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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| The Seldom Seen Kid | 5 | 3.26 | +1.74 |
| Songs Of Leonard Cohen | 5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
| The ArchAndroid | 5 | 3.46 | +1.54 |
| Shleep | 4 | 2.51 | +1.49 |
| Moondance | 5 | 3.71 | +1.29 |
| Triangle | 4 | 2.71 | +1.29 |
| Tracy Chapman | 5 | 3.78 | +1.22 |
| So Much For The City | 4 | 2.81 | +1.19 |
| Rejoicing In The Hands | 4 | 2.82 | +1.18 |
| Nick Of Time | 4 | 2.83 | +1.17 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
| The Man Machine | 1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
| The College Dropout | 1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
| Disintegration | 2 | 3.85 | -1.85 |
| Siamese Dream | 2 | 3.83 | -1.83 |
| Our Aim Is To Satisfy | 1 | 2.74 | -1.74 |
| Snivilisation | 1 | 2.71 | -1.71 |
| good kid, m.A.A.d city | 2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
| Here's Little Richard | 2 | 3.57 | -1.57 |
| Timeless | 1 | 2.53 | -1.53 |
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Janelle Monáe
5/5
This is how music is supposed to be, a joy to listen to! So interesting and varied and exciting without being overwhelming, will definitely be listening again.
Favourite: Make the Bus (closely followed by Faster or Tightrope or Oh, Maker- just so many good songs!!)
The Cure
2/5
For an album called disintergration I found it quite hard to differentiate between a lot of the songs... A lot of repetitive mopiness, just don't think I'm angsty enough to get it.
Favourite: Disintegration
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Really enjoyed the first half but by the end of the album felt like I was just waiting for it to be over.
Favourite: Scar Tissue
The Band
4/5
Has the feeling of nostalgia without me actually having heard most of the songs before.
Favourite: Long Black Veil (or The Weight)
4/5
Very U2, enjoyed it but nothing stood out enough for me to have anything interesting to say about it
Favourite: In God’s Country
Pixies
3/5
Some proper bangers but the overall listening experience was very much disrupted by the times they just screamed at me
Favourite: Here Comes Your Man
Devendra Banhart
4/5
Felt very charming and warm, kept hearing songs and thinking they would definitely be my favourite and the next song would start and I'd feel the same way. Great mix of straight folkiness and weird quirkiness.
I can see myself listening to this again and again.
Favourite: Todo los Dolores
Least: See Saw
R.E.M.
4/5
Feel like I'm in the car with my parents before they'd ever heard of vanlife.
favourite: Man on the Moon
least: Ignoreland
Gotan Project
2/5
Felt like I was on hold and they never picked up the phone. Waiting room music.
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
It grew on me as the album progressed and it was just the second half I'd rate it a lot higher but I found some of the early songs genuinely difficult to listen to and that brings down the whole album for me. Really interesting storytelling happening but enough misogyny that I just couldn't enjoy it. A man saying bitch that much will always bring me out of the listening experience.
Favourite: Real
Least: Backseat Freestyle
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Some of the intros were a tad too long for me but overall shocked by how not bored I got with such long songs. Not something I ever would have chosen to listen to but I’m really glad I heard it (before I died).
Favourite: Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
Least: By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Lovely combination of folky and indie pop that appeals perfectly to me. I love the singers voice and the mix of tragic lyrics with upbeat music. Just a few uncomfortable lyrics and the weird tone shift that is Electronic Renaissance stop it from being a 5 for me.
Favourite: She's Losing It or I Don't Love Anyone
Least: Electronic Renaissance
Django Django
4/5
Weird and fun style of music that I didn't expect to enjoy so much! The indie style vocals are a great balance to the funky electronic beats. Almost all of the songs on this album were contenders for my favourite and the multiple listens it took to decide were all a great joy to me.
Favourite: Waveforms
Least: Skies Over Cairo
The Stone Roses
3/5
Enjoyed a lot of the album but nothing really stood out to me. The backwards stuff on Don't Stop really wasn't fun to listen to for me- felt a little too uncanny valley and some of the songs at the end seemed to go on a little longer than I had patience for.
Favourite: Bye Bye Bad Man
Least: Don't Stop
Pentangle
2/5
Sometimes I really enjoyed the weirdness, other times I found it a bit annoying and hard to listen to...
Not music I would have listened to without the list which is fun- but also not music I'll be back to listen to again.
Favourite: Train Song
Least: House Carpenter
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Don't think I've ever sat down and listened to a full Frank Sinatra album before, obviously he's pretty amazing at this singing thing even when the songs get a tad too mopey for me. Little shout out to It Never Entered My Mind because not enough people sing about solitaire.
Could have been right up there as an album if I still smoked.
Favourite: Deep In A Dream
Least: When Your Lover Has Gone (but don't hold me to this)
The Cars
4/5
So many fun and iconic songs. Just a great time album really.
Favourite song: Just What I Needed
Least: I'm In Touch With Your World
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Tended to like the guitar songs more than the piano songs (which I found a little too depressing).
Most: Carey or California
Least: The Last Time I Saw Richard
Elton John
4/5
Went in thinking it would be nearly impossible for the rest of the album to live up to Bennie And The Jets- was very pleasantly surprised by quite how much I enjoyed the rest of it! A few questionable musical decisions really bring it down.
Favourite: Grey Seal
Least: Jamaica Jerk-Off or Dirty Little Girl
Billy Joel
5/5
Jam packed with great songs, found it quite difficult to pick a least favourite because of how much I liked them all.Movin’ Out
Favourite:
Least: The Stranger
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Just very fun! Will definitely be listening (and dancing) to some of these songs many more times!
Favourite: Can You Forgive Her
Least: Dreaming of the Queen
Rush
4/5
Obsessed with the fact YYZ is named that because it's the Toronto airport code. Also there's a bit in Vital Signs that sounds identical to so american by Olivia Rodrigo which I love (obviously it's actually that so american sounds like vital signs but I heard them the wrong way round).
Favourite: Vital Signs
Least: Tom Sawyer
The Birthday Party
1/5
Too chaotic and noisy for me personally. Hate to think that this is what living in London for two years does to Nick Cave.
Favourite: Several Sins
Least: Kiss Me Black
PJ Harvey
4/5
Enjoyable music with haunting lyrics. Strange to have a war themed album but I thought it was really well done. The vocals themselves sometimes weren't my thing but I still think it's an incredible album.
Favourite: The Last Living Rose
Least: England
Moby
2/5
Not a huge fan of songs where one line is just put on a non stop repeat- even the songs I initially liked ended up getting a bit repetitive or going on a little too long.
Favourite: South Side or Run on
Least: Machete
Eagles
4/5
Manages to pull off both fun dancing vibes and gorgeous harmonies on slower songs. Couple of songs that I'll be skipping on future listens, but there definitely will be future listens.
Favourite song: Take It Easy (or Train Leaves Here This Morning)
Least: Most of Us Are Sad (or Take the Devil)
Goldie
1/5
It's called timeless because it feels like it will never end.
Favourite song: State of Mind
Least: Saint Angel
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Take back what I said before about repetitive music... turns out sometimes I really like it! Just really fun.
Favourite: The Rockafeller Skank
Least: Fucking in Heaven
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Enjoyed the beats, often a lot more than the lyrics. (That being said I really loved Ham 'N' Eggs despite it being objectively silly- great to be able to hear how much fun they're having).
Favourite: Can I Kick It?
Least: Pubic Enemy
4/5
Iconic music, can see why these guys got famous famous. The whininess of his voice does get a tiny bit annoying...
Favourite: She's Electric
Least: Morning Glory
The Jam
4/5
An album where I hadn't listened to any of the songs before and am very glad to have them heard now! Exactly what I want the list to deliver.
Favourite: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Least: English Rose
The Darkness
3/5
An album made to be sung in the shower. Bit too screamy for me at points.
Favourite: Friday Night
Least: Stuck in a Rut
Kraftwerk
1/5
Revolutionary for its time. A waste of mine.
Not my least favourite kraftwerk album but I still won't be listening again.
Favourite: The first three minutes of Neon Lights
Least: The Man Machine (the song... but also the album) or the last five minutes of Neon Lights
Prince
3/5
Some really incredible and enjoyable bits of music surrounded by some cringe lyrics and a lot of overpowering annoying fake drum sounds. A couple of the songs that I really loved were ruined by going on too long.
(Absolutely loved I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man and then it kept going for three and a half extra minutes after it should have finished.)
Favourite: The Cross
Least: Starfish and Coffee
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Not music I would normally listen to and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. But it was a bit too long for me and the string of instrumentals in the middle drove me a little bit crazy.
Favourite: Dark as a Dungeon
Least: Sailin' On To Hawaii
Elastica
4/5
Found the music itself super interesting and fun even when the lyrics didn't live up to them (thinking of Vaseline especially) . A lot of songs that I will definitely be coming back to listen to again!
Favourite: Connection or Car Song
Least: Hold Me Now
Kacey Musgraves
3/5
Found it a bit boring on my first listen but it grew on me as the album progressed and when I went back to listen to the first few songs again (to pick a least favourite) I found that they weren't as boring as when I first heard them. Maybe if I listened through a third time I would really love it... but I haven't and I don't.
Favourite: Velvet Elvis or Golden Hour
Least: Mother
Linkin Park
2/5
Tended to like the singing more than the rapping more than the screaming but not a huge fan no matter what, don't think I'm angsty enough for it. Some songs I quite liked but most of them I just wanted to be over.
Favourite: In the End
Least: With You
The Beach Boys
5/5
Kind of hate that Brian Wilson was 23 when he made this album. But I love everything else about it. Some true classics I've heard many times and some amazing songs I've never heard before but will definitely hear again.
Favourite: God Only Knows
Least: Let's Go Away For Awhile
The Auteurs
3/5
I like it but I feel like I've heard the same thing but better before.
Favourite: Show Girl
Least: Junk Shop Clothes
Giant Sand
3/5
Think there's a real mix of chore and enchantment on this album and I'm not quite sure which is winning. Mostly enjoyed his odd style of singing but there were a few songs where I started to really understand why other people would find it annoying. Almost gave it four stars but then I relistened to some of the earlier tracks and remembered how much I didn't like them.
Favourite: Shiver or Dirty From the Rain
Least: X-Tra Wide
Brian Wilson
4/5
Smile(Brian's Version)(From The Vault). Crazy coincidence to get this album the same week we had Pet Sounds. The story behind the album, good vibrations, the sheer joy of some of the songs and the gorgeous harmonies are nearly enough to make it a five star album. But I can't help but feel like it would be even better if it had been a 1967 Beach Boys album instead of a 2004 Brian Wilson album (and sometimes I felt a little thrown about by all the little snippets of different things happening).
(feel like I should say good vibrations is my favourite but that's not the song that's been playing non-stop in my head...)
Favourite: Vega-Tables
Least: Mrs O'Leary's Cow
The Police
3/5
Feel like Mother should have stayed between Andy Summers and his therapist... Some very enjoyable tracks (plus the iconic Every Breath You Take) but overall just fine.
Favourite: Tea In The Sahara
Least: Mother
Violent Femmes
4/5
When I first listened I found the singing really annoying on the first three songs and then from Add It Up onwards was having a lovely time- and then I listened again and the vocals on the first three weren't any different to the rest of it (expect the "bye bye bye"s on Please Do Not Go- still too whiny).
Really liked almost all of it in the end (second listen).
Favourite: Prove My Love or Ugly
Least: Gimme The Car
Morrissey
3/5
I quite like his voice, the songs I did like I really liked and even most of the songs that I wouldn't listen to again had bits that I loved. But some questionable lyrics and any mention of England/Britain/London instantly reminded me how much he sucks. Think it's too hard to separate the art from the artist when the art keeps reminding you of the artists shitty views...
Favourite: Certain People I Know
Least: You're the One for Me, Fatty
Depeche Mode
4/5
Was instantly apprehensive when I saw it was techno as I live in fear of more kraftwerk but instead I thought it was really enjoyable and interesting music. Some songs went a little too weird or a little too repetitive for me but overall shocked by how much I liked the album.
Another one that I never would have listened to without the list but am very happy to have heard.
Favourite: Nothing (or Sacred)
Least: Pimpf
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Their voices are so different that I wasn't a huge fan of the bits where they sang together but I still thought it all sounded pretty darn good, that Sinatra sure can sing!! Not my favourite version of Girl From Ipanema that I've heard...
Favourite: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
Least: How Insensitive
Elliott Smith
4/5
I just really enjoy the way that he sings. Beautiful. Rare case where I wish I hadn't checked out his wikipedia page, hard to not hear every song a little more tragically than before.
Favourite: Can't Make a Sound or Son of Sam
Least: Everything Means Nothing To Me
Little Richard
2/5
I appreciate the history and significance of the album and would very happily listen to any individual song again but god some of them sound so similar it became a bit of a chore to listen to the whole thing.
Favourite: Oh Why?
Least: Jenny Jenny
Femi Kuti
3/5
Very different from music I'd usually listen to and am happily surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Very fun dancey beats but I could have enjoyed it just as much with the songs a few minutes shorter, think some of them got a tad repetitive.
Think Changes was listing things he disagreed with and then had lyrics about women wanting to be like men, men becoming women, men marrying men and women marrying women... Not 100% sure its sexist/transphobic/homophobic but I didn't love it, think it's 4 stars without this song.
Favourite: No Shame
Least: Live For Today (or Changes)
Louis Prima
4/5
Fun! There were parts where the instrumentals went on a bit too long for my liking but otherwise just lovely and joyful!
He's reached the top and had to stop and that's what's bothering me!
Favourite: The Lip or (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
Least: Body and Soul
The Beach Boys
3/5
I know it's only a year before pet sounds but the lyrics make me feel like they're much younger at points. My main criticism boils down to the fact that it's just not pet sounds.
favourite: Help Me, Rhonda or Dance, Dance, Dance
least: Don't Hurt My Little Sister
Van Morrison
5/5
Never fully sat and listened to a full Van Morrison album before but I've heard some of the songs on this album from my mums playlist- most nostalgically Into The Mystic. Just lovely, calming music, don't think I can fault it.
Favourite: Into The Mystic
Least: Everyone
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Another album with "Jenny In The House" featured songs. Liked the songs I was nostalgic for more than the rest of the album (shocker) but still really enjoyed all of it. I just want to hear what he has to say!
Favourite: So Long, Marianne
Least: Teachers (really struggled to pick a least, I really like this album!)
Beatles
4/5
Iconic cover, iconic songs! Feel like the medley could easily have been lots of great independent songs without all the linking bits (and without some of the songs...). But that's me being overly critical, it's objectively a great album with the perfect mix of pure fun and emotion.
Favourite: Here Comes The Sun
Least: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4/5
Perfect music for a rainy day in Glasgow (which must be why he filmed the music video here!). His voice really suits the sad vibe but there were a couple moments where it slipped to the annoying side of off pitch.
Favourite: Raining in Darling (or the music video version of I See Darkness which is more upbeat than the album version)
Least: Knockturne
The Zombies
4/5
The band name made me think it would be rock, the album art gives psychodelic vibes and the album title gives pretentious poetry but what it actually was is lovely 60s pop music.
Favourite: Time of The Season (or This Will Be Our Year)
Least: Butcher's Tale
Steely Dan
4/5
Little jazzier than I'd like sometimes and definitely jazzier on average than my favourite Steely Dan songs. But still so beautifully Steely Dan-y that I was having a lovely time listening!
Favourite: Peg
Least: I Got The News
Eminem
2/5
Sometimes (when I completely ignored all the words) I enjoyed it! Hate that the fun beats were completely wasted on such violently misogynistic lyrics. I think that teenage boys listening to this album makes the world a worse place.
Favourite: My Name Is
Least: '97 Bonnie & Clyde
Elvis Presley
4/5
There are a couple songs that are so Elvis-y it feels like he's impersonating himself.
Favourite: Long Black Limousine (or Only the Strong Survive)
Least: Don't Cry Daddy
5/5
The Beatles response to Pet Sounds and it's almost as good! Sometimes the tone shift was a bit jarring but I liked the music so much I can look past it.
Favourite: She's Leaving Home (or When I'm Sixty Four)
Least: Within You Without You
AC/DC
3/5
A lot of it sounded pretty much the same to me, not necessarily bad just the same.
Favourite: Highway to Hell
Least: Walk All Over You
Rage Against The Machine
3/5
I'm not quite angry enough to truly appreciate Rage Against the Machine but I like the stuff they're saying (even if they're saying it a little too aggressively for me).
Favourite: Take the Power Back
Least: Settle For Nothing
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Very fun album with some big hits, some songs were a bit repetitive for me.
Favourite song: Three Little Birds
Least: Natural Mystics
Scissor Sisters
3/5
So weird! Feel like these guys just made whatever they wanted to and sometimes that’s really good songs and sometimes it’s complaining that they can’t see tits on the radio!
Wasn’t expecting to be screamed at :(
Favourite song: Take Your Mama
Least: Comfortably Numb
The Offspring
3/5
Another one where the album art had me a bit scared before I started listening but I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would! Some of the songs sounded quite similar to me. Not sure a plane at 9am is the ideal setting for the album though.
Favourite song: Not the One
Least: Smash
Animal Collective
2/5
Okay songs with really strange and annoying noises over the top- think the fact I was relieved when it ended says everything.
Favourite song: Summertime Clothes
Least: Daily Routine
Kanye West
1/5
Didn’t listen
De La Soul
4/5
Fun to have a song that samples a song we’ve already had in the 1001 albums! Think how much I liked the first song made the rest of the album a little bit disappointing but still really enjoyable.
Favourite song: (3 is) The Magic Number
Least: De La Orgee
Primal Scream
2/5
Haven’t seen the film that the album’s named after- maybe that would have made me like it more. But as it is it varied between the strange and annoying and the slow and boring- sometimes managing to hit both.
Favourite song: Medication
Least: Out of the Void
Wilco
3/5
The songs I liked were pretty good fun and I’ll probably listen again but didn’t completely make up for the songs that were boring or noisy.
Favourite song: I’m the Man That Loves You (or Kamera)
Least: Reservations
Taylor Swift
4/5
It’s not my favourite Taylor swift album- I don’t think the lyrics are quite at the level some of her other albums reach. That being said it is banger after banger- I found picking favourite/least very difficult cause almost any song on this album could be my favourite on any given day.
Favourite song: Out of The Woods (or Is It Over Now? if we include bonus/vault songs)
Least: All You Had To Do Was Stay
The Clash
4/5
Just a really good album which manages to be varied without ever feeling disconnected. There were a few moments of receptivity and some songs where the talk-singing annoyed me. A lot of songs that I'll be listening to again!
Favourite song: Hateful (or Wrong 'Em Boyo)
Least: The Right Profile
Solomon Burke
3/5
What an incredible voice! Which is why it's a shame that some of the songs on the album don't have him demonstrating how amazing his voice is.
Favourite song: Cry to Me
Least: Hard, Ain't It Hard
The Fall
2/5
Every song seemed to have one too many things going on (maybe that's what happens when you get through so many band members). All a bit too chaotic and noisy for me to really like.
Favourite song: Petty (Thief) Lout
Least: Bombast
Black Sabbath
3/5
Think it starts really strong and then gets worse which left me waiting for the album to finish.
Favourite song: War Pigs /Luke's Wall
Least: Rat Salad
The Temptations
3/5
Bit of a weird mix of songs. Why is Papa Was a Rollin' Stone eleven minutes long!
Some really good songs but as an album it felt a bit all over the place. I preferred the slower songs (bit of a relief after how chaotic the first song felt).
Favourite song: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Least: Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Really really liked this album. Had to double check when it was made cause it could have easily been a modern album. Shocked that I've never listened to an Elvis Costello album before, and very happy (having read the reviews complaining about it) to learn that I have more Elvis Costello albums coming my way!
Also Pump It Up clearly inspired the guitar in Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo, which is fun!
Favourite song: Hand in Hand (or Lip Service or Living in Paradise)
Least: Little Triggers
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
I liked it a lot more this morning than I did at the end of the day yesterday- think a certain amount of energy is needed to listen to this album. Good but not amazing and definitely got a bit repetitive after a while.
Favourite song: Used
Least: Burnt Alive
Neil Young
4/5
Doesn't have any of my favourite Neil Young songs on but still has all the beauty of Neil Young-ness. Has a very raw almost live music feeling to it that occasionally slips a little too into the unrefined/unpolished demo vibe for me.
It's good but there's much better out there, including much better Neil Young music.
Favourite song: New Mama
Least: Borrowed Tune (or Mellow My Mind- not his best singing)
The Beau Brummels
4/5
Gets some extra love from me for the maths name- as James Acaster once said "every triangle is a love triangle if you love triangles!". Not the kind of music I would have picked for myself but I liked this far more than I thought I would, and as an album it did a very good job of keeping the vibe consistent while having each song be different.
Favourite: Are You Happy? (or Old Kentucky Home)
Least: The Wolf of Velvet Fortune
Johnny Cash
4/5
Have to admit I'm not usually a live album fan, but this is a whole different universe- the audience is what makes this album incredible. You can really feel the atmosphere: the announcements, Johnny Cash's little comments, the cheers, the laughs- but my absolute favourite part is when he mentions Folsom in Cocaine Blues and you hear a little whoop- like someones shouted out your hometown in a song.
Favourite song: Folsom Prison Blues (also love Greystone Chapel)
Least: Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog
Beastie Boys
2/5
Such great lyrics as "He drinks a lot of liquor but he don't drink piss"... and "Humpty Dumpty was a big fat egg" Think there's a lot of hip hop where the lyricism is insanely impressive. This isn't that. Didn't help that I found their voices annoying too.
Favourite song: Shadrach
Least: Highway Drifter
Lightning Bolt
1/5
Ouch.
Favourite song: On Fire
Least: 2 Towers (or literally any of the other songs, felt- and sounded- like a drill in the side of my head)
Black Sabbath
3/5
Liked about half of it, some really fun songs and then some where I could feel myself getting a headache. Obviously a hugely impactful album but not really my thing.
Favourite song: Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games with Me
Least: Behind the Wall of Sleep
The White Stripes
3/5
Each song had something I liked but there weren't any I really loved.
Favourite song: Little Ghost
Least: Instinct Blues
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
It feels like they all agreed they didn't want to just make a second Rumours album but they couldn't agree exactly how to make it different. In many ways the incohesiveness adds to the drama of the album, almost like you can see them all struggling to work together post break ups and affairs but as much as I love some good gossip it's not all that's needed to make an album 5*s.
So so many great individual songs but objectively it's just not as good as Rumours.
Favourite song: The Ledge
Least: Thats All for Everyone
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
The list of songs this guy has produced is kind of insane and he's got three Grammy awards! This album doesn't reflect that at all. Thought there were a few pretty fun songs, but it was mostly just repetitive annoyance.
Favourite song: Music Makes You Lose Control
Least: Disco To: Disco
Lauryn Hill
4/5
In February 2020 my sixth form teachers each recommended their favourite album to the school. This was the album one of my least favourite teachers recommended but I listened to it anyway (always been a keen student) and was blown away by her voice. It was definitely not what 18 year old Ella normally listened to but both 18 year old and 23 year old me agree that it's an incredible collection of songs.
Favourite song: Doo Wop (That Thing) or Every Ghetto, Every City
Least: Nothing Even Matters
Kanye West
1/5
Will not listen x
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Got a little sick of the harmonica at points. Liked the upbeat songs more than the slow ones.
Favourite song: Atlantic City
Least: Nebraska
The Go-Go's
4/5
Very fun, perfect vibe of music to put on while you're cleaning up- less helpful for editing a paper. Some of the songs were a bit similar but I never found myself getting bored of the album.
Favourite song: You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
Least: Fading Fast
Stereo MC's
4/5
Never related as much to a lyric as to "I'm at a bus stop waiting on a 33".
Assumed before I started that it wouldn't be my thing but I actually really enjoyed this album (and not just because they mentioned my bus route) good fun beats that manage to avoid all the issues I've had with both electronic music and hip-hop- not overly repetitive, annoying or offensive.
Favourite song: Everything
Least: Chicken Shake
Ray Charles
3/5
Think I like the slower songs more- can really appreciate his voice and the jazzy vibe of the first half isn't really my thing. It's a bit odd to me to have such distinct halves of the album (probably did feel more understandable when they were different sides of a record).
Favourite song: Am I Blue?
Least: Let the Good Times Roll
Sonic Youth
2/5
Too much noise for me. Occasionally there was a hint of good music but mostly it was just annoying.
Favourite song: Schizophrenia
Least: Master-Dik
David Bowie
3/5
the piano in the song Aladdin Sane was awful, bad enough for me to never listen to the whole album through again even though I really liked most of the other songs (not a huge fan of Time either).
Favourite song: Panic in Detroit
Least: Aladdin Sane
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
He's obviously an insanely good guitarist which might make my feeling that were a couple too many guitar solos some sort of sacrilege... But that aside I really enjoyed the album, I thought there was a good amount of variety without it feeling disconnected.
Favourite song: Crosstown Traffic
Least: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Ash
3/5
I didn't not like it. But it didn't really excite me either. Pretty unremarkable.
Favourite song: Girl From Mars
Least: I'd Give You Anything
Orbital
1/5
The end of the first song made me feel there were bugs in my ears. They named themselves after the M25, think this album really captures that vibe- annoying! While its not the worst techno album we've had I still wouldn't listen to it again.
Favourite song: I Wish I Had Duck Feet
Least: Crash and Carry
The Undertones
4/5
Love me some pop-punk. Obviously have heard Teenage Kicks before (iconic) but there so many fun and good songs on this album!
Favourite song: Girls Don't Like it
Least: Jump Boys
Sam Cooke
3/5
I really liked the first song, and then I felt like he kept playing it again and again, would have liked a bit more variety. Was fun to hear him interacting with the audience.
Favourite song: Feel It (Don't Fight it)
Least: Bring It on Home to Me
Duke Ellington
2/5
Kept imagining Lisa Simpson in the Simpsons intro the way the saxophonist kept going on and on. Maybe it’s close minded of me but I tend to prefer songs with words, found a lot of this quite an effort to get through.
Favourite song: Day in, Day Out
Least: Black and Tan Fantasy
The Byrds
3/5
Almost all the songs were 4 star songs for me, but the few that were annoying were super annoying.
Favourite song: The Girl With No Name
Least: Mind Garden
Coldplay
3/5
Nothing personal against Coldplay but there was a time when Lola and I both liked (different) slightly shitty boys who were overly obsessed with Coldplay. I, at least, never had to sit through a boy playing Coldplay songs on my guitar directly at me, but nevertheless Coldplay leaves me with a slightly icky feeling.
Musically I actually really enjoyed the album, just wish I didn't know it was Coldplay.
Favourite song: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Least: A Whisper
Otis Redding
4/5
I really enjoy his voice but a lot of these aren't my favourite versions of the songs. However I do have great respect (get it!) for the original songs, even if they went on to have covers I liked more.
Favourite song: Wonderful World
Least: Rock Me Baby
John Lennon
2/5
Men are so scared of going to therapy that they'd rather write an album about their mummy issues and friendship troubles than talk about them.
Favourite song: Hold On (preferably without the cookie monster feature)
Least: Love
Ministry
2/5
I don't really like being shouted at. The actual music tended to be fine but as soon as they started "singing" I was just waiting for it to stop. Not my thing.
Favourite song: Jesus Built My Hotrod
Least: Grace
Queen
4/5
So varied but all stays super fun. Obviously have heard Killer Queen before and while I didn't prefer any of the other songs to it a lot of them came close (probably Now I'm Here or Misfire coming the closest).
Favourite song: Killer Queen
Least: Flick of the Wrist
Robert Wyatt
4/5
His singing isn’t the greatest, the music is a bit odd and the lyrics are eccentric, but still I find this album so charming and warm that I just can’t not enjoy it.
Favourite song: Heaps of Sheeps
Least: The Duchess
The Smashing Pumpkins
2/5
Too much smashing and not enough pumpkins! I don't have the level of angst needed to relate to this album. Too many songs that sounded the same and not a sound I particularly enjoyed. They kept tricking me with varied nicer/gentler starts to songs just to return to exactly the same noise as all the other songs. Liked (most of) the second half a lot more than the first, but was already somewhat done with the whole album.
Favourite song: Sweet Sweet
Least: Silverfuck (could have been a lot of them but this one was longest)
OutKast
3/5
There were some others songs I quite liked but none of them came close to Ms. Jackson which makes it really hard to rate! Think the fact I accidentally listened to the clean versions can only have helped my rating.
Favourite song: Ms. Jackson
Least: Red Velvet
Ice Cube
3/5
Incredibly powerful first half about police brutality and racism. Actually thought the inserts were used really well- especially compared to how they have been on a lot of other hip hop albums.
Became a little hard to remember how good and moving I found it when the focus seemed to detour into misogyny. There are a few songs I could cut out of the album to make it something I really enjoyed but as it is I cant help but feel he let complaining about women ruin what could have been a great album.
Favourite song: Who Got The Camera?
Least: Don't Trust 'Em
Gang Of Four
4/5
Took me a few songs to warm up to their style of singing but it really grew on me.
Favourite song: Damaged Goods
Least: Ether
The Stranglers
4/5
Had definitely heard Peaches before, although I have no memory of when or where. Can't get over them all having very normal names (Hugh, Dave, Jean-Jacques) and then the drummer going by Jet Black. Not an album I would have sought out but I ended up really enjoying it.
Favourite song: Hanging Around
Least: Ugly
Fugees
4/5
Lauryn Hill is just incredible! and those other guys were alright, I guess. The skits definitely took away from it but still a very very good album- if a tiny bit too long.
Favourite song: Killing Me Softly with His Song
Least: Family Business
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
How have I never listened to Siouxsie And The Banshees before! One (of many) bands mentioned as Lanes inspiration in Gilmore Girls so I've heard the name many times. I really enjoyed this album, love her voice.
Favourite song: Into The Light
Least: Voodoo Doll
Sonic Youth
2/5
Not sure why we're being given so many Sonic Youth albums, is this noise that different from the noise in their other albums?
Favourite song: Chapel Hill
Least: Swimsuit Issue
Rod Stewart
4/5
I really enjoyed the gravelliness of his voice. Just a great vibe.
Favourite song: Country Comfort
Least: Cut Across Shorty (could have been half the length quite easily)
Pink Floyd
4/5
Might be sacrilege but sometimes there's a little too much going on for me around the actual music- maybe doesn't need the full 2 and half minutes of lead in to the singing on Time... Objectively great album still tho
Favourite song: Money
Least: On the Run
The Youngbloods
3/5
I liked it but not as much as I've liked similar music from different artists around the same time. Was pleasant music to have on while working but I'm not sure I needed to hear it before I die.
Favourite song: Smug
Least: On Sir Frances Drake
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Was a real struggle to not just compare every song on this album to Do You Realize?? because I do really like this album, but I love that song.
Favourite song: The Gash
Least: The Spiderbite Song
Elbow
5/5
This was the only CD in our car when I was a kid so I've heard it many many times. I'd like to think I'd find it just as stunning without the nostalgia but I really can't separate the two. Just gorgeous lyrics, vocals and music! I like his radio show but this album is actually Guy Garvey's finest hour.
Favourite song: The Bones of You (or One Day Like This or Grounds for Divorce)
Least: Weather to Fly
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Liked all the songs individually but I got a bit bored by the end. And I just didn't enjoy it as much as the last Bob Marley & The Wailers album we had (Exodus)
Favourite song: 400 years
Least: All Day All Night
George Harrison
3/5
Really liked it to start! And then it just kept going and going and going. After I’d sat through the last three songs I’d forgotten how much I liked the start.
Favourite song: My Sweet Lord
Least: Out of the Blue
Radiohead
3/5
Very emotional album- maybe a tiny bit too mopey for me but there were some lovely songs, I can understand why people love it but I'm not one of those people.
Favourite song: Nude or Faust Arp
Least: Bodysnatched
Yes
3/5
Accidentally started from the wrong album cause they have albums called both "Yes" and "The Yes Album"- so I started the (correct) album already annoyed. It won me back a bit but I think there are too many 9 minute long songs.
Favourite song: A Venture
Least: Starship Trooper
Leonard Cohen
4/5
I find his voice so calming and peaceful. Taught me a new musical instrument (the jews harp) and that I like it a lot less than Leonard Cohen does. Not my favourite of his albums that I've heard but I still enjoyed it.
Favourite song: The Partisan
Least: The Butcher
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Couple of songs I'd heard (and liked) before but most of this album was new to me. Manages to be varied while staying consistently good and she's got an incredible voice!
Favourite song: Down to Zero (also really liked Water With The Wine and People)
Least: Save me
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Really enjoyed it, some really fun and catchy parts. Some of the songs started to run into each other a little but still really great beats.
Favourite song: It's Tricky
Least: Dumb Girl
Bonnie Raitt
4/5
Great voice and great collection of love songs!
Favourite: Thing Called Love
Least: I Will Not Be Denied
Led Zeppelin
4/5
They want to seem like cool rock stars but the nerds can't help but reference lord of the rings. Good song, good album.
Favourite song: Ramble On
Least: Moby Dick
Mylo
3/5
Charming album, wonder if him being a maths student is why the music is so good to edit a maths paper to. Can't help but feel the title doesn't match the vibe of the album at all. I enjoyed it as background music but I probably won't listen again.
Favourite song: Sunworshipper
Least: Drop The Pressure
Led Zeppelin
3/5
A bunch of the songs this album were discards from previous albums... and some of them should have stayed discarded. I liked it but not as much as the other Led Zeppelin album we've had and it feels far less cohesive and too long.
Favourite: Houses of the Holy
Least: Boogie with Stu
Beatles
3/5
Some gorgeous and iconic songs, lots (and lots) of kind of fine songs and then a couple of truly shit songs. Obviously it's an iconic album but I'm more than happy to only hear the songs off this album that have made it to the greatest hits.
Favourite Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (or Blackbird)
Least: Revolution 9
Aerosmith
3/5
Bit too loud for me and lots of the songs sounded the same. Didn't hate it but didn't love it.
Favourite song: Combination
Least: Back in the saddle
Red Snapper
1/5
Every song is like five minutes of weird noises repeating. Headache inducing.
Favourite song: Belladonna
Least: Some Kind of Kink
DJ Shadow
2/5
I understand why it's on the list, so that's something. Might be the only thing. I didn't hate any of the songs but I didn't particularly enjoy them either, I was mostly just waiting for it to be over.
Favourite song: Mutual Slump
Least: Napalm Brain/ Scatter Brain
4/5
I much prefer the softer songs to the rocky ones, but overall I really like the album.
Favourite song: This Mess We're in
Least: The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Very close to being 5 stars. Really liked this album, lots of great songs and while I'd heard a couple most of them were new to me. I'll definitely be listening to the whole album again!
Favourite: The Dark of the Matinee
Least: Tell Her Tonight
Tracy Chapman
5/5
The only album I gave 5 stars to the first time I started this project (to be fair I didn't review many albums), an incredible voice, stunning lyrics, just truly iconic album.
Favourite song: Why?
Least: Baby Can I Hold You
Coldplay
4/5
It definitely gets a bit repetitive, found that most of the songs that I hadn't already heard blended together a bit. But I had heard quite a few of them before and it's still a good mellow album and deserves its place on this list.
Favourite song: Yellow
Least: Parachutes
Björk
2/5
Liked the first couple songs, then it got a bit too weird for me. Great voice, just not for me.
Favourite song: Human Behaviour
Least: Violently Happy
a-ha
3/5
So very very 80s, obviously I've heard Take On Me before and I'm not sure I gained anything by hearing the rest of the album.
Favourite song: Take On Me
Least: Living a Boy's Adventure Tale
Ryan Adams
3/5
Too long!! And Sylvia Plath is such a weird song- had a performative male vibe to it, I could very much picture this man on the tube reading poetry in the hopes that girls think he's deep.
There are some bangers on the album though- american road trip music, just think it needed more editing.
Favourite song: Gonna Make You Love Me
Least: Sylvia Plath
The Thrills
4/5
Fun! Think they should have kept the old band name- The Cheating Housewives! Makes you nostalgic for a time where America was the cool place where movies were set and not the dystopian place in the news.
Favourite song: Say It Ain't So
Least: Your Love is Like Las Vegas
Kate Bush
3/5
Some of the warbling weirdness ventured a little too far into the strange (and annoying...) for me. But there were some songs I really liked!
Favourite song: This Women's Work (also really liked Love And Anger)
Least: Rocket's Tail
Sugar
3/5
It's fine. Think there are lots of much better albums on the list and while it's definitely not the worst one we've had it just doesn't stand out at all to me.
Favourite song: Helpless
Least: Slick
Megadeth
3/5
When I saw the name and album cover I assumed I would hate the album but I ended up having quite a good time. Still not super my thing, bit too loud and lyrically uninspiring.
I also had a great time reading Dave Mustaine's wikipedia page- what a strange man, gotta be careful if you sing along to the Conjuring or you might accidentally put a hex on someone!
Favourite song: Peace Sells
Least: Good Morning/Black Friday
Depeche Mode
4/5
Some of the songs were too techno for me but still an incredible album. Enjoy the Silence and Personal Jesus are such iconic and brilliant songs.
Favourite song: Enjoy the Silence (also love Personal Jesus)
Least: World In My Eyes
Adele
4/5
It's 2011, I'm 9 years old and on holiday. We're driving back to where we've been staying along winding costal roads after a long day of swimming and sightseeing and eating. My sisters iPod touch has the middle seat in the back of the rental card with two sets of headphones plugged into it and Adele's 21 plays on repeat, just as it did on the flight there and will on the flight home.
Fourteen years later I still remember every word of the album- I also remember how travel sick I got on that journey.
Favourite song: Rumour Has It (Or almost any of the songs dependent on the day)
Least: One and Only
Radiohead
4/5
Think I have to be in the right mood for the whininess of Radiohead. Definitely warmed me to them that they named the album The Bends because it felt like they "came up too fast" getting famous so quickly from Creep. They have such a distinctively Radiohead sound and it just happens to really match the mood of re-re-rewriting a proof on a rainy Glasgow day.
Favourite: Just
Least: My Iron Lung
Carole King
4/5
If you asked me before I started what album would have the song I'd heard the most I probably would have guessed a Taylor Swift album or maybe Paul Simon's Graceland. But the title goes to Tapestry by Carole King and my annual Gilmore girls watch through- seven seasons, 153 episodes, at least four complete watches of the show (maybe 5 or 6...) I might have heard Where You Lead more than any other song ever. Sure I prefer that version- recorded almost 30 years after this one with her daughter but whatever version this song feels like the start of something lovely, familiar and comforting.
Favourite song: Where You Lead
Least: Smackwater Jack
Muddy Waters
3/5
Understand why it's on the list. Clearly very influential guy and a great voice. I just found it all a tad too similar, didn't wow me.
Favourite song: I Feel So Good
Least: I've Got My Mojo Working