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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow	5	3.25	+1.75
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	4	2.88	+1.12
Rapture Anita Baker	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	1	3.6	-2.6
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	1	3.47	-2.47
Face to Face The Kinks	1	3.28	-2.28
Fromohio fIREHOSE	1	2.88	-1.88
Let's Get Killed David Holmes	1	2.67	-1.67
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	2	3.61	-1.61
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.	2	3.51	-1.51
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.5	-1.5
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48

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Hail To the Thief

Radiohead · 6 likes

3/5

Overall not a big fan of their more Rock-y sound, I wish they'd stick to their creepy electronic stuff. I was thinking no song really stands out, but then Backdrifts hits with an absolutely wicked intro. We Suck Young Blood could've been shortened to We Suck, that song is awful. The whole second half of the album was disappointing to be fair..

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes · 5 likes

1/5

Offensively boring. The song Let's Get Killed was alright, but this whole album is just very mediocre beats played on repeat. There is zero progression throughout the songs. You'll have a better time clicking through samples on Fruity Loops.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE · 2 likes

1/5

If you ever needed a definition for ear rape, this is it. This "music" makes me physically angry. If I didn't stop this album halfway I would've gone out to the nearest school and punched a toddler. 1/5.

1-Star Albums (5)

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good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Too many shitty intros and outros ruining the songs/album. If they were separate intermissions and could be skipped from the album, then maybe it could be saved. 2/5. Shit.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Chill but nothing special

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

2/5

2/5 impressively bland

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

3/5, not my genre. Sounds like shit.

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

2/5

Not Björk's best work, but good practice and I am glad she went solo later. This album just felt messy, she's just screaming with some shitty music in the background. Birthday was a good song, everything else was pretty bad.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

3/5, not my genre but the titular Band on the Run is very snazzy. It's comfortable music that's pleasing to the ears, but I wouldn't listen to it again

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Do you wanna dance was alright, but I don't want to listen to a bunch of frat boys practicing the guitar. Shit show.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

4/5

Very chill, very nice, very rarely hear some audience noises after like 10 minutes of music, so all in all a good album.

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

3/5, ABBA is ABBA but there are some surprisingly listenable songs on this album

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Incredible voice, absolutely amazing to listen to in the background of a romantic movie scene, but sadly not pleasant to listen to on its own. The old-school cadence and sentence structure makes it feel like I'm listening to non-stop ad libs, and the volume varies WILDLY withing a single sentence. Frank could be halfway through a lullaby and suddenly starts shouting the 5th word, shaking you out of your slumber ... just odd. Gorgeous voice, great effort, but a 3/5 for me.

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

2/5

First song is a classic, and seems used in like every skateboard-ish commercial ever. Supply and Demand is a fucking war crime disguised as a song. And it just went downhill from there, like the Tony Hawk Pro Skater levels these songs belong in 2/5 made me angry

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

2/5

You can not convince me that hip-hop is music. It's awkward poetry read to some shitty beats. 2/5 dogshit.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

1/5

Joy divided by zero. Horrendous, I think there's one track on there that I could classify as a song.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Eurythmics

3/5

3/5 Some solid tracks, mostly easy to listen to, strong vocals. But then there's some songs mixed in that definitely go against the Geneva Convention, like This Is The House

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

An absolute classic. Great sound, lots of anger, yet a pleasure to listen to. If it didn't have Breed, Territorial Pissings and Endless,Nameless on the album then it might've been a 5/5.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

No, this isn't it. Most songs were too calm for my tastes, and despite me not liking La Grange much in Guitar Hero, it sounded even worse this time around. They know how to play the guitar, but I'd like to see them play the guitar somewhere else. 2/5.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

1/5

I was on the shitter for some of this album, and when Turn Blue came on I pushed as hard as I could just so I could run back to the pause button. The rest of the album wasn't that much better. What a fucking disaster. 1/5.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

2/5

More soy than a Burger King Impossible Whopper. Good voice, but nothing special. Soothing but boring.

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

The first 6 seconds of A Hazy Shade of Winter were pretty great. But the rest of the album is just an absolute masterclasses by the greats, Simon and Garfunkel. A masterclass of how not to make music. 2/5, tragic

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

5/5

Absolutely delightful. The singer's excellent voice and range is accompanied by a band that knows exactly what it's doing. Pulling out all the instruments, and switching between being delicate and bold playstyles to fit any song. There's quite a lot of variety on the album, but all of it is memorable and impactful. 5/5.

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

2/5

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Fromohio

fIREHOSE

1/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

1/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

I like the part where Yoshimi goes " wop wop woooooop", but I am not sure if he had to do it for 5 minutes straight. It's okay, it has a unique sound, feels interesting, but doesn't blow me away. I expected much, MUCH more from such cool art on the cover.. 3/5.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Overall a solid entry. Intro is cool. I assumed it was a talkative intro and then the second song was a banger, but it turned out to all be the first song. Second song is a travesty, too much harmonica. Evil Woman is awful. And I should've listened to the song called Warning, because it was a warning for the god awful solo about 6 minutes in... dropped it there. 3/5 at best

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

This sound is a dime a dozen. The first song sounds like a commercial, it feels like I'm being sold something. This album/band is not horrible, it's just nothing special. I personally find it tiring to listen to. And they've completely lost the fucking plot with Rococo. There's like 30 more minutes of this shit, nah I'm good. 2/5.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Like Björk, but without being weird. Like Katie Melua, but trying too hard. Like Phoebe Bridgers, but without knowing how to sing. It gets a bit better further into the album to be fair. 3/5.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Aggressively boring

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

An absolute classic, with quite a bit of noise in between bangers of songs. Paranoid Android and No Surprises are timeless, and while this album (and Radiohead in general) is forever ingrained in my memory for being amazing soundtracks to Ergo Proxy and Confessions (Kokuhaku) I can't give this the full 5/5 because a lot of songs are just a bit too noisy/weird..

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

Yeah yeah, fuck the police, we get it ... I detest hip hop

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Not a huge fan of the "I'm not singing but just talking over some music" genre. Man has a nice voice, but doesn't seem to do anything with it. Just annoying to listen to in the long run.

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

2/5

Folk off with this shit 2/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

1001 British albums you did not need to hear before you die. I have no clue what to rate this, because I hate the shit out of this and it hurts my ears, but is doesn't seem awful for what it is. 3/5 but a 2/5 because I fucking hate it.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Classic rock, good stuff, but I've kind of grown out of it and it can get very tiring listening to a screaming voice all the time. 4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

4/5

Sweet Love was sweet. Been So Long probably refers to the start of the song, no idea why that song had to be so long, felt like an eternity. Overall a very good voice and songs that are pleasant to listen to. I'm just a little too lonely to give this 5 stars.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

Classic. 'One' is absolutely amazing and always will be. Strong selection of songs with the true and true Metallica sounds to it.

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

I like Radiohead for their unsettling, uncomfortable electronic sound. Not for their average attemps at Rock. Good songs: High and Dry Great song: Street Spirit (Fade Out) Awful songs: The Bends, Black Star

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Ah yes, chill and relaxing music that makes my blood boil. I dreaded this album because i can't stand reggae, so i was surprised that the first song Natural Mystic was actually good. Maybe i was wrong about Bob Marley. No, i was not. Reggae is still shit, and the rest of the album was hard to get through. I'm being generous with a 3/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

1/5

Album you hear 1001 milliseconds before you die. This shit is so bad it makes me want to commit sudoku. Genuinely the worst entry on this list by far (so far), I have absolutely no fucking clue why this is on the list.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Pity She Was a Whore: Pity this song sucks more balls than she did, just 5 minutes of noise Maybe his other works are good, but this album does not show me why David Bowie is worshipped like some sort of musical god. This is some degenerate with an above average voice making weird nonsense.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

It's ok