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Album	You	Global	Diff
Bone Machine Tom Waits	5	2.86	+2.14
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo Devo	5	3.13	+1.87
Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Bob Dylan	5	3.15	+1.85
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.32	+1.68
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.36	+1.64
Eliminator ZZ Top	5	3.38	+1.62
Fear Of Music Talking Heads	5	3.47	+1.53
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division	5	3.47	+1.53
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! Frank Sinatra	5	3.52	+1.48
The Wildest! Louis Prima	5	3.53	+1.47

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Doors The Doors	2	3.95	-1.95
Strange Cargo III William Orbit	1	2.77	-1.77
En-Tact The Shamen	1	2.43	-1.43
Amnesiac Radiohead	2	3.41	-1.41
Blunderbuss Jack White	2	3.4	-1.4
Woodface Crowded House	2	3.1	-1.1

5-Star Albums (17)

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Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Radiohead feels like a prank band to me, I do not understand them.

2 likes

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Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

5/5

Their best album.

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

5/5

Kids these days don't realize The Chairman released like 12 albums that were four to five stars in the span of 6 years. This was the 5th one.

Abbey Road

Beatles

4/5

Some classics on here, but you can also tell they'd lost the magic. It feels more like everyone just doing their own thing rather than working together.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

4/5

Paul is the one that really flourished after the band split. His albums seemed the most cohesive.

Murmur

R.E.M.

4/5

One of my favorite debut albums from one of my favorite bands.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Radiohead feels like a prank band to me, I do not understand them.

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

Literally nothing but bangers, it's unreal.

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

4/5

Really makes me want to start a garage band except I'm 40 and don't own a garage. Or have musical talent.

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

There's a great EP buried in this album.

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Britpop just isn't my thing, but this wasn't terrible or anything.

Justified

Justin Timberlake

3/5

Probably my least favourite of JT's, but a killer solo debut regardless.

Live / Dead

Grateful Dead

4/5

Far from their best live album, but still a classic.

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Epic electric guitar. Too much electric organ for my taste though.

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

5/5

Great concert for a bunch of ungrateful British twats.

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

2/5

Britpop again. Mediocre again. Gets you moving if you think soccer is thrilling, peas should be mushy, and you drink hot tea all day

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

5/5

One of the best albums ever.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

5/5

I'm Italian-American, it's physically impossible for me to rate this anything less. The second I turned it on a plate of just appeared in my hand.

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Lots of classic tracks on this one

En-Tact

The Shamen

1/5

This was over an hour long and sounded like music they play in high end clothing stores with dark lighting in the mall. I hated it.

Home Is Where The Music Is

Hugh Masekela

4/5

Such a good time, loved this.

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

4/5

Reminds me of summer in the 90s, I love it. Surprisingly it's biggest hit, the cover of Mrs. Robinson is its weakest track.

Woodface

Crowded House

2/5

Kids today don't realize this was the only listenable CD your new age hippie aunt had, the rest were like Enya and shit like Star Noises Vol. 4: Sounds of Saturn.

The Doors

2/5

There are certainly bands I hate worse than The Doors, but they are definitely very low on my list.

Strange Cargo III

William Orbit

1/5

So I guess a substantial chunk of the 1001 list is just the editor reliving his beloved British rave days in the 90s? Is that what he's doing to us?

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

4/5

An 80s classic, love it.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

5/5

Ian Curtis gone way way too soon. This album is perfect.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

"Curtis it's just a B movie about a pimp, you don't have to go crazy and record one of the best soundtracks of all time."

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

3/5

Not a big West Coast hip hop fan. This had some great beats on it though, but not into the lyrics. Also so glad rap moved past the skits where the rapper is just making fake sex noises for a minute.

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

4/5

Just a beautiful nosy haze to get lost in for a while, I love it.

Eliminator

ZZ Top

5/5

All bangers front to back, I didn't think I would like this one as much as I did.

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

4/5

The first true gangsta rap album and his beef was with the US Government, its fucking awesome. Ice was angry and made a great record from it.

Metallica

4/5

They say if you listen to this album while watching the first FACES OF DEATH on VHS and rolling your eyes back like the Undertaker that your dad finally comes back from the store with cigarettes and milk.

Take Me Apart

Kelela

2/5

It's not bad, but you don't need to listen to it before you die.

Blunderbuss

Jack White

2/5

Not really sure why'd you'd need to hear this before you die. It's not bad, but it's not very remarkable or memorable either.

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

The Kinks

4/5

Not my favorite Kinks album, but some excellent tracks on here.

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

5/5

Unreal how many negative reviews on here for this incredible album. Tom Waits is one of the greatest musicians and songwriters of all time and this is one of his best.

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

4/5

Exquisite piano playing.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

Jazz always sounds better at The Vanguard.

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'