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Album	You	Global	Diff
L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods	5	2.32	+2.68
Midnight Ride Paul Revere & The Raiders	5	3	+2
Treasure Cocteau Twins	5	3.07	+1.93
Autobahn Kraftwerk	5	3.09	+1.91
Queen Of Denmark John Grant	5	3.13	+1.87
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.15	+1.85
Lost Souls Doves	5	3.16	+1.84
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
Dance Mania Tito Puente	5	3.27	+1.73
Kenya Machito	5	3.27	+1.73

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Boston Boston	1	3.71	-2.71
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.47	-2.47
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.46	-2.46
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	1	3.39	-2.39
Smash The Offspring	1	3.38	-2.38
Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple	1	3.33	-2.33
Fragile Yes	1	3.32	-2.32
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi	1	3.29	-2.29
Countdown To Ecstasy Steely Dan	1	3.28	-2.28
Hysteria Def Leppard	1	3.21	-2.21

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	4.75
R.E.M.	3	4.67
Beck	2	5
Nick Drake	2	5
Beatles	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Steely Dan	3	1.33

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Barry Adamson	4, 1

5-Star Albums (47)

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Popular Reviews

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

5/5

Quick kicks, all hits. A classic.

1 likes

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Not a big fan of ccr but this album was not as horrible of a listen as I expected. Graveyard Train didn’t need to be 8 minutes but stoned hippies gotta bliss out I guess.

1 likes

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

1/5

Wankers

1 likes

1-Star Albums (22)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

4/5

Infectious.

The Stone Roses

5/5

A perfect album. Timeless. Epic. Just perfect.

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Reviews here seem to be a binary choice: sycophantic love or vitriolic hate. Full disclosure I'm an ardent fan, and find the dynamic remarkable with both sides of the argument equally annoying. Oh but the album? I can’t be objective, and it was released when I was at the impressionable age of 15, so it was voluntarily played to death. That said, the songs endure for me, and Exit is still the underrated rager on this, but it’s not their best nor my favorite.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Their second best to me, the Bends is my fave. And while their next few albums were quite good this one marks the last time writing a song was primary over the knob twiddling madness they flamed out in eventually.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

5/5

Gorgeous.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

4/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

1/5

Like being stuck in a dressing room at a tragically hip clothing store at the mall in the early 2000s. Pass.

Scott 4

Scott Walker

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

4/5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

So many delightful sonic New York references, as much as James’ voice has never appealed to me all that much the sonic scapes that he creates are undeniably catchy and cool. This is a solid album that’s held up well.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

Lead off song hits like a 70s cop show sound track, but drags long a bit long. “Reelin” is quite the downer heard through my 50-something ears. But those 2 singles from this are burned in my brain from radio overplay in my youth, and honestly didn’t remember that those songs were Steely Dan. Not memorable then, not memorable now. Pretty boring boring hippy dippy stuff to my ear.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

College radio . Pub rock. More Celtic than country really. A poor man’s Pogues? Not much here to come back to.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

4/5

The Smiths are not for everyone, but they were/are for me. For added bittersweetness, this was a very fine swan song that holds up well over the decades.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

NO BIG HAIR!

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Long time fan first time listener to a whole Hendrix album (how embarrassing for me to admit). Soaring and amazing brilliance interspersed with … flute solos. Oy. Points off for that. Hendrix is still god. Props to that rhythm section too.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

1/5

This is pretty goofball.

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Heavy rotation when this came out, such a beautiful soundtrack. Timeless music performed by timeless souls. Sweet nostalgia for our newlywed days of 1997.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Hotel California

Eagles

2/5

Oh god do I have to? There is a precipitous drop off in energy and interest after the 3rd track. Those 3, all the singles, are not representative of the remaining 6 (actually 5 since one is a “Reprise” of another track ). Really expected more from a best selling album of its time. Wasted time indeed.

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

I’ve time traveled to a party I missed out on. Because I never would have listened to this based on the album cover(s). But this was a surprisingly fun party. I thought it would be like Motley Crue but it is thankfully not that. Oh it’s rock-a-billy!

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Cinematic. I don’t listen to the genre much, this was intensely dramatic, almost stressful. Then porny. Then sadly prescient. “Sometimes I hear death knockin at my front door”. While I get how massive this album was for the genre, it’s not for me.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Ironically square cover photo always makes me smile. Superb opener, all time classic. Hoped there were more sleeper gems on this but while the singles are the high points, the rest of it holds up … ok.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

It’s difficult for me to separate this band and this album from all the boneheaded punters at their shows back in that day, along with the sheer ubiquity of this music for a good 3-4 years solid. Enough already! Setting all that aside, the album is brilliant, hardly any filler and sing-song catchy as hell. Play it loud.

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

No notes. Rush being Rush.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

1/5

Nope.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

4/5

This is adorable. Never heard any of these songs before. They are so twee compared to the later hits.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

5/5

The is a beautiful collection and rendition of classics. Willie’s the best.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

3/5

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Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Stellar vibes. Ginger was nuts, but so, so great and Fela is no slouch either!

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

This got a little overplayed in our house years ago and we just had to step away for a while. I think I still like it! Great chill vibe, sonic ear candy, and the tunes are solid from start to finish.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

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In Our Heads

Hot Chip

4/5

I missed a lot from the mid aughts to the mid teens, being distracted by parenting. This appears to have been a casualty. Strong opening groove, super fun vibe all the way through. Too bad the kids would have liked this back then for dancey-dance time!

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

This album is entirely awesome and entirely too long. Still funky enough for a 4 tho.

Urban Hymns

The Verve

5/5

While the title track is overplayed on so many platforms and is seemingly inescapable in my algorithms, this album is packed with gems from start to finish. Great listening to the whole thing for the first time in ages.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

1/5

Couldn’t get past 3 or 4 songs. Garbage.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

3/5

Huh?

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

4/5

At first listen I thought “how did I miss this movie? The soundtrack is great!” Checks notes, ah ok that explains it. Seriously though I would see this movie just for the soundtrack, really fun and inventive calling card for this composer.

Guero

Beck

5/5

Another release I should have been all over when it came out, but was checked out musically. This is badass.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

2/5

What plaintive drudgery.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

1/5

I’m still counting.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

Green

R.E.M.

5/5

Among their best. So many standout tracks.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Parts of this are great, but it’s weighed down by the other wandering noodly parts that are sleep inducing.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Sure it’s Frank, but it’s not all that memorable.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Mellow, nice if you’re one the mood for quiet core.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Zombie

Fela Kuti

4/5

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

4/5

Brilliant and fun

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

2/5

This started out inventively interesting but got really hard to listen to. Not too catchy but that seems like the point.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Just as depressing as I thought I remembered. It’s great songwriting but unfortunately tainted with memories of a time when too many were taken by fucking heroin and too many more flirted with disaster. Great, but hard to hear again after so long.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

2/5

All the bar band noise in the comfort of my own home. Nah thanks. Jaysus this was a tough out.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

Stands the test of time in spirit and message.

Bert Jansch

4/5

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

2/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

5/5

Quick kicks, all hits. A classic.

Risque

CHIC

3/5

This one is not their best. A dramatic drop off after Good Times, but points for including tap dancing.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

5/5

Damn funky and bonus points for the mallets! This band is always so much fun. Love it.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Pretty wild, maybe not THE wildest. Solid tho.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

The ubiquity of the singles way back when put me off of the rest of this so I’ve never heard the deep cuts and it turns out they’re actually pretty good. Surprised.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

5/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

2/5

Nixon

Lambchop

2/5

This was pleasant but somewhat unmemorable.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Ear candy for the headphones. Nostalgic.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

4/5

Don’t know what I expected but it was much better than expected. Some deep cut gems in here that caught me on a day and got their hooks 🪝 n me.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Kinda sleepy

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Blur

3/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

4/5

This album was so much fun when it came out and it still is. Rock n roll ear candy.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Nice night at the pub.

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

4/5

This thing is still so weird and singular.

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

2/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Supergrass is always solid.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Couple good tracks but kinda boring.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

5/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

A long time ago I used to vibe off this band but I think I’m getting too old.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

A little too much Ren Faire for a Tuesday night.

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

The Cars

5/5

Metallica

4/5

Solid.

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

Fine but no I did not listen to all 69 ffs.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

I must be getting old, never had the patience for this in my younger days. But today it made me feel all right.

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

4/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

I forgot how good this is. So, so good.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

4/5

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

3/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

1/5

As my mom would say “this music has no redeeming values ” Or my friend Ray, “this some butt rock” Or my friend Chrisbee “Yecccchhhh 🤢” Straight trash.

Smash

The Offspring

1/5

garbage then, garbage now

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

The United States Of America

3/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

Junkyard

The Birthday Party

3/5

3.5

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

I remember waiting and waiting for this album to come out, hoping that the trajectory from their first two brilliant albums would continue. Alas it took them 3-4 years to over produce this disappointment, from which they never recovered.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

IMOH, their best. The sophomore effort that sounds like a raw debut. Perfection.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

3/5

Odelay

Beck

5/5

So many gems. Outstanding.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Slept on this for years. Better late than never. Beautiful and brilliant.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

4/5

This one surprised me with some really interesting moody vibes I wasn't expecting. Of course I've known about Big Star. Just remembered I saw Alex Chilton open for Robyn Hitchcock in 1992. Didn't really get it at the time but maybe with age I'm starting to understand.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Sam Cooke. Period.

Boston

1/5

I know this was big back when I was 8. I thought it was hot garbage then and I still do now.

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

5/5

Party!

Mermaid Avenue

Billy Bragg

4/5

Ramones

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

This is still epic.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

Giving this 4 for the very strong singles, really 3 or 3.5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

2/5

2.5 fine for what it is but a bit boring.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

3/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

3/5

I’ve never been on the right drugs to get through one of the Prodigy’s tracks, much less an entire album.

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Dig this vibe for Frank.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

3/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Kenya

Machito

5/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

5/5

Epic

Iron Maiden

2/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

strong nostalgia trip here. kinda surprised my kid liked it too, so there's some staying power here.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

3.5 but it's Curtis

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

5/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

4/5

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Not a big fan of ccr but this album was not as horrible of a listen as I expected. Graveyard Train didn’t need to be 8 minutes but stoned hippies gotta bliss out I guess.

Le Tigre

4/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Gorillaz

4/5

Casanova

The Divine Comedy

1/5

This was not my jam because it’s dumb.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

3/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Goofy AF 70s badass cop show soundtracks FTW! Loved it.

Smokers Delight

Nightmares On Wax

3/5

Had its moments but largely forgettable.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

Nah. Still.

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

Zzzz

Chris

Christine and the Queens

1/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

3/5

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

4/5

This has aged well, I remember liking it well enough when it came out and it’s still as inventive and fun, maybe even more fun now.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

3/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

4/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

1/5

hard pass

Oar

Alexander 'Skip' Spence

1/5

Very long snooze fest

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

1/5

Wankers

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

straight trash

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

5/5

Fantastic fun.

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

I’m here to confess I’ve a soft spot for Lorde. Epic pop goodness.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

When we were wee lads in school, late 80s, we had a band and took the thinnest of ideas, played them atonally, interminably, just a bit of funkiness we white boys could muster and we thought it was the most interesting music. WTF gave us that idea?

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

2.5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

5/5

Heavy.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

3/5

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Eno

4/5

heard about/of this for years, but didn't know what to expect. even so, it was better.

Paul Simon

4/5

nostalgic delight

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Gee I've been in the yard listening to Ella for a long time today. Is it repeating? No? Oh I'm only on disc 4 of 6!? Might as well hear the whole thing, we've come this far. .

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

2/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

3/5

Chore indeed.

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Wild Gift

3/5

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Listened to this as a kid when it came out, trying to force myself to be a Springsteen fan, because Rolling Stone said so. It never took, haven't heard this in 40 years. My ears are different now. What I once thought was a big rock and roll party is now pretty heavy and dark AF. Still not my cup of tea, but it's much better and more poignant than I remember and of course more likely I understand the darkness that he's going on about all too well now.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

1/5

dreck

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

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