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1089
Albums Rated
3.16
Average Rating
100%
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A Walk Across The Rooftops
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile

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2020
Favorite Decade
Reggae
Favorite Genre
UK
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104
5-Star Albums
51
1-Star Albums

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Albums

You Love More Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti Politti
 5 2.39 +2.61
New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
 5 2.69 +2.31
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
 5 2.79 +2.21
Scott 4
Scott Walker
 5 2.8 +2.2
A Walk Across The Rooftops
The Blue Nile
 5 2.87 +2.13
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
 5 2.92 +2.08
Infected
The The
 5 2.93 +2.07
Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits
 5 2.94 +2.06
Ingenue
k.d. lang
 5 2.95 +2.05
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
 5 2.96 +2.04

You Love Less Than Most

AlbumYouGlobalDiff
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
 1 3.86 -2.86
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses
 1 3.7 -2.7
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
 1 3.68 -2.68
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
 1 3.57 -2.57
Funeral
Arcade Fire
 1 3.54 -2.54
Queen II
Queen
 1 3.48 -2.48
Dirt
Alice In Chains
 1 3.47 -2.47
...And Justice For All
Metallica
 1 3.41 -2.41
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
 1 3.41 -2.41
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
 1 3.41 -2.41

Artists

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 5 4.6
Pink Floyd 4 4.75
R.E.M. 4 4.75
Nick Drake 3 5
Kraftwerk 3 5
David Bowie 9 4.22
Radiohead 6 4.33
Elvis Costello & The Attractions 4 4.5
Kate Bush 3 4.67
Peter Gabriel 3 4.67
Beatles 7 4.14
The Police 2 5
King Crimson 2 5
Tom Waits 5 4.2
Björk 4 4.25
Bob Dylan 7 4
Blur 3 4.33
Beck 3 4.33
Brian Eno 5 4

Least Favorites

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ArtistAlbumsAverage
Pavement 2 1
Def Leppard 2 1
The Doors 3 1.67
Aerosmith 3 1.67
Grateful Dead 2 1.5
Oasis 2 1.5
The Smashing Pumpkins 2 1.5
Bee Gees 2 1.5
Megadeth 2 1.5
Sonic Youth 5 2.2
Queen 3 2
The White Stripes 3 2
Kings of Leon 3 2
Arcade Fire 3 2
Metallica 4 2.25

Controversial

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ArtistRatings
Love 5, 1
Orbital 4, 1
Stevie Wonder 5, 2, 5, 3
Paul Simon 5, 2, 3

5-Star Albums (104)

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Graceland Pink Moon Parklife Violator Songs In The Key Of Life The Stone Roses Five Leaves Left Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Bryter Layter Highway 61 Revisited The Wall Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Forever Changes Blood On The Tracks Hunky Dory Murmur Here's Little Richard Low Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Innervisions The La's Blue Lines Debut Ambient 1/Music For Airports The Bends Fever Ray Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) Exodus The Stranger Infected Synchronicity Rubber Soul Automatic For The People In The Court Of The Crimson King The Boatman's Call Document Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Hejira My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Wish You Were Here Scott 4 Larks' Tongues In Aspic The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Modern Kosmology Rain Dogs Achtung Baby The Man Machine Reggatta De Blanc The Colour Of Spring Bringing It All Back Home Sunday At The Village Vanguard Moving Pictures We Are Family Peter Gabriel 3 Solid Air Hounds Of Love Revolver Cupid & Psyche 85 The Dreaming Vespertine Abbey Road Imperial Bedroom Sea Change Time Out The Dark Side Of The Moon Dare! Kind Of Blue Songs From The Big Chair A Walk Across The Rooftops Ingenue Autobahn Pretenders Immigrés Woodface Trans Europe Express Bridge Over Troubled Water Oxygène Out Of The Blue Franz Ferdinand Henry's Dream Skylarking The Specials New Boots And Panties OK Computer evermore Armed Forces Little Earthquakes Felt Mountain Hypnotised Blackstar Swordfishtrombones Remain In Light Life's Too Good The Seldom Seen Kid Music Has The Right To Children Fear Of Music Odessey And Oracle Architecture And Morality Fetch The Bolt Cutters Dusty In Memphis Fleet Foxes Rum Sodomy & The Lash So

Popular Reviews

The Libertines by The Libertines

I’m surprised to see no reference here to the greatest review this album received. (I may be misreading - the reviews only go back to March 2023 in my browser). Nigel Blackwell of Half Man Half Biscuit was so appalled by this record that he wrote the scathing “Shit Arm Bad Tattoo”. It is deliciously scathing, but the second verse always fills me with joy. ‘If you're going to quote from the Book of Revelation Don't keep calling it the Book of Revelations There's no "s", it's the Book of Revelation As revealed to St John the Divine See also Mary Hopkin She must despair.’ To me this album sounds like the tape was left running during a beery rehearsal. How it became one of the 1001 albums I must hear before expiring, I don’t understand. And I’ll be especially miffed if Achtung Bono isn’t on the list.

Snivilisation by Orbital

75 minutes and the first course still hasn’t arrived.

1-Star Albums (51)

Appetite For Destruction ...And Justice For All Cheap Thrills Live Through This Slanted And Enchanted Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs The Gilded Palace Of Sin Happy Trails The Downward Spiral Pyromania Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde Queen II Darkness on the Edge of Town Atomizer Bongo Rock Rocks Morrison Hotel Dirt Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Eagles Iron Maiden Follow The Leader Live / Dead The Libertines Rhythm Nation 1814 Antichrist Superstar Aha Shake Heartbreak Logical Progression (What's The Story) Morning Glory Funeral Cross Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Homework Destroyer AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter En-Tact Back to Mystery City Black Metal Vincebus Eruptum Hysteria Snivilisation Butterfly Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Slippery When Wet Oar Da Capo Dr. Octagonecologyst Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Trafalgar

All Ratings (1089)

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Nov 16 2021
Remedy by Basement Jaxx
Dec 09 2021
Dummy by Portishead
Dec 13 2021
Vivid by Living Colour
Dec 16 2021
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Jan 24 2022
1999 by Prince
Jan 25 2022
Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Feb 03 2022
Dust by Screaming Trees
Feb 28 2022
Murmur by R.E.M.
Mar 15 2022
Horses by Patti Smith
Mar 18 2022
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Mar 21 2022
B-52's by The B-52's
Mar 31 2022
Dookie by Green Day
Apr 11 2022
Low by David Bowie
Apr 14 2022
Berlin by Lou Reed
Apr 20 2022
Scum by Napalm Death
Apr 28 2022
Grace by Jeff Buckley
May 17 2022
Closer by Joy Division
May 18 2022
1984 by Van Halen
Jun 10 2022
Debut by Björk
Jun 13 2022
Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jul 22 2022
3 + 3 by The Isley Brothers
Jul 25 2022
Arise by Sepultura
Aug 11 2022
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Aug 26 2022
Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Sep 01 2022
Harvest by Neil Young
Sep 09 2022
Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Sep 28 2022
Triangle by The Beau Brummels
Sep 29 2022
Shaft by Isaac Hayes
Oct 06 2022
Siembra by Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
Oct 13 2022
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Oct 20 2022
21 by Adele
Oct 24 2022
Elephant by The White Stripes
Oct 28 2022
Be by Common
Nov 29 2022
Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Dec 01 2022
Rocks by Aerosmith
Dec 14 2022
Want Two by Rufus Wainwright
Dec 28 2022
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
Jan 04 2023
Scott 4 by Scott Walker
Jan 05 2023
Dirty by Sonic Youth
Jan 06 2023
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Jan 10 2023
Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Jan 13 2023
Bummed by Happy Mondays
Jan 19 2023
Tommy by The Who
Feb 06 2023
Live! by Fela Kuti
Feb 23 2023
2112 by Rush
Mar 07 2023
25 by Adele
Mar 10 2023
Aja by Steely Dan
Mar 14 2023
Eagles by Eagles
Mar 15 2023
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Mar 20 2023
Casanova by The Divine Comedy
Mar 22 2023
Shalimar by Rahul Dev Burman
Apr 14 2023
Play by Moby
Apr 18 2023
Nixon by Lambchop
May 25 2023
Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
May 29 2023
Truth by Jeff Beck
May 31 2023
Bad by Michael Jackson
Jun 05 2023
Groovin' by The Young Rascals
Jun 08 2023
Chris by Christine and the Queens
Jun 15 2023
Mask by Bauhaus
Jun 21 2023
Odessa by Bee Gees
Jul 18 2023
Stand! by Sly & The Family Stone
Aug 01 2023
Music by Madonna
Sep 12 2023
The Libertines by The Libertines
Sep 13 2023

I’m surprised to see no reference here to the greatest review this album received. (I may be misreading - the reviews only go back to March 2023 in my browser). Nigel Blackwell of Half Man Half Biscuit was so appalled by this record that he wrote the scathing “Shit Arm Bad Tattoo”. It is deliciously scathing, but the second verse always fills me with joy. ‘If you're going to quote from the Book of Revelation Don't keep calling it the Book of Revelations There's no "s", it's the Book of Revelation As revealed to St John the Divine See also Mary Hopkin She must despair.’ To me this album sounds like the tape was left running during a beery rehearsal. How it became one of the 1001 albums I must hear before expiring, I don’t understand. And I’ll be especially miffed if Achtung Bono isn’t on the list.

D by White Denim
Sep 26 2023
Porcupine by Echo And The Bunnymen
Oct 06 2023
Smile by Brian Wilson
Oct 09 2023
Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Oct 18 2023
Drunk by Thundercat
Oct 31 2023
Blur by Blur
Nov 07 2023
Kenza by Khaled
Nov 08 2023
Ys by Joanna Newsom
Nov 09 2023
xx by The xx
Nov 20 2023
Third by Soft Machine
Nov 22 2023
Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention
Nov 24 2023
Sulk by The Associates
Nov 27 2023
Movies by Holger Czukay
Dec 07 2023
Scott 2 by Scott Walker
Dec 18 2023
Gold by Ryan Adams
Jan 03 2024
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Jan 12 2024
Zombie by Fela Kuti
Jan 16 2024
Cross by Justice
Jan 18 2024
Ten by Pearl Jam
Jan 31 2024
Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Feb 01 2024
Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Feb 05 2024
OK by Talvin Singh
Feb 08 2024
Boston by Boston
Feb 14 2024
Dare! by The Human League
May 08 2024
Pump by Aerosmith
May 15 2024
Mott by Mott The Hoople
May 21 2024
Yeezus by Kanye West
May 27 2024
Kala by M.I.A.
Jun 03 2024
Pearl by Janis Joplin
Jun 19 2024
Faith by George Michael
Jun 24 2024
KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka
Jul 05 2024
Goo by Sonic Youth
Jul 15 2024
Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Jul 16 2024
The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Aug 16 2024
A Walk Across The Rooftops by The Blue Nile
Aug 23 2024

Front row middle of the Manchester Free Trade Hall 1990 Best gig I’ve ever seen.

Darklands by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Sep 02 2024
En-Tact by The Shamen
Oct 03 2024
Manassas by Stephen Stills
Oct 24 2024
Guero by Beck
Nov 01 2024
Very by Pet Shop Boys
Nov 20 2024
Suede by Suede
Dec 02 2024
The Scream by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Dec 05 2024
m b v by My Bloody Valentine
Dec 23 2024
Imagine by John Lennon
Dec 24 2024
Ctrl by SZA
Dec 26 2024
90 by 808 State
Jan 13 2025
Idlewild by Everything But The Girl
Jan 14 2025
Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Jan 16 2025
Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre
Jan 20 2025
Skylarking by XTC
Feb 18 2025

To the hard-of-thinking for whom this isn’t just an immediate 5 stars: please return your ears to the kiosk when you’ve finished messing around with them and let someone else have a turn.

1977 by Ash
Feb 19 2025
Rapture by Anita Baker
Feb 20 2025
Kid A by Radiohead
Mar 05 2025
Brothers by The Black Keys
Mar 31 2025
Blue by Joni Mitchell
Apr 17 2025
Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Apr 29 2025
Smash by The Offspring
May 08 2025
GI by Germs
May 13 2025
Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel
May 26 2025
Bug by Dinosaur Jr.
May 27 2025
Snivilisation by Orbital
May 28 2025

75 minutes and the first course still hasn’t arrived.

Damaged by Black Flag
May 30 2025
1989 by Taylor Swift
Jun 06 2025
Heroes by David Bowie
Jun 09 2025
Tical by Method Man
Jun 11 2025
S&M by Metallica
Jul 09 2025
Third by Portishead
Jul 17 2025
Too Rye Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners
Jul 18 2025
Stripped by Christina Aguilera
Aug 06 2025
Arular by M.I.A.
Aug 12 2025
War by U2
Aug 13 2025
Green by R.E.M.
Aug 18 2025
Tidal by Fiona Apple
Aug 25 2025
Cut by The Slits
Aug 26 2025
Sister by Sonic Youth
Sep 16 2025
Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Sep 23 2025
Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Sep 29 2025
Roots by Sepultura
Oct 20 2025
Survivor by Destiny's Child
Oct 24 2025
Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Oct 30 2025
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Nov 24 2025
Frank by Amy Winehouse
Nov 27 2025
Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
Dec 03 2025
LP1 by FKA twigs
Dec 08 2025
Junkyard by The Birthday Party
Dec 11 2025
Next by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Dec 15 2025
Savane by Ali Farka Touré
Jan 23 2026
Rio by Duran Duran
Jan 26 2026
Dry by PJ Harvey
Feb 02 2026
Kenya by Machito
Feb 10 2026
Trio by Dolly Parton
Feb 24 2026
Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
Mar 05 2026
So by Peter Gabriel
Mar 17 2026

Balanced

Average rating is within 0.15 points of global average.

Other

Album origins are grouped into three buckets: US, UK, and everything else. “Other” means the artists you rate highest are from outside the US and UK.