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Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Superfuzz Bigmuff	5	2.93	+2.07
You're Living All Over Me	5	3.07	+1.93
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space	5	3.15	+1.85
Blunderbuss	5	3.4	+1.6
Strangeways, Here We Come	5	3.44	+1.56
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	5	3.63	+1.37
Ill Communication	5	3.65	+1.35
Caetano Veloso	4	2.85	+1.15
The Sun Rises In The East	4	2.92	+1.08
Come Find Yourself	4	2.93	+1.07

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Fleet Foxes	1	3.43	-2.43
Crime Of The Century	1	3.41	-2.41
Eliminator	1	3.38	-2.38
There's A Riot Goin' On	1	3.29	-2.29
Fisherman's Blues	1	3.2	-2.2
Teenage Head	1	3.03	-2.03
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida	1	2.94	-1.94
The Cars	2	3.67	-1.67
Maggot Brain	2	3.6	-1.6
Moving Pictures	2	3.59	-1.59

5-Star Albums (12)

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Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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Peter Gabriel

2/5

I miss some kind of humor. It’s all so serious and I don’t feel any fun. I like Peter’s Voice. Mainly in the contrast to Kate Bush. A great duet. Nice deconstructed sound. Far from everyday Pop Music. I don’t like the slap-guitar. He’s no poet. “Big Time” is the worst song. I doesn’t catch me at all. Over-ambitious, swinging with meaning where there is none. Boring.

3 likes

1-Star Albums (8)

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With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

What great melodies. The first three songs kicked me out my boots. It was their second Album, but their songwriting was already great. Back then, nobody knew what was to follow. McCartney is pop music in the purest form, whilst Lennon is s kind of predecessor of Indie/Alternative melodies. It gets a kind of mediocre in the middle. But "Mr. Postman" actually a cover, saves it and lets me dance.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Love the sound. Spector was maybe crazy. But he knew how to record great records.

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

I think their next record was the actual masterpiece. But it’s all already here in this classical of the 90s. Love it. It’s my youth. It’s about revenge. The “have” against the “have nots”. Ray Davies loves it I guess. It sound like Bowie and the Kinks would have made an album without starships and middle-class depression. “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” is my favorite. The rhythm of the words, the exact pronunciation it so on point.

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

Love everything about it, although it has some lows.

Garbage

2/5

Did not age well. The compressed drum sound, some questionable breaks, Trip Hop Beats…it’s a 90ies record, wich worked perfectly in the 90ies. But it is not timeless.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

What a nice warm and relaxed atmosphere.

Fleet Foxes

1/5

I know what people like about it. Does not work for me.

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

I like the drum sound…rhythmically…especially the base drum. Red Barchetta is about a profane car. What effort the music seems to have, it’s just about a car. Makes it lifeless and cold. I like the music…but I would like it without the lyrics a bit more.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

3/5

Don’t know why, but I get some Coldplay Vibes.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

What’s this over ambitious, megalomaniac, artificial nonsense all about? It’s a Blockbuster Movie turned into music. Pink Floyd on steroids. Rock Whores. Stadium crap without a soul. I guess you have to have the same desperate mood to like it. I don’t dare to read the lyrics…I guess it’s the old „I wanna hold your hand“ kind of poems. I don’t like it very much. My fault. Although I hear the stadium choruses and the perfect production.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

Timeless

Goldie

3/5

It’s a child of its time.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

1/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Caetano Veloso

4/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

2/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Great songs. Great voice. But it are mainly songs for the single charts. As an album it misses a structure.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

I don’t know if it is a good album…it doesn’t matter anyway. I feel 20 years younger whilst listening to it. It’s creative, it’s courageous, it’s silly, it’s clever.

Closer

Joy Division

2/5

Endless, nameless…if artists die young, their arts gets more important than it maybe should be.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2/5

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Future Days

Can

4/5

This can’t be 50 years old. Impossible!

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

This album was the soundtrack to my first broken heart. This tells more about my age, than the quality of the record. But I like it. Couldn’t listen to it a while, but I’m enjoying it right know. It’s a kind of angry and depressed Black Sabath sound. I prefer the Pumpkins.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

5/5

Masterpiece. I can’t give less than five stars.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

2/5

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly