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Album	You	Global	Diff
16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens	5	2.95	+2.05
Killing Joke Killing Joke	5	2.99	+2.01
Dog Man Star Suede	5	3	+2
Autobahn Kraftwerk	5	3.09	+1.91
Sea Change Beck	5	3.33	+1.67
Meat Is Murder The Smiths	5	3.33	+1.67
You've Come a Long Way Baby Fatboy Slim	5	3.34	+1.66
Urban Hymns The Verve	5	3.36	+1.64
Blue Lines Massive Attack	5	3.39	+1.61
...And Justice For All Metallica	5	3.42	+1.58

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.77	-2.77
Illmatic Nas	1	3.6	-2.6
The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem	1	3.47	-2.47
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
Fishscale Ghostface Killah	1	3.05	-2.05
Stripped Christina Aguilera	1	2.87	-1.87
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	2	3.62	-1.62
Hard Again Muddy Waters	2	3.61	-1.61
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground	2	3.61	-1.61
OK Talvin Singh	1	2.56	-1.56

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Smiths	2	5
Metallica	2	5
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5
Michael Jackson	2	5

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Adele · 1 likes

5/5

What a voice, what a singer, an all-time classic in our times.

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Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Classical rock album.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

If The Smiths would have made just this one song "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" my life would be fulfilled. What a melancholic masterpiece. Unfortunately the last album of this influencial british band.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Easy listening Latino style, remembering the sweet 60s.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

A classic with a lot of favourite tunes.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Latino Music at its best.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Classical jazz tunes, very smooth.

Bad Company

3/5

Classic blues rock.

Another Green World

Brian Eno

2/5

Very experimental electronic and weird sounds.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Experimental rock album, an in-between album, before David Bowie turns into an interntional pop star.

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

4/5

Black album by a white band, timeless music.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

Highlight album from the disco era, a real classic.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Easy Listening music, very smooth.

Adele

5/5

What a voice, what a singer, an all-time classic in our times.

Calenture

The Triffids

1/5

Dark waved rock album, not my style.

Fishscale

Ghostface Killah

1/5

Old school hip hop album for all fans who like rhymes.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Retro style Amy with her characterful voice.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The boss in his early years shows his talent with epic rock songs and lyrics.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Start of the second career for Tina Turner, a classic 80s style record, with support from her friedn David Bowie.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

One of my all-time favourite albums. Catchy pop songs with melancholic moments.

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

3/5

Dark conscious rap with hard beats and political lyrics.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Modern rock album, with some experimental tunes.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Classic album by the Canadian songwriting storyteller. Highlight song: Suzanne.

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Impressive music in a time of disco and punk music, sometimes quiet, sometimes folky. Interesting pearl.

Killing Joke

5/5

Dystopic alternative rock album, a classic for me. Very dark aggressive mood, energetic songs.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

2/5

Country western songs from the 1950s. A little bit Cash-Style, not as dark. Happier.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

The Prince-album which changes everything. Prince started with this to become a mega rock star.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Loud and noisy, feels like an early Brit Pop album sometimes.

Chris

Christine and the Queens

2/5

Catchy pop tunes with attitude.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Very quiet album, some songs sound like modern gospels. Easy Listening.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

An album full of energy and good feelings. Very shiny music.

Talvin Singh

1/5

Oriental techno with breakbeats, interesting, but not my style.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

An album full of dreamy songs, full of good vibrations.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

4/5

A brit pop rocket full of energy and good vibrations.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

5/5

A real masterpiece which is referenced by so many bands as their influencial album.

Buena Vista Social Club

3/5

Easy listening Latino style. Sunny music full of emotions, happy and sad.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Debut album of a band which influenced the rock world with the following albums. Some of their later typical song structures are audible.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Smooth R'n'B album with a lot of famous tracks. A classic.

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Melancholic and quiet album by the Beach Boys. Happy times seemed far away.

I See You

The xx

4/5

Modern alternative pop album. Catchy melodies with melancholic tone.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

2/5

Classical blues album. Not my kind of music.

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Hyped hip hop album with some chart topping hits.

The Predator

Ice Cube

3/5

Early hip hop highlight. Hard beats and political rhymes.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

Tiny folk and country milestone.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Quiet rock pearl. Neil Young in his early solo career.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

4/5

Trip hop milestone. Hybrid between electronic, hip hop and rock.

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Dark melancholic masterpiece. Very quiet and smooth.

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

The album before the "black" album. Heavy and rhythmic.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

A noisy 1980s music product with some harmonic pearls.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

5/5

Pop masterpiece, the good face of the 1980s. "Streets of your town" five stars only for this song.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

3/5

Rock highlight, an album which made them famous.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Epic guitar masterpiece.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

2/5

80s rock album, sounds like an early Guns 'N' Roses album.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Turntable-Sound, typical 90s electronic music.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Experimental, quiet rock album.

2112

Rush

3/5

Classic hard rock album with some nice tunes.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

Very experimental, sometimes like an early Joy Division album.

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

3/5

Beginning of blues rock legend Eric Clapton.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Groovy, funky and sometimes rocking. Very interesting combination.

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

The Lou Reed hit album, some song pearls and classics.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

Dark Wave experimental album. With the characteristic voice of Peter Murphy.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

Ambient longplayer with some techno elements. Typical 1990s.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Masterpiece by the Peppers. Funky and melodic.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Glamorous songs, happy and funny. Good mood.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Raw rock album with some nice melodies.

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Masterpiece. Dark, sad, melodic. Simply The Cure.

Dog Man Star

Suede

5/5

Melodramatic pop hymns. Wonderful emotional.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Nearly lost tiny rock pearl with a lot to discover.

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

3/5

Aggressive political hip hop form the bad boys of the scene.

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

3/5

Strong female hip hop voice. Catchy tunes.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Folk songs so catchy, an album full of hits.

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

4/5

Lazy blues album, with some major hits.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

Loud and bluesy.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

A wonderful female rock statement, influencial for other female artists.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Partly a classic rock album with some blues elements. Makes fun to listen to.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Dance electro masterpiece by a DJ. Wonderful.

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

4/5

Very quiet, melancholic album, sometimes epic. An album to listen in full to.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Party classical and catchy tunes. Very special.

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

Artificial rock album, sounds still very modern, timeless music.

Imagine

John Lennon

4/5

What a wonderful kind of music.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Small tiny album with some great rock tunes. An album before the great success.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

Folk energy, but not my kind of music.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

Nice hip hop but not my kind of music.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

3/5

The master presents his folk songs with a more rocking attitude.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

1/5

Controversial hip hop masterpiece. Not my kind of music.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

4/5

Very quiet album with some favourite melancholic songs.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Smashing Pumpkins at its peak as a band. A lot of wonderful songs that last forever.

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

The king of pop with an album full of hits.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Tiny Costello album with some catchy tunes.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Interesting afrobeat sounds, timeless.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

Funky jazz album. Some songs seem to inspire other artists for soundtracks in that time.

Sea Change

Beck

5/5

What a quiet masterpiece, with country elements. Every song brings emotions.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Souly, funky, partly gospel music. Smooth.

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Absolute masterpiece, timeless, catchy tunes. Marks a milestone.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

1/5

Too perfect, a boring mainstream album. A little bit from everything for everyone.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Fun rock album, makes happy moments.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

Classic tunes from the past, entertaining.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

One of my absolute favourite albums ever. Here is nearly everything wonderful.

Forever Changes

Love

3/5

Folk Rock with strings, partly epic.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Funny pop album with some highlight but all in all good middle-class music.

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

Very quiet and experimental album from the beginning of Synthie Pop.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Nice tunes, very quiet, experimental folk music.

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

First rock-rap-album. Pioneers. Still rocks.

Aja

Steely Dan

4/5

Jazzy rock album. Very nice late 70s sound.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

2/5

Classical blues album, of course wonderful music, but not my kind of music.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

2/5

Classic country album, nice voice.

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

Beautiful tiny folk-rock album.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

2/5

Interesting kind of music from another cultural background.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

A voice of its generation, tiny little album.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

Nice memories back to Grunge. A very special masterpiece.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Classical 1950s tunes and themes. Very nice and smoothy.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

ZZ TOP on its way through the 80s. More electronic vibes, very danceable.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

4/5

An album mostly in collaboration with David Bowie. Iggy's Berlin times.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Epic rock album.

Pump

Aerosmith

3/5

Comeback album of the 70s rock band.

Tracy Chapman

5/5

What a wonderful kind of handmade music.

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

2/5

Storytelling with music. Very special.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Like the title, raw music from a pure rock star.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A classic rock album by The Stones with some favourite tunes.

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

Very experimental pop album, stylish.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

Classic late 60s tunes.

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Good mood hip hop with grooving beats.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Funky 60s sounds.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

A very important album for my musical socialization. Five stars.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Another wonderful album, which is very important for my personal musical journey. It opened a new world to me.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

3/5

Tiny, small rock album with some nice tunes.

Real Life

Magazine

3/5

Futuristic pop rock music, sometimes like Talking Heads sometimes a little bit of punk.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Melancholic tunes with an epic voice.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

A wonderful Cash-masterpiece.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

David Bowie at his first peak in his career.

Arrival

ABBA

5/5

Wonderful piece of music. Five stars.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

4/5

Music like a circus, much variety.

1999

Prince

4/5

An early masterpiece by a great musician. Gone too soon.

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

4/5

Pure rock without frills.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Classic 60s beat music with positive vibes.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Pure intensive rock music.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

Nice alternative, indie pop album. Sound a little bit like Talking Heads.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Masterpiece in hip hop music.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Sound very modern, acoustic, handmade folk and pop music.

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

Raw and pure alternative rock music.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Like a preview what is coming in the 80s and 90s with Brit pop.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

Cool alternative rock music, sounds still modern.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Good mood music by a legend.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

2/5

Dylan is something special I will never understand. He might be excellent, but I couldn't see this.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Queen delivered with every album a box of sweets.

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Very modern country rock album from the past.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

Early works by an influencial rock band.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

3/5

Raw rock album with emotional moments.

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Quiet post rock album, dark and raw.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

A classic, influencial for so many bands and musicians.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Not my kind of music. Probably a masterpiece.

Blackstar

David Bowie

5/5

An album by an all-time-favourite, with the energy of his forthcoming death.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

2/5

Very special kind of music and voice.

The Clash

3/5

Early punk album by an iconic punk band.

Destroyer

KISS

3/5

An early work by an influencial rock band.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

A raw rock blues album with country roots.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Bubble pop fun album.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Early blues rock album by a legendary band.

Fleet Foxes

2/5

Very quiet fancy melodic folk pop album.

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

3/5

A classic hard rock performance from the 1970s.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

Indie pop mixed with Country music made by Damon Albarn and friends.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

3/5

Old school soul by a legend in this genre.

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

1/5

Artificial post-punk but too much noise for me.

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

Wonderful pop album wth influences from all over the world.

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Dark rock music, with aggression down under it.

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

4/5

Interesting mixture of old school music and electronic.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

5/5

A masterpiece in rock music with purpose.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Tiny singer-songwriter music, very emotional, intimate.

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

5/5

Wonderful trip back in times of inspiring indie rock from Great Britain.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

3/5

Classic tunes with wonderful melodies and a strong emotional voice.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

My second album by Metallica I listened to after the Black album. Milestone.

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Very nice R'N'B-album with tiny tunes and melodies.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Folk rock album, not my kind of music.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Dark wave from the dark 80s, nice finding.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Back in time with these wonderful samba tunes. Time to remember on the good old days.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

5/5

What a wonderful album by the piano man.

Faith

George Michael

3/5

The rebellion of a former pop puppet. Songs play with extremes.

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

3/5

Dark indie rock with a touch of wave.

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Blues rock sensation, very impressive. A legend.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

4/5

Innovative rock album from an upcoming band.

Da Capo

Love

3/5

Sound a bit like The Doors.

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

3/5

Tiny tunes from old times. Nice.

Illmatic

Nas

1/5

Not my kind of music. Sorry.

Rocks

Aerosmith

3/5

Nice old rock tunes from the first great times of the band.

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

No more happy music, very melancholic album by an Ex-Beach-Boy.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Funny mixture of different styles from hip hop to electronica.

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

2/5

An album from a drug-addcted man. Disturbing, with some pearls.

Haut de gamme / Koweït, rive gauche

Koffi Olomide

2/5

African style music, very special. Happy tunes.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

A pop milestone. Every song on this album is a hit.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

First commercial success of the band. Still raw but with a lot of hit potential.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

3/5

Modern songs in a brazilian way, very interesting finding.

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

Punk pop for the youth. Heard it 50 years ago.