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Album	You	Global	Diff
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses	5	3.64	+1.36
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	4	2.84	+1.16
Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld	4	2.86	+1.14
Rip It Up Orange Juice	4	2.9	+1.1

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Garbage Garbage	1	3.38	-2.38
British Steel Judas Priest	1	3.3	-2.3
Goo Sonic Youth	1	3.23	-2.23
Smokers Delight Nightmares On Wax	1	2.91	-1.91
Bone Machine Tom Waits	1	2.86	-1.86
Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar	1	2.83	-1.83
All Directions The Temptations	2	3.46	-1.46
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	2	3.4	-1.4
Blur Blur	2	3.33	-1.33
Fragile Yes	2	3.32	-1.32

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Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

This music is brought to you by purgatory. Give me something to get my teeth stuck into man

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1-Star Albums (6)

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The Temptations

2/5

It's never a good sign when you have to force yourself to pay attention. Deeply average with a smattering of intrigue. Lovely funk on some geetars, the occasional ear-catching lyric and a banger. But that was offset by an album that seemed to be stuck in second gear... the only temptation I was getting was to turn the fucker off.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Only listened to one song

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Pleasantly surprised

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

Meh

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Get me out of this 70s time loop

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Salrightttt

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

My ears are oscillating between extremely intrigued and borderline climaxing. They produced this in 69'?

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Good but not great. 3.5 needed.

Le Tigre

3/5

A few pickles were tickled. Some nostalgic numbers and some crud. Didn't blow my socks off but they're loose.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Garbage

1/5

Garbage by garbage was garbage

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Sounds like a cross between coffee wake cup FM and bleeding gums Murphy. Manenberg revisited was a bit of a belter though

Debut

Björk

3/5

Alright but not my cuppa

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

Stunningly medicore

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

2/5

Not one to listen to while trying to do a slow run

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

It's a grower not a shower. Don't get me wrong it still feels very dated but some corking lines. I feel like my soul had been cleansed of all sins. Long live the herbs.

Liquid Swords

GZA

4/5

Well what a week we've had, from the wholesomeness of parsnips, lemon & thyme to the precision of GZA's metaphors. Although I'll confess, I had to look at the lyrics to truly appreciate the flow. Hoppity-hipping

Fragile

Yes

2/5

NO Where's owner of a lonely heart when you need it!? Five percent for nothing has to go down as one of the worst songs ever produced?

Roxy Music

3/5

Deffo got better in the 80s but overall not too bad

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Maxed out my piano based ratings

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Fluttered between a 3 and a 4 but I thought sheff would disown me if I went 3.

Faith

George Michael

3/5

Starts strong some drivel in the middle though

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Orange juice ft. Sunday mornings, the stuff of dreams.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Pretty f'ing d, although the album seemed to last for about 16 hours, not that I was complaining.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Chest nuts and chin nuts after all this time I finally get the Dees nutz reference. Much better than Paul's boutique. Hoppity-hippity, Snoopdog-infused goodness. Big up.

Rocks

Aerosmith

2/5

My opinion of aerosmith has never quite been the same since that rollercoaster, scarred for life.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Fine for a slow day with your cock out on the sofa and a glass of red. Not great for much else, disgustingly mediocre.

Technique

New Order

3/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Well well well, expectations low but boy I was wrong. Dark and stormy and just what I needed to get me through on a rainy Sunday. Shades of darkside followed by hacienda soundtracks and then back into the deep depths of the underworld. This is about as close to a 5 as I'll get without giving one. 4.499999/10

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

Fair fucking play, Antony & the Johnsons really bringing home the bacon. I was expecting mediocrity after the first, then as if by magic, I was immersed. Initially I struggled to tell if this was a man or a woman singing and it turns out I was kinda right with whatever answer I chose. Given this new found knowledge about the band members the lyrics become all the more poignant. Shout out to Gianna Infantino for the brilliant song writing on song three. Up the Johnsons.

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

2/5

Only one tune listened too

Goo

Sonic Youth

1/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

3/5

Groovy first beat, although I thought it lacked some variation on the whole a rather pleasant little album. Up Marcus Garvey

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

Despite the budget album art it's surprisingly okay but can't say much more than that.

Blur

2/5

Which mentalists actually thought these were better than oasis?

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Better than expected but a lot of background noise... WHERE ARE THE BANGERS AT!?!

Dog Man Star

Suede

3/5

Mid table mediocrity

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

Previously gave this a 2 or 3 but it's going straight up to a 4 due to a mixture of peer pressure, it growing on me, the absolute dogtits that have been served up the on here recently and not wanting to offend our Tone. This takes me straight back to my youth, listening to Bombay with a pear cider without a care in the world, happy days. You just can't help but think all is well with the world when this is on. I'd like to hear a little more grit/edge added, maybe even a Collab with alt-j, but hey it's 2008, what can you expect? They hadn't even heard of Brexit.

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

4/5

Wowzas, they're more than just the whole of the moon. This is a god damn masterpiece. I was tasting notes of rod Stewart, cranberries, U2 all topped off with some frenetic fiddling that only a fully fit Brian gleeson could match. We will not be lovers absolute banger, plenty of slower tunes to keep a lovely flow. Pair this with a glass of Campo rioja and you've got yourself an evening to remember. Kudos.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

1/5

This music is brought to you by purgatory. Give me something to get my teeth stuck into man

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

2/5

Bit much ain't it, just can't get into this punk stuff. The odd bit of alright, but other than that its teetering me towards mental instability. One or the purists I think

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Need to give it another listen

The Stone Roses

5/5

Bye bye bad albums, this really is the one, an absolute classic. Even after 14 gazillion listens it still pops. Song for song has to be one of the heaviest hitting albums out there, I still think don't stop is awful, but aside from that it's pure (fool's) gold.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

Rock n roll baby... Perhaps the non live version might of been better, perhaps I'm not musically adept, perhaps it is just shite, who knows. Kudos to the odd catchy riff - shout-out rocket Ronnie no 5. Album art wise, its negative marks for the yank flag. Positive marks for the Spangled expression on his face - I'll have what he's having and make it a double.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

1/5

If this is music then bring on the chatGPT age

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

Offensively American

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

Don't think I've ever sat down and listened to the 'Skin-'Nérd's but I was pleasantly surprised, very easy listening. Tuesday's gone, Simple Man and Free Bird particular highlights and would all be great accompaniments to a wholesome movies end credits. Nicht so Bad

The Score

Fugees

4/5

28 years it took me to realise fugees = refugees. Pretty d though.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Absolute filth

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Better than atomic kitten worse all saints

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Not insulting, not noticeable, not anything

Faust IV

Faust

3/5

Alright but certainly not great. First song sounded like the opening of a roses song.

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

If there's one thing we can all learn it's to never start an album with your best tune. The rest was alright though, plenty of variety across the album. I reckon with a few listens this could even reach the dizzy heights of 3.5.

Django Django

3/5

Blast from the past this. Served best with camel chinos and a bottle of bulmers pear cider. Can't say it offers too much more than default though, a pretty easy listening album but could easily be any band from the time

Ananda Shankar

1/5

Best served with earplugs

British Steel

Judas Priest

1/5

A crud sandwich topped with crud sauce served on a bed of crud