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Album	You	Global	Diff
Connected Stereo MC's	5	2.94	+2.06
Post Orgasmic Chill Skunk Anansie	5	2.99	+2.01
Make Yourself Incubus	5	3.07	+1.93
You're Living All Over Me Dinosaur Jr.	5	3.08	+1.92
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell	5	3.12	+1.88
Run-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C.	5	3.13	+1.87
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	5	3.24	+1.76
Risque CHIC	5	3.27	+1.73
Celebrity Skin Hole	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Closer Joy Division	1	3.22	-2.22
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	1	2.95	-1.95
When I Was Born For The 7th Time Cornershop	1	2.92	-1.92
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	1	2.73	-1.73
Station To Station David Bowie	2	3.7	-1.7
Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart	1	2.61	-1.61
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.56	-1.56
1984 Van Halen	2	3.51	-1.51
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	2	3.47	-1.47
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45

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Artist	Albums	Average
CHIC	2	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Joy Division	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (40)

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Popular Reviews

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

I used to be very harsh about this album and say it was boring middle of the road rubbish but now I’m old I can appreciate that it’s actually really nice and relaxing.

31 likes

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

I really don’t like Tom Waits’ music and this album hasn’t changed my opinion.

18 likes

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Not what I was expecting at all. Boring middle of the road ballads - no thanks!

15 likes

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Found it irritating so turned it down and then forgot it was playing

12 likes

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

5/5

Forgot how good this is

5 likes

1-Star Albums (6)

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1984

Van Halen

2/5

Boring and didn’t hold my attention but glad it was quite a short album.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Better than expected

Faith

George Michael

3/5

Inoffensive background music

Technique

New Order

3/5

Ok but not amazing

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Never heard of Fela Kuti before. Very short album but quite good as background music in a bar.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Easy listening.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

2/5

Too hard for me but I like two of the songs.

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Bit too experimental for me

John Prine

4/5

Much better than expected. Reminded me of Bob Dylan. Would listen to it again.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Not as bad as I was expecting.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Good album would listen again

Teen Dream

Beach House

4/5

Never heard of this band before. Going to listen to more of them though.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

Not as good as Mechanical Animals

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Never heard this album before and really enjoyed it.

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Another new band for me. Sounded surprisingly current for a 70s album.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Good but not their best album.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Good album. Have listened to this many times.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Not my thing.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Didn’t enjoy it and didn’t even notice when it had finished.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

Probably worth a second listen

Let It Be

The Replacements

4/5

Didn’t realise Unsatisfied was by them.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

Pleasant enough

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Had to turn this down to get through it. I find his voice very irritating.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Like the Bob Dylan inspired track

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

Enjoyed this album

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Inoffensive

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Not my kind of music

Black Sabbath

3/5

Not as hard as I was expecting

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Found it irritating so turned it down and then forgot it was playing

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Good album but a few filler tracks

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

Listened to it twice. It was that good!

The Clash

3/5

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

I really don’t like Tom Waits’ music and this album hasn’t changed my opinion.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

Will listen again

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Great album but not my favourite Bob Dylan album

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

Ace

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

1/5

Awful

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

5/5

Really enjoyed it and will listen to some of their other albums.

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Nice background music

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Short influential album

The Who Sell Out

The Who

3/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

Several big hitters

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Ok for country

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

Had to turn it off

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Didn’t really hold my attention

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Surprisingly good

2112

Rush

2/5

Had to turn it off because it was making me mad

Risque

CHIC

5/5

Short album of absolute bangers

Dog Man Star

Suede

2/5

Boring drony music

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

Really liked it

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Classic album

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

One of my faves

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Didn’t even have love will tear us apart on it. Massively overrated.

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Really nice album

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Overrated. Had to turn it off as it was annoying me.

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

My favourite offspring album.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Not a fan. Too shouty for me. Had to turn it off.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

First 5 songs are excellent but goes down hill a bit from there. Still really good though.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Great album

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

Enjoyed this from a band that was new to me

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Nice little album

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Ok, not particularly memorable

Fever Ray

4/5

Liked this and will listen to it again

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

3/5

A couple of good songs but I found the album quite stressful to listen to.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

4/5

Really surprised by this album. Thought I’d hate it but really enjoyed it. Reminded me of the velvet underground and nico album.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Alright but didn’t blow me away

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Really good album. I know it’s over is one of my all time favourite songs.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

Nice and funky

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Too folky for me but I can see why people like it

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

A couple of ok songs but the rest of the album is too psychedelic/annoying for me

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

Sounded like a jungle noises sleep machine. Had to turn it off.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Really surprised my this. Didn’t realise GD were so folky.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

Liked it a lot and will listen to more of her stuff in the future.

Make Yourself

Incubus

5/5

One of my all time favourite albums. Loved it when I was a teenager and still do now.

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Not really my kind of thing but didn’t hate it so 3 stars seems about right

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

Liked the first track

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Nice voice but not really my thing

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Ok but not really my type of music

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Not what I was expecting at all. Boring middle of the road ballads - no thanks!

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Didn’t really get it

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Alright but not amazing

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Excellent and incidentally my husband’s favourite album of all time.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Love listening to this album. God Only knows brings back a lot of nostalgic memories for me.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

2/5

Listened to it twice and it annoyed me both times.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

Never heard of this band before. Quite liked the first few songs but then got a bit bored of it before the end.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Ok as background music

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

Overrated. Found it irritating and got bored before the end of the album

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

One of my favourite albums. Excellent from start to finish.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Have tried to get into pixies over the years but have never found them to be as good as everyone seems to say they are!

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Good but a bit wharbly in places

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Really enjoyed this album. Great voice.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Really good album.

Fragile

Yes

2/5

Not my kind of music. Had to turn it off as found it got too irritating.

Soul Mining

The The

3/5

This album was OK but slightly irritating

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Timeless

Skylarking

XTC

4/5

Enjoyed this. Not heard of this band before and was pleasantly surprised.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

4 maybe purely on the strength of every breath you take. Strange to have an album where all the main singles are on the second half.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

One of my absolute favourite albums. Regularly listen to this and it never gets old. Every track is excellent.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Ace! Made me want to jump up and dance.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

This would have been a 5 maybe ten years ago but the violence and misogyny is a bit too much for me these days.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I usually say I don’t like led zeppelin but I actually enjoyed this album.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Great album

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

4/5

I found the first song irritating and thought I might have to abandon the album. Really improved after the first song and I enjoyed it.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Enjoyed this very short album

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Always want to like Nico coz she’s cool but I find the music quite grating

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Such a good album

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Probably the best salsa music I’ve ever heard but I’m not really a fan of salsa

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Alright as background music

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

4/5

Jazzy and smooth

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Liked it. Reminded me of Emina and gravediggers

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Good background music. Really nice voice and not too “country”.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Excellent album full of bangers

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Great album but I do find his voice can jar a little bit at times

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Alright background music played quietly

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

This was going to be 5 based on the first four tracks but then I felt it went downhill a bit and became a bit whiny/samey.

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Liked the first through tracks but then got samey

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Nice album but a bit whiny

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Such a good album. Brings a smile to my face.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Only half listened to this. I really like a couple of songs by this band but this album as a whole didn’t really do it for me.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Awesome

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Don’t know how anyone could give this less than 5 stars really.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Quite good

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Good and short

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Too shouty for me

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

4/5

I was expecting this to be dodgy dance music (not sure why) so I was happily surprised and enjoyed it.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

2/5

Too jazzy

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

Obviously everyone loves this. I thought it was fine but not something I would want to listen to again.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Classic album and really nice to listen to.

Connected

Stereo MC's

5/5

Really liked this and will definitely listen again.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

5/5

My second favourite album by my favourite band. I have loved Hole since I was a teenager and now in my late 30s I still listen to them several times a week. This album reminds me of being a teenager in the 90s and trying to pretend I didn’t like this album because Courtney Love had “sold out” and made a pop album but secretly I loved it. Listening to this album now still makes me dream about moving to California.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Nice album.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Great album but not as good as The Bends

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Really liked this and can see it will have influenced a lot of more recent bands. Reminded me of the libertines a bit.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Ok but not as amazing as everyone says IMO. I find his voice quite irritating.

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

3/5

Pleasant enough but a bit dull

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Amazing album. One of my faves.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Funky

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

A couple of bangers and obviously it’s a good album but maybe not one I would choose to listen to all the way through.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Thought I didn’t like DJ Shadow but think I just haven’t listened properly before.

Parklife

Blur

5/5

Great album and much more varied than I remember

The Score

Fugees

5/5

Great album

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Elastica

4/5

Really liked this.

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

5/5

Forgot how good this is

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

I find his voice quite difficult but I did like a couple of the tracks

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Christmassy!

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Nice

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Excellent album

Paul Simon

5/5

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Not on Spotify so a bit annoying to listen to so just clicked through the tracks quickly. Probably deserves another more thorough listen at some point.

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Alright for elvis

Odelay

Beck

5/5

Really nice easy listening album

C'est Chic

CHIC

5/5

Bangers

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

Really liked this. Thought it would be too hard but it was just the right level!

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

5/5

An old favourite that I used to enjoy dancing to with my sister when I was a child.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

1/5

Had to turn it off after a couple of songs as I found it very irritating.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Liked it but didn’t love it

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Good but not my favourite chillis album. My view of this band also changed after reading Anthony Keides’ autobiography.

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

I used to be very harsh about this album and say it was boring middle of the road rubbish but now I’m old I can appreciate that it’s actually really nice and relaxing.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Alright but not really as good as I was expecting

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Only listened to one track and that was enough.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Not a fan of tina’s voice