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5-Star Albums
14
1-Star Albums
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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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New Forms
Roni Size
|
5 | 2.52 | +2.48 |
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Live At The Witch Trials
The Fall
|
5 | 2.64 | +2.36 |
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A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
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5 | 2.65 | +2.35 |
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Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
|
5 | 2.87 | +2.13 |
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White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
|
5 | 2.89 | +2.11 |
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Eternally Yours
The Saints
|
5 | 3.06 | +1.94 |
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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)
Bob Dylan
|
5 | 3.14 | +1.86 |
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Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
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5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
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The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
|
5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
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Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
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5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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Hotel California
Eagles
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1 | 3.59 | -2.59 |
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1984
Van Halen
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1 | 3.49 | -2.49 |
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Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG's
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1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
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Celebrity Skin
Hole
|
1 | 3.3 | -2.3 |
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Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Jerry Lee Lewis
|
1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
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Bongo Rock
Incredible Bongo Band
|
1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
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Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
|
1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
|
1 | 3.06 | -2.06 |
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Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson
|
1 | 3 | -2 |
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Rapture
Anita Baker
|
1 | 2.94 | -1.94 |
Artists
Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 6 | 4.83 |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 5 |
| Johnny Cash | 3 | 4.67 |
| The Band | 2 | 5 |
| Massive Attack | 2 | 5 |
| David Bowie | 6 | 4 |
| The Kinks | 3 | 4.33 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | 3 | 4.33 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 4.33 |
5-Star Albums (50)
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David Bowie · 3 likes
5/5
Yes, drugs are bad. But on the other hand; Station to Station by David Bowie.
1-Star Albums (14)
All Ratings
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Heavy metal is not my thing usually, but I liked the raw production and punk influence in parts. Even some of the more Proggy sounds weren’t too sickening. Enjoyed it on the whole, especially all the singing about running, nice to hear of such a healthy bunch of lads.
Beastie Boys
4/5
Really loved revisiting this. There’s a great, eclectic mix of funky hip hop, raucous punk and really evocative lyricism and vocal delivery. As an album we’re getting our moneys worth for sure.
James Brown
3/5
The highlight on this album is the orchestra /band, they sound sharp and I bet this gig was amazing. It’s also charming to hear Brown before his funk period, there’s almost an innocence to the record in hindsight.
Michael Jackson
3/5
There’s 10 songs on this album and 5 are about dancing, 4 about girls and one about work.
Still, good album. Before the… unpleasantness…
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Ramones
5/5
Right, not much to say about this album apart from the fact it laid down the blueprint of punk as it is still recognised today.
Still sounds fresh, still punches, superb.
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Deep Purple
3/5
Lots of noodling guitars and blues-y riffs. Not bad, certainly better than Smoke on the Water suggests.
a-ha
2/5
Sounds exactly like a pastiche of the genre and time it was released. I tried to get in to it but it sounds like Flight of the Conchords ripping 80s European electronic pop, though not funny.
PJ Harvey
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Still bangs, sounds fresh and his ear for a sample is near unparalleled
Spiritualized
5/5
Paul Simon
4/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
The Beta Band
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
So sleepy now
Goldie
4/5
So sleepy now
Marvin Gaye
3/5
In its historical, socio-political context I understand how this was an important record, but it doesn’t really seem to deviate from a single musical motif the entire album.
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
Sounds exactly as you’d expect.
David Bowie
4/5
Bon Jovi
3/5
Happy Mondays
3/5
Herbie Hancock
3/5
Fun Lovin' Criminals
3/5
A real sense of place and time with this one; funky psych guitairs, vinyl scratching, gravel voiced rapping; all very evocative of NYC in the late 80s/90s. A surprising diversity of approach and songwriting. Not all of it lands but still holds up well.
Erykah Badu
2/5
Thundercat
3/5
Funnier than I was expecting, real wit in the songwriting.
Kendrick Lamar
4/5
A rap album.
The Incredible String Band
3/5
Devendra Banhart
3/5
Kanye West
4/5
George Michael
2/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
2/5
It’s a shoegaze album. But a critically acclaimed shoegaze album. Make of that what you will.
David Bowie
5/5
Yes, drugs are bad. But on the other hand; Station to Station by David Bowie.
Bad Brains
3/5
The Stone Roses
5/5
It’s one of the greatest albums of all time, if not the greatest.
Bob Dylan
5/5
Eurythmics
2/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Darker and more stripped back than some of his other offerings, but great guitar led, introspective, thoughtful folk
Guided By Voices
4/5
Pleasantly surprised by this record. Great lo-fi indie reminiscent of British indie in its unpolished era, with hints of Neutral Milk Hotel (before the… unpleasantness….). Was a bit put off initially by the sheer number of tracks but the album never drags. Definitely one to revisit.
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Pretenders
3/5
4/5
John Lee Hooker
2/5
Blues album that never really kicks out of second gear, some flashes of brilliance, before the… unpleasantness…
Might be a bit unfair because he was 76 when it was recorded, but there we are.
50 Cent
1/5
Nope.
Common
3/5
Tears For Fears
3/5
Parliament
4/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
5/5
The Kinks
5/5
All time classic.
Queen
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
3/5
Sounds like listening to City of God (before the… unpleasantness…) playing in the other room. Never quite hooks enough to make you sit down and watch the film, maybe because you saw it in Uni and think you remember the ending, but then BAM, they’re at the door with the pizza and you’re thinking I didn’t order pizza, what’s going on here. Then you realise it must have been an online order delivered to you in error, meaning they can’t take it back, so you basically have a free pizza. So you think maybe you’ll sit down and watch City of God after all. And do you know what? You quite enjoy it.
That’s what this album is like.
Scritti Politti
2/5
R.E.M.
4/5
After all the years I’ve listened to REM I’d never actually listened to this in its entirety. I will definitely be doing so again. Early enough to have that rawness to it it, but late enough to sound distinctly assured.
Steve Winwood
2/5
Nice voice and opens with an ok track, before the… unpleasantness…
Cheesy, radio-friendly soft rock/pop. Mad to think this guy was in Traffic.
Radiohead
4/5
Van Halen
1/5
This is unpleasant
Tom Waits
4/5
Bonkers, but wicked.
Aretha Franklin
5/5
Bill Callahan
3/5
Fugees
5/5
Hugh Masekela
3/5
Jazz
Milton Nascimento
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Everything But The Girl
4/5
Forgotten how rave-y this album was. So evocative of the 90s jungle scene in Bristol, as it matured into something beyond warehouses. Before the… unpleasantness…
Hard recommend and got 2 spins today, one immediately after the other.
Charles Mingus
3/5
Jazz
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Jazz
Black Sabbath
2/5
Mad to think that it sounded like this BEFORE the drugs. And… unpleasantness…
Still, clearly important if not particularly enlightening in this day and age.
Roxy Music
2/5
Mad to think that it sounded like this BEFORE the drugs. And… unpleasantness…
Still, clearly important if not particularly enlightening in this day and age.
The Band
5/5
Big Star
4/5
Kanye West
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
TV On The Radio
2/5
Sam Cooke
4/5
Always thought of Cooke as more of a crooner, but this set bangs at times. Great backing band, unmistakable charisma and a virtuoso performance. I’m a convert!
The Last Shadow Puppets
3/5
The Thrills
3/5
Eminem
5/5
The Louvin Brothers
2/5
Can
4/5
Nas
4/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Ms. Dynamite
3/5
OutKast
4/5
Keith Jarrett
5/5
Otis Redding
5/5
Throwing Muses
2/5
Sinead O'Connor
4/5
Jefferson Airplane
3/5
The Who
4/5
3/5
Jeff Buckley
3/5
Tom Waits
4/5
The Soft Boys
3/5
The Offspring
5/5
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Wilco
4/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
1/5
Just a load of repetitive noise from a piano-bashing nonce.
Holger Czukay
4/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Forgot how awesome this record is. Hits are hidden among soulful and sweet and sonically luscious tracks. Absolute solid gold.
Calexico
3/5
Hole
1/5
I understand why he blew his brains out now.
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
The Police
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
Yes
2/5
Radiohead
3/5
New Order
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
Eagles
3/5
Jack White
3/5
Brian Eno
3/5
CHIC
3/5
The Afghan Whigs
3/5
Massive Attack
5/5
The Who
3/5
The Avalanches
4/5
The Fall
5/5
Underworld
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Santana
3/5
The Beta Band
2/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
The Smiths
2/5
Pitiful self-pitying jangle fest from a racist. I know the 80s were bleak but there’s no excuse for this.
Boston
3/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Sister Sledge
2/5
Television
4/5
Justice
4/5
Fats Domino
5/5
David Bowie
4/5
Led Zeppelin
3/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
The Stranglers
3/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
The Mars Volta
3/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Booker T. & The MG's
1/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
Merle Haggard
4/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Mudhoney
3/5
The Saints
5/5
The Black Keys
2/5
Alanis Morissette
4/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Band
5/5
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
The Killers
4/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Tracy Chapman
5/5
John Lennon
3/5
Jimmy Smith
2/5
The Cramps
3/5
4/5
Janet Jackson
1/5
Beck
3/5
Thin Lizzy
4/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Depeche Mode
2/5
I was born in the decade this was made and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have liked this even then.
Saying that, it’s a very evocative record that I’m sure makes sense for the soundtrack of a period drama about the 80s.
Not for me, but I get why people dig it.
Kraftwerk
3/5
Foo Fighters
4/5
Pulp
5/5
Nightmares On Wax
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Belle & Sebastian
4/5
The Who
3/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Pearl Jam
3/5
Steely Dan
3/5
Gene Clark
3/5
4/5
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
Love
2/5
Carole King
5/5
Kraftwerk
3/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Crusaders
3/5
B.B. King
4/5
Eagles
1/5
Sparks
2/5
Supertramp
3/5
Soundgarden
3/5
Killing Joke
3/5
Queen
3/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Lightning Bolt
4/5
Radiohead
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Various Artists
4/5
Super Furry Animals
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Elton John
4/5
Roni Size
5/5
Steely Dan
5/5
Liz Phair
3/5
Skepta
4/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
Dolly Parton
4/5
Lambchop
4/5
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
The Byrds
4/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
The Black Crowes
2/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Jazmine Sullivan
1/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
5/5
King Crimson
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
The Temptations
3/5
New Order
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
The Go-Go's
3/5
The Birthday Party
2/5
Circle Jerks
3/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
Pantera
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Massive Attack
5/5
Bob Dylan
5/5
Louis Prima
4/5
Common
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
The Streets
5/5
Oasis
4/5
5/5
Joy Division
5/5
Manic Street Preachers
5/5
Koffi Olomide
2/5
The Sonics
5/5
Nine Inch Nails
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Portishead
5/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Nico
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
Napalm Death
3/5
The Flaming Lips
5/5
Patti Smith
4/5
Electric Light Orchestra
3/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
Grateful Dead
3/5
Slipknot
3/5
Lou Reed
4/5
Megadeth
2/5
The Vines
2/5
Janis Joplin
3/5
Eminem
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Metallica
3/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
UB40
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
John Coltrane
4/5
Anita Baker
1/5
The Smiths
2/5
Blondie
4/5
Radiohead
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Björk
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
The Strokes
4/5
Gene Clark
3/5
Nitin Sawhney
3/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Sugar
4/5
Tom Waits
4/5
Metallica
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
2Pac
2/5
Eric Clapton
2/5
Pixies
4/5
The Specials
4/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
The Clash
5/5
Adele
4/5
Ice T
2/5
The Monks
3/5
Scott Walker
1/5
The Verve
4/5
Funkadelic
2/5
This was funk music for over an hour. That’s too much funk for me…
Björk
2/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Pavement
4/5
Motörhead
3/5
The Police
3/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Moby Grape
3/5
The KLF
4/5
Norah Jones
3/5
John Prine
4/5
Death In Vegas
3/5
Caetano Veloso
1/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Slipknot
3/5
The Kinks
4/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Really thought this was the major mis-step in the Beatles’ anthology. Listened to it throughout and knew every word. It’s not watered down, it’s just sprawling.
Serge Gainsbourg
2/5
Aphex Twin
1/5
The Shamen
2/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Michael Jackson
3/5
Violent Femmes
4/5
Portishead
4/5
Rod Stewart
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
Slint
3/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
2/5
Afrika Bambaataa
2/5
Tortoise
2/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Isaac Hayes
2/5
k.d. lang
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Cocteau Twins
2/5
Incredible Bongo Band
1/5
Tim Buckley
1/5