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3.42
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38
5-Star Albums
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You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Against I | 5 | 2.93 | +2.07 |
| Killing Joke | 5 | 2.99 | +2.01 |
| Underwater Moonlight | 5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
| Pyromania | 5 | 3.13 | +1.87 |
| The Specials | 5 | 3.3 | +1.7 |
| Surf's Up | 5 | 3.31 | +1.69 |
| Bat Out Of Hell | 5 | 3.45 | +1.55 |
| Blackstar | 5 | 3.47 | +1.53 |
| We're Only In It For The Money | 4 | 2.47 | +1.53 |
| Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 5 | 3.5 | +1.5 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambient 1/Music For Airports | 1 | 3.07 | -2.07 |
| Halcyon Digest | 1 | 3.05 | -2.05 |
| Beach Samba | 1 | 2.92 | -1.92 |
| Shadowland | 1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
| Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
| Second Toughest In The Infants | 1 | 2.86 | -1.86 |
| 90 | 1 | 2.7 | -1.7 |
| A Love Supreme | 2 | 3.63 | -1.63 |
| The Gershwin Songbook | 2 | 3.54 | -1.54 |
| New Forms | 1 | 2.53 | -1.53 |
Artist Analysis
Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 5 | 4.6 | 4 |
| Black Sabbath | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Queen | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| AC/DC | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Oasis | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| David Bowie | 4 | 4.25 | 3.71 |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
5-Star Albums (38)
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1-Star Albums (9)
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Elton John
4/5
Tracy Chapman
5/5
Queen
5/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Dusty Springfield
3/5
Neil Young
5/5
The White Stripes
4/5
Kanye West
2/5
Judas Priest
4/5
Queen
5/5
Sly & The Family Stone
3/5
The Undertones
4/5
Ella Fitzgerald
2/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Deep Purple
4/5
I'm a sucker for a bit of dad rock. Some iconic tunes on this one as well
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Elliott Smith
4/5
Beach House
2/5
Tricky
3/5
Not usually my sort of thing. Has its high points though, especially the cover of Black Steel
The Avalanches
3/5
I like the way this album flows, it feels like you're at a party. Unfortunately it's the sort of party where the vibe isn't for me (although I can appreciate how people are having a good time) and I want to go home and watch a film
Meat Loaf
5/5
Been listening to this album for years. Pure melodrama in the best possible way
The Chemical Brothers
2/5
The Byrds
3/5
It was fine. Nice background music but not doing anything to stand out for me
Ride
4/5
This album might finally get me into shoegaze
Elvis Costello
3/5
Funkadelic
3/5
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Brian Eno
1/5
New Order
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Bill Evans Trio
2/5
I'm really sorry. I really want to like freeform jazz, but I think my brain just isn't programmed for it
Kate Bush
4/5
The Who
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
A classic that defined the Madchester sound going into the 90s. Only loses a star as there's some filler in between the bangers
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
Japan
3/5
This album was highly influential to the sound of the 80s, but apart from a few songs it did very little for me
Eminem
4/5
Stephen Stills
4/5
The Offspring
4/5
The Zombies
3/5
Jamiroquai
3/5
Some nice funk, but derivitive of better stuff from the 70s. I do like some of the later hits they put out
The Blue Nile
2/5
Arcade Fire
4/5
This is what I love about this project. This is the sort of album with universal acclaim that I've put off listening to because it's "not my thing", but I enjoyed the vast majority of this album, especially towards the latter half
David Bowie
4/5
A transitional album for Bowie, and yet he still managed to influence a whole movement of established artists performing soul tracks. 3.5
Van Halen
4/5
The Who
4/5
Mudhoney
3/5
Green Day
5/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Supergrass
4/5
Scritti Politti
3/5
Brian Wilson
4/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
T. Rex
3/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Astrud Gilberto
1/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Blondie
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Dagmar Krause
1/5
This is so far outside my wheelhouse I don't know where to start. I gave it a chance, but it does nothing for me. Good for you if you enjoy it, I just can't fathom how it made the list
Astor Piazzolla
2/5
Taylor Swift
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
Lou Reed
4/5
The Pogues
4/5
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
2/5
Underworld
1/5
Frank Sinatra
3/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Easy 5, as with any Floyd album from DSOTM to this
David Bowie
5/5
Khaled
3/5
The Soft Boys
5/5
An album I'd never heard of before, and I loved it
Eagles
3/5
AC/DC
5/5
The Temptations
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Various Artists
3/5
KISS
3/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
Feels wrong to give this the same rating as the Kiss album I had yesterday, but that just narrowly avoided being a 2, and this just narrowly missed being a 4
Red Hot Chili Peppers
5/5
This is peak Funk-era RHCP. I happen to like some of their later stuff too, but if you are if the "I prefer old-school chilis" type, then this is probably the album you're thinking of
Beatles
4/5
Songhoy Blues
4/5
An album I'd never very have discovered without this project, and one I enjoyed
Stan Getz
3/5
Ian Dury
4/5
Prefab Sprout
3/5
Marvin Gaye
3/5
Metallica
4/5
I just can't in good conscience give an album a 5 if they've mixed out the bass
The Temptations
3/5
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3/5
Def Leppard
5/5
As a lifelong Hysteria supremacist, I must admit this album is also a banger
R.E.M.
4/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
MGMT
4/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Still can't fully get on board with 10+ minute long improvised jazz, but this was more accessible and enjoyable to me than most I've heard
Shack
3/5
Felt like I was going to enjoy this after the first fee tracks, but then began to drag. This album doesn't do anything that wasn't done better dozens of times in the decade that preceded it
Steve Winwood
3/5
Sade
2/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Rufus Wainwright
2/5
Pixies
4/5
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3/5
Pearl Jam
5/5
Janet Jackson
2/5
808 State
1/5
The Go-Go's
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Sigur Rós
3/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Bonnie Raitt
2/5
Killing Joke
5/5
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
Arguably the greatest and most important Reggae album ever released
Public Enemy
4/5
The Modern Lovers
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Frank Black
4/5
Adele
3/5
Put this on, grab your wine, chocolates and Bridget Jones paperback, and let the cats wonder why you're crying again
Tears For Fears
3/5
Hookworms
2/5
Slint
2/5
Kings of Leon
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
4/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
When this came through I was sceptical...an album of bongo music? Then as I listened and read up, I realised this inadvertently bacame the jumping off point for hip hop. So many great beats and influential elements
Elis Regina
3/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Rage Against The Machine
5/5
Iggy Pop
5/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
George Michael
3/5
ABBA
4/5
Beck
3/5
John Lennon
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
5/5
Cream
4/5
Morrissey
2/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Soundgarden
3/5
5/5
It's fashionable to hate Oasis these days, but if you were in the UK when this came out, you'd know how much of a cultural impact it had
Prince
5/5
The Kinks
4/5
The Fall
4/5
David Gray
2/5
Amy Winehouse
2/5
Stan Getz
3/5
Britney Spears
2/5
David Ackles
3/5
Gil Scott-Heron
3/5
The Clash
5/5
The xx
2/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
The B-52's
3/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Louis Prima
4/5
Mekons
3/5
Roni Size
1/5
The Undertones
4/5
The Who
4/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Neil Young
4/5
Koffi Olomide
2/5
Anita Baker
2/5
4/5
Jurassic 5
4/5
Lana Del Rey
2/5
Marilyn Manson
3/5
The Allman Brothers Band
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Gorillaz
4/5
Paul McCartney
4/5
The Who
3/5
Skunk Anansie
4/5
Boston
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Les Rythmes Digitales
2/5
Massive Attack
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
AC/DC
5/5
k.d. lang
1/5
In a period when music was getting edgier, and bands who would redefine genres were being formed, Tipper Gore and the PMRC were losing their minds and trying to control what people could listen to. This is the milquetoast kinda stuff they had in mind
John Coltrane
2/5
Sparks
3/5
The Verve
4/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
Sister Sledge
4/5
Calexico
4/5
Duke Ellington
2/5
Frank Zappa
4/5
Rush
4/5
Traffic
4/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Van Halen
4/5
Björk
2/5
Method Man
2/5
Booker T. & The MG's
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Portishead
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5
James Taylor
2/5
Count Basie & His Orchestra
2/5
Prince
4/5
Elton John
4/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
2/5
Jeff Buckley
4/5
My Bloody Valentine
3/5
Beck
3/5
The Doors
4/5
Tito Puente
2/5
The Replacements
4/5
Alanis Morissette
5/5
Beatles
5/5
The Band
4/5
The Residents
2/5
Jean-Michel Jarre
2/5
And the award for most unexpected "oh wait I actually know this song, it's a bop" goes to...
T. Rex
3/5
Bob Dylan
3/5
Radiohead
2/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Jungle Brothers
2/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Fred Neil
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Devendra Banhart
2/5
John Lennon
4/5
Germs
4/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Neil Young
3/5
Paul Simon
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
The Who
4/5
Fiona Apple
3/5
4/5
The Fall
3/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Bad Brains
5/5
Iron Maiden
4/5
The Kinks
4/5
Tortoise
1/5
I'm sorry, but this is the most not-for-me album ever released. I'm usually opposed to anything with "post" in the genre, and this is the epitome of why
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
4/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Kendrick Lamar
3/5
Supertramp
4/5
Leftfield
2/5
The Jam
4/5
The Pogues
4/5
Keith Jarrett
2/5
Super Furry Animals
2/5
One of those where I'm like "oh yeah I've heard of these, I'm sure I know some of their songs" and then I don't, and the album bores me
Miles Davis
3/5
This is the first jazz album that was ve kinda vibed with. Usually it's straight over my head. Not sure if this process has improved my perception, or if my recent run of bad albums has altered my standards
Tim Buckley
2/5
The War On Drugs
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
Slipknot
3/5
Sheryl Crow
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
2/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Pulp
4/5
The Byrds
4/5
2Pac
4/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Slipknot
4/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Nas
4/5
Stevie Wonder
3/5
The Cult
4/5
Sugar
4/5
Oasis
5/5
Air
3/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Everything But The Girl
2/5
Johnny Cash
3/5
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
Carole King
4/5
Adele
3/5
Deerhunter
1/5
I remember back in 2010, after growing up with the big rock burst of the 90s-00s, I went off new music because it felt like every album that the critics recommended was a boring, atmospheric snoozefest. This is the exact sort of thing I mean
The Saints
3/5
Burning Spear
4/5
The Doors
4/5
The Stooges
4/5
3/5
Incubus
4/5
Dr. Octagon
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
The Specials
5/5
Joe Ely
3/5
Scott Walker
2/5
Thundercat
3/5
The Cure
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
The Jam
4/5
Gillian Welch
2/5
Run-D.M.C.
3/5
Little Richard
4/5
Dolly Parton
2/5
Brian Eno
4/5
Butthole Surfers
2/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5