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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bongo Rock Incredible Bongo Band	5	3.26	+1.74
The College Dropout Kanye West	5	3.31	+1.69
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.33	+1.67
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.35	+1.65
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul	5	3.45	+1.55
Imagine John Lennon	5	3.45	+1.55
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	5	3.51	+1.49
Definitely Maybe Oasis	5	3.52	+1.48
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	5	3.57	+1.43
Slipknot Slipknot	4	2.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.66	-2.66
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	1	3.42	-2.42
Pretenders Pretenders	1	3.35	-2.35
Sweet Baby James James Taylor	1	3.24	-2.24
Virgin Suicides Air	1	3.24	-2.24
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	1	3.2	-2.2
Actually Pet Shop Boys	1	3.18	-2.18
Another Green World Brian Eno	1	3.12	-2.12
Your Arsenal Morrissey	1	3.05	-2.05
Behaviour Pet Shop Boys	1	3.04	-2.04

5-Star Albums (20)

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

Popular Reviews

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Plays like a greatest hits. Excellent.

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1-Star Albums (22)

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The xx

2/5

Inoffensive background music.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Country Remember me - has jazz vibes

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

5/5

* Great

Tommy

The Who

2/5

* too instrumental. Great beats and riffs not backed by lyrics.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

* Great tunes.swing music? Great remasters for songs recorded 56 years ago.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

* Needs a remaster Some redeemable moments. Mostly passable.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

Little bit too radiohead *

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Plays like a greatest hits. Excellent.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

* bits sound like Razorlight. It was fine, I didn't hate it.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

1/5

* I still hate morrissey

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

* I hated every second of this

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

* Decent enough, Blues, Hendrix, good guitar riffs

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

* big band jazz swing stuff. Liked it. Would have on vinyl

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

* Can see why it's on the list. Fine, nothing particularly memorable

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Excellent, loads of great tracks.

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

1/5

* Probably give it 1.5 if I could. Dreary, unmemorable.

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

David Bowie

5/5

Not great quality. Brilliant though.

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

* very enjoyable

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

* Freedom saves this for being a dull album.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

* Decent. Prob 3.5

Fun House

The Stooges

2/5

* fine. Unmemorable

British Steel

Judas Priest

2/5

* I Didn't hate it, but it's not for me. 1.5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

* Decent, Classic Hendrix. Could do with remastering.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

By all accounts I should love this but I've just never got on with it. Bit like The Weeknd

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Good, some rough tracks, some bangers.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

* Cracking

Killing Joke

2/5

* Not for me, but I didn't hate it.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

4/5

* sounds fresh, good quality remaster.

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

* Reggae & SKA(?) decent enough, not too long. Gets better as it goes on.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Wonderful. Could do with a remaster.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

5/5

What an incredible bongo band

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

* Few skips, some great tunes.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

* fine.. unmemorable

Play

Moby

3/5

It's good music, so much is memorable. I imagine Moby has spent the rest of his career trying to create something nearly as good. Reckon this is dead boring live though.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

2/5

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Great. Hip hop's good. Wouldn't expect this to make the list really.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

The smiths are depressing.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Some good beats but weird wedding DJ shoutouts

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Not fully available on Spotify

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

2/5

I didn't enjoy this

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Bit dull

Medúlla

Björk

1/5

Weird

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

I didn't hate it

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

International version is better. The stereo sound is a bit weird sometimes..

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

It's fine.

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

Meh

Dire Straits

4/5

Liked it. Best album for a while

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Not the worst albums recently.

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

Faces

3/5

70s sort of Rock. Sound.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Good harmless rock n roll

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Enjoyable

Slipknot

4/5

I can see why people are into this.

Moby Grape

3/5

Missing some tracks. Inoffensive music

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

I like jazz

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Good 😊 d this, better than the weeknd

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

I didn't hate it.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Maybe it was revolutionary at the time..

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

4/5

Good

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Cracker

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Not recommended. Not terrible

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

1/5

Nah

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

Can see how this was a big deal at the time. Punk?

The College Dropout

Kanye West

5/5

I like Kanye West

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Thought I'd be into this more than I was, seeing as I've heard it about 1000 times in my mum's car.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Probably 3.5. but too long.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Can see how so much came from this

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Some bangers

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

3/5

I can very much see how people are into this

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

The music wasn't terrible but I just really hated it. Didn't help it wasn't on Spotify. That's probably not the band's fault.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

Generic country music. Not to long

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Sounds like it was recorded yesterday.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

2/5

I spent the first few songs wishing it had lyrics, then regretting it when they did eventually have them.

Solid Air

John Martyn

2/5

Dull. Sorry.

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

1/5

1.5 probably. Dull.

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Good that, loads going on throughout.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Loads of decent tracks here.

Orbital 2

Orbital

1/5

Very early 90s. Very shit

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

Very listenable.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Lovely times were had

1999

Prince

3/5

Some decent tracks

Le Tigre

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Nice

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Another listenable album

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Hard to find, brilliant

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Brilliant. Remaster is good too.

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Unmemorable

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

I didn't hate it.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

There's a couple of good tracks

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

2/5

Probably better live

Metallica

4/5

I can once again see how people are dead into this

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

1/5

Nah not for me.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Some redeeming moments

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Bluesy, bangers, right length.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

I didn't enjoy any of this

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Bangers

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Decent

Let It Be

The Replacements

3/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

1.5.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

2.5 really

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

Unmemorable

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Nice, sounds more dated though than others from the era

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Blur

3/5

I can see why people think blur are really good

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Full of bangers. Had a lovely sing in my car.

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Punky

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

I didn't hate it

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Fine

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Classic

Virgin Suicides

Air

1/5

What was the point?

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Worth my time

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

1/5

Not for me sorry

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Couldn't find lots of the tracks

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Brilliant

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

1/5

Nah I'm sorry not for me

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Good for 1982.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Brilliant

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Who goes to see Radiohead?

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Lots of tamberine

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Just don't really get muse

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

2.4? It's ok just not my thing.

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Protection

Massive Attack

2/5

Jesus this is dull

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Cypress Hill

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Bit boring

Pretenders

1/5

Couldn't be bothered with this that I stopped doing 1001 for about 6 months.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

3/5

Decent, Production is a bit rough / dated.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

Live albums don't do it for me. Think they have rightfully died off.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Fine

Hot Fuss

The Killers

5/5

If you skip Mr Brightside it's a 5/5

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Good, imagine might be one of the weakest songs on it

Eternally Yours

The Saints

2/5

Another one where it sounds good for the era.

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

Good that

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Meh

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

A few tracks you've heard of, many you haven't, for good reason

Another Green World

Brian Eno

1/5

Not fun

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Good, falls off a cliff though

The World is a Ghetto

War

4/5

Funky and enjoyable. A bit like, not me.

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

Bit reel big fish, a bit guns n roses

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

The White Album

Beatles

3/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

2/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Nice bit of jazz

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Nearly 1 star.

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

I've spent a lot of my life telling people that Nirvana are overrated. I still believe it, But slightly less.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

1/5

If this project has taught me anything, it's that I really dislike the Pet Shop Boys

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Can see how it was interesting in 1996

Iron Maiden

2/5

Meh, next

So Much For The City

The Thrills

1/5

Jesus Christ if this had come out in 1968 I could have appreciated how it was progressive for the time. 2003?

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Probably better live. Or on vinyl.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

Based on some recent albums this might be a 8/5. Realistically its a 4.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Throwing Muses

2/5

Needs a /10 rating this app

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

1/5

Every now and again someone comes up with a cool riff then they decide enough of that nonsense.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

1/5

This crawled so that Moby could slowly stumble.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

1/5