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2019
Karen O and Danger Mouse Lux Prima3.5

2018
Jessie J This Christmas Day2.0
Jessie J R.O.S.E.3.0
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer4.0
These singles are fire so far.

EDIT - yeah some of the rapping parts are a bit iffy, but I'd put it slightly above The Electric Lady.
The Longshot Love Is For Losers2.5
Kylie Minogue Golden3.0

2017
Bjork Utopia3.5
More vibrant than Vulnicura with some of Björk's strongest tracks in years. Admittedly longer than it needs to be (and it does feel that way, at times) but a strong effort nonetheless.
Sia Everyday Is Christmas1.5
Everyday is most certainly not Christmas if you're playing this album
Belinda Carlisle Wilder Shores2.0
Dolly Parton I Believe in You2.0
Tori Amos Native Invader3.0
Paramore After Laughter2.5
Goldfrapp Silver Eye3.0

2016
Kate Bush Before the Dawn3.5
Norah Jones Day Breaks4.0
Green Day Revolution Radio2.5
Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life4.5
Ingrid Michaelson It Doesn't Have to Make Sense3.5
Barbra Streisand Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway2.0
Dolly Parton Pure & Simple2.5
Bat For Lashes The Bride3.5
Celine Dion Encore un soir1.5
Beyonce Lemonade4.0
PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project3.5
Sia This Is Acting3.0

2015
Enya Dark Sky Island3.0
Adele 253.0
Kylie Minogue Kylie Christmas1.5
Vapid Christmas covers with a highly unnecessary James Corden feature. Most of the songs here aren't even outright bad, they've just been done to death at this point, and Kylie's take on them is neither particularly memorable or original.
Sara Bareilles What's Inside: Songs From Waitress3.0
Grimes Art Angels4.5
Joanna Newsom Divers4.0
Gabrielle Aplin Light Up The Dark3.0
Jewel Picking up the Pieces3.5
Joss Stone Water for Your Soul2.5
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful3.5
The Darkness Last of Our Kind2.5
Bjork Vulnicura4.0

2014
Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy4.0
Jessie J Sweet Talker2.5
Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault2.5
Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics2.0
She's as soulful as ever, but her voice hasn't held up all too well...
Barbra Streisand Partners2.0
Karen O Crush Songs2.5
Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear4.0
Dolly Parton Blue Smoke3.0
Tori Amos Unrepentant Geraldines3.5
Lykke Li I Never Learn3.5
Ingrid Michaelson Lights Out3.5
Kylie Minogue Kiss Me Once2.5
Kate Miller-Heidke O Vertigo!3.5

2013
Beyonce Beyonce3.5
Billie Joe Armstrong/Norah Jones Foreverly3.0
Jewel Let It Snow: A Holiday Collection2.5
Jessie J Alive2.5
Cher Closer to the Truth2.5
Katie Melua Ketevan3.0
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady4.0
Goldfrapp Tales Of Us3.5
Gabrielle Aplin English Rain3.0
Agnetha Faltskog A3.0
Not really anything exceptional, but the songs here are enjoyable and innocuous enough (except maybe the Gary Barlow feature), and Agnetha's voice has held up surprisingly well.
Laura Stevenson Wheel4.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito3.0
Paramore Paramore2.5

2012
Green Day iTRE!2.5
Green Day iDOS!2.5
Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man3.5
Tori Amos Gold Dust1.5
The difference is when Kate did it a year earlier, it turned out alright.
Green Day ¡UNO!2.0
Alanis Morissette Havoc and Bright Lights2.5
Emilie Autumn Fight Like A Girl2.5
Joss Stone The Soul Sessions Vol. 22.5
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...5.0
Patti Smith Banga2.5
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats3.5
Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts3.5
Kate Miller-Heidke Nightflight4.0
Katie Melua Secret Symphony3.0
Grimes Visions4.0
Ingrid Michaelson Human Again3.5

2011
Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow3.5
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials3.5
Bjork Biophilia3.5
Evanescence Evanescence2.5
Feist Metals3.0
Jewel The Merry Goes 'Round1.5
Tori Amos Night of Hunters2.0
SuperHeavy SuperHeavy2.5
Barbra Streisand What Matters Most2.0
Joss Stone LP12.5
Dolly Parton Better Day2.5
Beyonce 43.0
Lady Gaga Born This Way2.0
Kate Bush Director's Cut3.5
Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams3.0
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist3.5
Jessie J Who You Are2.5
Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes4.0
PJ Harvey Let England Shake4.5
Adele 213.5

2010
Regina Spektor Live in London4.5
Grimes Halfaxa3.5
Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart4.5
Kylie Minogue Aphrodite3.0
Sia We Are Born3.5
Jewel Sweet and Wild2.5
Katie Melua The House3.0
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid4.5
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh3.5
Goldfrapp Head First2.5
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me4.5
Grimes Geidi Primes3.5

2009
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster3.5
Norah Jones The Fall3.5
Tori Amos Midwinter Graces2.0
Paramore Brand New Eyes3.0
Karen O and the Kids Where the Wild Things Are OST3.0
Ingrid Michaelson Everybody3.5
Florence and the Machine Lungs4.0
Regina Spektor Far4.0
Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted To Sin3.0
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown2.5
Jewel Lullaby2.0
Bat For Lashes Two Suns4.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!3.0

2008
Laura Stevenson A Record3.5
Beyonce I Am... Sasha Fierce3.0
Aretha Franklin This Christmas, Aretha1.5
Pink Funhouse4.0
Lady Gaga The Fame3.0
Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser4.0
Tori Amos Live at Montreux 1991/19924.5
Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite4.0
Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement2.5
Jewel Perfectly Clear2.5
El Madmo El Madmo2.0
Portishead Third3.5
Lykke Li Youth Novels3.5
Adele 193.0
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War3.5
Dolly Parton Backwoods Barbie2.5
Goldfrapp Seventh Tree4.0
Sia Some People Have Real Problems4.0
Sia's best album. An eclectic array of indie pop tracks with surprisingly dark lyricism. Occasionally the tracks aren't quite as memorable, but even then, Sia's voice is dynamic and quirky enough to keep things interesting.

2007
Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!!2.5
Kylie Minogue X3.0
Alicia Keys As I Am3.5
Happy Rhodes Find Me3.5
MGMT Oracular Spectacular4.0
Katie Melua Pictures3.0
Joni Mitchell Shine2.5
PJ Harvey White Chalk4.0
Sara Bareilles Little Voice3.5
Kate Miller-Heidke Little Eve3.5
Paramore Riot!3.5
Bjork Volta2.5
I have trouble saying any post-Sugarcubes era Björk album is outright bad, but this one comes closest. Most of the songs are too long, too meandering, too forgettable - even Björk's voice, which is usually so immaculate, sounds unusually hoarse here.
Feist The Reminder4.0
Tori Amos American Doll Posse3.0
Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band4.0
Joss Stone Introducing Joss Stone2.5
Belinda Carlisle Voila2.0
Norah Jones Not Too Late3.0
Diana Ross I Love You2.0
2006
Joanna Newsom Ys5.0
Damien Rice 94.0
Evanescence The Open Door3.0
Emilie Autumn Opheliac3.5
Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold4.5
Beyonce B'Day3.0
Diana Ross Blue1.5
Regina Spektor Begin To Hope4.5
Ingrid Michaelson Girls And Boys3.0
Jewel Goodbye Alice in Wonderland2.5
Pink I'm Not Dead3.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones4.0

2005
Hooverphonic No More Sweet Music4.0
The Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell And Back3.5
Kate Bush Aerial3.0
Lene Lovich Shadows & Dust3.5
Dolly Parton Those Were the Days2.0
Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine4.0
Katie Melua Piece By Piece3.5
Barbra Streisand Guilty Pleasures1.5
Bjork Drawing Restraint 92.0
Goldfrapp Supernature3.5
Paramore All We Know Is Falling3.5
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Acoustic4.0
Gorillaz Demon Days4.0
Tori Amos The Beekeeper2.5
I consider this the first in the "where Tori went wrong" series - it's far too long and many of the tracks are simply too forgettable. While the same could be said for Scarlet's Walk, that album at least had several highlights ("A Sorta Fairytale", "Taxi Ride") and had no truly awful tracks - comparatively, The Beekeeper has no songs which are anything more than "nice", and it's also bogged down by potentially the worst Tori Amos song of all time ("The Power of Orange Knickers").
Ingrid Michaelson Slow the Rain3.5

2004
Green Day American Idiot3.5
Joss Stone Mind, Body & Soul3.5
Bjork Medulla3.5
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch5.0
The Carpenters As Time Goes By3.0
Alanis Morissette So-Called Chaos3.0
Feist Let It Die3.5
Patti Smith Trampin'2.5
Agnetha Faltskog My Colouring Book2.5
Norah Jones Feels Like Home3.5
Sia Colour the Small One3.5
Sara Bareilles Careful Confessions3.0
Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender4.0
PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her3.5

2003
Alicia Keys The Diary of Alicia Keys3.5
Kylie Minogue Body Language3.0
Pink Try This3.0
Dolly Parton For God and Country2.0
Clearly a record influenced by the events of September 2001. Dolly's voice holds up surprisingly well here and there are a few nice tracks, but unfortunately those traits don't make up for the album's long running time and a few major missteps.
Katie Melua Call Off the Search3.5
Barbra Streisand The Movie Album2.5
Aretha Franklin So Damn Happy2.0
Erykah Badu Worldwide Underground3.0
Joss Stone The Soul Sessions3.5
Pat Benatar Go2.5
The Darkness Permission to Land4.0
Beyonce Dangerously in Love3.0
Jewel 03042.5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell4.0
Great lyrics. Raw, OTT vocal performances from Karen. Somewhat inconsistent, though, with the witty "Black Tongue" and beautiful "Maps" towering above the somewhat aimless (yet still rather enjoyable) "Man" and "Tick".
Goldfrapp Black Cherry4.0
Fleetwood Mac Say You Will3.5
Evanescence Fallen3.0
Emilie Autumn Enchant3.0
The Network Money Money 20202.5
Janelle Monae The Audition3.0

2002
Joni Mitchell Travelogue2.5
Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk3.5
Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane4.0
Dolly Parton Halos & Horns3.0
Sia Healing is difficult3.5
Norah Jones Come Away with Me4.0
Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept3.0
Jewel This Way3.0
Damien Rice O4.5
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man Out Of Season3.0
Regina Spektor Songs4.5

2001
Pink M!ssundaztood3.0
Shakira Laundry Service3.5
Shakira: your song titles don't make sense sometimes, you have a rather warbly voice and your lyricism is questionable at best - but that's okay because Laundry Service is indeed quite a fun album.
Barbra Streisand Christmas Memories1.5
Destiny's Child 8 Days of Christmas1.0
Kylie Minogue Fever3.0
Carole King Love Makes the World2.5
Tori Amos Strange Little Girls2.5
Bjork Vespertine5.0
Regina Spektor 11:114.5
Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor3.0
The Go-Go's God Bless The Go-Go's3.0
Stevie Nicks Trouble In Shangri-La3.0
Dolly Parton Little Sparrow3.0

2000
Enya A Day Without Rain3.5
Erykah Badu Mama's Gun4.0
Green Day Warning3.5
Kylie Minogue Light Years3.0
Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree3.5
Bjork Selmasongs3.5
Goldfrapp Felt Mountain5.0
Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now3.5
PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea4.5

1999
Jewel Joy: A Holiday Collection2.5
Dolly Parton The Grass Is Blue3.0
Tori Amos To Venus and Back3.5
The first disc is an occasionally enjoyable and eclectic collection of tracks, and while not as consistently engaging (or arguably not even as focused) as her previous experimental stuff on albums like Pele, it still has strong moments and some rather magnificent soundscapes. The second disc is an overtly long assortment of live tracks which add very little to the album as a whole despite being almost two-thirds of the running time.
Barbra Streisand A Love Like Ours2.0
Diana Ross Every Day Is A New Day2.5
Fiona Apple When the Pawn...4.5
Feist Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)2.5

1998
Jewel Spirit4.0
Portishead Roseland NYC Live4.5
Cher Believe3.5
Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie3.5
PJ Harvey Is This Desire?4.0
Joni Mitchell Taming the Tiger2.5
The Carpenters Christmas Collection3.0
Dolly Parton Hungry Again2.5
Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk4.0
Etta James Life Love & The Blues2.5
Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel4.5
Destiny's Child Destiny’s Child2.5
Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?3.0
Happy Rhodes Many Worlds Are Born Tonight4.0

1997
Sia Onlysee2.0
Barbra Streisand Higher Ground2.0
Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess4.0
A glimpse at what Kylie could've been, more than anything. Bold, distinctive and lyrically surprisingly dense, this is the most hands-on Kylie album to date - and it's also her best.
Green Day Nimrod3.5
Patti Smith Peace and Noise2.5
Bjork Homogenic5.0
Portishead Portishead4.5
Pat Benatar Innamorata2.5
Erykah Badu Baduizm4.0
Bjork Telegram4.0

1996
Karen Carpenter Karen Carpenter2.0
Dolly Parton Treasures2.5
Belinda Carlisle A Woman and a Man2.5
Fiona Apple Tidal4.0
Shakira Pies Descalzos3.0
Tori Amos Boys for Pele4.0

1995
Enya The Memory of Trees3.5
Green Day Insomniac3.5
Diana Ross Take Me Higher3.0
Dolly Parton Something Special3.0
Bjork Post4.5
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill4.5
Jewel Pieces of You4.0
In a lot of ways, it's not a good album - it's extremely underproduced, the lyrics are rather shallow and Jewel clearly isn't comfortable in the studio as her vocal performances are incredibly inconsistent, ranging from beautiful ("Angel Standing By") to sounding almost like a poor Cher impersonator ("Who Will SaAave Your Soul"). Still, aside from that there is plenty of enjoyment to be had - the songwriting is strong with memorable, satisfying melodies and great hooks.
PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love4.5
Don McLean The River of Love2.5

1994
Joni Mitchell Turbulent Indigo2.5
The Cranberries No Need to Argue4.0
Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue4.0
Portishead Dummy5.0
Stevie Nicks Street Angel3.5
Green Day Dookie4.0
Tori Amos Under the Pink4.5
Happy Rhodes Building the Colossus4.0
Johnny Cash American Recordings3.0

1993
Kate Bush The Red Shoes3.0
Belinda Carlisle Real2.5
Nirvana In Utero4.5
Barbra Streisand Back To Broadway2.5
Bjork Debut4.5
PJ Harvey Rid of Me4.0
The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?4.0
Shakira Peligro1.5
Dolly Parton Dancing With the Moon2.5
Laura Nyro Walk The Dog & Light The Light3.0
Pat Benatar Gravity's Rainbow2.5
Happy Rhodes Equipoise4.0
Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club3.5
Nina Simone A Single Woman3.0

1992
PJ Harvey Dry4.0
Shakespears Sister Hormonally Yours4.0
Alanis Morissette Now Is the Time1.0
I mean, at least the other one had some novelty value.
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes5.0
Michael Bolton Timeless: The Classics2.0

1991
Green Day Kerplunk3.0
Kylie Minogue Let's Get to It2.5
Don McLean Christmas1.5
Nirvana Nevermind4.5
Diana Ross The Force Behind The Power2.5
Shakira Magia1.0
Pat Benatar True Love2.5
Dolly Parton Eagle When She Flies2.5
Joni Mitchell Night Ride Home2.5
Belinda Carlisle Live Your Life Be Free2.5
Don McLean Headroom2.0
The Sugarcubes Stick Around for Joy3.5
Alanis Morissette Alanis1.5
Happy Rhodes Warpaint3.5
Aretha Franklin What You See Is What You Sweat2.5

1990
Kylie Minogue Rhythm of Love2.5
Bjork and Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar Gling Glo3.0
Fleetwood Mac Behind the Mask2.0
It's not that it's an atrocious album. It's not badly made, the songs are never really outright bad, just "okay", and though inconsistent, there are still some nice moments from Christine and Stevie. The problem with the album, really, is that it just has no heart.
Green Day 39/Smooth3.0

1989
Belinda Carlisle Runaway Horses3.0
Kylie Minogue Enjoy Yourself2.0
Lene Lovich March2.5
The Sugarcubes Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!3.0
The B-52s Cosmic Thing3.5
Cher Heart of Stone3.5
Stevie Nicks The Other Side of the Mirror3.0
Dolly Parton White Limozeen3.0
Aretha Franklin Through the Storm2.0
The Cure Disintegration4.5
Kate Bush The Sensual World4.0
Don McLean For the Memories Vols I & II2.5
Shakespears Sister Sacred Heart3.5
Carole King City Streets2.0
The Carpenters Lovelines3.0

1988
Kylie Minogue Kylie2.0
Pat Benatar Wide Awake In Dreamland2.5
Patti Smith Dream of Life3.5
Joni Mitchell Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm2.5
Y Kant Tori Read Y Kant Tori Read3.0
Admittedly I find this a lot more enjoyable than most of Tori's post-Choirgirl albums.
The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good4.0

1987
Dolly Parton Rainbow2.0
Agnetha Faltskog I Stand Alone3.0
It has a slightly different flavour to her previous albums, but it still suffers from the same problems - Agnetha's voice is lovely but she clearly isn't pushing her limits as much as she was when she was in ABBA, the songs are all "nice" or "meh", and it sounds very, very dated.
Belinda Carlisle Heaven on Earth3.0
Heart Bad Animals3.0
Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night4.0
Suzanne Vega Solitude Standing3.5
Don McLean Love Tracks1.5
Enya Enya (The Celts)3.0
Happy Rhodes Ecto3.5
Diana Ross Red Hot Rhythm And Blues3.0
Agnetha Faltskog Kom följ med i vår karusell1.0
Michael Bolton The Hunger2.5

1986
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead4.0
KUKL Holidays in Europe1.5
The Bangles Different Light3.5
Belinda Carlisle Belinda3.0
Happy Rhodes Rhodes I4.0
Happy Rhodes Rhodes II3.5
Happy Rhodes Rearmament3.0

1985
Joni Mitchell Dog Eat Dog2.5
Heart Heart3.0
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega4.5
Dolly Parton Real Love2.0
Agnetha Faltskog Eyes of a Woman2.5
Kate Bush Hounds of Love5.0
Nico Camera Obscura3.0
Pat Benatar Seven the Hard Way3.0
Stevie Nicks Rock a Little3.5
Aretha Franklin Who's Zoomin' Who2.5

1984
KUKL The Eye2.0
The Bangles All Over the Place3.0
Dolly Parton The Great Pretender2.5
The Go-Go's Talk Show3.0
The Carpenters An Old- Fashioned Christmas2.0
Pat Benatar Tropico3.0

1983
Tappi Tikarrass Miranda3.0
The Carpenters Voice of the Heart3.0
Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual4.5
Agnetha Faltskog Wrap Your Arms Around Me3.0
An album full of saccharine pop tunes which, despite being enjoyable, do little other than showcase Agnetha's already rather well-known vocal talents.
Dolly Parton Burlap & Satin2.5
Stevie Nicks The Wild Heart3.5
Aretha Franklin Get It Right2.5

1982
Lene Lovich No Man's Land3.0
Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast3.0
Kate Bush The Dreaming5.0
The Go-Go's Vacation3.0
Fleetwood Mac Mirage3.5
Dolly Parton Heartbreak Express2.5
Carole King One to One2.5
Pat Benatar Get Nervous3.0
Nina Simone Fodder on My Wings3.0

1981
ABBA The Visitors4.5
Agnetha Faltskog Nu tändas tusen juleljus1.0
I really don't like Christmas albums, and I really don't like children singing. This is somehow the perfect amalgamation of both.
Aretha Franklin Love All the Hurt Away2.5
Stevie Nicks Bella Donna4.5
The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat3.0
The Carpenters Made in America3.5
Don McLean Believers3.0
Nico Drama of Exile2.5
Pat Benatar Precious Time3.5
Diana Ross Why Do Fools Fall In Love3.0

1980
Dolly Parton 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs3.0
ABBA Super Trouper4.0
Aretha Franklin Aretha2.5
Kate Bush Never for Ever4.5
Dolly Parton Dolly, Dolly, Dolly2.5
Heart Bebe Le Strange3.5
Pat Benatar Crimes of Passion4.0

1979
Fleetwood Mac Tusk4.5
The B-52s The B-52's4.0
"Rock Lobster" might just be the most annoyingly catchy song of all time.
Carole King Touch the Sky2.5
Joni Mitchell Mingus3.0
Dolly Parton Great Balls of Fire2.5
Lene Lovich Flex4.0
Minnie Riperton Minnie3.0
Pat Benatar In The Heat of The Night4.0
Blackjack Blackjack2.5

1978
Don McLean Chain Lighting3.0
Kate Bush Lionheart3.5
The Carpenters Christmas Portrait2.5
Heart Dog & Butterfly4.0
Blondie Parallel Lines4.5
Dolly Parton Heartbreaker2.5
Heart Magazine3.0
Patti Smith Easter4.5
Kate Bush The Kick Inside4.5
Blondie Plastic Letters4.0
Lene Lovich Stateless4.0
Laura Nyro Nested3.5
Nina Simone Baltimore3.5

1977
Bjork Bjork1.5
ABBA The Album4.0
Joni Mitchell Don Juan's Reckless Daughter3.0
Dolly Parton Here You Come Again2.5
The Carpenters Passage3.5
Carole King Simple Things3.5
Aretha Franklin Sweet Passion3.0
Heart Little Queen4.0
Donna Summer I Remember Yesterday4.0
Dolly Parton New Harvest... First Gathering3.5
Fleetwood Mac Rumours5.0
Minnie Riperton Stay In Love3.0

1976
Blondie Blondie4.0
Joni Mitchell Hejira3.5
Donna Summer Four Seasons of Love3.5
ABBA Arrival4.5
Dolly Parton All I Can Do3.0
The Carpenters A Kind of Hush3.0
Donna Summer A Love Trilogy3.5
Heart Dreamboat Annie4.5
An explosive and highly enjoyable debut. The album's songwriting and lyricism are surprisingly strong here ("Magic Man"), but obviously the main attractions are the intense vocal performances by Ann ("Soul of the Sea") and folk-influenced guitar parts from Nancy ("Crazy on You"). I'm not a fan of the three inclusions of "Dreamboat Annie" (which is itself quite a good song, but does grow a little stale by the third - and ultimately least interesting - reprise) though nevertheless, I think this is Heart's strongest offering, and I suppose it's not too much of a surprise that they never quite managed to recapture what made this album such a success.

1975
Agnetha Faltskog Elva kvinnor i ett hus2.5
Queen A Night at the Opera4.5
Patti Smith Horses4.5
Dolly Parton Dolly3.0
Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns4.0
Donna Summer Love to Love You Baby3.5
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac4.5
The Carpenters Horizon3.5
Minnie Riperton Adventures In Paradise3.5
Dolly Parton The Bargain Store3.0
Carole King Really Rosie2.0
Michael Bolton Michael Bolotin2.0

1974
Don McLean Homeless Brother3.0
Dolly Parton Love Is Like A Butterfly3.0
Minnie Riperton Perfect Angel4.0
ABBA Waterloo3.0
Dolly Parton Jolene4.5
The quintessential Dolly album. Released as one of her very first solo efforts, it contains undoubtedly her two biggest tracks ("I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene") which helped launch the start of a huge solo career for Ms. Parton. Even on the album's weaker tracks, Dolly's voice shines through.
Nico The End...3.0
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark4.5
Donna Summer Lady of the Night2.5
Aretha Franklin With Everything I Feel in Me3.0

1973
Cher Half Breed3.0
Don McLean Playin' Favorites3.0
Dolly Parton Bubbling Over3.0
The Carpenters Now & Then3.0
Dolly Parton My Tennessee Mountain Home3.0
ABBA Ring Ring2.5
Carole King Fantasy3.0

1972
Don McLean Don McLean3.5
Joni Mitchell For the Roses4.5
Dolly Parton My Favorite Song Writer, Porter Wagoner2.5
Dolly Parton Touch Your Woman3.0
Yma Sumac Miracles2.5
The Carpenters A Song For You3.5
Nina Simone Emergency Ward3.0

1971
Carole King Music4.0
Agnetha Faltskog När en vacker tanke blir en sång2.0
Laura Nyro Gonna Take a Miracle3.5
Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors3.5
Don McLean American Pie4.0
Dolly Parton Joshua3.5
Carole King Tapestry4.5
Dolly Parton The Golden Streets of Glory3.5
Joni Mitchell Blue5.0
The Carpenters Carpenters3.5
Aretha Franklin Young Gifted and Black3.5
Nina Simone Here Comes the Sun3.5
Cher Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves3.5

1970
Minnie Riperton Come To My Garden4.0
Agnetha Faltskog Som jag är2.0
Don McLean Tapestry3.5
Carole King Writer3.5
Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon4.5
Dolly Parton The Fairest of Them All3.0
Nico Desertshore4.5
The Carpenters Close to You4.0
Nina Simone Black Gold4.0

1969
Dolly Parton My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy3.0
Laura Nyro New York Tendaberry4.5
Aretha Franklin Soft And Beautiful3.0
Dolly Parton In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)3.0
The Carpenters Ticket to Ride3.5
Joni Mitchell Clouds4.0
Nina Simone Nina Simone and Piano3.5
Nina Simone To Love Somebody3.5
Agnetha Faltskog Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 22.0

1968
The Supremes Love Child2.5
The Supremes Join The Temptations2.5
Nico The Marble Index3.5
The Supremes Sing And Peform Funny Girl2.5
Dolly Parton Just Because I'm a Woman3.0
The Supremes Reflections2.5
Joni Mitchell Song to a Seagull4.0
Aretha Franklin Lady Soul4.0
Nina Simone 'Nuff Said3.5
Agnetha Faltskog Agnetha Fältskog2.0
As it turns out, there's a reason why Agnetha didn't help write any of ABBA's songs.

1967
Cher With Love, Chér2.5
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico5.0
I suppose it's easy to write this off as a 5-worthy album because of influence and whatnot, but what I really like about the album is that in almost every aspect it shouldn't work - the unusual distorted viola in the background, the track listing of upbeat, more mellow tunes like "Femme Fatale" directly next to more experimental cuts like "Venus in Furs", the mediocre-at-best vocal performances from Lou Reed and (in particular) Nico - yet it does. With the shocking (arguably provocative) lyricism, unusual stylistic variety of the tracks and odd, distorted production, the album holds together in the weirdest way possible - and still today it sounds as "out-there" as it did in 1967.
Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You4.0
Dolly Parton Hello, I'm Dolly3.0
The best word I can think of to describe most of Dolly's '60s and '70s albums is "nice", and while that might seem like faint praise, I don't think many of these albums are really worth too much merit when they're less than half an hour long and contain a fair amount of unoriginal material.
Nico Chelsea Girl4.0
Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings the Blues4.5
Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery4.0
Nina Simone High Priestess of Soul4.5
Nina Simone Silk & Soul4.0

1966
The Supremes The Supremes A' Go-Go3.5
Nina Simone Nina Simone with Strings4.0
Nina Simone Wild is the Wind4.0
Nina Simone Let it All Out3.5

1965
Cher All I Really Want to Do3.0
Barbra Streisand My Name Is Barbra, Two...3.0
Aretha Franklin Yeah!!!3.0
Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You4.5
Nina Simone Pastel Blues5.0

1964
Nina Simone Folksy Nina3.5
Nina Simone Broadway-Blues-Ballads3.5

1963
Aretha Franklin Laughing on the Outside3.5
Nina Simone Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall4.0

1962
Nina Simone Nina Simone at the Village Gate3.5
Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings Ellington3.5

1961
Aretha Franklin Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo3.5
Nina Simone Forbidden Fruit4.0

1960
Etta James At Last!4.0
Nina Simone Nina Simone at Newport3.5

1959
Nina Simone The Amazing Nina Simone3.5
Nina Simone Nina Simone and Her Friends3.0
Nina Simone Nina Simone at Town Hall4.0

1958
Nina Simone Little Girl Blue4.0

1957
Yma Sumac Legend of the Jivaro2.5

1954
Yma Sumac Mambo!3.5

1953
Yma Sumac Inca Taqui3.0

1950
Yma Sumac Voice of the Xtabay3.0
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