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Album	You	Global	Diff
Boy In Da Corner Dizzee Rascal	5	2.56	+2.44
Faust IV Faust	5	2.77	+2.23
Destroy Rock & Roll Mylo	5	2.89	+2.11
Leftism Leftfield	5	2.9	+2.1
Heavy Weather Weather Report	5	2.98	+2.02
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	5	3.07	+1.93
Under Construction Missy Elliott	5	3.15	+1.85
Cross Justice	5	3.28	+1.72
Homework Daft Punk	5	3.29	+1.71
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Manassas Stephen Stills	1	3.07	-2.07
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	1	2.84	-1.84
Rejoicing In The Hands Devendra Banhart	1	2.82	-1.82
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	2	3.79	-1.79
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	2	3.64	-1.64
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.57	-1.57
Queen II Queen	2	3.49	-1.49
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	2	3.43	-1.43
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	2	3.4	-1.4
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	2	3.39	-1.39

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	4	5
Beatles	6	4.67
Jimi Hendrix	3	5
Beastie Boys	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33

5-Star Albums (40)

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Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix · 3 likes

5/5

Flawless. Just ask the axis

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco · 2 likes

2/5

Like country moved to the suburbs

Before And After Science

Brian Eno · 1 likes

3/5

More science required

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys · 1 likes

5/5

Having this album is prohibiting my progress in 1001. Stuck on repeat - genius creation

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks · 1 likes

2/5

After you, no after you. I'm sorry are we facilitating a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image? Tea anyone

1-Star Albums (3)

All Ratings

Blur

2/5

Like wearing a Swatch watch in the wrong decade

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Like a lovingly awkward embrace from your hippy uncle

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Like the warm contentment of being inside on a rainy day

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

Like the colourful energy of a Pokémon battle. Pikachu on the keys

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

2/5

Like sand in your vegan burrito

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Like when you're sad in a beautiful way

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

Like a death row hard-on, two minutes too late

Manassas

Stephen Stills

1/5

Like playing two hands before flipping the table

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Like when a bad toilet smell yields before the next visitors judgement

1999

Prince

3/5

Like an oasis of goat milk

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

1/5

Like waiting for a bus in the rain

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Like when Frank Poncherello lounges at the titty bar

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Like when you know something is significant yet don't understand why

OK Computer

Radiohead

3/5

Like aspiring to never wash spiders down the plughole

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Like a raw historical snapshot from a disenfranchised community

GREY Area

Little Simz

4/5

Like the London Borough of Portishead

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Like swimming with Manatees

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

Like when battle of the bands was burnt down by a sex fire

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

The Kinks

2/5

Like explaining the Custard Cream to anyone outside the UK

Connected

Stereo MC's

2/5

Like the bite of a stale cracker

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Like putting the milk in first

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Like what it says on the tin

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

3/5

Like all kinds of relationship fuckery

Cypress Hill

3/5

Like the warm up album for Black Sunday

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Like country moved to the suburbs

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Like the Big Bottom OG

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Like waiting for the green light to watch chickens cross the road

Beautiful Freak

Eels

3/5

Like Jesus and his lawyers are coming back

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Hello, I'm Terry

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

2/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

4/5

Introspective

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

The band of the nineties, of you wanna call it a band Because it's a one man name

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

4/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

4/5

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Four

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Points away for "No women No cry"

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

2/5

Total Yank

The Man Who

Travis

2/5

Fear the drear(y)

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Piano stabs guitar to death

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Can theatrical rock harmonies become too much, yes

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

An uneventful experience

Elvis Presley

3/5

As distinct as a ginger

Debut

Björk

5/5

What a Debut!

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

Distinct sound

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

Too much whimsical acoustic guitar. Dullton FC

The Slider

T. Rex

2/5

Government approved glam rock and roll

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

A standout, five star album. Though not their best ... 🤔

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Of its era

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Samples, witty lyrics, edgy rap, great pace and catchy bass riffs

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Folk for the radio, folk 3.5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Embellished with the memories of vinyl blemishes that come with inherited records

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Good energy

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

Goldie, positive representative for the genre Though I like mine harder

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

The musical motifs ask more questions than providing answers

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

3/5

Started strong with that specific Sparks sound, then faded away to ash

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

4/5

An album of two halves, light n darkness Side A 5*, side B 3*

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

2/5

They sound happy

The xx

3/5

Destination "cooking montage"

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

3/5

Sounded better in 1990

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

5/5

Genre defining, possibly. Sounding better in 2024, definitely

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Some awesome riffs 🦔

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Creative fun rhymes

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Cross

Justice

5/5

French touch

Killing Joke

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Sample farm

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Enjoyed

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Big up, Billy Shears

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The power The drive

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Nicely fills a genre gap in my audio portfolio

Tracy Chapman

2/5

Soft soft soft

Faust IV

Faust

5/5

Outstanding soundtrack for today's run through dappled woodland trails

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

3/5

More science required

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Like challenging art ... I remained conflicted ... Occupied by questions ... More impactful than an old masterpiece could ever muster

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Classic architecture meets pop art

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

4/5

Cuban electronic fission

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

4/5

Dire Straits

3/5

They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band It ain't what they call "Dad" Rock and Roll

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Despite the heavy religious messages, a stone cold classic album

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

RIP Alright, killed by mainstream media Rest of the album punks

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Hit and miss

Fred Neil

3/5

Country based cocaine inspired sea shanty about our Dolphin overlords

Disintegration

The Cure

3/5

My pallet is not configured for the Cure sound

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

L.A. Woman's on this afternoon

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

Yes! And no. But mostly, yes

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Lively night at the local

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

Enjoyed. Expected more punch

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

Probably better live

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Immersive journey

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Classic voice though this album felt like a bunch of tracks had been slapped together

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

After you, no after you. I'm sorry are we facilitating a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image? Tea anyone

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

2/5

I have always avoided this album, just incase I liked it and became condemned to listening to BBC Radio 2 for the rest of my life

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

My younger self would have given this five stars. Guess I don't need that much shoe gazing in my life now

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Music for not doing things to

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

4/5

Metronome bushy rock

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

A sound I cannot identify with

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

3/5

I hated this back in 94. Where was the grunge? where was the attitude? Now days I'm more irritated by the MTV audience

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

More fun than the battle ground of 93

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

More familiar than I realised and some good Marmite

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Unique, timeless. Cornerstone of all music collections

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Mainstream agro RAP

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Masterpiece from the north American scum

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

So much quality and depth, every listen reveals. Cool name, cool album cover, top 10 album you hope not everyone knows

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

3/5

Bonus points for including the lyrics "Lair liar with your pants on fire"

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

3/5

Soft content that blurred from track to track to track to track

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Buoyantbbackground breathing break

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

4/5

Familiar yet new-to-me. Definitely one for the collection

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Every studio album between late 1965 and 1969 is five star in my world

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Had never considered listening to this. Will revisit

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Flawless. Just ask the axis

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

Swagger

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Many childhood memories connected to this album

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

Steaming Rodents

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Raw, driving, energy, iconic and timeless

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Limited variety across the tracks, though still a good listen

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

My friends called this the "guitarist album" which I never really understood. Just classic driving rock n blues

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Strong memories of this LP in my parents collection. Strong arrangements, strong performer, bit meh

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

In my view. The best album from this four pack.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Fantastic album; had nothing like this in my collection back in the day. Would have given 5 stars, but the awesome follow on album - De La Soul is Dead - took it to another level

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

My younger self would get quite moody if I didn't award five stars

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

4/5

Elegant pop from the wispy princess

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Having this album is prohibiting my progress in 1001. Stuck on repeat - genius creation

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

5/5

High FiVE for Jurassic 5! Reminded me of De La Soul Is Dead

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Solid. But too similar throughout

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Took me a while to unlock my ears to this album, cream of the crop

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Fun, light hearted driving music

The Doors

4/5

Solid

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Much less dated sounding than expected

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

5/5

Captivating encounter with an album path frequently walked

...And Justice For All

Metallica

4/5

First half head banging, second more like banging heads

The Clash

4/5

Clever and crisp rock with genre identity

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

I hear Nordic noir set in Portishead

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Ain't no use in gettin' uptight, just let it groove its own way

LP1

FKA twigs

2/5

Didn't fit the shape of my ears

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Hard linked to some tough moments in my past classic but powerfully painful

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Great vibe. Tunes seem more individual than an album journey. Though I probably just need to listen more be I understand how the tracks link

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Finally puts a voice behind the name

Violent Femmes

4/5

Enjoyed. Instinct tells me this would be a crack gig

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

Middle of the road (but not in a reckless way)

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Outstanding. This has been in my collection for decades and it still keeps giving

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Masterfunkingwonderful

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Couldn't put it down

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

First class rhythms from these percussion personalities

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

What a tracklisting!

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Did this album become chill over time, or did music in general become more agro

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

An everyman classic, for good reason

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Slinky soulful

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

4/5

I appreciate it's seminal status, but it never drove my foot tapping, head nodding.. more of a gateway album

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Powerfully popular. Overplayed, yet remains a rewarding listening experience

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

This album marks the start of Beatles "5 star" album run 65-70

Black Sabbath

4/5

First listen and much respect to all those who knew before. BenP <3

Faith

George Michael

2/5

Faith was everything

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Outstanding voice, but the same string arrangement makes everything snoozy

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

5/5

This album is like a piece of art you invested in, but didn't really like. it would be of more value in years to come. A one-off

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

5/5

Originally purchased this album as Jaco, my bass idol, was on the line up. This connection allowed me the patience to "understand" the music and the sound. Still have my vinyl copy <3

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Pleasurable pace. Right up there with he's best

Melody A.M.

Röyksopp

4/5

Unique staple, rarely listened but a collection wouldn't be complete without

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

3/5

Walk What did you say? Respect Walk Are you talking to me? Simpler times