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Album	You	Global	Diff
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Billy Bragg	5	2.97	+2.03
White Ladder David Gray	5	3.07	+1.93
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Spiritualized	5	3.15	+1.85
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	5	3.4	+1.6
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes	5	3.42	+1.58
En-Tact The Shamen	4	2.43	+1.57
Ellington at Newport Duke Ellington	5	3.43	+1.57
Hail To the Thief Radiohead	5	3.44	+1.56
All Directions The Temptations	5	3.46	+1.54
Natty Dread Bob Marley & The Wailers	5	3.58	+1.42

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Pet Sounds The Beach Boys	1	3.93	-2.93
Only By The Night Kings of Leon	1	3.23	-2.23
Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention	1	3.14	-2.14
Pyromania Def Leppard	1	3.13	-2.13
Rocks Aerosmith	1	3.12	-2.12
Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow	1	3.05	-2.05
Gentlemen The Afghan Whigs	1	2.9	-1.9
Innervisions Stevie Wonder	2	3.87	-1.87
Appetite For Destruction Guns N' Roses	2	3.74	-1.74
Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	2	3.72	-1.72

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Artist	Albums	Average
Bob Dylan	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Aerosmith	2	1.5

5-Star Albums (19)

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Popular Reviews

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

I'd never heard this before and will now be looking up all of her work.

1 likes

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Five stars

1 likes

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

5/5

5 stars for Levi Stubbs' Tears. The whole album is great, but Levi is one of the greatest folk songs ever written.

1 likes

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

The Pixies have some great songs. But they've never been for me. Not this album anyway.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (9)

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Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Heard most of this before. did not know it was one of 3 albums out that year. Different era for sure. Not the originators, but they certainly did well in the petty fighting realm. All in all, a good little country/rock album.

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

2/5

They really didn't knock themselves out with finding new beats along the way. I remember this coming out. It felt like the 'clean' rap that was being pushed out at the time. Pre or post Will Smith, I don't recall. Never grabbed me, and listening now there's a little - I remember this. But not a whole lot else.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

All of Monk's works are great. They feel, unlike many artists, like one giant album.

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

The Byrds. You know you're listening to them. Middle of the road entertainment. The first true 'background' music? And yet nothing awful.

Elephant

The White Stripes

4/5

There's no home for you is such a great song. I remember listening to this album a lot when it came out. Playing along. Jack did something unique with this one. The distortion just needed to be a step below grinding metal, vocals on a slightly higher level than you'd expect. And it all just flowed. Not much in the way of a bass. Glad this one came up and I could revisit.

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

3/5

Yu know, old country is still good. You can really read the 'this is an upbeat one! this is a slow dancing one! This is a medium radio groove! and fascinating (for me who did not know this) that Jennings wrote like none of his songs. Still cannot give a country album more than 3 stars though. That being said, modern country artists could learn a lot about how to make something far better than what they currently are....

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

4/5

Pretty cool.

The Wall

Pink Floyd

5/5

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

So good. Still.

Forever Changes

Love

2/5

The xx

4/5

This Nation’s Saving Grace

The Fall

3/5

Never into these guys. But, pretty good.

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

3/5

some of the original indie-pop/whispy voice.

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

3/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

5/5

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

How many children were made to these songs? Countless. Classic.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Never able to get into this one.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

4/5

I'd never heard this before and will now be looking up all of her work.

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

90s indie pop spectacular.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Classic. Great to listen to this album the full way through rather than the 2 songs that endlessly play on classic rock stations.

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

I love it when groups just totally change their sound. The Shamen did this moving (as noted in their bio) from psychedelic rock to 'rave'. Sometimes you can see this as changing with the times. But this album feels like people who simply wanted to make more electronic based music. And that ain't that far from electronic anyway.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

4/5

Suzanne Vega

2/5

Not my jam at all. Wasn't then, isn't now.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Five stars

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Classic. The good songs are great. The not good songs are a drag.

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

3/5

I mean, 3 stars just cuz I don't love punk.

Superunknown

Soundgarden

4/5

Another where the good songs are great, and the mediocre are very much so.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

Not a bad song on this one. Not even a mediocre one.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Yeah. Chill.

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Damn I love the bass line on Peace Frog

Electric Prunes

The Electric Prunes

4/5

Didn't know these guys. Great Floyd like, but American based.

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

2/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

Always found Zappa unhinged. But this mostly instrumental album is great.

White Ladder

David Gray

5/5

absolute classic

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

3/5

Trafalgar

Bee Gees

1/5

This is truly awful from beginning to end.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

3/5

Black Sabbath

4/5

Have not listened to this since I was getting punched in the head by someone's older brother in a shag carpet basement some time in the early 1980s.

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

4/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

Just not my jam.

Dookie

Green Day

4/5

Who knew the better part of an album could be written about masturbation.

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

4/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

5/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

2/5

One star for Paradise City, one for Sweet Child. The rest of this is truly worse than I remember.

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

5/5

5 stars for Levi Stubbs' Tears. The whole album is great, but Levi is one of the greatest folk songs ever written.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

3/5

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

4/5

Play

Moby

4/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

I mean, it's a classic, no matter how much of a marketing company Coldplay has become.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

classic

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Imagine seeing this woman live. Even recordings are incredible.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

1/5

I tried. I really tried. But since the first day I heard Crow her voice has just felt like fingernails on a chalkboard.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

2/5

I dunno. Stevie never did it for me. I get why this is so good, but just don't love it myself.

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

4/5

Can't say I ever listened to this before and it rocks.

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

One of those albums you never knew was THE ONLY ONE from a band and yet know every song.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

Bossanova

Pixies

2/5

The Pixies have some great songs. But they've never been for me. Not this album anyway.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Never heard before. Has that '70s vibe.

The Clash

3/5

Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention

1/5

NOt a fan of whispy singers...

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

5/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

3/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

2/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

1/5

I remember when this came out. I was very confused. I was deeply into 'real metal' (lol) Having spent time in any number of friend's basements whose older brothers were serious metal heads I was under the belief that Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Ratt, Grim Reaper, &c. all the way to Quiet Riot and Motley Crew were REAL METAL. And this thing came out... I bought it. We didn't have a lot of metal playing on the radio then so I had little idea what would be on it. I can clearly recall a first listen of this. It sounded....weak. Fluffy. The hairiest of the hair metal. And worse of all, an imitation of REAL METAL. These guys were just copy cats. I have to say, my opinion has not changed after a listen all these years later. This is a shitty album. Horrible lyrics. Songs hung on single licks. Just....bad all around. But in re-listening I was left to consider that these guys likely had the time of their lives in the 1980s.

Who Killed...... The Zutons?

The Zutons

4/5

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

4/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Absolute gold from beginning to end.

Only By The Night

Kings of Leon

1/5

Musically, great. Love the use of guitars and electronic music. But the voice puts me off every time. Dude need to clear his throat and take a dump.

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

Adele

3/5

Ray Of Light

Madonna

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

5/5

One of the top 5 albums of all time.

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Top 5 all time.

Among The Living

Anthrax

2/5

Very loud even when the volume is low.

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

4/5

Giant Steps

The Boo Radleys

4/5

Somehow missed this one when it came out even though I was DJing British Dance music nights shortly after. love it

The Next Day

David Bowie

3/5

Certainly Bowie.

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Adam & The Ants

3/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Almost anti-Canadian of me to give 3 stars.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

4/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

1/5

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Blood, Sweat & Tears

4/5

So all over the place in such a great way.

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

4/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Pure summer gold

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Tommy

The Who

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

1/5

I have never understood Pet Sounds being in the same conversation with The White Album or Exile on Main Street. IT truly feels like America looking at the music of the world at that time and going 'we got nothing'. Not to say that the US doesn't have great artists. But so many are 'Artists' not bands. The bands all felt derivative of something that already happened in England. I'd say the greatest American band of all time is the Grateful Dead. Unique, uncompromising, a touring extravaganza. Yet they never seem to be mentioned in the same way The Beatles or Stones are, just The Beach Boys.

Heroes

David Bowie

4/5

Rocks

Aerosmith

1/5

Man I cannot stand Aerosmith. Janie's Got a Gun killed it for me back in 1989. There was some good stuff prior to that (like Rocks) had a different feel to it. But just the sound of Tyler's voice gets me now.

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

4/5

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Absolute fucking gold.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

4/5

4 stars only because Save the Children is about 2.5 minutes too long.

Hail To the Thief