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Album	You	Global	Diff
Next The Sensational Alex Harvey Band	5	2.7	+2.3
All Hail the Queen Queen Latifah	5	2.88	+2.12
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	5	2.95	+2.05
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents	4	2.04	+1.96
Life's Too Good The Sugarcubes	5	3.07	+1.93
Scum Napalm Death	4	2.08	+1.92
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	5	3.15	+1.85
The Bones Of What You Believe CHVRCHES	5	3.16	+1.84
Vespertine Björk	5	3.18	+1.82
The Blueprint JAY Z	5	3.18	+1.82

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Kid A Radiohead	1	3.71	-2.71
Ágætis Byrjun Sigur Rós	1	3.37	-2.37
Purple Rain Prince	2	4.02	-2.02
Hunky Dory David Bowie	2	3.99	-1.99
A Night At The Opera Queen	2	3.95	-1.95
Harvest Neil Young	2	3.8	-1.8
Sex Packets Digital Underground	1	2.66	-1.66
Born To Be With You Dion	1	2.62	-1.62
Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones	2	3.6	-1.6
Marquee Moon Television	2	3.51	-1.51

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Artist	Albums	Average
Metallica	4	4.75
Beck	3	4.33
Nirvana	3	4.33
Michael Jackson	3	4.33

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Variety! Fun! White boi 90’s rage hip hop! Now just add some bloke on guitar called Tom and were really raging

Fun fact, the full name of the band is “Frankie Goes All The Way To Hollywood Desperately Looking For Anything That Can Pad This Album To Full Length”. Sympathy point for Two Tribes and Relax but yikes…

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Not bad. Interesting lack of The Edge’s stereotypical wankery, at its best when the Celtic influence comes forward and Bono channels some Cranberry. Drowning Man good, otherwise quite normal 80’s rock

Light. Listenable. Fun sounds and generally vibes

Mother is unhinged, and for a song with EBYT on it that’s saying summat. Stings voice still grates, Copeland rocks

SoS and you’ve heard the DS style. Doesn’t stop it banging

The LSD laced sound of prelapsarian Reform Party wet dreams. Very Bri’ish, contemporary of the Beatles but no weird peaks or experimental fun

Nice 70’s guitar folksy stuff. Good background, not so foreground

The soundtrack to the opening shot of a busy city from a 00’s romcom. Then Layla hits you out of nowhere like a truck

Bluesy vibes all the way through

Man this list really loves its American blues inspired guitar rock doesn’t it?

Variety! Fun! White boi 90’s rage hip hop! Now just add some bloke on guitar called Tom and were really raging

Dear AI, please create some Queen B-sides. You can see why most of these aren’t on the greatest hits album

1 hour lo fi pretentiousness to fall asleep to

Bit more than daft punk but not quite full wubs

Metal bias but so good. Pounding hard rock with some slower melodic tunes to show they aren’t just loud and shouty

Lying on a 60’s country hill in England tripping balls on LSD. It’s fine

Chill bluesy lounge vibes. I say vibes a lot…

Nostalgic 90’s electronic mood (not vibe). A bit too repetitive without much build to be better than it is

Ooooh like the sex pistols but audibly musical. Not quite London Calling yet though

………..i’m sure it was groundbreaking once. Can recognise Prince’s talent and influence but yikes

Tongue-in-cheekily wierdly horny. Then Father Ted.

I liek.

Sounds about indie rock circa 2001. More Radiohead than killers

Well i guessed it was french

Goodbye poppy Swedish bops. Hello melancholy

Wierdly MOTHERSBAUGH style vocals. Interestingly funky but needs better peaks and troughs

Definitely to the blues scale of the rock/blues scale. Almost country. Hm.

Well yeehaw golly gosh darn it diggity woo!

Country. Yeehaw. Praise jaysus n murica y’all

Like if you swapped Stipe for Morrissey it’s the smiths US edition

“I think this LSD trip needs a soundtrack” “Say less”

I can think of at least two things wrong with that artist name

Yas girls!!! Actual vibey musical punk rock!

I like. Slightly soulful funky rock, a bit heavy on the organ and slightly… dated? If that’s the word.

I don’t know enough about country. But it definitely sounded country to me

It’s like listening to the birth of shoegaze

It’s like a band got up onstage at someone’s leaving party, and instead of playing song played the musical equivalent of a roast while everyone got really really high

So damn chill

Funk and funk combine into chill funk

I’m finding with this list it’s a good sign if I don’t notice it’s finished. Changes is still balls though.

……interesting? Is it rock? Is it punk? Is it funk? Is it poprockpunkfunkinfusion? Yes?

This is… slightly uneasy. For the band that gave us Bohemian Like You this is not what I expected

If I ever host a fancy evening dinner party this is exactly the sort of thing that would go on

Hating Coldplay is a meme. They’re fine and these are some iconic bangers

Bloody lovely

It’s Metallica. It’s no black album but

Clearly I like repetitive samples

Lou, you ok?

It’s just good Johnny Marr balances out Morrissey

Not as banging as Ill Communication but you can see the DNA

It is fun hearing this as context for history. Punk rock with more overt Caribbean influence - it’s like you can hear where ska and pop-punk diverge

You know those randomisers they do on AGDQ where like, everytime sonic picks up a ring it swaps from sonic 1 to 2 to Boom to 2016? It’s like each track it swaps from wipeout to Rez to the PS1 demo disk music

It’s interesting. I don’t know if that means it’s good but it’s interesting

1980?! Sounded way more 60’s

God I wish this had .5 ratings. 4.5. Solid.

The needle swerving toward a more stone sour sound here. It’s no Iowa.

An excellent parody of the bland subject matter and repetitive crap of 90’s hip hop. Oh what’s that? It’s not a parody?! Oh god…

Goodbye numetal. Well remember Linkin Park and Slipknot et al. And incubus…. You were also there.

Started good. Fell down the shit staircase really quickly

Is this a sausage factory that it produceth banger after banger?

Don’t know if I’d pay to see them, but if I was drunk out of my mind in a bar and this was playing I would close my eyes and vibe

Amazing what a little variety and distinction between tracks can do for making an album more interesting to listen to.

As shallow R&B infused pop it’s fine, but it gives me the feeling of a teenager trying just a bit too hard to exude sex appeal and just coming across as desperate.

Release too early to include the best Christmas songs, which as a genre peaked in 1973. Also Phil Spector killed someone, but then he isn’t the only person in this list who has. It’s fine.

Music precision engineered for the most insufferable audiophile you know to sneer condescendingly that “you just don’t understand it”. Whiny, overproduced and overwrought nonsense that can only be compared to the sound of the world as experienced from deep inside Thom Yorke’s rectal cavity. We get it Thom, you’re sad that everyone thinks ‘Creep’ is your best song, but this isn’t convincing anyone otherwise. Destined to remain the soundtrack to every 16 year olds black and white poe-faced student film about how the world doesn’t understand him. I don’t know who Kid A is but I hope he’s never found alive.

Really is like being on a night drive on a smooth road in the night. Quite magical

Point lost for being 2 hours.

Hey kids, are you sad that Leonard Cohen is no longer around? Want to hear more primary school level poetry stuffed with half rhymes stuffed into tortured meter with the occasional guitar chord behind it? Well this is the album for you.

This album should count its lucky stars it has BoRap on it or it would be lower.

“We have grunge at home”

Why do I feel like the origin of this album was a 90’s youth pastor listening to the radio and wondering how he can connect with these kids today?

The Björk for Middle-Earth

From Wikipedia: “ Part-way through the recording sessions, Barrett's growing use of the psychedelic drug LSD accompanied his increasingly debilitated mental state” Yeah that tracks.

If I could dock half a mark down to 3.5 I would. I can’t believe no one slapped Sting at any point and forcibly reminded him to stop doing that thing with his voice. You aren’t Jamaican Sting

Beats that sound like the example albums from PlayStation music software with the most cringe student poetry level lyrics. One or two tracks that broke through to actually be interesting but otherwise just blah.

Bob Dylan has a vocal style like someone’s trying to rev up a troublesome moped inside his sinuses. I’m sure everyone will argue about his lyricism and poetry but I can’t take it seriously sounding like that. I think Shakespeare is incredible poetry, but I wouldn’t want to hear Hamlet read by Joe Pasquale (US users can sub in Gilbert Gottfried there if they so wish)

I laughed when I saw this pop up. I look forward to the comments on this one!

Peter Gabriel goes Randy Newman

Wasn’t bad. Dunno who these kids are but someone needs to get them some LSD

Yeehaw.

Look I’m a certified metal head. I can argue about the snare on St. Anger. I can discuss the best vocalist for Sabbath for hours. I know Slipknot should have stopped 4 albums ago. So when I say that this album is same I hope I can be shielded from the metal intelligentsia telling me “I just don’t get it”. I do. I get it. And Motörhead just suck. This album is like someone asked 15 chefs to cook Ace of Spades from memory. Sure they’re technically different songs but it’s just the same ingredients slightly recoiled. That’s the same vocal delivery. That’s the same drum beat. That’s the same guitar tone. The only song that comes close to some variety is the bass in Bite the Bullet/ The Chase and the melody in Capricorn, small sparks of uniqueness that suggest that if Lemmy stopped spending time defending his indefensible use of Nazi regalia he could write some interesting music. And like most of these on the list: you don’t need to bother with the second disc, so like I said to her: don’t let the length distract you, you’ll only get half the promised time anyway

Now I know where every girl I knows MSN name came from circa ‘02

PSA: due to streaming platforms doubling this with another album you only need to listen to track 8 “Good Loving Man” to hear this album, so don’t let the length out you off What should put you off is how mawkishly dull and insufferably awful even those 8 songs are. Don’t just skip the second half, skip it all.

Perfectly mid pop. Nothing exceptional and even the bits that get close just miss. Lord knows how this is the most famous pop star in the world. And methinks she doth protest way too much about “haters”. The more you try to convince us you don’t care, the more you clearly do.

Another victim of the CD length - just because you can have up to 100 minutes of music doesn’t mean you should. Cut 20 minutes from this

“Mum can we listen to Depeche Mode?” “We have Depeche Mode at home” Depeche Mode at home:

So very Cuphead