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Album	You	Global	Diff
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	5	3.44	+1.56
Van Halen Van Halen	5	3.63	+1.37
Tea for the Tillerman Cat Stevens	5	3.69	+1.31
Moondance Van Morrison	5	3.71	+1.29
Dire Straits Dire Straits	5	3.72	+1.28
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	5	3.74	+1.26

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	1	3.5	-2.5
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	1	3.37	-2.37
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	1	3.37	-2.37
Pornography The Cure	1	3.31	-2.31
S&M Metallica	1	3.26	-2.26
Dare! The Human League	1	3.05	-2.05
Fever Ray Fever Ray	1	3	-2
The Dreaming Kate Bush	1	2.96	-1.96
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) Simple Minds	1	2.94	-1.94
Ys Joanna Newsom	1	2.8	-1.8

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Cure	2	1.5
Kate Bush	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (10)

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Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Popular Reviews

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Not aweful

1 likes

1-Star Albums (17)

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

Enjoyed some of the drums and guitar, but overall bland.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

best track: on the beach the last 3 tracks! 😍 I want to give this a 5 star rating, but can you already dish out a 5 for the 2nd album you listen to?

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

JET!!!!!!

Live!

Fela Kuti

3/5

It's all nice and good, but 15mins of the same hand-drummed beat is just a little too much.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

21st century SM is awesome. But some of the extended flute stuff is too niche.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Everybody huuuuuuurts sometime The song is better than the band :/

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

Dare!

The Human League

1/5

I Dare! you to listen to this album ... ... because it's boring :( 0/5 if it were possible

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

A girl band. Yay.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Why don't we give it 5 stars?

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

Has its moments, both good & bad. Could you imagine someone repeatedly singing "rape me" in a song over and over again nowadays? Yeah ...

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Anarchy for the U.K.! Not bad, but the songs are all a bit too similar for my liking.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

2/5

Not bad, but not something memorable. Did not manage to catch my attention.

The Cars

3/5

Not too bad.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

You just can't sit still when listening to this one, can you? Positively surprised

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

easy

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Not bad, but also not memorable. "Whatever..." ;)

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

2/5

Not outright terrible, but also not something I ever want to listen to again.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

I'm sure someone loves this ... ... but that someone ain't me.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

1/5

I was dreading the day, the first HipHop/Rap album would show up. Turns out, it was justified. Did not enjoy.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

It's good. Who would have thought?

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

3/5

Surprising.

Joanna Newsom

1/5

No. Just no.

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

If you're in the right state of mind, this is actually quite good. Would I listen to it on a normal day? No...

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Somehow remarkably forgettable

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Especially nice when you get that album at the beginning of january

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Free Form Guitar 🤪

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

- "What's the name of that band?" - "The Band!" - "Yes, the band - what are they called?" - "The Band!"

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

2 stars only, because 1 star wouldn't be considered Good Vibrations

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

2/5

Not music; ambient sound

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

2/5

unremarkable

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

like listening to the same song 10 times...

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

3/5

Over 2 hours of mighty fine fiddely diddely doo-music. Now excuse me, I need to get back to the dark dreary mine, where it's dark as a dungeon; the sun never shines; the rain never falls; where the danger is double and the pleasures are few.

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

There are no words for how overrated Depeche Mode are.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

3/5

quite good, but far from great

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Pretty good music for such a shite taste in football clubs.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

1/5

Not for me (couldn't listen to more than a couple of songs).

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

3/5

Ugh, tough one. As much as I enjoyed Björks unhinged vocals, I hated the dudes narrated parts in his overly Icelandic accented English.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

Show me the Monáe!

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Appetite For 5 Star Review

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Black Magic Woman :)

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

So long, Marianne!

Fever Ray

1/5

Skip this one.

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

2/5

Unremarkable

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

Girlfriend in a coma; I know, I know, it's really serious. I love it! 😆

1999

Prince

2/5

Funky. But that isn't enough to make it interesting to me.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Not as good as Let it Bleed. Also, why does the UK Version not include Paint it Black?

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Not as bad as I first thought when I read a couple of reviews (and saw the cover art). Some songs are horrible ("The Duchess"), but overall quite enjoyable.

The Undertones

2/5

Nothing I'm going to remember.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Not for me

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Trumpet masterclass

Van Halen

5/5

Awesome!

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

bullshit

Run-D.M.C.

2/5

Not aweful

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

First song is the best

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

Banger! Hard to think that I didn't like the White Stripes as a teenie.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

good stuff

1984

Van Halen

4/5

not as good as the first one (Van Halen)

S&M

Metallica

1/5

bad! just bad! The orchestra makes every song sound like some sort of James Bond movie theme.

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1/5

On the previous Kate Bush album I said: "not for me". For this one I can say _definitely_ not for me!

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

Nothing special

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

I'm raging!

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

So many bangers on this one! Crazy, even if it's not quite your favorite music style.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

2/5

Hello Africa

Tommy

The Who

3/5

Tommy, can you hear me??? Not bad!

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

nah, too much high pitched "ouh baby" and "yeah yeah yeah". Too many random non-music parts.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Not my cup of tea. Too whiny & too instrumentally unremarkable. I don't WANT ONE, and esp. not TWO.

Alien Lanes

Guided By Voices

3/5

Ooufff. Difficult one. It wasn't really bad, but it was too wild; too incoherent to make it work out for me.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

2/5

Pretenders

3/5

Started out really shitty, but got progressively better.

Adele

3/5

Adele is awesome, but that slight lisp really puts me off. "Hello" is a banger, however I don't think this is her best record.

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Well, at least I learned something: genre to avoid: Drum & Base with "ethereal" singing. 0/5 if it would be possible

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

I mean it's powerful, but that doesn't mean I enjoy listening to it.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

1/5

Not really enjoyable. Maybe I don't like "Soul/Funk"?

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Well, more shouting than anything else, innit?

Dire Straits

5/5

Now this is music! If you dislike this one, what are you even doing here? And now, let's all go down to the waterline.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Beautiful!

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

Divine Boredom

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

1/5

Simple Minds = Simple Music? Not for me...

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

heyyyyyyyyy, Mr. Tambouriiiiiine Man, play a song for meeeeeeeee!

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

These dreams of you stoned me into the mystic on a brand new day, so I had to do a crazy love moondance.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Banger! War Pigs alone is 5 stars

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

2/5

Iggy Flop

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Synchronicity? More like mediocrity!

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Funky

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Would have expected more from a CCR record...

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Not as bad as I had feared

Pornography

The Cure

1/5

What a steaming pile of shit...

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

2/5

great and all, but not my cup of tea

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

Totally unremarkable

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Sweet, but also boring

Tago Mago

Can

2/5

Can not

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

really?

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Nein...

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

surprisingly, this is the first time I wouldn't consider something from R.E.M. to be horrible

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Good but not awesome. More like a 3.5

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

nice vibes, but more for passive listening

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

omg, this is awesome!!!! AUSTRALIIIIIIIIIAAAAAA!

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

5/5

Kids these days only know the "new" (aka boring) Coldplay. There is a reason they became so popular, you know. Their first two records are fantastic.

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

1/5

yay, another "ethereal sounds" album! Juuuuuust what I needed ... not

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

I can see why people would like it. Didn't do so much for me.

Vulnicura

Björk

1/5

Is this music? Certainly. Is it supposed to be on this list? Certainly not.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Not the worst I've heard during this journey, but certainly not something that makes me want to listen to this for a second time.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Walk this Way & Sweet Emotion are pretty good. The rest is very much forgettable.