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Album	You	Global	Diff
Brutal Youth Elvis Costello	5	2.82	+2.18
Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adam & The Ants	5	2.83	+2.17
Infected The The	5	2.92	+2.08
Hot Shots II The Beta Band	5	3.01	+1.99
Hunting High And Low a-ha	5	3.12	+1.88
The Pleasure Principle Gary Numan	5	3.14	+1.86
The Sensual World Kate Bush	5	3.17	+1.83
Ocean Rain Echo And The Bunnymen	5	3.22	+1.78
Dry PJ Harvey	5	3.24	+1.76
The Stooges The Stooges	5	3.26	+1.74

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Bends Radiohead	1	4.01	-3.01
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.61	-2.61
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.55	-2.55
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.5	-2.5
Play Moby	1	3.47	-2.47
Odelay Beck	1	3.46	-2.46
Parachutes Coldplay	1	3.46	-2.46
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	1	3.44	-2.44
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	1	3.38	-2.38
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	1	3.35	-2.35

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	5
PJ Harvey	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Marvin Gaye	2	5
The Temptations	2	5
The Stooges	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	2	1

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Popular Reviews

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

1/5

You know the budget B movie when the protagonist has to enter the dive club to meet a contact. Perfect for that.

7 likes

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

1/5

I know its satirical but I can't get over some of the lyrics.

1 likes

4-Star Albums (25)

1-Star Albums (19)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

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The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

Feels very "safe" without much edge. Can't say most of the songs grabbed me. Modern Man was a stand-out though. Probably won't make it into a rotation for me, but found it inoffensive.

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

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Tries a bit too hard at times to be edgy in what I call a "bloke pop" kind of way. A few good tunes.

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Radio free europe a good opener, most of the others fall a bit short and unmemorable.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

An album you must listen to 1000 times before you die.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Foundational. Pivitol. Revolutionary. Influential. Clinical & hyper-futuristic rendition of machines' impact on man through a Fritz Lang lens presaging Ray Kurzweil's vision of the singularity. You can see why John Foxx took these ideas and ran with them. Bathe in it with headphones.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

Standout tracks: Baron Saturday Defecting Grey I See You Mr Evasion You can hear the influnce they had on Bowie. Their later stuff sounds more up my street so might check that out. I did like the Spoitify follow-on tracks more though... Groovy baby.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

💩

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Still prefer the original to this cover of Love in Vain & noone covers RJ quite like Clapton of course. Midnight Rambler - The stones really building a strong son on their blues influences. Love the tempo changes. Great harmonica work. Monkey Man - more blues. Good. Nice tip of the hat to Robert Johnson with the line about lemon squeezer. You Can't Always Get What You Want - a far better song than some of the things its been used for

White Light

Gene Clark

1/5

American wallpaper. Probably needs to be played on an 8-Track or reel to reel. Ironic title considering the cover, showing sunset which due to the increased amount of atmosphere the light has to travel through contains less light of shorter blue wavelengths due to Raleigh Scattering. So, not white light.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Quite like it. Found myself humming some of the songs after a listening. Always a good sign! Probably inspired Jonathan Coulton?

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

5/5

I'd still consider Hounds Of Love her gratest album, but there is only one word. Genius. ❤️

...And Justice For All

Metallica

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

1/5

lol

The Clash

5/5

Sadly still as relevant today as when it came out.

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

oh yeah. PJH got a new fan

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

OK, some catchy choons

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

awesome

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

1/5

I made it up to track 12: Myxomatosis. Have you ever seen a rabbit with myxomatosis? I have and it looks exactly like this sounds

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Not really something I'm put on by choice, but it's very romantic :) I'm more of a Nat King Cole fella

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

1/5

You know the budget B movie when the protagonist has to enter the dive club to meet a contact. Perfect for that.

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Don't know how I didn't hear of this lot. Solid

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

chill

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Wow - it's JB so yeah, but that band is TIGHT

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

1* for the dissapointment of no Manic Miner after the loading sound from track #1

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

it is what it is

The Cars

4/5

Solid

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

5/5

took it on.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

blues guitar guitar guitar blues.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

3/5

pretty good, pretty, pretty prettygood

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

They were probably good live. Lots of energy, but its a mostly covers album so...

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

5/5

What you get when you combine cocaine, milk, peppers and genius.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

5/5

Numanoids \o/

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

2/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Not my go-to but I do like a bit of Afrobeat. Amazing backstory.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

4/5

Not the best Iggy, but still the Godfather of Punk \m/

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

got velvet underground and beta band feels. Nice.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

1/5

nope

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

middling bob

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Great discovery

The Next Day

David Bowie

5/5

He really came back with this one.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

5/5

Goth GOAT

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

Garbage

4/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

Probably my most listened to album.

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Doolittle

Pixies

2/5

Normally up for this but didn't click somehow.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

4/5

Made me smile

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

I don't think the title track can carry the album these days which is a shame. Very much of a "what do you do after punk?" album.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

plays waaay different in the UK :)

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

❤️

Odelay

Beck

1/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

❤️

Le Tigre

3/5

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

2/5

Play

Moby

1/5

Found my attention wandering which can't be great. Prefer 18

Ramones

4/5

ah simpler times.

Metallica

4/5

ah Guitar Hero, I remember ye well

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

Groovy baby.

The Stooges

5/5

Yeah

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

3/5

only one track in the UK

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Good find

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

2/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Out of my usual genres but it would be amazing even if it wasn't improvised.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

good but showing its age a bit. Japan's "All Tomorrow's Parties" cover is still better though ....

Fred Neil

2/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

King of the blues! This is a great album. Captures his live performance well.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Great but I still like fun boy three's version of our lips are sealed

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

5/5

Lemme grab my Oxfam coat. 10/10 would 80s again.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

2/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

boof. right in the feels

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

2/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

Just gold

Suede

2/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

4/5

Surprisingly good!

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Saying this & other Cure albums are depressing is a surface level view and misses the point. They cathartic.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Banger! On hard rotate all weekend. Really catchy, raw post punk, not too self serious proper band music.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Infected

The The

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

1/5

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

I'd rather play quake 3 arena

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

5 stars for the starman. In this digital age I do miss sleeve notes though. The LP had the city that each song was composed in against the track. discogs has the info but its not really the same ...

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

1/5

I know its satirical but I can't get over some of the lyrics.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

1/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

1/5

American Gothic

David Ackles