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Album	You	Global	Diff
Gasoline Alley Rod Stewart	5	2.95	+2.05
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.95	+2.05
For Your Pleasure Roxy Music	5	2.98	+2.02
Future Days Can	5	3	+2
School's Out Alice Cooper	5	3.2	+1.8
Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds	5	3.22	+1.78
There's A Riot Goin' On Sly & The Family Stone	5	3.29	+1.71
Ace of Spades Motörhead	5	3.29	+1.71
The Yes Album Yes	5	3.31	+1.69
Raw Power The Stooges	5	3.32	+1.68

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Live Through This Hole	2	3.29	-1.29
Lady Soul Aretha Franklin	3	4.05	-1.05
Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3	4.02	-1.02

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	4.67
Van Halen	2	5
Sly & The Family Stone	2	5
David Bowie	2	5
Blur	2	5
The Band	2	5
Beatles	2	5

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Popular Reviews

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

It’s honestly amazing how influential this album is when you look at it from the surface level. On the surface it’s just simple songs with lots of distortion over them, but when you cut into the nitty gritty of it, you find an amazing album consisting of some very risqué lyrics and themes. The songs themselves are a stunning example of how less is more in music. As demonstrated with the lack of any competently forged riffs on these albums, but more a collection of chords that form a melody and the lack of any form of cymbals in the drums.

20 likes

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

A brilliant prog album that showcases Yes at their peak. It shows them moving away from making a regular album with 8 songs on it to having 6 songs where some are extended epics and others are quick and easy. Listened to this one before and it’s still easy to lose yourself in

7 likes

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

An amazing debut from the little band that could These guys combination of folk and excellent vocals caused the whole late 60’s rock scene turn their head and look at what these guys were doing. Hell the album make Cream break up due to it being that damn good.

6 likes

Iron Maiden

5/5

Iron Maiden’s brutal debut is a classic. It’s just raw energy captured in 8 tracks of brilliance.

5 likes

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

A great album that shows Sly and the Family busting out tons of funk classics that can all stand (heh) tall when separated. I will say that, whilst I do kinda prefer the versions of the songs done during their segment of the Woodstock concert, as they had a fire that’s not captured in the album. This isn’t to say the album versions aren’t good, they’re still excellent and showcase the psychedelic side that the songs have.

4 likes

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London Calling

The Clash

5/5

London Calling is a legendary album that’s well worth a listen I’ve listened to it beforehand (well before this point) and I can still revisit it without any issue (just depends on me wanting to listen to the Clash)

The Yes Album

Yes

5/5

Van Halen

5/5

An amazing debut from one of the best bands that basically created the whole genre of hair metal and thusly hundreds of rip offs. Every solo here shreds and all the songs can stand tall on their own.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

This is probably the most egregious case of an album cover being far better than the music presented. You look at this cover and say “HOLY SHIT, THIS ALBUMS GONNA MAKE BLACK SABBATH LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF PUSSIES” then you listen to the music and hear it’s a sappy musical. On the musical side, it’s not awful, it has some great moments and feels kind of ambitious for what it is. The issue is that it just doesn’t have something to hook me in. I’d be reminisced to not mention the legendary moments where Top Gear (the good version) toon the piss out of the title track.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

This is an alright album. The songs didn’t really stick with me after listening to them and I doubt I’ll be humming them any time soon. But it’s still an interesting listen. Each song does something that allows it to feel different when compared to the other songs also on here

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

This is quite a unique album. All the songs here are quite mellow hip-hop tracks but they all have a different flair to them due to the stylistic differences found on each song. This is all supported by a solid rock back heat

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

The album isn’t awful but the lyrics really make this album feel less like an album and more akin to a lecture. This can be seen as a positive, as it makes the songs have a real meaning and critique, but it could have been handled better. The instrumentals do leave a lot to desire but it does have some good style to it. The best point of the album is the straight outta left field cover of California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedy’s near the end.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

5/5

It’s quite a good album. The main selling point is Rod’s extreme vocal delivery.

Iron Maiden

5/5

Iron Maiden’s brutal debut is a classic. It’s just raw energy captured in 8 tracks of brilliance.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

A quirky album that’s quite unique

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

A nice bit of good ol Rock n Roll. I will admit that only a few songs on here do shine

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

This is quite a unique thing

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

A good old swing album, nothing too advanced.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

2/5

Meh. It’s decent but not very interesting

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

It’s a collection of really brief songs that are also fully formed pieces. So you get one song that does a thing, then the next song will do something else.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

This album is basically a indie folk version of Nick Drakes music. Very quite but it does have more instruments when compared to Nick Drake

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

The 5th time Dylan was able to make a come back album and have it rock the music world, especially with it's mortality based lyrics.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

This is where Joni Mitchell began her evolution from acoustics to a more rounded out sound.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Good rap album

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

It’s quite good, mixing their Latin music with the musical stylings of free form jazz to create an exiting listen

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Good album, nice to see Elvis do new things

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Dope Metal Album A proper Bass would have made it brilliant

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Common

4/5

If Marvin Gaye's What's Going On was a hip-hop album. It's a great combo of hip-hop and soul music

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

A nice album that blended tones of genres into a nice little pop package

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Great album, Queen was at the top of their game and produced a brilliant album out of it. It’s a little mix of everything and it’s all brilliant

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

5/5

A great album. Blends their art rock sound with the styles of Can

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Brilliant album that showcases Bowie at his darkest point (excluding Darkstar, but that album was recorded whilst he was at deaths door). Each song has its own unique identity and, even though they are lengthy tracks, don't outstay their welcome.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

If you like Elton John's Madman Across The Water, then this is like an American version of that album. Except replace the pop friendly lyrics of Elton with some deeper lyrics about Americans. (Although I will say that Elton has got a better voice than Randy).

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Mellow album with their best songs on it

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Probably one of the more influential pop albums of the previous decade. Quite solid overall

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

A more polished Stooges

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Pretty good Bobby Dylan album. Interesting layout of each side being a different style

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Can’t come up with a great review for all of these, but this is still an amazing album.

Blur

5/5

The album which showed that Blur could do more than just Brit-Pop (and could actually evolve unlike some other band at that time).

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

A solid album that asserted Neil Young as one of the best acts

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Nice little album this

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

It's a good listen

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

A great album that showcases the creativity of Sly

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Listen man, when White Rabbit peaks, I want you to throw the cassette player into the bathtub. What are you crazy? That'll send you straight through the wall.

School's Out

Alice Cooper

5/5

I'll admit, I'm surprised this one got into the book over the previous 2 Alice Cooper band albums (Love It To Death and Killer). This isn't to say it's a bad album, far from it, I just find it weaker overall when compared to those two albums. School's Out the song is a classic though and should be heralded as a classic.

Metallica

5/5

Metallica make a turn for the commercial side of metal and came out of it very well off. The songs have lost their aggressive thrash edge to them, however this is made up by having harder riffs.

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

It's alright, the first track was easily the best, no questions what so ever.

1984

Van Halen

5/5

A great album that showed Van Halen’s proficiency with the synth. R.I.P Eddie, lost a real O.G

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

It’s a very unique and pleasant album this. Mostly instrumental pieces with some avant guard flairs to it, that helps to keep it interesting.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Changed the rap game

Parklife

Blur

5/5

One of the all time great Britpop albums and the main reason why Blur were better than Oasis.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

The easiest way for me to describe this album is simple, it’s basically the beauty of a Studio Ghibli film condensed into an album, and no I’m not just saying that cause the album art kinda reminds me of them. Anyways, it’s a lovely little folk album.

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

This is what happens when CSN's brilliant harmonization with Neil Young's rocking guitar style.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Another solid release from Elvis Costello and his last proper release with The Attractions (in the 80's anyways).

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

It’s alright. I couldn’t get into it as much as I’d like.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Two disks filled with brilliant pop music.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

A good album with some really solid tracks

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

4/5

It's good

Ramones

5/5

Pure, unbridled PUNK ROCK This is the most important album in punk easy (not the best mind you, that honour would probably go to the band's third effort Rocket To Russia or London Calling).

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

It's definitely a more advanced pop album when compared to the rest of the 80's

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

It's a really solid album that shows Roxy Music could do commercial music whilst keeping true to their original image.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

The humble beginnings of Nick Drakes three album run and it was a gentle album with light instrumentals.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

It's a good listen and an early piece of success for Miles Davis before creating his jazz opus.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

One of the pillars of Bowie's loft discography and possibly his most iconic album cover. All the songs here are noticeable in their own unique way.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

5/5

The debut album from The Byrds and it's possibly their best album, but with their solid run from this album to Sweetheart, any of those albums could've taken top honours (not Turn! Turn! Turn! though, that one wasn't so good). It does rely on covers more than most of their other albums but that shouldn't be a detraction to the quality of the songs here.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

It's a solid album, but most of the tracks get overshadowed by the epic title track.

Bad Company

4/5

It was an alright album, a solid entry into the hard rock genre.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

There's not much to add with this album, it's an amazing album that made the hip-hop genre into something more vicious with their samples of hard rock and screeching vocals. It's certainly in the upper echelons of most influential hip hop albums of the 1980's

The Band

5/5

A yearning for Americana of old. This is the second of two showcases for why The Band are in high contention for being the best band of the 60's

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

3/5

It's an alright album, definitely feels like something to put on during a come down period.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

It's a solid album overall but it does lack a track as anthemic as For What It's Worth. It does also begin the trend of 'Neil Young is a bastard to work with'

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

One of the prime albums in Thrash and helped establish Anthrax as a force to be reckoned with in 4 way of ‘best thrash band’

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Just an amazing album that showcases all of the band members talents in really tight compositions

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

A (rolling) stone cold classic. Every song here has some flair to it. I can’t really explain why it’s so good overall, but it’s damn amazing and worth a listen

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

It’s a fine album, some tracks are amazing and others are decent

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

What else is there to say about this album? It’s bold, brash and belongs in the trash. 12 cuts of raw, unpolished music that took the country by storm when they first heard the marching opening to Holidays In The Sun all the way to the final cries of E.M.I on the aptly titled closer.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

4/5

U2’s return to form was an explosive one. It’s got some amazing singles that can and will stand up to any single released from their earlier albums.

Debut

Björk

3/5

It was a fine album, didn’t really remember much from it

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

The weakest of the bands 4 albums in the book. It’s still quite good, but the songs just don’t gel as well when compared to the contents of the other album.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

One of the more important hip hop albums of the 90’s. When one side of America had The Chronic, the other side had the god damn Clan

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

This album being in the book is a bit surprising, not to say it’s bad or anything, but it just feels a bit too novel to be in there. It’s basically the standard Fela Kuti affair but with Ginger Baker taking up some drum duties on the album. It’s a cool thing meeting another cool thing to make a cool thing.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

I mean, it’s fucking Sgt. Peppers What else is there to say about it? It’s one of the greatest albums to ever exist and it deserves that honour (although I probably wouldn’t say it’s THE greatest)

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Aside from the 9 minute epic, there’s still a ton of solid stuff on this album, it’s probably their album with their most well known stuff on it.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

It’s a cool album

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

This is the album that established both Neil Young and backing band Crazy Horse as forces to reckon with.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Honestly, Tainted Love is the only track worth re listening to

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Beck at his best It sees all of the ideas Beck put forward with Mellow Gold get fleshed out and expanded upon to create a real gem of an album

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

A solid album that showcases the best of Janis

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

Def Leppard attempts to re-create Thriller, somehow creates album where the deep cuts are better than the singles. It’s amazing how they tried to make every track a single calibre song yet the ones actually released as a single somehow manage to be the weak tracks on the album. (Well in saying that, one or two of them are solid).

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Out of his 3 albums. This albums the most well rounded. Containing an actual backing band rather than Drake himself plus Orchestra/Drake just playing guitar (in reference to his debut and last album respectively).

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Honestly, I don’t get why this album gets praised as one of the greatest ever made. It’s still an amazing album, don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t see it as being superior to albums like Let It Bleed or Sticky Fingers. Personally, I feel it could’ve been a solid 12 track album that didn’t need to be a double.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

This is probably the best album Paul made in his post Beatles career. It features some of his most iconic hits and a wide variety of delectable deep cuts that keep the listener invested until the final refrains of the title track after 1985 finishes

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

I like to think of this album as the dark horse candidate of the Talking Heads discography. It’s where they really started to get inventive with their music and also fleshing out their new Afro-Beat style which would take them to great heights

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

5/5

The album FUCKING RULES. Motörhead are one of the more consistent bands to ever come out, and it’s a damn shame only two of their albums were included in this book (Overkill and Bomber should’ve made the cut).

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

This was the album that made Dylan a hero to a certain section of the American public, via his mature acoustic guitar and his even more mature lyrics. There are better Dylan albums but this is the one with the best lyrics.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

A very slick album that shows off Curtis’s strengths

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

A rip roaring album that showcases how damn good Muddy Waters was. It’s got grit, it’s got amazing solos hell it even boogies and I don’t know what else you’d want from a blues album.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

4/5

The album that popularised James Taylor and god bless it for doing so.

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

4/5

This is probably the perfect example of an anit-pop album. The songs here are just ugly, brash pieces that shouldn't have been pressed onto a record... however, it's done in a fashion which makes it impossible to look away from it, kinda like a slow moving car crash. It's basically the 70's version of Alice Cooper's debut Pretties for You (which originally inspired Johnny's musical styling in the first place) so it's quite a fitting comparrison.

The Clash

4/5

A rock solid debut from the Clash which helped to prove that punk could be a bit more what the Pistols were doing

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

4/5

Jesus, this album is jam packed with songs, I highly recommend not listening to it in one sitting, rather spreading the listening experience out a bit. But when you do listen to it, you'll find it's a great album filled with heaps upon heaps of variety.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

Some good old British music. I didn't find it super engaging but I can see why people would like this

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

It's iconic. The final stand of the Bon Scott era of AC/DC and it was an amazing (If unintentional) way to send the man off. It start's with probably their most anthemic song and doesn't stop the amazing pace until the final refrains of Night Prowler. A personal highlight is the sudo deep cut of If You Want Blood

Live Through This

Hole

2/5

It’s alright. Kinda feels like a weaker Nirvana

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

An amazing album that showcases all the best of Jethro Tull

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

The start of CCR becoming one of the greatest bands of all time. Seriously, if they were able to exist for more years then I’d say they would’ve gone down in history as one of the greatest bands ever.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

This was a fine album to close the Smith’s discography on. Personally I find it weaker than the other two Smiths albums represented in the book, but it’s still a great listen

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

It's a really solid album

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

An alright listen, didn’t stick with me afterwards

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Simply put it’s the best Beatles album and should be classified as one of, if not the greatest album ever made. Words can’t do this album justice, it’s a magnificent piece of work that should be remembered for eternity

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

A masterpiece.

Cross

Justice

4/5

This is a masterclass in making dance music out of samples

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

His most ambitious album and one of his best

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

One of if not the best pop album of the 80’s. It’s slick and stylish without being overdramatic and becoming a parody of itself.

Future Days

Can

5/5

Some of the best Krautrock

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

3/5

Eh, it’s ugly in a good way

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

One of his finest albums. A great entry point for anyone who wants to hear The Boss

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

4/5

Great thrash album

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Good stuff

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

One of the best live albums. Would recommend the deluxe edition that had the whole show packed into it, but the original vinyl track list is still worth a shot

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

One of the Stones best albums, it was the last time Brian Jones had some real input for the songs and it shows.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

It’s jazz perfection and a good subset of music wouldn’t exist without it

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

A genuine piece of art. It’s able to make some of the ugliest sounds known to man and meld them into something beautiful