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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Grievous Angel Gram Parsons	5	2.86	+2.14
Like Water For Chocolate Common	5	2.95	+2.05
Actually Pet Shop Boys	5	3.18	+1.82
Shaft Isaac Hayes	5	3.24	+1.76
Inspiration Information Shuggie Otis	5	3.27	+1.73
American Pie Don McLean	5	3.28	+1.72
The Chronic Dr. Dre	5	3.32	+1.68
Doggystyle Snoop Dogg	5	3.37	+1.63
There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield	5	3.37	+1.63
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan	5	3.38	+1.62

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
In Rainbows Radiohead	1	3.84	-2.84
In Utero Nirvana	1	3.83	-2.83
Kid A Radiohead	1	3.71	-2.71
The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1	3.66	-2.66
A Love Supreme John Coltrane	1	3.63	-2.63
Oracular Spectacular MGMT	1	3.61	-2.61
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson	1	3.6	-2.6
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	1	3.57	-2.57
Funeral Arcade Fire	1	3.56	-2.56
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	1	3.5	-2.5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	4	4.5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Arcade Fire	3	1
Radiohead	4	1.5
Robert Wyatt	2	1
The Flaming Lips	2	1
The Smiths	2	1
The Jesus And Mary Chain	2	1.5
Primal Scream	2	1.5
Echo And The Bunnymen	2	1.5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	3	2
Steely Dan	4	2.25

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Nirvana	1, 4, 4

5-Star Albums (35)

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Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt · 9 likes

1/5

No melodies, no message, no heart, just soulless noise.

The Clash

The Clash · 3 likes

3/5

Guess you had to be there

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 2 likes

1/5

What happens if you have no rhythm or talet.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · 1 likes

4/5

Blues Cave is better than Lyre Cave, still a good double album.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt · 1 likes

1/5

Two drummers making crap without drums.

1-Star Albums (64)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

5/5

Classic jazz album between big band and bebop.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Great lyrics, but all the songs sound the same.

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

1/5

One album you mustn't listen to. Absolute crap.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

Two solo albums as a double album. The second disc is the better one.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

4/5

Good psychedelic rock, heavy on the Hammond.

Queen II

Queen

4/5

Great album without any of the over-rotated hits.

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Meh, if you're not angry.

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Some live albums are legendary. This is one of them.

Sail Away

Randy Newman

4/5

Jazzy folk or folksy jazz, doesn't matter. Great tunes.

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

She shines in the uptempo songs, of which there are too few

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

5/5

Summer of Love Blues. Can't imagine any album being more 1967.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

4/5

Sounds like a bongo overloaded sample collection in a good way.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

4/5

Master indeed.

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

2/5

Probably classic, but just ok.

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

I'm sure it's fine, just not my kind of fine.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

3/5

Some screaming bangers, some screaming fillers.

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

3/5

Overindulgent, but in a good way.

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

Some Steely Dan songs are good, but none of them are on this album.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

Two hitless, yachty Steely Dan albums in a row.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

An absolute masterpiece.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

5/5

The music of the album makes it a masterpiece. The skits, not so much.

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

1/5

No melodies, no message, no heart, just soulless noise.

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

5/5

Banging beats and truthful lyrics. One of the last (?) hip hop masterpieces.

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

Meh...

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

5/5

From the best rhythm section comes an instrumental masterpiece.

Faust IV

Faust

1/5

"What's that noise?" the 11yo asked, and that is a review as good as any.

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

3/5

A bit too experimental, but you can still hear the Waits.

Fleet Foxes

2/5

Vague.

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

3/5

Christmas is perfect for the Wall of Sound

Repeater

Fugazi

1/5

Nope

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Partly electrical, partly traditional, all masterful.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

4/5

Great hits, better fillers than I remembered.

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Just ok, for Stevie Wonder.

Odelay

Beck

2/5

Apart from a couple of good songs, the album is mostly bland noise.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

4/5

Summer of Love on an album.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Anonymous songs, but consistent.

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Ok live album.

Gorillaz

3/5

Too conceptual, but some great songs.

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

2/5

Meh.

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Classic Cubano.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

3/5

Even the happy songs are gloomy.

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

2/5

You hear the greatness, but it doesn't do anything for me.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Sounds like sophomore Beatles. Oh, look, it is!

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Before Love Shack they were better.

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Purple perfection

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

Did NOT sound like 1977, sounded a lot more modern, in a good way.

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Too brief, too good.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

A one-hit-album is not an album.

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

2/5

Organized noise. Groovy at times, but mostly unpleasant.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Great songs, but a bit too 80s sleek.

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

No songs. No voice. No good.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Surprisingly good as albums go.

Young Americans

David Bowie

4/5

Soul-Bowie is better than the other ones.

The Real Thing

Faith No More

3/5

Good late-80s-pre-grunge.

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

The best songs, the best artist, the best cover, the best album.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

2/5

Difficult for me, probably great for others.

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

3/5

The original songs are good 80s. The covers are bad 80s.

The Libertines

4/5

If this was my kind of music, this would be one of best albums.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Blues Cave is better than Lyre Cave, still a good double album.

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

Born 50 years too late, died 50 years too early.

Heroes

David Bowie

2/5

Good songs when he sings. The instrumentals are more demanding.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Icelandic folksy Enigma is not my kind of groove.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Solid.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2/5

A few good songs, but not much more.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

2/5

Meh.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

More soul than disco, not bad, but not for dancing.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

2/5

Between the noise and maracas there are some good songs.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

A good mix between dancefloor fillers and album fillers.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Difficult to listen to someone who has become a Nazi.

Arular

M.I.A.

3/5

Great at the time, did not age well.

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

3/5

Wu Tang Monotonous with an occasional banger.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

14 songs of American West Coast Hardcore Punk in 15 minutes is just about enough.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Three hours of great songs by a great singer.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

2/5

A bit boring.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2/5

One great song does not make a great album.

Disraeli Gears

Cream

3/5

The greatness is there, but only for the first half.

Black Metal

Venom

2/5

The black metal songs are bad, and the melodious songs are too few.

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Cultural appropriation at its worst.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Not bad. Not bad, at all.

Play

Moby

4/5

Really good electronic album.

Kala

M.I.A.

2/5

One good song, a couple of decent fillers, that's it.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

1/5

Noisy

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Ok, but not more than that.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

There might be greatness here, but apart from a couple of songs, I can't hear it.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Felt too brief.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Blusey Stones is good Stones.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

3/5

Good folksy, almost medieval, album.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

A bit too medieval on my ears.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

Searching for a sound recquires quite a bit of noise.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

Solid.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

Are all British progressive rock bands required to make a medieval album? Barely bearable.

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

1/5

Musically accomplished, I'm sure, but without melodies and rhythm there are no real songs.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

A collection of songs does not make an album, but who cares.

Blackstar

David Bowie

1/5

Nothing left of good Bowie here.

Joanna Newsom

1/5

Wish-Björk.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Ok 80s album.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

The lyrics are great, the beats are ok.

2112

Rush

3/5

Progressive soprano rock, but average.

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

2/5

The best songs are not ballads, but the album is mostly ballads.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1/5

More like Blues Implosion, amirite?

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Average Costello.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

One of the best albums ever.

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

5/5

Heartbreakingly good.

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

A great controversy.

Queens of the Stone Age

1/5

Wish Green Day, but without any melodies.

White Light

Gene Clark

4/5

Good folksy folk music.

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday

4/5

Frail, but still the greatest.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

4/5

Vintage Beastie Boys with some of their best beats.

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

2/5

Two hits doesn't make an album.

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

Two drummers making crap without drums.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Good album, not great.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Doowop medium.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

Acoustic synth? Sure! Could've lost a couple of songs toward the end, though.

In Utero

Nirvana

1/5

Noise with occasional greatness.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Not groundbreaking, but not bad.

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

I wish that great voice could hit the right notes more often.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

The Big Band Great.

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

Sad pop does nothing for me.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

2/5

Groovy, but get to the fucking point already.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

2/5

It says absolutely nothing.

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

1/5

Cheap Psychedelic Electronica from bargain Joni Mitchell.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

5/5

Genius, indeed.

Stardust

Willie Nelson

4/5

Willie's voice on these jazz standards is perfect, although his own songs usually are better.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

4/5

Dylan is better when Dylan is not being sung by Dylan. A 60s classic.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

A jazz giant playing with synthesizers, sure! Early jazz-funk-fusion at its best.

The Yes Album

Yes

2/5

Meh 70s pop from a band that would blossom in the 80s.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

Pink Jehovah's Floyd Witnesses accidentally programs a Commodore 64

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

The sound of bawling drunks in a studio with out of tune instruments they cannot play.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Swingin' Sinatra is the best Sinatra.

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

Sad Reed is bad Reed.

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

2/5

Medium punk.

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

4/5

He can't sing. His songs are too long. But it still clicks.

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

1/5

Generic, whining and boring. In other words: BritPop.

Night Life

Ray Price

3/5

Great songs, but most of them are better with other artists, especially those who wrote them.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

The first CD in any Boomer's collection has an occasional underrated gem.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Muscle Shoals was good for the Stones. A masterpiece.

Boston

3/5

80s in the most 80s way of the 80s.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

1/5

A hundred monkeys with a hundred instruments worked for about 5 minutes on this.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1/5

The 60s was not a good decade for jazz or ballet and this is a 60s jazz ballet.

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Punk, but not too much, not too little.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

3/5

An ok 70s album from 1990.

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

If I hear another medieval troubadour wannabe, I'll get ready for a joust and a melee.

Dummy

Portishead

4/5

Classic trip hop album.

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

1/5

Nope. These folksy medieval albums by British progressive bands are awful.

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

3/5

The missing link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan makes a decent album.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Not my generation, but ok.

Sincere

Mj Cole

3/5

When it's good it's great. But those are a lot of fillers and not the dancefloor kind.

The Coral

2/5

Britpop after the fact.

Garbage

3/5

Not garbage, but not not garbage either.

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Good jams on a classic album.

The Clash

3/5

Guess you had to be there

Run-D.M.C.

4/5

Classic, but not always my kind of jam.

Nevermind

Nirvana

4/5

Still good, but still a bit uneven.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

1/5

Incomprehensible album, just like the band name.

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

5/5

Great classics and other greats.

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Sad, bordering on suicidal. Possibly great, but boring.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Cheap Casio B52:s.

Tapestry

Carole King

3/5

Mid folksinger in the era of great folksingers.

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Weirdly accessible and off-putting at the same time.

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

I hear the greatness, but it does nothing for me.

Greetings From L.A.

Tim Buckley

4/5

Unique voice that died too early.

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Their distinct sound sounds awful.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

1/5

Jazz at its worst.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

2/5

Still not a fan of this kind of jazz.

American Pie

Don McLean

5/5

All classics.

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

2/5

Nope.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

One of his best, says this man in his 50s.

Woodface

Crowded House

1/5

Eyerollingly bland.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Nirvana was better unplugged.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

Stuck between SkaPunk and BritPop in a bland way.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Great club anthems, but with a few low points.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

1/5

Bland in every way music, albums or songs can be bland.

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

1/5

Sad crap

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Great album from start to finish.

Actually

Pet Shop Boys

5/5

80s synth masterpiece with surprises (Morricone!) and monster hits.

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

Costello is not my jam. There is no jam whatsoever.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Tired of singing? Just let the gloomy instrumentals drone on.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

1/5

More no no nos, amirite?

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

2/5

Can't rap. Can't sing. Good beats.

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Now That's What I Call Crap!

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

5/5

Lovely covers, lovely voice.

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Should've taught you better.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

4/5

Not Hillbilly Deluxe, but it's still Dwight Yoakam.

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Experimental, but not in a good way.

Kid A

Radiohead

1/5

Whiny, boring and ZZZzzz...

Hysteria

Def Leppard

3/5

You don't get more 80s than Def Leppard 80s.

#1 Record

Big Star

3/5

Never heard of this, surprisingly good.

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Meh

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

2/5

Unlike Carey herself, this did not age well.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

3/5

Good, but not great.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Classic Electronica masterpiece.

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Surprisingly funky at times. Ok songs that haven't been played to death.

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

2/5

The first song is masterful, but it's downhill from there.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

5/5

Original, funky, soulful masterpiece.

Franz Ferdinand

2/5

Not a fan of Scottish Cardigans.

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

Ordinary Bowie

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Does the Tom Tom Club have tom toms? Indeed they do. Also a couple of good hits.

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

4/5

To make something original from the Beach Boys sound takes a genius.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

An album full of greatness, but then one day, music died.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

1/5

It has nothing that makes music great.

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Ok, for a live album

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Successful, perhaps, but not a very good album.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

4/5

Great music from Senegal.

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

2/5

Bland, anonymous and says nothing.

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

1/5

Probably great. Definitely boring.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

1/5

Whiny crap

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

1/5

The point did indeed vanish.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Because it's Beatles it's good, but it's not great Beatles.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

1/5

Crimson Crap.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

The singing makes the music worse. Boring.

Viva Hate

Morrissey

1/5

Another whiny and pretentious man.

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Sounds like Steely Dan, but with more elevator.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Prima, indeed!

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

Great reinvention of the band.

Elastica

2/5

Not punk enough, not pop enough, not rock enough.

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Angry and, well, raw.

In Rainbows

Radiohead

1/5

Great? No. Good? No. So, so? No. Bad? Yes.

Sound Affects

The Jam

2/5

Not a lot of jam on this one. The sound doesn't affect either.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

5/5

Class act all the way.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

A real comeback/revival of the best Stones, the blues Stones.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...

Arrested Development

3/5

This album has aged a bit, but it's still good.

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

1/5

Absolutely not.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Great album, but I like their first and third a lot better.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

3/5

Easy listening, in a good way.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Has not aged a second, for some weird reason.

Moon Safari

Air

3/5

Adequate electronic music.

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

5/5

A true masterpiece.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

4/5

Who's that? Good Who, that's Who.

Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart

4/5

The Motown sound is strong with this one.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

Medium Fleetwood

I Against I

Bad Brains

1/5

Bad music, too.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Not bad, not good.

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

What happens if you have no rhythm or talet.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

5/5

Adele

3/5

An amazing voice. Too slow, at times.

Maxinquaye

Tricky

3/5

Some classic triphop songs, some not so classic.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

Really good blues rock.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Some good blues songs, but a singer he ain't

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Apart from a couple of songs, the album is close to perfect.

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

Mid-Grunge

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Good ABBA, but still not great ABBA.

Kenza

Khaled

3/5

Good 70s Middle Eastern music, but with some unnecessary covers.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

3/5

Just like its cover, the album has its ups and downs.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

2/5

Mid

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

2/5

Slow and sleepy, even when it tries to be upbeat.

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

4/5

Atlantic's rawer sound is my kind of soul.

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

3/5

Well, if he can't remember, how can we?

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Folk singer on speed.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

3/5

Very much a Sunday album.

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

I'm all for a good beat, but then what?

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

One good hit, several average songs.

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

3/5

Disco punk at its best.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

3/5

Ok operatic 70s rock.

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Part groovy, part noisy.

The La's

2/5

Lower average among the whiny British bands.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

1/5

What flaming pile of garbage is this?

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

As always with live albums, I guess you had to be there.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

2/5

Nah...

Wild Gift

2/5

Not a good album. Not even a decent X-Mas album.

Iron Maiden

4/5

Amazing for a debut

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

Not enough pop, not enough folk.

The Band

2/5

A very bland Band.

Low

David Bowie

2/5

Not one of his good albums.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Good zombie.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

3/5

Good 50s country from the 80s.

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Ok latin grooves.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Never heard before. Ok.

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

A couple of good songs, but not one of his best albums.

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

They never made a bad album.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Punk, but with someone who can sing. Not angry enough.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Sophisticated elevator music to be used in an 80s erotic thriller.

Whatever

Aimee Mann

2/5

Probably speaks to someone, but not to me.

The Trinity Session

Cowboy Junkies

2/5

Take perfectly good country songs, and make them slower and all sound the same.

Led Zeppelin

5/5

The classic album of all classic albums.

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Quite ok

McCartney

Paul McCartney

2/5

Not the best, not even good

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

Masterpiece

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Bob's best album.

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Original in a good way

Darkdancer

Les Rythmes Digitales

3/5

Good EDM at times.

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

The best of the best

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

2/5

Just like its name, wtf

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

4/5

One of my first albums. Still good.

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

A few good songs does not make a good album

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

5/5

Certified F.R.E.S.H

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

4/5

One of the greatest comeback albums ever.

The Specials

4/5

Good ska

Elvis Presley

5/5

Not a bad debut

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

3/5

Some good, some bad.

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1/5

"Hello, is this the suicidal hotline?"

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

Concept albums are not always weird. Not always great either.

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

Good at worst, great as best.

Doolittle

Pixies

2/5

You bleed? My ears bleed.

Nowhere

Ride

1/5

Shoegazing is literally just as fun as gazing at your shoes.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

4/5

Not that hard.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

The 60s, I know, but wtf.

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Ok 80s

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

Good elevator music

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Bland Joni

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Mostly banger classics.

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1/5

Bebop noise

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

No, not rejoicing at all.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

East Coast at its best

Is This It

The Strokes

2/5

Iconic cover on crap music

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

2/5

Mid Buddha Bar music

Odessa

Bee Gees

2/5

The pre-disco BeeGees are not very good.

Third

Soft Machine

1/5

Is this album broken?

Harvest

Neil Young

4/5

Classic

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

2/5

Not punk enough.

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

Folksy skåpmat

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

Great, but not his greatest.

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

2/5

Nah.

Atomizer

Big Black

1/5

Not atomized, more like a solid turd.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Good disco, but the slow songs are drags

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

A few great songs does not make a great album, but at least it's good.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

2/5

The Ark, but from Temu and with more cowbell

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Varied, but consistent. Really good.

Achtung Baby

3/5

Good for U2

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

2/5

Expected Sugarbabes, got Sugarcubes.

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Some of their best work.

The Doors

4/5

So good.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

4/5

East Coast Surf Rock, the good kind.

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

Isn't it legal yet?

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

4/5

Great old Bob.

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

2/5

The first try at a rock opera, is more of an error.

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Groundbreaking, but not great.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

2/5

Who cares?

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Surprisingly bland

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Average yacht rock.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

4/5

Mali blues at its best.

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

3/5

Quite good.

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Sounds like a demo tape, and whaddaya know, it is a demo tape. A fairly good one.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

4/5

Greatness.

Dare!

The Human League

2/5

One good song does not make an album..

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

2/5

I confess, it's not good.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

As uplifting as two wrists, slit to the bone.

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Creedence sounding like Creedence.

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Ill as hell.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

1/5

Absolute crap.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Why skits?

The Stooges

3/5

Some of it is really good. Some of it is crap.

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

1/5

Not speaking, not singing, not good.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

3/5

Average band name. Average Band album.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

2/5

Starts good, but then, no.

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

1/5

A flaming hot pile of...

Joan Baez

3/5

Groundbreaking, but not breathtaking

Guero

Beck

3/5

Ok.

High Violet

The National

2/5

Trying not to gaze at my shoes

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Lots of drama.

I Should Coco

Supergrass

2/5

BritBros

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Some good songs, but not really my cup of tea.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

3/5

Great fighting songs.

Scissor Sisters

3/5

Recognizable songs, still average.

Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

1/5

Quite happy before listening to this. Now, no.

Soul Mining

The The

2/5

The What?

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

1/5

Too much drugs, too little talent.

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

Great comeback

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons

5/5

Sad because of what could have been. Happy because of what we have.

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Rock, but not hard.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Bland and average

Fragile

Yes

2/5

No.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

2/5

A couple of good songs. The rest a drugfuelled search for a melody.

Damaged

Black Flag

1/5

My ears are Damaged.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Perfect.

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

2/5

Has not aged well.

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

Highly sampleable.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

2/5

Not brilliant at all

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

Crap

Document

R.E.M.

2/5

Not quite the end of the world.

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

2/5

The cover is better than the music.

Myths Of The Near Future

Klaxons

2/5

Does nothing for me specifically or for music generally.

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

2/5

Like coming down from a bad shrooms trip in the late 90s. Probably a true story.

The Bends

Radiohead

2/5

Bland

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Gets better and better

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

1/5

Supercrap Bigshit.

Live Through This

Hole

2/5

Meh

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Some classics, some not.

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Average indie

Country Life

Roxy Music

3/5

Not too much country, is it?

Pink Flag

Wire

1/5

Crap punk

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Strong debut

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

A couple of great songs does not make a great album.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

Suicidal

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Not bad.

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Averageication.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

3/5

Mid Queen

Penthouse And Pavement

Heaven 17

1/5

Temu Depeche with a Casio knockoff.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

5/5

Fantastic Collaboration!

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Never heard, never will again.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Never heard a good album by Radiohead before. Still haven't.

Deserter's Songs

Mercury Rev

2/5

Nope.

Elephant

The White Stripes

3/5

Good Elephant.

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

3/5

Not as classic as Baduizm, but ok.

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Everything sounds like theme songs for 70s sitcoms.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

4/5

Great Latin album.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

2/5

Nope

Permission to Land

The Darkness

4/5

Good operatic metal

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

A couple of groundbreaking songs does not make for a bloated album.

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Nah

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

1/5

Failed gimmick

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Apart from a couple of duds, this is a masterpiece.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

1/5

Wristslittingly depressive.