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Album	You	Global	Diff
Savane Ali Farka Touré	5	3.02	+1.98
Africa Brasil Jorge Ben Jor	5	3.37	+1.63
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.55	+1.45
Exile On Main Street The Rolling Stones	5	3.61	+1.39
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	5	3.62	+1.38
Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan	5	3.67	+1.33
Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix	5	3.79	+1.21
I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Buck Owens	4	2.81	+1.19
Automatic For The People R.E.M.	5	3.82	+1.18
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	5	3.82	+1.18

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Illinois Sufjan Stevens	1	3.5	-2.5
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails	1	3.35	-2.35
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.1	-2.1
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	1	3.07	-2.07
Future Days Can	1	3	-2
A Northern Soul The Verve	1	2.91	-1.91
Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy	1	2.88	-1.88
At San Quentin Johnny Cash	2	3.8	-1.8
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman	2	3.79	-1.79
Off The Wall Michael Jackson	2	3.78	-1.78

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Rolling Stones	3	5
Jimi Hendrix	2	5

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Nick Drake	3	2

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Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Crunchy guitars and heavy beats mixed with machismo, bravado and misogny. The Beasties boys used the same formula but didn't take themselves seriously. This is the kind of thing that gives ignorant white trash a bad name.

3 likes

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Rough and sometimes repetitive, but the best cuts are big sassy punk rock cornerstones. I bought this CD along with Toni Childs "Union" at a used disc shop one day. The clerk claimed it would be the only time ever somebody would purchase those two albums at the same time.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (10)

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

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Groovin'

The Young Rascals

2/5

Thanksgiving Day = Mostly short songs, 35 minutes. The hits are okay, other parts sound dated.

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

3/5

More doesn't mean better, but this is still okay as a double album. The slow songs wander, the fast ones are frantic. "That's Enough For Me" is my take and also one of the better songs.

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

5/5

This always seemed like an introduction the the next five Rolling Stones albums. Very listenable for a Sunday morning jam.

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

3/5

Good pop songs, lots of energy. The hits are the best part

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

2/5

A bunch of short songs, some with catchy hooks, mostly sounding about the same.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

2/5

Low and slow, kinda sad

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Slow and kinda sad. Good sounding overall

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Sounds Springsteenish. Waitin'on a Sunny Day is my favorite

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

2/5

Mostly slow and sad with some good Pop touches.

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Good smooth and happy

Queen II

Queen

2/5

Lotsa music. Individual songs are okay, but not in a play-it-again way.

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Bouncy songs, good hooks and a clean happy song. Kinda punk, kinda pop. This was a fun ride.

White Denim

2/5

Some clean songs, some messy ones. Back at the farm was my favorite

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

3/5

Good full pop songs, the longer tunes aren't too much

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

This has better production values and a cleaner sound than their first couple of albums. The songs are tighter, but there's less of the boogie sound that makes ZZ Top fun.

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

3/5

Not the best Dire Straits album, but still good. Very clean. Some of the slow songs on the second side are less enjoyable

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Smooth, beats, nice for a relaxed day

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Punk popish with some techno that sounds like filler

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

2/5

Mostly nice bouncy very British folk pop. Some dated songs that are still okay

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

1/5

Crunchy guitars and loud swearing.

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

Reminds me of Sublime

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Bouncy, lots of notes. Then dreamy and kind of thin.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2/5

Lots of noise and beats. Runaway was okay

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

2/5

Macho swearing, misogyny, loud beats. Still fun.

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

3/5

Bouncy synthesizer, a couple of trippy slow songs. Okay for both housework and just sitting there jams.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

CCR getting their sound together. Not as innovative as the upcoming flurry (4 more albums in 2 years) just good solid, chunky music. The begining of Lean Clean & Bluesy

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

2/5

Well produced dance music.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Bouncy pop, guitar driven. Down to the Well is good.

John Prine

4/5

Story- songs about regular people.

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Good beats and smooth synthizer grooves. Not as earthy as Sly & Robbie dubs, but still okay

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Mudhoney

2/5

Short grungy songs. Chunchy and fun, but vocals aren't great

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

2/5

Clean, lightweight well-produced pop.

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Very Whoish. Mostly short, fun pop songs, good guitar riffs. The commercial jingles are clever bits but dated.

Like A Prayer

Madonna

2/5

Not as many vocal gymnastics as later big poofy pop. Big beats, catchy rhythms.

California

American Music Club

3/5

Reminded me of Gram Parsons, only with more pop and punk influances. The upbeat songs work better

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

The Incredible String Band

3/5

Trippy and fun. Very dated, wandering vocals.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

1/5

Lightweight, all over the place with thin vocals. "Needles in the Camel's Eye" is an okay pop song, the rest is an uneven mix of bouncy and spacy.

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

2/5

"Morning Will Come" and " Animal Zoo" are upbeat and fun but aimless, the rest is lightweight, spacy and dated. Okay for a sleepy jam

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Repeated plays and it's still that good.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Long songs and some country sounding short songs

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

2/5

bouncy pop music, 80s ish

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Melodic, mostly upbeat.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

An hour of loose rock-n-roll jams. All the ingredients, blues, soul, and attitude.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Two disc set but with some short sides. It's good Souther boogie rock with a strong LIVE feeling.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Smooth country swing

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

A couple well known 60ish songs with long keyboard and guitar jams, plus other songs with multiple rhythm changes

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Mostly solid songs, dated but still a good collection

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

4/5

A bunch of British rock stars playing classic American blues. Good gritty guitar jams

Fred Neil

3/5

Good songs and mellow music. Kind of sad but okay

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

a dozen short songs that have held the test of time

Gorillaz

3/5

smooth groves, easy bass driven dub

461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton

2/5

An easy bunch of cover songs

Trio

Dolly Parton

2/5

mostly slow songs, some country swing.

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

big songs, as good as Hendrix gets

Achtung Baby

4/5

This is a good full album,. Less industrial than some U2

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

Smoother and poetic, thhis has aged well

Play

Moby

2/5

The bluesy, mid-tempo songs are good. Techno in a personal way

The xx

2/5

Lightweight techno pop. Okay for easy days

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Cut

The Slits

2/5

Bouncy pop with lots of rhythm changes

Fun House

The Stooges

3/5

A mix of fun frantic blues-rock and slow muddy guitars. Sometimes both in the same song.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

2/5

Mostly sad songs, well-structured and interesting. "Man In A Shed" is the most upbeat of the bunch

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Big and bold and fun. More rock than I expected

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Smooth long jams with interesting solos. Not too heavy

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

A dozen short Electric Country songs, the classic tales with a twang. Solid structure, a bridge btween Hank Williams and Gram Parsons.

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

3/5

A bunch of short, mostly fast songs. A lot of ideas and energy, like Costello's first couple albums, but not quite as structured. Still real tasty hooks and like Sublime, an the entire collection is greater than the parts.

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

2/5

One long, wandering spacy song. Relaxing and melancholy, disjointed,

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

Some longer songs with sound effects, some short songs with sound effects. Very British, solid beats

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

3/5

Youtube had a Clean version, so that's what I listened to. There's lots of anger, but the upbeat parts are fun and the slow parts are comfortable. Innovative and influential, so it still sounds fresh.

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

The rhymic parts with less electronic parts are okay.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

1/5

Weird unfun arrhythmic. Not Steve Goodman.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Orbital 2

Orbital

2/5

Thumping electronics. Driving beassts with some light voices.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Sounds more R&B now than it sounded in 1998.

1999

Prince

3/5

Bright bouncy synthesizer and breathy vocals. The hits are okay, the rest is the same

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

In Utero

Nirvana

3/5

More good grunge

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Losta good country singing and strings

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

Sometimes crunchy and frantic, sometimes playful. Not too serious

Suzanne Vega

2/5

Breathy vocals, lightweight songs but some good guitar

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

More gritty and bluesy than the latter stuff

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

5/5

Great blues. Solid songs.

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

2/5

Very English. Some good tight songs, some drifting.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

3/5

A lot of diffrent styles, sometimes all over the place. The upbeat songs work best and there's catchy hooks and good songs everywhere.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

1/5

Spacy, pretentious and silly.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

stomping cheering rockabilly fun

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

2/5

More accessible than Pink Moon.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

2/5

Upbeat electronic songs are good. The slow stuff is less fun.

Black Sabbath

3/5

Sloppy sometimes, silly most of the time. More blues based than their latter stuff.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Lightweight, kinda sounds like make it up as you go

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

A little harder edge than My Aim Is True, and a little less accessible. The songs are catchy but not with the same punch as some other stuff. Good solid punk

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

The Best CCR album. Like the sign says "Lean Clean and Blusey"

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

Sometimes kind of REMish, but the slower parts are less catchy and the fast parts are more frantic.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

3/5

Such Great Music, but SO slow and retrospective with lots of sad words. Maybe a 2.5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

2/5

A few short mostly real slow songs. Sometimes sad pop music, sometimes bouncy pop music. Strings and horns and singing.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Loose and rocking, good songs and a couple long jams

Electric

The Cult

2/5

A lot of the same type songs. Decent guitar rock but it wears

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

She seems upset. Sometimes angry, mostly sad. Someone sould dend her some flowers

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

2/5

A bit different from the Folsom Prison album. Only 30 minutes of music and talking. "Wanted Man" is good.

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Smooth and dreamy, this is Hendrix at his best. Little Wing is so sadly short

Pornography

The Cure

2/5

They're angry about something, hard to tell from the lyrics what it is. Really good bass lines and some nice guitar, but the Oh so spooky lyrics are distracting

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

Messy and frantic, which is what Grindcore is supposed to be, I guess. A couple of the "songs" are structured, but it's mostly short blasts of chunky anger. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

2/5

At first this was a1.5 stars, then one song kinda stuck with me, so I listened again. So maybe a 2. Nice guitar and interesting structure on some songs, but too slow and sad for that many oh so deep and thoughtful lyrics.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Jersey Jersey Jersey. Good rock music with a full sound and Dylan-ish lyrics

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

1/5

Loud pounding and screaming

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

4/5

Not really songs, just loose jams with a bunch of happy musicians. Loose and spooky

Debut

Björk

2/5

Spacy with lots of thumping. I enjoyed this more than expected, the vocal gymnastics are interesting, some songs sound incomplete

Different Class

Pulp

3/5

Lightweight, popish, not all that catchy. But nice smooth vocals and the angst and happy are well balanced. Not my thing but enjoyable.

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

1/5

Good message clouded by the same rhythms and tones. Maybe a 1.5

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

This was okay at first, then some songs were less pop and more emo and sounded the same. But it was a decent enough sound.

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Lightweight and dated, but still good smooth jams.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

2/5

Quirky soul beats, fancy vocals. Better than the glam Bowie

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Mostly loud and frantic, all over the place and dated, but still decent rock

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

2/5

This had some nice spacy moments, but at times was crowded with extra noises.

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

3/5

Good crunchy angry rock.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1/5

Lots of thumping and mean angry sounds

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Liked this more than expected. Steady stream of smooth and driven grooves. Vocal gymanistics with feeling, nice horns. Yeah

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

Little less punk, little more production. There's good beats in here, along with some "huh?" lyrics and some extra odd sounds, but Graveyard and No Birds are solid

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

SMoooth and bouncy. Okay

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Good mix of pop and punk. Catchy songs with British vocals, guitars, keyboards, some thick bass. Almost four stars

Ingenue

k.d. lang

3/5

Like a really laid back lounge act. Relaxing and both sad and happy at the same time

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Gets everything right, individual songs, overall sounds, REM at their best

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

2/5

Thought we had some Nick Drake before. Great fancy guitars and well structured songs. Just too slow and sad and complicated for my taste

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

2/5

My roomie had this album and played it constantly. At least the band didn't seem to take their image too seriously. Thump thump chunk chunk, but in a fun sorta way

Ten

Pearl Jam

4/5

This group of songs convinced me that Grunge was good.

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

Big guitars over the top on almost every song. Pop music that sounds like real rock.

Foo Fighters

4/5

Bunch of good crunchy songs with pop sensability. Not overpowering but smart and fun.

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