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1089

Albums Rated

3.52

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Taste Profile

1950

Favorite Decade

Reggae

Favorite Genre

Other

Top Origin ?

Generous

Rater Style ?

187

5-Star Albums

1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	5	2.52	+2.48
Pictures At An Exhibition Emerson, Lake & Palmer	5	2.64	+2.36
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	5	2.67	+2.33
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	5	2.68	+2.32
Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octagon	5	2.69	+2.31
Next The Sensational Alex Harvey Band	5	2.7	+2.3
Space Ritual Hawkwind	5	2.7	+2.3
Histoire De Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg	5	2.71	+2.29
Movies Holger Czukay	5	2.71	+2.29
Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper	5	2.72	+2.28

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Boston Boston	1	3.7	-2.7
Ill Communication Beastie Boys	1	3.63	-2.63
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	1	3.63	-2.63
Stardust Willie Nelson	1	3.38	-2.38
2112 Rush	1	3.36	-2.36
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
American Beauty Grateful Dead	1	3.24	-2.24
GREY Area Little Simz	1	3.24	-2.24
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	1	3.24	-2.24
Vivid Living Colour	1	3.2	-2.2

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	5	5
Beatles	7	4.71
Miles Davis	4	5
Tom Waits	5	4.8
The Rolling Stones	6	4.5
Kraftwerk	3	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	5
Stevie Wonder	4	4.5
Steely Dan	4	4.5
R.E.M.	4	4.5
Nick Drake	3	4.67
The Temptations	2	5
Oasis	2	5
Stan Getz	2	5
The Specials	2	5
John Martyn	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Manic Street Preachers	2	5
Pulp	2	5
The Clash	2	5
Barry Adamson	2	5
Pink Floyd	4	4.25
Talking Heads	4	4.25
Bob Dylan	7	4
Radiohead	6	4
Beck	3	4.33
The Doors	3	4.33
Simon & Garfunkel	3	4.33
Jimi Hendrix	3	4.33
The White Stripes	3	4.33
The Stooges	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Beastie Boys	3	1.67
Bee Gees	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Grateful Dead	1, 4
Baaba Maal	2, 5
Willie Nelson	1, 4
Happy Mondays	5, 2
The Flaming Lips	5, 2

5-Star Albums (187)

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Popular Reviews

I don’t know what the right drug to pair with this is, but it doesn’t seem to be coffee.

Just being very clear that giving 1992 Morrissey 5 stars in no way condones 2023 Morrissey. I wonder if he can remember the person that produced this charming, knowing, clever album ?

An adorable dreamy piece of work. This was my 110th on this, and I loved every moment of it. 5 stars because there aren’t 6.

Mostly harmless

Seriously dull

1-Star Albums (20)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings (1089)

Not available on Amazon music

Meh.

3 good tracks?

Clangy

3 good tracks

Seriously dull

Really poor

Stonking

It would be 5 if it wasn’t for the annoying horn pipe at the end.

Uniformly rubbish

I quite enjoyed it. The updated hd version was poor though.

Mostly harmless

Very samey

Mainly self indulgent noodling

Very much of its time.

I don’t know what the right drug to pair with this is, but it doesn’t seem to be coffee.

Less self involved noodling than in some of the other yes albums.

An adorable dreamy piece of work. This was my 110th on this, and I loved every moment of it. 5 stars because there aren’t 6.

The commentary needed to be more detailed or nonexistent.

This is like a selection of songs from a musical that nobody can quite remember the story of.

When you havnt listened to it for a few years it is stunning how good this is.

A chaotic mess, but occasionally brilliant

You could listen to this without knowing and say “aha 1967”.

Truly the past is a foreign country - what we’re they thinking?

Blimey.

It’s great !

It starts off well, but the tracks become very samey.

Well this easily ranks as equal to the worst thing I’ve had. I’m not going to listen twice, otherwise my streaming service will think I like it. The ones that weren’t terrible all sounded the same. And the lyrics, don’t really reflect attitudes of modern society. It’s a one because there isn’t a zero stars. Why isn’t there a zero stars ?

Last album you say ?

With how much Mr West has been in the news recently I approached this with some apprehension. So I’m pleased to report that although there were some very good bits much of the music was average with a tendency to being disjointed and derivative. The lyrics were uncomfortable with a strong flavour of personal victimhood and conspiracy thinking.

What a piece of work. Every track is astonishing but with Rock &Roll as an unbelievably exuberant joyful, deceptively simple but as intricate as a Swiss watch stand out.

It’s obligatory to dance to the last track, and then say - “you’re a wizard ‘arry”

I already owned this having bought it on a road trip in the states. I thought it was tragically hilarious then, and tragically misogynistically hilarious now.

So green onions is great - full of verve and excitement, but after that it’s just flat as though it’s different people entirely.

Alongside other examples of the genre from the same time, this sounds like a parody - the music is repetitive and dull, the lyrics vacuous, and the posturing just designed to appeal to early teenage boys.. As things turned out, the ‘don’t give up the day job’ advice was unnecessary.

This is clever, thought provoking, sometimes funny and spot on with its idiomatic English (from 2004). I admire it, and I hate it.

This was going really well, until the second half of the album which just felt like it was there because they’d run out of material.

I admit my eyes rolled when I saw this - but it’s a delight.

That was an unexpected burst of joy.

There’s been some really good hip hop come up on this list, but, this really isn’t one of those. It’s dreary, unimaginative, posturing. It’s like the death metal equivalent of rap, more for effect than for music. And like death metal I expect this to be mainly popular with 15 year old boys. And why do only women get to sing ? Why aren’t males allowed to sing ?

Just being very clear that giving 1992 Morrissey 5 stars in no way condones 2023 Morrissey. I wonder if he can remember the person that produced this charming, knowing, clever album ?

The music follows a straightforward formula, which isn’t a problem - that’s the same for the rap and the metal. And within that the songs are really good. It’s the lack of agency that the women have in the songs that troubles me, nearly always the victim and never in control. If you want to understand why feminism was necessary, then listen to this.

Brimful of asha is obviously stunning, but most of the rest is pretty innocuous.

I started off by giving this the benefit of the doubt, but the sheer awfulness of this just overwhelmed me. What were they thinking ?

This is what you would get from a clockwork rap album producing machine - it is completely predictable, dull and includes the obligatory fly on the wall segment in the middle which explodes into argument and threats to show how authentic they are - exactly as every other rap album of the era does.

Overwrought and overlong.

Instantly forgettable.

This was so formulaic it even includes the obligatory recorded phone call that ends in an argument.

There’s a lot of reviews on here saying how generic this is - but that’s because after this came out everyone wanted to sound like this. John Mayall sadly died a few weeks ago but his influence in reimagining and popularising blues music was immense. And this album is great. Sadly, Eric Clapton is a jerk in real life.

By happy coincidence we saw these live just a week ago at Rock City. That show was great, and this album in its exuberance and energy is great also.

I’ve got this sudden urge to buy a Filofax and get on the property ladder.

So if you had a clockwork country and western style album making machine this is just what it would produce. It’s unadventurous, predictable, mawkish and mildly misogynistic. It’s not bad, but instantly forgettable, and if it committed a crime you’d never pick it out of a line up.

It feels very corporate- a brief worked out by a marketing team and then passed on for product production.