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Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dance Mania	5	3.27	+1.73
1984	5	3.51	+1.49
Catch A Fire	5	3.64	+1.36
Out Of The Blue	5	3.64	+1.36
Boston	5	3.71	+1.29
Picture Book	4	2.88	+1.12
Sheet Music	4	2.96	+1.04
Bridge Over Troubled Water	5	3.97	+1.03
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts	4	2.98	+1.02
Signing Off	4	2.98	+1.02

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dirty	1	3.11	-2.11
m b v	1	2.71	-1.71
White Blood Cells	2	3.68	-1.68
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	2	3.68	-1.68
Birth Of The Cool	2	3.65	-1.65
The United States Of America	1	2.61	-1.61
Blackstar	2	3.47	-1.47
Oar	1	2.46	-1.46
Amnesiac	2	3.41	-1.41
Parklife	2	3.38	-1.38

5-Star Albums (7)

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m b v

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

1/5 Yeah, I’m not finishing this.

3 likes

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

2/5 Not really my jam at all.

1 likes

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

0/5 Wow this was not for me.

1 likes

4-Star Albums (31)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

1-Star Albums (5)

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Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

3/5, some cool guitar riffs but generally not my vibe.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

3/5 Not my jam

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

3/5, nice guitar riffs. Vocals are too punky for me.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

2/5

2/5 Nice instrumentals, but way too disoriented and chaotic for my liking.

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

2/5 Not my type of music.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

3/5 A bit too experimental for me, but damn, Björk can really sing.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

4/5 I get hype cleaning to this.

Sheet Music

10cc

4/5

4/5 No bangers, but incredible sound.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

3/5 Not my jam.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

4/5 Some good tunes.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

4/5 I liked it!

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

3.5/5 Love the guitars.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

4/5

4/5 Some nice dreamy rock. Must check their discography.

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

4/5 Nice rock tunes.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

4/5 I’ve never really listened to Zeppelin before, and I’m pleasantly surprised.

California

American Music Club

3/5

3/5 I liked the range of the different styles.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

5/5 First time I listened to a mambo album, really appreciated the instrumental tracks.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

1/5 Yeah, I’m not finishing this.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

2/5 Not really my jam at all.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

4/5 I really liked this!

Kenya

Machito

4/5

4/5 Really blows my mind that they were playing this stuff in the 50s. The track ’Frenzy’ must’ve inspired ’Tank’ from Cowboy Bepop.

Risque

CHIC

4/5

4/5 This is great disco!

Boston

5/5

5/5 Wow!

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

5/5 This was great.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

4/5 Especially like the first half of the album!

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

3/5 Too many intermediate tracks for me.

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

4/5 I really liked this. Didn’t initially think I’d like this style of punk, but goes to show that you gotta give everything a chance.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

3/5 I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would, but I really liked some of these beats. Interested to hear some other albums.

1984

Van Halen

5/5

5/5 Didn’t think I’d like it this much, but the instrumentals were really on point for me!

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

3/5 Thought it was good, but over time the tracks were way too long and the songs started to sound kind of same-ey.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

2/5

2/5 Sole cool stuff but really not my thing.

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

1/5 I felt this album really wasn’t for me after a couple of songs.

Van Halen

4/5

4/5 Really liked this album. Cool bits with some covers and fun stuff as well.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

4/5 I liked it.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

4/5 Epic.

Picture Book

Simply Red

4/5

4/5 I really liked the versatility.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

5/5 Such a special experience.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

2/5 This music is not my cup of tea.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

4/5 I liked 'Catch a fire' a bit more, but this was great as well!

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

4/5

4/5 Really have to put effort into listening to the lyrics, but usually the same with all hip hop. Dope flows

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

3/5

3/5 I liked it.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

4/5 Some good blues!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

4/5 If you’re going to listen to a christmas album, listen to this one.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

3/5

3/5 Some chill jazz.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

4/5

4/5 The more I listened the more I liked it.

High Violet

The National

2/5

2/5 Not my type of rock.

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

3/5 I liked the americana/country elements of the album.

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

3/5

Too much emo screaming for me.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Not really my type of music, but I liked some songs.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Extremely good album.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Timeless sound.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

2/5

Not really my type of music.

Dirty

Sonic Youth

1/5

Way too trashy/punk rock for me.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

2/5

Not my jam really.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

2/5

2/5 dig some of the soundscapes, but ultimately not really might taste.

Paul Simon

3/5

3/5 Solid.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Now this is soul.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

3/5 Wonderful Sunday morning album.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

3/5 Solid album.

The United States Of America

1/5

1/5 Yeah, no.

Parklife

Blur

2/5

2/5 Not a big fan of punk.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

3/5 Some cool guitars in here.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

4/5 I’ve never been keen on Beatles music, but listening through this whole album opened me up to the range they have and makes me appreciate their music a bit more. I get the hype now.

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

3/5 I liked it. Good blues.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

4/5 Great.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

3/5 Some nice tracks, though I felt the type of songs became a little repetitive halfway through.

Debut

Björk

2/5

2/5 What a voice, but the backing music just doesn’t do it for me.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

1/5

0/5 Wow this was not for me.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

2/5 Some nice intrumentals in there but I didn’t like the vocals.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

3/5 Some interesting stuff in here.

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

Electric

The Cult

4/5

4/5 Loved some of the guitar solos.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

3/5 I liked some of the sounds, I imagine this is what set some of the berlin-underground-bunker vibe that would later become associated with the Matrix and other similar things.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

3/5 Some cool post rock.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

4/5 Some bangers & solid range.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

2/5

2/5 A bit too much brit-rock without memorable tracks.