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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers
|
5 | 2.93 | +2.07 |
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Dog Man Star
Suede
|
5 | 3 | +2 |
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Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
Faces
|
5 | 3.24 | +1.76 |
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Achtung Baby
U2
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5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
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Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti
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4 | 2.39 | +1.61 |
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Different Class
Pulp
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5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
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Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
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5 | 3.47 | +1.53 |
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Electric Warrior
T. Rex
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5 | 3.54 | +1.46 |
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Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3
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4 | 2.55 | +1.45 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
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1 | 3.02 | -2.02 |
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Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
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1 | 2.93 | -1.93 |
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Ys
Joanna Newsom
|
1 | 2.79 | -1.79 |
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Medúlla
Björk
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1 | 2.74 | -1.74 |
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Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
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2 | 3.62 | -1.62 |
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The United States Of America
The United States Of America
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1 | 2.61 | -1.61 |
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Timeless
Goldie
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1 | 2.53 | -1.53 |
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Blue
Joni Mitchell
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2 | 3.49 | -1.49 |
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Punishing Kiss
Ute Lemper
|
1 | 2.4 | -1.4 |
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Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
|
2 | 3.39 | -1.39 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5 |
| Talking Heads | 2 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 5 | 4.2 |
5-Star Albums (22)
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Stevie Wonder · 1 likes
3/5
Fav Song: Isn't She Lovely
Notes: Waaay too long (and somewhat boring) but out of respect for its legacy and influence, going with a 3. RIP Coolio.
The United States Of America · 1 likes
1/5
Hot Mess.
Funkadelic · 1 likes
4/5
Probably a 3 - 3.5. Going 4 for this band's general influence on some of my favorite music growing up
1-Star Albums (8)
All Ratings
AC/DC
4/5
Have on vinyl: Yes.
Rating: 8.15
Fav Song: hard not to pick the title track, but going with If You Want Blood (you've got it)
The White Stripes
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.9
Fav Song: My Doorbell
Notes: Like a lot of White Stripes, I want to like it more than I do.
Elton John
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 8
Fav Song: Tiny Dancer
Notes: Indian Sunset...did not age well
Arctic Monkeys
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yes
Rating: 9.2
Fav Song: Mardy Bum
Notes: Fucking great. Pre-Hanna when this came out. A lot of Blackout (pinball), beer, and this with Kruz
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Have on vinyl: YesX2
Rating: 7.5
Fav Song: Castles Made of Sand
Notes: 1st track is annoying. Overall it's OK but pretty meh. Would go 2.5 stars if that were an option
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.5
Fav Song: Son of a Preacher Man
Notes: Harder to like an album when the singer wrote none of the songs.
The Fall
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Rating: 7.7
Fav song: The League of Bald-Headed Men
Note: James Murphy called this band "his Beatles" and you can hear the influence; this increases my rating as a lot of it is rambling.
Deep Purple
4/5
Have on vinyl: As of today, Yes.
Rating: 8.4
Fav Song: Smoke on the Water is iconic, but I'm digging Lazy today.
Notes: Bangers
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Fav Song: Isn't She Lovely
Notes: Waaay too long (and somewhat boring) but out of respect for its legacy and influence, going with a 3. RIP Coolio.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Fav Song: The Hardest Walk
Notes: Early Shoegaze
The Clash
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yesx2
Fav Song: Lost in the Supermarket
Notes: All timer
The Flying Burrito Brothers
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: Hot Burritos
Notes: I love Gram Parsons. Was at 4.5 stars but rounding up. Big time influence on the 70's soft/country rock scene.
Björk
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Fav Track: Big Time Sensuality
Notes: The cover song is unnecessary.
Depeche Mode
3/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: Strangelove
Notes: I want it to be better than it is. Violator is 5 stars.
Pulp
5/5
Have on vinyl: Yes. Yellow colored
Fav Track: Like picking your favorite kid...but going with Underwear.
Notes: Top 5 album
Adele
3/5
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: All I Ask
Notes: Great voice just not my style
Red Snapper
3/5
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Bussing
Note: Interesting; had not heard this before
Beastie Boys
4/5
Have on Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Get it Together w/Q-Tip
Notes: Falls off towards the end
Pere Ubu
3/5
Have on vinyl: No
Fav song: Modern Dance
Notes: Takes some getting used to. I was at one point at a 1, then a 2, ended with a 3 after more listens.
Jack White
4/5
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Weep Themselves to Sleep
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: The Healer
Notes: Good but a bit disjointed.
Gillian Welch
3/5
Fav Song: Elvis Blues.
Notes: Great story telling but a bit sleepy.
Jurassic 5
4/5
Vinyl: No
Fav Song: Freedom
Notes: There is some downtime on it but nostalgia clicks this over to a 4 for me. Chali 2na is great
Depeche Mode
5/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav Song: All of it
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
2/5
Eagles
3/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Vinyl: Want
Fav: Blues Had a Baby
The Prodigy
3/5
Vinyl: No
Fav: Voodoo People
Frank Ocean
4/5
Fav: Lost
Notes: Some bangers. Takes some getting used to
U2
5/5
Vinyl: Want
Fav Song: So Cruel
Dwight Yoakam
3/5
Fav: What I Don't Know
Devendra Banhart
2/5
Fav: Fall
Notes: Not for me.
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Fav: You Want It Darker
Notes: Powerful shit. Released just before his death. If I Didn't Have Your Love is a tear jerker for me.
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Fav: Take Me Out
Dr. Dre
4/5
Fav: Fuck Wit Dre Day
Notes: Nostalgia runs high with this one. Relistening, this seems a bit too long and as a kid I didn't realize how much he was sampling from P-Funk. Main songs still hold up for me.
Fats Domino
3/5
Fav: Blue Monday
Notes: It's good. Would do 3.5 if that were an option
The Cars
4/5
Fav: Just What I Needed
Notes: Some bangers, some down tracks for me.
Primal Scream
3/5
Fav: Trainspotting
Notes: Some good grooves
T. Rex
5/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav: Jeepster
Notes: This is a top 10, maybe top 5 album for me
Prince
3/5
Vinyl: Yes
Fav: Little Red Corvette
Notes: Cut some this shit down and it's probably 4 stars.
Dinosaur Jr.
1/5
Fav: Meh...Freak Scene
Notes: Nah, at least it's relatively short. "Don't" kicks it down to a 1 star
10cc
2/5
Fav: Wall Street Shuffle
Green Day
4/5
Fav: Whatsername
Notes: A lot of good/great tracks.
Elis Regina
3/5
Fav: Tiro Ao Alvaro
Note: Good lounge singer vibes. Who knows, might even be a 4 if I could speak Portuguese
Alanis Morissette
3/5
Fav: You Oughta Know
Notes: High school flashbacks with this one...scared to talk to girls who were Alanis-heads. Shame really. Some good tracks but not one I'll likely come back to.
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Fav: I'm Goin Down
Notes: Holy hits. Classic. 4.5 = rounding 5
The Mamas & The Papas
3/5
Fav: California Dreamin'
Notes: Lots of nostalgia on this one. Good but not great.
Vinyl: Yes, but not the cover actually showing the toilet. Those are rare and worth hundreds; it was apparently a big scandal at the time to show a toilet on an album cover. After the first run, the subsequent releases had it covered up.
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Fav: Fast Car..gotta be
Vinyl: Yes
Notes: Mountains O' Things sounds a helluva lot like an Ed Sheeran arrangement...I always knew that guy was a fraud 😄
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
Fav: The One You Really Love
Notes: This one takes some getting used to. Clocking in at nearly 3 hours, it's hard to do that in one day as this exercise demands. Def could have been cut down but then you wouldn't have 69 songs I guess. Good bit of song writing nonetheless.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Fav: Mr. Magic
Notes: Great voice. Good vibe on this previously unheard album for me.
Germs
3/5
Credited as the first hard punk album and produced by Joan Jett. I can appreciate what it's doing but I don't really dig it. 2.5 stars but rounding up today
ABBA
3/5
Fav: Why Did It Have To Be Me?
Notes: Ups and downs.
Calexico
3/5
Notes: Interesting and unheard until today.
The Smiths
4/5
Fav: Barbarism Begins at Home
Notes: Probably my least favorite Smiths album but still pretty, pretty good.
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Fav: ayeyaiyai, they all seem so pretentious. Praise You is probably the most listenable.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
Fav: The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter
Notes: I surprisingly enjoyed this 70's classical shit. Played on repeat yesterday on the disc golf course and it was quite right.
Adele
3/5
Fav: He Won't Go
Notes: Some really good songs. Cure cover is unnecessary.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
I like Who Do You Love...but an entire album of it? It's too much. Jam-bandy. Not bad but not that interesting to me.
Massive Attack
4/5
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
Some bangers. Got a bit too long IMO.
Eminem
3/5
25 years ago I was all in on this. 25 years later...it feels more awkward than anything.
The United States Of America
1/5
Hot Mess.
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Not my thing.
Sister Sledge
3/5
Some daft funky vibes but the title track I can't stomach anymore
Suede
5/5
On the first 5 listens, this one is OK. On 10, it's even better and by now my ranking is a 4.5. Which puts me over to a 5.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Slipknot
3/5
It's a lot.
Count Basie & His Orchestra
4/5
Tight. Really listenable.
Nightmares On Wax
4/5
Will for sure be back to this one for more. Good shit
Pixies
3/5
Close to a 4, but this doesn't quite hold up to their other albums Surfa Rosa and Doolittle
The Band
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Good rhymes, full of funk
Arcade Fire
3/5
Pretty down on my list of fav AF albums
Roni Size
2/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Suzanne Vega
1/5
Woof
ABBA
3/5
A solid 3
Cee Lo Green
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Bye Bye Love sticks out like the cheap cover it is but otherwise a very good album.
Madness
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
William Orbit
3/5
Fun, but boring at times.
The Doors
4/5
Classic
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
3/5
Lots of pickin' and old tymey shit but it has its place
Os Mutantes
3/5
Prince
4/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
Soul II Soul
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
It's serviceable.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Classic album.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Parliament
4/5
Kate Bush
2/5
woof
Björk
1/5
OutKast
3/5
Started off hot but cooled off
5/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
Janet Jackson
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
Nothing that blew me away. Solid album nonetheless.
Oasis
4/5
Solid track after track
The Byrds
2/5
2.5
The Who
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Robert Wyatt
1/5
not very enjoyable.
Charles Mingus
3/5
It's fine.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Solid track after track
Black Sabbath
3/5
Goldie
1/5
Kanye West
3/5
3.5.
PJ Harvey
2/5
Richard Hawley
4/5
Smokey, nightclub sound. Good stuff.
Miles Davis
4/5
Fever Ray
2/5
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
Noisy. A bit of a slog.
Kelela
3/5
It's fine.
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
6 discs?? Exhausting
Carpenters
2/5
Good voice but ayyaiyai this one is rough
Tito Puente
3/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Ray Price
4/5
D'Angelo
3/5
Pretty solid. I like the gospel vibes
Muddy Waters
3/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
Beatles
4/5
4/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
Not unlistenable but yikes
The Young Gods
3/5
It's a trip
Digital Underground
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Contains probably my fav Bowie song
Ananda Shankar
3/5
some good shit, some not great covers.
Gary Numan
4/5
Sunday is a tough listening day for me and this needs more listens to make a final call, but digging it quite a bit. Rating based on the OG album => ending on Engineers.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Chooglin' to a 3.5 but I'll give it 4 since they created a new word
R.E.M.
4/5
REM has better albums but there's some bangers on here.
XTC
3/5
Some good. Some forgettable.
James Brown
4/5
Fun and quick
Big Star
4/5
Sebadoh
2/5
Woof
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Will come back to this one for sure.
Talking Heads
5/5
Facking love this one.
The Prodigy
3/5
Death In Vegas
4/5
Fun one
Anthrax
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Sleepy bunch of tired ass old country songs
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
The Triffids
3/5
Lou Reed
3/5
Not my fav Lou material; much bigger fan of VU-era stuff.
Alice In Chains
4/5
Need to spend more time with this one
Destiny's Child
3/5
Not my thing but can see why it was popular
The Thrills
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
It's fine. It has good lyrics. It's too long.
The Sonics
3/5
It's pretty one note but the sound kicked off some garage sound in rock I guess so that is something.
B.B. King
4/5
Legend shit
Pavement
3/5
I hesitate to give it a 2 star but man some of it annoys me.
4/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Screaming Trees
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Can
3/5
Kraut-rock!
The Rolling Stones
3/5
All covers, save for 1 song...OK.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Surprising. I had only heard a few of these before this.
The Specials
3/5
Steely Dan
2/5
1st track is a classic but it's downhill fast from there.
Justin Timberlake
3/5
Is it over yet? Long and similar
Sex Pistols
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
Solid
Air
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Duran Duran
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Ravi Shankar
2/5
Influential maybe but not my thing.
Scritti Politti
4/5
Fun and totallllly 80's
David Bowie
5/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Odd album. I have listened to this probably 20+ times in the last year or two and still doesn't quite click for me.
Arrested Development
3/5
Some good tracks. Some boring tracks.
X-Ray Spex
4/5
Fun
Radiohead
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Supergrass
4/5
Diggin it. Never heard this before, but I'll be back
The Go-Go's
3/5
Manu Chao
4/5
Fun one
Joy Division
3/5
I want to like it more than I do.
The Gun Club
3/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Django Django
3/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Wilco
4/5
Solid
Ute Lemper
1/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
meh
Sonic Youth
3/5
lotta noise
Ray Charles
4/5
Love the horns
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Solid 3 - 3.5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Solid 4
Joanna Newsom
1/5
yikes
Teenage Fanclub
4/5
Fun one. Big Star for the 90's
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
It's good; just played out for me.
Johnny Cash
4/5
Classic
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
LL Cool J
3/5
Mylo
3/5
SOLID 3
Talking Heads
5/5
The Young Rascals
4/5
Solid short & sweet album. A couple mainstream songs, but a lot unfamiliar late 60's tracks
Chicago
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Love
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Sinead O'Connor
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
TLC
2/5
The Jam
4/5
Kinks-y
CHIC
3/5
Funky bass lines
Metallica
3/5
4/5
Fun one to get to know!
Cowboy Junkies
4/5
Good stuff; had to pull out the vinyl and hear it on that as well
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3/5
It's good but not my thing
Ian Dury
3/5
Quirky. Good riffs.
Thelonious Monk
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Good is great but some of this is too meandering and jazzy at times.
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Takes some getting into but the noise does turn to music eventually.
k.d. lang
2/5
Woof. Some lounge singer bullshit
Lauryn Hill
4/5
Gene Clark
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Funky and horny
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Solid album
Orange Juice
4/5
Unexpected. Big fan
The Blue Nile
4/5
I'm at a 3.5 so wavering between 3 & 4 stars.
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Pretty meh, but good musicianship
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
OG Jam album
Shack
3/5
It's fine. Here is my note from10/4/2022 on this album: blah
Klaxons
3/5
Hyper and somewhat disjointed
Beatles
4/5
Perhaps the lowest rated Beatles album IMO. Too many covers
2/5
It's tough.
Deep Purple
4/5
New Order
3/5
It's fine
The Cure
3/5
It's fine
Marvin Gaye
4/5
good album, better story
https://molivam42.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/the-story-behind-the-song-here-my-dear/
Skunk Anansie
2/5
not great
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Droll
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
3/5
The Message is an all timer but the rest is pretty meh
The Shamen
2/5
Not my thing
The Who
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Driving across NE, nearly fell asleep to this. Uber chill
Girls Against Boys
3/5
Not bad
Patti Smith
2/5
Fuck this album and Fuck Birdland
Snoop Dogg
4/5
A classic, albeit quite misogynistic upon relistening, middle school album
Stereo MC's
4/5
Solid and unexpected
Various Artists
4/5
For a XMas album it's solid AF. Played this on repeat while cooking yesterday
Eagles
3/5
Solid 3. Some good tracks for sure.
Julian Cope
3/5
Need to give it some more listening. Saturdays are tough to rate a record on but there is some fun guitar work on this one.
Cheap Trick
3/5
Epitome of 92.9 The Eagle presents : CLASSIC ROCK
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Billy Bragg
4/5
Spacemen 3
4/5
Will come back to this.
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Decent tracks but some real obsure shit keeps it from anything but a 3 for me.
The Who
3/5
It's fine; good story
The Style Council
3/5
disjointed
Moby
3/5
It's fine. Some good high school memories on this one.
ZZ Top
4/5
The Zombies
4/5
Spotify 40th anniversary release has previously unused horns and other bullshit that detracts from the original release.
Fiona Apple
3/5
Nearly a 4
Van Morrison
3/5
Would be great to see live I suppose but his antics and general feel of this one didn't hit for me.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Incredible voice ticks it up for me
Finley Quaye
4/5
Aimee Mann
3/5
boring
The Verve
3/5
Fine. Hidden track is dumb
Machito
4/5
For a hot jazz album, I liked it much more than expected.
Brian Eno
5/5
Good stuff. Listened about 8 times yesterday on a loop
Justice
3/5
Solid
Johnny Cash
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Classic
The War On Drugs
4/5
Really good. And unexpected. Will add it to my main rotation for sure.
David Bowie
4/5
Thin White Duke
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Probably a 3 - 3.5. Going 4 for this band's general influence on some of my favorite music growing up
Fishbone
2/5
I just could not get this one to click. Probably a 3 but I've been handing out too many stars lately.
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
The Specials
3/5
Ups and downs but mostly meh
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
Big fan of this band. They had 3 albums, I like the other 2 better, but this one is pretty fun as well.
Neil Young
4/5
Boards of Canada
3/5
For having no words, not bad..
The Police
3/5
Ups...and downs on this one
The Electric Prunes
2/5
Toonerville Trolley? pfffft
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Fun shit. This band takes some getting used to IMO. They were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records.
The Byrds
3/5
Gram is the best part about this one
Nirvana
5/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Solid 3
The Smiths
5/5
Motörhead
3/5
OutKast
4/5
Holy shit boys, 2 hr 15 min…interesting Andre did 1 album (Love Below), Big Boi did another (Speakerboxx) and they just issued it as 1 album. I like Big Boi's side better. Tighter
Fairport Convention
3/5
It's fine
Mike Ladd
3/5
Good beats and lyrics. Thick to get through
Radiohead
3/5
Somewhat off-putting at times with his voice. Not my favorite RH album
KISS
3/5
Ryan Adams
4/5
Solid 3.5. Rounding to 4 considering how iconic and great To Be Young is.
John Lennon
4/5
This is markedly better than yesterday's Ryan Adams album which also got a 4. Such is the issue with just 5 stars to give out. While Heartbreaker is a 3.5+, this is a 4.5 for me but can't get to the full 5.
The Black Keys
4/5
2/5
woof
Ride
3/5
Boring, but nothing offensive
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Solid
Talvin Singh
3/5
Not my thing but listenable.
Slint
3/5
Talky lyrics are not great but this is OK. Avg rating.
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Enjoyed this much more than I thought I would; damn near 10 spins in a day. Some Oingo Boingo vibes on Yeah Yeah. This sound reminds me of The Goonies
Supertramp
4/5
I think this is the first Supertramp album I have went front to back, which I did many times yesterday. Liked it. ELO vibes at times. Pink Floyd others. Cool shit, will come back to this one