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Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imagine | 5 | 3.45 | +1.55 |
| Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 5 | 3.5 | +1.5 |
| Surrealistic Pillow | 5 | 3.53 | +1.47 |
| The Velvet Underground | 5 | 3.54 | +1.46 |
| Born To Be With You | 4 | 2.62 | +1.38 |
| The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5 | 3.62 | +1.38 |
| The Stone Roses | 5 | 3.63 | +1.37 |
| Transformer | 5 | 3.67 | +1.33 |
| With The Beatles | 5 | 3.67 | +1.33 |
| Doolittle | 5 | 3.75 | +1.25 |
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Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bad | 1 | 3.81 | -2.81 |
| A Rush Of Blood To The Head | 1 | 3.44 | -2.44 |
| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 1 | 3.42 | -2.42 |
| Like Water For Chocolate | 1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
| Led Zeppelin III | 2 | 3.96 | -1.96 |
| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 2 | 3.93 | -1.93 |
| Ctrl | 1 | 2.91 | -1.91 |
| 21 | 2 | 3.69 | -1.69 |
| Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
| Illmatic | 2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| The Doors | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| David Bowie | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and low weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldplay | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
5-Star Albums (17)
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1-Star Albums (10)
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John Lennon
5/5
The GOAT for a reason
The Smiths
3/5
Decent album but not as good as the queen is dead or meat is murder
Muddy Waters
4/5
Bluuuuuuuuuesy
Pixies
3/5
Too weird to enjoy but definitely an impactful album
Gorillaz
2/5
The rap based tracks are decent but too much of the album is Damon Albarn being annoying
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Very soulful, we love it
Beatles
5/5
One of the greatest albums of all time. Perfect blend of the beautiful simplicity of the early Beatles and the creativity of the later years
OutKast
3/5
A couple good tracks
Napalm Death
1/5
Shiiiiite
Circle Jerks
3/5
The Doors
5/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Nice
Elliott Smith
4/5
The Pretty Things
4/5
Like early Floyd with hints of late Beatles. Good psychedelic fun
Buffalo Springfield
3/5
Mike Ladd
2/5
As a whole not really my thing, but the last track was pretty great
Leonard Cohen
3/5
Very nice
Funkadelic
2/5
Common
1/5
Country Joe & The Fish
3/5
Generic 60s hippie stuff, was ok
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
3/5
Not really to my taste but was nice to listen to something different, can definitely see why people like this sort of music
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
A rare example of a B side better than an A side
Paul Simon
3/5
The first track gave a glimpse of the sound Paul Simon would eventually establish as a solo artist, but most of the album felt like Simon and Garfunkel without Garfunkel, but that’s still some pretty good music
Dion
4/5
I knew his 50s stuff but wasn’t aware of any of this style. Very much enjoyed it
SZA
1/5
Those darn youngsters have no taste
Fiona Apple
3/5
Nice and sad
Adele
2/5
Boring
Elton John
2/5
Elton is annoying
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
Jazz
Björk
2/5
Too weird
Radiohead
3/5
Sigur Rós
2/5
3/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
Shack
3/5
Streets of Kenny haha what a shithole
The Flying Burrito Brothers
4/5
The Who
4/5
Three classic tunes make this is a great album, the rest are decent tracks but not enough for 5 stars
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Creedence 👌
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
Pulp
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
1/5
Fucking shite. The world isn’t out to get you, white man
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Neil Young
4/5
Probably be 5 stars if Neil Young didn’t have such a weird voice (sorry Neil)
Stephen Stills
3/5
Wish him and Young had done more just the two of them, with more emphasis on Youngs songwriting and Stills as a frontman and guitarist. But what do I know
Kings of Leon
3/5
Decent album, always been something cool about kings of Leon
The Blue Nile
2/5
Bit too 80s for me, but it wasn’t terrible
Nick Drake
3/5
Mellow
John Martyn
2/5
Not a fan but music needs something different, just doesn't always hit the mark
Ryan Adams
2/5
Was alright but not good enough to be that long
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
It was music
The Police
2/5
Saved by two decent tracks, one of which has a much better cover version. This is what happens when three blonde men are allowed to do something together
Green Day
3/5
Steve Earle
3/5
Decent. Bit like Springsteen but more country
PJ Harvey
2/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Starts well but gets a bit too jazzy for me, was still ok though
Ray Charles
4/5
Class
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
Some tunes but felt like listening to the same song again after a while
Orbital
3/5
Given that it’s not my genre at all, it was pretty good
Supergrass
3/5
It was ALRIGHT
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Few good tracks but a bit too hillbilly for me
Miles Davis
3/5
Jazz
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Wanted to give 3.5, rounded upwards
The White Stripes
3/5
Was ok
Mott The Hoople
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Not huge on Kate Bush but I enjoyed this album more than I thought. I also love a reference to Joyce
Run-D.M.C.
2/5
David Gray
4/5
Wanted 3.5, rounded up because the last track was a great cover
Steely Dan
4/5
Surprised by that, class
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Bit repetitive but nice
The Crusaders
3/5
Groovy
The Black Crowes
3/5
Klaxons
3/5
Some bops on there but imagine it would get annoying after a bit. Decent album though
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Lorde
2/5
Bit annoying
Lambchop
3/5
Bit weird but ok
Spiritualized
3/5
First track was nice, some other cool tracks throughout
Gang Starr
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Very nice, like a preacher who can sing
The Residents
1/5
I had half a mind to give this two stars on the basis that it did a good job at making me feel like I was about to be murdered (maybe that was the point). The booker tease I suppose was some kind of post-modernist joke that was marginally fun maybe. I’m really clutching at straws here. Fuck you for promoting senseless violence against ducks anyway
Soundgarden
4/5
Enjoyed this a lot more than I expected
The Pogues
4/5
Listened to it twice. Hope my funerals as good as MacGowan’s
2/5
Blur are rubbish
GZA
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Not a big Metallica fan but given that this is a live album it’s very good
The Cure
3/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Supertramp
4/5
Absolute class
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
Unbelievable album from a bunch of genius loonies!
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
A near perfect album, just a shame I have an ex called Celia!
Boston
3/5
Good ol’ cheesy crap
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Very chilled but suffers in the same way most reggae suffers, in that its rhythm is very repetitive so the songs can get a little samey
The Doors
4/5
I’d say there are definitely better doors albums but riders on the storm and La woman are just so good that I’m giving the album a 4
Queen
2/5
What a racket. I quite liked Some Day One Day though
Love
2/5
I like the psychedelic stuff usually, love this era, but this one didn’t do it for me
Thundercat
3/5
Hero
Spiritualized
3/5
Pixies
5/5
Not even funny how good this album is. However, I will shake my butt as hard or as soft as I damn well please, thank you very much
Bob Marley & The Wailers
3/5
Lucinda Williams
2/5
Really really generic
Norah Jones
3/5
Jimmy Smith
3/5
As far as jazz goes it was decent
Kate Bush
3/5
I actually like Kate Bush when she sings like a normal human being
CHIC
3/5
Louis Prima
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
White Denim
3/5
The Who
3/5
John Grant
3/5
Pleasantly surprised by a lot of this but what was all that weird German stuff towards the end 😂
Jack White
3/5
Michael Jackson
1/5
Pedoooooooooo
Love
3/5
Arcade Fire
3/5
Prefab Sprout
2/5
Bit too 80s
The Temptations
3/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Suicide
1/5
Only so long I can listen to a man making sex noises whilst talking about murder
Bob Dylan
4/5
Can’t really go wrong with Mr Zimmerman
Fatboy Slim
2/5
Think I’m too hungover for that
The White Stripes
3/5
Queen Latifah
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Linkin Park
2/5
Bit annoying
Taylor Swift
2/5
Guilty pleasure for blank space, the rest is so boring
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
Sonic Youth
3/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
Donald Fagen
2/5
Annoying
Elvis Presley
4/5
The king
The Beach Boys
4/5
We won it five times
Sister Sledge
3/5
Hanoi Rocks
3/5
The Pharcyde
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
3/5
Ute Lemper
3/5
Last song was too weird. Album was interesting though, very theatrical
Fela Kuti
3/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Wouldn’t want to live in a world where Johnny Cash never existed
The Clash
4/5
Great album but goes on a little towards the end, apart from train in vain which is an undisputed tune
Queen
3/5
Some great tracks on there, last one made me vomit though
Paul McCartney
3/5
I think of John, himself and George I definitely like his post Beatles music the least, even if he was the most successful
Os Mutantes
2/5
But weird
Janis Joplin
4/5
Class
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The stones are so ok
Sonic Youth
3/5
Lou Reed
5/5
Think this is one of the first albums I fell in love with
Ray Charles
3/5
Hole
4/5
I enjoyed that so much more than I expected
Kraftwerk
3/5
German techno is so weird but the model is such a tune
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3/5
Green Day
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Can tell he was on a come down
3/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Beck
3/5
Black Sabbath
3/5
I’ll be the first to admit that I had much lower expectations
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
Coldplay
2/5
The rest of the album was so boring that I almost enjoyed yellow in comparison
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Class album, read somewhere that it gets loads of shite but I can’t see why
ZZ Top
3/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
The Who
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Led Zeppelin
2/5
Crazy how much I liked Physical graffiti and how annoying I found this
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Bit annoying
Astrud Gilberto
2/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Eagles
4/5
The Temptations
4/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Rocket From The Crypt
3/5
Simply Red
2/5
Fugazi
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Is it just dead cool to worship these? They’re alright
Lauryn Hill
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Rufus Wainwright
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Rush
3/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Travis
3/5
“What’s a wonderwall anyway” is a pretty funny line
Dr. Dre
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Harry Nilsson
4/5
Nas
2/5
Just not In the mood
Mike Oldfield
4/5
James Taylor
3/5
Santana
3/5
The Police
4/5
So much better than synchronicity
The Velvet Underground
5/5
What a band
Calexico
2/5
Boring
Thelonious Monk
2/5
Jazz
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Christ
Tracy Chapman
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Mekons
3/5
Joanna Newsom
3/5
Really fucking weird but not necessarily in a bad way, I like that it’s something different
Nina Simone
3/5
The Prodigy
3/5
Buck Owens
4/5
Le Tigre
3/5
50 Cent
4/5
I’ve added a star for “I love you like a fat kid loves cake”
Foo Fighters
3/5
The Specials
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Adele
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
I’ll just never get it
The Killers
4/5
The Icarus Line
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Great cover of take me to the river
Stan Getz
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Not sure there’s any Beatles album that wouldn’t get a 5
The Dictators
2/5
Anita Baker
3/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
D'Angelo
3/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
Why was that unreal
Pearl Jam
4/5
Class
The Replacements
3/5
Ha boner
Primal Scream
3/5
Genesis
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Morrisseys a douche
Rage Against The Machine
3/5
Killing in the name is harrowing but then the rest of the album just kinda sounds like a less impactful version
Dusty Springfield
4/5
Bit timeless our dusty
Kanye West
1/5
Bad man
Hookworms
3/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Great album and one of my favourite songs
Stan Getz
3/5
Elbow
3/5
Scissor Sisters
3/5
Why was that class. Knocked a star off for touching comfortably numb though, that’s kinda sacrilegious
Talking Heads
4/5
Some nerds of note include popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher, rockstar David Byrne and Supreme Court justice David Souter
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Sam Cooke
4/5
Can really hear how good his voice was here
2/5
Dude sounds like shaggy from scooby doo
The Specials
3/5
Prefer the first album
Coldplay
1/5
Yer da
Prince
4/5
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
Too bang average to be 2 and a half hours long
Elvis Costello
3/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
I gave it an extra star for the father Ted theme tune, and because my lovely horse was on some expanded edition
AC/DC
3/5
Public Image Ltd.
2/5
Fairport Convention
4/5
Marty Robbins
4/5
Ella Fitzgerald
4/5
This is an example of good enough to be 3 hours long
Jeru The Damaja
2/5
I can appreciate this isn’t to my taste, but I’m also not sure that it’s very interesting anyway
Björk
2/5
Musics nice at times, but her voice goes right through me
David Bowie
5/5
His first truly great album
Eminem
2/5
Too much incest. Was tempted to give it some more stars for that track of just dudes sucking each other off
Blondie
4/5
Oof it’s like 4.5 really
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
1/5
Joe Ely
2/5
Kind of sounded like that song in team America world police, that goes “what would you do?”
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Koffi Olomide
3/5
Missy Elliott
2/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
That was just about music
Charles Mingus
3/5
Don’t really care for jazz, but some of that was quite nice
Van Morrison
4/5
Van the man
The Avalanches
2/5
It wasn’t horrendous but no way could I listen to an hour of that
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
Sufjan Stevens
3/5
John Wayne Gacy, what a lad
Iron Maiden
3/5
Didn’t hate it
The Verve
4/5
Great album by a great band. I find most Brit pop bands to be criminally overrated, blur and oasis in particular, but the verve had a couple unreal albums. Shame the Rolling Stones are a bunch of cunts
The Incredible String Band
2/5
Yeah too weird
Bon Jovi
4/5
Not really my thing but the album felt very kind of definitive of that genre of cheesy 80s pop rock, certainly felt like a relevant album and was enjoyable enough
Ramones
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Couldn’t get through that
The Go-Go's
3/5
De La Soul
3/5
Joy Division
4/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
The Clash
4/5
Brian Eno
3/5
The Stranglers
4/5
Carole King
4/5
Air
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
The longer the note, the more dread
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
I mean it’s deffo their worst album that includes Reed, but still
Duke Ellington
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
It’s a very very good album, but I’m never convinced when people say it’s the best ever
Bob Dylan
4/5
One of his best
Queen
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
5/5
One of my favourites
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3/5
Only really giving that the time of day because the obvious song on there, her voice grated on me after a while. Which is strange, because I quite liked pearl
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Probably 4.5 really
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Bit of a trailblazer our iggy
George Jones
3/5
Nirvana
4/5
The Stone Roses
5/5
Track by track it’s just incredible
John Lennon
4/5
Heavy from John
Frank Sinatra
4/5
Wouldn’t want to live in a world without Frank
The Beach Boys
4/5
I love the “we aren’t surfers anymore” narrative, find it very funny. Disney Girls and a day in the life of a tree are such beautiful songs. RIP Brian Wilson, getting fucked up in heaven with Dennis now
Johnny Cash
4/5
What a way to sign off
Black Sabbath
3/5
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Borders on douchey at times but was ok
Van Halen
3/5
Jeff Buckley
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Definitely some of their better stuff
Cee Lo Green
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
Britney Spears
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
2/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
The Strokes
4/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
3/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
There really is some pretentious crap out there. Don’t know what more I’d expect from a Manc. Given it an extra star because Jarvis Cocker sang on first track
King Crimson
3/5
Kinda fun, but goes on a little bit
Nirvana
5/5
Possibly greatest live album ever
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Not usually big on jazz but quite enjoyed that
TV On The Radio
2/5
Was ok until that really shrill shite at the end
Faust
3/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Slipknot
2/5
I didn’t HATE it like I thought I would
The Soft Boys
3/5
N.W.A.
3/5
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Dr. Octagon
2/5
Why’s this guy just made an album about gynecology
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Gotan Project
2/5
That was really boring
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
The Yardbirds
4/5
UB40
4/5
Much better than any of their later stuff
Portishead
3/5
Sleater-Kinney
4/5
Faith No More
3/5
John Prine
3/5
Scott Walker
3/5
James Brown
3/5
Christ that was quick
Roxy Music
3/5
The Beach Boys
3/5
Not their best but still nice
Slade
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Slayer
3/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
God beastie boys are crap
Bob Dylan
4/5
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
The Zutons
3/5
Supergrass
3/5
They’ve done better stuff but still decent
The Byrds
3/5