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Album	You	Global	Diff
Tago Mago Can	5	2.79	+2.21
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.39	+1.61
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53
Heroes David Bowie	5	3.62	+1.38
Live At The Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke	5	3.76	+1.24
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet	5	3.83	+1.17
Gris Gris Dr. John	4	2.88	+1.12
Exodus Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.94	+1.06
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly	4	2.94	+1.06
Connected Stereo MC's	4	2.94	+1.06

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Licensed To Ill Beastie Boys	1	3.55	-2.55
25 Adele	1	3.37	-2.37
Astral Weeks Van Morrison	1	3.26	-2.26
Tonight's The Night Neil Young	1	3.23	-2.23
OK Computer Radiohead	2	4.11	-2.11
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine	2	3.99	-1.99
Tapestry Carole King	2	3.91	-1.91
LP1 FKA twigs	1	2.81	-1.81
Dookie Green Day	2	3.79	-1.79
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	2	3.72	-1.72

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Who's Next

The Who · 2 likes

4/5

Great rock album, liked it a lot more than I expected. Top tracks for me are Baba O'Riley, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again.

Smash

The Offspring · 1 likes

2/5

Not one for me

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy · 1 likes

2/5

Not one for me

4-Star Albums (18)

1-Star Albums (5)

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Grace

Jeff Buckley

4/5

First impressions based on one listen (!) Liked the covers best, probs cos more familiar. Liked production and instrumentation. Not sure about his voice for the most part. Will defo listen again. Bit baffled by the wide range of reviews of this by others … but I’m new here.

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

2/5

Okay, but not one for me

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

* Really enjoyed this slab of solid electric blues. Not a duff track on the album, but my favourites are Roadhouse Blues, Waiting for the Sun and Maggie M’Gill.

Paul Simon

4/5

Liking this album, which feels like Graceland in formation. Fave tracks are Mother and Child Reunion, Duncan and Paranoia Blues.

Hotel California

Eagles

4/5

* Liked this more when it was first released when I listened to it a lot. Still okay, but not a favourite. Maybe a few too many songs about how tough it is to be in the music business and/or living in California. That said, best tracks for me are Hotel California and New Kid in Town.

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

4/5

Not something I would have ever listened to without this list. A strong set of funk-Motown crossover. Favourite tracks are Cloud Nine and Runaway Child Running Wild.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

A top drawer album, brimming with great instrumentations and, of course, Otis Redding’s rich and soulful voice. Top tracks for me are: Satisfaction and Rock Me Baby.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

The strong start provided by the first three tracks gives way to some overly smooth and repetitious stuff. Stand out track for me is The Urban Theme.

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Extreme politics meet stabby guitar riffs. Best tracks, for me, are Damaged Goods and I Found That Essence Rare.

The Next Day

David Bowie

2/5

Not one for me.

Who's Next

The Who

4/5

Great rock album, liked it a lot more than I expected. Top tracks for me are Baba O'Riley, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again.

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

OK, but not one for me. Fave tracks are Heartbreaker and Lovefool.

Pretenders

4/5

Fine. My favourite tracks are Brass in Pocket, Private Life, Stop Your Sobbing and Space Invader.

OK Computer

Radiohead

2/5

* I do have affinity with the sentiments and messages in the lyrics, but musically I feel the album is enormously overrated. No Surprises is best track for me.

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Ok, not for me though.

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Not one for me

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Justifiably reckoned to be one of the greatest live albums. Crank up the volume on your high-end hi-fi, let the raw production wash over you and you're right there at one of the front tables. Top tracks for me are Chain Gang, Cupid and Twistin' The NIght Away

Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

I get the significance of this album, though I wonder how it is viewed by true lovers of HipHop, as opposed to ‘rock’ critics. Not one for me. Top track = Peter Piper

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

2/5

NOFM

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Fine! Grew on me.

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

2/5

Better than I expected, but not to my taste.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Not something I would normally have ever listened to. Quite liked it.

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Good album, though couple of tracks don’t feel like they belong here (Dreamin’ and You Are). The rest are great though.

California

American Music Club

3/5

I liked it. It was different to what I expected. Also, I’m always glad to find things that are not on Spotify.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Ok, probably needs more listens for me to appreciate it.

Eagles

3/5

Tago Mago

Can

5/5

* Gotta be a "5". Why do I love Can but not Radiohead?

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

* Great! 4.5/5 rounded up.

Heroes

David Bowie

5/5

* My favourite Bowie album. Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Tony Visconti made huge contributions to this work, which is the artistic zenith of the Neu!/Harmonia/Kraftwerk/Bowie/Iggy Pop 1970s collision.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

3/5

I don’t think BT&TMGs were an album band. This sounds OK, cool and laid-back, but it doesn’t feel very relevant today.

Peter Gabriel

3/5

So so

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

*Timeless, and a nailed on “5”.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

*Dylan covers are ok, but on the whole the album feels like an historical document.

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

3/5

Ok, but not really one for me

Tapestry

Carole King

2/5

OK, but not really one for me

Odelay

Beck

4/5

* I have owned this for a while, but not appreciated it before I listened to it again thanks to this generator.

Scissor Sisters

4/5

*Like it

Rage Against The Machine

2/5

Okay … respect for the political positioning, sound production and some of the guitar work, but vocals are (to put it politely) not to my taste, tracks are repetitive and the album is too long. Also, as mentioned by another reviewer, just because the lyrics are not sung doesn’t make it rap!

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Fine artpop

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

1/5

Awful ... one of the 1001 albums you will hear after you've died and gone to Hell.

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

* At last an album that's not guitar-fixated, nor from a singer songwriter, and it's a banging 5 star one too.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Learning not to trust my preconceptions. An hour of live solo piano improvisation from 1975, what could possibly be worse (musically that is)? Well … Keith Jarrett has joined the jazz and classical oceans to create a beautiful recording that carries so many moments of musicality it is extraordinary.

I See A Darkness

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

2/5

Not one for me

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

3/5

Seems okay based on one listen, could be a grower.

Gris Gris

Dr. John

4/5

Weird and fun. Ahead of its time.

Sea Change

Beck

2/5

Liking the lush instrumentation, but I’m not a fan of breakup albums.

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Fine performance all round. Glad not to have been in the audience.

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

2/5

Curiously weak delivery of an important message.

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

1/5

* Definitely not one for me

Fleet Foxes

4/5

* Like hearing something a bit different.

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

Ok. If I was 17 again I’d love driving around in my junk car with this on the cassette player.

Manassas

Stephen Stills

3/5

I enjoyed this more than I expected. Kinda like four short albums, with different styles, in one pretty long one.

With The Beatles

Beatles

2/5

Six out of fourteen tracks are (not great) covers. And, does a book/list like 1001 AYMHBYD need seven Beatles albums? I love the Beatles, but really?

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

3/5

A slab of the ‘60s from the early ‘70s … liked it more than I expected to. It deserves more listening.

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

OK, a 2.5 rounded up

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

5/5

* One of my favourite jazz albums

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

Not bad, but not one for me

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

* Had this a while, but not listened to it much until now. Liking it more now than before.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

1/5

Has it finished yet? Ah, good.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

3/5

Fine. Better than I expected.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

4/5

3.51/5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

OK, not one for me, but as an example of its genre deserves a 3

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

The production and arrangements are uninspiring and very samey, and let down a lot of the songs. Listen to Melonie Cannon's version of Dancing Queen to hear how good ABBA's material can be in more imaginative hands.

Adele

1/5

One minute into Hello I was thinking "Hey, not too bad, I might like this after all". Unfortunatley that was the point the balladering, that often verges on caterwauling, kicked in and largely didn't let up for the next 47 minutes.

LP1

FKA twigs

1/5

Vapid tripe

1999

Prince

4/5

Ahead of its time

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

* Unknown Pleasures is best appreciated if you occupied the time and place from which it came. I was living in Manchester in 1979. A poverty-stricken, post-industrial, part-wasteland, corrupt, dangerous city, offering a glimpse into a future that felt all too possible as the country slid into class warfare with a few 'haves' and a lot of 'have nots'.

Connected

Stereo MC's

4/5

Pretty cool

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Never been a fan, but this is OK

I See You

The xx

2/5

I like a lot of Jamie XX's other stuff, but this is pretty flat and sounds quite generic.