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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Sex Packets
Digital Underground
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5 | 2.66 | +2.34 |
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Mask
Bauhaus
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5 | 2.85 | +2.15 |
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Kick Out The Jams (Live)
MC5
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5 | 2.92 | +2.08 |
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Out of Step
Minor Threat
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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Fever Ray
Fever Ray
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5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
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The Dreaming
Kate Bush
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5 | 2.99 | +2.01 |
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Heavy Weather
Weather Report
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5 | 2.99 | +2.01 |
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Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
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5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
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Henry's Dream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
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Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
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5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
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2 | 3.81 | -1.81 |
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Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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2 | 3.69 | -1.69 |
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Blue
Joni Mitchell
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2 | 3.5 | -1.5 |
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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2 | 3.48 | -1.48 |
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Blunderbuss
Jack White
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2 | 3.39 | -1.39 |
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Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
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2 | 3.38 | -1.38 |
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Music From Big Pink
The Band
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2 | 3.35 | -1.35 |
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Sea Change
Beck
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2 | 3.33 | -1.33 |
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Tommy
The Who
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2 | 3.32 | -1.32 |
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
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2 | 3.31 | -1.31 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Prince | 3 | 4.67 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 2 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 2 | 5 |
| Muddy Waters | 2 | 5 |
| Radiohead | 5 | 4.2 |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 4.33 |
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| Artist | Ratings |
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| Beck | 2, 5 |
| The Who | 5, 3, 2 |
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Kate Bush · 1 likes
5/5
A lot more visceral than I expected a Kate Bush album to be. Fantastic.
Pink Floyd · 1 likes
5/5
Easily one of the best albums ever recorded.
Patti Smith · 1 likes
5/5
Just an absolute gem.
Eurythmics · 1 likes
3/5
Annie Lennox has a mesmerizing voice but as an album the title track makes the rest look dull by comparison.
All Ratings
Radiohead
4/5
A little slow to start but then Just comes in and hits like a brick.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Decent enough but very same same.
The War On Drugs
2/5
The only thing more boring than Springsteen is a Springsteen knock off. The songs are all dull and never go anywhere.
Otis Redding
4/5
Classic after classic. Satisfaction the way it sounded in Mick Jagger's head when he thought of the song.
Violent Femmes
4/5
Duran Duran
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Well crafted sonic drones inserted with ethereal vocals and poppy melodies. A Post-Punk delight.
Yes
4/5
4/5
Minor Threat
5/5
LL Cool J
4/5
Prime 90s hip hop.
Parliament
5/5
Funky funk funk
Paul Simon
3/5
Digital Underground
5/5
Weirdo hip-hop at its best
Hole
4/5
Supergrass
5/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Three legends to be sure, but the songs weren't my favorite.
Neu!
3/5
Deep Purple
2/5
Brilliant and influential band but live music in the 70s was its own thing.
Suicide
2/5
Proto a lot of stuff I'm into but not great on it's own
The Only Ones
3/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Temptations
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The Cars
5/5
The Electric Prunes
4/5
Oasis
4/5
Slipknot
4/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Madness
4/5
Eminem
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
The National
2/5
John Martyn
3/5
The Who
5/5
Jimmy Smith
5/5
George Harrison
4/5
The Cure
5/5
Radiohead
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
10cc
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Jack White
2/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Megadeth
4/5
The Hives
4/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
M.I.A.
4/5
Santana
4/5
2/5
Linkin Park
4/5
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
The xx
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
Buzzcocks
4/5
Kanye West
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
Spiritualized
2/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Air
4/5
Garbage
4/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Napalm Death
3/5
Louis Prima
4/5
Supertramp
3/5
Aphex Twin
4/5
Orbital
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
3/5
Manu Chao
4/5
Robert Wyatt
3/5
Wilco
2/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Einstürzende Neubauten
2/5
Alanis Morissette
5/5
Jane Weaver
5/5
R.E.M.
2/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Bauhaus
5/5
Beck
2/5
Meat Loaf
5/5
Ramones
5/5
Soundgarden
5/5
ZZ Top
5/5
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
The Kinks
3/5
Fela Kuti
5/5
The Prodigy
4/5
Gorillaz
4/5
Circle Jerks
4/5
Paul Weller
4/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Kanye West
3/5
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
LTJ Bukem
2/5
Drum and bass is cool but it will never blow mind. 3 hours is like psychological warfare.
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
Snoop Dogg
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
The Police
3/5
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
5/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Roxy Music
2/5
Alice In Chains
5/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Flamin' Groovies
2/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
The xx
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
De La Soul
4/5
Holger Czukay
2/5
Korn
4/5
Big Black
3/5
The Band
2/5
Black Flag
3/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
The Go-Go's
4/5
3/5
Sounded like an album of failed sitcom theme songs, which is a shame because I know XTC can be better.
The The
4/5
Love listening to an album and going I KNOW THIS SONG! Some weak points but a pretty solid album overall.
Ozomatli
4/5
This album has EVERYTHING
Frank Ocean
5/5
Not my typical genre but just blown away
Rush
5/5
Prince
5/5
Prince
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Ideal 70s weirdness. Solid album.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
5/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Typical Nick Cave but in the best way
Bad Company
3/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
Typical Foo Fighters (derogatory)
David Ackles
2/5
More singer songwriter piano man hoopla
Missy Elliott
4/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Drive Like Jehu
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Air
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Mekons
2/5
The Who
3/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Gene Clark
4/5
It's country. Wait, it's not? Wait, it's really good?
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Traffic
3/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Powerful
William Orbit
3/5
Very 90s trance. Enjoyable but a little same same by the end.
Derek & The Dominos
4/5
Calexico
2/5
Some gems hidden in a boring indie album
OutKast
4/5
Great stuff
Beck
5/5
What to even call this? A fantastic listen.
R.E.M.
3/5
Yup. That sure is REM
The Jam
4/5
The Jam is awesome. Full stop.
Neil Young
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
A collection of odd little nuggets. Most of them are both off-putting and incessantly hummable.
The Triffids
2/5
Such a long album I was kinda onboard with the generic 80s altpop by the end.
Billie Holiday
4/5
Muddy Waters
5/5
5/5
Yes. Yes!
Tori Amos
4/5
A not hidden gem. I get it.
LCD Soundsystem
2/5
Talking Heads but boring
Neil Young
3/5
Not a Neil Young fan but this was enjoyable
Jeff Beck
3/5
Not bad overall but dude wrecked Old Man River
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Wife really liked it
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2/5
A lot of organ noodling not a lot of songs
Boston
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
Zappa is so silly and this is fine
Adele
3/5
Too much of a good thing is possible
Leftfield
3/5
Isn't this the cave rave music from The Matrix?
Massive Attack
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
The logical successor to the Velvet Underground in its ethos of "it's ok to be kinda crap" and then copied by countless others.
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Not my favorite of theirs but still great
Beatles
5/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Points for a Busta Rhymes feat
Cat Stevens
4/5
Kate Bush
5/5
A lot more visceral than I expected a Kate Bush album to be. Fantastic.
Radiohead
5/5
Short and punchy. Does what it wants and then leaves.
Al Green
4/5
Classic
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
So I'm not an Emerson, Lake & Palmer fan come to find out. No more please.
Happy Mondays
3/5
Almost liked this but I didn't
Fats Domino
5/5
Tom Waits
5/5
What a joy to finally be made to listen to a full Tom Waits album. It was more than the sum of it's parts for sure.
Nick Drake
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Another band that is rightfully famous for their singles.
Pink Floyd
5/5
Easily one of the best albums ever recorded.
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
Classic that song
Rahul Dev Burman
4/5
This is why I'm doing this thing. To find stuff I otherwise never would have known existed. Great find.
Prince
5/5
Yup.
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Everybody's mom loves it but I don't get it
Orbital
3/5
Not sure why there are multiple Orbital albums but ok.
Iron Maiden
5/5
Jesus. Christ. This album would be a five if it was just Number of the Beast -Run to the Hills- Gangland, but then there are somehow MORE songs. Absolutely terrific.
Miles Davis
4/5
Coooooool.
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Various Artists
5/5
Merry Merry!
Muddy Waters
5/5
Definitely one of the GOATs of the blues.
Frank Black
3/5
Slint
4/5
Very post.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
A couple really good tracks
The Yardbirds
4/5
There's something about The Yardbirds that I just like
Bee Gees
3/5
It does a lot and some of it works. Didn't hate it but it's not going in the rotation.
The Velvet Underground
4/5
A great album brought down by an overly avant closer.
Randy Newman
3/5
All I hear is You've Got a Friend in Me.
Talking Heads
4/5
They are better when they are less frantic
Dire Straits
3/5
The famous songs are good
Iggy Pop
4/5
People saying you can hear Bowie like it's a bad thing.
Earth, Wind & Fire
4/5
Waylon Jennings
4/5
Country with a capital C
Green Day
4/5
Such a strong debut
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Really strong songs with not great filler
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4/5
A Woody Guthrie feat?!
Radiohead
4/5
The perfect midpoint between the traditional and the experimental
Silver Jews
2/5
Boring indie
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Everyone wanted to be a blues band
Grant Lee Buffalo
4/5
Excellent find. Jangly and, as the title implies, fuzzy.
Björk
4/5
Everything is music
Pixies
4/5
The Strokes
3/5
Kinda bland but listenable
Femi Kuti
5/5
Any Kuti is good Kuti
The Young Rascals
3/5
A bunch of generic stuff and then is this the Pat Benatar song?
Isaac Hayes
3/5
How did they ever get this man to do South Park?
Depeche Mode
5/5
I think exactly two things with Depeche Mode: the song You'll Dance to Anything by The Dead Milkmen and the Venture Bros. That being said, I love this album so much. Even having listened to it so many times before it's still surprising how many bangers are on it.
Coldplay
4/5
Still their best
Judas Priest
4/5
Solid 80s heavy metal.
Robert Wyatt
4/5
Early Floyd and late Bowie filtered through Radiohead.
Bob Dylan
3/5
He Dylans all over it but it's not bad
k.d. lang
4/5
The first really country western album I've heard. Just a delight.
Ice Cube
3/5
U2
2/5
Perfectly passable but ultimately uninteresting songs
Lucinda Williams
4/5
Something transcendent about this but I can't put my finger on it
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Bliss
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5/5
Classic early aughts sounds. An absolute delight.
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
Like all Pumpkins albums it's both a well put together album and also bombastic and over stuffed
The Avalanches
3/5
It's not ambient but it's definitely passive music
Nightmares On Wax
2/5
Never found it's groove
Patti Smith
5/5
Just an absolute gem.
Bob Dylan
4/5
Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome but I'm starting to come around on Dylan
Jethro Tull
5/5
Somehow greater than the sum of its already great parts.
Justin Timberlake
2/5
It's fine. Having this against a Michael Jackson album did no favors for my opinion of this one. Not hating but none of his good stuff is on this album.
Tina Turner
4/5
Once Tina sings a song it's her song
Beastie Boys
4/5
Beastie Boys are just fun. Their sound evolved but the fun was the constant.
Stan Getz
3/5
Good for what it is but a full album of samba was never going to make it into my rotation
Jacques Brel
3/5
It wasn't bad I'm just not sure why it was included.
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Britpop Smashing Pumpkins
Blur
3/5
Wanted to like it more than I actually did.
4/5
So so good. Only familiar with one of her songs before this but it's all so varied but just as strong.
The Darkness
4/5
The mountains of drugs that fueled this album were not wasted. A hair one note but AC/DC made a living off of being completely one note so that's not necessarily a bad thing if you like the one note.
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Equal parts sincere and funky
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Still not big on Springsteen. That's it. That's the review.
Rocket From The Crypt
4/5
As a self processed ska guy it's so refreshing to hear just straight up punky horns that want to tear your face off as much as the guitars. A fantastic listen.
Wilco
2/5
A double album with a bunch of different sounds and ideas and only a couple of them are interesting.
Metallica
5/5
Probably their best.
Belle & Sebastian
5/5
A dorm room classic.
Michael Jackson
5/5
Obviously a classic. My listen through had me notice that MJ understood that catchy pop songs should be 90% chorus, which a lot of these are.
Kelela
4/5
Started off a little ho-hum but then the sound expanded and it turned into an interesting listen. Not a huge R&B fan but I can tell when an album is trying things and reaching and I applaud that.
Doves
2/5
Meh. Indie. Whatever.
R.E.M.
4/5
80s R.E.M. is best R.E.M.
Beastie Boys
4/5
A lyrical banquet. Delicious.
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Gets a bit long by the end
Sister Sledge
4/5
A banger and some decent disco
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Still developing her sound
Metallica
4/5
People who say Metallica "sold out" with Load are clearly ignoring this album. An album so packed with stadium bangers, potential WWE entrance songs, and heartfelt Grammy bait you can hear their manager counting the money in the background. It's a solid album and Metallica is a goated band but it goes to show that Cliff and Mustaine were the heart of the Metallica thrash sound for better or worse.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5/5
FREEE BIIIIIIIIIIIRD! And also some other Southern Rock classics.
The Doors
3/5
Everything anyone has ever said about The Doors is true. I do wonder if their legacy would have died with Jim if it wasn't for Ray.
Miles Davis
3/5
Laibach
3/5
This is capital "A" Art. Unfortunately that doesn't always translate into listenable music.
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
So funky and with an edge. Sly continues to impress.
The Byrds
3/5
Odd cover choices but done well
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Marianne Faithfull
4/5
What a great album discovery!
Paul McCartney
3/5
Such a short album with short songs it feels more like a notebook of ideas.
Portishead
4/5
Solid trip hop album!
Tortoise
4/5
So glad there were no lyrics because this was a GREAT instrumental album
Pearl Jam
5/5
Comes roaring out of the gate
Japan
4/5
Peak 80s synthy altrock. Reminded me that I actually knew a Japan song before this and also loved it.
The Who
2/5
As far as concept albums go this one is low on the list
SAULT
3/5
Stereo MC's
4/5
A lovely bit of early 90s nostalgia. Despite every song having the same feel some are clearly stronger than others.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Forgive me Rolling Stones I was unfamiliar with your game (this album).
Solomon Burke
3/5
Heavy on soul, light on rock. That's not a bad thing, just an observation.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
Never understood the Elvis Costello craze
Weather Report
5/5
Jaco Jaco Jaco!!!
Deep Purple
4/5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
Loved this album before; love it still. A just about perfect shoegaze album.
Nirvana
4/5
When you want to listen to Nirvana but you also want to chill
Sade
5/5
Timeless
Talvin Singh
4/5
A very interesting mix of traditional Indian music and techno. It was a great listen but I don't know that I'll come back to it.
Ghostface Killah
4/5
Everything Wu-Tang touches is great. I've yet to find a counter example.
Mudhoney
3/5
Decent enough grunge
Michael Jackson
3/5
Michael Jackson is the best above a certain BPM
Queen
5/5
Perfection for what they were going for
Eurythmics
3/5
Annie Lennox has a mesmerizing voice but as an album the title track makes the rest look dull by comparison.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
I guess you had to be there
Kraftwerk
4/5
Listening to this is like driving on the Autobahn and if you just relax and enjoy the trip it's wonderful but if you spend the whole time looking for your exit it's going to be miserable.
The Undertones
3/5
Early Britpunk.
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
Not what I was expecting
Travis
2/5
Radiohead meets U2.
David Bowie
5/5
What's to say that hasn't been said? It's a groove and a bop. From the moment the clunky piano notes emerge from the shrieking train whistle you know you're in for a good time. All of Bowie's eras were so distinct that trying to pick a favorite is often apples and oranges, but this is a strong contender.
Run-D.M.C.
5/5
"He's the Big Bad Wolf in your neighborhood/Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good" Still wildly influential. Still infinitely listenable. Always down to raise some hell with these three!
The Cult
4/5
This strikes me as the kind of music the lost boys (vampires, not Neverland) would listen to. Very into it.
Public Enemy
5/5
Just incredible. Wildly incendiary but ultimately based in love and compassion. Public Enemy are legends.
Genesis
4/5
Every time I see Genesis I go "you mean we get Peter Gabriel AND Phil Collins?!?!"
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Reminds me of when I got together with my high school friends in the summer and we noodled around in the basement
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Started off like store brand The Smiths but quickly devolved into generic 80s pop.
Common
3/5
Nina Simone
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Music for all levels of depression
Hole
3/5
Under produced but decent raw material
Slipknot
4/5
A three star album that happens to have Wait and Bleed on it.
Fever Ray
5/5
Never doubt bizarre Scandinavians
Lenny Kravitz
4/5
One of my first albums and concerts. The fact that this album was a one man show was inspirational. Sure, he was part of that 60s revival nonsense in the 90s, but for me he gets a pass on sheer enthusiasm alone.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Took them a while to settle down into their sound prior to this but the result is solid.
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Nope. Nothing.
Elastica
4/5
Delightful
Elvis Presley
3/5
Why anybody would listen to an Elvis cover over the original is beyond me.
MGMT
3/5
Enjoyable enough. Didn't really leave an impression, good or bad.
Steely Dan
3/5
Listening to this made me realize my parents were big Steely Dan fans because I recognized so many of these songs from my childhood.
N.W.A.
3/5
Strange album. Aggro lyrics over dated beats. It's obvious how this album was influential but to a modern listener I'm not sure it holds up on its own beyond being a time capsule of an era.
Willie Nelson
3/5
Q-Tip
3/5
OutKast
4/5
If you can't find something you like on here you might need to reconsider if you actually like music or not.