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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ys Joanna Newsom	5	2.8	+2.2
New Wave The Auteurs	5	2.85	+2.15
A Northern Soul The Verve	5	2.92	+2.08
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3	+2
Rid Of Me PJ Harvey	5	3.12	+1.88
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	5	3.12	+1.88
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	5	3.16	+1.84
No Other Gene Clark	5	3.19	+1.81
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	5	3.23	+1.77
Risque CHIC	5	3.28	+1.72

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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Wildest! Louis Prima	1	3.51	-2.51
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	1	3.37	-2.37
Aftermath The Rolling Stones	1	3.36	-2.36
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	2	4.3	-2.3
Ace of Spades Motörhead	1	3.28	-2.28
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	1	3.19	-2.19
Close To You Carpenters	1	3.13	-2.13
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	2	3.94	-1.94
The Doors The Doors	2	3.94	-1.94
Bone Machine Tom Waits	1	2.84	-1.84

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	6	4.5
The Kinks	3	5
PJ Harvey	3	4.67
Nirvana	3	4.67
Johnny Cash	3	4.67
Queen	3	4.67
OutKast	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
The Smiths	2	5
Talking Heads	2	5
Bruce Springsteen	3	4.33
The White Stripes	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	4	2.25

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Tom Waits	5, 1

5-Star Albums (80)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

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

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

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Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading · 1 likes

5/5

Really enjoyed this! Incredible vocal range

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar · 1 likes

5/5

It's a 5, very easy, no doubt. Dre popping up awkwardly as is tradition is fine. ...except poetic justice kinda sucks, and I blame Drake for that

Actually

Pet Shop Boys · 1 likes

3/5

Bongos bad Sin good Not my bag

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces · 1 likes

2/5

Ugh rod stewart isn't my bag Talented musicians playing music I don't really enjoy Wouldn't change the station on "stay with me" I guess?

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

David Bowie · 1 likes

5/5

A masterpiece, what else can be said!

1-Star Albums (14)

All Ratings

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Shout is a great song

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

must have been incredible live 3/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

3/5 Hard to go back to old school rap lyrics Good beats

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

Solid all the way through

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

4.5/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

The Stooges

3/5

3/5 solely for I wanna be your dog, would have been substantially lower otherwise

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

Just a lot of clunkers - United, you don't have to be old to be wise, red white and blue etc Breaking the law is so much better than every other track it's notable. 3/5 for that alone otherwise would be lower

Risque

CHIC

5/5

Such incredible bass lines...

1984

Van Halen

2/5

Great guitarist but I never want to hear any of these songs again, possible exception for I'll wait which I wouldn't change the station on 3/5 if I could've stripped out the vocals

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

You only remember the hits, but the hits are good..

A Northern Soul

The Verve

5/5

Oh it's good

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Hey little rich girl a standout, just not a ska person I suppose

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

Ugh rod stewart isn't my bag Talented musicians playing music I don't really enjoy Wouldn't change the station on "stay with me" I guess?

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

I had heard the title song in isolation and didn't care for it (rhyming gangster with star??) In context it makes sense Great album

Tommy

The Who

2/5

My god it's too long There are moments...the outro to we're not going to take it, pinball wizard...few and far between Much much better live but after more than an hour I don't have the will to go all the way through the live discs too Studio 2 live 3+

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Legalize it is possibly my least favorite song on this album, rough start Some lovely moments 3

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

I should like this more than I do - 80s indie, intricate arrangements, nice voice - just nothing sticks with me. 3?

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

Might be my first 1 Ages poorly across the board

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Songs run longer than needed Easy 4 tho

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

It's just fine I should probably be really impressed by the production esp. given the time I wouldn't change the station But nothing is moving me

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Dark, interesting Probably could be a 5/5 if I gave it enough listens, but on first pass a solid 4

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

That'll be the day is a bop

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Perfect for the background Wasn't an actively unpleasant experience Don't want to listen to again

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Open up your fruit cage earbleach please But catchy in places

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Incredibly consistent, fantastic, instant classic

Blur

4/5

Mixed bag, graham coxon is genius

Future Days

Can

3/5

Not smart enough for can Still enjoyed

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Fantastic start to finish, great samples, smooth deliveries

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Didn't think this would be so rough but I had to skip a few songs halfway through. Genuine moments of greatness (message in a bottle, the little chorus riff of walking on the moon) but everything else is all over the place, songs get repetitive internally, and just in general not my bag 3 but close to a 2

War

4/5

First listen I was at a five, relisten brought back to a strong four. Great drums, great guitar

Wild Gift

3/5

Adult books is a bop! Like punkier Blondie at first but really all over the place..might improve on many relistens but first impressions are solid

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Meat loaf always sounds like he's enjoying himself, but you don't always want to hear a rock musical?

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

It won't always be the vibe you're looking for but if it is...easy five, this album has been looping for a few hours and I haven't minded one bit

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Solid most of the way through, some classic earworms, not really my genre but a good 4

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Very very good

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

Too 80s for today 2 with regret

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

They're very good at their instruments I just don't like the genre they like to play But I didn't think i would ever give a Steely Dan or Steely Dan-adjacent album more than a two, and here it is at three?

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

5/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

Juvenile, grating, and I just don't enjoy the beastie boys triple-headed rap-every-other-word thing I'm glad they had more fun recording this than I had listening

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

What can I say, it's a classic for a reason

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

1/5

Whether you're in the market for blatant misogyny (stupid girl, under my thumb) or absolute snore-fests (going home, I am waiting), the Stones have you covered Fuck all the way off

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

1/5

A very long collection of very similar songs Not my bag Reflexively want to rate higher than I actually feel about it because I'm aware of my historical + genre biases But I don't want to hear anything from this album again Dnf after the first verse of Knoxville girl, what the actual fuck

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Didn't know what to expect, loved it. Very funny too

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Songs are about twice as long as needed But fine?

Sister

Sonic Youth

4/5

Always interesting, sometimes not my cup of tea, on balance v. good

Roxy Music

3/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

She could sing the alphabet and it'd be five stars

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Back half of the album hit better than the front half, but did we really need another version of papa was a rolling stone?

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

3/5

They had more fun recording than I had listening Ending with a Bowie cover puts the rest of the album in perspective unflatteringly Probably a lot of fun live

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

2/5

Some interesting sounds Some irritating sounds Mostly fine sounds 2

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

I got COVID for the first time at a Pulp show and it was undoubtedly worth it

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

The black keys on release were the saviors of rock and roll if I remember right That doesn't hold up so well, but it's an ok bluesy rock album

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

What's happening is a great song, eight miles high is an REM song 15 years ahead of its time. Great guitar tone! Rest of the album pretty scattershot, including some of the singles - the fourth measure of "why" just neuters all momentum, feels like self-sabotage 3 but good to hear the influences

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

We are family is a massive song - and with the incomparable Bernard Edwards of Chic on bass how couldn't it be! - but I have forgotten the rest of the album

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

The two 7+ minute songs (graveyard train, keep on "chooglin", together approx half the album by length!) keep it from a 5. Hit or miss but when they hit...

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Just incredible!!

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Ray of light, skin both bangers

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

Very generic 80s.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Scum

Napalm Death

3/5

What drum speed!

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

Overly self-indulgent at 1h15? Absolutely. Is Jamaican jerk-off just a terrible song? Absolutely! Do some of the lyrics ("dirty little girl", "social disease") not age so well? Absolutely!! But it's also fantastic stuff, generally

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

Doesn't sound like anyone else, incredible

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Bongos bad Sin good Not my bag

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

Some good stuff in here (chicken dog comes to mind) but I can't justify the length, it's an avalanche of improv and rambling

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Five on the front, four on the back

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

David Bowie

5/5

A masterpiece, what else can be said!

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Immigrant song and celebration day are pretty good but it's downhill from there for me. Robert Plant's upper register is a nails-on-chalkboard sound to me. Extremely talented musicians playing music I don't enjoy. Similar to Faces in that regard?

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

Always interesting

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Good chamber pop, even better lyrics. Improves on relistens, worth checking out the rest of his work

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

Every once in a while there's a hint of a temperature above tepid — the intro to "Shiver", "High Speed" has some nice bits — but Coldplay is dedicated to stopping any momentum in its tracks. Do they punch it up when they play stadiums?

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

In addition to dolly being an excellent person, the second half of the album is particularly great - never met a man she didn't like, early morning breeze is like a smile made into a song, here I am is massive

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

I won't pretend to know a tenth of what's going on here, but I know good sounds when I hear them. Then I read the wiki entry and it's all improvised?! Jazz is wild man

Franz Ferdinand

5/5

What a self-assured debut album

Joanna Newsom

5/5

Like Kate Bush with a harp singing cryptic fairy tales. Unlike anything else I've listened to, great stuff

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

5/5

A concept album from the 60s that doesn't suck! Probably my favorite kinks album too

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

Great music, tragic he passed in 2020

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Lot of skips on this one, and even the hits...I wouldn't change the radio station but I wouldn't be singing along either

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

5/5

Traffic

3/5

Feeling alright is great Most of this is fine, but you gotta be in the mood for it

The xx

3/5

I think crystalised and the intro hold up, but I had forgotten how sleepy most of the album is.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

It kept looping and I kept not turning it off

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

1/5

I want to hear the saxophonists album instead

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

2/5

I think I agree with their politics but I can't agree with their music

Elvis Presley

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

Not all jazz is boring but this jazz is 2

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Excellent stuff

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Really enjoyed this! Incredible vocal range

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

It's not cool to like steely dan, but I'm finding it hard to actively dislike them? The arrangements are great, they come dangerously close to rocking out occasionally – it's just not quite my genre but clearly some talented folks

So Much For The City

The Thrills

2/5

Breathy, inoffensive, middle of the road surprised this made a superlative list?

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

Some solid stuff, overly long and not so consistent for me

2112

Rush

2/5

I'm with the priests of the temple of syranix on this one - "it's just a waste of time"

The La's

3/5

The hits are earworms and the non hits are still really interesting songs

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

One or two misses but everything else is so good it doesn't matter

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Self esteem is such a great song The rest is ok

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

4/5

Not an all-hits no-filler like armed forces etc but some pretty great songs in here nonetheless

California

American Music Club

3/5

Feels ahead of its time but not did grab me. Did make me check out the rest of their catalog though! Recommend "sick of food"

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

The Clash

4/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

4/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

I prefer unhinged maximalist nick cave but sad piano nick cave is still pretty great

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

RIP Brian Wilson

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Some solid songs, some really long and uninteresting ones (shortest straw! Shortest strawww!)

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

I do not like the average LCD Soundsytem song. I find it repetitive, and annoying. Once I got stuck listening to "Yr city is a sucker" with no ability to change the song and it was possibly the worst thing I had ever heard. "New York I love you but you're bringing me down" is good

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

4/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

1/5

He can play but I don't like what he's playing and then it's also live?? Noo

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Common

3/5

It's just not catchy enough to be so preachy, and the chipmunk soul thing just ages less well every year

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Some great songs on here (anyone who had a heart, I only want to be with you) but the for the most part I wished I was listening to Diana Ross instead

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

My God it's so long If it weren't for trampled under foot this would be an easy 2

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Beautiful day is a good song, if overplayed. I still wouldn't put it on a playlist. The Edge is the redeeming factor here, even stinkers like New York have some really cool guitar bits.

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

It's not even in my top three REM albums and it's still phenomenal

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Wild uncompromising music, incredible lyrics

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

It's not just come on Eileen and it never has been! Justice for dexys!

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Hospital is a great tune

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

Just doesn't go anywhere. Maybe it didn't help I was already stressed out when listening to this album

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

It is guitar hero music, it does not move me

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

It's a 5, very easy, no doubt. Dre popping up awkwardly as is tradition is fine. ...except poetic justice kinda sucks, and I blame Drake for that

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Another dexys album so soon after the first - also pretty solid! Come on Eileen is of course a bop, but you know what song is slept on? Plan B! Plan B is phenomenal, with the exception of the extremely radio unfriendly intros dexys seems fond of. Almost a willful refusal to get as popular as their talent deserved tbh

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Sprawling, self-indulgent, full of character. Can any album this size be all bangers? Couldn't I just tell you is a power pop exemplar. I don't like "I saw the light" though, and unfortunately most of the album is more in that vein

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The hits are great, the rest really aren't

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

4/5

I do love the dandys

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

I think of myself as someone who likes daft punk, but maybe I'm just someone who likes discovery and a few songs off RAM, because this was not a fun listen for me

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

1/5

I just can't stand the genre and I can't help it

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Moby Grape

3/5

I'd rather listen to the Band

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

It's an entire album of morning alarm sounds and ringtones. Saved from a one by heroic efforts of synchronicity II alone

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

I like the people they're compared to. I don't like them. Early in the album has intriguing jangle vibes, quickly dissipating into bloodlessness.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

When it's good it's incredible, I just don't like nico that much

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

I wanted to like this more. Undeniably talented. I just wish he started recording 20 years later and we could have escaped the sheer 80s-ness. I don't like it, I don't want to hear it again

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Great voice, probably not evolved enough to enjoy every song. Free will and testament a standout for me

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

The Doors

2/5

Whiskey bar is godawful Flashes of brilliance, long stretches of boredom and jamming And I wrote the above before the 11+ minute closing track, with such lyrical insight as "ride the snake" and "the west is the best"

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Great voice, just not my genre

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

The first song being great was offset by the second one being bad and that's kinda neutral in the end

No Other

Gene Clark

5/5

One of my favorite finds so far, what a blend of genres! Very talented songwriter, turns out he wrote the good songs on the first Byrds album too

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Such a disappointment, especially on the heels of Ziggy

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Nice voice, maybe just too mellow for the day

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Brilliant voice, entirely too long, listened to the best of and didn't feel deprived

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

Kids got overplayed, this album has no filler. Didn't appreciate it when it was current, sure do now

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Mask

Bauhaus

2/5

Dreary, meandering

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Cypress Hill

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

I won't claim it's all bangers ("little ghost" followed by the timeless "denial twist" is a wild sequence) but when it's good it's incredible

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

2/5

The worst is they slip in some good parts, so you know they could have made an album you wanted to listen to

Face to Face

The Kinks

5/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Good musicianship The songs don't stick with me

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

The visitors is so long to not have a catchy part Head over heels is great, one of us is great, two for the price of one is goofily catchy But the ballads are plentiful and interchangeable 3 despite some bright spots

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

It's fine

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

4/5

Somewhere between Andrew Bird and Beck? Oddly compelling stuff

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Listened too easy I'm just not a jazz person yet

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Like a prayer is great and the random chamber pop song in the middle was fun

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

It's really really good

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Interesting sounds! With enough listens it would probably click

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Very back-loaded, and it's because side B is mostly singles - disappointing, generally enjoy their music but maybe it's just their final album that I think of

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

4/5

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Once the children's chorus comes in I'm done and Leonard Cohen did it to me TWICE

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Incredible, you can hear their influence on so many later bands

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

Queen II

Queen

5/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

WEFUNK

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

The riff on buffalo stance is an earworm, manchild is lovely - you can hear how some of this is absolutely ahead of its time, but there's so much that is very 80s rhyming and drums...

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

Better than studio Who but still not my bag

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

Interesting and different, sounds timeless. Just didn't stick with me

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

3/5

It's a fun listen if a wildly all-over-the-place one. He's having so much fun recording and producing!

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Booming and zooming grew on me a lot, great song

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Sulk

The Associates

4/5

Didn't like it on first listen, grew on me steadily. Lot going on here! Wonder what an associates album recorded in the '00s would have sounded like, the 80s instrumentation can get distracting

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Why wouldn't I just listen to Stevie Wonder

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Some gems in here - gotta get up has been my alarm for years - but a bit too slow generally for me

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

It's the most fun I've had with a Who album but that's a low bar for me

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

It's not unlistenable just annoying as fuck to listen to

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Led Zeppelin

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

1/5

All fine and straight ahead but 'jailbeat' is a dealbreaker holy shit

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Even when axl rose is singing about doin' my sister it still kinda rocks

New Wave

The Auteurs

5/5

Elastica

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Van Halen

2/5

Cock rock for shlock jocks Little dreamer is alright

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Broken arrow is a fun song

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

5/5

incredible album, one of my favorites I've gotten from this list. How did I sleep on Cocteau Twins??

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

I'm a big fan of the arctic monkeys but the strings just don't do it for me

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

I just don't like the sounds

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Weird, fun

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Blank space is as much of a bop as bad blood isn't, perfect symmetry. It all averages out

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

It's fine. Making whoopie is a mistake of a song.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

One of the quirkier britpop entries, good fun

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

It can be influential and also not fun to listen to yes

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Fell in love with a girl may be the perfect two minute song

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

3/5

Some of the sounds were very bad but mostly it was ok

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

New order is more fun to listen to, I said it

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Guero

Beck

4/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

4/5

I didn't think I liked it that much but then I kept letting it loop so I must?

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

It's fine

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Turgid, a star given for sympathy for the devil which I don't even like

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

One star awarded for maggie may

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

The Man Who

Travis

3/5

Inoffensive, not memorable

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

The Stone Roses

3/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

Foo Fighters

4/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Cheesy 80s sounds still can't keep cohen down

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

I wanted there to be a hidden hit I had missed. There were just the two I already knew (our house, house of fun). Alas

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

2/5

Tedious, not even jarvis can save this

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Too noodley

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Black Metal

Venom

1/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Big iron is a bop

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

I'll be damned there IS a rolling stones that I enjoy!!

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

really annoying psychedelic belle & sebastian

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

4/5

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

A three but a strong and interesting three - going to listen to more Japan for sure

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

You skip the two sitar songs and dr roberts but everything else is so good...

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

5/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

They're very good at their instruments but I don't like the sounds they're making

Ramones

3/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

5/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

-1 for o'malleys bar

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

3/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

2/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

4/5

I can't give it a 5 because it's obviously all over the place but some of my favorite songs are on this - you could cut it to an incredible 12-15 song album no problem

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Well I like who they influenced but I can't particularly say I like them

Purple Rain

Prince