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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Last Of The True Believers Nanci Griffith	5	2.96	+2.04
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.33	+1.67
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.46	+1.54
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
Arrival ABBA	5	3.52	+1.48
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Madman Across The Water Elton John	5	3.58	+1.42
1999 Prince	5	3.59	+1.41

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Surf's Up The Beach Boys	1	3.3	-2.3
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	1	3.24	-2.24
Repeater Fugazi	1	3.13	-2.13
Murder Ballads Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.08	-2.08
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	1	3.07	-2.07
Central Reservation Beth Orton	1	3.05	-2.05
Ghosteen Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	2.95	-1.95
Rapture Anita Baker	1	2.94	-1.94
Picture Book Simply Red	1	2.87	-1.87
Harvest Neil Young	2	3.81	-1.81

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	5
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
Elton John	2	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	1
The Prodigy	2	1.5

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Artist	Ratings
The Beach Boys	1, 5
Radiohead	3, 2, 5

5-Star Albums (34)

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If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues · 2 likes

4/5

This album would be on here of it only contained Fairytale of New York. The Pogues are great.

Rubber Soul

Beatles · 1 likes

5/5

one of the best albums of all time

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears · 1 likes

3/5

Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, and Head Over Heels are all quintessentially 80s. Unfortunately I don't think they're all-time good enough, and the rest of the album is pretty meh. So this doesn't crack above a 3.

Ramones

Ramones · 1 likes

4/5

I like the Ramones, but listening to this album feels like hearing the same 3 songs in a row. They're better consumed on a per song basis. Songs I especially liked: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Beat on the Brat", "List to My Heart", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World"

4-Star Albums (92)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

1-Star Albums (17)

All Ratings

Paul Simon

4/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Achtung Baby

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

Best solo Beatles album

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

4/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Not the best Fatboy Slim album but still a good listen

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

3/5

Look I get that it's a renowned album for what it does. I just don't care for Jazz. Too many notes.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Great music to wind down. Very soothing. Also fun fact: it's the group that Lindsay Lohan's parents go to see when she throws the house party in the movie Mean Girls!

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Metallica

5/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Weird in a good way? Sounds ahead of its time for the era it was released

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

4, but only because it has literally the three best Oasis songs all on this album. Many of the other tracks miss for me and sound like generic 90s stuff.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

4/5

as far as jazz goes, pretty good

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

I really liked it.

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

it's fine

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

For being 36 years old it really holds up to modern times. "Fuck the Police" is as relevant as ever.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

makes me want to watch the movie. great concept album by itself

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

It's really good, but I'm pretty sure that album is intended to only be listened to in the bedroom.

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

Starts strong and finishes strong

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

Pretty forgettable with the exception of "Smack my Bitch Up"

Gorillaz

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

I've heard some of these samples in more modern music, so it's really great foundational stuff. And the band lives up their name.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Fun art and some fun songs. Just doesn't have the replay value

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

It's fine, but it's not for me.

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

3/5

When I think of Slipknot I mostly think of songs that sound like Psychosocial, so I was impressed and surprised by stuff like Sulfur and Snuff. Also the drums on this album is awesome.

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

The Band

4/5

Loved it -- way different sound than I expected having only heard "The Weight" from them previously. I really liked "Up on Cripple Creek"

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

one of the best albums of all time

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

I loved this album. A raw Boss distilled down to story telling. I loved the theme across the album. Atlantic City, Johnny 99, Mansion on the Hill, and State Trooper are all standouts on this album for me. Why wasn't he doing more of this stuff all along?

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

All tracks sound the same. It's fine enough, but nothing really pops.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

I've always hated skits in rap albums, and these really bring it down. The tracks themselves are very good. Too bad Kanye is also a massive POS.

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Starts strong then becomes too samey

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

I don't get it.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

This is why I'm here

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

3/5

Really enjoyed "revolution", "suicide" and "Lord Can you Hear Me" -- the rest is kind of just... noise?

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Rio and Hungry like the wolf are classics, rest is nice background work music.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

Love Willie Nelson, love his cover of Georgia on my mind, but the rest is kind of middlin'

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

Poor man's bob dylan

Peter Gabriel

3/5

"Sledgehammer" and "In your eyes" are all timers. I was pleasantly surprised to see Kate Bush make an appearance in "Don't Give Up" but the rest of this was not for me.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

Not good

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

Loved it. Kind of reminds me of Fountains of Wayne

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

It's kind of a cosmic gumbo

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Whose world is it? Nas' apparently

Odessa

Bee Gees

4/5

My apologies to the Bee Gees, I wasn't familiar with their game

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Can they kick it? Yes. They can.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

Fine enough. But not Buddy Holly's best.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

Never heard this album before, but assumed most Marilyn Manson stuff was just garbage. It's not _great_, but honestly it was a lot better than I thought it would be. 3/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

It's fine, sort of catchy as you listen through but then pretty forgettable. Greenman is a banger.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

So good

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

Maybe it's because I was listening to this at 4AM but this is horrible. The weird train whistle and breaking plate sound effects are like someone discovered the shitty sound effects mode on their keyboard. And it went on for 8+ minutes!! And that's only the first real track. The rest of the tracks are similarly long, use unnecessary sound effects and are way too repetitive. How this made the list is beyond me. This might be music I'd choose to torture someone.

Roots

Sepultura

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

This list is called 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Silly me for thinking it meant that these were things you had to listen to because they were supposed to be good. This is one you must hear because it's SO colossally bad. Or maybe it's like fashion shows -- not meant for most audiences, kind of weird, and is meant to move the industry forward. Either way, woof.

The Cars

4/5

This album was just what I needed.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

3 only because of how good All I Wanna Do and String Enough are.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

Of all the albums on the list, this is one of them.

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

I think this probably only makes the list because it came out a couple days before Bowie died. It is an interesting fusion of jazz and drum and bass, but it's far from Bowie at his peak.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Better than I thought it'd be based on name and album art. Still not great.

Tical

Method Man

3/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

This album would be on here of it only contained Fairytale of New York. The Pogues are great.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

Funky

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Perfectly cromulent

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

Van Halen

4/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Pretty good for a debut album. Wonder if they made anything else

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Moody and atmospheric. Just not my mood and not my atmosphere.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

1/5

Made worse by the fact it was a rambling double album, it wasn't even the best versions of these songs.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

I like the commentary, something about it just feels.... hokey?

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Fantastic debut album. Has all the Cyndi Lauper songs I know. I guess that makes sense though because after this one, I'm sure that money changed everything.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Missed opportunity not to call this "For your aMUSEment"

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

Sick beats, meh lyrics, whack skits.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5

Grunge = good

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

This is literally what every song in the late 2000s sounded like.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Another double album. And this one "A commercial and critical failure upon its release". I was pleasantly surprised; most of this works really well -- I was expecting the above to mean it would be a slog, but I thought the album had a lot of heart. Probably didn't need to be a double album though. I think "Is That Enough" was my favorite track.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

3/5

Really good, I enjoyed it. Not really my style, but kept me interested throughout.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Cool

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

5/5

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

Wall Street Shuffle is a certified banger

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

There's a reason Elvis is the King. I wasn't really in an Elvis kind of mood today when I started this album, so I wanted to dislike it. But it just hooks you and by the time you're hitting "Suspicious Minds" you're like, YES MY LIEGE!

Pelican West

Haircut 100

4/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

1/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Never heard any of these before. Neat.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

meh

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

B-A-D. Bad.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Fantastic stuff. Outside of the known hits (Green River, Bad Moon Rising) I really enjoyed. Commotion and Wrote a Song for Everyone.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Obvious 5/5 if only for "Three Little Birds" -- the song that would soothe our newborn any time he was fussy.

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

Sexually deviant alien doctor. Got it.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

A soundtrack to a fictional noir album sounds like a cool concept. But it ends up feeling hokey.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Look, if you have a 14 minute track, it cannot be incredibly flat throughout. The whole album feels edgy in a way that isn't good. "Kindness from strangers" seemed sort of promising until it added the weird crying effects. Kylie Minogue is the best part of this but even "Where the wild roses grow" is rough. Before this I think I've only ever heard "Red Right Hand" and the song from Shrek 2. Those are good, so like... Why is this here??

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Layla is a 5/5 but some of the other tracks are a bit too meandering for me

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

3/5

Never heard of grime as a genre before, so I dig the beats associated with it.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Timeless.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

4/5

Perfect album to listen to on a low-key Sunday morning. It's easy-listening EDM.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

These songs sound like the kinds you hear during the credits of a 90s movie. Not for me, but not bad.

Common

4/5

Common? More like exceptional! The whole album just sounds smooth, from the beats to the lyrics. Blessedly, it's a hip hop album without skits in it!

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

not bad, but i immediately forgot what I had listened to after it was done.

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

I don't get it. It's music to fall asleep to.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Kind of a more forgettable version of the cure.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

What this list has been teaching me is that apparently I like REM

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

Not as good as MM LP or the Eminem show, but what a debut! The theatricality is incredible. The album is just as shocking as it was when it came out. Love it.

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

Reminds me of soundtrack music you'd hear in Austin Powers, which I guess means it feels very bossa nova?

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

I've only ever known Dexys Midnight Runners for "Come on Eileen". But I'm glad to have heard the rest of this album; it's a lot of fun. I particularly liked "Jackie Wilson Said", "All in All", "Plan B", and "I'll Show You"

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Listening to this album in contrast to other hip hop or rap albums already on this list, it really shows how TPAB stands head and shoulders above the others. The sound is layered and complex. We have effectively free verse poems in between tracks. Just really well executed and interesting to listen to.

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

I've been up for three days listening to Baba O'Riley nonstop. In unrelated news, I tried Starbucks coffee the other day.

Quiet Life

Japan

2/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

3/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

No Bittersweet Symphony? Still good!

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

There's a reason Count Basie's name is still known all these years later

New York Dolls

3/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

1/5

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Fantastic stuff. Only knew "Love Her Madly" and "Riders on the Storm" coming into this, but the whole thing slaps.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

I can't really handle how discordant the keys are through this album. I can't feel its rhythm and it feels like it's adding friction for the hell of it -- never do I feel any resolution with its presence. The album would be better off without it.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

1/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

For as hyped as the Chronic is, I wish it were better.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

1999

Prince

5/5

1999 and Little Red Corvette alone make this an all time album.

Bert Jansch

3/5

Yeah alright

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

I often hear people say "Dark Side of the Moon" is the best Pink Floyd album, but I think it has to be this one. "Wish You Were Here" as a track is so ubiquitous it sort of feels like it's old-hat, but do you remember what it felt like the first time you heard it? I was like Joe Pera with "Baba O'Riley", I just needed to hear it again and again and again. For that reason alone, this album is an all-timer. But as I've gotten older, I appreciate more the totality of the album -- "Have A Cigar" in particular really sticks with me. It's obvious take on the cynicism of commercialized music, but I feel like I relate to it as a cog in the corporate machine and how much I hate the "if we all pull together as a team" BS mentality. Anyway, what I'm saying is: this album is fantastic top to bottom. A+, wouldn't change anything.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

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Adele

5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

4 because Chameleon is fantastic

Ramones

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Fine enough for background music while you work

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

I miss Apex Twin.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

It turns out I love ABBA. Really fun and catchy.

Black Sabbath

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

more 80s slop

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

I'm one of the few who likes the Grateful Dead more for their studio recorded stuff vs the live albums. The music just feels joyous; it's like a blanket on a cozy day. Seems like the guys are just having a great time when they're making the record. Love this album.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Pretty much all bangers. There's a reason this dude's music was everywhere in the early 00s.

Joan Armatrading

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

Turns out he needs Stills and Nash

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Weird, but interesting.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

3/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

tl;dr Nothing Compares 2 Nothing Compares 2 U It's a good album - it feels moody, it's interesting, and no one has probably been more vindicated in the years since it came out than Sinead O'Connor. That said, it feels pretty forgettable outside of Nothing Compares 2 U.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Yeah it's fine

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

4/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

4/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Really enjoyable. More stuff like this would be very welcome on this list.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

Oops! All bangers.

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Not as weird as I'd have thought

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Normally I can't stand Neil Young but this was alright

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

The only thing I liked about this album was the band's name.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

I remember this being outstanding when I used to listen to Jurassic 5, but in the context of this list I feel like it is more middle of the pack.

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

The album art is cool, at least.

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

This feels every bit its age. Run DMC is a fantastic rap group, but the sounds just don't hold up in 2026. It's very easy to see the influence they've had on what came after, but without any nostalgia attached to it, it feels lacking.

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Very enjoyable, but not something I think I'd be listening to over and again

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

Police songs are too repetitive. Police songs are too repetitive. Police songs are too repetitive (a-way-oh!) ACAB includes The Police

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

What an incredible band name. What a letdown of an album. Aside from the Hot Burrito tracks, everything sounds very generic country. What a letdown.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

2/5

Nice change of pace from the things I know from Cee-Lo Green (Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy", and obviously "Fuck You"). It just didn't really stick for me.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

I finally can understand why people lost their shit over U2; this album absolutely slaps. I really enjoyed "Bullet the Blue Sky" as far as songs I've never heard.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

Really fun listen. I liked the theatricality of it all.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Honestly there's probably a couple tracks they could cut and it's an easy 5. So many classics on here. The album opens so strong, it's in the back half that it starts to lose a little steam.

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

2/5

Eminently forgettable

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

A very gritty sound. I can appreciate how this would appeal to some people, but this just clashed too hard for me to actually be something I'd want to listen to regularly. "Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway" kind of exemplifies it for me. Ending with a long outro soundscape of bird noises was easily my favorite part.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

I remember listening to this album the first time with my dad, when he dug out his old vinyl collection. I remember being so excited about how much art vinyl albums had compared to CDs and cassettes -- the fact it was a double album gave it that much space to be fun and creative. I would read along the lyrics as the album played. Love the whole thing, and I'm aware I'm super biased from nostalgia. I like to think even if I weren't this would be an easy 4 or 5.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Love a good concept album

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Beatles Stan stans the Beatles

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Weird album art, but a killer album. Scarborough Fair, 59th St Bridge Song, Homeward Bound all on the same album?? Fantastic. Wild that the album itself touted "The Dangling Conversation" as one of their singles off of it. It feels to me one of the least interesting songs on the record. Really enjoyed "Patterns", "Cloudy", "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine", and the Bob Dylan kind of parody (if you can call it that?) that is "A Simple Desultory Phillipic" when it came to songs I didn't know before. Feels rare to have an album that is fun to listen to top to bottom.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Funky! And Groovy!

The La's

2/5

"There She Goes" is great. The rest is fine.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

2/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

It's not as great as "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", but I have a lot of love for this album.

Repeater

Fugazi

1/5

This is the -gazi we should have excoriated Hilary about.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

1/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

love that bluesy rock sound.

Calenture

The Triffids

1/5

The worst kind of 80s music sound.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

2/5

Ella is great. Gershwin songs are hit and miss. Three hours is much too long

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

2/5

Feels like it should be an American album as a response to yuppie and Reagan-era cultures. But I'm surprised to see it's yet another middling English album. Kind of interesting, but very forgettable.

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Harvest

Neil Young

2/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

1/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

1/5

This is the soundtrack for the end credits of every single movie in the 90s and for that reason, I'm out.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

I never thought I'd actually enjoy a post-rock kind of album, but this one was a pleasant surprise. The soundscape it provided felt like running from one fever dream to the next. Maybe if it had hit me on another day I'd be more sour, but I enjoyed the experience. Not something I'd queue up to listen to on a whim, but cool for what it does.

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Not my fav RS album, but it is still very good.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

"America" is such a great song. I was surprised at the depth of the entirety of the album. I guess there's a reason Simon & Garfunkel were such a phenomenon in their time.

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

3/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

"Pet Sounds" is worth the hype; I've known for a long time it's considered one of the best albums ever written but never found time to actually sit and listen to it. It is musically deep and sounds as fresh today as it did when it was released in 1966. "God Only Knows" is maybe the greatest song of all time. 5/5 if only for that.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

Guess I must be a tiger with a tail, because Buck Owen sure gets me.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

3/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

I like that old timey sound

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

Faust IV

Faust

2/5

Not for me, but interesting for what it is.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

2/5

It's... fine.

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Enjoyable enough while sitting on a long flight and zoning out. Not something I'd go out of my way for or regularly care to listen to.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

"Life During Wartime" and "Heaven" are both all-time classics but this isn't one of the albums I'd select for this list. I'd hope to see something like "Speaking in Tongues" and/or the "Stop Making Sense" live album.

Electric

The Cult

4/5

It rocks

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

2/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica