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Album	You	Global	Diff
New Boots And Panties Ian Dury	5	2.69	+2.31
Phaedra Tangerine Dream	5	2.74	+2.26
Tago Mago Can	5	2.8	+2.2
The Sounds Of India Ravi Shankar	5	2.85	+2.15
White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground	5	2.89	+2.11
Reign In Blood Slayer	5	2.96	+2.04
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	5	2.98	+2.02
If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby	5	3.07	+1.93
Modern Kosmology Jane Weaver	5	3.08	+1.92
Youth And Young Manhood Kings of Leon	5	3.1	+1.9

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	3.7	-2.7
Come Away With Me Norah Jones	1	3.38	-2.38
Live At The Star Club, Hamburg Jerry Lee Lewis	1	3.28	-2.28
I See You The xx	1	2.99	-1.99
All That You Can't Leave Behind U2	1	2.98	-1.98
The Joshua Tree U2	2	3.66	-1.66
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park	2	3.39	-1.39
Stardust Willie Nelson	2	3.39	-1.39
25 Adele	2	3.38	-1.38
2112 Rush	2	3.38	-1.38

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Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	3	5
Van Morrison	3	5
Stevie Wonder	3	4.67
Prince	2	5
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Arcade Fire	2	5
Aretha Franklin	2	5
Neil Young	2	5
The Velvet Underground	2	5
Black Sabbath	2	5
Pixies	2	5
Miles Davis	2	5
The White Stripes	2	5
Bob Marley & The Wailers	3	4.33
Bob Dylan	3	4.33
The Rolling Stones	5	4

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Artist	Albums	Average
U2	3	1.67

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1999

Prince · 1 likes

5/5

I wish I had some sort of custom symbol that defined how I feel about this album

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings · 1 likes

5/5

We used to be a real country!

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line · 1 likes

3/5

Fast loud and outtacontrol

The Real Thing

Faith No More · 1 likes

4/5

Really unfair that I was born too late to mosh in the pit at a FNM show

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill · 1 likes

5/5

What an incredible debut! I can't wait to hear what she does for her follow up album...

1-Star Albums (5)

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Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5/5

Just a relentless jam, No woman studio version doesn't get enough love

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

A bit light for a long listen, but still a lot of talent going on.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

3/5

A few solid hits in here, but a bit too samey and lacking the full funk rock edge of some of her other work.

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

4/5

Full of foundational texts, but it all starts to blend together into a single Ur-song after you've listened for a while.

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

The Beatles get a lot more interesting as musicians once they get past their generic pop rock era and don't have to deal with shrieking fans on stage.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

2/5

I like Steve Earle generally, but this was really not my vibe

The Real Thing

Faith No More

4/5

Really unfair that I was born too late to mosh in the pit at a FNM show

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

1/5

Music I hear at a Dentist's office

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

Best to ever do it

Picture Book

Simply Red

3/5

Up tempo jams, down tempo slogs

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

The sound of a generation of burnt out Darias

Snivilisation

Orbital

4/5

Pleasant grooves

Penance Soiree

The Icarus Line

3/5

Fast loud and outtacontrol

Kimono My House

Sparks

3/5

Bouncing energetic and a bit much

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Lose yourself in a sea of grooves

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

4/5

The early 00s were really something, weren't they?

Da Capo

Love

2/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Killer title track, but the rest of it is kind of samey

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

5/5

Hell yeah

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

5/5

A pagentry of soul

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Do your best Jagger

Your Arsenal

Morrissey

3/5

Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park

2/5

The sounds of my life as a pre-teen

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

5/5

An incredible talent

The Poet

Bobby Womack

4/5

Nice when it's laid back, but way more fun when he kicks up the tempo and cuts loose

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

4/5

Just a good bit of light fun

Frank

Amy Winehouse

4/5

Adele

2/5

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

4/5

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

4/5

Americana Dad rock

Rubber Soul

Beatles

5/5

Another Music In A Different Kitchen

Buzzcocks

4/5

Would have been an incredible mosh pit

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

3/5

Some of the top surf rock of the era, but it really wears on you after a while

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

5/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year

Disintegration

The Cure

5/5

Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Subtracting one star for Wild Horses

Crosby, Stills & Nash

5/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

3/5

You Are The Quarry

Morrissey

2/5

One note and boring

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

4/5

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

Pretty average pub folk, the album loses steam as it goes on

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin

5/5

The Queen

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

5/5

The foundational text

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

3/5

So purely 1980s that I ended up doing lines of coke in the bathroom of a club called Clöb and dancing until the sun came up and I went back to work on Wall Street

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

4/5

Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Two mega hits and a bunch of half-hearted blues noodling

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

5/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

4/5

Paul Simon

4/5

Do you think Paul ever went through a punk phase?

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

4/5

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

3/5

Some fun bops, but nothing amazing

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

More droney 80s nightclub music

My Generation

The Who

5/5

Is this the best album with a stutter?

Thriller

Michael Jackson

5/5

A hee hee hee!

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

4/5

Gallagher has one vocal flourish in his toolbox, but boy does he get some mileage out of it

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

4/5

Clever and fun

Better Living Through Chemistry

Fatboy Slim

4/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

5/5

Mask

Bauhaus

3/5

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

5/5

São Paulo Confessions

Suba

4/5

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

4/5

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

4/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

5/5

So Much For The City

The Thrills

4/5

The Flaming Lips, but make it bluegrassy

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

4/5

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Green

R.E.M.

3/5

A little too sleepy

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Liars

2/5

Of Montreal, but less fun about it

Parklife

Blur

3/5

Fantastic out the gate, but really falls apart in the final straightaway

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

3/5

Kinda training wheels rap, with a few legends breaking through

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

Os Mutantes

4/5

It's their happening, baby, and it freaks them out!

I See You

The xx

1/5

Hard pass

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Some of the Pixies edge and rawness here, but it lacks the band's complimentary artistic contributions that keep Frank from being too one notey.

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

5/5

Top 5 album of all time

Imagine

John Lennon

3/5

Might be blasphemous, but Lennon is an inspired lyricist, but the actual tunes here are pretty slight.

Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel

3/5

It's the sound of the 80s, boiled down like an English roast until it's kinda flavourless. Very much like Bowie's 80s, but without anything memorable enough to come back to.

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

2/5

Probably rowdy fun at the end of the night at a pub, but a bit underwhelming as a studio release

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

4/5

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

5/5

Like nothing else out there

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers

5/5

The only thing more righteous than the Isley Brothers' jams is those outfits

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

5/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

4/5

Good vibes music

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

3/5

Grandspas' guitars

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

5/5

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

4/5

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Is there a record for the album responsible for the most smashed gear on a tour?

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

5/5

What an incredible debut! I can't wait to hear what she does for her follow up album...

Music From Big Pink

The Band

5/5

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

2/5

Props to Morrissey for turning one song into so many different albums

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

Almost pushes into a parody of last call at the bar blue collar Bruce, but that's still a good place to be

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

5/5

Vulnicura

Björk

3/5

I got Midsommar'd to this album

Paris 1919

John Cale

4/5

1919 is timeless, it's a shame the rest of the album doesn't measure up

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

5/5

Absolutely the top of the list for random horn honks

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

5/5

A jam so cool my infant rested soundly through the whole thing.

Live!

Fela Kuti

5/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

5/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

4/5

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison

5/5

I can't explain why, but this is tipsy on a few glasses of wine chatting with friends after dinner music

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

5/5

Bad person, great music

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

3/5

The Visitors

ABBA

3/5

Not their best work

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

3/5

It's 1996 and you're wearing a pacifier because you took too much E, the DJ in this abandoned warehouse just dropped the most mathematic techno you've ever heard.

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

4/5

Raw talent here, but the jazz is a bit too aimless

Fever Ray

3/5

Ok to put on for about 2 tracks then it's worn out its welcome

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

If not for a few inevitable Queen mid-album duds, this would be a 10/10

Violator

Depeche Mode

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

2/5

Not my thing

Double Nickels On The Dime

Minutemen

4/5

Even if you don't like a few songs, they make up for it with volume

Play

Moby

3/5

Moby's music is way too mid for the ego he has

Bad

Michael Jackson

4/5

Surprised there are a few mediocre songs on this one, because the rest of the album is golden.

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

5/5

B-52's

The B-52's

5/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

The key to a successful group is to have one big serious guy, one lanky goof, and one terminator

Street Life

The Crusaders

3/5

Easy listening

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

Fun but generic

McCartney

Paul McCartney

3/5

McCartney is actually pretty good when he gets bluesy, but most of this album is mid

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

5/5

Controversially, I think Pet Sounds is pretty good

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

5/5

Supertramp goes Moody Blues, I dig it

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

3/5

You'll be impressed at how well a man can sing the same song 15 different ways

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

5/5

Pogues Good

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

3/5

Urban rainstorm taxi music

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Rush should really be exactly my kind of nerd shit, but I just can't get there

The Clash

5/5

Guitarist named Strummer, lol

Throwing Muses

4/5

Alright alright alright

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Got pretty lucky with the one hit, huh

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

5/5

Just a pleasant listen

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

Arctic Monkeys

4/5

Dismissed them at the time, didn't know how good rock had it back then

More Specials

The Specials

4/5

SKA IS NOT DEAD

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

5/5

I mean, are you gonna liberate us girls from male white corporate oppression? Tell it like it is!

Out Of The Blue

Electric Light Orchestra

5/5

Jeff Lynne is a maniac

Wild Wood

Paul Weller

4/5

A bit bland, but a nice enough groove

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

5/5

Not a single miss on the whole album

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

This shit rocked young me's musical foundations back in the day

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Very generic 90s alt rock

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

3/5

A bit of a groove, but too slow paced

Legalize It

Peter Tosh

4/5

So few artists get to define a certain subset of an entire culture

Grace

Jeff Buckley

5/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

5/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

This mofo dropped a Xanadu reference right at the top of the album!

Buena Vista Social Club

4/5

Cafe music

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

5/5

Enough bluegrass to choke an entire Confederate army

Boy In Da Corner

Dizzee Rascal

3/5

Not at all my thing, but probably fun at the club

Reign In Blood

Slayer

5/5

Fuck yeah

Achtung Baby

2/5

Huge whiplash hitting this one right after Slayer

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

5/5

Duane packed several lifetimes of talent into 24 years

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Definitely prog, skeptical that it rocks though

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

5/5

Traffic

3/5

Feels like they're doing knock off versions of other band's tunes for half their songs, but listenable enough

Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper

4/5

Not his strongest, but we are still not worthy

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

5/5

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

2/5

Soooooooft

Sulk

The Associates

2/5

Music for dozing off in a valium haze in the back of a limo

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Turn it up loud!

Heartbreaker

Ryan Adams

3/5

I bet this shit was a wildly effective high school first relationship burned CD

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

4/5

Live Through This

Hole

5/5

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

4/5

Eagles

3/5

Inoffensive airport rock

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

3/5

Cool grooves, but it always felt like half a song

The White Room

The KLF

3/5

Might have been great in Ibiza in '02 on anonymous pills, but no mas

Virgin Suicides

Air

3/5

Huge start, then fairly forgettable

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

3/5

Loud and Angry, all punk, not very musical

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

4/5

Smash

The Offspring

5/5

I was a suburban white kid in the 90s, I have no choice but to 5 star this one

1999

Prince

5/5

I wish I had some sort of custom symbol that defined how I feel about this album

2112

Rush

2/5

Snooze once the initial Odyssey is over

Marquee Moon

Television

4/5

A revolution in vibes-based music

Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Taking prog rock to strange new navel gazing places

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

4/5

Very smooth, but it would have been great to hear them really cut loose

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

Fleet Foxes

4/5

All That You Can't Leave Behind

1/5

Treacly dreck

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Funky beats only get you so far

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

2/5

Not my style

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

4/5

Ingenue

k.d. lang

4/5

Music to sit with in the dark wine drunk and crying over a breakup

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1/5

Dig Me Out

Sleater-Kinney

4/5

Third

Portishead

2/5

Don't get it

Blunderbuss

Jack White

3/5

Playing it very safe, the White Stripes formula sanded down. Listenable, but without anything attention grabby or experimental.

In It For The Money

Supergrass

3/5

A Seat at the Table

Solange

2/5

Smooth grooving, but it felt like one song repeated with tweaked lyrics

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

4/5

Queen shit

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

4/5

Queen shit pt 2

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

3/5

Why did the Byrds go Country?

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen

4/5

The Joshua Tree

2/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

2/5

Mall Food Court Music

Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

4/5

Pleasant but very very mellow

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

5/5

Dust

Screaming Trees

4/5

Dig the 90s alt rock sound, lead singer was just too boring

Beggars Banquet

The Rolling Stones

4/5

Some of their best work in here, but I find a lot of their bluesy songs too sloppy

Kid A

Radiohead

5/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

They're fine at what they do, but they aren't my scene

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

3/5

Middle of the road 80s new wave

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Sleepy grooves for after a shindig with some cool cats

Bossanova

Pixies

5/5

Gigantic

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

3/5

Background music for an early 00s drama

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

5/5

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

4/5

There are indeed some groovy grooves

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

3/5

Dylan does Leonard Cohen, he's just ok at it

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Pavement

5/5

1984

Van Halen

5/5

The sound of an era

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Maxwell

3/5

I don't think I'm smooth enough for these grooves

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

These lads understand that just because class war is the real war, doesn't mean you can't have fun with it

Elvis Presley

4/5

Dare!

The Human League

4/5

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

4/5

Really lovely and immediately hooks you, but a bit too...sleepy at the back end

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

Rapture

Anita Baker

4/5

It's Too Late to Stop Now

Van Morrison

5/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

5/5

Didn't know Thin Lizzy could shred

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

5/5

Cool to find experimental rock from when rock was barely a thing

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

5/5

We used to be a real country!

Movies

Holger Czukay

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

4/5

Every track on this album could be the end credits song for a different 90s film

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

5/5

Time Travel to a very distinctive era in English clubs, really great stuff

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

5/5

Just lovely stuff

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

High Water Mark for the Smith's sound, still not feeling it

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

4/5

Nightmare carnival organ music you hear after your 9th rail whiskey in a basement bar

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

The era of punk where you could churn out 20 songs that all sounded the same

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

4/5

Zippy and fun

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

5/5

WAH WAHHHHHHHHHH! WAH WAHHHHHHHHHH!

Rage Against The Machine

5/5

The primal scream of a generation

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

5/5

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

5/5

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

3/5

Weird that such a soulful album was so thoroughly worked over in production, polished until some of the personality was scraped off

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

5/5

Bringing down the house

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

4/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

5/5

Fun House

The Stooges

5/5

Turn it up LOUD

Scissor Sisters

5/5

Impressively fun neo disco

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

5/5

The Grand Tour

George Jones

2/5

Pretty generic country/western

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

A whole lot of noodling that never really coheres

The Stone Roses

4/5

Fun enough, but it really felt like they could use some caffeine by the end

En-Tact

The Shamen

4/5

Fun club music that I'm probably not high enough to appreciate

Funeral

Arcade Fire

5/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

3/5

A very distinct and idiosyncratic balladeer, which sometimes works and sometimes annoys

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Just a nice bit of pianer

If I Could Only Remember My Name

David Crosby

5/5

Tago Mago

Can

5/5

My only regret is not finding out about Can sooner

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

4/5

One of the best Big Band leaders, the big uptempo tunes are where he shines, but the slow tunes drag if you're not dancing

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

3/5

Going to need to check back on this one to see what I'm not getting. Clearly a lot of specific artistic choices being made, but a lot of the album sounds like 4 band members playing completely different songs at the same time.

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Not much to say that hasn't already been said about one of the great pieces of 20th century art

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

4/5

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

FERNANDO!

Soul Mining