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Album	You	Global	Diff
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman John Zorn	5	2.22	+2.78
The New Tango Astor Piazzolla	5	2.88	+2.12
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	5	3.06	+1.94
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Pink Floyd	5	3.11	+1.89
The Stooges The Stooges	5	3.26	+1.74
Live And Dangerous Thin Lizzy	5	3.32	+1.68
Dub Housing Pere Ubu	4	2.35	+1.65
Music From Big Pink The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Cloud Nine The Temptations	5	3.41	+1.59
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears The Mamas & The Papas	5	3.42	+1.58

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Station To Station David Bowie	2	3.7	-1.7
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	2	3.49	-1.49
The Bends Radiohead	3	4.01	-1.01

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Pink Floyd	4	4.75

5-Star Albums (28)

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Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

Popular Reviews

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

5/5

Motorhead at their fiercest.

9 likes

Dire Straits

5/5

Disco was at it's greatest moment. Punk had just lost its biggest band before they even got a chance to begin. And rock was seeing the waning of Prog Rock, and the loud, brash, sounds of "Double Live Gonzo" and technical based heavy metal swing of Van Halen had just taken over The U.S. and growing world wide. So, out of nowhere, this small quiet blues and shuffle type of bar band from days gone by, appears, and left a huge mark on the music world, with the song, "Sultan's of Swing", a song which is a staple of every classic rock station.

2 likes

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Moby

3/5

Perfect for a cocktail party, or something where it's just dropped into the background, but nothing that comes across as a must listen with your full attention. Some really decent hooks, but often just leaving your mind to focus on anything but the music.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Van Halen

5/5

Can't miss debut album that set the world on fire and made every kid pick up a guitar and want to be a rock star. Did I mention that these guys lay down a groove? That's so deep that asses have no other option but to start shaking. Van Halen stands as one of the greatest swing bands, ever to invade rock and roll.

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

The Clash

3/5

The Joshua Tree

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

5/5

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

4/5

Pretty decent album coming from the '80s synth pop era. Though it sounds of its time, the songwriting is really good and works well to new takes on the songs. I don't think that it's the best available out of that era, but it certainly stands time and deserves to be listened to on occasion. While there may be a few weaker songs on the album, even those songs suffer more from production than they do from songwriting. A solid four or four and a half of five rating

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Doolittle

Pixies

5/5

The Stooges

5/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

4/5

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

4/5

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

5/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Not sure why this guy made it so huge? Maybe I'm just not in the right demographic for this, but I don't hear any strokes of genius here.

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

5/5

Motorhead at their fiercest.

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

With each listen, it only becomes more clear how this becomes a timeless recording in the same likes as Pet Sounds, and Revolver, and every other album that will get listed as the greatest album ever.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

4/5

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

It's The Fucking Wall!!! Does anything really need to be said about this album???

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

4/5

Phaedra

Tangerine Dream

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Great album to shoot to, and just lay on the couch, clinging to life, while listening to the music that will surely fill the air as you begin your journey towards your next life.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

5/5

Ornette, as deciphered by Zorn??? Greatest trainwreck ever!!! 5 million stars

Bummed

Happy Mondays

3/5

This stuff was never really my thing, but I can understand how a bunch of 16-25 year old kids all hopped up on Beer, Ecstasy, and hormones all doing their thing to this until the sun comes up.

War

4/5

This album was the make it, or break it, point for U2. Obviously, they made it.

Station To Station

David Bowie

2/5

David Bowie + mass amounts of Cocaine = This album that is as fragmented as any Bowie album in existence. Flashes of the past, flashes of the future, but nothing that really leaves any lasting memories. This almost seems like that album that an artist who has already checked out, still owes the record company, that they've lost any love for. Basically, a great album to show young artists, why you should control your chemical desires.

Kimono My House

Sparks

3/5

You either love Sparks, or you hate Sparks. I can't decide which group I fall into.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Shocked that this album made the list, but I guess after "The Soft Parade", anything could sound brilliant. I'm rating this as The Doors 4th or 5th best album, so, whoever compiled this list, must really like The Doors. Not saying that that's a bad thing.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

Rage Against The Machine

4/5

Thanks to this list for making me have to listen to this album again. Made me all pissed off about shit. I have no ability to change, and raised my fucking blood pressure beyond belief once again. I'm too old to start a revolution at this point of my life, as I was, at the time that this album came out, but at least it still feels good to get my heart pumping once again, just to know I'm alive.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

There are two Bruce Springsteen's. Bruce Springsteen on an album, and Bruce Springsteen live. I've never seemed to enjoy albums of Bruce that much, but take me to a concert, and that dude's got all of my attention for the 3 and 1/2 hours that he plays every night.

Tom Tom Club

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

3/5

Not sure what to think. I'll leave it at that for now.

Dub Housing

Pere Ubu

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

5/5

The harmonies of the four members are just out of this world. The way that their voices blend with one another, whether it be standard three or four-part harmony with a lead vocal, or the call and response between the two male singers and the two female singers, such as on California Dreaming, is just incredible. I'm not sure if there has ever been a better matched vocal band group out there.

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

4/5

Post punk simplicity, bordering on straight up minimalist funk, with super cutting lyrics. This was just what the world needed when this came out. That feeling hasn't changed in me, though I have changed drastically in that time.

Peter Gabriel

4/5

Konnichiwa

Skepta

2/5

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Bob, Dylan had several albums that really changed the way people saw, not just his music but all music in general. That journey all started here. If there was just one album to explain Bob Dylan to someone new to his music, this is the one that I would hand them out of my collection.

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Im not even going to say anything about this album. What more needs to be said.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

4/5

Was familiar with some of his older. More straight ahead jazz music, and also heard some of his stuff from the early '70s and into the '80s. Somehow I missed this album, which seems like the perfect blend of a million things all rolled up into one. I very much enjoyed this, and me may search out an original album for my collection.

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Pink Floyd

5/5

One hell of a debut album, that truly shows what a real talent Syd Barret was, before the chemicals completely took over his brain. This has to be one of the most influential albums for any band that just let their minds be free and let the music flow. While this was made during the height of psychedelia, this is just so much more than a psychedelic album.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Queen II

Queen

4/5

The album that really cemented the Queen sound. The endless overdubs that didn't exist on their debut, came out in spades for this album, and pointed their direction for the future.

Stankonia

OutKast

4/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

Sepultura's crowning achievement.

Green

R.E.M.

4/5

R.E.M. finally starts to make some real greenbacks with "Green". This album moved the band from college radio sweethearts, to mainstream radio sweethearts.

Synchronicity

The Police

4/5

IMO, "GITM" and "ZM", were better albums, but this was a fine final album, by a band that was becoming more dysfunctional by the day. A great place to call it quits.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

Never really liked this era's techno, but, I can say that this album was one of the ones that helped kick the door in to the success of the genre

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

I know that I'm supposed to like stuff, but I'm just not depressed enough to really get into it. Not saying that musicianship isn't top rate, because it is. It's just not my cup of tea.

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

While not even close to Maiden's best albums, you can hear loud and clear, what would be THE Iron Maiden sound, of dual guitars playing searing licks, throughout the tracks.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

5/5

Big fan of both of these two on their own, put the two together, superb.

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Not a big fan of Christmas music, I only listen to it during the season. Sure, I have a few songs from over the years that I'll enjoy any time I hear it, but that's a pretty small list. In saying that, how can you go wrong with doing Christmas music, to Phil Spector's, "Wall of Sound". Always loved the Phil Spector sound, no matter how weird he got in his older years. Therefore, to me, this album is a winner.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

This might have been the high point of the band, but I just never really liked this band, so, it's hard to give it a higher score.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

There's a reason that this is rated as the greatest jazz album of all time, and could even be mentioned in a short list of greatest albums of all time. Maybe the greatest "Supergroup" ever. If you love music, any music, you should add this to your list of albums to listen to.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

What do you get when you cross James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and Miles Davis? I present to you, Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain".

Funeral

Arcade Fire

4/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Probably Prince's most pivotal album. Got him huge airplay, crossed him over to a wider audience, and made a gigantic movie, all in one move. I won't say if I think that this is his greatest album ever, but I will say that it was his most important album.

Blur

3/5

Never liked Blur, put I think that Graham Coxon is an incredible guitar player.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

3 words. It's The Stones!

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. Grew up working at the family business That was started by my Grandfather, down near The Packard Plant, and employed 3 of his children, One of those being my Father. 3 of my siblings worked for the same business until my brother passed away, and my cousin who was a co-owner, decided to sell the business upon his retirement. My sister and a cousin stayed with the business until there retirements, and a niece and nephew are still with that company to this day. My mother played for The DSO, and gave private lessons in her music room, to keep herself busy, when she wasn't at rehearsal, or performance. I'll also add that this album came out the year that I graduated high school, and chose to follow my mother's footsteps, and go on to study music, and was still doing work in the industry all over the globe, until health issues made me recently retire. Let's just say that I had a blast singing along to every song on this album. For so many reasons, this album gets a 6 star rating from me.

Dire Straits

5/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

5/5

Made James the star that he became.

Odelay

Beck

4/5