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Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Group Sex	5	2.74	+2.26
Scum	4	2.07	+1.93
Close To The Edge	5	3.19	+1.81
Ritual De Lo Habitual	5	3.19	+1.81
British Steel	5	3.3	+1.7
The Chronic	5	3.33	+1.67
Play	5	3.47	+1.53
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	5	3.68	+1.32
Let It Bleed	5	3.83	+1.17

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tracy Chapman	1	3.78	-2.78
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!	1	3.52	-2.52
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music	1	3.49	-2.49
Parachutes	1	3.46	-2.46
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady	1	3.32	-2.32
Os Mutantes	1	2.98	-1.98
Mott	1	2.95	-1.95
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	2	3.63	-1.63
Fear Of Music	2	3.47	-1.47
Risque	2	3.27	-1.27

5-Star Albums (10)

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Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

This is Mars Volta right? I mean, it sounds exactly like Mars Volta. Didn’t realise they were Yes fans. Love this. Love it so much. I give it 5/4 stars

3 likes

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

5/5

Easy 5 for me, Keith Morris is one of my all time favourite musical people. The word blistering is used often but has never been more accurate. 16 minutes of insanity. LFDY is still one of my favourite songs of all time. Gets unfairly compared to Black Flag at times but up there for me.

2 likes

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Weird thing, the chorus’ of the first 4 songs all finish on a variation of “like me” or “and me”. Enjoyed it

1 likes

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

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Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

This album makes me feel like I’m a cool 1950’s detective driving about LA in the rain. My coffee and cigarette being rudely interrupted by a femme fatale walking into the diner. Or when you are playing Grand Theft Auto, steal a car and the jazz station is on and you’re too busy escaping the police to change the channel. I’ve heard Take Five a million times before but never knew what it was called. Cool vibe.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

2/5

I’m not a fan of Talking Heads. For my media technology course the lecturer used ‘once in a lifetime’ to show different audio effects. I listened to that song about 100 times in 3 hours that day. I’ve never cared for their production, or guitar tone. It’s all too angular and scratchy and this album has a lot of it. I like David Byrne generally and the bass is funky in all these songs. Cities is the best song on it. Franz Ferdinand Loved this album. I didn’t.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

“CAN YOU DIG IT, SUCCCCKKKKKAAAAA” Yes 4 spinaroonis

British Steel

Judas Priest

5/5

Easiest album I’ll ever have to review. The solo of Rapid Fire. Metal Gods & BTL are stone cold classics. Living after midnight is one of my favourite songs ever. 5 stars

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Alright but not my scene. Can appreciate the musicianship and classic songs but I’m more of a Back to the Future 2 kind of guy.

Parachutes

Coldplay

1/5

Oh FFS. Minus 5 stars. Beige background music for Barry C Homeowner types. I was 20 when this came out, the weird thing was they released Shiver as a single first and it was kind of alright. It got played a lot at Paisley Student Union in 2000. Then Yellow came off the back of it and became a honking monster of a song. To the point out it’s still in that irritating DHL advert. I mean plenty people must like it. Maybe it’s me that’s wrong? No, that couldn’t possibly be it, it’s the children that are wrong. I re listened on my way home from work and my opinion hasn’t changed.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Yass, The Pumpkins at their finest. If an album ever summed up Billy Corgan as an artist it’s this. It’s overblown, it’s self indulgent, it’s a bit wanky at times but when it goes, it fucking goes. Tonight, Tonight - Jellybelly - Zero - Here is no why - Bullet with Butterfly wings is up there with any 5 song run on any guitar driven album ever. It’s ridiculous the musicianship and playing on those 5 songs. Disc 2 isn’t as good as Disc 1. Some people aren’t keen on Flood’s production on this one but I love it. Easily 5 stars.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

Wasn’t my cup of tea.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

I never really listened to Radiohead beyond OK Computer, but this is a bit Mars Volta-ish and I really love Mars Volta, but there’s something about Radiohead I just can’t get. Liked the first song and the last song, the rest just kind of was there

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Some great, some not so great, not as amazing as I remembered it. I’m in love with my car; 39 and Prophets song are all still bangers. Bohemian Rhapsody is Bohemian Rhapsody but a lot of Filler Queen on here.

New York Dolls

2/5

Sounds like something I should like, and they probably inspired a lot of what I like in terms of rock and punk, but it’s just not something I enjoyed. Pills was decent but it mostly sounded like a Stones tribute act writing their own songs

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

The album that killed Nu-Metal. I’ve never listened to the whole album before but the album as a whole is prettty good. The single’s definitely stand out though.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

I liked this. More than I thought.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

5/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Weird thing, the chorus’ of the first 4 songs all finish on a variation of “like me” or “and me”. Enjoyed it

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

One of those bands and albums I probably should like but don’t. I hate the crowd screaming between every song. 2 decent songs the rest filler

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

It’s okay, not my favourite of theirs.

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

1/5

Couldn’t get into it at all.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

More like it. A little bit of country. Will need to listen to this again in the summer while sitting out in the garden.

Miriam Makeba

3/5

Was okay. At least I hope I listened to the right one as there were a couple on Spotify with the same name. Beautiful voice and neat cover of Rising Sun

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Not sure that a white Scotsman is their intended audience. Really liked it.

Play

Moby

5/5

Similar to Coldplay Parachutes this album was everywhere when I was at Uni. Thanks to MTV Europe in the 90’s I’d been along for the Moby ride before this. From techno guy to a return to his hardcore / punk roots then back to this. His “I like to score” album is still one of my all time favourites. This is interesting as I re listened to it recently after he had been on Steve-O’s podcast talking about his recovery from addiction. There’s a ton of classics on it. Body rock being on there surprised me, I’ve heard it so often over the last 25 years I’d almost forgotten it was a Moby song. 5 stars

Risque

CHIC

2/5

One decent song but not for me

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Never heard of the guy before now, seems like the type of music people’s parents would have listened to on holiday in Majorca in the 80’s. Night train was funky enough, reminded me of a vice city kind of song.

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

Don’t like Billy Bragg much, not keen on Wilco but this is somehow amazing. Listened to it while out walking on a cold November night and it brightened my night up!

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Classic

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

I always get Steely Dan and Stealers Wheel mixed up. This is not my cup of tea, super well produced though and smoother than a babies bum. East St Louis toodle do is a soundtrack to a Mario Bros level.

Close To The Edge

Yes

5/5

This is Mars Volta right? I mean, it sounds exactly like Mars Volta. Didn’t realise they were Yes fans. Love this. Love it so much. I give it 5/4 stars

Mott

Mott The Hoople

1/5

No. Not for me.

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Sounds like nights out in the late 1990’s. My flatmate loved this album. I like it quite a bit, but Nick Cave’s delivery is easily mocksble, second only to Type O Negative’s Pete Steele.

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Not for me.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Os Mutantes

1/5

I’m a weird guy. I’m very weird musically. But this is too weird. Yours sincerely, Frank Grimes Jnr.

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

Forgot about this. What an album. Noise roaring then every so often an awesome riff breaks out before degenerating into nauseous sludge. Or in Napalm Death terms “DWA BRAH BURGH BUURRGGG RRRAARR DOH” Lee Dorian does the vocals on the second half of the album and he’s a tremendous singer outwith napalm death. Go listen to Hopkins (witchfinder general) by cathedral for something more palatable

Debut

Björk

3/5

It’s alright, i forgot how much Venus as a Boy and Big Time Sensuality were played back in the day. Every DJ in the 90’s had a version of Big Time Sensuality.

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

Yeah straight up 5. Hardly a wasted moment on this album.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

One of my brothers favourite albums so have to mark it down. Can appreciate the quality but I’ve just heard it too much.

The Band

3/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

Tracy Chapman

1/5

Not a fan of this one. Was huge when I was a teenager so maybe it stems from that.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

5/5

Epic album. Not a wasted moment

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

I’m not a fan of the Stones, generally, but I listened to this between 7am and 8am walking into Stirling in sun zero temperatures and then on the train to work and it really hit the right spot. 5 out 5.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

Never been into Dylan, this didn’t help

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Never listened to this before. Seems more epic and expansive sounding than their usual stuff. Liked it