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Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music Has The Right To Children | 5 | 2.91 | +2.09 |
| Shaka Zulu | 5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
| Solid Air | 5 | 3.16 | +1.84 |
| Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
| Melody A.M. | 5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
| Sunday At The Village Vanguard | 5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
| Brilliant Corners | 5 | 3.33 | +1.67 |
| You Want It Darker | 5 | 3.34 | +1.66 |
| The World is a Ghetto | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
| Urban Hymns | 5 | 3.35 | +1.65 |
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Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood On The Tracks | 1 | 3.67 | -2.67 |
| Bringing It All Back Home | 1 | 3.65 | -2.65 |
| Blonde On Blonde | 1 | 3.5 | -2.5 |
| Come Away With Me | 1 | 3.39 | -2.39 |
| System Of A Down | 1 | 3.26 | -2.26 |
| Being There | 1 | 3.22 | -2.22 |
| Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) | 1 | 3.15 | -2.15 |
| Reign In Blood | 1 | 2.96 | -1.96 |
| Ctrl | 1 | 2.91 | -1.91 |
| Kala | 1 | 2.91 | -1.91 |
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Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 4 | 5 | 4.14 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| The Rolling Stones | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| David Bowie | 7 | 4 | 3.7 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and low weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 1 | 1.86 |
| Björk | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
5-Star Albums (45)
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Radiohead
3/5
Enjoyed this, but can't explicitly say why. None of the songs particularly stuck out, but as a whole a pleasant listen.
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1-Star Albums (25)
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King Crimson
4/5
Great album to start with. Something I would never have chosen to listen to and I really enjoyed it. Great to get away from the same old.
Louis Prima
4/5
Breathlessly joyful
The Doors
3/5
Definitely a classic, but sounding dated to me now.
Common
4/5
My kind of rap. A decent groove underpinning the record.
Pink Floyd
5/5
One of the great albums.
Tears For Fears
2/5
A couple of catchy enough songs, but otherwise cheesy 80s fluff.
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Baaba Maal
2/5
Haven’t listened to this before. Won’t listen to it again. But glad I did this time. Just not for me.
The Stone Roses
3/5
Just didn’t hit like it used to.
The Temptations
4/5
Loved it.
Simply Red
2/5
If only the could’ve held back the years. They’ve not been kind to this record.
Super Furry Animals
2/5
Meh
Paul Simon
3/5
Catchy folky pop. Not unpleasant.
5/5
Fantastic record. Childhood soundtrack and sounds so good still.
Brian Eno
4/5
I find ambient music endlessly fascinating, and this is so far head of its time. Works well as wallpaper music, but I recommend putting on a decent pair of cans and giving it a proper audition.
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Better than Axis
Mj Cole
1/5
Minutemen
4/5
A great listen. It’s pretty samey at times but it really drew me in.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
I’m developing a worrying interest in prog rock. This is quite something, and you probably had to be there, but I actually kinda liked it.
Deep Purple
3/5
Harry Nilsson
3/5
Some good tunes here. Nice album.
Pretenders
4/5
Didn't feel particularly excited by this one popping up, but I didn't realise Pretenders were this good. Space Invader my fave.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3/5
Pleasant folky harmonies
The Kinks
3/5
Cookie cutter 60s stuff, but an enjoyable listen nevertheless.
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Will be coming back to this one
2/5
Not completely awful
Morrissey
2/5
Insipid
David Bowie
4/5
Are we sure he was clean when he wrote this?
John Prine
3/5
Oh goody, I thought. Twangy banal country BS to wade through. And (to be fair) a lot of the music is just that. But it made me realise that country music really allows the vocals prominence, and a lot of these ones are worth a listen. A few really bleak lines in there.
Amy Winehouse
3/5
The Notorious B.I.G.
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
2/5
The Temptations
3/5
The Offspring
2/5
Nope
Nirvana
3/5
I hoped / expected more. Bit disappointed.
Tom Waits
3/5
Distinctive. A bit repetitive. But also quite enjoyable.
Booker T. & The MG's
4/5
3/5
The Slits
2/5
Public Enemy
3/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
Carole King
3/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4/5
Arrested Development
4/5
Doves
3/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
4/5
Really enjoyed this.
Neneh Cherry
2/5
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Wasn’t expecting this to be good. But it is.
Solomon Burke
3/5
Solid soul album. There’s better stuff out there though.
Wu-Tang Clan
3/5
CREAM is almost 5 stars on its own. But the rest of this is pretty average.
The Mamas & The Papas
4/5
The Fall
2/5
High hopes after first track. Dashed.
Supertramp
3/5
Radiohead
3/5
Enjoyed this, but can't explicitly say why. None of the songs particularly stuck out, but as a whole a pleasant listen.
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Portishead
5/5
Nanci Griffith
3/5
I liked this. And I don't like country.
Neil Young
3/5
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Deliciously 80s
The Last Shadow Puppets
2/5
Utterly forgettable
The Residents
1/5
35 minutes of my life I will never get back
Metallica
5/5
Radiohead
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Spiritualized
4/5
An extra point for being interesting
Pixies
2/5
Bon Jovi
4/5
Sade
3/5
Everything But The Girl
1/5
Execrable
The Stooges
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Not sure why this sticks out from all the other "a guy with an acoustic guitar" albums I've heard in my life, but it does. Lovely piece of music.
The Bees
3/5
Some nice stuff on here
Ministry
2/5
I expected worse
The 13th Floor Elevators
3/5
Unrefined psychedelic weirdness, but a perfectly pleasant listen.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2/5
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
5/5
3/5
I’m never going to listen to this again. But I didn’t hate it and it was easier to get through than I expected.
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Judas Priest
4/5
Kanye West
3/5
Do you like fish sticks?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
1/5
I had no idea Dylan has such an awful voice. Not being familiar with his work I was quite looking forward to this, but it’s almost unlistenable.
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Unexpected gem
Country Joe & The Fish
2/5
Gorillaz
4/5
Steve Earle
2/5
Elliott Smith
3/5
Soft Machine
4/5
Probably a 3️⃣ ⭐️ for an interesting listen, but Out-Bloody-Rageous is good enough to bump this up a point.
Rod Stewart
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The Band
3/5
Thelonious Monk
5/5
Superb
5/5
Al Green
4/5
The Fall
2/5
Why do the shit albums always seem to be the longest ones?
Jean-Michel Jarre
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Elis Regina
3/5
The Byrds
4/5
Mike Ladd
4/5
Ray Charles
5/5
Genius is the word
Pere Ubu
1/5
Norah Jones
1/5
Bland non-music
The Who
4/5
Beatles
5/5
Big Black
2/5
JAY Z
3/5
The Avalanches
4/5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Air
5/5
The Police
3/5
Michael Jackson
5/5
Joe Ely
3/5
PJ Harvey
3/5
Some of this sounded great. But the mixing was bizarre, as if trying to deliberately hide the vocals.
Pearl Jam
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3/5
I don't even think this is possible to rate. I didn't really enjoy listening to it, but it isn't a 1 or 2 star. It's not a 4 or 5 either because I doubt I'll ever listen to it again. A 3 feels so vanilla, but here we are.
For once though, I really did need to hear this album.
The War On Drugs
3/5
The more ambient sounding stuff good. The Dylan-esque tracks shite.
Moby Grape
4/5
This is really good. Gutted it's not on Apple Music, otherwise I'd be coming back regularly.
Deee-Lite
3/5
Had to listen via YouTube as not available on Apple Music in the UK. Hard work with all the adverts.
Tom Tom Club
4/5
Enjoyed this. Must’ve sounded so fresh in 1981.
Keith Jarrett
5/5
An absolute masterpiece. Stunning.
The Jam
4/5
David Bowie
3/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
Wish they hadn’t invented this one
James Taylor
2/5
Classic douchebag + guitar music
Morrissey
3/5
Jethro Tull
3/5
Gary Numan
4/5
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4/5
Eagles
2/5
Except for the title track (excellent), it’s a middle of the road snore-fest that drags and drags and drags. Felt like hours long.
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Antony and the Johnsons
2/5
Incredibly irritating vibrato. Won’t be listening to this one again.
The Doors
4/5
Throbbing Gristle
3/5
I was dreading this from the reviews, but it was a fascinating listen. Probably won’t be back any time soon, but definitely going to give some other TG a try.
Miles Davis
5/5
1959 was an amazing year for jazz albums, and Kind of Blue is the best of them all.
Pink Floyd
5/5
The Blue Nile
2/5
Justice
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Bit disappointed by this. Some great tunes, mixed in with some real cheese.
Steely Dan
4/5
This was fun
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Delightfully batshit. Cities is a great tune.
Bob Dylan
1/5
This could be the most incredible instrumental music (it isn’t) and it would still be 1 star thanks to Dylan’s utterly execrable voice and singing.
Crowded House
2/5
Napalm Death
1/5
Comically bad. Felt like some sort of parody, tempted to give it another star for making me laugh.
I’m about 150 albums in and have now had 4 of the 5 lowest rated ones. Good to get the crap out the way early.
Beatles
5/5
Sublime
Kanye West
3/5
The Modern Lovers
2/5
Crap
Depeche Mode
3/5
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Kanye West
1/5
I’m struggling to put in words quite how shit this album is
Tom Waits
2/5
Simple Minds
4/5
Yes
3/5
Charles Mingus
4/5
Fiona Apple
2/5
Started off interesting. Rapidly became tedious.
CHIC
4/5
Björk
3/5
Ice Cube
4/5
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
Queen
4/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5
Small Faces
4/5
George Harrison
4/5
Beatles
5/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
3/5
Girls Against Boys
2/5
A bit dull, really
Bob Dylan
1/5
Not as bad as the other Dylan albums I’ve had so far. Still bloody awful.
The Black Crowes
4/5
The Cult
3/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Queen
4/5
Wilco
1/5
The The
3/5
The Youngbloods
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Joni Mitchell
2/5
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Ravi Shankar
4/5
2Pac
4/5
The Adverts
4/5
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Tedious
Johnny Cash
4/5
Adam & The Ants
3/5
Soundgarden
3/5
Television
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Van Halen
4/5
James Brown
4/5
Dwight Yoakam
2/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Emmylou Harris
2/5
A bit meh
R.E.M.
3/5
Ian Dury
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Stephen Stills
3/5
Dire Straits
3/5
Sounding so dated
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
The Crusaders
3/5
John Martyn
5/5
Every now and again this list turns up an album by an artist I’ve never heard of, in a genre I don’t particularly like, that is a genuinely fantastic listen. This is one such time.
Nirvana
4/5
Rush
4/5
Eurythmics
4/5
The Killers
3/5
Ozomatli
4/5
A bit hit and miss, but the good stuff is excellent
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Excellent
Garbage
4/5
The Verve
5/5
LCD Soundsystem
4/5
The Undertones
3/5
Pixies
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Queen
4/5
Youssou N'Dour
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
The Electric Prunes
3/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Beck
4/5
3/5
FKA twigs
2/5
Interesting at times, but not enough to ever listen to this again.
Taylor Swift
3/5
Never listened to this album before but turned out I knew most of the songs already. It's pop for pre-teens so not really my thing, but a pleasant enough listen anyway.
The Police
3/5
Peter Tosh
4/5
Todd Rundgren
2/5
Elton John
4/5
Elliott Smith
2/5
Love
2/5
A Tribe Called Quest
5/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
Haircut 100
3/5
Enjoyably cheesy
Megadeth
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
The Divine Comedy
2/5
Drive Like Jehu
2/5
2/5
Janelle Monáe
3/5
Enjoyed this. Interesting departure from the norm.
Black Sabbath
4/5
Dion
2/5
Massive Attack
4/5
Adele
3/5
Sex Pistols
4/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Terence Trent D'Arby
2/5
The Zombies
3/5
Supergrass
4/5
Mariah Carey
1/5
Utterly awful. Not a single redeeming feature.
Portishead
3/5
Frank Sinatra
5/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Soft Cell
3/5
The Waterboys
3/5
Metallica
4/5
Talvin Singh
4/5
Genesis
4/5
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
She has a wonderful voice, and this album clearly deserves to be on the list, but this just doesn't do it for me.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Fugees
4/5
The Prodigy
4/5
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart
3/5
ABBA
3/5
Cheesy, but still fun. Great album cover too.
Jack White
3/5
Yawn
Paul Simon
4/5
Prince
2/5
People like this?
Merle Haggard
3/5
The Smiths
2/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
Adele
3/5
Nice voice, but pretty tedious music
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
Bob Dylan
1/5
Q: What's the one thing worse than a Dylan album?
A: A *double* Dylan album.
That voice. I think I've got PTSD.
Holger Czukay
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Neil Young
3/5
Stephen Stills
4/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Really enjoyed this. I don't really know why.
Sebadoh
1/5
The Sonics
3/5
The Clash
3/5
Method Man
3/5
Sheryl Crow
2/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
Love
3/5
Fugazi
2/5
Elvis Costello
4/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
Rather pleasant
The Monkees
2/5
Wild Beasts
3/5
Dr. Dre
4/5
The Divine Comedy
3/5
Kid Rock
2/5
Buena Vista Social Club
5/5
Wire
4/5
Lauryn Hill
3/5
Meat Loaf
4/5
Cheesy and over the top, but rather fun nevertheless
Aphex Twin
5/5
Justin Timberlake
2/5
Some OK tunes. A LOT of crap.
Beach House
2/5
Tedious non-music
Prince
3/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
Ride
3/5
Pentangle
4/5
Jerry Lee Lewis
4/5
Energetic!
Cream
4/5
System Of A Down
1/5
Utter crap
MGMT
3/5
AVRG
De La Soul
4/5
Jane Weaver
3/5
John Grant
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Pixies
3/5
Sister Sledge
5/5
Manic Street Preachers
3/5
Cyndi Lauper
3/5
Björk
1/5
Horrendous
George Jones
3/5
The Beach Boys
2/5
AC/DC
4/5
Traffic
3/5
3/5
I definitely did need to hear this. First track is particularly hard work, but stick with it.
Ananda Shankar
3/5
Bill Evans Trio
5/5
Emmylou Harris
3/5
Gene Clark
2/5
Marvin Gaye
5/5
The Soft Boys
3/5
Mekons
2/5
Giant Sand
3/5
Bit of a chore. Definitely a snore.
The Who
2/5
Expected so much more. Pinball Wizard an island in this sea of mediocrity.
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
4/5
Goldfrapp
3/5
Pleasant wallpaper music
Dinosaur Jr.
3/5
Abdullah Ibrahim
4/5
The Band
3/5
Fever Ray
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
The Clash
4/5
Ute Lemper
3/5
Public Enemy
4/5
The Stranglers
4/5
The Smiths
3/5
I hate Morrisey’s voice. Music is ok though.
White Denim
3/5
Aerosmith
4/5
DJ Shadow
5/5
The Triffids
1/5
Utter dreck. I hate that this is now in my streaming history.
Björk
2/5
Some pleasant minimal electronica absolutely ruined by Björk's vocals
Dire Straits
5/5
So much better than expected.
LL Cool J
3/5
Lambchop
2/5
"meh"
Snoop Dogg
4/5
The Pogues
2/5
Would be great fun live. This, not so much.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4/5
Fishbone
3/5
Arcade Fire
2/5
Hey Siri, play some insipid anonymity.
Linkin Park
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Miles Davis
5/5
D'Angelo
2/5
Richard Hawley
3/5
Dexys Midnight Runners
4/5
Eminem
4/5
The Doors
3/5
B.B. King
5/5
Teenage Fanclub
3/5
Blur
4/5
4/5
George Michael
4/5
Sonic Youth
2/5
New Order
2/5
The vocals just kill it
John Lennon
4/5
Screaming Trees
4/5
Moby
4/5
The Auteurs
3/5
The Who
2/5
Traffic
3/5
Everything But The Girl
3/5
Ash
3/5
Shack
3/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Boards of Canada
5/5
Green Day
3/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Slayer
1/5
Minor Threat
2/5
Slade
3/5
Beyoncé
1/5
I have no words for how utterly awful this is.
Public Enemy
4/5
The Cardigans
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Animal Collective
1/5
Queens of the Stone Age
2/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
Alice Cooper
4/5
The Specials
3/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Grateful Dead
2/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Carpenters
2/5
Cheesy, but pleasant enough for a single listen.
The Flaming Lips
2/5
Clearly I was too hasty in assuming my inability to sing would preclude me from having a career in music.
Cat Stevens
3/5
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3/5
The Pogues
2/5
The Shamen
4/5
SZA
1/5
David Ackles
3/5
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
3/5
Scissor Sisters
4/5
Hanoi Rocks
2/5
Common
3/5
Soul II Soul
4/5
Sepultura
1/5
Itsári is a wonderful track. Struggled to get through the rest.
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Röyksopp
5/5
Def Leppard
4/5
fIREHOSE
3/5
Billie Holiday
4/5
Stevie Wonder
5/5
Digital Underground
2/5
Klaxons
3/5
The Magnetic Fields
2/5
All filler no killer
Tim Buckley
3/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
The Byrds
2/5
Venom
1/5
Do they have any idea how cringe this is? “Oooh, Satan, we’re so edgy”.
Turbonegro
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
M.I.A.
1/5
460 albums in. Easily the worst so far. 0 stars.
Elbow
4/5
Marianne Faithfull
4/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3/5
The Young Gods
2/5
Interesting, but never again
Bruce Springsteen
2/5
Peter Gabriel
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
5/5
Come back on, ELO, and carry on playing!
Aimee Mann
2/5
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Badly Drawn Boy
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Syd Barrett
1/5
Incoherent rambling
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Maxwell
2/5
I think I got an STD listening to this
The Style Council
3/5