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Albums you rated higher than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
Iron Maiden	5	3.41	+1.59
Coat Of Many Colors	5	3.42	+1.58
Madman Across The Water	5	3.59	+1.41
Djam Leelii	4	2.79	+1.21
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge	4	2.84	+1.16

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Albums you rated lower than global average

Album	You	Global	Diff
evermore	1	3.04	-2.04
Signing Off	1	2.98	-1.98
Planet Rock: The Album	1	2.79	-1.79
Sheer Heart Attack	2	3.65	-1.65
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby	1	2.65	-1.65
Hot Buttered Soul	2	3.42	-1.42
Music for the Masses	2	3.38	-1.38
Endtroducing.....	2	3.35	-1.35
Urban Hymns	2	3.35	-1.35
The Slim Shady LP	2	3.29	-1.29

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Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score

Artist	Albums	Avg	Score
Beatles	2	5	3.8

5-Star Albums (8)

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Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Reggae. By a French artist. Singing primarily in Spanish. Its very chill. Nice.

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1-Star Albums (4)

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Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

2/5

By itself, an album that stands on the merits, of maybe 3-4 songs, most of which use the charm of the shoddier production quality to their advantage. The rest of the songs other than–'Killer Queen', 'Flick of the Wrist', 'In the Lap of the Gods', and 'Bring Back Leroy Brown'– leave much to be desired. For an album touted to be one amongst the 1001 albums to listen to before you die, it doesn't have much offer in terms of memorability, offering a few stand-outs, that wash over the rest.

Dire Straits

3/5

Down to the Waterline: Solid song to open the album. Perfect into to Knopfler's Guitar. 3/5 Water of Love: 2/5 Setting Me Up: 3/5 Six Blade Knife: It's a 3/5 Southbound Again: 3/5 Sultans of Swing: Classic. 5/5 In the Gallery: Funky-reggae fun! Mike Knopfler's Guitar. Gosh. 4/5 Wild West End: Sultans, but make it romantic. 5/5 Lions: 3/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

2/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

3.5 for sure, but I can't rate it that. 4 seems too much and 3 too little, but 3 feels more right, so with 3 we go. Every song is good, it really is, but there isn't a special sauce to any of them. Compared to the other things that Supertramp has put out, all the songs hold their own, but are drowned by their other works. On their own the songs in CoTC are very, very, very good. With amazing instrumentation and compositions that make it an actual listening experience. 7/10 for sure, High B, lower A tier album.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

4/5

So good, so so good. What else is there to say? Not Stevie's best, that (imo) goes to Songs in the Key of Life, but you can really hear the sounds that inhabit that album being shaped here. Every song in Innervisions is good, some even catch your brain and hook themselves there. 9/10 Album.

evermore

Taylor Swift

1/5

4 chord, 4 min songs, with no need of forethought. World class production, because well of course.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

metal.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

real emcee shit. Ong.

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

1/5

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Vampire weekend meets Fall Out Boy. Has a few stand out songs, and the rest exist and aren't an utter insult to the ears.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

I see why it's called Plastic Ono Band, the uh- screaming gives it away.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

4/5

Essential early 2000's pop-rock. Same sonic space as Imagine Dragon's early works. Solid 7/10.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

What taylor swift ought to be. Singer-songwriter music that sounds authentic clean and real. Joni Mitchell is the godmother of folk, and we love her.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

5/5

Madman. Hitmaker. John Elton.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Really is an LP, it kept on going for too long.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

3/5

If The Beatles from the 'A Hard Day's Night' made a rock 'n' roll album. Throw in some modern production techniques and you have an album that's quite nice! 7/10.

Crazysexycool

TLC

4/5

Easy 7.5 - 8 album. It funk, it flow it smooth. The type of music you'd listen to getting a manicure done, ladies gossiping on the side, you leaving the place extra fine, and yo fingers with a shine.

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Their debut album is what many bands' best album's sound like.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

2/5

As remarkable as cream cheese.

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

Sexy bassline, but that ain't the baseline for an unforgettable album. Very interesting sonic ideas, great one time listen.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Easy 3.5. An amazing album top to bottom. Queen👍

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

6/10 fun listen.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

I give it a solid four point five out of five Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

2/5

Green Day, but make it british. Green Day's a late 80's band- isn't that wild?

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

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The Specials

4/5

Ska Beatles, with punk tendencies.

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

Like if Brian Eno's atmospheric albums had a love child with ELO. Very cool listen. Background music in the best way possible.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

It was very 'eh' like mashed potatoes, if it sounded like the constant droning of a chainsaw.

Iron Maiden

5/5

Easy 4.5 metal as f**k.

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

1/5

Muddy disco type of thing. A fever dream I couldn't wait to get up from. The sort of thing your sleep paralysis demon would listen to on TV at 3AM in between infomercials and softcore porn on the History channel.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

3/5

Reggae. By a French artist. Singing primarily in Spanish. Its very chill. Nice.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

Amazing debut album!

Urban Hymns

The Verve

2/5

Aside from the first song, there really weren't any memorable songs. It was alright.