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Album	You	Global	Diff
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Liars	5	2.12	+2.88
Take Me Apart Kelela	5	2.76	+2.24
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	5	2.85	+2.15
New Wave The Auteurs	5	2.85	+2.15
Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson	5	3	+2
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.08	+1.92
Shaka Zulu Ladysmith Black Mambazo	5	3.08	+1.92
american dream LCD Soundsystem	5	3.17	+1.83
No Other Gene Clark	5	3.19	+1.81
Virgin Suicides Air	5	3.23	+1.77

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix	1	4.14	-3.14
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	1	4.08	-3.08
Purple Rain Prince	1	4.02	-3.02
A Night At The Opera Queen	1	3.95	-2.95
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin	1	3.9	-2.9
Bad Michael Jackson	1	3.81	-2.81
American Idiot Green Day	1	3.77	-2.77
Hot Fuss The Killers	1	3.73	-2.73
Boston Boston	1	3.7	-2.7
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins	1	3.68	-2.68

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
LCD Soundsystem	2	5
Simon & Garfunkel	2	5
The Kinks	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Led Zeppelin	2	1
Green Day	2	1.5
Van Halen	2	1.5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
Bruce Springsteen	5, 1
Air	5, 2
Funkadelic	5, 2

5-Star Albums (26)

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Popular Reviews

At Mister Kelly's

Sarah Vaughan · 2 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.

A Night At The Opera

Queen · 1 likes

1/5

Overrated, pretentious slop.

Rocks

Aerosmith · 1 likes

1/5

Gross.

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen · 1 likes

5/5

Early Boss is just perfect.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1 likes

1/5

Gross.

1-Star Albums (65)

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

All Ratings

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

5/5

River ties it all together so beautifully.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

3/5

It’s fine, but it’s no Foxtrot and certainly no Lamb.

On The Beach

Neil Young

3/5

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

1/5

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

1/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

1/5

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

1/5

The only sensation this inspired in me was disgust. What a waste of time.

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Wasn’t too familiar with this album. Will definitely be revisiting.

Who's Next

The Who

3/5

Not their best work.

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Back to Basics

Christina Aguilera

1/5

I don’t need an 80 minute album to tell me I don’t care about Christina Aguilera. Didn’t even listen.

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

5/5

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y’all have knocked her up.

Berlin

Lou Reed

1/5

More like “1001 albums you must hear before you die and one album that will make you want to.”

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

1/5

I was impressed by how dull this album was.

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

This album is a mess. Stardust is where it’s at.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

3/5

Third

Portishead

2/5

Scissor Sisters

3/5

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

1/5

Adults who listen to Alice Cooper (or KISS) were the first Juggalos.

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Great then. Has aged like a smashed pumpkin.

Moon Safari

Air

2/5

“Air” is right.

My Generation

The Who

3/5

Fred Neil

1/5

Steve McQueen

Prefab Sprout

2/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

4/5

He’s on his way.

Metallica

4/5

Not my favorite, but my first.

The Lexicon Of Love

ABC

4/5

Had never heard of this. Really enjoyed it!

Low-Life

New Order

4/5

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

4/5

Led Zeppelin

1/5

Franz Ferdinand

3/5

Rejoicing In The Hands

Devendra Banhart

1/5

Back In Black

AC/DC

3/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

3/5

Groovin'

The Young Rascals

1/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

2/5

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Figure 8

Elliott Smith

5/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

2/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

3/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Different Class

Pulp

4/5

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

2/5

Not the cure to boredom.

Clandestino

Manu Chao

4/5

Pyromania

Def Leppard

1/5

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

Loved this album 15 years ago. It just hasn’t aged well.

Purple Rain

Prince

1/5

Violator

Depeche Mode

2/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

3/5

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

1/5

Debut

Björk

4/5

Out of Step

Minor Threat

2/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Dirty

Sonic Youth

3/5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

1/5

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

2/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

2/5

Punishing Kiss

Ute Lemper

1/5

I think that they accidentally put this album on this list instead of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear to Hasten Death list where it belongs.

The Sun Rises In The East

Jeru The Damaja

1/5

Smash

The Offspring

2/5

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

3/5

Nice. Kinda loses steam about halfway through.

A Hard Day's Night

Beatles

3/5

Notable for being their first album with all songs written by Lennon/McCartney. If I Fell is a top ten Beatles song for me. That said, their first two albums are better and just about every one after it eclipsed this one. Good album for sure, but middle of the road overall.

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Van Halen

2/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

4/5

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

Arctic Monkeys

2/5

Bookends