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Album	You	Global	Diff
Connected Stereo MC's	5	2.94	+2.06
Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits	5	2.95	+2.05
Music From The Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra	5	3.01	+1.99
Teenage Head Flamin' Groovies	5	3.03	+1.97
Modern Kosmology Jane Weaver	5	3.08	+1.92
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter The Incredible String Band	4	2.15	+1.85
Something Else By The Kinks The Kinks	5	3.25	+1.75
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics	5	3.25	+1.75
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72
Fun House The Stooges	5	3.28	+1.72

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Thriller Michael Jackson	1	4.22	-3.22
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis	1	4.06	-3.06
Sheer Heart Attack Queen	1	3.65	-2.65
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	1	3.52	-2.52
The Atomic Mr Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra	1	3.5	-2.5
My Generation The Who	1	3.42	-2.42
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	1	3.41	-2.41
xx The xx	1	3.37	-2.37
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.36	-2.36
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	1	3.35	-2.35

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Artist	Albums	Average
Pixies	2	5
AC/DC	2	5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2	5
The Kinks	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
The xx	2	1
Iron Maiden	2	1.5
Frank Sinatra	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (41)

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Popular Reviews

I See You

The xx

1/5

wank

1 likes

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Purely belter

1 likes

1-Star Albums (23)

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The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Alright like. To be fair, the two greatest hits albums have all the best smiths songs, which makes the albums defunkt...

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Lisstened to this album a gozillion times. Certainly enough times for one life. I can quite explain why it now annoys me and has done for a long while. Wrote the above during the first song when the buzzy low tones were wigging out my laptop speakers. Album gets better as it goes on and chills out. Really it just reminds me of a dick scottish person i used to work with who played it over and over agin when he used to wash the boat. Cant escape the negative connotations.

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

2/5

Cant listen to this one in front of the kids. Not becasue i dont like swearing, its just that I can be arsed to deal with being asked what a motherfucker is right now. Express yourself is the best track. Reminds me of quiggins in liverpool. The crazy old retro vintage department store. You had to go here to buy records and tee shirts like this before the internet. Dope album, for sure a cornerstone of rap music, but not really my thang...

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1/5

There is a reason that the US military use Nine Inch Nails music as a form of torture in places Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Because its unbearable.

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

4/5

At last something I've wanted to listed to. Marc Bolan was for sure a genius. I once met a guy called Marc who's mum named.him after Marc Bolan, and his initials were also M.A.R.C.... Cosmic dancer is a a proper song. It is used so well on the opening scene of the film Billy Elliott. Bolan's guitar is easily recognisable throughout the album.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

loved it

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

This album reminds me of winter in Cannes when it came out it. Coincidentally I was in Cannes when it came up in the list. Some Jungian synchronicity shit going on there.... The music is alright like. The way the songs seamlessly meld into one another is a bit weird.... At the time it was a bit weird hearing Americans show any anti American sentiment, so that was cool.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

5/5

I resisted the temptation to Google this album and artist before the review..... Never heard this music before but it feels nostalgic and familiar.... What an amazing sound. Vibrant and youthful. Sumptuous strings and cranking keys. Sounds like some sort of amazing theme tune to a TV show or semi Avant Garde film.... This is what I came to this list for! To be exposed to good old shit that's new to me.

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

1/5

Dogshit

Kid A

Radiohead

2/5

Overrated

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Belter!

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

Not a bad song in the album.... Weird how loads of people freaked out that he changed his name to Yusuf, when he was called bloody CAT before. I've never met a man called cat.

Want Two

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

listened to track one and gave up

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

3/5

Not bad. Need another listen.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

bloody good

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Noisy

The Stone Roses

5/5

Proper good

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

2/5

Meh. Do you realize is a banger tho.

Moondance

Van Morrison

2/5

Can only listen to so much van the man.... It's the combination of his fake American accent, and the jazziness of it all. I want to like it more.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

"everything is so political nowadays" seems like it always was. Great album. Makes me and probably thousands of others want to pickup a guitar and play.

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Shite. Too noisy.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Didn't jump out at me, but I need to listen again

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

5/5

Belter album. Can't wait to listen to it with the kids..... Best song for me is Frank's wild years. Blazing imagery.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

3/5

Need to listen again. Love that guitar tone.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

2/5

couple of belters and plenty of filler. Listened on a short road trip and my mates couldnt handle it. Had to listen to some Ray Lamontagne to chill the fuck out.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Megga boppy can't wait to play it for the kids.

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

4/5

How the fuck did Gary numan get a time machine and travel into two different decades to ripoff mgmt and basement jax to record that mashup for the song M.E.?.... Mint album.

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Disjointed and anachronistic but some good.

The xx

1/5

irritated the fuck out of me when it vcame out and it was everywhere, all supermarkets, car radios, barber shops, pre gig warm up music, old lady ballroom dances, played this album. Watchin the live performaces of the girl playin one note repeatedly on a 2000dollar guitar seems weird. Wasnt into it then, still not into it now. Overrated shite.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Nice

Truth

Jeff Beck

2/5

meh

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Hella jesusy cover.... I always struggle to listen to more than a few simple minds songs in a row..... Reverb drenched vox and big synths stress me out.

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Mint

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Like the old saying goes, one awesome opening track doth not an awesome album make...

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

rich kiwi girl pretending to be poor sings all songs and melodies in the same way and calls it an album. Meh.

Sister

Sonic Youth

2/5

toooo noisy

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

2/5

Not my thang

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

2/5

meh

Femi Kuti

2/5

not enough words

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

4/5

Good Like. Love the bass guitar

I See You

The xx

1/5

wank

Blur

4/5

Some bangerz. Need another listen to appreciate the others more.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

5/5

This is what I came for. Exposure to shit I would never listen to otherwise..... One of my fave doves songs is built upon the KC song Moonchild 🤯

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

Listened to first few tracks. Shite so far. Friends soundtrack on repeat.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

2/5

yawn

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

not for me

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

5/5

i melt into this one. Pure relaxation

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

10/10

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

2/5

Alright like

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

2/5

Love live music, HATE live albums.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

I should like it. But I dont. Background (Illi) Noise

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Mint album. Took me down a joy division rabbit hole too. Which was nice.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

5/5

Proper tunes!

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

2/5

Need another listen.

My Generation

The Who

1/5

The Who are overrated. Skip and go straight to Small Faces

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Chill

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

3/5

Need another listen, but liked it

Pink Flag

Wire

3/5

Will deffo listen again.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

didnt realise how weird that guy richard was

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

This album was originally underrated. Then it somehow became overrated, listening again in 2024, it's definitely underrated again!

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Ice Cube

1/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

1/5

Why is there paedo shit in the list? Wasn't this guy cancelled?

Fred Neil

3/5

Alright like

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Purely belter

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

5/5

Take me there

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

5/5

Mint album

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

amazing albu, Karen O is an artistic genius

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

5/5

amazing albu, Karen O is an artistic genius

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Wanted to like it more. Will have another listen.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

This album feels like being able to walk into the house where i grew up and sit on our couch and watch the fireplace. Ancient comfort. Not a Nirvana fan, but the quiet acoustiqueness allows me to sit and listen and enjoy. I think I'm just happy.

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Plenty of filler here but the bangers keep it bouyant....

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

5/5

So many bangers in here! Stuff of legends

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

2/5

Wanted to like it more. Will have another listen.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Yeah good like

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

ace

Odessa

Bee Gees

1/5

i like the disco era beegees best.

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

absolute belter of an album. Goes to show that sampling is a true artform. Taking anothers work and building upon it is one of the main tenets of humanity

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

5/5

willie the pimp!

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

5/5

Mad how the rolling stones are just a covers band.

Among The Living

Anthrax

1/5

shite

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

2/5

yawn

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

lovely

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Bob had the magic. Still reaching down through the generations.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

A disjointed cacophony but still One of my faves.

Queen II

Queen

3/5

A rare fear to put the best song on the album at the end! Also the best but of the song is the end of the song!..... To many high harmonies for me which lost a star.

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

3/5

Listenable

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

I wonder what my 22 year old self would think of my 44 year old self for sitting and listening to an entire Christina Aguilera album with an open mind..... Anyway I can see why some people might like it, but like eating seafood and cold water swimming. It's not for me.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

3/5

Yeah good like. North American scum. So weird to imagine an American picking up on Brits hating on them. Greatest country in the world? Bring back jingoism. Arm up. God bless America. Yeah right.

The Band

4/5

Ace

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Good like

Iron Maiden

1/5

Wank

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions