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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tigermilk	5	3.22	+1.78
The Fat Of The Land	5	3.4	+1.6
Dummy	5	3.71	+1.29
Pearl	5	3.73	+1.27
Graceland	5	3.74	+1.26
Highway 61 Revisited	5	3.77	+1.23
In Rainbows	5	3.84	+1.16

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Eliminator	1	3.38	-2.38
Architecture And Morality	1	3.05	-2.05
Rejoicing In The Hands	1	2.82	-1.82
To Pimp A Butterfly	2	3.61	-1.61
Illmatic	2	3.61	-1.61
At Newport 1960	2	3.55	-1.55
Music in Exile	2	3.33	-1.33
The Seldom Seen Kid	2	3.26	-1.26
In It For The Money	2	3.23	-1.23

5-Star Albums (7)

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In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

This might be my 4th favourite Radiohead album. Easy 5 :D

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In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Classic 60's piano vibes. It didn't keep me that engaged though. May have given it a 4 on another day.

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

I hated every moment of it, but I can't rate it low because clearly there is a quality level there that is excellent. I just hated it. Like I hate milk. It's not milk's fault, milk is fine, I just hate it. and I'm more likely to come back and listen to this album one day than many other albums that I think are okay. Because it at least has quality, uniqueness, and interest. So here you go, 4 stars. But I really really hated every minute of it. It took me days to finish.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Verging on a 5 tbh. Not bad for their 3rd best album. Karmacoma being the peak.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

If you took the worst bits of country, blues and stadium rock, and gave them to the 4th best high school band in your local area to turn into an album they wanted their enemies to listen to, this is what you would get. At times it seems like you've listened to the same single bar of music on repeat for an hour. And it is the most simple mundane bar you've ever listened to. This album has absolutely no redeeming qualities. It is utterly awful. It must be the worst album of all time.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

2/5

Expected better, but it just droned on so long without any interesting musical events.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Some decent music, interspersed with unbelievable amount of cheese. Jesus of Surburbia was brilliant though. Worth listening to the album just for that.

Music

Madonna

3/5

I should have been less surprised that the 5th highest selling artist of all time has decent music. Too poppy for my tastes, but did a lot with it. Interesting.

Spiderland

Slint

2/5

My kind of music... it just wasn't done very well. Quite samey.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

Not my cup of tea, kinda appreciate it, but it seems to throw noises in that it knows will annoy me, and I don't know why it wants to do that to me. I'm too tired for that shit. ranked up a bit because there were some really satisfying bits where randomness kind of melded together to reach melody. I'd rather not listen to it again though.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

When I saw it was Graceland today I was thrilled, I've always loved Paul Simon. I then went on a deep dive into the cultural context of the album (something I was blissfully unaware of when listening as a child) This is probably 5 stars based on the music alone. The cultural significance removes any question marks.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2/5

Shit, I couldn't fucking get on board with it, bitch. I just couldn't bastard handle the cunting language. Musically unfucking appealling. So it can sit on my dick, but that ain't free, you twat. (still. Better than ZZ Top. Which was the worst album of all time)

Ananda Shankar

2/5

It turns out I can enjoy the sitar for 24m33s, at which point my feelings take a rapid nosedive. Sadly this album is 40m:36s long

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

3/5

One of the best indie albums of the 2000's. It wasn't a strong decade! It's very good, an easy 3.5, but it's never going to be enough to tick up to a 4.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

5/5

So many classics in one album. Love that the generator is reminding me of such amazing artists who I haven't listened to in years!

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

It wasn't objectionable, but it never really kept me engaged, and I tried listening a couple of times.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

Almost as bad as ZZ Top

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

It's a close one, but I enjoyed every song, and felt engaged by every song.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

4/5

Loved Elliot Smith as a young 20 something, this was an amazing reunion with his music. Not quite enough for a 5, although if you asked me that question in 2003 it would have been a 5!

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Inoffensively average, not a lot going for it though, a bit boring tbh.

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Feels a bit dated. I liked it in the past, but it feels unpolished but without really qualifying that with anything brilliant. It was okay though.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Just not my kind of thing, or I wasn’t in the mood for it

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Wasn’t in the mood for Dylan. 5 minutes later and Dylan had convinced me otherwise. Finishing off in such confidence with 11 minutes of Desolation Row that somehow leaves you wanting more? So so good. It helps that I care about lyrics, and there are some real Dylan gems here.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Its front loaded. To start with it feels like it will be the easiest 5 you ever gave. But it tapers off. It’s still a 5 though!

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

This might be my 4th favourite Radiohead album. Easy 5 :D

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

Had better memories of this album, I thought it would be a 4 or 5, but in the end I had to take it on in chunks, the songs just got a bit repetitive.

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

It's saving grace is that it was short

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

I thought this would be easiest 5 of my life, but It wasn't an easy as I expected, almost went 4. But there are only a couple of weaknesses, and the strengths that come with it are just unreal. So just tips into 5 for me.

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

The fact that this was one of the best albums of the early 2000's says a lot more about that decade for music than it does about this album!!! It was fine though, I enjoyed it enough.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

1/5

This was not as good as I remember OMD being and I do not remember them being good

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

A bit dated, hippy, spiritual type stuff. Alright though.