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Average Rating: 3.73
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Objectivity Score: 71%
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5.0 classic
Brian Eno Another Green World
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Joy Division Closer
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
The Mekons Fear And Whiskey

4.5 superb
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Arcade Fire Funeral
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Big Country The Crossing
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People
Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
Fuck Oasis and U2. Why weren't these geniuses given their due? Too "complicated" no doubt. No, it's not complicated, just well crafted music.
Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll
Cocteau Twins Treasure
Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine
Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain
Galaxie 500 Today
Galaxie 500 On Fire
Gang of Four Solid Gold
Guided by Voices Bee Thousand
Guided by Voices Alien Lanes
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers
Mogwai Young Team
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Certainly one of the more interesting albums I've had the pleasure of listening to in the last few years.
New Order Brotherhood
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Dazzle Ships
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pixies Doolittle
Pixies Best of Pixies: Wave of Mutilation
R.E.M. Murmur
R.E.M. Reckoning
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun
Sigur Ros Takk...
Simple Minds Empires and Dance
Simple Minds Sons and Fascination
Simple Minds Sparkle in the Rain
Simple Minds Glittering Prize 81/92
Slint Spiderland
Slowdive Just for a Day
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)
Sonic Youth Dirty
Sonic Youth Sister
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Talking Heads Remain in Light
Television Marquee Moon
The Cure Disintegration
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
The Mekons The Mekons Rock N' Roll
The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding
XTC Black Sea

4.0 excellent
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Arcade Fire Everything Now
Band of Horses Everything All the Time
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
Big Country Wonderland
Big Country Steeltown
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Cocteau Twins Victorialand
Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels
Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles
Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Gang of Four Entertainment!
Guided by Voices Propeller
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol Marauder
Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists
Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers
Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Manic Street Preachers Postcards from a Young Man
Manic Street Preachers Rewind The Film
Manic Street Preachers Futurology
Manic Street Preachers Resistance Is Futile
Manic Street Preachers Forever Delayed
Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs
Mogwai Come On Die Young
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
New Order Power, Corruption and Lies
New Order Low-Life
New Order Movement
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Organisation
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Junk Culture
Pavement Wowee Zowee
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Pixies Bossanova
Pixies Trompe Le Monde
R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction
R.E.M. Document
R.E.M. Automatic for the People
R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead The Bends
Ride Nowhere
Ride Going Blank Again
Sigur Ros ( )
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust
Simple Minds Reel to Real Cacophony
Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Simple Minds Sister Feelings Call
Simple Minds Once Upon a Time
Simple Minds The Best of Simple Minds
Slowdive Souvlaki
Talk Talk Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk
Talk Talk The Colour of Spring
Talking Heads Fear of Music
Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure Pornography
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands
The La's The La's
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields Distortion
The National Alligator
The National High Violet
The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always
The Sisters of Mercy Floodland
The Sound Thunder Up
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
U2 Achtung Baby
U2 The Joshua Tree
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
Weezer Weezer
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wire Chairs Missing
Wire 154
XTC English Settlement

3.5 great
ABC The Lexicon of Love
Big Country The Seer
Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies
Echo and The Bunnymen Echo and The Bunnymen
Echo and The Bunnymen Evergreen
Gang of Four Songs of the Free
Interpol El Pintor
Manic Street Preachers Lifeblood
New Order (the best of) New Order
New Order Technique
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Good, but overrated. The power of tracks like Supersonic, Live Forever and Rock n Roll Star is undeniable, but bloody Digsy's Dinner? Buoyant choral melody, but intolerable lyrics. An early forewarning of crap like Force of Nature. Still, a promising, optimistic debut. Just not the legend it is made out. Pitchfork were right about these charlatans. 7.5/10
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Pixies Come On Pilgrim
R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant
Radiohead OK Computer
Simple Minds Graffiti Soul
Simple Minds Black & White 050505
Simple Minds Street Fighting Years
Simple Minds Live in the City of Light
Slowdive Pygmalion
Sonic Youth Goo
Sonic Youth Evol
Talk Talk It's My Life
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77
Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues
Tears for Fears The Hurting
The Chameleons Script of the Bridge
The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically
The Chameleons Strange Times
The Cure Seventeen Seconds
The Cure Faith
The National Boxer
The National Trouble Will Find Me
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
The Sound From The Lion's Mouth
The Sound Jeopardy
The Sound Heads & Hearts
The The Soul Mining
Ultravox Lament

3.0 good
Cocteau Twins Garlands
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
David Bowie Best of Bowie
Feeder The Singles
Feeder Pushing the Senses
Foo Fighters In Your Honor
Interpol Antics
Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul
Manic Street Preachers Know Your Enemy
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
"She's got a sister/And God only knows how I've missed her/And on the palm of her hand is a blister" Oh Oasis. Will you ever learn? The answer, of course, is, no, they didn't. Overrated.
Simple Minds Real Life
The Sound All Fall Down
Ultravox Vienna

2.5 average
Coldplay X&Y
Coldplay Parachutes
Editors The Back Room
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters One by One
Green Day American Idiot
Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits
Heaven 17 Penthouse and Pavement
Interpol Our Love to Admire
Oasis Stop the Clocks
Meh. Nothing special. At least it leaves out D'You Know What I Mean? though.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark History of Modern
R.E.M. Out of Time
Simple Minds Good News from the Next World
The Human League Dare!
The Killers Sam's Town
The Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind

2.0 poor
Interpol Interpol
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth
To paraphrase a comment saw a few weeks ago. Piece of shit album, piece of shit band. 3.9/10.

1.5 very poor
Beady Eye BE
These guys still going? Seriously? I only ask because "Flick of the Finger" sounds like Gallagher trying to stay awake during music composition lessons. It certainly bored me.
Kaiser Chiefs Employment
Oasis Be Here Now
The Enemy (UK) We'll Live And Die In These Towns

1.0 awful
Good Charlotte Cardiology
Kings of Leon Only By The Night
"Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody" we've all heard and laughed at. It carries on like this.
Nickelback Dark Horse
Oasis Heathen Chemistry
This only gets a 1 because a lower mark is off Sputnik's scale. Three words: "Force of Nature". Just listen to it. Or try to, at least. Here's a taster: "For smoking all my staaaaaaaaaaash!/And burning all my caaaaaaaaaaaaaash!" Yep. I thought so too. Sums the album up. It's fair to say the musical legacy of the Gallagher twits is a rather messy one.
Razorlight Slipway Fires
Simple Minds Cry
The Enemy (UK) Streets In The Sky
The Enemy (UK) Music For The People
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