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Album	You	Global	Diff
Slipknot Slipknot	5	2.68	+2.32
Maxinquaye Tricky	5	3.04	+1.96
Fifth Dimension The Byrds	5	3.07	+1.93
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.15	+1.85
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	5	3.15	+1.85
Winter In America Gil Scott-Heron	5	3.25	+1.75
S&M Metallica	5	3.26	+1.74
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	5	3.29	+1.71
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	1	3.34	-2.34
Private Dancer Tina Turner	1	3.3	-2.3
Toys In The Attic Aerosmith	1	3.26	-2.26
Signing Off UB40	1	2.97	-1.97
Connected Stereo MC's	1	2.94	-1.94
You Are The Quarry Morrissey	1	2.86	-1.86
Colour By Numbers Culture Club	1	2.84	-1.84
Whatever Aimee Mann	1	2.83	-1.83
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	1	2.83	-1.83
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.79	-1.79

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	3	5
Beatles	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5

5-Star Albums (27)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Popular Reviews

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

1/5

Schlocky horror. Not a lot beyond the surface. It’s just glam rock, really. Totally ruined by the recent revelations about him as a person. Can’t enjoy this at all now, not that it was particularly worth a listen.

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1-Star Albums (11)

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Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

Not as good as their later stuff with Bruce Dickinson. Not sure why this would make the book?

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

Meh

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Meh

Blur

3/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

2/5

Honestly? Barely listenable. There are a couple of nice songs on it, but it turns out Kurt Cobain already heard them and did vastly superior covers of them. The rest is mediocre.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

“What’s the next best band after the Beatles? Ah the Stones, obviously.” Received wisdom, right? But…eh. Not for me. I don’t get it. At all. Sorry.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Obscenely wonderful voice.

Connected

Stereo MC's

1/5

Good lord. In what world is this possibly up for consideration for the 1001 albums you must hear? If it was the 1001 best albums of 1992, Stereo MCs’ Connected would have no business being in the list. I gave each track a minute and it was the biggest waste of time in my life. I’ve given one star and this album is much worse than those.

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

3/5

I get that it’s an important record and that it’s influential etc. just didn’t do much for me.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Yeah, great. Such a distinctive sound. MB was a great pop star, and the songs are good.

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

1/5

Good lord, no thanks

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

In my early 20s I would have probably called this my favourite, or at least one of my 5-6 favourite albums. I’m nearly 40 now and my love of Dylan has dimmed slightly - I actually think the brilliance of his lyrics is slightly overstated and his musical output isn’t consistent - but I still love this record. The best songs on here , for me I Want You, Just Like, Sooner Or Later, Sad Eyed Lady… Look I mean I’m a massive softy and make no apologies…are all just tremendous. Subjective opinion: It’s not quite as good an album as Blood on the Tracks, which is just about perfect in terms of song crafting. It’s a 4.75 album for incredible moments and overall good consistency level.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Brilliant record. She could have been bigger than…very big things.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Wonderful. Among the best pop music that’s ever been made.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

1/5

Joan Armatrading

1/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

5/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

Obviously brilliant.

Homework

Daft Punk

3/5

Meh

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

5/5

Os Mutantes

4/5

Really delightful record.

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

Such a banger. Five stars. Fünf stars.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

I adore this album. It’s like a member of my family (except that I like spending time with it). Its familiarity never reduces my enjoyment. Maxwell and Octopus are objectively shit songs but literally every other second of the album is magnificent. A fitting swansong - vastly better than Let It Be or the (IMHO) overrated White Album.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

The Only Ones

4/5

Eagles

2/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Controversial this but…don’t get it. It’s all just “look at me” rock cliche. I’d rather give it a miss.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

1/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

Trip down memory lane. It’s held up well actually; more consistent than I remembered.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

Not for me, Clive.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Meh

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Really not that special for me. Sorry MJ fans. And not just because he was a paedophile - I just don’t find it to be the sensational music that everyone thinks it is.

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Disappointing. A great voice, but the songs on here are hit and miss.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

1/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

5/5

Now you’re talking.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

2/5

Signing Off

UB40

1/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Jesus, what a guitarist. A genius.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Lord above. What a magnificent genius he is. Ostensibly here’s a little fella who plays three instruments- voice, guitar and harmonica. He does none of these things to virtuoso standards, or even particularly well. His songs totally lack the melodic or harmonic invention of his peers McCartney, Wilson etc. Their lyrics, when written down, are not great poetry by any standards. Sorry, Dylanophiles, it’s true. Production? Did he even take an interest? Not sure but there’s not much going on if interest. And yet. And yet to argue against his genius using any of these points would be to completely miss the wood for the trees. And what a wood it is, for these songs, the songs of BIABH and of Dylan in his golden era from the early mid 60s til 76, quite simply do a better job of conveying the human experience than almost anyone else’s. He is a great, a legend, iconic, worshipped, for a reason.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

1/5

Not for me

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Marvellous. A combination of the early signs of utter genius, and some rip roaring covers. God I love them.

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

1/5

This is hardly essential. Jeez.

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

5/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

What’s this doing here? Holy hell. Absolute mediocrity.

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

1/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

4/5

Weird that the band themselves dont love this record. I think it’s as good as any of their others, and I like it a lot.

Paul Simon

5/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Peter Gabriel

5/5

S&M

Metallica

5/5

Slipknot

5/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

2/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

3/5

Not my cup of tea at all. 3 stars because it was essentially easy listening, which is what it sets out to be. But it wasn’t interesting at all. Would never listen again.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

Good but not the stone cold classic some would have you believe.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy