| The Darkness Last of Our Kind | 2.5 |
| The Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell And Back | 3.5 |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 4.0 |
| Jessie J This Christmas Day | 2.0 |
| Jessie J Sweet Talker | 2.5 |
| Jessie J R.O.S.E. | 3.0 |
| Jessie J Alive | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 4.5 |
| Jessie J Who You Are | 2.5 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Little Eve | 3.5 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke O Vertigo! | 3.5 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Nightflight | 4.0 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser | 4.0 |
| Belinda Carlisle A Woman and a Man | 2.5 |
| Belinda Carlisle Real | 2.5 |
| Belinda Carlisle Live Your Life Be Free | 2.5 |
| Belinda Carlisle Runaway Horses | 3.0 |
| Belinda Carlisle Belinda | 3.0 |
| Belinda Carlisle Voila | 2.0 |
| Belinda Carlisle Wilder Shores | 2.0 |
| Don McLean Believers | 3.0 |
| Don McLean Homeless Brother | 3.0 |
| Don McLean Chain Lighting | 3.0 |
| Don McLean Playin' Favorites | 3.0 |
| Don McLean For the Memories Vols I & II | 2.5 |
| Don McLean Headroom | 2.0 |
| Don McLean Love Tracks | 1.5 |
| Don McLean The River of Love | 2.5 |
| Don McLean Christmas | 1.5 |
| Don McLean Don McLean | 3.5 |
| Don McLean American Pie | 4.0 |
| Don McLean Tapestry | 3.5 |
| The Go-Go's God Bless The Go-Go's | 3.0 |
| The Go-Go's Talk Show | 3.0 |
| The Go-Go's Vacation | 3.0 |
| The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat | 3.0 |
| Belinda Carlisle Heaven on Earth | 3.0 |
| Katie Melua The House | 3.0 |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson A Record | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 3.5 |
| Michael Bolton Timeless: The Classics | 2.0 |
| Blackjack Blackjack | 2.5 |
| Michael Bolton The Hunger | 2.5 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong/Norah Jones Foreverly | 3.0 |
| The Longshot Love Is For Losers | 2.5 |
| Michael Bolton Michael Bolotin | 2.0 |
| The Network Money Money 2020 | 2.5 |
| Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!! | 2.5 |
| Green Day Revolution Radio | 2.5 |
| Green Day iTRE! | 2.5 |
| Green Day iDOS! | 2.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 2.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.5 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 3.0 |
| Karen O and Danger Mouse Lux Prima | 3.5 |
| Green Day 39/Smooth | 3.0 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.5 |
| The B-52s Cosmic Thing | 3.5 |
| The B-52s The B-52's | 4.0 |
| "Rock Lobster" might just be the most annoyingly catchy song of all time. |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| Grimes Geidi Primes | 3.5 |
| Grimes Halfaxa | 3.5 |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.5 |
| The Bangles All Over the Place | 3.0 |
| The Bangles Different Light | 3.5 |
| ABBA Waterloo | 3.0 |
| ABBA Super Trouper | 4.0 |
| Blondie Plastic Letters | 4.0 |
| Blondie Blondie | 4.0 |
| Cher Heart of Stone | 3.5 |
| Cher Believe | 3.5 |
| Cher Closer to the Truth | 2.5 |
| Bat For Lashes The Bride | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 3.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold | 4.5 |
| Hooverphonic No More Sweet Music | 4.0 |
| Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane | 4.0 |
| Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer | 4.0 |
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. |
| Agnetha Faltskog My Colouring Book | 2.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Golden | 3.0 |
| Agnetha Faltskog Kom följ med i vår karusell | 1.0 |
| Agnetha Faltskog I Stand Alone | 3.0 |
| 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. |
| Dolly Parton I Believe in You | 2.0 |
| Barbra Streisand Higher Ground | 2.0 |
| Barbra Streisand Back To Broadway | 2.5 |
| Barbra Streisand A Love Like Ours | 2.0 |
| Barbra Streisand Christmas Memories | 1.5 |
| Barbra Streisand The Movie Album | 2.5 |
| Barbra Streisand Guilty Pleasures | 1.5 |
| Barbra Streisand What Matters Most | 2.0 |
| Barbra Streisand Partners | 2.0 |
| Barbra Streisand My Name Is Barbra, Two... | 3.0 |
| Barbra Streisand Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway | 2.0 |
| Agnetha Faltskog Eyes of a Woman | 2.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Kylie Christmas | 1.5 |
| 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. |
| Heart Bad Animals | 3.0 |
| Heart Heart | 3.0 |
| Tappi Tikarrass Miranda | 3.0 |
| Bjork and Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar Gling Glo | 3.0 |
| Agnetha Faltskog A | 3.0 |
| 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. |
| Agnetha Faltskog Wrap Your Arms Around Me | 3.0 |
| An album full of saccharine pop tunes which, despite being enjoyable, do little other than showcase Agnetha's already rather well-known vocal talents. |
| Agnetha Faltskog Elva kvinnor i ett hus | 2.5 |
| Agnetha Faltskog När en vacker tanke blir en sång | 2.0 |
| Agnetha Faltskog Som jag är | 2.0 |
| Agnetha Faltskog Nu tändas tusen juleljus | 1.0 |
| I really don't like Christmas albums, and I really don't like children singing. This is somehow the perfect amalgamation of both. |
| Agnetha Faltskog Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2 | 2.0 |
| Lykke Li Youth Novels | 3.5 |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn | 3.5 |
| Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes | 4.0 |
| Agnetha Faltskog Agnetha Fältskog | 2.0 |
| As it turns out, there's a reason why Agnetha didn't help write any of ABBA's songs. |
| ABBA The Album | 4.0 |
| ABBA Ring Ring | 2.5 |
| Cher Half Breed | 3.0 |
| Cher Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.5 |
| Janelle Monae The Audition | 3.0 |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite | 4.0 |
| Cher With Love, Chér | 2.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Acoustic | 4.0 |
| Jewel Picking up the Pieces | 3.5 |
| Cher All I Really Want to Do | 3.0 |
| Jewel Let It Snow: A Holiday Collection | 2.5 |
| Jewel The Merry Goes 'Round | 1.5 |
| Jewel Sweet and Wild | 2.5 |
| Jewel Lullaby | 2.0 |
| Jewel Perfectly Clear | 2.5 |
| Jewel Goodbye Alice in Wonderland | 2.5 |
| Jewel 0304 | 2.5 |
| Jewel This Way | 3.0 |
| Jewel Joy: A Holiday Collection | 2.5 |
| ABBA The Visitors | 4.5 |
| Nina Simone To Love Somebody | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone 'Nuff Said | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Silk & Soul | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone and Piano | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Here Comes the Sun | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Emergency Ward | 3.0 |
| Nina Simone Black Gold | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Fodder on My Wings | 3.0 |
| Nina Simone Baltimore | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone A Single Woman | 3.0 |
| Nina Simone Let it All Out | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Wild is the Wind | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone High Priestess of Soul | 4.5 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone with Strings | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Broadway-Blues-Ballads | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Folksy Nina | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings Ellington | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone at the Village Gate | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Forbidden Fruit | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone at Newport | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone at Town Hall | 4.0 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone and Her Friends | 3.0 |
| Nina Simone The Amazing Nina Simone | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Little Girl Blue | 4.0 |
| Aretha Franklin This Christmas, Aretha | 1.5 |
| Aretha Franklin So Damn Happy | 2.0 |
| Aretha Franklin What You See Is What You Sweat | 2.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Through the Storm | 2.0 |
| Aretha Franklin Who's Zoomin' Who | 2.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Get It Right | 2.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Love All the Hurt Away | 2.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Aretha | 2.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Sweet Passion | 3.0 |
| Aretha Franklin With Everything I Feel in Me | 3.0 |
| Aretha Franklin Young Gifted and Black | 3.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Soft And Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Aretha Franklin Lady Soul | 4.0 |
| Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You | 4.0 |
| Aretha Franklin Yeah!!! | 3.0 |
| Aretha Franklin Laughing on the Outside | 3.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo | 3.5 |
| Karen Carpenter Karen Carpenter | 2.0 |
| Kate Bush Before the Dawn | 3.5 |
| Bjork Telegram | 4.0 |
| Bjork Drawing Restraint 9 | 2.0 |
| Bjork Selmasongs | 3.5 |
| El Madmo El Madmo | 2.0 |
| Norah Jones Day Breaks | 4.0 |
| Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts | 3.5 |
| Norah Jones The Fall | 3.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos Native Invader | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush Director's Cut | 3.5 |
| Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 4.5 |
| Y Kant Tori Read Y Kant Tori Read | 3.0 |
| Admittedly I find this a lot more enjoyable than most of Tori's post-Choirgirl albums. |
| Karen O and the Kids Where the Wild Things Are OST | 3.0 |
| Karen O Crush Songs | 2.5 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 3.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Heart Bebe Le Strange | 3.5 |
| Heart Dog & Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Heart Magazine | 3.0 |
| Heart Little Queen | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell | 4.0 |
| 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". |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Tori Amos Unrepentant Geraldines | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Gold Dust | 1.5 |
| The difference is when Kate did it a year earlier, it turned out alright. |
| Tori Amos Night of Hunters | 2.0 |
| Tori Amos Midwinter Graces | 2.0 |
| Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted To Sin | 3.0 |
| Tori Amos American Doll Posse | 3.0 |
| Tori Amos The Beekeeper | 2.5 |
| 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"). |
| Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk | 3.5 |
| Tori Amos Strange Little Girls | 2.5 |
| Tori Amos To Venus and Back | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Johnny Cash American Recordings | 3.0 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 4.5 |
| ABBA Arrival | 4.5 |
| Diana Ross The Force Behind The Power | 2.5 |
| Diana Ross Red Hot Rhythm And Blues | 3.0 |
| Diana Ross Take Me Higher | 3.0 |
| Diana Ross Every Day Is A New Day | 2.5 |
| Diana Ross I Love You | 2.0 |
| Diana Ross Blue | 1.5 |
| Diana Ross Why Do Fools Fall In Love | 3.0 |
| The Supremes Love Child | 2.5 |
| The Supremes Sing And Peform Funny Girl | 2.5 |
| The Supremes Join The Temptations | 2.5 |
| The Supremes Reflections | 2.5 |
| The Supremes The Supremes A' Go-Go | 3.5 |
| Etta James Life Love & The Blues | 2.5 |
| Etta James At Last! | 4.0 |
| Katie Melua Ketevan | 3.0 |
| Katie Melua Secret Symphony | 3.0 |
| Katie Melua Pictures | 3.0 |
| Katie Melua Piece By Piece | 3.5 |
| Katie Melua Call Off the Search | 3.5 |
| Feist Metals | 3.0 |
| Feist Let It Die | 3.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Feist Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) | 2.5 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Lights Out | 3.5 |
| Ingrid Michaelson It Doesn't Have to Make Sense | 3.5 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Human Again | 3.5 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Everybody | 3.5 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Girls And Boys | 3.0 |
| Ingrid Michaelson Slow the Rain | 3.5 |
| Sara Bareilles What's Inside: Songs From Waitress | 3.0 |
| Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart | 4.5 |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice | 3.5 |
| Sara Bareilles Careful Confessions | 3.0 |
| Gabrielle Aplin Light Up The Dark | 3.0 |
| Gabrielle Aplin English Rain | 3.0 |
| Carole King Love Makes the World | 2.5 |
| Carole King City Streets | 2.0 |
| Carole King One to One | 2.5 |
| Carole King Touch the Sky | 2.5 |
| Carole King Simple Things | 3.5 |
| Carole King Really Rosie | 2.0 |
| Carole King Fantasy | 3.0 |
| Carole King Music | 4.0 |
| Carole King Tapestry | 4.5 |
| Carole King Writer | 3.5 |
| Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man Out Of Season | 3.0 |
| Shakespears Sister Sacred Heart | 3.5 |
| Shakespears Sister Hormonally Yours | 4.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings the Blues | 4.5 |
| Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? | 3.0 |
| Shakira Pies Descalzos | 3.0 |
| Shakira Peligro | 1.5 |
| Shakira Magia | 1.0 |
| Shakira Laundry Service | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Pink Funhouse | 4.0 |
| Donna Summer I Remember Yesterday | 4.0 |
| Donna Summer Four Seasons of Love | 3.5 |
| Donna Summer A Love Trilogy | 3.5 |
| Donna Summer Love to Love You Baby | 3.5 |
| Donna Summer Lady of the Night | 2.5 |
| Destiny's Child 8 Days of Christmas | 1.0 |
| Destiny's Child Destiny’s Child | 2.5 |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 3.5 |
| Beyonce 4 | 3.0 |
| Beyonce I Am... Sasha Fierce | 3.0 |
| Beyonce B'Day | 3.0 |
| Beyonce Dangerously in Love | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Pure & Simple | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Blue Smoke | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Better Day | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Backwoods Barbie | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Those Were the Days | 2.0 |
| Dolly Parton Halos & Horns | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Little Sparrow | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton The Grass Is Blue | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Hungry Again | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Treasures | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Something Special | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Dancing With the Moon | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Eagle When She Flies | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Rainbow | 2.0 |
| Dolly Parton White Limozeen | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Real Love | 2.0 |
| Dolly Parton The Great Pretender | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Burlap & Satin | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Heartbreak Express | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Dolly, Dolly, Dolly | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Great Balls of Fire | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Heartbreaker | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Here You Come Again | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton New Harvest... First Gathering | 3.5 |
| Dolly Parton All I Can Do | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Dolly | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton The Bargain Store | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Love Is Like A Butterfly | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Bubbling Over | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton My Tennessee Mountain Home | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton My Favorite Song Writer, Porter Wagoner | 2.5 |
| Dolly Parton Touch Your Woman | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors | 3.5 |
| Dolly Parton Joshua | 3.5 |
| Dolly Parton The Golden Streets of Glory | 3.5 |
| Dolly Parton The Fairest of Them All | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Just Because I'm a Woman | 3.0 |
| Dolly Parton Hello, I'm Dolly | 3.0 |
| 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. |
| Dolly Parton For God and Country | 2.0 |
| 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. |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live | 4.5 |
| Happy Rhodes Find Me | 3.5 |
| Happy Rhodes Many Worlds Are Born Tonight | 4.0 |
| Happy Rhodes Building the Colossus | 4.0 |
| Happy Rhodes Equipoise | 4.0 |
| Happy Rhodes Warpaint | 3.5 |
| Happy Rhodes Ecto | 3.5 |
| Happy Rhodes Rearmament | 3.0 |
| Happy Rhodes Rhodes II | 3.5 |
| Happy Rhodes Rhodes I | 4.0 |
| SuperHeavy SuperHeavy | 2.5 |
| Alicia Keys As I Am | 3.5 |
| Alicia Keys The Diary of Alicia Keys | 3.5 |
| Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor | 3.0 |
| Joss Stone Water for Your Soul | 2.5 |
| Joss Stone LP1 | 2.5 |
| Joss Stone The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| Joss Stone Introducing Joss Stone | 2.5 |
| Joss Stone Mind, Body & Soul | 3.5 |
| Joss Stone The Soul Sessions | 3.5 |
| Celine Dion Encore un soir | 1.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 4.5 |
| Tori Amos Live at Montreux 1991/1992 | 4.5 |
| Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel | 4.5 |
| Tori Amos Boys for Pele | 4.0 |
| Tori Amos Under the Pink | 4.5 |
| Tori Amos Little Earthquakes | 5.0 |
| Patti Smith Banga | 2.5 |
| Patti Smith Trampin' | 2.5 |
| Patti Smith Peace and Noise | 2.5 |
| Patti Smith Dream of Life | 3.5 |
| Patti Smith Easter | 4.5 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.5 |
| Yma Sumac Miracles | 2.5 |
| Yma Sumac Legend of the Jivaro | 2.5 |
| Yma Sumac Mambo! | 3.5 |
| Yma Sumac Inca Taqui | 3.0 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.0 |
| Suzanne Vega Solitude Standing | 3.5 |
| Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega | 4.5 |
| Stevie Nicks The Wild Heart | 3.5 |
| Stevie Nicks The Other Side of the Mirror | 3.0 |
| Stevie Nicks Trouble In Shangri-La | 3.0 |
| Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault | 2.5 |
| Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams | 3.0 |
| Stevie Nicks Street Angel | 3.5 |
| Stevie Nicks Rock a Little | 3.5 |
| Stevie Nicks Bella Donna | 4.5 |
| Dolly Parton Jolene | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Nico The Marble Index | 3.5 |
| Pink I'm Not Dead | 3.0 |
| Pink Try This | 3.0 |
| Pink M!ssundaztood | 3.0 |
| KUKL The Eye | 2.0 |
| KUKL Holidays in Europe | 1.5 |
| Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics | 2.0 |
| She's as soulful as ever, but her voice hasn't held up all too well... |
| Evanescence Evanescence | 2.5 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 2.5 |
| Paramore Paramore | 2.5 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.5 |
| Pat Benatar Wide Awake In Dreamland | 2.5 |
| Pat Benatar True Love | 2.5 |
| Pat Benatar Gravity's Rainbow | 2.5 |
| Pat Benatar Innamorata | 2.5 |
| Pat Benatar Go | 2.5 |
| Pat Benatar Seven the Hard Way | 3.0 |
| Pat Benatar Tropico | 3.0 |
| Pat Benatar Get Nervous | 3.0 |
| Pat Benatar Precious Time | 3.5 |
| Pat Benatar Crimes of Passion | 4.0 |
| Pat Benatar In The Heat of The Night | 4.0 |
| Laura Nyro Walk The Dog & Light The Light | 3.0 |
| Laura Nyro Nested | 3.5 |
| Laura Nyro Gonna Take a Miracle | 3.5 |
| Laura Nyro New York Tendaberry | 4.5 |
| Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery | 4.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Shine | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Travelogue | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now | 3.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Taming the Tiger | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Turbulent Indigo | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Night Ride Home | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Dog Eat Dog | 2.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast | 3.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Mingus | 3.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Don Juan's Reckless Daughter | 3.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Hejira | 3.5 |
| Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns | 4.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Court and Spark | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell For the Roses | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon | 4.5 |
| Joni Mitchell Clouds | 4.0 |
| Joni Mitchell Song to a Seagull | 4.0 |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm | 4.0 |
| Erykah Badu Mama's Gun | 4.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War | 3.5 |
| Erykah Badu Worldwide Underground | 3.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | 3.5 |
| Emilie Autumn Fight Like A Girl | 2.5 |
| Emilie Autumn Enchant | 3.0 |
| Emilie Autumn Opheliac | 3.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette So-Called Chaos | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Havoc and Bright Lights | 2.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement | 2.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie | 3.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 4.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Now Is the Time | 1.0 |
| I mean, at least the other one had some novelty value. |
| Alanis Morissette Alanis | 1.5 |
| PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project | 3.5 |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her | 3.5 |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me | 4.0 |
| PJ Harvey Dry | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
| Adele 25 | 3.0 |
| Adele 21 | 3.5 |
| Adele 19 | 3.0 |
| Yma Sumac Voice of the Xtabay | 3.0 |
| Sia Healing is difficult | 3.5 |
| Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear | 4.0 |
| Sia This Is Acting | 3.0 |
| Sia We Are Born | 3.5 |
| Sia Colour the Small One | 3.5 |
| Sia Some People Have Real Problems | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Minnie Riperton Minnie | 3.0 |
| Minnie Riperton Stay In Love | 3.0 |
| Minnie Riperton Adventures In Paradise | 3.5 |
| Minnie Riperton Perfect Angel | 4.0 |
| Minnie Riperton Come To My Garden | 4.0 |
| The Carpenters As Time Goes By | 3.0 |
| The Carpenters Christmas Collection | 3.0 |
| The Carpenters Lovelines | 3.0 |
| The Carpenters An Old- Fashioned Christmas | 2.0 |
| The Carpenters Voice of the Heart | 3.0 |
| The Carpenters Christmas Portrait | 2.5 |
| The Carpenters Made in America | 3.5 |
| The Carpenters Passage | 3.5 |
| The Carpenters A Kind of Hush | 3.0 |
| The Carpenters Horizon | 3.5 |
| The Carpenters Now & Then | 3.0 |
| The Carpenters A Song For You | 3.5 |
| The Carpenters Carpenters | 3.5 |
| The Carpenters Ticket to Ride | 3.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Kiss Me Once | 2.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Aphrodite | 3.0 |
| Kylie Minogue X | 3.0 |
| Kylie Minogue Body Language | 3.0 |
| Kylie Minogue Fever | 3.0 |
| Kylie Minogue Light Years | 3.0 |
| Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue | 4.0 |
| Kylie Minogue Let's Get to It | 2.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Rhythm of Love | 2.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Enjoy Yourself | 2.0 |
| Kylie Minogue Kylie | 2.0 |
| The Sugarcubes Stick Around for Joy | 3.5 |
| The Sugarcubes Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! | 3.0 |
| The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| 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. |
| Nico The End... | 3.0 |
| Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You | 4.5 |
| Nina Simone Pastel Blues | 5.0 |
| Lene Lovich No Man's Land | 3.0 |
| Goldfrapp Supernature | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Black Cherry | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Tales Of Us | 3.5 |
| Goldfrapp Silver Eye | 3.0 |
| Goldfrapp Head First | 2.5 |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 5.0 |
| Norah Jones Not Too Late | 3.0 |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me | 4.0 |
| Norah Jones Feels Like Home | 3.5 |
| Portishead Third | 3.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 4.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 5.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Divers | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 5.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Mirage | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Say You Will | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Behind the Mask | 2.0 |
| 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. |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 5.0 |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Tidal | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 4.5 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 5.0 |
| Nico Drama of Exile | 2.5 |
| Regina Spektor Live in London | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Songs | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor 11:11 | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 3.5 |
| The Carpenters Close to You | 4.0 |
| Lene Lovich March | 2.5 |
| Lene Lovich Flex | 4.0 |
| Lene Lovich Shadows & Dust | 3.5 |
| Lene Lovich Stateless | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Aerial | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush The Red Shoes | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush Lionheart | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.5 |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming | 5.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Bjork Volta | 2.5 |
| 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. |
| Bjork Medulla | 3.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.0 |
| Bjork Bjork | 1.5 |
| Bjork Debut | 4.5 |
| Bjork Post | 4.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 5.0 |
| Nico Camera Obscura | 3.0 |
| Nico Desertshore | 4.5 |
| Nico Chelsea Girl | 4.0 |
| Enya Dark Sky Island | 3.0 |
| Sia Everyday Is Christmas | 1.5 |
| Everyday is most certainly not Christmas if you're playing this album |
| Bjork Utopia | 3.5 |
| 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 Onlysee | 2.0 |
| Enya A Day Without Rain | 3.5 |
| Enya The Memory of Trees | 3.5 |
| Enya Enya (The Celts) | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.0 |
| Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual | 4.5 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 5.0 |
| Jewel Spirit | 4.0 |
| Jewel Pieces of You | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Joni Mitchell Blue | 5.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
