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Album	You	Global	Diff
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.29	+1.71
Crime Of The Century Supertramp	5	3.41	+1.59
Diamond Life Sade	5	3.42	+1.58
Tres Hombres ZZ Top	5	3.43	+1.57
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit	4	2.48	+1.52
GI Germs	4	2.54	+1.46
Head Hunters Herbie Hancock	5	3.55	+1.45
In A Silent Way Miles Davis	5	3.61	+1.39
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	5	3.63	+1.37
Remain In Light Talking Heads	5	3.67	+1.33

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Purple Rain Prince	2	4.02	-2.02
The Man Who Travis	1	3.01	-2.01
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.64	-1.64
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	2	3.49	-1.49
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Stand! Sly & The Family Stone	2	3.43	-1.43
Synchronicity The Police	2	3.42	-1.42
One Nation Under A Groove Funkadelic	2	3.42	-1.42
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	2	3.4	-1.4
Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt	1	2.39	-1.39

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Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	5

5-Star Albums (15)

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1984

Van Halen

3/5

Yeah, the music that you think is pretty wild when you are about 12 years old. (Hot for Teacher is actually quite ok)

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Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

Check Your Head was the more ground-breaking album.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

prog rock of the most boring kind

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Brilliant stuff

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Great album. The Great Curve is 6/5.

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Yeah, the music that you think is pretty wild when you are about 12 years old. (Hot for Teacher is actually quite ok)

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Too ballady for my taste. But Superstition!

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

Campfire music

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

For some reason, the second half caused a great sadness in me. Good album, though.

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

A little too experimental for my taste. But unlike Captain Beefheart, they know where the business end of their instrument is...

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Meh... Has its moments. But it's also a weird mixed bag.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

5/5

Abraxas

Santana

5/5

\"Singing Winds, Crying Beasts\" as the extended intro to \"Black Magic Woman\"? Pure perfection! This album was peak Santana.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Sounds like the music I expect to run in the background of a hotel bar...

The Man Who

Travis

1/5

The unbearable blandness of weltschmerz-oozing, guitar-strumming songs, all condensed in one album. And a mostly white cover, to boot. Completely unmemorable songs, sung with a voice that makes me wonder why nobody gives the guy some painkillers... What's it doing in this list? P.S.: the "hidden track" at the end just shows what they would have been capable of... alas...

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

4/5

Nice!

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

That one didn't age well...

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

4/5

Great music, great texts.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

4/5

I am kicking my younger self now for dismissing Arrested Development as basically another De la Soul (which I found overrated hippy rap), because the radio wouldn't play anything but Mr. Wendal, which is probably the weakest song on the album. Not so. This is great!

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Not really my style of music, but unoffensive in the background.

La Revancha Del Tango

Gotan Project

4/5

Really cool album... But the next one sounded exactly the same.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Started as a 2, but worked it way up to 4. So I'll give it a solid 3.

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

The Bogus Man is outstanding. Far ahead of 1973. The whole album is a 3, though. Let's say, lack of cohesion.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Essential!!!

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Entirely forgettable. The only remarkable thing, maybe, is that this was published in 1975, not 1985.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

"Oh look, the Ozric Tentacles are making Techno now! Do you want to listen?" "Err..., thanks, pass."

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Too many angsty teenage songs about lost love. Has a very specific target demographic, to which I don't belong anymore.

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

5/5

Probably the most accomplished ZZ-Top album. Classic.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

The longer the album went (and it's basically three LPs), the angrier I got. When would this thing pass? All sounding more or less the same, hippyesk acoustic guitar kumbayah. Bo-ring. And then the Apple Jam started. Wow. Which was dismissed by most professional critics, Wikipedia informs me. Which, in turn, leads me to conclude that professional music critics spout as much bullshit as other professional art critics. Giving it a 3 on average.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

I can't relate to the music, and not understanding the texts didn't help. So this review will be unfair... Sometimes this was like listening to someone getting tortured, with all the wailing. "Ali Maula..." send me into a nice trance, though, but it didn't last.

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Nice enough, although not really groundbreaking. Reminded me a lot of Kingston Wall's "II" and Dog Society's "Test Your Own Eyes".

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

Rap with questionable lyrics _can_ be combined with cool grooves! Who would have thunked it?

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Fleet Foxes

3/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

4/5

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

45 years, still the freshest feelgood party music

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Diamond Life

Sade

5/5

Smooth as silk

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Sounds too old-fashioned for me. From an ancient well, indeed.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

Probably great music for live concerts. But as an album, it doesn't work for me. Not for casual listening, and if you do listen, you get depressed.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

If you could only listen to a single Stones album, it might as well be this. Quintessential.

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

2/5

System Of A Down

4/5

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

4/5

Chris

Christine and the Queens

3/5

Purple Rain

Prince

2/5

Today, I find it even more annoying than when it was released.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Weird mix of a Bowie album and a Stones album.

Melodrama

Lorde

2/5

Unoffensive music that might run on the radio in the background all day long and that you've forgotten as soon as the song ends. No drama here.

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

2/5

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

2/5

Never heard of that guy before. Now I know why.

Achtung Baby

3/5

Meh.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Germs

4/5

A US band playing bona-fide punk? (not "punk" like Billy Idol or Blondie) With an album cover that would not be out of place in the house or techno section of a record shop? Brilliant!

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

Usually not my style, but this was nice enough.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

5/5

Great Blues album!

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

2/5

These meandering pieces by Funkadelic are not really my kind of Funk. Funk needs to be raw and edgy. This is "Prog Funk"... (the clue is already in the costumes) Fun(k) Fact: I was at a George Clinton concert in the late 90's. Small-ish open-air space. PA sytsem was so horrible oversized that it hurt the ears even at the back end of the enclosure. Brutal. :-) P.S.: on Spotify, only two songs of the album are available. (why does Spotify do this?) So to listen to the full album, I had to use YouTube.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

Pretty "meh" for a Depeche Mode album

Paul Simon

3/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

2/5

Only ballads at the country club. Meh. Fun decidedly lacking. Album cover very much misleading.

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Seventies Fusion Lounge Jazz. 'Nuff said.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

2/5

10% good (e.g., Electricity), 90% infuriatingly annoying (e.g., Stay With Me). E.g., The Individual: 4 minutes of an air balloon squeeking over some electric droning? I'm sure that's violating some human rights charta. Giving 2 stars, barely, b/c of the few good parts.

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

The best part of the album is that it is less than 40 minutes.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

3/5

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