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Album	You	Global	Diff
Heartbreaker Ryan Adams	5	3.03	+1.97
Hearts And Bones Paul Simon	5	3.03	+1.97
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael	5	3.17	+1.83
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel	5	3.23	+1.77
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.29	+1.71
Tidal Fiona Apple	5	3.45	+1.55
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast	5	3.46	+1.54
Parachutes Coldplay	5	3.46	+1.54
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	5	3.48	+1.52
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	5	3.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Different Class Pulp	1	3.42	-2.42
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Rock 'N Soul Solomon Burke	1	3.37	-2.37
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson	1	3.35	-2.35
Juju Siouxsie And The Banshees	1	3.33	-2.33
The Yes Album Yes	1	3.31	-2.31
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.28	-2.28
Since I Left You The Avalanches	1	3.28	-2.28
Teen Dream Beach House	1	3.27	-2.27
McCartney Paul McCartney	1	3.25	-2.25

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Eminem	2	5

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Pavement	2	1.5
The Fall	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (13)

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Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Probably good but but I can’t get past her vibrato

1 likes

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

4.5

1 likes

1-Star Albums (33)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2/5

It was okay. Would not choose to relisten.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

2/5

It was okay. Would not choose to relisten.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Good stuff

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

2/5

3.5 stars for the stories and experience of the prison audience, 2 for the music. The duet with June was good

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

Maybe 4.5 stars. Mrs Robinson, the opening track, and a few others are really well done

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Better than 2 stars, hells bells and back in black are worth the listen

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

5/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

Queens of the Stone Age

2/5

dad rock

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

2/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Like AC/DC with less screaming

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

5/5

Really good, I want to hear more

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

Meh, punky, probably great but I’m not feeling it at this stage

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

3/5

Pretty okay

Marquee Moon

Television

2/5

Not bad music, but the vocalist probably takes a few listens to get used to

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Pretty great, prescient. Not enough has changed since these lyrics were written

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Okay

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Had some good ones, teach your children, our house, maybe other gems if I listen more

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Good, worth listening again

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Pretty good, worth listening to again when the mood strikes

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Forgot how good this is. Worth relistening

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Might be good, need to be in a different mood

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Pretty compelling, I want to hear more

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

It’s solid fuzzy Beatles rock. Pretty okay.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

2/5

Not sure I would ever like it

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

So good

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

5/5

Really good production, need to hear it again to see how replayable it is

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Kind of meh, like oasis but with boring songs. Didn’t finish

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

kind of a one hit wonder for me, my ever changing moods single version (not on this album) is good

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Pretty smooth rock, worth a relisten

The White Room

The KLF

2/5

It’s fine, definitely 80s club music

Teen Dream

Beach House

1/5

Kind of meh broody

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

Might get better on a relisten

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

American Idiot

Green Day

4/5

Solid

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

okayish, kind of edgelordy

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

1/5

Wtf

Vulnicura

Björk

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

2/5

Good songs, weird mix, tired voice

Germs

1/5

punk, not intereseted

Boston

2/5

more than a feeling is great, the rest are okay

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Some classics summer breeze, that lady, maybe Isley bros

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

2/5

Maybe need to be drunk and brooding to appreciate it more

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Great production, mellow standards feel with orchestration. George Michael kissing a fool vibes

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

1/5

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

Kind of lame edgelord metal

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

1/5

My first smashing pumpkins, not for me

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

Didn’t sound great, maybe needs speakers

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

pretty solid actually

Diamond Life

Sade

2/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

4/5

Pretty good, sad and broody. Maybe 4.5 stars

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

2/5

Okay world music, not in the mood this time

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

1/5

Ironic name, it sounds like it was played through blown out speakers

Me Against The World

2Pac

4/5

Worth digging into again

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Pretty good, should listen again

Sheet Music

10cc

1/5

Not feeling it now, maybe some other time

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

solid.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Better than I thought, plus fire starter and breathe (the pressure)

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

has some good ones but also is noisy for my old ears

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

1/5

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

1/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

1/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

1/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Son of a preacher man and windmills of your mind

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

1/5

Different Class

Pulp

1/5

Okay

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

Really good songs here

Peter Gabriel

5/5

So good

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

2/5

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

okay

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Guero

Beck

2/5

The Yes Album

Yes

1/5

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

1/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

5/5

The La's

2/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

1/5

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

1/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

The Stone Roses

4/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Worth a relisten

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

2/5

organs at beginning of Along the Banks of Rivers reminds me of something I can't put my finger on. It's okay, like more boring Godspeed you black emperor

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

1/5

No so great for me today

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

Should relisten. More than ambient, but not much, with lots of delayed arpeggios and reverb

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

Pretty good mix and recording

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

Fine, might actually like it more on a relisten

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

1/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

4/5

The Cars

4/5

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

1/5

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

2/5

definitely need to be in a relaxed open mood to try this again. It's worth trying again

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

4/5

Playing With Fire

Spacemen 3

1/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

1/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Better than stereolab, not sure how much I like it but it could grow on me. The synth lead reminds me of shine on you crazy diamond

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab

3/5

Might be good in a party setting, but not great for morning focus

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Probably good but but I can’t get past her vibrato

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

5/5

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

4/5

Pretty good, has several great songs and some that would grow on me

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2/5

Has American Girl and not much else for me

Scissor Sisters

3/5

Could be good, worth a relistem

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Meh

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

Better kind of 70s psychedelic rock

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

pretty good

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Pretty solid

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Broody but I like it

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

The Visitors

ABBA

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

1/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

4.5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Mellow and downtempo

Pretenders

4/5

Kid, brass in pocket, mystery achievement are great, stop sobbing

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

5/5

One of the best

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Great, but depressing

Damaged

Black Flag

1/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

2/5

The Specials

2/5

Message to you Rudy, too much too young, and the rest is middling ska

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

one way or another, sunday girl, heart of glass, and the rest are decent

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

sound and textures are pretty good, like a more accessible and mellow radiohead; The man who told everything a good one. from their bio: Lost Souls was considered by many to be the best debut album by a British act since Oasis' Definitely Maybe ..... was roundly praised on its release for its blending of claustrophobic intensity and euphoria, the sonic influences from electronic music present in its textures and for being "the perfect after-hours soundtrack."

Heaux Tales

Jazmine Sullivan

3/5

Like Mary J. Blige but better

I Against I

Bad Brains

1/5

meh