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Album	You	Global	Diff
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits	5	3.07	+1.93
Tigermilk Belle & Sebastian	5	3.22	+1.78
Protection Massive Attack	5	3.25	+1.75
Bitches Brew Miles Davis	5	3.3	+1.7
Daydream Nation Sonic Youth	5	3.3	+1.7
Nebraska Bruce Springsteen	5	3.32	+1.68
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	5	3.41	+1.59
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	5	3.49	+1.51
Surfer Rosa Pixies	5	3.51	+1.49

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk	1	3.07	-2.07
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	2	3.72	-1.72
A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets	1	2.67	-1.67
Document R.E.M.	2	3.57	-1.57
Moss Side Story Barry Adamson	1	2.53	-1.53
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	2	3.38	-1.38
Garbage Garbage	2	3.38	-1.38
25 Adele	2	3.36	-1.36
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	2	3.28	-1.28

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5

5-Star Albums (18)

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

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Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

2/5

Catchy, annoying, bad and good. A snapshot of the 90’s worth a listen but I still have trouble liking this

5 likes

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

Avant-garden high concept art music that comes up short Sounds like an movie playing in the background but not one I care about. Albums by John Zorn, David Holmes, Cinematic Orchestra have done less conceptual albums with the same idea but are worth repeated listening

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Only song I knew was Personal Jesus Lush goth electro synth, sounding ahead and of its time all at once. A bridge between the 80s and 90s

Berlin

Lou Reed

4/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

5/5

Mesmerizing It’s been a while since I’ve listened and it still holds up in my opinion Epic jazz fusion that layers the smooth and subtle with overwhelming noise and mayhem

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Surprisingly more in-depth then I was expecting. I knew the name but had another idea of what they sounded like. Dark breading and even angry. A mix of clash, blondie, pretenders,depeche mode

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Raw and unfiltered Marley Doesn’t get the recognition but is solid past No Woman No Cry. That also makes the tracks not stand out, out side of an album listening

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Guitar noise goodness Gigantic and where is my mind are so memorable Sounds so clear and crisp, production really helps add to the strength of the album

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Not my favourite, IV or Presence is, but I think it is there best, too bad about the plagiarism and non credit

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

I always liked this more than Electric Wizard, that had the biggest hit and better album cover. I listened to this first because I heard GnR cover Buick Mackane. Catchy glam rock, hooks and dreamy layers

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Lush loud and dreamy It did not impact me as much as so many others

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

I could never take the place of your man is a timeless Prince classic. Most of this album unfortunately stuck in its time. I can appreciate its influence at the time but I don’t feel it holds up

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Masterpiece Love this albums diversity, every track hits the spot

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Holds up well, only knew the single Wishing Well. Great vocals and musicianship, album does fade out near the end

The Stooges

3/5

Unconditional for the time or now, obviously influential as I can’t imaging anything sounding so loud and raw at the time, now it just feels like a lot of the music it influenced. Worth a listen within context

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

New wave Brit pop/punk/funk sounding a bit more indie experimental than their peers. Strong use of electronics to give themselves a distinct flavour

The Joshua Tree

3/5

For me it was only about the hits

Adele

2/5

Not her best, but grew on me. Album listen

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Emotional and lush Sound of Emmylou’s voice is memorizing

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

A bridge from the 60s to 70s pop, easy listening and country. Mesmerizing Vocals

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

On par with sgt pepper or pet sounds, if maybe to influenced by it, but also influencing like the beach boys or Beatles but not with the same credit. Vitoria and Arthur bookend the album perfectly that is maybe hurt by its Britishness in North America

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Funky and groovy but found the lyrics did not stand out

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Classic album filled with wonderful lyrics beautiful melodies, should be automatic listening

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

Worth listening to, lyrically thought provoking and great song writing. Tho personally I do not enjoy most of micheal stipes voice, I find it testing and distracting, personally. Songs like “the one I love” is great but overplayed and the vocals stand out to much in a way I can’t enjoy repeated listening. “End of the world” stands out as different from the rest of the album. Could be perfect to other ears. Also the guitar tone sounds so similar to what they do for the next ten years it sounds like this album could have come out in 1995

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

1/5

Brit talk rapping concept album Nothing I could get into

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

3/5

More familiar with later albums but this debut fits in well with sad but still upbeat sometimes bluegrass and country. Still prefer “Satan is Real” tho

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Great debut, doesn’t get the attention his other albums do, looking at you damn the torpedoes. Bar band meet Dylanesque troubadour

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Still my favourite and their definitive album

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

2/5

Art rock with hint of prog. Never amazed me, feels a little like it doesn’t hold up. Still listenable, musically interesting, vocals not so much

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Start of a great run of albums, not my favourite but worth a start. New wavey groove art rock.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

3/5

Well mastered for a live album, some poorly recorded vocals in parts. A time piece of his transition from acoustic to electrical

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

“I if I can’t change your mind” is the soundtrack to every 90’s movies montage. A lot of people I know find this album very influential but I first really heard it more than 10 years later. Good album but also sound of its time.

Elvis Presley

2/5

The album that popularized Rock n Roll is a mediocre country album in retrospect

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Pop punk new wave masterpiece

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Rock opera, doesn’t hit me like other great who albums, could not get into the filler tracks

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

A classic that I feel holds up but I’m looking at it from the perspective of discovery as it was release so there is a positive memory bias.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Much fuller and complete than his more acclaimed earlier albums. Still my favourite of his

Whatever

Aimee Mann

4/5

Wonderful times less stories, sometimes can date itself in the music

Violent Femmes

4/5

Fun eccentric vibe, with dark lyrics Great album

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

4/5

Rollicking nice British folk pop. Great mix of talent and musicianship, vocals especially stand out

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Wonderful first album, a early sign the bad would shift gears later on. Never given the attention the 3 albums that came out after this do. Poppy and catchy

American Pie

Don McLean

3/5

More then the 2 famous songs in contains. Thoughtful songs and not to drown out.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Light and airy, a precursor to Air and late 90’s early 2000 electronic

Out of Step

Minor Threat

4/5

Solid album punk hardcore pioneer, better than most than followed

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Folk punk with hints of groove

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Filled with Soul some funky,and grocery R n B, bringing the Temptations into the 70’s.

Protection

Massive Attack

5/5

Masterfully crafted beats, songs emote feeling that gives you a sense of relaxing contemplation, must listen

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Great representation of 90’s angst in an artful concept album that inspired many into the 00s. Despite the almost 6 hour deluxe edition that came out at a later anniversary, the original 2 CD/4LP release felt forced and a 1 cd/ 2 LP would have made this perfect

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Artful, prog pop. With playful melodies, unique instrumentation, duel lead singers and interesting lyrics.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Lyrically provocative but musically less interesting

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

1/5

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

4/5

Beats by the bomb squad are great, the skits add to the great flow Ice Cube has. Lyrically the stories are harsh and dark making it difficult for some to listen to but give the album its rawness

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

The most cheerfully sad bastard music

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Like any live album it’s filled with crowd noise. Worth a listen but JB translates his live sound into recordings it’s not much different, this is short enough to not be annoying

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

90s RnB that was ahead of its time Still sounds fresh.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Raw from the the floor blues that hits just right with every track

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

1/5

Doesn’t not hold up, or stand out of the time it was released, forgettable and boring

Van Halen

5/5

Great debut album. Virtuoso guitar and energy that jumps out at every listen. You can feel the energy of them live. Worth rested listening, they never matched this album tho they would still create great songs. One of the 70s rock albums that would inspire 80’s glam metal sound

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Early Brit pop from a bad that is mostly known in North America for one song that isn’t on this album. Musically strong with British influences, lyrically thought worth repeated listen

Technique

New Order

3/5

I prefer dearly joy division like new order and you can hear a little bit on this , but more then that is a diverse synth pop/ EDM sound

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

Rough and unwavering in its lyrics and skits. A classic that represents hiphop at its peak. Great beats and great flow

The Rise & Fall

Madness

3/5

Not a good or memorable as their other albums, but also no as Ska

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

More raw sounding roots Reggae than Bob Marley, which is ironic as it was polished up for international label release.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Beautiful folky sound. Lyrics that flow like poetry

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

Lovely harmonies but dated and flat

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

2/5

Messy dystopian future sounding electronic music. Non of their well known stand out hits make this album fall flat.

Garbage

2/5

It sounds like it is stuck in the 90’s Overproduced but vocals are smooth Didn’t like it then not any better now

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Chippy British new wave punk. Fun and somewhat dark at times lyrics. Unconventional sound.

Forever Changes

Love

4/5

Surprised at the accessibility for psychedelic folk rock. Almost every track was great

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Poetry that sometimes becomes music.

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Feels overproduced to sound live, catchy and infectious the more you listen

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

I rock musical/opera style epic from Elton’s imperial period

Eagles

4/5

Beginning of 70s album country pop rock still influences today. Still a couple of forgettable tracks tho

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

A perfect album of story songs that encapsulates the American mythos. My favourite album of all time

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

Like Cindy Lauper She’s So Unusual, a time piece of thee 1980’s music that is both stuck in the moment and better than the era it represents.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

2/5

Catchy, annoying, bad and good. A snapshot of the 90’s worth a listen but I still have trouble liking this

Tical

Method Man

3/5

Wu Tang themed with great flow, beats are steady and I feel low key to let the lyrics shine

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

Post punk noise. Sounds like they are making it up as they go along

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Beautiful poetic lyrics sung with a wonderful harmonic voice. Lush arty melodies and arrangements. Over and hour long but flows by effortlessly.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Relaxing jazz classic.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Brings jazz into the modern rock ethos, elements of funk and soul give it brevity and emotion

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Psychedelic masterpiece concept. Flows from beginning to end. You’ve heard every song on the album even if you never heard the album before. Wonderfully ethereal. Hurt by the fact that it’s been played so many time that some people have heard it so much that it’s tiresome. So highly rated if feels overrated at this point

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

2/5

Over rated live time piece. Full of energy but lacking substance

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

4/5

Rock n roll n rocket fuel. The grizzly vocals and in you face attitude makes for a fun listen, this the must listen album for this band.

High Violet

The National

4/5

Sadly beautiful. Poetic and soothing. Modern sad bastard music.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

2/5

Unique for and at the time, but does not hold up to time. Not and good as the album that followed “angel dust” very much tainted by the bands it inspired

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Hodgepodge of production makes this unlistenable at times. Not an album that best represents this band Feels like 2 albums by 2 band mushed together the way the 2 singers are on it

Led Zeppelin

5/5

One of the best rock debuts. Strong front beginning to end, must listen

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4/5

Title track is beautifully perfect emotional resonance. Melancholy and worth repeated listens

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

A great listen. 70s Afrobeat masterclass. Even more emotional and impressive if you know the story of the album’s meaning and what happened after its release.

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Avant- guard art rock, sounding a like recorded in a tin can, at its peak the instrumentals are influential, at worst there are lacking emotion and can sound ambivalent. Vocals drag it down

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Doesn’t get enough credit maybe because of how they released it. Also overshadowed by the groundbreaking 3 albums that came before. It is a culmination of the growth and innovation for those sounds of rock, electronics and art

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

5/5

The album people who don’t like or don’t know Tom Waits should listen to, it might be the only album they like by him It’s a mix of accessibility and eccentricity that is also essential listening

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

If 90s grunge was also influenced by power pop of the late 70/80s via Joe Jackson or Elvis Costello. Time capsule of an album.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

If you don’t know ABBA, they are 70s Europoo. If you only know them from greatest hits this album is better than some pop bands from the eras greatest hits. The start of their imperial albums, with enough early album experimentation

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

If Limp Biscuit wanted to be Nickleback, or vice versa

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Lush soundscapes and soulful emotive vocals

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

Indie rock noise masterpiece