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Album	You	Global	Diff
Junkyard The Birthday Party	5	2.16	+2.84
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.86	+2.14
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	5	2.91	+2.09
The Gilded Palace Of Sin The Flying Burrito Brothers	5	2.93	+2.07
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter The Incredible String Band	4	2.15	+1.85
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.15	+1.85
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.29	+1.71
Raw Power The Stooges	5	3.32	+1.68
Blunderbuss Jack White	5	3.4	+1.6
Bat Out Of Hell Meat Loaf	5	3.44	+1.56

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	1	3.23	-2.23
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	1	3.22	-2.22
Melody A.M. Röyksopp	1	3.21	-2.21
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	1	3.15	-2.15
Drunk Thundercat	1	3.12	-2.12
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	1	3.01	-2.01
Smokers Delight Nightmares On Wax	1	2.91	-1.91
Vulnicura Björk	1	2.79	-1.79
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.7	-1.7
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	2	3.64	-1.64

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	2	5
The Rolling Stones	2	5
Tom Waits	3	4.33
David Bowie	3	4.33

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The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

The progenitors of country-rock/cosmic American music create one of the greatest albums of all time and Gram Parsons cements himself as one of my favorite songwriters and arrangers. 9.7/10 Best Tracks: "Christine's Tune" "Sin City" "Dark End of the Street" "Wheels" "Hot Burrito #1" "Hot Burrito #2"

8 likes

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

1/5

Less than halfway through the album I found myself waiting for it to be over. 5.8/10

8 likes

Drunk

Thundercat

1/5

Absolute utter fucking shite. I bet this rating is being generous but I will never re-listen to it in order to give it a 0. 1.8/10

7 likes

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Post-hardcore elevator music. 6.6/10

6 likes

Talvin Singh

1/5

Craptastic. 1.7/10

5 likes

1-Star Albums (11)

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

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Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

The Beach Boys' finest effort and one of the greatest albums of all time. 9.4/10 Best Tracks: "Wouldn't It Be Nice" "I'm Waiting for the Day" "Sloop John B" "God Only Knows"

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Within the realms of mediocrity, but there are some gems on the album. 7.4/10 Best Track: "Bittersweet Symphony"

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

I've never been the biggest fan of Beck, but this is a decent album. 7.2/10

Night Life

Ray Price

4/5

A very fine and soulful country album. 8.1/10

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Maybe not my normal cup of tea, but a few solid tracks with some great energy. 7.8/10

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Jazz is not something I normally listen to, so I tried to be objective, and it's a solid album and you can tell how revolutionary it was for its time. 7.0/10

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Possibly Bob Dylan's best album before he went electric and a personal favorite of mine. 9.4/10 Best Tracks: "Blowin' in the Wind" "Girl from the North Country" "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" "Bob Dylan's Dream"

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

A really beautiful melodic folk album. 8.9/10 Best Tracks: "Pink Moon" "Place to Be"

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Although I'm well acquainted with their hits I never really gave the Beastie Boys a proper listen, but this is a solid '80s rap album. 8.3/10 Best Tracks: "Fight For Your Right" "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Really nice, stylistic and artistic '80s synth-pop. 7.6/10

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Shankar achieves the mission statement laid out on the album cover; blending Eastern and Western music with the use of his sitar. 7.6/10

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

A decent '80s pop rock album with some 2-tone influence. 7.5/10 Best Track: "Our House"

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

A decent Britpop album with some great melodramatic and meloncholy tunes. 8.0/10 Best Track: "Common People"

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

A fantastic live album that highlights Cooke's magnificent charisma and vocal command. 8.2/10

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

1/5

Less than halfway through the album I found myself waiting for it to be over. 5.8/10

Like A Prayer

Madonna

3/5

A mildly decent pop album. 7.1/10

A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

While I didn't enjoy the music I did think it had a great message and really enjoyed the vocal interludes. 6.3/10

Phrenology

The Roots

2/5

A decent rap album, but nothing jumped out and grabbed me. 6.9/10

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

It is a tough tie between this and Exile on Main St. as to which is the best Stones album, but both are certainly two of the greatest albums of all time. 10/10 Best Tracks: "Brown Sugar" "Sway" "Wild Horses" "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" "Bitch" "I Got the Blues" "Dead Flowers" "Moonlight Mile"

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

I might not listen to it again, but it had some enjoyable moments. 7.1/10 Best Track: "Hey Ya!"

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Elevator music. 6.8/10

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Punk rock elevator music. 6.6/10

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

A mediocre classic rock album with two above average songs. 7.2/10

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

One of the highlight rock albums of the '60s. 9.0/10 Best Tracks: "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" "Michelle" "In My Life"

Crazysexycool

TLC

2/5

I didn't dislike it as much as I thought it would, but still not my taste. 6.3/10

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

1/5

Really not fond of this one. 5.9/10

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

1/5

Some songs were okay, but the experimental numbers were awful. 5.9/10

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

3/5

Although it lacks any stand-out tracks, this is a solid pre-disco Bee Gees album. 7.7/10

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Maybe not my kind of music, but it does have its merits. 6.3/10

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

A decent post-punk album, but not as impressive as some of their other work I've heard. 7.8/10

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

The kind of rock music that I might not realized existed if it played in the background somewhere. 6.8/10

Boston

3/5

A very solid, albeit cheesy, classic rock album that is technically proficient with a noticeable amount of soul. 7.9/10

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

If you got rid of half the songs you might have a mediocre album. 6.4/10

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Some fantastic swamp rock. 8.5/10 Best Tracks: "Green River" "Bad Moon Rising"

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

A solid blues-influenced punk album. 7.9/10

1999

Prince

3/5

Revolutionary '80s pop music. 7.9/10 Best Track: "1999"

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

A decent melodic folk album. 7.1/10

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

Not my cup of tea. 6.2/10

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

2/5

Not bad, but mediocre. 6.9/10

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

A very decent upbeat punk album. 8.0/10

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

I enjoyed it much more than I expected to. 7.7/10

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Very melodramatic, but a great post-punk album. 8.0/10

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

I imagine this is what it would sound like if Huey Lewis tried to do a metal album. 6.1/10

Elastica

3/5

Not bad. 7.2/10

The Stone Roses

2/5

Not good with a few mediocre tracks at best. 6.4/10

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

A solid Talking Heads album, but lacks a real kickass track. 8.0/10

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

A beautiful and melodic folk album. 8.3/10

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

A semi-decent blues-rock album. 7.5/10

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

4/5

One of Tom Waits' best albums and the beginning of his foray into the avante garde. 8.7/10

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Not what I like, but it was consistent. 6.1/10

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

An alright '90s rock album. 7.5/10

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

Not abrasive, but a bit boring. 6.7/10

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Not terrible but only when I tuned it out as background music. 6.3/10

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

2/5

Post-hardcore elevator music. 6.6/10

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

Not bad, just a bit boring. 6.7/10

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Nice and pleasant album, but nothing immensely profound to me. 7.0/10

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

A solid '60s rock album. 8.0/10

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

4/5

A very solid and lyrically rich rap album. 8.0/10

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Inoffensive, but just kind of boring. 6.8/10

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

A mediocre rock album, although with no definite faults. 7.0/10

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Probably my least favorite Talking Heads album, but it's still alright. 7.6/10 Best Track: "Once in a Lifetime"

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

Shit and boring; at one point my phone alarm went off and I didn't even realize the music had changed. 5.7/10

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

4/5

A pretty decent rock album with some nice ballads. 8.0/10

Drunk

Thundercat

1/5

Absolute utter fucking shite. I bet this rating is being generous but I will never re-listen to it in order to give it a 0. 1.8/10

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

One of the greatest Rolling Stones albums and one of the greatest albums of all time; a perfect showcase of the brilliance behind the Stones' blues and country influenced songwriting. 10/10 Best Tracks: "Rocks Off" "Casino Boogie" "Tumbling Dice" "Sweet Virginia" "Torn and Frayed" "Sweet Black Angel" "Loving Cup" "Happy" "Ventilator Blues" "Let It Loose" "All Down the Line" "Shine a Light" "Soul Survivor"

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

A little bit boring. 6.1/10

Caetano Veloso

4/5

A really pleasant and wonderful little album. 8.0/10

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

A solid rap album with some great lyrics, although lacking a solid hook on some songs. 7.8/10

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Just a mediocre rock album. 7.0/10

Talvin Singh

1/5

Craptastic. 1.7/10

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Some solid post-punk music, but I'm not sure I could delve too far into their sound without growing a bit tired of it. 8.0/10 Best Tracks: "Broken Face" "Where Is My Mind?"

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

What I expected. 6.4/10

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

It was alright. 7.3/10

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

5/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

2/5

A mediocre to boring rap album. 6.4/10

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Mediocre rock trying to do something special. 7.0/10

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

Not awful, but not what I like. 6.0/10

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

A great Bowie album, but unfortunately the genius of "Heroes" overshadows all other tracks. 8.2/10 Best Track: "Heroes"

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

A solid album with some interesting influences. 8.2/10

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Wank. 3.4/10

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

The album has a really strong start, but gets really mediocre after the first three songs. 7.5/10

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

Intriguing but ultimately mediocre. 7.4/10

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

A lovely country album. 8.1/10

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

1/5

Sucks. 3.9/10

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Decent rap music. 7.8/10

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

3/5

Not something I'd normally choose to listen to, but an alright first track and I can see how it was revolutionary. 7.1/10

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Some solid 80s rock 'n' roll. 7.9/10

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Alright 70s rock. 7.6/10

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

4/5

Some really solid psychedelic folk music. 8.0/10

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Some fantastic Detroit garage rock and blues. 8.3/10 Best Track: "Seven Nation Army"

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

3/5

A decent space-rock live album. 7.9/10

Blur

3/5

Decent alternative brit-rock from the '90s. 7.4/10

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

1/5

Crappy elevator music. 5.9/10

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

A decent Elvis Costello album, but definitely not his best. 7.9/10

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

A fantastic album from the heyday of psychedelic rock. 8.6/10 Best Tracks: "Somebody to Love" "White Rabbit"

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

A solid hip-hop album with some banging tracks, but it peters off at the end. 8.0/10 Best Tracks "Sure Shot" "Sabotage"

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Alright soft rock. 7.1/10

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

It starts off like a decent classic rock album, but ends like a mediocre one. 7.6/10

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Certainly a solid Bowie album. 8.4/10 Best Tracks: "Young Americans" "Fame"

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

Below average prog rock. 6.9/10

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

One of the greatest post-punk albums of all time. 9.4/10 Best Tracks: "See No Evil" "Venus"

Roots

Sepultura

2/5

Some interesting fusion moments but still not my thing. 6.7/10

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

One of the greatest rock epics of all time. 10/10 Best Tracks: "Bat Out of Hell" "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" "Heaven Can Wait" "All Revved Up with No Place to Go" "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" "For Crying Out Loud"

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Some nice funky jazz. 8.2/10

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

4/5

Mildy decent psychedelic take on Americana. 8.0/10

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Great music from the 1950s. 8.0/10

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Some solid alternative rock. 8.4/10 Best Tracks: “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” “The One I Love”

Blunderbuss

Jack White

5/5

A blistering , red hot, rock and blues album with some killer memorable tracks. 9.6/10 Best Tracks: "Sixteen Saltines" "Love Interruption" "Hypocritical Kiss" "Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boys" "I Guess I Should Go to Sleep"

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

4/5

Beautiful, melodic, dirty and sweet. 8.3/10 Best Track: "Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)"

Paul Simon

4/5

A nice folksy songwriters’ album. 8.3/10 Best Track: “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

4/5

Seriously soulful and heavy. 8.5/10

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

A decent and melodic pop album. 7.8/10

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

A solid psychedelically infused funk album. 8.9/10 Best Track: “Can You Get To That?”

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Some surprisingly decent soft rock, even if it does fall under the category of mass appeal. 8.8/10 Best Tracks: “The Chain” “You Make Loving Fun”

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

A beautiful folk-pop album without a clear hit track. 8.7/10

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

A beautiful sweet and sorrowful soul album. 9.1/10 Best Track: “Son of a Preacher Man”

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

Probably enjoyable if you like that kind of thing, but still not the worst pop album I ever heard. 6.9/10

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

I found it a bit underwhelming and homogenous, but not without its high points. 7.5/10

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

I was never terribly interested in the idea of a punk rock concept album, but this works for what it is. 8.9/10 Best Tracks: "Holiday" "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

5/5

Fiery sonic madness captured on tape; raw, visceral and real. 10/10 Best Tracks: "She's Hit" "Dead Joe" "The Dim Locator" "Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)" "Several Sins" "Big-Jesus-Trash-Can" "Kiss Me Black" "6" Gold Blade" "Junkyard"

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Funky and repetitive. 7.4/10

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

Majestic and beautiful. 9.7/10 Best Tracks: “Station to Station” “Golden Years” “Stay”

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

This is exactly what happens when an all-female punk band goes pop (and it's great). 8.9/10 Best Tracks: "Our Lips are Sealed" "How Much More" "We Got the Beat"

Pyromania

Def Leppard

3/5

If you like mediocre hair metal then this is your thing. 7.0/10

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My Bloody Valentine

3/5

It's not the worst thing I've ever heard, but it's nothing special either. 7.1/10

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Cute little songs. 7.8/10

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

It’s like really good elevator music. 7.9/10

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Electric and fierce, one of the finest rock albums ever written and a personal favorite of mine. 10/10 Best Tracks: "Rich" "Date with the Night" "Man" "Tick" "Black Tongue" "Pin" "Cold Light" "No No No" "Maps" "Y Control" "Modern Romance" "Poor Song"

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Soulful and fun, but lacks a truly dynamite track. 7.9/10

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

It gives me the impression that California is somewhere between kinda shite and mediocre. 6.6/10

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Easily my favourite jazz album of all time. 9.6/10 Best Tracks: “Blue Rondo à la Turk” “Take Five” “Three to Get Ready” “Kathy’s Waltz”

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Ambient tones. 7.7/10

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

Some solid '90s punk with a creative use of instrumentation. 8.2/10

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

Pure heart and soul channelled through contemporary blues. 9.8/10 Best Tracks: "Move Over" "Cry Baby" "Half Moon" "My Baby" "Me and Bobby McGee"

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

1/5

It just went on a bit, didn't it? 5.3/10

Vulnicura

Björk

1/5

Sorry Bjork, but the last half was unbearable. 4.7/10

The Cars

5/5

Might as well be a greatest hits album. 9.7/10 Best Tracks: "Good Times Roll" "My Best Friend's Girl" "Just What I Needed" "You're All I've Got Tonight" "Bye Bye Love"

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

One of the most perfect live albums ever created; from start to finish it is full of energy, passion and beauty. 10/10 Best Tracks: "She Belongs to Me" "4th Time Around" "Visions of Johanna" "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" "Desolation Row" "Just Like a Woman" "Mr. Tambourine Man" "Tell Me, Momma" "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" "One Too Many Mornings" "Ballad of a Thin Man" "Like a Rolling Stone"

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

A solid album from Mr. Young and Crazy Horse. 8.8/10 Best Tracks: "Cinnamon Girl" "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

A solid soul album. 8.8/10 Best Track: "Chain of Fools"

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

Raw and beautiful. 9.4/10 Best Tracks: "The Earth Died Screaming" "All Stripped Down" "Goin' Out West" "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" "That Feel"

Raw Power

The Stooges

5/5

One of the greatest rock albums ever made, full of blistering energy and intensity: raw power indeed. 10/10 Best Tracks: "Search and Destroy" "Gimme Danger" "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell" "Penetration" "Raw Power" "I Need Somebody" "Shake Appeal" "Death Trip"

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Like really good elevator music. 7.6/10

Suicide

2/5

Ambitious and boring. 6.5/10

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

5/5

One of the greatest live albums of all time; pure energy. 10/10 Best Tracks: "Ramblin' Rose" "Kick Out the Jams" "Come Together" "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)" "Borderline" "Motor City Is Burning" "I Want You Right Now"

Foo Fighters

4/5

Decent general rock music. 8.0/10

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Some decent new wave actually, but a couple of dud songs still there. 7.5/10

Black Sabbath

4/5

That's some good heavy dark rock 'n' roll. 8.2/10

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

A beautiful serene and visceral album that transcends the bounds of country music. 9.3/10 Best Tracks: "The Man Comes Around" "Hurt" "Bridge Over Troubled Water" "I Hung My Head" "Personal Jesus" "In My Life"