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Jalapeno's 101 discography challenge

I have challenged myself to listen to and become familiar enough to rate every studio album in the discographies of the following 101 artists by the end of 2024 (starting November 2022). I will add a ratings list in the description box for each artist once an order is determined. At this point, artists' debut album artwork is displayed but once completed, this will be replaced with my favourite.
1Descendents
Everything Sucks

Listening since 2005
Discog completed: 24th November 2022.
Discog completed with: 9th and Walnut

Everything Sucks - 5
I Dont Want to Grow Up - 4.5
Cool to Be You - 4
9th and Walnut - 3.5
Milo Goes to College - 3.5
Hypercaffium Spazzinate - 3.5
All - 3
Enjoy! - 2.5
2Ulcerate
Stare Into Death and Be Still

Listening Since 2020
Discog completed: 24th May 2023
Discog completed with: Of Fracture and Failure

Stare Into Death and Be Still - 4.5
Everything is Fire - 4.5
Shrines of Paralysis - 4.5
Vermis - 4
The Destroyers of All - 4
Of Fracture and Failure - 3.5
3Stereolab
Dots and Loops

Listening since early 2020
Discog completed: 23rd April 2023
DIscog complete with: Not Music

Dots and Loops – 5
Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night – 4.6
Emperor Tomato Ketchup – 4.4
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements – 4.2
Peng! – 3.9
Margerine Eclipse – 3.8
Sound-Dust – 3.8
Mars Audiac Quintet – 3.6
Not Music – 3.4
Chemical Chords – 3.4
4Wobbler
From Silence to Somewhere

Listening since 2018
Discog completed: 17th May 2023
Discog completed with: Dwellers of the Deep

From Silence to Somewhere – 4.5
Dwellers of the Deep – 4
Rites at Dawn – 4
Afterglow – 3.5
Hinterland – 3.5
5No Doubt
Tragic Kingdom

Listening since late 2022 (besides the odd single)
Discog completed: 14th January 2023
Discog completed with: Rock Steady

Tragic Kingdom - 3
Return of Saturn - 3
The Beacon Street Collection - 2.5
No Doubt - 2
Rock Steady - 1.5
Push and Shove - 1.5
6Lagwagon
Let's Talk About Feelings

Listening since 2005
Discog completed: 28th November 2022
Discog completed with: Resolve

Let's Talk About Feelings - 5
Trashed - 4.5
Hoss - 4
Railer - 4
Double Plaidinum - 4
Hang - 4
Duh - 3.5
Blaze - 3.5
Resolve - 3
7Gorguts
Colored Sands

Listening since: late 2019
Discog completed 14th December 2022
Discog completed with: Considered Dead

Colored Sands - 5
Obscura - 5
From Wisdom to Hate - 4.5
The Erosion of Sanity - 4
Considered Dead - 3.5
8Dinosaur Jr.
You're Living All Over Me

Listening since 2018
Discog completed: 26th November 2022
Discog completed with: Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not

You're Living All Over Me - 5
Without a Sound - 5
Bug - 4
Where You Been - 4
Farm - 4
Beyond - 4
Dinosaur - 3.5
Green Mind - 3.5
I Bet On Sky 3.5
Sweep It Into Space - 3
Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not - 3
Hand It Over - 3
9King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
10Garbage
Garbage

Listening since 2002
Discog completed: 19th August 2023
Discog completed with: No Gods No Masters

Garbage - 3.5
Version 2.0 - 3.5
Strange Little Birds - 3.5
Not Your Kind of People - 3
Bleed Like Me - 3
No Gods No Masters - 3
Beautiful Garbage - 2.5

If you want some easy going alternative rock with an electronic twist, the first two albums certainly won't see you stuck and will scratch a 90s itch very well. The rest are all fairly pleasant listens and don't stray too far from the previous material but also much more forgettable.
11Jawbreaker
Bivouac

Listening since late 2022
Discog completed: 26th December 2022
Discog completed with: Unfun

Bivouac - 4
Unfun - 3.5
Dear You - 3.5
24 Hour Revenge Therapy- 3.5
12Killswitch Engage
Alive or Just Breathing

Listening since 2008
Discog completed: 28th January 2023
Discog completed with: Disarm the Descent

Alive or Just Breathing - 3.5
The End of Heartache - 3.5
As Daylight Dies - 3.5
Killswitch Engage (2000) - 3.5
Disarm the Descent - 3
Killswitch Engage (2009) - 2.5
Atonement - 2.5
Incarnate - 2
13Pavement
Wowee Zowee

Listening since: mid 2020
Discog completed: 8th April 2023
Discog completed with: Terror Twilight

Wowee Zowee - 4
Slanted and Enchanted - 4
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - 4
Brighten the Corners - 3.5
Terror Twilight - 3
14Gentle Giant
Free Hand

Listening since: mid 2018
Discog completed: 19th February 2023
Discog completed with: The Missing Piece

Free Hand – 4.5
Octopus – 4.5
Three Friends – 4
Acquiring the Taste – 4
The Power and the Glory – 3.5
In a Glass House – 3.5
Gentle Giant – 3.5
Interview – 3
The Missing Piece – 2.5
Civillian – 2.5
Giant for a Day – 2
15Daft Punk
Homework

Listening since 2019
Discog completed: 5th July 2023
Discog completed with: Random Access Memories

Homework - 3.5
Discovery - 3
Human After All - 2.5
Random Access Memories - 2
16Propagandhi
Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

Listening since late 2022
Discog completed: 5th July 2023
Discog completed with: Victory Lap

Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes - 4.5
Failed States - 4
How to Clean Everything - 4
Supporting Caste - 4
VIctory Lap - 3.5
Potemkin City Limits - 3.5
Less Talk, More Rock - 3.5
17Deftones
Adrenaline
18The Smiths
Meat Is Murder

Listening since 2005 (casually)
Discog completed: 11th April 2023
Discog completed with: Strangeways, Here We Come

Meat is Murder - 3.5
The Queen is Dead - 3.5
Strangeways, Here We Come - 3.5
The Smiths - 3
19Yes
Yes
20maudlin of the Well
My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
21Fugazi
Repeater

Listening since late 2022
Discog completed: 30th April 2023
Discog completed with: The Argument

Repeater - 4.5
Steady Diet of Nothing - 4
In On the Kill Taker - 4
The Argument - 4
Red Medicine - 4
End Hits - 4
22Gojira
L'Enfant Sauvage

Listening since 2019
Discog completed: 21st January 2023
Discog completed with: Terra Incognita

L'Enfant Sauvage - 4.5
From Mars to Sirius - 4
The Way of All Flesh - 4
Terra Incognita 3.5
The Link - 3.5
Fortitude - 3.5
Magma - 3
23Sunny Day Real Estate
How It Feels To Be Something On

Listening since mid 2022
Discog completed: 29th January 2023
Discog completed with: The Rising Tide

How It Feels To Be Something On - 3.5
Diary - 3.5
Sunny Day Real Estate - 3
The Rising Tide - 3
24Genesis
Selling England by the Pound

Listening since 2014
Discog completed: 6th July 2023
Discog completed with: Calling All Stations

Selling England by the Pound - 5
Foxtrot - 4.5
Nursery Cryme - 4
A Trick of the Tail - 4
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - 3.5
Trespass - 3.5
Wind and Wuthering - 3.5
...And Then There Were Three... - 3
Duke - 3
Invisible Touch - 3
From Genesis to Revelation - 2.5
Abacab - 2 5
Genesis - 2.5
We Can't Dance - 2
Calling All Stations - 1.5
25Tortoise
TNT

Listening since mid 2020.
Discog completed: 20th November 2022.
Discog completed with: The Catastrophist

TNT - 4.5
Standards - 4
Millions Now Living Will Never Die - 4
Tortoise - 3.5
The Catastrophist - 3.5
It's All Around You - 3
Beacons of Ancestorship - 3
26Black Flag
Slip It In

Listening since early 2020
Discog completed: 30th April 2023
Discog completed with: What the...


Slip It In - 4
My War - 4
Damaged - 3.5
Loose Nut - 3
In My Head - 3
Family Man - 2.5
What the... - 2
27Crowbar
Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form

Listening since 2018
Discog completed: 2nd July 2023
Discog completed with: Equilibrium

Sonic Excess in its Purest Form - 5
Broken Glass - 4.5
Odd Fellows Rest - 4
Crowbar - 4
Life's Blood for the Downtrodden - 3.5
Symmetry in Black - 3.5
Zero and Below - 3.5
Obedience Thru Suffering - 3.5
Time Heals Nothing - 3.5
The Serpent Only Lies - 3.5
Sever the Wicked Hand - 3.5
Equilibrium - 3.5
28Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
29King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Polygondwanaland

Listening since 2016
Discog completed: 11th December 2022
Discog completed with: L.W.

Polygondwanaland - 5
Float Along - Fill Your Lungs - 4.5
Omnium Gatherum - 4.5
Oddments - 4
Sketches of Brunswick East - 4
Nonagon Infinity - 4
Gumboot Soup - 4
I'm in Your Mind Fuzz - 4
K.W. - 4
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava - 4
Fishing for Fishies - 3.5
Quarters - 3.5
Infest the Rats' Nest - 3.5
Changes - 3.5
Flying Microtonal Banana - 3
12 Bar Bruise - 3
Paper Mache Dream Balloon - 3
Laminated Denim - 3
Butterfly 3000 - 3
L.W. - 3
Murder of the Universe - 3
Made in Timeland - 3
Eyes Like the Sky - 2
30Shiner
Splay
31Bodyjar
Rimshot!

Listening since: early 2022
Discog completed: 5th June 2023
Discog completed with: Plastic Skies

Rimshot! – 4
Take a Look Inside – 3.5
No Touch Red – 3.5
New Rituals – 3.5
Role Model - 3.5
Bodyjar – 3
How it Works - 3
Plastic Skies - 3
32Eyehategod
Confederacy of Ruined Lives

Listening since late 2019
Discog completed: 30th November 2022
Discog completed with: In the Name of Suffering

Confederacy of Ruined Lives - 4
Dopesick - 4
Eyehategod - 3.5
Take As Needed For Pain - 3.5
In the Name of Suffering - 3
A History of Nomadic Behavour - 2
33The Jesus Lizard
Liar

Listening since: December 2022
Discog completed: 24th February 2023
Discog completed with: Shot

Liar – 4.5
Goat – 4.5
Head – 4
Shot – 3.5
Down – 3.5
Blue- 3
34Can
Future Days

Can

Listening since March 2023
Discog completed: 3rd December 2023
Discog completed with: Rite Time

Future Days – 4.5
Ege Bamyasi – 4.3
Tago Mago – 4.2
Soon Over Babaluma – 3.6
Monster Movie – 3.5
Landed – 3.3
Saw Delight -2.9
Flow Motion – 2.5
Can - 2.5
Out of Reach – 2.5
Rite Time - 2

Predictable top three in the form of the holy trinity. A stunning trio of albums, the order of which took a lot of deliberation. Ask me again next month and the order could change. From that point on, CAN took a gradual yet somewhat respectful decline, managing to avoid reaching the horrendous depths of other 70s progressive flagbearers. Some of the worst CAN albums still have smidgeons of enjoyable groove to be found amongst the rubbish.
35Mogwai
The Hawk Is Howling

Listening since 2008
Discog completed 29th December 2022
Discog completed with: Rave Tapes

The Hawk is Howling - 4
Mr. Beast - 4
Happy Songs For Happy People - 4
Young Team - 4
As the Love Continues - 3.5
Rock Action - 3
Every Country's Sun - 3
Come On Die Young - 3
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will - 2.5
Rave Tapes - 2.5
36NOFX
Liberal Animation
37Artificial Brain
Artificial Brain

Listening since mid 2022
Discog completed on 26th November 2022.
Discog completed with: Labyrinth Constellation

Artificial Brain - 5
Infrared Horizon - 4
Labyrinth Constellation - 4
38R.E.M.
Murmur
39Steely Dan
Aja

Listening since 2014
Discog completed: 12th December 2022
Discog completed with: Everything Must Go

Aja - 5
Countdown to Ecstasy - 4.5
Gaucho - 4.5
Pretzel Logic - 4
Two Against Nature - 4
Can't Buy a Thrill - 4
Katy Lied - 3.5
The Royal Scam - 3.5
Everything Must Go - 3
40The Chemical Brothers
Exit Planet Dust

Listening since 2010 (casually)
Discog completed: 9th September 2023
Discog completed with: For That Beautiful Feeling

Exit Planet Dust - 4.5
Dig Your Own Hole - 4.3
Surrender - 4.3
Come With Us - 3.9
For That Beautiful Feeling - 3.8
Further - 3.7
No Geography - 3.5
Born in the Echoes - 3.2
Push the Button - 3
We Are the Night - 3
41Green Day
Dookie

Listening since 2001
Discog completed: 27th November 2022
Discog completed with: 21st Century Breakdown

Dookie - 5
Insomniac - 5
Nimrod - 4.5
American Idiot - 4
39/Smooth - 3.5
Kerplunk - 3
Warning - 3
21st Century Breakdown - 2.5
Revolution Radio - 2.5
¡UNO! - 2
¡TRE! - 1.5
¡DOS! - 1.5
Father of All Motherfuckers - 1
42Swervedriver
Raise

Listening since 2014
Discog completed: 9th August 2023
Discog competed with: 99th Dream

Raise – 4
Mezcal Head – 4
Ejector Seat Reservation – 3
99th Dream - 3
I Wasn’t Born to Lose You – 3
Future Ruins - 2.5
43Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
44Beastie Boys
Licensed to Ill
45Radiohead
OK Computer

Listening since 2002
Discog completed 13th April 2023
Discog completed with: Hail to the Thief

OK Computer – 4.5
Kid A – 4.5
In Rainbows – 4
The Bends – 4
A Moon Shaped Pool – 3.5
Amnesiac – 3.5
The Kind of Limbs - 3.5
Hail to the Thief – 3.5
Pablo Honey - 3
46AFI
Answer That and Stay Fashionable
47Meshuggah
Nothing

Listening since early 2020
Discog completed: 7th February 2023
Discog completed with: Contradictions Collapse

Nothing - 4.5
Obzen - 4.5
Immutable - 4.5
Chaosphere - 4
The Violent Sleep of Reason - 4
Catch Thirty Three - 3.5
Destroy Erase Improve - 3.5
Koloss - 3.5
Contradictions Collapse - 3.5
48ISIS
Celestial
49Tool
Ænima

Listening since 2008
Discog completed: 1st July 2023
Discog completed with: Undertow

Ænima - 4
Lateralus - 3.5
10,000 Days - 3.5
Fear Innoculum - 3
Undertow - 3
50Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
51Boris
Absolutego
52Neurosis
Pain of Mind
53The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy
54Camel
Camel
55Funkadelic
Funkadelic
56Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
57Monolake
Hong Kong
58Rancid
Rancid
59The Cure
Three Imaginary Boys
60The Dillinger Escape Plan
Calculating Infinity
61Slugdge
Born of Slime
62Deathspell Omega
Infernal Battles
63Super Furry Animals
Radiator

Listening since 2003
Discog completed: 13th May 2023
Discog completed with: Phantom Power

Radiator – 4.5
Fuzzy Logic – 4
Rings Around the World – 4
Dark Days/Light Years – 4
Guerrilla – 4
Phantom Power – 3.5
Mwng – 3.5
Love Kraft - 3
Hey Venus! - 3
64Rush
Rush
65Parliament
Osmium
66Plaid
Not for Threes

Listening since late 2022
Discog completed: 8th June 2023
Discog completed with: Spokes

Not for Threes - 4
Spokes - 3.5
Double Figure - 3.5
Rest Proof Clockwork - 3.5
Reachy Prints - 3.5
Polymer - 3.5
Scintilli - 3
The Digging Remedy - 3
Mbuki Mvuki - 3
Feorm Falorx - 3
67Kendrick Lamar
Section.80
68Husker Du
Zen Arcade

Listening since March 2023
Discog completed: 7th November 2023
Discog completed with: Candy Apple Grey

Zen Arcade - 4.5
New Day Rising - 4.2
Flip Your Wig - 3.8
Everything Falls Apart - 3.6
Candy Apple Grey - 3.5
Warehouse: Songs and Stories - 3.4

Yet another long recommended band I finally got round to checking. Releasing 6 albums, 2 of which are doubles, within 4 years is a massive achievement but even more to do so during significant creative tension and still managing to avoid a below average release. Great energy, earnest songwriting, hugely influential to the post-hardcore and alternative rock booms. What's not to love?
69Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
70Converge
Axe to Fall

Listening since late 2022
Discog completed: 4th September 2023
Discog completed with: No Heros

Axe to Fall – 4.5 (will be added to an upcoming list of potential 5s)
Jane Doe – 4.5 (will be added to an upcoming list of potential 5s)
All We Love We Leave Behind – 4.2
You Fail Me – 4.1
When Forever Comes Crashing – 4
Petitioning the Empty Sky – 3.8
No Heros – 3.7
The Dusk in Us – 3.5
Halo in a Haystack – 3
Bloodmoon: I - 3

Top two are interchangeable on this commendable discography. Converge flawlessly balances insane levels of anger with clever structures, really understanding the importance of how to pace an album and avoid fatigue. I apologise to all the people who recommended this band to me over the past two decades. You were right all along.
71Swans
Filth
72Immolation
Close to a World Below

Listening since May 2020
Discog completed: 28th November 2023
Discog completed with: Kingdom of Conspiracy

Close to a World Below - 4.7
Unholy Cult – 4.2
Majesty and Decay - 4
Here in After – 4
Atonement – 4
Acts of God – 3.9
Failures for Gods – 3.8
Shadows in the Light – 3.7
Dawn of Possession – 3.7
Kingdom of Conspiracy – 3.5
Harnessing Ruin – 3.5

Uncompromisingly heavy and delightfully dissonant, when it comes to death metal, Immolation’s discography is second only to Gorguts for me in terms of quality but being twice as prolific with output frequency, they must gain extra points. Boasting the most evil riffs, growls and drum rolls in the business, these guys are simply inimitable.
73The Flaming Lips
Hear It Is
74Napalm Death
Scum
75Godspeed You! Black Emperor
F♯ A♯ ∞
76The Future Sound of London
Accelerator
77Unwound
Fake Train
78The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
79toe
For Long Tomorrow

Listening since mid 2022
Discog completed: 25th April 2023
Discog completed with: Hear You

For Long Tomorrow - 3.5
The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety - 3.5
Hear You - 3
80Sebadoh
Bakesale

Listening since January 2023
Discog completed: 30th July 2023
Discog completed with: Act Surprised

Bakesale - 4
Bubble & Scrape - 3.5
III - 3.5
Harmacy - 3.5
Defend Yourself - 3
The Sebadoh - 3
Act Surprised - 3
The Freed Man - 2.5
Weed Forestin' - 2
81Sunn O)))
ØØ Void
82Godflesh
Streetcleaner

Listening since April 2020
Discog completed: 17th October 2023
Discog complete with: Hymns

Streetcleaner – 4.5
Songs of Love and Hate – 4.2
Us and Them – 4.1
Pure – 4
A World Lit Only By Fire – 3.8
Selfless – 3.6
Hymns – 3.5
Post Self -3.5
Purge – 3

I have to be in the mood for Godflesh but when I am, nothing provides pulverisation quite like Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green. Totally uncompromising in the best possible way, their music truly is the sound of punishment.
83Venetian Snares
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84Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West

Listening since July 2023
Discog completed: 14th October 2023
Discog completed with: The Golden Casket

The Lonesome Crowded West – 4.5
This is a Long Drive…. – 4.2
The Moon & Antarctica – 3.9
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank – 2.8
Good News for People Who Love Bad News – 2.8
Strangers to Ourselves – 2.5
The Golden Casket – 2.5
85Magma
Kobaïa
86Shpongle
Are You Shpongled?
87Rosetta
The Galilean Satellites
88Squarepusher
Feed Me Weird Things
89Cerberus Shoal
Cerberus Shoal
90Amon Tobin
Supermodified

Listening since April 2023
Discog completed: 19th July 2023
Discog completed with: Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack

Supermodified - 4.5
ISAM - 4.5
Out From Out Where - 4
Permutation - 4
Foley Room - 4
Bricolage - 4
How Do You Live - 3.5
Adventures in Foam - 3.5
Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack - 3.5
Fear in a Handful of Dust - 3.5
Long Stories - 3.5
91Pennywise
Pennywise
92Tim Hecker
Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
93Slowdive
Pygmalion

Listening since May 2023
Discog completed: 25th September 2023
Discog completed with: everything is alive

Pygmalion - 3.5
Souvlaki - 3.5
everything is alive - 3
Slowdive (LP) - 3
Just For a Day - 3

Apologies to the shoegaze squad. I respect this band but they don't enchant me the way the seem to do to countless others. Won't return to any albums other than Pygmalion and Souvlaki and even then, probably not all that often.
94Tipper
Broken Soul Jamboree

Listening since 2021
Discog completed 11th August 2023
Discog completed with: The Critical Path

Broken Soul Jamboree – 4.7
Surrounded – 4.5
Jettison Mind Hatch – 4
The Seamless Unspeakable Something – 3.9
Forward Escape – 3.9
Wobble Factor – 3.8
Relish the Trough – 3.7
Tertiary Noise – 3.6
The Critical Path – 3.5
Marble Hunting – 3.5
Holding Pattern – 3.2
Tip Hop – 3
95Do Make Say Think
Do Make Say Think
96Faust
Faust
97Vladislav Delay
Ele
98Explosions in the Sky
Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...

Listening since March 2023
Discog completed: 15th September 2023
Discog completed with: End

Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die… - 3
How Strange, Innocence – 3
The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place – 2.5
The Wilderness – 2.5
All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone – 2.5
Take Care, Take Care, Take Care – 2.5
End - 2

The earliest albums showed promise but from the critically acclaimed third album onwards, its just one long fucking yawwwwwwn. Nothing against these guys as musicians but it's all too fucking happy and lacks a sense of unease and tension. What's the deal with little drummer boy? Nearly every fucking track is an incessantly joyous festive march that builds up to fuck all - pa-rup-a-pum-pumming through the most anticlimactic Christmas day imaginable. The new album continues the blandness and its title "End" thankfully describes where I'm at on my journey with the band.
99Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye
100Oval
Wohnton
101Cocteau Twins
Garlands
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