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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orbital 2 | 5 | 2.69 | +2.31 |
| Atomizer | 5 | 2.72 | +2.28 |
| Ingenue | 5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
| Call of the Valley | 5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
| Ray Of Light | 5 | 2.99 | +2.01 |
| Hot Shots II | 5 | 3 | +2 |
| Oxygène | 5 | 3.08 | +1.92 |
| Before And After Science | 5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
| 461 Ocean Boulevard | 5 | 3.12 | +1.88 |
| Unhalfbricking | 5 | 3.14 | +1.86 |
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Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Score | 1 | 3.68 | -2.68 |
| To Pimp A Butterfly | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| good kid, m.A.A.d city | 1 | 3.61 | -2.61 |
| The Marshall Mathers LP | 1 | 3.49 | -2.49 |
| The College Dropout | 1 | 3.32 | -2.32 |
| Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) | 1 | 3.15 | -2.15 |
| Rage Against The Machine | 2 | 4 | -2 |
| I Against I | 1 | 2.93 | -1.93 |
| Bug | 1 | 2.92 | -1.92 |
| Want One | 1 | 2.91 | -1.91 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
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| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Depeche Mode | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.2 | 3.75 |
| R.E.M. | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Prince | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
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| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kendrick Lamar | 2 | 1 | 2.2 |
| Eminem | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
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1/5
Too bad his voice doesn't match his songwriting skills. I heard my cat make nicer sounds when I stepped on his tail.
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The Rolling Stones
4/5
I'm not a big Stones fan, but this is a side of them I didn't know existed. Some songs almost sound like they came from some old time folk record.
Fatboy Slim
5/5
Ok
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Psychedelic 60s/70s at their best.
The Cars
5/5
Didn't recognize only one song.
Fugees
1/5
Definitely not for me.
Hugh Masekela
4/5
I liked it.
Roxy Music
4/5
It'sOK. I never really liked Roxy Music, they'really not quite my style. .
R.E.M.
5/5
Really good. Don't know why I never bought it.
LTJ Bukem
3/5
Kinda cool sounding, but it gets really repetitive. Might be ok in the background while doing something else. Some of the pieces sound like rig tones.
Beatles
5/5
Haven't listened to this since I was a kid. I forgot how much talent they had.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Not bad. I didn't know they were more than rock/rap. They have a little funk to them. Instrumentals? Who'da thunk it?
Grateful Dead
4/5
Not bad. Never listened to them when I was younger. Good Sunday morning music.
Elvis Costello
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
Some of the music is ok; kind of funky or jazzy. The lyrics are another story. I think I heard the n word times in this album than I have my whole life! Also, he sounds like Tommy Davidson when he is acting like a little kid.
Beatles
4/5
Another I've never heard, but I've heard all of the songs.
ZZ Top
4/5
Good album
Van Morrison
4/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
3/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Probably my favorite Floyd album.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Pretty good. I was bust too young to appreciate him.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
A voice gone too early.
Scott Walker
2/5
Manu Chao
4/5
Even though all but one song were in languages other than English, ut was pretty good.
Van Morrison
2/5
Musically and lyrically, it's great. He sang runs before runs were cool, and I still don't like them. Also, it really got whiny at the end.
The Doors
4/5
Soundgarden
2/5
Not my style
Jimmy Smith
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Shuggie Otis
3/5
Depeche Mode
5/5
This was really good.
Arcade Fire
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Manic Street Preachers
4/5
Never heard of them. Not bad.
Lupe Fiasco
2/5
Ok for rap. Liked the backing music.
Frank Zappa
3/5
Kanye West
1/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2/5
Too much random screaming.
John Martyn
3/5
Pixies
2/5
Good if you like punk.
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Eminem
1/5
Barry Adamson
3/5
Interesting. Probably wouldn't listen again though.
The Shamen
3/5
Björk
3/5
Interesting voice.
Duke Ellington
5/5
Awesome album!
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
2/5
It was ok.
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Good. Always liked Ry Cooder.
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Saint Etienne
4/5
Aretha Franklin
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Os Mutantes
2/5
Psychedelia in Portugese.
Willie Nelson
4/5
Psychedelia in Portugese.
Goldfrapp
3/5
The Velvet Underground
2/5
Talking Heads
5/5
Only recognized one song. The rest was really great.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3/5
The Damned
3/5
Metallica
5/5
Awesome!
Radiohead
3/5
Carole King
4/5
Mike Ladd
3/5
Sonically it was awesome.
The Coral
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Pretenders
5/5
Didn't realize they were kinda punk.
ABBA
3/5
Not guite bubblegum, but definitely pop disco.
The Beach Boys
2/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
Beatles
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Elastica
4/5
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
David Holmes
2/5
Elvis Presley
5/5
The Allman Brothers Band
5/5
The The
4/5
Brian Eno
2/5
I knew it was going to be weird, and it was.
Led Zeppelin
5/5
When I was 14 and first heard this, I thought it was the greatest. Now that I am older, and listen to the musicianship, I know why.
Fela Kuti
5/5
Even though I couldn't understand any if the words, this was a great album. I had to listen to it twice.
Public Enemy
2/5
Not bad for a rap album.
The Isley Brothers
3/5
Machito
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Beck
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
Beastie Boys
2/5
Some is ok. So.e sound like high school kids goofing around in their basement.
Suede
4/5
Sounds like a combination of 80s new wave and 70s psychedelic rock. I liked it.
Michael Jackson
4/5
Ramones
3/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
2/5
Interesting, but nah. All sounds the same after a while.
N.W.A.
3/5
I don't like rap. The language is awful. But I really like the sound and stories of the songs.
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
Forgot how good this is.
Buena Vista Social Club
3/5
CHIC
4/5
I hated it in 78. C'mon, it was disco! You were supposed to hate it. Listening again, these guys had some talent. Nice sound.
David Bowie
3/5
I think I need to listen to it again because it was just ok. Maybe it'll improve on a second go round.
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
I really liked it a t first. Sounded like if Amy Winehouse was a rapper. But then the later songs got really nasal, not like her clear voice at the start.
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Never heard of him, but this was really good. Kind of mellow, but upbeat.
Queen
4/5
Songhoy Blues
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Some amongst were really great, and others just sounded like noise.
The Velvet Underground
3/5
The Smiths
3/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Robert Wyatt
2/5
A little too avante garde.
Stephen Stills
5/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
1/5
Eric Clapton
5/5
The Clash
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
1/5
All noise
Dire Straits
5/5
Never realized how good a guitar player Mark Knopfler is.
Adele
4/5
The Stooges
4/5
Femi Kuti
5/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
The music was great, but I couldn't take his voice
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Shivkumar Sharma
5/5
Beautiful.
1/5
Too bad his voice doesn't match his songwriting skills. I heard my cat make nicer sounds when I stepped on his tail.
Neil Young
5/5
Garbage
4/5
Massive Attack
4/5
Pere Ubu
2/5
Noise.
Heaven 17
4/5
Noise.
Love
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Brian Wilson
4/5
Erykah Badu
3/5
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3/5
Ray Charles
4/5
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
OutKast
3/5
The Lemonheads
3/5
3/5
Björk
4/5
Wild Beasts
3/5
It was pretty good. Get rid of the vocals and it would be great.
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
John Grant
4/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Depeche Mode
5/5
Gene Clark
4/5
Minor Threat
3/5
A little too screamy
Slade
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Derek & The Dominos
5/5
Back when there were musicians.
The Gun Club
4/5
Madonna
5/5
Was never a big Madonna fan, except maybe when at the clubs in the mid 80's, but this is a really good album. Kind of a techno trance sound. Would be good for background music.
Sister Sledge
3/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Metallica
3/5
Turbonegro
4/5
The Residents
1/5
Sounds like it was created in a college experimental music class.
Willie Nelson
4/5
Sounds like it was created in a college experimental music class.
Otis Redding
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Wu-Tang Clan
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Muddy Waters
4/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Boring
Paul Simon
4/5
Frank Ocean
2/5
AC/DC
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Sade
4/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Meh
Love
3/5
The Pogues
3/5
Nick Drake
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
The guy is definitely talented, but I wouldn't call this music.
Lana Del Rey
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
1/5
Boring
The White Stripes
4/5
James Brown
3/5
The Byrds
3/5
Kacey Musgraves
4/5
Orbital
5/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Blondie
4/5
Steely Dan
5/5
The Doors
4/5
Jeru The Damaja
3/5
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Elton John
4/5
T. Rex
4/5
The War On Drugs
5/5
Hot Chip
4/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
De La Soul
3/5
Booker T. & The MG's
2/5
Sounded like I was at an old roller rink.
The Replacements
3/5
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Elvis Presley
2/5
Judas Priest
3/5
UB40
4/5
Prince
5/5
The Prodigy
5/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Napalm Death
1/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Eagles
4/5
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Eagles
4/5
Daft Punk
4/5
4/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Prince
4/5
Mariah Carey
3/5
Carpenters
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
MGMT
4/5
Nico
2/5
Guided By Voices
3/5
Meh. I like the sound, but 28 songs in 41 minutes? They all sound like "Hey, we could do something with this." They are all unfinished.
M.I.A.
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
This was really good.
Blur
3/5
The La's
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Coldplay
3/5
This started out really good, but then got boring about 2/3 of the way through. I actually couldn't wait for it to end so I could listen to something different.
Steely Dan
4/5
Bad Brains
1/5
Leonard Cohen
2/5
The Police
4/5
Pixies
3/5
The Boo Radleys
2/5
R.E.M.
4/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Korn
3/5
Björk
3/5
Miles Davis
3/5
Pulp
4/5
Singer is a combination of David Bowie and Roger Waters. They sound like 80s new wave with 70s punk and 60 psychedelic.
Living Colour
3/5
The Kinks
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Elton John
5/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Prefab Sprout
4/5
Various Artists
5/5
Frank Black
3/5
Al Green
3/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
Laura Nyro
4/5
The Smiths
4/5
4/5
The Verve
4/5
I would have given it a 5, but some of the songs got kind of whiny.
Arcade Fire
5/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Peter Gabriel
5/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Some great songs, but then some mediocre.
Goldie
3/5
Nina Simone
2/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2/5
Fats Domino
3/5
TV On The Radio
4/5
Air
4/5
Nas
3/5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4/5
Foo Fighters
3/5
The Black Keys
4/5
The Kinks
4/5
David Gray
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3/5
John Coltrane
3/5
Not a big fan of random notes.
TV On The Radio
3/5
The Everly Brothers
4/5
Tears For Fears
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Louis Prima
4/5
The Zutons
4/5
Portishead
4/5
The Police
4/5
Skepta
2/5
Minutemen
2/5
The B-52's
4/5
Started awesome. The middle was awesome. The last 2 or 3 son though weren't the best.
George Harrison
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Green Day
5/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Slipknot
2/5
Noise
Radiohead
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
GZA
2/5
Laibach
3/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Beastie Boys
5/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Eurythmics
4/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
3/5
Rage Against The Machine
2/5
Iron Maiden
3/5
Moby
4/5
Hawkwind
3/5
Portishead
3/5
Suicide
2/5
Interesting and weird. Best description is they sound like and EXTREMELY edgy and dark Kraftwerk, but in English.
T. Rex
4/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Gillian Welch
4/5
Gram Parsons
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Ok. A little mellow. Maybe I'd like it better when I'm in a mellow kind of mood.
A Tribe Called Quest
3/5
Not bad for a rap album.
Deee-Lite
4/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Nice voice. Not my style.
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
AC/DC
5/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Cream
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Lou Reed
3/5
B.B. King
5/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Scritti Politti
4/5
Pretrrttt good 80s pop.
Bob Dylan
4/5
I'm not a big Dylan fan, but this is pretty good.
50 Cent
2/5
Nick Drake
4/5
A new Sunday morning music album.
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Tricky
4/5
I really liked this. Kind of spacey. 4
The Specials
3/5
The Killers
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Lots of good songs, then it got really spacey.
The Clash
4/5
I appreciate this more now than when I originally got it.
Marilyn Manson
2/5
Some songs were food, some too much screaming, and some a bunch of noise.
David Bowie
3/5
The Human League
4/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
The Who
5/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Destiny's Child
4/5
Fairport Convention
5/5
ZZ Top
4/5
3/5
Space jazz!!!
Röyksopp
4/5
Nice and spacey.
Dennis Wilson
3/5
The production was great. Interesting sonically. Too many boring songs.
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Prince
4/5
The Dandy Warhols
4/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
5/5
Kraftwerk meets Alan Parsons
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Not bad for a rap album. I like the music and the rhythms. I would give it a higher rating if it was something I could play in public.
Faust
4/5
The Monks
3/5
Janet Jackson
4/5
The Cure
3/5
Missy Elliott
2/5
Eminem
2/5
Not as good as I hoped it would be.
The Beach Boys
3/5
Pantera
2/5
Not my style.
Queen Latifah
3/5
Not awful. No mfer or n.
Public Enemy
4/5
Actually pretty good.
Ute Lemper
3/5
Great voice, but weird album. I'll have to find some more of her stuff though.
Funkadelic
3/5
Soft Machine
2/5
Lorde
4/5
John Lee Hooker
4/5
Pavement
2/5
Too whiny.
American Music Club
2/5
The Temptations
3/5
John Prine
2/5
Great songwriter, but who pissed in his cheerios? All of the songs are downers.
3/5
Sounds like a Dead wannabe.
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Awwwrsome 80s.
Ice Cube
3/5
Music iss good. The beats are good. The lyrics on the other hand....
The Band
3/5
The Flaming Lips
3/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
Great voice. She sings several different styles from jazz to R&B to classical to pop to contemporary....
Gang Of Four
4/5
N.E.R.D
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Orange Juice
4/5
British 80s new wave ska. Kinda cool.
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
4/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
5/5
Public Image Ltd.
3/5
Circle Jerks
1/5
Noise
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Dr. Dre
2/5
The Byrds
4/5
Jangle rock!
Pixies
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Paul Simon
5/5
I neverhelesshow good this album was.
The Pharcyde
2/5
Sounds like Fresh Prince, but with lots of swearing.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Nice mellow rock. Pure voice.
Drive-By Truckers
4/5
Pretty good southern rock. A cross between Lynard Skynard and Jason and the Scorchers.
Joy Division
3/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
The Pogues
4/5
The xx
4/5
Dion
3/5
Sounds like something my parents would have listened to. FYI, I'm 65.
Tom Waits
2/5
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Digital Underground
2/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
I think there was only one song I didn't recognize. All the rest were hits.
Dinosaur Jr.
1/5
Whiny noise.
Tracy Chapman
4/5
The Bees
3/5
The Beta Band
5/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
1/5
Boring. Can't hold a tune. Thin voice.
Megadeth
2/5
10cc
3/5
Like a combination of Queen and Supertramp.
Grizzly Bear
4/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Not bad!
Doves
4/5
Underworld
4/5
k.d. lang
5/5
Awesome voice. Great control.
The Go-Go's
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
Interesting sound. Except king of depressing.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Tom Tom Club
3/5
The deluxe edition got repetitive.
The Fall
3/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Beth Orton
3/5
3/5
Marty Robbins
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
The guitars, sitars, drums and everything else sounded great. I couldn't take the vocals.
Syd Barrett
2/5
Lou Reed
2/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Interesting sound. Very sparse; not overproduced.
SAULT
4/5
Everything But The Girl
4/5
Calexico
5/5
Nice guitars.
The Fall
3/5
CHVRCHES
4/5
Brian Eno
5/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
Sounds good but still whiny
Travis
4/5
Big Black
5/5
Nice 80s electro punk.
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Silver Jews
3/5
Little Richard
4/5
Hole
4/5
King Crimson
2/5
Too psychedelic for me.
Black Flag
1/5
Noise
The Monkees
4/5
Stan Getz
4/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2/5
Boring
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
Back when there were musicians and song writers.
Merle Haggard
4/5
Neneh Cherry
4/5
Elbow
5/5
Rocket From The Crypt
2/5
Tim Buckley
2/5
Interesting but boring at the same time.
The Beta Band
4/5