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Album	You	Global	Diff
Crazysexycool TLC	5	3.07	+1.93
Solid Air John Martyn	5	3.16	+1.84
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	5	3.27	+1.73
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.37	+1.63
xx The xx	5	3.37	+1.63
25 Adele	5	3.37	+1.63
Either Or Elliott Smith	5	3.38	+1.62
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	5	3.39	+1.61
Five Leaves Left Nick Drake	5	3.47	+1.53
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.49	+1.51

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Cars The Cars	1	3.67	-2.67
Seventeen Seconds The Cure	1	3.38	-2.38
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	1	3.37	-2.37
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	1	3.36	-2.36
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	1	3.33	-2.33
Made In Japan Deep Purple	1	3.29	-2.29
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy	1	3.23	-2.23
Marcus Garvey Burning Spear	1	3.19	-2.19
Screamadelica Primal Scream	1	3.17	-2.17
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	1	3.15	-2.15

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	3	4.67
Nick Drake	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	5
Van Morrison	2	5
Adele	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Byrds	2	1
Morrissey	2	1
Deep Purple	2	1

5-Star Albums (32)

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Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

This is my favorite album of all time, must listen!

4 likes

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

One of my favorite albums.

2 likes

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

One of my favorite bands, anything with John Frusciante is great!

1 likes

1-Star Albums (38)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

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Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Pretty good, I remember listening to this about 10 years ago and it was definitely unlike anything I had heard before. Listening to it again in 2021, it still holds up but doesn't really sit well with me since I'm not a huge metal fan.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

"Into my arms" sounds very familiar, I'm sure I heard it somewhere without realizing it was Nick Cave.

London Calling

The Clash

3/5

Has a very similar sound to all songs throughout the album. I like the title song but other songs were mostly misses.

The Cars

1/5

I don't know any music by The Cars so this was my first time hearing them and I am not impressed.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Relaxing and enjoyable.

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Solid but not a fan of Lloyd Cole's voice.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Pretty good but sounds the same throughout the album.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

One of my favorite bands, anything with John Frusciante is great!

Roxy Music

1/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Pretty good, but not my favorite Rolling Stones

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

This has been one of the more promising albums I've heard so far. I think it's a bit mellow for morning listenings while working but I will come back to this.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Reminds me very much of Vangelis' music. Had to listen to "Fields of Coral" by Vangelis in the middle of this. I think since its release, there have been better version of synth instrumental albums that I've discovered before this so it's going to be an unremarkable album in my opinion.

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

La Grange is the best song.

The Stone Roses

2/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

1/5

Joan Baez

4/5

Interesting sound, love the House of the Rising Sun cover

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Pretty good live album, haven't heard Allman Brothers Band too much to comment on how it compares to their studio albums.

Le Tigre

2/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

This is my favorite album of all time, must listen!

Eagles

3/5

I think I've heard a different Eagles album so this one surprised me with some songs I hadn't heard.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

Just for Stan this gets 5 stars

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Great album, has "It's tricky" and "Walk this way" which are pretty popular to this day and overall this album sounds good.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

One of my favorite folk / singer-songwriter albums. Even with a few not so great songs, overall the album is amazing.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Take me on is pretty much the best song on this album

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

2/5

Besides Sweet Dreams, nothing else stands out

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

Probably one of my top rap albums of all time, there are so many great songs on this. The vibe on this album is essentially the best overall.

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

One of my favorite albums.

Bert Jansch

3/5

I had only heard "Angie" from this album before listening to the whole thing. Overall, album is OK. "Angie" is the best song on the whole thing.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

Pretty typical of the era, nothing too exciting for me.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

I had heard "Dirty Work" before. Everything else is new to me.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

Not my cup of tea but she is very good at singing

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

1/5

Did not like it.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

This album has so much soul and heart, I can't put it into words. This opened my eyes to what music is and can be...

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

1/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

1/5

boring...

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

1/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

I tried but the last straw was the 2nd track on the album and I just couldn't continue...

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Interesting music but I didn't really enjoy it.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Voice is great, music not so great.

Debut

Björk

3/5

pretty interesting...

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

White Light

Gene Clark

2/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

3/5

You can tell this album has a lot of musical talent within it. I'm not a musician or a critic so I can't appreciate it as much as someone with an ear for that but it was fun to listen to.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

solid punk

Homework

Daft Punk

4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

pretty good overall, some heavy hitter songs but it's so limited in range

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

1/5

can't stand it

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

will forever live on as one of the best rap albums of all time.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

The intro track was weird. Where is my mind is a perfect grunge song. Gigantic is cool but a bit weird, this was maybe b/c it's early grunge and attempting things was kinda the cool thing to do ☺️

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

1/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

perfect

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

1/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

pretty good overall

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

pretty good overall

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

pretty good overall

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

pretty good overall

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

I like Neil Young but is not one of my faves by him.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

2/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

1/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

I'm sure this album has a great following but to me it kinda sounded loud and annoying

Songs Of Love And Hate

Leonard Cohen

2/5

He's good, but I don't like him that much.

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

This is a great discovery!

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

just wow!

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

great

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

pretty good

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

mid

Stardust

Willie Nelson

3/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

Couldn't get through it

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

frank zappa was on some good drugs

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

ehh

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

pretty good

Real Life

Magazine

1/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

2/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

1/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

pretty great, some songs that we nowadays make fun of like Wonderwall but it is amazing that it's not the only song on the album that's good.

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

You can see there's great things coming from Frank Ocean

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

3/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

1/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

One of the greatest albums of all time. It holds up well as a standard record of what a perfect album should be. The harmonizing, the writing, and the instruments in it are a combination that is rarely done well together.

Being There

Wilco

3/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

2/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

I'm torn between giving this a 4 or a 5 because in terms of its influence on hip hop music, it's a huge milestone. In terms of comparing it in hindsight to their other albums, the Tribe was just getting started. To review this album, it requires you do a circuit of 90s and early 2000s hip hop music before you attempt to appreciate just how well this album was produced and its lyrical content. It's easy to get a club banger with a good producer, it's almost just as easy to find a rapper who can put out a dozen or so lyrically dense songs but it's rare to see an album with timely yet timeless classics composed of good production, great lyrics, and lasting influence. It's easy to exempt those rating this below 4 stars are lacking in their ability to see the historical importance of a hip hop album when all you've been salivating over is heavily made up glam rock and stadium rock bands who have exhausted their audiences' eardrums to appreciate the subtle nuances of samples picked for the stereos of cheap cars.

Metallica

5/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

Only a few memorable songs, mostly just experimental work

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

The Score

Fugees

2/5