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Album	You	Global	Diff
What's That Noise? Coldcut	5	2.78	+2.22
Signing Off UB40	5	2.97	+2.03
Walking Wounded Everything But The Girl	5	2.97	+2.03
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	5	3.07	+1.93
Live At Leeds The Who	5	3.33	+1.67
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins	5	3.33	+1.67
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley	5	3.38	+1.62
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	5	3.41	+1.59
The Fat Of The Land The Prodigy	5	3.41	+1.59
Hard Again Muddy Waters	5	3.62	+1.38

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Rapture Anita Baker	1	2.94	-1.94
The Stranger Billy Joel	2	3.85	-1.85
All Things Must Pass George Harrison	2	3.82	-1.82
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye	2	3.78	-1.78
Graceland Paul Simon	2	3.74	-1.74
m b v My Bloody Valentine	1	2.72	-1.72
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen	2	3.64	-1.64
Arrival ABBA	2	3.5	-1.5
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	2	3.5	-1.5
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash	2	3.49	-1.49

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Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	5
The Prodigy	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
My Bloody Valentine	2	1.5

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Rapture

Anita Baker

1/5

A reminder that 1001 albums is a LOT of albums and it would be impossible to like all of them.

1 likes

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

2/5

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1 likes

4-Star Albums (95)

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

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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

1-Star Albums (2)

All Ratings

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Nice first pick, obviously an awesome album.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Tricky, I get it, I like it, 3, no… wait, I love it, wait again, do I? Yes. 4. Can’t seem to give it a 5… could it be possible that I’m not cool enough?! Ha ha Wait again again, way better LOUD, at volume 11, or on the swanky headphones. Possibly 4.5 if I could.

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

3/5

3 Never mind

Graceland

Paul Simon

2/5

Before listening, nostalgia was telling me 4 or 5 star album. With fresh ears I struggled to get through it in one sitting. Some good songs, not a strong album. Hasn’t aged well.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

2/5

My Generation

The Who

4/5

High Violet

The National

3/5

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets

4/5

The Modern Lovers

4/5

Live At Leeds

The Who

5/5

Original 1970(!) LP track listing is great - 5 star, love the live sound, play it LOUD Side one "Young Man Blues" (Mose Allison) – 4:52 "Substitute" – 2:23 "Summertime Blues" (Jerry Capehart, Eddie Cochran) – 3:27 "Shakin' All Over" (Johnny Kidd) – 4:24 Side two "My Generation" – 14:47 "Magic Bus" – 7:50 Later expanded, then deluxe reissues get overwhelming, too much of a good thing, don’t bite off more than you can chew - 4/3 star Not sure which album we are meant to be rating, I’m going with the original.

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

1984

Van Halen

3/5

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

4/5

3.5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

3/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

3/5

Possibly a 4, if I listened more.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

4/5

You want to hate it, but you can’t. So crap it’s good. Feels like a trip to the theatre and a day at a theme park at the same time. Unique, fast moving fun, surprisingly easy album to get through in one sitting. It’ll soon be gone, gone, gone… and you had a great time.

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

2/5

Why did the bongo player go to jail? Because he couldn’t stop beating one out. I like it… for a bit, but that is a very hard album to get through. Incredible amount of bongo. A couple of 4 or possibly 5 star tracks on their own, but as an album as a whole, not great. If I hear any more bongo this week, I think I’ll vomit.

Third

Portishead

4/5

Mint

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Moon Safari

Air

4/5

Hmmm, tricky. Meagre 3 or generous 4? 3.5 really, very much depends if I feel like listening to it…

Hot Fuss

The Killers

3/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

2/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

2/5

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

The Coral

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

2/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

Close To You

Carpenters

3/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

3/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

3/5

Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Billy Bragg

4/5

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3/5

L.A. Woman

The Doors

4/5

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

3.4

The Doors

4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

1/5

A reminder that 1001 albums is a LOT of albums and it would be impossible to like all of them.

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

High 4

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

3/5

Will listen again

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

4/5

3.5

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Still confused by Zappa. Am I wasting his time or is he wasting mine?! Would he have been a court jester in another era? I still manage to listen to his albums all the way through though. Same for all Zappa albums for me. Zappa, in another life choose great musician, not mediocre comedian/musician! I suppose somebody had to inspire Weird Al, I hope that isn’t on this list.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

4/5

A smooth, creamy high 3

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Bill Callahan

3/5

OK with a Sunday morning hangover.

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

3.4

m b v

My Bloody Valentine

1/5

mY bLEEDING vESTIBULAR At first, I thought my hifi was broken, then after checking, I realised it must be their instruments or the recording studio. Resonates all wrong with me, uncomfortable listening, almost like bad ASMR… is that a thing? Is that the point?

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

3/5

Heart says more but, sorry Elvis, head says 3. Apart from the 2 obvious great tracks, the rest is big production average country.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

3/5

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

A high 3

Suede

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

5/5

Peak Kanye: 4.5

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

4/5

Being There

Wilco

4/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

4/5

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

3/5

American Pie

Don McLean

2/5

A 1 to 2 star album with a very long 5 star song in it = a generous 2 stars

Urban Hymns

The Verve

4/5

Nostalgic 4

Signing Off

UB40

5/5

4.2 …F* it. First edit. After listening to it (possibly more than) 6 times in the last 24 hours, and non-stop reminiscing and recommending to everyone I have spoken to, it’s got to be a 5.

Illmatic

Nas

3/5

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

3/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

3/5

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

3/5

War

3/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

4/5

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

3.5ish

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

4/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Some great tracks, I struggle with the whole album though

Atomizer

Big Black

2/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

4/5

Pass the bifter…

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Definitely a desert island disc 🏝️

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

3/5

Germs

3/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Solid album and Guy Garvey seems like a lovely chap.

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

3/5

New York Dolls

3/5

3:5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

3/5

Possibly 3.5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Better than The Pixies?… 😬 Would possibly make it to a 4 if it wasn’t over an hour long. 3.5 in my other app

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

5/5

A 35 minute long perfect storm of live fun. The King is on it, the backing band is sharp, the crowd are having a great time. I need THIS blues on my island.

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Vivid

Living Colour

2/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

What's That Noise?

Coldcut

5/5

April 1989! No Coldcut… no Paul’s Boutique? Could that be a thing? 🤔 Start of a genre? Sampling Pioneers? 4.5

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

3/5

Woodface

Crowded House

3/5

2.5

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

4/5

The Stooges

4/5

1969! 4.5

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Imagine if the Black Keys were from Africa, and better.

Club Classics Vol. One

Soul II Soul

3/5

The Blueprint

JAY Z

3/5

There’s a few bangers, there’s more not-bangers

1977

Ash

3/5

Note to self: 1 star = Rated, but shouldn’t exist, a waste of studio time, imo 2 star = Not good 3 star = Ok/Good 4 star = Great 5 star = Desert island disc, there shouldn’t be too many of these! Perfect album length for me around 40mins, if over an hour long it has to be a truly awesome album for me not to subtract a star.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Countdown To Ecstasy

Steely Dan

3/5

3:5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

Elvis Presley

5/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

Nope, thanks anyway.

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Tricky. Why do I feel conflicted?! As an album listening experience, not quite a 3 I’m afraid.

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Sounds lovely, content ok/good-ish 3.5 really I suppose

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

Fred Neil

3/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

3/5

Achtung Baby

4/5

I tried extremely hard to listen to this album without nostalgia creeping in, but difficult. Truly is a great original album though, one that I seem able to listen to in its entirety any time it’s on barely skipping any tracks. If you have hatred for Bono/U2 (…?), forget about that, and just listen. Not quite a 5 though. I think it will be 4.5 in my main app.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

Paul - John = <3

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

4.5

Africa Brasil

Jorge Ben Jor

3/5

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

4/5

Good… want to like it more, but it exhausts me a bit. Shame. 3.5ish? …it made me come back for more… 4

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

5/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

5/5

Hit me on the right day. Couldn’t stop listening. Loved it. Country from way back, before country went proper shit. Original gangsta rap? 4.75

Document

R.E.M.

3/5

Overrated with a couple of ok songs. 2.5

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

3/5

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Easy 5, obvs… even taking into account that ‘Yellow Submarine’ doesn’t quite fit this album. I’ve always thought it was an odd addition to the track list. ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ was our wedding song 😍 🏝️

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

Bored now

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

3/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

3.5

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

Weird, I like it, I don’t like it, I want to like it more. Probably too many oooOOOooos for 58 minutes

The Bends

Radiohead

3/5

3.5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Hmmm… want to like it more, but not convinced. Sounds nice, really well produced, but is it missing IT? Have listened before, but have never rushed back. 3.5? Yes, 3.5 in Roon, don’t want to risk losing it forever.

Ramones

4/5

Generous 4? Probably 3.5 on another day. 29mins long is good though.

Pearl

Janis Joplin

4/5

Could be a 4.5, I reserve the right to take it to the island. 🏝️

In Rainbows

Radiohead

4/5

Brit answer to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? 3.5

Buena Vista Social Club

5/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

2/5

Some good songs, some ok songs, some shit songs. Impossible for me to listen to as an album without skipping tracks.

Os Mutantes

3/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

The xx

3/5

Probably a 3.5

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

3/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

3.5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Probably some 3 star, possibly 4 star parts to this, but, as an album, I will never, ever be able to listen to 1hr16mins of this without skipping or taking a break.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Nope, not for me. 2.5?

Parachutes

Coldplay

3/5

Obviously a couple of decent tunes, though I may have dropped off, could be useful for future nap times.

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

3.5

Justified

Justin Timberlake

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

2.5, her other album with the extremely long title is better, a couple of good original tunes here though.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Stankonia

OutKast

3/5

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Elastica

4/5

Always loved this album

Melodrama

Lorde

4/5

Strong 3.5

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur

3/5

Almost OK. 2.5

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

4/5

Quite a few bangers on here

Destroyer

KISS

2/5

2.5

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Could be a 4.5

Stand!

Sly & The Family Stone

3/5

No Other

Gene Clark

3/5

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

4/5

3.5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

4/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Murmur

R.E.M.

2/5

Bored now

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

2/5

For me, a 3 star means OK/Good. Not offensive, but as an album to session in one sitting, not quite a 3. Have listened twice now, no need to listen again.

Protection

Massive Attack

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

2/5

At least four 4 star songs, but to listen to as an album… nope

Yank Crime

Drive Like Jehu

3/5

I probably would’ve loved this when it came out, why didn’t I hear it?! It’s a solid 3 now though.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

2/5

Nope 2.5

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

4/5

An easy 33 minutes

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

5/5

I tried to mark down to 4 (or 4.5) to differentiate from other Beatles albums and also to not look like a complete fan boy. But, I can’t, I know it inside out… 30 minutes of pure classic early Beatles bliss.

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

The Clash

4/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

2/5

2.5

Led Zeppelin

4/5

4.5. Not as good as LZ IV

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

2/5

Yawn

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

3.5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

Thriller

Michael Jackson

4/5

A >4 star album with at least three 5 star songs.

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

A bit better than the other one, but still a 3

In Utero

Nirvana

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

2/5

This Year's Model

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

California

American Music Club

2/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

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

David Bowie

4/5

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

4/5

B-52's

The B-52's

3/5

Generous 3.5

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

3/5

<3 and i don’t mean I love it. A couple of OK songs that I could happily live without

Solid Air

John Martyn

4/5

3.5

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

4/5

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Slipknot

3/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

3/5

2.7ish?

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

4/5

3.5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Some good musical moments, but on most tracks there is not enough and too much going on at the same time(?). Am I likely to listen to this album all the way through again? Probably not, but 2 stars feels too harsh. I’m obviously not cool enough, soz.

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

4/5

Interesting.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4/5

Gonna rate as 2 separate albums. Abattoir Blues: 4 The Lyre of Orpheus: 3.5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

4/5

Beauty And The Beat

The Go-Go's

2/5

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

3.5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

4/5

I think this is a grower, will hopefully develop from a 3 to a 4

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Not bad, some interesting stuff on there. Too long though. 3.5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

4/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

3.5

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

3/5

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

3/5

3.5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

2/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

3.5

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

3/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

3/5

3.5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

3/5

Always had a love/hate with this one, some good tunes, but I think I would prefer to listen to the War of the Worlds audiobook.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

3/5

A good 3

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

3/5

Tricky, would probably score higher as an instrumental, and I’m not particularly fond of instrumentals. Contains the real Real Slim Shady? I dunno… 3.5?

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

3/5

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Tricky, some great bits, a lot of silly bits. 3.5

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