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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus | 5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
| Synchronicity | 5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
| Live! | 5 | 3.44 | +1.56 |
| Talking Heads 77 | 5 | 3.56 | +1.44 |
| Moving Pictures | 5 | 3.59 | +1.41 |
| Sheer Heart Attack | 5 | 3.65 | +1.35 |
| Pearl | 5 | 3.73 | +1.27 |
| Hot Fuss | 5 | 3.74 | +1.26 |
| Parallel Lines | 5 | 3.76 | +1.24 |
| Scream, Dracula, Scream | 4 | 2.77 | +1.23 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ready To Die | 1 | 3.37 | -2.37 |
| Rain Dogs | 1 | 3.2 | -2.2 |
| Mama Said Knock You Out | 1 | 2.91 | -1.91 |
| Back to Basics | 1 | 2.75 | -1.75 |
| Wild Is The Wind | 2 | 3.63 | -1.63 |
| Amnesiac | 2 | 3.41 | -1.41 |
| Either Or | 2 | 3.38 | -1.38 |
| Blue Lines | 2 | 3.38 | -1.38 |
| Live At The Star Club, Hamburg | 2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3 | 4.27 | -1.27 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Queen | 3 | 4.67 |
| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 5 |
5-Star Albums (15)
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
This is pretty cool album. Everyone remembers Heads Will Roll, but there are some other bangers on there too. Dull Life is great.
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1-Star Albums (6)
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Arcade Fire
4/5
Really enjoyable. Worldly sound. Nice instrumental variety and composition. Would listen to whole album again.
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Really enjoyed it. Made me realize I should listen to more jazz, excellent album to listen to while working.
Marty Robbins
3/5
El Paso is a classic
Frank Zappa
4/5
Great psychedelic feeling instrumental rock album. Excellent album to work to.
Elliott Smith
2/5
OutKast
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Good old school country album, was really enjoyable.
The Stone Roses
4/5
Great album! Nice mix of 80s rock sound with some psychedelic influence, with emerging 90s rock sound. Waterfall was a good tune, will listen them again.
Arcade Fire
4/5
Great album! Would listen again.
Nina Simone
2/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Ghostface Killah
2/5
Raps not my thing but if I’m going to listen to rap this is a style I don’t mind. Enjoyed quite a few songs. But holy cow I don’t have the attention span for that entire album it had like 27 long songs. Did not finish.
The Black Crowes
4/5
Classic, would listen again
Portishead
3/5
Nice background music while working, feels like Jungle got a lot of inspiration from Portishead. Good for when you want something different.
New Order
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
Tom Waits
1/5
Did not finish. Slam poetry in musical form is not for me.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
A solid album as you’d expect from CCR. Always enjoyable.
5/5
I’ve got such a soft spot for a good 90’s album. Great album start to finish with a bunch of nostalgia mixed in.
George Jones
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Great album, creative and very worldly sounding.
Minutemen
3/5
Good old school punk album, quite enjoyable if you like that kind of music.
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Fun stuff, lots of blues style songs. Not favorite of the Stones.
Bill Callahan
2/5
Small Faces
2/5
2.5 stars, it wasn’t bad, it was totally fine. But nothing memorable for me.
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Couple of 80s bangers on this album.
Fugees
3/5
Good 90s rap album, great time for the genre.
Beck
3/5
Ryan Adams
3/5
3.5 stars. Really enjoyed this album, would listen again and will listen to more Ryan Adams. Tina Toledo’s street walkin blues was a jam!
Sparks
3/5
Fun and different.
The Cure
4/5
Love this album. Weird enough to be interesting and still be really enjoyable
3/5
Al Green
3/5
Tortoise
3/5
Nice instrumental rock jam album.
Peter Frampton
4/5
Do you feel like we do earns 4 stars by itself. What a gem.
Jurassic 5
3/5
Solid rap album from a great time for the genre
Blur
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Christina Aguilera
1/5
DNF. Not my thing. Sure she’s talented, but I find vocalists in this style to distract from the music.
U2
4/5
Eminem
3/5
Oh Eminem, couple of bangers on this one.
Beatles
4/5
King Crimson
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Solid 3.5 stars. Really enjoyed the bass taking center stage in some of these songs.
Air
3/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
1/5
Massive Attack
2/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
4.5 stars. Fantastic album.
Cream
4/5
Yes
3/5
The Police
5/5
Such a cool album. King of Pain and Murder by Numbers are such rad songs that don't get played enough.
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Great 90's album. Grace, Lover you should've come over, Eternal Life all stood out in addition to Hallelujah of course. Good variety of songs, some strong jam blues influence, some grunge feel. Musical variety and composition was great.
Stephen Stills
3/5
3.5 stars
Janelle Monáe
4/5
Really interesting album. Great jazz influences. Faster, Locked Inside, Cold War, and Come Alive were stand out songs.
Van Morrison
4/5
Queen
5/5
Just fantastic. Queen is unique and extravagant in the best ways.
Iron Maiden
4/5
The Residents
1/5
This is one of the weirdest things I've ever listened to. It's like if Mystery Science Theater was turned into music made by depressed theater kids doing too many drugs. I don't think I'm cool enough for this album. Parts were enjoyable, but it is unlikely that I'll ever listen to this again.
Doves
3/5
3.5 stars. Quite enjoyable, nice big sound.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
This is pretty cool album. Everyone remembers Heads Will Roll, but there are some other bangers on there too. Dull Life is great.
Johnny Cash
3/5
3.5 stars. Always classic
The Charlatans
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
3.5 stars. Some good ones on here. Traveling Man is a blast. A better place to live, cheesy but accurate, if only people understood that one. She Never Met a Man was great. Love that you can clearly hear the bass and it is a driving instrument in a lot of these songs. Would listen again.
Björk
2/5
I like Björk, but honestly this album was just a little too weird for me to really enjoy. It never really got into a rhythm, and never drew me in. People who like weird artsy vocals probably love this album.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
One of my favorite albums. Such good instrumentals, tons of feeling throughout.
Bob Dylan
3/5
The Doors
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Duke Ellington
4/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Quite enjoyed this. Relay was great. Ladies was a nice slow groove that showed off her voice. Heavy Balloon is a banger. There was a lot of variety between songs with a lot of blues influence. The lyrics absolutely capture your attention. Refreshingly different.
William Orbit
3/5
Nice focus music. Love this style for working or studying. Quite enjoyed the composition.
Keith Jarrett
4/5
Really beautiful piano concert
Violent Femmes
4/5
This album is super cool and unique. Enjoyed t more than I expected
The Darkness
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
2/5
Focus music, but I prefer when electronic/instrumental is a little less repetitive and more jazz influenced.
Brian Wilson
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Rush
5/5
Love this album. Musically so interesting and catchy. I could listen to YYZ 10 times in a row and not get bored.
Aerosmith
3/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
Enjoyed this quite a bit. Inna City Mama was an absolute jam, what a killer piano solo thrown in there.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
The Band
3/5
LL Cool J
1/5
DNF, sorry!
The Beta Band
3/5
3/5
First three songs are bangers. Rest of the album kind of wanders and doesn’t really do it for me.
R.E.M.
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Nice moments, totally fine. Just kinda boring overall, but generally quite nice. Dusty’s vocals are still great.
Khaled
2/5
2.5 stars, enjoyed some parts of the music that was really jazz influenced.
Saint Etienne
3/5
Enjoyed some songs more than others, quite liked Stoned to Say the Least and Nothing Can Stop Us.
Ray Charles
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Syd Barrett
2/5
Oof, not my favorite. All kinda sounds the same, but disjointed at times and lacking in rhythm and melody.
Spiritualized
3/5
The Thrills
3/5
Generally quite enjoyable, if not very memorable.
The Smiths
4/5
Talking Heads
5/5
So good, can't believe I haven't listened to this whole album before. Starts off fast and catchy. Great melodies throughout, fun instrumental use. Another album that I have the feeling of being weird enough to be interesting and different, to catch your attention, but not so weird that it's distracting or hard to enjoy. Love how Tentative Decisions closes with a piano jam. The Book I Read has a great intro. Overall fantastic album.
Grateful Dead
3/5
Enjoyed this more than I expected to. Death Don't have no Mercy was great, but the album did drag a bit at times. Overall enjoyable listen.
Love
3/5
Alright pretty fun album. Orange Skies and She Comes in Colors were good, had that distinctive 60's sound. Revelation was great with some really enjoyable instrumental bits and solos throughout.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Carole King
5/5
Beautiful album, really fantastic songwriting. I was torn between 4 and 5 starts, because it didn't quite have that wow factor that captures you for the entirety of the album. I ultimately decided it was a 5 star album because every song is really fantastic even if they don't wow you. I love a good piano driven album. You can really hear how talented of a songwriter Carole is.
The Notorious B.I.G.
1/5
I mean I think it's just not for me, but trying to listen objectively. Couple songs with good rhythm and melodies, some good bass lines. I liked Juicy, Big Poppa, and Respect. But overall, I was just bored for most of this album. I am definitely not a fan of all the random conversations and sex sounds? mixed in throughout the album. Not everything is for everyone and that's okay, this album just wasn't for me.
4/5
I enjoyed this one. Decent variety, some weird, unique and rougher rock songs that I loved. Chemical world was a chaotic blast. Oily Water was great.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Mary's Place stood out on this album. Overall music was really enjoyable.
Radiohead
2/5
I have never really understood the intensity with which Radiohead fans will scream at you about how good Radiohead is. It was fine. Some of the musical aspects were pretty cool, some jazz inspired instrumentals. I am not a fan of the kind of "droning" singing style of this album. It felt like all the lyrics were long, droning notes, and sad sounding. Overall, just pretty boring.
The Temptations
3/5
Good album, interesting to hear their shift in sound from the more mellow style of "My Girl" to a more funk sound with songs like I Gotta Find a Way and Cloud Nine. Thoroughly enjoyed Cloud Nine, I Gotta Find A Way, Runaway Child, Running Wild.
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Enjoyable and interesting album, mix of early jangle pop and sad British guy, a bit Smiths-like. Speedboat and Rattelsnakes were standouts. Really liked the string instruments mixed in throughout the album. 3.5 stars.
Gary Numan
2/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
4/5
Enjoyed it quite a bit. Like The Arctic Monkeys with a bigger sound, but less catchy.
Miles Davis
4/5
Adele
4/5
4.5 stars. Really well made pop album. Has a few absolute bangers, a couple earworms (Rumor has it will be in my head all day) and some beautiful piano ballads. Adele's voice is unique and amazing as always, and never too show-boaty. Her vocals always seem to match the song well. Main thing holding it back from 5 stars is that it just didn't evoke any intense emotional response that makes an album really stick with me. Its almost too polished for that. Great listen though.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Richard Hawley
3/5
Sugar
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Such a rad album. Super unique with fantastic variety, never boring. Sure Shot, Sabotage, Heart Attack Man are kind of what you expect from the Beastie Boys and again super cool songs. Then Sabrosa comes in as a groovy instrumental. The Update has beautiful lyrics (I think society missed the message on this one). Futterman's Rule is an absolute funky jam and might be my favorite song on the album, love the keys.
John Coltrane
4/5
Kelela
2/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Some pretty rad moments. Big Sleep was great with a fantastic bass line. I can see how this would have been a very influential album for the next couple decades.
Queen
4/5
Moby
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Pokin around was probably my favorite song on the album. Cool raw, rushed sound, not everyone's cup of tea but I enjoyed it. Nothing earth shattering though.
Blondie
5/5
Such a rad album. More variety and catchier than I expected. Feels like such a good pop rock album all the way through, really well made but never feels so polished to be boring. I know but I know was an unexpected jam. The instrumentals and solos mixed in on all the songs are great, really enjoyed how a song might go from kind of light and boppy, to being heavy and full of guitar riffs. 11:59 builds so well and changes tone throughout. Will anything happen gets kind of heavy with a great drum solo. Overall the guitar riffs were great, vocals were great and suited the music, fantastic album.
Pink Floyd
4/5
I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Pink Floyd... In theory I should love them, it's right up my alley. But everytime I listen to them I end up thinking was this 3 minute boring intro to this song necessary? And the answer is no, it was not. I mean Young Lust is such a cool, fantastic song. Then two songs later you have Don't Leave me now which is a 4 minute slog through nothing. Yes I get it's thematic, and the whole thing goes together to create an overall experience. But man some of this album is super boring, and then some of it is super good. Mixed bag of feelings on this one for sure. Overall though, I love a lot of this album and the good songs far outweigh the boring ones, so it still gets 4 stars since the high moments are pretty high.
Bob Dylan
3/5
Cool, very bluesy Dylan album. Enjoyed a lot of it, Cold Irons Bound was solid.
Queen
5/5
Supertramp
3/5
I haven't listened to much Supertramp. Enjoyed a lot of this, I'm a fan of the piano heavy pop rock style of music. Album starts off super strong with School and Bloody Well Right. The album lags a little as it goes on, but overall solid album.
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Love it, Janis's voice so unique and absolutely incredible.
The Who
3/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
Hookworms
4/5
Super cool, feels kinda like Bloc Party and Arcade Fire with more synth. Enjoyed this and would definitely listen again
Eurythmics
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Super cool album. Vocals are great, guitar is weird in the best way.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Is this the best album of all time? I don't know, but it's certainly in my top 5. What a thing of beauty. Everything that could be said about this album has already been said, there's not much for me to add. Just going to say that I absolutely love this album.
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Enjoyed a lot of this, actually liked it more than the other Dusty album on the list. The fact that some of the best songs on the album are covers holds it back from a 4th star for me though.
Solange
2/5
Well, like they said on the album, this ones not for me. And that's okay! Different strokes for different folks and whatnot.
Ramones
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
3.5 starts. Quite nice at times, like the strings.
Tim Buckley
2/5
Incubus
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Pixies
4/5
Super fun surf rock. Always liked the Pixies but never got too far into their catalogue. Album was great, like them even more now!
3/5
Happy Mondays
4/5
Janis Joplin
5/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Soft Boys
4/5
Actually really enjoyed this. Can see how this might have inspired a lot of jangle pop and indie artists.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
The Jam
4/5
Pretty fun ablum. Feels like Blondie got a lot of inspiration from The Jam.
Favorite tracks:
- But I'm different Now
- Start! - Fantastic bass line.
- Dream Time
- Boy about time
Steely Dan
3/5
3.5 stars
Nas
3/5
Some great lyrics here. Stand out songs were Life's a bitch, The world is yours, and It Ain't Hard to Tell.
The Roots
3/5
Enjoyed the variety and elements or rock, R&B and rap all on one album. Some of the musicianship on drums and bass is really cool.
Black Flag
4/5
Love the raw energy on this album. The early heavy punk sound is rad and some of these songs make you want to run through a wall.
Leonard Cohen
2/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
What a nice surprise. Had never listened to Nick Cave outside of Red Right Hand thanks to Dumb and Dumber. Loved this album. Good variety. Some amazing high energy songs with a huge sound. Love an upbeat piano based song. Clever lyrics. This album is both made well made and makes you feel something. It's also just kind of different and feels like a breath of fresh air.
Standout songs include:
Get Ready for Love
Hiding All Away (personal favorite)
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
Nature Boy
Supernaturally
Carry Me
Otis Redding
4/5
Otis's voice is so unique, he has an enchanting way of singing. Loved the album, but just can't give 5 stars to an album composed of mostly covers, so this gets 4 stars.
Rocket From The Crypt
4/5
Loved the early punk/ska with horns sound. Energy was great.
Nitin Sawhney
2/5
Overall not bad, a little all over the place.. A few songs stood out to me much more than others. Tides was fantastic, will listen to that one again. Enjoyed the piano heavy bits.
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
Some of the lyrics were pretty good, but the music and beats were very repetitive.
Iron Maiden
4/5
Whenever I listen to Iron Maiden I remember that I should be listening to more Iron Maiden. Great album, melodic and catchy while still having fast metal instrument parts.
Jack White
4/5
Way more piano and jazz influence than I expected. Really enjoyed it, Jack White is a talented musician.
T. Rex
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
2/5
So the jamming piano is big fun and I understand he was influential. But honestly most of his singing was impossible to understand.
Hüsker Dü
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
3.5 stars
John Grant
4/5
Kind of loved the angry rant lyrics. Enjoyed the music and piano as well. It was pretty different which is nice, will keep him in mind for when the normal rotation starts to feel dull.
Stand out songs:
Chicken Bones
Outer Space
Jesus Hates Faggots - (Fantastic!)
Queen of Denmark
Morrissey
3/5
Missy Elliott
2/5
Not bad, but definitely not my favorite work of Missy's. What makes Missy Eliott special is that her best music is pretty unique and catchy, it doesn't sound like it follows the normal R&B formula. This however sounds pretty generic compared to her later work and leans heavily on featured artists.
The Verve
4/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
The Undertones
4/5
Pretty fun high energy early punk.
Standout songs:
Get Over You
Here Comes the Summer
Jimmy Jimmy
(She's a) Runaround
The Byrds
4/5
Really beautiful guitar work throughout this album. Some of it gets a little too kind of out there for me where it starts to sound more experimental than musical, like Mind Gardens. That said the range on this album is impressive, to have a psychedelic experimental style of song like Mind Gardens on the same album as the country style Time Between makes for an interesting listen.
Stand out songs:
Time Between - love the country style on this song.
My Back Pages
Why?
Don't Make Waves
Lady Friend
Old John Robertson
Fela Kuti
5/5
super fun and different. fantastic listen.
The Doors
3/5
The Doors are kind of hit or miss for me. I love a few songs on this album, Light My Fire is fantastic. However outside of those few bangers it just doesn't do it for me.
Marianne Faithfull
2/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Love the piano heavy aspect of this album. Stand out songs:
Thunder Road
Backstreens
Born to Run
Jungleland
The Killers
5/5
It might be partially nostalgia, but this album is just full of bangers. Still love it.
Machito
3/5
Really fun fast paced jazz. Would listen again.
Stevie Wonder
3/5
So generally enjoyed this, a few bangers on here. But overall just not nearly as memorable as Songs in the Key of Life. 3.5 stars
Bon Jovi
3/5
So I've never been big on hair metal, but this is good hair metal. And yes, it's full of bangers. Plus half a star for Bon Jovi seeming like pretty good dude, which seems rare in the world of classic rock stars. 3.5 stars
ZZ Top
3/5
Easy listening rock. The hits are the hits for a reason, and the non-hits don't really stand up in comparison.