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Album	You	Global	Diff
Damaged Black Flag	5	2.86	+2.14
Cypress Hill Cypress Hill	5	3.14	+1.86
British Steel Judas Priest	5	3.29	+1.71
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.29	+1.71
Ace of Spades Motörhead	5	3.29	+1.71
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.31	+1.69
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	5	3.33	+1.67
My Generation The Who	5	3.41	+1.59
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	5	3.45	+1.55
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	5	3.6	+1.4

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.82	-1.82
Club Classics Vol. One Soul II Soul	1	2.82	-1.82
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.73	-1.73
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	2	3.66	-1.66
Heaven Or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins	2	3.39	-1.39
Channel Orange Frank Ocean	2	3.33	-1.33
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	2	3.31	-1.31
Me Against The World 2Pac	2	3.25	-1.25
Darklands The Jesus And Mary Chain	2	3.23	-1.23
No Other Gene Clark	2	3.18	-1.18

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Who	3	4.67
Bruce Springsteen	3	4.67
Beatles	2	5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
The Byrds	4, 1

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1-Star Albums (2)

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Not normally a fan of Kanye, but can hear why this made it into the 1001 list, great album, just a pity about the personality.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Solid album, not my favourite from Prince though.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

What needs to be said... Just an amazing record from start to finish.

Le Tigre

3/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

5/5

One of the definitive punk albums. Best musicianship, no; best recording, no; but is it greater than the sum of all these parts, yes.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Woodface

Crowded House

4/5

Talvin Singh

3/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Germs

3/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

4/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

4/5

Negatives - it's "hair rock", it's cheesy AF Postives - you know all the words, its catchy, sounds good loud, and just leaves you happy..... (all assuming you are of the appropriate age and demographic - which I am).

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Didn't realise I knew so many of this guys songs, a great album

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

3/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

4/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Amazing album by a classic band, from the first notes you are hooked in for the journey/

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Faith

George Michael

4/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Good album by a great

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Just a great album from beginning to end.

Follow The Leader

Korn

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

3/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

2/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

School's Out

Alice Cooper

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

Never heard of these guys, but quite enjoyed this

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

Classic album from one of the founding bands of NWOBHM

The Slider

T. Rex

3/5

High Violet

The National

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

5/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Never heard of her before, but very much enjoyed the album - will be definitely added to the list of ones I will be listening to again.

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

The Doors

4/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

It's a good album, and there are a couple of good songs, but just overall not something I enjoy.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

So close to a 5, this is arguably a genre starting/defining album.

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

2/5

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

2/5

No Other

Gene Clark

2/5

Good but not great

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Third

Portishead

4/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

3/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Pump

Aerosmith

4/5

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Took me a bit, to realise just who this was, but the more I listened the more I felt I was there.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

2/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Would give this 3.5 if it was an option, but cannot in my heart round that down to a 3, so it's up to a 4 (but only just).

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

One classic song, and a lot of synth pop not to my taste.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Definitely a great album, and fantastic recording. However nothing about this justifies a 4 from me, though it is close.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

3/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

2/5

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Common

3/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Would give it 4.5 if I could, but can't give it 4.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

2/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

2/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Can see why it would appeal to some, but for me this is a no....

Tago Mago

Can

4/5

This was a little bit out of left field. Definitely can see this as very divisive, but personally I really enjoyed it (but then I like avant garde jazz and psychedelic rock). I want to give it a 4.5, but that's not an option.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Want to say 3.5, but that's not an option and in this case I have to round up as it quite enjoyable album.

My Generation

The Who

5/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

3/5

Not really my taste, and would probably only give this a 2.5 if I could, but I can't in good faith give it a 2, despite the fact I'll never probably listen to it again.

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

1/5

To quote a younger generation "I just can't.....". I tried to listen through this, and although I can't say I hate it, I just kept reaching for "skip" for so many songs, just nothing grabbed me.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Adele

4/5

Adele

4/5

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Not really a country fan, but I did enjoy this enough to give it a 3, even if I may never choose to listen to it again.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

A 3, and only just.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Absolutely of it's time, but still a great album that a solid 3.5 deserves to be rounded up.

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Not ever listened to a lot of Depeche Mode (and in particular this album), but enjoyed this and will definitely listen to it again.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

I want to give it a 3, but it's just a bit "lacking something" for me - maybe will improve over time, but I can't see myself wanting to choose this

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

It's okay, probably a 2.5, but just not enough to my taste to roll it up to 3.

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Not something I realised I had listened to previously, but quite enjoyable.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Not my favourite Talking Heads, but it's still a classic.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Great album, but unfortunately not entirely to my taste, but despite that this is absolutely deserving of at least a 3.

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

2/5

Just not to my taste, nothing materially wrong with it however.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Solid 3.5, but for nostalgia reasons it definitely rounds up to a 4.

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

The complications of this involving going to Sth Africa during Apartheid and appropriating music of an at that time very oppressed people just makes this stick in my throat. That said musically it's inspired, but I can't give this anymore than a 2.

The Band

3/5

Solid 3.5, but forced to choose I'm rounding down today.

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

3/5

Enjoyable, reminds me of playing the game "Tropico", but overall quite enjoyable but still not a 4 for me.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Very much wavering here between a 3 and 4, it's a milestone album for it's genre, but some of the subject matter and the attitudes expressed have not aged well (not that they were necessarily okay at the time either).

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Would give this a 2.5, but given our 5 star scale it deserves a 3, despite it not being an album I'd add to my rotation

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Enjoyed this way more than I expected, solid 3.5, but can't justify giving it 4 stars over 3.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Was leaning to giving it 3 stars, then realised it had stopped playing about 10 minutes ago, and I hadn't even noticed... so it's a 2 for me.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

The Clash

3/5

It's no "London Calling"; it's a solid 3.5 but in this case it's down to 3 stars, as I just don't feel that overall it warrants a 4.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

3.5, but "Smoke on the water", "Highway Star" and "Space Trucking" just have to push this up to a 4.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

Hmmm it's a 3.5 really....

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age

4/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

4/5

3.5.... but in this case Jesus might not have built MY hotrod, but it definitely pushed this up to a 4.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Was not expecting to enjoy this as mush as I did, some of these covers almost feel like the original was the cover.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

This is a 4.5 and I was tempted to just give this a 4, but I found myself choosing to play this again more than once before getting round to rating it - so it's a 5.

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

5/5

Will never forget hearing the title song as a young child watching the Young Ones; at which point it cemented itself as one of my favourite songs (despite the ludicrous lyrics) of all time.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

4/5

Was not exactly a fan as a teenager, given my predeliction for hard and heavy music, but listening to it in full for the first time I was suprised how many songs I did know, and just the quality of the "pop".

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

It's not bad, but it's not 'good' either (at least for my tastes). It's a 2.5, but in this case I'm rounding down. Maybe I'd change my mind on a few more listens, but I somehow down this will even get that chance.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

The xx

4/5

This was already on my favourites, so not suprising this is getting a 4.

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

2/5

Not to my taste. In short doses maybe, but by 2/3s of the way through I was over it.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Definitely wavered between giving this a 4 or 5, 4.5 would be the most accurate. Ultimately though, this is a classic album and deseves the benefits of swedish rounding.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Cypress Hill

5/5

Like Clash's London Calling that came up a day or two ago, I want to give this a 4.5, but I can't. Again, this is a classic album, and in this case it was definitely a soundtrack to a part of my life long gone - so for that it gets the benefit of Swedish rounding.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Fine line here between a 3 and 4, but overall I'm leaning to a 3 (no doubt if I'd heard this earlier in the list, it woud have been a 4).

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Nothing shockingly bad about this, but just not pulling me in.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

4/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Damaged

Black Flag

5/5

Solid 4, possibly could have sneaked up into a 5.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

Nice, but very much passed by me in the background.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

4/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

It's better than a 3, but can't give it a 4...

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Having read about the history behind the songs, and listened to it from a young age (mother had bought the cassette) this will always hold a place in my heart. Just a classic through and through