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Album	You	Global	Diff
Rising Above Bedlam Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart	4	2.6	+1.4

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Ramones Ramones	1	3.57	-2.57
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles	2	4.25	-2.25
The Who Sell Out The Who	1	2.99	-1.99
The Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest	2	3.7	-1.7
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill	2	3.66	-1.66
Superunknown Soundgarden	2	3.64	-1.64
Darkdancer Les Rythmes Digitales	1	2.59	-1.59
Machine Head Deep Purple	2	3.58	-1.58
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	2	3.54	-1.54

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Gang Of Four · 1 likes

2/5

Bland, didn’t do anything for me

1-Star Albums (5)

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Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

Good musically just not my thing, will try some of his other songs at some point

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

4/5

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Gets progressively better (less folky) but not my thing. Opener and closer the highlights

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Building steam and midnight good songs

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

James brown is good and worth a listen but this album is a pain to listen to as half of it is screaming fans. Enjoyed lost someone but it seems to be the only version of that song. He has 4 different songs called lost someone.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

2/5

Blues chords and catchy chorus’. Not much else going on don’t really get the hype.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

1/5

Don’t get it at all, massively bland

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

Elevator music

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Some good songs but a little raw for me, reminds me in patches of early cage the elephant

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Brilliant album, proper talents and fantastic production for its time

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

3/5

Decent but not my thing

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Alright but heavily influenced by better bands of the time

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

Starts off sounding like REM ends up sounding like Travis, weak second half of the album

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

2/5

Just plain weird

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Surprisingly easy to listen to, might give it a second listen but the middle of the album was forgettable

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Not my jam but the seed is a great tune

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Great musicians

Medúlla

Björk

3/5

A bit too experimental for me

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Some good tunes, like their energy. A great album.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Some good funk, they won’t go when I go is a great little interlude

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Fine

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Decent album, something a bit different 3.5, family tree is great

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Couple of decent tunes but a lot of it droned on

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

3/5

The instrumentals are decent but he’s not much of a vocalist

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

2/5

My expectations were low and I’m still disappointed

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Crap

Drunk

Thundercat

3/5

Not my style

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Not my genre but liked a fair bit of it, best song revolution blues

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

Nice album, shades of portishead

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Solid 3.5, much prefer it to other albums of its time

Me Against The World

2Pac

2/5

Not for me

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

Dross

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

All about showing off his vocals, some of its ok

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

2/5

One dimensional, same tone rapping over the same beats

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

4/5

Just classic Neil Young, he’s good. alberqueque and the album closer are the highlights

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Fine, basically the mamas and papas again

Ananda Shankar

2/5

Weird covers, drags on in the middle

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Very good music just not something I’d listen to

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Pretty fresh but fades massively, gasoline dreams and ms Jackson are great

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

More folky than I expected, not really for me

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

It’s one of the best

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

A man shouting over frantic drum beats and guitar fills for an hour and a half, couldn’t finish it

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

Brilliant, 4.5.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Great album, more blues inspired than I thought it would be. Brown sugar, sway, wild horses and can’t you hear me knocking are brilliant. 4.5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

2/5

Too folky for me

Machine Head

Deep Purple

2/5

Nothing original, soulless

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Better than expected but country isn’t really my thing

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Not for me

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Didn’t expect the hip hop and reggae influences, couple of good songs though

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Really good, fades a bit in the middle, great blues album

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

Once you’ve heard the first song on the album you’ve heard the whole album

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

1/5

Nah

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Decent, the happening is the best, quite like dig for fire and is she weird

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Brilliant, 4.5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Hit and miss, some real talent in there and I admire the freedom and creativity

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Drags on a lot, most songs are a couple of minutes too long

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

3/5

Interesting but some of it is too lacking in melodies/structure, Some good tracks and worth a relisten though

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Absolutely brilliant, will re-listen again and again.

My Generation

The Who

2/5

Bland

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Solid enough blues album but won’t be listening again

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Good, needs a relisten with full headphones

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Second half much more listenable and lively than the first but still lacks edge

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

3/5

Decent blues album, better than expected, Maggie May and that’s all right are the highlights

1989

Taylor Swift

3/5

Good pop

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

Pretty uninspiring really

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Nice, but didn’t do a lot for me

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Liked the vibe, good funk but the songs just dragged on for too long and lost their focus

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

3/5

Need another listen to really get it

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Not bad at all

Ramones

1/5

Completely unoriginal and bland, like listening to the same song on loop

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Much better than sgt pepper

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

A little bland, some decent tunes though

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Some interesting sounds but every song is 3 minutes too long, you need to be on some kind of mind altering substance to enjoy it

Violent Femmes

3/5

Incel anthems described as teenage angst, good music, bad vibes

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Really good, massive Bowie influences 3.5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

2/5

Did not rate this at all

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

I’m clearly not intelligent to get this, give me some melodies please

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

2/5

Funky but not my thing

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

None of it really stood out

Dire Straits

3/5

Very well polished album just lacks a little edge in places

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Slight dip in the middle but very very good album

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

Interesting, probably worth another listen

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

A bit too soft and slow for me

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Some great songs but a touch one dimensional

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Good stuff probably needs a second listen

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Some great songs in here but half of the album is annoyingly whiny

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Some good songs, definitely influenced a lot of bands

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Didn’t feel cohesive as an album but some good songs, relisten needed

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Dull, not for me

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

4/5

Really liked the first half of this surprisingly, will listen to more of his stuff for sure, 3.5

The Last Of The True Believers

Nanci Griffith

2/5

Bland, not sure what this offers compared to say Dolly Parton

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

David Bowie

4/5

Great stuff from a great man, grows with every listen

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

This list doesn’t need more than one Leonard cohen album, utterly bland

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

2/5

Bland, didn’t do anything for me

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Good but nothing sticks long in the memory

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Not nearly as good as pranoid

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Not really my thing, feels a bit like a novelty act

Raw Power

The Stooges

2/5

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

2/5

Maybe I had to be a teenager in the 80s to love this

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Some interesting melodies and decent background music

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

3/5

Much better than I thought, just not my thing

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Not for me, decent though

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Some good tunes in here but half of it is bland and similar to others in the genre

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Not my favourite cure album, lacks focus

Microshift

Hookworms

4/5

Really enjoyed this, shame about the lead singer being a rotter

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Overhyped? Maybe, but still musically very good with great production

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Lacks a bit of originality and spark for me

Superunknown

Soundgarden

2/5

Really didn’t engage with this

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Perfectly listenable, just wouldn’t choose to listen to it again

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

3/5

A bit like early Beatles without the charm

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

Didn’t really get on with this, nothing stood out

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Solid writing, needs a relisten

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Did not listen

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Some really nice tunes here, will listen to more

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

Not really sure what this was

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

A bit too heavy for me, but it was fine