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Album	You	Global	Diff
All That You Can't Leave Behind	5	2.98	+2.02
Nowhere	5	3.01	+1.99
Manassas	5	3.07	+1.93
Permission to Land	5	3.15	+1.85
Solid Air	5	3.16	+1.84
John Barleycorn Must Die	5	3.17	+1.83
Frampton Comes Alive	5	3.19	+1.81
Achtung Baby	5	3.3	+1.7
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	5	3.3	+1.7
At Fillmore East	5	3.39	+1.61

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Since I Left You	1	3.28	-2.28
Kala	1	2.91	-1.91
Natty Dread	2	3.58	-1.58
Boy In Da Corner	1	2.57	-1.57
Channel Orange	2	3.31	-1.31
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables	2	3.27	-1.27
The La's	2	3.15	-1.15
Immigrés	2	3.08	-1.08
The Modern Lovers	2	3.06	-1.06
Maxinquaye	2	3.04	-1.04

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Artist	Albums	Avg	Score
U2	3	5	4
Johnny Cash	2	5	3.8
Radiohead	2	5	3.8
Jimi Hendrix	2	5	3.8
Beatles	3	4.33	3.67

5-Star Albums (40)

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At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Legendary live album by a legendary live, jamming band. Exquisit record.

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A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Janis Joplin with her most known song (for me) on this record. Rough, raw and rocking, great record.

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

2/5

No Woman No Cry great song (but not the best version). I don't really care much for Bob / Reggae otherwise

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

4/5

Great stuff, hadn't heard it before

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Most sold album of all time for a reason. Top-notch pop rock.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Incredible, epic, one-of-a-kind operatic rock album.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

I had no clue most biggest hits of ZZ Top were from this album: Gimme all your lovin', Shard Dressed Man, Legs. All blues-rock bangers, which make this a great record.

American Pie

Don McLean

4/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

Great record I hadn't even heard of. Raw alternative / indie / punk rock that could've been released a decade later than it did. A couple of real bangers with catchy melodies like 'Blister in the Sun' and 'Gone Daddy Gone'.

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

Catchy middle of the road pop from the 60s. Fun, but nothing mind blowing.

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Early 80s synthpop record

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Great alternative indie rock, loved it!

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Amazing record, Neil Young's first solo album. Love every song on it, pure, raw rock gold.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Just an old man singing (old) songs. But what a unique, incredible voice, and a great selection of songs.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Hip Hop / Rap is usually not my jam but this is a great, diverse double album with some big hits, great songs, and some stuff I didn't care for. I preferred Andre3000s The Love Below part.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

2/5

Noise

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

5/5

Incredible accoustic guitar-focused folk rock. May you never is an all-time-favorite

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

3/5

New York Dolls

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Timeless masterpiece.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

4/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Michael Kiwanuka is great but this is not his best music.

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Blueprint for later synth pop followers

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

5/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

5/5

The Modern Lovers

2/5

Decent, nothing special. Doors lite.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

Very smooth R&B / Jazz / Soul. A bit too smooth, it doesn't really stick with me. Very relaxing music though, removing all stress.

Picture Book

Simply Red

2/5

Very 80s pop record, with some (smooth) jazz elements among others. Not great, not bad.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Very atmospheric, quite intense electronic music. I liked it quite a bit.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Achtung Baby

5/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

2/5

I had never heard of this record and that wasn't a bad thing. Too much punk / raw noise for me to really enjoy.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Very poppy 60s stuff

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Great album by an incredible folk singer/songwriter. Beautiful (string) arrangements accompany dark, mystic lyrics. Not the album I knew the best of Nick Drake's, so glad to find it in the list.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Pleasant, easy to listen to alternative rock / punk rock. I like the music style, but the album is really nothing extraordinary.

Street Life

The Crusaders

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Wilco's alt-country / rock sound, and was very happy to find after the 10th track that this is in fact a double record.

The La's

2/5

Pretty good 90s pop / rock, but also pretty generic and forgettable.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

4/5

Three top class singers, a great record full of country with amazing harmony singing

My Generation

The Who

4/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

5/5

Track title alone is so killer it's worth 5 stars. Plenty of other songs on the record are also great.

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Pretty solid record of 80s pop/rock filled to the brim with synthesizers, with the smash hit 'enjoy the silence'.

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

Very pleasant, fun, punky alt-rock record that's so clearly from the 90s

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Reggae is really not my thing.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

1/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

5/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

5/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

This really isn't my style of music and I wasn't even gonna finish listening to it but the intellectual, political lyrics against problems in modern society are great and captivated me!

Gold

Ryan Adams

4/5

Great record, mix of rock, country and singer songwriter is right up my alley. Too bad he appears to be a massive dickhead.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Good old Coldplay, their 2nd record with a couple of truly incredible songs (Clocks, The Scientist), but also not a bad song on it.

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Great metal record I wasn't very familiar with. Solid sings and easy to listen to.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

2/5

Noise indeed. Repetitive, and not great.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

3/5

Quiet, calm atmospheric music. Quite pleasant to listen to in the background, but not really my thing.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

One banger of an Elton John classic (Tiny Dancer). Rest is solid, bombastic piano pop but not his best work.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Incredible, one-of-a-kind record, full of funk and all kinds of psychedelic music. 5 stars

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Great early hiphop. Plenty of groove, funk and actually interesting lyrics.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Clearly a great influence to any indie rock and many other genres of the 90s and after.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

5/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

Great surprise for someone who loves any music from the 70s. Never heard of this band, but great rock, pop, folk and soul all in one package.

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

Terrific classic record, many easy to listen to tracks that I can enjoy time-after-time.

Nixon

Lambchop

3/5

Bit boring

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

I quite enjoy country and Sheryl, but wasn't too impressed with this record. Middle of the road, generic country for most of the tracks, and one big hit (All I wanna do) with a nice groove but nothing amazing.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Legendary live album by a legendary live, jamming band. Exquisit record.

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

2/5

Too much screaming

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Completely unaware of this band and record, it was a nice surprise. Not usually a big fan of punk, but this was hard, melodic, with funk and reggae and rock all in the same mix. Great stuff!

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Classic of the nineties. Hardly a below-average track on this record.

Brothers

The Black Keys

5/5

Love the Black Keys. Raw, banging and rock solid.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Nearly impeccable record that I've listened to many times. It has lots of tight, classic tracks with great composition, jazzy licks, incredible musicianship and produced to perfection. I was shocked to learn it was actually their debut album.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

5/5

Splendid harmony singing, stellar song writing. This album is a timeless classic.

Cross

Justice

4/5

Better than I thought, electronic music is not exactly my favorite. Banging record, solid tracks.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

Trip hop not my thing.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

A good reminder that I should listen more often to Stevie Wonder. What a musical genius. This isn't his best record, but plenty of great songs and lots of variety in musical styles.

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

Solid debut record, gangsta rap / hip hop that's easy to listen and nod your head back and forth to.

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

2/5

Quite depressive, melancholic music. A couple of very nice, beautiful songs, but overall often annoying and definitely 2 discs too long.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

Listened to this record several times. I typically love early 90s grunge and indie rock, and some tracks were great, but overall it seemed too random, too punky with poor singing and random harmonicas. No top 1000 record for me.

Kala

M.I.A.

1/5

Annoying noise. Not for me.

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Very chill music, and pleasant to listen to. Some beautiful songs but everything is also quite similar.

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Great surprise. Had never heard of this band but this is a very high energy, fun, glam rock record!

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Looking at the track list this album is perhaps just a solid record. But put it in its own time, it is genre defining, ahead of it's time, a timeless classic. And listening to it (again) it's still SO good.

Gorillaz

4/5

Not quite a masterpiece in my mind, but a banger of debut album. The whole concept of the digital band is great, well executed and it's no surprise they're still around 20+ years later. Great record musically, with still one of the best songs of the 2000s on it (Clint Eastwood).

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

4/5

Bit of a messy live record, but love the spacy psychedelic yet straight to the point rock from a band I had never heard of before.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Wish I could give 6 stars. Mind blowing, timeless, forever changing electric guitar.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

Muse is great, and this record is solid as a rock. Really good stuff.

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

2/5

Quite pleasant to listen to, and I liked the 'Songs of Love' track, and a few others, but overall it's rather boring and unremarkable.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

5/5

Love Traffic, adore the talent of Steve Winwood. Wasn't too familiar with 'John Barleycorn must die', so I was glad to give it a listen. A bit more folk on this record, and not really memorable for the lyrics, but the music and the psychedelic, jazzy jamming are great.

Paul Simon

4/5

Paul Simon is incredibly talented as singer, songwriter and guitar player. This is not as good as some of his later work or records together with Art Garfunkel, but still great.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Not the kind of music I typically listen to, but I love the idea of taking traditional songs from one genre and completely re-do. Especially with Ray's amazing voice, most of these sound great, but I especially love the more up-tempo songs like 'Hey Good Lookin''

1999

Prince

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Neil Young is a legend and this record is one of his finest, a masterpiece. One of four high profile albums in 1970 that followed the massive success of CSNY's Deja Vu, and the best one in my book. Lyrics cover a wide variety of topics, and overall the album contains more fragile songs and ballads, with the clear exception of southern man. Title track is a perfect song.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

Great to be reminded of this unique indie band. Their debut album is stellar.

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Not something I typically listen to but this was really great!

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Certified 5 star classic record

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

2/5

Didn't expect id actually finish listening to this, but it got better with some great melodies and guitar. One extra star when it's just instrumental.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Normally Johnny Cash can be joined track by track or off a 'Best of' album, but this record should be listened to in one go. Everything's great, you can hear the atmosphere, the banter and jokes in between the songs, a song written just for this show ('San Quentin') and of course some great versions of classic Cash tunes such as I walk the line and A boy named Sue.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Phenomenal record, one that I'd gladly listen to again and again.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Legendary Jimi Hendrix. Amazing stuff, but not so magical as his (their) debut album

Fleet Foxes

4/5

I love folk music, and there's clearly great musicianship on this record, with every track well crafted. Lovely album to listen to, but it seems to lack some soul, and in the end failed to really grab me.

Guero

Beck

4/5

Not too familiar with Beck, and after this album, I'm still not too sure where to place it. Tracks are of many genres, indie rock, pop, dance but overall good stuff.

Nowhere

Ride

5/5

Having never even heard of this band, I absolutely loved it. Will definitely be coming back to this!

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

My initial thought when listening: WTF, is this a joke? Turns out it was, and it wasn't. Experimental, very diverse, with some good music and other stuff I didn't care for. A bit hit or miss.

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Incredible. I used to listen a lot more to U2 when I was younger, glad to be reminded of how great they were at their best. Hardly a bad track on this, and next to the three big hits (arguably U2's best known songs), my favorite may be 'Running to Stand Still'.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

5/5

What a great guitar player Stephen Stills is. Big fan of CSN(Y), very nice to be exposed to some of the great solo stuff and while this isn't as magical as the CSNY classic albums, it's great.