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Album	You	Global	Diff
Broken English Marianne Faithfull	5	2.88	+2.12
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto	5	2.92	+2.08
Black Monk Time The Monks	5	2.94	+2.06
Oxygène Jean-Michel Jarre	5	3.08	+1.92
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	5	3.1	+1.9
Double Nickels On The Dime Minutemen	5	3.12	+1.88
Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen	5	3.16	+1.84
Frampton Comes Alive Peter Frampton	5	3.19	+1.81
The Renaissance Q-Tip	5	3.24	+1.76
Kenya Machito	5	3.27	+1.73

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.78	-1.78
The Cars The Cars	2	3.67	-1.67
Odelay Beck	2	3.46	-1.46
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.43	-1.43
Punishing Kiss Ute Lemper	1	2.4	-1.4
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Blue Lines Massive Attack	2	3.38	-1.38
Achtung Baby U2	2	3.31	-1.31
Eagles Eagles	2	3.3	-1.3
Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys	2	3.2	-1.2

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Artist	Albums	Average
Radiohead	4	4.75
The Rolling Stones	3	4.67

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Beck	5, 2

5-Star Albums (52)

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

Popular Reviews

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

5/5

Maybe I‘m boring, maybe I‘m nostalgic but this one is awesome! Never heard it before but it got the typical 2000s rock sound and is completely different to the KOL that became mainstream.

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Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

New to me. Great album with some nice guitar tunes and an amazing female singer. Saved 3 songs as favorite.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Great idea in general (doing a prison tour) and very entertaining concert in general with all the talking Johnny Cash does here.

S&M

Metallica

3/5

I‘ve never digged Metallica that much but I am aware of their top 5 songs and like them. This LP though wasn‘t what I expected. It‘s like a 2 hour and 13 minute long soundtrack paired with some vocals in between. I liked it but propably won‘t listen to it again anytime soon.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Very relaxing and creative guitar plays. Liked it very much

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Very good and nice soul music!

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

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

The Kinks

5/5

Amazing music and awesome album! Great journey.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

I‘m from germany so I am NOT familiar with their music, besides sweet home alabama. I’ve never even heard about free bird before (not that I‘d know about at least), but anyways - I liked this album and some of their songs. I did not read their Wiki before so I could listen to this without prejustices. My favorites are indeed free bird, mr. Banker and down south jukin‘

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

3/5

I see what‘s special here (thanks Wikipedia!) - he played all Instruments by himself and composed the songs which is always an interesting thing. The sound of this record is sometimes a bit boring to me (like the first track and actual hit of this lp) and some other times pretty cool! Reminds me of music by Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel etc. My favorite on this is Night Train

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

This really is a great album with hit songs and still a modern sound imo.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

I love the beatles and their discography so this was easy to listen to. I think it‘s a great one and their first step to a few more experimental sounds, 2 years before the release of Sgt. Pepper, and a more adult sound.

Mask

Bauhaus

4/5

I‘m not very much into goth music or the culture but it‘s interesting for sure to listen to one of the first albums of that genre. It‘s a diverse mixture of music and surprised me a lot after listening to the first 2-3 tracks. Overall I really liked it!

Talvin Singh

2/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

4/5

Very good production and music and mostly clever lyrics imo. It‘s only 30 minutes long, so I will definitely will give it another listen or two.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Spiderland

Slint

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

5/5

Great Album, great songs and you can definitely still hear her influence in modern songs nowadays. No matter if it‘s pop-rock or pop in general.

Tommy

The Who

5/5

You really need to pay attention while listening to this album and you will be gifted with a short and sweet story of Tommy. Well it‘s one of the most sold albums of all time, but still I‘ve never listened to it before. I loved this one and will surely listen some more times to it.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Adele

4/5

I remember that I was late listening to her 2nd LP as I thought it‘s just some generic pop music with a great voice but I quickly changed my opinion after I listened to the whole album. Anyway - I wasn‘t late for this one and l did listen to it right after it‘s release and now again of course. Everyone that loves great voices should listen to this album imo!

Joan Armatrading

3/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

4/5

Amazing music and early grunge style.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Really amazing music and album that cares to surprise!

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

5/5

Very relaxed and short album. Love her voice and this style of music!

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

Very experimental, but also very unique and outstanding, like her other work. I don’t hate it or love it but I like it very much. I really must be in the mood to listen to this whole album again, but this actually is the matter for me with every Björk album.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

I liked some songs and others were boring to me.

1999

Prince

3/5

Funky and modern tunes (back then and still today) but every song is a bit too long and repetitive for me.

Guero

Beck

5/5

This really was the first Beck Album I‘ve listened to and I loved how this was a whole mixture of genres. Classic Rock, Grunge, Rap, Electronic and so on. I‘ll definitely will listen to this some more times!

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

5/5

Nowadays this sounds like the soundtrack to some indie game. Back then it probably sounded like something else. I love how this music creates a mysterious vibe and can get you „out of space“. I‘m usually not too much into electronica but this one caught me.

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

It‘s great background music!

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

2/5

I remember listening to mostly the two hits of that album „Fit but You Know It“ and „Dry Your Eyes“ as a teenager and was excited to listen to the whole album again, but to be honest: Almost every other song didn‘t excite me very much. It‘s mostly a british dude talking over some badly aged beats. Maybe you need to be british to feel it.

Black Monk Time

The Monks

5/5

Wow this is from 1966! Sounds clearly ahead of it‘s time with punk and blues rock elements. I didn‘t know music like this existed back in the 60s and I guess besides a few exceptions it did not exist in the mainstream music.

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

This album and especially the hits were partially the soundtrack of some of my teenage years. I honestly like the whole album more than I did 18 years ago.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

5/5

I love his music, this idea and his comments in between.

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

I know there are and there have been many fans of Michael Jackson‘s music, but after listening to this album I once again know I‘m not.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

This sounds like a radio station with a mix of melancholic indie pop-rock, latin sounds and a breath of jazz.

Take Me Apart

Kelela

4/5

The album is all about relationships and how to handle them, without being too whiny about it in her lyrics. Amazing sound and also intelligent lyrics are being used by her. It also sounds like a great influence to future albums by different artists like Chloe x Hall.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

3/5

Kenya

Machito

5/5

I love this one! It starts relaxing, gets more stressful in between, and cools down till the end again.

Imagine

John Lennon

5/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

It started out pretty interesting with an instrumental followed by smooth tracks with vocals, but then it turned out to be little too mixed up with a random rap song. It just didn‘t fit in imo.

Dry

PJ Harvey

4/5

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

5 stars for the first song alone and maybe one of the best and longest guitar solo, especially with the background story of this song. The rest of the album is okay.

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

This once again shows, that I just don‘t like musicals.

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

5/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

5/5

How have I not ever listened to this before? It‘s an amazing record.

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

2/5

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

4/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

This was expected to be on the list and it was great to listen through this album again! They‘ve created a unique sound, while not being famous yes, let alone the amazing bass lines, that I need to give this one 5 stars. PS: I just got this one after the Paris Olympics 2024 ending show, with a short performance by the RHCP, because the Olympics 2028 will be in Los Angeles. When I‘m done with this project it will only be 1 year left - nice!

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

5/5

Didn‘t know his name, but some of his music. I love the hits on this one, the instrumental only parts and the live atmosphere captured in here.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

4/5

Common

4/5

Highly Evolved

The Vines

3/5

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Is This It

The Strokes

5/5

Amazing album! Not only does it remind me of my teenage years, it‘s also still great music today imo.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

3/5

Very relaxed music and great singing with political messages, but still nothing I‘d listen to often.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

4/5

This one is close to a 5 for me but it‘s just a bit too long for me and too many skits which was usual though during that time.

The Clash

5/5

Amazing record that still sounds fresh today! It sounds like the base for so many records that followed this one.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Since GTA San Andreas I knew I don’t hate country (thanks to K ROSE), but I‘m also not american and maybe that helps. This album was a great listen for me and I really like it. She has a great voice for this style of music and she’s still active today. Would listen again if I am in the mood for country.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Easy 5 star rating for me. While this album accompanied me in my youth (even though my youth started 12 years after this album‘s release) and brings many memories with it, I still like the sound now that I‘m in my thirties. It has mellow and harder songs while Kurt brings his vocals on line in a depressing matter. Besides that, it has one of the most famous cover images of all time.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

5/5

I‘ve listened to to this at the beach- can recommend.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

5/5

I really can‘t give away too many 5s but this deserves one for me. It‘s jazzy, punky but also avantgardy at the same time. What a great piece of work!

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

2/5

I liked the first song but that‘s about it. The rest can stay in the 90s.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

I liked some songs of this as a teenager but this whole thing didn‘t age well imo.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Stankonia

OutKast

5/5

Love this album! This really is/was the peak of hip hop. Of course there is Ms Jackson on this record but also many other great songs that might not be well known.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

I‘ve listened to this on my way to work while it was raining and while it was putting me in a sad mood in the beginning it lifted me up in the middle again. So rain was the perfect weather for this one and I went from disliking it to like it more and more. In the end it’s still Radiohead.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

5/5

I didn’t think this would develop into a 5 star album for me but it did! This is my first Cohen album on the list and can‘t wait to hear the other ones.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

After the first two songs I thought “Okay I most likely won’t like this one because it’s folk”, but it turned out to be pretty interesting overall with elements of punk, ska and other sounds.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

A few good songs but overall not an album I really like or felt entertained by.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

I can’t hate in Sinatra. Of course it’s old music and a genre in general that’s not really happening anymore in today’s mainstream music but that’s maybe also because Sinatra did his best (along some other artists) to play through this genre. This album is perfect for the fall and winter time to listen to it in a cozy place.

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

This is 70s pop feel good music! It doesn’t annoy me but it also doesn’t excite me too much. Close to you is a great and sweet song that has also been used in the newest Joker movie (not a movie recommendation)

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

5/5

I haven’t listen to this in a while but it’s still a great album if you like this kind of music. Stan is still one of the best and famous storytelling songs in rap imo. Eminem turned 52 just one day after I received this entry - nice coincidence!

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

3/5

I don’t hate pop music and there are many great pop albums out there imo. This one is not though. It has great songs on it, she’s a great and unique singer but the whole thing just doesn’t fit together very well or I‘m not getting it. Still a 3 for me because of the good songs.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

2/5

Well this really aged poorly (at least the lyrics did), as he hates women completely. At first I thought it‘s meant ironic but either I didn’t get it or it was meant pretty serious.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

This record is just amazing. Love the whole atmosphere, sounds and guitar riffs / solos. Would listen to this again and again.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

This is more than „just a reggae album“ imo. While it starts with the title track which is a typical and also pretty famous reggae track, it offers more than that with the other songs and creates a great atmosphere. I also like the chilled guitar parts.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

2/5

If someone would ask me how the typical 90s music sounds like, I’d show them this.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

I love this one! It’s a real mood booster and he has a great live energy on this album.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

4/5

Never heard of this before but I actually like it! Sounds like a mixture of RHCP & White Stripes.

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

5/5

Maybe I‘m boring, maybe I‘m nostalgic but this one is awesome! Never heard it before but it got the typical 2000s rock sound and is completely different to the KOL that became mainstream.

Garbage

4/5

Never heard this before but I like it very much!

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4/5

Indeed a great R&B album that I did not know as I‘m not deep into the genre besides some exceptions.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Violent Femmes

5/5

This was more entertaining than I’d thought! Great songs and tunes on this one. Some songs sound like straight from the 50s with punky lyrics and some other do have that 90s feeling (even though this album is older)

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

4/5

Gris Gris

Dr. John

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

Knew this one and love this one! This really has been an iconic duo and had great influence on a whole genre imo.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

2/5

This would be a great background album (with 2 hours playtime!) for a biker club or bar!

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

She was one of the women that created a foundation for female rap in some way with this album. Even though I think 2-3 songs are really great but the rest is sometimes a bit boring. Still a good album to listen to.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Another album my teenage self loved, just before their American Idiot era. It’s still great but for me especially the most famous songs on it.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

Of course I knew the first track already and I‘ve listened to this (and the album) many times. In the right mood this music can add the right atmosphere to an relaxing evening!

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

2/5

This started promising but it turned out to become a bit boring. One song is famous because it has been used in an advertisement (at least in germany).

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

Unfortunately a bit boring to me. Maybe another album of him hits better for me.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

Great lyrics and singing but (besides 1-2 songs) it sadly was too boring for me.

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Yes this was something I would normally not listen to, but many others do, even without a book that suggests it to them. While listening to the first song I expected the whole album to be like that, but it became more poppy, which is not always a good time thing in his case.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Amazing album that sounds like it could have been released this year, last year or is still to be released next year!

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Great latin sound!

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

I actually like this but it’s hard to distinguish between the songs after a while and I even listened to it twice with some time in between though.

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

5/5

Very cool and relaxing music! One of the inspiration for 2000s indie/alternative bands.

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Knew it before but haven’t listen to it for ages. Still very good surprisingly!

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

This is punk / hardcore in it‘s purest form. Shredding guitars over some shouting and talking that sounds like their singer is drunken during the whole recording session. I like this album because it obviously was one of the first bands with a sound like this and that took some more steps into the hardcore genre.

Violator

Depeche Mode

5/5

The Cars

2/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

Much better than I would have expected before. Nothing I‘d listen often too but still a great album indeed.

Ramones

4/5

Short but great!

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

Great album and great beats, Loops and samples.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

2/5

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

5/5

Never heard of her or this album before but I just loved it at my first listen to it. Good atmosphere and interesting voice with broken english here and then.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Gorillaz

4/5

I was really excited to listen to this as a whole. It wasn’t as good as their 2nd album but still good enough and it was the perfect album to listen to after a stressful day at work.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Considering the reviews the generator is not completely random or everyone is just randomly getting this on or shortly before christmas. I forgot to review this but still - a great collection of christmas songs on a whole album, but also nothing more. Didn‘t know about the producer before and him being a murderer. Well…merry christmas and a happy new year 2025 (which has started 20 days ago)

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Started out strong, but started to become a bit boring after a few songs.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Great and more relaxed jazz album!

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Under Construction

Missy Elliott

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

2/5

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Eagles

2/5

I had a good night, but the eagles still do suck.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Great and short album. Especially if you consider how old it is and how many following artists it must have influenced.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

Debut

Björk

5/5

This is an amazing example of why I love to listen to albums. Good ones take you on a journey and are almost like a movie. This one does it really well. It’s nothing you should listen to in the background. It’s an album that deserves your full attention.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Achtung Baby

2/5

I was surprised about the modern sound considering when this album got released. It still didn’t really entertain me and I really had a boring time listening to this.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

Electric

The Cult

4/5

Great 80s rock/metal album! Maybe I‘m biased because of GTA Vice City but I really enjoyed this!

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus