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Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Chronic	5	3.33	+1.67
Paul's Boutique	5	3.47	+1.53
Songs From The Big Chair	5	3.74	+1.26
Disintegration	5	3.85	+1.15
London Calling	5	3.98	+1.02
Os Mutantes	4	2.98	+1.02
Will The Circle Be Unbroken	4	2.99	+1.01
The Who Sell Out	4	3	+1

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Toys In The Attic	1	3.26	-2.26
Want One	1	2.91	-1.91
Cafe Bleu	1	2.87	-1.87
Hotel California	2	3.6	-1.6
Blunderbuss	2	3.4	-1.4
Cross	2	3.28	-1.28
Central Reservation	2	3.05	-1.05

5-Star Albums (5)

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Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

1/5

boring, monotonous, flaccid cock rock. every time boomers try to tell me something is the hardest most badass epic rock music ever made i put it on and it sounds like my dishwasher.

1 likes

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

1/5

When this isn't heinous and unlistenable, it's dull and bland. How the hell is this the guy from The Jam? They were big and punchy and high-energy. This sounds like a Kohl's changing room. Atrocious.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (3)

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Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

4/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

4/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

5/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

1/5

boring, monotonous, flaccid cock rock. every time boomers try to tell me something is the hardest most badass epic rock music ever made i put it on and it sounds like my dishwasher.

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

5/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

It's fine. Entirely inessential sophistipop/jangle pop/new wave. I've heard worse, but I've also heard so much better. The net cultural impact of this thing appears to have been exactly zero, so I can't fathom what it's doing on this list.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

I can respect the musicianship, but I just cannot get into this vaudeville ragtime cabaret sound. Sounds like an old-timey film score. The satire's good but feels somewhat stale 50+ years later, and almost none of it meshes with the instrumentation. Meh.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

1/5

When this isn't heinous and unlistenable, it's dull and bland. How the hell is this the guy from The Jam? They were big and punchy and high-energy. This sounds like a Kohl's changing room. Atrocious.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Yeah, this is good. Jangly, sunshine-y, proto-Sleater-Kinney, proto-Plumtree power pop. Crazy how the two big singles are the worst songs on here though.

Leftism

Leftfield

2/5

i'm sure this is really important to uk house music and the 90s rave scene or whatever but in any context outside of the club it's woefully boring. i really don't think i needed to hear 70 minutes of background music from a c-tier euro-exclusive playstation 1 racing game before i die.

Os Mutantes

4/5

Interesting, unique, and memorable. Could we get some more albums like this instead of the cavalcade of middle of the road British new wave records we're currently stuck with?

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Brilliant, indeed. Kneeling out of respect for Sonny Rollins in particular.

Cross

Justice

2/5

this is four solid tracks bookending a bunch of filler and obnoxious mid. every track runs for a minute too long, even the ones i liked. repetitive samples and irritating vocal lines abound.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

This'd probably blow my mind if I'd never heard Radiohead or Oasis or Blur or Pulp or Spiritualized or My Bloody Valentine in my entire life.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

Moaning, droning, coffee shop guitar noises. "Stolen Car" and "Stars All Seem to Weep" are the only standout moments.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Classic pitfall of the double album: filler. Cut Lindsey's shitty, unfinished experiments and some of Christine's more boring tracks and this album is an easy 4 stars.

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

Really just a pleasant and thoroughly enjoyable listen.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

It's a worse version of what The Cure were doing around this same time (this dropped a year after Pornography, for reference), and I'd also argue it's worse than it's own follow-up album Ocean Rain, but this is still a good time. Even so, as much as I like this, these guys are nobodies. Echo and the god damn Bunnymen do not need three spots on this list. They barely needed the one.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

5/5

Easiest 5 I've given thus far. A masterclass in hip hop production.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

yeah i kinda. like. really like this. the radio gimmick is actually really charming, and the interludes being quick little jingles actually just scans well. they're not nearly as intrusive or obnoxious as i was expecting them to be. helps that the music is just straight up good.