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Album	You	Global	Diff
Central Reservation Beth Orton	5	3.05	+1.95
Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris	5	3.11	+1.89
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	5	3.62	+1.38
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	5	3.62	+1.38
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	5	3.64	+1.36
Strange Cargo III William Orbit	4	2.77	+1.23
Is This It The Strokes	5	3.81	+1.19
Fromohio fIREHOSE	4	2.88	+1.12
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	1	3.66	-2.66
Ramones Ramones	1	3.58	-2.58
The Wildest! Louis Prima	1	3.53	-2.53
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	1	3.38	-2.38
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	1	3.33	-2.33
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	1	3.32	-2.32
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	1	3.31	-2.31
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	1	3.3	-2.3
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	2	4.3	-2.3
Ace of Spades Motörhead	1	3.29	-2.29

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bruce Springsteen	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Sonic Youth	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (11)

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Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Where's the option for 7 stars?

11 likes

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Where's the option for 6 stars?

2 likes

1-Star Albums (28)

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

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American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

1/5

Ananda Shankar

1/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

2/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

1/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

1/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

The Stooges

1/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Debut

Björk

3/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Some great, some meh, too long overall

Repeater

Fugazi

1/5

I gave up, too much shouting

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Not really my type of music but fairly inoffensive

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

Had never heard of him before. Pleasant

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

It's good fun but after 10-15 minutes that's enough

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Kind of inoffensive 90s stuff but a bit dull on the whole

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

It's not as good as Moondance or Blowin' your mind but it's still damn good

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Great album, not exciting but the band aren't exciting.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

1/5

Not for me

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Preferred their slightly later stuff (Nimrod, Warning) when I was younger, this one never really grabbed me. Not much has changed.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Never listened to this album before but recognised pretty much every song. Very pleasant

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

1/5

Gave up. Not for me.

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

I really want to like Neil Young but he's just quite boring

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

I've never really listened to Prince but this is bloody brilliant

Technique

New Order

3/5

Fine, wouldn't seek it out.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

fun

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

1/5

rubbish

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

1/5

Not for me

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

1/5

Too shouty, not for me

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Boring

Buena Vista Social Club

1/5

I'm sure it's nice if you're Spanish

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Not really my type of music but quite enjoyable nonetheless

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

2/5

Starts off nice enough. Turns into a slog quickly. Not a fan of these long songs with big solos at the end.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Nice enough

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Nice enough, very Sheryl Crow. A bit long after a few tracks.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

2/5

I mean it's a musical masterpiece........but it's pretty damn boring isn't it? Does it ever end?

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

Arrested Development

1/5

Not for me. Knew after I'd pressed play that I'd made a huge mistake.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Where's the option for 6 stars?

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

2/5

Fine background music. Not more than that for me.

Ramones

1/5

Don't 'get' the Ramones at all.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

1/5

Not for me

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Rumours. No, all true. Easy 5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

2/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Nice enough. Bit boring.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

1/5

meh

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

1/5

nah not for me

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Not massively familiar other than the big ones. Nice.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

1/5

nah not for me

Faith

George Michael

2/5

The title track is a tune. The rest, meh.

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

This is boring. Think it must be their later stuff that gets a bit more uplifting?

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Great singles. A bit much as an album, all very similar.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

Fun, will probably never listen again

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

very beatlesy

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Liked it, a bit long / repetitive, think if I listened a few more times I'd really get into it

Phrenology

The Roots

1/5

got to the third track. Not for me.

Violent Femmes

4/5

Good, catchy

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

5/5

Really liked this - need to listen again

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Where's the option for 7 stars?

Palo Congo

Sabu

1/5

not for me

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

Not my type of music but not the worst

The Cars

3/5

Easy rock listening, knew a few of the songs

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Nice enough

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

nah

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

2/5

meh

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Good

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Quite boring apart from the hits

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

1/5

not for me

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

4/5

Some good some a bit long

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Good fun a bit much to listen to in one listen

Slipknot

1/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Kind of boring

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

boring

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

1/5

Jazz piano, no thanks

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Proper 80s

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Nice enough. Bit samey.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

5/5

Very nice

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

4/5

Not bad, kind of Pearl Jam

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

4/5

Good background music, not much more

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

Quite enjoyed actually, not as heavy as I thought it would be

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

Again pleasantly surprised although probably wouldn't seek out

Wild Gift

1/5

shite

Caetano Veloso

2/5

Fine. Not into it though.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

4/5

Preferred their most recent one but still ok

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

Enjoyable

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Fine, not that exciting

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

1/5

Rubbish. Just shouting.

Tical

Method Man

1/5

Nope

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

2/5

Yeah fine, wouldn't seek it out

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

4/5

Yeah ok

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Na didn't like

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Muffled incoherent noise

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Enjoyed it, didn't expect to

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

1/5

Nah, too shouty.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Kind of boring

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

3-4 really good songs and the rest is just boring

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

2/5

Nah, just shouting

Sister

Sonic Youth

2/5

Nah. Why so much shouting?

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

fine, too long

Third

Portishead

1/5

boring

Like A Prayer

Madonna

2/5

meh