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Album	You	Global	Diff
KEAH** (Psalm 69) Ministry	5	2.69	+2.31
Freak Out! The Mothers Of Invention	5	2.83	+2.17
Vespertine Björk	5	3.16	+1.84
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy	5	3.24	+1.76
B-52's The B-52's	5	3.3	+1.7
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus	5	3.32	+1.68
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67
Guero Beck	5	3.45	+1.55
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	5	3.49	+1.51
Shleep Robert Wyatt	4	2.5	+1.5

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Stranger Billy Joel	1	3.86	-2.86
Grace Jeff Buckley	1	3.73	-2.73
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	1	3.71	-2.71
Highway to Hell AC/DC	1	3.65	-2.65
Out Of The Blue Electric Light Orchestra	1	3.64	-2.64
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme Simon & Garfunkel	1	3.61	-2.61
So Peter Gabriel	1	3.53	-2.53
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.47	-2.47
Tusk Fleetwood Mac	1	3.47	-2.47
Play Moby	1	3.46	-2.46

Artists

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	3	5
Miles Davis	3	5
Bob Dylan	3	4.67
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Pink Floyd	4	4.25
David Bowie	6	4
Public Enemy	3	4.33
Beck	3	4.33

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Kanye West	2	1.5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (32)

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Popular Reviews

Guero

Beck · 2 likes

5/5

All quality no filler

Konnichiwa

Skepta · 1 likes

1/5

I don’t know much about hip hop but this is stupid.

In It For The Money

Supergrass · 1 likes

1/5

Super what now?

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye · 1 likes

4/5

Classic

Vivid

Living Colour · 1 likes

2/5

Leads off with one of the greatest heavy rock songs of the 80’s, but otherwise kind of forgettable. They get two stars out the gate just for Cult of Personality.

1-Star Albums (38)

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

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Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

I agree it was probably the Muse best album, that’s not saying a lot. I found it derivative and ponderous.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Probably the best collection of songs about the music industry and the toll it takes on artists.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Loaded with iconic tracks, though not all of them hit. I can see why it’s on the list.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

2/5

One archetypal San Francisco sound track and two iconic Grace Slick songs surrounded by a ripoff rundown of all the best selling folk rock styles of the period. One star for being famous and a bonus star for Slick’s unmistakably genius contributions.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

5/5

One of my favorites from my teenage years. Can’t go wrong. If I could give it 4.5 though, I’d dock it for a couple ponderous noise filler tracks. But they don’t seem worth a full point.

Live At The Witch Trials

The Fall

3/5

This one was new to me. I’m a post punk, no wave fan, so it was a good fit.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

1/5

Wow. Very much not my thing.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

4/5

Fantastic.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

That was…interesting.

Tracy Chapman

3/5

First two tracks are classics and there are one or two additional decent tracks on this. Most I found to be exceedingly ponderous.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Too high - DECENT Visions - ROUGH Living for the city - LIKE THAT Golden Lady - DECENT Higher Ground - STAMP Jesus Children of American - weird but DECENT All Love is Fair - ROUGH Don’t you worry bout a thing - ROUGH He’s misstra know it all - ROUGH

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Absolute classic.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

1/5

Kirkland brand Motown?

Vespertine

Björk

5/5

Classic

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

It was fine I guess.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

This stinks.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Solid 6 out of 7 tracks. And that last one wasn’t half bad.

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

STAMP

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

5/5

Absolute classic

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Meh.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

I don’t like Kanye. It’s official.

Germs

1/5

It stinks

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Classic

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Much better than I expected.

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Much better than I would have expected

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

2/5

One good song. Lots of meh ones

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Two famous and boring songs surrounded by not at all famous and boring songs.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

1/5

This stinks

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

3 good tracks out of 16, and more than half of those are so repetitive they could have been one or two long songs. Easily could have died without listening to most of it.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Absolute classic.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Great album. 7 five star songs out of 11 tracks. Not a bad score.

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

I get why this a classic, but I can’t not see teal headbands and leg warmers when I hear this kind of music.

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

3/5

This was a good one. I liked the feel (somewhere between Joy Division and U2) and the production quality was impressive. They could have cut down some of their songs though. The musicianship wasn’t quite enough to justify multiple 6 min + songs.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

What’s not to love

Low

David Bowie

2/5

One or two good tracks but ambient electronica just isn’t my idea of a good time.

Kenya

Machito

3/5

Jazzy and bongorific

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

This was terrible.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Interesting as a piece of music history. It blends 70’s funk and hip hop. I didn’t like it but it’s interesting

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Fun little record.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Nice if not my thing.

Talvin Singh

2/5

Ew. I couldn’t eat to this.

American Pie

Don McLean

1/5

Wow.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Three out of ten songs forgettable filler, but the rest are essentially a best of record. I never realized how many of the Who songs I know from the radio came from this one record.

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Contains at least 40% of the songs I know from the radio on one album. That’s worth something I’m sure.

1989

Taylor Swift

1/5

Good for her.

Microshift

Hookworms

2/5

Basically they found the market is for 7 minute MGMT songs, though I can’t fathom who that might be.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

It’s thriller. What are you gonna do.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

TL;DR

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Some interesting tracks.

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Never heard of them and it had some solid tracks.

Frank

Amy Winehouse

3/5

First thing to say is that she was undeniably a generational talent. Having said that, while a couple of tracks managed to hit me in my jazz bone, in general it wasn’t to my tastes.

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1/5

My god that was terrible.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Great Christmas album, if you like Phil Spector’s early 60’s groups. Which I do.

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

Simple Minds

2/5

Pretty dull.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Probably one of my favorite albums ever.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

This is funkin’ great! One track that wasn’t my thing but the rest of it was incredible

Konnichiwa

Skepta

1/5

I don’t know much about hip hop but this is stupid.

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

It was alright

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

2/5

Meh

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

Classic.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

3/5

I’d give it three and a half for containing that one song of theirs that everyone knows. Otherwise, a little too much 90’s post-punk Dadaism for my tastes.

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

4/5

Weird, but I liked it.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

It’s Muddy Waters. Come on.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Nice piano.

Garbage

3/5

Made me feel like I was browsing in Spencer’s Gifts all over again.

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Not their best.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

1/5

Boo.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka

3/5

Interesting start, but it kind of ended up all over the place stylistically.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Classic

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Let's Get Killed

David Holmes

2/5

Boring

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Guero

Beck

5/5

All quality no filler

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Nick Drake is an incredible song writer and there are a number of great iconic songs on this one. Not a huge fan of the musical numbers though.

Low-Life

New Order

3/5

Good for what it is.

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Good band, bad singer.

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub

1/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

It’s Willie Nelson, so how bad can it be?

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

3/5

Well that was…um…something.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

I definitely like elements of this kind of post-punk new wave scene but the sound is, to my taste, far too clean.

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

I never gave PJ Harvey her dues. I regret that.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Decent. Nothing that stood out about it though.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Goofy af

Live!

Fela Kuti

2/5

It was good but 16 minute songs are not compatible with my attention span.

Adele

3/5

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Make Yourself

Incubus

1/5

👌🏻 ….it stinks!

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

1/5

Not into it.

Odelay

Beck

4/5

One of my personal favorites

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

2/5

I don’t get it.

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

4/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Ought to be five stars but it always bugged me that these could have three separate, really good albums, or two incredible ones.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

1/5

Super what now?

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

1/5

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

No.

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

I didn’t like it. That surprises me.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

1/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

1/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

2/5

Started off promising but boy did that not last

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Cwassic

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

2/5

Couple of decent songs but otherwise aggressively meh

Led Zeppelin

3/5

I feel like I should like it, but I don’t.

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

I respect her achievements as a working artist but it doesn’t change the fact that this sound is 60% of what I hate about the 70’s

The United States Of America

3/5

It may well be the only psychedelic pop album with Gregorian chanting. So there’s that.

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

Man, it must be hard to fill out a list this long.

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

What Dylan fan can complain

The Band

2/5

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

3/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

2/5

Pretentious, pondering, over-long tracks.

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

I mean, come on.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

3/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Joan Baez

4/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

5/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

3/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

1/5

No.

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Obviously

The Joshua Tree

3/5

The Stooges

4/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Not their best.

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

If he’d finished in 1969, this would have changed poo music forever. As it is, it’s a fascinating time capsule of what could have been.

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Good but not really my thing.

Pelican West

Haircut 100

2/5

It was a bold strategy to make an album that’s basically the same song recorded 17 times.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

3/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Tragic Songs of Life

The Louvin Brothers

1/5

Aw, hell no

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Pink pink pink pink pink moon.

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Surprised to say, I liked it.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

4/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

This surprised me.

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

2/5

This was a damned stupid album.

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

4/5

3/5

4/5

Pulp

3/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

1/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

2/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

4/5

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

A Northern Soul

The Verve

2/5

Amnesiac

Radiohead

4/5

Gorillaz

3/5

Foo Fighters

3/5

Better than I remembered.

1999

Prince

3/5

It’s Prince but also, it’s Prince

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

1/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

2/5

Some decent psychedelic songs but mostly forgettable

Throwing Muses

3/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

Elvis Presley

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2/5

Navel-gazing quaalude rock ain't my thing, even if it's Radiohead.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

1/5

It’s just so not my thing.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

2/5

It was fine.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

1/5

I hate the E Street Band with a passion

The World is a Ghetto

War

1/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1/5

Bonus point for all three of her hits coming off this album

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

1/5

👌… It STINKS!

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

2/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

2/5

It as fine.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Peter Gabriel

1/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

The Undertones

2/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

2/5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

Couple of good tunes mostly forgettable.

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

4/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

3/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

3/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

4/5

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Couple of classics, but mostly meh.

Le Tigre

4/5

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

3/5

The electro reggae sound no one asked for, delivered in a style no one wanted to hear. So bad, it's hard not to think it was on purpose. 2 stars for accidental self-parody, and an extra for Spanish Bjork.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

I would have named this “Marvin Gaye’s Mixed Bag”

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

3/5

Sea Change

Beck

4/5

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

Leads off with one of the greatest heavy rock songs of the 80’s, but otherwise kind of forgettable. They get two stars out the gate just for Cult of Personality.

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

2/5

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

1/5

WTF was that?

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

2/5

Morrissey is what it would be like if all of my pet peeves assumed human form and started lecturing me about my diet

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