Listening statistics & highlights
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
|
5 | 2.84 | +2.16 |
|
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
|
5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
|
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
|
4 | 2.25 | +1.75 |
|
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
|
5 | 3.27 | +1.73 |
|
Live Through This
Hole
|
5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
|
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
|
5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
|
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
|
5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
|
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
|
5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
|
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
|
5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
|
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
|
5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
|
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay
|
1 | 3.43 | -2.43 |
|
25
Adele
|
1 | 3.38 | -2.38 |
|
Melodrama
Lorde
|
1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
|
Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
|
1 | 3.22 | -2.22 |
|
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
|
1 | 3.09 | -2.09 |
|
All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2
|
1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
|
World Clique
Deee-Lite
|
1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
|
Disintegration
The Cure
|
2 | 3.86 | -1.86 |
|
Yeezus
Kanye West
|
1 | 2.75 | -1.75 |
|
21
Adele
|
2 | 3.7 | -1.7 |
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Nirvana | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 5 |
| Elliott Smith | 2 | 5 |
| Tom Waits | 2 | 5 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.2 |
| Radiohead | 5 | 4.2 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 4.33 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 4.33 |
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Dexys Midnight Runners | 2 | 1.5 |
| Madonna | 2 | 1.5 |
| Adele | 2 | 1.5 |
Some Sabbath bangers on here, but I'd say not a strong album. I'm afraid, and that's mainly because of "Changes" (and, I guess, "FX"). They just completely mess up the flow of this album.
Great album, but within you without you felt very out of place and interrupted the album. Might feel a lot more in place in the vinyl format as it's the first track on side B.
Killer album. The noodling gets a bit masturbatory in the last two thirds of the album, but it's a damn good album.
Like the Talking Heads mixed with Elvis Costello and Bob Dylan, but not good. Not sure why this one is on the list.
I know that many very famous artists found this album influential, which perhaps warrants its inclusion on a list like this, but it doesn't seem as pioneering as every positive review seems to claim (which might just be bias from an era where we now have instant access to most of the history of music). I think a lot of what has been described as "pioneering" was done years prior by people like Wendy Carlos and Mort Garson. I am sure there are more, lesser known, artists that should be included on this list, but Wendy's work in 1968 topped the charts and remained there for years, earning her the opportunity to work with Kubrick scoring his films, all prior to the release of Autobahn. Overall, I think artists that came before did it better, and I think artists in recent times have improved on what they were going for. Maybe it was something special in the moment, but I think this album can be left in the past.
I'm not sure why this album is on this list at all. Sure, we can think about representation of all genres, but this is generic and bland especially considering the time in which it was released. A few tracks have some crooning horns, which had been done with more style and originality by Tom Waits in his early works over a decade prior. Generic ballads abound here, nothing of note. Pass.
Average rating is within 0.15 points of global average.