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Album	You	Global	Diff
Atomizer Big Black	5	2.73	+2.27
Rid Of Me PJ Harvey	5	3.12	+1.88
Le Tigre Le Tigre	5	3.14	+1.86
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.33	+1.67
Different Class Pulp	5	3.42	+1.58
Blue Joni Mitchell	5	3.5	+1.5
Marquee Moon Television	5	3.5	+1.5
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.62	+1.38
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.65	+1.35
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	5	3.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Play Moby	1	3.46	-2.46
Amnesiac Radiohead	1	3.41	-2.41
Tommy The Who	1	3.33	-2.33
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	1	3.19	-2.19
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	1	3.14	-2.14
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	2	4.1	-2.1
The Rising Bruce Springsteen	1	3.05	-2.05
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	2	4.05	-2.05
Safe As Milk Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	1	3.01	-2.01
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	1	2.96	-1.96

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Smiths	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	1.5
Bob Dylan	2	1.5
The Who	3	2

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Artist	Ratings
Radiohead	5, 2, 1, 4

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I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons · 3 likes

1/5

Just dreadful.

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall · 2 likes

2/5

2 stars feels rough, but there's just much better post-punk albums out there. I'd likely never to listen to this again.

Let It Be

The Replacements · 1 likes

2/5

I generally am a big fan of post-punk and punk music but I didn't really like this one. Please give me something by the Cure or the Clash next!!!!

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette · 1 likes

4/5

and every time you speak her name does she know how you told me you'd hold me until you die? 'til you die? but you're still alive!

The Bends

Radiohead · 1 likes

5/5

This was one of my favourite albums as a teenager and it's still as good as the first time I heard it. I've always liked Radiohead, but I'm not as big a fan as a lot of people. In my opinion, this is the best Radiohead album. Truly excellent from start to finish.

4-Star Albums (37)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

Just not my cup of tea. I think if you halved the album and just picked out the good bits you could have something special, but it's just too long with too much filler.

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

1/5

Very generic 80s sort of new wave sound, and just nothing that made it stand out to me.

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

1/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

I feel like I can't give it less than 3 stars because there are some songs on here I like (or have liked in the past)... but some of this was pretty bad.

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

gave me a migraine

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

2/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

1/5

Green

R.E.M.

2/5

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

1/5

Tom Tom Club

4/5

Between a 4-5 for me (would've been a 5 if the second half was just as fun as the first). Really really enjoyed it!

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

I've always been a casual fan of the White Stripes but I think this was my first time listening to Elephant - it's been on repeat ever since, truly great album.

The Band

2/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Fleet Foxes

2/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

and every time you speak her name does she know how you told me you'd hold me until you die? 'til you die? but you're still alive!

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Let It Be

The Replacements

2/5

I generally am a big fan of post-punk and punk music but I didn't really like this one. Please give me something by the Cure or the Clash next!!!!

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

This was fine, but I don't really understand why it made the list? I have to say, I'd never listen to this one again...

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Suicide

2/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

I found this to be unlistenable. Incredibly boring.

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

2/5

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

5/5

PJ Harvey is my absolute favourite artist, and this is in my opinion her best album. 5 stars is not enough!

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1/5

Music has changed a lot since the 50s...

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

2 stars feels rough, but there's just much better post-punk albums out there. I'd likely never to listen to this again.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

2/5

Pretty garbage but this list has had worse. Some songs really sound like Blur.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

1/5

Way too long. If you're into electronic music then maybe this is something you need to listen to before you die, but the average person could definitely skip this one.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Wow! I do not remember this album being so good! I've always been a slight fan of Pulp, and always in particular loved Jarvis Cocker's absurd and funny lyrics (kinda like Sparks or some of the Smiths music). More music should be funny.... In particular, the run from track 1 to 5 is just banger after banger. This sits between a high 4 or a low 5 for me.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

I am not a Smashing Pumpkins lover or a hater. For the most part, I found the quality of the album to be really good but I'm sorry - nothing justifies that run time. It is nowhere near engaging enough to be the length of a movie. If you have more songs you want to put out, then make a deluxe like everyone else? Bullet With Butterfly Wings is crazy good though.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

"Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money The Queen is dead, boys And it's so lonely on a limb" Probably my favourite album when I was 17 and still one of my favourites today. 5+++++ "Send me the pillow.... the one that you dream on..."

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

Adele

4/5

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

Not terrible, but not for me

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

I think I am not a fan of reggae, but I can appreciate that this is probably as good as reggae gets

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Maybe I've got rubbish taste in music, cause I kinda like Coldplay.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

This is my kind of thing! I think with more listens it could be a 5.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

It's too long with some songs that feel like filler. Some songs are good though.

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

I think jazz music is just not for me

Leftism

Leftfield

1/5

All these electronic albums from the 90s are so dated. More dated than anything else this list keeps churning out. Please stop.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

I listened to this in two parts as it is pretty long, but it is consistently good. I think the length and it being two separate albums doesn't work so well for streaming but I imagine this was cool as a CD.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Maybe pretty good at the time (?) but I won't be revisiting this one

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

2/5

Why is this one of the best selling albums of all time?

Os Mutantes

3/5

I liked it! High 3

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

3/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

1/5

Just dreadful.

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

Siouxsie & the Banshees version of Dear Prudence is so good that the Beatles sounds like a cover. I feel like I'm saying this a lot on here, but this album is too long, and it's so clear which stuff is good and which stuff is filler. Overall though it's still good. I preferred Rubber Soul though.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

I don't feel I know enough about World music to give this a rating

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

solid 4. always loved Suffragette City.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Talvin Singh

1/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Sounds like most other Radiohead stuff but more boring. I don't think this should be on the list.

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Obviously...

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

2/5

What is it with this guy?

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Hey hey, my my is too good

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

1/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

The Doors

3/5

High 3, but not quite a 4

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

high 2 low 3, not completely garbage but still not great

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Would have been a 3 if it was shorter

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

Le Tigre

5/5

Let me here you depoliticise my rhyme... (One of my favorites, obvious 5)

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

This is not the most obviously bad album we have had on this list, but it's an album that I kept going "what?" to, and "that surely can't be the lyrics..." So yeah, easy 1. It felt like listening to the Wiggles at times, but with more adult themes I guess.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

I enjoyed this...

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

The Coral

2/5

Pretty much total crap but at least it was short.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

1/5

Total snoozefest

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

I LOVE KATE BUSH & I LOVE THIS ALBUM!

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

Hilariously bad. It's an insult this is being classified as punk.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

So many great albums didn't make this list, and this is just so mediocre. Also the vocals are pretty annoying.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

I'm so sorry, Bruce!

Atomizer

Big Black

5/5

I really enjoyed this! Made sense once I realised it was Steve Albini.... First song was trying a bit too hard to be edgy and wound up gross though... I still think it's a 5 star album though - the energy the whole way through is insane. Kerosene is just punk perfection.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Low 3, it was fine

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

I kind of have an appreciation of what they were going for here (I think it's supposed to be fun and not taken very seriously (?)). I won't listen to it again though!

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Joni Mitchell is one of my favourite artists but Court and Spark was not an album I would ever reach for - and I was wrong! Joni might just be the greatest songwriter of all time!

Guero

Beck

2/5

bit boring, couldn't wait for it to end

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

This was a really interesting listen!

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

Not a huge prog rock fan but I can see why people like this album.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

This was somehow worse than I was expecting. At the very least, it moved fast enough.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

I went into this with an open mind but it was just kind of grating and yet somehow boring.

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

This is kind of a nothing album.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

The Twilight soundtrack really was good huh

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

1/5

Am I missing something here? This album seems to be really lauded and I didn't enjoy it at all.

1977

Ash

3/5

I vaguely recognised the song "Girl from Mars" from Gilmore Girls. I knew it was a Jess & Rory scene but I had the context wrong... apparently it's from the end of his first episode according to the interweb. I thought it was from a later episode in the scene where Jess is smoking at the petrol station (so dangerous!) Jess's first episode is a great episode of Gilmore Girls. I'd likely give it 5 stars. Time to review the album... this was fine to good. I could see why some people would really enjoy this. 3 stars feels apt.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

2/5

Horses

Patti Smith

4/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

A lot of harsh reviews on this one! I can see why this deserves to be on the list considering some of the other stuff that is on here. Much rather listen to one Robbie album than the umpteenth Bob Dylan etc. Angels is a perfect pop song. Not relevant to the music but I also really like the album art!

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

What is there even to say about what might be my favourite album of all time? The songwriting on this album is phenomenal and somehow relatable in a way that I cannot believe it is over 50 years old. Joni sings and writes about womanhood in a way that is absolutely timeless. I made a list of my favourite lyrics on this album because I think they speak for themselves: All I Want: "I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Traveling, traveling, traveling Looking for something, what can it be? Oh, I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some Oh, I love you when I forget about me" "Do you see, do you see, do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too Then we both get so blue" My Old Man: "We don't need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true" "But when he's gone Me and them lonesome blues collide The bed's too big The frying pan's too wide" Little Green: "Child with a child pretending Weary of lies you are sending home So you sign all the papers in the family name You're sad and you're sorry but you're not ashamed Little green have a happy ending" California: "Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had" "Oh will you take me as I am Strung out on another man California I'm coming home" A Case of You: "Oh I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid I remember that time you told me you said "Love is touching souls" Surely you touched mine 'Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time" The Last Time I Saw Richard: "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday" ""Richard, you haven't really changed" I said It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head" "Richard got married to a figure skater And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator"

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

Not as good as Elephant but a pretty solid debut. Had some good singles on it too!

So Much For The City

The Thrills

1/5

Should not be on the list. Completely soulless. There are a few omissions from this list of albums that are actually quite defining in their own genres, and then you get something like this which just feels like a rip off of other music at the time.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

This was pretty good. A bit slow for my personal taste, but overall enjoyable.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Great album with some huge songs on it. & the Gilmore Girls theme tune!

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

1/5

No, no, no. There is absolutely no need for a live Bob Dylan album to be on this list. Not when there are already 6(!) other Bob Dylan albums on this list.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Eh, 1.5 stars would probably be most apt

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando. Low 4.

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Dummy

Portishead

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Not as bad as some of the stuff on this list. A reluctant 3.

Tracy Chapman

2/5

Boring!

Paul Simon

4/5

I really like Paul Simon. Just beautiful song writing all around. Need me his jacket.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Just stuck in the 80s

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

2/5

I feel unqualified to review jazz music because it kind of all sounds the same to me and I don't really like it...

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

Bad!

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

Best left in the 80s I think

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

Just not for me

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

4/5

I really like this album! I see criticism of it being boring, but I don't agree. And I would usually agree that my biggest gripe in music is being boring. Love Radio Cure, Jesus etc., Heavy Metal Drummer

Me Against The World

2Pac

3/5

I thought this was gonna be a hard listen given it's not something I'd ever put on - but this was not bad. Listened to the whole thing easily.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

1/5

I really don't want to hear Strange Cargo I or II either

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

I'm such a hippie!

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

1/5

Just worse Brian Jonestown Massacre, which I don't particularly like to begin with...

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

How can you have this forgotten post-punk revival album on the list but zero Interpol? That's not even to say this was bad, but more so to ask who is choosing these albums? 2007 seems late for this sound so you can't even argue it was maybe one of the first to do it. Vocals were really annoying at times too.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

2/5

I really don't like jazz music :-(

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

This is like the opposite of the White Album, where that was so long with some really good songs but a lot of filler, this is nice and quick but the songs are just OK. "And I love her" is a really cute song but "West Coast" is one of the most defining songs of the 2010s! Live, laugh, Lana.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

I feel like based on my taste in music I should like R.E.M. but I just don't really. Not sure what I am missing... This is one of the better R.E.M. records I have listened to though.

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Quite liked this. Absolutely despised Mr. Spaceman though. I like the album art too.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

I've always found Surfer Rosa to be really but just not Doolittle...

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

I kinda like metal

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

High 3 - liked this a lot more than I thought I would.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

So bad. Should have been 15 minutes shorter, at least. This might be the lowest 2 I ever give but it's not unlistenable like a 1

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

I liked a couple of the songs (Oh my love, and How?) but other than that the album is quite weak

The xx

4/5

Oh to be 15 again <3

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

1/5

lol should not be on this list

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Not even my favourite Smith's album but still a clear 5. RIP Andy Rourke - Barbarism Begins at Home is one of my favourite songs of all time, and it's because of the bass.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Who? Just average, forgotten about 90s rock. Does not need to be on the list.

2112

Rush

2/5

Not feeling it

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

This was decent - Paul's not so bad.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

A little boring at times but I still liked it. Cute album art too

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

This was pretty good - a bit like Patsy Cline at times.

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

2/5

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Boo hoo whining about progressive taxation... I really liked "I'm Only Sleeping" which I think I hadn't heard before? Here, There and Everywhere is beautiful as always. Tomorrow Never Knows is one of the best closing songs of an album ever. And one of the Beatles best songs (might be the best song John Lennon ever wrote). I am struggling with whether I preferred this album to Rubber Soul and Abbey Road or not (these are my tops of the albums we've had so far - sorry to With The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and the White Album). I think the truth is that they are all high 4 star albums for me - I liked them all!

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Nothing goes harder than good punk music.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

Beyond shite

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Something, here comes the sun, octopus’ garden all 5/5 songs. Poor George sitting on some of the best tracks from All Things Must Pass and having to record Maxwells Silver Hammer… I’d be pissed too!

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

Sad excuse for post punk

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Poor Amy… I think about her all the time.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Solid 3.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

A strange addition to the list - I can think of way better (and more important / impactful) albums from the late 2010s that should be on this list. I've not listened to a lot of Christine and the Queens but this is pretty much what I expected based on the limited knowledge I did have. Not bad but just kind of boring. This isn't objectively bad like some of the stuff on this list, but I also will not put it on again on my own volition. A very high two - I just can't bring myself to give it a three.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Funky!

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

I really enjoyed this! I'm a sucker for singer-songwriter music (although it has to be good)...

Van Halen

2/5

Why are the ratings on this so high? Tells you a lot about the kind of person who signs up to this website... This went nice and quick. Probably as good as Van Halen get's but they just aren't a very good band - sorry. The barbershop part was laugh out loud funny.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

Meh

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

I like folk music so this was a better listen for me that some of the other albums on this list. That said, something about this doesn't quite resonate with me the same way others in this genre do.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Not bad! but not really my genre of choice. I really like the guitars etc but not a huge fan of the vocals.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

He seems like a cool guy

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

I honestly thought it was going to be more bongo centred but relieved that it wasn’t. Fine music in the background whilst cooking but I’d hate to have listened with my headphones on.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

2/5

High 2, ‘‘twas alright

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Solid 3

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Decent museum music

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Fantastic album. Clearly inspirational to so many who came after (see Julian Casablancas' whole schtick). I am always amazed by how modern this sounds, and how clean everything is. Marquee Moon (the song) is amazing!!!

Tommy

The Who

1/5

Not a fan of concept albums. Yet to hear one I liked. Way, way, way too long. It's a 1 because I didn't finish it and I am not gonna put it on again.

Repeater

Fugazi

4/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

2/5

Yeah you don't have to hear this before you die.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Yup this makes sense but zero Donna Summer. Checks out.

Play

Moby

1/5

Over an hour of this shite? No way.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

I can appreciate that this is probably as good as Michael Jackson gets, but it's just not for me.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

Parts of the first song were headache inducing. Like audio incense. Still stuck it out though.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

I don't mind a little bit of Elton John.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Just fine

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

3/5

Bad Company

2/5

Boring

The Stone Roses

5/5

This is one of absolute favourite albums of all time, and it for sure deserves it's spot on this list. It's damn perfect. I am a bit jealous if you're on here and get to listen to this for the first time! It's lightning in a bottle and has aged super well. It's a shame they didn't follow it up with much else, but one incredible album is better than 7 mediocre ones. I Wanna Be Adored, She Bangs the Drum, Made of Stone, I Am the Resurrection.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Never heard of them before. Thought this was gonna be bad but it was pleasantly alright.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

2/5

Jazz does nothing for me. I like the album art though.

Adele

3/5

The bottom line is that this album is just not as good as 21. If you want to listen to an Adele album, 21 is the one you should listen to, unless you are a major fan I guess. When We Were Young is kinda an all timer though.

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Alright - maybe a bit 80s pop for my taste, but I don't mind new wave music so preferred when she leaned into that a bit more. Something about When You Were Mine reminded me of Kate Bush. This is a high 3 for me. Time After Time is a great song.

Violent Femmes

4/5

Surprisingly modern sounding for 1983 - you can definitely hear the influence this had on late 80s, 90s alternative rock. Low 4. Good Feeling is such a beautiful song. Easily the best song on the album.

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

You're kidding yourself if you think this is worth listening to.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Why on earth did they not include Paint it Black on this album in the UK? What a huge mistake. Without Paint it Black it's a 2, with Paint it Black it is a 3.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

High 3! Surprisingly not terrible.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Wow this album is much better than I remember it being! This is really IMO the only Sufjan Stevens album you'd ever need to listen to, it's exactly his thing done perfectly (albeit a bit too long).