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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Real Thing | 5 | 3.2 | +1.8 |
| Live At Leeds | 5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
| Endtroducing..... | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
| Licensed To Ill | 5 | 3.56 | +1.44 |
| Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5 | 3.61 | +1.39 |
| A Love Supreme | 5 | 3.63 | +1.37 |
| Born To Run | 5 | 3.64 | +1.36 |
| A Grand Don't Come For Free | 4 | 2.67 | +1.33 |
| Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4 | 2.69 | +1.31 |
| Master Of Puppets | 5 | 3.73 | +1.27 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | 2 | 3.24 | -1.24 |
| Soul Mining | 2 | 3.17 | -1.17 |
| Your Arsenal | 2 | 3.05 | -1.05 |
| Back To Black | 3 | 4.02 | -1.02 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
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| Beatles | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Radiohead | 4 | 4.25 | 3.71 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Who | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Miles Davis | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
5-Star Albums (21)
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Beastie Boys
4/5
Love this album. Only reason I knock it down a star is it gets a little saggy on the back half. But overall is still excellent
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Bruce Springsteen
4/5
First time I had sit down with this one and I very much enjoyed it. Had heard all the singles before so interesting to hear it in the context of the album
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
This is a great album! A bit more rocking than some of his other material
Deep Purple
3/5
Hadn't listened to much of their music outside of the millions of times they run on Classic Rock radio due to stuff like Smoke on the Water, but I think always had a good appreciation of where they stood within the rock/metal pantheon. I think this is a good entry point into their music. Fairly economical songs, and a great guitar record.
John Lennon
2/5
I was not familiar with this one going in at all. Maybe it will grow on further listening, but I was not a fan of this record. The Phil Spector stuff is never really a selling point for me, so I can't speak to the production as some sort of saving grace. There are some bits and bobs that were stronger than others, but I did not find the overall listening experience as pleasant
Stan Getz
4/5
This one goes down super smooth. So light and airy
Sonic Youth
4/5
SY were always on the periphery of my music world back in the day, but I never dug too deep into them. Although I will say "The Diamond Sea" is one of my favorite tracks of theirs (not on this album though)
I liked this one quite a bit and probably will be revisiting again in the near future
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Awesome album. Some of my favorite tunes of theirs. Wild Horses is unbeatable
Lou Reed
3/5
I was a little surprised by this, but in a good way. Knew Walk on the Wildside of course, but wasn't as familiar with what surrounded it. I didn't know the history with Bowie and Ronson either, and how it was considered "glam". Solid
Beastie Boys
5/5
This one holds a special place in my heart. This is the first cassette I bought with my own money. 5 stars, no notes
Q-Tip
3/5
I had really only consumed Q-Tip's music through A Tribe Called Quest, which is all time(plus his great guest spot on Get it Together from Ill Communication). A lot of the Tribe aesthetic does bleed over into the production on this album, with maybe some more overt R&B inflections. Maybe just to my ear. A solid album
The KLF
2/5
I was pretty bored by this one. But then again, I am not doing drugs in some European club in the 90's
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
The Auteurs
3/5
Nico
3/5
The Dandy Warhols
3/5
I thought this was a cool little piece of power pop. Definitely will be looking to check out some more of their catalogue
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Just a complete and tremendous album. So extremely talented
Pulp
3/5
Not a band I was super familiar with, but knew them from general conversation on the Brit Pop resurgence. Generally well constructed songs but the sneer is fairly heavy on the vocals. Good harmonies
Rod Stewart
3/5
Raspy Rod
Funkadelic
3/5
What a wild album. Had no expectations going in, probably for the best. I probably need some more time with it, but I would say that there's a lot of good material here. Pretty funky
Sleater-Kinney
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Top notch bleep bloop
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
Top notch folk pop
Pixies
4/5
Top notch loud-quiet-loud
Elton John
4/5
Top notch piano pop
Tim Buckley
3/5
Top notch vibraphone jazz folk pop
Al Green
5/5
Top notch soul
Parliament
4/5
Top notch funky business
Gorillaz
4/5
Top notch Brit trip dub hop
The Streets
4/5
Top notch opera rap
The Blue Nile
3/5
Mid tier
Moby
3/5
Good bluesy electronica
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Top notch space pop
The Who
5/5
Top notch maximum R&B
David Bowie
4/5
Top notch art pop
Waylon Jennings
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Top notch art jazz rock
Miles Davis
4/5
Top notch jazz fusion psychedelia
Faith No More
5/5
Unimpeachable. Perfect album
Blondie
3/5
Good pop with a dash of disco
Cheap Trick
4/5
Top notch power pop. *Cue screaming girls*
Radiohead
4/5
Top notch Radiohead
The Beach Boys
5/5
Tremendous harmonies and song writing
Snoop Dogg
4/5
Top notch G Funk
Ute Lemper
3/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Good folk pop
Neil Young
3/5
The Offspring
3/5
Pretty damn good pop punk
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
Top notch production on this one. Just a classic
Eels
3/5
Pretty good 90s Alt Rock
The Hives
3/5
Decent garage rock. It's over quickly!
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Weird to hear it outside of the singles, which were so popular at the time. Pretty solid
Antony and the Johnsons
3/5
The Electric Prunes
3/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3/5
The Doors
3/5
Various Artists
3/5
The Style Council
3/5
A kind of wild mish mash of styles and sounds. Probably not something I would revisit
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Julian Cope
3/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Adele
3/5
KISS
3/5
Stereo MC's
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Temptations
3/5
The La's
3/5
"There She Goes" is a 10/10 banger, but the rest of the album is a little lacking in that same drive, at least to my ears. Bordered on rockabilly in some parts
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Really liked this one. Was not very familiar with them but definitely liked the vibe
John Lennon
4/5
I enjoyed this much more than the previous Lennon/Ono band record, which I thought was a slog, outside of a few good tracks
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Ice Cube
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Sigur Rós
4/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Cypress Hill
3/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
The Who
4/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Gene Clark
4/5
T. Rex
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Wilco
4/5
Tina Turner
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Beatles
4/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Carole King
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Beck
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
New Order
3/5
Butthole Surfers
3/5
Highly abrasive, but does have some nuggets of musicality buried in there
Pentangle
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
3/5
The Avalanches
3/5
Nina Simone
3/5
4/5
The Libertines
3/5
Guns N' Roses
5/5
Pretty much a perfect album. One of the best rock records ever made
Beck
4/5
The Specials
3/5
Lorde
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Linkin Park
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
Megadeth
4/5
The Stooges
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Louis Prima
3/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Lightning Bolt
3/5
The Who
4/5
Finley Quaye
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
The The
2/5
Meat Loaf
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Elbow
3/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
The Monkees
3/5
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
The Monks
3/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
Queen Latifah
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Nirvana
5/5
A little glossy for some (including the band I think), but still one of the best rock records of the 90's. Spent countless hours with this one
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Kanye West
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
Happy Mondays
2/5
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Caetano Veloso
3/5
Marianne Faithfull
3/5
Van Morrison
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Gang Of Four
3/5
Slipknot
3/5
David Gray
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Thundercat
3/5
Gillian Welch
3/5
Culture Club
3/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Bonnie Raitt
3/5
The Everly Brothers
4/5
Pixies
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
New York Dolls
3/5
Radiohead
4/5
Rush
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
OutKast
4/5
Jungle Brothers
4/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
The Clash
4/5
Bad Brains
3/5
Khaled
3/5
The United States Of America
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Little Richard
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
Arrested Development
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
OutKast
3/5
Le Tigre
3/5
The Human League
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Television
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Dennis Wilson
3/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Germs
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
ABBA
3/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
The Icarus Line
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Venom
3/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Scott Walker
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Portishead
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
Unimpeachable. A perfect record
Pretenders
4/5
Dr. John
3/5
The Police
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
The Fall
3/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
Björk
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Oasis
4/5
Tracy Chapman
3/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Metallica
5/5
Jack White
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Nas
4/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Norah Jones
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Red Snapper
3/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3/5
John Coltrane
5/5
The Waterboys
3/5
The B-52's
3/5
Eagles
3/5
N.W.A.
4/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Raekwon
3/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
Blur
3/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Ministry
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Radiohead
5/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Madonna
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
Björk
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
George Harrison
4/5
Kelela
3/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
Ozomatli
3/5
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
Chicago
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
Hot Chip
3/5
Kanye West
3/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Prince
4/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
David Crosby
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Elton John
3/5
3/5
King Crimson
3/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Yes
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Scritti Politti
3/5
Malcolm McLaren
3/5
Blue Cheer
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Joan Armatrading
3/5
The Triffids
3/5
Boston
4/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Bill Evans Trio
4/5
Prince
3/5
The Cure
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
DJ Shadow
5/5
Perfect album
Massive Attack
3/5
Portishead
4/5
The Mars Volta
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Solomon Burke
3/5
AC/DC
4/5
Aerosmith
3/5
The Birthday Party
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
David Ackles
3/5
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
The Temptations
3/5
Cream
3/5
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
The Adverts
3/5
Hugh Masekela
4/5
The Black Crowes
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Lupe Fiasco
3/5
Justice
4/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
Suede
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
3/5
Incubus
3/5
3/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Mudhoney
3/5
The Darkness
3/5
Spacemen 3
3/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Love this album. Only reason I knock it down a star is it gets a little saggy on the back half. But overall is still excellent
The Cramps
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Basement Jaxx
3/5
Kanye West
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Pavement
4/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
The Residents
2/5
Leonard Cohen
3/5
The Killers
3/5
Madness
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
John Prine
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
The Shamen
3/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
LL Cool J
3/5
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
4/5
The Strokes
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Queen
3/5
Ray Charles
3/5
New Order
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Neu!
3/5
Green Day
3/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Shack
3/5
Solange
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Common
3/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Sam Cooke
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
James Brown
3/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Supertramp
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
3/5
The Go-Betweens
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
Motörhead
3/5
Morrissey
2/5
The Kinks
4/5
Elis Regina
3/5
UB40
3/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
The Charlatans
3/5
Animal Collective
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Serge Gainsbourg
4/5
Meat Puppets
3/5
The Slits
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Minor Threat
3/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
The Stranglers
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Violent Femmes
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Buck Owens
3/5
Eminem
3/5
The Saints
3/5
The Zutons
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Milton Nascimento
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Peter Frampton
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Underworld
3/5
Slade
3/5
Sugar
4/5
3/5
a-ha
3/5
TV On The Radio
3/5
Beth Orton
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Simple Minds
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
3/5
Saint Etienne
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Jacques Brel
3/5
Steve Winwood
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Faust
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
Django Django
3/5
Napalm Death
3/5
Sepultura
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
George Jones
3/5
The Sugarcubes
3/5
Fatboy Slim
3/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Missy Elliott
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Traffic
3/5
The Modern Lovers
3/5
Erykah Badu
3/5
Japan
3/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Robbie Williams
3/5
Nick Drake
3/5
The Band
3/5
The Flying Burrito Brothers
3/5
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3/5
Dr. Octagon
4/5
Elastica
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Neil Young
3/5
Travis
3/5
Aerosmith
3/5
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Heaven 17
3/5
4/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Burning Spear
3/5
Mercury Rev
3/5
Primal Scream
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Genesis
4/5
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
Dirty Projectors
3/5
Iggy Pop
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Elvis Costello
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Sonic Youth
4/5
Anthrax
4/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
Ian Dury
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
The Verve
3/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Femi Kuti
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
3/5
3/5
FKA twigs
3/5
Ash
3/5
Orbital
3/5
The Coral
3/5
SZA
3/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
Jurassic 5
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Lucinda Williams
4/5
Ray Price
3/5
Scott Walker
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
3/5
2Pac
3/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Destiny's Child
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Method Man
3/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
John Cale
3/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5