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Album	You	Global	Diff
Casanova The Divine Comedy	5	2.67	+2.33
A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy	5	2.77	+2.23
The Colour Of Spring Talk Talk	5	3.07	+1.93
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	5	3.1	+1.9
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading	5	3.33	+1.67
Music in Exile Songhoy Blues	5	3.33	+1.67
Endtroducing..... DJ Shadow	5	3.36	+1.64
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	5	3.37	+1.63
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.45	+1.55

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.55	-2.55
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	1	3.5	-2.5
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes	1	3.5	-2.5
Green Onions Booker T. & The MG's	1	3.4	-2.4
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	1	3.33	-2.33
Liquid Swords GZA	1	3.28	-2.28
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin	2	4.11	-2.11
Germfree Adolescents X-Ray Spex	1	3.05	-2.05
Warehouse: Songs And Stories Hüsker Dü	1	2.86	-1.86

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Divine Comedy	2	5
Leonard Cohen	2	5
Bob Dylan	2	5
Pink Floyd	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Deep Purple	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (20)

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The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

5/5

Some signs of what was to come in Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden (their absence a grave injustice), which is enough for a 5

4 likes

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

5/5

Was going to give it a 4 but giving it a 5 to balance out everyone who's given it 1 or 2 because "the lyrics are silly"

1 likes

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

So Top of the Pops. Can vividly imagine Steve Wright or Simon Mayo introducing them.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (16)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

All Ratings

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

1/5

Annoying

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Liquid Swords

GZA

1/5

Zzz

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

4/5

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

1/5

Not for me

Scott 4

Scott Walker

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

2/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

4/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

3/5

Gorillaz

2/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

1/5

A bad day to have ears

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Adele

3/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Bert Jansch

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

When it's good it's so good.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

5/5

Was going to give it a 4 but giving it a 5 to balance out everyone who's given it 1 or 2 because "the lyrics are silly"

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

The Bends is obviously great but presumably we have at least 3 more radiohead albums to come, so I have to leave myself somewhere to go and my knob doesn't go to eleven. My ratings are a mess anyway.

Damaged

Black Flag

1/5

Awful. Zero stars.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

3/5

I prefer earlier and later Eno, but I still liked parts of this.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

2/5

Not sure what to make of this one. If they did find the perfect beat they kept it to themselves.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

1/5

Don't know why this is here

Guero

Beck

3/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

1/5

Quite the ordeal. 0 stars.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

I could take or leave the first half. Got interesting in the second half.

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

5+ stars. Still spine-tingling on the hundredth listen.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Some nice moments but mostly forgettable

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

3/5

So Top of the Pops. Can vividly imagine Steve Wright or Simon Mayo introducing them.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

If the generator had thrown up this Icelandic band I'd never heard of I think I'd have been pretty blown away by this to be honest. Definitely prefer this to later/ better known Sigur Ros which can occasionally slip into the mawkish. I also prefer that Jonsi is singing Icelandic here rather than a made up language, even if it's all the same to me. At what point does everyone saying something is overrated make it underrated?

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

In the bib. 0 stars.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

ABBA are just really odd right? I don't hate the music and the tracks are super iconic and I'm sure they're great, just something about ABBA gives me the heebie jeebies. They creep me out.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

2/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

Just nothingy really, besides about 30 seconds of one track which was okay but I can't remember what it was and don't care enough to check

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Some sounds I wouldn't have associated with SW so that's nice. Very good but didn't punch me in the face so misses out on a grade 5.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Frozen is a tune. Bit of a mixed bag.

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

So funky

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

2/5

We seem to have had a lot of music like this. I found it boring and forgettable. I've actually already forgotten about it.

Talvin Singh

3/5

This should be right up my street but never really got into it.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

No strong feelings against it, just can't work out why it's on the list

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Somewhere between 3 and 4. I couldn't get rid of the thought they sounded like an aldi own brand pink floyd but you sometimes the own brand stuff is really nice.

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

2/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

2/5

War

2/5

Any band with a middle-aged man unironically calling themselves "The Edge" has their mark capped. 2 out of 4 stars.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Suicide

1/5

Francie Teardrop reminded me of the clip where Nasser Hussain put a chair down on David Gower's foot. Other than that I took nothing from this.

Dire Straits

4/5

Side 2 is 5/5. Mark Knopfler is such a virtuoso guitar player.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

2/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

I can't review this, the album and artist mean too much to me

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

I really hated the first two tracks. Of the rest, some of the music sounded okay to me, but I wasn't a fan of the vocals at all.

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Nothing here for me but I get why it's on the list.

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Phrenology

The Roots

2/5

I only realised once it had finished playing that I hadn't actually listened to it, which I guess says something

808 State

3/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

4/5

Suede

2/5

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Brings back fairly vivid early-mid 2010 memories. I quite liked Chvrches, and their sound is distinctive.

Foo Fighters

1/5

Crap

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

1/5

I didn't like anything about this

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

4/5

So smooth

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

Samey and not for me, but not entirely insufferable

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

2/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

4/5

I liked this

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

I want my jazz albums live I think

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Have you read the big beat manifesto lately, Jez?

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Preferred this to their other one

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

Never properly listened to santana but this was great, particularly the first track

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Pretenders

3/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Wdym nick cave

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Just couldn't get into this

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Joan Armatrading

5/5

Really liked this

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

What an album. It is crazy that Dylan went from being a wannabe folk singer doing voers and playing harmonica for other people to this. One of the best albums ever in my opinion.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

5/5

It's a five from Clive. This is what the list is all about. Give the people what they want. And they want Malian desert blues from Timbuktu.

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

4/5

Bit of a mixed bag, I really like some parts

Station To Station

David Bowie

2/5

Surprised not to take anything from this. Didn't hear evidence of Bowie's genius. A lot of the songs felt plodding and unimaginative.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

4/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Music

Madonna

2/5

Behaviour

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

evermore

Taylor Swift

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

4/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

I really liked the middle third of this album

Violent Femmes

1/5

Do one

Berlin

Lou Reed

3/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Da Capo

Love

4/5

Grew into this a lot

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

3/5

Bonus points for covering one of BDs best songs not once but twice. Not great covers though. The psychedelic bit in the middle of the album was different.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

4/5

I know of two people called Win. This guy and the dog that lives at arsenal's training ground. I liked this but I've never given arcade fire much time. 4 for now but maybe I could love it.

A Seat at the Table

Solange

3/5

Started off strongly, thought I'd really like it. Slipped away once the features started racking up

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of Leon

2/5

Whiny

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

An interesting change up. I remember this being all the rage. Not really my thing though.

New York Dolls

2/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Excellent. Probably underrated even still.

Me Against The World

2Pac

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

5/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

Not for me really

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

2/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

Worse than I thought

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

5/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Fourah Jones. Does what it says on the tin.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

4/5

I saw John Grant in the Exeter University student union when he was touring pale green ghosts, shortly after he'd announced he was hiv positive. It was very moving.

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Obviously 5

Elvis Presley

2/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5