

The Coral

3/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

5/5

What an absolute joy this was.

Opus Dei

Laibach

4/5

Fun

Dry

PJ Harvey

2/5

Play

Moby

3/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Jazzy!

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

4/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

1/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

The Doors

3/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Blues garbage

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

This would be a 4 but they said their own name 104 times before the third track.

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

5/5

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

The Visitors

ABBA

1/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

Iron Maiden

5/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

1/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

3/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

1/5

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

808 State

2/5

Ramones

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Suzanne Vega

4/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

1/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

Queens of the Stone Age

2/5

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

1/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Phrenology

The Roots

1/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Achtung Baby

5/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

3/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Femi Kuti

4/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

5/5

London Calling

The Clash

1/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

2/5

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

AMAZING first half. Absolutely goes downhill in the second but the first half was GOAT territory so it retains the 5.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Often duplicated, never replicated or whatever the phrase is

Adele

1/5

Dreary, boring, miserable.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

4/5

I wasn't liking this but then I fell asleep and it works amazingly well as a semi-conscious nap album

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

David Bowie

5/5

The greatest album of all time

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

1/5

Spaceman 1

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

If the song Alife is what I think it's about then fuck you Robert Wyatt

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

The rockier songs slapped

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

I do like when it sounds melancholic but it stays too long being upbeat which doesn't suit his voice

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

I think I FINALLY get Nick Cave

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

1/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Better than Missy Elliott at least

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

First four tracks are great, the rest verges on annoying to overrated

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

It's like a better Green Onions

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Begrudgingly this is a 5. Many big tracks and if you want cheesy Euro pop, you are not going to find an album that personifies that genre more than this. I really dislike ABBA, but I can't say this is not a 5.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Funky

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

The singer's voice annoys me

Konnichiwa

Skepta

1/5

This is the only album I will rate without listening to. I have heard Skepta singles on the radio and grime in general. 1.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Vibe

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

The singles on this absolutely slap and the rest just exists

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

5/5

Oh my days this was a joy.

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Sweet but very boring

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Temporary

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Temporary

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Good energy

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

Soulless, generic sugary trash but at least it got hits at the time and did what it was supposed to do.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

I haven't listened yet but I already know this is awful

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Quite nice, rambled far too much in Jesus with all due respect

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

It's okay. Title track is legendary.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

It feels like one long song

Os Mutantes

2/5

Nothing special, heard worse

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Pleasant

Mott

Mott The Hoople

2/5

It was okay

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Like the artwork suggests, this sandwich has a lot of filler. It's a good job the start and end are classics.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Fuck yeah

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

5/5

Absolutely incredible, especially Exiles!

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Never change Pere Ubu

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Stunning

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

If not for some iconic songs this would be a 1. So bloody dreary besides the hits.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

It was okay

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Genuinely surprised this was as good as it was given it was the first album in a while from an older Bowie, but tracks like Heat bored me to tears which stopped it being a 5.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Samba bores me I am sorry

Joan Baez

5/5

What a hauntingly beautiful voice

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Honestly, the covers I have heard of Portishead songs seem better than the original thing, but it is still a 4.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

This feels like the only Stones record I have had so far that doesn't fall off a cliff after an iconic opener

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

Mancunian classic innit mate

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Bit of a vibe here from Mr. Wonder

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Ugh no

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Key songs are great, the rest falls flat

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Surprisingly delightful

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

Yawn

Violent Femmes

4/5

Fun!

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

2/5

Drags a lot, nothing special

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Pivotal album

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Annoyingly this is good at times

Ctrl

SZA

1/5

Unremarkable, why is it here?

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

I cannot believe I am giving Yes a 3, but some parts were nice

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

Amazing at times, wtf at other times

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

5/5

Dark, pulsating goodness

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

So close to 5 but that TV song was ass

L.A. Woman

The Doors

3/5

Meh

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Iconic

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

Wtf was this?

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Bit average

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

2/5

She really doesn't like men

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Extraordinary

White Ladder

David Gray

5/5

Lovely

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

5/5

Despite the creepy cover, this was unexpectedly beautiful

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Dark and groovy

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

4/5

Really nice voice, not usually my favourite genre.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

So close to a 5 but I did get occasionally bored. Songs like Words and Pounding though are incredible.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

I have loved every album I have heard from them but had never heard anything before Surrender. God this was awful. Setting Sun saved this from a one.

The Clash

1/5

Who listens to this and considers it music?

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

I didn't know Iggy had a nice voice on some tracks

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

I really liked this to start with but how did it feel a million hours long? Despite being 40 minutes, feels like 20 minutes would have been the perfect length.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

4/5

This was a bit insane, for the most part I liked that

Sulk

The Associates

5/5

This was madness

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Groovy. Bongo Bong SLAPS.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Almost as good as The Soft Bulletin

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

Very samey but fun

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Kinda boring but okay

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Kinda cheesy a lot of the time but quite good

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Surprisingly quite good

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

How 60's do you want to be?

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Roundabout saves this from a 2

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

Nothing is as good as the first song

The xx

4/5

Moody

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

What an insane debut

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

2/5

I was going to give this a 1 but the last song has a lyric about their music not being particularly good so at least they are self aware.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

Just a horrible sound

Van Halen

3/5

Generic Dad Rock

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Slightly less generic Dad Rock

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

This one of theirs was just okay. Also the Cure cover ends way too abruptly.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

4/5

Better than I expected given finding her extremely annoying on social media adverts

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Okay

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

1/5

Horrible voice, awful lyrics, terrible genre

NEU! 75

Neu!

1/5

Bored my non-existent tits off

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

The main bit is a 5, the rest drags it down to a 3

Low

David Bowie

2/5

Marginally okay

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

1/5

That voice was painful

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

5/5

Batshit insane, I love it

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Not as good as Blue

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

Mostly good apart from the bluesy bit.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

1/5

Awful. The song Wilson is a bit sus. Check their browsing history and lock them up.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

2/5

I was very bored

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

2/5

Quite boring

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Not my thing but they were the best at it

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

Kinda like a boring version of the Spyro soundtrack

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Almost a 3

Highly Evolved

The Vines

2/5

I didn't expect this one to be boring but it was

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Meh

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

1/5

Not my favourite album of his, I prefer Accusations. It's not on streaming services though, but you can find it by googling "Ryan Adams Accusations".

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Quite good

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

1/5

Recently listened to the entire Pink Floyd discography, a new album each day, I already know this album is terrible and they only got good in the early-mid 70s (and by good I mean amazing). The 60s are awful in general though and so is this.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

1/5

Tainted Love almost brought this to a 2 but it's a cover so I am not letting the one good song on this save it from a 1. Also, Sex Dwarf, lol but what in the actual fuck

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Sensational

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

This was alright

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

I would normally give most blues a 1 but I like Muddy's voices

Black Monk Time

The Monks

4/5

This was crazy and I think it inspired Pixies

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Incredible

Reign In Blood

Slayer

3/5

Meh

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

I was bored to death with this one, sorry Bruce

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

They have a nice voice but music like this does nothing for me

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

Soothing at times, boring at others

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Obviously a classic but this type of rock is just very meh to me

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

Pretty good

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

I like his voice

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Surprisingly not bad

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Best album of any Beatle solo or collectively. Incredible songwriting.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Revolutionary

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

1/5

I do not care for this style of music and the fact he has way too many albums actively annoys me.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

1/5

For your pleasure, but not mine.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Not the worst album ever, not great either.

The Velvet Underground

1/5

Bored me to tears

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

Bit weird, especially the lofi jazz tune with nuclear excerpts

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

2/5

Budget Lou Reed and friends. That temptation of egg song was a bit too r*pey.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

2/5

That singer's voice was horrible

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

2/5

There's elements of this I really like but needed far more variation. I really don't like this era of electronic music being all the same song but in different parts.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

I am in love with everything this man does

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Better than the other one of his I had

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Temp