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Album	You	Global	Diff
Arise Sepultura	5	2.73	+2.27
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwon	5	2.85	+2.15
Scum Napalm Death	4	2.07	+1.93
Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention	5	3.14	+1.86
Made In Japan Deep Purple	5	3.29	+1.71
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.4	+1.6
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	5	3.42	+1.58
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	5	3.43	+1.57
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.43	+1.57

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.72	-2.72
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.3	-2.3
Shaka Zulu Ladysmith Black Mambazo	1	3.09	-2.09
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	2	4.05	-2.05
Sunshine Hit Me The Bees	1	2.99	-1.99
A Night At The Opera Queen	2	3.96	-1.96
Mott Mott The Hoople	1	2.95	-1.95
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	1	2.95	-1.95
Ctrl SZA	1	2.92	-1.92
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1	2.92	-1.92

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	4	4.75
Metallica	3	4.67
Talking Heads	3	4.67
Black Sabbath	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Tom Waits	2	1
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	1.5

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Casanova

The Divine Comedy · 2 likes

1/5

Don't know who this is but fuck him and his terrible album

Master Of Puppets

Metallica · 1 likes

5/5

For sure one of the greatest metal albums of all time. The only thrash album that can compete is Rust in Peace

C'est Chic

CHIC · 1 likes

3/5

Very groovy. The instrumental Savoir Faire a highlight.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention · 1 likes

5/5

Sandy Denny is one of my all time favourite vocalists and this album is one of the main reasons why. Fairport Convention released two of the greatest british folk rock albums in less than a year; this and Liege and Lief!

Smile

Brian Wilson · 1 likes

3/5

It's good but why listen to this when Smile sessions actually exists now

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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

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Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

1967 is arguably the greatest year in music history. This album would be up there with the best but there are some good, not great songs here. Jimi is no doubt the goat guitarist though.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

Good energy, fun to listen to. Setlist is honestly rather bad though.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The worst of the first four Zep albums, still slaps

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

More complex than albums like Dookie or Insomniac, but still catchy and fun with no bad songs.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Adele

2/5

John Prine

3/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Doesn't really hold up at all, an absolute snoozer. The type of album you put on if you want people to leave the rave and go home.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

Nothing special dreampop album. Some good songs mixed with forgettable ones.

Mott

Mott The Hoople

1/5

The biggest hit on this feature one of the worst saxophone solos I've ever heard and it doesn't ever get any better

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Future Days

Can

2/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1/5

A voice like nails on a chalkboard, but a little worse

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

2/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

This is pretty good but wtf does it do on this list

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

This would be very good if you didn't have to listen to the most german accent ever singing. Persian Love is great.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

It's quite solid, safe but unspectacular. Speedway is the best song on the album by far

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Not a jazz fan at all, but this is funky and groovy as hell

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

My controversial Ye opinion is that his early work isn't that good. Overproduced, autotune, too many skits. But there are some diamonds in here as well.

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

I know nothing about latino music, but I know this is straight up annoying to listen too. Production is superb for a 50s album.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

808 State

3/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Of course a band with the most boring name will make the most boring rock music possible

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Bowie released what, 20 albums? This isn't even top 15.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

2/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

For sure one of the greatest metal albums of all time. The only thrash album that can compete is Rust in Peace

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Some sensational funky basslines in an otherwise repetetive and bland album

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

I've done this thing for 40 days and this is like the fifth "krautrock" album I've had to listen to. It starts of well with an instrumental, some early drone metal almost. Then there are a bunch of germans with heavy accents playing bad psychedelic rock five years after the rest of the world did it. Fucking terrible.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

It's good, very good. Artists loudly singing love ballads isn't my kind of music though. The random "I love you" on So Real is the cheesiest thing I've ever heard in music

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

The best Genesis album

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

First song is an absolute jam, don't really care for the rest of the album

Wild Gift

2/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

The third or fourth best Kate Bush album is still better than anything most artists will ever produce. Shoutout to Gilmours guitar on Rocket's Tail and the bassline on Love and Anger

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

Ah, peak 60s pop. Just don't google John Phillips.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

3/5

Good voice, lots of variety. First half of the album is better than the second.

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

Holds up super well

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Never listened to this group. Enjoyed it quite a lot without feeling the urge to listen to it again. Gave Heaven or Las Vegas a listen and liked it more

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

This is the fourth best Tribe album. Four stars.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Beats and rhymes are empty and boring. This just hasn't aged well at all. Influential sure, but Grandmaster flash and Sugarhill gang did it better and earlier.

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

It's good but why listen to this when Smile sessions actually exists now

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Boring instrumentals, terrible singer and cheesy lyrics. Every song sounds like a discarded Disney song. Yeah I think I hate this

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

I like James Brown but I don't get how this is as highly rated as it is

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Throw a massive pile of diarrhea on the wall and see what sticks: The album. Most of it won't stick of course, this is pretty terrible, but at least it was unique for it's time.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Fucking flawless, one of the best debuts ever

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

3/5

The Band

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Great music, terrible vocalists. What a shame.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Look at that, the greatest ever country album

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Listened to the first three songs but I'm afraid I'll fall asleep if I listen to the rest.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

2/5

It's somewhere between awful and "well, not that terrible"

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

Country died in the 80s

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Very groovy. The instrumental Savoir Faire a highlight.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

A mix of 80s hip hop and what was yet to come in the 90s. Superb album. A bit too much filler and skits though.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

There are a couple of songs that would make good hiphop beats in here, but as a 70 minute album it's an absolute snoozer

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Nothing wrong with their music, I just kinda hate Pet Shop Boys for no real reason

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

Some good songs here, but there is only so long a bunch of bongo covers can keep me entertained.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

Ctrl

SZA

1/5

Had to stop after the second song. Jesus fucking christ. Modern mainstream hiphop, with some exceptions, is so fucking dull and unoriginal.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Unreal pipes on ol' Aretha

Street Signs

Ozomatli

1/5

Thankfully only two songs available on Spotify and I won't bother looking up the rest because they were truly horrible.

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Waste of a spot on the list. Literally elevator music.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Hate jazz. Not the most annoying jazz I've had to listen too.

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

High Violet

The National

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

The fifth best Outkast album. Good but too much filler.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

Early hiphop, with a couple of very few exceptions is just not very good. Let's just be honest.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Does sound like something your dads band would make in his garage during the weekend.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

There is a lot of falsetto.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Don't know who this is but fuck him and his terrible album

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

Angry as hell and sexy guitar tones. Like it or not it's one of its genres finest. Last couple of songs is a bit much "let's just play fast"

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

I dislike jazz. I dislike brass instruments.

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

Had very low expectations. It's a pretty fun listen honestly, although not very good.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

5/5

Five unreal musicians at their peak. Incredible.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

4/5

First song is the only one that really stands out, but overall it's a very good album with great vocals.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

Pink Floyd is my favourite band, and while It's not my go-to I enjoy the Syd-era albums. But the Syd solo stuff... ugh. I've tried but never managed to get into it. It's just kinda too much Syd.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Bongos!

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

New York Dolls

2/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

2/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

2/5

Le Tigre

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Starts with an absolute tune. The rest is solid to good but can't live up to the first song.

2112

Rush

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

If you think this is anything but complete shit you're a pretentious ass and I will never take you seriously.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

Very cool music if you're twelve years old

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

Moonchild is a bit of a snoozer but the rest is basically flawless and obviously the most influental prog rock album ever

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Fucking hell, I got this the day after the death of the genius that is Brian Wilson which is a bit weird. I definitely wouldn't put this on my personal top 20 but this one is so ahead of its time it's crazy. All the crazy instruments makes it unique, the harmonies and lyrics are amazing.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Out of all the Dylan albums, maybe this one shouldn't be on here.

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Peak Page, Bonham out of his mind as usual and Plant doesn't end every other sentence with "babe". Maybe the best Zeppelin album, for sure top three.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

2/5

Basically a taste of what would become the downfall of country music

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Am I ever going to enjoy Radiohead? It's not looking good bruv. I can't stand Thoms whiny vocals.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

1/5

When you're a terrible singer so you try rapping instead, but you're an even worse rapper.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Bit of a one hit wonder, except the hit is pretty bad

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

2/5

The Clash

3/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Surpringsingly mid given the artists involved, but good. Wildflowers the obvious highlight

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

These guys definitely take themselves too seriously.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

I listened to this yesterday and today I can't remember a single thing about it which is probably not a good sign

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

I hate christmas and therefore I hate christmas music. This does feature christmas music and one of the most annoying christmas songs ever. Otherwise it doesn't completely suck.

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Objetively "good" if you can be arsed to listen to these whiny vocals

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Was a "deadhead" for about a year before I realised these guys don't have a single studio album worth remembering. Shame, because I think Jerry is a fantastic musician.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Ah, my least favourite genré, with a lot of saxophone, an instrument I mostly hate. And they're singing in portuguese, a language I find unpleasant. Skip.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

1/5

I was going to be kind and give this a 2 but it's honestly so fucking shit I just can't.

Suzanne Vega

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Sexiest guitar tone ever

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

3/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Don't think I will find 15 albums better than this on this list.

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

First album I'll skip because I've heard most of these songs so much more than I would want

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

The Only Ones

2/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Violent Femmes

2/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

5/5

Every man is entitled to their own opinion, but if you think this is anything other than one of the greatest hip hop albums I'm afraid you're wrong.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

3/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

2/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

Only managed to listen to the first three songs because: A. It's utter fucking shit and his vocals are like nails on a chalkboard. B. I was already angry I got this muppet for like the tenth time.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

I've listened to quite a lot of EDM through the years, and this together with Jilted Generation are THE albums of the genré

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

4/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

2/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

2/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

It's very 80s and I thought it was a woman first, but it doesn't suck

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Cypress Hill

4/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

2/5

If I could filter out every jazz album I would

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

The Doors

5/5

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

You definitely get bullied if you enjoy this. Deservidely.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

None of their greatest songs are on here, but It's just very good throughout. No skips.

The Coral

2/5

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Wouldn't put this on my top five Bowie albums, and I honestly think Changes is a terrible song

evermore

Taylor Swift

2/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

Had to double chech whether I was really listening to the right album because what the hell.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

If we pretend Mardi Gras doesn't exist this is probably the "worst" Creedence album. Still filled with incredible tunes.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

There are so many great Paul Simon albums, why is this one here? So bland.

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Arise

Sepultura

5/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Metallica

4/5

Slipknot

3/5

Great instrumentals, mainly the drumming. Unfortuntately the problem with numetal is the often cringy, edgy lyrics.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

1/5

The Specials

2/5

Some funky basslines in here, but at the end of the day it's Ska

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

Gotta say I've actually never listened to this guy before. I have to say, not only is this the worst album I've heard so far from this list, it's also some of the worst music I've ever heard. What a massive piece of shit. Had to look up some of his bigger hits and they're nowhere near as bad, so what's going on here? I don't even want to know.

Blur

3/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

It just doesn't get much better than this. The best drumming you'll ever hear in rock music.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

3/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

Killing Joke

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

One of the most overrated albums ever, and not even the best Kendrick album (that would be m.a.a.d city). Still a good album though

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Suicide

3/5

California

American Music Club

2/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Even as a certified jazz hater I think Steely Dan made some of the smoothest music ever, and Aja is their peak.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

1/5

Do I give this two stars because it sounds like the soundtrack to a high school show, or one star because according to Wikipedia Elvis Costello is a fan? One star it is

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

This dude is surely among the worst vocalists on this list, but I quite enjoyed the instrumentals.

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

1/5

Some of the absolute worst music I've heard since I had to listen to a previous album from this muppet.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

A short list of things I'm not going to waste my time on: 1. 20 minute jazz songs. I'm sure it's great though..

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Boston

5/5

Imagine dropping your first album and the first three songs are More than a feeling, Peace of mind and Long time. That is just unfair. I can't think of any artist or band that can compete with that? Rest of the album doesn't quite hold the same quality, but it would be almost impossible.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

1/5

Alright people, let's not pretend this is anything other than shit. Sounds like the stuff my uncle made from his bedroom 20 years ago.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

War

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

1/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

A year into this and this is the first time I'll give five stars to an album I haven't already heard before! While I don't love every song here it's very easy to see why it's well reviewed. The production is absolutely fantastic and the vocals, superb!

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

First song is about not being boring. Great irony. Snoozepop.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

1/5

Christmas music is created by the devil himself, and I refuse to suffer through this. Would rather listen to another album by Elvis Costello, the muppet.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

I tell you what, Kyuss is one the greatest metal bands ever. QOTSA is like the more generic, more boring version of Kyuss. But there is a little bit of Kyuss magic remaining. Listen to Kyuss people.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

So much great music coming out of the UK. Therefore it's bizarre there is so much mediocrity on this list.

The Stone Roses

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

Stephen Stills

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

2/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

Some of the longest five minute songs ever.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Eminem is entry level hiphop, the rapper you first get into as an early teen before you discover there are so much better hiphop out there. Sure he's a great rapper, but the music? As of 2026, he's got more shit than good albums. Some good songs here, Stan obviously, The Real Slim Shady, Bitch Please II but overall it's a bit mid despite good production. Kill You and Kim for example are absolute shit songs.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Thought the first half was superb, and second half a bit of a sleeper. Overall good.

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

The best Kendrick album, but why did he have to destroy what would've been one of the greatest hiphop songs ever by ending every sentence with an annoying "uh" at the second half of Sing About Me, Im Dying of Thirst?

Iron Maiden

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

More jazz for me not to suffer through.

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

I just love this band so much man

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5