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Album	You	Global	Diff
Zombie Fela Kuti	5	3.47	+1.53
Heroes David Bowie	5	3.61	+1.39
Back to Mystery City Hanoi Rocks	4	2.68	+1.32
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	4	2.84	+1.16
Gris Gris Dr. John	4	2.88	+1.12
Spiderland Slint	4	2.98	+1.02
London Calling The Clash	5	3.98	+1.02

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Halcyon Digest Deerhunter	1	3.05	-2.05
Shadowland k.d. lang	1	2.86	-1.86
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	2	3.61	-1.61
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.55	-1.55
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	2	3.28	-1.28
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	2	3.12	-1.12

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Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

Do you wish the Strokes were more punk and less good? Well hot damn do we have a band for you!

56 likes

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

John: Alright, this is our final album so we should start it off with our best effort. I've written "Come Together", a really unique and interesting song with enigmatic lyrics. George: I've written "Something", a tender and achingly earnest love song which- Paul: BANG BANG MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMME-

39 likes

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Miles Davis is probably the single most talented musician to have lived in the 20th century, well known for occasionally blowing open the entire genre he worked in and inspiring dozens if not hundreds of imitators. For any other musician, this would be their masterpiece - for Davis, it barely cracks the top ten.

8 likes

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

It's got a few extremely good songs on it but my God, this really did not need to be a double album. Also, whoever told Elton John he could do reggae needs to seriously consider their position.

6 likes

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

I'm surprised I missed out on this one back in my wider music nerd phase, but I'm sad I did - this was extremely good. "They Won't Go When I Go" is an absolute classic.

2 likes

1-Star Albums (2)

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Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

It's got some really good bits at the start, some really good bits at the end and the middle bits are also there.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Far better than the title makes it sound. Waterloo Sunset and Death of a Clown are stone cold classics, the rest is somewhat take-it-or-leave-it.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

It's got a few extremely good songs on it but my God, this really did not need to be a double album. Also, whoever told Elton John he could do reggae needs to seriously consider their position.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

...okay I have basically no affection for this kind of soft-rock, country ballad and even I quite enjoyed this. Blah blah obligatory Big Lebwoski joke.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Everything about Appetite for Destruction, from the skulls on the cover to the solos on the album, is incredibly dated. You couldn't have made this album a few years earlier, or a few years later. As such, it exists as this near-perfect time capsule of 1987 cock rock. It's also the best example of the genre - I've always had more time for this album than anything by AC/DC or the like. "Sweet Child O' Mine" does absolutely blow everything else on the album out of the water, though.

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

There's nothing wrong with this, exactly, but I can't imagine putting it on when Fuck Buttons exists. What do you think the chances are of this surviving the next edition of 1001 Albums?

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

4/5

Bits of this sound incredibly futuristic now - I'm not surprised it didn't catch on at first in 1974. Great album.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

Do you wish the Strokes were more punk and less good? Well hot damn do we have a band for you!

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

4/5

I've never been particularly into Joni Mitchell but damn if this isn't one of the prettiest albums I've ever heard.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

I have a lot of time for Neil Young, and it's always nice to hear someone put out music this good a couple of decades into their career. Damn good album.

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

At the risk of hurting my punk cred, I didn't really get the big deal about this, not compared to other classics like the Clash or the Dead Kennedys.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Has its moments but gets bogged down in noise in a way that, say, The Cure never does.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

If this album was totally crap except for We Will Not Be Lovers, probably the best breakup song I've ever heard and a couple of decades ahead of its time, it would still be a 3 star. The rest of the album isn't totally crap.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

4/5

Never even heard of this band but damn if this album wasn't a lot of fun.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

What was Josh Lyman, a warning shot? That was my son.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

I see why the record label didn't really know how to promote this, but it's stood the test of time very well.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

The episode of Futurama with the Beastie Boys is very good, I'm a big fan. That's the only thing involving them that's inspired anything other than a sense of "oh, this again?"

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Makes me want to go to a Hard Rock Cafe and drink a £6.99 lemonade.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

It's very transitional and very artsy in a way which the Berlin trilogy doesn't really approach. Those albums took the krautrock influences and made them more...commercial, I suppose? There's no "Heroes" on here, or even a "Sound and Vision". When I'm listening to the album I think it's great, but when it's over I find myself unable to remember a single note.

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Fantastic album. How people don't talk about this in the same breath as Ten or Nevermind is beyond me.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

What can I possibly say about "In Utero"? It's good. I like it.

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

There really isn't anything new to say about this album. I prefer Low personally, but this is damn close, an absolute masterpiece.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

The title track and The Passenger are both absolute all-time classic tracks of the period, and the rest of the album is excellent as well. If it wasn't for Turn Blue, which I can't stand, this would be an easy 5 for me.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

I liked bits of this quite a lot, but as a whole it's deeply unfocused and oddly forgettable. Turns out that if you throw everything and the kitchen sink into your album, it just makes you sound like B-tier Flaming Lips.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Reminds me of First Utterance, or Exuma. Had no idea this existed, very very happy I now do.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

This wasn't actively unpleasant to listen to, but for an album bursting with ideas it turned into background noise remarkably quickly.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

It's got a tremendous amount of energy but that doesn't make up for the fact that I just don't like this style of music much.

Blur

3/5

Honestly, give me either the raw Britpop of Parklife or the more experimental rock of 13 - this has the problem of being in the middle. Gotta respect this as a transitional album. Oh, and obviously Song 2 is unimpeachable.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

Not for me.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Goddamn what a fucking tour of force this album is. Insanely catchy, insanely influential (on both the global scene and on the country in which it was created) and nothing less than a masterpiece.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Beautiful album.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I've never been a particular fan of the Stones - they're far more of a singles band to me. I'm also not a particular fan of double albums - it's very rare that they don't overstay their welcome. As such, you can probably figure out how I feel about a Stones double album.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Not a great deal to say about this - it's a classic blues album by an artist gone too soon.

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

This was extremely pretty and I enjoyed listening to it at the time, but now it's over I cannot remember a single note.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Yeah this is from 1966.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

One of the most beautiful jazz albums ever made.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

A little too free for my taste, but still a great time.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

1/5

It's probably an overstatement to blame the death of rock music on rock music becoming this...ignorable? But after 46 minutes of this that felt like 46 hours, it doesn't feel like THAT much of an overstatement.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

This is the first album on here I've really felt like one listen isn't enough to really grasp it - there's clearly a lot going on underneath the surface. View this 4 stars as entirely provisional.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

Almost unspeakingly beautiful and haunting.

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

I've spent a lot of time trying to really understand Spiderland, without much success. At this point I've given up on it as an album which I quite like but will never love in the way that a lot of people clearly do.

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

There was nothing wrong with this, but there's also very little to recommend it. Almost the dictionary definition of average.

Suede

3/5

I liked bits and pieces of this but I can see why this hasn't survived in the public imagination in the same way that Blur and Oasis have.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Country for people who don't like country, and everything that needs to be said about the Hurt cover has already been said. Astonishing song.

Led Zeppelin

4/5

I have a feeling that if I listened to this for the first time today I wouldn't be a big fan, but as it is my teenage self refuses to let me give this anything less than a 4.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Frank Sinatra sounds great as ever, but I find it quite hard to engage with on more than a surface level.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

So self-evidently pretty good that reviewing it almost feels like a waste.

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Rock Lobster will be with us until the heat death of the universe, but as what I'm not entirely sure.

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

Pretty excellent punky new wave, I enjoyed this a lot.

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

What else is there to say? It's fucking London Calling!

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

I'm surprised I missed out on this one back in my wider music nerd phase, but I'm sad I did - this was extremely good. "They Won't Go When I Go" is an absolute classic.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

I liked bits of this but I don't understand the need for this to be as long as it is.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Feel like I maybe missed a trick with this one, but I found this deeply forgettable.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5