Rated 4/10
Of all the metal albums in the world this one somehow made it to this list (probably because of the controversy surrounding it). While it has good moments, the album is too long and too obviously campy and try-hard to be enjoyable.
1.5/5.0: Bad
Rated 6/10
True hit or miss album.
2.5/5.0: Mixed
Rated 10/10
Great album with cool melodies and heavy riffing. I always liked how Soundgarden leaned into a more stoner/doom sound than other grunge bands and that element is still here even as they sound more "commercial".
4.5/5.0: Excellent
Rated 10/10
Probably my favorite Queen album. This sits exactly at the juncture between Queen as a hard rock band and Queen as extravagant pop-rock sensations.
5.0/5.0: Iconic
Rated 8/10
Fun album with a lot of variety (although a lot of filler too).
3.5/5.0: Very Good
Rated 10/10
Great musicality on this record. The guys are clearly very talented, and they have the songwriting capabilities to match their chops. There's barely any folk or country on this record (a good thing), so I could see how some listeners may feel misled or be expecting something different given the tags, which may be why this doesn't have a higher rating. The truth is that this is an exceptionable jazz/psych rock record with an incredible sense of melody and rhythm.
4.5/5.0: Excellent
Rated 6/10
I didn't hate this. Yes, it's unpleasant, but it's supposed to be.
2.5/5.0: Mixed
Rated 6/10
I really wanted to like this due to the high production values and the reputation of this album. However, I think the melodies are uninteresting or even poor, the songs are overly repetitive and don't develop enough to warrant the song lengths, and the vocals are weak.
2.5/5.0: Mixed
Rated 4/10
Yeah this is just about as cheesy and shallow as you might expect from the cover.
1.5/5.0: Bad
Rated 6/10
Interesting album, but a lot of the songs drag on too long without a lot of development. Cool album cover and points for creativity in the music.
3.0/5.0: Good
Rated 2/10
Songs From a Room if the room in question was hermetically sealed from anything approaching listenable music.
0.5/5.0: Unlistenable
Rated 10/10
It's fun and super influential and it never outstays it's welcome.
4.5/5.0: Excellent
Rated 2/10
Some of the music inside this album is interesting, but it consists of hardly formed ideas and doesn't develop enough to warrant song lengths over a minute. The lyrics are embarrassing. It's hard to believe she wrote those out, re-read them twice and gave them the OK. Finally, FKA Twigs falls into the same old intolerable trap that almost every other post-2010 artist falls into. Namely, a endlessly repetitive chorus consisting of almost no melody and ridiculous lyrics.
1.0/5.0: Embarrassing
Rated 4/10
Some good melodies in here, but this is mainly vapid, meaningless, syrupy, commercial pop with god-awful 80s production.
2.0/5.0: Disappointing
Rated 8/10
The music is amazing and Frankie's voice is great, but honestly it kind of detracts from the samba sound. Still, it's a great album.
4.0/5.0: Great
Rated 10/10
If any album has a claim to perfection, it's this one. The production values, atmosphere, musicality, lyricism, and cover art are all off the charts. The production is particularly impressive, even by today's standards, and became the bar that every other album is compared to.
5.0/5.0: Iconic
Rated 4/10
I know this is influential but I honestly didn't enjoy it. Points for being only 25 minutes long.
2.0/5.0: Disappointing
Rated 8/10
Somehow it's fun, psychedelic, and atmospheric all at the same time.
3.5/5.0: Very Good
Rated 2/10
Oh my God. I finally finished this over 8 or 9 sessions. If this was only 40 minutes long it would get one star for trying way too hard to be cutesy while producing some very bland music. Add the fact that this album is 3 hours long and you have a candidate for worst album on the list. What a colossally terrible idea for an LP.
0.5/5.0: Unlistenable
Rated 4/10
When I started this list I thought I hated Britpop. Then after this list exposed me to the subgenre I thought I loved it. Now, however, Shack has me reconsidering my position. This is mind-numbingly boring and safe rock and really doesn't deserve to be on this list. Despite this, the music isn't terrible - just boring.
1.5/5.0: Bad
