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Album	You	Global	Diff
Roots Sepultura	5	2.79	+2.21
Exile In Guyville Liz Phair	5	3.02	+1.98
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	5	3.27	+1.73
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	5	3.33	+1.67
Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk	5	3.33	+1.67
2112 Rush	5	3.37	+1.63
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Odessey And Oracle The Zombies	5	3.41	+1.59
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	5	3.44	+1.56
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	5	3.45	+1.55

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
461 Ocean Boulevard Eric Clapton	1	3.11	-2.11
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	1	3.03	-2.03
Transformer Lou Reed	2	3.67	-1.67
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.65	-1.65
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	1	2.5	-1.5
Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes	2	3.28	-1.28
Permission to Land The Darkness	2	3.14	-1.14
Hunting High And Low a-ha	2	3.12	-1.12
Berlin Lou Reed	2	3.09	-1.09
Treasure Cocteau Twins	2	3.09	-1.09

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Artist	Albums	Average
Black Sabbath	3	4.67
Michael Jackson	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	5
Beastie Boys	3	4.33
Steely Dan	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (51)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

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

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

Popular Reviews

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields · 149 likes

2/5

i ain’t listening to all that i’m happy for u tho or sorry that happened

Marquee Moon

Television · 50 likes

5/5

All your favorite rock bands fucking love this album.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan · 25 likes

5/5

It’s for the children

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton · 10 likes

1/5

fuck eric clapton

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury · 5 likes

3/5

When I started listening to this I was confused and almost offended. Like I thought I was being pranked. I thought somebody recorded randy newman trying to do an impression of the clash, and I was not sure at all why this album was so critically praised. As I listened through I warmed up to it a little bit, I enjoyed the more punk-type stuff at the end of the album, and overall it was a mostly enjoyable if not strange album.

1-Star Albums (4)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Hard to overstate how massively influential this album was to 21st century rock music. Has a couple songs that are kinda weak and sound the same but overall this rules

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

This thing just goes hard non-stop for 36 minutes. the lyrics are maybe the weakest part by being either very corny, or problematic (jailbait). Everything else is killer, lemmy’s voice is one of a kind and this has some of the best guitar work I’ve heard in a long time

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

I’d heard some Yes songs before but never actually listened through an album. Crazy how much of them you can hear in the 70s/80s prog rock bands that came in later. There’s a few weak points on this album but overall the instrumental work on here and composition is very impressive

Play

Moby

4/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

2/5

Never been a huge lou reed fan. I haven’t listened to any of his or VU’s stuff in a long time so I figured this would be a good opportunity to re-evaluate my feelings. Turns out yep, it still sucks.

A Night At The Opera

Queen

5/5

Queen rules, such a fun listen.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

4/5

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

3/5

I can certainly appreciate this album as “art”, it picked a direction and really went with it. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, as I started listening I found it pretentious, grating, and almost unlistenable, but I warmed up to it by the time I reached the end. I thought there were some things that were really interesting production-wise and the lyrics are evocative and well-crafted.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

It does like 12 different genres all amazingly well. Awesome album.

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

3/5

Very weird, very interesting. There’s two really good singles and the rest is kind of a mish-mash of varying quality.

Bad Company

4/5

Very solid dad rock album

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Impossible to listen to and not bob your head constantly. Absolute banger.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

This rocks

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

It’s like Pixies meets Pavement. Which in theory is cool but in actuality I’d rather just listen to Pixies or Pavement. Couple standout songs, the rest is fine.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Never heard of this band before. Nice indie-pop guitar driven rock, liked it a lot even though I could only understand like 60% of the words they were saying

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Funny how at the time their whole schtick was considered so scandalous and controversial, while in hindsight it’s just kinda corny. Liked the album, it was fun, not great.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Funny how at the time their whole schtick was considered so scandalous and controversial, while in hindsight it’s just kinda corny. Liked the album, it was fun, not great.

The Grand Tour

George Jones

4/5

The xx

4/5

It’s a vibe

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

Just how I felt when listening to transformer, I’m just not a Lou Reed guy. I get it, I see why he’s important but it just doesn’t work for me. Should I give this album a higher score because I at least understand it’s cultural significance? Probably. Am I going to? Nah.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Like the vibes on this album a lot. I do wish I could understand literally a single lyric though. It’s impressively Scottish.

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

Kinda fun, but not my style of music.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

It’s for the children

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

2/5

It was definitely interesting?

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

It mostly sounds like noise. On some of the songs that’s a good thing and it’s used in an interesting way, and sometimes it’s not my fav. Overall good.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

5/5

One of the best rap albums of all time, and one of the best albums regardless of genre. Just so good.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

This is the Devil's music. Won't somebody please think of the children??????

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

A lot of fun, really enjoyed it.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

3/5

Theater Kid-core

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

Le Tigre

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

All your favorite rock bands fucking love this album.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

4/5

There will never be anyone else quite like eminem. I don’t think this is his best album but it’s definitely up there.

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

4.5, this was dope. Really good britpoprock with some cool psychedelic elements sprinkled in

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Da Capo

Love

2/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Ultimate dad rock

Common

4/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

2/5

With the caveat that I’ll have to re-visit this and re-evaluate in the future. HoLV didn’t really hit for me the first time either

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Cross

Justice

3/5

System Of A Down

4/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

2/5

i ain’t listening to all that i’m happy for u tho or sorry that happened

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Probably the weakest of the first 4 albums, but definitely one of their more interesting ones. Feels like a transition, figuring out a new style that they would do a great job incorporating back into their blues rock sound in IV.

The Stooges

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

5/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Yes.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

Fleet Foxes

5/5

One of those albums that spawned an entire genre of people trying to copy it and nobody else even came close.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

I’m mostly pro-U2, and I do think this is a good album, but I’m pretty sure half the tracks on this album are the exact same song just with slightly different delay setting on the edge’s guitar

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

If you had never heard of meat loaf before and you looked at this album cover you would have a very specific idea of what you think this album would sound like, and then you would be very surprised when you listen to it and it’s billy joel if he were a theater kid that got bullied a lot in high school

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Fun fact, fogerty is actually saying “born on the bay, ooh” referencing the fact that the band is from the SF bay area. there’s no way they’re trying to pretend they’re from louisiana, that would just be silly

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

David Bowie

5/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

3/5

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

merry chrysler

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

1/5

fuck eric clapton

2112

Rush

5/5

yep

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

very good, but deja vu takes everything this album does well and does it like twice as good

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

4.5 People can say what they want about taylor swift but this album fucks

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

4/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

1/5

it’s a good album but fuck ryan adams

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

I mean, yeah.

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

The Clash

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

*gordon ramsay voice* finally, some good fucking food

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

2/5

lmao

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Unfortunately I think I like the idea of Bob Dylan more than I actually like Bob Dylan

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Eddie Vedder really popped off when he said [indecipherable]

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

WOW i thought these guys were great but I just read the lyrics and realized they’re WOKE how do i change my review to 1 star

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

4/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

2/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

RHCP to me has always felt like a band that is lesser than the sum of its parts. -John Frusciante, one of the most well-respected guitarists of all time and has all kinds of great riffs on here -Chad Smith, great drummer and remember how he looks like Will Ferrell? Isn't that funny? -Anthony Kiedis -Flea, one of the most well-respected bassists of all time Other than a few notable standouts most of their songs are kinda fun but also pretty ass.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

Music made by, for, and about huge weirdos

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

4/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

I dunno man, sure.

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

War

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Great reminder that this list is NOT called "The 1001 best albums of all time". If nothing else I hope that people will appreciate the work of Wes Borland.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

4/5

Roots

Sepultura

5/5

I know this album is not gonna be everyone's shit, and that's ok. But it is extremely my shit.

Tommy

The Who

3/5

I dunno, if I’m Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famous I just don’t think this is the album I would pick to show my brother that music is good

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

The Cars

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

I mean what am I gonna do, NOT give Illmatic 5 stars?

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

3/5

If you're reading this before you listen to the album: Just skip Dark Star and Feedback. It's ok, don't feel bad about it. Just skip them. You're not missing anything. You don't need to listen to 30 minutes of that. Just skip them. The rest of the album is actually decent. Just skip them.

White Denim

4/5

Stephen Stills

3/5

It's good, but it gets absolutely bodied by every other CSNY solo album that came out around this time.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

I think this was one of those "you had to be there" things

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

The megadeth formula: -Sickest riff you’ve ever heard -Corniest vocals you’ve ever heard -Guitar solo

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

It's good because it's Paul McCartney, but I don't think there are many other people who could have gotten away with this

The Coral

3/5

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

Sleepy-core

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

That’s gonna get a big ol' Hell Yeah Brother from me

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

IiIiIiIiI'm NoOoT sUuUrE iF tHiS aAaAaAlBuM iS fOr MeEeEeEeEeEeEe

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

So good it almost makes you forget that throughout the latter half of the 20th century the United States backed and funded coups in Brazil and other South American countries to overthrow democratically elected governments and install right wing dictatorships who were more favorable to their corporate interests which resulted in the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of people

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

New York Dolls

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

3/5

"It is considered to be their most accessible album" lol, lmao

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

3/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

music to listen to while a thick goth woman steps on me

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

I'm looking at my rating stats and it seems like I've been too nice, so I need to start giving out some meaner ratings. Sorry to do this to you Goldfrapp, it's certainly not bad but it's giving "We have Portishead at home"

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

When will the British be held accountable for their crimes

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5