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Album	You	Global	Diff
Sex Packets Digital Underground	5	2.67	+2.33
Mask Bauhaus	5	2.84	+2.16
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	5	2.92	+2.08
Out of Step Minor Threat	5	2.93	+2.07
The Dreaming Kate Bush	5	2.97	+2.03
Modern Kosmology Jane Weaver	5	3.08	+1.92
Henry's Dream Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.1	+1.9
Rain Dogs Tom Waits	5	3.19	+1.81
Femi Kuti Femi Kuti	5	3.25	+1.75
Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs	5	3.29	+1.71

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	2	3.81	-1.81
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.7	-1.7
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers	2	3.49	-1.49
Blue Joni Mitchell	2	3.49	-1.49
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	2	3.39	-1.39
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.39	-1.39
Music From Big Pink The Band	2	3.35	-1.35
Sea Change Beck	2	3.33	-1.33
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco	2	3.31	-1.31
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.3	-1.3

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Artist	Albums	Average
Prince	3	4.67
Bob Marley & The Wailers	2	5
Muddy Waters	2	5
Radiohead	5	4.2

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Beck	2, 5

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Popular Reviews

The Dreaming

Kate Bush · 1 likes

5/5

A lot more visceral than I expected a Kate Bush album to be. Fantastic.

The Wall

Pink Floyd · 1 likes

5/5

Easily one of the best albums ever recorded.

Horses

Patti Smith · 1 likes

5/5

Just an absolute gem.

All Ratings

The Bends

Radiohead

4/5

A little slow to start but then Just comes in and hits like a brick.

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Decent enough but very same same.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

The only thing more boring than Springsteen is a Springsteen knock off. The songs are all dull and never go anywhere.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Classic after classic. Satisfaction the way it sounded in Mick Jagger's head when he thought of the song.

Violent Femmes

4/5

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Well crafted sonic drones inserted with ethereal vocals and poppy melodies. A Post-Punk delight.

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

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

The Kinks

4/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

5/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

Prime 90s hip hop.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

5/5

Funky funk funk

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

5/5

Weirdo hip-hop at its best

Celebrity Skin

Hole

4/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Trio

Dolly Parton

3/5

Three legends to be sure, but the songs weren't my favorite.

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Made In Japan

Deep Purple

2/5

Brilliant and influential band but live music in the 70s was its own thing.

Suicide

2/5

Proto a lot of stuff I'm into but not great on it's own

The Only Ones

3/5

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Cars

5/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

4/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

4/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

4/5

The Rise & Fall

Madness

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3/5

High Violet

The National

2/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Pornography

The Cure

5/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Sheet Music

10cc

3/5

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

4/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

Abraxas

Santana

4/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

4/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

I See You

The xx

2/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

3/5

Yeezus

Kanye West

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Garbage

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Scum

Napalm Death

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

3/5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

3/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

2/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

2/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Scott 2

Scott Walker

2/5

Mask

Bauhaus

5/5

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

Ramones

5/5

Superunknown

Soundgarden

5/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

Drum and bass is cool but it will never blow mind. 3 hours is like psychological warfare.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

4/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

5/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

2/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

2/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

The xx

3/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

3/5

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

Follow The Leader

Korn

4/5

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

2/5

Damaged

Black Flag

3/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

3/5

Sounded like an album of failed sitcom theme songs, which is a shame because I know XTC can be better.

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Love listening to an album and going I KNOW THIS SONG! Some weak points but a pretty solid album overall.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

4/5

This album has EVERYTHING

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

Not my typical genre but just blown away

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

1999

Prince

4/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Roxy Music

4/5

Ideal 70s weirdness. Solid album.

The Rolling Stones

4/5

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

David Bowie

5/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

5/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Typical Nick Cave but in the best way

Bad Company

3/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

Typical Foo Fighters (derogatory)

American Gothic

David Ackles

2/5

More singer songwriter piano man hoopla

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

Country Life

Roxy Music

4/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

5/5

No Other

Gene Clark

4/5

It's country. Wait, it's not? Wait, it's really good?

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

3/5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

Powerful

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

Very 90s trance. Enjoyable but a little same same by the end.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Some gems hidden in a boring indie album

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Great stuff

Guero

Beck

5/5

What to even call this? A fantastic listen.

Murmur

R.E.M.

3/5

Yup. That sure is REM

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

The Jam is awesome. Full stop.

Harvest

Neil Young

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

A collection of odd little nuggets. Most of them are both off-putting and incessantly hummable.

Calenture

The Triffids

2/5

Such a long album I was kinda onboard with the generic 80s altpop by the end.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

5/5

Yes. Yes!

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

4/5

A not hidden gem. I get it.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Talking Heads but boring

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Not a Neil Young fan but this was enjoyable

Truth

Jeff Beck

3/5

Not bad overall but dude wrecked Old Man River

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Wife really liked it

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

A lot of organ noodling not a lot of songs

Boston

4/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Zappa is so silly and this is fine

Adele

3/5

Too much of a good thing is possible

Leftism

Leftfield

3/5

Isn't this the cave rave music from The Matrix?

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

The logical successor to the Velvet Underground in its ethos of "it's ok to be kinda crap" and then copied by countless others.

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Not my favorite of theirs but still great

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Points for a Busta Rhymes feat

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

5/5

A lot more visceral than I expected a Kate Bush album to be. Fantastic.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Short and punchy. Does what it wants and then leaves.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

4/5

Classic

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

So I'm not an Emerson, Lake & Palmer fan come to find out. No more please.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

Almost liked this but I didn't

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

5/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

5/5

What a joy to finally be made to listen to a full Tom Waits album. It was more than the sum of it's parts for sure.

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

Another band that is rightfully famous for their singles.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

Easily one of the best albums ever recorded.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Classic that song

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

4/5

This is why I'm doing this thing. To find stuff I otherwise never would have known existed. Great find.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

5/5

Yup.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Everybody's mom loves it but I don't get it

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

Not sure why there are multiple Orbital albums but ok.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

Jesus. Christ. This album would be a five if it was just Number of the Beast -Run to the Hills- Gangland, but then there are somehow MORE songs. Absolutely terrific.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Coooooool.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

Merry Merry!

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Definitely one of the GOATs of the blues.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Spiderland

Slint

4/5

Very post.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

A couple really good tracks

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

There's something about The Yardbirds that I just like

Odessa

Bee Gees

3/5

It does a lot and some of it works. Didn't hate it but it's not going in the rotation.

The Velvet Underground

4/5

A great album brought down by an overly avant closer.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

All I hear is You've Got a Friend in Me.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

They are better when they are less frantic

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

The famous songs are good

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

People saying you can hear Bowie like it's a bad thing.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

4/5

Country with a capital C

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Such a strong debut

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Really strong songs with not great filler

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

A Woody Guthrie feat?!

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

The perfect midpoint between the traditional and the experimental

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

2/5

Boring indie

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Everyone wanted to be a blues band

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

4/5

Excellent find. Jangly and, as the title implies, fuzzy.

Debut

Björk

4/5

Everything is music

Bossanova

Pixies

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

3/5

Kinda bland but listenable

Femi Kuti

5/5

Any Kuti is good Kuti

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

3/5

A bunch of generic stuff and then is this the Pat Benatar song?

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

How did they ever get this man to do South Park?

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

I think exactly two things with Depeche Mode: the song You'll Dance to Anything by The Dead Milkmen and the Venture Bros. That being said, I love this album so much. Even having listened to it so many times before it's still surprising how many bangers are on it.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Still their best

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

Solid 80s heavy metal.

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

4/5

Early Floyd and late Bowie filtered through Radiohead.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

He Dylans all over it but it's not bad

Shadowland

k.d. lang

4/5

The first really country western album I've heard. Just a delight.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

3/5

Achtung Baby

2/5

Perfectly passable but ultimately uninteresting songs

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

4/5

Something transcendent about this but I can't put my finger on it

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Bliss

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Classic early aughts sounds. An absolute delight.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Like all Pumpkins albums it's both a well put together album and also bombastic and over stuffed

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

It's not ambient but it's definitely passive music

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

2/5

Never found it's groove

Horses

Patti Smith

5/5

Just an absolute gem.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome but I'm starting to come around on Dylan

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

5/5

Somehow greater than the sum of its already great parts.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Once Tina sings a song it's her song

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Beastie Boys are just fun. Their sound evolved but the fun was the constant.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Good for what it is but a full album of samba was never going to make it into my rotation

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

It wasn't bad I'm just not sure why it was included.

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

Britpop Smashing Pumpkins

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Wanted to like it more than I actually did.

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

4/5

So so good. Only familiar with one of her songs before this but it's all so varied but just as strong.

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

The mountains of drugs that fueled this album were not wasted. A hair one note but AC/DC made a living off of being completely one note so that's not necessarily a bad thing if you like the one note.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Equal parts sincere and funky

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Still not big on Springsteen. That's it. That's the review.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

4/5

As a self processed ska guy it's so refreshing to hear just straight up punky horns that want to tear your face off as much as the guitars. A fantastic listen.