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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Rise & Fall Madness	5	3.05	+1.95
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	5	3.1	+1.9
Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk	5	3.15	+1.85
Soul Mining The The	5	3.17	+1.83
Closer Joy Division	5	3.22	+1.78
Live Through This Hole	5	3.28	+1.72
Siembra Willie Colón & Rubén Blades	5	3.29	+1.71
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	5	3.36	+1.64
xx The xx	5	3.37	+1.63

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Funeral Arcade Fire	1	3.56	-2.56
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.41	-2.41
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	1	3.35	-2.35
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.28	-2.28
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	1	3.01	-2.01
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	2	3.93	-1.93
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Maxwell	1	2.9	-1.9
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	1	2.9	-1.9
So Much For The City The Thrills	1	2.81	-1.81
Tarkus Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1	2.79	-1.79

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	4	4.75
Jimi Hendrix	3	5
Nirvana	3	4.67
The Clash	2	5
Fela Kuti	2	5
U2	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Arcade Fire	2	1
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	2	1
Iron Maiden	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Kanye West	4, 1

5-Star Albums (38)

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Popular Reviews

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

As an insufferably pretentious nerd I obviously think this is great

10 likes

White Ladder

David Gray

4/5

IF YOU WANT IT COME AND GET IT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD (radio edit is better)

1 likes

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

If this is considered their best album I'd hate to hear their worst

1 likes

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

I listened to (a bit of) this on YouTube on an incognito tab because the thought of someone seeing it in my Spotify or internet history was too embarrassing

1 likes

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Rubbish, but short

1 likes

1-Star Albums (13)

All Ratings

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Thank you to James for only making this half an hour long

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Very good, if not really my style

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Oh this is some album, if it gets any livelier a funeral's going to break out

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

1/5

piss

Back In Black

AC/DC

4/5

A lot of this album is trudging through basically the same track going on for at least a minute too long. But the highs are very high

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

I listened to (a bit of) this on YouTube on an incognito tab because the thought of someone seeing it in my Spotify or internet history was too embarrassing

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

Don't know what I think about this, in either a good or bad way

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Really good from start to finish

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

stop pratting about and play some tunes

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

Box office album from a box office man

Faith

George Michael

4/5

if I had an ounce of this man's charisma I'd lead a much better life

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

Rock & Roll is one of the greatest tracks of all time but none of this gets near to that level. Alternates between quite good, unlistenably crap and just a bit dull. Not bad but not exactly good either

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

someone tell kiedis to shut up so we can listen to the ones with talent

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

this is actually less shockingly crap than "finnish glam rock" would suggest, but nowhere near non-crap enough to make me want to try and find the half of the album that isn't on spotify

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

with apologies to drunk i just couldn't get into this at all

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

2/5

i never realised how much all of those yank parodies of the 1950s weren't joking

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

something actually (quite) good for once

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

1/5

stop doing standup and sing us a song

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

At first I thought this was going to be quite good, then it wasn't

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Please stop this

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Nice but also quite dull

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Glorious

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

3/5

Quite good in some places, quite dull in others

Fever Ray

3/5

Weird but not awful

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

Fine

Iron Maiden

1/5

Ruuuuuuuubish

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Suedehead is great, the rest of it isn't

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Still fine, not as good as the other one

Revolver

Beatles

3/5

Not much of a Beatles head but this was pretty good. I'm sure they'd be thrilled with the endorsement

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Enjoy the silence is an all time great, most of the rest of this not so much

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Good, but also long

Sulk

The Associates

1/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

That orgy track was weird wasn't it

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Great work from the big man

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

At times I thought this would end up being better than it actually was, but it was still fine

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Sounds like an obscure GTA radio station I would enjoy but not seek out

Murmur

R.E.M.

5/5

Banger after banger

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

If this is considered their best album I'd hate to hear their worst

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

a load of weird crap, then two absolute bangers, then a load more weird crap

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Pretty good, but also very repetitive and too long

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Fine enough but didn't do much for me

The Coral

3/5

In the morning: great. Everything else: not great

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

4/5

Pretty good!

Elvis Presley

4/5

Good stuff

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Belting

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

Not for me I'm afraid

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Decent

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

The band the Beatles could have been

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Fine

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

They called them 'the only band that matters' for a reason

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

4/5

Lovely stuff

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Music is decent but it's far too long and samey

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

It's fine but it's no am

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

The best to ever do it

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Lovely stuff

Le Tigre

4/5

Mostly pretty good, occasionally very crap. Thumbs up

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Great voice, sad story

Fleet Foxes

2/5

meh

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

It can't keep up the level of the first few tracks, but then what could

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

2/5

Dull

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

2/5

Rubbish, but short

Boston

4/5

Scrubs air band dot gif

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

45 minutes of "oh, I recognise this". Lovely stuff

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

I'd probably like this more after repeat listenings, but I don't like it anywhere near enough to want to listen to it again

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Will someone please remember Marcus Garvey for this man

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

When it's good it's very good, but the highs are relatively few and far between

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Good, and as importantly, short

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

2/5

Nooooooo thanks

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Objectively good but does absolutely nothing for me.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

Irritatingly good, albeit you could take the middle third out and nobody would miss it

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Fine. Nothing more, nothing less

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

It's a classic for a reason

1977

Ash

3/5

Don't you think your guitars are a bit much?

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

Some of this is really good, a lot of it is absolute guff

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Good weird? Bad weird? No idea, but certainly very weird

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

This is terrific

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

There are great bands who never made anything as good as Try Not To Breathe and it just about makes it into the top 5 of this album. Absurd.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Tremendous

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

Pretty good

Teen Dream

Beach House

3/5

Good, if a bit meandering at times

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Enjoyed it more than I expected

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

5/5

As an insufferably pretentious nerd I obviously think this is great

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Dunno why the wheatus fella thought going to see these would impress that girl

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

A lot of fun

Ramones

4/5

Here are several fine young men who I'm sure are gonna go far

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Faultless

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

Go back to singing about the tube network

The Modern Dance

Pere Ubu

3/5

I think I liked some of this? But it's hard to say

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

He's a weird old fella but the album is pretty good

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

4/5

It's annoying how good they are considering how insufferable they are

Os Mutantes

2/5

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Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

A load of absolute guff, and one of the greatest tracks of all time

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Good stuff mostly

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

2/5

I liked this less the longer it went on, and the satisfaction cover is criminal

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Lip service is great, the rest of it is fine

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Weird, but good. But weird

Kenza

Khaled

4/5

Liked this a lot

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Meh

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Good

Zombie

Fela Kuti

5/5

Perfection

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Didn't love it, didn't hate it

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Germs

2/5

Turboguff

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Solid if unspectacular

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Some undeniably huge tunes

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

Fine but forgettable

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

3/5

Blur

3/5

Fine, but doesn't really feature any of their best tracks

Debut

Björk

3/5

Some good, lots of meh

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

Didn't mind it

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Liked this a lot

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Great start, less fussed by the rest

Scissor Sisters

4/5

Good

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Really liked this

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

5/5

Masterpiece

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Only one great track, but what a fucking great track

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

"Not as bad as I was expecting" is the closest I'll ever get to endorsing my dad's taste in music

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Sounds very of its time. Not sure if that's good or not

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

THIS IS MY WORLD, AND I AM WORLD LEADER PRETEND

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

4/5

Good stuff, even if I can only think of the januzaj chant when I hear Starman

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Unreal

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Fine but forgettable

Rubber Soul

Beatles

3/5

Just does absolutely nothing for me. Sorry everyone

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

3/5

This veers so frequently and violently between atrocious and class that it's given me whiplash

NEU! 75

Neu!

4/5

I liked this!

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

The "bowwww" just before the second half of Free Bird kicks in may be the single greatest note in music history. The rest of the album is also great

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A Stones album that is almost entirety devoid of bangers is weird, but it's still fine

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

5/5

Elite

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Thought this was fine, at times better than fine. Equally quite forgettable

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Elite pop action

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

Listenable enough in points but pretty dull

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Not my thing but decent enough for what it was

Permission to Land

The Darkness

2/5

Shite. Fuck off Wiggins

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

V good

Mothership Connection

Parliament

3/5

Fine but less interesting than I was expecting

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

4/5

I liked most of this one #insight

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Nice enough, but didn't feel like I was missing out not having half the album on Spotify

Miriam Makeba

4/5

Enjoyed this

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Honking

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Not bad, but not for me

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

Some high highs but mostly bland

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Perfectly fine

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

5/5

Yes

Gorillaz

4/5

I liked it, mostly

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Given this has 3 of the great tracks of that era on it I was looking forward to listening to the rest of it. I shouldn't have been, but the Electric Feel remains an all time great

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Class

War

5/5

Tremendous

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Was alone listening to this and now I want to fuck Wiggins's cat

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Liked this

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

4/5

The Swedes 🫡

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

4/5

Red Eyes earns a fairly uneventful album and extra star

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Takes me back to my brief spell as a teenage rap head. Terrific

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

3/5

Easy listening but a bit in one ear and out the other

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

He really does have a stupid voice though doesn't he

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Made me feel sleepy. In a good way

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Enjoyed this far more than I was expecting. More harmonicas please

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

4/5

Always great to get a reminder of why a massive band became massive in the first place

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

Levels above the guff we've been served up by this lot before

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

It's good enough but as ever I'm left wondering why they're quite so venerated

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would but still decent enough

Bert Jansch

2/5

Any danger of a tune at some point mate

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

This is a lot of fun and makes me think of Fry from Futurama. Lovely

The Clash

5/5

I'm more of a fan of what comes later but this is as good as more pure punk gets. Simply the best band of all time

The La's

2/5

Starts quite good, ends with one of the worst four-track runs I've ever heard, features one of the worst songs ever committed to tape half way through. Not for me

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Fairly inoffensive but very dull

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

A toe tapper at times but never much more than that

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

One of the easiest 5*s we'll ever get. The instrumental at the end of Found A Job is as good as it gets

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

4/5

Separate the art from the artist etc but Morrissey being an absolute weapon makes the decision to give this 4 or 5 stars a lot easier

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

An album of 43 tracks that average 90 seconds each is always going to be weird, but I thought this was mostly fine

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

I can imagine that if this is your sort of thing it's absolutely incredible. It's not my sort of thing at all and I thought it was fine

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Calling this dirge is generous, as is a 2* rating

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

1/5

Something quite fitting about a crowd chanting "JERRY, JERRY, JERRY" at a fella who married his 13 year old cousin. Anyway, this is crap

The Stone Roses

4/5

So much to like about this, also some quite dull filler in the first half

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

If this just gave us Fela every day I'd be a very happy man

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Took a while to decide what I think about this, I can see the appeal but ultimately not for me

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

Some of the best basslines I've ever heard. Superb

Funeral

Arcade Fire

1/5

This might be the worst one we've ever had

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Certainly funky, certainly not that interesting

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Fine as background noise but nothing to grab you

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Couple of great tracks, otherwise not much for me

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Live albums seldom do anything for me and this is no exception

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

I spent the entirety of this album looking for the video of Kelsey Grammer introducing him on SNL, and my failure to find it has cast a huge shadow over the whole enterprise

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Girlfriend in a coma is wretched guff but the rest of it is pretty good

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Enjoyed this. Bad moon rising so good

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Easy enough but didn't enjoy it as much as his others

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

3/5

Seemed to be the only one who didn't like them growing up, and I still don't really. But the good tracks are better than I remember them being

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

2/5

I put this on because there was a loud meeting going on next to me. I think I'd have rather listened to the meeting

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

Crap

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

It's a bit all over the place and he has a silly voice but it's pretty good

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

I think it loses its momentum a bit towards the end but otherwise really good

Guero

Beck

3/5

I liked it for the most part

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

A handful of tunes, an awful lot of crap

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Very good!

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Yeah fine

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Class

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

*Chief Wiggum voice* JAMMING

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Didn't like this at all. Sorry everyone!

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

You could chuck heart of glass into the worst album on this list and it would make it a solid 4*. Fortunately the rest of this is full of bangers too.

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Was fine 20 years ago, is still fine. A high 3 rather than a low 3 but definitely a 3

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

The hee-hee is undeniably the greatest gimmick in music history

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

I'm not keen on the general rap album archetype of the time with loads of interludes and skits, but when this is good it's so good

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Nice background music

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

It's fine. Rarely more, rarely less

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

A good laugh

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

A very funny first album (along with busted) for a 9 year old who thought every track would be like hey ya to have. But it is very solid, Speakerboxxx is better but TLB has the better tracks.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Not as good as Nevermind but still great

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

It's good - really good at points - but it's just far too long and there's a lot of nothing in there

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Good stuff

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Enjoyed this, though the vocals are a bit grating

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

I liked this less the longer it went on but it's still decent enough

Tical

Method Man

4/5

Enjoyed this

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Good stuff from the big cheese

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Every track is basically the same, but they're all great

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

On the good side of alright

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Good, but not as good as I was expecting

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

2/5

The two or three good tracks on here are so good that I find myself genuinely angry about how crap the rest of it is

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Better than I was expecting but still quite crap, if very iconic. Bonus points for inspiring some bands with actual talent

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

Couple of duff tracks but otherwise a lot of fun

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1/5

This is appalling

Eagles

3/5

Occasionally great, mostly average

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

He's great when he's singing like a normal person rather than putting on a daft voice. The harmonica is class as always

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Yeah this is fine

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

4/5

I liked it

The Band

3/5

Decent easy listening

Parklife

Blur

3/5

A few great tracks, a fair bit of filler

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

It's not rubbish but it never feels like it really gets going

Play

Moby

4/5

A weird fella but a good album

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

Not their best, still great

Achtung Baby

4/5

Good

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Very mad, very good

Common

3/5

Nice and relaxing

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

The jump from the admittedly quite funny dirge with Macca to one of the greatest three track runs of all time could have given me whiplash

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Corgan is a prat with a silly voice but it's a hell of an album

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Good stuff

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Mostly better than I expected but goes on for far too long

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

1/5

Wiggins sold me a dummy with the "unlicensed video game soundtrack" line which only applied to the first track. Garbage

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Unbelievable

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Vamos a jugar por la playa Vamos a jugar por la playa Vamos a jugar por la playa Vamos a jugar por la playa Vamos a jugar por la playa

Music

Madonna

3/5

I thought this would be better than it was, but it was still fine

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

Fine. Bonus point for the harmonica

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

3/5

Like all stuff of this genre from this era there are great tracks when the tempo is up, but when they're just twiddling with their guitars it's a bit rubbish

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Guff

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

It's great, though I do always think he has a bit of a weird voice

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

2/5

Cannot overlook that Sloop John B has done immeasurable damage to our wonderful English football songbook. Admittedly it did make me burst out laughing when it started playing

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

I think this is fine probably? I don't really know what I think

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Class, even if In The Ghetto has been entirely ruined for me by Eric Cartman

So Much For The City

The Thrills

1/5

Possibly the most grating singing voice I've ever heard

Soul Mining

The The

5/5

Absolutely brilliant

The Score

Fugees

4/5

Enjoyed this

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Typically great stuff from the big man

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

3/5

I think I'd love this if I was into it as a teenager when it first came out, but I can see the appeal

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

As baffling as it is fun

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

Nice and relaxing

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

lovely stuff

Live Through This

Hole

5/5

It's very bleak but it's a great album

Elastica

4/5

Better than 90% of britpop

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

By far my favourite part of the past hour was when my earphones disconnected from my phone for no reason

Yeezus

Kanye West

1/5

I can't believe that the fella who put out one of the most aggressively misogynistic albums of all time would turn out to be a massive wrongun

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

2/5

Twee bollocks, insufferable voice. Some of the actual music was alright though

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

4/5

good stuff

The Rolling Stones

4/5

It's a great debut album, but they're going to get so much better

The Rise & Fall

Madness

5/5

OUR HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET

Closer

Joy Division

5/5

An album that is as great as it is sad. Isolation is wonderful and the instrumental in the middle of A Means to an End is something that I can never just listen to once.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Would have enjoyed more up-tempo tracks and less acoustic stuff. Still good though

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

Good fun

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Perfectly fine background music for an hour

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

5/5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwul7ussf8

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

An enjoyable listen as ever

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Love Lies Bleeding is an unreal tune

The xx

5/5

Great album, shame they've never really lived up to it since

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

4/5

Good stuff from the lads

Face to Face

The Kinks

3/5

A couple of really high peaks but quite a lot of nothingness

Sister

Sonic Youth

3/5

Yeah pretty good

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Nice and relaxing

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

Pretty good

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

Good stuff

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Faultless

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Baffling and great all at once

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

Good, would be better if each track was a minute shorter. Or if Albarn had a less annoying voice.

Technique

New Order

4/5

Brilliant album with a couple of all time greats

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

I prefer the ones they do about men after midnight but this is perfectly fine

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

It's funny how something so groundbreaking can sound so dated

White Ladder

David Gray

4/5

IF YOU WANT IT COME AND GET IT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD (radio edit is better)

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

This is great

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

Just about enough to squeak into a 3

Take Me Apart

Kelela

3/5

Decent enough

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

This is absolutely gorgeous

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Decent enough but nowhere near what came before it. Closer is a belter though

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Good stuff

Django Django

3/5

Gets better as it goes on, bonus points for having a track on the transcendent Fifa 13 soundtrack, even if it's not one of the ones that makes it so good

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Enjoyable stuff

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

With apologies to sunny I really didn't like this. Can't stand the bloke's voice

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Always feel like I should like talking heads more than I do, but this is still great

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

3/5

Good background noise to accompany tedious work