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Album	You	Global	Diff
The Band The Band	5	3.36	+1.64
Maggot Brain Funkadelic	5	3.6	+1.4
Hounds Of Love Kate Bush	5	3.61	+1.39
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons	4	2.84	+1.16
Tapestry Carole King	5	3.91	+1.09
Leftism Leftfield	4	2.91	+1.09
What's Going On Marvin Gaye	5	3.94	+1.06
Foxbase Alpha Saint Etienne	4	2.94	+1.06
I See You The xx	4	2.99	+1.01

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Dirt Alice In Chains	1	3.47	-2.47
...And Justice For All Metallica	1	3.43	-2.43
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	2	4.3	-2.3
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers	1	3.15	-2.15
Electric The Cult	1	3.02	-2.02
Metallica Metallica	2	3.79	-1.79
Violator Depeche Mode	2	3.7	-1.7
Black Holes and Revelations Muse	2	3.59	-1.59
Green R.E.M.	2	3.48	-1.48
Abbey Road Beatles	3	4.46	-1.46

5-Star Albums (5)

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Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

"Mother earth is pregnant for the third time. For ya'' have knocked her up".

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1-Star Albums (4)

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...And Justice For All

Metallica

1/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

The bit of me that wants to have cool opinions wants to mark this right down for Bono's later ego/tax offences. But this album is just too big a part of my upbringing, and there are just too many hooks (of both types) buried in my brain for me not to admit a resentment-filled love for about six tracks on this album. Which seems apt given all the divorce-themed lyrics. My resistance is useless. "On your knees, boy"

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

A couple of daytime radio classics, but does it really move you? Not quite poignent enough to avoid the feeling that it's just a great, beautifully executed example of light music of the time. But doesn't stir the hardened 21st century soul.

Tommy

The Who

2/5

For a transgressive, genre pushing work it's just rather boring.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

2/5

It's hard not to hear this through the lens of film and TV of a vaguely spacey/SciFi flavour, almost more like a soundtrack to an idea than an album. I am conflicted really. I like this that are languid, spacey, meditative. But the melodies just don't snag me, and it's like the band is alergic to hooks, except for the chorus of 'shine on'. Did they ever snag anyone who wasn't also listening under the influence of something?

Peter Gabriel

4/5

A big childhood one for me here. Big, warm, beautifully produced. A couple of big zingy hits (Sledgehammer/Big Time) but the ones that really last more are probably slightly quieter - like In Your Eyes. Plus a Kate Bush cameo. If there was a 4.5 star button I'd push it.

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

1/5

"Bow to the bland", they sing. "I'd rather not", say I.

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

2/5

Bless, what an innocent band.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

Here are just some of the things that, on their own, would make this album worth 5 stars: - The piano glissando between the end of God is Love and Mercy Mercy Me. - The successful deployment of the word 'inflation' in a song lyric. - The right kind of unironicness. - The fact he can make you cry by simply asking "Tell me friend, how in the world have you been?" - The menace. - The prescience. - The love.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

3/5

Well this one's jolly peculiar isn't it? From 1984 but without a synthesiser in sight, some of it could be on a jazz album, some sounds a bit like the Jam, there's even a completely implausisble rap track in there. And a decently charting single, too, "You're the Best Thing". Three stars for trying absolutely everything, but not more because it's not clear how much actually works.

Tapestry

Carole King

5/5

Has a warmer album ever been recorded? So many memorable tunes. Such aching.

Dookie

Green Day

3/5

Harmless ditties.

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

4/5

This man is very, very rude about many people.

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

Jaunty Wolverhampton numbers, evoke an age, but their more lasting tunes are not on here.

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

What an incredible first three minutes. Bit mixed thereafter, but still worth the four stars.

Either Or

Elliott Smith

3/5

Fine

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Wow - how did I not know about the best selling solo jazz album ever. Very hard to argue with.

Now I Got Worry

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

2/5

I don't doubt that in a loud american bar with lots of beer this might be great. But as an LP to listen to elsewhere, just dull dull dull.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

3/5

Gentle jazz, pleasant but I fear not very memorable for me

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

4/5

Only love...

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

4/5

Doesn't contain any of the big hits, but still has some good moments, like the opening of 'Life' which is menacing and lyrically original.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

So many classics, such sparse instruments

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

3/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Lovely to find where 'preacher' came from, as sung in Heart of Darkness. Charming

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

The more Nick Cave writes like a teen who's just discovered gothic fiction, the less I like him. Not his finest work, this.

The Band

5/5

So warm, so cool, so much more agriculture than most albums.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

3/5

I now know where most 90s and noughties parodies of eighties art pop came from. Boldly experimental, largely unlistenable, but three stars for really Having a Go.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

1/5

Is it more tuneless than turgid, or more unsubtle than unrelenting. Hard to say but it's an insult to Alices everywhere.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

"Mother earth is pregnant for the third time. For ya'' have knocked her up".

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Pleasant but I'm not really moved, nor driven to dance

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

3/5

Not a feminist masterpiece, but god how great is POWER?

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Horses

Patti Smith

2/5

I wish I thought this was greater, but I'm just bored. Sorry.

Pump

Aerosmith

2/5

Really vapid, except for Janie's got a gun.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Moments move, but more bore or cringe.

Done By The Forces Of Nature

Jungle Brothers

3/5

Fun, up beat, inoffensive. But no classic tunes.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Sweet voices, warm and proto cool soundscapes, but just not enough memorable tunes. No Kings of Convenience.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

3/5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

3/5

So wonderfully self indulgent. It would be 2 stars except that they had the hubris to ship a track that's mostly a drum solo, but named after Moby Dick

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

I'm just not quite enough of a poseur to truly enjoy, I think.

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

2/5

There's just not much here really

Electric

The Cult

1/5

I had no idea there was just so much boring rock in the 80s. Justifiably forgotten.

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

3/5

Abbey Road

Beatles

3/5

Some classic tunes, but far too many that are not. And then there's Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

Bright Flight

Silver Jews

2/5

Hahaha this one really feels like a product of recency bias in the early 2000s reviewers. Sort of similar to many other superior whispering mid western albums.

Metallica

2/5

I admit it, I couldn't finish this one.

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Lots of this feels very 'by numbers' to a modern ear, but then there are some odd charmers like 'In the Ghetto'

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

So many great bangingly great songs, and some fun 80s art pop experiments too. "It's in the trees, it's coming!"

Green