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Album	You	Global	Diff
Your New Favourite Band The Hives	5	3.12	+1.88
American Pie Don McLean	5	3.27	+1.73
The Slim Shady LP Eminem	5	3.27	+1.73
2112 Rush	5	3.36	+1.64
Cheap Thrills Big Brother & The Holding Company	5	3.41	+1.59
Third Soft Machine	4	2.45	+1.55
American Gothic David Ackles	4	2.48	+1.52
Penance Soiree The Icarus Line	4	2.5	+1.5
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	5	3.6	+1.4
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club	5	3.68	+1.32

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	1	3.69	-2.69
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	1	3.62	-2.62
Blackstar David Bowie	1	3.48	-2.48
More Songs About Buildings And Food Talking Heads	1	3.42	-2.42
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	1	3.34	-2.34
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3
B-52's The B-52's	1	3.3	-2.3
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	1	3.29	-2.29
Private Dancer Tina Turner	1	3.28	-2.28
Lady In Satin Billie Holiday	1	3.23	-2.23

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pink Floyd	2	5
Jimi Hendrix	3	4.33
Black Sabbath	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Brian Eno	4	1.75
Leonard Cohen	4	1.75
Talking Heads	4	1.75
Björk	3	1.67
The Undertones	2	1.5
The The	2	1.5
Joy Division	2	1.5
R.E.M.	4	2
David Bowie	6	2.17
Roxy Music	3	2
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3	2
Bruce Springsteen	3	2
Arcade Fire	3	2
The Who	4	2.25
The Rolling Stones	4	2.25

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Rush	5, 2

5-Star Albums (16)

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Fantastic vocal and guitar

I tried my best to not be very biased against this album, but it is extremely long, boring and soulless.

3.5/5 or higher. Not the first time I listen to a Beastie Boys album but the first time I do enjoy it.

A painful reminder that life is also suffering. 1.5

If this album was a Pokémon, it would be of normal type.

4-Star Albums (93)

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

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Quite uninspired. Did not pay enough attention to be able to tell if the lyrics were good or not.

Slightly unconventional, good sound quality, but it felt like something was missing. O-K-A-Y - is how I'd spell it in my dictionary.

Not very impressed. It could be that modern bands have refined this style so much that this one album sounds too simplistic/dated to me. Will I listen to any song here again? Unlikely.

Could not finish it. May only be listenable in clubs and if intoxicated.

Boring and painful portuguese pronunciation.

Pretty good album but a bit too much for my taste nowadays.

A bit boring but I at least managed to listen through it.

This album is quite good. The guitar is easily 10/10.

The album cover suggests -1/5, but the content was okayish.

I hit play. I leave my room. I return a few minutes later - by then I had already forgotten that this was playing. As I open the door, a very loud and strange sound welcomes me - it was around 0:51 of "Upon 9th and Fairchild". I was very confused for a second. This earns this album at least one more star.

If this album was a Pokémon, it would be of normal type.

Quite boring...

I had listened to something by this guy before but actually enjoyed it more this time. Quite nice.

Little Wing is by far the best thing here, but Spanish Castle Magic is also quite nice. The album is not "Electric Ladyland" but it is good.

Nah...

Terrible cover art but it was listenable.

Sounds quite dated.

I expected more.

3.5 ★ Way better than I expected.

3.5 ★

3.5 I like the sound of it.

This is so bad.

Could not finish...

"Safesurfer" is by far the best song here, I like it a lot. It would be even better if at least 1 unit of effort was spent on writing proper lyrics. 3★ just because of this one song.

A bit like Bob Dylan... but worse.

I quite like their sound. It is interesting enough that I will try similar bands.

Some of the songs are ok if you need some background noise.

I usually like prog...

Not very remarkable.

Not every song is a 5☆, but still the album averages 5☆.

This is surprisingly good. It makes sense that she died at 27.

I thought they were a generic and shitty band. Turns out I was correct.

Not bad.

I like Countdown to Extinction more, but this is also quite good.

Better than I expected. "Se eu quiser falar com Deus" is my favorite :-)

I was expecting something much worse based on the cover, but sax + punk is simply too good of a combination.

I quite like this sound :-)

???

Not very remarkable...

I'm not sure what this album was meant to convey.

Interesting guitar and overall okayish sound.

Based on the reviews I was expecting much worse. Sounds similar to Rage Against the Machine.

Quite nice album. Reminds me of Sufjan Stevens.

Unlistenable.

I was expecting it to be a bit worse.

I like the cover more than the content...

Meh.

Did not listen to it completely.

Not as bad as I expected.

Some interesting sounds but probably won't be revisiting.

A live album is rarely a good introduction to an artist.

Quite nice, even for a live album.

Better than I expected.

I could not finish it...

Meh album.

Surprisingly not garbage. 3.5★

Better than I expected

It wasn't bad, but it really confuses me how highly rated this instrumental album is.

Could not finish.

Quite pleasing.

Not bad.

A bit too exotic.

Couldn't finish... but I do remember a quite nice guitar.

Nice.

It sounds quite good but knowing Portuguese makes it worse.

Bleh

There has to be more to this guy than what this album suggests...

Couldn't finish. Bored to death.

Ehh...

I don't quite like the country sound but other than that it is ok. 2.5★

Quite boring

3.5

Quite nice.

Meh.

Surprisingly good.

I was really enjoying some songs, only to realize that Spotify had already started playing a different album...

Quite nice.

"Hm... this sounds like Audioslave, doesn't it?" "Uhhhh" Quite nice, 3.5 out of 5.

Short and nice.

Quite nice.

3.87 out of 5. Positively surprised.

"The One You Love" is quite nice.

"Seven Nation Army" is quite a banger.

Surprisingly nice.

Not the best Radiohead album I'd say.

Quite a good surprise with this album. Strangely enough, I can't single out one particular song that I liked most - it all seemed to flow into a single thing with a side of tasty guitar solos.

Boring.

The t-shirt is much better than the album.

An egg was sacrificed for this?!

2.5?

Quite boring

Not my thing

Instruments were nice.

Expected better.

3.5

1.33

I could not finish ... 1.5 for the instrumentals

Unexpectedly cool

Good but not as good as the album cover.

I'd have given this a much lower rating 10 years ago.

2.7

Boring

From Disc 1 I'd say only 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps' is really 4+ stars song, 'Blackbird' is okayish and the rest is mediocre at best. 'Ob-la-Di Ob-la-Da' is exactly what I have in mind when I think of The Beatles: silly songs that make me question the sanity of people around me. 'Helter Skelter' is nice as well, and overall I'd say Disc 2 is more interesting, even though it has some shitty songs in there. The album deserves 2 stars, but I will give it another one because having one song that I like a lot is already quite a feat.

Quite bad and overrated, as usual from Bowie. "Be My Wife" at least caught my attention for a while, so he gets a star for that.

not what I expected.

I was expecting this to be a 3* album, since I've never liked "Killing in the name" that much, but "Bombtrack" is such a banger that made me immediately reconsider this. Easily one of the best opening tracks I've ever seen.

Good enough that I could listen to the whole thing. 3.5

Meh.

It sounds so... normal. But somehow I like it.

3.5 Way better than I expected.

An album I'd never find on my own. Surprisingly nice. 3.5

Quite cool. Nice guitar work.

3.5

2.5

2.5 Too normal to be a top 1001 album.

2.5

This is so bad. Easily one of the worst albums I've seen here. How can you have 23 songs that just sound the same - all equally bad? There is some variety when other artists are included, but still not good enough to save this pile of shit.

Meh.

2.6

Long but somewhat interesting.

Better than I expected. Some bangers in here.

3.5

Honest music. 3.45

The guitar slaps. "Poem 58" is my favorite. 3.75★

A painful reminder that life is also suffering. 1.5

Very generous 3 due to Hotel California.

Not my favorite Radiohead album...

surprisingly better than I expected.

2.4 There were some interesting elements but meh.

I wasn't expecting to like it this much, even though I knew "Mr. Blue Sky" to be a banger.

2.5

A bit better than I expected.

3.5 Not my type of music but this undeniably fun.

2.4

2.4 I thought this would be better

This was quite good.

In this review page you can find three groups: 1) Loves The Beatles, instantly gives them 5* 2) Hates The Beatles, instantly gives them 1* 3) Do not like The Beatles but concedes that Eleanor Rigby is a banger - rating varies between 2* and 4*

Quite different but not for me.

1.5

I thought this was supposed to be some great album...

2.5

Timeless.

Kinda boring

This was probably a 5* to me when I was 13 years old.

Did it take a few decades to obtain the permission to land?

2.3

This was probably awesome for its time.

1.7 Wasn't this supposed to be a good album?

2.5

Boring

If I'm being honest, this is somewhere between 2 and 3 for me.

This is the kind of 5* album that I can understand if you hate it.

2.5 The instrumental part is very nice, but the vocals are boring.

A reasonable rating for an album that is basically 3 minutes long.

The album cover says it all.

1.5

I may give this one another try in the future...

3.5

3.85

This was surprisingly good!

1.5 boring

Better than I expected. π stars out of 5.

Nice.

Psycho Killer + a bunch of very skippable songs.

I couldn't finish this...

3.5? I need to give this one more try.

Cool guitar but too noisy for me

Great name and way better than I expected.

1.7

Couldn't go through the whole thing...

Soulless.

3.8 Some bangers here.

I meant to give this album 2 stars at most, since I've always thought that the Beatles were overrated. I still think they are, but I must admit this was way better than I expected. 3.77/5

The first song is awesome but some exotic sounds are a bit too much for me. The part is portuguese is also very well done and caught me by surprise.

2.5?

Silly but somehow listenable.

I tried my best to not be very biased against this album, but it is extremely long, boring and soulless.

Was this supposed to be great?

2.45

3.8

1.8 It sounded interesting for a while... May need to reconsider this review a few years from now.

2.5

2.7

3.5/5 or higher. Not the first time I listen to a Beastie Boys album but the first time I do enjoy it.

1.5/5 and obviously does not belong to such a list. Someone has already written the review I'd like to write, so I will just copy it here: "... Essentially what I hate about "pop music" is this perfect vocal-style, I like my vocals with some grit or humanness. This just feels so manufactured and processed. Instrumentally it's all fine, it's just pop vocals ruin it for me 100%. I have nothing against Taylor Swift as she clearly is successful at what she's doing, but it's just not for me in any capacity. Furthermore my impression is she has no different lyrical content beyond relationship woes which gets old, but I get it... that's a huge market."

3.5

3.5 Fun

3.6 Better than I expected

kinda bland

2.5

1.5

2.4

2.6

2.7

1.9 really not my thing

2.5

This was quite nice.

1.5

2.8

Quite nice.

3.5

Some songs were cool but this was a bit too long.

3.5 Biased review because I was in the mood for this.

Possible better than 3* but not in the mood for it right now.

2.6?

2.5

2.6 not my favorite Rush album.

I judged the book by its cover.

2.5

3.5

3.7 way better than the cover seemed to suggest

Surprisingly nice.

1.5

Way too long

3.5

4 stars because I got to listen to Maggot Brain again.

2.1

This was unexpectedly cool.

3.6

3.5

This was way less malleable and ductile than I expected — somehow making it an even better album. The cover art sucks though.

2.5 This is probably one of these albums that sounded awesome when released...

This sucked. 1.5*

3.75 There are some elements that I really like here but somehow I can't see myself listening to this too much, I feel saturated after a few songs (Night Prowler is quite nice though). It would probably sound better to my ears with cruder production and audio quality lol.

3.5 Good surprise — I had very low expectations for this album.

1.5

"Another one by this guy?" was my first thought. As an officially accredited non-Bowie fan, let me say I wasn't very excited. Much to my disappointment, I must admit that it was surprisingly listenable, which leads me to suspect that this 1001 Albums list is nothing but a big, elaborate scam to repeatedly expose people to David Bowie and to slowly change their opinion on the guy.

2.5

2.8 "Cars are cars" really doing its best to drag the rating of this album to the ground.

2.8

3.7 Great album cover and somewhat better content than I expected.

I expected more based on the awesome album cover + name combo

2.5

Wtf was this

Kinda fun.

No review needed.

interesting

2.45

3.3

Okayish

3.5 nice

3.5 better than expected

John Baez does some cool stuff and it seems so does Joan Baez.

meh

1.5*

4.5* for how much I like it; the additional 0.5* for being an inspiration to Electric Wizard and many other great bands.

2.1 Better than expected?

2.8* Radio friendly Bad Religion.

The title track is worth 6 stars.

3.5 Tangerine Dream is awesome but this is probably not my favorite album of theirs.

This sucked... And it sucked for way too long.

At least they tried something different.

another terrible Joy Division album

It gets +1 star because I caught myself doing airdrums to one of the songs.

Lovely album cover, surprisingly enjoyable content as well.

3.5

1.5

Someone reviewed this and complained about how this evokes a smoke-filled club atmosphere that doesn't actually exists in the real world. That may be true and Baudrillard probably has something to say regarding this critique. I, on the other hand, am content with the fact that I don’t have to sit in a nicotine-fogged room to enjoy a great voice.

This was great! Nice crunchy guitar tone! Reminds me of Dinosaur Jr. :-)

Life is too short to listen to all these Bowie albums.

Is it finally over? I've already listened to 1000 albums by this dude.

3.5

3.5 much better than I expected

Wow

3.7

nice but too long

Some nice guitar and cool songs but also many that sucked.

2.8

2.5

2.85

2.46

I judged this album by its terrible cover but I must admit it has some lovely songs.

Am I experienced?

The Rolling Stones

3.5

This was actually nice. 3.5

This was great.

3.5. The 0.5 comes from having inspired some of my favourite bands.

3.5

4.5*? It has some absolute bangers but there are lots of songs I don't care about.

3.5 Better than I expected.

Why this album????????????????????????

This was much better than I expected.

This lost a star due to Peking O.

3.75 Firth of Fifth is awesome

3.8 Way better than the title suggests. The crab did not disappoint.

Does not sound like a primal scream to me.

1.4 Meh

3.5 nice guitar tone

nice?!

I really don't understand this one. How the fuck is this album so highly rated? I rarely skip songs but there is no way I can listen to something like "Bitch, don't kill my vibe" - that gotta be some of the worst vocals I've listened in this whole 1001 album thing... "Backseat Freestyle" has some nice elements but holy shit are the lyrics BAD and this seems to be a common theme. I guess the narrative elements in some other songs are ok but nothing that impresses me much...

3.75

1.6

Gooooo or go aheeeeead 3.5

1.5

I was expecting something terrible but this was quite fun!

Pretty nice!

It worked as a soundtrack while reading a book... 3.5*

2.5

2.44

I just can't

2.4

2.5 sounds like the soundtrack to some sitcom like Friends.

Some bangers and some okay songs.

4.5/5 the fact that people are still pissed and giving this album 1/5 due to the lyrics makes it deserving of an additional 0.5 points.

2.5

Fantastic guitar as usual.

3.85 🥁 🥁 🥁 D

3.8 Not as good as some of his other albums but still a very nice soundtrack for sad days. Also a good soundtrack to convert happy days into sad days.

3.5 and an ugly cover

Boring

I like big (armadillo) tanks and I cannot lie.

1.5* boring

Strange in a good way

2.5 not my thing

I like him but this is an average album.

Okayish

kinda boring

🔵🔵🔵🔵/5

boring

4.5

1.32/5

Fantastic vocal and guitar

Bland

I didn't care about yhe vovals but the instrumental was quite nice

Ich hatte geringe Erwartungen, aber das war ganz cool!

Anfangs dachte ich, es war ein sehr albernes Album... Ich hatte doch recht.

Das war cool! Die Gitarre hat einen richtig crunchigen Sound – das erinnert mich an Dinosaur Jr.

Mehr Stil als Substanz.

Das war schlecht, aber nicht das Schlimmste...

Es gab wirklich zu viel 'I love you' in diesen Songs. Waren sie faul, oder wollten sie nur das schnelle Geld machen?

Das war ein tolles Album!

Ich will mit KI einen endlosen Gitarren-Track im „Cowgirl in the Sand“-Stil machen...

Fick dich, Autobahn.

2.5

Das war überraschend erfreulich. Ich mag Popmusik nicht, aber es gibt viele Elemente hier, die mir gefallen.

Das war toll!

Dieses Album ist eines meiner Lieblingsalben: tolle Songs und ein noch besseres Cover.

3.5!

meh

3.5

3.45

Meh

Das überrascht mich! Tolle Kombination aus Albumcover und Musik. 4.5/5

Nice album name

2.5

4.75

4.5 Terrible cover! Great album!

No hearts were broken.

Fun!

Looooong meh

4.5?

Some songs suck, others are very funny and offensive — a combination that pleases me to no end. 4.5* + bonus half-star for how pissed people are with this.

3.5 Surprisingly good :)

meh

Surprisingly cool!

Nice and dirty!

3.65

There is no better way to bias my perspective towards a single star review than naming your album "Your New Favourite Band". Fortunately, I was proven wrong by the second song and must admit that songs like "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" are exactly my kind of shit.

Strange but nice

🎸

2.5

3.5, kinda fun

3.5 Nice guitar sound

Very interesting album!

2.5

Meh 1.5

1.6 Noisy

Some songs were ok but holy shit this "American Pie" is TERRIBLE.

Meh

I'm not a big fan but it is such a foundational album...

Not bad! 3.7

3.85

My least favorite King Crimson album out of their most celebrated ones.

2.5

1.8 Meh

Way cooler than the album cover suggests!

This was super fun

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