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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Madcap Laughs Syd Barrett	5	2.62	+2.38
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	5	2.67	+2.33
Among The Living Anthrax	5	2.85	+2.15
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.89	+2.11
Reign In Blood Slayer	5	2.96	+2.04
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators	5	2.96	+2.04
Spiderland Slint	5	2.98	+2.02
Sister Sonic Youth	5	3.02	+1.98
Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stereolab	5	3.02	+1.98
Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney	5	3.08	+1.92

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	1	3.44	-2.44
Homework Daft Punk	1	3.29	-2.29
Beautiful Freak Eels	1	3.28	-2.28
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	1	3.15	-2.15
The Bends Radiohead	2	4.01	-2.01
Copper Blue Sugar	1	2.97	-1.97
Leftism Leftfield	1	2.9	-1.9
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	2	3.9	-1.9
Arc Of A Diver Steve Winwood	1	2.88	-1.88
Destroyer KISS	1	2.86	-1.86

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
The Velvet Underground	3	4.67
Pink Floyd	3	4.67
Jimi Hendrix	2	5
Steely Dan	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

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Artist	Ratings
Radiohead	5, 2
Beatles	5, 3, 4, 2

5-Star Albums (63)

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The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Popular Reviews

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow · 18 likes

5/5

This is a beautiful album it needs to be felt, and feel it I do.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies · 16 likes

5/5

One of the best 60s psych rock albums of all time

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets · 15 likes

5/5

One of most British things I have heard, but it is fantastic!

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake · 12 likes

5/5

Dude made some of the best folk music ever. RIP

Palo Congo

Sabu · 11 likes

4/5

This might be one of my fav discoveries via using this generator. The Cuban rhythms on congo are very intoxicating and dancy. The chanty vocals add to a very nice atmosphere. Blue Note does not miss and this is a very very very good album.

1-Star Albums (9)

All Ratings

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Closer

Joy Division

3/5

overrated Joy Division record

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Very solid Hip-hop album!

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

2/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

3/5

Uplifting but little cheesy

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

Uplifting but chesy

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

god tier Singer-songwriter album

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

5/5

Thrash Classic

Berlin

Lou Reed

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Let me say this is my fav Wilco album, and it is very good. However, I am not a big fan of Jeff's voice and wilcos songs always feel a mishmash of experimentation and traditional songwriting that does not work well in coherence. This album has some of the best examples of songs where these two aspects of wilco come together perfectly and create magic. Unfortunately, it still has songs that dont do that and suffer. 3.5/5

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

did not age well. One fantastic song though

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

5/5

Wow this is great

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Best Kreftwerk album

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Excellent New Wave album

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

much better then I though it would be

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

2/5

dont mind when it is on but it's nothign special

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

1/5

Never liked The Damned I dont like this either

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Nice, easy soul and blues

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

Above Average indie rock album with one of the worst covers of all time

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Fuck yeah, this is one of my fav albums

New York Dolls

2/5

I can see the significance but I don't think this has aged as well as say The Stooges's stuff.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

5/5

One of most British things I have heard, but it is fantastic!

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

4/5

Dope

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

It's Hendrix it is great

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Classic!

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

meh

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

A great debut, but quite a bit outshined by her other works

Vespertine

Björk

5/5

Amazing Album

The Band

4/5

This is very very very good album, 4/5/5 for me

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Ahhh, this album is fabulous fun

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Ahhh, this album is fabulous fun

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

4/5

Solid Blues Rock Album

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Best Grunge album ever

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

if you at all know jazz this album should be in your radar

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

not my genre, but a good album

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

sounds very dated, cool music combos though I dont what it is the vocals or the production which does not appeal to me at all

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

alright

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Absolute Classic

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Good debut

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

One of the best 60s psych rock albums of all time

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

3/5

Pretty Sweet Indian Music Influence

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

GOAT Pop Punk

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

GOAT Pop Punk

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

Post rock orignator

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

4/5

Nice synth pop release

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Classic Rock Gem, but not the best by The Who. Oh the tom work on the drums is fabulous

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

5/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Awesome Jazz album

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

decent post punk album

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Awesome psycadaelic rock classic

Copper Blue

Sugar

1/5

terrible

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Perfect

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

It's got Bohemian Rhapsody but even without it its is a pretty good album.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

classic heavy metal!

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Ohhh this one is great!

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

solid RnB record

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Best talking heads album!

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

beautiful <3

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

absolute great

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

A catchy ass smiths album, just like the previous three.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

5/5

All doors is great!

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Surprisingly great folk album with some psychedelic elements

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Nice Techno Album

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

1/5

Meh, so dated!

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Damn that slide guitar

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

3/5

Elvis Costello! man he is the better Elvis. That being said, this is not one of my fav alums of his, like his new wave stuff better

Sister

Sonic Youth

5/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

One of the greats right here, the guitar is so influential.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

5/5

Downright harrowing!

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

very dancable pop rock album

Phrenology

The Roots

5/5

An amazing masterpiece!

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

king of blues!

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Its decent

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

1/5

not my type at all

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Excellent Album

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

I am very pleasantly surprised by this!

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Great new age album

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

very good folk record

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

pretty great hard rock album,

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

top tier grunge album

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

average rock album

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

cool album

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

5/5

S teir glam rock masterpiece

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Pretty cool latin jazz piece

Van Halen

2/5

Pink Flag

Wire

5/5

One of the defining records, I don't get wire's appeal usually but this album is an exception.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Dylan Magic!

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Zepplin's great

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

2/5

Nothing other than production stood out to me

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

funky masterpiece

Blur

3/5

song 2 is here but this album is just ok

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Awesome album

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

2/5

I dont really like vocal jazz

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

its cool

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Dude made some of the best folk music ever. RIP

Reign In Blood

Slayer

5/5

Soul crushing and demonic I love it!

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

cool smooth pop but not my genre

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Epic album. Outkast is stellar

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

4/5

pretty great grunge album

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

S tier thrash album!

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

PJ harvey does not miss

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

classic

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Proto garage rock, a pioneering album

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Decent proto punk

Low

David Bowie

5/5

One of the best David Bowie albums of all time. And that means it is perfect.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

A really really good prog record

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Classic Creedance

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

An interesting palette of sound and snarky lyrics capturing the woes of the middle class as was pertinent by the Britpop sentimentalities.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Poetic

British Steel

Judas Priest

3/5

heavy metal classic

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

5/5

Stunning piece of progressive rock

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Excellent album!

Homework

Daft Punk

1/5

never got into this too much

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Good album

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Excellent album

Destroyer

KISS

1/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

5/5

Signing Off

UB40

3/5

pretty good dub record!

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

Best Pavement

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

5/5

VU at its best

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

very very good alt rock album, it is nothing special but the songs are catchy well written and does not bog down

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

What can I say about this that has not been said before. I prefer Kid A and In Rainbows more than this that does not meanrhis one is not perfect

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

such a huge album both commercially and critically. So many hits!

LP1

FKA twigs

4/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

4/5

I did not expect to enjoy this as much, a seamless intersection of garage rock, alternative rock and post-hardcore with a garnish of noise.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

good alt-country record by a shitty man.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

best rhcp

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

S tier glam record

Suzanne Vega

3/5

Good singer songwriter album

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

In the context of nick cave's discog this is not my fav but even middle of the road nick cave album is great.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

Nice debut

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Night of the Swallow is one of my fav Kate Bush songs that lies in this album which is spectacular.

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

4/5

Very cool freak folk record

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

3/5

I do love Leonard Cohen, even if in the grander context of 70s Folk icons he falls behind the likes of Dylan and Joni. This album in particular has some of his most stripped back and bare songs that hit hard like 'Seems So Long Ago, Nancy'. Also, there is The Partisan which might be my fav Leonard song. The rest of the album is a little hit or miss for me.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

I have never heard of Earth Wind and Fire in a full LP capacity so this was a pleasant surprise. Sweet smooth soul+funk music, very relaxing and enjoyable. The production for 1975 is fantastic!! Not many songs stuck with me but I would surely revisit this.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

One of the best Rolling Stones album, so many great songs and flows very very nicely.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Best rolling stones album

Palo Congo

Sabu

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

A cool set of trip-hop songs, but not many songs of the record are memorable

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Metallica does not falter in their 4th installment, still is not as immediate as master of puppet and ride the lightning. Also One is my fav Metallica song ever.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

tis good not great, Paint it Black is a masterpiece though. 3.5/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

I love Tom Waits, he might just be my favorite singer-songwriter of all time. I consider this a transitional album, last album of his asylum years and that is why some of the songs do not hit as hard and the album feels a little disjointed. He would go ahead to make swordfishtrombones and if this album was his launching point to that I respect the hell out of it. 3.5/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Joni Mitchell has made more than a couple of perfect albums in her career, this is one of them. So good

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

I can see some pretty cool ideas in here. I love the drones and at points noisy guitars. I do not care for vocals though, whenever it comes in I am jarred. Also the overly compressed and drum production hurts the record at times. 2.5/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

This is a beautiful album it needs to be felt, and feel it I do.

Leftism

Leftfield

1/5

The only album so far I could not get through, not coz it tested my patience but I know this is so not my jam very tropical and bouncy electronic music. Sure some people will love and I do appreciate the array of sounds they use in the songs I heard but this is my personal rating and I have tried but I cannot open up to this sound 1.5/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

ok Record, never been a big Who fan though

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Solid album but also vastly overrated, Pink Floyd has at least 3 better albums than this but I don't get why this one gets all the love. Still, 4/5 and has my fav Pink Floyd song -- The Great Gig In The Sky

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

I am big on Smiths but never heard any of Morrissey's solo work, this is pretty great I am surprised that he holds up without Johnny Marr. Also, Mark Ronson's production is great and filled with obvious glam-rock sensibilities.

Beautiful Freak

Eels

1/5

Nothing wrong with this record, it a decent indie offering but is it 1001 essential album list material -- most definitely not, I have heard albums that I hated on this list whose placement I can definitely justify but this is probably the first one for which I cant do that. 1/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Excellent Album -- Masterclass in electric guitar and blues rock.

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

I am not a big fan at all, too long not too many songs that stick out

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

Pretty cool indie-pop record, catchy songs, and a sort of darker atmosphere that I like quite a bit.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

alright power pop album, some tracks slaps but really nothing special.

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Funking funktastic

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

It pretty good synthpop, but I was not super crazy about all the songs. As a first experience to Sinead's work I think this left me wanting to check out more which is a win in my book

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

pretty chill folk/country album I really liked some tracks like Our Private Life.

Nixon

Lambchop

4/5

Slick grand and well structured indie rock. I am surprised how much I enjoyed this album. Instantly reels you in.

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Its good, and inspired at points. That being said not very memorable

Abbey Road

Beatles

3/5

yeah yeah its Beatles its a fantastic set of songs. But as an album it is pretty inconsistent nowhere as gratifying listen as say Revolver or Sgt Peppers so 3/5

Real Life

Magazine

2/5

Pretty cool rock record, but not many songs stuck with me.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

Cool, but nothing special

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Freaking fantastic

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Excellent Cure offering. It captures the melancholy perfectly. Not my favorite from the trilogy cure album, but it is still a remarkable piece of work.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Masterpiece

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

5/5

My fav Beach Boys album, I know this is a controvercial take but something about these batch of songs just resonate so hard with me.

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Beginning of shoegaze, but will pales in comparison to Loveless. Sill great though