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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
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5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
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The Band
The Band
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5 | 3.36 | +1.64 |
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
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5 | 3.42 | +1.58 |
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Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
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5 | 3.46 | +1.54 |
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The Cars
The Cars
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5 | 3.67 | +1.33 |
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Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
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5 | 3.77 | +1.23 |
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Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
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4 | 2.8 | +1.2 |
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Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
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4 | 2.84 | +1.16 |
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American IV: The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash
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5 | 3.89 | +1.11 |
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Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
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4 | 2.92 | +1.08 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Actually
Pet Shop Boys
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1 | 3.18 | -2.18 |
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The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
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1 | 3.14 | -2.14 |
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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo
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1 | 3.13 | -2.13 |
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OK Computer
Radiohead
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2 | 4.1 | -2.1 |
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Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
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1 | 3.04 | -2.04 |
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Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
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1 | 3.03 | -2.03 |
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For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
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1 | 2.98 | -1.98 |
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Is This It
The Strokes
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2 | 3.81 | -1.81 |
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Master Of Puppets
Metallica
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2 | 3.73 | -1.73 |
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
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2 | 3.73 | -1.73 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Nirvana | 2 | 5 |
| Johnny Cash | 2 | 5 |
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| Marvin Gaye | 5, 2, 4 |
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Nick Drake
5/5
Really enjoyed this. All Nick Drakes stuff has a timeless indie kind of sound. For a long time I thought his stuff was from the late 90s, and then the early 2000s, and its from the 60s. Crazy. Timeless.
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Meat Puppets
4/5
Today’s album is the Meat Puppets II which I had never heard before. I’ve never heard an album that influenced a band more obviously than this did to nirvana. I know they’ve covered some of these songs in the unplugged album but nirvana wouldn’t have existed without this album. This album came out 5 years too early. It’s a raw nirvana sound and style before cobain came and locked it down.
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Nirvana
5/5
This is a great album, top to bottom. Feels like they are putting on a show in someone's living room just hanging out having a decent time.
1 likes
The Crusaders
3/5
This album, while very pleasant to listen to, feels like the extended end credits of an 80s TV show. I would call this genre "progressive elevator music". This isn't an insult, the music is very nice and enjoyable. It's kinda fantastic background music for a party no on has anymore and that is sad.
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The Verve
3/5
I’ve never heard anything but bittersweet symphony, and the rest so far sounds like an extended version of that song, which already has an extended version. But you could do much worse for a sleepy Monday morning
Beatles
4/5
Fantastic album. Lennons voice is really the dominant sound in nearly every song. Certain tracks had things I never noticed before like in should have known better. I had never noticed how it’s mostly just drums and bass with some guitar sprinkled in, very interesting. Heartbreakingly quick album though, but who cares. It sounds like this was recorded in multiple different studios. Some tracks are much cleaner sounding than others.
3/5
I see there are two versions of the album, one in mono and the other in stereo(because it doesn’t say mono). I’m going with the mono version because the album art matches what I was given to listen.
Too call this album eclectic is obvious, but what is really interesting is this album sounds like it is from 1975-77, not 1969. Another example of the kinks following or even leading musical style changes but not chasing after them.
Duran Duran
2/5
This is certainly new for me. My only Duran Duran experience is what I’ve heard on the radio.
This is definitely the kind of album I don’t care for the first time I hear it, but if I had to listen to it a few times I know I would love it.
Each track sounds different but clearly from same creators and they are really going for something out there. It is difficult for me to know what is considered “groundbreaking” for an album from this time period without looking deeper into it but I imagine a lot of this is what help defined 80s synth sound.
This could be a case of the originator of a new sound is copied so hard they begin to sound like a copier.
After the album played through, a remastered version played and I feel the same about the album. High pitch ethereal sounds are ok for a bit but after a while it becomes grating.
Bob Dylan
4/5
I'm looking forward to this one because I don't think I have ever sat down to listen to a whole Dylan album before.
You never expect that WHOIOOO sound out of nowhere, but thats how things roll down highway 61.
Just a wonderful experience. Really just great!
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
This is a very chill album perfect for a rainy Monday morning. I'm glad I was presented this because I probably would not have listened on my own. One thing is the album says it was released in 1994, but it definitly has a late 80s sound to it. 94 feels a bit late for this sound, but it just means this artist was working through the 80s before he got this album to make stamp.
Prince
3/5
I am interested in how listening to this album goes. I've never listened to a whole Prince album, and usually I am burnt out on the hits because of the radio, but 1999 started and I am feeling it.
The early 80s synthesizer is killing me on some of these songs. Was never a big fan of the sound and it is HEAVILY featured. I know at the time it was novel, but blah. I would love to hear a redone version of this with out the synthesizers.
A lot of these songs sound really similar to each other, for instance lady cab driver I thought was just little red corevette again. If this is intentional, they succeeded?
A lot of this just feels really experimental. The hits are the hits, and a lot of everything else feels just like messing around.
Norah Jones
3/5
And I am immediately back in college. I was never a Norah Jones fan, but I have enjoyed hearing the music.
This was a very nice trip back in time. Apparently I have heard this album a lot which makes sense because of how popular it was.
Nothing wrong with some pleasant piana music, but this album felt progressive with the way each song is a little similar and not changing much between songs. It was a pleasant trip.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2/5
I’ve never heard of this band before and I’m immediately sad because it instantly sounded like folksy modest mouse, which is something I didn’t know I needed. I have only heard the Johnny cash version “I see a darkness”, so that was a surprise that popped up. Overall, it was ok. Probably just not in the mood for it today. Has kind of a more folksy Elliot smith vibe. I would listen to this again if it comes along. Seems like good sad mood music.
Fats Domino
4/5
I am excited for this today! I’ve not listened a complete fats domino album before and I am in an oldies mood today. Having a real problem trying to listen to this. YouTube music doesn’t seem to have the album, but I followed the link above to the YouTube playlist and that is working but it pauses after each track. Really messing up the enjoyment.
So many of these songs sound so similar it feels lazy but the songs are so pleasant it really doesn’t matter. Just feels like the same song over and over again and I really don’t care.
Brian Wilson
3/5
Brian Wilson died yesterday, so I guess this is pretty good timing.
I really like this because it sounds like a beach boys album, but the vocals sound slowed down, probably because of Wilson’s voice changing as he ages.
It’s an out there album, and almost everything feels like “good vibrations” could start at any moment.
A lot of this feels like stream of consciousness turned into beach boys do jazz, not a huge fan of that but there is something very compelling about it and I bet if I listened a few times it would work for me. I think it’s because my mind is trying to predict what is going to happen next. Once I don’t have to do that, I wonder how I would feel about it.
I did not look at the track list and when good vibrations started I was honestly surprised!
A lot of this album, especially the more experimental sounds, reminds me a lot of experimental Beatles songs.
2/5
Well, I made it this far without listening to a Muse album, so begins a new era for me.
There's something compelling about the singer's voice, but it really doesn't work for me.
It sounds like Blue Man Group, which isn't a bad thing.
Soldiers Poem feels like a Queen sound-a-like song.
Glorious sounds like it wants to be a radiohead song, its not a bad attempt.
The Who
4/5
Ok, weird that there is a live album for the who before i listen to a who album, but the drums are drumming. lets do it.
I am totally into this album. I love live albums where it is just the entire concert.
I wonder if it is just the mix or the actual crowd, but it sounds like a massive concert for 100 people.
I really dont understand this album. It is the deluxe version and has a ton of tracks and i feel like it should have ended sooner, and I wonder if it is multiple shows.
I am not complaining though, I am enjoying it, just kinda finished.
I was right, the album is still live at leeds, but it is a different concert, live at hull.
A good album!
Saint Etienne
2/5
This album sounds like early 90s house music you would hear in a clothes store. I don’t understand why it is held to such high regard. It’s fine but why? Also the one track totally rips off Madonna’s vogue which came out the previous year. Overall not my kind of music to listen to, but it’s fine as background music.
The Band
5/5
Looking forward to this one. The only Band album I’ve listen to is the last waltz.
Fantastic top to bottom. No notes. More please.
Primal Scream
3/5
Right off the bat, Sounds like late 80s English surf punk? Definitely a surfing beach boys style.
I like this but it’s missing something. I wonder what this would sound like post grunge because these songs are missing a some bite, but it’s still very new to me. But just as I wrote that I started hearing a guitar solo straight out of 1995, so I don’t know.
This album is something I think I would have really enjoyed a lot more when I was younger. And because it’s included in this list it must be important or influential and I can totally hear that.
Perfect length, just as I thought “how many more tracks” it was half way through the last one.
Neil Young
4/5
This is an album I’ve been intimidated to listen to because I’ve heard so much about it. It turns out it’s just a collection of Neil young songs! And I am not really paying super close attention just have it on and I know I am missing everything about it. That said I am loving it.
When “there’s a world starts” I thought it was the beginning of les mis.
Oh wow that was a quick album. Very good.
Robert Wyatt
1/5
I've never heard of this band, but the cover art looks like something from Iron & Wine.
I like it immediately.
Well the first track was quite good.
Track 2 sounds very experimental. Which is less good for me.
Track 3 is back on track. Still experimental sounding, but in a good way.
This is the kind of album music critics like to listen to because it sounds so different than everything else. An eclectic mix of different sounds put together like jazz.
This is not for me, but I wish it was.
Radiohead
3/5
This is an album i got when it first released. If i remember right, it was available online only or something like that? Either way, it did not hook me then, so I am excited for another attempt.
This was fine. A lot of it reminded me of old radiohead. I kept checking the track name to see if it was "everything in its right place" and it never was, but you could have fooled me.
Over all, its fine. I did enjoy it more than back when it first came out. So thats good!
Sisters Of Mercy
1/5
Never heard of this group, but it immediately sounds like 80s Bowie. They definitely owe Bowie some money for the way they sound.
If the Crash Test Dummies hit in 1985 they would be this band.
I liked 1959 quite a bit.
I liked This Corrosion.
I would like it if every song didn't have the exact same drum beat, but in 1985 that was illegal so I understand.
Overall this was a chore.
Marvin Gaye
5/5
Never sat down to listen to this album. Didn't realize it was progressive R&B, which is interesting. I never realized how similar whats going on and mercy mercy me were. Just thought it was a motown kind of sound, but it turns out it was deliberate. Kinda cool, but I am not sure about it. This whole album is just one long song, that is pretty cool.
It also feels like "I heard it through the grapevine" will happen at any moment on that later tracks.
This was a complete album, with themes connecting the end to the beginning and vice-versa. Excellence.
The Cars
5/5
That was terrific! I have never listened to a full Cars album and this was great. The hits are the hits for a reason. The non hit tracks do feel a little bit like filler but that might be because of how familiar I am with the big songs from the album. Great album! Over too soon!
Elastica
3/5
I think the only elastica song I know is from the Trainspotting soundtrack. So we will see how this goes but first track sounds good so far. Mid nineties sound which is where I live. I’m sad I’ve never listened to this before because this is right up my alley. I like this a lot.
There’s the Trainspotting song. 2:1
While I really enjoyed this, I think if I listened to a few more times I would rate it higher than a 3. It’s a 3 Im sure would improve.
Public Image Ltd.
1/5
Never heard of this either. The version I’m listening to is called metal box as the other version is not available on YouTube music. Starting off I’m into it.
3 mins in and I am no longer into it. The rhythms sounds like Billie Jean and I can’t unhear that. Oh man this first song is ten minutes?! I also want to run away.
This is a collection of cool beats with the worst singing. It feels like trying to listen to Tomahawk or any other Mike Patton project.
This was terrible, but the music was ok. It was the singing and lyrics that ruined it for me.
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
This sound screams 1990. Makes me feel like it’s middle school. Not really my favorite kind of rap sound, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t having a great time with it. Well made and well mixed. What I really like is a lot of the call and response stuff early in the album has the response moving around the microphone. Also it’s crazy how much everyone ripped these guys off. Over all very good.
Michael Jackson
3/5
There is something about this album where everything has this ethereal sound, which kind of drives me nuts. It doesn't help that "don't stop till you get enough" is so played out for me. I can't hear this song without thinking about being in a ballroom where the lights are dim for a wedding. Songs like "get on the floor" are where you start to hear what becomes his signature sound but surrounded by disco. It sounds like a mashup of genres.
Overall, it is quite good, but not as good as what is to come in his career.
D'Angelo
4/5
This album was cool. Really cool. Will be going back for another listen.
The Crusaders
3/5
This album, while very pleasant to listen to, feels like the extended end credits of an 80s TV show. I would call this genre "progressive elevator music". This isn't an insult, the music is very nice and enjoyable. It's kinda fantastic background music for a party no on has anymore and that is sad.
Fugees
4/5
Energy. Nothing but pure internal energy. Not energenic, for the most part, but more like here is that feeling in your chest you don't know what to do with. This is very good. The skits are terrible, and have aged more terribly than you can remember, like most rap skits. But the music and lyrics hit harder now than ever before, and it isn't even about anything I've been through.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Impossible to believe this is a debut album. If you told me this was their third or fourth, sure, but first?! Wow. Nothing but hits and such a distinctive sound.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Never listened to a complete album and I’m shouldn’t be but I am with how much I liked this. It’s really really good.
The xx
2/5
Immediately liking this but it sounds like music that would be playing in the background of a clothing store. This album was fine, but it didn’t really do anything for me.
ABBA
4/5
What a treat! With fantastic harmonies, fun music, and great lyrics, you really cannot go wrong.
Money, Money, Money sounds like a song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
This was great! moved very quickly, sounds perfect, felt like the whole thing was over in an instant. Wonderful!
I love this album, and hearing it takes me right back to sophmore year of college. I love it. The album is perfect, but after starting so strong, the middle does sag a lot for too long to give it a perfect 5 stars. The quiet ending matches the energy of the beginning, and I love it.
ZZ Top
3/5
Dirty, raw, sounds full of cheap beer, cigarettes, and STDs. I have no notes. More please.
The Mars Volta
2/5
I haven’t listened to the mars Volta before, at least on purpose.
This was fine. I might like it if I heard it a lot more but as far as background music goes it’s not bad, quite the opposite. It kind of sounds like if my chemical romance tried to be Led Zeppelin?
Astrud Gilberto
3/5
This is another collection of delightful background music for a 1960s outdoor party at night time. This is wonderfully pleasant. I see why they don’t make music like this anymore but somebody should every once in a while.
Billy Bragg
3/5
I love this album and it’s been a while since I heard it. California stars takes me back.
Way over yonder is a song I hum to myself all the time.
T. Rex
3/5
I immediately like this.
This album was great, just great!
Not at all what I was expecting.
Nirvana
5/5
This is a great album, top to bottom. Feels like they are putting on a show in someone's living room just hanging out having a decent time.
Arcade Fire
3/5
It’s great, but always feels off to me. The first album is perfect and this one tries its very best but it never hit the same way with me.
Harry Nilsson
3/5
I’m interested in hearing this because I’ve never listened to one of his albums before.
This is pretty good. Some songs I really like but others feel like the don’t have a firm footing in what they are going for. It’s feels really experimental and that it was a commercial hit is wild.
Like in the coconut is always what the doctor ordered.
Really just a showcase of musical styles. Overall very nice, pleasant, and fun!
Randy Newman
3/5
Poor Randy Newman, because all I can hear is parodies of him singing.
This will be my first full album from him I believe.
Pleasant and well made. Does Randy Newman picks state per album? From what I know about him he sings about Ohio and California.
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
This album was pretty good. Not great. It sucks it was 1996 because this sounds like it’s trapped there. A couple more years and this could have really breathed. Otherwise a very chill time.
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
This was a cool album. I wish I had been listening to it since it came out. It’s definitely my kind of sound. The singers vocal style is different and maybe too much vibrato, but by the end of the album I was sad it was over. Definitely a sound I could fall for.
Black Sabbath
4/5
I've never listened to an entire black sabbath album, so I am looking forward to this. This album is quite good, but its a lot quieter than I was expecting. The upbeat load stuff is the known popular stuff, but the quiet stuff between songs is something I did not expect.
The Temptations
4/5
I listened to this while walking the beach on a perfect summer morning. No notes.
The White Stripes
4/5
This is the kind of album I actively avoided because jack white looked like he belonged in my chemical romance. Don’t judge books by covers and don’t bet against jack white.
Janis Joplin
4/5
This is a great album. I really liked it!
Wilco
3/5
This is a good album, but not my favorite from wilco. Maybe I am just not feeling it today.
Black Sabbath
3/5
This album sounds like it begins right in the middle of another song. That was weird.
The Changes song is very good and I had never heard it outside of the song Eminem made sampling it.
This is the second Sabbath album i've listened to on this, and both are much softer in sound than I was expecting. This album even more so than the first one, which was called paranoid. Lot of good song though. Thumbs up!
Quicksilver Messenger Service
4/5
I have never heard of this group, so let’s see what is what.
Yeah ok. I like it.
YouTube music has this released in 1988, but it also say 1969 and from the first track it feels timeless.
Sounds a lot like the doors.
The 60s sound really come out later but this sounds like a late 70s kind of jam.
Really enjoyed this!
Beck
3/5
This is a great album, but I don’t love it. A lot of the stuff in it that isn’t the music really rubs me the wrong way and totally takes me out of it. Always felt that way about this. But a total recommend.
Khaled
2/5
I don’t know what I was expecting with this but it certainly wasn’t this sound. It’s well made and has that classic sound I would describe as Bollywood because of my ignorance to the music. I definitely wasn’t in the mood for this, which isn’t the albums fault. Really didn’t exepect Imagine to be there in the middle out of nowhere. Overall, enjoyable but not really for me, especially without subtitles.
Joni Mitchell
3/5
This was a pleasant enough listen. Feels like 1 really long song. It’s fine. Can’t say I paid attention to the lyrics much which is where I’m sure it shines but for a first listen, I like it.
Rush
2/5
THis album was good, but i am not sure what i was expecting. I think i need to listen again to appreciate it more but it just didn’t grab me like i thought it would.
The Damned
3/5
This is another first for me, I don't think I've listened to the damned before.
This was great! I really liked it! Will be coming back for more!
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Never been a huge fan, but sometimes this music just hits hard. Today is a good day for this.
I think my biggest roadblock with diving into this band is perry ferrels voice, but at the same time its a perfect voice. It matches the lyrics so well. Its a conundrum.
The Stone Roses
3/5
I am not sure if I have ever listened to anything from this group before.
I like this sound immediately.
I really enjoyed this album, will be going back for more.
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
This album was hard to find, no link to it, but someone one youtube put together a version of it to listen to. Very pleasant album. Seems like the kind of album I would really enjoy after a few listens.
King Crimson
3/5
I will be honest and say I have always thought King Crimson was a band from like 2002. I had no idea they were around in 1969.
This was really different, but wow! You can really hear many of the bands that came after this.
The fantastical stuff was pretty good, not a fan of the dissonant jazz stuff.
But I can see how this is considered a very influential group, some of the sounds you can almost hear other groups listening too and working into their own sound. Really makes me wish I was more fluent with that for examples. I would give it two stars, but I can hear what comes next and that bumps it up to 3.
U2
4/5
This is a great album from a great band rediscovering themselves. Not all of it works, but the hits land so hard you can’t help but follow along.
The The
3/5
This is a band I’ve only heard of but never listened to. Immediately they sound like prince?
I am into this.
It sort of sounds like sounds prince and The Rolling Stones did a collaboration, but there’s another flavor I can’t quite place.
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
This is a great album, top to bottom. You can really see the shell of the stuff that came later here, but on this album everything is much more raw and without the polish of the later stuff. It’s a good thing, feels young and reckless.
Motörhead
3/5
This will be my first Motörhead full album. Wow, my phone autocorrected the dots over the o of Motörhead!
This is pure energy! How can they do this every night? This is an album but it feels like it would be a 45 minute concert! Great time!
Green Day
4/5
I love this album. I could say more, but I just love it. Reminds me of 8th grade and 9th grade and being telling my friend I couldn't take the album home because I thought my mom would get mad about it.
Marvin Gaye
2/5
Monday morning probably isn't the correct time for this album, but here we go.
I have to say this isn't my favorite Marvin Gaye album, but its pretty good.
Maybe I just wasn't feeling it this morning, but I just kept waiting for the album to be over.
SZA
2/5
This album was pretty good. I know I would appreciate it more with repeated listens but with just the one, it was just pretty good. An interesting voice, and when I was able to listen while reading the lyrics you can see she has something to say, and I want to know what it is.
Metallica
2/5
This was pretty fun. It helps I was in the mood for some metal this morning. I haven’t listened to a ton of Metallica outside of the popular stuff but this was ok. A lot of it sounds the same but you can’t argue with the talent in making the sound.
Sex Pistols
2/5
Whenever I listen to this album I always think it feels pretty tame and very inline with the 80 punk sound, and then I remember it’s from the mid to late 70s. Very pioneering sound and genre defining.
Another thing I like about it is how clear the vocals and instruments sound. It’s not just noise and distortion.
Elton John
4/5
Tiny dancer is so good, the rest of the album could be awful and it would still receive 3 stars.
A very excellent and quick album over too soon.
Tom Tom Club
1/5
This is odd.
Oh my, I didn’t expect the best to a Mariah Carrey song to just show up.
This album isn’t for me, but it has its moments.
Calexico
2/5
I know calexico from a colaboration they did with Iron and Wine, didn't expect to see them today. A nice surprise.
this is an interesting album. I like how the music style slowly drifts from a laid back iron and wine style music to a mexican style sound. Very cool.
Overall, good but nothing for me to really grab on to.
Tom Waits
2/5
I like Tom Waits, but I havent listened to a whole album before, so lets gargle some glass and get to the show!
I did not expect spoken word jazz.
I really dont know how to react to this album. I like it, but I don't know why. I think I need to listen, really listen to it, because I know there is a lot of wordplay going on, probably nothing but. However I was busy and it was on, so it really did land like I think it should have. Also, they people in the audience seemed to know the music beforehand, so is this a live album of previously recorded stuff? Or is it just a hip spoken word jazz audience? Tom Waits is a condundrum, but he proves any one can be successful in any industry if you give yourself to it.
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
This was pretty good. Really flows from track to track. I’ve never really listened to wutang outside of some songs here and there. So this was interesting but what stands out the most is this sounds like a rap album from the mid to later 90s, not 92. Which really tells how far advanced the sound on this was. Or that everyone started copying wutang.
Queen
3/5
This was great. Very interesting mix of sounds. I’d only heard a couple of these songs before and some of them should be a lot more popular. Really enjoyed this.
Kraftwerk
2/5
It’s fine. Not in the mood today which will hurt my rating for it. Actually I don’t think I could have been listening to a more inappropriate album for the mood I’m in. Sorry kraftwerk, it’s probably not you.
Spiritualized
3/5
I had never heard of the band before today and I am instantly in love with them. This is fantastic. Really enjoyed this one! If the arcade fire existed in 1994 i think they would sound something like this.
GZA
2/5
I enjoyed this. Felt kind of like listening to a rap opera, I would like to come back to this one and pay better attention than just background music.
Al Green
3/5
Really enjoyed this. Very smooth on a Saturday morning.
Hüsker Dü
2/5
Have to be honest and admit I dont think I've ever listened to this group before.
Somebody involved with Weezer is really into these guys. Tell you why tomorrow is the blueprint for at least 3 weezer songs.
Overall, this was ok.
Red Snapper
2/5
This album started really really strong. But now it’s track 3 and I’m falling off. Brought me back a bit. But for 2000 this feels old already. If this album was released in 1996 or 97, maybe I would understand a little more but this feels like it’s chasing the matrix soundtrack. Also sounds a lot like the music to the background of some everlast songs. I wonder if this is where the sound is sampled from. Man this album is a journey. Sound like they just follow whatever sound leads them to music. I have to respect it and thankful the sounds follow the ones I like too.
The Black Keys
3/5
I am not a huge black keys fan. But this album hit me in a good place today. I do wish the vocals didn’t sound so distorted so often. It’s really distracting and a lot of times I feel like it’s not adding anything.
Machito
4/5
Wow, I’ve heard this sound forever. It sounds like west side story immediately. I loved every minute of this.
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Simply outstanding!
Sonic Youth
3/5
I really enjoyed this. One thing I noticed in the song Total Trash, in the thrashing part towards the end of the song there is a part where the guitar is making this cat noise? i think the only other time I've heard this sound is in A Perfect Circle's Counting Bodies like Sheep song. Another TOOL thing is later in the album there is a sequence where they have static guitar sounds over someone talking over a radio or phone. It sounds very similar to that TOOL song where the guy is talking about Area 51. Made me think the guys from TOOL are really into Sonic Youth, so that was neat!
Michael Jackson
5/5
This is a great album, but the sounds on it are a mix of upcoming 80s sounds and 70 disco. Some of the songs on it feel like they should have come out a few years earlier. Billie Jean being on it blows my mind because I always think of it as early michael.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
this was very very pleasant. I enjoyed this very much.
Public Enemy
2/5
This was pretty good. I could do with a more modern sound, that super early 90s rap sound rubs me the wrong way. But the lyrics are fantastic. I wouldnt mind hearing a modern remix of the lyrics with more current beats.
Soundgarden
3/5
This is great. Reminds me of riding around in my friends car in high school and college. Black hole sun sounds like it’s from a totally different album.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
This was great. Made me want to go listen to other stones stuff. Really enjoyed it.
Beatles
4/5
I mean it’s the Beatles, so it’s excellent. But listening this time, you can tell things just aren’t the same. Each song is its own album. There doesn’t feel like there’s a cohesive feel throughout because everyone is sick of being together and wants to do their own thing. So each song is a chance to do your own thing. I saw something once that said something like each song is either Paul and the band or John and the band, but not everyone and everyone. And you can really tell.
Marvin Gaye
4/5
This is wonderful. So much packed into just over 30 minutes. Really wonderful.
Kelela
2/5
This album was very smooth and pleasant, but feels like it took a very long time to get through it. I found myself looking at the time a lot. This doesnt mean I didn't like it, I did, but this definitely is not the album for midmorning staying busy at work music. Feels like this is the kind of music you should not be alone for.
Roxy Music
1/5
Between this band and the talking heads, someone owes someone a lot of money for stealing their sound. This is fine overall, but I have spent most of the album waiting for it to kick in or figure it out. Maybe they did and this just isnt for me.
Arctic Monkeys
2/5
When I hit play, I thought this group was going to be mid 00s house music, so this is immediately jarring. Not a bad thing.
This band sounds just like another band I have heard but I just can't place it right now. I'm think Jet or The Strokes, but that doesn't feel right. It distracted me the whole album, maybe franz ferdinand but that feels wrong too.
Overall, if I had heard this in 2007, I probably would have loved it, because it sounds just like this other band I already like, but, like this other band, probably couldn't place the group when I needed too. Its a shame I only heard this today.
John Coltrane
3/5
This is my first Coltrane album. It’s great but it’s jazz so I don’t really get it. But I do like it. Not an unpleasant moment within and I bet with repeated listens I would appreciate it more. I listened to most of this album on my stereo and move to headphones for the last track. And I am only noticing Coltrane is coming out of just the left ear and the band is centered and to the right. If you listen to just the right channel it sounds like he’s playing along in a different room. Very cool. This feels like the kind of music you create your own narrative to.
The Byrds
2/5
This was pretty pleasant. I thought Turn Turn Turn would be on this album since every song sounds like it is building up to it. So it was surprising it wasnt on here. This was pretty nice.
Willie Nelson
2/5
This was pretty nice. I don't think Ive ever listened to a willie nelson album before, so for the first one to be a cover album I was a little underwhelmed at first, but by the time it ended, I was disappointed there wasnt more.
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
I love this album. Its terrific.
Donovan
3/5
This was really nice. Season of the Witch I would have placed in the mid 70's, so this was a surprise. A very pleasant time I know I would like even more with more listens.
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
2/5
This is pleasant background music, I am definitely dancing in my chair a bit. I did lose it a bit, with the bing bing bing part of Buscando Guayaba, cracked me up.
Radiohead
2/5
This is a good album, but I can only enjoy it as background music. Im not sure why but this album doesnt grab me like other stuff they do, and I've always wondered why about this one. Maybe I just havent listened to it enough because I definitely enjoy hearing it, just not listening to it. I dont know.
The Pogues
4/5
My first thought is Flogging Molly owes these guys some money. So far this album is great. I didnt think I would but the international sounds through an irish glass are quite fun.
This album was fantastic! Really great!
Tim Buckley
4/5
I have never heard of Tim Buckley. I’ve heard of Jeff Buckley. But this album sounds like 3 different groups I can’t quite place. So I get the feeling this was the inspiration for a lot of early 70s work because this rocks.
After this album ended, the first song that played was San Francisco by Scott McKenzie, which is one of the songs this album reminded me of.
Frank Sinatra
4/5
What can you say, it’s great.
Big Black
2/5
830am is too early for this, which is going to hurt its score. I think after lunch I would have really gotten into it. The bad houses song sounds a lot like the inspiration for Tools song with Henry Rollins. Overall this was pretty ok.
Travis
3/5
This was a nice ride. For a second I was hanging out with my friends in the dorm room again.
Tricky
2/5
This was pretty chill for a friday morning. I enjoyed it, but the version I have to listen to is the deluxe edition, and I wont be continuing past the original tracks. For the most part this was pretty good background music.
Adele
4/5
Really enjoyed this. I had only heard the songs on the radio before. Powerful voice and driving beats. I would like to see a duet with Florence and the Machine.
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
I was expecting to hear come on eileen, and somehow wasnt disappointed when it never came on. I did not have these guys as a punkish band, so that was a huge revelation. overall a pretty ok album.
1/5
I hated this until I didn’t. By the end maybe a little bit into it. But overall “noise rock” is an apt description and not for me.
Tears For Fears
4/5
This was great! So much so I played it three more times over a weekend. Plus I got a bunch of copy cat bands when the album ended. All in all pretty great. Some low points on it but the hits are the hits!
The Beach Boys
4/5
Fantastic album. I was recently at the beach and wish I had this then.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Some of this is really good, and some of it is really not for me. This album has won me over and lost me and won me back over a few times now. 3 hours for an album seems extra extreme.
The Doors
4/5
This album rocks and I hate the organ. Most this album sounds like the outlook email received sound effect, so I kept checking my email. This album rocks.
Solomon Burke
3/5
I enjoyed this very much. I had never heard of Solomon Burke, but not anymore.
Bob Dylan
3/5
At first I didnt know what to think, but by the end I was sad it was over. This was pretty good and I know i would like it more with additional relistens.
The Who
4/5
Great album! Its a shame each song makes me think of different truck commercials, but its a great album!
Tito Puente
3/5
This was a joy. It was fun and exciting!
Leonard Cohen
3/5
This was really great. I had never listened to one of his albums before and this was terrific. Really enjoyed this.
Stereolab
3/5
This was really quite good. Reminded me a lot of the Trainspotting soundtrack.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
What an album! Such a classic sound with modern lyrics, amazing. A talent lost by those she counted on the most, but really, what a voice and album.
Barry Adamson
2/5
This was an odd one for me. I thought I would hate it but I never did. I thought I would get tired of it, but I never did. I was never into it, but I liked some songs more than others. All in all, nice background music, would listen again.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
10am at work in a Tuesday is not the best way to enjoy this album but it is still very good. Has a much more raw sound than some of the later more polished stuff.
Blur
3/5
Can you guess which song I've heard more than others? This was pretty good, wish I had listened to it more when I was younger.
1/5
I know DEVO is beloved by their fans, but for me, most of this sounds like experimental electronic music. Everything about this music is what I really dislike about 80's "nerd" music. Its all high-pitched and at a frantic pace. It doesn't make sense, but even the Weird Al song: Dare to Be Stupid, which is a parody of DEVO, is a song I just cant stand.
I am towards the end of the album and I have to admit to dancing in my seat a bit. But its Shrivel-up, which isnt as high pitched as a lot of the other stuff.
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
This was really great music to have on in the background.
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
Not great at 9am. You can really hear the emo and pop punk that came after this, which I read about before playing the album. Overall, not for me but I can literally hear the influences.
Marty Robbins
4/5
I absolutely loved this album. Very fun! Was very surprised to hear the song from fallout new Vegas pop up. This was a blast.
Pet Shop Boys
1/5
For the most part I did not enjoy this. I can’t believe how many albums of this sold.
Boston
4/5
This was fantastic and I enjoyed it even more because of that pet shop boys nightmare.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Fantastic album
The Roots
3/5
This was pretty good. Not the albums fault but I had to keep stopping and starting all day, which was tiring. I would come back to this, score would probably increase.
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
This is a really great album. A lot of really good songs performed really well.
Iron Maiden
3/5
Apparently this whole time Iron Maiden is the sound I thought Black Sabbath had. It rocks.
OutKast
3/5
This was really good. Even the skits, usually the worst part of rap albums, were crazy brief and effective.
R.E.M.
3/5
Enjoyed this. Just the kind of album that feels like it has always existed. Not great, but I really liked it.
Nirvana
5/5
It’s perfect.
Todd Rundgren
3/5
This was pretty fun. Not what I was expecting from a name Ive heard of before. An interesting mix of styles in this too. I was expecting more of a harder rock sound and it ends up being somewhere between it and the early days of adult contemporary. Some kind of weird amalgam of the two. Pretty good.
Mudhoney
2/5
Its pretty good. Really raw sound. If I heard it when I was younger it would probably be something I was really into.
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
I really enjoyed this. Will be going back for more.
Culture Club
2/5
Bad day for me to have this album. But it was fine and brief. Another day the score might be higher. Sorry culture club.
Suzanne Vega
3/5
I know she was big in the 80s but if she came out in 1994 she would make jewel look like a joke in terms of success. I want to hear a mid 90s produced version of this album.
Nina Simone
3/5
This was really nice. Very pleasant and lovely. I imagine there is a lot going on in the lyrics but unfortunately this acted as background music while working. I did really enjoy it. I would go back to this.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
The song Maps is my favorite track of theirs. The rest of the album is high energy punkish sound. I like it for the most part. I bet if I heard the other songs as much as Maps, I would like them too. The quieter songs like Poor Song I think I liked more than the high energy, but it is the morning right now, so it could just be that.
Koffi Olomide
2/5
This feels like music playing in the background of a Super Mario game. It was pretty pleasant. Felt very 80s island music movie sound. Through no fault of the music, it sounded cliched.
Aphex Twin
2/5
It felt like I was somewhere buying clothes for 1 hour and 14 minutes. Its not bad and I didnt mind it, but it just felt like it went on forever.
The Who
3/5
This was a good album. My Generation is the standout song for me, not because it was the one I was the most familiar with but because it has the sound I would associate with the who the most compared to the other songs on the album. That said, I haven't listened to a lot of the who outside of the hits, but that is what stuck with me.
Johnny Cash
5/5
A wonderfully fantastic album. All the American albums are great, but this one is my favorite.
The Sonics
3/5
This album felt like it was ten minutes of covers. The lead singer of the sonics sounds like where Hollywood got the idea of the doofus rock guy. It’s pretty blatant. Pretty fun album. In and out. Good songs.
The Strokes
2/5
It’s a pretty good album. I just never got into the strokes outside the hits. But it’s fine.
Johnny Cash
5/5
This album is great. The location, the prison crowd really bring something to this. Especially how prison life just continues with interruptions in the show for things. I really like when they boo the guard and the one in charge is like “ok settle down”. It’s prison but one of the better days there for some.
Giant Sand
2/5
Sounds like a less enthusiastic EELS. Not terrible but not really for me. The singer sounds like someone else but I can’t quite place it. But it’s a 90s song. It’s not Shaun Colvin because that who sang Sonny came home. Overall and by the end I was into this.
Pere Ubu
2/5
Not really into it, but some of it was pretty cool.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
A fantastic but brief album. Shockingly short with everything included. My only complaint with Marley is how much of it sounds incredibly similar. It feels almost like progressive rock the way the music fades into each song.
Blondie
3/5
This was crazy good, and very short (barely over half an hour). The album starts off hard and becomes more ethereal as it goes on until it hit that heart of glass sound then it goes back to the more rock sound. Pretty good album!
Fela Kuti
3/5
This was very good. I dont know if there is a different version I was supposed to listen to, but this one was an EP with two tracks a long and short version of the Zombie song. Either way very good song. Looking into the history of the song, everything about it is crazy!
Fiona Apple
4/5
This was really really great! I’ve only heard a couple songs here and there. The criminal video is burned into my brain. But this is something else. When the album was finished it started playing another of her albums and I had no problem with that.
Patti Smith
3/5
This was pretty good. Sounds like a raw, angry, rock and roll version of Joni Mitchell. This is an example of bad background music, but when you stop to listen, it really rocks. This is active listening music.
Traffic
4/5
This album rocked. Very chill but fun. Still not a fan of jazz flute, but man those guys were killing it in the 70s.
Nick Drake
5/5
Really enjoyed this. All Nick Drakes stuff has a timeless indie kind of sound. For a long time I thought his stuff was from the late 90s, and then the early 2000s, and its from the 60s. Crazy. Timeless.
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Great album. I noticed the settle for nothing song sounds a lot like Tools bottom, mostly the Henry Rollins spoken word poetry part. They sound very similar and thought it was one group mocking the other until later on the album when fools Maynard James Keenan sang vocals on a track.
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
This was great! Progressive soul-like and tells a narrative. I’ve never seen superfly but I know what it’s all about from this. Very cool album.
Arrested Development
4/5
This was great. I didn’t realize all these songs came from this album. I’ve heard a lot of these songs and didn’t realize they were all from the same group, let alone the same album!
Prince
5/5
This was great! I havent heard more than the radio hits from this album before. This was really good. The only thing that bother me about it is the mid-80s "lets get crazy" kind of sound that permeates through a lot of the album. And even then I didnt hate it. The other stuff, especially the songs I had never heard were crazy good!
Lou Reed
2/5
This was pretty good. Felt a little long but I found it to be nice while working on somethings. All in all a pretty pleasant album.
Bad Company
2/5
This was pretty ok. Kinda trails off towards the end after some pretty steady energy early on.
Gary Numan
1/5
I did not enjoy this. I like the song Cars. That’s about it. Too much synthesizer. Originally I thought this inspired Devo, but devo was first. Way too much synthesizer.
The Who
3/5
This is a movie that really freaked me out when I saw it as a kid and have stayed away from it ever since. It’s still true after listening to it. Some really good songs in there but some really messed up stuff too, but it’s telling a story so I get it. Overall pretty ok. Sounds like The Who wanted to make an album that sounds like the Beatles made a musical at times.
Fred Neil
2/5
This was very nice. Dont have a whole lot to say. For a 40 minute album it felt long, but I dont have anything bad to say about it. His voice is very unique and I'm disappointed to say I don't think I've heard it before.
The Isley Brothers
4/5
This was great. A very chill way to start a Monday, but I feel like this would work any time of day.
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
This was amazing! I had never really listened to anything but what was on the radio and this was terrific. Really enjoyed!
Madness
4/5
I really enjoyed this! It’s has a quirky college band sound. Sort of like a British 80s Ben folds five kind of thing. Not quite sure how to explain it other than if I was in college when this came out I would be all about it.
Sam Cooke
5/5
This was outstanding! An entire concert in 35 minutes, amazing! Great songs, great voice, great environment. Fantastic!
Korn
3/5
Gotta be honest I am not in the mood for korn today. So freak on a leash on gonna really need to hit for me for this to rate well.
Freak on a leash still hits hard. Not really a big fan of korn but these chunky guitars are hard to say no to. The Fred durst song you can keep. Overall, it worked for me on a day this was the last thing I wanted to hear.
TV On The Radio
2/5
This didn’t grab me. Good background music though. I didn’t dislike it but when I actively listened it didn’t work for me.
Various Artists
5/5
Every track on this album sounds like it belongs in a Scorsese movie while something terrible is happening. Fantastic album. Fantastic sounds. Terrible man was Phil Spector, but the work is good.
David Bowie
2/5
This album was fine. Following up ziggy is a thankless task but this album feels tired. They sound great but you can tell they are exhausted and annoyed. I would probably feel different if I listened again but I don’t know. Album just didn’t grab me and I was excited to listen.
Mudhoney
2/5
I don’t know. I didn’t dislike it but it really didn’t do anything for me.
Meat Puppets
4/5
Today’s album is the Meat Puppets II which I had never heard before. I’ve never heard an album that influenced a band more obviously than this did to nirvana. I know they’ve covered some of these songs in the unplugged album but nirvana wouldn’t have existed without this album. This album came out 5 years too early. It’s a raw nirvana sound and style before cobain came and locked it down.
Talking Heads
3/5
This was ok. Some tracks are amazing and other sound like David Byrne nonsense. The issue is probably I haven’t heard the nonsense tracks enough to like them.
Supertramp
3/5
This was very very good. It sucks youtube music only has part of the album available, but someone else just uploaded the entire album as a video and I just listened to that. Very cool album. Really into it.