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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Grand Tour George Jones	5	2.79	+2.21
Night Life Ray Price	5	2.81	+2.19
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	5	2.82	+2.18
Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris	5	2.86	+2.14
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	5	2.86	+2.14
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.89	+2.11
Out of Step Minor Threat	5	2.93	+2.07
Truth And Soul Fishbone	5	2.97	+2.03
The Rise & Fall Madness	5	3.05	+1.95
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... Arrested Development	5	3.15	+1.85

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Master Of Puppets Metallica	1	3.72	-2.72
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.5	-2.5
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.47	-2.47
Five Leaves Left Nick Drake	1	3.46	-2.46
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.32	-2.32
Horses Patti Smith	1	3.31	-2.31
Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned	1	3.15	-2.15
Under Construction Missy Elliott	1	3.15	-2.15
Life's Too Good The Sugarcubes	1	3.07	-2.07

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Willie Nelson	2	5
Prince	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5
Beatles	2	5
The Rolling Stones	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	1
Nick Drake	2	1.5
Metallica	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
The Byrds	5, 2
AC/DC	5, 2

5-Star Albums (57)

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Popular Reviews

Stankonia

OutKast · 1 likes

2/5

wanted to like it more

1-Star Albums (33)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

All Ratings

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Boston

5/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

2/5

Great title track, the rest didnt do much for me

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Gave it 30 minutes. Enjoyed some, but I don’t think I’m the target demographic. Couldn’t decide whether to add or subtract a star for rhyming sarcophagus with esophagus

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Horrible band name, terrible album cover-Is a motel bathroom toilet the best backdrop you got? But fantastic harmonies, great arrangements, great album

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

1/5

I still have a metallic taste in the back of my throat that I cant get rid of.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

I remembered liking this more. Looking back, it’s a few good songs and a good sound, though the drums sound very dated to me.

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

Still packs the emotional intensity I remember.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

5/5

Love Willie. Love this album. Reading the backstory on wikipedia on how against the grain this was for the time makes it even better.

The xx

4/5

loved the vibe. I have to give Fenton a little credit, one of these tracks was on a Fenton Faves a few years back

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Vocals mixed way up. And that’s a good thing.

The Band

3/5

Didn’t make it all the way through but enjoyed. For some reason I just don’t really get into it

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Awesome

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

I've never watched Eurovision Song Contest, but I imagine this is what it sounds like.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Cannot deny Nile Rogers at work on this one

Joan Armatrading

3/5

I haven’t listened to it but I probably like her later stuff better.

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Higher than I anticipated

The Modern Lovers

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

The pavement of their day

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

2/5

How do you say "cut the grass" in French? Mow de lawn.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

4/5

Highway Star and Space Truckin’ take to the 4 Star level

The Cars

5/5

Knew every word to every song

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

On the strength of Bittersweet Symphony alone I could give the album a 5, but am going with a 4

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

5/5

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

3/5

Big Fenton vibes

Fever Ray

1/5

Didnt have the patience for this one

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Block rocked right out the remaining tracks

Aja

Steely Dan

5/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Distinctive sound, but only one good track

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

3/5

Mfr's going to talk under pressure

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

2/5

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

couple of tracks seem to come out of nowhere

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

1/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

5/5

More piccolo!

The Grand Tour

George Jones

5/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

hard to see why this was on the list.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

2/5

Never heard of this guy, obviously a big influence on David Berman and Silver Jews

1999

Prince

5/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

Solid album

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

3/5

I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor is a longtime fave and got this review an extra star

Moving Pictures

Rush

4/5

5 stars in high school, but did not hold up over time

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

How knew Michael Franti had this in him

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Real good, just not my thing

New Forms

Roni Size

1/5

My jungle days have passed me by

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

1/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

5/5

Debut

Björk

2/5

For the two songs that were ok

Common

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

2/5

I'm more of a greatest hits fan

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Couple of good tracks

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Classic

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Somebody has a Neil Young fetish

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Never heard of it. Doubt I will hear it again

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

4/5

Solid album

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

Blur

3/5

Woo-hoo! Liked the sound and vibe, but there is other Britpop I prefer.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

2/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

Haaard pass

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

2/5

Ehh

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Bleep bloop

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

4/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

1/5

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

wanted to like it more

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Some strong Flavor Flav contributions

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

4/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

2/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

2/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

5/5

several solid songs

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

much higher than i expected

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

3/5

not as good as I remembered it

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

more flute than i expected

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

1/5

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

4/5

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

I See You

The xx

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

5/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Timeless

Goldie

1/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Rio

Duran Duran

5/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

2/5

not sure if this generator could have more Neil Young if it tried

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

depending on mood

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Pink Flag

Wire

2/5

did not know this is where the Elastica sample was from, or that Strange was a cover by REM

Joan Baez

2/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

1/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

#1 Record

Big Star

5/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

5/5

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

1/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

mopier than I remembered

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

one of my Dad's favorites

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Arular

M.I.A.

2/5

Night Life

Ray Price

5/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

5/5

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

2/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

Too depressing

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Wanted to go 5 on the strength of first two songs, and enjoyed the rest, but it’s a slid 4

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

4/5

The Joshua Tree

5/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Being There

Wilco

5/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

4/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

5/5

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

Ananda Shankar

4/5

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Talvin Singh

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

this album is either a 1 or a 5. I'm going 1

Play

Moby

4/5

close to a 5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

5 stars for Green Onions. All the other tracks could have been named Mo' Onions

Guero

Beck

2/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Vivid

Living Colour

3/5

One absolute banger, the rest meh

Blue

Joni Mitchell

5/5

Technique

New Order

5/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

always dug this album

Sound Affects

The Jam

5/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

2/5

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

4/5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

3/5

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Synchronicity

The Police

5/5

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

4/5

Doolittle

Pixies

3/5

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

5/5

always liked this album and it was better than I remembered which surprised me

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

wish I could give it negative stars

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

5/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

2/5

uneven

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Rip It Up

Orange Juice

2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

4/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

3/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Horses

Patti Smith

1/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

2/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

Weird, but you cannot deny the production and ambition

Scott 4

Scott Walker

2/5

there is only so much Scott Walker a person needs. Probably could have called it a day after 3.

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

1/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

2112

Rush

4/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

2/5

Lost Souls

Doves

4/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

3/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

2/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

Joanna Newsom

1/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Copper Blue

Sugar

3/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

5/5

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

5/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

5/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

Bert Jansch

3/5

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Barry Adamson

3/5

Solid background music

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

1/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

3/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Tago Mago

Can

1/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

5/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

5/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

1/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Moby Grape

1/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

2/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Scissor Sisters

3/5

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

1/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

One 5-star song and some filler brit pop

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

2/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

1/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

1/5

Viva Hate

Morrissey

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

5/5

Floodland

Sisters Of Mercy

3/5

In hindsight the production by Jim Steinman is obvious

Out of Step

Minor Threat

5/5

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

4/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

1/5

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

4/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

2/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

1/5

One banger, the rest is dated

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

2/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5