Album Tier List

A mix of vintage pop, latin jazz, and classical with multilingual vocals. It is the very first album we listened to for this project and somehow remains the uncontested champion.

Dream pop with great vocals and a sparse jazzy backdrop. Beautiful musical aesthetic. It sounds the way the cover looks.

An eclectic mix of pop, swing, jazz, and more. It's captivating, energetic and exciting.

Quirky indie pop that is absolutely drenched in personality. Unique voice.

A Norwegian synthpop barrage of catchy and chill beats.

It's cold nostalgic black metal and of course we love it.

Japanese indie rock! It's great!

Indie rock album with lots of little musical surprises. Local band. It doesn't seem to be available online, so you can download the full album here.

If you need some chill ambient music with weird noises in it, look no further.

No one can deny that 90's hip hop club banger sound is one of the most fun styles ever.

It's just really pleasant rock/pop with really pleasant vocals.

A folk/indie rock kind of vibe by a local artist that moved here from France.

Sometimes you just have a craving that only hard electronic music can fill.

German industrial electronic. Unique, interesting and cool.

Dreamy art-pop. It's really pleasant to listen to and all, but on an unrelated note, the thought of someone actually making a sequel to an entire genre is funny to us.

I don't know if you knew this but swing music is catchy.

We learned that "acid jazz" means funky jazz and that it's good.

This album goes from reggae to jazz to country. It's cool. It doesn't seem to be available online, so you can download the full album here.

Chill beats to enter a stasis pod and drift in a derelict ship to.

Excellent production, and I like the desert blues sound.

This lady could probably singlehandedly write the soundtrack to the next Witcher game.

Would have been better if it leaned even harder into bluegrass over country, but still good.

Classical music. I'm not musically educated enough to comment further.

80's synthpop. I recognized this band after listening, just didn't recognize the name.

Unique indie pop that we appreciate objectively as a really good album that just isn't suited to our tastes.

A family that plays mariachi together! That's pretty cool.

The theme song for your next creepypasta.

The background music of our childhood. We don't like getting compilation albums but it was only a dollar.

Semi-ambient electronic music, like something out of a small-scale indie game.

Indie rock where you can tell that the band made an effort keep things changing throughout the album.

Jazzy and bluesy, this band establishes its own style but doesn't fulfill the potential I sense in them.

Better than expected 80's pop.

Experimental metal that we are not degenerate enough to fully appreciate. Super weird.

We managed to get a black metal album and it ended up being generic. Shame.

That large reverby electronic pop style that was trendy a while back. Local band.

This album could have been something special if it was less deathcore and/or leaned more into its occasional electronic style.

Turns out Christian music doesn't have to be boring. Who knew?

80's pop rock. I'm embarrased we didn't already know about her, considering she's a famous Arizona native.

Good electronic music, but it didn't get our blood pumping despite it trying to.

Latin indie rock with a sus lyric that stood out in one of the songs.

Half the time it's great blues rock, the other half it's "what are you even talking about right now?"

Latin jazz that starts off strong, but we both wish it used vocals more.

Welcome to my haunted Minecraft server.

La Sera but less good. Less Sera.

If you told me this was an early Toxic Holocaust demo, I'd believe you.

Rap with amusing production values. They seem like cool dudes.

Pop with some interesting moments. I recognized this band after listening, just didn't recognize the name.

Beautiful soulful voice, but it's too focused on that.

The keyboards stand out but the rest is rock that didn't rock us.

Folk/indie rock that isn't exactly our thing but still good.

A few absolute bangers held back by other "kinda good" songs. Not afraid to get weird.

Generic indie rock, but not bad at all. Local band.

Funky old-school vibe. I recognized this band after listening, just didn't recognize the name.

Beautiful voice... but too vocals-focused.

Something cool and different, but not engaging enough to rank super high.

We like the funk aspect more than the hip hop.

What a weird voice. We don't hate it though and a couple of the songs are... amusing.

Not our favorite style of punk, but it's okay.

The kind of indie rock that the white girls back in high school liked.

Bluesy album that, while pleasant, wasn't always as engaging as we would have liked.

J-Pop that would be pretty okay if it weren't for the fact that we got sick of the guy's voice by the end.

Nostalgia for an era of music we never participated in but did witness.

90's style electronic. It's fine, but it serves better as background music.

Cool sonic-wall sound but it turns out you still have to write interesting songs.

Teasing us with one bluegrass song. The rest is decent. Huge fan of the album art.

I have a whole headcanon about this album. They're a jazz band hired to play background music for a restaurant. They start off strong but start to get bored and sleepy after a while so they start playing weird stuff to stay awake. Then they finish it off with their usual finisher, collect their check, and go home.

Maybe the greatest album art of all time? Plus he has a song about how he loves Mexicans. Local artist.

Ethereal and reverby. Usually good things but the songs feel like they drag on too long.

Indie rock with some beautiful sections in an unfortunately mostly boring album.

Not sure what genre this is. It's okay.

You'd think with how much natives love metal these guys would go a bit harder. (Shoutout to my favorite Navajo band, Mutilated Tyrant)

80's alt rock. I recognized this band after listening, just didn't recognize the name.

Boring indie rock.

African pop that would be okay if it wasn't so repetitive.

Better than we expected, but we were expecting bad.

New wave. I recognized this band after listening, just didn't recognize the name.

Indie rock that tries too hard to be quirky.

Reggae. I appreciate the random "sing along!" shouts throughout the album.

Reggae that's good for laying in a hammock and drinking from a coconut.

Generic rock. It's mostly fine.

Generic 90's radio rock.

It sounds like I'm walking around town in a JRPG.

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It's like the music that metal bands play when they're about to go on stage, but they never go on stage and the music keeps going.

The exact border between good and bad. Carla is not good music. Carla is not bad music. Carla merely is. She is a tool to be exploited for the purposes of rating other music. If it is good music, it is better than Carla. If it is bad music, it is worse than Carla.

Cover bands... no thanks.

Remember Nu Metal? It's entertaining in a laugh-at kind of way.

A unique latin ska sound that is good in theory, but gets old. This seems like it should have been great.

Generic stereotypical garage rock band with bad vocals.

Aggressively boring rock.

So who are these people that actually like generic pop/rock like this?

Annoying voice on top of generic rock.

Pretty boring country.

I almost died of boredom, so in a way they really did bring me closer to Jesus.

I had to buy an energy drink to wake me up after listening to this. Not joking.

A victim of our unreasonable metal elitism.

Imagine making an album where the first song is a banger but the rest of it is trash.

I like girly indie rock. The cover suggested this was going to be girly indie rock. Instead we got whiny suburban white boy.

Just like one day we hope to find something even better than Pink Martini, we also hope to one day find something even worse than this.