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3.43
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26
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29%
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5.8
Per Week
383
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Reviews
74
Written
23%
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vs Global
0.08
Avg Diff
3.43
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1960s
Favorite Decade
Psychedelic-rock
Favorite Genre
UK
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You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Coral | 5 | 3 | +2 |
| The Coral | 5 | 3 | +2 |
| Time (The Revelator) | 5 | 3.06 | +1.94 |
| Ritual De Lo Habitual | 5 | 3.19 | +1.81 |
| Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black | 5 | 3.23 | +1.77 |
| Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus | 5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
| Songs Of Leonard Cohen | 5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
| Haunted Dancehall | 4 | 2.37 | +1.63 |
| Songs Of Leonard Cohen | 5 | 3.37 | +1.63 |
| Blue Lines | 5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 1 | 3.27 | -2.27 |
| It's Too Late to Stop Now | 1 | 3.25 | -2.25 |
| Bad | 2 | 3.81 | -1.81 |
| KIWANUKA | 2 | 3.74 | -1.74 |
| Moondance | 2 | 3.71 | -1.71 |
| To Pimp A Butterfly | 2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
| good kid, m.A.A.d city | 2 | 3.61 | -1.61 |
| Hotel California | 2 | 3.6 | -1.6 |
| Aja | 2 | 3.46 | -1.46 |
| Diamond Life | 2 | 3.42 | -1.42 |
Artist Analysis
Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatles | 4 | 5 | 4.14 |
| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 4.4 | 3.88 |
| The Coral | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Leonard Cohen | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Pearl Jam | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 5 | 4.2 | 3.75 |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4.25 | 3.71 |
Least Favorite Artists
Artists with 2+ albums and low weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Swift | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Van Morrison | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
5-Star Albums (26)
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1-Star Albums (3)
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Prince
4/5
Sister Sledge
3/5
Run-D.M.C.
4/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Pixies
4/5
Fatboy Slim
4/5
Public Enemy
4/5
Michael Jackson
4/5
Megadeth
2/5
The Strokes
3/5
Scritti Politti
2/5
David Bowie
3/5
Ryan Adams
2/5
Radiohead
5/5
The Velvet Underground
3/5
The Replacements
3/5
CHIC
3/5
Waylon Jennings
3/5
Morrissey
3/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5/5
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Nico
4/5
The Fall
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Cornershop
3/5
Machito
3/5
Fats Domino
3/5
Boston
3/5
Judas Priest
3/5
Finley Quaye
3/5
Sade
2/5
Donald Fagen
2/5
The Fall
4/5
Iron Butterfly
3/5
Michael Jackson
2/5
Ella Fitzgerald
3/5
Echo And The Bunnymen
3/5
Depeche Mode
3/5
Shivkumar Sharma
2/5
Madonna
2/5
Van Morrison
1/5
The Rolling Stones
3/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
The Coral
5/5
Arctic Monkeys
4/5
The Divine Comedy
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Incredible Bongo Band
3/5
Pulp
3/5
Peter Frampton
2/5
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Better than I expected
Dire Straits
4/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Kate Bush
3/5
Ghostface Killah
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The Yardbirds
3/5
Aretha Franklin
4/5
Marty Robbins
4/5
Brian Wilson
3/5
Gillian Welch
5/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Ray Charles
3/5
The Sabres Of Paradise
4/5
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Beyoncé
2/5
Pet Shop Boys
3/5
Miles Davis
4/5
Malcolm McLaren
4/5
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
Sarah Vaughan
3/5
Syrupy voice. Fun but no Nina or Ella
Cyndi Lauper
4/5
1/5
Neu!
4/5
Norah Jones
2/5
Butthole Surfers
2/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
3/5
King Crimson
4/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Feels like a cleaner less dirty Tom Waits (early stuff)
Pink Floyd
5/5
Muddy Waters
3/5
Decent but unremarkable blues
Simple Minds
3/5
3 stars
Funkadelic
4/5
Arrested Development
4/5
Green Day
4/5
Cream
4/5
Stevie Wonder
4/5
Some bangers but a bit of filler the too; unnecessarily long album
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Herbie Hancock
4/5
Neneh Cherry
3/5
TLC
2/5
Steely Dan
2/5
Neil Young
3/5
GZA
4/5
Pretenders
3/5
David Bowie
3/5
Haircut 100
3/5
The Saints
3/5
Ozomatli
4/5
Nirvana
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
Bruce Springsteen
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Big Black
3/5
Madonna
2/5
The Killers
4/5
Lynyrd Skynyrd
3/5
Jimi Hendrix
4/5
Billy Joel
3/5
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3/5
5/5
Jeff Buckley
4/5
Hole
3/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
Jane Weaver
4/5
Michael Kiwanuka
3/5
Beatles
5/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Otis Redding
3/5
Incubus
2/5
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Rush
3/5
The Band
3/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Living Colour
2/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
The Velvet Underground
4/5
4
Wu-Tang Clan
4/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Pearl Jam
5/5
The Black Keys
5/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Bobby Womack
3/5
Joanna Newsom
4/5
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4/5
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
4
Todd Rundgren
3/5
Quite a ride.
Stan Getz
4/5
The White Stripes
5/5
The The
4/5
Cocteau Twins
4/5
Lucinda Williams
3/5
A few bangers, but plenty of whiny songs
Kendrick Lamar
2/5
Not my kind of hip hop
The Smiths
3/5
A few bangers, but plenty of whiny songs
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Pearl Jam
5/5
I missed this album when it was released (apart from what was on the radio). So no real emotional attachment to it. But wow. So great to be able to discover it now
Public Enemy
5/5
Steely Dan
4/5
"Do it again" is a masterpiece :chef's kiss: but the rest of the album is decidedly ordinary.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
4/5
Van Halen
3/5
Duran Duran
4/5
Quite enjoyed this
Miles Davis
3/5
D'Angelo
2/5
The Zutons
4/5
I'd give this 4.5 if I could. Half the album is brilliant. The other half is fine but ruined by the heights of the first half.
Abdullah Ibrahim
2/5
Jack White
4/5
Interesting. Not much outstanding, but definitely more than a background listen
Queen
3/5
Daft Punk
4/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Sparse but excellent
Common
4/5
The Killers
4/5
Leonard Cohen
5/5
Pure poetry
The Beach Boys
3/5
Some great harmonies but overall not that special
T. Rex
4/5
Hadn't heard most of this. First two tracks are brilliant (Mambo Sun, Cosmic Dancer), rest is pretty good
The La's
3/5
Probably worth 3.5
Nas
4/5
That's some solid flow. Somehow missed Nas at the time, even though I was quite into hip hop
Miles Davis
3/5
I'm not much into this style of jazz, but I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The bass and drums are great, and the trumpet has it's moments, though it's too piercing and abstract for me overall
Taylor Swift
1/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
3/5
A couple of pretty good songs, bit 7 gets a bit long in parts
Little Richard
4/5
Shack
3/5
Jefferson Airplane
4/5
Nina Simone
4/5
Cocteau Twins
3/5
Doves
3/5
Started off strong, but kind of petered out in the second half
Led Zeppelin
4/5
Some great songs but a few that are just 'good'. Probably hold them to as higher standard than other bands...
The Band
3/5
Fela Kuti
3/5
Fun, but might have overdone fela at uni
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
Took a few listens to get the hang of it, but really enjoyed
Ministry
2/5
Not my thing
Alanis Morissette
3/5
A couple of brilliant songs, a few whiny ones, and commercial radio and ads ruined a lot of it for me
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Decent, but unremarkable & derivative
The Strokes
4/5
That's a solid album. I've heard bits of it but never the whole way through
Beatles
5/5
5
The Sonics
4/5
The Monks
4/5
Some bits were a bit too wild for me, but worth another listen
The Only Ones
4/5
Never heard of these folks but quite enjoyed. A pregenitor of a couple of styles/bands that I like
Boston
3/5
Decent commercial pop
David Bowie
4/5
The titular track is not my favourite Bowie song, but the rest of the album is pretty solid
Sepultura
2/5
Simon & Garfunkel
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Never heard this one. Enjoyed a lot
Laura Nyro
4/5
This is what I came here for! Never heard of her before, but great album. I'm a sucker for a big female voice
Orbital
2/5
Didn't quite do it for me in; though I do really enjoy some music in this genre, and can see how this has influenced other artists
Massive Attack
5/5
Joanna Newsom
4/5
Hole
4/5
Led Zeppelin
4/5
First half was brilliant, dropped off a bit in the second half
Lana Del Rey
3/5
3.
Black Sabbath
4/5
John Lennon
3/5
Neil Young
5/5
Hadn't heard this album before
Drive-By Truckers
3/5
Louis Prima
3/5
Garbage
4/5
Didn't listen much at the time besides the radio play on my jjj. This is good stuff
Joy Division
4/5
Fever Ray
3/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
4/5
New to me. I like. 4
Judas Priest
3/5
Sounds like spinal tap
Slint
4/5
Never heard them before, but wow there's a lot of bands I like that built on this.
Hüsker Dü
3/5
A couple of good songs, but not quite enough to get a 4
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
3. Plus 1 extra for take 5
Bad Brains
3/5
Faith no more did it better. 3
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
Brian Wilson
4/5
Great harmonies
Talking Heads
4/5
A lot of interesting parts of songs, though oddly I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" this that much, but am intrigued enough that I need to relisten multiple times
CHIC
3/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
R.E.M.
4/5
The Cardigans
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
A couple of amazing songs (Tusk the song is a masterpiece) but a fair bit of whiny stuff there too.
The Cure
3/5
Van Morrison
2/5
Couldn't really get into it. Monndance is good but not that good and not enough to hold it
The Stranglers
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
Ok, but unspectacular country
Radiohead
4/5
I do love this album, but according to my rating system, only deserves a 4; there's a few songs there that don't quite do it for me
Youssou N'Dour
2/5
Not really my thing
John Martyn
2/5
CHIC
2/5
Nine Inch Nails
2/5
Brian Eno
3/5
Pretty abstract; quite interesting at times, but a bit of work to get through
Muddy Waters
3/5
R.E.M.
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Traffic
2/5
Slipknot
2/5
Green Day
4/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
A few parts of the album were quite decent, but then sways into mainstream too much. Decent enough mainstream, but not my thing.
TV On The Radio
4/5
Jane's Addiction
5/5
The Pogues
4/5
Elvis Presley
4/5
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
Joni Mitchell
3/5
Barry Adamson
2/5
The Coral
5/5
Prince
3/5
R.E.M.
5/5
Brian Eno
3/5
The Darkness
3/5
3/5
3
Muddy Waters
3/5
Isaac Hayes
3/5
3/5
UB40
3/5
That's actually pretty good reggae. Though perhaps lacking passion
Love
3/5
First track is great. Rest has its moments
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Circle Jerks
3/5
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
The Black Keys
4/5
X-Ray Spex
4/5
Solid punk
Grateful Dead
4/5
Nick Drake
4/5
Sex Pistols
4/5
Pink Floyd
3/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
A few masterpieces and some meh
Nirvana
4/5
Eagles
2/5
Meh. Title track is good, that's about it
Derek & The Dominos
3/5
A few solid blues numbers but nothing groundbreaking
Madness
3/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Joe Ely
3/5
Guns N' Roses
4/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
Roxy Music
3/5
Bebel Gilberto
4/5
The Psychedelic Furs
3/5
Simon & Garfunkel
4/5
Rush
3/5
Peter Frampton
2/5
Michael Kiwanuka
2/5
Thin Lizzy
3/5
Dinosaur Jr.
4/5
Yes
3/5
Lightning Bolt
2/5
A few interesting bits but mostly not my thing
Leftfield
4/5
Beck
3/5
I bought it at the time and enjoyed it, but a bit meh now
Joan Armatrading
3/5
Ravi Shankar
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
Gang Of Four
4/5
Common
3/5
A few pretty good tracks but overall not an amazing album
The Cure
4/5
The Kinks
4/5
The Smiths
4/5
Pulp
5/5
I had to listen twice to decide between 4 and 5. I'd heard the songs before in passing, but the album passed me by in it's time. But despite having no nostalgic value, this is a 5. Brilliant music, and every song is a story.
Eminem
4/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
The United States Of America
4/5
Stereolab travels back in time and does a co-lab with Jefferson Airplane
Coldcut
4/5
Amy Winehouse
3/5
A bit whiny
The Clash
4/5
Alice Cooper
4/5
Surprisingly diverse
Spacemen 3
3/5