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Album	You	Global	Diff
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	5	3.39	+1.61
Machine Head Deep Purple	5	3.58	+1.42
Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.77	+1.23
Bad Michael Jackson	5	3.8	+1.2
Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins	5	3.83	+1.17
Shadowland k.d. lang	4	2.87	+1.13
Rip It Up Orange Juice	4	2.9	+1.1
Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival	5	3.91	+1.09

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Next Day David Bowie	1	3.3	-2.3
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	1	3.14	-2.14
Hunky Dory David Bowie	2	4	-2
Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan	2	3.64	-1.64
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles	2	3.63	-1.63
Bookends Simon & Garfunkel	2	3.56	-1.56
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	2	3.52	-1.52
Sign 'O' The Times Prince	2	3.45	-1.45
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	2	3.44	-1.44
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	2	3.43	-1.43

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Artist	Albums	Average
Creedence Clearwater Revival	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	2	1.5
Bob Dylan	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (7)

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OK Computer

Radiohead · 1 likes

4/5

I would even give 4.5/5 to this masterpiece. For the record: I don’t like Yorke’s vocals at all. This fact does not let this album to get 5 stars. Guitars, drums, electronic effects are top notch. Plenty hit songs with so unusual chord progressions! Great artwork.

1-Star Albums (2)

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

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Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Great rough sound!

Cypress Hill

4/5

Amazing classic hip-hop album of 90s

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

The Next Day

David Bowie

1/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Sound of 80s. Good solid songs with multiple complex backtracks. I have enjoyed this one.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

2/5

Didn’t like it actually Sounds obsolete, nothing attractive for me

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

4/5

Good West Coast hip hop!

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Good quality sound.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

2/5

Didn’t like this one

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

3/5

Haha…..classic Too many songs!

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

4/5

Good old psychodelic rock))

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Boring

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

2/5

Very boring songs. I don't like Country, actually.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

2 good songs and rest of them are not even close to hits. Sound like 2 different bands.

Arise

Sepultura

3/5

Despite there are some great guitar riffs and beautiful rhythms, I certainly hate drum lines of this kind. It reminds me the worst impression of Slayer. It’s not beauty of music, it’s just rough sound for rough sound. One songs was added to my list, anyway.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

Boring from 5th song

One World

John Martyn

3/5

Consistent quality Not really my choice

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Such a Radiohead

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Golden classic!

The Grand Tour

George Jones

3/5

Ok album.

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Lovely classic rock album! Sister Luck production was copied for Knocking on the Heavens Door song by GnR

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

5/5

Great no skip album !

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

2/5

Noisy, grungy - good texture Shitty vocals, weak guitar lines Good drums though

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Amazing album. It was pleasure to listen to it. One track added to my collection. However, sounds outdated and it is not my genre.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Definitely one of the TOP-50 albums of all time.

The Modern Lovers

2/5

Easy “chill” sound… Simple music… Lyrics inspired by MJ and LSD…. I could listen to it sometimes but I didn’t feel anything special Just usual british pop/punk rock, even with some post punk vibes in it

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Adorable voice of Janis Joplin such a pleasure to listen to. Band is not that great sounding unfortunately. This is the only reason why I don’t rate this masterpiece 5/5. RIP LEGEND!

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

2 beautiful hits 2 songs I have second chance (6&8) Rest set list maintains decent standard, but nothing interesting for me.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

2/5

The entire album sounds like one old good love song. Legendary voice of Frank Sinatra cannot be mistaken. Unfortunately, this kind of music is outdated for me and I can’t really enjoy it.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

Only 1 good song which is very famous. Rest of album is boring

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Sound is ok. Samples are ok. Vocals are fine. Reminds me Dummy by Portishead, which is far better than this.

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

4/5

Great production. I can’t recall any HIT song, but you can easily pick any song and enjoy listening to its instrumentals. Vocals are not that extraordinary. Just marching with band vibes. Added to my collection .

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

2/5

Sounds like Michael Jackson to me. Added few songs which deserved 2nd chance.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

Album is easy to listen to. Good melodies and 60s vocals (Beatles like) I would say it reminds me of The Beatles a lot. I am going to listen to it again.

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Good classic album which I have already listened.

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Well, this is very bad as it is written in most of the reviews. I listen to this album while running and running went well. I don’t think I will ever come back to listening to this album because electronic music is not really my type.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

3/5

This album was definitely something new for its time (1966) Starting with first song it sets high standard and determines the mood of future material. However, rest of the songs were less attractive for me. I left 4 songs for “second chance” Album has a lot of orchestra additions which make it sound rich.

The Slider

T. Rex

4/5

Such an amazing record ! I had no idea that glam rock existed in early 70s! Sounds fresh, full of musical ideas, great vocal melodies, chords progressions, production etc Way ahead of its time and so underrated in my opinion. Mark Bolan RIP.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

It was pleasure to travel through Billy Corgan’s Universe. I don’t think it was necessary to include that many songs into album. However, those “low grade” songs create special vibe within the album. They perfectly fill silence between good songs. By the way, there are many good songs. I’d say 1h15m of good stuff out of 2+hrs.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Sounds great even for my untrained ear. I can’t tell trombone from sax or anything else. Bass lines were great!

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3/5

Good record! I would even give it 3.5 out of 5.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Great classic rock sound!

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

3/5

Sounds good and aggressive. Good for gym and running. It looks like lyrics are shit, but I don’t care. Nothing extraordinary to attract my attention, so 3 out of 5.

The Doors

4/5

I would give this album even 4.5/5 Great record! Enjoyed from the first note.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Such a contradicting impressions about this record… On one hand is boring vocals from the artist. On the other hand great songwriting and strong back vocals. I added Jazz Police song to my collection because is sounds very unusual and have cool female vocal lines.

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Well it’s so obvious 5/5 Great “no skip” album Great songwriting and production MJ is GOAT

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

It was good experience of listening such a soft country-ish album. I did not feel anything special about it and it was not bad.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

I’ve already heard this record few times and I’m still amazed! Amy Whinehouse’s vocals are from parallel universe. Old style lines mixed with modern beats create unique artwork which remains in my collection. RIP Amy🙏🏻

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Sounds like an attempt of classic music artist to create art-rock album. I like instrumental sound, I don’t like vocals. Way too long notes all over the place. Gives annoying feeling throughout the entire album. I enjoyed listening to the second song “The one you love” It felt like a torture starting from track No.6….endless terrible vocals, which sounded no any different song to song. Sorry, it is 2/5. I give 1 extra point for unusual musical accompaniments.

War

3/5

I’m sure there is something outstanding about this band but I don’t know what! Couple of songs were nice (last tracks). Let’s listen to it again, IDK….

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

I absolutely enjoyed listening to this album! It is no skip record. Bob Marley is absolute legend!

Pornography

The Cure

3/5

Despite my love for the recognisable sound of this band, I have impression that this record is quite bland. I gave 2nd chance to 3 songs (2,5&6)

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Legendary album from the legendary band CCR. Always loved their sound and songs. I already had this one in my collection and it was such a pleasure to listen to it again. 5 out of 5 with no doubts!

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Such a joy to listen to this soft music filled with Latin motives. The entire album does non-stop. Added all tracks to my collection and have already listened to it twice !

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

Before this I’ve heard only Losing My Religion. How come I’ve never heard anything else ? Band is so talented! Album sets up mood with first song Pop Song 89 - directly to my favourites. Rest of album stays at same level. I felt like everything will be good while listening to this record. Thank you R.E.M. It is 4,5/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

2/5

Sound of 60s - same like many Good production quality- unlike many Terrible songwriting - worse than the average Terrible performance- same like most of 60s I did not enjoy listening to this record and no tracks were added to my collection

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

I sorry mr. Charles, but this is one of the most boring records I’ve ever listened. Your good singing is the only reason for 2 stars.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

Adorable voice, country/blues vibes. I enjoyed listening to 90% of the songs.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I did not add any of 8 songs to my collection. All 8 songs sounded to me exactly the same. There is certainly some musical conceptuality in this matter. Despite its great production quality songs sound blunt because of vocals. Not my type of music. Harmonically it’s too joyful for no reason.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Sounds like The Black Keys but very boring this time. I was patiently waiting for the end of this album so I can delete it and start something else. But don’t misunderstand, it is really decent record but only sounds faceless.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

2/5

There is interesting songwriting, I admit that. However, I can’t listen to Bowie’s vocals. It’s terrible.

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

My ears were tortured for 1 hour by Indian electronic music. Some songs performed by the lady with good voice. Some songs are not too bad. Overall it is not music for me.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

4/5

I really like Lynyrd Skynyrd since long time ago. The entire album was pleasure to listen to.

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

2/5

Few good songs, vibes of 60s. I felt bored 80% of a time.

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

This is good sophisticated music and quality of the record is great. I can feel how much effort was put in it. However, it slow and boring in my opinion. There are not enough “hooks” to make me want to listen to it again. Jeff Buckley obviously was very talented musician, but this is just not my type of music

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

1/5

It was hard to stay 1:30 hrs listening to this boring record. 1st part had no drums and I was literally suffering: Second part was little better, I would probably rate it 2/5.