My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Yeezus Kanye West	5	2.76	+2.24
Olympia 64 Jacques Brel	5	2.77	+2.23
White Light Gene Clark	5	2.84	+2.16
Blood And Chocolate Elvis Costello & The Attractions	5	2.91	+2.09
Truth And Soul Fishbone	5	2.97	+2.03
Spiderland Slint	5	2.97	+2.03
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts The Adverts	5	2.97	+2.03
S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things	5	3.01	+1.99
Meat Puppets II Meat Puppets	5	3.02	+1.98
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.02	+1.98

Album	You	Global	Diff
xx The xx	1	3.35	-2.35
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	1	3.21	-2.21
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	1	3.13	-2.13
Make Yourself Incubus	1	3.08	-2.08
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	1	3.07	-2.07
I See You The xx	1	2.99	-1.99
American Idiot Green Day	2	3.77	-1.77
Slipknot Slipknot	1	2.67	-1.67
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.64	-1.64
The Number Of The Beast Iron Maiden	2	3.58	-1.58

Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	5	4.8
Bob Dylan	5	4.8
Bruce Springsteen	3	5
Marvin Gaye	2	5
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5
Radiohead	2	5
R.E.M.	2	5
Pavement	2	5
Leonard Cohen	2	5
Curtis Mayfield	2	5
Paul Simon	2	5
Joni Mitchell	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5
Tom Waits	2	5
Willie Nelson	2	5
Stevie Wonder	2	5
Public Enemy	2	5
The Jam	2	5

Artist	Albums	Average
The xx	2	1

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Too Long. Took me days to finish.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Summer in the freezing Sask winter.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Some highlights: -Gimme Shelter -You Can't Always Get What You Want -You Got The Silver -Midnight Rambler -Monkey Man

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

It's a solid album from top to bottom. Some highlights include: -Mountains Beyond Mountains -The Suburbs -Suburban War -Rococo -Modern Man This album does drag on for a little too long though.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

I recently gave a review, allocating this a three. Upon further reflection, this is a work of genius, even if it's not my thing.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Good quality rock and roll. Feels like Janis Joplin meets The Doors.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

Rounding up to 4, this is a 3.5.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

She's on to something here fellas. Would be a five if there were more catchy, singable songs along with all the weird stuff. It gets to weird some times too.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

I gave this a one a few months ago, then went back and listened again. What was I on?

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Good guitar, bad lyrics.

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Even though the use of certain words seems unnecessary, this album is innovative, catchy, lyrically interesting, and instrumentally brilliant.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

-1 full star for musical quality. -1 half-star for catchiness. -1 half-star for a good mix of different song types. -1 full star for interesting lyrics. -1 full star for innovation, no one sounded like these guys except The Byrds at their time. Overall: 4 stars.

Suede

2/5

Before I begin I would like to say that Brett Anderson's voice makes me want to shoot him and myself. That aside I will try to stay objective. -1 star for good-quality instrumentals. I feel like the rest of the band should chuck Brett and do their own thing because they're pretty great musicians. -1 star for a good mix throughout the album. It's a pretty nice variety of sounds. -0 stars for innovation. This one is pretty obvious. -Let's say half-star for lyrics. He does address weighty topics, but his lyrics aren't exactly genius. -Then 0 for catchiness again, which also has to do with his stupid voice. Overall, 2.5. Let's say 2.

Iron Maiden

3/5

A lot better than number of the beast.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Eh, not the best we have to offer.

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

I wanted to like this album. But I got bored by some of the lyrics and all the songs are pretty similar. Buffalo Stand is overrated, but Manchild is a cool song. This is actually more 2.5.

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

I was surprised, this album was new for me. Cool that this guy inspired so many great artists though.

Kala

M.I.A.

3/5

Points for doing something new. A little bit too heavy on the imaginary words for me. I had trouble deciding what review to give, but I think it has to be 3. This isn't really my kind of thing, but m.i.a is a good songwriter, and she is trying out a new sound. 6/10 There's a lot of filler.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

Sometimes I think they started this band on a dare.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Boring seventies pop. Had to put it on hold for a few days. 2.5 rounding up.

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Adele

2/5

Catchy and nice voice. Pretty samey and basic.

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Catchy

Slipknot

1/5

First of all, you can't here anything that the singer is saying. Secondly, even if you could, it's all predictable, formulaic, nihilist garbage. All the songs sound the same, there's one catchy track that manages to kill the mood at the same time, and they're trying so hard to be edgy that it makes them flop. Great drumming. Other than that, slipknot and nu-metal in general are trash.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

I wanted to hate this album more than I ended up doing. Some of his lyrics are still super misogynistic and homophobic though. Stan is a good song. The skits and jokes are stupid. I'm confused. Kim is one of the songs I'm the most on the edge about. It's either a masterpiece or the most horrible, wife-abusing piece of shit I've ever heard. I guess I'll go with my system as usual: -1 star for innovation. -Half star for lyrics. Some stuff is great and some stuff is just plain awful. -1 star for instrumental/voice quality. His flow is nice. -0.5 stars for a good album mix. I don't care about the stupid skits. -1 full star for catchiness. Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Overall: 3.5 stars .

1999

Prince

3/5

Prince is talented. But I got tired of the 9-minute songs of him screwing around with cheesy lyrics. Some great songs are on this record, but here's how I would rank it. -0.5 stars for lyrics. There's great stuff( All the critics love you in New York, delusional, free) but also a boat load of crap. -0.5 for catchiness. Again, some are amazing, and some are super boring. -1 for instrumental quality. Great guitar, and drums. -1 for innovation. You hear Prince in a lot of newer artists. -0 for a good mix throughout the album. Too much filler. Overall: A well-deserved three stars. 6/10

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Classic pretentious album.

The La's

4/5

I expected less. Interesting lyrics, cool instrumentals and some super catchy stuff. Hidden gem

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Nice surprise! I didn't know this band; they seemed boring when I read about them. But this had some pretty good quality grunge, kind of like your favourite grunge band's favourite grunge band vibe. I can't give it 5 because they didn't change the genre or do anything super unique, but this is a good, engaging album. Much better than Soundgarden.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

This is such a great record, ruined by a decade and a style. Slash is great; everything he plays gets to you. Axl has an excellent, if tiresome, voice. This record was made at a time of vice in LA, so it could have been a true representation of sin. But it's the lyrics that keep it from being good. Sweet Child O'Mine is excellent instrumentally, but o so terribly written. Same for Paradise City. And the production is so cheesy, so very hair-metal, each song somewhere between a corny ballad and a metal rocker. This record has all the right parts to work, but the way it's peace together fails.

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Never listened to Nas before now. Pretty cool. -1 star for lyrics -1 star for good flow. -1 star for catchiness. -1 star for originality. -1 star for good album mix. More like 4.5 but round up.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

Frank Sinatra meets Tom Lehrer meets Jacques Brel. Doesn't always work. -1 half-star for lyrics since this was mostly covers. - Half-star for instrumental quality; ie his voice. -Half a star for catchiness, it's hit-and-miss. -Half a star for innovation. -Minus 1 star for being repetitive. Thought it was gonna be 3, but I guess not. Eh, what the heck. He deserves a 3.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Booooooooooooooooooooring. I got really tired of the 13-minute tracks. -1 star for originality. -1 star for instrumentals. -Half a star for lyrics. Great when you can actually hear it. -Minus 1 for being a bad mix, repetitive and boring. -Minus 1 for not being catchy or singable or even danceable. Overall: 2.5, rounding down because this guy cannot write anything under 4 minutes long.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Too many Deep Purple albums on this list. They sound like The Doors and Black Sabbath had a baby, and he turned out uglier than both parents. You've got all the cheese of early '70s metal, without Ozzy Osbourne's lyrics and original style, and you've got the random organ solos and overly long songs of The Doors in all the wrong places, not pairing well with the rest of the band's feel or the singer's voice. I have no idea if they are good songwriters, since all I can hear is the instrumentals, and the vocal stuff I do hear makes me cringe. The only thing saving them from a 1 is the instrumental quality of the album and the catchy hooks throughout. Songs Saved: 1/7 Does it belong on this list? One Deep Purple record would have been enough. Certainly not this one. I did like Child in Time, even though it drags on a little too long. Worst song: Hard Lovin' Man.

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

A bit empty, but fun.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Never listened to Iggy Pop before. Delightful. Clever lyrics, great melodies, catchy guitar riffs, and real punk spirit. Great. The producer work of David Bowie also shines through without cramping Iggy's style.

xx

The xx

1/5

Impossible to describe how much I hate this.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

Didn't enjoy it. I guess it's meant to be artsy, but seriously, wtf. Obviously Zappa is a great guitar player, but he is so much better elsewhere. This is a stupid parody that forgets that music is meant to entertain. Where is the beauty, where is the tune, and where is the irony promised? This just seems like a parody of parodies. It doesn't have the cynical, dry humour of Tom Lehrer, and doesn't do justice to the strangeness of Tom Waits because it's trying so hard to be funny that it isn't working. Yeah. I like mocking hippies too. But can we be smarter about it please?

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Did I enjoy this album? Kind of. Is it great? Absolutely. -1 for lyrics, even though they are pretty hard to decipher sometimes. -1 for instrumentals, pretty unique sound. -1 star for catchy tunes. Dirty old town, dirty old tooooooooown. -1 star for being original. Punk and folk together is something I hadn't thought of mixing. -I'm docking one point for this album being too long and some boring songs. Also, the sound is too constant (not enough variety). I can see why it's here, and they are certainly doing something new and cool. It's just missing something. Not sure how to explain it. Also not really my style. Absolutely belongs on this list, but my enjoyment of it was probably 3/5.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Eh

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

What's not to like?

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Kind of a jam. The lyrics are concise and clever, the sound is interesting and varies throughout, and this album brightened my morning overall. Albums like these are why I'm doing this project. Hidden gems I wouldn't have found otherwise.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

It's alright, but couldn't I have listened to it after departing my earthly body? Perhaps on the elevator up.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Halloween rock.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

I think this album isn't supposed to be listened to. It's meant to get film companies interested in a product, as Wikipedia seems to say, and I agree. -1 star for the "concept" and the story. 1 star for the actual music, which makes an okay background, but isn't exactly a thing of beauty. This whole album left me wondering why no one ever made a movie.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

What a guitarist. Longer than it needed to be. Also, I feel like Clapton's influence is overstated in the comments. He's not even the lead singer, and despite him being a racist prig, he's real talented.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

Awesome in every way. Why I'm here.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

I always bypassed CCR as just another silly Lynyrd Skynyrd southern rock band, but Forgerty is so talented.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

This is super overrated. Pitchfork gave it a ten out of ten, which is preposterous. Making electronica requires very little real talent, and this album in general is very pretentious. In the end, my decision came down to this: -1 half star for instrumental quality. You're good with computers, so what? -1 half star for beauty in general there are some really pretty moments. -1 star for good production. -1 star for starting electronica, even though it sucks. Other than that, this album Is pretty mid, and the artists are pretty talentless.

Da Capo

Love

2/5

I guess my dad was right. Love is overrated.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

This is a 4.5, but I'm rounding up. Cosmo's Factory was better. I still dig. I think my enjoyment was 4/5, but I'm trying to be objective.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

"It's not the band I hate, it's their fans" -Sloan 3.5 Minus points for the worst band name in rock history.

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

4/5

Enjoyment: 3/5, he can do better. Objectively: 4/5, what a guitarist, and lots of variety.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

3/5

Relatively boring.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Makes up for the 13 minute nonsense with some really catchy and provocative tunes.

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Super boring and predictable. Beck can do much better than this. Occasional high points like Paper Tiger, Lonesome Tears and Golden Age. Just another sad guy with no inspiration. You're not Nick Drake, dude.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

Too long, good moments.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

Cooooool daddy-oh.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

This beautiful day was ruined by the knowledge that there is a user in this platform that gave The Beatles' Revolver a 1 and System of a Down a 4. As for the actual album, it's wonderfully moppy genius.

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Much better than I expected. ABBA is one of those bands that is really good at what they do, only what they do isn't very good. Some examples of this type of music include Metallica and The Mothers of Invention.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

I love Crosby, Stills and Nash. They're even better with Neil Young. But David's solo career is a huge disappointment. The songwriting is subpar, especially "Cowboy Movie", the instrumentals interludes are stupid, and even the Neil collab was trash. The best song is Laughing.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Only had time to listen to Speakerboxxx, but it was lit.

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

I was gonna say something funny, but I don't want to get cancelled.

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Anybody else getting a bit of a White Stripes vibe?

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Good at what she does.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

1/5

Most certainly not my new favourite band.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

Nice.

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Seems appropriate.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

Cool.

The Velvet Underground

5/5

A really beautiful collection of songs. Lou Reed,man.

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

Points for having a song called no no no, even though it sucks.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Ahead of its time.

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

This is like copy pasting a bunch of different bands and making something worse.

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

R.E.M are the greatest rock songwriters of all time (except maybe for the Beatles).

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Feels like molten sunshine. Or honey. Or heroin.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Raw talent. Wasted talent.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

Very weird, but in a good way.

Blur

4/5

Substantially better than I thought it would be. Favorites: Chinese Bombs, Movin' on Least Favorites: Beetlebum, Country Sad Ballad Man 3.5

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

A little shock value. Not bad though.

Bad Company

3/5

3.5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

Hey if you idiots gave Eminem 3.5, and this guy only 2.whatever, there's a problem, because they're both gross as hell and this guy actually has things to say.

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Track by track. -Synchronicity I is kind of like the Sgt Pepper's opening track. It sets the fun mood but isn't too deep by itself. -Walking in your footsteps sounds dumb the first time, as mentioned in one of the reviews. All the dinosaur stuff is weird. But once you listen a little closer, it's brilliant. It's a comparison with nuclear warfare. Also, Stewart Copeland is amazing. -O My God indeed. -Mother is pretty funny. Summers is crashing out something else. -Miss Gradenko sounds like it's sung by Sting even if it's not, and for a drummer song, it's lyrically pretty solid. -Synchronicity II is a songwriting highlight. -Every Breath You Take is Andy Summers' moment. That guitar is so haunting. -King of Pain is sharp. There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread bites. -Wrapped Around Your Finger is such a good breakup song. That's what I call bass. -Tea in the Sahara is my least favourite apart from Mother. The lyrics bore me. But the guitar is great. -Murder By Numbers is Sting's Agatha Christie novel. Overall, I love The Police. As for the cultural appropriation stuff, I don't really see it. His accent is not Jamaican at all (go listen to Marley and you'll see) and the reggae style drumming and bass is just inspiration. If you start calling this cultural appropriation, then everything from The Beatles to Songhoy Blues is too.

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Diamonds in the Mine is so weird. 5/5 anyway.

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

New and compelling. 4.25

Pretenders

5/5

Real fun. Doesn't seem like they're pretending.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Irritating and generic. If you like this, I'm sure there is a reason. I just haven't found one yet.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

5/5

The Chili Peppers wish.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

Boring and forgettable. Maybe a bit catchy.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Fire. A little samey.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

1/5

Music meant to be heard but not listened to.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

mildly interesting

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

I keep thinking the Stones are overrated.

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

War on imperialism

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Witty

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

5/5

Extremely underrated on this website.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

I can see it. I really can. But it's a bit samey and the translated lyrics are ok. 3.5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

Got this the day after Bryan Wilson died.

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Evry song on this is a save, even the instrumentals.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

You're not tough.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

Hmmm. I think it isn't very good. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Like Tori Amos if Tori Amos didn't suck.

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

This one does seem a little unnecessary. None the less it's the Who.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Death bluegrass for the win.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

With a deep, soulful rumble, a saxophone-free Bruce Springsteen pulls a broken America apart.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Excellent.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

5/5

New and wonderful.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

5/5

I hate the idea of the dead. They have stoned 20-minute jam sessions on stage, their fans call themselves "Deadheads", treat Jerry Garcia like I treat Jesus, and follow shows in turquoise-coloured buses occasionally splattered with pink or yellow—in short, a cult, like MAGA or the Peoples Temple. But the idea of the dead is very different from their real music. American Beauty is a beautiful album. The warm tone of the Garcia's vocals, the poetic lyrics penned by Robert Hunter, and the way the instruments merge make for an album that makes you understand why these dirty hippies from 'Frisco are seen as the second coming. But this review should serve as a warning. Don't judge a band by its fans or the personality of its members. I hate Nirvana fans, I love Nirvana. I hate Kanye, but I love his music. That's how we should feel about the dead. Admire without worship.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

This album feels like spending hot summer days in somebody else's basement, plucking at guitars and dreaming about imaginary women.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Delightfully immature.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

This album sucks. Mean, grimy little English shits singing about how much they want to screw the world. This is an album by dudes who literally dropped out of special school. Every song sounds like the one that came before it. But then, it's also a masterpiece. The songs deal with things nobody had thought of singing about before. They're songs about the real world, the rough streets outside. You hate yourself, but are happy you're still there to say that. The lyrics hit you like the wind whipping during a snowstorm, and the vocals, which at first sound like a self-parody, snarl like the mind of the disgusting human being that sings them. This is a real, raw record. It spawned hundreds of records of complete trash, but now I get why people like John Spencer or the other 80's and 90's rippofs of the Sex Pistols wanted to sound like this.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

WOOOOAAAh

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

I have no idea why they chose this Tom Petty record over Damn the Torpedoes. American Girl and Breakdown are gems, but everything else is too boring.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

A-

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

4/5

A jug? Intriguing.

Guero

Beck

4/5

Folk rap is surprisingly cool.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Banana man gets a 5.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Nice cat, Carole.

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

The whole album revolves around one melody, the omnipresent doo doo doodododo do do that is played on every instrument. You can't call the album catchy, but it has a way of sticking to your brain and corrupting your thoughts.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

3/5

Expected to like it more than I actually did.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

2/5

Did you know that Tom Araya is a practising Catholic? Yeah, he should be papally excommunicated.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Reminds me of some other stuff I like (Digable Planets, Arrested Development, Tribe Called Quest) except singing about potholes, soap and other random shit.

Dire Straits

4/5

Cool

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

If those MAGA American exceptionalists only knew...

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

Dear album generator, I am a patient man. But one more ALBUM OF EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL ELECTRONICA FROM THE NINETIES AND I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING REGRETTABLE. Yours truly.

Paul Simon

5/5

Hehehaha

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

Unnecessary.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Fun times, talented, not my thing really.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Second Bob album in 3 days. This one is a lot better, and I own it, which helps.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

Could be worst things.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

This album is extremely influential and important. It's also not my thing, and frankly I find the lyrics annoying.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

A pretty solid album. I liked Happiness a lot. Gets a bit samey though.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

I wasn't a big fan of Fever to Tell. This record is a lot better, though I don't plan to listen again.

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Listened on the plane. Not bad.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

5/5

Ranging from corporal punishment nostalgia to grieving after the women he sells coke to, Ghostface delivers an excellent album.

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

What a record.

The Cars

3/5

Some great tracks on here, but it sags in the middle. Also, I wasn't a big fan of the lyrics. I found them very "fine".

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

4/5

Yeah.

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

I like Nelson better. A little slow to get to the action.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

If this were an exhibition, it would be arrested for exhibitionism.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Dug.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Hey, she's from my home town!

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

Well, this album certainly had its moments. But overall, the production/mixing brought the whole thing down. The lyrics weren't awful, nor were they brilliant. The instrumental quality is marred by the muddiness of the record in general. One thing I can say, it is pretty catchy. Faves: O, Dana, Jesus Christ, Kanga Roo, Thank You Friends. 7/10 rounding down.

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Good.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Best part was the random spoken word intros.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Wow, what a landmark album. So important it charted at number 26 in Scotland.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

A perfect middle ground between gangsta rap and the nerdier stuff of TCQ, DP and AD

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

5/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

5/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

A little corny, but charming nonetheless.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Among the best cover albums i've ever heard.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Not my thing, but I gotta be objective you know? Some misses, but overall excellent. I particularly enjoyed Wanna Be Startin' Something.

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Changed my life.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

Pretty good. Not bad. I guess I can't complain. But actually... all these songs sound just about the same.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

This album uses groundbreaking studio techniques and instruments brand new to the Western world, but it sounds like a good old-fashioned blues record.

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

5/5

Elastica

4/5

Not what I thought britpop was supposed to sound like.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Absolutely beautiful-best cover album ever.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

This album permanently convinced me to live a holy life of sexual abstinence.

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

Actually better then Maiden, you guys are dumb.

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

well, it wasn't awful. 2.5 rounding up

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

yeah not bad. hit and miss A high 3

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

5/5

My dad used to sing James Taylor to me when I was little. I think it's mostly nostalgic.

Music

Madonna

2/5

You know, I didn't really enjoy that.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Great sounding record.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

21

Adele

3/5

Quite a good voice, just wish there was a bit less filler and the lyrics were better.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

2.5, definitely. Rounding down for Aisha trying too hard.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Love his voice, it makes slightly lame concepts like "Boogie on reggae woman" really come to life.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

The ultimate diss album. They cover everything from music critics and mainstream love songs to TV soap operas and copyright lawyers. Amazing.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

2/5

Terrible. Absolute cookie-cutter music.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Very groovy.

Damaged

Black Flag

2/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

I'm confused. What am I listening to? Why is it catchy all of a sudden? What the?!!!! is happening?

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

Very rugged sounding. a great listen while doing my homework.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

I quite liked this record, and the Sophie's World and John Prine references hit the right person. Still, it was a bit too all over the place to warrant 5 stars.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Hit me just on the right day.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Fairly clever just a bit tedious after a while.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

Very fun, great energy

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Awfully, intolerably sweet. Hit me on a day when my record player waas broken, too.

Sound Affects

The Jam

5/5

What a...Jam

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

As a Neil fan, I feel obliged to hate this. Truth, it's pretty good.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

I really liked the vocals, just a bit repetitive.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Wow, who knew tables could be so catchy.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Damn, cocaine makes for great subject matter.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Quite liked this, especially Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch.

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

5/5

Blew my socks off.

The Band

5/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The 4th Stones album I've gotten so far. Getting to be a bit much. This one isn't as good as the others, but it has really great standalone tracks. I recommend you listen to the UK version because it has Mother's Little Helper on it.

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

I saw a Blue Rodeo show today. That was great. This, on the other hand, absolutely blows.

Garbage

4/5

Let's go Blue Jays!

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

5/5

9/10 I love this.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Nice and talented, but as with GnR, harmed by the decade in which it was released.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

The second half was a lot better. A bit too faux Marvin Gaye for me. A low 3.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Great listen all around.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

4/5

Quite well done. Wish he was sane.

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

5/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

I love this record, it was just what I needed today.

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

If that had been longer, my eardrums would have exploded.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

All the reviews I've read have been either glowing or awful. I see why now. Personally, fall on the former side of the debate.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

My biggest guilty pleasure. I hate myself for giving Michael his second five stars.

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

2/5

Number 90 in Scotland this time. Wow, what a chart performance.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

2/5

Drunk

Thundercat

4/5

This is mad chill.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Oh yes. Oh yes.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

5/5

This helped me get through the tragic world series. I still love you, Ernie.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Like dancy-er, queerer Belle and Sebastian. Got a lot better towards the end.

Van Halen

3/5

Well, that was the first Van Halen album.

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

2/5

2.5 round down, not sure why the critics were all over this one, it feels super derivative of better bands that came before.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

This album is miraculous.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

I hated this, but...

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY.

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Made me hop up and down the living room like a true socialist.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

5/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

This album is awful and misogynistic and gross. At the same time ot manages to be poetic, redemptive and heartbreaking. What it is is real life, not pure bragging sex talk and drug trades, but not watered down, family friendly garbage either. It's a real portrait of life on the streets of Brooklyn in 1994, and is a testimony to the odd places genius can come from. It is an artefact from pre-disney New York, which means decadence, violence and reality. Unlike West-coast gangsta rap, Biggie isn't just flexing about all the hos and crackpipes he has, he's not gloryfing gang culture, he's showing NYC in all of its ugly glory.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Bootsy Collins, what a legend.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Great record all the way through. Except for Factory, that song sucks—just the definition of filler.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Miriam Makeba

5/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

1/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Easiest five ever. This is one of the best albums of all time.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

I liked this ok, I just felt it could have been replaced by a lot of other albums of around the same time. Why isn't there any Chuck Berry on this list?

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Fairly boring.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

I love The Smiths. Sorry? I said I love The Smiths.

Dare!

The Human League

4/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

4/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

1/5

Why, of all the albums on God's green earth, did we pick a live, 1 and a half hour long Motorhead album?

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

Pretty good, just not my thing and a bit monotonous.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

Not objectively horrible, but so incredibly boring and tuneless.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

I really like this, a high 4.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

I respect this, but honestly 2.5.

Yeezus

Kanye West

5/5

Yeah, I know. But you gotta separate art from artist, right?

Palo Congo

Sabu

4/5

Fun record, don't get why so much hate.

Being There

Wilco

5/5

What a gem! I only knew Wilco's "hits" but this was great.

American Idiot

Green Day

2/5

How do I best communicate the eyeroll emoji in a review?

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

The fact that the previous album, Green Day, was rated higher than this overall is a disgrace to humanity and everything good and holy on God's green earth.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

I thought I would enjoy this more than I did. Found it kind of boring tbh.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

5/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

This was about as good as the previous Manic Street Preachers album.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Guys, stop hating on Bob.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

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

Arrested Development

5/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

5/5

Ça, c'est de l'art. De la poesie. Vous êtes tous incultes, barbares, que vous êtes.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

3/5

I get that their talented, but this is just excessive.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

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

Devo

4/5

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

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

Musically, Hieronymus Bosch as postindustrial atheist; lyrically, Transformers as kiddie porn -Robert Christgau

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Again, too much Deep Purple. Smoke on the Water is an undeniable classic, though.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Liked this better than the last Dire Straits album, felt more complete.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

4/5

Like better Depeche Mode.

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

The Kinks

5/5

For sure gotta listen again. Made me think.

Electric

The Cult

2/5

Bruh. I got better things to do rn.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

3/5

As much as I like Kate Bush, that's enough of that.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

5/5

Not Graceland, but Paul Simon is just such a beautiful songwriter.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Don't fight him.

War

U2

5/5

Fine, whatever, take it.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

Hey, stop hating.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Cold, unbuttered soul.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Why do i need to write

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

While Eric Clapton is undoubtedly talented, I struggled to connect with this record, finding it somewhat monotone. Additionally, I found Clapton's lyrics beneath his work as part of Derek and the Dominoes. So, like my previous reviews of albums like The Cars and Appetite for Destruction, this is an album I respect, but don't really like. Best track: Give Me Strength (nice old-timy country tune) Worst track: I Shot the Sheriff (Whiter, blander version of Marley's original)

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

Please don't let Finland win.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Goat.

I See You

The xx

1/5

Genuinely awful.