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Album	You	Global	Diff
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	5	2.11	+2.89
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	5	2.84	+2.16
New Wave The Auteurs	5	2.86	+2.14
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	5	2.99	+2.01
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
american dream LCD Soundsystem	5	3.17	+1.83
No Other Gene Clark	5	3.18	+1.82
Virgin Suicides Air	5	3.24	+1.76
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor	5	3.25	+1.75
Figure 8 Elliott Smith	5	3.33	+1.67

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	1	4.09	-3.09
Purple Rain Prince	1	4.02	-3.02
A Night At The Opera Queen	1	3.96	-2.96
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.8	-2.8
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.77	-2.77
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival	1	3.65	-2.65
Illmatic Nas	1	3.6	-2.6
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots The Flaming Lips	1	3.57	-2.57
Arrival ABBA	1	3.51	-2.51
The Suburbs Arcade Fire	1	3.5	-2.5

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Artist	Albums	Average
LCD Soundsystem	2	5

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Artist	Albums	Average
Green Day	2	1.5

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5-Star Albums (21)

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Rocks

Aerosmith · 1 likes

1/5

Gross.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen · 1 likes

5/5

Early Boss is just perfect.

A Night At The Opera

Queen · 1 likes

1/5

Overrated, pretentious slop.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan · 1 likes

3/5

Sarah Vaughan had a tremendous voice, but there is nothing exceptional about this album. Just a standard live album by a jazz singer.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1 likes

1/5

Gross.

1-Star Albums (48)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

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Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

1/5

PRE LISTEN: Not entirely sure what to expect. I know very few Supertramp songs. LISTEN: Kinda hard to pinpoint what’s going on, but I like it alright. The vocalist has more interesting a voice than I had remembered.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Probably my favorite Beatles album. It’s not perfect. That’s what Abbey Road is for. It’s a lot of fun, though.

Tidal

Fiona Apple

3/5

Not bad at all for a debut. The album with like 54 words in the title gets pretty far ahead of this one, but the Criminal video was a gift.

Dookie

Green Day

2/5

Loved it in high school. Also loved Tim Allen in high school. People change.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

1/5

Excruciatingly dull.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Heck of a first album. Not quite there yet, but as proofs of concept go, it’s awfully solid.

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

5/5

Absolutely blown away by this album. Never know what to expect from Todd Rundgren, but I’m never disappointed.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

5/5

Glad this one came around. Led me to Oblique Strategies

Joan Armatrading

4/5

I’ve not heard anything like it. Except for Joni Mitchell. Joan>Joni

Power In Numbers

Jurassic 5

2/5

This album has lost most of its charm over the last 23 years.

The White Album

Beatles

4/5

Great album. Barely feels like a Beatles album, which is both its strength and its weakness.

Arrival

ABBA

1/5

What a hateful and irredeemable album.

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

2/5

Proof that you can be talented AND uninteresting.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

3/5

Good. Groundbreaking. Far from their best.

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

1/5

Not worth anyone’s time.

Ananda Shankar

3/5

Clear demonstration of talent, but a little goes a long way.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Pleasant on the ear.

Cypress Hill

1/5

Too much homophobia and guns to enjoy the performative stunty stuff about weed.

At Newport 1960

Muddy Waters

3/5

Get this guy an electric guitar.

Moondance

Van Morrison

4/5

Stellar album.

Nowhere

Ride

3/5

Kinda dull until it isn’t.

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan

3/5

Sarah Vaughan had a tremendous voice, but there is nothing exceptional about this album. Just a standard live album by a jazz singer.

New Wave

The Auteurs

5/5

Didn’t like it the first time through. Listened again and it instantly clicked. Gonna stick with this band a while and see what other surprises they have in store.

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

3/5

Shine On should have been its own album. The other three songs on this album are just filler.

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

2/5

Important artist. Dull album.

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

This doesn’t need to be a three and a quarter hour box set. It could have been a 9-10 song single album.

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

A good glimpse at the past.

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

1/5

Dull.

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

1/5

No. No I don’t.

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Rough around the edges. Expected fora debut.

American Idiot

Green Day

1/5

Only giving this heap one star because I have to rate it.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

1/5

Virgin Suicides

Air

5/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

5/5

Exploration. Fusion before it was a thing. Quality stuff.

Odelay

Beck

3/5

Odelay is filled with good moments, but it’s not Beck’s most original offering. Sounds too much like Pavement too often.

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Sonically good, but nowhere close to how good Frank would get down the road.

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Still not convinced this isn’t Blur.

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

3/5

Better than I expected.

In Utero

Nirvana

2/5

Nirvana isn’t cute anymore.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Good listen, but starts to all sound alike after a while.

I Against I

Bad Brains

1/5

1989

Taylor Swift

1/5

Eat the rich.

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Almost immediately put me to sleep. I know they’d move away from dull dub, but apparently it’ll take them a while.

Bad

Michael Jackson

1/5

Gorillaz

3/5

When it hits, it hits hard.

The Contino Sessions

Death In Vegas

1/5

A century and a half of recorded sound and this is on a list of 1001 significant albums?

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

Had no idea Franti did this. Worth the listen.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

1/5

Absolute garbage. Also, throwing a beach boys album at me the day after Brian Wilson died is hardly “random.”

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

3/5

It’s no Ziggy Stardust

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

2/5

Of all their albums, the weakest one makes the cut?

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

I’ve heard good Dwight Yoakam. This isn’t it.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2/5

It’s fine. Nothing special.

Synchronicity

The Police

3/5

Solo Sting > The Police

Pearl

Janis Joplin

2/5

Vanity projects seldom work for me. Janis was a force on stage with a good band. This is just slop.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

5/5

So many artists owe so much to Sinead O’Connor. The cranberries especially. I hear a lot of Bjork in Sinead. What a loss. This album moved me profoundly.

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

4/5

No Other

Gene Clark

5/5

Quite a surprise. Will have to look more into Gene.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

2/5

Ramones

2/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

A little early for a Beatles homage. Love the Monkees, but their first outing with their own songs leaves a little to be desired.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

Pretentious drunk. Mediocre rhythm section. What’s not to not care about.

Histoire De Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg

2/5

Melody Nelson. Got it. Instrumentally speaking, this album is a masterpiece, but yeesh with the constant repeating of the name.

The Clash

3/5

Not too shabby.

All Directions

The Temptations

3/5

Good moments but reading about how the group didn’t even want to do some of the songs made the songs less impactful.

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Practically perfect.

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

Buck Owens

4/5

George Jones and Buck Owens are the chicken and the egg. Doesn’t matter who was first. They’re both great.

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Never really gave them any consideration. This album brought me in. Great stuff.

The Doors

2/5

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

Big old meh.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Really nice. They got better, but this is a good start.

Calenture

The Triffids

3/5

It’s fine.

Funeral

Arcade Fire

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

1/5

Overrated, pretentious slop.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

4/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

1/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

1/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

1/5

Yawn.

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

3/5

Love Steely Dan. Love a couple songs here. That said, I think a fair case could be made for this being the weakest of their first albums. Still good, but just not great.

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Not perfect but pretty darn close. Thrasher all the way.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

5/5

Superb.

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

5/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Used to be my favorite Dylan. Still great, but John Wesley Harding is perfect.

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Love Emmylou but her charm is in her simple delivery and production. This album tries too hard.

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

2/5

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

3/5

2112

Rush

1/5

Technical proficiency doesn’t make a band great.

LP1

FKA twigs

3/5

Nice for some atmosphere.

Rattus Norvegicus

The Stranglers

3/5

Pretty good for a debut

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

As much as I love this album and as important as the Residents are to me, I’m not giving difficult by design the highest mark. Still. Total masterpiece.

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

3/5

It’s no Use Your Illusion

Illmatic

Nas

1/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

2/5

There are loads better Stones albums than this one. It’s fine, but it gets too much praise as one of the all time greats.

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

Pretentious horseshit. John Zorn has only ever been played for me by hipsters trying to dunk on my taste in music.

Pieces Of The Sky

Emmylou Harris

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Usually, the greatest hits compilation misses the mark by not including enough. This whole album could have been a second disc to Legend.

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Jeff Lynne doesn’t get enough credit.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Doesn’t deserve anything less than five stars, even with that dreadful “live” recording of Bye Bye Love. Bookends then this album make one of the all time one-two punches.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

4/5

Nice background music until the last 4-5 tracks.

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

2/5

Boring.

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

2/5

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Gross.

Rocks

Aerosmith

1/5

Gross.

Repeater

Fugazi

3/5

Maybe you wouldn’t be so upset if you’d just take a fucking aspirin.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

1/5

Don’t get it. Never have. Can’t stand Robbie Robertson’s voice. Etc.

Horses

Patti Smith

1/5

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney

3/5

It’s fine.

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

4/5

Not bad. Better than I knew to expect. The horn arrangements are great.

Fragile

Yes

3/5

No.

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

3/5

The album is fantastic but the recording I listened to was horrible.

Closer

Joy Division

4/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

1/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Early Boss is just perfect.

Kid A

Radiohead

4/5

Amnesiac is better.

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

2/5

As much as I love Fleetwood Mac, this album is tremendously bloated. It could be cut down to an EP and that would still feel a bit long. Title track is their best song though.

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

1/5

I don’t like Lou Reed. Why would I like a Lou Reed wannabe?

Life's Too Good

The Sugarcubes

2/5

Love Bjork on her own. This has its moments and they’re all because of her. Unremarkable otherwise.

War

3/5

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

Not Ray at his most dynamic, but a pleasant listen. There are far more interesting Ray Charles albums to hear before you die.

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

People make way too big a deal about this. The title track is alright and the bit at the end with someone narrating Sailor’s Hornpipe is fun, but there’s a lot of fluff in the middle.

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Take Five should be the whole album.

Lam Toro

Baaba Maal

3/5

Brothers In Arms

Dire Straits

4/5

Your Latest Trick is a masterpiece on an already great album.

Guero

Beck

3/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Rhythm Nation 1814

Janet Jackson

5/5

Dated production, but the songs themselves hold up.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

3/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

1/5

Garbage

1/5

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

3/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

3/5

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

Two good songs don’t make a great album.

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

This album is wonderful, but it’s the least of Sade’s studio albums.

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

5/5

Perfect all the way through.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

3/5

It’s fine. I get why it’s important but they have much better albums.

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope

1/5

My one star is merely to allow me to put this pile of shit in the past and move on to the next album. If I never hear any of these songs again, it’ll be too soon.

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

4/5

Tracy Chapman

5/5

Beautiful voice. Powerful message.

Heroes to Zeros

The Beta Band

1/5

What if plain yogurt was an album? Look no further.

Blue

Joni Mitchell