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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bad Company Bad Company	5	3.26	+1.74
Achtung Baby U2	5	3.3	+1.7
Green R.E.M.	5	3.48	+1.52
Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan	5	3.5	+1.5
The Clash The Clash	5	3.54	+1.46
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young & Crazy Horse	5	3.55	+1.45
Talking Heads 77 Talking Heads	5	3.56	+1.44
Document R.E.M.	5	3.56	+1.44
Don't Stand Me Down Dexys Midnight Runners	4	2.61	+1.39
After The Gold Rush Neil Young	5	3.63	+1.37

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Chemtrails Over The Country Club Lana Del Rey	1	3.05	-2.05
Kick Out The Jams (Live) MC5	1	2.91	-1.91
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective	1	2.9	-1.9
LP1 FKA twigs	1	2.8	-1.8
3 + 3 The Isley Brothers	2	3.59	-1.59
Shleep Robert Wyatt	1	2.5	-1.5
Blackstar David Bowie	2	3.48	-1.48
Play Moby	2	3.47	-1.47
Different Class Pulp	2	3.42	-1.42
2112 Rush	2	3.39	-1.39

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Artist	Albums	Average
R.E.M.	3	5
Led Zeppelin	3	5
Neil Young	3	4.67
Talking Heads	2	5
Beatles	4	4.25
U2	4	4.25
Creedence Clearwater Revival	3	4.33

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American Music Club

2/5

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1-Star Albums (7)

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

All Ratings

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

5/5

I love this kind of themed album, and it was full of excellent songs as well! I remember hearing this album for the first time when I was probably 13 or 14 and was amazed and in awe of the whole concept. Loved David Bowie ever since

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

I know this album is a big deal but it just seems disjointed on first listen. Going to have to try it a few more times and try and figure out what Bowie was thinking

Rio

Duran Duran

4/5

Didn't realize there were so many hits on this album. Liked it more than I expected

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Fantastic album. Highlights are of course Bridge, Cecilia, and the Boxer

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

3/5

I enjoyed listening but not sure when I would listen again. I have no link to this music, beside of course Frank's great Christmas tunes

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

5/5

I have loved this album since the day I bought it in the mid-80s. Talking Heads were a fantastic band, but the early albums are so much more raw sounding even though they kind of sound over produced in the studio. I will listen to this album more over time I am sure. And Psycho Killer is one of the great songs of all time

Infected

The The

3/5

Never heard this album before. I liked it! Sounds like an early version of what I hear these days on alt nation. I would listen again.

Country Life

Roxy Music

2/5

I was a little disappointed in this album. I really like Roxy Music, but this early album did not have that feel of the latter albums.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

I have never heard of this band, but i liked the album. Seems to be my style of music

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

The Kinks

3/5

Kinda psychedelic which I did not expect from the Kinks

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

2/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Good White Stripes album. Is really diverse and fun to listen to. Uses many different sound styles and as usual they are very experimental with the sound

Revolver

Beatles

4/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Why didn't I know about these guys. They are great

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

2/5

I didn't understand anything here. The music was nice but it was sung in a foreign language so no clue what she was singing about

Kid A

Radiohead

3/5

Didn't like it as much as I hoped. Kind of all over the place

At Budokan

Cheap Trick

4/5

Fantastic. I remember hearing this when I was young and the guitar and beat just keeps it being awesome

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

1/5

Heard these guys were we great but this live album is a bit of a mess

Play

Moby

2/5

Not a fan sadly. I know even back in the day I didn't like it either

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

2/5

The Clash

5/5

One of my very favorite albums of all time. First Clash album was so fresh and raw

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Quiet album. I was really surprised by this

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

2/5

Not a big fan of this kind of acid jazz music.

LP1

FKA twigs

1/5

Terrible

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

I had never heard Bjork until now vut of course heard the name lots in the past. I really like the music, kind of all over the place isn't it. The lyrics are very hard to listen to, I think English is difficult for her. I would listen again

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

What a fantastic album. I can't believe all the influence CCR had when they were only around for 3 or 4 years.

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

Great album with that distinctive style of psychedelic furs.

Survivor

Destiny's Child

3/5

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

I love listening to Muddy Waters, only heard 1 album before. Music is very tight compared to the huge music of today and has a great beat and his awesome vocal style. I read that this concert almost didn't happen because of riots the day before at this blues festival, only thing that saved it was filming the day for a documentary on American culture

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

2/5

Been caught stealing is one of my favorite 80s songs but the rest of the album doesn't seem great to me

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

2/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

3/5

I didn't really care about this album as it started but Nina Simone has a really great control of her voice and makes every song something you have to stop and listen too. I ended up really liking it and glad I had this opportunity to find a new (to me) great singer and music

Live At Leeds

The Who

4/5

Really great album. Nice clean sound, good interaction with the crowd, lots of good music

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

2/5

Not for me. Just noisy. In case anyone can not find it on Spotify, go to YouTube, the whole album is on there

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

Love this live album. One of the great guitar live shows of the 70s before everything got a bit too heavy. Loved hair bands in the 80s but even then I still loved this album

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

I had only heard waterfalls before bit this album has lots more. It just kind of flows well through the whole thing. I definitely liked it a lot more than I expected

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Album is ok. Kinda whiny but I guess that's the style. I would listen again on a rainy Sunday

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

3/5

I had never heard of Blue Cheer. Awesome rough sound.

War

4/5

Great album. The one that got me loving U2 early on before fame caught them. Lots of different styles on here

The Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks

3/5

Super good. Kind of reminds me of that psychedelic type of sound of the late 60s. But the way the kinks would do it instead

B-52's

The B-52's

4/5

Loved this album. What a cool band

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Pretty good album but there are better ones by Kate Bush i think

Kenya

Machito

4/5

Very cool. I love this and it becomes on of my first 4* albums

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Fantastic album

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

Long double album but fantastic

All That You Can't Leave Behind

3/5

Album is just OK. I liked the early stuff by U2 and also Achtung Baby, but the other stuff just seems kind of boring

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

2/5

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)

Ministry

2/5

Didn't like it much. Just Jesus built my hotrod

Grace

Jeff Buckley

3/5

Just ok. Hallelujah us amazing though

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Such a great album. Whole thing is pretty awesome

Viva Hate

Morrissey

2/5

Disraeli Gears

Cream

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

One of my favorite albums. Used to play on repeat for me at one time.

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

This was my favorite REM album and since that time I have gone back and listened sooo many times over the years. Definitely one of my top 5 albums of all time

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

3/5

Not my style, but WOW she has an amazing voice 😍

Skylarking

XTC

2/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I am partial to Born to Run, but this is probably his second best album. It seems to me that these early albums of Springsteens with the E Street band are so much better than the big stadium anthems he wrote later

2112

Rush

2/5

Not for me. I have heard about this album forever and finally heard it for the first time. Even as a fellow Canadian I just don't get the hype

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

1/5

This is terrible. Why was it even recorded much less on this list?

White Denim

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

3/5

Good album. I liked it

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

I really liked this album. Usually new albums to me can only get 3 stars but this is a solid 4 stars from me

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

I really liked the music. Didn't really like his voice. But will definitely listen again to this album

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

Hey this is a great album

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

I always loved this album. It was my favorite progressive rock album that I first heard around 1981cor so.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

2nd favorite Pink Floyd album after Dark Side

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

4/5

Bad Company

5/5

This album was a centerpiece of Friday nights when a few of us would hang in a buddies basement drinking beer back on the 80s. Super great uplifting album with a couple moody tracks built in.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

3/5

What a strange album. Nice to listen to while working on the computer I guess

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

3/5

I liked it, but it all kind of sounded the same time me. Kind of depressing, which is fine as well. I kind of feel sorry for their sadness

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Great album. First time listen, will listen again

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

3/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

I loved this album. I had heard of them at the time they were around and wouldn't have liked them then but this was super great to hear now, well now that I am an adult and not some irritating, waiting for the hair metal to come teenager

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

Wow, this whole album is great!

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Fantastic album

California

American Music Club

2/5

Not very good

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Not very good

Amnesiac

Radiohead

3/5

Pretty good album.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

When i was younger I thought Leonard Cohen was great. I must have been pretty pretentious because he really isn't.

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

Good album. Not as good as the first couple though

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Fantastic album. I think my favorite of his

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Not as good as I remember it when it came out. Full of hits, but the same sound everywhere. I have listed to mostly older ZZ Top when I listen to an album of theirs and those where great. I think this album was a push to get super popular by the label or something because the sound definitely changed

Parallel Lines

Blondie

3/5

Great Blondie album. Would definitely listen to it again

There's A Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

4/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

Blackstar

David Bowie

2/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

4/5

Pretty awesome and it feels like a snapshot in time

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Opus Dei

Laibach

1/5

Terrible

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

This album is fast, fuzzy and really cool

Street Signs

Ozomatli

2/5

Not very notable

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

3/5

Like sugar. It tastes really good but not really food. I really enjoyed this album as it is all catchy but it is not really memorable. Will definitely Iisten to this again, many times I am sure

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

First best album i heard growing up

Gorillaz

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

4/5

Super good Billy Joel album

Tical

Method Man

2/5

Just dont like the hip hop/rap much. Probably good but not that I can tell

Technique

New Order

3/5

Liked it. So much dark music and this was nice and light amd popy

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2/5

Some of this prog music from the 70s is a little over my head

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

5/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

I really like fragile better but still this album is really good to listen to as music, not as good at being background music

Virgin Suicides

Air

2/5

Boring movie soundtrack

The Joshua Tree

5/5

Great album back in the day and still great. Just like other reviewers have said Bono is very irritating as a person ut the music is great

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

I seem to like Jazz music but know nothing about it. My rating may not be fair

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

I had never heard of this. Why? What are fantastic album

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Great album

Back to Mystery City

Hanoi Rocks

3/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Long but great album. Pastime Paradise was the first time I heard it not knowing that Gangstas Paradise was basically a cover. Best song was Sir Duke

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

I really hate Rage Against the Machine when I hear their stuff on Alt Nation on SiriusXM. Don't get me wrong, i love a lot of heavy stuff and it really bugged me thinking i am too old a guy to like something like this. But after finally listening to this album I think I get it, and I am able to appreciate the hard shredding style, the lyrics are really relevant, not just then but today as well. Hearing really closely I think is important when listening to super heavy music, otherwise it will just seem like sonic assault

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

I loved this album. I had only heard Aqualung and Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull, but there is so much more to this band

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

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

Faces

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

Really messy, don't like this at all

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

4/5

Graceland

Paul Simon

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Not a bunch of hits but still a great album by Neil Young

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Really great album

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

Long. I know she has a nice voice and that the music is magical, but I just couldn't get into it

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

4/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

3/5

I wish I could find more just instrumental stuff like this. Really good, I hear there next album was even better

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

I liked it a lot more than I expected. Almost passed on it, but once you get into that screaming guitar it really golds you

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

5/5

Fantastic album. One of my all time favorites

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

Fantastic album. I have of course heard a few songs, but listening g from start to end is awesome

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

3/5

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

4/5

Achtung Baby

5/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

1/5

Not very good at all. Sorry Lana, you are cute but a terrible singer

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

I liked it a lot

Cut

The Slits

3/5

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

The Band

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Different Class

Pulp

2/5

Really generic sounding. Maybe a bad day for me? I see all these glowing reviews but just dont hear it in the album

Don't Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Pretty good. I will look at their other albums

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

3/5

Pretty ok. They have a couple albums i like a lot better

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

3/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

4/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

Awesome album by Neil Young

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

5/5

Best folk rock album

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Totally gave me those Grateful Dead vibes. I had no idea that Allman Brothers were a jam band like this

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

I loved the sitar and bongo. Felt like a real hippie album

Third

Soft Machine

3/5

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

Low

David Bowie

3/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

One World

John Martyn

2/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Super fantastic album.

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

I have listed to this album so many times since it came out that it feels like part of the soundtrack throughout my life. Great great album

OK Computer

Radiohead

4/5

The College Dropout

Kanye West

4/5

S&M

Metallica

2/5

I always expect this to be a great idea but for some reason the symphony does not do anything for Metallica and neither the other way around

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

The Score

Fugees

3/5

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I love Bruce Springsteen but this album just does not sound very good to me

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey

3/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

3/5

Nevermind

Nirvana

5/5

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

4/5

This is a great album. Emmylou Harris has never been a name that I knew but the country folk music here is really great

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

This was great. No doubt about it

Tommy

The Who

2/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

Just like another dowop kinda band at the time

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

5/5

One of my favorite albums ever. I love the way a few of the second side songs just merge together. Also this really sounds like it is the end of the band, lyrically as well as the fireworks of the songs, kind of celebrating what had been

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

Two hits. Pretty long. It was ok

The Lexicon Of Love

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