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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Coral The Coral	5	3	+2
The Coral The Coral	5	3	+2
Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch	5	3.05	+1.95
Henry's Dream Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.09	+1.91
I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen	5	3.1	+1.9
Ritual De Lo Habitual Jane's Addiction	5	3.18	+1.82
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.21	+1.79
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black Public Enemy	5	3.24	+1.76
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	3.32	+1.68
Haunted Dancehall The Sabres Of Paradise	4	2.37	+1.63

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kenya Machito	1	3.28	-2.28
1989 Taylor Swift	1	3.26	-2.26
It's Too Late to Stop Now Van Morrison	1	3.24	-2.24
Ctrl SZA	1	2.93	-1.93
Bad Michael Jackson	2	3.81	-1.81
KIWANUKA Michael Kiwanuka	2	3.73	-1.73
Moondance Van Morrison	2	3.68	-1.68
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	2	3.65	-1.65
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	2	3.64	-1.64
Hotel California Eagles	2	3.58	-1.58

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	5	4.8
Led Zeppelin	8	4.5
Leonard Cohen	3	5
Radiohead	6	4.33
The White Stripes	4	4.5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	5
The Coral	2	5
Pearl Jam	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	5	4.2
Public Enemy	4	4.25
R.E.M.	4	4.25
Nirvana	3	4.33

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Artist	Albums	Average
Taylor Swift	2	1.5
Madonna	3	2
Van Morrison	3	2

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Syrupy voice. Fun but no Nina or Ella

4-Star Albums (235)

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1-Star Albums (5)

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All Ratings (523)

Better than I expected

Syrupy voice. Fun but no Nina or Ella

Feels like a cleaner less dirty Tom Waits (early stuff)

Decent but unremarkable blues

3 stars

Some bangers but a bit of filler the too; unnecessarily long album

Quite a ride.

A few bangers, but plenty of whiny songs

Not my kind of hip hop

A few bangers, but plenty of whiny songs

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

"Do it again" is a masterpiece :chef's kiss: but the rest of the album is decidedly ordinary.

Quite enjoyed this

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.

Interesting. Not much outstanding, but definitely more than a background listen

Sparse but excellent

Pure poetry

Some great harmonies but overall not that special

Hadn't heard most of this. First two tracks are brilliant (Mambo Sun, Cosmic Dancer), rest is pretty good

Probably worth 3.5

That's some solid flow. Somehow missed Nas at the time, even though I was quite into hip hop

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

A couple of pretty good songs, bit 7 gets a bit long in parts

Started off strong, but kind of petered out in the second half

Some great songs but a few that are just 'good'. Probably hold them to as higher standard than other bands...

Fun, but might have overdone fela at uni

Took a few listens to get the hang of it, but really enjoyed

Not my thing

A couple of brilliant songs, a few whiny ones, and commercial radio and ads ruined a lot of it for me

Decent, but unremarkable & derivative

That's a solid album. I've heard bits of it but never the whole way through

Some bits were a bit too wild for me, but worth another listen

Never heard of these folks but quite enjoyed. A pregenitor of a couple of styles/bands that I like

Decent commercial pop

The titular track is not my favourite Bowie song, but the rest of the album is pretty solid

Never heard this one. Enjoyed a lot

This is what I came here for! Never heard of her before, but great album. I'm a sucker for a big female voice

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

First half was brilliant, dropped off a bit in the second half

Hadn't heard this album before

Didn't listen much at the time besides the radio play on my jjj. This is good stuff

New to me. I like. 4

Sounds like spinal tap

Never heard them before, but wow there's a lot of bands I like that built on this.

A couple of good songs, but not quite enough to get a 4

3. Plus 1 extra for take 5

Faith no more did it better. 3

Great harmonies

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

A couple of amazing songs (Tusk the song is a masterpiece) but a fair bit of whiny stuff there too.

Couldn't really get into it. Monndance is good but not that good and not enough to hold it

Ok, but unspectacular country

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

Not really my thing

Pretty abstract; quite interesting at times, but a bit of work to get through

A few parts of the album were quite decent, but then sways into mainstream too much. Decent enough mainstream, but not my thing.

That's actually pretty good reggae. Though perhaps lacking passion

First track is great. Rest has its moments

Solid punk

A few masterpieces and some meh

Meh. Title track is good, that's about it

A few solid blues numbers but nothing groundbreaking

A few interesting bits but mostly not my thing

I bought it at the time and enjoyed it, but a bit meh now

A few pretty good tracks but overall not an amazing album

Not their strongest; would probably warrant a 3.5 as I'd enjoy it in some moods, but only really enjoyed a couple of tracks

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.

Stereolab travels back in time and does a co-lab with Jefferson Airplane

A bit whiny

Surprisingly diverse

A few brilliant songs there, but as an album it doesn't quite flow

A couple of gems but overall the album is a bit same-y

Couldn't get through it.

Freedom 90 is one of the greatest pop songs ever made, but the rest of the album doesn't keep up. Every second song was interesting in some way, but not enough to want to go back to the album

A couple of amazing tracks, but not quite there as an album

Half the album is 4, but half is 1 or 2.

The 2nd half drops off a bit, but still holds up.

Pretty good for a Christmas album. But it's still a Christmas album

The hits are great, but too much filler

Very pleasant

Almost gets annoying at times, then becomes quite interesting

2 great tracks but overall the album is a bit weak

Heavily biased by nostalgia

The sounds are before their time, but overall something felt missing

Title track is a classic but the rest of the album doesn't quite do it for me

I want to like it, but it just doesn't do it for me

Not my kind of country

Just a bit too jazzy for me

I had a tape (we had very few of those) of this era Beatles growing up, so nostalgia is strong. Some solid music there all the same.

Not what I expected at all, pleasantly surprised

Solid first half then falls off

Reminds me of Ummagumma

Good but gets a bit same-y

Almost lost a point for jazz police, but I think it might be a joke? Otherwise sublime

All up, it's not as consistent an album as some of their others; a few amazing songs but not quite a 5. Did take two listenings to get to that decision

It got better

A bit repetitive

Excellent name, but music too cheesy

Fun, shallow youthful anger

Promising at first but the periods of silence in the middle of tracks were really annoying

Listened to this a lot as a youngster. I think it's gotten even better and more relevant

I didn't really enjoy Bjork too much when this was released, but appreciate it a lot more now

Really torn about this one. Some excellent tracks, and fits together really well as an album. But also a bunch of tracks that just annoy me.

I quite enjoyed this. I've heard the name but can't pinpoint a song is theirs I've listened to

I had the record as a kid. So there's nostalgia biasing this

The title track is fantastic, though the rest of the album didn't grab me... on the first pass. On a second listening I enjoyed it a lot more

Smooooooth

Decent; reminds me a bit of PJ Harvey at times.

I really got into the groove of the last track but otherwise was ok

Delightfully weird but not sure I'll be listening regularly

I really hate this vocal style

There's something that I don't get about this. I appreciate it but don't necessarily like it. I'll probably come to really like it eventually though. Will need to listen a bunch of times to get there though

This rocks. Ashamed to say I haven't heard it before. This is what I'm here for

A bit long, but enough bangers in there

I don't mind a song or two of this style, but definitely not a whole album

Curious

A few good dance floor numbers, but a lot of filler schlock

Never heard of them. A pleasant surprise

First band I saw live, though never actually listened to this album before (live seeds is my all time favourite)

Listened to this a lot as a teenager, good blues rock but nothing groundbreaking

Brilliant

I enjoyed this. There's something about Elvis Costello that I can't quite commit to a score - the albums are good, but don't seem great, but then they might be. Also, Goon Squad!

Pretty whiny

Good flow, but the lyrics were a bit much. Which is odd as I don't generally mind, but found myself enjoying it a bit less... which some of the songs allude to. So I don't know.

A whole album is a bit much

Didn't grab me the first time through but enjoyed it a lot more in the second listening

I quite liked this. And only now realised that They might be Giants song "why must I be sad" is an ode to Alice Cooper

Only discovered this a couple of years ago.

Deceptacon is gold, but the rest of the album fails to keep up

Listened to a bit of Jamiroquai when I was younger, but doesn't quite do as much for me now as it used to