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Album	You	Global	Diff
Beyond Skin Nitin Sawhney	5	2.76	+2.24
Ys Joanna Newsom	5	2.79	+2.21
Foxbase Alpha Saint Etienne	5	2.94	+2.06
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes TV On The Radio	5	2.94	+2.06
I See A Darkness Bonnie "Prince" Billy	5	2.97	+2.03
Spiderland Slint	5	2.98	+2.02
A Seat at the Table Solange	5	3.01	+1.99
Nighthawks At The Diner Tom Waits	5	3.01	+1.99
Nowhere Ride	5	3.02	+1.98
Ambient 1/Music For Airports Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Metallica Metallica	1	3.79	-2.79
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks	1	3.4	-2.4
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips	1	3.28	-2.28
Bluesbreakers John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	1	3.16	-2.16
Your Arsenal Morrissey	1	3.05	-2.05
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Megadeth	1	2.97	-1.97
Come Find Yourself Fun Lovin' Criminals	1	2.92	-1.92
Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones	2	3.87	-1.87
Back In Black AC/DC	2	3.85	-1.85
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Byrds	1	2.82	-1.82

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Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	4	4.75
Radiohead	3	5
PJ Harvey	2	5
TV On The Radio	2	5
Kendrick Lamar	2	5
Nick Drake	2	5
The Smashing Pumpkins	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
The Kinks	2	1.5

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Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro · 1 likes

3/5

I don’t hate it but it would have been 4 stars had they gone with the name Nazipenis

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon · 1 likes

2/5

Best part of this album is the review on here where the guy mishears Zimmerman and yoga as cinnamon and yoghurt

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies · 1 likes

3/5

There’s a type of 60s music that’s like *harpsichord plays* “butterscotch pumps and tangerine eyes, twirling about in summertime skies” (the other four band members start going AAAAAAAAH OOOOOH) I don’t like it

Metallica

Metallica · 1 likes

1/5

Reminded me of how, when I’m on a run, I’ll check the time every 20 seconds because I just want it to be over

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys · 1 likes

5/5

Sabotage is as integral to Jewish musical culture as Hava Nagila

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Highway to Hell

AC/DC

3/5

I enjoyed this, in spite of myself (particularly Night Prowler). I'm not sure I'd make an effort to listen to their other albums, esp post Bon Scott and some of the lyrics were almost repulsively horny. But! I liked seeing where other acts like Amyl and the Sniffers and the guys on tikok who did the 'I'm on smoko, so leave me alone!' video had been influenced by their pub rock forefathers

The Cars

3/5

I was shocked to find out this went 6x platinum as I'd never heard anything from it (except snippets of JWIN). They kind of remind me of The 1975, fairly inoffensive radio synth pop that's actually better than a lot of people give it credit for but is nothing truly mindblowing. I was going to give this a 3/5, but based on the fact that Just What I Needed WHIPS it's getting a 4/5. I'd definitely listen again, an over all enjoyable experience that's probably closer to a 3 than a 5. Call it a 3.75. Favourite Tracks: Just What I Needed, All Mixed Up Least Fav Track: My Best Friend's Girl

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

5/5

Somewhat shamefully this is the first Bob Dylan album I’ve ever listened to the whole way through. I’ve been doing a lot of Jewish anti war / anti occupation organising for the last while and it can be particularly isolating. I’m (only a little) older than Dylan was when this was recorded but the mix of social and interpersonal strife is absolutely familiar. There’s a lot of older activists who’ve been around since the Vietnam protests and, like this album, they’re a good reminder of perspective. Social movements take time, things seem hopeless, we’re constantly taking two steps back for every one forward but ultimately, I think, good people win out in the end. (Also it helps having recently been done dirty by a huge Dylan fan) An easy 5/5 Favourite tracks: all of them!

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Cannot fault the musicianship on this one and when it’s good it’s really good but… it just didn’t click for me! Favourite Tracks: Waitin’ for the Bus, La Grange Least Fav Track: Move Me on Down the Line

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I really wanted to enjoy this more than I did. Favourite Tracks: Sympathy for the Devil, Jigsaw Puzzle Least Favourite Tracks: Stray Cat Blues (fucking ew)

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

3/5

The most quintessentially 80s album to ever do it. Some really beautiful moments on this but my god it can drag at times. Favourite Track: The Working Hour Least Fav Track: I Believe

Van Halen

2/5

Credit where credit is due, EvH is one of the most talented guitarists of all time. Favourite Tracks: You Really Got Me Least Fav Track: Feel Your Love Tonight

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

3/5

!!!This must have RIPPED in 1965!!! Favourite Track: The Witch, Strychnine Least Fav Track: Boss Hoss

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

Hell fucking yeah brother!!! Favourite tracks: In the Cold, Cold Night; Ball and Biscuit; The Hardest Button to Button Least fav track: I Want to be the Boy to Warm Your Mother’s Heart

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

This is great over all and there’s some really fab use of samples but it did NOT need to be that long my god. Favourite Tracks: Bring the Noise, Show ‘Em Whatcha Got Least Fav Track: Cold Lampin’ With Flavor

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

Started this like “it’s good but I don’t really know if it’s good enough for a five” and by the time I finished ‘If You See Her, Say Hello’ I was emotionally devastated enough to consider giving it a six. Favourite Tracks: 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 Least Fav Track: Tangled Up In Blue

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

4/5

shoutout to hobbits gotta be one of my favourite genders fr Favourite Tracks: Thank You Least Fav Tracks: Living Loving Maid

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Badly Drawn Boy

4/5

My dad and I have a bit where we’ve been calling a Channel 4 weatherman Badly Drawn Boy (for a reason totally lost to either of us) for the last 15 years. So naturally I’m already fond of this. Favourite Track: Another Pearl, Once Around the Block Least Fav Track: This Song

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

Lacks the excitement of other lofi projects in the 60s and the ambition of later sludge metal LPs Favourite Track: Out of Focus Least Fav Track: Rock Me Baby

Back In Black

AC/DC

2/5

Can’t believe I listened to a four minute song about being noshed off. Favourite Track: Back in Black Least Fav Track: Givin the Dog a Bone

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Listened to this on the train (Bob Dylan approved) on my way to a job interview (Bob Dylan unapproved) and idk if it affected the outcome but I sure enjoyed myself. Favourite tracks: Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Least fav track: Outlaw Blues

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Saw someone describe this as being as if the Beastie Boys made Revolver and I have to agree Favourite Track: Hotwax Least Fav Track: High 5 (Rock the Catskills)

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Please, please watch this video of Kermit singing the final track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MSXv_YXLmI&t=0s (I love this album so much) Favourite Tracks: Someone Great, All My Friends, New York I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down Least Fav Track: North American Scum

The Bends

Radiohead

5/5

Have loved this album ever since I first listened to it as a moody 15 year old looking to branch out from the emo / screamo / hardcore bands I was listening to. Favourite Tracks: My Iron Lung, Fake Plastic Trees, (Nice Dream) Least Fav Track: ?? unsure I have one

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

Pretty average but also I'm docking a star for the whole racism thing Fav Track: Free Bird Least Fav Track: no standouts here

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

I own this on vinyl and have listened to it about 1000 times through, so safe to say I love it. Giving it a 4 because there’s a little something that’s holding me back on a 5. Favourite track: Midnight in a Perfect World Least Fav Track: Transmission 1

Signing Off

UB40

4/5

I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did, probably because I’d only heard Red Red Wine and Rat in Mi Kitchen. I grew up in England and the influence of Carribean culture is everywhere. I even commute on a train line named after the Windrush generation!! Reggae and Dub have influenced so much popular music here that there was no reason to shy away from it. Anyway highly enjoyable. Fuck the Tories and fuck British imperialism. Favourite Tracks: Burden of Shame Least Fav Track: I Think It’s Going To Rain Today

Violent Femmes

4/5

Really delightful. Look at those bass lines go!! Favourite Track: Please Do Not Go Least Fav Track: Add It Up

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Quick confession: my parents are both certified Beatles haters. I’ve listened to approximately… two? songs by The Beatles in my entire life (Blackbird and Hey Jude) and have never had any desire to go any further. Credit absolutely where it’s due, the range of instrumentation is crazy and absolutely groundbreaking. It’s like a beautiful, complex dish which I can appreciate for having used inventive and complex cooking techniques and then ends up being something that’s just… fine! Favourite Tracks: She’s Leaving Home, Within You Without You Least Fav Track: For the Benefit of Mr Kite

Adele

3/5

I don’t think I can rate it any higher by virtue of being alive in the UK in the 2010s and hearing it everywhere. BUT the fact that she’s only 21 here and had already put herself up there with the greatest vocalists of all time is crazy. Big up my West Norwood kween, much imitated and never surpassed. Favourite Tracks: Someone Like You, He Won’t Leave Least Fav Track: Set Fire to the Rain

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

4/5

Everyone was right, this really is delightful Favourite track Eye Know Least fav track: Tread Water

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé

3/5

Drunk in Love is a comedy masterpiece: surfboart? Breastesses! An incredibly 2014 album, I get why it’s on the list - totally changed the game with the surprise drop, made feminism cool, and had a gargantuan cultural impact. If I had my way I’d probably take this off the list and replace it with either Lemonade or Renaissance which knocked it out the park. Anyway, WE TEACH GIRLS TO SHRINK THEMSELVES, TO MAKE THEMSELVES SMALLER 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Favourite Track: ***Flawless Least Fav Track: Blow

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

Someone has played an elaborate 43 minute joke on me Favourite Song: American Gothic Least Fav Song: Family Band

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Imagine listening to Born Under Punches or Once in a Lifetime for the first time Favourite Track: Once in a Lifetime Least Fav Track: honestly? There isn’t one

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

This was perfectly nice, but the fact that I genuinely can’t think of any of the songs except Moondance says something

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

Arrested Development

2/5

I honestly wanted to like this a lot more than I did but there were so many times I felt like I was really struggling to get to the end

Stephen Stills

3/5

Entirely fine, which really is the most I can say for it.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

3/5

I think there’s some kind of spiritual blockage in my brain that makes me incapable of truly enjoying prog

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4/5

Idc if he’s from New York the yodelling and singing about bugs make his country boy LARP so charming

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Lots of hay’s been made over whether or not The Pogues are Irish or English or Anglo-Hibernian or what have you. Fundamentally, they’re the sound of the London Irish: of sticky carpeted boozers with céad míle faílte signs, of being the English cousin, of having at least one relative your whole family doesn’t talk about, of having more than a passing knowledge of the London GAA scene, of thinking you’re a prick if you can’t pronounce Áine

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

3/5

Wait, his surname actually IS Domino???

Metallica

1/5

Reminded me of how, when I’m on a run, I’ll check the time every 20 seconds because I just want it to be over

Os Mutantes

4/5

This is what I thought the Beatles sounded like before I listened to them

Is This It

The Strokes

4/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

4/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

2/5

I am once again docking a star because the Rolling Stones are fucking weird and gross about women.

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Ok I see why people say this is theo4 best album

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

3/5

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

3/5

Not as bad as I feared but not as good as I’d have liked

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

The little skits were actually quite fun

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

A delightful 28 minutes of my morning, they really are nice Jewish boys

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

4/5

was not expecting the orc-rock breakdown or the captain pugwash coda.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

2/5

Basically what ChatGPT would produce if you asked it to make a pop rock album from the 60s

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Suspicious Minds obviously bangs, but the rest is just okay

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Sabotage is as integral to Jewish musical culture as Hava Nagila

School's Out

Alice Cooper

2/5

The highs are high, the lows are catastrophic

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

3/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

Regrettably, I fucking love The Smiths - this album particularly.

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

3/5

I don’t hate it but it would have been 4 stars had they gone with the name Nazipenis

The Stooges

4/5

Big fan of the musical stylings of Mr. Ignatius Pop

Either Or

Elliott Smith

5/5

the permanent soundtrack to my degree, many moons ago

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

3/5

I think my grandma was a fan of Louis Prima (she'd have been 24? when this came out) so I guess she would have been extremely cool in 1956

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

4/5

However horny you think Jarvis Cocker is, I promise he’s hornier than that

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

5/5

I met Cat Stevens backstage at one of the enormous London pro-Palestine rallies in 2024 and he was incredibly kind, despite me losing my shit over sharing a stage with him.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

5/5

Roxy Music

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

The Band

3/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

3/5

Aja

Steely Dan

2/5

Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Megadeth

1/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

3/5

Berlin

Lou Reed

2/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

White Ladder

David Gray

3/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

5/5

Honestly shocked at how good this is, though I’ll admit that Janis Joplin sounds like Marge Simpson 2/3 of the time

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Happy St Patrick’s Day to the most surprisingly Irish artist in the book!!

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

3/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

Something undeniably cringe about this one, I’m sorry

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

3/5

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

2/5

I understand how important this is to the development of post punk but my god it was a slog

Arise

Sepultura

2/5

I didn't hate it, but definitely a little too thrash metal for my tastes. Excited to get Roots though!

Marquee Moon

Television

3/5

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

3/5

Perfectly enjoyable

Liquid Swords

GZA

5/5

I have a running bit where I grab a mic and rave about Liquid Swords so honestly my rating is no surprise

A Seat at the Table

Solange

5/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Regrettably I am that very specific age where every marimba just sounds like the Rugrats theme

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

1/5

Graceland for dickheads

Violator

Depeche Mode

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Kind of sounds like a 1960s Geordie Greep album (this is a good thing)

Shadowland

k.d. lang

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

I didn’t like it as much as Tres Hombres, just repulsively horny at points

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

To paraphrase an excellent tweet: I will NOT enjoy this Thin Lizzy album. (expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across face) Ah what the hell. Pass me Live and Dangerous, brother

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Such an easy 5 for me

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

4/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

3/5

Protection

Massive Attack

3/5

Wished I liked this more as I loved their other albums

Moss Side Story

Barry Adamson

3/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

5/5

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

2/5

I’m sorry, you’ll never make me like Bon Jovi

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

5/5

What an absolute delight for my 102nd album

Blur

4/5

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

5/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

Love his politics, not too hot on his music

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music

3/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

5/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

4/5

This fucks (pun intended)

Electric Warrior

T. Rex

3/5

Fever Ray

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

1/5

Dogshit Britslop. I’m allowed to say this, I’m English

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

3/5

Crocodiles

Echo And The Bunnymen

2/5

echo and the boringmen :(

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

Would have been four stars if it was half the length

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

The production on Cure for the Itch is the only thing saving this from a 1

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

4/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Karen has a beautiful voice but I can't say this is something I'd come back to

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse

Faces

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

5/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

The xx

5/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

5/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

4/5

Dry

PJ Harvey

5/5

Adele

3/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

The Modern Lovers

3/5

I like this more than I let on, it feels a little Strokes-y

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

I hated this less than I thought I would!

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

5/5

This is so over-hated (maybe I’m sensitive because India and Pakistan recently spent 4 days at war with one another)

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

2/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

4/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

5/5

I feel about this the way boomers feel about Led Zeppelin

Bluesbreakers

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

1/5

G. Love And Special Sauce

G. Love & Special Sauce

2/5

Garbage, man

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

5/5

Queen II

Queen

3/5

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

Fred Neil

4/5

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

5/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

4/5

Can’t believe I’m giving an album titled Locust Abortion Technician this score

Amnesiac

Radiohead

5/5

I love Radiohead, and this is one of my favourite albums ever. It’s a shame that Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood continue to destroy their own legacies.

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

5/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Should have won the Pulitzer for this one

Street Signs

Ozomatli

3/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

5/5

Joan Baez

4/5

Lukewarm take - I think Joan sounds better when she sings in Spanish

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Charming

Superunknown

Soundgarden

3/5

I think a 70 minute album is absolutely fucking egregious

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

3/5

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine

Cee Lo Green

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

3/5

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

3/5

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Docked a star for all the left

Opus Dei

Laibach

3/5

I’m in the ex Yugoslavia RIGHT NOW and I feel I should dislike this more as my grandparents were partisans but I can’t quite

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

I don’t hate it, but I also don’t think it should be on this list.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

4/5

Boston

3/5

Comes out the gate so strong but nothing quite matches More Than A Feeling

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

3/5

Some absolute BANGERS but gosh this is long

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

3/5

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

4/5

Docking a star for the whole pedo thing

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

4/5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

2/5

Tom Tom Club

2/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Soul Mining

The The

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian

5/5

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

3/5

Permission to Land

The Darkness

3/5

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

1/5

painful

Nowhere

Ride

5/5

Surely deserves its place alongside Loveless and Souvlaki in the triple crown of shoegaze

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

5/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

4/5

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

full of bangers but I genuinely forgot how good gold dust woman is

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

1/5

Elvis Presley

2/5

He’s… HWHITE?

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

3/5

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

1/5

Found the fawning philosemitism quite distasteful, honestly

Something Else By The Kinks

The Kinks

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Pretenders

3/5

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Peter Gabriel

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

Title track is 15,000/10

Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Country Joe & The Fish

3/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

3/5

Much weirder than I thought it would be!

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

4/5

Suicide

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Iron Maiden

3/5

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

4/5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

3/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

3/5

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

1/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

4/5

Great, but did this really need to be on the list?

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

Moby Grape

3/5

It charmed me

Sail Away

Randy Newman

3/5

As a Brit, it’s very strange to hear You Can Leave Your Hat On when it isn’t in the context of male strippers

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

3/5

The Stone Roses

5/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

4/5

War

3/5

As a Bosnian I kind of see Bono the same way that Palestinians view Macklemore. Anyway, I think U2’s cringe reputation precedes them and I’d probably like this way more if I didn’t know at least one Bosnian in his 30s called Bono

Raw Power

The Stooges

3/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

3/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Bumping it up a star for Cash's monumental cover of Hurt, but the rest of this is just... fine?

Palo Congo

Sabu

3/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

2/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

It’s good, but it’s not *that* good

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

3/5

I really think if your album is over 45 minutes you need to earn every single minute of that extra time and sadly, this did not

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

2/5

Rio

Duran Duran

3/5

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

John Barleycorn Must Die

Traffic

4/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Teen Dream

Beach House

5/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

2/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

2/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

3/5

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Limp Bizkit

2/5

I sincerely believe that beneath the Fred Durst of it all there could be a halfway decent album somewhere in here

Crosby, Stills & Nash

4/5

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago

3/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Regrettably, a full throated 5/5. Probably a 6 if we’re honest.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

3/5

California

American Music Club

3/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

Went deaf for four days so this was a treat to come back to

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

5/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Great for pulling lines from to use to wind up your Californian boyfriend but much too long

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

Best part of this album is the review on here where the guy mishears Zimmerman and yoga as cinnamon and yoghurt

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

3/5

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

The kid in “You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice” sounds like Orville the Duck

A Short Album About Love

The Divine Comedy

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

3/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

3/5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

3/5

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

50 Cent

3/5

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Not as good as Loveless (what is?) but still very good

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

5/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

3/5

Kings of American Mediocrity

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Dear Science

TV On The Radio

5/5

Butterfly

Mariah Carey

3/5

I simply do not understand how she packs that many melismas in one song

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

Technique

New Order

3/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

3/5

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

5/5

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

3/5

I’d love to rate this higher but it’s really unnecessarily long

Arular

M.I.A.

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

3/5

A whole song about killing colonisers? My dark woke kings

Gold

Ryan Adams

2/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

4/5

Mony albumes ik hath listenethed ouer this project but this has speken to the deepest partye of mynne 3ouythe in the yeare 1250

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

3/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

3/5

At moments this almost sounds like a Bloc Party album

Joanna Newsom

5/5

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Dance Mania

Tito Puente

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Queen Of Denmark

John Grant

5/5

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

1/5

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

4/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

3/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

5/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

Black Sabbath

3/5

Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart

2/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

2/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

3/5

Goo

Sonic Youth

4/5

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

3/5

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

4/5

1984

Van Halen

2/5

mercifully short

Suede

3/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

4/5