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Album	You	Global	Diff
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.83	+2.17
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube	5	2.93	+2.07
Step In The Arena Gang Starr	5	3.17	+1.83
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy	5	3.23	+1.77
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
This Is Fats Domino Fats Domino	5	3.37	+1.63
Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen	5	3.42	+1.58
Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson	4	2.47	+1.53
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	5	3.52	+1.48
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.59	+1.41

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	1	3.94	-2.94
Forever Changes Love	1	3.22	-2.22
Django Django Django Django	1	3.21	-2.21
Melody A.M. Röyksopp	1	3.21	-2.21
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	1	3.15	-2.15
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Badly Drawn Boy	1	3.12	-2.12
Woodface Crowded House	1	3.11	-2.11
Country Life Roxy Music	1	3.11	-2.11
Liege And Lief Fairport Convention	1	3.1	-2.1

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	5
Bruce Springsteen	3	4.67
Johnny Cash	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Spiritualized	2	1
Brian Eno	3	2

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Purple Rain

Prince · 4 likes

5/5

Sheesh. The goat

Chris

Christine and the Queens · 1 likes

4/5

Shout out to my wife for playing this album incessantly

Ingenue

k.d. lang · 1 likes

1/5

Tedious adult contemporary. The type of music you would put on in an office because it couldn't possibly offend or attract anyone's attention.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies · 1 likes

3/5

Fun hearing the proto grunge before grunge

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus · 1 likes

5/5

I'm sorry Charles Mingus, I wasn't familiar with your game.

4-Star Albums (33)

1-Star Albums (33)

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

All Ratings

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

1 / 5 stars

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

2/5

Pretty meh. Highlights: Loaded, moving on up

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

Better than i remembered but not great

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Third favorite oasis album out of Be here now and Morning Glory but still pretty fun. Enjoyed live forever

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

Of all the norah jones albums, that was a norah jones album

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Not huglely my cup of tea, but respect the talent. Fast cars remains as much of a banger as always

Drunk

Thundercat

2/5

Fleeting moments but did not enjoy. Much rather have thundercat on someone elses song

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

Couple of bangers but i was ready for so much more

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

2/5

Meh meh meh meh. Highs are great, rest is watevs

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

Hell fucking yeah finally some energy. Cant believe i never heard of them before

Moon Safari

Air

2/5

Daft punk took two ambiens and a bottle of wine and this is what happened

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Not the type of sound i love bruce for but still an all timer

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

1/5

This is like if jefferson airplane wrought all the songs in lord of the rings

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Pretty fun, dont really need the whole album but i dug it

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Weirdly beautiful. Really liked this one

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Glad to listen to it, dont really need to ever again.

Eagles

2/5

Insert lebowski reference here

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

5/5

Holy shit, what an album. This is the template for half of my favorite albums ever

Woodface

Crowded House

1/5

Fuck this album and anyone that likes it

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Suprisely funky, dont hate it

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

5 stars if pet sounds didn't exist

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Like beastie songs way more than albums

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Really good hang, probably should start being a wico fan

Abraxas

Santana

2/5

Man fuck instrumental albums

Dummy

Portishead

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

5 star album by any conventional scale but led gets judged on their own scale

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Love the chairman

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Yep

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

1/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

4/5

Totally rad, gothy synthetic 80s pop stuff. Maybe like it better than Depeche mode

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

1/5

God I hate psychedelic music. I would rather listen to any of their contemporaries 100 times more than this garbage.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

2/5

I wish I liked jazz :(

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Doesn't maintain the highs all the way through but how high they are

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Get the Eno hype, not sure I want to listen to this album again though.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

4/5

I miss when Marilyn Manson was a misunderstood goth and not a sex pest.

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Great album if you're a soft boomer trying to sell an F150

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

Long live the king of rock and roll

The Only Ones

3/5

Mind blown this is the original another girl another planet

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Sort of sonically interesting but also sort of boring

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Shout out to the deranged Zappa fan with the flare gun

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Pretty rad, I don't even like prog normally

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

4/5

Better than anything swift has made in a decade

The White Room

The KLF

1/5

This album is why george washington fought for our freedom from the british

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Sheesh. The goat

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

Don't get the hype and also find stipes voice very annoying.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Probably a 5 star album if I had the time to deep dive the lyrics

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

3/5

Probably the best jazz, but still don't love jazz

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Great album had a couple of songs I didn't love as much as the all timers

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

An album so influential that it kind of sounds cliche and boring, even though it was the originator

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

Not listenable

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Every other song is an all time classic

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Totally inoffensive but totally inessential. Way better options out there

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

First PJ harvey album. It was cool! Interesting enough to check out her other stuff

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Stone cold classics all the way through

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Back to obscurity please

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

2/5

Kind of like if Springsteen had nothing interesting to write about

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Take me outs a banger!

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Pretty voice, respect thr talent. But not my vibe

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Why make hour long meh albums when you can make a 40 minute perfect album

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Totally inessential who, although the jingles were kind of funny

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

3 stars solely off the power of can't stop till you get enough

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

5/5

One of the best yet

California

American Music Club

2/5

Boring inessential soft rock.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Not sure if I wasn't in the mood but liked this album a lot.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

5/5

30 years of awesome gangster rap

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Fame and Young Americans are all timers

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Pink Floyd's legacy. Please update your site so we can give albums zero stars.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Withholding my Amy winehouse takes until after back to black, but this album wasn't for me.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

4/5

Shout out to my wife for playing this album incessantly

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Weirdly rad and funky. Would listen again

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Fully prepared to be meh about this album but damn if this album doesn't hold the hell up.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

I'm sorry Charles Mingus, I wasn't familiar with your game.

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

Some misses but also some all time greats

Vulnicura

Björk

1/5

I had an unfair preconceptions of bjork that she made pretentious nonsense music. Now that I've listened to this album, I'm happy to to confirm that bjork makes pretentious nonsense music

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

How have I never listened to this before, my god

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Jane saaayss, this albums pretty bad

Reign In Blood

Slayer

4/5

Hail Satan!

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

More painfully dreary, slow 60s folk.

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Interesting to hear the influence on a lot of modern bands, but didn't really keep my attention.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Some great songs but not my vibe

Blue

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Liked this a lot more than her 70s folk contemporaries

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

Add it to the pile of unnoteworthy sixties/70s soft rock projects

Django Django

1/5

All of charm of music from a Toyota commercial.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Didn't expect to like this so much, kind of sounds like tom waits if you gave him a Xanax and told him he was dying tomorrow.

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Save me from the 300 70s folk albums on this list Iggy Pop.

Ingenue

k.d. lang

1/5

Tedious adult contemporary. The type of music you would put on in an office because it couldn't possibly offend or attract anyone's attention.

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Yhe some all time great songs but also 8 other songs

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Cool songs, decent number of skips. Love the two hits though.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Rad and funky, super fun to listen too.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

1/5

You would think in an hour+ long album they would make at least one interesting song, even by accident

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Insert beats platitudes here

Pretenders

3/5

Fun, upbeat, easy to listen too. Great hang.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

This missing link between modern country and 60s country

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

More like Goldcrap am I right?

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

2/5

1001 60s folk albums to fall asleep to

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

1/5

Forever Changes

Love

1/5

For the love of god, no more 60s / 70s psychedelic

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Such a unique and amazing band

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Fun, but very repetitive after a while

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

Painfully boring blues

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

1st full Missy album and it was rad as hell

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Never quite got there for me but not a bad listen

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Good album with a few undeniable classics. But doesn't reach the highs of their earlier work.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

5/5

Frank Zappa might be the smartest guy to ever make an album.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Good album, but I still feel like I could take 5 songs off this album and put them in a playlist and be happy.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

Actually insane people like this band more than the beatles.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

Not my favorite KoL album, but it was my first

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

2/5

Can't say I was a huge fan

Country Life

Roxy Music

1/5

This feels like an unfair one.....and yet I never want to hear this again.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Holy shit

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

1/5

This is like an album of default ringtones off a phone from 2006

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Not my favorite album but some fun individual songs

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

Having listened to their contemporaries on this list, I've come to enjoy it more. Definitely not the greatest album of all time

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

1/5

How do you make an hour and ten minute album without one interesting song or lyric

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Guh gut gut goodbye

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

So. Many. Bangers.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Cool but sort of wore out it's welcome by the end.

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

1/5

Dreadful soft rock. A baffling inclusion on this list

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

An album so bad it literally killed the band

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

For some reason I really liked this album a lot more than their first album. Not sure why

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

I miss them so much

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

1/5

2 of this bands piece of shit albums in a week is a war crime

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

It gets the "I just listened to spiritualized" one star bump

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Fun hearing the proto grunge before grunge

All That You Can't Leave Behind

2/5

Morning album with 2.5 great songs

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

I need a Tylenol, head banging in your 30s hurts

Play

Moby

3/5

Considering I hate this genre this was OK!

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Maybe I like Neo soul?

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Pretty undeniable album with some all time classics

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

2/5

Amazing production, wildly stupid lyrics.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Very rad, but a little samey.

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

One star for each song I love off this album

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

1/5

Maybe this is great but unfortunately I hate dance music

The Score

Fugees

5/5

One of the greatest hip hop albums ever

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Great live rock

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

God damn Johnny Cash is funny

Third

Portishead

2/5

Tedious more often than not

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Need some kind of self reflection to understand why I like this so much more than other electronic/techno albums on this list

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Hey it's that our house song!

Cross

Justice

2/5

This and prodigy back to back is a lot

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Didn't like as much as the other car album, but still good

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

A deeply deeply forgettable album

World Clique

Deee-Lite

1/5

So much dance music :(

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

1/5

I will never be a fan of ambient electro musix

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Wanted to like it more than I did.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Pretty decent proto pop rock

Kenza

Khaled

1/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Some great songs but some forgettable stuff

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

No need for this to be an hour

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

I'll stick to the hits thank you

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Super fun pop rock album

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Not usually a prog fan, but that was pretty rad

Violent Femmes

3/5

Lemme hear that glock solo

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

There are 20 90s alternative bands I'd rather listen too than this

Suicide

1/5

Appreciated it as a signpost for future music, but that was not a fun hang

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

Actual nonsense

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

2/5

Boomer rock for cool dads

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

My god enough eno already

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

1/5

I hate electronic music

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Great album, but I'm pretty close to led zep zeppelin saturation at this point in my life

Nixon

Lambchop

1/5

Why is this?

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

Pretty inessential, but there's way worse on this list

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Shoutout to Ray Manazarek the greatest keyboardist in the history of rock.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

They need a six star scale for the beatles

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Great work, I'm sure they did their best

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Wasnt aware of how punk this was, very cool

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Tiny dancer is worth three stars alone

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

3/5

Cool album, too long though

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

Truly terrible 90s electronica

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

2/5

3 hours of this is actually crazy

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Man in wish I liked bowie more

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

3/5

Not my usual temporary but actually enjoyed this

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

All time classic for a reason

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

All hail butt rock i guess

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

All time great greatest hits, but album to album i bounce off a lot of songs.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5

Proto grunge!

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

One of the greatest albums of all time

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

2/5

Hints of something that never really develops into anything

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Loving some jungle book core

Microshift

Hookworms

2/5

Painfully forgetable

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

This is a 3 out of respect to Purple Rain

Elvis Presley

3/5

More of a greatest hits type of guy

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

2/5

Felt wrong not being in an elevator for this

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Pretty great few songs, doesn't always live up to those highs

Signing Off

UB40

1/5

I'm begging you no more reggae

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

I liked the cruella deville song!

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

1/5

It took me three weeks to get through this album

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

There are pieces that I like but it never really came together

Lost Souls

Doves

2/5

Boring but at least listenable i guess?

The World is a Ghetto

War

2/5

No more jam bands please

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

1/5

Unless you care about Alabama or skyward this album is a complete waste of time

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

Pretty rad, very Metallica esque

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Boss of my heart

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Pretty great, if not fully my cup of tea

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Great but not the beatles

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

It's like hadestown if I didn't like the music

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

I like weird electronic Beck, not slow sleepy beck

System Of A Down

4/5

Great album, a little bloated compared to toxicity though

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

This was Christmas alright

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Pretty good, for the most part