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Album	You	Global	Diff
1977 Ash	5	3.03	+1.97
Garbage Garbage	5	3.38	+1.62
Frank Amy Winehouse	5	3.45	+1.55
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	3.5	+1.5
Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche Koffi Olomide	4	2.61	+1.39
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	4	2.69	+1.31
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys	5	3.73	+1.27
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	5	3.74	+1.26
Dookie Green Day	5	3.79	+1.21
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	4	2.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys	1	3.27	-2.27
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	1	3.11	-2.11
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin	2	3.96	-1.96
A Hard Day's Night Beatles	2	3.9	-1.9
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Raekwon	1	2.86	-1.86
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.83	-1.83
Yeezus Kanye West	1	2.77	-1.77
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	2	3.46	-1.46
Zombie Fela Kuti	2	3.46	-1.46
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	2	3.39	-1.39

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Artist	Albums	Average
Nirvana	3	4.67
Amy Winehouse	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Beach Boys	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (16)

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

Popular Reviews

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

He said it… terrible

2 likes

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

1/5

Boring!

1 likes

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Hit and miss

1 likes

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

Too long. Far too much filler, not sure how it got nominated for six Grammys

1 likes

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

Makes me feel like a teenager again

1 likes

1-Star Albums (6)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

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Document

R.E.M.

3/5

The end of the world is one of my favourite REM tracks, but the rest is just average REM

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

Love this album. Has always been near my CD player for the last 25+ years

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Enjoyable 70s rock guitar, but the strongest songs are all on the original Greatest Hits album

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Never heard this before. Enjoyable late 60s vibe with a couple of gems

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Never come across this and preferred it to Pet Sounds, but still nothing special

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Started strongly but tailed off. Loved the energy of the first track

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

A bit of undemanding nostalgia. Pleasant enough but can understand I haven’t listened to it in 15 years

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

1/5

Not my bag at all

1977

Ash

5/5

Thoroughly joyous mid 90s nostalgia. Packed with great songs

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2/5

Too long. Far too much filler, not sure how it got nominated for six Grammys

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

1/5

Boring!

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Gentle and enjoyable

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Enjoyable listen. This music was far too cool for me in 1989…

Chelsea Girl

Nico

3/5

Enjoyable enough

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

My favourite Stones album, from when they were great

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Quality from Aretha

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Possibly his best album. Nostalgic

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Not their strongest album, but still contains some gems

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Transported back nearly 30 years by the distinctive sound

Cut

The Slits

3/5

A new one on me. As punk goes not bad

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

If I want to listen to a bit of country this is what I’d choose

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

No words needed, although the 39 track version I have is perhaps excessive

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Surprisingly good, considering some of the work they went on to make only a few years later

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

3/5

Enjoyed it a lot

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

5/5

Beautiful album

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

Never heard of this, but enjoyed it

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Classic US punk. Highly enjoyable

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

2/5

Not really my bag

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Classic Morrison

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Not the best live album I’ve heard, but enjoyable enough

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

F**k yeah! Jesus built my hot rod, ding a ling ling!

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

Makes me feel like a teenager again

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Pure class, demonstrating Cobain’s skill, and an album I could leave on repeat for quite a while. The cover versions are a joy

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

2/5

Not a Beatles album I would ever choose to play

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Great album, one that I don’t listen to enough

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

Interesting enough as background music, but not something I’d choose to listen to

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

A decent album to work to, but can’t imagine when else I’d put it on

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

I listened to this so much on first release. Don’t think I’ve heard it for 10 years

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Very pleasant. Never heard the whole album

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Outstanding. No idea why I’ve never heard this before

Suicide

2/5

I get excited when there’s an album I’ve never heard of and wanted to like this more than I actually did

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

At times great to work to, then it’d start talking to me.

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Great fun. Would have loved to see this live

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Funky!

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Fine enough when you’re watching a western, but not something I’d choose to put on

C'est Chic

CHIC

4/5

An unexpected joy

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Not bad

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

4/5

Unexpected surprise. Couldn’t understand a word but really enjoyed the rhythm

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Another new one on me. Good in places

The Joshua Tree

4/5

U2 at their best

Wild Gift

4/5

Thoroughly enjoyable. The female vocal is better than the male

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Beautiful album

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Heard this a lot as a kid at home. Happy trip down memory lane

Follow The Leader

Korn

2/5

Not for me

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Classic

The Modern Lovers

3/5

Hit and miss

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Hit and miss

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

A bit of fun. Not something I’d ever think to put on

Dirt

Alice In Chains

4/5

Grunge heaven

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Equal parts cheesy and brilliant

Bad Company

2/5

Not my thing

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Classic

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Hit and miss. Loved the track ‘maggot brain’

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

3/5

Enjoyable for a change

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Enjoyable background music

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Indie fun

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Classic

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

Tolerable Genesis, before they went downhill further

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Quality

Garbage

5/5

Classic that instantly takes me back to being a student

Zombie

Fela Kuti

2/5

Meh

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

Okay. A bit annoying at times, like a less-good White Stripes

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Classic

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Not bad

Cypress Hill

3/5

Fun

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Not my bag

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

A great album

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

Nostalgic

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Really enjoyed it, for a change of pace

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

1/5

The kind of hip hop I don’t like

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Enjoyable, but not memorable

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

An unexpected joy

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Not bad, which is a complement from a Bowie non-fan

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Classic

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

Terrible

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Perfect early morning background music

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

More hit than miss

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Not my sweetheart…

Dirty

Sonic Youth

4/5

Love this album. They’re not the greatest songs, but it exemplifies a time and place in guitar music

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

So much more interesting than the shite that’s popular these days

Achtung Baby

3/5

I’m not a U2 fan, but some of this was pretty good

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Class

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

I enjoy his storytelling. The songs don’t really fit in a playlist but stand on their own as an album

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

2/5

Never been a big fan of this album, or the Manics in general

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Some gems on this album. Enjoyed it

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Pure nostalgic joy listening to this.

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

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

A classic worthy of the moniker. Witty, catchy tunes

1999

Prince

3/5

Enjoyable enough, but I wouldn’t pick it to put on

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Not a big Zep fan. II was better

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

It screamed early 80s at me but was enjoyable

Adele

4/5

Quite successful as second albums go… I wouldn’t choose to put it on, but she doesn’t arf belt out a tune

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

More proper 80s music

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

A Classic. Still listen to this regularly

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

Too long and same-y. Enjoyed a few early tracks but got bored with it

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

He said it… terrible

Hysteria

Def Leppard

2/5

Yawn

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Weird

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Pretty good. Had never heard anything by him before and it was enjoyable enough

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Very mellow

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

Classic

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Bought it back in the day. Cringe a bit listening to it now